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Chapter 55

Under Zhang Tian's instruction, the men who returned from hunting brought back many broken branches and trees.

Although Zhang Tian puts on the appearance of an old god, which makes the people have full confidence in him, but in fact he has never done the building of a house. He used to sleep in the wild, either bringing his own tent or building a house with grass and trees. A simple temporary shelter doesn't need to be so laborious.

However, he knows how to build camps. It is not difficult to build a small wooden house for short-term use. He selects good-quality wood to build the frame, and then inserts bamboo strips or small branches into the frame in a similar weaving manner to form an enclosure structure. Cover the roof with broad leaves to act as a canopy.

The advantage of this method is that it can be done quickly. He directed a dozen strong men to work overtime, and it can be built in one night. The disadvantage is that the load-bearing is not good enough. When it snows, the snow has to be cleared from time to time to avoid crushing the house.

If you apply mud on the outside of the wall and then use firewood to dry it, or directly use stone to build the wall, it will definitely be much stronger and more durable, but it is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Considering that the "house property rights" are only for one winter, he thinks it is unnecessary to be so troublesome.

Lin Yu is not a picky person either. After knowing his thoughts, he bluntly said how to do it as simple as possible.

Zhang Tian led the men to work outside the cave, while Lin Yu taught the women to identify herbs in the cave, talked about the paradise she used to live in, and repeatedly promoted it like an advertisement. Listening to it once might not be enough to move your heart, but she believed that it would be good for women. They say that one winter, sooner or later they will become spiritual Taoyuan people.

After learning today's knowledge, the women prepare to cook.

Lin Yu walked out of the cave, and Bai followed her. Ever since Lin Yu promised to teach her the pharmacology of plants, she has become the little wizard's little follower, following wherever she goes.

Lin Yu found some broken wood from building materials waste, and built a wooden frame at the two ends about two meters apart. In the soil at the end, sixty meridians are formed.

The spinning wheel created by Zhang Tian is in the nature of a toy, and the children like it very much. The thread spun out these days is piled up in a corner of the cave. It just so happens that Lin Yu plans to weave a few bolts of burlap for consumption. Excess spinning capacity.

Bai asked curiously, "What is this?"

"Loom."

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

Compared with the diagonal looms in the Qin and Han Dynasties, the one she is making now is not even a toy, but the principle is the same, simple and simple, and the efficiency is still much higher than pure hand weaving.

Baimo read this term several times and memorized it. She was still young and there were too many things she couldn't understand. She followed Lin Yu's words and memorized it first, and then gradually understood it.

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

Bai Pi Dian Pi Dian went, and soon came back holding one end of the twine, and the other end stretched all the way into the cave, with no end in sight, it was really long enough.

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

She lifted the crossbar, and the sixty warp threads were immediately divided into upper and lower layers, and then let the white pulling weft thread pass through the warp threads divided into two layers. After tightening the weft threads, she lowered the crossbar, and the warp threads that were originally on the upper layer became the lower layer. Continue pulling the weft thread through it...

This cycle goes on and on, and the warp and weft threads are gradually interwoven into cloth.

Weaving is essentially a mechanical job, which is not much different from the work on the assembly line. If you want to weave quickly and well, there is no one but familiarity with your hands.

The cooperation between the two was 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 clothes.

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

Lin Yu heard the teasing in his tone, gave him a white look and said, "I wove it as a door curtain!"

The two worked together to weave a coarse cloth nearly two meters long and 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 amazed to learn that Lin Yu and Bai had woven such a large piece of cloth in such a short period of time. They could also weave such a cloth by hand, but it would take at least two or three days, and they had to Only a skilled woman will do.

After dinner, the women all ran out to watch Lin Yu and Bai Zhibu, watching the warp threads go up and down, and the weft threads go in and out, so densely packed that they made their eyes dizzy.

After looking at it for a while, I found that the operation is actually very simple, nothing more than lifting and lowering the crossbar, threading, and winding up the thread.

They don't understand the principle, but immediately realize the superiority of the loom, which is much faster than they can weave by hand!

"Look! The wooden house seems to be almost finished!"

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

On 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 is a new vocabulary for the tribesmen, but after building it, they found that the so-called wooden house is very similar to the camp they built in the valley, except that the wooden house is made of wood, while the valley camp is made of mammoth teeth and beasts. Skin.

The men built a roof made of leaves for the wooden house. Zhang Tian entered the house, lit a candle made of beeswax, and dug a square shallow pit a few centimeters deep in a corner of the house by the light of the candle, leaving a gap at the bottom of the corner. Used for drainage.

This area is equivalent to the bathroom.

The main purpose of building this wooden house is to take a bath. The people of the tribe do not have the habit of taking a bath, and they can't wash it several times a year. They concentrate on washing with river water full of parasites in warm weather, and the more they wash, the dirtier they become.

Before Lin Yu came, Zhang Tian could still boil a tube of water and wash it outside the cave in the open air. After Lin Yu came, he has been paying more attention to his clothes recently, so as not to be exposed unnecessarily, which would be unsightly.

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

Thinking that he could take a bath often in the future, he felt very happy, and subconsciously hummed a ditty.

Xiao Xiao on the side listened fascinatedly, and when Zhang Tian finished humming a song, he couldn't help asking: "What are you humming? It's quite nice."

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

"Music?"

"The sound that makes people feel happy is called music. When Hutou is working, doesn't he often yell? That is also called music."

"But he yelled badly, and it wasn't pleasant at all."

"You may not find it pleasant, but Hutou enjoys it. The music doesn't have to please people, it can also please yourself."

As Zhang Tian said, he took out a perforated bamboo from his arms. Xiao remembered that this thing was called a bamboo flute, and it would make a harsh sound.

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

Unexpectedly, the sound he blew 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 spread to everyone's ears.

The people of the tribe have been persecuted by the tiger head's loud voice with incomplete five-tones all year round. When they heard such a beautiful fairy music, they suddenly felt ripples in their hearts and couldn't help being intoxicated by it.

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

(End of this chapter)