Chapter 19: Leather

 After the two of them mashed the upper part, Chen Chao let One-Eyed go up first, and started to mash the bottom part by himself.

    After the bottom is pasted, leave a few palm-sized spaces around the ground.

    There was no need for Chen Chao to speak, Wu had been holding the torch for a long time, and the light reflected on Wu's side face. His pupils were also tense, and the hand holding the torch was slightly sweaty.

    After passing the torch to Chen Chao, he seemed to be relieved, as if he had accomplished an important thing.

    Chen Chao bent down and put the torch into the gaps left before, lighting them one by one. After waiting for a while, after confirming that the fire would not go out, he mucked up these cracks with thin mud, then looked for a small branch and left a few vents before going to dinner.

    After dinner, he gesticulated and asked how long it would take to get better. After all, he remembered last time, it seemed that a little longer than a meal would be better.

    Chen Chao pointed to the moon in the sky, and stretched out three more fingers before saying, "It will be better after the three moons appear."

    One-eyed lost and left, but after a while, he wandered back and waited for an hour. Three or five times, one night he didn't know whether he was asleep or not. Anyway, the two old people who took turns watching the night couldn't remember how many times he saw him.

    The hunting team went out for three days in a row, and harvested every day. Today, everyone was resting in the tribe, but half of the women in the gathering team set off to the chestnut forest and picked up several boxes of chestnuts and returned for storage.

    When they passed by the rabbit forest, they brought back the rabbits that were held down by the slabs, and added 20 new rabbits to the tribe, but they only collect prey and haven't learned how to recover the trap. They tried several times without success. Just gave up.

    Although it will take three days to know the effect, but today we will start the tanning of the lynx skin, and we still have to ask the witch to bring the broken pottery over, so that we can have a sharp pottery knife.

    I don't know how the tribe used to deal with the fur of animals, but when they watched them kill fish, they always found a sharper stone on the ground.

    The tribe has stone knives, but they are mainly used to cut larger meats, and they are also relatively dull.

    Looking at the witch who brought the clay pot back to the cave again, Chen Chao pinched his eyebrows. He felt that the witch really resembled an old man who couldn't bear to lose everything when he was old. A new moon cake can be put in the mold until it gets cold. Only when the grandson comes during the summer vacation, he is willing to take it out for the grandson.

    When Chen Chao was lying on the haystack after waking up and wondering how to deal with lynx skin, he heard the sound of "chirp...chirp...pa" coming from outside the cave from time to time.

    When I went out of the cave, besides the children pulling the straw ropes, there was already an elderly woman who had taken other women to rub the fat on the lynx skin on the stone slabs. He gestured and asked, "You still have to Do other treatments?" The

    elderly woman shook her head. She looked at Chen Chao suspiciously, as if she was asking, do other treatments need to be done?

    At this moment, Yuan also came over, and Chen Chao pointed at the lynx skin and said, "Yuan, do you not deal with the skin after you get it? Just deal with the mature

    skin ." Yuan also shook his head. Still need to deal with it? Wouldn’t it be enough to remove the meat and oil on top...

    Chen Chao pointed to the animal skin on Zhiyuan’s body, some of it had cracked, and Yuan was the leader of the tribe. The freshness of the skin he could use It must be second only to witches. Obviously it is the skin of not long ago, but it has become like this now. It is estimated that more holes will be cracked in a while.

    And it's stiff and stinky, even if it is smelled every day, this stuff is smelly...

    He gestured and said, although the communication with the hunting team and the witch has been much smoother, they can already listen. Know a lot of everyday words and everyday expressions, but the popularization of the language is not a day's work, and if it is too complicated, you still have to add gestures.

    "After processing the mature leather, it will be much more durable. It will feel very soft and will not crack in a short time. The hair on the top will not fall for a long time. It will not worry." Chen Chao put down his hands that pretended to cover his nose. , This gesture is very versatile, and Yuan is the one who mainly uses this animal skin. Does he know that he is smelly?

    But what can be done about the stinky animal skins? If the animal skins are permanent, they will crack and shed hair... Those women, children and the elderly, who want to wear stinky animal skins, don’t have to wear them...

    Although Yuanxin feels a little uncomfortable, But if he can make the animal skins more comfortable to wear and use them for longer, he is still willing to deal with the animal skins according to Chen Chao's method, a leader, this point of view is still there.

    Moreover, the animal skins they wore were stinky, which was originally a fact. At this time, there were not so many twists and turns.

    "What to do?" Yuan asked.

    Chen Chao thought for a while. He wanted to express what he meant to deal with mature leather. Fortunately, he had been thinking about this for a long time. Modern nitration is indeed very complicated and requires a lot of chemicals.

    Many people may not know about these chemicals and do not have much contact with them, but if you go back to the very beginning and the first person to find that the skin will get better after this treatment, it is definitely not because of the use of these chemicals.

    Of course, these chemicals were not available at that time...

    In fact, the most earthy and earthy nitrification method was still very simple, the kind that was horribly simple. All you need is a handful of plant ash and a pool of warm water.

    It should be such a simple thing at the beginning, otherwise it will not be discovered and passed down.

    But to get to this point, you still need to remove the minced fat and dirt from the lynx skin, and then put it under the sun for a few days.

    The straw rope weaved earlier came in handy. Insert two thicker sticks in the soil and tie the straw rope to a simple drying rack.

    This time not only Chen Chao contributed the straw rope weaved earlier, but the children also handed over the work. Chen Chao by the way asked the women of the collection team to collect some long grass and come back to dry it next time. You can weave more straw ropes at a time, and use them to make straw sandals.

    For a time, the mouth of the tribe's cave and the river were covered with dried skins, which made Chen Chao think of the leather word. Taking this opportunity, the people in the tribe learned a few more words.

    "Nitro, leather, fur."

    Chen Chao also wrote a big leather character on the ground with a wooden stick, and explained like a witch and the children, "Look, this looks like an animal skin that has been cut and peeled off. The round object in the middle is the skin of the beast that has been peeled off, and the remaining parts are the head, body and tail of the beast." The

    children were okay, and Wu was bright at the time, holding a small branch and making gestures. He raised his head and looked at the animal skins hanging on the straw rope to dry.