Chapter 25 Retting
I drank too much aphrodisiac tea.
Xu Chen tossed and turned in his grass nest.
He stared at the entrance of the cave in the middle of the night, and it was not until the sky began to turn slightly white that he finally fell asleep in a daze.
When I woke up, there were birds singing and chirping outside the cave, and the sun was shining brightly.
Ye squatted beside his grass nest, his eyes flushed and slightly swollen.
It seems that she didn't sleep well last night.
Xu Chen quickly pulled the fur skirt to cover his lower body, sat up and stretched his waist a little awkwardly, "Gaha?"
"Tao!" Ye did not sexually harass him, but pointed outside the cave and said softly.
"What's wrong with Tao?"
Xu Chen was shocked and quickly got up. When he walked to the entrance of the cave, he found that everything was calm outside. Adult men and women had already finished breakfast and started working. Most of them had left the cave and went down the mountain.
"Kiln!" Ye followed him out and pointed to the location of the kiln factory at the foot of the mountain.
Xu Chen then realized that she wanted to go to the kiln factory to help with her.
However, the kiln factory is on the right track now, and he no longer needs to watch it every day, nor does it need a group of children to follow him to make trouble. Therefore, Xu Chen shook his head, pointed to the location of the water pit and said, "Study!"
Ye Shanxin turned his head and didn't want to talk to him.
Although the negative effects of aphrodisiac tea have subsided after a night, her sad experience last night still made her unhappy.
Xu Chen ignored her, but went to the woods to swear, then washed his face and rinsed his mouth at the water pit. After finishing it, the leaves had already poured out half a bowl of porridge from the pottery pot simmered in the fire pit, and added some boiled broth and wild vegetables.
Holding the pottery bowl and wooden chopsticks, Xu Chen squatted at the entrance of the cave and swallowed with a big mouthful.
This is the warmest and most comfortable breakfast he has ever eaten after traveling through time.
In the open space, a group of men laughed loudly, rubbed ropes and weaved baskets to make bows and arrows and wooden hoes.
Three pregnant women and several frail women are busy cleaning and drying food.
A group of children were feeding the ponies by the woods, and the quarrels of laughter were cheerful and innocent.
Ye stood beside Xu Chen, without saying a word, as if he were two people with him.
Because the language communication barrier was too great, Xu Chen could not communicate with her in-depth emotional problems, so he could only eat breakfast voraciously, put down the bowls and chopsticks, held Ye's hand and came to the puddle.
"numb!"
Xu Chen used a wooden stick to pick up the bark soaked in the pit, then took out a handful and put it in the spring water to gently rub it. Slowly, the bark that had been soaked for half a month began to turn gray and white.
Although Ye was in a low mood, he knew that Xu Chen had specially brought these things back and soaked them in, so he was still observing them very seriously.
A few minutes later, Xu Chen rubbed and washed all the bark in his hand, took it to the stone next to it to dry, and then continued to wash the remaining bark.
"Stand up, help!" Seeing Ye Wu moved, Xu Chen glared and urged.
So Ye could only pout and squat down unhappily, and also picked up a handful of bark to start cleaning.
Last time, I got seven or eight kinds of bark, each of which was not large in number, only a small bundle. When it rained, I washed away a few bundles, and some of them were rotten after soaking. The remaining two looked OK.
Because I was busy firing pottery, I had no time to take care of it. I have been soaking for more than ten days now, and one of them was not enough. I rubbed it with my hands for a few times and it turned rotten.
Therefore only the last one is left.
The only one left may be because the soaking time is too long, and there is little fiber left after scrubbing and washing, but it is still strong enough.
Hemp ropes are available in every household in rural areas, and sacks are also commonly used items.
Although Xu Chen can rub hemp ropes and has seen people in rural areas ferment hemp, the varieties are different and the time for fermenting is different. Some of them are not even fermented. They are cut down and piled directly on the fields by the roadside. After a period of wind and rain, peel off the skin and rub it clean.
Therefore, he only knew that the erect skin could be soaked in water for a period of time and fermented and washed. The rest was pure erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile erectile
It seems that the time for this fermentation is obviously too long.
Because even if it is a hemp rope and linen, it is likely to rot if it is thrown in water for a month.
Fortunately, the spring water may be cold, so even if the weather is hot and soaked for so long, it still succeeds in part.
The two of them worked for half an hour, rubbed and washed all the bark and placed them on the rock to dry.
"Look at it, don't let the wind blow away!"
Xu Chen made a blow-up move, and after watching Ye nodding in a depressed manner, he then asked Gu He to take the bow and arrow weapon and lead the horse down the mountain.
A group of children wanted to follow him, but he drove him back.
Without Ye, he was too lazy to take care of these primitive savages.
If you are not careful, you will run away without a trace.
I picked it back and beat it up, and cried so hard that I disappeared again in a blink of an eye.
Either climbing trees or catching snakes by drilling soil or fishing in the river.
After all, I am either trying to die or on the road to death.
There was a small space on the mountain and there was a group of adults watching it. As soon as the mountain came, it looked like a little bandit.
Since the last heavy rain, the weather has gradually become cooler.
Some broad-leaved trees on the mountain began to turn yellow slowly, with a stronger scent of autumn.
The oats and wild fruits near the foot of the mountain were basically all bright, and Mo Ba could only take a group of women to collect them further away.
Fortunately, since the turnaround wolf was killed and brought to the wolf's den, no wild wolf has appeared in the valley, and the safety has greatly increased.
Since the bow and arrows, hunting has become easier and easier. Feng took a group of hunters to wander the mountain all day long, taking the initiative to hunt down some wild animals entrenched in the valley. Recently, it has gained a lot. The Shiba Dog and Wild Boar killed several of them and also killed a leopard.
Although I don’t know if it was the leopard who ate the little rabbit last time, after half a month of sweeping, the valley became much quieter, and at night, there were fewer sounds of wild beasts roaring and fighting.
However, a group of hunters and sweeping such a large-scale hunting and sweeping also made the herbivorous animals in the valley feel dangerous, so a large number of wild animals have disappeared recently. Apart from some wild deer, wild sheep, fox and other similar animals, there are only a group of wild horses left on the river beach, with about twenty or thirty.
Mustangs are very vigilant and will escape from hundreds of meters most of the time, so they are almost impossible to hunt.
And a group of hunters had never hunted wild horses.
It’s not that I don’t want to, but mainly because my strength is not allowed.
The injury of the foal on the mountain has been completely healed. After feeding for a while, it has begun to become docile. However, it is only half a person tall and less than a year old. If you want to use it, you still have to slowly train and adapt.
After all, it is a purebred wild horse and its genes have not been domesticated yet.
This takes time and effort to get started.
Since he built a kiln factory at the foot of the mountain, he would bring some fresh weeds when he returned to the cave every day. The little foal seemed to know that he was rescued by Xu Chen, so he was particularly docile to him. As long as he saw him, he would neigh and stamp his feet happily.
This is a good sign.
Only animals that know how to be grateful can be domesticated.
Once domesticated, they will be loyal.
Horses are the most personal and loyal among these animals. After training, they are more obedient, loyal and brave than dogs. Therefore, horses have always been the embodiment of morality in ancient times.
The sky moves the stem, and the dragon is used to describe it, the earth is used to describe it, and the horse is used to describe it. The spirit of the dragon and horse is a portrayal of the morality of the heaven and the earth.
If this pony can be tamed, then the group of wild horses left in the valley may be able to be solved slowly.
Because this is a stallion, when it is released, maybe a few mares will be seduced back. If seduce them a few more times, the more horses will be raised.
If it really doesn't work, feed it more aphrodisiac fruits to enhance its combat effectiveness.
Xu Chen was in a state of thought all the way, and when he arrived at the kiln factory, the other four people had been busy for a long time.
The first batch of pottery was successful, and everyone was very excited and prepared to continue to burn the second batch of pottery.
At present, the kiln factory no longer needs Xu Chen to do everything himself. Several kiln workers are familiar with digging soil and making mud, and they are more active than Xu Chen every day. They go down the mountain as soon as the sun sets and then finish work and return to the mountain. If it weren't for the danger at the foot of the mountain and no one cooks, they are not even lazy to go back every day and feel more comfortable living at the foot of the mountain. After all, they have been sleeping at the foot of the mountain these days, and have not encountered any danger.
Xu Chen inspected the kiln factory for a while, and then took a group of people to start making pottery.
The fired this time are all large utensils, so the production difficulty is also higher. It is no longer appropriate to knead the mud. You need to first roll the wet mud into slender mud strips, and then plate them one by one.
This is the oldest inherited pottery method in the mountainous areas of Guizhou. It does not require any mold, but all rely on the exquisite craftsmanship of old potters.
However, this process requires very fine control and requires high dry and wet requirements for clay, so failures are inevitable.
Technology is a process of continuous accumulation, and Xu Chen did not intend to make a large water tank at one time, which was unrealistic. Therefore, he continued to summarize experience and improve the process based on the idea of making it as big as possible.
If you can't make a diameter of two feet, make one foot first. If you can't make a water tank, make an open large jar. In short, think about it and make it to the death. As long as you ensure that the pottery will not collapse or crack, it doesn't matter even if it is crooked.
It was under this guiding ideology that after most of the day, a group of people still made five or six very good-sized jars and jars. Of course, these things are all very crooked without exception, but this does not prevent them from being used after being cooked.
The main function of these large pottery is to store things, and it does not need to be exquisite and beautiful.
After seeing that several potters had some experience, Xu Chen went down and did not participate in the production of pottery. Instead, he took Gu Heju and his two men to carry wooden hoes to dig holes near the river beach.
Now we have found plants suitable for spinning and weaving, and we will collect the bark of this plant on a large scale and refry it.
Chapter completed!