There is no thermometer, but you can feel the temperature drop by at least fifteen degrees in just ten days just by skin.
Yan Mo was shivering from the cold when he woke up today, and it was useless to light the brazier in the room.
A few days ago, there were soldiers who were not afraid of the cold and were busy in the tribe wearing only animal skin skirts. In the past two days, no matter who went out, they had to stand inside the door to cheer themselves up. It was replaced by a long-sleeved, cross-neck fur coat.
This style of deep clothing, imitating the top and bottom of Yan Mo's mother country in ancient times, with cross-collared right lapel, a belt in the middle, and long sleeves with narrow openings, is relatively simple to make and easy to wear. It is tight and keeps the wind warm. Once worn by Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo, it became the most popular style of clothing in the tribe.
Yan Mo's body was not as strong as Yuan Zhan's, and he wore a pair of trousers under the deep fur coat, a big leather cap was buckled on his head to cover his bones, and he also put on leather boots on his feet.
The leather boots were made by Sa Yu. During the day, he learned relevant knowledge from Yan Mo and learned martial arts from soldiers. When he returned home at night, he learned how to tan fur with Ye Xing's grandfather Ye Yun.
This kid is not as flexible as Ye Xing, not as steady as Wu Chen, and he is a bit edgy in his work, but he is a man of one word, one who talks less and does more. He has been thinking about this pair of leather boots for half a year, and he didn't send them to Yan until it snowed. silent.
When the person arrived, he didn't speak, put the leather boots in front of Yan Mo's feet, turned around and ran away with a blushing face, halfway through the run, he quickly turned back and saluted.
Yan Mo bent over and picked up the leather boots.
As soon as he picked it up, he found that the workmanship of the pair of leather boots was beyond his expectation.
These are not a pair of leather-wrapped feet casually wrapped in fur, but really good boots with soles, uppers, forefoot and rear soles, and divided into left and right sides. It looks a bit like the mid-top military boots he drew, not so rigid. Positive, but also decent, in order to facilitate the on and off, the boots are made into a lace-up front opening, and the height reaches the calf.
Even if these boots were placed in the modern society of his previous life, they could be sold for a good price. They are purely handmade. , and then stitched with needle and thread.
Looking at the thickness of the sole, I don't know how the brat pierced the needle and thread without an awl.
A strange feeling rose in Yan Mo's heart, warm and a little sour.
Non-vegetation, ruthless Practice makes perfect? Even a bad person will be moved sometimes, not to mention that he doesn't think he is so bad that his conscience is eaten by a dog.
Take off the straw sandals, put your feet in, a little bigger, wear a pair of thick socks or stuff some cotton in the front. The inside is full of warm and cozy fur, once you put your feet in, you don't want to take it out again.
"These three brats are fighting openly and secretly. Don't be too nice to them, spoil them!" Another contender for favor came, this one was the biggest and the most shameless. The neck was gnawed.
Yan Mo pushed him away, bent over to tie his shoelaces, the cold started from the soles of his feet, with leather boots to keep warm, who would want to wear straw sandals
Yuan Zhan squeezed him and walked out barefoot, Yan Mo looked at him and felt cold for him. But there are still many people in Jiuyuan who don't even wear straw sandals, and they can walk barefoot on the cold snow.
Ask them if they are not cold? Everyone said they were used to it, and the skin on the soles of their feet had grown out, thick enough to be used as shoe soles.
Yan Mo was halfway through his shoes, and suddenly took off one, and lifted it up for a closer look.
"Good boy!" Yan Mo was overjoyed.
Yuan Zhan turned around, what's the fun? Isn't it just a pair of leather boots, he even helps him warm his whole body at night!
Yan Mo stretched out his head and shouted to the guard Ding Fei: "Go and call Sa Yu back, I have something to ask him."
"What's wrong?" Yuan Zhan walked back.
Yan Mo was still laughing, "That kid found something amazing! He probably didn't even care about it."
"What good stuff?" Yuan Zhan looked down at the pair of leather boots, and he also admitted that the pair of leather boots were really well made, even better than he could have imagined, and they looked like they were made with care.
Sa Yu came back quickly, but Ding Fei deliberately didn't say anything to him, and kept a straight face. He didn't know why he was called back, and he was a little uneasy.
There is no problem with the leather boots, right? Sayu is worried.
What Yan Mo asked was indeed about the leather boots, but it wasn't that he didn't do a good job, but that he was praising him, which made him feel embarrassed, and his little face was so red that it was dripping blood.
Seeing that the little guy couldn't stand the compliments anymore, Yan Mo asked the business with a smile: "When you made the soles, besides needles and threads, did you use anything else to glue them together?"
Sayu said "ah", nodded quickly, and then asked anxiously: "My lord, is it because the thing I used is not good?"
"Not good? No, very good, very good. I called you here just to ask you, what did you use to glue the layers of leather and burlap for the sole?"
"Uh, you mentioned it to us in class. The other day a dwarf asked if fish skin could be eaten. You said yes, and you also talked about the medicinal properties and other uses of fish skin."
As soon as Sa Yu mentioned this, Yan Mo immediately understood what kind of adhesive the child used, "Did you boil fish skin glue?"
Sa Yu nodded, "You said that fish skin can be boiled into glue, and this glue can stick to wood. I wonder if it can stick to other things besides wood. For fun, I asked Laruo to get me a lot of fish. Skin."
Yan Mo knew that La Ruo and Jiu Yuan could have a good start with the mermaid, because of the friendship between the two little girls and the little mermaid La Ruo, Ye Xing and Sa Yu also played well with La Ruo all the time.
"How much have you brewed? Do you still have any? Have you written down the specific method?"
"There is one more thing, I gave it to Grandpa Yun. I remember the cooking method."
"Would you like to give the formula to the tribe?"
"Yes! Of course I would!"
"Very good, I will give you one credit! No, I will give you two credits. Making fish skin glue is a big job, and making practical leather boots is a small job. I will convert it into work points for you. If you want any rewards You can also mention it."
Sa Yu burst into laughter, his molars were all exposed, and when he heard Yan Mo say that there was a reward, he suddenly fell to his knees in front of him.
Yan Mo was startled, what does this kid want to do
"My lord," Sa Yu was a little excited, "Will you agree to any reward?"
"That depends on what you want." Yan Mo felt a little regretful, none of the three disciples seemed to be honest. But when I think about the first time I saw these three little ghosts, Ye Xing and Sa Yu were not good guys. They bullied children with leverage. Now it is much better than before. At least they no longer take the initiative to bully children who are younger or weaker than them. people will not cause trouble again.
Seeing that Yan Mo still had a smile on his face, Sa Yu immediately shouted: "My lord, I want to call you Master just like Wu Chen!"
Yan Mo thought about it for a while and agreed.
Sa Yu yelled, rushed forward on the spot, hugged Yan Mo's thigh, and howled dryly: "Master! Master, Master, Master!"
Yan Mo, whose ears were filled with the ringing sound of Master, endured for a while, and seeing that brat, Sa Yu, was still howling, he immediately kicked him away and left.
Sa Yu got up and chased after him, but this time he didn't jump up to hug his thigh again, he just followed behind Yan Mo stupidly, but when he saw someone passing by, he must call "Master".
In less than half a day, Ye Xing knew about it.
Once the child heard that Sa Yu could be like Wu Chen, he could call Yan Mo his master from now on, he was crazy.
Ye Xing jumped up and hugged his thighs not enough, and was out of breath from crying, his appearance was as wronged as he wanted.
"I, I want too, woohoo, why am I the only one, woohoo, sir, don't you like me? I... wow!" The kid who played the role of the most beloved disciple not long ago couldn't accept this strong blow , crying so sadly.
Yan Mo squeezed his paws a few times and wanted to hit someone, but seeing that he was so small that he couldn't do it, and seeing that the child was about to cry and convulse, he couldn't help but yelled: "I've killed all three of you before!" It's closed in the door wall, you can call Master if you want, who won't let you call it? Get up for me, cry again, and throw it out to feed the Iron-backed Dragon family!"
"Ang!" The Tiebeilong family agreed outside.
Ye Xing was really crying, and when Yan Mo promised to let him call Master, he was so happy that he wanted to cry, but the sound was still sobbing, and he even started to hiccup.
Yan Mo sighed, picked up the boy, and gave him two needles.
After two injections, Ye Xing didn't twitch or hiccup, and smiled and called "Master" with tears in his eyes.
Yan Mo rubbed his head and asked him to invite the people in charge of various affairs of the tribe to the conference hall. The weather is too cold and the winter is long. Now that the conditions are better, naturally we can no longer rely on hard work.
The conference hall was too spacious, so Yan Mo decided to choose a room that could seat 20 people as the conference room. A brazier was lit on each of the four corners of the wall, and two torches were placed on the wall. The doors and windows were closed tightly, and the room was warmed up quickly.
Yan Mo looked at the slate hanging on the wall and frowned. He thought he had done a good job, but when winter really came, he found that there were still many things that were not done properly.
The first is to keep out the cold.
Although a house built of stone bricks is strong, it can be said to be warm in winter and cool in summer to a certain extent, but that also depends on the temperature outside. The temperature is too low, and the room is as cold as the water. The water in the bedroom can freeze to ice. Last year, everyone squeezed and slept together to barely survive.
Yan Mo thought of Kang, he thought of Fire Dragon, but he only knew that there was such a thing, and he didn't know how to do it at all, and he didn't even know how to point it.
And whether it is a kang or a ground fire dragon, there must be a stove and a flue, but the house they are building now has a chimney, but there is no stove.
Yan Mo also thought about the oldest kind of kang, where a fire would be burned directly under the kang, and the whole family would sleep on the kang.
The second is the lighting of the house.
In order to resist the cold, everyone put down the animal skins on the windows, and blocked the wooden boards, so that it is airtight, but the house becomes as dark during the day as at night, and it is very strange to see things only by lighting a torch. It is convenient to do things, but also hurts the eyes.
The last thing that caused Yan Mo a headache was related to the Yuanji Tribe. Their priests even proposed to enter Jiuyuan for the winter, and Chief Hao agreed and came to the door for this.
People have said that they will not live in vain, and will work for Jiuyuan like a dwarf or exchange food, only to live in the next spring. In addition, the old priests also pointed out that they did not want to live in the outer city with the dwarves, but wanted to live in the inner city.
hehe!
"My lord." The leaders of the tribes arrived one after another, and some came in groups.
Yan Mo nodded back to them, signaling them to sit down and talk.
Yuan Zhan was the last one to arrive. Seeing that almost everyone in the room had arrived, he strode up to Yan Mo, pulled out his chair and sat down, and said directly: "Take turns one by one, starting from the ugly ones. Tell everything."
Da He has been guarding the door, seeing that everyone has arrived, he closed the door with his backhand, walked behind Yan Mo and stood still.
He cleared his throat and mentioned the issue of soldiers' winter training.
Yuan Zhan looked at the other warrior leaders, Lie and the others said that if there was enough food and medicine and they didn't want to waste a winter, it was better for the warriors to carry out daily training.
"Does anyone have any objections to the soldiers' winter training?" Yuan Zhanhuan looked around.
No one spoke.
"Then this question is considered to be passed. There will be no special circumstances in the future. Soldiers must maintain a certain amount of training throughout the year, whether they are ordinary fighters or blood fighters." Yuan Zhan clapped the case.
"Yes!" The leaders took the lead.
"Next."
Lie sat next to him, and Lie shook his head, indicating that he didn't have anything to say.
Yuan Zhan looked at Meng on Lie's left again, and Meng immediately raised his hand, "I have something to mention."
"Say."
"I hope the tribe can set up a scout team, which is responsible for reconnaissance and sending letters." Regarding this point, Meng has discussed this with the two biggest leaders of the tribe beforehand, and both Yuan Zhan and Yan Mo said that it is necessary to set up a scout team .
The purpose of bringing this matter up for public discussion today is to select players and determine who is in charge of the team.
They all knew the importance of scouts, and after several calls from Yan Mo, they paid more attention to scouts, and proposed to set up a scout team, but no one objected. Even Meng Meng said that they would select elites from various fighter regiments to join the scout team, but none of them said they were unwilling.
As for the leader of the scout team, it is tentatively determined to be fierce.
Yuan Zhan waved his hand and decided: "From now on, the Meng Fourth Warrior Regiment will be changed into a scout regiment, and a scout team will be established under the regiment. It will be mainly responsible for reconnaissance and sending letters."
Yan Mo interjected: "There are also expeditions and intelligence gathering. The scout team should not only be fast, have good eyesight, but also have excellent other abilities. It is best to be able to fight independently."
When he treated a certain army commander back then, the uncle told him that the scouts in ancient times were the ancestors of the special forces, and not even the best soldiers could be scouts, and sometimes scouts would serve as secret agents and go deep into the enemy camp.
"Next!" Yuan Zhan looked at another person.
The matter was settled one by one, and finally it was Yan Mo's turn.
"Don't you sleep cold at night?" Yan Mo asked everyone with a smile.
Everyone laughed together, and the lively people shouted: "It's cold, why isn't it cold? When you pee on the ground, it freezes."
Yan Mo smiled, it's not to the point where you have to bring a wooden stick when you go out to pee, but it will be sooner or later. Last winter, there were a lot of things, filling the stomach and building the city were placed at the top two. Many hard work was largely ignored, and the severe cold was one of them.
"Last year, five months have passed since the snow fell and the weeds germinated, which means that it is winter here for less than half a year. Apart from lighting a brazier in the house, what other good ways do you have to protect yourself from the cold? Just say anything, and everyone brainstorms. I'll talk about one first, I overheard it from the ancestor god, and I don't know the detailed method." Yan Mo mentioned the heated kang and ground fire dragon, and explained their benefits and simple principles.
Even if other people are smart, it is difficult to come up with any good ideas due to lack of knowledge. On the contrary, discussions about heated kang and ground fire dragon are in full swing.
"If we can go through the flue directly underground, we can sleep directly on the ground, which is also warm."
"I just don't know how to make the flue, but I think the kang that burns directly underneath is good, it's simple and effortless."
"It's Fei Chaihe. There is a grove next to us, but there are so many dwarves, and there are people from the original tribe in the grove beyond. Everyone is going to spend the winter. How much firewood can we pick up? We can't run away." Go to the distant forest to collect firewood?"
"You can let the soldiers go, just treat it as training."
"The forest is far away and dangerous. Don't forget, there are Chi tribes inside. What if the warriors who go in to collect firewood encounter groups of Chi tribes?"
As we talked, everyone quarreled.
"Boom." Yuan Zhan knocked on the table, and everyone shut up immediately.
"Prepare in two hands. Anyone of you who is interested in making kangs and flues, come to me or Moe later. If there is no one, we will designate one to be in charge. In addition, starting tomorrow, Dashan will lead the team to build one for each household. In the earth kang where the fire is directly burned underneath, except for the leader, other warriors with the ability to control the earth must cooperate with the mountain."
"yes."
Yan Mo also agreed that making that kind of fire-burning kang is the fastest and most effective way to keep out the cold. Even if everyone doesn't know how to do it a few times, you can always get the hang of it.
"As for the firewood, collect it from the nearby area first. Whether or not to enter the forest, I will discuss it with the priest."
"yes."
"One more thing, actually..."
"Bang bang!" A sharp knock on the door interrupted Yan Mo's speech, and Yan Mo looked at the door together with the others.
Only a guard outside the door shouted anxiously: "My lord, my lord, the people in the watchtower have something urgent to report!"