The next day, it was sunny and breezy.

One day until the countdown to the arrival of the Tianlong tribe.

After breakfast, the tribesmen were still busy, and Wang Tian continued his research on printing and dyeing techniques.

He fished out the dyeing vat of the bridal gown, which had been soaked and dyed for seven or eight hours for the third time last night, and this time hung it directly to dry, without wringing out the dye liquid in the dress.

Find 7 three-meter-long bamboo poles. Divide into two piles and tie three straw ropes together at the top to make two tripods, and put a bamboo pole horizontally in the middle as a drying rack. It was placed directly on top of the dye vat.

The bridal dress was picked up with two sticks, hung on a drying rack to dry, and then just waited for the garment to dry and then went on the final step to complete the dyeing work.

Then he came to the No. 5 hall of the pavilion, collected the red paper that had dried yesterday, and prepared to start writing couplets, until this time Wang Tian sadly found that there was no brush and no ink.

Wang Tian not only knew how to write calligraphy, but also wrote very well, a skill that was not learned when he was studying, but refined in the big family of the steel furnace _ army.

During the three years of being a soldier, when there was no task, in addition to training or training every day, the army did not allow him to have a mobile phone, in order to pass the leisure time, Wang Tian picked up the brush and calligraphy that he had not practiced when he was studying.

But as a later generation of travelers, naturally usually more often use hard pens, after the invention of paper, Wang Tian did not think of making pen and ink, after all, there are a lot of things, charcoal is very easy to use, there is no power and demand for making pen and ink at all.

In fact, in later generations is the water-based pen, he has rarely used, the information age, people have long been accustomed to the computer, mobile phone reading and writing habits, occasionally pick up the pen to write a few words, sometimes suddenly find that very simple commonly used words will have a time when can not write.

And it often happens that after a word is written, he always feels that he has written the wrong illusion, and whenever Wang Tian feels a little at this time, he feels a little about the disadvantages of Chinese Simplified Chinese characters.

Wang Tian feels that in addition to the change of writing habits, the meaning of simplified Chinese is too pale is also one of the reasons.

The pen Wang Tian uses the most is actually a pencil, and in addition to his professional reasons, it is also related to one of his hobbies, which is drawing.

Wang Tian likes sketching, not because of his profession, on the contrary, because he likes sketching, so he chose the profession of designer.

Huzi and Xiaoli's wedding dress was designed by him, and male fashion designers, just like male students majoring in Chinese, are dinosaur-level existences.

But in later generations, there was a saying that there were very few men who studied fashion design, but almost all the world's famous fashion designers were men.

Wang Tian doesn't know if this is a paradox or not, of course, clothing design is just a hobby, but since he traveled to the primitive society, he found that a hobby that was once inadvertently will also become an important skill.

When the tribe was about to start farming, Wang Tian was worried about his lack of farming knowledge.

If you want to write couplets, you naturally have to write pen, ink, paper, and inkstone, but now you have completely forgotten about pen and ink.

Well, fortunately, there is still time, and it is not too late to remember, if it is tomorrow at this time, I will find that there is no pen and ink, and even if it can be made, there will be no time to write.

There are now 30 rooms in the tribe, plus ancestral halls, pavilions, bathrooms, toilets and tribal gates, if all of them are pasted, there are more than 40 couplets, plus there are blessings and happiness These words must also be written, which is a lot of work.

As a symbol of traditional Chinese culture, the brush has gradually become a collection and appreciation of antiquities, and its basic function in later generations has been degraded.

The tip of the brush is made of various animal hairs, for example, the head of the pen made of goat hair is called the sheep hair pen, the pen head made of weasel tail hair is called the wolf hair pen, and the pen head made of hare hair is called the purple hair pen.

Goats and rabbits are now available in the tribe, and bamboo can be used for pen barrels, so the raw materials for making pens are not a problem.

To make a brush, first of all, to determine the wool of the pen, write cursive Wang Tian likes sheep's hair, so the group of goats in the tribe was unlucky, basically all of them were matted by Wang Tian once wool.

After obtaining the wool, select the appropriate length of wool, after cleaning it needs to be degreased, because there will be animal fat residue on the animal hair, if it is not degreased or degreased completely, the made brush will affect the ink when used.

That is, there will be a situation where the ink cannot be adsorbed on Fenghao, or although the ink can be adsorbed, the ink is not smooth.

And because the tip of the pen contains oil, the firmness of the tip is not very good when binding, and the head is easy to fall off.

The traditional degreasing method is to soak the tip of the pen with lime water, use alkaline solution for degreasing, and then remove the fat in the sun.

In order to completely remove the oil in it, Wang Tian also added an aqueous solution of plant ash for enhanced treatment, and after soaking for 4 hours, you can start making.

The tip of the brush is glued together, and the tribe now only has two kinds of animal glue, fish maw glue and pig maw glue, which are not waterproof.

But as a temporary use, it should still be able to support, in order to prevent the brush from falling off the barrel after the desert, Huang Tian chose twice the length when electing goat hair.

In this way, half of the length can be hidden in the barrel and reinforced by bundling to prevent the maw glue from being dissolved by the ink and causing the nib to fall out.

After soaking the goat hair used to make the brush in a mixed solution of lime water and plant ash water, and then degreasing it, Wang Tian began to make ink.

Traditionally, the ink is made by burning tobacco with wood, and the soot adheres to the bottom of the pot, which is then scraped off and stirred with rice juice in vegetable starch noodle soup.

The quality of this ink is very poor, and the color of the ink, black and gray, is not beautiful and practical.

In fact, you can add gelatin to the ash to make ink, and fish bladder gum is actually a kind of gelatin, but the best gelatin used to make ink is boiled with turtle shells and turtle shells.

The precious ingredients of later generations were everywhere in the primitive society, and the turtles were not treated by the primitive people because they did not have two taels of meat on their bodies, although Wang Tian knew that they were rich in nutrition, but he never had time to turn them into a dish.

Now that the ink was needed, Wang Tian asked a few children from the tribe to go to the river to pick up a basket, and he himself went out to collect the ashes.

The place where the tribe has the most soot is not the bottom of the few pots and pans used for cooking, but the pottery kiln that has basically not stopped the fire.

He picked up two large clay pots in the shape of bowls, and came to the kiln area to find the sunspot to scrape the soot, at this time the sunspot was opening the kiln, and took all kinds of pottery used to make drums outside the kiln.

"Kuroko, how are these drums burning, I'll get some soot." After saying that, he handed Kuroko a clay pot with a spatula made of bamboo.

"Son of Heaven, everything is done, none of them are broken, it's all here!" Kuroko said, pointing to the pottery lined up on the ground.

"Well, that's good, you can help me scrape some soot now, and then I'll call the big hand to come and get these drums back to the tribe, and you and he will cover them and make them, and I'll use them tomorrow." After saying that, he kept scraping up the soot.

Nowadays, the main force of the pottery kiln is the improved large pottery kiln, which is shaped like a yurt with a chimney, and people can directly enter it.

"Son of God, what do you want these ashes to do, these are difficult to wash when you touch your hands." Kuroko asked puzzled.

Many woods contain greases, which brighten the ink, form a high-gloss protective film on the surface of the ink, and act as a stabilizer for the ink.

"I just can't wipe it off, I use it to make ink and write calligraphy." At this time, Wang Tian saw that a few children who had gone to the river to collect turtle shells had returned.

The thousand-year-old king, the 10,000-year-old turtle, this thing has a hard shell, basically has no natural enemies, and the current human beings don't care about it, so that the river is flooded everywhere.

"Kuroko, you help me collect the ashes first, and I'll call the big hand to come and raise the drum in a while, I have to go back to the tribe to make ink materials first."

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After returning to the tribe, call someone to clean up and tidy up the turtles, open the shells, remove the excess tissue from the shells, clean them and throw them aside.

Wang Tian asked Huo Yi to find a deep-mouthed clay pot with two ears, filled it with water and began to boil, and when the water boiled, he threw the peeled turtle shell into the boiling water with the skirt of the skirt.

After that, he covered the pot and kept boiling it over high heat, and from time to time opened the lid and stirred it with a wooden stick, and then he found a big hand and asked him to help Kuroko.

In the process of waiting for the gelatin to be boiled, Wang Tian found a few pieces of sika deer skin whose surface hair had fallen off, all of which had been nitrated.

The leather has been taken care of, and some water has been sent on the surface of the play to make it softer, and then put it aside for later use.

During the gelatin boiling process, Wang Tian constantly used a wooden stick to test the viscosity, and as time went by, the perfume in the pot became more and more viscous.

After feeling the same, he called two strong women to wrap the ears of the pot in two animal skins, and carefully poured the precipitated soup in the pot into the three clay pots.

After boiling over a high fire, the soup is rich in collagen components of turtle shells, and after gradually cooling, it becomes trembling gelatin.

It looks very much like the jelly that children loved in later generations, showing a translucent pale yellow color, with good elasticity, and it will feel extremely smooth when touched by fingers.

The main ingredient of gelatin is animal protein, which is a very good nutritional product, Wang Tian thinks that it is very good to eat in this way, not only nutritious, but also suitable for all ages.

It seems that those turtles by the river will be old in the future

The turtles are going to have a hard time, because they have encountered the biggest natural enemy, human beings, with this thing, the real sense of rosin ink, it should not be said that the pottery kiln ink is already about to come out.

Before the formal production, we had to try out the most suitable ratio, find a clay pot, test according to different ratios of gelatin to soot, and finally determine the best ratio by testing the ratio of gelatin to soot again and again.

At this time, the little soot that had been scraped up earlier had been used up, and Wang Tian had to wait for Kuroko to send new ash before he could continue making ink.

In the process of waiting, Wang Tian turned the soaked and defatted wool a few times, so that all parts of the wool were in full contact with the soaked alkaline water, so as to better degreas.

Next, Wang Tian selected a few bamboo poles of the right thickness and size, and planned to cut out the round part of the bamboo pole to be used as a brush.

At this time, he found that the saber was not around, Wang Tian walked to the leather shoe sewing group, found Xiaoli and took out the small saw on the saber, and asked about the progress of shoe making.

"Brother Tianzi, the amount you gave us has been completed, and you see that they are all pressed under the stones over there!" Following the direction that Ling'er pointed, Wang Tian really saw clogs pressed by large and small stones.

"Oh, everyone's speed is so fast, it's all hard work, so that tomorrow we all have new shoes to wear!"

I was completely surprised by this progress, I thought it would be at least until tonight, but I didn't expect that it had already begun to be dried now, and it seems that everyone's enthusiasm for work is quite high.

For the praise of the Son of Heaven, everyone smiled honestly, but Ling'er said: "Brother Son of Heaven, look, this is the baby shoes we made with some leftovers, do you look good." ”

After finishing speaking, he came to the Son of Heaven and whispered: "Brother Son of Heaven, I also want a red dress like that!" With that, he pointed to the bridal dress hanging on the clothes pole.

Then blinking a pair of big eyes, looking at Wang Tian with anticipation, looking at the baby's cute appearance, Wang Tian teased her and said: "Okay, it's time for Sister Xiaoli to get married, and when you get married in the future, I'll make one for you, no, make two!" ”

Xiao Ling was anxious when he heard this, "People want it now, and it will be several years when I grow up!" ”

"But the red bridal dress is worn by the bride, and it is not appropriate for you to wear it now!" Wang Tian continued to tease her.

"I don't care, I just want it," Xiao Ling shook Wang Tian's arm vigorously after speaking, and began to be coquettish.

"Okay, okay, I'll do it for you, and tomorrow you will also wear red clothes and be Sister Xiaoli's bridesmaid, okay?"

"Yes, yes!" Hearing that there were new clothes to wear, Ling'er didn't ask what the bridesmaids were, and happily slapped her little slap and jumped, looking very cute.

Just playing genius, I picked up the baby shoes in my hand, looked at them carefully, and said that they were shoes, but they were actually a pair of socks, because there was no sole.

"Xiaoli, this place can be extended a little longer, it will be warmer." Wang Tian pointed to the position of the cuff of the socks and said: "When they wear them, let them turn them over, wear the hairy ones inside, it doesn't matter if they look good or not, just warm them." ”

Xiaoli nodded to show that she understood, at this time, Ling'er had already come to Wang Tian with her own set of hemp clothes, and in order to meet Xiaoling's request, Tian directly put the clothes into the dye vat.

Now start printing and dyeing, if you want to do three printing and dyeing, the time is too late, Wang Tian plans to print and dye once, and by the way, test the effect of printing and dyeing once.

At this time, the big hand had already returned to the tribe with a load of pottery made as a drum, and Heizi followed behind him with the ashes of a clay pot, Wang Tian handed the stirring stick to Ling'er, let her stir more, and then walked over to the sunspot.

Wang Tian took the cigarette ash from Huzi's hand, the materials were in place, and the next three of them began to make "pottery kiln ink".

According to the fixed ratio just tested, put the soot powder and turtle gelatin into the deep pot, light a slight fire below to heat, Wang Tian let the big hand slowly and continuously stir with a wooden stick in a clockwise direction.

With the continuous heating and stirring, the tobacco powder gradually melted with the gelatin box, and the color became darker and brighter than before, looking like a water head, and a rich broth aroma revealed a resinous ink fragrance.

After breakfast, everyone couldn't help but feel a wave of hunger again, and in the midst of everyone swallowing saliva, "pottery kiln ink" was made.

Next, the ink that has not yet solidified is poured into a small rectangular grid, and after cooling, it becomes a finished product, and only needs to be ground out when used in the future.

The brush still needs to be degreased in the afternoon before it can be made, and the three of them then began to cover themselves with the drum skin, how the timbre of a drum is, and the leather and skin techniques have a lot to do with it, the skin is tight, and the sound quality will be more rich and low.

Wang Tian didn't understand some of the details of making drums, he just wanted to get an instrument that could make a loud sound, so everyone decided to start with a big drum first.

There are 8 protruding handles on the middle waist line of the round drum on three sides, and a rope is tied to each of the eight directions of the leather when skinning.

Then two people each pull two ropes in opposite directions, fix the drum skin in the middle of the drum body, and then tie the rope to straighten it.

After the other directions were treated in the same way, a piece of leather was tightly pinned to the opening of the drum body from 8 directions.

Then the leather rope cut with leather is put on the groove along the drum body, the nose has been straightened, and it is pressed into the groove again, and then the leather rope is tied many times, and the leather rope is cut after tying the dead knot.

Next, you can loosen the 8 ropes tied to the waist, then reverse the leather along the groove and then tie a circle in the groove with the leather rope to complete the closing, and then cut off the excess leather to complete the drum skin covering work on one side.

Next, use the same method to finish the other side, so that the pottery drum can be made.