"God's Envoy! God's Envoy! Get up!"
Although I didn't go to bed particularly late yesterday, I was still more than two hours later than usual, so it was a little difficult to get up in the morning. But as soon as the sun came up, a group of little guys came to Song Xuan's door and started to call the door.
After all, Song Xuan had agreed last night to treat them to sweets today. Apart from Song Xuan being more serious during class, his relationship with these children was quite good, and everyone was not too afraid of him.
After rubbing his sleepy eyes, Song Xuan got up.
The prosperous fortune at his feet has long disappeared.
When the water vapor in the pot had almost evaporated last night, Song Xuan took the pot back to his house. The next thing he needed to do was to cool it down, so it wouldn't affect him anywhere.
"come in!"
After looking at the sugar that had solidified in the pot, Song Xuan also hurriedly called the little guys outside to come in.
"Angel, is the candy ready?"
Looking at the hopeful eyes of a group of little guys, Song Xuan moved his mouth towards the pot and said:
"It's all in the pot!"
At this time, the color of the sugar in the pot is almost the same as that of brown sugar, but it is darker.
After it cooled down, the air no longer had the same sweet smell as last night.
The next thing that needs to be done is to pour out the sugar in the pot. Fortunately, Song Xuan has prepared all this. The pot used is not a traditional pan, but a round-bottomed one with some thin slices inserted through the gaps on both sides. The thin wood chips completely separated it from the pot in a short time.
After all, the pot has a layer of glaze, so it's not particularly sticky.
Seeing that there was still a layer of crumbs scattered in the pot, several children around them put their hands in and stuck them out, wiggling their fingers, and their eyes suddenly widened:
"Huh?! So sweet!"
Hearing this, the children on the outer floor also crowded in. Although Song Xuan's room was not small, it was no longer spacious with nearly twenty children squeezed in at once.
Fearing that everyone would crowd the house, Song Xuan quickly said:
"Let's go! Go out and share!"
Song Xuan's words were still very powerful. After hearing these words, the children stopped grabbing and retreated one after another.
He put the sugar into the pot again and carried it to the main room. The next thing he needed to do was to break the piece of sugar into pieces.
Although it didn't look like a lot, Song Xuan weighed this piece of candy and found that it weighed at least four or five kilograms. The fruit weighed one hundred, fifty or sixty kilograms. Although only this small amount of candy came out in the end, the proportion was pretty good, at least Song Xuan is quite satisfied.
I gently broke off a small piece from the edge and stuffed it into my mouth. It was indeed very sweet and full of messy fruity flavors. Although it was complex, it was still harmonious and not unpleasant to eat.
At this time, Song Xuan was like the old man selling candy on the street in later generations, holding the candy in one hand and tapping it gently with a small stone hammer in the other.
As for the children who were already very anxious to wait, they had already lined up in a long line. When everyone came to Song Xuan, they held their hands up, and then Song Xuan knocked off a piece and put it in their hands.
Except for honey, there is no such pure sweet food in the tribe. The children are not even willing to eat a small piece of candy in one go. They just lick it twice and then hold it in their hands again.
After all, there were only twenty children, so after the distribution, the big candy bar in Song Xuan's hand had only lost a small amount of weight.
Although the adults in the tribe would not line up to get it like children, they all looked at Song Xuan eagerly. Those who had children had already asked, and those who didn't saw the expressions of enjoyment on their faces and knew that It doesn't taste too bad.
The most adults can do with the honey they usually bring back is dip their fingers in it and taste it, and the rest is given to the children to eat. However, the sugar extracted from this fruit is no longer as rare as honey, so everyone wants to try it. Song Xuan also understood very well, so he broke the remaining candies into small pieces. However, there were so many people in the tribe that everyone naturally couldn't share much.
Now just to let everyone have a taste, Song Xuan took two small bowls with dozens of pieces of sugar in each bowl and asked Shihua and Shi Yan to share them with everyone.
"Mmm, that's so sweet!"
"It also smells like fruit!"
A piece of candy the size of a fingernail was unanimously recognized by everyone. Although I carried two full baskets yesterday and only got this little bit, no one felt particularly shortchanged.
"Pick some more fruit today, it's so sweet!"
"..."
If these fruits are not eaten in time, they will basically not last long. Apart from being made into dried fruits, there is no good way to preserve them. But this candy is different. It can obviously be stored for a long time.
Although the size and weight have been reduced countless times, the storage durability is already worth it.
After dividing the four or five kilograms of sugar, Song Xuan still had two kilograms in his hand. The main reason was that the portions given to each person were not big, and so much sugar could not be eaten all at once. It was enough for everyone to have a taste. .
Although the sugar obtained is not much, it can at least prove that there is no problem with this refining method, and it is quite simple. Anyone can do it as long as they are patient.
As for sugar, currently the tribe can only use it to make snacks. Song Xuan knows that it can be used to make wine, but after all, he has never done it before, and sugar is relatively precious, so he doesn’t dare to try it easily. Anyway, wine is not a good thing. It’s not strictly needed, and it’s not impossible to try it later when you have enough.
Although Song Xuan could not be said to be a teetotaler before, he was not addicted to alcohol either. As for the others in Teng She, not to mention, they didn’t even know what alcohol was. Of course, if Song Xuan was allowed to tinker with it, he would definitely do it. Popular.
With the stimulation of sugar, everyone's enthusiasm for picking fruits has obviously increased a lot, and they will bring back at least one basket every day.
Therefore, the tribe usually practices sugaring every two or three days. After all, the fruit cannot be stored for too long.
In just ten days, the tribe now has nearly 20 kilograms of sugar. The amount is still very considerable, but there may not be such a high output in the future. Several kinds of sweet fruits are almost over. It’s time to mature on a large scale. Although the ripening time of each type of fruit is not exactly the same, there will also be sweeter fruits later, which will mature slowly, but the output will not be so large.
The amount of sweet fruits that can be brought back later will naturally be much smaller, and the current production is basically saved by not eating it.
So in the following days, Song Xuan also asked Shihua and the others not to pursue sweet fruits too much. It is a good thing to have nature. If not, it will not have much impact. These are enough for the tribe to eat for a long time.
Although candy is very popular with everyone, no matter who you are, you will definitely not eat it every day. Except for the first piece of candy for each person, it will not be so easy to eat it later, unless something big happens or there is a better one. Only if you perform well, Song Xuan will reward you with one.
Of course, the conditions for these children in the tribe are naturally a little looser, so letting them eat a piece every ten days and a half month will not have much impact.
It's not that Song Xuan is too stingy. After all, the production is here. Under the current conditions, he can only be a little stingy. Song Xuan also put the jar with sugar in his house.
During this period, Shi Meng and the others also came back twice, and Song Xuan naturally gave each of them a piece. Unexpectedly, this group of complaining wild men also showed the look of children when they ate the candy.
"Angel, are there any more?"
Shi Yong chewed up the candy he was given before in three mouthfuls. After eating, he wanted to ask Song Xuan for more, but naturally he didn't:
"No more, no one else but one piece!"
Song Xuan didn't expect that Shi Yong had already finished eating before he finished serving it.
But the rules that have been set cannot be messed with. This first piece for each person is a small benefit for the tribe, allowing everyone to have a taste. If you want more, you can only rely on your own abilities.
Hearing Song Xuan's decisive refusal, Shi Yong could only smack his lips in recollection and stare at the people around him with unkind eyes.
Everyone in the hunting team clearly understood the character of the second leader of the tribe, and everyone put the candies into their mouths without caring about admiring him.
Everyone was afraid that they would be snatched away by Shi Yong because of his slow hand. Seeing this, Shi Yong could only give up in anger. Who told him to eat so fast? He could only think about whether he could perform better in the future and get another one. Two pieces.
A small piece of candy can obviously be used as a good reward to motivate everyone. Regardless of the effect, as long as it has an effect, it is good.
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"God's envoy, God's envoy, what do you think of this pottery bowl?"
Although Shitou usually helps with other tasks, his main task is to help the tribe make pottery. The tribe still has a lot of demand for all kinds of pottery.
Although bows and arrows have become popular, prisoners still use slings. After all, arrows are relatively difficult to make, so except for archers, most people still use slings. For Tao The demand for pills is not small. Every time I go out, I have to replenish three to four hundred pills.
He was required to make some every once in a while, and the tribe did not require him to join the hunting team, so when the tribe was not alive, Shi Shi was usually thinking about making new pottery.
After many experiments, it can be clearly felt that the newly made pottery is much smoother and rounder than before. Although the runner has not been greatly upgraded, it has been modified many times and is now easier to use. If the two If people cooperate, the speed is also very fast, and it is especially suitable for making relatively exquisite things.
Stone has been trying to add various patterns to the tribal pottery, but these patterns are just decoration. Although Song Xuan also likes them more, they have not made much improvement in their use.
However, when we first saw the texture on it, everyone was still very curious and played with it carefully. However, after a long time, they returned to the original state.
Although there is not much difference in use, the ones with patterns are obviously more popular, so Song Xuan is also planning to promote it in future exchange meetings. If it has the totems of various tribes on it, it will obviously be popular. Followed by other tribes.
As for what Song Xuan has been telling him about coloring pottery, he has not yet fully figured it out. The patterns on pottery now are all black and there are no other colors. Of course, this must still be a matter of raw materials. If you can find natural If you use mineral pigments, you can naturally make more exquisite painted pottery.
But the bowl Shitou handed to Song Xuan did not have extra patterns on it.
Shitou would not ask Song Xuan to check the quality of a pottery for no reason. After all, every time the kiln is opened, some pottery of various kinds will be fired. Unless there are special circumstances, they will be brought directly to the warehouse.
Looking at the pottery bowl in his hand, Song Xuan first felt that the color was lighter than ordinary pottery. Song Xuan suddenly thought of what Shi Shi had been trying before:
"Is it done?!"
"Well, angel, look at it!"
After hearing this, Song Xuan went straight back to the house and took out the bowl he used to eat. The pottery bowls used by Song Xuan were usually delivered by Stone from the best of each batch. The quality was naturally impeccable, and The appearance is basically flawless.
After all, these pottery are made from stones by hand, so it is inevitable that there will be some fingerprint residue or bulges. As for the bowl, it is not so round, which is a common thing, so it is still somewhat difficult to get perfect pottery. There are only two or three in a batch.
"Ding~"
The two pottery bowls collided together and made a crisp sound.
It may be that the quality is good, so they are all safe and sound, not even a chip.
"Ding~"
Song Xuan then increased his strength, and then the pottery bowl broke. However, the broken pottery bowl was commonly used by Song Xuan. This bowl was missing a big hole. Of course, the condition of the newly made pottery bowl was not much better. Cracks have occurred, but even so, it can be seen that the quality of the new pottery bowl has been improved to another level.
In winter, Song Xuan talked to Shi Shi about adding other things to the clay to improve the quality of the pottery. Song Xuan didn't know much about it, but he had heard that adding bone powder to the pottery could make the quality of the pottery better. Okay, so I told Shitou directly. After hearing this, Shitou obviously remembered it in his heart. When polishing bone tools, he also deliberately collected some bone powder.
However, I tried several times later, but the results were not very good. Not only did it not improve, but it became more brittle.
After going back and forth, Song Xuan never paid attention to this matter again. After all, if he seemed to be very concerned every time, it would obviously add some pressure to Shitou. Just when Song Xuan almost forgot about this matter When I arrived, I didn’t expect a new surprise to come.
The general smashed it into pieces and picked out pieces of similar size. Song Xuan tried again with a stone hammer, and they were all smashed from about the same height. However, the new pottery bowl could obviously withstand a higher height than the previous one. Quite a few.
According to Shi Shi's description, too much bone meal was added before, so that it was never done well. This time it was also due to a mistake. I accidentally knocked over some of the bone meal in a plate. Since the clay was almost kneaded, Shi Shi Some are reluctant to throw it away.
I thought that this bit of bone meal would not have much impact, so I kneaded it evenly and used it to make a batch of pottery. When I opened the kiln, I saw that the color was wrong and the stone was broken again, which made my heart go cold. Although this There weren't many pottery fired at one time, but at any rate it was busy for several days.
Originally, he thought of smashing one to try. If the strength was still barely up to standard, he could exchange it with other tribes later. Teng She naturally used the best quality pottery for himself, and exchanged it with other tribes. Either they are defective or they have been eliminated by everyone.
After each new batch is burned, the stones will be inspected one by one, and then the quality will be distinguished and divided into two categories so that they can be directly shipped and taken away when the exchange meeting begins.
Over time, the stone has its own set of testing methods. Now you can flick it with your hand or touch it lightly with two bowls, and you can tell which one is stronger by listening to the sound.
It was the same this time. Hearing the sound of his fingers tapping, Shitou glanced at the pottery bowl in his hand again in disbelief. The sound was actually not worse than the best pottery bowl in the tribe.
I changed a few stones again in disbelief, but the results were the same. I lifted them up and put them down from mid-air, and they didn't break even when they fell to the ground. Although the ground was made of soil, it had been tamped many times. One person The height of the bowl is slightly different and it really can’t hold it.
So after discovering that the quality of these bowls was good, Shitou came directly to find Song Xuan.
Although it was an unexpected discovery, at least we have figured out the direction of future deployment. At least there will be no problem in improving the quality of pottery in the tribe.
After all, pottery is pottery, and its fragile nature is difficult to change. Although the ones used by the tribe are carefully made, they still often have chips or even break.
Especially when the hunting team bumps into each other outside and the bowl breaks without paying attention, so I often have to bring a few spares.
It is still very necessary to improve the quality of pottery. Better pottery bowls are less likely to break. You can still make do with it if you arrive late. If one or two people use one, it will not have much impact.
The most troublesome thing is the pot. This thing is basically carried according to the person's head. It is relatively large and not light. If you carry too much, the pressure will naturally be greater.
So once it breaks, it will be much more troublesome to eat, and you can only eat it in batches.
In any case, the higher the quality of the pottery, the better, so Song Xuan also asked the stone to find the most perfect proportions as soon as possible.
Although there is a direction now, after all, it is a blind cat meeting a dead mouse, and it is impossible to achieve the most perfect ratio at once. The best ratio still has to be explored slowly.
The next step is to try again and again. Only by burning more can we get the perfect ratio.
No matter what you make, it's impossible to get it right in one step. In most cases, you have to go through repeated attempts. This is how the various weapons and tools in the tribe are slowly optimized.
However, the samples have already been released, and the next step is to find the optimal solution. I believe it won’t be long before the tribe will have bone pottery for use.
After all, they were all animal bones, and Song Xuan didn't object. This was the last opportunity for these prey to shine, truly reaching the point of "breaking bones and raising ashes."
Since bones are not so easily broken, they are used more frequently than stones among tribes, especially spears and javelins, which are most suitable to be made of bones.
Of course, in terms of quantity, more of them are definitely used in making arrows.
No matter what you make, it must be carefully polished. A large amount of bone meal will naturally be produced, so you don’t need to worry about the raw materials. Basically, you can get as much as you need. Anyway, the demand for pottery is also small. Not that big.
Just getting some will be enough for the tribe. This kind of pottery with bone meal will definitely not be traded for the time being. After all, even pottery is not completely popular in the major tribes. Glazed ones are promoted, and this quality is better. The good ones must be put behind.
It can't be said that Song Xuan is evil. After all, the price is relatively reasonable. It can only be blamed on the fact that the capital of each tribe is not so strong.
Fortunately, such a slow flow of water is not a bad thing for Teng She, at least there will be a batch of good income every time.
With the addition of salt, it can basically be exchanged for a month or two of consumption in the tribe, and the income is still very considerable. Moreover, Song Xuan deliberately restrained the output of salt. If he completely let go, he can completely compete with the wolf. The benefits of tribal competition will definitely be higher by then, but it is not necessary for the time being. It is not bad to slowly increase it like now. The most perfect solution is to have meat and everyone eat it together.
The Tengshe tribe is basically two or three generations ahead of other tribes in the use of pottery. The advantage is still quite obvious. Before each tribe has mastered the production of pottery, the Tengshe tribe has almost mastered the process of making pottery, except for painted pottery. In addition, the existing quality is not much different from what Song Xuan has been exposed to before.
Moreover, the largest pottery now can reach about one meter. Although it is not as exquisite as ordinary pottery, its function is not bad. The appearance can only be regarded as the icing on the cake. Beauty naturally makes people like it more, but it is practical. That's the first thing.
Of course, it doesn't look good. The main reason is that such large pottery cannot be placed on the wheel for decoration. It can only be smoothed by hand. The difference is naturally a bit big.
Compared with ordinary pottery, this kind of large pottery is not easy to be damaged. Firstly, it is relatively thick to begin with. Secondly, it is basically placed in a fixed position. It is rare to incite them, so unless it is accidentally bumped, it is basically None of them are broken. Only one pottery jar in the tribe has cracks.
And it does not affect the use. Although the thin cracks extend from the middle to the top, fortunately, the leakage is not serious during normal use, and there is no problem when it is used to hold daily domestic water.
Although the tribe has a canal to divert the river water from the upper reaches, it is still not enough for cooking or large-scale water use, and the water flowing in must be sedimented. Although the water source is relatively clean, it is inevitably mixed with Mixed with some floating soil impurities.
Therefore, water is usually placed in a tank to settle overnight before use. With such a large population in the tribe, the demand is naturally high. There are only five tanks filled with water.
Naturally, you won't need so much at one time, but it also saves you from having to refill the water every time you finish cooking. This way, you can just do it once a day or two.
