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Chapter 108 The First Firing

Because the manufacturing cycle of the house is too long, Ye Yan is not going to give priority to the construction of the house. He decided to intersperse other work in it, such as building a kiln for firing clay pots and other clay wares. This is a very cool project. idea.

Mo Qing was still honestly preparing to dig the soil, but digging with clam shells was too slow, so that yesterday plus today, it was only a few tenths of a cubic meter, or about 4 to 5 catties.That's right, in fact, the concept of one cubic meter is too deceptive. It may look like an express package to the naked eye, and the space of one cubic meter can't even hold a person.But the weight of one cubic meter of soil has reached the tonnage level. What a concept, it is enough to crush you to death. No one would recall trying that kind of feeling.

After digging with clam shells for a long time, Mo Qing's arms were overwhelmed, and the physical work of digging was too much for Mo Qing.

But she was able to persevere alone, which made Ye Yan also have to admire.

Ye Yan looked at Mo Qing, feeling a little distressed: "You can rest for a while, and leave the rest to me. You must know how to combine work and rest."

Mo Qing stood with his hands behind his back, leaned forward slightly, looked at Ye Yan, and blinked his beautiful eyes: "Okay...you said that, and I have no way to refute it. Hmph, it's amazing, you can always find If you block the population."

Ye Yan looked at Haihai: "Not really, I'm actually just an introverted 17-year-old boy."

Mo Qing: "..."

Roan: "..."

……

Ye Yan got his wish. Mo Qing sat obediently in the shade of the tree, crushed a piece of coconut meat, spilled a little coconut oil, raised his sore arm, and applied it on some exposed parts. It is a natural sunscreen, which is very effective.

Ye Yan looked at a pile of freshly dug soil, which was relatively fine. It seems that there are not too many stones in the soil here. Mo Qing also intentionally picked up some stones, which would be better. If he wanted to make clay ware, It must be fine and fine soil, otherwise it is really difficult to use the potholes.

The soil that has just been dug out needs to be dried before it can be used, and there is no water and mud around it. Seawater is absolutely unusable, because it contains too many inorganic salts and various organic substances, which may affect the stability of the pottery. , This is not what Ye Yan wants to see.

But there is no problem, Ye Yan still needs to do some preparatory work.

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Ye Yan walked to the bamboo pile, he patted the bamboo, pointed at the camera, and said: "I can split these bamboos into some long bamboo strips, and then fix them on a frame with ropes, this is the bed frame, and then I can Cover it with palm fronds and it should make a comfortable bed."

After explaining a sentence, Ye Yan took out a knife, disassembled the bamboo, cut out some 2-meter-long bamboo sections, and then split the bamboo from the middle, divided it into four, and divided it into some bamboo strips.The bamboo strips obtained in this way are relatively smooth and have little ups and downs.

The diameter of these bamboos is about 7-10 cm. That is to say, a piece of bamboo that is two meters long can provide Ye Yan with a bed width of about 21-31 cm. A bed frame with a width of about half a meter is enough. , but Ye Yan was not going to wrong himself, so he set the width at 1.5 meters and the length at two meters.This takes about 7 sections of bamboo.

After more than half an hour of processing, Ye Yan finally finished processing the bamboo strips. Outside the hut, the sun was already scorching, and the temperature of more than 30 degrees burned the air on the sea surface and slightly distorted it.

Ye Yan wiped off his sweat. Most of the bamboo he brought back was processed into bamboo strips, and then he took out four pieces of one-meter round bamboo, all of which were about 10cm long.
This is still raw and is used as the foot of the bed frame to keep it off the ground.

Put the bamboo strips on two sturdy tree trunks, with the green and smooth bamboo surface facing upwards, and tie them with ropes to make sure they will not loosen.Then bury a part of the four round bamboos into the ground to form four rectangular points.For the upward part, cut a diameter gap, which is the same size as the frame at the bottom of the bed frame, so that it can be embedded in it and not easy to loosen, and then put the bed frame on it.

Ye Yan couldn't wait to try it, lay on it, moved it slightly, and found that it was quite stable, not bad.The second one is also made in the same way, placed on the left and right sides of the house, one meter apart, and about 70 cm from the ground, and then covered with palm leaves or banana leaves.

I looked at the sun, it was already noon, and I had dinner.

Grilled some meat as usual and finished lunch with a coconut.

Ye Yan stayed under the shade of the tree, looked at the clouds in the sky, and said: "Now the new shelter is only short of those few walls, but we can already move in, there are better roofs and beds .”

Mo Qing sighed silently: "What are you going to use as a fence?"

Ye Yan thought for a while and said, "I want to imitate those earthen buildings and build an earthen wall."

"Why bother to build an earthen wall?"

Ye Yan glanced at Mo Qing, looked at her curious baby, and couldn't help smiling: "That's why we say that the wisdom and craftsmanship of the ancestors are very high, and the earth wall is made of soil, stones, and lime. Then firewood is embedded in it to serve as reinforcement, and the well-crafted earth wall can be as hard as reinforced concrete, and has good shock resistance, and the earth wall is heat-insulated, warm in winter and cool in summer.”

Mo Qing nodded and looked down at her toes: "What do I need to do then?"

Ye Yan thought for a while, then gave the knife to Mo Qing, and said, "Well, you can cut some palm leaves nearby later, and use them as mattresses."

Mo Qing was taken aback, nodded, and immediately looked at the sea. The extreme scenery just existed silently in an unknown place on the earth.

At noon when the sun is most violent, it is a rare rest time for Ye Yan and Mo Qing. Ye Yan has always been working hard towards "sustainable civilized life". When the island life comes to an end.

After one o'clock in the afternoon, ready to work.

Mo Qing went to the forest to cut palm leaves, while Ye Yan took the leftover coconut shells to the seaside, filled the coconut shells with sea water, and he went to make mud.

That's right, Ye Yan planned to make a few clay pots first, Ye Yan didn't need the quality of them, he just needed to be able to hold water.It takes more than ten minutes away from the water source, and it takes half an hour to go back and forth. It is too troublesome to fetch water, and making clay requires water and mud.No way, Ye Yan didn't think of this section at first.

After filling several rounds of water back and forth, Ye Yan mixed the mud in the pit dug by Mo Qing. The water should not be too much, how to judge?As long as the soil is full of stickiness, it is easy to form like rice, and if it is too much, it will become thin mud.But everyone has a strange talent for mud, and it is easy to get started.

Some impurities have been removed, and the soil has sufficient water surface, which is almost the same.Ye Yan made a thicker circular chassis on a piece of clamshell, with the edges turned up, and then it was like Tetris.Take a small amount of soil at a time, knead it into a long strip, circle around the circumference of the circle, knead it, sew the gaps between them, and gradually stack them until it becomes a soil pot with a diameter of about 15cm and a height of about half a meter .

Although it was relatively rough, Ye Yan flattened the gap between the soil strips, and there didn't seem to be any stitching marks, just like a rough embryo pulled out by a novice with a potter's wheel.I made 6 in a row, and put all seven in total under the sun.

Because Ye Yan has a good grasp of water, the water in the earthen pot is just right. In this weather, it will be almost dry within 20 minutes.

And Mo Qing also came back with a bunch of palm leaves. According to Ye Yan's instructions, he was weaving the palm leaves to make them neat.

The weaving method is also very simple. Fold the palm leaves in half along the veins so that the leaves on both sides overlap, and then hold the leaves on one side to cross each other. The formula is also easy to remember. That is, the edge part is tied so that it will not come loose.

Ye Yan built another fire and let it burn vigorously. The flames rose to a height of more than one meter. Then he took the three earthen pots and placed them directly in the flames. He added more firewood around them. Ye Yan prayed that such a rough The operation of these earthen pots will not break.

(End of this chapter)