Wolf King

There is nothing to say about making handmade soap with wild boar, the only problem is extracting the lye.

Uh, it's actually quite simple to extract natural lye. In the brick kiln, pull the white ash burned by the wood (filter out the large pieces of black charcoal yourself), add water, and the amount of water is over the grass and ash. Minutes, take it down and let it sit overnight, the light yellow liquid on the surface of the pot is alkaline.

With the lye, there is no problem with soap making. The boiled wild boar oil is placed in a ceramic bowl and heated to a certain temperature with hot water. When the temperature of the oil and the lye is about the same (both in the ceramic bowl, to When touching the pottery bowl, the standard is not too hot), mix the two liquids and start to stir.

This process must ensure ventilation, and also ensure that the mixed liquid cannot cool down too quickly. Xiao Yun was carried out in the activity room with the door open. The time selected was in the morning, when the cubs ran out to play in the snow; mixing during processing The temperature of the liquid is maintained by water heating, and the stirring tool made of bifurcated thorns continues to stir for almost half an hour, and the mixed liquid becomes a rice paste, which is the completion of the saponification reaction.

Next, pour the saponified liquid into a shallower abrasive tool (Xiao Yun directly took the brick mold to use it), and randomly throw a place to wait for its maturity (it must be placed in a ventilated and opaque place for more than one month to use )... It’s as simple as it is without any technical difficulty. When he first entered the winter, Xiao Yun decided to get the wool in the winter, so he made a few bricks of handmade soap and put it on (so there was no wild boar oil to fry fish during that time) Eat horns...).

The soap produced by this unpretentious approach is very primitive, but it can be used anyway. Don’t pay attention... The philosophy of life that Xiao Yun learned in this world is to hold back when you can’t guarantee it. When I first wore it, I even ate raw meat.

To insist, the vinegar that he can't eat is simply crude...

Fermented vinegar must be fermented and yeast must be fermented. Fortunately, it is not too difficult to make yeast. Take a clay pot and put the dried cheese (produced by the tribe), add water and put it in the activity room (the floor heating temperature is about 30 degrees ) Fermentation, open the lid a few times a day and shake, bubbles appear in the tank in about four to five days, that is, the fermentation is successful.

Filter out the yeast juice, add acorn powder that has been cooked for several times and change the water (find the wheat flour, it will be ordered), knead it and ferment it indoors. After about 10 hours, the acorn powder becomes Relatively fluffy, knead it into small groups... That's how the homemade yeast came out.

Come again... It is tossing black beans, soaking, boiling, and steaming. After steaming, smash it while hot, spread it on the vine grass mat to filter out the water. When the temperature is not hot, warm, knead the yeast made of acorn powder into it. Then, cool to only a little temperature, but not so cold (10~20 degrees), install the altar and put on the floor heating activity room temperature fermentation (requires a temperature of about 30 degrees).

Even if there is a slight sour taste in the jar for about two days, even if it is successful, flush it in, add acorn shell powder (no bran or wheat bran, just find an alternative), stir to ensure that the oxygen space in the irrigation is increased, continue Fermentation, about a week later, a pungent sour smell came out of the tank, and you were done.

If it is used for eating vinegar, then there is the process of sedimentation and filtration, adding other seasoning materials, and long-term fermentation to wait for the vinegar to mature. Xiao Yun can't wait so long, just wash the hair after flushing directly.

In short... In this place where there is nothing to **** up, Xiao Yun really wants to do something to get bald...

Fortunately, it is not without gains after tossing down, and now the ten pounds of wool piled in front of him is the reward for this effort.

"It's really not easy." Xiao Yun sighed deeply, gently flicking the fluffy and curly wool **** with his fingers. The processed wool was a little fluffed because of the washing with alkaline soap, so it was not so soft and smooth. But after all, it’s wool, which can be spun. Of course... no matter how this long hair is processed, it’s still a little thicker. The spun yarn is better than the twine. It’s estimated that it’s enough to wear close to the body. to make.

Before mobilizing the clan to toss the original wool together, Xiao Yun had to let the clan see the practicality of the processed wool with his own eyes, so he... continued to spin his own yarn, and the hand spindle twirled again...

"——Nima! The efficiency of pure hand spinning is too low!"

One hand twists the hair manually, the other hand holds the spindle to rotate the draft, and it's okay to play casually under the novelty. I really want to spin ten kilograms of yarn like this. Just imagine Xiao Yun feels a bit desperate-even if he is just It is not a joke that the wool fibers are mixed and stretched into yarns, and the yarns are wrapped and wrapped into thick wool yarns on the spindle.

That is to say... wanting to complete the operation of spinning wool and leading the whole people to wear sweaters, Xiao Yun had to shake the spinning wheel out of his hand... When he thought of the technical difficulty, Xiao Yun felt cold above his head. Liver baldness again.

Speaking of hand spinning wheels is not to say that the technical content is so high that it can't be done by hand. In modern society, some kindergarten classes will have teachers who take fart children to make spinning wheels. But the problem is coming, that's when there are ready-made materials... The children's toy version of the manual spinning wheel is made of convenient tools such as cardboard, gear blocks, chopsticks, hoses, glue guns, and now, Xiao Yun Quan has to DIY himself... This kind of modern man who is fart and idle is used to relax and cultivate emotional entertainment, which is so **** in this world.

In modern society, if you want to drink milk, go out and find a small shop and throw out five yuan to get out. If you want to drink milk in this broken place, you have to raise cows. This is the gap~

Xiao Yun wandered like a ghost, went out swayingly, and went to find the coolies... uh, no, to find the trouble of the adult tribe.

The newly built four family-style mud brick houses with internal and external compartments are lined up on the east side of the mobile home. Unlike the two adjacent Datong Pai Kang rooms, these four privately owned houses are separated from each other. At a distance of more than fifteen meters, this is the vegetable garden that Xiao Yun plans to leave for every household.

Three of the four new houses belong to a family with children. One of the grass that lived in was just in heat, and the birth of a cub is next year... But the house of the grass family is not only a couple of people. When Xiao Yun entered the door, In two steps, you can see the grass and Ayue snuggling together on the inner kang, and there is a big river that seizes the private space of your partner and rolls on the kang. At present, the clan still has no concept of private property, and the relationship is good. It’s as natural to go rubbing places in other people’s homes as eating and drinking, even the owner doesn’t think anything is wrong.

In other words, they didn’t even cultivate the concept of privacy. They didn’t need to wear animal skins in a warm hut, and the gangs took off to wear only a little leather pants... Alas, the sexual characteristics of the upper body of the female snow werewolf are wrong. Lactation period is not obvious, looks the same as the pectoral muscles, otherwise Xiao Yun's eyes do not know where to put it.

Well, as for the young couple looking at each other in the horizontal and vertical directions, Xiao Yun is used to it...

"Ayun, I really want to belong to my house!" Dahe saw Xiao Yun, and said the repeater.

"Wait until you are not a single dog." Xiao Yun responded casually. He also sat on the hot kang to warm his feet, and looked at the skin of the hands and feet of the three adult people who were exposed outside. When he saw that it was almost the same, he spoke. Huyou, "Have you seen the patriarch's sweater vest inside the hide?"

"Ah?" Da Yue, Qing Cao, and Qing Cao's partner, A Yue San, looked inexplicable.

"That was made out of the inner hair of the long-haired sheep. There is less hair on the sheep, which is not enough for everyone, so I only made one for the patriarch. He is old and no young people can resist cold." Xiao Yun said, "You During the time when I was busy building a house, I thought about how to use the long hair on the sheep, and processed it into wool that can be knitted into clothes. Of course, the clothes made of this wool are not as soft as the patriarch’s. It’s a bit irritating to the skin, but it’s more comfortable than wearing animal skins, and it can be made into a blanket more suitable for laying on fire kang than animal skins."

"Okay." Grass was happy.

"Ayun, what do you want us to do?" Dahe asked with blinking eyes. Look, there is a gap between the clever and the unwise. The grass is still stupid. She guessed that Xiao Yunti asked them to contribute.

"It takes a spinning wheel to spin the wool into a thread. Both of you have relatively clever hands. Get up tomorrow and do it with me." Xiao Yun was honest and looked at Ayue afterwards, "Ayue, you have almost rested , Do you want to go out for activities? Most of the winter has passed, and the family should prepare for the snow."

Xiao Yun believes that he is not a devil. After twenty hard-working people built four houses in the winter, he generously gave everyone four or five days of rest time... Uh, the main reason is quite Many people frostbite their fingers and toes, and then force them to do things. Xiao Yun is afraid that the tribe will be born with a sense of resistance...

The soldier A Yue, who was comfortable for a few days, did not see through Xiao Yun's sinister machine, and nodded innocently: "Okay, I have no problem."

Xiao Yun nodded with satisfaction, and continued to catch the coolie...

Four households and two single dog chases go through it, let go of the frostbite on the hands and feet, and let people continue to rest. If they are good, they go up and arbitrarily. Green grass, big river, and wool are just "child labor"; other jobs that need tribes to do are more. For example, after the spring and snowing, the cultivation plan is put on the desk. How much do you need to prepare various fertilizers? It is convenient to pick up the animal manure in the sheepfold and the snow wolf dung in the toilet. It is better to shovel the bird droppings and the humus layer of the forest leaves.

However, when Patriarch Huyou encountered a little trouble, the patriarch asked why he didn't cultivate shiitake mushrooms. Xiao Yun couldn't just say that the snow werewolf's brain was too simple to do complicated and delicate work. One, it took a long time to confuse this matter.

The tribes who had recovered most of the frostbite had arranged things, and the next day, the tribe who had been quiet for a few days was busy again.

The carefree cubs rushed to the snow outside the tribe again to play with the snow, and the wool also wanted to follow, and was caught by Xiao Yun before running out of the chase.

"Good wool, I will do things with me today~" Xiao Yun showed his white teeth.

"Huh..." Wool looked at the little friends who had run out of the tribe, and they were very unhappy and unhappy.

"They can't help. Each one is too stupid. Only wool is smart and ingenious, so I only look for you." Xiao Yunchao's pups cast their disgusted eyes and forcibly misunderstand the reaction of wool.

"Oh, okay." The pure wool suddenly smiled with pride, "What are we going to do, Ayun?"

...Planned.

Before building a house, there was some wood left. Xiao Yun found out the wood fiber with the tightest density, and cut it into a slap thick wood chip with a horn knife. The clever three of the tribe came out with him to build a model of a spinning wheel.

The most original hand spinning wheel is mainly composed of a large wheel and a small round ingot. The diameter of the big wheel is dozens of times the diameter of the spindle. The two are connected by a rope or a belt. The handle is located in the center of the big wheel. When the handle is turned, the big wheel starts to rotate. Because the diameter of the wheel and the spindle are different by dozens Times, the spindle rotates one revolution, the spindle will rotate dozens of times; the axial end of the spindle is fixed with several wool fibers, and it can be automatically twisted as the spindle rotates, because the number of rotations of the spindle is determined by the rotation angle of the large wheel Therefore, the number of twisted turns can also be precisely controlled by the operator.

In addition, after twisting, as long as the yarn is removed and attached to the side of the spindle, as the large wheel rotates, the yarn will automatically wrap around the spindle as the spindle rotates, thus achieving continuous operation of twisting and winding .

The principle of using wool fiber or any other fiber spinning thread is such a thing. Of course, Xiao Yun wants to spin thick woolen yarn for woven sweaters and thicker yarn for woven carpets, so it does not need to be as fine as the yarn of woven fabrics. …The spinning wheel can be used even if it is rough.

Hmm... In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is rough or not, because the structure of the hand spinning wheel used by the people before the Han Dynasty in China was already very simple. Even the hand crank on the big wheel can be turned directly by hand.

Naturally, Xiao Yun knew that the treadle spinning wheel was less labor-intensive than the hand-operated spinning wheel, and it could better liberate his hands to assist the wool fiber twisting and winding. However, in the early stage of groping, he had no confidence in himself. Before I walk, I still get down and learn to crawl...

Use wood chips to make a wheel-like two hollow runners into one place, pull out the wheel surface with animal tendon lines in the middle, grind out small gears and wood chips as bearings, and fix the runner on the table legs that are placed upside down On the frame, on the other side, bones are used as spindles and connected by a belt cut into strips. A toy spinning wheel without a crank crank has been rammed out for more than a day.

Qing Cao looked at this wooden frame without knowing what they were doing with amazement. Wool still curiously flicked the hollow runner a few times with her hand. When she saw the runner squeaking and turning, she thought it was It is a gadget for playing.

Xiao Yun did not explain to them, took the wool and pulled it into a strip, twisted two fibers by hand and attached it to the spindle, manually stretched the fiber and bypassed the big wheel, then turned the big wheel in one hand and held it in the other. With the rotation of the large wheel, the spindle spindle is rotated rapidly, and the wool fiber held by the hand completes the twisting and drawing work during the rotation of the large wheel, and becomes a thread wound on the spindle.

"Oh? Oh oh oh?" A few grass faces Σ(⊙▽⊙\"a unconsciously, his eyes widened.

"Huh?" Xiao Yun turned around twice and found that the thread on the spindle was too thin, and it was not tightly wound, so he added two more fibers. When the big wheel was turned, the hand holding the wool turned with the wool fiber. The process of twisting and drawing on the wheel slowly moves and adjusts the height...

"Oh oh oh!" A few green grass faces stared, and the thread spun onto the spindle looked thicker with the naked eye.

"...That's how we do it. Let's make three more spinning wheels of this kind and spin the yarn together." Xiao Yun picked up the spindle with the thick woolen yarn and showed it to several people. "This woolen yarn has a great effect. You have seen the sweater vest, weaving it out with this~"

Qing Cao nodded, but Ding Xiaoer questioned it.

The grass and wool are more able to sit, the river is a little more lively, but also has the self-control to sit down, the three have become professional textile women workers in the tribe-as for them, there are child workers under the age of 14 and suspected pregnant women. Point, Xiao Yun ignored it directly.

Besides, compared to shoveling bird dung, humus, and shoveling livestock manure in the ice and snow, it is more pleasant to stay in a warm room...

Moreover, Xiao Yun did not mean that he would be idle by throwing the spinning thread to others, and there were hundreds of kilograms of rough raw wool waiting for him to process-to put it all in tears.

Entering the fourth month of winter, unexpectedly and reasonably... the clan's grain storage bottomed out.

When the nervous patriarch pulled Xiao Yun, who was still awake, to the pile of wild boar to look at the empty pit, Xiao Yun didn't react. This place was pretended... Wool wool is tangled and has little energy to manage food reserves.

"This winter, we...have eaten too much!" The patriarch burst into tears with just one sentence. This was also his negligence. His recent life was too happy, and he did not have the hardships of previous years to survive the long winter. Feel it.

Xiao Yun: "..."

Xiao Yun understands that he really can’t blame the patriarch. It’s true that this year there are plenty of cold protection, and there are two uninterrupted vegetable supplies of bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms. However, the consumption of the clan is also greater than in previous years. On the days when he couldn’t get out of the door, the tribesmen were called by him to be busy and busy-do not eat more if they consume more, let alone frozen wild boar, dozens of sick cattle and sheep tribes have slaughtered .

"There is no staple food with high starch content, and meat and vegetables alone are indeed not very reliable." Xiao Yun lamented.

"If there are only bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms, the clan will not be able to eat enough, Ayun." The patriarch was worried.

"No way, let's kill some sheep." Xiao Yun said, "The snow is now smaller than the previous months, and it should be able to support the snow for another month and a half. After the snow, we went to the Tauren tribe, Take pottery blankets and exchange grain and vegetable forage seeds with them. This year we have worked hard to open up more fields and store some grain. The demand for cattle and sheep is not so great."

"...Eh?" The patriarch was not incapable of agreeing to slaughter the sheep to continue his life, but...somehow, Xiao Yun had been fooling for so long, and the ability to obey and listen slowly came out. "Ayun, do you mean that we will Don’t keep so many cattle and sheep? But the tribes don’t have too many cattle and sheep?”

Xiao Yun nodded. He would talk to the patriarch sooner or later. He immediately pulled the patriarch to the quieter activity room in the morning and opened the long talk: "The tribe still wants to continue herding cattle and sheep. Our tribes are in The meat consumption is very large, and the harvest of hunting is not necessarily reliable, so it is necessary to feed to ensure the quantity of meat supply. However, there is no need to increase the meat demand. We used to raise excess cattle and sheep in order to Take it for a deal, yes, now we don’t need to change pottery, just change the salt... Then the patriarch, you said that the two kiln ceramics I burned recently can be used to exchange salt with the human caravan?"

If you don’t change it, it’s no big deal to organize your clan to cook salt on the seaside beach in the inner sea... Xiao Yun does not intend to use the clan’s labor results to go to the caravan anyway.

Xiao Yun’s proposal did not have the first time to oppose the patriarch. He was very clear that the most busy person in the tribe had to be Ayun throughout the winter. Although Ayun added a lot of work that he did not have in previous years, he was indeed a whole family. The busiest person, so no one complains. A Yun, who had a lot of trouble, had to open the kiln every half a month, and the thunder couldn't move. The people of this tribe wouldn't say anything.

The patriarch showed a hesitant look. Every time Ayun burned pottery, he had to stare and take away what he thought was valuable. For now, his original tent was already filled with all kinds of pottery...especially Ayun The two-color pottery bowls and pots burnt out inside and outside, even the patriarch could not help but secretly play with one or two in private.

Xiao Yun saw the intention of the patriarch and made persistent efforts: "Reducing the scale of grazing does not mean that letting the tribes have nothing to do, but that there are more important things that require more than the benefits of grazing. ..."

The patriarch can’t deny that if he says to arrange things for everyone, the patriarch feels that Ayun is uniquely talented in this regard-he also spends most of his time in this winter being directed by Ayun to turn around, which is still Ayun’s opinion that he is older , Relatively "relentless"...

"... Moreover, the work that the tribes have to take on in the new year, I can guarantee that it will definitely be harder and more tiring than every previous year." Xiao Yun solemnly, "Continue to graze, not live well For the restless days, it is still to reduce grazing and spend this year's time on a heavier and more burdened cause, but it can make the clan people live a better life. I believe that you will choose the latter without hesitation. Correct?"

"Hmm..." The patriarch was a little bit upset, but he didn't dare to show it directly, because he was very clear that A Yun said that the harder and more exhausting is not a joke, he only dare to whisper, "This, when we were grazing I didn’t feel very relaxed..."

Xiao Yun could not let the patriarch retreat at this time. He pulled the patriarch out of the activity room, out of the tribe, facing the open snowfield, and waved his hand:

"Imagine the patriarch, as long as our entire community is united, working hard to cultivate, and wholeheartedly farming, this useless field will be in a year, no, half a year will become our field, planted with food and vegetables. You The food eaten in the Tauren tribe can grow on our fields. We will have food reserves that will not be lost to Tauren. We will also have cattle and sheep that provide meat for energy. Hungry, no need to go out for hunting anymore, our granaries will always be filled with all kinds of food, and our tribes can’t finish it all, so we don’t want to waste food. Fusion, become a new member of our tribe, our tribe will be stronger than the cat and tiger, no longer fear any foreign enemies-that will be a great future!"

The author has something to say: "Those who can foole may not be able to do things, but those who can do things are definitely good at fooling people."-Xiao Yun.