Chapter 026 Food Crisis
There is nothing to say about making handmade soap with wild boar, the only problem is the extraction of lye.
Uh, the extraction of natural lye is actually quite simple. In the brick kiln, pull some wood-burned white ash (filter out large pieces of black charcoal by yourself), add water, the amount of water covers half of the plant ash, and put it in a pottery pot to cook a dozen Minutes, take it down and let it stand overnight. The light yellow liquid on the inner surface of the pot is lye.
With lye, there is no problem with soap making. The boiled wild lard oil is placed in a pottery bowl and heated to a certain temperature through hot water. When the temperature of the oil and lye are almost the same (all in a pottery bowl, the standard is not too hot to touch the pottery bowl), mix the two liquids and start stirring.
This process must be ventilated and the mixed liquid must not cool down too quickly. Xiao Yun did it in an open-door activity room. The time chosen was in the morning when the cubs were all out to play in the snow; during the process, the temperature of the mixture liquid is maintained by heating with water, and the stirring tool made of forked thorns is continuously stirred for about half an hour. The mixed liquid becomes rice paste, which is the completion of the saponification reaction.
Next, pour the saponified liquid into a relatively shallow abrasive tool (Xiao Yun directly took the brick mold to use), and just leave it anywhere and wait for it to mature. )... It was simple, without any technical difficulty. When Xiao Yun just entered the winter, he decided to get the wool in the winter, so he made a few brick molds of handmade soap and threw it there (so there was no wild lard fat to fry fish for Oxhorn during that time...).
The soap produced by this unspecial approach is very primitive, but it can be used anyway. Don't pay attention to it... The philosophy of life that Xiao Yun learned when he came to this world is that there is no guarantee for surviving you can not take any picky, he even ate raw meat when he first put it on.
If you insist, the vinegar he made that you can't eat is called simple and rude...
Vinegar requires fermentation, and fermentation requires yeast. Fortunately, making yeast is not difficult. Take a clay pot and fill it with mashed cheese. Dry (produced by the tribe), add water, and ferment in a mobile room (floor heating temperature is about 30 degrees). Open the lid and shake a few times a day. If bubbles appear in the tank for about four to five days, the fermentation is successful.
Filter out the yeast juice, add about half a catty of acorn powder that has been boiled for several times. (If there is no place to find wheat flour, just order it), knead it and let it ferment indoors. After about 10 hours, the acorn powder will become It's more fluffy, and squeezed it into small balls... just like that made the homemade yeast.
Next step... just toss the black beans, soak, boil, steam, and mash them while they are hot. Spread them on the rattan mat to drain the water. When the temperature is not hot and lukewarm, crush and stir in the yeast made of acorn powder. , And then cool to only a little bit of temperature, but not cold enough (10-20 degrees), the altar, put on the floor heating activity room temperature fermentation (needs about 30 degrees).
If there is a slight sour taste in the jar for about two days, even if it is successful, flush in, add acorn husk flour (no bran or bran, just find a substitute), stir to ensure that the oxygen space in the irrigation increases, continue Fermentation, after about a week, a pungent sour smell came out of the tank, and you were done.
If it is the vinegar used to eat, then there is a process of precipitation filtration, adding other seasoning materials, and long-term fermentation until the vinegar matures. Xiao Yun can't wait that long, so he rinses the hair directly after flushing.
In short...In this place where there is nothing fucking, Xiao Yun really wanted to do something to get his head bald...
Fortunately, after tossing hard, it is not without gain. Now the ten catties of wool piled up in front of him It is the reward for this effort.
"It's not easy." Xiao Yun sighed deeply, pinching the fluffy and curly woolen dough with his fingers. The processed wool was a little shed because it was washed with alkaline soap, and it was not so soft and smooth. But it is always wool, which can be spun, of course...this kind of long wool is still a bit coarse no matter how it is processed, and the spun yarn is only a little better than twine. It is estimated that it will be choking for personal wear. It is barely enough to knit coats and carpets. to make.
Before mobilizing the tribesmen to toss the raw wool together, Xiao Yun had to let the tribesmen see the practicality of the processed wool with their own eyes, so he...continued to spin the thread by himself, and the hand-made spindle turned again...
"—— Oh my Jesus!The efficiency of pure hand spinning like this is too low!"
Manually twisting the wool in one hand, and spinning and drafting with the spindle in the other hand. It's okay to play and experience the novelty. If he really want to spin ten catties of wool like this, it feels a little desperate just to imagine for Xiao Yun--even if he is just It is not a joke to mix the wool fibers and stretch them into yarns, and then wind the yarns into thick wool yarns on the spindles.
In other words... to complete the operation of spinning woolen threads and leading the tribe to wear sweaters, Xiao Yun had to shake the spinning wheel first... When he thought of the technical difficulty, Xiao Yun felt a chill on his head. He is going to be bald again.
When it comes to hand-operated spinning wheels, it does not mean that the technical content is too high to be done by hand. In modern society, some kindergarten and large classes will have teachers with fart children to make spinning wheels. But here comes the problem. That is when there are ready-made materials... The hand-spinning wheel of the toddler toy version is made with convenient tools such as cardboard, gear blocks, chopsticks, hoses, and glue guns. Now, Xiao Yun has to DIY by himself...
This kind of leisure behavior of modern people who use their farts to relax and cultivate their sentiment is just so fucking in this world.
In modern society, if you want to drink milk, you can go out and find a small shop for five dollars. If you want to drink milk in this shabby place, you have to raise cows. This is the difference~
Xiao Yun wandered up and went out staggeringly. , Go to the coolies... Uh, no, to find the trouble of the adult clansmen.
Four newly completed family-style mud-brick houses with internal and external compartments are lined up on the east side of the mobile house. Unlike the two adjacent Datong paved fire kang houses, these four private houses are separated from each other.
With a distance of more than fifteen meters, this is the vegetable garden that Xiao Yun has left for every household in advance.
Three of the four new houses belonged to families with children, and the one that lived in Qingcao just came into estrus. It will be next year to give birth to cubs... However, the Qingcao family's house is not only a couple. When Xiao Yun walked in, After two steps, he saw Qingcao and Ayue nestling on the inner heatable bed. Next to it, Dahe who grabs the private space of this new partner and rolls on the heatable bed. At present, the clansman still has no concept of private property. Going to sharing places in other people's houses is as natural as eating and drinking water, and even the owner of the house won't feel that something is wrong.
In other words, they have not even cultivated the concept of privacy. They don't need to wear animal skin clothes in the warm room. This group of people take off to wearing only small leather pants... Well, it's because of the sexuality of the upper body of the female snow werewolf at the breastfeeding period is not obvious, it looks like the chest muscles, otherwise, Xiao Yun doesn't know where to put his eyes.
"A Yun, I really want my house too!" Dahe saw Xiao Yun and said.
"You'll talk about it when you're not single." Xiao Yun casually responded and sat on the hot bed to warm his feet, and his eyes flashed across the exposed hands and feet of three adult tribesmen, and when he saw that they were almost good, he began to flicker. , "Have you seen the sweater vest worn by the patriarch in the animal skin?"
"Huh?" Dahe, Qingcao, and Qingcao's companion Ayue , looked inexplicable.
"That one was made from the inner fluff of a long-haired sheep. There is less fluff on the sheep and it is not enough for everyone. So I only made one for the patriarch. When he is old, no young man can resist the cold." Xiao Yun said, "You guys. During the time I was busy building the house, I thought about it and used the long hair of the sheep to process it into wool that can be woven into clothes. Of course, the clothes made of this kind of wool are not as soft and soft as the patriarch. It will irritate the skin a bit, but it is more comfortable than wearing animal skins, and it can be made into a blanket that is more suitable for laying on heatable bed."
"Good, good." Qingcao smile happily.
"Ayun, what do you want us to do?" Dahe blinked her eyes and asked, see, there is a gap between the smart and the unwise, and Qingcao is still silly and happy, but Dahe she guessed that Xiao Yun was asking them to help.
"You need a spinning wheel to spin wool into a thread. Both of you are more skillful. Get up and do it with me tomorrow." Xiao Yun was honest, and looked at Ayue after he said, "A Yue, you are almost resting. , Do you want to go out for activities? Most of the winter has passed, the family should make preparations after the snow has melted."
Xiao Yun admits that he is not a devil either. Twenty adult people have worked hard to build four houses in the winter. Later, he generously gave everyone a break of four or five days...Uh, the main reason was that many people had frostbite their fingers and toes, and then forced them to do things. Xiao Yun was afraid that the tribe would have a sense of resistance...
Comfortable The warrior Ayue who had been idle for a few days did not see through Xiao Yun's sinister motives, and nodded innocently: "Okay, I have no problem."
Xiao Yun nodded in satisfaction, and continued to grab the manpower...
The four houses and two single side by side heatable bed houses walked all over. The frostbite on the hands and feet was not good, let them go, let people continue to rest, go up and flick, give arranging things-spinning wheels do not require much manpower, just Qingcao, Dahe, and Fleece as "a child labor"; other tasks that require tribesmen to do more work, such as large-scale farming plans after the snow has melted in the spring. They have to prepare various fertilizers. It's convenient to pick up the livestock dung in the sheep pen and the snow werewolf dung in their toilet. It's better to do it early in the forest when shoveling bird dung and shoveling the humus layer of forest leaves~
It was a little bit when the patriarch Huyou encountered trouble, the patriarch asked why he didn't cultivate mushrooms. Xiao Yun couldn't say that the snow werewolves' mind was too simple to do complicated and delicate tasks. He was busy, and the tribe only had one Sal, so he kept talking about other things for a long time and made the patriarch dizzy at all.
Arranged things for most of the tribes who recovered from frostbite. On the next day, the tribe who had been quiet for a few days became busy again.
The carefree cubs once again rushed to the big snowfield outside the tribe to play in the snow. Fleece also wanted to follow, and was caught by Xiao Yun before she ran out of the room.
"Good Fleece, do things with me today~" Xiao Yun bared his white teeth.
"Huh..." Fleece looked at the friends who had already run out of the tribe, and was very unhappy.
"They can't help, all of them are too stupid. Only Fleece you are smart and handy, so I only look for you." Xiao Yun cast disgusting eyes at those cubs, forcibly misunderstanding Fleece's reaction.
"Oh, okay." The simple Fleece smiled proudly, "A Yun, what shall we do?"
Xiao Yun... easily coaxed the little Fleece, the little cub into child labor...
There was some wood left when building the house. Xiao Yun found out the most dense wood fiber, and used a horn knife to cut into palm-thick pieces of wood. Then he provided a horn knife, a quartz stone blade, a ceramic knife and other tools. The three handy in the tribe started with him to make a model of a spinning wheel.
The most primitive hand-operated spinning wheel is mainly composed of a large runner and a small round ingot. The diameter of the big runner is dozens of times the diameter of the spindle. The two are connected by a rope or belt. The crank is located in the center of the big runner. When the crank is turned, the big runner starts to rotate. Because the diameter of the runner and the spindle are different by dozens When the wheel rotates once, the spindle will rotate dozens of turns; the axial end of the spindle fixes several wool fibers, and as the spindle rotates, it can automatically twist, because the number of rotations of the spindle is determined by the rotation angle of the big wheel , So the number of twists can be precisely controlled by the operator.
In addition, after the twisting is completed, just remove the yarn and stick it on the side of the spindle. As the big wheel rotates, the yarn will automatically wind onto the spindle along with the rotation of the spindle, thus realizing the continuous operation of twisting and winding. .
This is the principle of using wool fiber or any other fiber spinning principle. Of course, Xiao Yun wants to spin the thicker yarn for knitting sweaters and the thicker yarn for weaving carpets, so it does not need to be as fine as the yarns of textile fabrics. ... The spinning wheel can be used even if it is rough.
Hmm... Actually, it doesn't matter whether it is rough or not, because the structure of the hand-cranked spinning wheel used by the people before the Han Dynasty(Han Dynasty was the second imperial dynasty of China (202 BC – 220 AD)) in China was originally quite simple, and even the hand crank on the big runner can be turned directly.
Naturally, Xiao Yun himself knew that the pedaling spinning wheel was more labor-saving than the hand-operated spinning wheel, and it could free up both hands and better assist in the twisting and winding of wool fibers. However, in the early days of exploration, he didn't have much confidence in learning. Before walking, I'd better lie down and learn to crawl...
Two hollow wheels shaped like a wheel are made from wood chips into one place, and the wheel surface is pulled out with animal tendons to grind out the small gears and wood chips used as bearings. The runner was fixed on the frame like the upside-down table legs, and the other side was used as a spindle with bones and connected by a belt cut into strips. The toy spinning wheel without a crank handle was smashed out in more than a day.
The three Qingcao, Dahe and Fleece looked at this wooden frame, which they didn't know what it was used for, in amazement. Fleece also curiously moved the hollow runner a few times, and saw the runner creak while turning. She thought it was. It is a gadget for playing.
Xiao Yun didn't explain to them. He took the wool and pulled it into strips. He twisted two fibers with his hands and attached them to the spindle. Manually stretched the fibers and went around the big wheel, then turned the big wheel with one hand and held it with the other. Hold the wool mass; with the rotation of the big runner, the spindle is driven to rotate rapidly, the wool fiber held by the hand completes the twisting and drafting work during the rotation of the big runner, and becomes a thread wound on the spindle.
"Oh? Ohhh" Qingcao and others their faces shocked, admired, their eyes staring oversized.
"Huh?" Xiao Yun turned around two times and found that the thread on the spindle was too thin and not tightly wound, so he added two more fibers. When turning the big wheel, the hand holding the wool was rotating with the wool fiber. The process of twisting and drafting on the wheel slowly moved and adjusted the height...
"Oh oh oh oh!" The green grass looked star-eyed, and the thread spun onto the spindle looked thicker with naked eyes.
"...That's it. Let's make three more spinning wheels of this kind and spin the yarn together." Xiao Yun picked up the spinning spindles wrapped with thick wool and showed them to a few people. "This wool has a great effect. You have seen sweaters vest with patriarch, and it is woven with this as well~"
Qingcao, Dahe and Fleece nodded together, slightly questioning whether it was.
Both Qingcao and Fleece are relatively comfortable to sit on. Dahe is a bit more lively, but also has the self-control to sit down. The three of them became professional women textile workers in the tribe. As for them, there are child laborers under the age of fourteen and suspected pregnant women. At this point, Xiao Yun ignored it.
Besides, compared to the hard work of shoveling bird droppings in the ice and snow, shoveling the humus layer and piled up livestock manure to ferment for the beginning of spring, it is more pleasant to stay in a warm room...
And Xiao Yun didn't mean to throw the spinning thread to He was idle for others, and there were hundreds of kilograms of stinky rough raw wool waiting for him to process--it was tears.
Entering the fourth month of winter, unexpectedly and rationally... The tribe's grain storage bottomed out.
When a nervous face of the chief pulled xiao Yun, who had not yet woken up, to the place of the pile of wild pork to see the empty pit, Xiao Yun did not react to the place was originally loaded with what ... During this time he has been entangled with woolen wool, with little energy to manage food banks.
"This winter, we... eat too much! "The chief said only one word on the tears, this is his dereliction of duty, the recent small days have been too happy, no previous years through the long winter tension.
Xiao Yun: ..."
Xiao Yun understand this matter really can not blame the clan leader, indeed this year's means of warm, there are bean sprouts and golden needle mushrooms, two uninterrupted vegetable supply, however ... The consumption of the clansmen is also greater than in previous years, because the whole winter in addition to a few days when the snow is too big to get out of the door, the clansmen are called busy by him that - consumption is not much more to eat, not to mention frozen wild pork, sick cattle and sheep tribes have slaughtered dozens of heads.
"Without a staple with high starch content, meat and vegetables alone are really not very reliable." Xiao Yun sighed.
Only bean sprouts and golden needle mushrooms, the people can not eat enough ah Ayun. The chief was worried.
"No way, kill some more sheep. Xiao Yun dao, "Now the snow is smaller than in previous months, should last another half of the month's snow can be turned into." After the snow, we went to a cattle-headed tribe, take pottery blankets and they exchange food vegetables grass seeds, this year we try to more land reclamation, save some grain, the demand for cattle and sheep is not so huge.
" Emm"... What's the matter? The patriarch is not unable to agree to the slaughter of sheep to continue his life, but ... Well, also Xiao Yun fooled for so long, obedient obedient skills slowly practiced out, "Ayun, you mean we do not raise so many cattle and sheep in the future?" But the tribe's cattle and sheep are not many."
Xiao Yun nodded, this words he will sooner or later and the patriarch to talk, when the patriarch pulled into the morning are relatively quiet activity room, opened a long talk: "the tribe still want to continue grazing cattle and sheep, our people in the meat consumption is very large, hunting harvest is not necessarily reliable, so the need to raise can ensure the quantity of meat supply." But more meat demand part, there is not much need, we previously raised excess cattle and sheep to do trade, yes, now we do not need to change pottery, as long as the salt on the line ... So Patriarch, you said I recently burned two kilns of ceramics, can you take it with the trade caravan for salt? "
It's no big deal if you don't change it and organize your own people to cook salt on the inner seashore further south... Xiao Yun is not going to take the fruits of the people's labor to the trade caravan take any advantage.
Xiao Yun's proposal clan chief did not have the first time to oppose, he is very clear that the whole winter, the busiest people in the tribe in fact have to be Ayun - Ayun although we have added a lot of previous years did not have a job, but he is indeed the busiest people in the whole family, so we all have no complaints. Toss out a bunch of things Ayun every half a month to open a kiln, thunder can not move, this family will not have anything to say.
The Patriarch showed hesitation, Ayun every time he burned out pottery he had to stare, he thought the value of the forced take away custody, now, his original tent has been piled with all kinds of pottery ... ... In particular, Ayun burned out of the inside and outside two-color pottery bowl pottery cup, even the chief can not help but secretly play one or two.
Xiao Yun saw the patriarch's movement, and then continued to work hard: "Reducing the scale of grazing, not to say that the people idle nothing to do, but there are more important, than the benefits of grazing more things need the people to do ..."
This word patriarch can not deny, if they say to arrange things for everyone to do, the chief felt that Ayun in this area has a special talent - he also has a large part of the winter by Ayun refers to make the regiment turn, this is still Ayun think he is older, relatively "hands-on" ... ...
"... Moreover, the people in the new year to take up the work, I can guarantee that absolutely than every year before the hard and tired. Xiao Yun seriously, "continue grazing, live a leisurely life, or reduce grazing, the year to spend more heavy, more burdened, but can make the people's lives better career, I believe Patriarch you will not hesitate to choose the latter, right?"
"Hmm..." the patriarch was a little moody but didn't dare to show it directly, because he was well aware that Ayun's more hard work and exhaustion was not a joke, and he only dared to beep a little, "Well, we didn't feel very relaxed when we were grazing..."
Xiao Yun can not let the patriarch at this time retreat, he pulled the clan chief out of the activity room, out of the tribe, facing the open snowfield, waved:
"Imagine, Patriarch, as long as we all unite up and down, efforts to reclaim, wholeheartedly planted fields, this no fart in the field in a year, no, six months later will become our fields, planted with food and vegetables." The food you ate when you were a cow-headed tribe can grow in our fields, we'll have food reserves that don't go to bullheads, and we'll have cattle and sheep that have an energy supply that provides meat... No more starvation, no more temporary hunting, our granary will always be full of all kinds of food, only rely on our people simply can't eat, in order not to waste food we have to find other snow werewolf tribes and we integrate, become new members of our tribe, our tribe will be stronger than cats, tigers, no longer fear any foreign enemies - that would be a great future ah!
The author has something to say: "A good talker is not always a good achiever, but a good achiever is certainly a good one at deceiving others."--by Xiao Yun.