Tuesday 10 November 2020

Chapter 22: Weaving straw sandals

After throwing the lynx skin into the black water, Chen Chao returned to the tribe. The water used to make animal skins does require warm water, but now the sun is high in the sky, and there is no freezing of water, so Chen Chao left without worry.

    Since the hunting team is off today, we have two meals today, one in the morning and one in the evening. If you are hungry, you can eat stored chestnuts or go down to the river to catch fish.

    Chen Chao originally planned to upgrade his spear, but when he thought that the moa's feathers were cleaned by Wu Huo Huo, he itched his teeth with hatred, but he couldn't do anything with Wu Huo.

    Since the last time he explained about leaving the fish bladder, the old people in the tribe would pay attention to them when they killed fish, so now there are quite a few fish bladders in the tribe.

    And some of them were thrown away because they were stinking for a long time. Chen Chao went and took a look. Yesterday's is still there, so let's get some fish swim bladder glue today.

    When thinking of fish swim bladder, thinking of moa feathers, thinking of moa feathers, thinking of his unupgraded spear, unborn bow and arrow, Chen Chao feels that the roots of his teeth are beginning to itch...

    Although it is nothing to get the fish swim bladder now It's used, but it's all here...so Chen Chao made some easily.

    There is still some time after finishing the swim bladder glue. It is estimated that the lynx skin will not be ready until tomorrow. Chen Chao went to see the rabbit nest again, and the collection team brought back several rabbits. The number of rabbits raised by the Tianyuan tribe finally exceeded The 100 mark reached 110 rabbits.

    And more than 10 female rabbits are pregnant?

    Seeing the thick hay on the rabbit’s nest, Chen Chao simply thought about the weaving of the shoes. Anyway, they used rabbit fur to make a nest for the bunny... As

    soon as Chen Chao came near the rabbit’s nest, Huang Yan led his 7 A little friend came around, and his precious wheat, he had taken it down carefully and hid in the broken clay pot.

    Although the special-shaped clay pot was broken, there was still something in the bottom, but the crack was sharp. Chen Chao kept asking him not to cut himself, so he picked up a lot of broken animal skins and wrapped the crack in the pot. Get up, but fortunately, the alien pot is not big and doesn't need a lot of animal skins.

    They thought Chen Chao is beginning to weave straw, have combat readiness, contribute to the tribes on the back to dry skin rope lynx have not returned them yet, they do not have many days the birds night snacks ~

    more discerning Jin Yes, he ran back to the cave, and brought bundles of hay.

    Chen Chao touched Huang Yan's head and started thinking about things.

    Because winter is about to come, and the new furs collected by the tribe so far, there are only 21 large leathers and 27 small leathers, plus the previous inventory, it is not enough to reach the level of two leathers per person.

    It is even more unlikely that there will be extra leather to wrap your feet up. You know, whether you can go out in winter or not depends entirely on your feet. Even if you wear warmth like spring, of course, there is no condition to wear warm like spring...

    And to wrap up the feet, the leather needed is very large, because there is no thing that can fix the leather.

    It is also unrealistic to tie up with vines. The feet are not like the body. They can be fixed by tying them. It needs to touch the ground at any time, which means that the calf can be fixed, but the instep cannot.

    But you can also punch holes in the skin of the instep, but there are not so many skins yet.

    At this time, if you can have a pair of straw sandals for winter, you can cut off the limbs of the animal skin separately, wrap it around your feet as socks, and put them inside the straw sandals, you can already be very warm, and there will be no problem of grinding your feet. .

    And amputating the limbs of the animal skin has no effect on the use of the animal skin itself.

    Of course, there are also two kinds of straw sandals, one for winter and one for summer. Summer sandals similar to flip-flops or flat sandals are generally called unilaterals, while in winter they are another kind, generally called Mawozi or Maowozi.

    Somewhat similar to straw woven snow boots.

    The weaving of straw shoes is actually not complicated, but there are a lot of repetitions. What's more, Chen Chao's requirements are reduced to a minimum.

    There is also a set of special tools for weaving straw shoes: straw shoe rake, straw shoe steak, straw shoe hammer, straw shoe carry and other family members.

    But now there is nothing. Chen Chao can only start knitting against his own feet. There is no need to think about the wooden soles. His request is simple. He will make up a shoe frame that can wrap his feet.

    Put your feet wrapped in animal skins in in winter to keep warm.

    As soon as Chen Chao started to take hay, Huang Yan and his friends were also angry and took hay!

    Chen Chao saw the serious look of this group of little kids, and he also felt very cute, just so, maybe he can train a group of straw sandals?

    Anyway, these little kids don’t have to go to school or do homework. It’s a pity not to fool around to work~~~

    Huang Yan asked curiously, "Grass rope, why?"

    He is a group of kids who learn to speak. The fastest is never afraid of Chen Chao, on the contrary, he is very willing to get close to Chen Chao. Unlike other children, they are always afraid of any adult males except their mothers, except the elderly.

    Chen Chao often smiled secretly in his heart, "Is this a kind of heart? '

    ' Put foot wrap, winter is coming, to wear shoes. "Said Chen Chao pointed feet.

    Mrs. Huang Yan nodded like an adult, pretending to understand, but in fact he didn't understand anything. He just repeated Chen Chao's words, "Oh, winter, wear shoes."

    Chen Chao rubbed his little head when he saw this . Gua, this is a bit like the little children he has seen before, not like other children in this tribe, who are always timid.

    In fact, the weaving of Mawozi straw sandals is a bit similar to that of rattan baskets. They also use a cross-weaving method, but the difference is that when the sole of the foot is up, we need to change the weaving.

    That is, when the sole is converted to the upper, it needs to be cross-cut, so that it can be regarded as a good sole.

    Then select a part of the hay at the bottom, stand the hay at the front, and continue weaving, or use the cross method. After all the hay is up, you can weave according to the standing trend.

    While weaving straw sandals, Chen Chao corrected the wrong direction or method of the kid, and compared the straw sandals on their hands to their small, black feet.

    'In fact, weaving directly with hay is still a bit thin and soft. It is best to weave straw shoes after twisting them into straw ropes, which will be stronger. 'Chen Chao thought in his heart.

    What he didn't notice was that at the moment he was distracted, four of the eight children had already run away. After all, this matter was really boring.

    Well, they should all catch the straw ropes

    that were rubbed for 10 hours a day... Let them experience the feeling of entering the factory in advance~~
 

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