After lunch, Chen Xiuyu packed up the kang table, picked up the sickle, and went to the meadow to cut some urala grass.
There are two horses, thirteen deer, and four deer in the meadow. They have been grazing for such a long time. The meadow plus the hillsides on both sides is quite large, but some people can't help but eat. Fortunately, by now, the crops have been harvested, and the straw
, corn grass, soybean trees, and grain, these things can be used to feed them, and they are considered connected.
While Chen Xiuyu was using a wooden hammer at home to beat the urala grass to make velvet, Lu Lu drank some tea, went out to call Zhui Feng, took four ash sticks, and headed to Jin Jiabao's house in Huilongtun.
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Today he specially changed into Su En, wore a dog-skin hat, and rode Chasing Feng and ran slowly along the way.
Fortunately, there are trees around, which effectively slows down the wind speed and makes the north wind no longer so harsh.
It didn't take long to arrive at Jin Jiabao's house. Uncle Jin was staying in front of the stone forge house of his home. The fire for calcining was blazing, and several fist-sized potatoes were roasting on it.
He was sitting on a wooden bench by the fire, peeling potatoes and dipping them in soybean paste to eat.
Roasted potatoes are the favorite of many people in the wilderness. Different from the soft and sweet roasted sweet potatoes, roasted potatoes have a unique sweetness and are not as sweet as roasted sweet potatoes. Especially in the winter, you can hold them in the palm of your hand and eat them while eating.
The heat, the steaming feeling, is quite comfortable, and Lu Lu also likes it very much.
"Eating, uncle!"
The courtyard door was open, so Lu Lu got off his horse and led Zhui Feng directly towards his courtyard.
"Come on one!" Jin Jiabao motioned to Lu Lu.
Lu Lu was not polite to him. He tied Zhuifeng on the fence, walked straight to the stove, picked a potato with a roasted black skin, picked up a piece of firewood from the ground, and scraped it.
Then, a baked potato quickly turned yellow. He couldn't wait to take a bite.
The hot potatoes entered his mouth, forcing him to keep inhaling and exhaling to cool down, laughing and joking.
The burnt aroma and just the right amount of sweetness, coupled with the smell of fireworks, give your taste buds a different feeling.
"I thought you didn't want your collar anymore! You agreed to pick it up in four days and let me wait at home while you wait!"
Jin Jiabao was annoyed and casually put the sauce bowl in front of Lu Lu.
Lu Lu took the baked potatoes and dipped some soybean paste directly into the sauce bowl, then took a bite, adding an extra spicy taste.
"I have something else I want you to help me with. I wanted to get it together and take it back, but I didn't come over that day!"
As he spoke, he took off the four ash sticks tied to the saddle and brought them to Jin Jiabao: "I am making a ski pole. I need you to put an iron ring on the end and add ox paw nails on it!"
The purpose of hooping the iron hoop is mainly to prevent the ends of the ski poles from cracking, and also plays a protective role.
If you ski and walk in the snow every day, you need to constantly wear it. The wear and tear will be very serious. Wearing iron hoops can effectively prevent it.
At the same time, it can also be used as a weapon by attaching an iron ring to it.
When skiing in the forest, the speed is very fast. You hold the ski poles in both hands and the gun can only be carried on your back.
In this case, if you encounter a small wild animal, you can scare it away directly, but if you encounter a ferocious beast, it will be difficult to tell.
It is covered with heavy snow, and it is the time when food is most scarce for wild animals. If they attack people, it is too late to get a gun. At this time, the ski pole in your hand is the best weapon to hit the wild animals and protect yourself.
As for the cow paw nail nailed to the bottom, it can also be poked at ferocious beasts. The top of the triangular cow paw nail is exposed to the outside for half an inch, and a bloody hole will be made when it is poked.
Of course, the biggest effect is when skating on the ice.
If there are no studs on the tip of the ski pole, it may slip on the ice and cause someone to fall to the ground.
With the cow paw nail, you can poke small holes in the ice by hitting it with a pestle, which will make it easier to use force.
A small ski pole also hides many tricks.
This is not only an auxiliary tool for skiing, but also a very sharp melee weapon.
The four ski poles had been baked on the heated pipe of the kang stove for several days and were already dry.
As long as it is processed and the wooden horse made with help from Zhao Yongke's family, this set of ski tools is complete.
"Just a small thing... let's eat the baked potatoes first!"
Seeing that Lu Lu liked potatoes very much, when he finished one potato, Jin Jiabao handed him another.
The two of them sat around the stove, peeling potatoes and dipping them in miso. Within ten minutes, all the potatoes roasting on the stove were gone.
After taking a short rest, Jin Jiabao went back to the house and made tea. The two drank water and chatted for a while. Jin Jiabao compared the four ash sticks that Lu Lu had brought and went back to the house to find a thick steel pipe.
, threw it in front of Lu Lu, and found a small saw: "You can do it yourself!"
Lu Lu immediately saw what he meant. He was going to directly cut the steel pipe into small sections and put them on an ash willow stick to use as an iron ring.
If you want to make iron rings, Jin Jiabao will inevitably have to make them. It would be easier to just use this steel pipe.
The key is that this steel pipe is also quite thick, no worse than an iron ring.
Lu Lu was idle, holding a saw and directly stepping on the wooden pier to fix the steel pipe, cutting out a five centimeter long section and starting sawing.
Don't look at it as just a small steel pipe. Cutting off these four sections really took Lu Lu a lot of effort. He changed five small saw blades and took more than two hours to finally cut them off.
Jin Jiabao has been smoking a dry cigarette silently and looking at Lu Lu.
He was getting older and knew that it would take a lot of energy to deal with this matter, so he simply grabbed Lu Lu and let him do it by himself.
The steel pipe was cut off and the gap was simply polished with a grinding wheel. Jin Jiabao took over and carefully trimmed and polished the tip of the ash stick, then inserted a small section of steel pipe into it, then found a cow paw nail and hammered it into the tip, and the two things were combined.
, which is just right.
The key is that when the horn nails are driven into the wood at the top, the wood is also stretched open, and the small section of steel pipe that is put on becomes tighter and more stable.
Lu Lu waved his ski pole twice, making a whirring sound. It felt good and had good power.
Nodding with satisfaction, Lu Lu collected the four ski poles and tied them behind the saddle. Jin Jiabao went back to the house and took out a collar strung together with wire.
Lu Lu took it and looked at it. The collar weighed less than a pound. He didn't know where Uncle Jin got the steel ring from. It looked like it was machine-cast. It also had holes and teeth designed to adjust the collar.
Even the steel nails are not riveted on, but are welded by electric welding.
He originally thought that Jin Jiabao would have to be forged by hand, so he couldn't help but guessed: "Uncle, do you have an acquaintance in the agricultural machinery factory?"
Lu Lu could think of a place like this.
"I used to be an employee in a machinery factory. I retired early!" Jin Jiabao said with a smile, "I went to the district and asked my apprentice to make it."
"No wonder!" Lu Lu understood immediately.
This steel collar, which is evenly forged and polished, is not easy to make by hand. The thick steel pipe is also difficult for ordinary people to get. Steel these days is very expensive.
"What's wrong? Not satisfied?" Jin Jiabao asked with a smile.
"Satisfied. It's done so well and has already exceeded my expectations. What else can I be dissatisfied with!"
As Lu Lu said, he took out another five yuan and stuffed it into Jin Jiabao's hand: "This is the salary for helping me get ski poles, is it enough?"
"Just give me some money for the materials!" Jin Jiabao returned four yuan.
"Keep it, I may have to trouble you more in the future!"
When Lu Lu learned that Jin Jiabao was actually a retired employee of the agricultural machinery factory, a master-level existence, and he still maintained a good relationship, the idea came to his mind again.
It seems that the iron cages needed for breeding can also be made by Jinjiabao and can be easily made.
Some wild animal cubs brought back cannot be contained in simple wooden cages, and iron cages are more reliable.
"You rest, I have some things to do when I get back, so I'll leave first!"
Lu Lu began to think that he should bring some wild things to the old man from time to time, so as to save him from getting medicinal beans to use the wild things himself. The key is that it would be quite dangerous to eat them like that.
If it is not processed properly, it can take him away with it.
I ignored it before, but now it seems that this relationship needs to be well maintained.
Jin Jiabao was not polite. He put the money in his arms and stopped caring about Lu Lu.
Lu Lu rode Zhui Feng all the way back to Caodianzi. After dismounting, he took off the saddle and ski poles and let Zhui Feng go to Caodianzi to eat grass. He himself lifted the saddle into the stable and hung it up, and went home with the four ski poles in his arms.
There are still two links to this ski pole that need to be dealt with.
One is that the handle needs to be drilled, and then a leather loop is put on. This thing can be put on the wrist and put away casually, leaving the hand free to pick up other things, such as a gun, without worrying about losing it.
The other one is also extremely important. It must be tied half a foot from the tip with a trumpet-shaped animal skin with the upper mouth facing downward. Deer skin or roe deer skin is usually used.
This trumpet-shaped animal skin is called a snow hood by old hunters.
In winter, the forest and snow fields are covered with ditches and flats due to heavy snow, and it is difficult to tell where the ditches are and where the gullies are.
When riding a wooden horse through a ditch filled with heavy snow, if the two ski poles in your hands are pushed onto the snow, but the bottom is not found, the person will be knocked down. As a result, the person may fall into the snow pit and be in danger, or be chased.
The prey ran away.
However, there are two leather snow covers on the ski poles. When the leather bell mouth is pressed down, it will be stretched on the snow, and it will not be poked in the air. Instead, it can borrow a lot of force and slide across quickly.
This whole set of things looks simple and seems crude when made, but it is the result of many years of experience accumulated by the older generation, and it is a veritable source of survival wisdom, which is very clever.
The next thing is simple. Drill holes, use big red-hot nails, and twist them with pliers. It can be done in about twenty minutes.
Lu Lu used tanned yellow cowhide scraps, cut out thin strips, passed them through the holes in the wooden handle, and braided them a little, and it was done easily.
As for the leather snow cover, deerskin is used, which can also be used to replace wild boar skin to make wooden horses. It is much more flexible than wild boar skin.
Cut four round pieces of deerskin, leave a hole in the middle for the ski poles, and then use thin iron wire to wrap it tightly in circles and tie it firmly to the ski poles.
At this point, the ski poles are ready, and all we have to do is go to Zhao Yongke's place to get the wooden horse in the evening.
Lu Lu breathed a long sigh of relief, looked at the hazy sky in the yard, and whispered: "It can snow!"
At this time, Chen Xiuqing, riding an Oroqen horse, appeared slowly and leisurely by the river.
As soon as he saw him, Lu Lu's face couldn't help but tremble.
This guy, Lu Lu, disappeared while he was busy making these things. Fortunately, he came just as the things were ready. Moreover, he came at this time with the intention of having dinner.
Lu Lu felt like he was blinded by his naive appearance.