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Chapter 27 Busy Morning

While the women were preparing breakfast, Zhang Tian set up several rough-skinned and thick-fleshed bamboo tubes on another fire, poured a thin layer of water, and boiled fish bones and other animal bones.

Only those bones in good shape will be selected to make bone tools, and the remaining broken bones will be collected and thrown into the deep mountains and old forests.

This is undoubtedly an extremely wasteful behavior.

Natural materials will be useful, even broken bones have their uses.

"Here, it's called peppermint tea, made by that wild man."

Xiao Xiao gave Zhang Tian a cup of mint tea.

Zhang Tian drank his tea slowly, and gently stirred the broken bones in the bamboo tube with a bamboo stick. There was a pile of bear tendons at his feet, mainly back tendons and hamstrings, and he didn't know if it was enough to make three bows.

"What are you doing?" Xiao Xiao asked curiously.

"Boil the glue."

"Glue? Something sticky like that?"

"correct."

The tribe has developed a simple glue-making technology, but it is vegetable glue, which is generally made from the starch component of plants, but because of its flat viscosity, it is usually only used as an auxiliary fixation, mainly by rope.

Xiao immediately became interested: "Can bones also be made into glue?"

"Not only bones, but this one too."

Zhang Tian said, and handed him a bamboo basket full of stench.

Xiao took it over and saw that the bamboo basket was full of swim bladders. He said why he hadn't seen this kind of viscera during the past two days, so it was all here!
Zhang Tian laughed and said, "I've cooked all these fish maws, go get a bigger bowl and smash them all up with a stone stick."

"Can it be made into glue?"

Owl was amazed that he couldn't connect the swim bladder with the sticky glue.

Zhang Tian showed a meaningful smile and said, "It has to be done really badly."

"It's easy!"

Xiao went happily.

After a day of observation, Lin Yu found that the skills of this tribe seem to be all about making tools. Compared with their rough eating habits, the fishing rods and bows and arrows are so exquisite that they seem to be imported.

What surprised her even more was that the two inseparable young men, Tian and Xiao, were breaking bones while the other was pounding fish maw.

They even extract glue and make animal glue!
At the same time, I feel strange that the production of isingas is very hard. There is a saying that "a good man can't pound two liang of glue". How can this kind of physical work be entrusted to a child?These men are all waiting to eat, and they don't even help...

Xiao soon realized that something was wrong: the meat and plants he had pounded before would shatter after a few light strokes, but the fish maw didn't change at all after pounding for a long time!

He remembered Tian's mysterious smile when he handed him the swim bladder, and shouted that he had been fooled.

Looking around, his eyes fell on a big man with muscles in his brain.

"Brother Tiger Head."

Xiao Xiao handed the bone bowl to Hutou with a flattering smile.

"what?"

"God says that only a true warrior can mash the swim bladder. I tried it, but I don't seem to be good at it."

"Of course you can't! Show me what a real warrior is!"

Hutou snatched the bowl and the stone stick, sat down and output like a pile driver crazily, his hand speed was so fast that only afterimages remained, and the stone stick hit the bone bowl with a dense and crisp sound like a machine gun.

Xiao copied Zhang Tian's words intact: "It has to be done really badly."

The tiger didn't raise his head, and the master never talked nonsense. He made an OK gesture lightly, and he became more and more comfortable in using gestures.

Xiao sat back beside Zhang Tian, ​​wanting to see how he turned the bones into glue, but found that he was weaving something with hemp thread, which was similar to the straw sandals, except that it was larger, the thread was thinner, and the gaps were smaller. Some.

Zhang Tian intends to weave a filter cloth the size of a handkerchief. Strictly speaking, it is not considered cloth, because the thread spun from bark fiber is too thick and hard, and there is rarely a large amount of cellulose, lignin, gum and other substances in it. some impurities.

Only by selecting high-quality hemp materials such as ramie and flax, and removing impurities through processing techniques such as retting and degumming, can we spin soft and slender threads and weave soft cloth.

But it is enough for filtering.

As soon as he finished weaving the filter cloth, he saw the tiger head coming majestically.

He held the bowl in one hand and put the other behind his back. He looked like a gentleman, and said calmly, "Here, is this okay?"

The fish maw in the bone bowl was crushed to the size of a fingernail.

Zhang Tian was full of praise: "Awesome! It really has to be you!"

The tiger's face was full of color, and he smiled and patted Xiao's shoulder lightly, with a high attitude that young people should learn more.

Xiao brought the bamboo basket full of fish maw to him, and said with a smile: "The real warrior is to smash all the fish maw in this basket!"

Hutou's smile suddenly froze on his face, but at this moment, Orchid's voice sounded: "It's time to eat!"

He immediately said, "Eat first!"

He turned and left without hesitation.

The two saw his hands behind his back trembling like leaves in the cold wind, and they laughed.

Zhang Tian threw the fish maw scraps into the bamboo tube and boiled them together with the bones. As the gelatin gradually boiled out, the water in the bamboo tube became thicker.

Xiao stretched out his hand to twist the glue in the bamboo tube, and said in surprise: "It has indeed become sticky..."

Zhang Tian gave him the filter cloth: "Come on, hold it like this, hold it steady."

Xiaoping held up the filter cloth, he didn't understand what Tian was going to do, but he soon understood.

Zhang Tian poured all the glue from the bamboo tube and the bowl onto the filter cloth while it was hot, wrapped it up, squeezed it repeatedly with his hands, the glue seeped into the pelvis through the gap, and all the bones and swim bladder debris remained on the filter cloth superior.

Xiao was eye-opening, he never thought that "straw sandals" could have such a magical effect.

He couldn't help but say, "God, you're so smart!"

Zhang Tian smiled and shook his head: "This is the guidance of the sky."

At this moment, Xiao saw that wild woman approaching, remembering what his mother said, he stepped back cautiously.

But Lin Yu didn't approach, and from a distance of two or three meters, he pointed to the filter cloth in Xiao Xiao's hand and gestured vigorously, muttering something, but he didn't know what he was talking about.

Zhang Tian heard clearly, she was asking in Chinese: "Can I borrow this piece of cloth?"

He nodded and said in primitive language, "Yes."

He put the filter cloth on a clean stone and motioned her to take it when she needed it.

Lin Yu went contentedly.

Xiao was confused the whole time: "What did she say?"

Zhang Tian was about to explain, when he heard Aunt Lanhua raise her voice and shouted: "It's time to eat! Do you want me to invite you?"

Xiao was startled, he knew his mother's temper best, if she didn't go to dinner, her old man would come to invite someone with a big stick.

"You go first, I'll be here in a while."

Zhang Tian put the bear tendon and the pelvis filled with glue to dry outside the cave, and then returned to the cave for breakfast.

Take a break after dinner and go out to work.

This time, the troops were divided into four groups. Zhang Tian and Xiao led a group of people to go fishing by the river, and Hutou and Huzhuo took the rest into the mountains to hunt—Hutou had given up fishing. Spear, return to your old profession.

Lanhua took a group of people to the river to wash the animal skins, Lin Yu was also on the list, and Honghua took the rest into the mountains to collect them.

The old people, children and pregnant women who stay in the cave are not idle. For the bear hunted yesterday, the subcutaneous tissue, large pieces of fat around the internal organs and the abdomen need to be boiled into fat and eaten in the cold winter. They are in charge.

(End of this chapter)