There are savages in the jungle

The poison arrow tree that Xia Yun chose has a straight trunk and mottled bark, making it impossible to touch.Xia Yun weighed the stone axe, and tapped the bark with the back of the axe, feeling that it felt solid, so he began to strike with this.

To peel off the bark, you must first beat the bark until it becomes soft. As for the separation of the bark from the trunk, Xia Yun took more than an hour to peel it off. The bark opened, revealing the white, wet trunk.

Xia Yun didn't miss the part of the trunk where the branches started to divide, and cut off the bark at the root of the branch with a dagger, removed the bark of the branch, and peeled off a bark more than ten meters long.

Yan was speechless.

"Let's go to the river." Xia Yun dragged the bark weighing several tens of kilograms and walked a few steps. The hides are tied up.

Xia Yun said, "Go wash it first."

"it is good."

The two carried the bark one after the other and walked to Dajiang.

The whole bark was thrown into the river and washed in the water for a while before Xia Yun went in to wash it.

Since the bark has been beaten, a lot of broken bark falls off during cleaning, exposing the rich fibers of the bark.After washing, the bark could no longer see its original appearance, and turned into a hard shell with a whitish color.

Taken out of the water, the weight is also much lighter.

"It turns out that the bark is like this." Yan touched the bark excitedly, "Then what should I do?"

"Go back." Xia Yun smiled, holding the stripped bark and said, "Aren't you going to find fruit for the children? Let's go."

Yanzheng was very interested, but he was still a little reluctant when he heard the words. He just wanted to see what Xia Yun would do with the bark.

"It's okay, it's still early."

Xia Yun explained: "Go back and do the rest slowly, you can't finish it in a day."

Rock agreed.

As soon as the two arrived home, the little wild people ran over happily when they saw their mother holding such a big thing.

"mom!"

Yuanyuan rolled straight to Xia Yun's legs, the tallest point jumped and hugged Xia Yun's belly, and hung on Xia Yun's body without touching the ground.

"Mom, what is this big thing? Can you eat it raw?" Diandian's short arms couldn't hold Xia Yun's waist, and he firmly grasped the flesh around Xia Yun's waist with two crab-like claws, looking up asked the head.

Xia Yun grinned in pain, Yan beside him hurriedly hugged Dian Dian.

Xia Yun dragged the two children on his lap to the cave, and said, "It's not food, it's at your mother's place."

Yuanyuan Gungun let go of Xia Yun, raised his head and followed Yan from left to right, twitching, Xia Yun wanted to laugh when he saw it.

In the cave, Yan gave the child the hawthorn he had picked, and stuck to Xia Yun's side.

Xia Yun was about to take a breather before doing it again. Seeing that Yan was looking forward to it, he couldn't bear to let him wait, so he spread the bark and started tidying up.

The bark of poison arrow wood is rich in plant fibers, and the peeled bark can be used directly to make clothes. The treated bark does not contain venom, but it can repel mosquitoes. It has to be protected from moisture, and it will not be damaged after decades of use.

When we were very poor decades ago, Grandpa Xia’s family all wore clothes made of poison arrow wood bark, as did the mattresses.Every summer when Xia Yun went to his grandfather's house, he used bark sheets as summer mats.In addition, the bark of poison arrow wood is also very waterproof, which is good for making coir raincoats and umbrellas.

Now that the mountain village is rich, there are fewer and fewer poisonous arrow trees, and it has become a national protected plant. Grandpa stopped making bark clothes, and there are still several boxes of bark clothes and bed sheets in the house.

Of course, the softness of bark clothes is definitely not as good as that of cotton, but it has a wide range of uses.

Xia Yun spread the dried bark on the big rocks, and beat it with round stones little by little to make the plant fibers softer and even flocculent. The thicker parts need to be thinned specially.

The fiber is very tight, like a woven fabric, it will not fall apart no matter how you hammer it.

Although it was the first time to do it, Xia Yun felt that it was quite easy.

Yan looked at it for a while, spread out the other end of the bark, and beat it with stones.

This is a meticulous job, and whether it is beaten or not is directly related to the quality of the cloth, so the progress of the two is very slow.

It didn't take long for the food to come back, and the two had a quick lunch. After a short rest, they started hammering the bark again, and they didn't finish until noon the next day.

After beating again, the bark is very soft, but there are many broken hard bark hidden inside.Xia Yun bundled the bark with a hemp rope, threw it into the stream to soak, and tied the rope to a tree by the river.Grandpa talked about it for ten days.

Standing beside Xia Yun, Yan looked at the tree bark in the river, and said, "Did it become the clothes you wore after soaking? Like what you wore before?" Talking about the past, Yan felt his face heat up.At that time, he thought that the clothes were Xia Yun's wool, and he thought they were knotted in pieces.

"Almost." Xia Yun said, his expression was indifferent, but his heart was overjoyed, and his sense of accomplishment was overwhelming.There seems to be a villain rolling in my heart, screaming in my chest: Wow Kaka Kaka, it actually succeeded, I succeeded the first time I did it!

When Xia Yun was a child, he wanted to play with it very much, but the adults did not allow him to touch the poisonous arrow wood, and he would be scolded if he touched it.At that time, Xia Yun thought that when he grows up, he must do it once, but when he grows up, he is not interested.

This time, due to the needs of life, I had to do it once, but it provoked a childish innocence, and Xia Yun felt a sense of satisfaction that his long-cherished wish had come true.

Yan tilted his head to look at Xia Yun, and the corner of his mouth twitched, "Smile if you want, don't show such a weird expression."

"Is there?" Xia Yun immediately restrained his expression, gave Yan a white look, turned and left.

"..." Yan looked at Xia Yun's back without knowing why.What's wrong with me?

Experience tells Yan that it must be his fault that Xia Yun changed his face.He stood on the shore and shouted at Xia Yun: "Want to eat strawberries? I'll go and see if the strawberries are ripe."

Xia Yun waved his hand without turning his head, and said grandpa: "Go, dig a few plants and plant them."

Yan took the lead and went happily.

The strawberry grows on this mountain, and the children didn't notice it because of its concealment.This time, Yanshu walked up the mountain, but saw a figure from a distance.

Have you been found?It's a pity, let's listen to Xia Yun's suggestion to transplant a few plants at the door.

"Yan?" Song turned around vigilantly when he heard the voice, and relaxed when he saw it was Yan, "Are you also here to pick strawberries? Oh, I've finished picking strawberries, so I'll give you half."

Children like to eat everything except meat, even a dish with a bland taste is a treasure, not to mention sweet and delicious strawberries.Song's child suddenly became unhappy, and grabbed Song's arm and called "Mom".

"Forget it." Yan walked up, but the red strawberries were no longer visible on the ground, so he squatted down, ready to dig a few strawberry plants.

Song saw that his own strawberries were only seven or eight, and there were not many in all of them, so he didn't insist.He didn't leave either, he hesitated for a while, and suddenly asked, "Is Xia Yun happy?"

Yan tensed his muscles immediately, raised his head slightly, and stared at Song with blazing eyes, "What do you mean?"

Song was completely relaxed, and said slowly: "I'm not coveting your partner, I just hope he's doing well. Xia Yun must be unhappy being trapped by your side, am I right?"

Yan didn't want to admit it, but Song said the truth, "We haven't been together for a short time, and he will always accept me. Isn't everyone like this."

Song: "But there are always people who are unhappy."

Yan sneered, carefully dug up the strawberry roots, and said, "That's you."

Song was a little embarrassed, paused, and his tone became blunt when he spoke again: "You think everyone loves each other very much? Then how do you think your two mothers are?"

"They're fine." Yan affirmed.

"Oh, that's because you can't see it. You are also very good in the eyes of your children. You support each other and share food. In fact, you look really good, just like everyone else."

Yan stopped moving and looked at Song uncertainly, "No way. You said I couldn't see it, how did you know?"

"Because Xia Yun and I are the forced parties." Song sighed and sat on the ground.

"Mom." The little savage climbed onto Song's coiled legs and lay in his arms.

Song gently patted the child on the back, and said: "It's very painful, very painful to be forced to accept someone I don't like at all..." He said with a self-deprecating smile, "Although I have no chance to accept it. But you, Billy, can't be better. How much, Xia Yun is different from us, I believe you know this better than me, if you bind him with our rules, he will suffer more than anyone else."

Yan unconsciously squeezed a handful of soil, and his breathing became short of breath.After getting along for a year, he also got to know Xia Yun a little bit. Xia Yun looks weak, but in fact he is the most stubborn inside. He can't be conquered by fists. He was wrong from the beginning.

"What can I do? How can I make him like me?"

Song looked at the bushes and let his eyes go blank for a while, "Perhaps unrestrained liking will impress my partner... When my mother gave birth to my brother, my mother almost died looking for honey for him. I heard that my mother was actually stung by a bee when she gave birth to me." It was very miserable, but he still went there for the second time... lying on the bed, he couldn't hear me when I called him, but he still murmured to comfort his mother." Song's voice was a little choked, he raised his head, took a deep breath and said : "My mother and the others have become close since then."

"Mom." The little paws gently wiped the corners of mother's eyes, and the voice was helpless.

Song quickly wiped his eyes, got up with the child in his arms, "The child is going to sleep, I'm leaving first."

Yan fell into deep thought, and only woke up after hearing the words, looked at Song and said seriously: "Thank you."

"I hope I can help you." After saying that, Song went down the mountain with the child in his arms.