Tuesday 10 November 2020

Chapter 24: The Witch's Ambition

 The moms of the 7 little kids coaxed their children, took the crooked straw sandals in the hands of the little kids, and looked at the exquisite pair of sandals in Huang Yan's hands, and they all poke in their backs. It’s not as good as someone else’s, but still has the face to cry?

    The seven little kids were a little bit out of breath because they were crying too fiercely just now. Although what they said was a little bit uncomfortable and intermittent, their mother still understood, Huang The straw sandals in Yan's hand were made by Chen Chao.

    Wu Ye took off the straw sandals from his feet and gave them to Chen Chao. He also sat next to the rabbit nest and watched him weave straw sandals.

    After taking the straw sandals, he took a look. Since the kids were busy playing before and didn’t make any new straw ropes, he had to remove the straw sandals that had been woven with soles. The women in the collection team They were reorganized in front of us, and Huang Yan also returned to the team, and he burped and joined the squad of rubbing the grass rope.

    The women of the collection team have all had experience in weaving rattan baskets. The straw sandals are only slightly different in the weaving method at the sole, and the women seem to have an innate talent for this kind of thing, and they will understand after just reading it. Approximately.

    It's just that the efficiency of the rope rubbing team is too slow now, so under the mobilization of the witch, the men and old people of the entire tribe have joined the rope rubbing army.

    From the setting sun to the time of dinner, because straw ropes were not enough, all the women started weaving straw shoes together, so some women were separated to prepare for cooking.

    After dinner, the entire tribe gathered together, rubbing straw ropes with the bonfire in the moonlight. The best ones are the straw sandals of 8 little kids.

    When we were knitting straw sandals for adults, we ran into a problem, that is, adults are different in height and thin, and their feet are not the same size. If you can't be a person, just put your shoes on a person's feet.

    There is no size to say now, and it is not easy to divide. So Chen Chao found a few people with different sizes of feet. Men, women, elderly, and children. Men have three sizes: large, medium and small. The elderly are classified into men, and women have large, medium and small. But in fact, Women don’t have to worry too much, because they can basically make up their own clothes.

    And there is no need to divide it so fine, because this thing is actually similar to cotton slippers, you need to leave a certain amount of space to put it in the foot wrapped in animal skin.

    Now we must knit straw sandals for winter directly, because winter is coming soon, and we first knit the kids because they are too noisy, and the materials used to weave children’s straw sandals are also very fast. The effect will come soon.

    Besides, women also need certain materials to practice their hands, and then they will have to make up another straw sandals for them to wear in winter.

    Chen Chao asked the women of the collection team to knit three shoe soles according to their sizes, as well as the size of the ankles and calves, and let them each make one first. As for distinguishing the left and right feet, temporarily Not yet.

    Besides, it’s enough to wear it now. It will be able to keep cold and warm by then, and both feet will be the same. When the left and right feet are not technically reachable, it is not so necessary to look down on them~~~ The

    moonlight is scattered, like a tulle covering the earth, The breeze between the sky and the earth, the mother lynx lifted up and grabbed the bird’s nest, and its children squatted under the tree and looked up at the mother. There was the sound of gurgling water in the river, schools of fish swimming, and little bubbles in the water. .

    The bonfire was still blazing, and the people of Tianyuan tribe put the rubbed straw rope aside, rubbed their eyes and returned to the cave and fell asleep.

    Chen Chao woke up early, but the sun had not yet come out. The children who rubbed the grass rope yesterday did not wake up today because they were tired for a day. Instead, he became the first person in the tribe to wake up.

    When I went out, I first looked at the pond in the ashes. One day passed, it should be almost done. Whether to wear stinky leather or fragrant leather in winter, that's it!

    Chen Chao came to the pond where the lynx skins were put out yesterday. Since yesterday, the water in the ash pond was not led to the outside, the animal skins were all black.

    But don’t panic...

    wait for it to dry and wash...

    Anyway, no one saw...

    Chen Chao himself got a simple clothes rack, put the black animal skin up, and returned to the tribe. The women of the collection team have risen.

    The old man is preparing breakfast. Now the witch is no longer obsessed with squeezing mud, and he is rubbing straw ropes instead. However, due to the hard work of the old people, there are now 50 pots, 100 bowls, and 100 spoons in the tribe. The clay pots were temporarily useless, so they didn't make them.

    Because pots can not only boil water, but also store water, and they all have lids. In addition, you can’t use 50 pots each time you cook, which is enough for everyone to have 1 pot and 1 bowl per person. Beautiful ideal.

    However, it is still in the state of mud embryos for the time being, because they have been making them, and recently I can't spare the time to burn pottery again, so I plan to burn two or three batches at a time if I have time.

    But Wu has already thought about it. When the spring starts next year, we will make another batch. Let Yuan or Chen Chao take the kids from the tribe over the mountain and go to other tribes to exchange some people back. As long as we have pottery pots, we can keep taking them. Use it to exchange population with other tribes! You know, in the past, a stone basin could be replaced by two women!

    As long as we keep changing, one day, we will become a big tribe of a hundred people!

    The gathering team seems to be addicted to weaving straw sandals, although they can only make a pair in 4 hours, so their real combat power last night is that after finishing the straw sandals of their kids, they made more of the hunting team. One foot of someone.

    However, due to the huge team, with 19 people in total, 9.5 pairs of straw sandals were collected in one night, plus the one that Chen Chao first knitted, that was exactly 10 pairs.

    However, there is another problem. I didn't plan well when I made it, and everyone chose to knit the size inconsistent. As a result, although there are indeed 10 pairs of straw sandals, only 3 pairs of sizes can match.

    So it was a fierce operation and a record of 0.5.

    But Yuan and Wu don’t think so. They start trying on their new shoes happily. They all just smirk and don’t realize that they have gathered 50 people from the entire tribe to create three pairs in one night. What is the concept of straw sandals~~~~

    But it’s a pity that I can’t wear them yet, but Chen Chao, forget it, the collection team is actually quite good, otherwise I will not rush to build Mawozi sandals tonight, you can make one The batch is like the one that Huang Yan wears on their feet.

    I confessed to the women of the gathering team, and the hunting team set off. Not long after, the gathering team also set off. We can only do the stuffing of straw sandals in my spare time. I still have to do my job on weekdays~~

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