Chapter 283 Tanning snake skin, what is Li Jixian doing?
When I heard Su Bai’s question, the barrage was stunned:
【What is needed?】
[Nothing is needed. When you finish it, tie it up with the fishing line and you can kill the bear!]
【Oh! I get it! Decoration is missing!】
Su Bai clapped his hands:
"right."
“Lack of decorations.”
Barrage:
【???
【Wait a minute, do you really want decorations?】
[You are surviving in the wilderness! Why are you doing these tricks?]
Su Bai laughed and took out a snake skin from the bamboo shed.
This is the snake skin of the pine snake that the snow leopard caught in the red pine forest.
"It's called a decoration, but it still has some practical effect on wrapping snakeskin on it."
"It can increase the grip, reduce the possibility of slippage, and indirectly improve shooting accuracy."
"Of course, the snakeskin pattern is also an excellent decoration for bows and arrows."
This snake skin has been dried in the sun today, and it has been initially put into use a few days ago.
"But..." Su Bai shook his head and said, "It is not enough to just dry the snake skin with a handle that wraps the hard bow."
"The touch is very rough, too brittle, easy to break, and it is difficult to fit perfectly."
"so……"
Su Bai spread the snake skin in his hand and whispered:
"It's time to tannate this snakeskin."
“Complete leather tanning, there are many processes and processes.”
"Some conditions we are in the wilderness and cannot be achieved perfectly."
"But we can still do the alkaline washing and fat adding processes."
"With these two processes, combined with the previous drying and the removal of subcutaneous tissue, this snake skin is already useful."
Su Bai said, asking Zhao Xinqing to use wood ash to extract some wood ash solution.
"The process of alkaline leather washing is actually a saponification reaction."
"Use sodium carbonate to wash out the fat and impurities in the skin, increase the toughness and ductility of the skin, make it softer, and eliminate the fishy smell of animals."
The snake skin was washed with the wood ash solution. The pine snake skin that was previously dry and hard, sucked some water and had become soft again.
However, because the sodium carbonate substance and the structure and properties of snake skin in the wood ash solution have also undergone some unconscious changes.
After drying the snake skin, Su Bai took out another small bamboo tube, which was filled with white paste.
Barrage:
【Wait a minute, what is this?】
Su Bai explained:
“This is butter.”
"It was extracted by using some fat on the bell and the beef brain at that time."
"In the process of tanning the leather, adding grease to the leather and rub it thoroughly is a necessary process."
"This will greatly increase the toughness and wear resistance of the skin, keeping the skin soft for a long time and feel better."
Barrage:
【…】
【Remove the oil first.】
【Re-oiling.】
[Why do you feel a little cerebral palsy when this operation is vaguely felt?]
Su Bai couldn't help but laugh and shook his head:
"It sounds like it's a bit capricious."
“But in fact, tanned leather is like this.”
Using baked and sterilized bamboo slices to dig out some butter from the bamboo tube, Zhao Xinqing quickly covered the small bamboo tube.
The inside of the bamboo tube and the butter were sterilized under high temperature conditions at that time, and were kept in closed these days, which can ensure that it does not deteriorate for a long time.
However, exposure to the air for too long will greatly shorten the storage time of butter.
In the wilderness, grease is a very luxurious resource.
Su Bai dipped his fingers in butter and evenly applied it to the snake skin, and then gently kneaded the snake skin with both hands.
The snake skin covered with butter looked shiny under the fire, changing its shape back and forth between Su Bai's fingers and palms, but it exuded a two-point tense and showed no signs of breakage and damage.
After rubbing for a while, he felt that the butter had been fully soaked in the snake skin. Su Bai nodded with satisfaction and hung the snake skin.
"When the fish bladder gel on the horn hard bow solidified, the snake skin also dried up."
"When the time comes, look at the snakeskin and put the upper bag."
"It's done."
Barrage:
【Good guy... This horned bow has taken a long time and is full of details...】
【It's too difficult…】
[I really want to see the power of this horned bow as soon as possible...]
Su Bai sighed and shook his head and said:
"This kind of bow is also a headache."
"The wolverine tooth arrows and giant bone tongue fish scale arrows that I now have may become disposable items under the power of this bow."
"Once the shot is a little hard, the arrow may not be able to withstand the collision force and be damaged on the spot."
"But... the good news is that there are many, many, many, and many more..."
The giant-skeleton tongue fish used to have a hard scale as hard as iron, and now it has only used five.
Combined with fish maw glue and thin bamboo poles, Su Bai can make a large number of fish scale arrows in a short time.
The only material that restricts the number of arrows is the feathers of cats.
However, Zhao Xinqing had anticipated this situation as early as the first day Su Bai made a ox-horned hard bow.
In the past few days, she took advantage of the cold wave and the cat also had the opportunity to sleep in the bamboo shed, and developed the habit of combing the cat's feathers.
When birds are in the same nest, they will occasionally comb their companions' feathers.
Zhao Xinqing used her fingers to simulate the feeling of the bird's beak and helped the cat to gently comb it. The cat not only did not repulse, but even enjoyed it very much.
Although the cold wave has passed and there are no storms, the cat will fly to Zhao Xinqing when it is evening and wait for Zhao Xinqing to comb his hair.
During the combing process...
Zhao Xinqing naturally got a lot of feathers that were shedding from cats.
Now I have saved up a lot of useful feathers!
When Zhao Xinqing took out a bundle of cat feathers tied with straw rope from the corner of the bamboo shed, the barrage laughed.
【Cat: Strange, I always feel like I'm bald lately... Is it an illusion?]
[Cat: I always feel something is wrong... I seem to be pulled away by someone without realizing it...]
[Mao Cat: It must be Su Bai’s fault! That bastard! No, I have to stay away from him, it’s better for Dr. Zhao to treat me~]
Su Bai looked through the feathers and found that there were twenty of them, all carefully selected by Zhao Xinqing. Those that were too thin and weak and defective were all given to the quail.
All those who stayed were excellent quality eagle feathers.
Su Bai yawned and shrugged:
"Let's do arrows when you have time..."
"It's getting late today..."
"Look at the list and went to bed..."
After hearing Su Bai's words, Barrage realized that it was already eight o'clock.
They all flocked to the official live broadcast room to broadcast Su Bai's current ranking.
【Su Bai, you are still the first one.】
[Li Jixian is 7 points away from you now. When you build a stone house, there will be more!]
[At present, there should be no suspense in this game.]
【but……】
[What is that guy Li Jixian doing?]
[Why is he getting further and further away from his camp?]