Chapter 23 Making Twine
Speaking of hemp rope and grass rope, the principle is the same, both use the toughness of plant fibers to make ropes, but the fibers of grass blades are too short and the strength is not enough......
Jun Qianqian has seen the appearance of jute trees and red hemp trees on the picture, if she can find these two trees, the materials of the hemp rope will not worry, but whether the plants of the two worlds are exactly the same or not, she has no bottom in her heart.
In order to avoid preconceived mistakes and mistakes, she carefully examined the plants she encountered along the way.
Jun Qianqian understands that when the existing knowledge cannot provide a reference, the method of scientific inquiry will be more accurate to create what you want.
The core of science is not rote knowledge, and she does not rely on rote memorization to sit in the top three in the age, and the confidence of Xueba is to master the most efficient methods and experience to explore the world.
Primitive society or something, she won't admit defeat!
"This branch has the most ...... amount of fiber"
Along the way, Jun Qianqian looked for the goose as if plucking, she broke the different branches one by one, and then compared the number of plant fibers from the breaks
Although she didn't find any plants identical to those in her previous life, she was pleasantly surprised to find a tree that was rich in fiber and very tough from its fractures!
Even Luo Ze needed some effort to tear off a bunch of fibers as thick as his little finger!
"Found the treasure!"
Jun Qianqian looked up at the big tree, Luo Ze told her that there were many such trees near the tribe, and suddenly she smiled happily like a flower.
The proud fork will be waist first!
"That's what you call hemp trees?"
Luo Ze looked at the big tree selected by Jun Qianqian scrutinically, there were so many treasures near the tribe, and they didn't find anything in the years they lived here!
"Uh-huh! Let's get some more branches and go back, and it's up to me to do the rest!" ”
Jun Qianqian has also learned to be obedient, she can't do much in half a day to chop branches or something, and the physical work is still handed over to Luo Ze without pressure.
"Good!"
Looking at Jun Qianqian's excited appearance, Luo Ze was also a little overexcited, she was shouting on the ground that enough was enough, and if she couldn't take it more, Luo Ze still almost violently dismantled half of the tree......
Vigorously produce miracles or something, Jun Qianqian is tired of it......
The branches that Luo Ze cut down were not able to be brought back completely, and the weight of the branches was okay, but they took up too much space.
If you carry too large a volume of goods when you walk through the woods, you will not have time to react in case of an emergency, and in the end, the two of them have to leave a small bundle of branches to pick up next time.
"I'll tell you! If the hemp rope is made, we can make bigger fishing nets! ”
On the way back, Jun Qianqian couldn't help but jump.
"Uh-huh."
Roze smiled in response.
"And if you can spin twine, you can weave cloth! It's no problem to make clothes or something! ”
"Weaving?"
"Yes, yes! Weaving! I'm going to get a loom out too! I haven't seen a loom...... But it's okay to stay away from me, I still know, spindle I'll do too! Although you can't make a pedal spinning wheel, the speed will definitely be slower, but it will definitely succeed! ”
Jun Qianqian seemed to see a beautiful life beckoning to her.
"Qianqian can do everything."
Luo Ze sincerely admired her.
“…… Wait, what's wrong with what you say? I don't know, I thought you were scolding me, alas......! ”
"I didn't."
Luo Ze's signature aggrieved face.
"Hmph~ I also know you don't!"
Jun Qianqian just deliberately made trouble with him, looking at his expression was too cute.
I don't know how she saw the word cute from the two-meter strong man, maybe after a long time, her eyes will be covered with some strange filters......
When the two returned to the tribe, in addition to the work in their hands, almost all of them went to the pigsty to see the pigs.
"Have you gone chopping wood?"
When the people surrounding the pigsty saw the two men coming back with a huge bundle of branches, they immediately greeted them and asked if they needed help.
"This is not firewood, it's a hemp tree!"
Anyway, most of the plants in this world don't have names, so Jun Qianqian simply called it hemp tree.
"Here's what you said you could use to make rope!"
Surprised, Pello picked up a wrist-sized twig.
How is it possible to make a soft rope from a hard branch?
"That's right! That's it, let's wait and see! ”
Luo Ze helped Jun Qianqian break all the branches of the tree and leave only the main trunk, and then under her instructions, she soaked the hemp branches in the puddle, and there was still a little stagnant water in the largest puddle on the edge of the tribe.
"And then what to do?"
The clansmen watched the two of them get busy and stepped forward to help, and the patriarch who was resting in the cave was also alarmed, and everyone came out to see Jun Qianqian's new gadgets.
"Keep the branches moist and smash them hard with stones!"
In history, there is a fermentation process in the processing of jute, which is to make the branches softer and better to mash, anyway, the young men of the purple flower tribe are idle and have nowhere to go, and it is completely enough to directly hit them with stones.
"Good!"
The tribesmen found a vacant lot and began to smash the branches with stones, and Jun Qianqian, who used all the strength, felt that the earth was shaking, and a large bundle of branches was disposed of in a short time.
Raw speed, efficient and fast!
Jun Qianqian was stunned again and praised everyone's hands.
When the branches were smashed, someone was actually vaguely aware of her intentions, although the branches were smashed flat. But the long plant fibers inside have never been broken.
"This is hemp, one of the textile raw materials that has not been eliminated for thousands of years."
Jun Qianqian put the rotten branches in the water, washed off the broken wood residue, and then fished out a long wisp of hemp material, she tied a knot at one end of the hemp material, and rubbed out a piece of hemp rope in a few strokes.
A wrist-thick hemp branch is just right to rub a two-finger-thick hemp rope.
"Qianqian has a pair of miracle-creating hands......"
The onlookers were stunned, the women had already learned to rub the straw ropes, and they were all eager to try when they looked at the rotten branches left on the ground.
"This rope is very strong!"
The length of the hemp rope made of a branch is about two meters, Jun Qianqian handed the wet rope to everyone, and the two men grabbed one end of the rope and pulled it hard in order to try how strong the rope was.
“…… Could this be the origin of tug-of-war? ”
Jun Qianqian's eyes widened as she watched the two fight, and the rope dragged back and forth between them, without any damage at all.
"Let's do it too!"
Seeing that two people were constantly pulling, and some people came over to help, and so more and more people came, until there were eight or nine people on both sides, the rope suddenly broke from the middle, and everyone fell on the ground.
“…… Is my rope so rebellious? ”
Jun Qianqian found that the strength of this rope was better than the hemp rope she remembered.