All tribesmen are interested in what Xu Chen does every day, but they never interfere.
According to Xu Chen's attributes, he will never do unnecessary labor.
Because everyone discovered that Xu Chen was actually very lazy.
Unless he was interested in something, he would rather lie in his room and sleep on such a hot day.
It turns out that it is a period when a large number of berries are ripe recently. There are many varieties, and it can be picked for more than a month. If more are picked and made into fruit wine, the whole tribe can enjoy it for a long time.
It's a pity that Xu Chen got lazy after making a few jars and was too lazy to go out. Feng and a group of hunters wanted to eat more fruit wine and took some time to pick some back during fishing and hunting, but they couldn't take care of both the head and tail, picking wild fruits.
The slow speed was very time-consuming, and it took several days to pick only two jars. It also delayed the hunting, which made the mother very unhappy and criticized everyone.
In fact, Muba has already noticed that although fruit wine is delicious, it is not a good thing.
If you eat too much, people will become dizzy, and some people will go crazy with alcohol. Every time a group of men get drunk, they will act in all kinds of ugly ways and make a lot of noise.
Especially the last time the great witch and the five patriarchs brought hundreds of people to visit, someone got drunk and teased a group of half-hearted old women and patriarchs, which made her feel very embarrassed.
Therefore, although Mu Ba maintained approval and restraint regarding Xu Chen's wine making, it did not mean that she could tolerate other men not doing their jobs properly.
In the entire tribe, Xu Chen was the only one who could not do his job properly.
Because Xu Chen is the core force of the Ba people's prosperity and is a special member who masters core technology. He can tolerate anything he does and even fully support it.
After the blast furnace in the kiln was ignited, Xu Chen felt that he could start to be lazy again.
Although he didn't know how long it would take for this furnace of copper to be successfully fired, it probably wouldn't be shorter than the time it would take to fire a kiln of pottery. After all, the melting temperature of copper is higher than the molding temperature of pottery.
The reason why the ancients continued to study and improve bronze ware was because after adding lead and tin to copper, the melting point would be much lower. Although the melting point of pure copper is much lower than that of iron, it still requires a high temperature of nearly a thousand degrees, which does not last for a long time.
With constant heating, it is difficult for the earthen kiln to reach this temperature.
Therefore, except for visiting the kiln factory in the morning and evening when it was cool, he spent most of his time in his room. Except for teaching a group of children in class, he would go to the river to catch fish and shrimp and swim to cool off.
But at noon and in the afternoon when it was the hottest time, I didn’t dare to go anywhere. I felt like I could faint from the strong sun just standing in the water.
However, the courtyard is closed all around, and the wind can hardly blow in, making it uncomfortable to stay in the room.
So he missed the coolness of the cave very much.
But the cave has been abandoned for a long time, and it is almost impossible to live in it. Even if he wanted to, most of the tribesmen don't want to. They are used to clean and tidy big bed rooms, and no one wants to sleep in a cave.
What, you say it’s hot, but you’re still not a savage. Why don’t you bask in the sun? You’ll be healthy only if you get tanned. Look at you, you’ve become so white and fat recently, you look like a savage.
So Xu Chen's various mutterings and complaints became the jokes of many tribesmen.
Even Ye couldn't help but laugh at him every time he saw the depressed and constipated expression on his face.
Although the little cousin is simple, she is not gentle or considerate at all, which makes Xu Chen very depressed.
Although he didn't bother to take this ridicule to heart, the weather was unbearably hot. He didn't know how the four kiln workers in the kiln factory who cut firewood and burned fire every day persisted.
"Wow wow wow wow..."
During the hottest time in the afternoon, Xu Chen was lying in his room sweating and had just fallen asleep when a baby's cry came and woke him up.
And after one started crying, the other soon started crying too, which then caused the wolf Big Wolf Two, who was lying at the gate of the yard and taking a nap with his tongue out, to also howl, and then a group of wild ducks in the duck house were frightened.
They also started to make a loud noise.
There are so many dogs that I can't sleep.
Xu Chen sighed and sat up from the bed, went to the well with bare feet and drank a drink of cold water, and then went to see the two crying little guys.
Jing was born in early February and is now almost 100 days old. Because the mother is supplemented with fish, meat and eggs, her milk is quite sufficient, which can basically meet her growth needs, so she doesn't cry much.
Fang was born at the end of March. He was born very healthy, and the mother also had plenty of milk. She is now one month old, and she doesn't cry much on weekdays.
But it has been too hot recently. As soon as the sun comes out, the temperature will quickly climb to more than 30 degrees. At noon and afternoon, even the room is like a steamer. There is no wind and it is so hot that it is completely suffocating. Xu Chen
It's unbearable for an adult, let alone these newborn babies.
Sometimes a group of women finally managed to feed him and put him to sleep, but he would soon be woken up by the heat, and then he would cry loudly and not even feed him, because the milk was so hot that he would sweat all over his forehead after sucking in it.
Seeing Xu Chen walk in, Aunt Seventeen, who was holding her child to breastfeed, was a little embarrassed and said apologetically: "It's hot, Jing Ga won't complain, I'll coax her!"
Xu Chen turned a blind eye to Aunt Seventeen's exposed breasts. He glanced at the sweaty little guy and saw that she was trying hard to push my mother's penis away with her hands, and continued to cry as if she was being burned.
Noisy.
"It's too hot. He doesn't want to breastfeed. I'm going to get a basin of water to give him a bath!"
Xu Chen saw that the little guy's skin was red and uncomfortable. He felt that holding him in his arms and breastfeeding would be counterproductive. Maybe eating a few more mouthfuls would cause him to suffer from heatstroke. So he turned around and went out. He quickly went to the well to get two cans of water and used one.
The big pottery basin was brought in.
The little guy was thrown naked into the basin and immediately stopped crying. Instead, he kept slapping and splashing with his hands and feet, feeling very excited.
After comforting Jing, Xu Chen went to Aunt Jiu's room not far next door.
Aunt Jiu was not there, only Ye was inside. At this time, she was walking back and forth in the room with her sturdy little guy in her arms. Although the little guy was just one month old and could not see clearly, his voice was not as loud as usual and he howled.
Full of energy.
It was his howling that woke up the entire courtyard just now.
"Oh oh oh, don't howl ga, mother ga will return to ga, croak milk ga ga..."
Like a little adult, Ye walked and swayed with his arms in his arms. He was so tired that he was sweating, but the little guy didn't show any respect at all. He howled louder and louder as if there was a whistle in his mouth.
Seeing Xu Chen walking in with a displeased look on his face, Ye Ye was a little ashamed.
Because everyone knows that Xu Chen usually takes a nap. Although this habit is very strange, given his special identity and status, everyone still takes care of his emotions.
"Fang Ga is crying and can't sleep..." Ye gently shook Fang Ga and explained in a low voice.
"Show me!" Xu Chen reached out and took the room over.
The little guy only wore a linen bellyband, his eyes were closed, his little hands and feet were lightly tapping, and he kept crying, and his face was still red from suppressing it.
Fang was just one month old, and although he was strong, his resistance was still very fragile. He didn't dare to get a basin of cold water to soak in to cool off, so he hugged the little guy for a while. Not only did he not stop, but he cried even harder.
Could it be that the little guy feels uncomfortable somewhere?
Xu Chen felt a little strange, and at the same time he felt as uncomfortable as holding a stove, so he put the little guy on the bed, untied his bellyband, looked over and over again, and found nothing wrong, and then used
I gently fanned him with a piece of animal skin for a while, and I found that while he was crying, he kept unconsciously scratching his head with his little hands. So I took a closer look and found that there was a big bump on the top of his head, as if he had been bitten by a mosquito.
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Ye also saw it, and he felt distressed and quickly scratched it a few times with his hands. The little guy immediately stopped crying.
"Don't grab it hard!" Xu Chen blocked Ye's hand.
Children's skin is tender and scratching may cause inflammation.
If such a hot day causes ulcers, it is certain that my life will be lost.
"Itchy!" Ye explained in a low voice.
"Don't scratch it if it's itchy, just look at him!"
Xu Chen turned around and went out. He ran outside the yard under the strong afternoon sun and searched around. He grabbed a handful of mugwort, mint, Polygonum and lobelia and came back.
During field trips, the most common problem encountered was mosquito bites, so Xu Chen also knew that several herbs could repel insects and relieve itching.
However, after time travel, most of the plants are different from those in the past, and some of the familiar ones are not available at all.
Both lobelia and Polygonum grow in relatively humid ditches or at the foot of mountains. The current climate is very suitable for growing. They are everywhere in the valley. I used a lot of them last time to treat snake venom for Gu Heju.
Wild herbs have the effect of detoxifying, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and of course they can also relieve itching.
In terms of relieving itching, Polygonum vulgaris is better than Lobelia, because this herb has a spicy taste that can stimulate the nerves and achieve the anti-itching effect of fighting poison with poison.
In view of the characteristics of Polygonum spp., Xu Chen often used it to stir up fish in the ditch when he was a child. He smashed it with stones and threw it into the water. After stirring for a while, the fish were all too spicy and couldn't stand it. They came up to the surface to breathe and caught one at a time.
allow.
Among the herbal medicines, the one with the best effect in relieving itchiness was Aesculus aesculata. It was also found on the mountain. It was similar to Chonglou, but it grew higher up the mountainside. Suddenly, he couldn't get it. He was in an emergency and couldn't take care of it at the moment.
Mugwort does not relieve itching, but the smell can repel mosquitoes.
Mint is refreshing and a good common anti-itching herb.
Xu Chen put several herbs in a pottery bowl and pounded them carefully with a wooden pestle. When he returned to Jiuyi's room, he found that his mother and two older women had also come to visit. At this time, they were criticizing Ye for not taking good care of the child.
Ye lowered his head and looked aggrieved, pouting and saying nothing.
Xu Chen didn't defend Ye, and quickly applied some juice on Fang's head. Then the little guy's crying slowly subsided a lot. Maybe he was too tired from crying just now, so several women gently coaxed him.
After a while he fell asleep.
"Huh~"
Xu Chen breathed a long sigh of relief and shook off the sweat on his forehead.
Nima finally calmed down.
I feel so tired, not to mention that the heat makes me uncomfortable every day, and I am a father and a mother at the same time, so I just need to nurse the baby.