A guide to surviving in the world of beasts

A few days ago, Hu Yi brought back an animal that looked very similar to the wild boar from ancient times on Blue Star. He said it was a long-tusked beast.

After Su Ling came here, she hadn't seen any animals suitable for refining oil. But when she saw this long-tusked beast, especially the fat on its body, she excitedly cut the fat to refine oil. Unexpectedly, not only did she refine oil, but it also had no peculiar smell, but a unique aroma of lard. The meat of the long-tusked beast did not have a strong fishy smell like a wild boar, but only a slight one, which could be well covered up by adding some seasonings when cooking.

Add a spoonful of oil when stewing the soup, and it will taste much better than the wild vegetable soup that the orcs make without oil.

The radish and pork ribs soup was not yet cooked, but its sweet aroma with a meaty flavor wafted around. Not only did the people in the kitchen smell it, but even the two orcs who were chopping wood were swallowing their saliva and tacitly speeding up the chopping of wood in their hands.

When it was time to eat, using tableware that was not very convenient did not affect their eating speed. From the time they couldn't wait to grab the chopsticks to the time they used them, it only took a few minutes.

They had to hurry up. Seeing Sha and Huya constantly putting food into their mouths, they were afraid that if they didn't hurry up, there would be no share for them. The two of them who had never eaten Su Ling's food had never known that the food could be so delicious. Although they were all roasted and boiled, the taste was very different.

No wonder Hushan always comes here. If they can eat such delicious food, they want to come here every day! But they just think about it. Food is so precious. They are very happy to have this meal. They really envy Huyi for being able to eat it every day. At this moment, they all turned into sour grapes.

Su Ling raised her eyebrows while drinking pork rib soup and looked at the speed at which the two people picked up the food with chopsticks. It seemed that the delicious food stimulated their foodie nature.

Hmm! This soup is really delicious, and the radish is fragrant and sweet. Su Ling squinted her eyes and took another sip.

After dinner, the two male orcs asked if there would be any heavy work tomorrow, and if so, they would come to help.

Before Su Ling could speak, Sha and Hu Ya thought about the speed at which they had just eaten, felt threatened, and said in unison, "No, it will be some light work tomorrow, and we can help."

Su Ling didn't think too much about it. She just felt that the beastmen were very busy and had their own things to do, so it would be bad to bother them all the time. "Well, there won't be anything I need help with tomorrow. Thank you for today. If there's anything else I can help with later, I'll ask Sha to ask you."

Knowing that they would not be able to help tomorrow, they told Su Ling to come to them if she had any problems and left with regret. Sha and Hu Ya also returned to their caves with satisfaction.

Before going to bed, Su Ling remembered that she had forgotten to ask Sha about the needle today. Forget it, she would ask her later. She soon fell asleep.

When she woke up, Sha Sha and Hu Ya had already arrived. After breakfast, they would start making pottery today. Su Ling was a little nervous.

The clay has been completely dried in the shade and there is no need to wait any longer. Pottery firing can be divided into low-temperature pottery and high-temperature pottery.

Potteries are usually fired at temperatures between 700c and 1200c, depending on the type of pot and how it was made.

Under high temperature, pottery jars can undergo a more thorough sintering process, improving their durability. What Su Ling is trying to achieve when firing pottery is durability, and beauty is secondary.

Without a thermometer, these experiments have to be carried out slowly.

Carefully put the clay into the kiln. There are quite a lot of clay models made and they cannot be burned all in one kiln. Divide them into several batches for burning and seal the kiln door.

After the fire is lit, the firewood cannot stop burning and must continue burning for about four hours. Su Ling kept staring at the kiln and checking the temperature. After drinking water countless times, the time was finally up.

After removing the firewood and waiting for the temperature in the furnace to drop, it was already afternoon. Su Ling opened the door of the kiln and took a look inside the furnace. Her heart sank.

Some were cracked, and some were about to crack. Because the kiln was not big, only more than ten pieces were burned in this batch.

Carefully take out the pottery in the furnace and place it on the ground one by one. There are more than ten pottery pieces, only three of which are usable. The others are either completely cracked or have only a crack.

"Hu Ya, go get some water from the jar for me." Su Ling said as she looked at the only three remaining pottery pieces.

Hu Ya agreed and quickly brought the water. Su Ling took the water and poured it into three pottery vessels. She picked up one of the pottery jars and shook it left and right. Good, there was no leakage.

After Su Ling poured the water into the pottery jar, Sha and Hu Ya were shocked. They didn't expect that Su Ling had them make this kind of thing.

They didn't understand why the soil would not leak after being burned, which had a huge impact on their cognition.

Sha twisted herself hard, it hurt, "Su Ling, how did you do this? It's amazing."

"Yes, yes! Sister Su Ling, how did you do it? What's the point of burning this thing?"

Su Ling looked at the two people's surprised expressions and chuckled, "This is pottery. I use it to cook food. The stone pot is too slow to boil water. There are also two bowls here for eating and so on. Today I just happened to use this pottery pot to cook some soup."

"Ah! This can be used to boil water. It won't be burned, right?" Sha thought that such a beautiful pot must not be burned.

"It won't break so easily. If it breaks, just burn a new one. It's getting late today, so we can continue burning it tomorrow." She had to find out why it cracked so much.

Although the two wanted to continue burning, but after hearing Su Ling say that it could be burned tomorrow, they had no choice but to wait until tomorrow to continue watching.

When they saw that the pottery jar boiled water in front of them without cracking, the two were even more surprised. They kept circling around the pottery jar, fearing that the fire would burn it.

Don’t you think about where this pottery jar came from? How could something fired at such a high temperature be burned out in such an instant? Then what is the purpose of using this pottery jar?

Su Ling ignored the two of them, walked to the kiln, picked up the burnt pottery jar and studied it carefully.

In conclusion, some of the cracked pottery are of uneven thickness, rough surface, and different sizes. Tomorrow I will pick out the clay without this problem, pay attention to the temperature, and study the results after firing.

……

The next day, Su Ling carefully picked out the best batch from the clay and put them into the kiln, controlling the temperature gradually from rising to falling.

When she opened the kiln again and looked inside, she couldn't help but smile. Although there were some cracks, three out of ten, Su Ling felt that she had taken a big step forward.

Huya carefully picked up a pottery jar, "Wow! So many are intact this time, that's great!"

Sha touched this and looked at that, her face beaming, "Well, I thought it was good enough to burn three yesterday, but I didn't expect there would be so many good ones today."

Su Ling also put her mind at ease, thinking that all her efforts over the past few days were not in vain. After mastering the general techniques, she would be able to cook better ones.