Chapter 35(1/2)
The night wind whistles, and time slowly enters the middle of the night.
The two of them were busy with their own affairs. Before they knew it, Xu Chen made another straw sandal, then turned around and put it on Ye's feet again.
This time it is obviously a bit appropriate in size, and in addition to being ugly, it can barely be worn.
So Xu Chen turned around and started to hit another one.
Another half an hour passed, and the other shoe was also put on. Xu Chen squatted down and put it on Ye's feet.
"Stand up and try!" Xu Chen stood up to remind him.
"oh!"
Ye untied the rope cover around his waist and stood up, his feet landed on the ground, soft and a little warm. Although it was a bit awkward, it felt much more comfortable than stepping on the cold ground.
Seeing Ye Man's face keep raising his feet in surprise, Xu Chen pointed at her feet and said, "Shoes!"
"Shoes!" Ye habitually repeated.
"good!"
Xu Chen picked up a piece of charcoal, walked to the front of the hole wall full of words, and slowly wrote the word "shoe".
This word is a bit complicated.
It looks like many straw ropes are tied together. After thinking about it, the words "July 16" were added to the back.
This is the first time he recorded the diary after traveling through time.
Ye knew all these words, but they didn’t understand them at all if they were combined together.
Xu Chen moved the full moon state at six o'clock in the moon phase chart he drew yesterday one square clockwise, and wrote down the numerical symbol of sixteen. Then he smiled and pointed to the sky, and then pointed to the fifteenth position.
"Yesterday, fifteen, today, sixteen."
Ye nodded without understanding.
Xu Chen knew that she didn't understand and didn't care. He reached out to rub her messy hair, threw down the charcoal strips and said, "Sleep!"
Watching Xu Chen turn around and walk towards the cave.
Ye followed behind in straw sandals, raised it high and gently landed on the ground. With the dim light of fire, he looked at the butt egg covered by Xu Chen's fur skirt, and hesitated for a long time but still didn't dare to touch it.
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The next morning, Xu Chen was awakened by someone while he was still sleeping.
When I opened my eyes, I saw a circle of naked women surrounding my nest.
Seeing Xu Chen open his eyes, someone grabbed a handful of hay from his grass nest and stuffed it into his hands.
"Shoes!"
Seven or eight hands pulled him out of the grass nest.
"Don't pull, don't pull, get up!"
A group of women showed various smiles on their faces.
Especially a few older women.
Xu Chen was speechless.
Living with these aunts and aunts, there is indeed no privacy at all.
When he walked out of the cave surrounded by a group of women, it was also lively outside.
I saw that the men, women, young and old in the entire tribe were almost surrounded by Ye, watching the pair of straw sandals on her feet quarreled enthusiastically.
When they saw Xu Chen coming out, a group of people gathered around, and the sounds of shoes and shoes came one after another.
If the appearance of cloth allows women to see simpler and more effective materials for protecting the cold and body, then the emergence of straw sandals is another most direct way to protect the body.
The woman who was scratched by a shell yesterday also squeezed into Xu Chen excitedly with a wooden stick, pointing at her injured foot and shouting.
If she had a straw basket called shoes on her feet yesterday, she wouldn't have been injured.
Xu Chen snatched his eyes and had not had time to speak, the mother ba said a few words loudly, and the group of people dispersed. Xu Chen was able to escape and rushed straight to the woods. He urinated and washed his face and hands. At this time, Ye had already helped him put the breakfast.
After breakfast, someone had already brought a lot of hay.
Xu Chen knew that there was a high probability that he would not be able to go down the mountain today, so he had to call a few elderly and weak men to sit down and start demonstrating how to make straw sandals.
However, in order to make it more convenient, he found a wooden stick with a fork, pressed it with half of his butt, and fixed the twisted straw rope with a tree branch first, and then he started slowly.
A group of men and women surrounded them and looked around without blinking.
With the experience of rubbing ropes and weaving baskets, although streaking straw sandals seems more complicated, it is actually a combination of these two. As long as you understand them, you won’t find it too difficult.
With Xu Chen's demonstration, the sound of whispering sounds sounded from time to time in the crowd.
Some people couldn't wait to grab a handful of hay and sat next to them and started to weave them together.
However, it is simple, but this is also a technical job after all, and you can't learn it immediately by taking a few glances.
Otherwise, Uncle Liu of the Three Kingdoms would not have made a living by making straw sandals at the beginning.
Therefore, half an hour later, Xu Chen had successfully finished a shoe, but the group of men next to him only made a pile of strange straw rope combinations, like a ball of earthworms piled together, none of them succeeded.
"Try it!"
Xu Chen threw the shaved straw sandals to the ancients standing beside him.
He is about the same age as Gu and is about the same height. This shoe is made according to the size of his own feet, so adults are likely to not be able to wear it.
"Soga!"
Gu's hands and feet were trembling with excitement. He quickly sat down and put his straw sandals on his feet, then got up again, gently stepped on the ground with excitement on his face, and then pointed at his other furry feet.
I can't even say thank you for a few words.
Although we are cousins, you will sooner or later die of relatives.
Xu Chen complained in his heart, but he could only helplessly continue to be a sausage.
From the beginning of rubbing ropes, he went through knitting baskets, making bows and arrows, making hoes, making kilns, making pottery, spinning thread, weaving cloth, making characters, and making straw sandals. Before he knew it, he had already tapped nearly ten skills one after another.
These skills are not worth mentioning to him, but the continuous impact and changes brought to the tribe are obvious to all.
However, these changes have not fundamentally changed the survival of the ethnic group.
His goal is still to lead these primitive people down the mountain.
The primitive people moved from forests to plains is the direction of civilization progress.
From the people of Shandingdong to the Banpo clan at present, humans have not yet escaped from the wilderness and wildness.
Only farming and animal husbandry is the true beginning of human civilization.
For the next whole day, Xu Chen taught a few old and weak men to make straw sandals on the mountain.
I also gained a little bit of money at the end of the day, and there were a lot of straw sandals.
However, except for the six or seven pairs he beat were pretty neat, the rest can only be said to be a pile of rotten straw ropes. Most of the soles and uppers are almost indistinguishable from each other. A group of skewed and ugly ones, if the soles were either loose or the straw ropes on the upper were like twists and could not be looked directly at.
But no matter how ugly, these shoes have a certain protective effect. At least they can be used to protect themselves from the feet and keep them from the cold. They won’t feel so cold when they step on the ground.
While Xu Chen and others were busy making straw sandals, Mo Ba also took a few women to clean the soaked bark on the beach and then carried it up the mountain to dry it one after another.
Two more days have passed. Under Xu Chen's continuous demonstration and guidance, several men who learned to make straw sandals have gradually made considerable progress. Although the straw sandals they made are still crooked, at least they can tell the soles and uppers at a glance. In addition to being unsightly in size and style, they have already initially shown the appearance of shoes.
So Xu Chen did not plan to continue wasting time to continue to cultivate this skill.
Besides, he only knows a little bit of fur.
Compared to these big feet covered with calluses, Bu is still what you need most now.
In the past two days, he was taking time to guide the free time of straw sandals. He also guided two men responsible for making tools to make many sticks of different shapes for spindles and waist looms. In addition, in order to make more convenient weaving, he specially improved the shuttle tool, rewinding a slender wooden stick instead of spindles, and a wooden bow instead of sheath lifting rod.
After everything was ready, he began to guide a group of women to learn spinning and weaving.
As the autumn becomes stronger and stronger, a large number of seeds and fruits begin to fall down the mountain. Although the collection range continues to expand, the food collected is getting smaller and smaller.
The wind and a group of strong men still hunt early and late every day, and harvested almost every day, but the hunting was also small beasts, mainly small deer and wild sheep, and almost nothing left after a meal. However, another change is obvious. Recently, the species they hunted have begun to become diverse.
There are rabbits, wild ducks, pheasants, foxes, badgers, pangolins, etc.
These animals are numerous and diverse, and are everywhere down the mountain, so you can get them without having to go far.
When they were hunting, they would get some turtles and snakes in order not to leave empty-handed.
But as the weather gets cooler, there are fewer turtles and snakes, but wild birds and small animals such as pheasants, wild ducks, rabbits, badgers, and pigs and badgers have gradually become the targets of their hunting.
Because of the invention of bows and arrows, the types of carnivorous food have become more and more abundant.
And in this kind of hunting, their archery level is also rapidly improving.
At any time, things are precious because they are rare.
The teeth of beasts, gorgeous feathers, beautiful stones, and even sharp bird beaks are all things that primitive people like to collect.
For example, Mother Ba has colorful feathers inserted on her head all day long.
This is a symbol of identity, and in any tribe, only leaders and older women can wear feathers.
To be continued...