After dinner, Xu Chen took advantage of dawn to work overtime to make the second cradle.
Ye continues to weave mosquito nets.
Because this kind of gauze has very sparse warp and weft lines, its density is less than one-third that of ordinary linen, so the speed is not slow. After nearly two hours in the afternoon and evening, the leaves were weaved nearly three feet long.
"That's enough, that's enough, take it off!"
The sky was almost dark, and the adults and children had already washed themselves and started to go into the room to sleep. Xu Chen asked Ye to take off the gauze, cut it simply with a stone knife, and use a few thin wooden sticks to support it and cover it on the cradle.
"Aunt Jiu, put Fang Ga in so that he won't be bitten by insects!"
Xu Chen lifted the gauze on one side and pointed at the cradle.
"Wow!"
Aunt Jiu realized this and was even more surprised. She quickly put the cleaned room in. Xu Chen covered it with gauze and pushed it gently. The hanging basket made a squeaking sound and began to swing gently. The room was lying on it.
Inside, little hands and feet lay spread out in a large shape, silent and breathless, a stable group.
"Jing Ga also wants..."
Aunt Seventeen, who had been waiting for her cradle next to her, started to act like a baby in excitement.
Xu Chen could only say quickly with sweat on his forehead: "Jing's cradle will be ready tomorrow, but you have to weave the gauze yourself, or let Ye help, she is more familiar with it!"
"Swish, swish, swish!"
Aunt Seventeen nodded happily, then took Ye and left.
Aunt Jiu was so excited that she couldn't sleep at all. A gust of wind ran out to find other women to show off their baby hammocks. Soon the men and women who had just fallen asleep were attracted to them again, and then a large room of people covered the cradle with this sparse gauze.
The mosquito net was full of praise, and the mother was so happy that she couldn't open her mouth from ear to ear, and chatted with a group of women about the benefits of this kind of gauze.
Ever since Xu Chen invented weaving, after everyone learned it, he almost never raised any opinions.
For a long time, a group of women have believed that the tighter the linen is woven, the better, so that when worn on the body, it can not only keep warm, but also provide necessary protection.
However, with the arrival of summer, light linen clothes have begun to wear out. Although they have changed to short-sleeved shorts, after getting used to being naked, many men and women still like to go topless, especially after taking a shower at night.
Most of the women in the room were as shirtless as the men, which made Xu Chen extremely embarrassed.
If you have this kind of thinner and more breathable gauze to make clothes, which can keep you cool and repel mosquitoes, you won't be so embarrassed.
Xu Chen threw the unfinished second cradle under the eaves and went to the well to take a cold shower. After feeling cool all over, he returned to his room.
Although the room was not ventilated and even hotter, there were so many mosquitoes in the yard that he couldn't bear the bites even if he carried them. His ears were buzzing, and there were so many mosquitoes that he could lift a person up.
Not long after he entered the room, he was sitting in front of the brick table writing today's diary, when suddenly the door curtain swung and a head stuck in.
"Gaha?" Xu Chen turned his head.
Ye quickly got in and placed a duck egg in his hand in front of Xu Chen.
"Aunt Seventeen gave it to me?" Xu Chen asked with a smile.
"Yeah!" Ye nodded gently and whispered, "Here you go... Ah Qi Gaga!"
Xu Chen couldn't help but glance at the breasts of the little female savage cousin, then put the duck egg into her hand and said: "Aunt Seventeen gives it to you, you can eat it, I eat more meat every day than you!"
Ye held the duck egg in his hand and couldn't help but glance down at his chest. Then he walked behind Xu Chen with his lips pouting and looked at the words Xu Chen wrote on the animal skin.
"The one I made is called a cradle!"
"Cradle quack!"
"The one you made is called a mosquito net!"
“Mosquito net quack!”
"Don't say it!"
"Okay...Gah..."
There was a faint proud smile on Ye's slightly plump cheeks. His body kept moving slightly and leaning forward. Finally, his chest finally touched Xu Chen's shoulder, and then he started to rub gently.
Xu Chen:……
Ever since she came back from attending Mother's Day, the previously innocent little wild man became increasingly impure and would seduce him like this at every turn.
It's just that my cousin doesn't like this. I only like fair-skinned, beautiful and long-legged ones.
You go back, our two species are different.
After driving away the resentful and frustrated little cousin, Xu Chen went to take a cold shower again, barely suppressed the evil thoughts that I couldn't even tolerate, and went to bed.
I am afraid that I will never meet a woman with fair skin, beauty and long legs.
Drowsily, tossing and turning, he had a strange dream. What he dreamed about was actually a pair of twin little witches who had never spoken to each other. One was holding a whip, the other was holding a staff high, and they tied him to a painting.
He was ravaged hard on the dark bed with strange runes, until at a certain moment he suddenly woke up with a jolt, touched his thigh, and his face was full of weird excitement and loss.
It is indeed not easy for a thirty-year-old soul to still enjoy the surging passion of youth.
But does this constitute blasphemy?
…
Early the next morning.
Xu Chen was shaken awake.
When he opened his eyes, he saw Aunt Seventeen and Aunt Thirteen standing beside his bed.
He remembered his dream last night, and then remembered that he was not wearing shorts. He suddenly covered his lower body and sat up. His face was feverish and he asked with a smile: "So early, haha?"
"Cradle quack!"
Aunt Thirteen and Aunt Seventeen covered their mouths and said with a smile.
"Uh, don't worry, don't worry, I'll do it well today!" Xu Chen quickly took the shorts that were crumpled into a ball and threw them on the bed, put them on and got out of bed.
"The two aunts are the same. They are both very old and they don't even say hello when they come in..."
Xu Chen muttered and ran all the way to pee.
The longer he lived, the more he felt that living with this group of seven aunts and eight aunts had no privacy at all.
It seems that in the minds of primitive people, there has never been a concept of privacy.
I washed my hands, face, and mouth, and breakfast was already prepared. The aroma of boiled wheat, green beans, wild vegetables, and grilled fish filled the courtyard.
In summer, the temperature is too high and meat cannot be kept for a long time. I left some of the fish caught yesterday and hung it above the fire pond to smoke it so that it would not stink. In the morning, I grilled it over the fire and diluted it with the sauce.
This is not a method taught by Xu Chen, but a method that primitive humans slowly learned to preserve food during the long process of evolution. This is true for all fresh animal meat except fish.
However, the retention time of this method will not be too long, usually one to two days.
Breakfast is very simple, a bowl of mixed vegetable porridge composed of green wheat, green beans and wild vegetables, and a piece of grilled fish. The taste is light, but it is not unpalatable, especially when the green wheat and green beans are cooked, they have a crisp and sweet taste.
The taste is very good.
Although he has never eaten a morsel of salt until now, Xu Chen discovered that he did not have much physical or psychological need for simple salt.
The reason is probably related to my savage body, which is used to food lacking in salt and taste.
After breakfast, men and women went out to work again.
Xu Chen also went to the kiln to take a look, and by the way he pulled back a large bundle of mugwort and polygonum and threw it in the yard to dry, and then took advantage of the cool morning to quickly weave a cradle.
The second one had been knitted for less than half last night, and it was completed in less than half an hour. I tried hanging it with a rope and it was OK, so I moved to Aunt Seventeen's room. Aunt Seventeen, who was knitting gauze with Ye, was immediately happy.
It was so bad that I hugged him, touched and kneaded him and wanted to give him some milk.
After coming out of Aunt Seventeen's room with an embarrassed look on his face, he was not in a hurry to make the third hammock.
The third one was wanted by Aunt Thirteen. Sheng Ga was already six months old. No matter in terms of weight or length, a hanging basket for such a small baby was no longer suitable. What he needed was a small bed, so he squatted on it.
After writing and drawing with a stick on the ground for a while, I started to get busy.
There are many types of cribs in later generations, but most of them are made of wooden boards. But now there are only primitive tools such as stone knives and stone axes, which cannot make suitable wooden boards at all, so he can only continue to pay attention to wooden sticks and ivy.
First, use wooden sticks to tie a square three-dimensional frame as a bed frame, then use several wooden sticks to tie a smaller frame horizontally and vertically and weave rattan into a square hanging basket to use as a hammock.
The structure is simple, but the amount of work is relatively large, and a lot of ivy is needed. During the process, he also asked two tool men to go up the mountain under the bright sun to cut back several large bundles of ivy.
For half a day, Xu Chen struggled with this crib.
By noon, the scorching sun was in the sky, and under the strong sunlight, the earth was roasting like a furnace. The temperature quickly climbed to over 40 degrees. Xu Chen began to feel so hot that he couldn't breathe again, so he left half of his crib to take a lunch break.
During the trip, Aunt Thirteen came to visit several times. She was very happy when she learned that Xu Chen had made a large rattan bed for her daughter. When she saw Xu Chen going to sleep, she was afraid that others would break it, so she kept sitting next to it.
Look after.
Because of the advent of the small cradle and the mosquito net, the house and well were very safe today. Xu Chen finally had a rare and peaceful nap. When he woke up, the sun was already in the west, almost two o'clock in the afternoon.
The temperature at this time has probably reached the peak of the day, and the air in the yard close to the ground can be seen with the naked eye in a state of transpiration and distortion.
The flowers, plants and trees planted in a circle all drooped their branches and leaves in the strong sunshine, and were dying of the sun.
A group of ducks were hiding in the duck house and did not dare to come out.
Not only is the ground temperature high, but the water in the small pond is also very hot. If you go for a swim and lift it up, you will be able to remove your hair directly.
"Aunt Thirteen, you are sitting here, it's so sunny!"
Xu Chen stretched out and saw Aunt Thirteen sitting under the eaves under the bright sun.
"I'm... afraid that the bed will break!" Aunt Thirteen quickly stood up and gestured.
Xu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he quickly asked her to go back to the room. It was the hottest time of the day at noon, and it seemed like she had been staying here for a long time. There was really nothing they could do about these stubborn relatives. There was a room next to her, so how could she sit in it?
It doesn't look good.
However, Xu Chen also knew that she really wanted to get a crib, so he could only move the half-knitted crib to the aisle at the gate of the yard and continue working on it.