Chapter 18: The Rainy Season Is Coming
After discarding several animal skins, she gradually figured out her own set of methods. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info first soaked the hides in water to soften, and then scrubbed them with plant ash.
After the ashes were washed, she scraped the grease of the hides several times with a shovel, then continued to rub the ashes, and finally thoroughly washed them with coarse salt, and then hung them up to dry. When the hides are completely dry, they will become a usable, soft fur.
The lesson she learned was that the hides must be cleaned and not leave the slightest grease behind.
She had seen the people in the village at her former sister-in-law's house that there was no medicine at hand for a while, and when the skin was broken and bleeding, she directly grabbed a handful of plant ash and pressed it on the wound to stop the bleeding. I have also heard that in the past, when there was no soap, many homes used plant ash to wash clothes. Even plant ash can be used as fertilizer for plants when preserved.
Since the use of plant ash is so great, Tong Duoduo later simply used a few boulders to surround a stone pool in the sheltered corner of the patio to store plant ash.
After that, in addition to sewing a few quilts from the processed animal skins, she also sewed several sets of long clothes and pants for the rest to be worn and used when the weather became cold.
She used the first needle and thread for stitching, which she had prepared in the space. It's a pity that the animal skin is thick, and she finally used ordinary needles and threads to sew a quilt and found that the quilt didn't seem to be sewn firmly enough.
Later, after several attempts, she finally used the bones of a marine fish to make bone needles, and the "thread" was made of small but extremely resilient rhizomes drawn from some kind of vine.
Later, she went to the beach a few times, and she dried a lot of dried fish, dried shrimp, dried scallops, and kelp. The most important salt ba, she has also accumulated a large storage box full of them one after another.
After the salt was enough, there were fewer children on the beach. Only run once when you are really hungry for seafood, or want to change the taste.
Now the change in the patio of the house is also obvious. Because of the increase in dried fish, dried shrimp, dried meat, dried scallops, kelp, and even various dried vegetables, preserved fruits, and medicinal materials, many of them need to be dried in the shade. So she also specially designed a special layered drying rack with wood, branches and vines.
She weaves vines into a net, and the layered drying racks made of wood and branches are simple but not too rough on the outside.
Anyway, she thinks it's quite pleasing to the eye, and more importantly, it greatly saves space and improves the utilization rate of space.
Pucao's mattress Tong Duoduo has already been knitted, and a full four of them are woven together, which are stacked on top of each other on the high platform of the "bedroom", which can not only isolate moisture but also facilitate her to roll around arbitrarily when she sleeps.
In addition to the mattress, she also knitted the pillow shell of cattail, and she put a little thought into the pillow, which was open on both sides. This makes it easier for her to change the inner filler of the pillow on a regular basis.
Of course, there are far more things woven by the cattail grass, and under her continuous "innovation", slippers, sandals, straw hats, pillows, baskets, baskets, leaky basins for washing vegetables, and even covered boxes have all appeared......
Often when you are forced to do it, once your potential bursts out, many times even you will be taken aback.
Just like before, how could she dare to believe that she could survive alone in the forest for so long, not only live well, but also become more and more capable, and continue to do things that she thought she would never be able to do before?
As the sundial and the omission were finally figured out by her, she found that a day here was at least as long as two days on Earth.
And food, in addition to sweet potatoes, she found staples like potatoes and chestnut rice. There are other fruits and vegetables, mushrooms, wild vegetables, wild fruits, and so on.
For example, chestnut, lychee, peach, apricot, cherry, watermelon, pumpkin, ground eggplant, cauliflower, wild carrot, andrographis, gray cabbage...... Meat mill, purple porcini mushroom, coral-like lion's mane, mushroom, oyster mushroom, or oyster mushroom......
In addition, she also found wild garlic, wild ginger, and Sichuan pepper one after another. And what makes her very happy is a plant called Hui Hui vinegar. Huihui vinegar is actually the seeds of a wild vegetable, and adding mature seeds to the soup has the same effect as adding vinegar.
This discovery surprised Tong Duoduo, who was melancholy and might not be able to eat vinegar-flavored food in the future.
After finally harvesting and hulling the chestnut rice, she discovered that the so-called chestnut rice was actually millet. With millet, in addition to making some millet porridge to drink, she also grinds a part of millet into powder with flat and smooth pebbles, and occasionally gets some pancakes to eat.
The oil used for pancakes is naturally the fat of animals, although it is extremely fragrant, but it also makes her think about vegetable oil that is healthier to eat.
It's a pity that she has never met peanuts, sesame seeds, corn and other plants that can be used to extract oil. It's just that I've met them, and it's estimated that it will take a long time to squeeze them into oil.
In fact, she is more concerned about rice that can be made into fragrant rice than vegetable oil. When she used to eat white rice every day, she only felt impatient after eating it for a long time, and she didn't think how delicious the white rice was at all. But she hadn't been able to eat it for so long, and she began to miss it like crazy again.
Because I insist on cultivating every day, plus I have enough activity every day. Gradually, Tong Duoduo obviously felt that his body was getting better and better, whether it was strength, endurance, or physical agility, he had improved a lot.
Now climbing trees is no problem for her.
It is said that the priests should be impressed every three days. When she first arrived, she was afraid that she would encounter a beast all day long, and if she was not careful, someone who would become a snack in someone's mouth, and now she was not so brave to walk in the forest again.
Speaking of which, this change also began when she accidentally met a leopard.
When the **** was happy that he had found a watermelon field, he was so happy and sad that before he could get a few watermelons, he met a leopard that came out to feed. It's funny, her first reaction at that time was not fear but worried that the melon field in front of her was ruined, so she immediately turned around and ran.
She has been cultivating for a while, and the most noticeable result is probably that her running speed has become much faster. The **** was surprised to find that the leopard she was chasing behind was not as fast as her, and she had to slow down several times before the leopard could catch up with her.
So after running for more than half an hour, she felt that it was not a matter to keep running and chasing like this, but she couldn't do anything to fight a leopard with her bare hands, and finally she could only lead the leopard to the trap she had dug herself......