The washed burlap is completely dry after a few days of drying.
Carefully roll it into fiber filaments by hand, and then use a spindle to wind it into thin threads.
Ye is already very skilled, so Xu Chen doesn't need to worry too much about this job.
Under the arrangement of Mother Ba, a group of women, children, old and weak people were divided into two groups.
The stronger ones are responsible for kneading the coarse linen into bundles of flax.
A few more ingenious women used spindles to spin thread.
Ye acted as the teacher instead of Xu Chen.
All women learn very seriously and quickly.
In two or three days, a lot of twine was spun. For the convenience of weaving, all the spun twine was not left on the spindle as at the beginning. Instead, the thread was spun during the day. After dinner in the evening, a group of women gathered around the firepit.
Remove the spun thread from the spindle and wind it into balls of twine for easy storage and use.
This is an unprecedented atmosphere of life.
He was busy yet free at the same time, getting the work done slowly while talking and laughing.
After having enough thread, Xu Chen and Ye began to guide the women in weaving.
Weaving is a little more complicated and requires more dexterity, so Muba selected a few young and nimble women to start learning.
This time weaving, Xu Chen was no longer an experimental demonstration, but directly filled a warp stick with more than two hundred warp threads, with a width of two feet, almost reaching the maximum range that his hands could operate.
In addition, the improved slender shuttle and bow-shaped heddle lifting rod are obviously more convenient.
Therefore, in just one day, several women in charge of weaving learned to weave easily.
Then we collectively fell into the love for this kind of work, working day and night forgetting food and sleep.
A group of men were in awe of Xu Chen's new invention.
I always find it incredible when I watch it.
Why is it so complicated that my brain is not enough, and I feel dizzy after reading too much.
And because of Xu Chen's invention, their living habits have been shattered.
In the past, women would seduce them to sleep in caves after they had had enough to eat and drink at night.
But since they started learning to spin and weave, women seem to have slowly lost interest in this traditional habit.
After having dinner every day, a group of women took a few children into a cave to sleep in a lively manner, then formed a circle around the fire pit, chatted and started spinning and weaving in a lively manner. It seemed that their interest in men suddenly faded away and never came back.
No one takes the initiative to touch their buttocks to express their desire for mating.
I didn't feel it for the first two days, but gradually I started to feel left out.
A night is incomplete without mating.
But they don't dare to destroy this working atmosphere.
After all, Muba is in charge, and if she offends the clan leader and mother-in-law, she may be expelled from the tribe.
In addition, Xu Chen, who also serves as a mentor, has been getting higher and higher recently, and his inventions and creations have become more and more complex, and they have become more and more respected and awed.
Muba cried secretly several times, and some of them secretly speculated that Muba didn't want to lose Chen.
And for a group of people who are familiar with the bow and arrow invention invented by Xu Chen, who use pottery to eat every day, and who have recently put on straw sandals, they also know the importance of Xu Chen to the tribe.
Maybe, Xu Chen will become a witch.
If the Ba tribe also has witches, they will soon gain the respect of other tribes and become a tribe as powerful as Wu or even more powerful.
Soon there will be a tribal exchange meeting.
The Ba people, who are ranked at the bottom every year and do not receive the blessings of the great witches, this year bring out many magical items such as ropes, rattan baskets, wooden hoes, pottery, bows and arrows, straw sandals and cloth. They will definitely become the most dazzling at the witch masters conference.
Tribes and great witches might be frightened and cry.
All the men's faces began to light up when they thought that the Ba tribe would shine at the Witch Lords Conference this year.
Mother's Day is a stage for women to show themselves.
Then the Witch Lord Conference is the best occasion for men to show off their tribal strength.
The strongest and bravest man will receive the blessing of the witch master and become a warrior respected by all tribes.
Thinking of this, a group of men were relieved.
Although I can't happily pile driving at night.
But I will definitely gain more respect and happiness in the future.
So in the lonely and cold grass nest, they farted, grinded their teeth, snored, picked at their bellies, and sometimes shook their bodies a few times as a conditioned reflex like cramps, and fell asleep with unparalleled excitement and satisfaction.
For Xu Chen, he didn't know whether a group of wild men would be happy or not.
But he is very happy now.
Because he finally no longer has to hear the teeth-gnashing sound of piling every night.
Since he started weaving, he found that the relationship between men and women in the tribe has become much more civilized.
From this, he felt that the previous habit of men and women touching each other's buttocks and going to sleep every night after eating and drinking was not because they liked each other, but because they were bored.
I am too idle and go to bed too early. The only way to relieve the boring life is by making babies.
But weaving distracted all the women.
They have found another more advanced and civilized way to relieve boredom without the need for men.
For example, if he had a computer now, Xu Chen could stay up all night eating chicken and stealing towers.
There is no need to stare at the moon and stars in a daze every day and write diaries to pass the time.
In order to make the atmosphere of this primitive savage tribe more harmonious, he decided to find some more advanced entertainment methods for these men, turning the simple primitive desire of piling into a noble need.
After two nights of thinking, he decided to let all the men move bricks down the mountain.
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At the foot of the mountain, the kiln factory dug another large pit.
Xu Chen is preparing to build the second kiln.
If you are just making pottery, a small kiln is enough. After all, the tribe has a small population and does not need too many pots, pans, pots and jars. Even if one kiln or two kilns are not enough, then just a few kilns. Anyway, it takes a lot of time to make the pottery.
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But if the tribe wanted to move down the mountain, they would need more houses and walls, and a lot of lime. In addition, without metal knives and axes to make wooden furniture, he decided to use bricks to make some simple furniture, such as tables.
Beds, cabinets, etc.
Last time I had a whim and burned more than two hundred clay bricks, but it was only enough to build the fire pit and stove.
His original plan to build several pools with bricks near the spring came to nothing.
Therefore, the main purpose of this large kiln is to bake bricks and lime.
Lime is easy, just put the calcium carbonate stone in and burn it.
But bricks are a little troublesome to make.
Because there was no ax or saw to make the wooden template, the first batch of bricks were cut out piece by piece by hand with a trowel, and the thickness, size and shape were irregular.
But with the first batch of ceramic tiles, the second batch is relatively easy.
After smoothing the ground, mix it with clay and lime and spread it on a layer. Then pour water and carefully tamp it with wooden sticks and stone slabs. After it dries, it will be very strong and flat.
Choose the right ones from the first batch of pottery bricks to form a mold, put the mixed pottery clay into it and smooth it, and remove the surrounding pottery tiles to get a brick of relatively standard size and thickness.
After using this method, the kiln's production speed of bricks was significantly accelerated.
With the cooperation of four potters, four to five hundred bricks can be made in a day. While Xu Chen was instructing a group of women to spin and weave, Shanxia had slowly made thousands of bricks.
After the bricks were made, they were left to dry in the open space for two or three days and then put into the shed for stacking. Now they can hardly be piled up.
In order to speed up the construction of the tribe, Xu Chen also wanted to live in a big brick house and have his own private living area as soon as possible, so after obtaining the consent of his mother, he recruited all the men in the tribe except the hunting team to participate in the construction of this huge project.
The second kiln is more than five meters in diameter and three meters high, almost as big as a small room, and is seven or eight times larger than the first kiln.
After the kiln is built, it can bake five thousand ceramic bricks at a time according to its capacity.
For a group of primitive people who have never seen the world, this project is comparable to the scale of the First Emperor's Mausoleum in Xu Chen's eyes.
With the first small fire kiln as a template and some experience accumulated at the same time, it was obviously much easier to build the second kiln.
The men were divided into several groups. Some were responsible for carrying stones to the river beach, some were responsible for digging soil, some were responsible for kneading mud, and some were responsible for helping deliver stones and mud. Xu Chen guided a few potters to build the kiln.
With the large number of people and great strength, within three days, the kiln was finished and the roof was capped and the fumigation started.
Taking advantage of the break in the fumigation kiln, Xu Chen did not let a group of men stop to rest. Instead, he continued to collect stones, dig soil and mud, and began to build a wall around the kiln.
The only reason I have the energy to drive piles at night is because I am too free.
Since there is no place to use your strength, then do something meaningful.
You are also men, why can you have fun with women at night, but I can only write a diary alone, lonely and cold.
When everyone is unhappy, then true happiness is achieved.
Directing a group of naked men to work, Xu Chen felt relieved and comfortable all over.
He felt that he was not jealous, but cultivating their noble personality and sentiment.
Only by getting rid of primitive and vulgar animal attributes can humans truly become advanced civilizations.
Although everyone is bored and tired right now, they are constantly creating wealth and contributing to the growth of the family's GDP.
So under the command of Xu Chen, a group of men who sweat profusely every day returned to the mountain at night, as if they had been squeezed dry. After supper, they crawled into their own huts to sleep with sore backs and backs. Basically, there was no need to drive piles.
Even the grinding of teeth and picking at the nose was much less, but the snoring was more powerful. The whole cave was like a group of tractors being tested. The spiders were so shaken that they couldn't hang on the wall, and strings hung one after another and fell down.