Soon, the second day passed quietly as everyone cut down trees and played in the mud.
Due to the extra manpower, the number of pottery embryos made on the second day was almost double that of the first day, with more than forty.
The total number over two days was more than sixty.
On the third day, although the pottery embryos made in the previous two days were not completely dry, they were already semi-dry, at least they would not have a hand-shaped shape when pinched.
Seeing this, Yang Cheng temporarily stopped making pottery embryos and said to Mu Qing and others: "Now everyone starts collecting some dead grass and leaves like the ones I have. Don't make them too big, just as small as this."
Yang Cheng picked up some small dead grass, small leaves, etc. from the ground and showed them to everyone, indicating that everyone would pick up the same things as him.
The weather has entered autumn, and there are already many yellowing dead grasses in the open space, and there are also small fallen leaves in the forest. These things are not difficult to find.
Everyone and others heard Yang Cheng say that using these things can harden the things they made with their own hands. They were all excited, and they were not tired of working. After eating, they went to look for dry grass and leaves.
By the afternoon, a large number of dead grass leaves had been piled up near the pottery embryo.
At this time, after three days of drying in the sun, the more than sixty pottery embryos were almost dry. Yang Cheng looked carefully and picked out a few with larger cracks and threw them away.
Others were all intact with only a few small cracks.
"You can proceed to the next step!"
Yang Cheng was full of ambition and prepared to show off his magical powers to the primitive people of the Qingque tribe.
He first drew a square on the open space with a wooden stick, about two square meters in size, and then ordered the two beast-eared girls, Yan Lin and Xing, to start.
This amount of work is nothing to the two beast-eared girls, not to mention that they have just become totem warriors.
Soon, Yan Lin and Xing dug down about half a meter deep along the edge of the square.
After they dug, Yang Cheng asked them to spread a layer of hay at the bottom of the pit.
"Okay, you two guys come up."
Yang Cheng called Yan Lin and Xing up, and then said to the two rabbit-eared girls on the other side who were tilting their heads and killing cutely: "You two, put all the pottery embryos next to you down, be careful. , leaving such a long gap between each pottery embryo."
As he said that, Yang Cheng handed each of them a small wooden stick, about five centimeters long.
The two beast-eared girls nearby saw Yang Cheng calling them up, but then calling the two rabbit-eared girls down. They immediately became unhappy, pouting and pulling Yang Cheng's arm, asking for help in moving the pottery embryos.
How dare Yang Cheng ask Yan Lin and Xing to help, these two guys who don't know the importance of their hands and feet can't make their own pottery embryos these days. Anyway, they break other people's pottery embryos from time to time.
Look at the two bunny-eared girls, Yingying and Tao, they are also totem warriors, but the other twins are careful and steady in their movements.
"Ahem, you two have other things to do." Yang Cheng pointed to the hay and small leaves next to him and said, "Have you seen this pile of things? I give you a task, which is to make these things smaller. .”
"Okay, Wu!"
The two beast-eared girls cheered and went to work excitedly.
It's not that they like labor, but they like the feeling of being needed by witches.
And it's more because, in the eyes of others, they are the ones that Wu values the most and likes the most.
Sure enough, they saw the two of them being assigned tasks by Yang Cheng.
The other tribesmen all had uncontrollable envy in their eyes.
More than sixty pottery embryos are not a lot, so the two rabbit-eared girls immediately arranged the pottery embryos according to Yang Cheng's requirements.
Then Yang Cheng asked people to give hay and chopped firewood to the two rabbit-eared ladies, and asked them to fill in the gaps left and press the porcelain with their hands.
Here, Yan Lin and Xing also moved very quickly, breaking many hay leaves into smaller pieces, including many stalk-shaped dead grass that could withstand burning.
Yang Cheng grabbed some crushed hay leaves, wiped some of the small gaps on the pottery embryos, and then covered the pottery embryos.
After covering about ten centimeters each time, Yang Chenggong asked Ying and Tao to compact it gently and hard.
Then put hay and leaves on top, and then compact the hay leaves.
Soon, except for the small water tank made by Lulu, no other pottery products could be seen in the half-meter pit, which was all covered by grass.
Yang Cheng still didn't let everyone stop, and still put grass on the pit.
Only when the haystack was gone and the height was more than one meter, and the small water tank made by Lulu was covered by more than ten centimeters, did Yang Cheng let people stop.
At this point, all the pottery embryos have been covered up by broken leaves and dead grass, leaving nothing exposed.
"Wu, can you light the fire?" Yan Lin asked excitedly.
She held a small stick in her hand and a piece of dry firewood at her feet, ready to drill into the wood and start a fire.
Everyone else also looked at Yang Cheng expectantly.
After working hard for several days, what everyone is looking forward to most is this moment.
Just like when you were a kid during the New Year, you finally begged your parents to buy you firecrackers and fireworks, and finally it was time to set them off on New Year’s Eve.
"No, don't worry yet, it's not completely sealed yet." Yang Cheng shook his head.
Yang Cheng did not let Yan Lin start lighting the fire, but turned around and asked someone to bring another bucket of water.
After the bucket was brought over, Yang Cheng poured the water on the floating soil that he had just dug out and put aside. Then he squatted down and let everyone continue playing in the mud.
The mud we played with this time was different from the mud used when making pottery embryos.
The mud of the pottery embryo has less water and high hardness; the mud of this time is relatively soft and can be called thin mud.
After everyone finished mixing the mud and there were many small mud spots on their hands and body, Yang Cheng took the mud and put it on the haystack that covered the pottery embryos.
From top to bottom, the entire haystack must be sealed so that no one can see the haystack at all from the outside.
This step is to ensure that after it is burned, the temperature inside the haystack will be extremely high and will not easily dissipate.
Everyone has become very skilled at playing with mud in the past few days. Without Yang Cheng's words, they followed Yang Cheng's method and smeared mud on the haystack in a stylish manner.
But under the haystack, Yang Cheng left a gap and did not let Lulu and the others do it, but did it himself.
He left four 20-centimeter-square gaps in the southeast, northwest, and southeast directions of the haystack next to the ground. These places were used for lighting fires.
