The night wind howled, and time slowly entered the night.
The two of them were busy with their own affairs. Unknowingly, Xu Chen put on another straw sandal, then turned around and put it on Ye's feet again.
This time the size is obviously more suitable. Apart from being ugly, it is still barely wearable.
So Xu Chen turned around and started hitting the other one.
Suddenly another half an hour passed, and the other shoe was ready. Xu Chen squatted down and put it on Ye's foot.
"Stand up and try!" Xu Chen stood up and reminded.
"oh!"
Ye untied the rope around his waist and stood up. His feet landed on the ground. They were soft and a little warm. Although it was a bit awkward, it felt much more comfortable than stepping on the cold ground.
Seeing Ye's face full of surprise as she kept lifting and tapping her feet, Xu Chen pointed at her feet and said, "Shoes!"
"Shoes!" Ye repeated it habitually.
"good!"
Xu Chen picked up a piece of charcoal, walked to the cave wall full of words, and slowly wrote the word "Shoe".
This word is a little complicated.
It looked like many straw ropes looped together. I thought about it and added the words July 16th at the end.
This is the first time he records and writes a diary after traveling through time.
I know these characters, but I don’t understand them when they are combined together.
Xu Chen moved the full moon state at six o'clock on the moon phase diagram he drew yesterday one space clockwise, wrote down the numerical symbol of sixteen, then pointed to the sky with a smile, and then pointed to the position of fifteen.
"Yesterday, it was fifteen, today, it's sixteen."
Ye nodded in understanding.
Xu Chen knew she didn't understand and didn't care. He reached out and rubbed her messy hair, dropped the charcoal strip and said, "Sleep!"
Watching Xu Chen turn around and walk towards the cave.
Ye followed behind wearing straw sandals and was not used to it. He lifted up high and then landed gently. In the dim firelight, he looked at Xu Chen's buttocks covered by her fur skirt. After hesitating for a long time, he still didn't dare to touch it.
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Early the next morning, Xu Chen was shaken awake while still sleeping.
When he opened his eyes, he saw a circle of naked women surrounding his nest.
When Xu Chen opened his eyes, someone grabbed a handful of hay from his hay nest and stuffed it into his hand.
"Shoes!"
Qi Ba pulled him out of the hay nest with both hands.
"Don't pull, don't pull, get up!"
A group of women with various smiles on their faces.
Especially some older women.
Xu Chen was speechless.
Living with these seven aunts and eight aunts, there is really no privacy at all.
When he walked out of the cave surrounded by a group of women, it was just as lively outside.
Almost all the men, women, and children of the entire tribe were gathered around Ye, arguing animatedly over the pair of straw sandals she wore.
When they saw Xu Chen coming out, a group of people crowded around him, and the sound of shoes rattling kept coming and going.
If the emergence of cloth allows women to see simpler and more effective materials for keeping out the cold and covering the body, then the emergence of straw sandals is another means of protecting the body most directly.
The woman whose foot was scratched by a shell yesterday also squeezed excitedly in front of Xu Chen with a wooden stick, pointed at her injured foot and screamed as her shoe rattled.
If she had put these straw baskets called shoes on her feet yesterday, she would not have been injured.
Xu Chen picked his eyes and before he could say anything, his mother said a few words loudly, and then the group of people dispersed. Xu Chen was able to escape and hurried straight to the woods, peed out and washed his face.
Washing his hands, Ye had already served him breakfast.
After breakfast, someone had already brought a large pile of hay.
Xu Chen knew that there was a high probability that he would not be able to go down the mountain today, so he had to call a few old and frail men to sit down and start demonstrating how to make straw sandals.
However, in order to make it easier to make, he found a forked wooden stick, pressed it with half of his butt, fixed the twisted straw rope with a tree branch, and then started slowly.
A group of men and women gathered around and watched without blinking.
With experience in rope rolling and basket weaving, although making straw sandals may seem complicated, it is actually a combination of the two. Once you understand it, it doesn't seem too difficult.
As Xu Chen demonstrated, there were squeaking sounds from the crowd from time to time.
Others couldn't wait to grab a handful of hay and started braiding it by drawing pictures of gourds and gourds.
But simplicity is simplicity, but this is a technical job after all, and it cannot be learned immediately after just a few glances.
Otherwise, Uncle Liu Huang of the Three Kingdoms would not have made a living by playing with straw sandals in the first place.
Therefore, half an hour later, Xu Chen had successfully finished punching a shoe, but a group of men next to him only produced a bunch of weird combinations of straw ropes, like a bunch of earthworms piled together, and none of them succeeded.
"Try it!"
Xu Chen threw the packed straw sandals to Gu, who stood beside him.
He is about the same age as Gu and about the same height. This shoe is made according to the size of his own feet, so adults most likely cannot wear it.
"Sigh!"
Gu's hands and feet were trembling with excitement. He quickly sat down and put the straw sandals on his feet. Then he got up and stepped lightly on the ground a few times. He danced with excitement, and then pointed at his other furry
foot.
There are several dogs that can’t even say thank you.
Although we are cousins, your relatives will be killed sooner or later if you do this.
Xu Chen complained, but he had no choice but to continue being a shoemaker.
From the beginning of making ropes, through weaving baskets, making bows and arrows, making hoes, making kilns, making pottery, spinning threads, weaving cloth, making characters, and now making straw sandals, before he knew it, he had clicked on nearly ten items.
Skill.
These skills are completely insignificant to him, but the continuous impact and changes they have brought to the tribe are obvious to all.
However, these changes have not fundamentally changed the survival of the ethnic group.
His goal is still to lead this group of primitive people down the mountain.
Primitive people moved from forests to plains, which was the direction of civilization and progress.
From the cavemen on the top of the mountain to the current Banpo clan, human beings have still not gotten rid of the wilderness and wild nature.
Only farming and animal husbandry is the true beginning of human civilization.
For the next whole day, Xu Chen taught several old and weak men how to make straw sandals on the mountain.
There was a little gain at the end of the day, and there were a lot more straw sandals.
However, except for the six or seven pairs he bought, which were relatively neat, the others could only be described as a bunch of rotten straw ropes. Most of the soles and uppers were almost indistinguishable. They were a bunch of ugly ones. Either the soles or the uppers were scattered.
The straw ropes were like twists and it was almost impossible to look straight at them.
But no matter how ugly they are, these shoes already have a certain protective effect. At least they can provide some simple protection and keep out the cold when worn on the feet. The ground will not feel so cold when you step on them.
While Xu Chen and others were busy making straw sandals, the mother bus also led several women to clean the soaked bark on the beach and then carried it back up the mountain to dry it in the sun.
Another two days passed. Under Xu Chen's continuous demonstrations and guidance, several men who were learning to make straw sandals gradually made great progress. Although the straw sandals they made were still crooked, they could at least distinguish the soles at a glance.
And the shoe upper, except that the size and style are still eye-catching, it has begun to look like a shoe.
So Xu Chen didn't plan to waste time continuing to develop this skill.
What's more, he only knows a little bit about it.
Compared to these big feet covered with calluses, cloth is still the most needed thing at the moment.
In the past two days, while taking the time to guide the weaving of straw sandals, he also guided the two men responsible for making tools to make many spindles and sticks of various shapes for waist looms. In addition, he specially improved them for more convenient weaving.
The shuttle tool was replaced by a slender wooden stick instead of a spindle, and a wooden bow instead of a heddle lifting rod.
When everything was ready, he began to instruct a group of women to learn spinning and weaving.
As autumn grows stronger, a large number of seeds and fruits begin to fall from the mountains and down the mountains. Although the collection range continues to expand, the food collected is getting less and less.
Feng led a group of strong men to hunt early every day and return late every day. They harvested almost every day, but they only hunted small animals, mainly deer and wild sheep. After a meal, there was almost nothing left, but another
The changes are obvious. Recently, the species they hunt have begun to become more diverse.
There are rabbits, wild ducks, pheasants, foxes, badgers, pangolins, etc.
These animals are numerous and varied, and can be found everywhere in the mountains and under the mountains, so you don’t need to travel far to get them.
In the past, when hunting, they would get some turtles and snakes to avoid returning empty-handed.
But as the weather gets cooler, there are fewer and fewer turtles and snakes, but wild birds and small animals such as pheasants, wild ducks, rabbits, dogs, badgers, pigs, and badgers have gradually become the targets of their hunting.
Since the invention of the bow and arrow, the variety of meat has become more and more abundant.
And during this kind of hunting, their archery skills are also improving rapidly.
At any time, things are rare and valuable.
The teeth of beasts, gorgeous feathers, beautiful stones, and even sharp beaks are all things that primitive people like to collect.
For example, the mother-in-law has various colorful feathers on her head all day long.
It is a symbol of status. In any tribe, only the leader and older women can wear feathers.
The rarer and more exquisite the feathers, the more powerful the tribe is.
Because among all animals, birds are the hardest to hunt.
The feathers on the female's head have not changed for a long time.
But recently she hunted several pheasants and unknown birds, which gave her a lot of new colorful feathers on her head.
A group of men also had the claws, teeth and beaks of many animals hung on their necks and weapons.
And every time they have something worthy of showing off, they will use bone spurs to tattoo patterns on their bodies to show off their strength.
The more patterns on the body, the more powerful it is.
Of course, Xu Chen was dismissive of the childish behavior of these primitive children.
Poke yourself with a bone, only a fool would do that.
It's so exciting to hunt a pheasant, but if you want to kill an elephant in the future, you won't be able to stab yourself to death.
The men's increasingly stable harvests have made the tribe's tension about food continue to weaken.
Although the women's gains are getting less and less, the atmosphere is becoming more and more lively.
Every evening when the men come back with all kinds of prey, it is the most exciting and lively time in front of the cave.
And this change will become more and more obvious in the future.
When women no longer need to be nervous and worried about food.
Women will also have more time to take care of their families.
The division of labor between men and women will also become more obvious.
Until slowly, the male dominates the outside and the female dominates the domestic, forming a new dependence relationship.
The arrival of patriarchal society heralds that human civilization has entered a new stage.
Although it hasn't arrived yet, the signs have begun to appear.