Kyojuro, the life of a Hokage since the age of one

After the digging team came back from the hard work, they immediately transformed into a pottery team.

Under Kyojuro's command, they first broke the white clay they dug back into powder, then washed it to remove impurities, and quietly waited for the white clay to settle to the bottom of the basin.

While waiting for the sedimentation, several little Uchiha gathered together to eat snacks, and Uchiha Xue said,

"Kyojuro, you are so amazing, you even know how to make pottery."

Before Kyojuro could make up a reasonable reason, Uchiha Jin answered quickly,

"Because it's Kyojuro, I know! Kyojuro is a genius!"

"Ajin, this is your smartest time."

"I've always been very smart!"

?

Kyojuro tilted his head and suddenly learned something.

After the white clay settled, they poured out the water on the top and added clean water again,

and started playing with mud!

"Look, this is Kurama!"

"Hahahaha, so ugly, I thought it was a ninja cat."

"Mine is so good that you can see it has a head and ears, what did you make? A rice ball?"

"I made Kyojuro!"

"I can't tell."

"Damn it! You guys have no artistic aesthetics!"

After the few people had enough fun, they began to shape the mud seriously according to the vases and plates at home.

Unexpectedly, with the reference, the few little Uchiha could copy it like a gourd, not to say 100% similar, but 90% similar.

After the general shape came out, they used kunai to shave off the inappropriate thickness on it bit by bit, making the surface as smooth as possible.

Then they placed the processed mud blocks on wooden racks to dry.

The sun, which was about to enter summer, quickly took away the moisture, and then they used bamboo knives to carve patterns on the dried mud blocks.

Uchiha Yu carved the herbal flowers that he thought were beautiful.

Uchiha Jin carved his favorite fried fish.

Uchiha Yuki carved the scene of Grandma Keiko telling them stories.

Kyojuro thought about it and carved the Uchiha family crest on the plate.

The friends all disliked him.

"Kyojuro, you are so uncreative."

"Grandma Keiko won't recognize that this is your gift."

"Kyojuro, do you want to carve your favorite food like me!"

"Then I'll carve something else!"

After accepting the advice of his friends, Kyojuro carved a layer of flames on the outer circle of the fan crest,

and the whole looked like a fan that was burning.

"... Fire..."

After this, the friends reached a consensus:

Kyojuro, your aesthetics is very poor!

...

After the clay was trimmed, Uchiha Yu asked,

"Kyojuro, can we start firing?"

He knew some of the pottery production process, "Do we have to set the fire escape to fire?"

Kyojuro shook his head, "Let's go find my dad and use their furnace."

"Great!"

Uchiha Jin liked to go to the forging place the most, "Can't we ask Uncle Huofeng for help? Or Grandpa Futaro?"

"Ajin, you idiot, Grandma Keiko is Grandpa Futaro's wife! Uncle Huofeng is her son. If the two of them know, Grandma Keiko will know in advance!"

Uchiha Yu also lowered his voice,

"We are doing a great secret business, we must keep it secret."

The three looked at each other and stretched out their fingers together,

"Shhh-"

...

"That's it, Dad, can you help us?"

pika~

Facing four pairs of shining big eyes, Haoyi obviously couldn't bear it and agreed to the request of the little Uchiha.

"Yeah!"

They took out the clay blocks they had just made from the scroll and handed them to Haoyi.

Haoyi recalled the yard of the pottery family he had seen before, and told the children clearly,

"In our tribe, we heat the knives directly. If you want to make pottery, you can't just put the clay blocks into the furnace, but build a kiln."

"I've only seen the appearance of the kiln. As for how to build it, we need to explore it together. What do you think? Do you want to persist?"

"Yes!"

"Of course!"

"We are the strongest Uchiha!"

Although this has nothing to do with Uchiha, it's okay to have ambition.

"By the way, Uncle Haoyi, where do we build the kiln?"

"Let's go to my old yard. Kyojuro and I are living in the clan leader's house now, so we don't need it for the time being."

As soon as they said it, they moved their positions immediately. Before leaving, they didn't forget to steal a bunch of bricks from the forging place.

Uchiha Haoyi thought about the workload and called Ryoji, Cheng and Gong, who were currently in the clan.

After all, it is only natural for parents to help their children give gifts to their teachers.

The four older Uchiha worked together, and their efficiency was much higher than before when there were only a few of them.

They first dug an oval pit in the ground, and then left a brick-sized edge outside the pit wall to be used for building the kiln roof.

Then they dug a fire chamber of a certain depth in the shape of a semicircle on the front wall of the kiln chamber, and dug a kiln door on the fire chamber wall to connect with the kiln pit. The kiln door was also arched, and a fire-proof wall was built at the bottom to be flush with the fire chamber [1].

Thanks to the fact that Gong had watched a potter's house for three months when he was on a mission in his early years, he more or less knew the internal structure of the pottery kiln. Otherwise, today, these four Uchiha fathers would really be embarrassed in front of their own children.

Finally, the inner wall of the kiln was compacted and smeared with grass and mud to make the surface smooth, and then firewood could be added to bake.

After baking two or three times, the inner wall became hard, and then firing could begin.

…

A week later, the kiln was finally usable.

The pottery team was not idle during this period. They pulled out all the weeds in the clan land and took away the branches that were built near the experimental site of the Sixth Elder, and burned them all into ash.

Xue asked, "Why do we need so much ash?"

Jin replied, "Ash has something special. When a sword in our clan breaks, we also use ash water."

You said, "Ash can also stop bleeding."

Kyojuro: "Jin and You are right!"

Xue: "I understand. Ash is the secret weapon of craftsmen."

Kyojuro first sprinkled a thin layer of ash, and then piled up the clay blocks made by several of them in the kiln. Ash was also applied on the contact surface to prevent the blocks from sticking together.

After putting them in place, Kyojuro asked several uncles to add firewood to light the fire. The firewood kept the entire wood stove 80% full.

During this period, he mixed the ash and the remaining white soil with water and diluted it to a slightly viscous liquid.

Several big Uchiha looked at each other and started a private chat,

'Do you understand what your son is doing? '

'No. '

'Although I don't understand it, it feels very powerful. It is much more complicated than pottery. ’

More than ten hours later, they removed the firewood and waited for a few more hours. The kiln temperature dropped, and Kyojuro took out the clay blocks that had been fired once and dipped them into the liquid that had just been prepared.

The others watched Kyojuro flexibly and evenly spread the liquid on the surface of the clay blocks, and they dared not breathe, for fear that they would disturb the birth of something extraordinary.

Then, the clay blocks with liquid on the surface were put back into the kiln and fired again.

This time, the firewood filled the entire wood stove, and the vigorous flames continued to burn for a whole day.

Finally, when the fired clay blocks were taken out and placed in the sun, everyone held their breath.

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"Grandma Keiko, this is our gift to you!"

The pottery team packed a big package and moved it to Grandma Keiko's lounge together.

Keiko quickly took it,

"Thank you! Wow! Can I open it now?"

"Of course!"

The little Uchiha's eyes were full of excitement and anticipation.

pikapika~

Oh, what lovely children~

Grandma Huizi opened the package with a smile, and inside was a plate wrapped in straw?

Grandma Huizi carefully held it up with both hands and admired it against the light.

What a beautiful white plate!

The texture is white, delicate and smooth like jade, and the luster is soft, like the morning mist.

Uchiha Huizi looked at the other bottles and jars in the package one by one,

and there were patterns carved by the children on them.

She touched the plates with care, wrapped them with straw again, and put them back in the box.

Huizi waved to the little Uchiha and hugged them one by one.

"Thank you! Thank you! This is really the best gift I have ever received~"

The little Uchiha laughed together.

Uchiha Jin asked excitedly, "Grandma Keiko! Can you guess which one I gave you?"

Keiko pretended to be troubled and tilted her head to think, "Well... you made a can with fried fish engraved on it."

"You guessed it! Grandma Keiko is amazing!"

"What about me? What did I give you?"

"Xiaoxue, it should be the vase engraved with "I'll tell you a story". It's very beautiful and very much in Xiaoxue's style~"

"Hehe~"

"The herbs were made by Xiaoyou, and the family emblem and flame were made by Kyojuro, right?"

"Yes !”

………

After returning home, Grandma Keiko carefully placed the things sent by the children on the shelf,

“This is the gift from Xiaoyou and the others~ Isn’t it beautiful~”

Fukutaro came closer to observe and was amazed, “What a beautiful texture, but the painting engraved on it is a bit ugly.”

Keiko poked Fukutaro’s shoulder in a grudge,

“This is the children’s heart, it is a priceless treasure~”

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Kouichi and Kyo brought the pure white plates fired in the same batch to Tajima.

“What a beautiful thing, where did it come from?”

“Kyojuro made it.”

The room suddenly fell silent,

“Kyojuro is a genius, he belongs to Uchiha, you just need to remember this.”

“Yes.”

“Have you learned it after watching the whole process?”

“Most of it has been learned, but we don’t know the proportion of the special water at the end.”

“Then just ask Kyojuro directly, don’t tear down the earthen kiln, you can fire a few more.”

“This thing is not bad…”