Most of the night, I stared at the cave entrance with my eyes wide open, until the sky started to turn pale, and I finally fell asleep.
When I woke up, there were birds chirping outside the cave and the sun was shining brightly.
Ye squatted beside his grass nest, his eyes were red and slightly swollen.
It seems that she didn't sleep well last night either.
Xu Chen quickly pulled her fur skirt to cover her lower body. She sat up and stretched a little awkwardly, "Gaha?"
"Tao!" Ye did not sexually harass him, but pointed to the outside of the cave and said softly.
"What's wrong with Tao?"
Xu Chen was startled and quickly got up. When he walked to the entrance of the cave, he found that everything was calm outside. The adult men and women had already finished breakfast and started working. Most of them had already left the cave and went down the mountain.
"Kiln!" Ye followed out and pointed to the location of the kiln down the mountain.
Only then did Xu Chen realize that she still wanted to go to the kiln factory to help.
However, the kiln factory is now on the right track, and he no longer needs to watch it every day, nor does it need a group of children to follow to make trouble, so Xu Chen shook his head, pointed to the puddle and said: "Study!"
Ye turned away sadly, not wanting to talk to him.
Although the negative effects of the aphrodisiac tea had subsided as the night passed, the sad experience last night still made her unhappy.
Xu Chen ignored her and went to the grove to pee, then went to the puddle to wash his face and mouth. When he came back, Ye had already poured out half a bowl of porridge for him from the clay pot that was simmering in the fire pit, and also gave him some porridge.
Added some boiled broth and wild vegetables.
Holding a pottery bowl and wooden chopsticks, Xu Chen squatted in the cave entrance and swallowed.
This was the warmest and most comfortable breakfast he had eaten since traveling through time.
In the open space, a group of men were laughing and chatting loudly, twisting ropes to weave baskets, making bows and arrows and wooden hoes.
Three pregnant women and several frail women were busy cleaning and drying food.
A group of children were feeding ponies by the woods, their laughter was cheerful and innocent.
Ye stood next to Xu Chen, saying nothing, just like the two of them.
Because of the huge language barrier, Xu Chen could not communicate with her in depth about emotional issues, so he could only wolf down his breakfast, put down his bowls and chopsticks, and hold Ye's hand to the puddle.
"numb!"
Xu Chen used a wooden stick to pick up a bundle of bark soaked in the pit, then took out a handful and put it into the spring water and gently rubbed it. Gradually, the bark that had been soaked for half a month began to turn gray.
Although Ye was in a low mood, he also knew that Xu Chen had specially brought these things back to soak in them, so he was still observing them carefully.
After a few minutes, Xu Chen rubbed all the bark on his hands and cleaned it, put it on a stone next to it to dry, and then continued to clean the remaining bark.
"Stand there, help me!" Seeing that Ye didn't move, Xu Chen glared and urged.
So Ye could only squat down and pouted unhappily, and picked up a handful of bark and started cleaning it.
Last time, I got a total of seven or eight kinds of bark, each of which was in small quantity and only a small bundle. When it rained, a few bundles were washed away, and some were rotten and unusable after being soaked. The remaining two seemed to be still good.
Can.
Because I am too busy making pottery to take care of it, I have been soaking it for more than ten days. One of them is no longer good. It rotted after just rubbing it with my hands a few times.
So only the last one is available.
As for the only one left, it may be that the soaking time is too long, leaving very little fiber after scrubbing, but it is still strong enough.
Hemp rope is available in every household in rural areas, and sacks are also commonly used items.
Although Xu Chen knows how to twist hemp rope and has seen rural people retting hemp, the varieties are different and the retting time is also different. Some are not even retting, and they are chopped and piled directly on the roadside in the field, where they are exposed to wind and rain for a period of time.
Peel off the skin and rub it clean until it becomes numb.
Therefore, he only knew that the hemp skin could be soaked in water for a period of time and washed clean, leaving pure hemp, but he did not know how long it would take to soak.
At present, it seems that this soaking time is obviously too long.
Because even if it is hemp rope and linen, it will most likely rot if left to soak in water for a few months.
But fortunately, the spring water may be relatively cold, so even if the weather is hot, after soaking for such a long time, it is still partially successful.
The two of them worked for half an hour. After scrubbing the small bundle of bark clean, they placed it on a rock to dry.
"Watch it, don't let the wind blow it away!"
Xu Chen made a gesture of blowing the wind, and after watching Ye nod gloomily, he asked Gu Heju to bring his bow and arrow weapons and lead the pony down the mountain.
A group of children wanted to follow, but he drove them back.
Without Ye Dai, he would be too lazy to take care of these primitive little savages.
If you're not careful, you'll disappear without a trace.
He took her back and gave her a beating. She cried so hard that she disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Either they were climbing trees, digging into the soil to catch snakes, or fishing for fish in the river.
After all, you are either seeking death or on the road to death.
The space on the mountain is small and there are a group of adults watching, but when you get down the mountain, you look like little bandits.
Since the last heavy rain, the weather has become gradually cooler.
Some broad-leaved trees on the mountain are slowly turning yellow, and there is a sense of autumn.
The oats and wild fruits near the foot of the mountain were basically exhausted, so the mother bus could only lead a group of women to collect farther away.
But fortunately, since the leader of the wolf was killed and the wolf den was opened, no wild wolves have appeared in the valley, and the safety has been greatly improved.
Since the introduction of bows and arrows, hunting has become simpler and easier. Feng led a group of hunters to wander under the mountains all day long, taking the initiative to hunt down some wild beasts entrenched in the valley. Recently, the harvest was not small, and the Shiba Inu wild boar killed several
head, and also killed a leopard.
Although I don’t know if it was the leopard that ate the little rabbit last time, but after half a month of continuous sweeps, the valley became much quieter, and the sounds of beasts roaring and fighting were rarely heard at night.
However, such a large-scale hunting and sweep by a group of hunters has gradually made the herbivores in the valley feel threatened. Therefore, a large number of wild beasts have disappeared recently, except for some wild deer, wild sheep, foxes and other similar small animals on the river beach.
Apart from that, there were only a group of wild horses left, about twenty or thirty of them.
Wild horses are very vigilant and will flee hundreds of meters away most of the time, making them almost impossible to hunt.
And a group of hunters had never hunted a wild horse.
It’s not that I don’t want to, it’s mainly that my strength doesn’t allow it.
The injury of the colt on the mountain has completely healed. After being fed for a while, it has become docile. However, it is only half a person tall and less than a year old. It is still too young to be used. In addition, it still needs to be trained slowly.
adapt.
After all, they are purebred wild horses, and their genes have not yet been domesticated.
This takes time and effort to get used to.
Ever since he built a kiln at the foot of the mountain, he would bring some fresh weeds back to the cave every day. The little pony seemed to know that he was rescued by Xu Chen, so he was particularly docile to him and would be very happy whenever he saw him.
Neighing and stamping his feet.
This is a good sign.
Only animals that know how to be grateful can be domesticated.
Once domesticated, they will be loyal.
Horses are the most individual and loyal among these animals. After being well trained, they are more obedient and loyal than dogs. Therefore, horses have always been the embodiment of morality in ancient times.
The movement of heaven is represented by a dragon, and the earth's movement is represented by a horse. The spirit of the dragon and horse is a reflection of the morality of heaven and earth.
If this pony can be tamed, then maybe the group of wild horses left in the valley can also be tamed.
Because this is a male horse, when it is released, it may seduce a few mares back. The more it is seduced, the more horses it will raise.
If it doesn't work, feed it more aphrodisiac fruits to enhance its fighting power.
Xu Chen's thoughts wandered all the way. When he arrived at the kiln, the other four people had been busy for a long time.
The first batch of pottery was successful, and everyone was very excited and ready to continue their efforts to make the second batch of pottery.
But now the kiln factory no longer needs Xu Chen to do everything by himself. The several kiln workers are gradually becoming familiar with digging soil and making mud, and they are more active than Xu Chen every day. They go down the mountain at dawn and work until the sun goes down. After finishing work and returning to the mountain, if it weren't for the dangers at the foot of the mountain and no one to cook, they wouldn't even bother to go back every day. They thought it would be more comfortable to live at the foot of the mountain. After all, the kiln burner had been sleeping at the foot of the mountain for the past few days and had not encountered any danger.
Xu Chen inspected the surroundings of the kiln, and then led a group of people to start making pottery blanks.
The vessels being fired this time are all large, so the production difficulty is also higher. Simply kneading mud is no longer suitable. You need to roll the wet mud into long and thin mud strips, and then put them on the plate in circles.
This is the oldest pottery making method in the mountainous areas of Guizhou. It does not require any molds and relies entirely on the exquisite skills of old potters.
However, this process needs to be controlled very carefully, and the requirements for the dryness and wetness of the clay are also very high, so failures are inevitable.
Technology is a process of continuous accumulation. Xu Chen did not intend to build a large water tank at once. That would be unrealistic, so he constantly summarized experience and improved the process in order to make it as big as possible.
If the diameter is less than two feet, make one foot first. If you can't make a water tank, make a large open-top jar. In short, think big and work hard, as long as the pottery does not collapse or crack, even if it is crooked and flat. It doesn't matter.
It was under this guiding ideology that a group of people worked hard for most of the day and still made five or six very good-looking jars and jars. Of course, these things were all very crooked without exception, but this did not prevent them from being used after being burned. .
The main purpose of these large pottery vessels is to hold things, and they do not need to be exquisite or beautiful.
After seeing that several potters had gained some experience, Xu Chen did not participate in making pottery when he went down. Instead, he took Gu and Ju to dig holes near the river beach with wooden hoes.
Now that plants suitable for spinning and weaving have been found, the next step is to collect the bark of this plant on a large scale for retting.
The place at the foot of the mountain is large enough and close to the river, so it is easiest and most convenient to retting hemp at the foot of the mountain.