The kiln fire is blazing, and the second kiln bricks are officially put into the kiln and fired.
In addition to thousands of bricks, a lot of limestone was also put in here and there.
Under Xu Chen's grand plan to move bricks, a section of wall began to slowly appear around the kiln.
The changes in the kiln naturally made the whole tribe happy.
They have never seen such a huge project.
Therefore, every morning and evening, many people would come and watch for a while before they would be satisfied and go about other work. Especially a group of children, who started the wild carnival mode again, like a group of monkeys, running around inside and outside the kiln all day long.
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According to Xu Chen's plan, this is the first phase of the project.
The kiln is sealed off first, mainly to ensure the safety of the kiln. After repairing the wall and installing the gate, the kiln workers can live in the kiln for a long time without having to arrange for hunters to guard it every day.
After we have a relatively safe base at the foot of the mountain, we can start the second phase of the project and choose a suitable place to build houses near the kiln.
However, the tribe is indeed too small and there are not enough manpower. With Xu Chen and Gu Heju's three and a half-year-old children, there are less than twenty men.
In addition, there are no better tools except wooden hoes and rattan baskets.
In addition, the wooden hoes and rattan baskets were not strong and several were damaged almost every day, which greatly slowed down the project speed.
The entire kiln wall is less than 200 meters long, and it took ten days to repair half of it.
Fortunately, after his continuous command and training, a group of men worked very efficiently, and gradually began to accumulate a lot of experience and became more skilled in technology.
For example, several kiln workers no longer need Xu Chen's guidance to complete the work of making pottery bricks, firing them in the kiln, and taking care of the fire.
Although the pottery and tiles were very rough, Xu Chen couldn't put forward higher requirements. He could only make do with it and accept it, as long as it was usable.
Several other men also began to build walls, and also learned to use tension ropes and hanging hammers to observe the neatness.
Therefore, although the progress of the project was slow, unknowingly, the first batch of primitive human craftsmen began to slowly appear.
The changes at the foot of the mountain are becoming more obvious day by day.
The changes on the mountain are equally obvious.
After gradually reducing their collection, a group of women focused most of their energy on spinning and weaving.
The bark of the trees soaked on the river beach has been soaked and washed into coarse linen, dried and carried up the mountain.
With sufficient burlap and more skilled movements, the women spun and weaved faster and faster.
In addition to taking care of the food and drink of the tribe, more than 20 women put almost all their energy into spinning and weaving cloth. After more than ten days, more than ten pieces of linen cloth have been woven.
These linen cloths are about two feet wide and four feet long, which is exactly twice the distance between the feet and the waist, and exactly twice the distance between the prayer stick and the roller.
Although the cloth woven by this method is shorter, it is more convenient. There is no need to wind a long warp on the warp rod first, but the upper and lower layers are rolled. After weaving, a circular cloth tube is formed.
With cloth, you can naturally start making clothes.
But trouble naturally came.
No scissors for cutting, no suitable sewing needle.
Therefore, after the first kiln bricks came out of the kiln, Xu Chen entrusted the work of building the kiln to other men in the tribe, focusing mainly on cutting cloth and sewing clothes.
As late autumn gradually approaches, the weather is getting colder and colder. Although the ambient temperature is very high and the sun is still very strong at noon, the morning and evening have dropped by more than ten degrees compared to when we first crossed over. This savage has thick skin and rough flesh.
My body almost couldn't bear it anymore.
I wear a dirty fur skirt all day long, which barely covers my buttocks and balls. It comes in the wind and rain, and has never been changed or washed. The smell it emits is so bad that even ants can be poisoned.
But this is about to become a thing of the past.
If you don't have scissors, just use a stone knife to cut slowly. It won't be a problem if you don't have a needle.
I found a few slender bone fragments from the garbage dump and slowly polished them on the stone.
After two days of slow processing, a bone needle with a diameter of two millimeters was produced.
This needle is ten centimeters long and slightly curved. The most difficult thing is not to polish it, but the needle nose.
Most of the time, Xu Chen struggled with the needle nose because drilling was too troublesome. It took more than an hour to drill through with a sharp wolf tooth, and several pieces of bone were broken before he finally succeeded.
Xu Chen didn't know the history of human beings using needles, but judging from the tribe's situation, there was no concept of sewing. It was simply to cut the animal skin into the required size with a stone knife, and then tie it around the waist with bark or vines.
After that, I basically don’t take it off except when I go to the river to take a bath.
The moment he successfully made the needle, Xu Chen burst into tears.
Finally, I have to say goodbye to this little fur skirt with rich patina.
A brand new piece of linen cloth, cut the warp threads and lay it on the stone slab.
First use a rope to measure your waist, then use a wooden stick to make a simple ruler, use the ruler to measure the width of the cloth, and then draw a mark with charcoal.
All of this is not self-taught, but he is groping with the accumulation of five thousand years of Chinese history. Although he has seen old ladies from Guizhou weaving cloth, he has never seen hand-made clothes.
Therefore, tailoring and sewing is a completely new invention and challenge for him.
While Xu Chen was busy, Muba and a large group of women gathered around to watch nervously.
Originally, they thought that after the cloth was woven, it could be wrapped directly around the body like an animal skin.
But it didn't seem like that. Xu Chen obviously had other arrangements and plans.
If it were before, Muba would have arranged things according to her own plans.
But now she needs Xu Chen's support, or she thinks Xu Chen will have better attention than her.
That seems to be the case at the moment.
But Xu Chen's complicated process left all the women confused, novel and extremely nervous at the same time.
It seems that the clothes Xu Chen mentioned are far more difficult than spinning and weaving.
Of course, with a group of women watching, Xu Chen was equally nervous and apprehensive.
Although his debut was just to make a pair of big shorts, after half an hour of fiddling with it and drawing countless lines back and forth on a piece of cloth, he was a little afraid to start.
This fabric is precious. If it is cut with a few random knives, not only will he be embarrassed, but a group of women will feel distressed.
However, when a new daughter-in-law goes to bed, there will always be a moment when the bayonet becomes red.
So after hesitating for a long time, Xu Chen finally gritted his teeth, asked the two women to help pull the cloth, and started cutting on the stone.
The linen thread is very thick, so the linen cloth is very strong, and the stone knife is not sharp. Cutting the cloth is like cutting meat with a dull knife. Amidst the distressed exclamations of a group of women who couldn't bear to watch, he finally gritted his teeth on this brand-new cloth.
of cut.
Then cut again...keep cutting...
Finally it was cut into pieces and turned into a pile of fragments and scraps.
"Chen Ga..."
A young woman couldn't help crying when she saw that a good piece of cloth that had taken several days to weave was turned into pieces.
Although the other women didn't cry, they looked very uncomfortable. Some were gently rubbing their eyes, and even turned their heads to stop looking.
Muba held the spindle in her hand tightly, her wrinkled old face twitched slightly, and she hesitated for a long time before holding back what she wanted to say.
She was very aware of the changes in Xu Chen since she woke up from coma.
The changes Xu Chen has brought to the tribe recently have been earth-shaking.
She believed that Xu Chen had his own purpose in doing this.
Xu Chen understood the mood of a group of women, but he couldn't explain it because it was too complicated to explain. As the saying goes, seeing is believing. Only when he makes these big pants will everyone understand his destructive behavior.
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The cut cloth is as gnawing as a dog, and the fabric is not woven tightly and finely. The edges after cutting are a little loose, so when sewing, these edges must be carefully sewn with thread to make them more dense.
Otherwise, it will be prone to line cracks.
Picking up the bone needle and threading it, Xu Chen sat on a stone, picked up two pieces of fabric and began to sew slowly.
Seeing Xu Chen threading the needle and thread, a group of women finally understood his purpose of grinding and drilling for the past two days, and seeing him easily sewing two pieces of rags together again with needle and thread, they didn't understand at the same time.
I felt extremely shocked and surprised.
As Xu Chen slowly sewed the two pieces of fabric together, some older women seemed to begin to understand Xu Chen's thoughts, and their sad emotions began to become excited.
This is a brand new tool. With needle and thread, cloth and animal skin can be sewn into any desired shape.
However, they still didn't understand what kind of clothes Xu Chen wanted to sew this messy piece of cloth into, so they all held their breath and stared at it carefully, for fear of missing any step.