From Chief to Ball

Counting, there were thirty small wooden sticks in total.

A rope was tied to each small wooden stick, and then thirty ropes were tied to a crossbar, and when stretched, they were parallel to the ropes tied to the wooden sticks.

These sixty ropes are called weft threads by Chen Jian.

Then let Yuqian take a long rope, which is called warp thread.

The so-called weaving is the process of weaving warp and weft threads together.

Lift the crossbar up, cross the thirty fixed weft threads, let Yu Qianer pass the warp thread through the two-layered weft threads, and then lower the crossbar.

Reciprocating in this way, warp threads and weft threads are intertwined together, the warp threads of odd times are above the thirty fixed weft threads, and below the thirty unfixed ones; the warp threads of even number times are under the thirty fixed weft threads, The top of the thirty roots that are not fixed.

Simple latitude and longitude crosses appear quickly, just slowly.He knew how to do it but was not proficient, while Yu Qian'er didn't know how to do it at all, and just learned along with it.

Women have a natural advantage in this kind of highly repetitive labor, so as a man, Chen Jian began to feel anxious after tossing around for a while.

This cannot be regarded as a loom, but it has a prototype and principle. As for how to improve it, it is a woman's business.

The complete weaving process is nothing more than twisting the fibers into threads, and then intersecting the warp and weft.Whether it's linen, silk, cotton or palm, everything remains the same.

What has changed is nothing more than how to twist the thread faster, thinner and better, and how the warp and weft intersect from three people using their hands to one person using both hands and feet.

The people of the tribe looked dizzy and suddenly felt that it was miraculous. Those twisted ropes were actually fixed together, forming something like animal skin.

Chen Jian endured his impatience and cooperated with Yu Qian'er. The two became more and more proficient. The warp thread that shuttled was approaching the end of the weft thread. After a busy morning, they finally finished the first piece of cloth for the tribe.

It is worse than the sacks of the later generations. The ropes as thick as fingers and the gaps as big as thumbs are made into clothes and worn on the body. The places that should not be exposed will soon be exposed to a healthy wheat-colored mosaic...

Rough fibers, irregular warp and weft gaps, quite the atmosphere of handmade luxury goods in previous lives.

Yu Qian'er held the two-meter-long piece of cloth, and was very happy. She believed more and more that her brother must have been guided by her ancestors, and showed the old grandmother the cards one by one.

Chen Jian didn't like it, but the clansmen held it in their hands and rubbed it in their hands. Finally, following Chen Jian's example, three or four people began to weave these things with the simplest handloom.

In the afternoon, the men finally polished their bows. Chen Jian helped them string the bows and taught them how to draw the bows and shoot arrows. After a while, the forearms of the tribesmen were bruised and purple from the bowstrings. .

After being proficient for a while, the men took their bows and went out to hunt nearby birds, and they could leave feathers as arrow feathers after stuffing their teeth.

A simple longbow, even without tail feathers, is still very accurate within a distance of ten meters. However, the various strange bow postures of the tribesman reduced this distance to three to five meters, scaring the wolves at the entrance of the cave far away. run away.

There are high-quality elm trees in the forest. If you have time to carve a bow and replace it with a bone arrowhead, it should be no problem to use it to hunt large animals. You just need to spend some time taming the bow.

In the cave, the women also crudely wove bark fiber cloth dozens of meters long. Chen Jian used bone needles to sew several pieces of cloth together, which was more than ten meters long.

Then I took four pieces of wood, found a few pieces of cloth and sewed them on the wood with bone needles, and made a simple sieve.

Chen Jian folded the remaining fiber cloth, weaved the two ends randomly with bone needles, and made a handmade fiber bag. With a childlike innocence, he drew an LV logo on it with charcoal.

The women also imitated him and used bone needles to sew their own small handbags. When collecting wild fruits in the past, they used to hold them with their hands or carry them in animal skins. This handmade small handbag is much more convenient.

When everything was ready, he called the women in the cave and walked towards the small river down the mountain.

Looking back, Chen Jian almost laughed.

A group of aunts and cousins, wearing animal skins and carrying one-shoulder handmade natural fiber bags, have an artistic atmosphere of post-modern fashion.

It's a pity that this is not a catwalk show, but a hunt for survival.

There is a river seven or eight meters wide at the foot of the mountain. The water is naturally clear and not too deep. There are many fish in it.

Yu Qian'er was carrying Chen Jian's LV handmade bag, and several of them were carrying the fiber cloth from a dozen-meter factory and the small sieve together.

Tried the water temperature, it was a bit cold.

Among the cattail grass by the river, a few grass carp were chewing on the roots of the grass, clucking and gnawing. When they heard the voice of a person, they swished and hid in the bottom of the river.

Chen Jian saw the familiar grass carp and carp, as well as a few fish he had never seen before. If he dug a puddle and waited for a day, he could scoop up the fish with a ladle, but he had never seen a gourd so far, so the ladle was naturally gone. .

The women guessed that they were going to catch fish, but they were a little confused when they looked at the things in their hands. How could they catch fish without stone spears?

Yu Qian'er believed that her brother would be able to catch the fish. She tilted her head to look at the school of small fish in the water, savoring the smell of grilled fish.

Seeing that it was getting late, it was determined that the water here was not as deep as knees, which was a suitable place, so he directed the women to move stones and build a simple figure-eight in the narrow part of the river.

The wide mouth of the horoscope is the upstream of the river, extending downward from the river bank, leaving only a gap the size of a sieve in the downstream.

The water flows downward through the crevices of the stones, but the fish cannot swim through the crevices of the stones. Near the narrow mouth, the current becomes more turbulent than before.

Four women were asked to block the small sieve at the narrow mouth of the horoscope, and the rest stretched out the long fiber cloth and came to the upper reaches of the river.

The fiber cloth is just about as wide as the river, and there is not much resistance in a gap the size of a finger.

A dozen women together with Chen Jian straightened the fiber cloth and walked slowly downstream.

The frightened fish found danger, but they couldn't go upstream through the fiber cloth, so they had to swim downstream in one mind.

There are rocks downstream, and there is only one gap with a gap of one meter wide. These brainless fish rushed towards the gap one after another.

This is not a net fishing method and cannot be used in large rivers, but it is very suitable for narrow and shallow rivers.

This river has been flowing until now, but no one has ever used this method to fish in it. Countless small fish of various colors rushed down densely, mixed with some crayfish or water turtles.

Within the scope of the inverted figure-eight, the school of fish is already at a loss.

"Fish! Fish!"

Yu Qian'er and several children pointed at the fish churning in the water in surprise. Because the space was reduced, these fish gathered together and rushed to the top of the sieve.

The water drains through the thumb-sized sieve eyes, but the fish remain, piling up.

The white bellies were constantly churning, and there were a few large carp with strong tail fins that allowed them to jump over the sieve, but the smaller fish were not so lucky.

The water can flow through the sieve, but they can't, so they have to accumulate in the sieve and keep jumping.

The big fish ran away, and there were more and more palm-sized fish. The women cheered and jumped for joy. It was so easy to get food for several days!

Yu Qian'er looked at the small cloth pocket on her shoulder, hurried to the sieve, reached out to catch the fish, and threw it into her handmade cloth bag.

The rest of the women also reacted and ran over one after another, everyone's bags were bulging.

Occasionally, someone screamed in pain and flicked the crayfish caught on their fingers. The more they flicked, the tighter the grip was, which attracted laughter from others.

The cheers attracted the men who were hunting in the woods, looking in amazement at the innumerable fish, many of which had already been thrown on the shore, and there was still a full layer in the sieve.

Yu Qian'er stood in the water, staring blankly at the four fish in her bag, feeling extremely distressed.

After thinking for a while, I squeezed out one and threw it on the shore.