The inheritor of the bamboo weaving craft is also known as the craftsman, and if you want to weave the basket, you need to go through multiple steps, one of which is the most important step.

Breaking the bamboo is to cut the cut bamboo into small pieces and turn them into "strips" that are wide and narrow, thin and evenly thick.

Breaking should be fast, so that the bamboo pieces lose less water and maintain toughness to weave.

After breaking, the strips can also be soaked in water to reduce water loss. After all, the quality of the strips directly affects the quality of the finished product.

Wen Xian first sawed the bamboo into a bamboo tube about three meters long, and the left and right baskets could be woven with two more, and then sawed all three bamboos.

It was only after sawing that she remembered that she had forgotten about the salt. In a hurry, he selected one of the sawed bamboo tubes and sawed out four small bamboo tubes.

The sawn bamboo tube can be used not only to hold salt, but also to hold other powdered powders.

Therefore, these bamboo tubes Wen Xian have retained two bamboo joints. It is intended that each bamboo tube should only make a hole about three centimeters in diameter at one of the bamboo joints.

The bamboo tube used to hold the salt does not have to leave too many holes, so as not to have to struggle to find a suitable lid to cover it.

However, she is now busy breaking the holes, and the matter of punching is handed over to Xia Zhi. As for cleaning the bamboo tubes, someone will do it.

To break the bamboo, you have to divide the sawn bamboo tube into two and then into four. The large strips need to be separated from the inner and outer bamboo joints, and then evenly subdivided into index finger-wide strips.

Finally, using a large knife, the bamboo strips are cut in half. A strip can be opened into many roots, and can be opened into a piece of slices such as green, two, and three.

But Wen Xian wanted to hurry up and catch up with the schedule, so she only divided the strips into two, divided into green and yellow.

Brown is the blue skin on the outside of the bamboo, while yellow is the inside of the bamboo.

It is tough, stronger and more beautiful than yellow. But in order to save materials, Wen Xian plans to use the two together.

Wen Xian has never made a basket independently, and she has always worked hard in the past.

But now it seems that if you weave a small back basket, it is estimated that a piece of bamboo is enough, and it can also be woven into a compact one that does not leave gaps.

She plans to process a bamboo strip first to see how many there are, and then decide how to weave it.

After separating the strips of a bamboo, it is also necessary to scrape the strips, that is, to polish the strips.

Wen Xian first put a piece of cloth on her legs, and then put a layer of banana leaves on the cloth. Finally, he tied the strip of cloth that Xia Zhi returned to his palm, and then began to carefully polish the strip.

Both the green and yellow need to be polished, and a knife is used to polish off the edges and corners of the strip to make it smooth to the touch without hurting your hands, which is the key step to ensure that the strip is uniform and smooth.

Place the strip on your lap, then gently press the knife upward, and then twitch the strip to quickly complete the grinding.

It usually takes three to four times to polish a strip, both for both sides. So, if you do the math, you need to polish a strip six to eight times separately.

During this period, Xia Zhi, who had finished sharpening the bamboo chopsticks, wanted to come over to help, but she refused.

The dagger is much sharper than the broadsword, and if you replace it with a dagger, I am afraid that the strip will be broken before it is scraped.

After a while, Jiang Lingling also took half a bamboo tube of warm boiled water and handed it over, and said cautiously: "Madam, drink water." ”

Since there was an earthen pot, Mrs. did not allow everyone to drink cold water, saying that it was unclean and easy to get sick, so she could only boil the water and drink it.

Right now, the bamboo tube she brought was filled with water that had been boiled after cooking in the morning. Put it in the pot, and there is still residual heat at this time. Boil a pot every day, save some to drink for a day.

Wen Xian took it and drank it, handed the empty bamboo tube back and said, "Thank you~".

Jiang Lingling hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Madame doesn't have to be polite. ”

After saying that, she hurriedly ran back to put the bamboo tube away, and ran to the woods again to collect firewood with everyone.

The first batch of fine salt was boiled, and the water from two cisterns was collected, so that no further fresh water was extracted.

I consumed a lot of firewood before, so I had to pick up more and dig some wild vegetables by the way.

Wen Xian looked at Jiang Lingling's running back and shook her head, her heart is good if she is young, she was injured and frightened yesterday, and she can run around like nothing today.

She buried her head in the green and continued to scrape, and by the time she had finished processing a bamboo strip, it was already two hours past, and it was time for lunch.

Originally, everyone in the palace used to eat three meals, and the small kitchen would stew bird's nest and other supplements for supper at any time.

Under such conditions, in order to save food, only two meals should be eaten, but Wen Xian still let everyone eat three meals.

Now everyone has to do manual work, and the daytime work is too much and tiring, and there is no strength without food. Eat lunch later, and eat less in the evening.

After lunch, Wen Xian took the initiative to call Zhou Hui and Bai Rose over, planning to focus on teaching the two how to weave the basket.

Zhou Hui is skillful, and she believes that Zhou Hui will have no problem learning. It just so happens that Zhou Hui's feet are more nourished, so it is good to weave things in the hole.

And the timid nature of the white rose, if there is any special situation in the mountain, I am afraid that there will be no way to live.

If the white rose can learn the craft of bamboo weaving, it is not impossible to prevent the white rose from entering the mountain.

In the afternoon, everyone was lazy, and the others didn't go out to work for the time being, so they all gathered around to see how to weave the basket.

Wen Xian glanced at a group of people, raised her eyebrows and began to explain while working.

"There are three processes in weaving the basket: framing, weaving and locking. In the weaving process, we should concentrate on the warp and weft weaving method, and intersperse the strips with each other in one go. ”

She first used the green as the base, carefully and tightly laid the bottom of the back basket, braided them firmly together, and also struck vigorously with the back of the knife to try to press it to the tightest.

After laying the bottom of the back basket, push up the strips on all four sides. Then let Bai Rose and Zhou Hui assist, and began to take the yellow and weave it up.

Generally, two strips are crossed and woven, so that they are braided layer by layer. It can be high or low, large or small, until it is programmed to the height of your own needs.

Wait until the knitting reaches the desired height, then close the mouth, lock the edge, tear off the obvious burrs, and string the harness.

Finally, insert a thick piece of bamboo on the back basket to reinforce the back basket, and a complete back basket will come out.

Wen Xian handed the semi-finished product with a height of about three centimeters to Bai Rose and Zhou Hui, and instructed: "Okay, I have already given you a good start." Then the two of you work together to weave up, to the left and right of your knees, and then call me. ”

She is going to prepare the bamboo strips and harness for the final reinforcement, and strive to make the basket today, which can be used tomorrow in the mountains or the sea.

White Rose was at a loss and said, "This, what if it breaks down." ”

She'd never done anything before, it wasn't uncommon before, but now she couldn't ask for it.

After spending so much effort on the object, she was worried that she would mess up and delay things.