Chapter 139 Cradle and mosquito net
Primitive people have simple thoughts and live a large family collectively. Men and women perform their own duties, while children are the eldest and the young, and the young are the eldest and the young are the young. The main task of the leaves is to take care of a group of children, especially babies who can’t walk.
Nowadays, there are more and more children, and she is busy all day long without touching the ground.
She was the oldest among a group of children and the youngest among a group of women, so she naturally suffered a lot of grievances.
After leaving with the two women, Mother Ba looked aggrieved and wanted to cry, Xu Chen rubbed her hair and comforted her, "Don't cry, are you sleeping just now?"
"Yeah!" Ye nodded with tears.
"Hold the loom, I will teach you to make a mosquito net, and the insects won't be bitten in the future!"
"oh!"
The leaves wiped away their tears and went out. After a while, a rattan basket was brought in. There was a waist loom for weaving cloth, as well as many twine and shuttles.
These things are standard tools for tribal women. They will weave cloth whenever they have free time. However, since they have three more children, Ye has not participated in weaving labor for a long time.
"Mosquito net ghaha?"
Ye took out all the long and short sticks, and at the same time he couldn't help asking curiously.
Xu Chen felt that he could not explain clearly with his mouth, so he could only make a few simple gestures, and then the two of them cooperated to start online.
The mosquito net should be made of gauze with very thin texture, so the warp thread is very thin, only about one-third of the usual fabric.
Looking at such sparse warp threads, although Ye was full of doubts, he knew that Xu Chen was helping her solve the problem of taking care of the child. He didn't ask any questions, and sat on the straw mat and pedaled the loom around his waist and tied it up.
"Remember, the weft line must be so thin, you can't hit too tightly..."
With Xu Chen's reminder and guidance, Ye Lai weaves back and forth several times. Because he could not grasp the strength of the weft, the weft lines naturally crooked and slanted and looked very messy.
"Mother Bagaga wants to scold..."
Looking at the cloth woven under Xu Chen's guidance, all of which were wide, comfortable, and fine mesh, Ye whispered in a low voice.
"No, just weave it like this. I will praise you even after weaving my mother-in-law!" Xu Chen smiled and encouraged.
The little mother savage cousin turned her eyes at him. Although she was a little unhappy, she continued to weave it.
Xu Chen stood beside him and reminded him from time to time not to weave it too densely. After Ye seemed to be skilled, he left the room and found a few long and short wooden sticks, and started to work under the eaves.
Most men went out to hunt and fish, and many women went out to collect wild fruit food. There were only a group of elderly, weak, sick and disabled pregnant women left at home, and they were weaving cloth in their own rooms. A group of children also followed Gu He and led monkeys to patrol the farmland.
In fact, patrols are fake on such hot days, mainly looking for places to play in water. In addition, there are a lot of wild fruits eaten in the wild, and a group of wild children are not afraid of heat at all. They soak in the water and find some wild fruits to eat. If they really can't stand it, they will find a tree to play the willow flute and play games. Anyway, they will never stay at home.
In fact, human cubs have always been like this.
The same was true when Xu Chen was a child.
No matter how hot it is in summer, as long as it does not rain heavily, you will inevitably play outside with a group of children in the village, swim, catch fish, dig bird's nest, pick wild fruits, swing, catch butterflies, catch dragonflies, steal cucumbers and tomatoes from other gardens...
What he still remembers is that the friend next door brought a group of kids to steal all the tomatoes from his vegetable garden. The vegetable rack was full of disasters. Then his parents and mother played doubles for half a night. Xu Chen was beaten up by his father and picked a large basket of tomatoes from his vegetable garden to compensate him.
So for children, it doesn’t matter whether it’s cold or cold. Just play outside. As long as you don’t go home, you will be happy.
Therefore, the courtyard without a group of children was very quiet. Occasionally, only the sound of men and women talking came from other rooms, and few people walked around.
In the room, Ye Zhibu's sound was very slight, and the sound of the weft knife pounding when weaving cloth was usually not heard.
Outside the room, Xu Chen slowly tied a bunch of wooden sticks with ropes and made two tripods. On the tripod, a wooden stick was tied horizontally, which looked like a miniature clothes drying rack.
After the wooden frame was made, Xu Chen gestured with his hands, found Jingtou and thin vines to start weaving a vine basket.
I peed, drank water in the middle of the journey, and went to find Aunt Thirteen who woke up to breastfeed. In the busy life, a vine basket slowly formed and the sun gradually settling westward.
As the sun is blocked by the hillside behind, the courtyard is slowly shrouded in shadows. Without the strong sunlight, the whole courtyard seems to be much cooler.
A group of wild ducks came out of the duck house with the ducks and went to the small pond to swim and play.
The wolf, big wolf, seemed to be much more energetic, squatting at the gate with fur shaking, looking out into the distance, and shouting from time to time.
In the distance, there was a sound of yo-ho-ho, which was a group of men returning from hunting.
The women who went out to collect them also came in from outside one after another with baskets and rattan baskets on their backs.
The yard was noisy and started to get lively.
As soon as Aunt Jiu returned home, she threw down her backpack and hurried to the room to visit the child. She found that although the room was awake, she was lying on the bed and did not cry. So she breathed a sigh of relief and was about to praise Ye for taking good care of her. However, when she saw the sparse cloth woven out of Ye, she couldn't help criticizing her loudly.
"What Chenga wants..."
Ye felt aggrieved again and pouted and muttered in a low voice.
Aunt Jiu stopped talking when she heard this. She asked a few questions and learned that she was bitten by a bug in the upper part of her head while she was sleeping in the afternoon. She quickly picked her up and looked at it. She found that the swelling had been applied to the swelling position and then the swelling was reduced. So she untied her clothes while breastfeeding the child and went out to thank Xu Chen.
At this time, Xu Chen had tied the woven oval vine basket to the wooden rack.
The vine basket is not the kind of bag that usually holds the hand in the middle, but is hung at four corners with four ropes. After tied, it is gently pushed with your hand, and the basket gently swings back and forth on it.
"Moxie Gaga?"
Looking at this strange thing, Aunt Jiu looked curious.
"Give it to me Fang Ga!"
Xu Chen forced the room, which was full of sweat, torn out of Aunt Jiu's arms.
“Wow…”
The little guy was eating very hard, but suddenly his food was gone and he started crying again.
"Howling, I just ate Aunt Thirteen's breasts..."
Xu Chen put the little guy in the hanging basket and gently pushed it. As the hanging basket began to sway back and forth, the little guy's crying stopped instantly.
"Wow...look at gag!"
Aunt Jiu understood it instantly and screamed excitedly. Suddenly, a group of women who came back rushed over. After discovering this magical cradle, they all shouted excitedly.
Mother Ba was arranging a woman to cook dinner in the kitchen. When she heard the excitement outside, she quickly brought a few women to her. Then she was also stunned by Xu Chen's simple and magical hanging basket creativity.
"The well also wants to ga!"
Aunt Seventeen hugged in with her child in her arms, and then yelled excitedly after seeing it.
In the lively moment, Gu Heju came back with a group of children carrying fish baskets and some wild grasses for ducks, and they all rushed up to join in the fun. Some people couldn't help but push the hanging basket hard. The huge swing was almost over, making the room inside cry again.
So an adult directly grabbed the naughty child's ear and went out to be beaten. In the midst of chaos, Feng and a group of hunting and fishing men also came back. Seeing that the yard was so lively, they quickly threw the fish and prey and squeezed them to watch. Naturally, there was another bustling noise and noisy, and they all praised Xu Chen's idea-filled creativity.
"A Qi, Monkey Qi Fish..."
Suddenly, a child's cry came from behind, and the noisy group of people quickly turned around. The spurious child who had just been spanked just now pointed at the fish and prey thrown in the middle of the yard with tears in his eyes. Sure enough, several monkeys were coaxing to steal food.
"Beat!"
Feng and others rushed up in anger. A group of monkeys scattered, some ran out of the gate, some jumped on the roof, and a group of men rushed forward with sticks. In the blink of an eye, the whole yard was completely in chaos.
Xu Chen closed his eyes and shook his head with a black head.
Although there are so many people living together, they are so messy.
Every night when people come back, they always have to go crazy for a long time.
The sun sets in the bustling atmosphere and dusk is coming.
Although the temperature is still very high, it is much cooler than during the day, but a large number of mosquitoes begin to appear.
These mosquitoes are diverse, mostly mosquitoes and fleas, as well as ants, spiders, centipedes, toads and many unknown or unknown species.
As soon as you leave the courtyard, there are wild fields all around you, and the plants grow lushly, so there are not only a lot of mosquitoes, but also very large. Some mosquitoes look like little dragonflies, and their long kiss tubes look extremely ferocious. When you get bitten on your head, you feel that your brain can be pulled out.
It’s okay for adults to get used to thick skin and rough flesh. In addition, they have clothes and rich body hair to cover them. They usually don’t take it seriously. There are a few guys with rich body hair that cannot reach the skin at all. When they fall on it, they will be stuck by the thick body hair and then be suffocated by the smell of sweat.
But a group of children and a few newborn babies suffer a lot.
During meals, a group of adults occasionally pat their bodies, a group of children kept shouting, and the three babies would cry from time to time.
Mosquito infestation has been around for a long time and has started since late spring, but it suddenly becomes violent after May. Especially after the thunderstorm decreases, the river flows down and stabilizes, under the hot weather, the large river beaches that were previously flooded became a natural breeding ground for nurturing these mosquitoes.
There is no good way to deal with mosquitoes in any era. Apart from fumigation and killing, it is self-isolation.
Xu Chen got used to this harsh environment before traveling through time. When he was surveying in the Yunnan-Guizhou area, there were mosquitoes all year round. There were many poisonous species, including a flower-footed mosquito, which would make him feel like he was a big bag after biting it. The most terrifying thing was that he bit his fingers or toes, which could make people dying of ecstasy and itchy.
After traveling through time, he inherited the rough body and primitive resistance of this young savage. He felt much better. He was bitten countless times every day, but he didn't feel itchy. He was far less uncomfortable than this high temperature and heat.
Chapter completed!