Take Baidu to the Wilderness

Chapter 14 Kneading Pottery

Tori hoped that Yan Tu would not see the funny nature of the clansmen, but he never expected that Yan Tu was actually a member of the unreliable team.Unaware of this, Tori began to distribute the food with ease, thinking that the sooner he eats, the earlier he can start working.

It may be that they are familiar with each other. The children who were hiding on the side during the meal yesterday showed their true nature. They stood by their mother or father, each holding their food while swallowing big mouthfuls, while comparing with their friends to show off Or the fruits of labor of your parents today.

"My dad hunted a giant horned ox today, you know the giant horned ox, it's so big," said the child, putting down the bamboo tube in his hand, and made a big circle on his chest with both hands to represent the giant horned ox Huge size: "My dad killed it alone, it's amazing! The barbecue you eat now is cut from that cow."

Giant horned cattle are herd creatures, often twenty to thirty of them gather together for activities. They have strong attack power. There are two huge horns growing on the top of their heads, which are hard and sharp, and can easily pierce rocks.Because they live in groups and are rarely alone, relying on their huge horns and powerful four hooves, in the forest, almost no other animals can harm them.

Therefore, it is very difficult to hunt, and it is no wonder that the child is so proud of his father.

Seeing this, Kuva quickly put down the roast beef he was eating, picked up the bamboo tube, and pretended to drink soup instead of nothing: "It's your dad's luck, and he met the single giant horn cub. If it was my dad If you meet him, he will definitely be able to kill the giant horn bull."

This cow is still a calf. Although it is already huge, the horns on its head are not strong enough, and its hooves are not strong enough. According to common sense, it should be the most protected object in the group. I don’t know why it was left alone. It was only then that he was caught and grilled on the fire.

Even so, its attack power should not be underestimated, after all, any creature will explode its potential when encountering a life crisis.What's more, for giant horned bulls, even if they are minors, their fighting power is terrifying.It's still pretty amazing to be able to catch it.

While secretly admiring Kuwa in his heart, he was also unwilling to be at a disadvantage: "Well, your father is indeed very good, but my father is not bad either. He caught several curly sheep by himself. When I learn If he acquires hunting skills, he will be as powerful as him when he grows up, or even stronger than him!"

"You haven't reached the age to learn skills yet! How do you know that you will be better than your father in the future?" The child was not convinced.

Instead of being affirmed by his friends, he was questioned instead. Kuva stiffened his neck and replied in a rough voice: "I said yes, just wait and see!"

Originally, the showing off between children was benign. The adults often show off each other like this when they have a good relationship, and adults are used to it, and sometimes they even work harder to hunt, just so that their children will not have nothing to say at this time, so when When they saw a child comparing each other, no one cared. It wasn't until the two of them were arguing that their faces were blushing and their necks were thick. Then everyone realized that something was wrong and hurriedly stopped them.

Tori touched Kuwa's head and smiled, "You are already better than your dad. When your dad was young, he went to the forest to pick wild fruits. He didn't pick as many fruits in one day as you did in the morning."

"Really?" Kuva looked excited.

Seeing that the patriarch affirmed Kuwa, the other child became impatient, terribly wronged, biting his lips and tears rolling in his eye sockets, trying to hold back that he couldn't drop it, which made people feel pitiful.

Tori stretched out his other hand to touch his head: "Kuva is stronger than his father, and you are much better than your father. Don't look at your father who can catch the giant horn cow alone now. When he was a child, he The fruit I pick every day is much less than you."

"That's right!" The child's father picked him up and said, "My father is more useless than you and didn't even cry. Why are you crying?"

"Oh, I didn't cry. Dad caught the giant horned ox. Dad is a warrior." The child blinked his eyes, trying to force back the tears, and at the same time he did not forget to refute his dad and defend his reputation.

"Yes, Dad is not useless, Dad is a warrior."

Children's emotions usually come and go quickly, and being coaxed, and crying is really a shameful thing, so the child returned to his original state after a while, holding the bamboo tube and continuing to drink soup.

While eating, they mixed with Kuva again, and the two started talking and laughing again.

The adults around who had been watching carefully saw that there was no estrangement between them because of this incident, and they were still the same as before, so they were relieved and continued to concentrate on eating their own meals.

After the meal, the rest of the prey was divided. Under the leadership of Toli, the middle-aged men went to the places where they had hunted before to find rice, and the others stayed and made pottery with Yantu.

I was stimulated during the meal, and I felt that I am better than my father now, and I will definitely be better in the future, so for this, I should work harder than before now, and strive to win in all aspects.Thinking of this, the children and Kuva became enthusiastic. Under their influence, the other children were also full of motivation and started playing with mud enthusiastically.Well, you read that right, just playing with mud.

Pottery is made of clay, and Yan Tu doesn't treat them as naughty and ignorant children, and assigns them a special task-digging.

In modern times, adults will buy plasticine for children to make toys. The children in the tribe have never been exposed to this. Their entertainment has always been competitions such as climbing trees or picking fruits. tidy.The speed of digging is faster than that of adults washing the soil. After enough soil is needed for pottery making, they still can't stop, squatting on the ground like groundhogs and digging holes non-stop.

In the end, Yan Tu took out the clay that had just been processed, mixed it with the plant ash left over from cooking at noon, and then pinched a lifelike groundhog like plasticine and put it in front of the children.

Holding nuts in two front paws, the groundhog who was eating killed all the children instantly. The long front teeth, short and fat hands and feet, and the cute little tail behind them all poked their cute spots .Not to mention the girls, even the boys couldn't help it. Although they curled their lips pretending to be disdainful, they all showed love in their eyes. When the girls surrounded Yan Tu and asked what to do, they all quietly pricked up their ears to eavesdrop.

Yan Tu's original intention was to use groundhogs to divert their attention. Naturally, at this time, he didn't want to whet his appetite. He held the clay in his hand and kneaded the outline in slow motion while explaining carefully.

After finishing, put the two groundhogs side by side: "When the clay is dry, and then burn it with fire for a while, they will become very hard. As long as you don't hit or smash them hard, they can even accompany you to your old age. Do you want to try to make one by yourself?" Yan Tu divided the remaining clay into ten parts, and handed each of them one part.

The children who were already eager to try it couldn't hold back when they heard that they could do it by themselves. They each stepped forward to take their own share and couldn't wait to start trying.

The last ones who came to get the clay were Kuwa and a few older boys. They dawdled and moved to Yantu at the speed of a turtle, and then left at the speed of light after taking away the clay. Occasionally, they looked at Yantu accidentally. Yes, he would uncomfortably throw down the sentence 'I don't like this kind of little girl's toy, this is for my mother', and then ran away blushing under the smug eyes.

It's so awkwardly cute!

Yan Tu smiled and successfully diverted their attention. After achieving the goal, he went back to continue making pottery with the tribe.

In the beginning, children liked washing soil more than digging, because they could play with water.However, because it is still spring, the adults are afraid that they will not be able to stand the cold, so they are determined not to allow it. In addition, they also have a taste for food, and they are obsessed with digging and playing with mud, so let it go.

Washing the soil is troublesome, so when the children started to knead the clay and try to shape the mud in their hands into various shapes, the adults hadn't finished washing it.

The children dug a lot of soil, and only washed about half of it, and the clay needed to make clay pots was enough.Anyway, I dug it out, and it would be troublesome to fill it back in. Yan Tu thought about washing it all off, and the extra clay could just be used to make bowls and spoons.Although there are already natural tableware such as bamboo tubes, it is still not convenient enough.

After washing the soil and mixing the obtained clay with plant ash, Yan Tu began to teach everyone how to make clay pots.To be honest, the process of making clay pots by hand is not complicated, and it can even be said to be extremely simple.The people of the tribe are used to the work, and pottery making is not as delicate as sewing animal skins, so after trying for a while, some of them are even better than those made by Yan Tu.

Yan Tu didn't care about this. Seeing that everyone was getting started, he went back and started making pottery bowls.

Knowing how to make pottery pots, pottery bowls is no problem.Considering the food intake of the people in the tribe, Yan Tu planned to make a large bowl. Those modern small bowls that are as exquisite as works of art are not suitable for this place. The food in that bowl is not enough for a child to eat.

Knead the clay into slender strips, and then start from the bottom, wrap it up round and round, stop when it reaches the edge of the mouth, smooth the inside and outside with your hands, and smooth it, a simple and slightly rough pottery The prototype of the bowl came out.It can be used after being baked by fire.

After finishing the pottery bowl, Yan Tu grabbed a handful of clay and continued kneading without raising his head.Bamboo ladles are very convenient for scooping water or serving as soup ladles, but they are a bit too big for soup ladles.It is more appropriate to use a spoon for eating soup or something.

Unlike clay pots and bowls, spoons obviously cannot be made by the wire rod method.Fortunately, this is not a troublesome thing. I painted it a few times, kneaded the mud like playing with plasticine, and kneaded the clay into a spoon shape.Put it aside after kneading, and plan to try to see if it can be fired successfully.Of course it’s best if you can do it, it’s okay if you fail, just study how to improve it.

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