Quickly wear the sinister villain, let go of my tail

"Yuan, do you think the pottery I'm making will be successful?" Song Guo stared at the blazing fire and asked uncertainly.

"My dear, you will definitely succeed. I believe in you!" Yuan laughed softly, hugged the little female sitting next to him in his arms, rubbed her fluffy little curly hair, and answered very sincerely.

Yuan weighed it and felt a little dissatisfied. Why didn't his little female gain weight no matter how much he fed her? !

Yuan was worried today about his little female who just ate a lot but didn't gain weight. He was thinking about how to make his skinny partner plump and white.

Song Guo lay in A Yuan's arms, yawned, and tears overflowed from the corners of her eyes. Song Guo wiped them with the back of her hand. It was really strange!

I don’t know what’s wrong with me lately. I’m always very sleepy and can never get enough sleep!

He was eating broth one second and fell asleep the next. If A Yuan hadn't reacted in time, he would have fallen to the ground.

Maybe I have been consuming too much energy recently, Song Guo thought, and fell asleep again in a daze.

Yuan took out an animal skin and wrapped his sleeping little female. He stroked the little female's fair and tender face with his thinly calloused fingers. He turned sideways and used his tall and broad body to shield the cold wind from the sleeping little female.

The nights as winter approaches are naturally not very warm, and the little female is delicate and soft, so she can't catch a cold.

Yuan held his little female in his arms, guarding the kiln's fire mouth, observing the changes in the fire and adding a few firewood from time to time.

After achieving the freedom to enjoy hot pot, Song Guo was still not satisfied. He increasingly disliked the thick and heavy stone pot at home. The idea of ​​making a clay pot was like a fire that was burning more and more fiercely.

Not only clay pots, but also bowls and plates for eating and kettles for carrying water.

However, it is undoubtedly a pipe dream to rely on his own strength. Song Guo can only lobby his own A Yuan, his father Dong, and his brother Suo for help.

The reason why he didn't ask other tribesmen for help was because Song Guo himself was unsure. If he failed, not only would everyone's efforts be in vain, but it would also delay everyone's preparation of food for the winter.

It snows heavily in winter, and the snow outside the stone house is enough to bury people. Of course, the temperature is also pleasant, so in order to keep out the cold, the orcs in the tribe will not go out hunting or looking for wild vegetables, so everyone must prepare enough food before winter comes.

Therefore, Song Guo could only settle for the second best and try it out on his own first. If it doesn’t work this time, he will have to wait until next year.

Clay is needed to make pottery. Song Guo specifically asked the orcs in the tribe where the soil was the stickiest. An older half-orc in the tribe pointed out the soil near the river two hills away from the tribe, which was exactly what Song Guo described.

Song Guo rode the beast-shaped A Yuan to the place the orcs mentioned. He searched back and forth, dug out some soil from various places for comparison, and found the most sticky soil that did not contain too much sand.

Soil with a lot of sand is too loose, and it is difficult to form pottery blanks by gluing them together. It is more likely to loosen after being fired in a kiln. However, you should not use colloidal clay with too little sand, or no sand at all, or too dense texture. Colloidal clay will become paste-like after adding water, and become hard like stone after drying. The soil is too hard and too dense, and it is easy to crack when heated.

After the clay is selected, it must be processed. If the clay is too sticky or too weak, it is not conducive to firing. At this time, some quartz, feldspar and sandstone powder, or grass ash, clam shell powder, etc. are added artificially to improve the molding properties of the clay, ensure that the pottery does not crack or deform when fired at high temperatures, and increase the yield rate of pottery.

Song Guo chose to use wood ash for mixing. When cooking, Song Guo would deliberately keep the wood ash as fertilizer for herbs and wild vegetables he grew. Therefore, Song Guo did not need to look for quartz or sandstone powder separately.

In pottery making, the most common, simple and convenient method is to coil clay strips. Song Guo used this method. He first kneaded the clay into strips, then placed a stone ball on the inner wall with one hand, and with the other hand, he coiled the clay strips from the bottom to the edge of the mouth, making the prototype of the pottery blank.

After the prototype of the pottery is made, the next step is the highlight - modification.

From the beginning of making the clay blank, Song Guo has been continuously applying water to the clay blank (pi) with his hands. This step is to keep the surface moist and prevent it from cracking due to premature drying.

At the same time, this process will make the blank surface smooth, close the gaps, and fill the gaps in the previous blank.

After smoothing the blank with wet hands, Song Guo asked Yuan to hand over the finished wooden board, and used the board to continuously hit the blank to make the originally flat surface smooth.

After completing this project, Song Guo wiped his sweat and took a short rest. After the formed blank was slightly dry, there would be irregularities or traces of mud strips, so Song Guo needed to further polish it.

Song Guo chose to use smooth pebbles to grind the blank, so as to fill the uneven surface of the blank and increase the gloss of the blank surface.

The last step is glazing, which is applied before firing. The colors include black, white, etc. As for the pattern, you can choose your favorite pattern to draw.

Glazing is not difficult. This step is mainly divided into inner glaze and outer glaze. Song Guo used the pouring glaze method to glaze bowls, plates, bottles and jars.

After Song Guo finished this step, he collapsed exhausted and asked Yuan to place all the glazed pottery in a cool place to dry.

The pottery was made, but there was no pottery kiln. Song Guo, who wanted to live a simple life, was forced to get up and direct his family members to dig a pottery kiln.

A pottery kiln is generally composed of five parts: the fire mouth, the fire chamber, the fire channel, the kiln chamber and the kiln spring. Song Guo had no experience and could only figure it out on his own. It would be fine as long as it looked roughly the same.

The pottery kiln was dug in less than two days, but it would take at least three more days to make the pottery. During this period, Song Guo and others had to work hard to collect firewood, as a large amount of wood was needed to fire the kiln.

Because the firing temperature of pottery is between 800 degrees Celsius and 900 degrees Celsius, it is necessary to collect wood.

What surprised Song Guo even more was that the orcs in the tribe knew that he needed firewood to burn in the kiln, so they all came to help.

Their original words were: This is not a difficult task for them, it's just a piece of cake.

Song Guo smiled. He really enjoyed dealing with the simple orcs.

So, there was the scene at the beginning where Song Guo and Yuan were guarding in front of the kiln. For Song Guo, he had done what he could, and the rest depended on luck.