Chapter 55 Chirp again chirp

Author: Zhuang Shenchen

Chapter 55 Chirp again chirp

The men who returned from hunting brought back many broken branches and trees under Zhang Tian's instructions.

Although Zhang Tian pretended to be an old god and made the tribesmen have full confidence in him, in fact he had never built a house before. When he slept in the wild before, he either brought his own tent or built one with vegetation.

A simple temporary shelter does not need to be so laborious.

However, he knows the knowledge about camp construction. It is not difficult to build a small cabin for short-term use. Select good quality wood to build the frame, and then insert bamboo strips or small branches into the frame in a similar weaving method to form an enclosure structure.

Cover the roof with broad leaves to serve as a ceiling.

The advantage of this method is that it can be done quickly. He directed a dozen strong men to work overtime and can build it in one night. The disadvantage is that it is not very load-bearing. In snowy weather, the snow has to be cleared from time to time to prevent the house from collapsing.

If you apply mud on the outside of the wall and then smoke it with firewood, or build the wall directly with stones, it will definitely be much stronger and more durable, but it will be time-consuming and labor-intensive. Considering that the "house property rights" only last one winter, he thinks there is no need to bother.

Lin Yu was not a picky person. After knowing his thoughts, he bluntly said how to make it simple.

Zhang Tian led the men to work outside the cave, while Lin Yu taught the women how to identify herbs inside the cave, and talked about the paradise she once settled in. She repeatedly promoted it like an advertisement. Listening to it once may not be enough to move her heart, but she believed that giving women

They say that one winter, sooner or later they will become spiritual Taoyuan people.

After learning today's knowledge, the women prepared to make a fire and cook.

Lin Yu walked out of the cave, and Bai followed her. Ever since Lin Yu promised to teach her the pharmacological knowledge of plants, she had transformed into the wizard's little follower, following her wherever he went.

Lin Yu found some scrap wood from the building waste, set up a wooden frame at two ends about two meters apart, then tied the finger-thick wooden sticks with twine, tied the other end to the crossbar, and inserted two sticks about five centimeters apart.

Sixty longitude lines are formed in the soil at the end.

The spinning wheel that Zhang Tian tinkered with has a toy quality, and it spins smoothly as soon as it is played. The children like it very much. The threads spun these days are piled up in the corner of the cave. Just in time, Lin Yu plans to weave a few pieces of burlap and consume

Excess spinning capacity.

Bai curiously asked: "What is this?"

"Loom."

After Lin Yu finished speaking, he felt that it was not rigorous enough, so he added another sentence in Chinese: "Well...it's just a prototype."

Compared with the twill looms from the Qin and Han Dynasties, the one she made now can't even be called a toy, but the principle is the same, simple and simple, and the efficiency is still much higher than pure hand weaving.

Bai Mo recited the term several times and wrote it down. She was still young and there were too many things that she couldn't understand, so she followed Lin Yu's words to remember it first and then slowly understand it later.

"Go get a longer twine, the longer the better."

The white fart jumped, and soon came back holding one end of the twine. The other end extended all the way into the cave, with no end in sight. It was really long enough.

Lin Yu laughed and used the thread Bai brought as weft threads. The so-called weaving is the process of intertwining the warp and weft threads.

She lifted the crossbar, and the sixty warp threads were immediately divided into upper and lower layers. Then she let the white pulling weft threads pass through the two layers of warp threads. After tightening the weft threads, she lowered the crossbar. The warp threads originally located on the upper layer became the lower layer.

Continue to pull the latitude thread through it...

By repeating this cycle, the warp and weft threads gradually become intertwined into cloth.

Weaving is essentially a mechanical work, not much different from the work on the assembly line. If you want to weave quickly and well, you have to be familiar with it.

The cooperation between the two was very unfamiliar at first, but gradually became more and more tacit. As the cloth took shape, Bai was surprised to find that the thread spun from bark turned into something like animal skin.

Of course, it is much rougher than animal skin, and its texture is very hard, so it is not suitable for making clothing.

Zhang Tiande came over to inspect the work and found that Dr. Lin had become a weaver girl, weaving and weaving with this thick and hard thread. He couldn't help laughing and said: "Are you weaving a straw mat?"

Lin Yu heard the teasing tone in his tone, rolled his eyes at him and said, "I knit it as a door curtain!"

The two worked together to weave a piece of coarse cloth that was nearly two meters long and more than one meter wide.

Looking at the cloth woven by her own hands, Bai felt an unparalleled sense of accomplishment in her heart. She ran into the cave to show off to her mother, aunt and sisters.

The women were surprised when they learned that Lin Yu and Bai could weave such a large piece of cloth in such a short time. They could also weave such a cloth by hand, but it would take at least two or three days, and they would have to

Only a woman who is skilled in craftsmanship can do it.

After dinner, the women all ran out to watch Lin Yu and Bai Zhibu, looking at the warp threads going up and down, and the weft threads going in and out, so densely packed that they were dizzy.

After watching it for a while, I realized that the operation is actually very simple, it just involves lifting and lowering the crossbar, threading, and gathering the thread.

They didn't understand the principle, but immediately realized the advantages of the loom, which was much faster than they could weave by hand!

"Look! The wooden house seems to be built soon!"

The women rushed to see the wooden houses built by the men.

In the open space outside the cave, a simple wooden house about ten square meters in size and two meters high rose from the ground.

The wooden house was a new word to the tribesmen, but after building it, they found that the so-called wooden house was very similar to the camp they built in the river valley, except that the wooden house was made of wood, while the river valley camp used mammoth teeth and animal materials.

Skin.

The men built a roof made of leaves on the wooden house. Zhang Tian entered the house, lit a candle made of beeswax, and used the candlelight to dig out a shallow square pit several centimeters deep in a corner of the house, leaving a gap at the bottom of the corner.

For drainage.

This area is equivalent to a bathroom.

This wooden house was built mainly for bathing. The tribesmen do not have the habit of bathing. They can only wash it a few times a year, and they only wash it in warm weather. They use river water full of parasites to wash it. The more they wash it, the dirtier it gets.

Before Lin Yu came, Zhang Tian could still boil a tube of water and wash it in the open air outside the cave. After Lin Yu came, he had been paying more attention to his clothes recently to avoid unnecessary exposure and obstructing the view.

We all come from a land of etiquette, so we still have to pay attention to our image.

Thinking that he would be able to take baths more often in the future, he felt very happy and hummed a tune subconsciously.

Xiao Xiao on the side was fascinated by the song. When Zhang Tian finished humming the song, he couldn't help but ask: "What are you humming? It's quite nice."

Zhang Tian was stunned for a moment. If Xiao Xiao hadn't asked, he wouldn't have even noticed that he was humming. He smiled and said, "I'm humming music."

"Music?"

"The sounds that make people feel happy are called music. When Hutou is working, doesn't he often shout? That can also be regarded as music."

"But he yelled very unpleasantly and was not pleasant at all."

"You may not feel happy, but Hutou enjoys it. The music does not have to please others, it can also please yourself."

As Zhang Tian spoke, he took out a piece of bamboo with holes in it. Xiao remembered that this thing was called a bamboo flute, and it made a very harsh sound.

Seeing that Zhang Tian was about to blow again, Xiao Xiao quickly took two steps back to avoid his sonic attack in advance.

Unexpectedly, the sound he produced this time was very pleasant.

The clear sound of the flute floated out of the wooden house, sneaked into the quiet night with the wind, and reached everyone's ears.

The tribesmen have been persecuted by Hutou's tone-deaf voice for many years. When they heard such wonderful fairy music, they suddenly felt ripples in their hearts and couldn't help but be intoxicated.

Lin Yu also temporarily put down the latitude and longitude thread in his hand, listened to the melodious sound of the flute, and couldn't help but raise the corners of his lips slightly, stealing a moment of leisure in this busy night.
Chapter completed!