Primitive people have simple ideas and live together in large families. Men and women each perform their own duties, and the elders take care of the younger ones. Ye's main task is to take care of a group of children, especially babies who can't walk yet.
Nowadays, there are more and more children, and she is busy all day long.
She is the oldest among a group of children and the youngest among a group of women, so she naturally suffers a lot of grievances.
After the mother and the two women left after chattering for a while, looking at Ye who looked aggrieved and about to cry, Xu Chen rubbed her hair and comforted her: "Don't cry, you were sleeping just now, weren't you?"
"Yeah!" Ye Hua nodded while wiping her tears.
"Take the loom and I will teach you how to make a mosquito net so that no insects can bite you in the future!"
"oh!"
Ye wiped her tears and went out. After a while, she brought a rattan basket with a waist loom for weaving, as well as many twine and shuttles.
These things are standard tools for tribal women. They will weave whenever they have free time. However, since having three more children, Ye has not participated in weaving work for a long time.
"Mosquito net gah?"
Ye took out all the long and short sticks, and couldn't help but ask curiously.
Xu Chen felt that he couldn't explain clearly with his words, so he could only make a few simple gestures, and then the two of them started to work together to go online.
Mosquito nets need to be made of gauze with a very sparse texture, so the warp is very thin, only about one-third of the usual fabric.
Looking at such sparse warp threads, although Ye was full of doubts, she also knew that Xu Chen was helping her solve the problem of taking care of the child, so she didn't ask any more questions, sat on the straw mat, put the loom on her waist and tied it up.
"Remember, the weft threads must also be so thin, and cannot be tied too tightly..."
Under Xu Chen's reminder and guidance, Ye weaved back and forth several times. Because he could not control the strength of beating up, the weft lines naturally looked very messy and crooked.
"Momba Gaga wants to scold..."
Looking at the appearance of the cloth woven under Xu Chen's guidance, all of which were meshes of different widths and sizes, Ye reminded in a low voice unhappily.
"No, just weave like this. Mother will praise you if you do a good job!" Xu Chen encouraged with a smile.
The little female savage cousin rolled her eyes at him. Although she felt a little unhappy, she continued to knit.
Xu Chen stood nearby and gave some pointers from time to time not to weave too densely. After Ye seemed to be proficient, he left the room, found a few long and short wooden sticks, and started working under the eaves.
Most of the men went out to hunt and fish, and many women also went out to collect wild fruits and food. There was only a group of old, weak, sick and pregnant women left in the family, and each of them was weaving and working in their own room. A group of children also followed Gu He.
Ju took the monkey out to inspect the farmland.
In fact, on such a hot day, the patrol is a fake, mainly to find a place to play in the water. In addition, there are more wild fruits to eat in the wild. A group of wild children are not afraid of the heat at all. They take a dip in the water and find some wild fruits to eat.
If I really can't stand it, I'll find a shade tree to play the willow flute and play games. I won't stay at home anyway.
In fact, human pups have always been like this.
The same thing happened to Xu Chen when he was a child.
No matter how hot the summer is, as long as it doesn’t rain heavily, I will definitely play wildly outside with a group of children in the village, swimming, catching fish, digging out bird’s nests, picking wild fruits, swinging, catching butterflies, catching dragonflies, stealing cucumbers and tomatoes from other people’s gardens...
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What he still remembers vividly is that the boy next door and a group of kids stole all the tomatoes from his vegetable garden, destroying a large area of the vegetable shelf. Then he was beaten by his parents for half the night, and Xu Chen was also beaten by his parents.
My father beat me up and he even picked a big basket of tomatoes from his garden to pay for it.
So for children, it doesn't matter whether it's hot or cold, as long as they can play outside, as long as they don't go home, they will be happy.
Therefore, the courtyard was very quiet without a group of children. Occasionally, you could only hear the voices of men and women talking from other rooms, and few people moved around.
In the room, the sound of leaves weaving was very soft, and the thumping thumping sound of the weft knife during daily weaving could not be heard.
Outside the room, Xu Chen slowly tied a bunch of wooden sticks with ropes to make two tripods. On the tripods, another wooden stick was tied horizontally, making it look like a miniature clothes drying rack.
After the wooden frame was completed, Xu Chen made some gestures with his hands, found wattle sticks and vines, and began to weave a rattan basket.
In the middle of the journey, I peeed, drank water, and went to find Aunt Thirteen to nurse the baby after she woke up. During the busy work, a rattan basket slowly took shape, and the sun gradually set in the west.
As the sun was blocked by the hillside behind, the courtyard was slowly shrouded in shadow. Without the strong sunlight, the entire courtyard seemed much cooler.
A group of wild ducks and their ducklings came out of the duck house and started swimming and playing in the small pond.
The big wolf, the second wolf, seemed to be much more energetic. He squatted at the gate with his fur shaking, looking out into the distance, and howled from time to time.
In the distance, there was a sound of yo hoo hoo hoo. It was a group of men returning from hunting.
Women who went out to collect also came in one after another, carrying baskets on their backs and rattan baskets.
The yard became noisy and lively.
As soon as Aunt Jiu got home, she dropped her backpack and hurried to the room to see the child. She found that although Fang was awake, he was lying on the bed without crying. So she breathed a sigh of relief and was about to praise Ye Zhi for taking good care of her, but she saw Ye Zhi come out.
I couldn't help criticizing the sparse cloth.
"What Chen Ga wants..."
Ye felt aggrieved again, pouting and muttering softly.
Aunt Jiu stopped talking as soon as she heard this. After asking a few questions, she learned that Fang was bitten by an insect on the top of her head when she was sleeping in the afternoon. She quickly picked her up and took a few glances. She found that the swelling had subsided after applying herbal medicine, so she untied one side of her clothes.
The baby thanked Xu Chen while going out.
At this time, Xu Chen had already tied the woven oval rattan basket to the wooden frame.
The rattan basket is not the usual kind of shoulder basket with the handle in the middle. Instead, it is hung at the four corners with four ropes. After tying it, push it gently with your hand, and the hanging basket will gently swing back and forth on it.
"Moxy Gaga?"
Looking at this strange thing, Aunt Jiu's face was full of curiosity.
"Give me Fang Ga!"
Xu Chen forcibly pulled Fang Fang out of Aunt Jiu's arms with the sweat-smelling semen in his mouth.
"Wow wow..."
The little guy was eating vigorously, but suddenly his ration was gone, and he started crying again.
"What the hell, didn't I just eat the milk of Thirteenth Aunt..."
Xu Chen put the little guy in the hanging basket and pushed it gently. As the hanging basket began to swing back and forth, the little guy's crying stopped instantly.
"Wow... come and see Gaga!"
Aunt Jiu understood it instantly and screamed excitedly. Immediately, a group of women who had returned came running over in a swarm. After discovering this magical cradle, they all shouted excitedly.
The mother was arranging for the women to cook dinner in the kitchen. When she heard the excitement outside, she quickly ran over with a few women. Then she was also stunned by Xu Chen's simple and magical hanging basket idea.
"The well must be quacked too!"
Aunt Seventeen squeezed in with her child in her arms and shouted excitedly when she saw it.
In the middle of the excitement, Gu Heju came back with a group of children carrying fish baskets and some weeds for ducks to eat. They all crowded in to join in the fun. Some even couldn't help but push the hanging basket hard, and there was a huge swing.
The hanging basket almost turned over, causing the room inside to burst into tears again.
So some adults just grabbed the naughty child's ears and went out to get beaten. In the midst of the excitement, Feng and a group of hunting and fishing men also came back. Seeing how lively the yard was, they quickly left the fish and prey and crowded around.
When I came up to watch, naturally there was a burst of lively noise and shouting, and everyone was full of praise for Xu Chen's idea full of ideas.
"Ah Qi, Monkey Qiyu Ga..."
Suddenly a child's cry came from behind, and the noisy group of people quickly turned around, only to see the reckless child who had just been spanked with tears in his eyes. Hua'er pointed at the fish and prey thrown in the middle of the yard. Sure enough, a few monkeys were
Robbery and stealing food.
"Beat!"
Feng and others rushed forward in anger, and a group of monkeys dispersed. Some ran out of the gate, some jumped on the roof, and a group of men beat them with sticks. In the blink of an eye, the whole yard was in complete chaos.
Xu Chen closed his eyes and shook his head with black lines on his head.
Although it is lively when there are many people living together, it can become chaotic if there are too many people.
Every night after people come back, there is always a long period of excitement.
The sun sets and dusk falls amidst the bustle.
Although the temperature is still high, it is much cooler than during the day, but a large number of mosquitoes have begun to appear.
These mosquitoes come in all kinds, mostly mosquitoes and fleas, as well as ants, spiders, centipedes, toads and many unknown or unrecognizable species.
Once you get out of the compound, there are wild fields all around, and the plants are lush and green, so there are a lot of mosquitoes. Not only are there many, but they are also very big. Some mosquitoes look like small dragonflies, and their long snout tubes look extremely ferocious.
Being bitten on the head feels like your brains could be ripped out.
Adults are used to having thick skin and rough flesh, and they are covered by clothes and thick body hair, so they usually don't take it seriously. There are some guys with thick body hair who simply can't reach the skin, and will be directly covered by the thick body hair if they land on it.
His body hair stuck to his body and he was killed by the smell of sweat.
But a group of children and several newborn babies were suffering.
While eating, a group of adults patted their bodies occasionally, a group of children kept shouting, and the three babies would cry and howl from time to time.
Mosquito infestation has been around for a long time, starting in late spring, but suddenly became more violent after entering May, especially after thunderstorms reduced the flow of water in the river and stabilized. In the hot weather, the large swaths of riverbanks that had previously been flooded simply became
A natural breeding ground for these mosquitoes.
There is no good way to deal with mosquitoes in any era, other than fumigation and killing is self-isolation.
Xu Chen was used to this kind of harsh environment before he traveled. When he was surveying the Yunnan-Guizhou area, he found that mosquitoes are present in all seasons, and there are many poisonous species. Among them is a kind of flower-legged mosquito. One bite can make a big bag. The most terrifying thing is that it bites the finger.
The head or toes can simply make people feel ecstatic and itchy.
After traveling through time, he inherited the young savage's rough body and primitive resistance. He actually felt much better. He was bitten countless times every day, but he didn't feel itchy and unbearable. It was far less intense than the intense heat that made him feel.
Uncomfortable.
However, if the mosquitoes continue to plague like this, the three children will not be able to sleep well day and night. Not only will their growth and development be affected by the crying, but the adults will also have trouble sleeping due to the fuss. It is too late to make a large mosquito net now and cover the cradle.