In this world without paper, one can only learn to write using local materials. Chen Qi asked a few females to make a few wooden boards, briefly polished the wooden thorns on the surface, and then gave each of them two boards.
There was only one writing brush that Chen Qi had made temporarily in the morning, so Chen Qi found a few sticks of slender charcoal, and asked a few people to learn to write on the wooden board with the charcoal. The charcoal wood Chen Qi chooses is relatively hard, even if it has been burned, it will not be easily broken. The only disadvantage is that it will get black.
It was Chen Qi's first time teaching people how to write, and he was still teaching people who had never been exposed to characters. First, he briefly explained the meaning of strokes to a few people, and then taught them the composition of the strokes of the characters they wanted to learn one-on-one. Write down the sequence on a wooden board and let them imitate it.
The wooden board is not large, and after it is full, it needs to be wiped clean with water-soaked animal skin, and then it can be dried by the fire before it can be used again. Chen Qi discovered that the first character written by Ake was a gram word, while the first character written by Carlo was a gram word. When teaching them, Chen Qi felt that he had eaten a mouthful of dog food.
"Chen Qi." Afraid that the charcoal would stain the kang, Ah Jing also moved to the side of the fire, and Chen Qi made a few layers of thick animal skins to make a cushion for him to lean on, but the little guy said that his injury had already healed , Sit firmly away from the cushions and keep your back straight.
Hearing Ah Jing calling him, Chen Qi leaned over and asked with concern: "What's the matter? Don't you understand something?" A piece of wood on Ah Jing's board was already crookedly written with the word "Jing", and Chen Qi rubbed the other party in admiration. With his little head, he asked: "Ah Jing is so amazing, he has already finished writing. Do I need to keep the words I finished writing for the first time? I will bring you a new board."
Ah Jing nodded vigorously, Chen Qi replaced him with a new board, Ah Jing hesitated, and the little wolf cub nestled at his feet and moved, "Can you teach me how to write wolf characters?"
"Wolf?"
"Yeah." Ah Jing picked up the little wolf cub, "A Ze said it didn't have a name yet, so he asked me to name it. It's a cub of the giant wolf god, and it's so small, so I called it little wolf."
Little wolf, although the name is a bit more straightforward, it is not bad. Chen Qi showed Ah Jing how to write wolf characters a few times, and only when he saw that Ah Jing could write wolf characters with stumbling Head, stood up and planned to check other people's situation.
Aze wrote seriously, and didn't notice Chen Qi coming over. When he found out, it was too late to put the board away. Chen Qi was stunned when he saw the words written on the wooden board by A Ze. A Ze did not write his own name, but a character for Qi. Chen Qi had never taught him the stroke order of the character for Qi, so he wrote It was written from right to left at the time. It was said to be written, but it was actually more like looking at a painting.
The tips of Aze's ears were red when he was discovered. Chen Qi smiled, walked behind him, leaned over and held Aze's hand holding the charcoal, "Your word order is wrong, it should be written like this." Chen Qi held the charcoal. With his hand, stroke by stroke, he slowly wrote the word Kai, and when he was done, he smiled and asked, "Do you understand?"
Aze raised his head, just in time to see Chen Qi's smiling face, maybe the distance was too close, Aze felt that he was a little dazed by Chen Qi's smile, and shook his head in a daze.
"Then I'll demonstrate it to you again, and you read carefully." Chen Qi grabbed his hand and started writing again, until the wooden board was full of Qi characters, A Ze nodded with a hot face, indicating that he could write. .
The orcs who learned to write for the first time wrote excitedly until most of the night before resting. They not only learned to write their own names, but also learned to write other people's names. The next morning, Chen Qi was afraid that they would forget, so he asked them to write it again before starting to get busy with today's work.
A Zhang and A Ze continued to hunt, and A Li picked up the cocoon and continued to weave. He planned to make a set of comfortable cloth clothes for everyone. He would wear the cloth clothes inside and put them on outside like Chen Qi did. Wearing animal fur clothing not only keeps warm, but also is much more comfortable than wearing animal fur clothing directly.
The Linglong that was hunted back yesterday has been taken care of. Chen Qi cooked the Linglong bone soup today. Seeing that Ah Jing was fine after sitting and writing for a long time yesterday, Chen Qi did not force him to lie on the bed to recuperate. Little Wolf The cub didn't know what was going on, he hadn't slept for a long time in the past two days, and he was still running around the room in high spirits early this morning.
Chen used the hair of the antelope dragon to make some writing brushes. Ake went to the bamboo forest and cut two bamboos and came back. He split them up and Carlo and the two made them into bamboo pieces. There were too many bamboo pieces, so Chen Qi asked them to make them. I built a wooden shelf, put the bamboo pieces outside to dry, and put a small part directly on the fire to bake.
Today's sun is shining warmly on people. It is inconvenient to practice writing with charcoal. Not only will it make your hands black, but even if you wipe it with water, it will not be clean. After digging a large bag of sand from the river, Chen Qi planned to make some sand tables for them to practice calligraphy.
There is a lot of mud mixed in the river sand. Chen Qi melted a large plate of snow water, washed the sand outside the house, and then put the clean sand into a pottery dish, and put the pottery pot into the fire to dry up the water. Chen Qi made several quill pens. While the sand was hot, he inserted the pen tube of the quill pen into the hot sand, and used the temperature of the sand to harden the pen tube, which made it much more convenient to use.
Chen Qi made a few wooden boxes the size of A4 paper, glued them together with glue juice, and planned to pick some gum leaves while waiting for the gums to dry. But not afraid of the cold. Gum tree leaves also turn yellow in winter, but they don't fall. They start to grow new leaves when summer comes. When Carlos and the others built a new house before, they picked gum fruits. Chen Qi had seen yellow gum leaves. The surface was rough but they did not wither and shrink like other leaves. It was perfect for writing instead of paper. .
Ah Jing's wound was just right, and Chen Qi was reluctant to let him go out, so he asked A Li to stay at home with him, while he, A Ke and Carlo went to pick gum leaves.
Even with the warmer weather, the snow showed no sign of melting, and walking in knee-high snow was a physical chore.
"If you need gum leaves, I can pick them alone." Looking at the two males walking at a fast pace, Ake couldn't help but suggested that at their speed, he could run several times back and forth.
Chen Qi shook his head, "The gum tree is not far from here, and there is no danger nearby. I haven't been out since winter, so I just came out for a walk this time."
"Yes, anyway, there is nothing urgent to do now, let's just go slowly." Carlo answered.
Ake had no choice but to walk slowly towards the gum tree behind the two of them.
A few people went out after lunch early, but it was almost evening when they returned home after picking. As soon as Carlo entered the door, he collapsed on the animal skin blanket by the fire and shouted: "I didn't expect walking in the snow to be so tiring. Yes, I don't want to move anymore."
Chen Qi was better than him, he went to check the condition of the quill first, took the quill out of the cold sand, and was about to pour the sand into the wooden box on the side, the wooden box was not big, so It is not necessary to wait for the pectin to dry completely before using it.
"You guys are back? Did you see Ah Jing?" Ali hurried in from the door and asked when he saw several people.
"No, what's the matter?" Chen Qi put down the sand in his hand and asked suspiciously.
"I was too involved in weaving just now, so I didn't pay attention to him. I was planning to make dinner just now, but I found that Ah Jing had disappeared." Ali explained angrily, "I searched all around, but I couldn't find him. I don't know where he went. , even the little wolf cub is gone."
Chen Qi patted A Li's shoulder comfortingly, "Don't worry, there is snow outside the fence, it hasn't snowed in this period of time, if A Jing leaves, there should be traces left."
"That's right." Ali patted his forehead, "I was really confused just now, let's go check it out."
Several people divided into two groups, Chen Qi and Ali went to the front door, Ake and Carlo went to the back door. Due to moving to build a house and going out and hunting in front of the front door, many potholes were stepped on the snow, and there was no way to identify whose footprints it was.
The two walked along these traces for a long distance, only to find a small footprint, and if they continued to move forward, they would find that the footprint was going in the direction of the tribe.
"That kid doesn't want to go back to the tribe, does he?"
Chen Qi shook his head with a headache. He had explained to the other party many times that no one in the tribe was safe now, but he didn't expect this brat to sneak back while they were away. "Let's go back to find Ake first, and let him go to the tribe to have a look."
Ali nodded, he was better, but it would be too risky to take Chen Qi to the direction of the tribe, just as he was about to turn his head, he saw a small black spot moving in the distance from the corner of his eye , Ali grabbed Chen Qi's sleeve, "Chen Qi, quickly see if that one over there is Ah Jing."
Chen Qi looked in the direction of A Li's finger, and saw a small figure moving slowly in the distance, wearing a fiery red animal skin coat that Chen Qi specially asked A Li to make, which was particularly conspicuous on the white snow field. Who else could it be if it wasn't Ah Jing.
Ah Jing's speed was very slow, and Ali San caught up with him in two steps, cursing head to face, "You child, don't you know that the tribe is very dangerous now? Why did you run out without saying a word?"
Ah Jing was carrying an animal skin backpack that was almost as tall as him. The animal skin backpack was bulging and seemed to be full of things. The little wolf cub in his arms heard Ali's voice and yelled at Ali a few times in dissatisfaction.
Ah Jing stroked the hair on the little wolf cub's head to make it quiet, then raised his head and said to Ali: "I saw you were busy so I didn't bother you."
At this time, Chen Qi also caught up. Running in the snow, his center of gravity was unstable and he fell down. His clothes were still covered with snow that he hadn't had time to take off. Seeing the backpack behind Ah Jing, he said, "Go back to the tribe. Packed up."
A Jing nodded, put the little wolf cub on the ground, untied the backpack from behind, and handed it to Chen Qi, "This is the food I collected for the winter, and I will give it to you." After thinking for a while, he said: "Inside There are also some milk fruits, those are for the little wolf."
The little wolf cub at his feet barked, as if echoing what Ah Jing said.
Ah Li originally wanted to teach Ah Jing a few words, but he swallowed back the words that had just come to his mouth when he heard Ah Jing's words.
Chen Qi squatted down and touched Ah Jing's little head, "Even if you are going to the tribe to get something, you can't leave alone without saying hello, we will be very worried."
A Jing looked at Chen Qi, then at A Li, "Did you come out to look for me because you were worried about me?"
Chen Qi nodded, "A Li searched all over the place to find you, you don't know how worried he is."
A Jing hugged the little wolf cub back into his arms, perhaps because of too much force, the little wolf cub twisted his body uncomfortably, A Jing raised his head and looked directly at A Li, "I'm sorry, I will never do this again in the future." Say hello and leave."
A Li moved his lips and jaws a few times, finally sighed, raised his hand and pinched his little face, "Look at you, it's going to freeze after you've been out for so long, let's go back first."
"I can turn into a beast, but I won't freeze."
Ali choked, picked up the animal skin backpack on the ground, turned and left. Chen Qi originally wanted to recite Ah Jing, but Ah Jing was naturally unwilling, so in the end he could only hold Ah Jing's little hand, and they walked towards home.
A string of long footprints were left on the white snow field.