Chapter 41 – If Only You Were Our Da Wu
“Clothes?”
“Yeah.” Luo Zhen handed over the plank. He used this kind of plank when he drew the design of the house. Even if Granny Qian had never expressed an opinion, when she saw this thing, she knew what it was for. of.
As she got older, Granny Qian’s eyes were not as good as before. She needed to squint slightly to see things. At this moment, she put her head over and leaned forward slightly, only to see the black lines drawn on the wooden board.
It was clothing with a very simple style, but because it had more sleeves and collars, there would be more sewing steps. These were prepared for the coming of winter. Luo Zhen had seen the ones worn by Lu Zhan in winter and the leather jacket only had two holes for the hand to pass through, and then there was a piece of clothing used like an animal skin skirt, because there were no sleeves, the entire arm was exposed.
Some ordinary people who can’t stand the cold will also wrap animal skins on their arms, but this makes it very inconvenient to move around, and the effect of keeping warm is not very good. Many people are prone to frostbite in winter.
The place where they live now is surrounded by mountains. The mountain breeze becomes stronger at night, and night has gradually become colder. Remembering the seasons, he realizes that it was not far from winter and nights will obviously get colder.
Luo Zhen remembered that Lu Zhan mentioned that the transition from summer to winter here is very short, usually only about a week, and the longest is not more than a month, but occasionally there have been overnight winters.
The preparations of the Black Panther Tribe before the winter are all arranged by their Da Wu. Only Da Wu knows the exact winter time so now, except for those who are sensitive to numbers, other people only know that winter is coming but it is not clear how many days are left before it arrives. Luo Zhen remembered that when he first came to the Black Panther Tribe, there were only more than two months left before winter. Now that he had experienced the flood and found a new residence, he was afraid that there was only about one month left.
Granny Qian couldn’t understand how the paintings on the wooden boards could be turned into clothes. She looked at the bone needles and fiber ropes that lay aside again, “What are these used for?”
“This is for needlework, used to sew clothes.”
Granny Qian picked up one of the bone needles to test the sharpness of the needle tip, and then shook her head and said, “This kind of bone needle can’t pierce animal skins.”
Luo Zhen nodded in distress. He picked up a stone and showed Granny Qian how to carve a hole in the animal’s skin. Of course, the sharp needle tip that had been sharpened was also visibly blunt.
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“That’s okay.” Granny Qian picked up the animal skin and said to Luo Zhen, “Then I will tan this animal skin first, and then I will ask you how to sew those clothes.”
“You can try to see how to tan animal skins to be softer, instead of confining them to the tanning standards used before. Now we won’t need to use animal skins to build tents so even if the tanning process breaks the skin, it doesn’t matter.” Luo Zhen doesn’t understand the method of leather tanning and can only tell Granny Qian this. Now, they will have new prey and new animal skins every day, which is enough for Granny Qian not to feel distressed.
“I want to put these clothes on the children first. Some ordinary children have too delicate skin, and they feel uncomfortable when they wear animal skins. If possible, I hope that the animal skins we tanned can be suitable for these children.” Luo Zhen added another sentence.
After hearing this, Granny Qian looked at Luo Zhen more, sighed, and said with emotion, “It would be great if you were our Da Wu.”
Hei Ya bowed his head in the same sympathy. Da Wu’s were chosen by the beast gods and even if they thought this way, they couldn’t say it. If they questioned the beast gods and the beast gods knew about it, they would be punished.
“I will try to tan the animal skins better.” Granny Qian rarely smiled on her wrinkled face. “Don’t look at me being this old, I used to go to other tribes when I was young so I know many other tribes’ methods of tanning animal skins.”
“That’s great, the matter with the clothes would be left to you.” Luo Zhen also smiled flatteringly.
Granny Qian did not ask anymore. She carefully wrapped the few bone needles and ropes in her arms and then left with the animal skins. She came with some herbs for tanning animal skins, and along the way, Granny Qian also carefully found that several kinds of plants could be used nearby so she could try them.
After arranging the furniture and clothes, Luo Zhen devoted himself fully to the construction of the new house. The new house is still a single-room structure, except that an extra firehole was dug in the middle, which meant that fire could be directly burned in the house.
The chimney took them a lot of effort, after all, they only found suitable wood now as there was no bamboo nearby.
In the end, Luo Zhen thought of a way. As long as he cuts the wooden board thin, puts a layer of cement on the inside, and then cements them together after it dries, a hollow square object can be obtained, which can be temporarily used as a chimney. material.
When the second house was finally built, everyone secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Luo Zhen, who was devoting himself to work, had very strict requirements. They had never thought that a small piece of wood could make so many things. In just a few days, everyone played all kinds of tricks with the wood but although they found it interesting, the brain cells felt a lot of death.
Those warriors who are accustomed to fighting deeply feel that this job is not as easy as hunting a bunch of prey.
“Is it okay now?” Hei Fu asked carefully. He was the one who knew the location of the chimney, he climbed up and down and adjusted it several times, making sure that the smoke coming out of the firepit could pass through the chimney to the outside. Luo Zhen said that if they don’t do it like this, they will be easily poisoned. Although Hei Fu doubted that they had been burning like this for many years, they had never had an accident. How can smoke poison them?
However, seeing Luo Zhen’s dignified and uncompromising attitude, Hei Fu didn’t dare to be too careless. He was a warrior, and he knew better, he knew that as long as he was a little negligent in the battle, he might be killed by his prey.
Luo Zhen frowned and looked at it for a long time before nodding, “Well, it’s okay, the cement is almost done drying, and the rest of you can move in here tonight.”
Everyone couldn’t help but cheer. They built this clean and bright house.
“Are we going to build a new house tomorrow?” As soon as the little warrior A-Qing’s words fell, everyone who had just relaxed turned their heads and looked at Luo Zhen. Although it was very hard to build, once it was finished, joy could completely cover up the hard work in the process, and they even wished to continue working now.
“Will the next house continue to be improved? What was the stove you were talking about before?” Jiao Zhu asked.
“Yes, but I plan to make two rooms in the next house.”
“Can you make two rooms?” A-Xue exclaimed.
“When cooking, the smell is too strong and if you separate it in another room, you don’t have to worry about soot floating all over the room, but we don’t have to think too much about it. We already have experience in building, so we can just use the current style of the room now but put a partition and a hallway to separate them.” Luo Zhen took out his all-purpose wooden board, drew a line in the middle of the original design with charcoal, clicked on it, and explained it to everyone.
Lu Zhan reacted the fastest. He stared at the wooden planks for a while, then looked at the space in the house, and said, “Does it mean that you have two rooms if you just put a row of wooden boards in this room?”
Luo Zhen nodded so that it would be easy for others to understand.
“Then we will build a two-room house next.”
“Then we can build three rooms in the next building? Didn’t Luo Zhen say that there is a bathroom that can be used for bathing?” An ordinary teenager named Ash asked with bright eyes. Unlike other fighters, Ash is one of the few people in this group who likes to keep clean, but he is an ordinary person and has little strength. He is not like Luo Zhen who has Lu Zhan who can go a little farther and avoid everyone’s eyes while bathing.
The body that had sweated the whole day was very sticky, and Ash only dared to moisten an animal’s skin and wipe himself. Earlier when Luo Zhen said that he could take a bath in a room, Ash secretly remembered it in his heart. Now that he heard everyone discussing it, he finally couldn’t help but say it.
“Of course.” Luo Zhen smiled, “If our house-building technology gets better and better in the future, maybe you can build a two-floor house.”
Luo Zhen worried that they didn’t understand the meaning of two floors, and explained, “Two floors means that there would be another room on the roof of the current house.”
“Do you mean that we can live in mid-air?” The crowd was stunned by Luo Zhen’s statement. Why did they think that what Luo Zhen said could finally become reality, but he was the only one who was able to risk thinking such a thing? Can he come up with even more ideas that they have never thought of?
Of course, these things must be postponed, after all, one bite can’t make a fat man.
“The building of the house will be postponed for a few days.” Lu Zhan interrupted the people who were discussing excitedly. “The salty fruits are fully mature so we are going to send people to pick them all back, and there are signs of the animals in the basin that seem to show signs of leaving here and going up the mountain. It is estimated that they know that winter is coming, and they have to find a place where they can survive the winter.”
Speaking of the most important food issue, everyone’s expressions of excitement became serious. Hei Fu said, “Indeed, it’s time to prepare food for the winter.” If it was in the past, these warriors had already set off with the hunting team for the last hunt before winter.
“The weather is still so hot now, how can we save it if I hunt too many prey?” Luo Zhen raised his doubts.
“If there is stone salt, you can put a layer of salt on the surface of the meat.”
Everyone fell silent. The flood caused them to lose most of the rock salt, and now the rock salt left in their hands was almost consumed, and there was no way to keep the meat as before.
So when will winter come?🤔