After the two finished pasting the top, Chen Chao let Cyclops go up first, and started to paste the bottom by himself.
After pasting the bottom, leave a few palm-sized gaps around the ground.
Before Super Chen could speak, Wu had already held the torch beside him for a long time. The firelight shone on Wu's side face, his pupils were a little nervous, and the hand holding the torch was sweating slightly.
After handing the torch to Chen Chao, he seemed to be relieved, as if he had completed an important matter.
Chen Chao bent down and moved the torches to the few gaps left before, and lit them one by one. After waiting for a while, after making sure that the fire would not be extinguished, he filled the gaps with mud, found a small branch, left a few ventilation holes, and then went to have dinner.
After dinner, One Eye gestured and asked how long it would take to get better. After all, he remembered last time, it seemed that it would be better if it lasted a little longer than a meal.
Chen Chao pointed to the moon in the sky, stretched out three fingers, and said, "It will be better after three moons appear."
One-eyed was lost and left, but after a while, he wandered back again, wishing to see him three or five times in an hour, and didn't know whether he slept or not, anyway, the two old men who took turns watching the night couldn't remember exactly what they saw How many times has he.
The hunting team went out for three days in a row, and there were harvests every day. Today, everyone rested in the tribe, but half of the women in the gathering team went to the chestnut forest, picked up several boxes of chestnuts and came back for storage.
When they passed by the rabbit forest, they also brought back the rabbit that was pressed by the stone slab, and added 20 new rabbits to the tribe, but they only collected prey and hadn’t learned how to restore the trap. They tried several times, but failed just give up.
Although it will take three days to know the effect, the tanning of the lynx skin will start today, so I still have to ask Wu to bring the broken pottery pot so that I can have a sharp pottery knife.
I don't know how the tribe used to deal with the fur of animals, but when they kill fish, they always look for a relatively sharp piece of stone on the ground.
The tribe has stone knives, but they are mainly used to cut larger meat, and they are relatively blunt.
Looking at Wu who brought the clay pot back to the cave, Super Chen pinched the center of his eyebrows. He felt that Wu was really like an old man who was reluctant to throw away anything. A new moon cake, if it can be put into mold, it must wait for it to be cold. Only when the grandson comes during the summer vacation is he willing to take it out for the grandson to eat.
When Chao Chen woke up and was lying on the haystack thinking about how to deal with the lynx fur, he heard the sound of "chirp...chirp...pa" coming from outside the cave from time to time.
When I got out of the cave, besides the children who were pulling the grass rope, there was already an elderly woman rubbing the fat on the lynx skin with other women on the stone slab. Do something else?"
The elderly woman shook her head. She looked at Super Chen suspiciously, as if asking, do I need to do anything else
At this moment, Yuan also came over. Chen Chao pointed to the lynx skin and said, "Yuan, don't you deal with the animal skin after you get it? Just process the mature skin."
Yuan also shook his head, do you still need to deal with the animal skin? Wouldn't it be good to just remove the meat and oil on the top...
Super Chen pointed to the animal skin on Yuan's body again. Some places had cracked, and Yuan was the leader of the tribe. The freshness of the skins he could use must be second only to Wu's. It was obviously the skins not long ago, but It has become like this now, and it is estimated that more holes will be opened after a while.
And it's hard and stinky, even if you smell it every day, this thing stinks...
He gestured and said, although the communication with the hunting team and the witch has become much smoother, and they can already understand many everyday words and expressions, but the spread of language is not a one-day effort, it is too complicated If so, you still have to add gesture assistance.
"After the mature leather is processed, it will be much more durable, it will be soft to the touch, it will not crack in a short time, and the hair on it will not fall off for a long time. You will not worry." Super Chen put down the hand that was pretending to cover his nose. , this kind of gesture is very common, and Yuan is the person who mainly uses this animal skin, can he not know that his body stinks.
But what can you do about the smell? Animal skins will stink forever and will crack and lose their hair. Those women, children, and old people want to wear smelly animal skins, but they don't have to wear them...
Although Yuan felt a little uncomfortable, if the animal skin could be made more comfortable to wear and last longer, he was still willing to deal with the animal skin in the same way as Super Chen. A leader still has this kind of heart.
And the animal skins they wear smelly, this is a fact, at this time, there are not so many twists and turns.
"How?" Yuan asked.
Chen Chao thought for a while. What he wanted to express should be how to deal with the mature leather. Fortunately, he has been thinking about this for a long time. Modern nitration is indeed very complicated and requires a lot of chemicals.
Many people may not know about these chemicals, but if you go back to the beginning, the first person to find that the leather will be better after this treatment is definitely not because of the use of these chemicals.
Of course, there were no such chemicals at that time...
In fact, the dirtiest and dirtiest method of nitration is still very simple, the kind that is outrageously simple. All you need is a handful of plant ash and a pool of warm water.
It should have been such a simple thing in the beginning, otherwise it would not have been discovered and passed down.
But to reach this step, it is still necessary to remove the minced meat, fat and dirt from the lynx skin, and then put it in the sun to dry it for a few days.
The straw ropes weaved earlier came in handy. Insert two thicker sticks into the soil and tie the straw ropes to form a simple drying rack.
This time, not only did Chen Chao contribute the straw ropes weaved earlier, but the children also handed over the work. By the way, Chen Chao asked the women in the collection team to collect some long grass and return it to dry next time. You can weave more straw ropes at a time, and if you have more, you can use them to make straw sandals.
For a while, the cave entrance and the riverside of the tribe were covered with leather to dry, and Chen Chao couldn't help but think of the leather word for leather. Taking this opportunity, the people in the tribe learned a few more words.
"tanning, leather, fur."
Chen Chao also took a wooden stick and wrote a big leather character on the ground, and explained to the witch and the children, "Look, does this look like an animal skin that has been peeled off? The round object in the middle is a The skin of the animal is peeled off, and the remaining parts are the head, body and tail of the animal."
The children were alright, Wu's eyes lit up at that time, he held the twigs to make gestures, and then raised his head to look at the animal skins hanging on the straw ropes to dry.