Chapter 5 Autumn Harvest

More than a month later, although my mother still didn't dare to go near the fire, she could go back to the platform to sleep, and it seemed that her fear was disappearing little by little. In a few months it should be fine. The brothers played the stunt of peeing and mud when they were young, took soil and mud, made a few mud pots and mud bowls, and then put them in the hole to dry, and then put them on the fire to roast them to increase their strength. The mud pot is placed next to the wall, and the inside is covered with large leaves, which is still very useful for food. The mud bowl is covered with leaves, then poured in water, and the hot stones are put in it, and when the water boils, you can drink it easily and safely.

With the fire, you have plant ash, and with plant ash you can simply and crudely tann leather. Now I have rabbit skins in my hands, and there are also a small number of leftover skins of different sizes that have been brought back by my mother, such as deer, sheep or roe deer. The two dolls make boiling water, put the skin into hot water to soak, mainly on the hairless side, simply remove the grease, and then put the plant ash into a mud pot to soak in water, stir evenly, and then put the skin into the plant ash water to continue soaking. According to the procedure, the grease inside the skin should be scraped with a spatula in advance, dried in the sun, and then soaked in plant ash water. Now there is nothing, and I can't do it with my hands twice, so I won't talk about those useless things. It doesn't matter what he does, soak it for one day and take it out to dry the next day. After three days of sunny weather, the skin was dried for three days, and the wooden stick was taken back and beaten again, rubbed with his hands, and it really became soft.

With five or six rabbit skins, plus fragments of deer skins and sheepskins, the two planned to become tailors and make themselves a "tiger skin dress" to ensure that in the future, the brothers would not have the opportunity to pass on their ancestry and reproduce all beings. The next step is to make hemp rope and sewing needles. For the time being, the needle can only use the leftover bones to choose a rib, grind it and grind out a sharp tip to make a bone needle, pierce the eye on the skin, and wear it with hemp rope to make clothes. Anyway, here, Victoria came with her secret, and no one liked to read it.

The brothers estimated that the green hemp in the puddle was almost soaked. The two of them took out the outer skin of the hemp stalk, beat it with a wooden stick to make it fluffy, and then placed it at the mouth of the hole to dry. When it is dry, it is broken into several strands, twisted and used to sew clothes, first one person makes a four-cornered leather panties, then a leather shoulder, a large piece of buckskin sheepskin piercing the eyes, put on a few ropes, tie the rope to the feet, and this is considered to be wearing leather shoes again. When you catch a few more rabbits, you can make gloves and hats, and you're alive.

It seems that it is the autumn harvest season, and you need tools to weave fruits and vegetables. I can't use the bag and basket, I can't hold it myself, or the blanket is practical, and I can only work more for my mother at this time. According to the method of braiding, the twine is braided into a long rope, and then the warp and weft cross weaving method is used to weave into a simple hemp rope pocket, and the two pockets are connected with a piece of coarse hole hemp mesh to become a pair of blankets, so that it can be placed on the mother's back, and it will be easy to pick and transport back and forth in the future.

After doing the blanket and start to weave the fishing net, or use the pocket shape, this is a little smaller, now do the net to catch the fish can not pull up, or the net pocket is practical. The side is supported by a ring of willow branches, a long rope is attached, and when you go down to the river, you can watch the fish enter the net and then pull it out to harvest the ingredients for grilled fish. But at the moment, there is no need for it, and the water surface with fish is a long way to reach the river through the meadow in front of the hole, probably less than two kilometers, and with the strength of their feet, they can catch one fish a day. There are fish in the stream next to it, the number is relatively small, and the size is not large, so you can fish it out for a change of taste and make a tooth sacrifice. At the current rate of growth of the two of them, it will be time to go to the river next summer to experience the life of fishermen.

After the nets are made, the next step is to make the trap. With the rope at hand, all this is much more convenient. According to the wilderness survival guide, weave a looper, use a straw stick to prop it up, tie one end to the wooden pier, and put the other end on the road where the prey often walks, the brothers can't do a trap that can hang the prey high, but the brothers thought of a way, go down if they can't go up, dig a pit under the cover, and when the prey that is hung by the legs falls into the pit, it is estimated that they can't catch it if they can run out, and it is a gift from God that they can't run away. Not to mention, you can really catch a few rabbits, as well as pheasants, and get a few rabbit skins and a few beautiful feathers.

In the blink of an eye, when it was cool in late autumn, all kinds of fruits in the mountains should be ripe and fall to the ground at this time, and the two dolls could follow their mother to the fruit tree ditch to pick. This is the name they gave themselves, because there are many kinds of fruit trees in the ditch, including pear trees, apple trees, plum trees, apricot trees, walnut trees, mountain mangroves, and many low-slung varieties of dried fruit trees such as hazelnuts along the way. Hazelnuts, pine nuts, almonds, walnuts, mountain dates, mountain red, and many kinds of mushrooms and wild vegetables can also be picked. At this time, hazel mushrooms, red mushrooms, lion's mane mushrooms, and fungus are all 100% pure wild and pollution-free. These two people know a lot, they have been traveling in the mountains for so long, and Han Bing has been drilling the ravine for three years, and he has a lot of experience.

There are still many herbs to prepare, ginseng, Ganoderma lucidum, Polygonatum polygonatum vulgaris, licorice, Wujiapi, Bupleurum chinensis, and Skullcap are all good medicinal materials, but the roots are not easy to dig, and there is no sapper shovel. Digging wild vegetables to the non-sapper shovel, purslane, dandelion, camelina pursa, willow artemisia, gray cabbage, mountain celery, daylily, etc., there are many kinds of mountains and rivers in this mountain, but in autumn most of them are older, and there are few kinds of wild vegetables that can eat delicious. I picked some purslane and dandelion, which were prepared as gastrointestinal medicine, and gray cabbage can prevent and control parasites and remove bad breath, which is all knowledge that Han Bing learned from Lao Xiaona.

If it weren't for that blanket, the eight-legged three mammals wouldn't be able to take a lot of it back, and the journey was less than a kilometer, although after this period of practice, the two dolls could walk for a while, but they couldn't go far, and they would have to be tired and lie down when they came back. Now it's okay, one rides on my mother's back, the other follows, and when I'm tired, I change people to ride. When they arrived at the fruit tree ditch, the two dolls were responsible for picking up the fruits that had fallen on the ground, and eating them while picking them up. There are so many fruits here, all of them are ripe and fall to the ground, so many of them fall like a puddle of mud, blind, this must have pottery, you can take it back to make wine, when you think of so many cider, pear wine, plum wine and fruit wine, these two old dolls are really distressed and beat their chests. When the two of them were full, they reluctantly followed their mother back to the cave. Take out the fruit, pile it up in a clay pot, and eat it for a few days, and maybe even make wine when it is rotten!

When I go out every day, I prepare a lot of mountain fruits, wild vegetables, and herbs. These days, the brothers drink mushroom soup all at once, sometimes they catch pheasants and make some chicken stewed mushrooms, and the ones brought to the mother are a little awkward, and the raw meat from the hunt is placed next to the two children, waiting to be roasted or made into broth. In autumn, there are many prey and fat, and there are a lot of bacon in the cave, rabbit meat, venison, mutton and roe deer meat, and even a piece of pig's hind leg. He also used fat meat to refine a lot of meat oil on the slate for later use, cooking, cold protection, wiping wounds, and lighting oil lamps.

Wild vegetables and herbs are put at the entrance of the cave to dry, and after drying, they are placed in a stone basin in the cave and stored in a cool and ventilated place. There is no way to make the fruit, it is ripe when it is picked, and it cannot be cut into slices to dry to make preserved fruit, just hoping that it will rot a few days later, and eating it for a day is a day. Of course, the two of them still have the idea of being able to make wine naturally, and this is indeed very likely, the degree is not high, it is certain, just be happy after drinking.

Firewood should also be prepared, there are really some around this thing, in the forest, around the meadow, everywhere, many of them have fallen there for I don't know how many years, as long as they have not been burned by the mountain fires caused by thunder and lightning, they have been waiting there to rot and decompose. Now they have a new home, and the two little men lead a wolf, and every day they collect scattered dry branches, tie them with hemp rope, and drag them back to the cave by their mother.

The grass on the meadow will slowly dry up after the weather becomes cold, and the brothers specially selected and cut the kind of one that grows in a large bush, which is called by later generations: Ula grass, which is one of the three treasures of the Northeast and ginseng and mink in the old days. After being beaten soft with a wooden stick, it is used to make straw sandals, or to make insoles in felt boots, which are moisture-proof and breathable, and have an excellent effect on preventing and treating chilblains; Or spread on the kang to make a mattress, cool and insulated, warm in winter and cool in summer, but also to remove peculiar smell, but also a good material for basket weaving.

The two of them used sun-dried wool grass to weave mattresses and quilts, which were actually straw curtains for thermal insulation in later projects, and they could not do the kind of delicate work in modern times, that is, they were cross-weaved, connected into a large piece, spread on the ground, and sprinkled with plant ash underneath, which could better prevent moisture and repel insects; The quilt is covered with hay, and it is made to look similar to the ancient clothes, as long as it can keep warm, so I don't pay attention to the image.