Orcs through the age

The pottery fired this time was very smooth because I applied a feldspar glaze that I was not sure about. The surface seemed to be covered with a layer of porcelain, even with some glass texture.

Although I don’t know if the formula I pieced together from my memory based on what I’ve heard people say about the glaze is correct, but the fired glaze is indeed more beautiful than the separate rough pottery in the past. much.

Perhaps because the glaze is mixed with impurities, the glaze is not a pure color, but some red is mixed with other colors, showing the style of ink painting.

Although the pictures I drew for the children are somewhat blurred in the glaze lines after firing, but fortunately, the lines drawn by the black charcoal are still relatively clear. It is successful, and it is more expensive when everyone sees it for the first time.

Luo Lei touched the jar that was very smooth to the touch. He was a little unbelievable. He said that he had never seen such pottery.

As for the others, of course, I have never seen it.Thinking about it, it seems that when firing pottery, Gunan and the others pay special attention to the purity of the clay and remove all impurities. There are not many places where pottery is fired, so naturally everyone did not expect such a thing as glaze.

If I hadn't seen this thing, I probably wouldn't have thought of such a thing.

Although I am not very satisfied with what I burned this time, it is still a big improvement, and the clansmen are very happy.Especially when I saw that this batch of pottery was more beautiful than those made by the Xing tribe before, and it was not easy to seep water, I liked it even more.Some people even said that it would be great if the people in the clan could see it too.

Because it was bricklaying and tile laying, the basic structure of the house had already been built, so our house was built relatively quickly.Half of the males in the clan were responsible for hunting and harvesting, and the other half worked with me to lay bricks and tiles. By the beginning of November, almost all the houses were ready.

All the houses have the same one hall and four rooms, with corridors in front and back.There is a yard next to it.From the top of the slightly higher valley, it is lined up on both sides of the stream, with blue bricks and blue tiles, which is quite the style of the ancient village in my memory.

Because the stream is not wide, a flat bridge was built between two parallel households with double-layer wooden boards on the stream, so that everyone can pass by.And this two-meter-wide stream is the source of our daily drinking water.

I also remind everyone that since it is drinking water, everyone should pay attention to it. This water can only be used for drinking and lifting water. If there are other uses and waste water is dumped, be careful not to dump it behind your own house. Pollution of water for others to drink.

Everyone probably knows that it is not good to drink dirty water for others, so they all nodded in agreement.

Our house is at the highest point, but there is no house on the opposite side, because we are at the second top of the sloping land. The first top is the big house we made for the family to store things and hold meetings, and There is hardly any land on the other side of the big house, and the other side of our house is too small to be a house.

I love this terrain and am very happy with it.

And everyone knows where I need to work. Our family also has many children. Not only did we make our house bigger, it has six bedrooms and two living rooms, and Rona and Ari can sleep separately.Later, some blue bricks were inexhaustible, and everyone helped me put them on the floor of the two halls of our house.Although other people's homes still have uneven stone floors for laying foundations for the time being, at least the hall of our house has been paved with blue bricks, making it more comfortable to walk on.

In the winter, we fired bricks and cement several times, and laid green bricks on the floor of every household, which looked clean and flat, and would not hurt your feet.

Now, we have finished the house, the simple furniture is ready, and even the winter reserves have been divided, and each person has newly allocated two large cowhide and some scattered furs.And winter came along.

The winter here is earlier than that of the He people, although the difference may be only about ten days. In our words, probably, here is closer to the north than the He people.

The house is built, the preparations for the winter are ready, and the simple furniture can be used. We also gave our family a new name. Although we thought about it, we finally named it the new family. However, we also Celebrated it.

We now have enough food to eat, better glazed pottery than stoneware to use, and many pots and bowls have been fired successfully since the first time, and we have fired pots and pans for every household since then There are several large water tanks and basins, as well as solid houses made of bricks and tiles, and pointed wooden fences that are higher than people are erected around the tribe.

By winter we were pretty much living a normal life.

The current tribe is going up layer by layer along the terrain, and each floor is almost half a meter high. Now our square is not in the middle of the tribe, but on the widest floor in front of the tribe.

Although this layer is currently the lowest point of the entire tribe, in fact, even this layer is still three or four meters away from the plain.

Moreover, at this place, the elevation of the terrain is more rapid than at other places, so that, after a little modification, the stream becomes a small waterfall from here to the height of the plain.

For this small waterfall, I also asked everyone to make a small pool under the waterfall. After having this small pool, I thought of another idea.

In the past, we used manpower or oxen to grind things. However, there are times when oxen are too busy, and water is such a natural, environmentally friendly and pollution-free thing.

So while everyone has nothing to do in winter, I also suggest that everyone make a waterwheel together.

Although you have never heard of such a thing as a water wheel, you have heard that it can be used to replace the ox-drawn cart for grinding, and maybe it can also be used for pounding wheat. I plan to use it for pounding rice in the future, and I am very happy.

Based on my memory and imagination, while making plans on the sand table on the ground, I discussed with Luo Lei and Canaan from time to time, and a waterwheel that can be used as a mill at one end and rice and wheat at the other end was basically formed.

Although it is not sure whether it will be really successful, everyone also relies on this and even spends on the design drawings to make all the parts needed for the waterwheel with wood, and paint the raw lacquer for future use. The houses used to make the mill and pound the rice have already stood on both sides of the small pool.

In winter, there is less water in the stream, so it is just in time to set up a waterwheel.

The water in the stream is temporarily channeled through two small canals to the canals that surround the plain for a week and then connect to the canals in the depression.We set up the beams for the waterwheel on both sides of the small pool, installed the waterwheel for pumping water in the middle, and connected the log shaft in the middle of the waterwheel to the stone mills and hammers for pounding rice on both sides. On this day, the two mills operating at the same time took initial shape.

Although the process cannot be described in detail, it took a lot of effort for us to do this well.

We even spent a lot of time experimenting with how to use wooden shafts to drive stone mills and hammers to work properly.

But overall, it's finally done.During the official water release experiment, Hongda and Lukes, who were asked to drive the first rotation of the water mill, were also drenched in water.

Fortunately, relying only on my memory of seeing him in action, we also succeeded.

Although now we still need to make a stone mill and a stone roller on the square to thresh and hull the wheat and millet, and we also made a grain lifter to lift the broken husks of the wheat, and a sieve to sieve the millet.

However, since then, we have pounded wheat and milled flour, in fact, through the mill that has been working continuously although it is running slowly.

When the waterwheel was finished, it snowed heavily.The few children in the clan were so happy that they played with each other in the snow and couldn't remember going home.

If it weren't for the parents of our own family to catch them back one by one, it is estimated that there will be several guys in our tribe who have caught a cold.

In general, everyone is very happy.

Winter means we can rest and start enjoying the fruits of the year's labor.

Although I didn't rest, I still thought of a very traditional and happy festival for us-New Year.

I am here, but I can't calculate when it is the Spring Festival here.

But based on my observations here, I also know that there are almost forty hours a day here, and then there is almost a cycle of 360 days. The so-called basic laws of vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumnal equinox, and winter solstice are also connected with the earth.

In the past few years, I have carefully observed the cycle of the year and month here, and I have also recorded the time of this year's autumnal equinox and winter solstice.

So I probably also know that the new year is coming.

I don't know how to calculate the Spring Festival, after all, the almanac is too complicated for me.But I will still count New Years.

Seeing that everyone has nothing to do all winter, everyone is just busy doing things all year long, and even the Harvest Festival is just the beginning of doing things.

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Arnold's parenting diary [-]:

October X, the second year of the new calendar

As much as I hate to admit it, my belly seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

When I think about it, I really haven’t eaten anything recently, and with the clear soup here lacking in water, it really shouldn’t be the case that someone has a young general’s belly, and I start to feel a little worried.

Although Luo Lei was very happy, I still felt that something was wrong.

First of all, I am getting tired more and more easily now. My current unique skill is to doze off while sitting, and if it is not for the needs of the tribe, I don’t want to move, and even my brain is no longer good.

Luo Lei always said that when I am tired, I will rest at home. If there is anything, I will tell him what to do, and he will do it.Even when I tell him I'm not working right now, he just strokes my hair and tells me everything's fine, which is a lie.

In fact, I still realized that what Ah Yuan said might be true.

Ah Yuan now comes to our house once a day and brings me some strange soups and medicines, saying it is for nourishing the body.

The high priest also came to see me on crutches several times, although he still dare not get too close to me.However, he has already started to take two apprentices, Ari and Aque, and Luo Lei told me that the high priest said that he would tell Ari and Aque what he knew, so that they could treat the diseases of the tribe in the future, and the priest The medical skills are passed on.

Although I sometimes joke that the high priest and A Yuan don't know who is better, and I don't like what the high priest did in the past, so I don't like him now, but for his medical skills and his love for the tribe Heart, I still agree.Even Ah Yuan sometimes said that the high priest is indeed a senior, and he knows a lot.So we also feel relieved to let Ari and Aque learn from him.

Just my stomach, I can hardly believe whoever they say is ok.

I have seen the belly of three months. When Ah Man had Ah Xing, I went to see him almost every day. His belly is definitely not as big as mine.

Although Ah Yuan has repeatedly said that I have no problem, and Luo Lei also said that the high priest also said that the children of Griffin are older than other children, I still feel that a society without B-ultrasound and X-rays is too inconvenient!

My stomach is about half bigger than Ah Man's, and it may increase even by six months. I am worried about whether I will be able to walk and how such a big child will be born.