Is It Possible That Farming Is The Real Cultivation Of Immortals?

After a while, the oil and dirt on the leather were burned away by lime and hot water.

He fished out the skin to dry, and trimmed it for a while, removing some residual fascia.

In this way, a piece of skin is ready.

He cut the cooked pork skin into two layers.

The inner layer of the head is thinner, and the rest of the skin is kept.

After the two skins are dried, they are much lighter than the original ones.

If you look with your spiritual sense, you can see that the leather is full of holes compared to before.

These are all caused by the loss of fat.

The next thing to do is tanning.

Tanning begins with the deployment of tanning agents.

Tanning agents usually use things that are rich in oxalic acid.

For example...... cedar bark, chestnut bark, gallnut fruit, etc.

When you boil these things, it destroys the oxalic acid.

An Jia collected these things, soaked them in water, and then crushed them with a whirlwind mill.

Then use this water directly to roll the leather.

But after whirlwind grinding for a while, he stopped and found that Pizi hadn't thoroughly eaten these things.

Tanned with grass, the tanned area will be hard, which is different from the original soft leather.

The darker the tanning, the thicker and harder the hide.

For the top layer of skin, he wants to use it to make slopes, and semi-vegetable tanning is fine.

The remaining leather is used as the sole, which must be fully vegetable tanned.

According to the normal time, it takes at least three hours to fully understand.

Where does he waste so much time.

At the moment, it can only be tanned again with the fried hands.

In the air, leather, water, and tanning agent are mixed together and turned into a mass of slurry.

It seemed that several hands were scrubbing and kneading in the water.

After a while, the first layer of skin is almost ready.

He took it out, threw it into clean water, washed it, and dried it.

After a while, I checked with my consciousness, and found that the layer of skin had thickened.

Everywhere in the interior is full of "grass element" in the tanning agent.

That's enough, it's still hanging out.

He used the Whirlwind Art and the gentle wind to take away the moisture and prevent the tanning agent from seeping out.

When the moisture is almost the same, the characteristics of the leather will come out.

The semi-vegetable tanned top layer is much harder than the original, but still very flexible.

The remaining thick skin becomes hard and slightly elastic.

And this slightly elastic part is also caused by An Jia's tanning from the bottom to the top.

Fully vegetable tanned, the tanning agent is thoroughly understood, and it will definitely be hard.

But divide the leather into four layers.

The first layer is fully understood, the second layer is 70% understood, the third layer is 50% understood, and the last layer is 30% understood.

In this way, the hardness of the leather becomes lower and lower from the bottom up.

The hard bottom is used as the sole, and the soft top is used as the insole.

After finishing the leather, An Jia pulled out two pieces of wood.

"Key, come here." He called out.

Key was drinking tea and chatting with his aunt, thinking that An Jia called her to go to work, so he ran away.

After arriving at the East Stone Field, An Jia asked her to find a place to sit down and stretched out her feet.

The keys stretched out their feet, so they blushed and said, "You...what are you going to do..."

"Make shoe molds for you."

"Use wood to size and contour your feet."

"What's the use of this? As a weapon?"

"Hit your head with a weapon." An Jia said angrily, "Use it to make shoes."

"Ah.....shoes!" Key's eyes lit up, then darkened again: "That's it."

"We don't use fabric this time. We have heavy feet and stones are not wear-resistant."

"Then use wood?"

"Thank you for figuring it out, I use leather, weird leather, this warthog has thick skin."

While measuring the key's foot, An Jia cut the wood out of shape with a Guiyuan sword.

He used to be an apprentice in a woodcarving studio, but his hands were a bit clumsy, so he didn't become a regular worker.

Later, I felt that it was boring to polish the machine-carved things and sell them, so I left the job.

Because this kind of mass production is said to be semi-manual, the selling price is a little higher, but his income is not high.

The boss is also a master, so he said that it is all thanks to the machine, and your share is the salary.

What else can I say.

Fortunately, there was still a bit of carving skills left at that time, so it is not difficult to do this kind of thing.

The large size of the shoe mold must be correct, not too fine.

An Jia squatted on the ground with one knee, letting the key step on his knee.

He kept touching and measuring, making the key shrink and shrink.

"Why are you still afraid of being nasty?" He puzzled and said, "Let's be a spiritual farmer, don't be hypocritical."

The key can only roll his eyes, which has nothing to do with being a spiritual farmer.

Fortunately, she has gotten used to An Jia's way of putting everything on the identity of Lingnong.

After a while, the feet are at their best.

When the key was getting up to go back, he turned his head and bumped into my aunt.

My aunt looked at her very strangely.

"He made shoes for me, don't think about crooked."

"I haven't said anything, you know I want to be crooked?"

"You, I don't know yet?"

The two returned to the tea room after a short fight.

An Jia took the shoe mold and cut the hard leather sole according to the size.

Then pick up the top layer of skin, stick it directly on the wooden post, and use the whirlwind tactic to rotate it quickly.

At the same time, he pressed the radiant bamboo strips against the leather.

After a while, the front of the entire leather has been polished.

Cut the piece of leather into two pieces with a Guiyuan sword, and stick one piece on the shoe mold to modify the shape.

If it is full leather, usually the shoes will be stitched at the heel.

No matter how good the workmanship is, if the single skin is not filled, the heel will feel uncomfortable when wearing it

Because the heel has been rubbing against the suture of the seam.

So another way is more reasonable.

The front part is done like taking off your shoes.

The heel of the shoe is wrapped with a small piece of leather.

Then these two pieces of leather can be spliced, and the splicing is on both sides, so that it will not hurt your feet.

There is another advantage to this approach.

If the two pieces of leather are the same size, the stitching will be closer to the front.

The difficult part of shoes is the toe cap, where a whole piece of leather must cover the round toe.

As a result, it is very difficult to suture inside the round head.

Especially if the leather is large, there will be more narrow parts in the inner space, making it more difficult to suture.

An Jia here does not have a needle suitable for making shoes, so he can only use the Guiyuan Sword.

This Guiyuan Sword can only be activated with the little finger, which is finer.

The last time I used my little finger, I still made that round fan.

Regarding the matter of labor, it is not difficult to find out that they all seem to be related.

Some tricks are figured out.

For example, Whirlwind Jue is used for cleaning the house, for bathing, for lighting fires, for plowing land, it is useful everywhere.

Another example is when catching speculators and doing some manual work that requires perception and is more delicate, all kinds of useful.

There is also the Guiyuan sword, the big Guiyuan sword for chopping trees, and the small (beec) for needles, it is really inseparable.

After An Jia cuts the leather, she sticks the leather to the shoe mold, and presses out the shape with her frying hands.

Then through cutting, the edges and corners are removed, and an incision is made for sewing and making shoelaces.

Shoes for work should be resistant to foot strength, but also soft, not to wear feet.

Certainly not in thick-soled, rigid hiking shoes.

An Jia made a mid-cut, wrapped to two inches above the ankle.

In this way, it is just enough to cover the bone that is often bumped into.

The suture thread, just use spider silk.

Turn back, some cooked tung oil should be put on the seams of the shoes.

The sole of the shoe cannot be the smooth leather it is now.

He also polished it, and then made grooves with bamboo strips.

Cut another piece of sole leather and add it to the heel.

It's all done, and it's time for the next most difficult step, which he doesn't like the most.

suture.

The stitching at the toe is killing him.

He manipulated the Guiyuan sword with his little finger, but failed several times.

In the end, I changed my mind and used the native gold Guiyuan sword with the key to get through.

It does not matter.

It is important that this threading needle, it cannot go through the sole of the shoe.

from the side.

He had to manipulate the Guiyuan sword, and it was difficult to penetrate through the big bend in the leather.

After the holes are pierced one by one, the curved bone needles are used to pass through the spider silk.

The eye of the needle is from bottom to top and then to bottom.

In order to be firm, you can't just wear it once, you have to wear it on both sides, and wear it again in reverse.

If it is on the sole of the shoe, the shoe will inevitably open as soon as it is worked and worn.

After getting through the difficult toe, the rest is finally much better.

After suturing, there is still a lot of top layer of skin.

He was afraid that his skills were unfamiliar, so he cut more.

According to the shoe model, I cut two insoles and stuffed them in.

The top of the insole is smooth and the bottom is wool.

Just right, the upper part of the sole and inner sole is also wool, and it is not easy to slip and fall off when the two are added.

In this way, there is only one step left to work.

An Jia twisted the spider silk that was as thick as a sewing thread.

Another two small hollow thin bamboo sticks were rubbed together, and the block was twice as long.

Stuff the thick spider silk into it, burn it with fire and twist it, and the shoelace is made.

An Jia took her shoes and walked towards Daohualou.

"Auntie, you haven't said why you're targeting this place."

The key went back to the tea room, burning tea and chatting with my aunt.

She also specially took out dried fruits, preserved fruits, and candied fruits that An Jia got from the grocery store.

Compared with tea, this thing is too inferior, it can only be said that it is better than nothing.

"I thought you were getting along with this kid and couldn't bear him." Huai Ting joked.

Key didn't blush at all: "That's it?"

"I want you to see, a person who can't even keep his own land, how can he protect you.

Seeing his niece looking silly, Huai Ting simply pointed it out.

She also didn't want to make it clear.

Because of the result of doing so, she is very bad.

The key didn't break.

"Oh, you don't believe me..."

The key quickly explained how she annoyed Lao Tzu and what happened to her after she came here.

Until she was caught stealing food, and then was detained to repay the debt, and the debt was paid off.

She didn't say anything about An Jia beating her.

In the past, I would definitely complain, but now that I think about it, I was too stupid at the time.

"So...he let you go and you still don't go back?"

"Why do you go back? Did you make my father angry? Without me, my mother is quiet, otherwise I will blame me all day long.

Hearing this, Huai Ting's eyes softened.

Only then did she realize that her niece had changed a lot here and had really grown up.

"Then you stay here and live like this?"

"No, didn't I tell you, I want to build a house."

She also told how she quarried stone, wrought limestone, and semi-sanhe fields.

"Ah, I know about the abandoned quarry. Speaking of this, Huai Ting clapped his hands and said, "That's not considered abandoned. Fifteen years ago...it's almost seventeen years. At that time, there was a chaos in Taipingdao, and many quarrying spirit farmers were bewitched. The selection of Lingnong from the lower realm had stopped for half a year before the Taipingdao Rebellion. After that, the population of the blessed land withered, so they could only continue to be selected from the lower realms. And the sect's laws and policies have also changed a lot, such as only farming is allowed. This is also a good thing.

"How can you count it as a good thing? The sect collects taxes too hard."

If you don't become a Lingnong, you don't know. If you become a Lingnong, you have to face the Lingyi Division every once in a while.

These people, what kind of spiritual officials, are simply female mosquito demons from the lower realm!

"It's not like that, I'll tell you what it was like before the Taipingdao Rebellion."