The correct way to open the elf

Chapter 41 Porcelain Experiment
After Feng Yu knew that he could not learn magic, he no longer had the heart to attend the class. He explained to Nicole that he was trying to make salt recently to solve the problem of salt shortage in the camp. Nicole then stopped pestering him about attending the class.

He understood that Nicole wanted Feng Yu to have the capital to protect himself in this world, but Feng Yu was simply unable to cultivate the elemental power of this world.

Feng Yu once wrestled with the strongest dwarf warrior in the camp. Although he was defeated by the dwarf warrior with a slight advantage, that was because he was hiding his weakness. When the dwarf warrior was at his strongest, he did not feel much pressure and felt that he could easily defeat the warrior.

However, as a professional scoundrel and a man standing in the shadow of the online world, Feng Yu would not care about winning or losing. Giving the enemy a small surprise at the critical moment was the best way to unleash his personal abilities.

Because Feng Yu didn't know how to use the energy in his body, the energy in his body was always full. He could only use part of his time every day to control a small amount of energy to "flush" his cells and enhance the strength of the cells.

However, this method does not need to be carried out all the time, because cells cannot absorb so much energy at a time. Most of the energy will be naturally dissipated, and cells can only absorb a small part of it, and this process is very slow.

As for accelerating the energy flow in his meridians, he had tried it, but after reaching a certain speed, accelerating further would damage the meridians themselves, so he had to give up.

He could feel that his meridians were slowly strengthening to accommodate the greater and faster flow of energy, but this was also a slow process.

Therefore, Feng Yu only needed to take out a certain amount of time before going to bed every day to slightly accelerate the energy and flush the cells, and he did not need to practice for a long time.

Without the Internet and electronic devices that modern people rely on to survive, cultivation does not take much time. In addition, Nicole is now fully focused on cultivation and has to attend classes, so I don’t have much time to accompany her.

Feng Yu was very bored.

He adhered to the principle that nothing should expire when there is a dwarf, so when Dick was building a kiln to burn stone powder, he asked his dwarf brothers to help him build two kilns. One of them was a heat-collecting kiln designed by him, and he wanted to try to make glass.

As for the other one, there is no doubt that it is used to fire porcelain.

In fact, Feng Yu knew nothing about ceramics, but he just couldn't help but want to give it a try. As a competent time traveler with ideals and ambitions, it would be embarrassing if he didn't make some achievements.

There are pottery in this world, such as the bowls used for eating in the camp. The rough top and bottom of the bowls are more like bricks than pottery. In order to prevent water from seeping in, they have to be coated with something like rosin several times after being fired and dried.

Although this kind of utensil has a light fragrance of vegetable oil, Feng Yu always feels uncomfortable using it.

The spoon used for drinking porridge was actually made of wood, which was even more unbearable for him as he was used to the smooth texture of porcelain.

While Dick was busy leading the dwarves to help him build a kiln, he wandered around the camp, looking for some clay with good texture and crystallized stones like quartz, and ground them into fine clay, preparing to start his own porcelain business.

At the beginning, Feng Yu did not let Dick build too many salt drying pools. He only built five, four for evaporation and one for crystallization.

Feng Yu, who grew up in a small coastal town, was confident about salt drying. After all, he had personally participated in it.

While waiting for the salt pond to dry, craftsman Feng put the clay bowls that were almost dried into the kiln.

In order to make neat clay bowls, he DIYed a manual wheel for throwing clay, and found a group of halfling and dwarf friends who played with clay with him to take turns to help him turn it. The price was that when Feng Yu finished using it, these friends would continue to play.

Allen and some other idlers were standing by and pointing and talking, which made Feng Yu, a big friend who played in the mud, very depressed.

In order to formalize the experiment, Feng Yu coveted a notebook and a pen from Nicole to record the experiment. This set of things may seem insignificant, but it is extremely precious. Except for magicians and nobles, ordinary people can hardly touch it.

However, Nicole told Feng Yu that Anthony still had some stock, so he didn't feel bad about using it, since the old man would get a share of the goods anyway.

Thanks to the influencers of the internet age, Feng Yu had seen internet celebrities live broadcasting kiln-fired porcelain for netizens, so he was not completely in the dark and had mastered some "cloud" technology.

As expected, all the unglazed porcelain blanks that came out of the first furnace were defeated. The reason for the failure was that the fire of the flint was too strong and the sintering time was too long. Except for the group that was dried relatively quickly and burned to pieces, the rest fluidized and deformed.

The salt pond would not be used for a day or two, so Feng Yu continued to struggle with the mud.

Although the first batch failed, the finished product was hard and fine, which gave Feng Yu infinite confidence. By comparison, the product of the second batch was already quite good, and the product of the third batch was already quite good except that the surface was a little rough due to the lack of glaze.

Although it can be used, Feng Yu did not publicize it in order to strive for excellence and produce a perfect product. He wanted to make a lot of money by selling this thing to those stupid nobles who used silver cups and plates, and defective products would not work.

As for glaze, Feng Yu prepared crystallized quartz-like sand and gravel, as well as the kind of stone that the dwarves used to burn stone powder, which should be a limestone-like stone.

When the half-ling pulled the big bucket and filled the salt drying pool, Feng Yu's finished ceramics were finally out of the oven.

The ceramic products he finally made from the carved clay and glaze he applied, although not as thick and smooth as those made with modern technology, were as good as the blue-rimmed large bowls he used as a child.

The dwarves and halflings all stared at the salt pool to which Feng Yu had added a secret recipe. Compared to the mud, they cared more about the salt.

Feng Yu doesn't have any so-called secret recipe at all.

He found some yams, a kind of potato-like thing that the halflings grew, which the halflings cut into small pieces and added to their porridge, or boiled or roasted them whole.

Feng Yu mashed the sweet potatoes and filtered out the milky white juice with cloth. The precipitated substance was natural starch. He boiled a pot of water and added some sweet potato starch to it, and it became a secret recipe.

Add some seasoning to this secret recipe and crack an egg into it and you will have egg soup.

Feng Yu didn't see starch in the halfling's seasoning sequence, so he decided to use this thing to scare people.

The thick soup recipe was slightly sticky after being thickened with starch, and it was very effective in fooling people from other worlds. Not to mention others, even the great magician Anthony, who knew Feng Yu wanted to make salt, was fooled by Feng Yu.

Humanoid creatures are like this, if you tell them about brine separation, they won't believe it. But if you tell them that you have a secret recipe to make edible salt, they will believe it without a doubt and stare at the salt drying pond eagerly, wishing they could "stare" the salt out right now.

(End of this chapter)