Prehistoric Survival Records

The relocation is still under planning, but the lack of water containers is an immediate difficulty.

Rieg rubbed his chin to think, and decided to put the burning of a batch of large clay pots on the agenda again in the past two days.

I haven't been to the kiln for a few days, and the old look has changed.

The dilapidated mud kiln was pushed down, all the mud was cleared away, and a solid and practical red brick charcoal kiln took its place.

Not far from the charcoal kiln, a relatively rounder and shorter brick kiln is the pottery kiln.

Today, there are not so many free orcs to help him. Since Lige has business today, he can't play wild with the fur balls. The hair ball, the adults will come and take it away--be sure not to disturb Rigg's serious business, everyone thinks so.

So Rigg's queen brothers are still Gal and Billy.

The two younger brothers have already mastered the clay rod molding method, but this time they mainly need to burn a batch of relatively large containers to come out, and Li Ge has to watch it.

For things like pottery, the larger the shape, the less simple the craftsmanship.

In terms of appearance, if it is thick, it will be fired unevenly. It may be that the outer layer has been pottered and the inner layer is still clay.If it is thin, it will be heated unevenly, either cracked or fried, how big the shape should be, and how much water should be mixed to ensure that the embryo body does not collapse.

The furnace temperature can’t be controlled without high-tech means, at least the embryo drawing stage is still controllable. The five pots that were stuffed in between the bricks were fired and two finished products were fired, which shows that the technical difficulty of pottery firing is not high. The imagination is high, the only problem is whether the burned pot is strong and how long it can be used for.

But those above are not particularly important questions. If you ask Rieger why, he will answer you: no one, pure Tuhaoer.

Now he is neither short of fuel, nor short of mud, nor short of manpower and time. He can try as much as he wants, and he can be called a 24k pure local tyrant, and he is not afraid at all.

The clay used for making pottery was brought back from the river, and this time Lige specially asked Gal and the others to get some kaolin back into the clay when they were digging the mud to increase the content of kaolin in the mud.

Again, go through the whole pile of soil carefully, pinch off the mud, sand, stones, grass roots, snail shells, fish scales and other sundries, put the clean mud ball on a flat stone slab, knead and beat it vigorously, and let the mud ball become soft like kneading dough. Soft and malleable.

A few pieces of clay pots from the last burnt out can also come in handy as clinker.

All the pottery pot fragments are smashed into powder and mixed into the clay mass in proportion and kneaded evenly. This step is called adding clinker.

The function of the clinker is to increase the viscosity of the clay and reduce the shrinkage of the clay embryo. During the high-temperature calcination process, the clinker can also increase the stability of the clay embryo, so that the clay embryo is not easy to crack, and the hardness of the calcined pottery is also high. will get higher.

While doing it, explain it to the two younger brothers.

Cal and Billy didn't know whether they understood or not, they looked serious and enthusiastic.

Even if they are already familiar with this process, once Lige adds new knowledge points, their eyes will shine brightly. Perhaps the greatest sense of accomplishment as a teacher comes from this.

The next step is the process of pulling mud embryos that everyone loves to see.

Playing with mud, whether it is later generations or prehistoric, adults or children, can never tire of it.

During this period, the group of furry kids who were taken away by their parents were not idle. Although Rieger had something to do and couldn't take them to play today, they still led the younger ones to dig wild vegetables in the forest.

After digging the amount for one night, everyone is now probing around the kiln, with an expression that they really want to bring the spoils to the boss.

Rieg was also worried that they would casually take back the weeds they picked up and eat them. Every time they collected the weeds after digging, they would carefully check everyone’s small baskets to make sure they didn’t put any dog ​​pee, moss, aconitum, etc. Only poisonous plants can be assured.

But these cubs are very smart, they take the inedible things picked out by Lige and observe them carefully, basically they will not appear in their baskets again the second time, and Lige is discovering that they have something to eat. Take a good look when you pick new plants.

At this moment, they were beckoned to come over. A group of radish heads had already forgotten the warning after receiving the boss's order, and ran to review the results for the boss.

Rieg flipped through them casually. They were some common wild vegetables and fruits that he had taught them.

A wolf cub named Shelley kept stuffing his small pannier into Rigg's arms, which meant that he picked the most picks today and was the champion.

The word champion was also taught to them by Lige, which means the No.1 in the competition. The No.1 runner is called the race champion, and the No.1 fighter is called the fighting champion. Then there is also No.1 in digging wild vegetables. Champion, invented by Lige, is called Caiqing Champion ().

For the title of champion, this group of cubs appeared to be harmonious on the surface, but in fact, when they were released to dig vegetables, they were undercurrents surging against each other.

As soon as the wolf cub Shelley handed the basket to Rigg, a little leopard cub beside him shouted dissatisfiedly:

"Shelley cheated, Shelley secretly caught my food, I am the champion, I am!"

Shelley was also dissatisfied: "You are talking nonsense, the first thing I saw was mine!"

"I saw it first!"

"I go first!"

The serious children pinched for the "green picking champion" that Lige picked up casually.

Pinching and pinching, the two children threw down the vegetable baskets in their hands and threw themselves into a ball, fighting.

The kid next to him not only didn't try to persuade them to fight, but also cheered them up.

The adult orcs working on the side saw the two cubs fighting, and didn't intend to run up to separate them, but laughed haha.

This is prehistoric, and orc cubs are very wild, and orcs don't respect gentleness and reason, and whoever has a big fist will listen to whoever has the big fist-Rig told himself repeatedly, just get used to it.

All of a sudden splashes of marl and turf.

The two orc cubs kicked and scratched each other, playing nothing new.

Rigg was about to turn his head away when suddenly a little green color jumped into his field of vision.

Lige's heart skipped a beat, he endured his excitement, and used the majesty of the boss to separate the two.

This is not because of anything else, mainly because Rigg saw something.

Taking a leaf off the little leopard's leather skirt in his hand and looking it carefully at the light, Rieg changed his usual calm style, and his face turned red with excitement.

He held the leaf in his hand to the little leopard's eyes, and asked him eagerly, "Where did you find this leaf?"

The little leopard was still immersed in beating people and being beaten, when he was pulled away suddenly, a green leaf magnified in front of his eyes, and the whole leopard was a little dazed.

Rigg tried not to lose his composure and frighten the children, but his voice inevitably rose a little:

"This, this leaf is sticking to you. You must have come into contact with this plant. Do you remember where it grew?"

The little leopard finally understood, took a look at the leaf in Lige's hand, thought for a while, then shook his head, meaning he had no impression.

Hey--

Lige's enthusiasm was extinguished, and he was a little disappointed, but he still didn't give up, and asked the group of youngsters:

"Does any of you have an impression of this leaf? Everyone think about it, this is very important."

Boys, you look at me, I look at you, and finally shook their heads, saying that they have never seen it.

Well, Rieger can't blame them for knowing this. After all, he took them running around in the forest all day and didn't find it. How could they know what it was.

Rieger looked at the leaves carefully against the sunlight again. These are the leaves of soil potatoes. Potatoes are also called potatoes, ground eggs, artichokes, and the tubers are edible. Even in the interstellar world where he lives in later generations, they are also the third most important. Food crops, the discovery of potatoes, means that famine can be completely solved.

Rieg didn't know how the first orc turned from a beast into a human, but once a beast had a human form, it was different from a pure beast in many ways.

For example, herbivorous beasts, when they are pure beasts, only eat grass, while carnivorous orcs only eat meat.

But once you become an orc, although you are also affected by the feeding habits of the original form, you have a preference for eating, but whether it is a carnivorous or herbivorous orc, the human form of the orc has evolved omnivorous, which can be seen from the teeth of these orcs. figure it out.

This is not surprising at all. In nature, whether it is a pure herbivore or a pure carnivore, the survival rate of the race is not as good as that of omnivores with abundant food sources.

Beastmen evolved from beasts to human form, their stomach capacity has shrunk by half, and their brain volume has been developed three times. The brain activity is high, and the orcs have become more and more intelligent, but the activity of the brain consumes a lot of energy. The stomach pouch cannot bear the responsibility of digesting such a huge amount of energy, which determines that the orcs must eat as much energy-rich and easily digestible food as possible. These foods include berries, nuts, and wild vegetables.

Over time, the orcs became omnivores.

One of the advantages of becoming an omnivore is that the survival rate of the population is high. The disadvantage is that many of these orcs still eat instinctively. For example, Papa Laika does not like vegetables when he has a choice, while Papa Quinn , Sometimes I like to eat caterpillars or something, which then leads to a series of minor problems such as constipation and getting angry. These are all signals from the body. Let's add some vegetables.

To completely solve the famine problem of this group of orcs, is there anything more immediate than the effect of food crops? Don’t you see that the huge population of ancient China was fed by three kinds of food crops, let alone the people of this mere tribe? Orcs, as long as the cultivation of potatoes is promoted, there will be no famine in winter anymore.

In addition to filling the stomach, potatoes are also very delicious. In addition to being eaten roasted, they can also be fried, crushed and ground into flour, or washed out of starch to make vermicelli.

Thinking of those baked potato chips, potato chips, French fries, fried potato shreds, hot and sour potato powder in his previous life, Lige's saliva drools.

Shoutout—I can't think about it anymore, Rieg gave himself a hard blow, knocking his head off with delicious food, and he couldn't work any more.