Wild farming: I was hugged by the cold patriarch

Chapter 99 099. Life has forced me to this point
Ye Sang rubbed the little guy's head again. He couldn't bear to let go of the soft fur in his hand: "It feels better to pet a big cat than a kitten."

"Ahhh..." The iconic baby voice attracted Ye Sang's attention, "Yun'er, are you awake?"

I quickly put on my clothes, then picked up the little guy, put on clothes, shoes and socks, washed his butt, and changed his diaper.

Hua and Xi also woke up, and they took care of themselves. They got dressed, took the washing basket and went to the bathroom below to wash up, and then made breakfast together.

Ye Sang finally carried his sister down the mountain.

They went down, there happened to be hot water, washed up, and had breakfast. It was already bright.

Today’s task is to make the soles of boots.

It is best to use cooked cowhide for the soles, but wild beasts are somewhat different from modern ones, so Ye Sang thought of several alternatives.

She went to the cave to pick out the skin of a wild beast. This leather was similar to cowhide, but twice as thick. After the cowhide was cooked, the two layers could be used to make shoe soles.

Many men and women from the tribes of Tancang, Feng, Lu, and Yu came to learn how to make boots from Ye Sang. Who wouldn’t want a pair of boots of the same style as Ye Sang?

For the first time, Ye Sang chose a smaller piece of leather so that he wouldn't feel so distressed if it was ruined.

After picking out the leather, I take it to the table at the foot of the mountain and remove the hair first.

The skin of the Great Wild Beast is also hairy, but the hair is lighter, similar to that of a cow.

There is no modern high-end technology here, so we can only perform manual shedding. The simplest way to remove hair is to boil water and shower it, and then scrape off the hair with a scraper.

This process is simple and easy to do, it just requires patience.

It took Ye Sang and the others half a day to remove the hair from the skin of a large wild beast. Fortunately, they didn't have to go out, so they had plenty of time.

In order to put on the boots, no one complained about being tired, and they worked hard without complaining.

In the afternoon, everyone turned over the skin of the wild animal to remove the grease on the skin.

The method is also simple, just use a knife to gently scrape off the grease, but be careful not to cut the skin during the process.

The grease is removed and tanning proceeds.

Tanning, under present conditions, has four methods.

The first oil tanning method: apply animal fat on the leather board, beat and rub it repeatedly to make the animal skin softer.

The second smoking method: place animal skins on the erected tree trunks, light firewood underneath, produce smoke to smoke and soften the animal skins, and then simply treat the skins with plant ash, stove soil, etc.

The third water tanning method uses water temperature, pH and other factors to have a certain impact on fur tanning.

The fourth oral tanning method is to chew the skin with your teeth to make it soft.

The simplest method is oil tanning. In order to reduce everyone's burden, Ye Sang chose this method.

There is a lot of oil in the tribe. Scoop some out of the oil tank and apply it evenly on the leather. Next, two people work together, one person beats the leather and the other rubs it, dividing the work and working together.

Ye Sang and Tancang are in a group.

Ye Sang smeared the oil on the leather, and Changcang's hands, holding a stick in one hand, beat the leather in exchange. After beating for a while, Ye Sang tidied it up so that the whole leather could be beaten.

After beating for 10 minutes, Ye Sang put the leather into the pottery jar and rubbed it with both hands.

After they beat and rubbed it, the skin became softer.

Next, it was handed over to the second group. Their approach was the same as Ye Sang and Tang Cang's approach.

After repeated beating and rubbing four times, the skin has become soft.

Ye Sang pinched the leather. This leather was used to make the soles of shoes. There was no need to make it softer. This level was enough.

Next, touch the plant ash into the pottery jar to clean away excess grease.It took five washes before the leather was clean and fresh.

Next set up fire to bake.

It's winter now, so you can only use this method to dry the leather, otherwise no one will be able to wear boots next year.

The first piece of leather seems to have been tanned successfully, and after it dries, it can be used to make shoe soles without doing anything else.

Ye Sang asked the tribesmen to tan the second piece, which will be used to make shoe uppers.

Several tribesmen worked together to tan the second skin eight times. It was much softer than the first skin and could be used as a material for making clothes.

Bake it together.

It was getting dark at this time, and it took the tribesmen a whole day to tan two pieces of leather, which was very hard work.

There were tribal warriors keeping vigil at night, and Ye Sang handed them the task of drying the leather. The next morning, when Ye Sang came down from the mountain, the first thing he did was to see the leather.

Both skins have been dried, one is neither hard nor soft, the other is soft, and the tanning is really good.

Call the clan members and officially start making boots today.

First you need to draw the feet.

When drawing the feet, draw them a little loosely.

Ye Sang asked Xi to demonstrate to everyone. She asked Xi to stand on the table, put the bamboo shoot shells under his feet, asked him to take off his shoes and socks and step on them, and used charcoal to draw the outline of the two feet.

After drawing, Ye Sang used scissors to cut out the outline.

While she was cutting, she explained to everyone why she did what she did, so that everyone knew what she was doing, and everyone in the clan listened with interest.

Cut out the outline of the feet on the bamboo shoot shell, and then compare it with the upper skin, cut out the same outline of the hide, and cut two pieces of each foot.

The thickness of the two pieces of leather stacked together is fifteen millimeters, which is just right for the sole of a shoe.

The next thing to do is to fasten the two pieces of leather together to form a complete sole.

In modern times, glue should be used, but there is no way here. Ye Sang plans to thread a thin wire around the edge of the sole. The thin wire on the front can be used to fix the upper of the shoe, and the wire on the bottom is used to prevent slipping. Kill two birds with one stone. .

It's just that the wire is a problem.

Take a long stone, chisel a thin line on its surface, pour molten iron into the thread, guide it with a long needle, and finally use a scraper to scrape off the molten iron on the surface.

The theory is feasible, but it requires speed. Such a small amount of molten iron will cool down very quickly, not to mention it is still winter.

The first two attempts failed. This was Ye Sang's first failure, which made her a little frustrated, but she didn't show it, otherwise the matter would have failed.

Ye Sang moved the stone to the side opening of the iron-making furnace and tried again. This time the temperature was raised and he succeeded.

After the iron wire turned black, Ye Sang picked up the iron wire with tweezers and threw it into the water. With a "sizzle", the iron wire was quenched and cooled down completely.

After taking the wire out of the water, Ye Sang bent and straightened it several times and found that the wire was quite flexible and could be used to wear shoe soles.

Ye Sang took the sole over and placed it on a thick wooden board. He then nailed four nails at the four corners against the edge of the sole to secure the sole.

Get charcoal, sharpen it, draw a line on the edge of the sole, get a hammer and a small needle, and punch holes one centimeter apart on the drawn line.

Ye Sang secretly laughed, he was almost becoming a shoemaker.

Since coming to the Wilderness, she has become an all-rounder with a doctorate in medicine. Life has forced me to this point, and I still have to face it with a smile.

(End of this chapter)