Prehistoric Widows Survival [Farming]

Although the pottery that Lu Wei fired for the first time was really ugly, it was pottery after all, light, fire-resistant, water-tight, and stable (if the bottom of the bowl was flat), it was superior to the stone pots and pots used in the tribe today in all aspects. Gourd scoop is much better.

So Lu Er quickly found Chong, and showed Chong the pottery bowl that he had fired successfully.

In the past few days, Lu Er has been huddling in his tent every afternoon, not knowing what to do. The tent near Lu Er often smells of fireworks. I thought that Lu Er was cooking some herbs, but I didn't expect that he was researching this. thing?

Pottery was popular in the primitive period of the earth, and it did not gradually decline until the appearance of porcelain a long, long time later. Of course, it has its appeal.

Watching Lu Er boil a bowl of water with that small pottery bowl, he immediately realized the advantages of this new type of container, and quickly agreed to Lu Er's request to assign a few orcs or sub-beasts to learn pottery making and promote.

These subbeasts who followed Lu Er to learn how to make pottery were different from those who were punished to repair toilets last time. Repairing toilets was a punishment, but learning how to make pottery was a reward.

For candidates who want to study pottery, Lu Er didn't mention any additional threshold, but only made one requirement: "If you want to be an honest, hard-working and careful sub-beast, it's best to be good at handwork."

Nodding emphatically: "No problem, I will choose people carefully."

"One more thing... Is there any more viscous soil near the tribe?"

In the past few days, different clays have been used to fire pottery. Lu Er did not discard the broken pieces directly. After carefully observing their state, he found that the clay embryos he kneaded out of clay with a relatively high viscosity had fewer cracks when fired. The finished surface is also smoother.

The result of failure is sometimes easier to summarize the law than success.

Lu You used the most viscous soil to try to make a few more clay embryos, and found that the yield was almost one-fourth.

This is also the result that Lu Er has only fired small plates and bowls. The yield of larger containers such as pottery pots and even pottery urns may be extremely low.

Such a yield rate is highly accidental, so Lu Er wanted to find out if there was any better soil to use.

Zhong attached great importance to pottery, and after serious consideration, he replied: "The tribe walked along the direction behind the sun for a while, and the soil over there turned black and was sticky when stepped on. I don't know if it meets your requirements."

Whether it fits has to be seen.Lu You thanked him, and was going to go back and get ready to visit the places he mentioned.

He stopped him again, and told him with some concern: "Although it is still in the safety zone of the tribe, there is no danger, it is best to find an orc to accompany you. If you encounter a wild beast, you, a sub-beast, will be very dangerous."

Lu You nodded, thanked him for his concern, and said with a smile, "Don't worry."

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Because the sub-beasts are generally better than the orcs in terms of carefulness, they are basically all sub-beasts, and there is only one orc, which is the one that Lu Yi is very familiar with.

"Li?" Lu You looked at the handsome young man in front of him with some surprise, remembering the big fluffy tail, couldn't help reaching out and touching the little orc's head with long red hair, "Why are you here too? "

Li raised his head triumphantly: "My hand is a coincidence!"

He is a fox orc, and he really deserves the praise of "ingenuity".

Li was very young, and before joining Huawei, he was basically just joining in the fun. When he was repairing the toilet, he was taught some basic mathematics knowledge by Lu Er, and he quickly became a fan of Lu Er, full of admiration for Lu Er.

Zhong originally didn't want to choose people related to the last Huawei riot, so as not to make Lu Wei dissatisfied.Unexpectedly, when Lizheng heard about this incident, he hugged his thigh and cried, and refused to let him come over. He was very annoyed, so he had to agree.

Lu Er still had an impression of how quickly Li learned numbers when he was building public toilets and septic tanks. Hearing this, he smiled and stopped talking, and began to patiently teach these sub-beasts how to make pottery.

In fact, it’s teaching. Lu Wei burned the pottery by himself, so he didn’t put on any airs. He explained the general process and the attention points he summed up in the past few days, and started to try with these sub-beasts. .

I have to say that although these sub-beasts who were re-selected are limited by their vision and don't know much, their thoughts are delicate enough. Lu Wei pointed out a few key points, and they can do it carefully and safely when making clay embryos.

And based on the practical sense, the sub-beasts also put forward a lot of suggestions about the grip or the rope hole.

A high-end sense of art needs to be cultivated, but the aesthetics of neatness, roundness, and symmetry naturally exist in the hearts of all creatures.

The first small bowls, small clay pots, and small plates were made, and each one was much more neat and beautiful than the No. [-] machine made by Lu Er himself.

Xiao Mi lay on the ground, looking at those neat, smooth and stable small pottery bowls, and then thinking about her own "Love Rice Bowl" that was rickety on the ground hidden in the tent, her blue eyes couldn't blink. Blinking to Lu Er.

Lu You coughed, pretending not to see Xiao Mi's sad eyes, and told the sub-beasts to carefully move the prepared mud to the side to dry, and then went to pick up firewood to prepare charcoal.

The mud embryo is dried, the charcoal is prepared, and the pottery is fired.

When the flames were gradually extinguished and all the unbroken clay embryos turned into uniform red pottery, the sub-beasts couldn't help but rejoice holding those small and light pottery.

They've never seen such a light, easy-to-use pot and bowl!

Even young cubs can pick up and walk around. The bottom is much thinner than the stone pot. With a little fire, the water in the clay pot can be heated quickly; It takes a lot of firewood to heat it up!

The most important thing is that these useful jars are made by themselves!

There is no need for the orcs to work hard to find stones from outside the tribe, and then spend a lot of time slowly digging them out. They only need some mud and firewood, and they can make such a small jar in two days.

Zhong told them that Lu Er promised that they have the priority to supply the burned things.

——In the future, will they be able to cook boiled meat at home?

While the sub-beasts were pleasantly surprised, they couldn't help secretly looking at the sub-beast who was holding a kitten and frowning as he played with a small saucer.

The sub-beasts that have been rediscovered are all honest, dedicated to work every day, and not very involved in gossip and gossip. Therefore, they have not targeted green ears in the past, at most because of the "disastrous star" Mingtou respects Lu Er at a respectful distance.

In fact, because of Lu Er's autism, these sub-beasts seldom see Lu Er, and some even don't remember his appearance.

It wasn't until Lu Er healed Yong's injury a while ago that the image of this sub-beast appeared in their eyes.

Loneliness and strange whereabouts, these various behaviors of the former original body are suddenly covered with a mysterious halo because of the identity of "witch doctor", which makes ordinary sub-beasts curious and awed.

The firing of pottery this time allowed them to have close contact with Lu Er, and found that Lu Er was not as timid, cowardly, and incompetent as Huawei and the others said, nor was he as treacherous and incompetent as the witch doctors in the big tribe as rumored. dark.

He always has a gentle temperament on his body, he looks good when he smiles, and his eyes are calm. He won't get angry if he doesn't do well, and he will praise someone who does well.

I don't know what to say about that feeling, it made them want to get close to Lu Er.

It's just that after all, I don't know Lu Er very well, and with the reputation of a witch doctor under the pressure, the sub-beasts are very cautious.

Li, on the other hand, doesn't have so many worries when he's young, he likes to play with Lu Wei, so he acts like a baby by Lu Wei's side, watching Xiao Mi's teeth sour, and secretly decides to throw Li to Lie after he transforms back. Let Lie practice him well.

Compared with the appearance of the sub-beasts loving pottery, Lu Er is actually a little dissatisfied.

The yield of these pottery is really too low.

Only the pots with the size of a child's head had a yield as low as one-sixth, and the bowls and saucers were slightly better, but not more than one-fourth.

Together with himself, five sub-beasts and one orc, after two days of hard work, only one clay pot and five or six dishes were successfully burned in the end.

Although there are not too many orcs in the Redwood Tribe, the pottery firing efficiency certainly cannot keep up with the actual demand.

Not to mention that Lu Er plans to fire pots and urns with larger capacity later on.

——It seems that we still need to improve the materials and techniques of firing pottery.

The rule set by Lu Er is that the pottery is made under his hands, and the pottery can be brought back directly according to the amount of work done, and the rest will be distributed according to the contribution of the orcs to reclaim the land and grow crops.

Of course, he doesn't care whoever gets the pottery trades privately.

It takes a long time and repeated trials and explorations to improve the pottery-making process. Now the key to improving the quality the fastest is the clay for making mud embryos.

Lu Er intends to go to the place where he re-said.