Chapter 518: Scabbard

Xiaomei looked at the TV shot of Li Junge and Ah Yin playing the flute on the bamboo raft and said: "This place is so beautiful, shooting from the surface of the lake, it is picturesque." How beautiful would it be if we found a place where no one was there and lived a little life like this?"

Zhu Chao'an's face was so frightened: "Wife, you won't take it seriously, right? That is, Ayin Erpi and the two of them, look at the rest of the couples, who is not half hungry and eats chaff vegetables, and lives like primitive people, so who is in Russia, driving sheep with stone axes all over the mountain......

Speaking of this, Xiaomei couldn't laugh too: "It's true, you have to have the ability to get it this day, and the Argentine pair doesn't seem to have opened a meat ...... since they hit the island."

Zhu Chaoan laughed wildly and patted Simmons: "You don't look carefully, who said no, I worked hard to catch a few frogs, and I vomited immediately after eating a bite!"

Xiaomei laughed: "Where did you say that Piwa learned all this strange ability?

Zhu Chao'an thought for a while and said: "There are really roots and seedlings in everything, I heard that there are many things such as resin buckets, collecting firewood, looking for bamboo shoots and digging wild vegetables, these are the daily lives of Lijiagou and Miao Village in the old time." Not to mention farming, building a bamboo building was originally his college major; fishing and shrimping was his ability to practice a little; biting and chewing words must have come from the fourth grandfather; pottery must have been learned from his grandfather; lacquerware and bamboo weaving was a craft mixed with Uncle Miaojiang; running a mountain and an entrap must have been taught by Uncle Orion; carpentry was mostly a stealing teacher, Uncle Chong; digging honeycombs for herbs must have been learned from Uncle Pharmacist; Ayin spinning and weaving must have been a craft of Miao Village; Nu Hong also learned from the five grandmothers for more than a year, playing bamboo flutes and reeds, and the six-year-old baby in Miao Village was an expert......

Xiao Meilai was in Zhu Chao'an's arms, and the finger circled his chest: "Pay attention to learning everywhere, we are in Lijiagou, and we see these things on weekdays as ordinary things and don't take them to heart, it turns out that they have learned their hands, and their performance is also extraordinary." ”

Zhu Chaoan said: "This kid has been different from others since he was a child, he can say anything, Lao Tzu was crushed by him at that time. At every turn, I say that I 'learn without thinking', what is the 'wall of dung', do you know the distress of being scolded and having to find someone to translate to understand? Hmph, I thought I was a bully, Lao Tzu later heard a couplet, and he was stumped at once, and he never dared to be arrogant in front of me again!"

Xiaomei propped herself up and looked at her husband with admiration: "So powerful? Can you still make a pair of difficult two skins?Hehehehe, I don't know what you did at Aunt Liangzi's wedding?"

Zhu Chaoan said: "Why don't you believe it anymore? Let me tell you, he has been thinking about this pair for more than ten years, and he has not been able to match it so far!"

Xiaomei said: "I've never heard you say this, let's talk about it." ”

After telling a story, Xiaomei laughed so much that tears came out, and Zhu Chaoan was beaten up: "Hooligans!

Zhu Chaoan held Xiaomei's little hand: "Don't make trouble, don't make trouble, look, start cooking......"

After reading the meal, Xiaomei lay on the bed and looked at the stars, and said faintly: "Husband, I'm a little hungry......"

Zhu Chaoan also looked at the stars and said, "I'm so hungry that I can't do it, you only watched one meal, but I watched two meals......"

Xiaomei said: "Why don't we make two bowls of noodles?" It's so hateful, I can't watch this show in the middle of the night in the future!"

……

When it was dark, Li Junge lit the candles, Ayin picked up the fired nameless in the candlelight, and Li Junge turned out the flattened half-dried palm leaves and cut them, decorating the tail feathers of the arrows.

After doing this, Li Junge smiled at Ayin: "Okay, but this arrow can only be shot and played, when I have time, I will use a bamboo pipe to make it for you, and the front section is made of hardwood, so that the center of gravity is more suitable, and it is no problem to shoot fish and birds, Ayin, are you going to hunt goats? If you want, I will press some flint arrows for you......"

Ah Yin interrupted Li Junge's words and said, "Erpi, it's not time for us to just go to the island, we don't need to make arrows so lethal, just have your big bow to defend yourself." I'm just using this for practice, just for sports. ”

Li Junge thought about it, it made sense, let Ayin hunt in person, he felt weird, so he didn't say anything more, and instead installed a bottom ring for the bucket bowl.

After securing the bottom ring, taking the bucket bowl to the shelf and buckling it upside down, Li Junge went to put away the pigskin again, and the two went into the house to rest.

Day 39.

In the evening it rained again, although it was not a torrential rain, but it did not stop until the two of them got up in the morning, and the rain continued to fall.

Li Junge turned his head to Ayin and said, "It's over, I can't play." ”

Ayin said, "What should I do then? Why don't I teach you how to play the flute?"

Li Junge smiled: "Well, I want to do something more fun, by the way, why don't you make the scabbard!"

Ayin said, "What about you?"

Li Junge looked at the middle of the shed and muttered: "This height should be fine, I don't want to wait, I'll burn charcoal, the firewood in this shed can't be piled up, it's good to reduce a little inventory." ”

Ayin smiled: "Don't burn the shed." ”

Li Junge said: "How can I do it, I will pile up a pile of firewood half a meter high." ”

Li Junge took out the fish skin and pig skin and handed them to Ah Yin, and asked her to cut them out in the format of two knives, while he boiled the fish gelatin and the little broken pig skin left before, ready to be used to paste the two kinds of leather.

The best fish skin is the skin of the pearlfish, which is not the skin of a pearlfish, but the dorsal skin of a stingray or manta ray.

These fish have calcified protrusions on the body surface, shaped like pearls, and have no dorsal fin, which allows them to obtain large skins, and have always been the best in making scabbards.

The mullet skin is too thin, and then the dorsal fin is cut into two pieces, which cannot completely wrap the knife, and can only be used as a side or scabbard back inlay.

However, this life is similar to the insole of the female Hongna, so it is difficult to stop Ayin.

Li Junge used a piece of wood to cut out a shape with two knives, and then handed it to her and left it alone.

He wore a hat to pick up wet mud, and prepared to do a big job with the thin mud.

First of all, four firewood piles were piled up in the middle of the house, mainly discarded bamboo meat materials, split into small pieces two fingers wide, sandwiched with some hay, and four cone-shaped firewood piles were piled up.

Then pile some dried leaves on the outside of the firewood pile and start to apply mud on the outside.

After the application is completed, there are four small mounds, with a top hole at the top and six bottom holes at the bottom of each small mound.

Stuff a pile of hay into the top hole and light it, and the fire starts to burn slowly to the bottom.

It's easy to say, but it's also time-consuming to do, and Li Junge did this in the morning.

Ayin first cut off a piece of pig skin, folded it in half to wrap the knife, removed the excess part, and then opened it, and cut off the mullet skin, which was smaller than the pig skin, and pasted it in the middle of the opened pig skin with fish glue, spread the skin on the wooden table, took a heavy object and pressed it, and then began to cut the knife skin.

Wait until the machete skin is cut and glued and pressed, and then take out the knife just now, and press the cut pig skin on the fish skin.

In this way, the two scabbards are replaced, and the skin of the scabbard is glued in the morning.

After doing this, the two of them began to eat.

Li Junge walked around the four charcoal kilns while eating, and when he saw which of the bottom holes of the charcoal kilns began to see the fire, he blocked the bottom hole with thin mud.

The six bottom holes were blocked, and the carbon in the charcoal kiln was almost completely burned, and the top holes were sealed and simmered.

Ah Yin watched Li Junge wash his hands for a while, eat for a while, and mud for a while, and said with a smile: "Can't you finish eating and then get it?"

Li Junge turned his head and smiled: "Life is not waiting for anyone, I am a craftsman!"

Ayin smiled slightly, and didn't bother to care about him.

After eating, Ayin said to Li Junge: "Craftsman, the skin of the scabbard has been glued, and you need to drill the hole next, and I will take the thread!"

Li Junge smiled: "Then you go to rest, I'll do this!"

Ayin said: "I'm not tired today, so I won't rest, I'll continue to pick stones." ”

So Ayin continued to pick stones, and Li Junge began to take out a ruler, evenly mark the holes on the skin, and use a fine drill to punch holes in the scabbard skin.

Ayin also reminded on the side: "There is also a buckle to be added, don't forget." ”

The two of them did meticulous work, and when Li Junge finished doing it, the two changed hands, Li Junge picked out the nameless, Ayin took out twine, beeswax, crochet, and began to take the scabbard.

First take the inner circle, and nail the pigskin circle, fish skin, and bottom pigskin together.

Sew the belt buckle on both sides, the leather strip of the pressure knife, and make the strip of the seam, then fold the leather in half, clamp the blade mold in, apply the edge with fish glue, glue the scabbard together, and press it with a heavy object.

Then dispose of the other scabbard in the same way.

Or take turns, wait for this one to be pressed, take out the other one, and start to seam the seams.

After sewing the thread, Ayin took out the knife mold, replaced it with a knife and inserted it, and the leather strip of the pressure knife turned over from the top of the scabbard, inserted it into the gap between the side leather strip and the scabbard and tightened it, handed it to Li Junge and said, "Erpi, how about taking a look?"

Li Junge took the scabbard and looked at it, the back of the scabbard to both sides was the skin of the mullet with flowers, the outer edge was a circle of pigskin, the twine was sewn densely and compactly, and he couldn't help but praise: "Beautiful!"

He took a hemp belt, tied it around his waist through the buckle, pulled the pressure belt out of the slit with his fingers, gently pulled out the knife, inserted it back in, put the pressure belt back through the slit, pulled it tight from the other end, and said, "This is a good design!

Ayin said: "It's just that there are four layers of skin exposed at the bottom of the side, which is not very good-looking." ”

Li Junge said with a smile: "This is not finished yet, I will polish the edge smooth and regular, seal the top with lacquer, and ensure that it is too beautiful not to be unwanted!"

Ayin smiled: "It's good if you like it, I'm still worried that you don't like it!"

Li Junge said with a smile: "Such a good craft, how can you not like it? But you still have to make two belts." ”

Ayin said: "The strap is ready-made, can't you tie it around your waist?"

Li Junge said with a smile: "How ugly is that, I will use the thin rattan braiding buckle later, and you will make it with leather! ”