Chapter 4 Rope Sleeve
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With the level of basket weaving on the first day, including Wang Chuan's own weaving, I am afraid that I will not be able to last a few days, so I am prepared for making more baskets. At the same time, some of the wintering nut stems accumulated in the cave also need to be packed in baskets. Otherwise, rats would always come in from the crevices in the rocks and steal food. In the absence of cats, these rats are defenseless. Maybe the first snow hasn't come down yet, and the prepared food has not yet begun to be eaten, and it has been almost eaten by rats.
The baskets for these things should be large and the corresponding lids should be woven.
After two days of learning, the children are already very proficient in weaving baskets.
Wang Chuan also further researched and optimized part of the process of weaving and finishing, that is, the excess rattan was curled and inverted. The basket should be stronger and more able to pull harder.
In the past two days, he has also handed over the work of fishing in the creek to the two older children. Roughly tell them the tricks and let it go. Anyway, I wouldn't have gone into the water until I didn't have pants.
And while he was changing baskets of food piled up in the cave, he quietly counted the food in the cave for the winter. The result made him very worried. There are less than five large baskets of nuts, fruits, stems, and mushrooms in the cave. He estimated that a large basket could hold seventy or eighty catties of things, and according to this calculation, there were only four hundred catties of materials here. Not enough for half a month's ration in the tribe. Although winter may still be two or three months away, once the temperature drops, the range of movement of these primitive people who do not even have clothes will be greatly reduced, and the food that can be collected will be less and less. Judging by this situation, it is no wonder that many people starve to death in winter.
Moreover, these things are not properly preserved, not to mention that the things are piled together, the fruit is not properly dried, the stems are not even washed with mud, the fungi are still wet, and many things are afraid that they will break before it snows.
Fortunately, after the woman took the basket in the past two days, she brought back more things every day than usual. Now Wang Chuan has also discovered this problem of improper preservation, which can be remedied.
It was difficult to persuade my mother to move everything out, washing the mud that should wash the mud, and drying the mud that should be dried. The position on the rock at the entrance of the cave is not enough, and if it can't be dried at one time, it will be dried in a few days, and the shade of the woods at the entrance of the cave is too large, so a few children who like to climb trees go up and break all the leaves.
After the things were moved out, the mother guarded the entrance of the cave inch by inch. Even the matter of feeding the baby is left to the other children.
It's no wonder that my mother was worried, and soon after the things were taken out to dry, squirrels and birds gathered on the branches at the entrance of the cave, and they would jump down and bite something and run away when they were unprepared. Therefore, Wang Chuan had to call three or four children to stand beside him with long branches.
Seeing that the situation was bad, Wang Chuan simply brought the other children to clean up all the vegetation at the entrance of the cave. Weeds and vines can be broken and pulled; The bushes and trees can also be broken and broken, and the two children are constantly pressed and bent down, and the stones are smashed from the roots; The overwhelmed and those who hug the big trees that have grown for an unknown number of years can't be knocked down, so let those who can climb the tree go up and refract the leaves.
According to the method of saving trouble, Wang Chuan's first thought was to burn the matter with fire. Now the weather is dry and dry, just in time for the fire. It's just that considering that they still have to live on this mountain forest now, it's easy to burn it, but everyone here has to starve to death. That's why I had to use this method to clean up slowly.
The drying work took place for three days, after which the various wintering foods were packed and placed in the cave.
There is nothing useless in this world. These plants can be turned into all kinds of useful things when they are disposed of. The leaves and weeds were dried on the spot, the rattan leaves were picked for later use, the shrubs and small trees used the bent ones as firewood, and the straight ones were removed regardless of size, and the burrs at both ends were burned off, polished and smoothed for everyone to use as tools. During this period, it was not easy to polish stone tools, and it was necessary to have one or two sticks in hand. The coarse ones are for adults, and the thin ones are reserved for children.
When grinding sticks, scraping the bark with sharp stone chips is obviously a bit laborious and silly. After Wang Chuan burned the burrs on the wooden stick, he took the stick to the sand by the stream, and rubbed it back and forth directly on the sand, and the unevenness on the surface of the stick would soon be smoothed. Tell the children that they can pick one for each of them, and they will learn to polish it spontaneously.
At the same time as the grain was put into storage, there were also dozens of large and small smooth sticks in the cave.
After the men got the sticks, they all said that with these guys, they would definitely be able to beat a lot of big guys back in the future. Then start smashing stones, choosing the right sharp stone leaves to make stone spears or finding the right tools to make other tools.
Wang Chuan was deeply skeptical of these words. Thinking of their way of hunting with sticks and running behind animals makes it a blessing to be alive until now. The thought that in two more years, I would have to follow them and run like this stupidly, I felt desolate in my heart. I don't even have pants......
In the past two days, he also tried to make pants with various bark and leaves, and the result was: those that are not hard are easy to break, those that are not easy to break are a little prickly, and those that are not prickly are very hard...... There is a bark that also makes people allergic and makes his butt itch for a day......
While he was cleaning up, he also tried all kinds of plants around him, hoping to find a plant like flax or flax. Legend has it that hemp has been cultivated in China for 10,000 years. You might be able to find it. He was disappointed in the results. No. Obviously, the ancestors who lived in this cave for 100,000 years did not have the habit of growing hemp and dressing.
However, the effort paid off, and he found two useful plants in the process of cleaning up.
One is perilla. It is a shrub with purple leaves and an aromatic aroma, the leaves can be used as a seasoning, and a little when boiling fish can be put to remove the fish. Wang Chuan ate it in later generations. His current body has also eaten the young leaves of this kind of thing, but it is eaten directly, and it is one of the more popular young leaves in Bei Ye's recipe. Now that the leaves of the perilla are old in autumn, they are a little bitter to chew, so they cannot be eaten raw. But now that I eat fish without salt every day, what else can I say about this stuff?
The second type is also a shrub. When Wang Chuan broke this thing, he pulled out a long piece of skin, and realized that this thing could be used as flax. Later, I tried it, and I found that the bark of this shrub is very tough, and it should not be much worse than flax. After all, he was not a botanist in his previous life, and he did not know this plant. But it doesn't matter, if you don't know it, just call it a name, in order to distinguish flax from flax, this thing will be called Erhemp in the future.
If there is a good thing, it is collected, and it turns out that the process of extracting flax fiber is not used in this kind of hemp, and the fiber and skin of this thing are very tightly glued. Tearing by hand can be torn into strips of fiber, but each fiber has skin on it. This causes it to be rolled into thick twine. It is estimated that this is also the reason why it did not replace flax as a crop in later generations.
However, there is no flax now, so it can only be used temporarily. Hand tear is hand torn, slow down is slower. The process of paying the silk will not be, so rub it by hand one by one. Girls are more talented in doing this, so the girls are responsible for rubbing the silk, and the men go out to find this shrub, fold it back and tear the skin.
The twine is thicker, the size of a pencil lead. In addition to the pants, Wang Chuan is going to make a net with this thing. After a few days of the scourge of baskets, the fish in the creek are probably gone, and the children who fish in the stream spend more and more time in the stream, and the fish catch fewer and smaller fish. After making a net, although it cannot go to the river to fish, it can kill the fish more completely, and it can also be used to net birds or make traps to fight other small beasts. In the creek there are no fish to go to the woe of other animals.
In addition to rubbing silk, Wang Chuan also used some rope, or this is the serious use of his collection of two hemp. After rolling into a rope, an adult's finger-thick rope can lift two children like him, and then rub it thicker to make a rope sleeve or other trap, presumably ordinary herbivores will not be able to break free.
These ropes can be given to the adults, and by the way, they will be taught a few ways to unleash, and I hope that they will not have to run after the beasts when they learn it.
Weaving is too troublesome, and Wang Chuan's underwear is knitted by beating sweaters. In this world of egalitarianism, because of the limited twine, he could not knit openly, but only secretly under a campfire at night. Although at that time everyone would be curious to see what new tricks he was doing with two sticks and a ball of thin thread, and he explained to them that he was knitting trousers, he just thought he was secretly knitting.
If you ask Wang Chuan if he has ever knitted a sweater? He would say that he saw people weave. The process of knitting a sweater is a process of winding the twine into a plane, if you don't count the texture, don't count the style, only count the size, try a few more times.
After two nights of fighting, the tribe's first garment was finally put on Wang Chuan. This is made up of two triangular pieces of cloth connected together, one large and one small, and finally tied to the waist, in short, briefs. After putting it on, it still felt a little prickly, but Wang Chuan felt that he could get used to it. Just think about the risk of being naked when you tie it.
The people of the tribe were relatively indifferent to Wang Chuan's invention, except that on the day he put on his pants, his ass was touched countless times......