I thrived in the primitive tribe

Lu Yao plans to use the flat-ground firing method, placing the finished pottery blanks in a cool place to dry and remove excess moisture.

Then a lot of firewood was brought over. Seeing that everyone had nothing to do, the shaman asked them to carry all the firewood over, leaving only the firewood for cooking that night and the next morning. Soon, the firewood was piled up at the location planned by Lu Yao, forming a certain thickness. After that, Lu Yao asked everyone to help find dry grass and pile it next to the firewood.

After about 5 hours, Lu Yao checked and found that the clay blanks were almost dry. So she asked Da Wu and the others to move the clay blanks over the firewood. Everyone handled them carefully for fear of breaking them. After placing them, Lu Yao covered them with dry grass to seal the clay blanks and fuel. She also poked several small holes in the top with her fingers to allow for ventilation and to let out the smoke from the fire. Then she asked someone to help light the firewood.

The group stood before the bonfire, watching the raging flames, wondering what they would gain after it burned out.

As the fire subsided, the firewood was almost completely burned out, someone said after it was extinguished.

"The fire is out, can we take it out and take a look now?"

"Lu Yao, should we take it out now?" The Great Shaman turned to look at Lu Yao and asked.

"Not yet. We need to wait until the pottery has cooled down naturally before we can open the kiln. Opening the kiln means removing the ashes. Right now, we need to let it sit inside for a while longer."

Everyone wanted to see what pottery actually looked like, so they stood around quietly waiting.

As time went by, the temperature of the pottery gradually decreased. Lu Yao stepped forward to test the temperature of the wood ash and felt it was about right.

"The kiln is ready to be opened."

Lu Yao brushed aside the ashes, and the pottery was revealed to everyone's attention. Looking at the dusty gray jars in front of her.

"So this is pottery!" Everyone exclaimed in surprise.

Lu Yao slowly inspected the pottery she had made. She had made a total of 5 jars and 6 small bowls. Upon inspection, 3 of the jars were cracked. The small bowls, perhaps because they were made too small, were not cracked. There were some minor flaws on the edges, but she felt that they should not affect their use.

Lu Yao picked up a small bowl, poured the remaining water from the bamboo tube into it, and checked if it leaked. She found that the water did not leak out after the small bowl was filled with water.

"We succeeded! We successfully fired the pottery."

"Lu Yao, did you really succeed? Let me see."

Lu Yao handed the small bowl she was holding to the shaman, who took it and examined it repeatedly.

"This pottery doesn't look very nice."

"As long as it can hold things, why do you care if it looks good or not? Why are you so picky?"

……

I heard someone mention the appearance of the pottery.

Lu Yao recounted.

"The way pottery is fired depends on the temperature, that is, the size of the fire, as well as the quality of the clay. To fire better-looking pottery, we need to study the size of the fire and the influence of the type of clay on the pottery during the making of the clay blank."

What are the types of clay?

"This is the clay used to make pottery blanks. The chief found this yesterday when he went out. We can also use other clays with good adhesion. Different clays will produce different pottery."

"So if we find more of this kind of soil in the future, we can make a lot of pottery. Wouldn't that mean we could have it all?"

"Theoretically, yes, but it doesn't always work. We were lucky to have such a high success rate on our first try today."

What is success rate?

What is luck? How can one become lucky?

"Success rate is the percentage of successful pieces out of all the pottery we put in. You'll find out about that later."

"Luck is the blessing of the Beast God..."

"Then we must pray to the Beast God to bless us, so that we can have more pottery."

Seeing everyone surrounding Lu Yao and asking her all sorts of questions, the Great Shaman felt once again that Lu Yao's arrival would definitely bring better development to the tribe.