The place where the kiln is fired is in an open space next to the Qingque tribe's living department.
Since water is needed to burn the kiln to activate the mud, and the water source from the river is next to the Ministry of Living, Yang Cheng also dug the kiln nearby.
"Wu, look, the kiln collapsed."
Lulu pointed to the half-collapsed earthen kiln in front of her and said to Yang Cheng.
This clay kiln is no longer the original kiln. After many kiln firings and Yang Cheng's guidance, Lulu made a pottery kiln by herself.
This pottery kiln has a special "open door", and pottery can be taken out directly from the inside of the kiln. There is no need to break open the sealed soil like the first kiln.
Therefore, the pottery produced is much more beautiful and durable than the first time.
After hearing what Lulu said, Yang Cheng stepped forward and took a closer look at the cause of the collapse of the earthen kiln in front of him.
It didn't take long to find out why it collapsed.
The reason is very simple. After a long period of firing pottery in the earthen kiln, the interior of the earthen kiln became dry, cracked and became brittle. In addition, it has snowed in the past few days, and a lot of snow accumulated on the top of the earthen kiln. Under gravity, the earthenware became more fragile. The kiln collapsed.
"Hmm...it's okay, Lulu. This earthen kiln collapsed due to heavy snow. We can just build a new one."
Yang Cheng touched Lulu's antlers, which was a little frustrated.
"Okay, Wu."
After being comforted by Yang Cheng, Lulu became less depressed. Wu was right, the earthen kiln collapsed, so it would be better to build another one.
Thinking about it, Lulu began to clean up the broken soil in front of her.
"Lulu, no need."
Yang Cheng stopped Lulu, and then continued in her doubtful eyes: "Let this earth kiln be abandoned here, and we will make a bigger and stronger one."
With that said, Yang Cheng stood up, took Lulu's hand, and began to reselect a location to build the earthen kiln nearby.
Looking down at Yang Cheng holding her hand, Lulu wanted to take it back.
Since she had been busy working in the earthen kiln and making pottery, her hands were very dirty, which was a world of difference from Yang Cheng's fair hands.
But when she touched Yang Cheng's cold hand, Lulu suddenly couldn't bear to let go and wanted to use her own hand to warm Yang Cheng's hand.
Lulu is a witch and a totem warrior. She has plenty of energy and blood in her body and is not afraid of the cold.
Although Yang Cheng is a witch, he has huge witchcraft power, but he does not have the power of blood. In winter, his warm hands cannot resist the power of nature, and naturally become very cold.
"It won't work here, the location is too low, and it won't work over there, the soil is too hard...huh?"
Yang Cheng, who was choosing a location to build the earthen kiln, suddenly felt a warm feeling covering his hands.
He looked down and saw that it was Lulu who took the initiative to hold both of his hands and put them inside her clothes.
Yang Cheng's cold hands touched Lulu's warm skin intimately.
"Wu, let me warm your hands."
Lulu smiled at Yang Cheng.
Yang Cheng was stunned for a moment, then smiled on his face, but did not take his hand out of Lulu's body.
The two of them walked awkwardly like this, looking for a suitable place to build an earthen kiln.
Soon the place where the new earthen kiln was built was found.
The terrain of this place is relatively high. If it rains, the water next to it will not flood here. Moreover, the soil nearby is relatively loose and tender, mostly clay, which is suitable for mining as raw materials for pottery.
"This is it, let's dig here."
Yang Cheng stretched out his hand from Lulu's clothes, then found tools to dig.
"Wu, you don't need to come. The weather is cold and it will freeze you. I'll just come."
Seeing that Yang Cheng was about to take action himself, Lulu hurriedly shook her head to stop him.
At this time, except for Xia, the rest of the beast-eared girls, including Yanlin and Xing, ran over.
"Wu, you are here, making it easy for us to find you!"
"Yes, yes, we thought you were making witch dominoes in the cave, but you came here with Lulu..."
When Xing said this, his voice was drawn out. He looked at Yang Cheng and then at Lulu, with an expression like "I know everything."
Yang Cheng was fine, but Lulu blushed and quickly explained: "No, no, the kiln collapsed. Wu took me to find the location of the new kiln."
"Oh, is it so?"
Yan Lin said suspiciously.
"Of course, why did I lie to you?"
Lulu's face turned red as if she wanted to bleed, and she stamped her feet in shame and anxiety.
"Okay, okay, stop teasing Lulu."
Yang Cheng came to the rescue and said, "Since you are here, let's help together!"
"Oh? Do you want to dig the soil? Let Xing come, Xing is strong now!"
"Hmph, you can't compare to me. I'm a seventh-grade totem warrior, and I'm stronger than you."
"Why are you so arrogant? I will soon become a seventh-grade totem warrior. I will definitely be stronger than you by then!"
"Then wait until you become a seventh-grade totem warrior. Anyway, I am stronger than you now..."
Seeing Yan Lin and Xing, two beast-eared ladies, fighting each other again, Yang Cheng raised his forehead and was speechless.
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In the end, Yang Cheng did not take action himself.
Although the beast-eared girls have different personalities, and even Yan Lin and Xing started to quarrel again, they all treat Yang Cheng the same.
Yang Cheng is a witch. He is not allowed to work in such a cold weather. He can just wrap himself up like a bear and watch from the side.
There was no way, Yang Cheng didn't even have a chance to move his body, he could only watch and direct from the side.
But it's not like nothing was done.
This winter, it's snowing again and the ground is frozen.
The beast-eared girls are good totem warriors and have a lot of strength, but the tools in their hands are not good. They are made of wood and stone, and they are also spears——
Yang Cheng wanted to make a shovel, but the shape of the stone and wood was not easy to shape. Yang Cheng had tried several times before, but it was difficult to make it. Moreover, after it was made, the joints would easily break due to the force exerted on them, causing great loss. Therefore, Yang Cheng gave up the idea of using wood and stone to make shovels.
So Yang Cheng would set off a big fireball from time to time and hit the ground, "heating up" the ground and making it softer so that Yan Lin and the others could start digging.
This time, Yang Cheng plans to make the earthen kiln bigger.
The population of the tribe has increased, and the Qingque tribe is obviously going to become a large tribe.
Naturally, other configurations will also need to be added, and it is necessary to make the earthen kiln more grand.
Firstly, it looks good, and secondly, with the increase in the number of people in the tribe, there are also excessive requirements for the quantity of pottery produced.
Yang Cheng directly asked the beast-ear girls to dig a large pit three meters long, three meters wide and more than one meter deep at the selected address.
Then they began to make the beast-eared girls live in the mud and began to pinch out the kiln wall.
The other beast-eared girls had no objections to Yang Cheng's instructions. After listening to Yang Cheng's words, they happily started to liven up the mud.
For these beast-eared girls, working with mud is not work, but a kind of entertainment and play.
Only Lulu's face showed a hesitant expression.
