Wolf King

There is nothing to say about making handmade soap with wild boar, the only problem is in the extraction of lye.

Uh, it is actually quite simple to extract natural lye. Pull some wood-fired lime in a brick kiln (filter out large pieces of black charcoal by yourself), add water, the amount of water covers half a finger of plant ash, put it in a clay pot and cook for a dozen Minutes, take it down and let it stand overnight, the layer of light yellow liquid on the inner surface of the pot is lye.

With lye, there is no problem in making soap. The boiled wild boar oil is placed in a pottery bowl and heated to a certain temperature through hot water. The standard is not too hot when touching the pottery bowl), mix the two liquids and start stirring.

During this process, ventilation must be ensured, and the temperature of the mixed liquid must not cool down too quickly. Xiao Yun carried out the process in an activity room with the door open. The liquid is kept at temperature by means of water-proof heating, and the stirring tool made of bifurcated thorns is continuously stirred for almost half an hour, and the mixed liquid becomes rice paste, which means that the saponification reaction is completed.

Next, pour the saponified liquid into a relatively shallow abrasive tool (Xiao Yun directly used a brick mold to use it), and just throw it anywhere and wait for it to mature (it must be placed in a ventilated and opaque place for more than a month before it can be used )... so simple, without any technical difficulty, Xiao Yun decided to get the wool in the winter when it first entered the winter, so he made a few brick molds of handmade soap and threw them there (so there was no wild boar oil to fry fish at that time For horns...).

The soap produced by this careless method is very primitive, but it’s fine if it can be used anyway, don’t pay attention to it... The philosophy of life that Xiao Yun learned when he came to this world is to hold back when there is no guarantee, okay? , When I first wore it, I even ate raw meat.

If you have to say it, the jealousy he made is simple and rude...

Fermentation is needed to make vinegar, and yeast is needed for fermentation. Fortunately, it is not difficult to make yeast by yourself. Take a clay pot and fill it with mashed dried cheese (produced by the tribe), add water and put it in a mobile room (the floor heating temperature is about 30 degrees) ), open the lid and shake it a few times a day, if bubbles appear in the tank in about four to five days, it means the fermentation is successful.

Filter out the yeast juice, add about half a catty of acorn powder that has been boiled many times in water (there is no place to find wheat flour, just order it), knead it and let it ferment indoors. After about 10 hours, the acorn powder becomes Fluffier, knead it into small balls... that's how homemade yeast comes out.

Let’s do it again... just toss the black beans, soak, boil, and steam them. After steaming, mash them while they are hot. Spread them on a vine grass mat to drain the water. When the temperature drops to a temperature that is not hot and slightly warm, crush the yeast made of acorn powder and stir them in. , and then cooled to a temperature that is only a little bit, but not too cold (10-20 degrees), put in an altar, and put it in an active room with floor heating for fermentation (a temperature of about 30 degrees is required).

If there is a slight sour smell in the jar for about two days, it is considered a success. Pour water into the jar, add acorn shell powder (no bran or wheat bran, just find a substitute), stir to ensure that the oxygen space in the jar increases, and continue Fermentation, about a week later, a pungent sour smell came out of the tank, and you're done.

If the vinegar is used for eating, then there is a process of sedimentation and filtration, adding other seasoning materials, and long-term fermentation to wait for the vinegar to mature. Xiao Yun can't wait that long, and washes it directly before washing it.

In short... in this fucking place where there is nothing, Xiao Yun really wants to do something so that he will be bald...

Fortunately, all the hard work was not in vain, and the ten catties of wool piled up in front of him was the reward for this hard work.

"It's really not easy." Xiao Yun sighed with a deep face, gently pinched the fluffy and curly wool balls with his fingers, the processed wool was a little fluffed due to washing with alkaline soap, not so soft and smooth, But it is wool, and it can be spun. Of course... this kind of long hair is still a bit rough no matter how it is processed, and the spun wool is better than hemp thread. become.

Before mobilizing the tribe to toss the raw wool together, Xiao Yun had to let the tribe see for themselves the practicality of the processed wool, so he... continued to spin the thread by himself, turning the hand-made spindle again...

"—Nimma! The efficiency of pure hand spinning is too low!"

Twisting the wool manually with one hand, and stretching it with the spindle in the other hand. It’s okay to play casually and experience the novelty. If you really want to spin ten catties of wool like this, Xiao Yun feels a little desperate just imagining it—even if he just The amount of work involved in mixing the wool fibers and stretching them into yarns, then wrapping the yarns into coarse yarns and winding them onto the spindles is no joke.

In other words... To complete the operation of spinning wool and leading all the clansmen to put on sweaters, Xiao Yun had to turn his hand to the spinning wheel first... Thinking of the technical difficulty involved, Xiao Yun felt a chill in his head, what the hell, Looks like he's going bald again.

Speaking of the hand spinning wheel, it does not mean that the technical content is so high that it cannot be made by hand. In some kindergarten classes in modern society, teachers will bring fart children to do spinning wheel handicrafts.But here comes the problem, that is when there are ready-made materials... The toy version of the handmade spinning wheel for children is made of cardboard, gear building blocks, chopsticks, rubber tubes, glue guns and other convenient tools, but now, Xiao All the clouds have to be DIY by yourself... This kind of entertainment behavior used by modern people who are free to relax and cultivate their sentiments is so fucking in this world.

In modern society, if you want to drink milk, you can go out and find a small shop and sell it for five yuan. If you want to drink milk in this poor place, you have to raise cows. This is the gap~

Xiao Yun got up like a wandering soul, staggered out, and went to find the coolies... Uh, no, to find trouble with the adult clansmen.

The newly completed four family-style mud-brick houses with inner and outer compartments are lined up on the east side of the prefab house. Different from the two next-to-one Datong-paved kang houses, these four privately owned houses are separated from each other. With a distance of more than 15 meters, this is the vegetable garden that Xiao Yun left for each household in preparation for a rainy day.

Three of the four new houses belong to families with children, and Qingcao who lives in one has just come into heat and will give birth to cubs next year... But Qingcao's house is not just a couple. When Xiao Yun came in, Walking two steps, you can see Qingcao and Ayue snuggling together on the heated kang in the inner room, and next to it is a big river that seizes the private space of other people's partners and rolls on the heated kang-the current clan still has no concept of private property, and the relationship is good. Going to someone's house to rub a place is as natural as eating and drinking, and even the owner of the house will not feel that there is anything wrong.

In other words, they haven't even cultivated the concept of privacy. They don't need to wear animal skins in the warm small room, and these people just take off to wear small leather pants... Alas, thanks to the sexual characteristics of the upper body of the female snow werewolves The breastfeeding period is not obvious, it looks the same as the chest muscles, otherwise Xiao Yun wouldn't know where to put his eyes.

Well, as for the young couple looking horizontally and vertically like two men having sex, Xiao Yun is already used to it...

"Ah Yun, I really want my own house too!" Dahe saw Xiao Yun, and said it was a repeater.

"We'll talk about it when you're not single anymore." Xiao Yun responded casually, and sat on the kang to warm his feet. His eyes swept over the exposed skin of the hands and feet of the three adult tribesmen. Seeing that they were almost healed, he opened his mouth. Huyou, "Have you seen the sweater vest that the patriarch wears under the animal skin?"

"Ah?" Dahe, Qingcao, and Qingcao's partner, Ayue, looked puzzled.

"That one is woven from the inner fluff of a long-wool sheep. There is not enough fluff on the sheep to share with everyone, so I only made one for the patriarch. He is too old to resist the cold like a young man." Xiao Yun said, "You guys During the time I was busy building the house, I thought about it and used the long wool from the sheep to process it into wool that can be woven into clothes. Of course, the clothes made of this wool are not as soft and soft as the patriarch's. It will irritate the skin a bit, but it is more comfortable than wearing animal skins, and it can also be made into blankets that are more suitable for laying on the kang than animal skins."

"Okay, okay." Qingcao said happily.

"Ah Yun, what do you want us to do?" Dahe asked with blinking eyes, lo and behold, there is a gap between the smart and the unintelligent, and Qingcao was still foolishly happy, so she guessed that Xiao Yun wanted them to contribute.

"It takes a spinning wheel to spin wool into thread, and you two are pretty handy, get up and do it with me tomorrow." Xiao Yun was honest and blunt, and looked at Ah Yue after speaking, "Ah Yue, you have almost had a rest. , Do you want to go out for activities? Most of the winter is over, and it’s time for the clan to prepare for the snow.”

Xiao Yun didn't think he was a devil. After twenty adult clansmen worked hard to build four houses in the winter, he generously gave everyone four or five days of rest... Uh, the main reason is that Many people have frostbitten their fingers and toes, and forcing them to do things again, Xiao Yun is afraid that his tribe will develop a sense of resistance...

Ah Yue, the soldier who had been comfortably idle for a few days, really didn't see through Xiao Yun's sinister plan, and nodded innocently: "Okay, I have no problem."

Xiao Yun nodded in satisfaction, and continued to catch coolies...

Four households and two single-dog rooms were visited once. If the frostbite on the hands and feet did not heal, let them go and let people continue to rest. If they recovered, they would go up and fool around and make arrangements for them. It didn’t take much manpower to make a spinning wheel. , grass, big rivers, plus the "child labor" of wool; other tasks that need to be done by the clansman are more, such as the cultivation plan after the snow melts in spring, you have to prepare all kinds of fertilizers, don't you?It is convenient to pick up the livestock manure in the sheep pen and the snow wolf manure in the toilet. It is better to shovel bird droppings in the forest and shovel the humus layer of forest leaves as soon as possible~

However, when fooling the patriarch, he encountered a little trouble. The patriarch asked why he didn’t cultivate shiitake mushrooms. Xiao Yun couldn’t just say that the snow werewolf’s mind was too simple to do complicated and delicate work, and he himself was busy with Thrall and only One, it took me a long time to gossip about this matter.

Things were arranged for most of the clansmen recovering from frostbite, and the next day, the tribe that had been quiet for a few days was busy again.

The carefree cubs rushed to the big snowfield outside the tribe to play in the snow again, Mao Mao also wanted to follow, and was caught by Xiao Yun before they ran out of the Datong Room.

"Good wool, you want to do things with me today~" Xiao Yun bared his white teeth.

"Huh..." Mao Mao glanced at the friends who had already run out of the tribe, and was very unhappy and unhappy.

"They can't help, all of them are too stupid, only you are smart and dexterous, so I only look for you." Xiao Yun cast a disgusted look at the cubs who were having fun, and forcibly misunderstood Mao's reaction.

"Oh, good." The pure wool suddenly showed a very proud sweet smile, "Ah Yun, what are we going to do?"

... plan to pass.

There was some wood left over when building the house before, Xiao Yun found out the kind with the densest wood fibers, and cut it into palm-thick pieces of wood with a horn knife, and then provided tools such as horn knives, quartz stone blades, pottery knives, The handy three of the tribe worked with him to make a model of a hand spinning wheel first.

The most primitive hand-operated spinning wheel is mainly composed of a large wheel and a small round spindle.The diameter of the big runner is dozens of times the diameter of the spindle, and the two are connected by a rope or a belt. The handle is located in the center of the big runner. When the wheel rotates once, the spindle will rotate dozens of times; the axial end of the spindle is fixed with a number of wool fibers, and as the spindle rotates, it can automatically twist, because the number of rotations of the spindle is determined by the rotation angle of the big wheel , so the number of turns of twisting can also be precisely controlled by the operator.

In addition, after the twisting is completed, as long as the yarn is taken off and attached to the side of the spindle, as the big wheel rotates, the yarn will also be automatically wound on the spindle cylinder with the rotation of the spindle, thus realizing the continuous operation of twisting and winding .

This is the principle of using wool fiber or any other fiber to spin yarn. Of course, what Xiao Yun wants to spin is coarse wool for sweaters and thicker wool for carpets, so it doesn’t need to be as fine as the yarn for weaving cloth. ...the spinning wheel can be used even if it is rough.

Hmm... In fact, it doesn't matter whether it is rough or not, because the structure of the hand spinning wheel used by the folks before the Han Dynasty in China is quite simple, and even the hand crank on the big wheel can be left out, and the wheel can be turned directly by hand.

Naturally, Xiao Yun himself knew that the stepping spinning wheel was less labor-intensive than the hand-cranked spinning wheel, and that it could free up his hands and better assist the twisting and winding of wool fibers. Before walking, it is better to get down and learn to crawl...

Two pieces of hollow runners are made of wood chips to form a wheel, and the wheel surface is pulled out with animal tendons in the middle, and small gears and wood chips used as bearings are ground out, and the runners are fixed on the table legs like an upside-down table leg. On the frame, bones are used as spindles on the other side and connected by belts cut into strips. The toy spinning wheel without the hand crank was smashed out in more than a day.

Qingcao and the other three looked at this wooden frame for unknown purpose in amazement, and Wool moved the hollow runner a few times curiously. It's a gadget for playing.

Xiao Yun didn't explain to them. He took a piece of wool and pulled it into strips. He twisted two fibers with his hands and pasted them on the spindle. He manually elongated the fibers and passed them around the big wheel. Then he turned the big wheel with one hand and held it with the other. Hold the wool ball; with the rotation of the big runner, the spindle is driven to rotate rapidly, and the wool fiber held by the hand completes the twisting and drafting work during the rotation of the big runner, and becomes a thread and is wound on the spindle.

"Oh? Oh oh oh?!" Qingcao and the others looked Σ(⊙▽⊙"a confused, their eyes widened.

"Huh?" Xiao Yun turned around twice and found that the thread on the spindle was too thin and not very tightly wound, so he added two more fibers, and when turning the big wheel, the hand holding the wool rotated along with the wool fibers. The process of twisting and drafting on the wheel moves slowly and adjusts the height...

"Oh oh oh oh!" Qingcao and the others looked star-eyed, and the thread spun onto the spindle seemed to be much thicker to the naked eye.

"...That's what we're doing. Let's make three more spinning wheels of this kind, and we'll spin yarn together." Xiao Yun picked up the spindles wrapped with thick wool yarn and showed them to several people, "This wool yarn is very useful. You’ve seen sweater vests before, they’re woven out of this~”

Qingcao nodded together, without any doubts.

Grass and wool are more comfortable to sit on. Dahe is more lively, but also has the self-control to sit down. The three of them have become professional textile workers in the tribe. As for the child laborers under the age of 14 and suspected pregnant women among them , Xiao Yun ignored it directly.

Besides, compared to the hard work of shoveling bird droppings and humus layer in the ice and snow to pile up and ferment livestock manure for spring, staying in a warm room is much more comfortable...

And Xiao Yun didn't mean that he would be idle after throwing the spinning thread to others, and there were still hundreds of catties of stinky and rough raw wool waiting for him to process - to put it bluntly, it was tears.

Entering the fourth month of winter, unexpected and reasonable... the tribe's food reserves bottomed out.

When the nervous patriarch pulled Xiao Yun, who hadn't woken up, to the place where wild boar meat was piled up and looked at the empty pit, Xiao Yun didn't realize that this place was pretending... The wool and wool are tangled, and there is little energy for food storage.

"This winter, we... have eaten too much!" The patriarch burst into tears after saying only one sentence. This is also his negligence. The recent small life is too happy, and he is not as nervous as he was when he struggled through the long winter in previous years. feeling.

Xiao Yun: "..."

Xiao Yun understands that he really can't blame the patriarch for this matter. It is true that this year there are plenty of means to keep out the cold, as well as the uninterrupted supply of two major vegetables, bean sprouts and enoki mushrooms. On the days when you can't go out, the clansmen are all busy by him - the more you consume, the more you eat, not to mention the frozen wild pork, the tribe of sick cattle and sheep has slaughtered dozens of heads .

"There is no staple food with high starch content, so it's really not reliable to rely on meat and vegetables alone." Xiao Yun sighed.

"If there are only bean sprouts and Flammulina velutipes, the tribe will not have enough to eat, Ayun." The patriarch was worried.

"There is no other way, let's kill some more sheep." Xiao Yun said, "The snow that is falling now is smaller than the previous few months, and it should take another half a month for the snow to melt. After the snow melts, let's go to the Tauren tribe, Exchange pottery blankets with them for food, vegetables and forage seeds. This year, we will try our best to reclaim more fields and store some food, so the demand for cattle and sheep will not be so great."

"...Eh?" It's not that the patriarch can't agree to slaughter the sheep to continue his life, but...after all, he has been fooled by Xiao Yun for so long, and he has gradually developed the ability to listen to the sound, "Ah Yun, you mean that we will Don’t raise so many cattle and sheep anymore? But the tribe’s cattle and sheep are not too many?”

Xiao Yun nodded. He would have to talk to the patriarch about this sooner or later, so he immediately pulled the patriarch to the activity room which was relatively quiet in the morning, and put on a long talk posture: "The tribe will continue to graze cattle and sheep. Meat consumes a lot, and the harvest from hunting is not necessarily reliable, so it is necessary to raise a quantity that can guarantee the supply of meat. But the part that exceeds the demand for meat is not too necessary. We raised extra cattle and sheep before to Use it for trading, yes, now we don’t need to exchange pottery, we just need to exchange salt... Then patriarch, can you say that the two kiln ceramics I have fired recently can be exchanged for salt with human caravans?"

If you don't change it, it's a big deal to organize your clansmen to go further south to the Inner Sea to boil salt... Anyway, Xiao Yun doesn't plan to use the fruits of the clansman's labor to cheapen the caravan.

The patriarch did not immediately object to Xiao Yun's proposal. He knew very well that throughout the winter, the busiest person in the tribe was actually Ayun—although Ayun added a lot of jobs that everyone didn't have in previous years, he was indeed the leader of the whole clan. The busiest person, so everyone has no complaints.Ah Yun, who has made a lot of troubles, has to open a kiln every half a month, and the clansman will not have anything to say about this alone.

The patriarch showed a look of hesitation. Every time Ayun fired pottery, he would stare at it and forcibly take away what he thought was valuable for safekeeping. Now, his original tent is already full of all kinds of pottery... especially Ayun Even the patriarch couldn't help playing with the inner and outer two-color pottery bowls and cups in private.

Xiao Yun saw the patriarch's intentions, and continued to work hard: "Reducing the scale of grazing does not mean that the clansmen will be idle and have nothing to do, but that there are more important things that the clansmen need to do than the benefits of grazing. ..."

The patriarch can't deny this. If he said to arrange things for everyone, the patriarch thinks that Ayun is very talented in this area-he has been directed by Ayun for most of this winter. This is because Ayun thinks he is older. , Relatively "merciful"...

"...Moreover, I can assure you that the work that the clansmen have to undertake in the new year will definitely be harder and tiring than every previous year." Xiao Yun said seriously, "Continue to graze and live a poor life." If you don’t have a leisurely life, it’s better to reduce grazing and spend this year on a cause that is heavier and more burdensome, but can make people’s lives better. I believe that you, the patriarch, will choose the latter without hesitation. right?"

"Well..." The patriarch was a little emotional, but he didn't dare to express it directly, because he knew very well that Ayun was not joking when he said that it was more difficult and tiring, so he only dared to beep softly, "This, when we were grazing before It didn't feel easy either..."

Xiao Yun couldn't let the patriarch back down at this time, he pulled the patriarch out of the activity room, walked out of the tribe, faced the empty snowfield, and waved his hand:

"Imagine, patriarch, as long as our whole clan unites as one, works hard, and devotes ourselves to farming, this useless wilderness will become our field in a year, no, half a year, full of food and vegetables. You The food we ate when we were in the tauren tribe can grow on our fields. We will have food reserves that are not inferior to the tauren, and we will also have cattle and sheep that can provide meat without an inexhaustible supply... We will never suffer again. Hungry, no need to go out to hunt temporarily, our granary will always be full of all kinds of food, and our clansmen can't finish it. In order not to waste food, we have to find other snow werewolf tribes and us Merge and become a new member of our tribe, our tribe will be stronger than the cat tribe and the tiger tribe, and we will no longer be afraid of any foreign enemies-what a great future it will be!"

The author has something to say: "Those who can fool people may not be able to do things well, but those who can do things must be particularly good at fooling people." —— Xiao Yun.