Volume 2 Planting Chapter 153 Daily Life and Haircuts (Proofread)
After dinner, Wang Tian first steamed Ling'er's clothes for a short time to fix the color, and then lit a charcoal fire and put the clothes on it to bake.
When she was doing this, Ling'er followed her all the time, and it could be seen that she cared very much about this new dress, and Wang Tian told her to wait by the fire and leave when the clothes were dry.
The rest of the tribe had already begun to walk, carrying bundled thatched mattresses to the rooms, each illuminated by bean-sized lights.
This is an oil lamp made from the first batch of the tribe's eliminated clay bowls, which are filled with fish oil and the wick is made of moderately carbonized bamboo.
At this time, the fish oil has solidified, and the yellow color looks like the soap obtained by the saponification reaction today.
In the middle of the fish oil is a wick tied with a thin rope to form a tripod, so that even on a hot day, the charcoal wick will not completely submerge into the fish oil because of the support of the triangular bracket after the fish oil melts.
The carbonized bamboo has a strong adsorption capacity, and the flame burns more fully, so it produces less black smoke, but there is a disadvantage, that is, the speed of burning is too fast.
This is not to say that the wick needs to be replaced frequently, but it is necessary to add lamp oil frequently, and the fish oil tribe is not lacking now, but it is really troublesome to constantly add lamp oil.
If you forget to add it, the oil level will drop, and all the wicks that show the oil surface will be ignited, and the flame of the oil lamp will increase suddenly, which will be dangerous.
Frequent addition of grease also poses a risk, as the houses built by the tribe are now made of red brick, but the roofs are made of wood, which can be devastating in the event of a fire.
In the future, although there will be oil lamps in the tribe's room, the fire will be kept uniformly, and it will not be allowed to be lit after it is extinguished.
At night, the tribe will be lit using a uniform oil lamp placed at the door of the house, which is a deep-mouthed clay pot as a container for storing oil, which is placed on a wooden shelf of a bundled tripod.
This is equivalent to the street lamps of later generations, these "street lamps" are only pulled out and placed at nightfall, and they will be taken away after dawn.
The flames are left empty around the wooden frame, so there is no need to worry about the danger of running through the water, and these torch piles are always monitored by soldiers on duty at night, so there is no problem with safety.
Tonight, because the mattress had to be laid and the oil lamp was lit in the room, the situation was more dangerous than usual, and the large bundle of thatched mattresses was carried into the new room.
Wang Tian constantly shuttled between the new houses, reminding everyone to pay attention to the safety of fire.
The surface of the kang is leveled with lime mortar, which is not suitable for sleeping on directly, so after laying the straw mats, rolls of mats woven from bamboo are fed into the room.
In winter, the kang will be burned, so even if it is a mat woven of bamboo, it will not feel cold in winter, and when there are more animal skins in the tribe in the future, you can sew animal skins on one side of the bamboo mat, so that you can completely solve the problem of keeping the mat warm.
After moving to a new house, Wang Tian was reluctant to sleep directly on the thatch like in the cave, firstly because of the need for fire prevention, and later it was unhygienic.
Thatched mattresses that have been soaked in human sweat are more likely to breed bacteria and some small insects, and Wang Tian asked everyone to dry these mattresses often in the future.
Taking advantage of the high temperature of the sun to kill the parasites and insect eggs in these thatched mats, after Wang Tian's arrival, the health of the tribe has been greatly improved, and everyone has become fond of bathing, and everyone is no longer like before, everyone is stinky.
After this, Wang Tian began to prepare the tools for the haircut: scissors, a comb made of thick fish bones, and a piece of linen cloth to use as a bib, and a small torch, yes, a small torch, which was used to play hair.
The tools are simpler, but Wang Tian doesn't know how to cut hair, and even if he has a full set of haircutting tools, he won't necessarily use them.
The reason why everyone gets a haircut is also for hygiene reasons, just trim the hair and cut the man into a pot lid. Exposing your ears will do the trick.
The women's hair was also cut to shoulder length, too thick hair was thinner, as for Wang Tian's craftsmanship, it was not a big problem, compared to their previous weedy and unkempt hair, I don't know how much fresher it was after being trimmed.
After the preparations were completed, Wang Tian first brought in Wu as his first experiment to practice his craft.
Wu's hair was thin and thin, and it was not difficult to trim it at all, Wang Tian almost cut it with a few scissors, and then picked up the knife that had just been sharpened, and gave Wu Jiang's beard a rest.
Then he brought a basin of water, cleaned Wu's hair, applied soap, and when he washed it for the first time, not a single bubble appeared.
It wasn't until the third time that the foam appeared on the witch's head, and the onlookers next to him were all amazed when they saw this scene.
Everyone used to wash their hair with plant ash, although there was also foam, but where had they ever seen such a scene, Wang Tian rinsed Wu Wu with a water scoop made of pottery, and at the same time introduced everyone how to use soap.
Then let everyone first wash the hair twice with plant ash and then come over for a haircut, now the amount of soap is only a little bit, just the big guy's overgrown hair, it is estimated that it is washed four times or black water, if you don't clean it, it is estimated that you can't even cut the scissors.
Next are several leaders, the most difficult to trim is the second brother King Kong, this guy has a lion's head on his head, and his hair is messy, just like the Ao Bai in the Deer and Ding Ji.
Wang Tian directly called him to the edge of the "faucet", covered his hair with mud-like plant ash for a few minutes, and then rinsed him directly with water.
Grass ash and soap, a total of 5 times of water to get clean, then pick up the comb of fish bones to divide the hair, then gradually thin and cut short, and finally light the torch, while combing the hair, while approaching the torch, finally pressed his fluffy hair down.
After trimming, I asked him if he needed to keep his beard. The answer was, "All beards can be shaved"?!
So without saying a word, he took a knife and applied soap, and after gently patting the foam, he scraped it rustling, shaved it clean in three and five strokes, and then sent him aside and asked him to wash his hair again and take a shower.
The second brother touched his jaw while shaking his head and walked away, he may never feel so refreshing, Wang Tian looked at the figure he walked by, and thought to himself that primitive people did not have the habit of growing beards, so the next step was simple, and they were all shaved clean.
Looking at the people waiting for a haircut on the side, Wang Tian was a little anxious, so many people, when would he have to get a haircut by himself?
He took out one of the two knives and handed it to Xiaoli, asking him to help the women shave their hair, Wang Tian first called a woman to be a model, and showed Xiaoli how to shave to be able to distinguish the levels.
Then it is a perm of the hair, take a wooden stick of different sizes, roll the hair on it, and then roast it over the fire, and after loosening the hair, large and small wavy rolls come out.
This is also in the primitive era, if Wang Tian dared to play like this in later generations, it is estimated that he would have been beaten to death by those women who love beauty.
But the women of the primitive era don't think there's anything wrong with this, on the contrary, they are all quite excited, looking at the changed shape, the other women on the side have become eager to try.
After that, Wang Tian and Xiaoli started work together, the sound of scissors cutting and the sound of shaving hair, one after another, everyone who finished cutting their hair only felt that the top of their heads was light, and they didn't take care of it in the water, so they went to take a bath directly.
Because everyone found that they had already received a new set of animal skin clothes and shoes after taking a bath, and they were all eager to try their own set.
Those who have changed into new clothes and shoes talk and laugh with each other, and from time to time help each other tidy up the corners of their clothes.
Everyone was once again shocked by the genius of the Son of Heaven, these nitrated animal skins were so soft that they fit the body perfectly, and a warmth came from the soft leather clothing.
And the animal skin shoes with the fur facing inward on the feet, the feet on the soft fur, seem to have faintly begun to sweat, no wonder the Son of Heaven said that in the future, you can also go out to hunt in winter......