I am the chief of a primitive tribe

After returning to the tribe, Mufeng asked people to send all the yellow clay to the cave where he lived.

He began to prepare pottery making.

But pottery making is very tedious and requires a lot of preparation.

He gave Mingguang a machete and asked him to cut a thick piece of wood to use as a tool for throwing pottery.

The so-called throwing pottery tool can be rotated when making pottery to help shape it.

He first cut a cylinder horizontally from the stump, and used his carpenter's axe to round it up little by little, making a disk nearly ten centimeters thick and twenty to thirty centimeters in radius.

The wood was the dry paulownia trunk that Mufeng particularly emphasized, which was very light.

Then he made a round hole in the center of one side of the disk, cut a locust wood round stick with a diameter of about five or six centimeters and a length of more than half a meter and put it in it.

In this way, the disk was supported by the wooden stick, like a small umbrella.

The last step was to put a stone about ten centimeters thick at each end, and put a squared tree trunk on it. In this way, the trunk is about ten centimeters above the ground.

He dug a hole at one end of the trunk that was almost as thick as the locust stick, and then passed the end of the disc supported by the locust stick through the trunk.

He stretched out his hand and turned the disc, and the disc turned quickly.

"Done!" Mu Feng nodded, and a simple homemade wheel throwing tool was completed.

But he couldn't make pottery next, because the firing of pottery is much more complicated, especially the temperature requirements for firing pottery are extremely high, and the firing time is also very long, starting from three to five days.

What he has to do is to prepare for the three to five days of firing pottery.

This requires at least two things, one is the cave for firing pottery, and the other is firewood.

Among the caves, the earthen kiln has the shortest heat resistance time, and the stone kiln has the longest heat resistance time.

If the cave cannot withstand the heat, there is a risk of the kiln exploding, which makes him particularly concerned about the heat resistance of the cave.

Although Mu Feng made craft pottery in his previous life, he has never fired pottery.

He vaguely remembered that when he was learning pottery making, the master also told him that the quality of the finished pottery depends on the materials, craftsmanship and the quality of the cave.

Mu Feng knew that the materials were just the materials and his craftsmanship was just so-so.

His only requirement now was that the pottery could be made. Whether it looked good or not was not within his consideration for the time being.

After thinking it over, he decided to choose a mound farther away from his cave, dug a two-meter square cave, piled up stones layer by layer, and covered it with mud and water to make it relatively smooth inside.

In order to prevent accidents, he piled up three layers of stones in a row, and then he felt relieved.

With the windward vent and smoke outlet left, a simple small cave was ready.

Just doing these two things, he barely finished it until sunset.

There was no way, no one in the tribe knew what he was going to do, and they could not help him except passing the materials.

But this is not entirely true. At least in the afternoon, Mingguang brought a few people to follow his example and dug a larger earth hole on the side.

However, this earth hole is not used for kiln burning, but for smoking charcoal - the temperature of kiln burning can only be met by charcoal at present.

After dinner, Mufeng ran to smoke charcoal without stopping.

Smoking charcoal is relatively simple, but it takes more time.

Mufeng prepared hay, lit it and put it in the earth hole, then put the prepared wood into the earth hole, watched the hay burn the wood surface, and waited for a while before sealing the earth hole directly without leaving a gap.

After waiting for a long time, he dug open the earth hole and took out a piece of black charcoal.

Then he followed the same method, which was very hard.

Fortunately, Mufeng only demonstrated how to make the first batch of charcoal, and the next pile of wood was handed over to Mingguang and Shuofeng.

After he finished all this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. He spent a day finding clay and making preparations, and he could start making pottery tomorrow.

When they returned to the cave, Li Hu happened to bring two bows over and asked Mu Feng to test their power.

Because they were all single-piece bows, Mu Feng could pull them easily.

What surprised him was that Li Hu told him that both bows were made by Li Hu himself. Bai Ya seemed to have learned well at the time, but he didn't succeed.

Mu Feng understood in his heart and tried it and said, "Not bad, but such a bow may be a little uncomfortable for Mingguang and Hanshu to use, the bow body is too soft!"

Li Hu scratched his head: "I also tried the method you mentioned of tying two or three pieces together, but there was a gap in the middle when fixing it, and it was not convenient to string the bow. Until now, we still don't understand how to fix it!"

"Huh?" Mu Feng frowned and said, "Didn't I tell you, tie it with animal tendons."

Li Hu's face became more embarrassed: "I also understood, but it's justI don't know how to do it. And I'm afraid that Yemaduo from the Blue Bird tribe is in the same situation now. "

Mu Feng slapped his forehead: "It's true!"

Li Hu made bows like this, so Chang Ning must have encountered the same problem.

"And..." Li Hu said helplessly, "If the bowstring is pulled too full, it is easy to cut your fingers. You see, my fingers have been cut several times."

Mu Feng first breathed a sigh of relief, and then sighed: "I forgot to tell you how to draw the bow. By the way, there is also a release device!"

"Release device?" Li Hu was puzzled, "What release device?"

Mu Feng said helplessly: "How about this, I will think about how to make this release device first, and then teach you, how about it?"

"Okay!" Feeling that Mu Feng was going to teach him to make something new again, Li Hu couldn't help getting excited.