In the mountain kiln factory, the four kiln workers have begun to work again. Some are digging soil and carrying water and mud, some are collecting firewood, and some are digging the second large kiln. Each is responsible for his own work.
Xu Chen did not stay at the kiln for long, leaving Gu Heju to help in the kiln, and then led the pony to the river.
The puddle dug last time was already filled with bark.
There are several large piles piled nearby.
The mother and several women were digging another water hole with wooden hoe, apparently hoping to expand production.
Seeing Xu Chen coming over, Mother put down her hoe very excitedly and pointed to the newly dug puddle and the bark piled beside it and explained in a gurgling manner.
Xu Chen nodded while listening, tied the pony on the river beach to graze, and then went down to the puddle to look at the soaked bark. He found that many barks and fibers could be dispersed by gently rubbing them with his hands. It was obvious that the soaking time had expired.
It was enough, so I picked it up and threw it on the shore.
After fishing out seven or eight bundles, he asked his mother to gather a few women to learn how to clean the hemp skin in the river.
Under Xu Chen's simple demonstration, several women soon learned this simple treatment method, so a group of people started scrubbing in the river while laughing and chatting. The washed burlap was spread out on the pebbles on the river beach to dry.
Soon the river beach was covered with a piece of gray-white burlap.
Not far from the river beach, there are many large and small herbivores grazing leisurely.
Among them, more than ten wild horses are particularly noticeable.
These wild horses seemed to have discovered the existence of the ponies, and they looked nervously in the distance, and even neighed a few times from time to time, causing the ponies to stamp their feet and neigh anxiously.
Xu Chen secretly observed while working.
Perhaps due to human reasons, these wild horses just patrolled in the distance and did not dare to approach.
After autumn, the river water is already cooler, especially on cloudy days like this.
After standing in the water for half an hour, Xu Chen felt that he couldn't stand it anymore, so he went ashore to take a rest. He decided to lead the pony and continue to get closer to the horses to see what the effect would be.
Unfortunately, as he led the pony downstream, all the grazing animals on the river beach fled in all directions, and the horses also fled far away while neighing.
Since the invention of the bow and arrow, the attack power of a group of hunters has become much more powerful. After several hunts, the vigilance of the animals has greatly increased, and now the safe distance between them and humans is getting farther and farther, to the point where they are almost inaccessible.
Seeing the horses leaving, Xu Chen could only sigh, take the pony back and continue to tie it near the puddle.
A child with a mother is like a treasure, a child without a mother is like a grass.
The pony is now in the hands of humans. There is no possibility of returning to the herd of horses. It can only stay here. After getting along with each other for the past month, a lot of the wildness in it has faded away. At least it is with Xu Chen and a group of children.
They are all very familiar with each other and are not afraid of humans at all.
In the hilly area not far from the river beach, there is a group of women collecting food.
However, the range of their collection is getting further and further away from the foot of the mountain, and the farthest one is already three miles away.
Under the slightly gloomy sky, there are goshawks circling in the sky.
Although the surrounding mountains and fields are already lush and green, some broad-leaved deciduous trees and thorny weeds are starting to turn yellow as they mature, adding a touch of autumn to this pristine and lush wilderness.
"Ah~"
A woman who was washing hemp in the river suddenly let out a cry of pain, and then limped ashore with a painful look on her face.
Mother Ba and the remaining women quickly dropped their things and stepped forward to ask for help. When Xu Chen came forward, several women had already helped him to the shore, and a string of bloody blood was left on the pebbles on the river beach.
Footprints.
The woman's sole was scratched by a broken mussel shell.
Although I walked barefoot all year round, my soles had a thick layer of calluses, but the clam shell was so sharp that it cut a deep wound that was more than an inch long. The blood flowed gurglingly, and soon stained a large area of sand and gravel, which looked like
Very scary.
Mother and several other women quickly helped the woman cover her wound.
Xu Chen also hurriedly searched around on the river beach and pulled out a handful of thatch roots and a large thistle. Without washing them, he shook off the dirt, smashed them with stones, and then had someone press hard on the wounds.
Logically speaking, such a large wound usually needs to be sutured.
But now I can only stare.
Fortunately, the weather is cooler after autumn, so as long as you protect yourself well, you should be able to recover. If the wound becomes infected and pus develops in summer, it can be fatal in the long run.
The wound was too big, and just pressing it with hands could not completely stop the bleeding. Therefore, several women covered it for two or three minutes, but blood still continued to flow out, and even the hands of several women were dyed red. There was a crowd on the river beach.
There is blood everywhere in the blockbuster.
It must have been a cut artery.
If it continues like this, I'm afraid people will have problems.
Xu Chen became anxious. He went to get a handful of hemp bark that had not been soaked in water, broke a branch and made a wooden stick. He wrapped the unused herbs just now in the hemp bark and pressed it on the wound, then put two more pressure on the outside.
Take a wooden stick, and then use rough hemp to wrap the stick tightly around your feet.
This is a simple compression method to stop bleeding.
This is a first aid measure I learned from the geological survey team in the past.
Geological exploration spends most of its time in inaccessible deep mountains and old forests, far away from urban areas and with difficult transportation. Even with hiking boots and various protective equipment, people are still often injured. Therefore, many simple first aid knowledge can be used in critical moments.
Can save lives.
For example, if you are bitten by a poisonous snake, tie the upper part of the wound tightly with a bandage as soon as possible to prevent the venom from entering the body through blood circulation.
For example, if an artery is injured and the bleeding doesn't stop, you need to apply pressure to stop the bleeding.
Although these methods cannot solve the problem, they can greatly extend life and buy time for transportation and rescue.
Although the situation at hand may not be fatal, if it is not handled in time, excessive blood loss can lead to fainting and shock.
The most important thing is that the foot is the main organ of human movement. If there are problems with healing, you may become a cripple in the future.
Therefore, having a pair of healthy and rough feet is a powerful capital for primitive people to survive.
Although Xu Chen's method of stopping bleeding seems simple, it is very effective.
After being tied tightly, no blood came out soon. The mother and the group of women all breathed a sigh of relief. The injured woman was also very grateful. She hugged Xu Chen and wanted to give him a few sips.
Strictly speaking, these adult women are all his maternal elders. Maybe they actually breastfed him when they were children.
But since his body changed his boss, this kind of feeling made him unable to get close to her, so he could only laugh awkwardly.
Someone was injured, and Muba and others could not stay at the bottom of the mountain. They quickly threw the unwashed hemp on the shore, cleaned it up, and then helped the limping woman back to the mountain.
Xu Chen took the time to pull a basket of grass near the river beach and put it in the pony's carrying basket. He also got some dried semi-dried burlap and secretly put it in the carrying basket and took it up the mountain.
After half a day of getting used to it, the pony didn't seem to have much resistance to the basket on its back.
Moreover, what Xu Chen put in at first was only grass. It seemed to know that this was its ration for the night, so it was very satisfied with Xu Chen's head and nudged it a few times. It didn't notice at all that some evil-hearted guy took advantage of it when it wasn't paying attention.
I also stuffed in some personal items.
However, Xu Chen also had a sense of propriety. The grass and hemp were not heavy, and they only weighed more than ten kilograms in total.
This small amount of weight is completely bearable for a pony.
When we returned to the cave, it was already afternoon.
Seeing someone injured, everyone in the cave suddenly became confused.
Men, women and children all gathered around to watch.
Xu Chen didn't dare to delay, and quickly untied the woman's tied feet, which were already beginning to swell. After observing the wound, he breathed a sigh of relief.
After nearly an hour of compression, the wound had stopped bleeding. Although it looked horrifying to see blood all over the sole of the foot, and the skin and flesh of the wound rolling around, which made people shudder, there was actually no serious problem.
I found some of the dried medicinal materials such as Tianqi and Daji that I had collected before, put them in a stone pit and pounded them into medicinal powder, then added some plant ash and applied it to the wound. After finishing it, I found that there was no way to bandage the animal skin.
Not only is it not easy to cut, it is also not very breathable, so I looked up at the leaves.
"Bring the cloth!"
Ye brought over a bundle of long and short wooden sticks rolled together and carefully opened them. There was already a length of cloth about the width of a palm and more than a foot long inside.
A group of adult women had never seen Bu, and they all immediately exclaimed.
Ye seemed to have guessed Xu Chen's plan, holding the cloth very reluctantly and unwilling to let go.
Xu Chen smiled and rubbed her messy hair and said, "Yamashita Mado, you can do it again in the future, give it to me!"
So Ye could only pouted and put the cloth on his hand, but tears were welling up in his eyes.
Xu Chen pulled down several round and flat wooden sticks with a few rough movements and threw them on the ground. Then he wrapped the woman's injured foot with linen cloth. He first tied it briefly with unfinished warp threads, and then tied it with burlap.
Tie them carefully.
"alright!"
After tying it up, Xu Chen was very satisfied with his masterpiece.
A group of women touched the linen wrapping the wound in surprise, including the injured woman, who almost forgot about the pain.
This is a magical item that they have never seen before. It is thin, soft, firm and smooth.
They went down the mountain to dig a hole today. They had heard from Muba that the bark soaked at the foot of the mountain was used to twist into thin threads to make something called cloth. But in fact, they had never seen it until now.
, and it doesn’t look like a finished product yet, it seems like it’s only half done.
What surprised them most was that the cloth was actually made from leaves. Obviously, making this kind of cloth did not require a lot of effort and was not difficult.
For tribesmen to survive, two resources are most important.
One is food.
The second is animal skins.
Women gatherers are responsible for the main food supply.
Men hunt not only to obtain meat, but another main purpose is to obtain animal skins.
As the weather gets colder, the tribesmen will soon need a large amount of animal skins to make covering clothing. Although this kind of cloth may look very thin, it can be easily made by rubbing rope with bark. As long as enough is made, it can be made.
It can replace animal skins to keep out the cold.
Therefore, with a large amount of cloth, animal skins became dispensable.
In this way, men will no longer have to venture further afield in order to obtain more animal skins, and can safely stay nearby to help with work, such as making pottery and collecting firewood.
Almost every year, men in the tribe are injured or die during hunting.
Including Xu Chen, he almost died not long ago when he participated in hunting for the first time.
Therefore, after seeing the cloth, many women's first reaction is that men do not need to risk traveling far away.