Because there is no cornstarch, Mu Tong uses flour instead when making sweet and sour fish pieces and crispy fried fish pieces. The flour is obtained by roasting and grinding dumpling skins from the dough tree, and the color is also yellow-green.

Although there is no cornstarch, the color and texture of the product are not as good as those made with cornstarch. But where have the people in the tribe ever eaten a dish made of cornstarch, so they still think it is very delicious.

Six dishes and one soup, all of which are the size of a large pot. Smelling the fragrant fragrance, Thick Wing's eyes narrowed with a smile. He knew that as soon as the gods made the adults make a move, it would not be unpalatable. This dish is fragrant just by smelling, let alone eating.

Mu Tong's steps and ingredients for making these dishes were all memorized by the wizard's apprentice Ah Ping. In the future, when people in the tribe make fish and meat, they will no longer be able to avoid the fishy smell.

Jucao's father is more than a person, although his leg is broken, and he can't use his strength after healing, and he walks with a limp, but his hands are very strong and flexible, and he can do a lot of housework at home. He is so strong, in addition to not being able to hunt and gather, he often takes Chihei at home, or goes to the Chishui River to fish and eat.

Later, Mu Tong taught everyone to make rattan boxes, baskets and the like, and he made boxes and baskets at home every day when he was free, and exchanged a piece of meat with the bachelors of the hunting team. Every day, he can exchange for a piece of meat, plus wild vegetables and fruits collected by chrysanthemum, which is enough for his family of three to eat.

Two large pots of dried purple rice, plus two tables of dishes, more than a dozen people sat at two tables.

When Ayu came back, he was just in time for everyone to row up seats.

Ah Yu hunted a lot of prey today, but in his hand, there were only two hares more than one meter long, and a basket of purple rice nuts.

Seeing everyone gathered in the courtyard, Ah Yu was not surprised: it must be his wife, and she cooked something fresh to eat. Didn't you see Ah Ping still holding a cardboard in one hand and a charcoal in the other?

Put the prey into the living room, Ah Yu washed his hands and sat next to Mu Tong. At a fish dinner, everyone ate with relish and appetite. The two big pots of purple rice are not enough to eat them all.

Mu Tong temporarily took out a lot of noodle fruits, as well as dough leaves, and used the remaining fish soup to make noodles and dough. The delicious taste made everyone eat so much that their tongues almost fell off.

After dinner, the old people rushed to wash the dishes and chopsticks: the gods made the adults cook so hard and invited them to eat, do they still have to wash the dishes after eating? Of course not!

After washing the dishes and cleaning up the yard, Mu Tong asked Dorjee to light a fire and set up a large stone pot.

After pouring the cocoon into the pot and adding water, it was set up on a fire and boiled for a while. There is sericin in the silkworm cocoon, which must be soaked in hot water to melt the sericin. After removing the sericin, the cocoon will float, and then the silk will be reeled.

Mu Tong didn't know if this cocoon was the same as a silkworm cocoon, but for the sake of safety, she still boiled it for a while, and when she saw the cocoon floating, she started to reel silk.

I took the Suo Xu broom and stirred it in the pot, stirred it a few times, and pulled it out, and there were a lot of hair-like gray threads wrapped around the Suo Xu broom. Pull the gray silk and wrap it around, and keep pumping it out. It didn't take long for the cocoons cooked in the pot to turn into fine gray threads.

The rope broom is a special silk reeling tool, a small broom made of grass stems, and the handle is tied with hemp rope.

In the center of the cocoon, there is indeed a meat worm shaped like a silkworm, which looks a little different from the silkworm, at least in terms of size, it is several times larger, I don't know what this meat worm is called here.

Mu Tong remembered that silkworm cocoons are generally the size of a thumb, about 2 centimeters. This cocoon is six or seven times the size of a silkworm cocoon, and it is ten centimeters long. Although the silk is gray, it is also shiny, and it looks good.

When Mu Tong reels silk, he reels several silk threads together. The silk reeled in this way is of the right size and thickness, which is raw silk.

Raw silk is soft and smooth, plump to the touch, good elongation, elastic, soft luster, strong hygroscopicity, non-irritating to the human body, is a high-grade textile material, can weave all kinds of silk fabrics with different organizational structures, used as clothing, indoor products, handicrafts, decorations, etc.

Silk is divided into raw silk and cooked silk, raw silk is used to weave silk satin, cooked silk is used to make silk quilts or cotton clothes and cotton pants, cooked silk is commonly known as silk cotton.

The difference between raw silk and cooked silk is whether it is degummed, and raw silk is used to make silk quilts, ties, and pajamas. To turn raw silk into mature silk, it is necessary to add a certain amount of edible alkali and soap or detergent, and cook it for a long time.

As for the dyeing of silk threads, you can use rice wine, coconut water, tree bark and wild plants as pigments to tone and dye threads, and the dyed threads are spun with the "three blooms and three threads" spinning wheel with the foot, and then woven into cloth with the "waist weaving machine" loom.

The original loom is a "loom" that sits on the ground, also known as a waist machine. This kind of pedal waist machine does not have a frame, one end of the roll shaft is tied to the waist, both feet pedal the warp beam at the other end and tension the fabric, the warp yarn is divided into two layers according to the odd and even number with the warp stick, the warp yarn is lifted with the heald rod to form a shed, the weft is drawn with a bone needle, and the weft is beaten with a weft knife.

The essentials of spinning and weaving, with Mu Tong's intelligence, can be comprehended in a short time. But in practice, you have to practice before you can become proficient. Therefore, Mu Tong just wants to teach you the steps of silk reeling tonight, as for spinning and weaving, it is better to stay up late tonight, actually operate, and then teach you after mastering it more proficiently.

Anyway, the spinning wheel and the loom, Mu Tong got them back. With Xiaoqiang's help tonight, there should be no problem in practicing to become more proficient.

People have actually seen this gray thing before, but after taking it back, they tried it and couldn't eat it, so they didn't get it back. I didn't expect this thing to be able to reel out of the line? I heard that it can also be woven into cloth and made into clothes?

Everyone was surprised, and Ju Cao stepped forward excitedly, took the Suo Xu broom in Mu Tong's hand, and followed Mu Tong's example, circling around the pot to do hand rotation movements.

The rest of the clansmen also found it novel and interesting, and they all took turns to try it a few times, but one by one they refused to come down as if it were a game.

Mu Tong saw that everyone was having fun, and he also thought it was very good. From the current point of view, the quality of this silk thread should not be too bad. Although it still looks gray at present, according to the gloss of the line, the cloth will not be much worse in the future.

As for dyeing, let's wait until the cloth is woven.

Anyway, there are many natural plants in this forest that can be used to dye them: plant roots, nuts and flowers are all good materials for making natural dyes.

By the time the people left, it was already dark.

The next day, the wizard gave the hunting and gathering teams a task, and when they went out, they found this gray cocoon, and picked them all as much as they could. Of course, according to Mu Tong's instructions, the order he gave to everyone was to leave a number of cocoons on each tree.

If all the cocoons are taken away, this kind of meat worm named silkworm by Mu Tong is afraid that it will become extinct. If it is extinct, there will be no cocoons for silk reeling and weaving.

The wizard was very happy, but he didn't expect that the gray cocoon, which he thought he couldn't eat, could be used to make clothes. However, this is really a hassle to make clothes, and you see, just getting these silk threads took one night. I heard, this is not over, you still have to weave cloth to make clothes?