The things Shi Yong brought back were also varied. Many tribes began to help Teng She find things as soon as they returned. Although there were no seeds at this time, Song Xuan said at the time that all kinds of rare things would be fine, Huahua As long as grass, rocks and mud are not found everywhere, you can find them first and show them to Song Xuan.
So this time Shi Yong and the others brought back a lot of stones, but Song Xuan looked through them carefully. Although some of them were colorful, they were probably useless, at least Song Xuan didn't know how to use them.
What Song Xuan wants to find most is naturally copper or iron ore. These two ores are relatively large in quantity, easy to find, and easier to refine. The charcoal in the tribe should be able to cope with it.
But it doesn't matter if I can't find it for the time being. I didn't hold out hope that it could be solved in one go. As the saying goes, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment. This hope is relatively small, so naturally I won't be too disappointed.
But Shi Meng was a little disappointed. Seeing Song Xuan pouring out all the stones, he said with some distress:
"God... God's envoy, don't you want any of this?"
"It's useless, what are you still doing?"
Seeing the stone that he had worked so hard to return just thrown outside the door, Shi Meng was still a little sad. Although he didn't understand it, he didn't say much.
While Song Xuan was waiting for the rice seeds to grow, Shitou excitedly held a pottery blank and found Song Xuan squatting on the edge of the field:
"Angel, what do you think of this pottery?"
At a glance, Song Xuan could tell the difference between this pottery and the previous ones. Although both were made of clay, the stone in his hand was obviously more rounded.
I have made it before, but no matter how hard the stone is rubbed, there are always places that are not so perfect, and the thickness is uneven, especially there are many places where there are traces of hand pinching, but now this one looks much better, and you can’t see it inside or out. To the mudra.
Seeing such a pottery blank, Song Xuan was a little surprised and asked:
"How did you do this?"
"Hey, look!"
As he spoke, he took out a large plate from behind his back and started demonstrating.
I saw the stone turning the plate with one hand and imitating the modification of the ceramic blank with the other hand:
"Angel, that's it, it will be gone in a moment!"
As soon as he saw the movement of the stone, Song Xuan remembered, isn't this a turntable used for pottery making? Who would have thought that the stone could be figured out by itself.
Giving up on observing the rice sprouts that had just emerged from the soil, Song Xuan followed Shi Shi to his small workshop.
This operation of the stone can be regarded as arousing Song Xuan's dusty memory, but the stone is still too simple, and it is definitely not so stable just by turning it by hand.
So Song Xuan decided to modify it on this basis. Although the conditions in the tribe were limited, it was still possible to make a simple roulette wheel.
However, the roulette wheel still has to be made of clay and fired. Although it can also be polished with stones, it is too time-consuming. It would take months to polish a large stone into a roulette wheel that can be used directly. , but firing the kiln is much faster. Including the time for making the billet, it can be produced in two or three days.
There is a big round cake above the roulette wheel. For the convenience of making, the bigger the better, but if it is too big, it will not be easy to turn. Song Xuan asked Shi Shi to look at it. A width of about half a meter is fine. This width is mainly used in the tribe. The pottery used can take care of both, but if it is too big, it will not be easy.
The bottom of the plate is a cylindrical hollowed-out center. When in use, stand the entire turntable on a suitable piece of wood. If not, apply some oil when in use. I believe it will be easy to turn.
After hearing Song Xuan's idea, Shitou nodded again and again. Although the principle of spinning the roulette wheel was similar to that of his, Song Xuan's redesign was obviously better to use. The only thing that needed to be noted was that he had to burn the roulette wheel first. .
As soon as he finished speaking, the stone was mixed with clay in front of Song Xuan. There wasn't much going on in the tribe, and Song Xuan was watching from the side.
I saw that several attempts were made to make the stone without success. They all collapsed when the pottery disk was enlarged. The wheel disk was too big, the base was too small, and the edge area lost support. I just connected a piece, and the rest and surrounding parts were destroyed. .
Song Xuan thought for a while and said:
"Stone, like this, you do it upside down and put the base on top!"
Stone: (⊙ω⊙)! ! !
"I'll go, God's envoy, is this still okay?"
For a moment, Shitou seemed to have been opened to a new world. He looked at Song Xuan with wide eyes, full of admiration.
Sure enough, it was much easier to change the way of thinking. Not only did the pottery plate become bigger, but the base was also perfectly decorated. In order to ensure that the hole in the base was round enough, Stone took a piece of bamboo, dipped it in water and turned it around a few times. lock up.
There are a lot of pieces of wood of suitable thickness around, but if the holes are not round, it will be unstable when rotating, and it will definitely shake around.
For this reason, the stone was repeatedly trimmed for the entire roulette wheel, scraping back and forth on the plate with a straight piece of wood to ensure it was flat enough, and carefully carved. It took two or three hours for the stone to make the ceramic blank of the roulette wheel. Not only does he look good, but Song Xuan also thinks he is perfect.
Being able to do this with such crude tools shows that he still put in a lot of effort.
After the pottery is finished, it can be fired after waiting for it to dry. The current temperature is almost the same in two or three days. There is not much demand for pottery in the tribe, so the stone is only fired every few days.
After looking at these two simple pottery kilns, Song Xuan wondered if he could upgrade them. After all, they would be useful for future transactions and tribal construction.
Although wooden houses are good to live in, they are inferior in terms of sound insulation and heat preservation, and they are not very strong. On rainy days, some mud will be washed around the house. If it is changed to a brick structure, I think it will be much better.
There is also the fence in the tribe. Although it has been upgraded many times, the wooden fence is no longer what it was at the beginning. However, due to the material constraints, it is still difficult to make it tall, wide and strong. It's difficult, but if it were built with bricks like an ancient city wall, it would be so grand.
But this is just Song Xuan's fantasy. Teng She can't support such a large-scale construction now, but the kiln can be redesigned. Fortunately, it is urgent to use, so Song Xuan asked Shitou to burn a few bricks to try his hand. , if possible, we can build a larger kiln with bricks later.
In this way, more things can be fired at one time. Instead of the current situation, one wheel can almost occupy the entire kiln.
