Wolf King

Quartz, also known as silica, is one of the common rock-forming minerals. It is a translucent or opaque crystalline substance with a hard texture and a greasy luster at the fracture.

Xiao Yun turned over the long quartz stone in his hand, and scratched **** the stone with his fingers holding one end. The stone showed white scratches and a little stone powder was taken out, and the quartz stone in his hand was not damaged.

"That's right, this is quartz stone." Xiao Yun nodded silently. The density and hardness of quartz stone are very high. In the Stone Age on the earth, the ore used by the primitive people at that time as a weapon was quartz except obsidian. Obsidian is to be found near the volcano, quartz stone is more common.

"Are you ready to go?"

The red leaves of the soldier opened the curtain and probed the house. The young leaves of the young age did not have the habit of wearing animal skins before snowing. They still had the upper body, only wearing animal skin shorts, and their muscular muscles were all exposed without reservation... Tied around his waist was a skin roll that must be worn by the Snow Werewolf soldiers when going out, a long bow with a tendon twisted on his shoulder, and a large bone arrow on his back. He was ready to lead the team out.

"Ready." Xiao Yun got up quickly and packed his bundle of animal skins in a backpack style. "Let's go find the green grass and Dahe. By the way, ask the patriarch whether to go."

"Patriarch?" Hongye didn't understand.

"We are looking for materials that can make ceramics. In the future, whether ceramics are good or not is an important commodity that our tribe trades with others. Of course, it is necessary to let the patriarch go together." Xiao Yun explained.

The two side-by-side mud-brick houses are now "collective bedrooms" for the tribe to spend the night in, and the tents of each family are now small private warehouses. The Snow Werewolf has not yet formed the habit of sleeping in a fixed room. They all want to sleep on which side to sleep. Xiao Yun entered the door of another room and saw that the patriarch had just woken up a few wool that was sleeping deeply. The animal skin superimposed as a quilt.

"Pottery...Porcelain?" When the patriarch said this new word, he was strenuous and almost bit his tongue.

"The bright bowl named Dahe, the bright thing is porcelain. The kiln that burns pottery can raise the temperature to a certain degree to burn porcelain. Porcelain is smoother than pottery. Since everyone likes bright bowls, why don’t we try Let’s burn better ceramics. This kind of stone that red leaves are used as stone knives can make better porcelain. Let’s go find more of these stones today.”

Xiao Yun took out the quartz and handed it to the patriarch. The patriarch didn't pick it up, but frowned and thought: "Ayun, you mean, you can indeed burn a better... bright bowl?"

"We work hard to find stones that are suitable for burning, and we can definitely make better ceramics." Xiao Yun bit us very hard, and people who have worked in the workplace and brought the team know, "I" and " What is the difference between the two words "we"?

The patriarch’s hand on his knees was a little trembling, and whether he could burn a better pottery was indeed not only Xiao Yun’s ability to prove himself, but also whether the wealth of the tribe could be improved—the extent of the scarcity of grassland tribes is not It goes without saying that many tribes must be exhausted in order to buy the necessary pottery from the caravan every year... pottery is a consumable after all, and it will be damaged during use.

Xiao Yun believes that the patriarch does not pay enough attention to his opinions. In fact, the patriarch can no longer pay attention to Xiao Yun... Since Xiao Yun proposed to burn pottery, the patriarch has no longer let him do the same daily work as other young people in the tribe, because If the patriarch knew that the tribe could produce pottery by itself, it would save the tribe several months at least to collect all kinds of fur. It was also due to Xiao Yun's self-examination that stopped the urge to slap his face, otherwise Xiao Yun's patriarch who seized power and did not know how much wronged...

"Okay, let's find the burnable stones together." The patriarch said solemnly.

Accompanied by soldiers' red leaves, horns, patriarchs, grass, and rivers, Ayun, a cub who traveled 100 kilometers away from the tribe, would have no objections from any tribe. The preparation for the patriarch's entry was more complete than before, and before departure The patriarch took a small packet of green salt and half a bag of bean sprouts, pottery pot and other things. This is ready to eat halfway down, so that everyone will not go back hungry.

The red leaves are the quartz stones picked up near the goblin’s burrow. The place is more than twice the distance from the edge of the forest where Xiao Yun went to with the horns. After starting, he can’t walk slowly, he must trot all the way, and everyone else, Xiao Yun ran away I was a little breathy for about an hour... No way, the original owner's body was indeed a weak chicken among the Snow Werewolves, otherwise the original owner could not be so depressed that he was mentally ill.

After running for more than an hour, Xiao Yun couldn't stand it anymore. Even if he wore rattan shoes with animal skins, he felt that the soles of the feet were abraded, and there was no asphalt cement road on the relatively flat prairie. There are gravel stones, low-lying areas soaked in stagnant water, and bushy vegetation that increase physical exertion.

Fortunately, there are also snow wolves such as horns and red leaves who are also brothers of animals. These two carry one by one, and finally carried Xiao Yun to the place before noon...

On the back of a beautiful mountain, there is a semi-circular, bare surface resembling a bare leaf in the vegetation of one person tall, surrounded by some wood and sparsely rotten felt cloth, at the foot of that particularly delicate little mountain, You can also see a lot of broken pottery remains and animal bones.

"Is this the place where the goblin tribe that was driven away originally lived?" Xiao Yun curiously saw the abrupt vacant land at a distance, and recovered a lot of energy on his back.

"Some tribes in the underground world occasionally escape to the surface and hide in corners to survive quietly." The patriarch nodded. "If the gray dwarf and black dwarf are running up, the goblin can get rid of it in time, otherwise it will be killed. Steal cattle and sheep."

"That's it." Xiao Yun sighed, it seems that no matter which world goblin is mixed, the treatment can't get rid of the mouse and everyone in the street shouts... Even the simple Snow Wolf are not waiting.

"Cat tribes and tauren tribes are often stolen by goblins. The tauren tribe we met when we moved in reminded us to be careful of the goblins in this area." Warrior Hongye said, "Those goblins cannot deal with the larger beasts. They can only live around tribes that can drive fierce beasts, but they like to steal, no one like this neighbor wants."

"Okay." Xiao Yun immediately sympathized with the little green skins. The head cows of the prairie holy cow couldn't make friends with the girls. He was still less self-righteous.

About the goblin family also knew that their home was unpopular, and they did not dare to live in the tent on the surface, still digging into the hole, and entered the "bare" land. Near the mountain vegetation, you can see a half and half There are caves covered by vine plants, and a lot of stones and mud piles are piled on the side of the cave, probably something that was pulled out when digging a hole.

"My stone knife was picked up here." Hongye walked to the pile of stones and kicked twice with his feet. "Ayun, see if you are looking for these."

Xiao Yun has been shocked by the pile of stone debris that looks like the demolition site of the building... The claws of the lying wolf snow werewolf can't stand to plan so many stones, how can the goblin do it? !

When I walked in and looked at it, let’s say that there were really a lot of quartz in the big and small rocks. He had originally come here for this. He immediately squatted down to spread the hides and pulled the quartz stone from the gravel and mud. It is not easy to run such a trip, as much as you can back.

"Huh, this is..."

After digging up a stone pile like a construction waste pile for half a day, Xiao Yun found a small layer of quartz sandwiched in a large rock, and this layer of quartz surface can be seen a little bright yellow under the cover of rock and soil Crystal layer.

Xiao Yun quickly took another piece of quartz and shone it. The quartz stone was hard and brittle. After smashing the surface layer, a bright yellow fault of the size of a ping pong ball was immediately exposed.

"Fat trough! Citrine!" Xiao Yun was shocked. "Wait for quartz crystals to be crystals...what kind of goblin is a thief, digging crystals to sell enough to feed yourself?!"

"There are still such beautiful things in the stone?" The patriarch next to him was also surprised.

"Patriarch, can you sell this thing for sale?" Xiao Yun asked quickly.

"Uh... I remember that Wang Jing does have a lot of beautiful gems, wait for Ayun, is this gem actually hidden in the stone?" The patriarch couldn't recover.

"Of course, minerals are mined from stones, but this one is so small, there are many impurities... You can only look at it like this, and it's not a big deal." Xiao Yun shook his head and turned this yellow. The stone layer around the crystal should be smashed as much as possible, and a plug in the waist bag was ready to be taken back. A goblin can dig a crystal ore in any cave. The grassland deposits may be more abundant than he thought. But it doesn't make much sense. No professional mining team can make this jeweler. Besides, jewellery can't fill his stomach. He still chooses to farm.

I don’t know how deep the goblin dug. In addition to the quartz stone, there are many off-white feldspars in this large pile of stones outside the cave-feldspar is also a very common ore, mostly produced on the rock bed, obviously The hole dug by the goblin has already been dug under the rock layer...Unfortunately, the hole is too small to climb in, otherwise Xiao Yun would like to drill in and see.

The animal skins they bring are loaded with quartz stones and feldspars discovered by accident as much as possible. Several people's stomachs are also screaming. This huntable snow werewolf, the red leaves went out with their bows around and dragged their heads to resemble robes. The grass and the big river collected some old yellowed wild vegetables nearby, plus the patriarch belt The bean sprouts and salt that came out were just a meal.

On the way to come, there is the burden of Xiao Yun. The red leaves trot for four hours and the group walked for more than five hours. When we went back, everyone had to carry the ore. No one could carry Xiao Yun. The return speed was naturally slower. The tribe is all dark...just in time to catch the big pot rice.

After a night of rest and getting up early the next morning, Xiao Yun pulled the patriarch to discuss the glaze-basically he said that the patriarch listened, and he should pay attention to the skill of not being imperative, but negotiating, paying attention to "we", not " "I", the main comment he mentioned, but the patriarch decided to make optional decisions. It is important for the patriarch to have the illusion of "I am also a decision maker"... well, anyone who has engaged in sales and fooled customers knows this Routines.

After a consultation, the patriarch naturally dropped the grazing work and actively cooperated with Xiao Yun to burn the sleeve material... Quartzite and feldspar need to be burned and then smashed into powder, which consumes a batch of fuel. This wasteful fuel pot Xiao Yun You have to let the patriarch go back with yourself.

Burning stones is not as much about pottery as burning pottery. As long as it is installed in a kiln, it can be burned as high as possible. The stones are brittle and smashed into powder. This grinding process can't avoid the horns. The patriarch, grass and river are dry I have to work very hard; I have obtained quartz powder and feldspar powder for glazing, and then I have to think about the problem of natural pigments.

The earliest pigments were taken from minerals and plants. Don’t even think about minerals at this time. Plants can use them... Still discussing with the patriarch, they dragged the team to the forest and got a bunch of flowers and grass. Look at the purity of the color and choose a purple flower with a big flower plate that does not know what the name is, and a purple berry that is particularly unpalatable and bird-free. The deep purple natural juice is mixed with quartz powder, feldspar powder and marsh silt, and the pure natural hand-made glaze is completed.

Again, it is the result of the experimental glazing. This time Xiao Yun made it possible to put it on a stone base, use the bones with texture lines (red leaves of the handcrafting skill provider) as the axis, and a wooden plate that can be smoothly selected as a turntable. Use the movable turntable to pinch out four The clay pots of two pots, two jugs, and thirty pottery bowls are put into a cave for sintering, that is, they are taken out at a low temperature for five hours. The slush embryos after sintering are very easy to damage. Glaze yourself, half of the mud embryos are plucked with their own hair (... the wolf form of the snow werewolf, the fluff under the abdomen is softer and tougher) to make a small brush, pat the glaze patiently, and the other half is dipped in glaze Method (pour the glaze in a larger container, carefully put the embryo body into it for a few seconds, and then take it out). After the glaze is dry, put it in the cave and go to the pottery process.

The pottery preparation work was done for several days. Even the patriarch participated in the whole process, which naturally attracted the attention of the whole family...The herdsmen who went back to the tribe to spend the night went to the pasture. The first words left by the people who left behind were: "Is the pottery ready?"

With such great expectations, Xiao Yun was okay, but the patriarch was so nervous that he started to cool down and squatted next to the earthen kiln. His eyes kept staring at the stone kiln of the kiln....

Time passed by one minute and one second, Xiao Yun felt the temperature of the kiln shell was almost ready to open the kiln. Before the name of the horn was called, the patriarch pounced on the mud to seal the stone slab with his claws... Then he followed Like Ashan who had been through the kiln, he coughed loudly.

"...I should get the mask back, wear a mask and then open the kiln." Xiao Yun looked at the patriarch who coughed up tears, and couldn't help but laugh. Although he had ulterior motives for bringing the patriarch over as a whole-hearted laborer, he felt that the patriarch had a few It's cute.

Remove the dust from the stone slabs and other caves, and then reach out to hug the pottery inside-no need to see it, just the smooth touch that Xiao Yun felt by hand Xiao Yun knew this time.

Xiao Yun didn't quite understand the difference between pottery and porcelain. Anyway, he didn't find kaolin, he used pottery clay, so even if the burned thing is a glazed smooth surface, he thinks it should be classified as pottery, and then he The burnt pottery is better than the original pottery in this world, so it is not too cheeky to call it ceramic...

This batch of pottery, including the large pots and pots, is no longer the original red color of the original clay. Under the action of glaze, the high-density pottery surface not only has a smooth and bright surface close to modern industrial pottery, There is also a uniform and beautiful purple; under the setting sun, the purple pottery from the kiln reflects a faint halo. Even Xiao Yun, who is accustomed to good things, has to give 32 praises-beautiful! A rough, natural and original beauty!

The patriarch was completely speechless. He hadn't dared to get started to take a lilac bowl in a hurry, but just knelt on the ground and gently stroked with his fingers...too beautiful, than he had seen in the king's tent The sparkling tableware is even more beautiful. Is such a magical thing made by your own hands? ! He couldn't believe it himself!

Xiao Yun was not as shocked as the patriarch. He sat cross-legged and took a bowl to play with in his hand. After admiring for a while, he suddenly shot his thigh: "Mistaken, you should make a light-colored glaze to make the bowl and the bowl. The color of the wall is distinguished. The inside and outside of this bowl are purple. The food used to eat will reduce the appearance of the food and reduce the appetite. Oops, why didn't you think of this? Too failed!"

The patriarch looked at him in shock...

Xiao Yun mumbled for a long time, and looked at the patriarch: "The next time you burn out the perfect product and leave it as a commodity, this batch of bowls will be used together with the previous batch for your own use. What do you say, patriarch?"

The patriarch whose face began to twist: "..."

If the patriarch also understands modern language, he must now only have one sentence to say: Ni Zuokai, unable to make friends with Ni!