Chapter 49: Basket Making
After eating the food, it was still very early, the people of the tribe sat around and laughed, Shen Xiaoxiao picked some branches and put them at the entrance of the cave and sat down, and then took the rattan, four rattans took a total of four and then put the four rattans into rice characters, and then took a rattan to press four to four, one was braided and then connected to one, the method of connecting the rattan is also very simple, the rattan is interspersed on the rattan that has been braided, and the knitting is about thirty centimeters and begins to weave upward, twisting the edge of the two rattans and weaving, and at the same time dividing the four-bone rattan into two strands, What was originally eight strands of rattan became sixteen.
Put one rattan on the bottom and one on the top, twist the upper one down to lift the two strands up, twist the rattan that was originally on the bottom to the top, and then repeat this action, twist the upper rattan to the bottom and the lower rattan to the top, always pressing the two strands of rattan in the middle.
Shen Xiaoxiao's fingers quickly shuttled between the rattans, and soon the prototype of a basket had already appeared, at this time the people of the tribe almost all returned to the cave, they saw Shen Xiaoxiao weaving rattan at first and surrounded them curiously, but they were all confused, and they didn't know what she was doing, they wanted to ask, but when they saw Shen Xiaoxiao's serious expression, they all stopped, and they all dispersed when they felt bored after watching for a while.
Seeing that Xiao Yan looked at it seriously, Shen Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Otherwise, you will also learn to make it." ”
"Hmm." Xiao Yan nodded, and then put the prepared rattan in front of her, as if she had been planning for a long time, Shen Xiaoxiao looked dumbfounded and smiled, this fool, if you want to learn, you can't say it directly.
Shen Xiaoxiao explained to him carefully, and gave him a head to make it up by himself, and then began to make up the one in her hand, she would often look up to see how Xiao Yan was making it when she was editing, and when she saw that there was no problem, she lowered her head and continued the work in her hand.
She knitted about twenty centimeters, Xiao Yan also braided the chassis, and then she began to tell him how to weave the basket body, and then braided the beginning of the braided body for him, and watched him weave two laps before she continued to weave her, although Xiao Yan's movements were rusty, but there was no mistake, and she slowly got started, although she was not as fast as Shen Xiaoxiao, but she won steadily, and there was nothing wrong.
On the branches of the moon, except for the occasional animal cry, the rest is the sound of them weaving rattan, Shen Xiaoxiao twisted her neck, put the basket on the ground and looked at the height, and then looked at the moonlight, and decided to finish, she took the remaining tail and pressed it down to the side, and then repeated the operation to press the next strand to the side, pressing the first strand of rattan underneath, and repeating the action to put the last strand on.
Seeing that there was still a little bit left, she braided a ponytail around the periphery, and finally put away the remaining bit of the stitches, so as to save the trouble of cutting, after all, there are no scissors now, and it is troublesome to cut.
Then she expected to make the handle of the rattan braided into a handle, she originally wanted to make a back basket, but she was in a hurry to use, the back basket needs to be braided higher, afraid that it would be too late to weave tomorrow, so she made a handle, so that it can be picked up, less words can also be carried, it is bigger, but the height is not as high as the back basket.
After she finished the handle, she looked at Xiao Yan, seeing that his movements were becoming more and more skilled, she couldn't help but smile, he made it up to the same height as hers, Shen Xiaoxiao took it after the moonlight, she didn't know the time, but they had been making it up for a long time, and they had already slept at this time, and they had to go into the mountain tomorrow, so it would be good to rest early.
In the end, Shen Xiaoxiao began to tell him how to finish, and she also asked him to move, even the handle was also her to tell him to do it, looking at the two baskets, Shen Xiaoxiao smiled with satisfaction.
It was estimated to be ten or eleven o'clock now, and although it had been busy for a long time, the result was still good, and she put her things away, closed the door again, and rested.
The next day, when they got up, they told the witch doctor that Xiao Yan would not go hunting with him, and the witch doctor just sighed and didn't say anything, but he wanted to say something, but he didn't say anything more when he thought that they had been separated now, after all, they couldn't ask Xiao Yan to help them hunt, but they didn't have his share, so they would be hungry in winter.
Xiao Yan didn't know what they were thinking, after eating some food, he followed Shen Xiaoxiao to the river, digging soil and mud, Shen Xiaoxiao taught him how to rub mud strips, she began to circle the ground, the water tank she made was small at the bottom, large in the middle, and the mouth of the tank was recycled.
I want to go into the mountain, she is not very large, the height is only to the middle of the thigh, after the water tank is done, she made a lid, the middle is concave, the sides are slightly convex, there is a little mud left, she made a plate again.
Xiao Yan's eyes were full of surprise, thinking that this is the pot that Xiaoxiao said before, but aren't these all mud? But he also knew that Shen Xiaoxiao would not do useless work, so he suppressed the doubts in his heart.
Shen Xiaoxiao looked at the pot pinched yesterday again, and Xiao Yan followed aside and asked, "Can these be used after they are cooked?" ”
"Yes, if it doesn't crack, it'll be ready to use when it's burned."
"But isn't it all mud?" Xiao Yan still couldn't hold back the curiosity in his heart after all, wasn't his mouth full of dirt when he ate something cooked with mud?
"Yes, but not when it burns out." Shen Xiaoxiao could see that Xiao Yan was still very confused, but she didn't know how to explain it to him for a while.
"Burn it directly with fire?"
"Hmm." After drying it, she burned it directly with firewood, because she didn't want to waste firewood, she would rush out of another tank today, and she could burn it together at that time, otherwise she would have been on the mountain with Xiao Yan now.
The two took the basket they had made yesterday and went up the mountain, with a very clear purpose, to pick persimmons.
Originally, Shen Xiaoxiao wanted to pick chestnuts, but he thought that persimmons would rot after a long time, so he came to pick persimmons first.
When the two arrived at the place where they picked persimmons last time, Xiao Yan put the basket underneath, and then began to climb the tree, and when he arrived at the tree, he directly broke the branch and threw it down.
As for the fact that she broke the persimmon branch, she didn't think there was anything, firstly, because the persimmon tree branch was luxuriant, and Xiao Yan broke a small branch, which did not hurt the tree, and secondly, because of the environment, if they took such a big basket to it, it would be troublesome to get it down at that time, and secondly, because the persimmon tree needs to be pruned, so that the persimmon will be good in the future.
After Xiao Yan threw down the branches, she picked them below and put them in the basket, I have to say that this persimmon tree bears really a lot of fruits, and there are more than a dozen persimmons hanging on each branch, and after a while, she will fill half a basket.
Xiao Yan kept throwing it down, and soon the ground was full of branches, Shen Xiaoxiao put aside the branches that had been picked, and soon she filled two baskets, she asked Xiao Yan to come down first, and they took this back to the tribe again.