Beginning Backpack [Farming]

The two studied hard in the middle of the night, and they both woke up late the next day.

Shen Huaijin rubbed her eyes, stood up and stretched a few times before going out to wash up.

Because Li hadn't woken up yet, he wasn't in a hurry to make breakfast. He watered the fields first, took the fish sauce to dry in front of the house, and then counted the remaining grain.

After a cold season of consumption, the two of them had eaten up the fresh food they had originally stored, and there was still a basket of dried mushrooms and two baskets of sweet potato vermicelli left among the dry goods.

In the condiments, sugar is always added, and now there are half a can; as for salt, onion, ginger, garlic, and licorice powder, he is not short. The fish sauce seems to be fermented successfully, but there is only more than bald butter left Half a can.

He hasn't run out of hot pot base ingredients yet, and there are not many dried chilies left, so he can only rely on planting this batch if he wants to eat satisfactorily.He makes a few cans of some pickled side dishes from time to time, and there are quite a few in storage now. The weather is too hot, and he often sends some to his friends.

He hasn't gone to collect in the past two days. Fortunately, there is food distributed by the tribe. The sub-beasts who had to exchange sweaters before will bring him a basket from time to time. Otherwise, the appetite will be severe. It is really difficult for him to eat more vegetables. .

After Shen Huaijin counted the good things, Li Ye got up. The two discussed it and decided to have a light meal in the morning. They boiled a can of animal bone meal, steamed some egg custard, and settled down casually.

During the meal, Shen Huaijin suggested: "The two baskets of limestone we burnt are just left as a waste. I want to make them into lime water to soak the animal skins, and use the animal skins saved during this time to make some leather clothes and clothes." purse."

Shen Huaijin's materials include the process of making leather. He wants to make some leather bags and bags, which are waterproof and light.Although I brought some bags for the salt change before, they still have furs, which are easy to break, and it is even more difficult to carry them in hot weather.

Li naturally had no objection, "I originally wanted the old orcs and old Asian beasts to help nitrate those animal skins. Of course, you can use them yourself, but we don't have such a big container for soaking lime water, so we have to find a way to build one. "

Shen Huaijin had already thought of this, "I used plant ash to build a cement pool, which can not only make lime water, but also directly use it to soak animal skins."

Li nodded, "That's good, we'll do it after dinner."

The animal skin needs to be turned several times during the process of soaking in lime water, so the size of the lime pool should not be too large, and Shen Huaijin finally set it at 2m*1m*1.2m.

Because there is still some height, the efficiency of direct base is too slow.Li went to carry a batch of bamboo, and Shen Huaijin asked him to split the bamboo in half, and then he used the bamboo to build a frame, and then used the mixed cement to lay the bottom, fill the sides, thicken and spread evenly. .

Both of them are of the nature of today's work, and they are busy until evening. Shen Huaijin used the last bit of cement to make a lamp stand and put it in the shed to dry. He planned to replace the bamboo lamp after it was completed, which would reduce the safety a little. Hidden danger.

The paved cement cannot be put into use directly. Even if the weather is good now, it will take a day or two for it to harden.

Shen Huaijin found all the furs that had been hoarded during these days. In order to prevent them from rotting, these animal skins had been treated briefly. Most of the remaining meat and fat inside had been cut off and salted.

This kind of animal skin cannot be tanned directly. Shen Huaijin first shook off the salt grains on the animal skin, then put it into a large rattan basket, put the rattan basket in the stream downstream of the tribe, and let the animal skin soak in the running water for about three days .This method saves the trouble of changing the water, and only needs to pay attention to fixing the rattan basket.

Taking advantage of this time, Shen Huaijin followed Li to another trip to the stone forest. The two picked up several baskets of limestone and came back to continue calcination. Part of the burnt plant ash was kept by Shen Huaijin for fertilization after processing, and the other part was kept as cement raw materials. use.

Continuous calcination consumes a lot of wood, Shen Huaijin can't help but regret that he has never seen a coal mine, otherwise the efficiency can be improved.

The cement could not be used directly after it hardened, so he poured water into it and recorded the water level with a charcoal note, planning to check it again a day later.

After three days of continuous spinning, Shen Huaijin was also a little tired.

Li cooked dinner. His cooking skills are still average now, but he is still proficient in steaming eggs, roasting meat and washing fruits. Seeing Shen Huaijin's hard work, he also specially asked Shen Huaijin to teach him, and tried to stew a light fish soup. Although the appearance is average, But the taste is surprisingly good.

After Shen Huaijin finished eating, she simply wiped her body, and then the two of them sat at the table to teach characters, which was a compulsory course for them every night, no matter how tired they were during the day, they would never give up.

Shen Huaijin teaches in a simple and rude style, unlike modern teachers who teach children from simple characters, he pays attention to efficiency, he teaches which words are most often spoken and which words need to be recorded most.

Tonight's lesson is "one, two, three...ninety". For the convenience of memory, Shen Huaijin placed the same number of stones next to each other.

After a few stones were placed, he simply began to teach arithmetic.

The orcs and sub-beasts here will carry out simple accumulation of small quantities, but the concept of the whole is still somewhat vague.

After a few rounds, Li Ye was motivated to be competitive, and used the stones to practice the questions over and over again. Shen Huaijin laughed at him for having to carry a handful of stones with him in the future, and was pinned down by the embarrassing opponent and bit his neck and Adam's apple.In the end, it was Shen Huaijin who trembled and admitted the arithmetic problems she made with fingers and toes when she was a child, and the other party let him go.

Naogui Nao, Li is still very serious in learning, even though Shen Huaijin is half-playing and half-teaching, his learning speed is also very fast, Shen Huaijin can't help but imagine that if the other party is placed on the modern earth, he must be a "scholar" character.

After waking up the next day and washing up, Shen Huaijin went to the field to look at his crops.

Potatoes have already piled up seedlings, and now it is the stage of root development and main stem gestation. You can see the stolons on the ground begin to elongate, the tops swell, and you can also see the occurrence of flower buds and side branches.

However, the peppers in the pepper fields have already grown their second true leaves, and the growth point has also begun to differentiate into the first flower buds. At this time, the management needs to be more refined. Shen Huaijin has been carefully replenishing water and fertilizers.

Not to mention the onion, ginger and garlic on the edge of the pepper field, they are all growing well.

After Li washed up, he was washing ingredients by the stream.Last night, he did a verbal arithmetic problem, and lost the obligation to cook for three days.

Shen Huaijin snickered inwardly, walked to the edge of the lime pond to check the water level, it was not bad, the water level basically remained the same overnight, and it can be put into use today.

After the two had eaten, Li fetched several baskets of lime that they had been storing properly, and carefully poured them into the lime pool under Shen Huaijin's command.

As soon as the light-colored lime entered the pool, the surface began to bubble, and the bubbles became bigger and bigger until the entire water surface was churning, and the heat was smoky and lingering for a long time.

The two went to the lower reaches of the stream to retrieve the animal hides. They spread the softened hides one by one on the inclined logs with the bristle side facing down, and scraped off the remaining meat and oil inside the hides with unsharpened bone knives.

At this time, the lime water is nearly saturated and appears milky white, just put the animal skin into the lime pool.The soaking time is about seven days, and it must be stirred several times a day to make the ash even.This is not difficult, anyway, most of the time they are in the tribe.

Lime water will corrode the meat, grease and protein on the fur, and can open the fiber structure of the raw hide, allowing the hair to be separated from the hide, while disinfecting and whitening to a certain extent.But at the same time, it also emits a strange smell. Although the lime pond is built far away from the house, it usually needs to be covered with something, otherwise Shen Huaijin doesn't care, and the orcs with an extremely sensitive sense of smell will probably suffer.

Shen Huaijin also reminded the orcs and sub-beasts in the tribe, especially the cubs, that the lime water is corrosive and should not be touched.

"It sounds a bit scary." An frowned. "If you need anything, you can ask Li, Lin or other orcs in the tribe for help. Don't touch these dangerous things yourself."

Shen Huaijin comforted: "It's not that scary. If I don't touch it directly, I won't be hurt. These small things can be handled by myself. The orcs don't know how to get hurt easily."

Hearing what Shen Huaijin said, An couldn't force it, but asked Rin to send two baskets of grain, so that Shen Huaijin could have more time to do this slowly, and save him from being too busy.

The animal skins were soaked in the lime pond for seven days, until the hair roots became loose, Shen Huaijin fished them out with a stick, spread the hair side up on the log, carefully pulled the hair out of the hair follicle with a bone knife, and was careful not to The remaining hair roots should not scratch the leather surface.

After the animal skin is depilated, it should be rinsed in the lower reaches of the stream immediately, and then soaked in the stream for another day to wash away all the lime water.

This step is not over yet, if the leather with no lime residue is to be put into use, it still needs to go through the most important step - tanning.

Shen Huaijin used the brain tanning method, that is, emulsified fat was used as a tanning agent to tan leather.As the name says, most of this method uses the brains of animals, but Shen Huaijin thinks this is too strong, so he switched to fish oil with high fat content, and the effect is the same.The leather tanned by this method is the softest, has good air permeability and is washable, which is suitable for Shen Huaijin's needs for making coats and bags.

Shen Huaijin tied a leather stretcher with a wooden frame and a rope, and tied the tanned leather to it to dry one by one. The tanned leather must be tied in this way during the drying process so as not to shrink.

This process only takes a day in good weather.

When the leather was fixed on the leather stretcher, Shen Huaijin carefully cleaned the inner leather surface with a sharpened bone knife, thoroughly cleaned up the residue, and made the thickness even. Tanned.

Although there were not too many things to do, it still took him more than ten days to go through the complete set of procedures.But now that he finally got a dozen pieces of soft and tough leather, Shen Huaijin let out a long breath of satisfaction.

But soon he stopped laughing.

News came from across the stream.

The great witch returned to the embrace of the beast god.