Beginning Backpack [Farming]

After getting up early, Shen Huaijin fed the livestock first, and then took her messenger bag to deliver goods to the other side of the stream.

Yang and the others were having breakfast when they saw Shen Huaijin coming over with several messenger bags, and immediately put down the tableware. After collecting the things, they warmly invited Shen Huaijin to sit down and eat together.The latter naturally did not refuse, chatting with them while eating.

Knowing that Yang led the team to collect today, Shen Huaijin asked casually, "Yang, where are you going to collect today?"

Yang replied: "We are going to go to the east of the valley today, but we haven't decided where to go. We plan to go to places that we didn't go to often like you, and maybe we can find new food."

Shen Huaijin was very interested in hearing this. He used to follow a fixed route to collect, and there were only a few places to walk around, so he really wanted to follow Yang and the others to explore the new map, "Yang, I can talk to you today. Shall we go collect together?"

Yang Wenyan said happily: "Of course, with you here, we are more likely to find new food."

The two hit it off.

Shen Huaijin brought some breakfast for Li, and told him to remember to dry the fish sauce and dried bamboo shoots, then took the messenger bag and rattan basket and set off with Yang and the others.

There is a big river to the east of the valley, where Shen Huaijin used to catch crabs and dig potatoes, and to the east is the vast prairie.

However, Shen Huaijin and the others did not choose the usual fixed route this time, but explored from the side path, hoping to find some useful new things.

When he passed a large bush that was as tall as a person, a sense of familiarity flashed in his heart.

But to be honest, the plants in front of me looked very ordinary.They have slender and straight stems with dense leaves growing on the top. When the wind blows, you can see the white back. The leaves are ovate and the surface is very rough, which looks a bit like mulberry leaves.

Shen Huaijin thought about it for a long time, but she couldn't remember any edible crops that grew like this, so she adjusted her crossbody bag rather annoyedly.When his fingers touched the corner of his clothes, he suddenly realized.

No wonder the plant in front of him felt strange yet familiar. It turned out that this was not an edible crop at all, but ramie!

The bast fiber of the ramie stem is shiny, mildew-resistant and easy to dye. It is an important textile crop and a high-quality paper raw material.The cloth woven by ramie is called summer cloth, which is breathable, perspiration-wicking, cool and comfortable to wear.

Shen Huaijin's tools have never been worn out. These two T-shirts have been worn for a year, and they are almost scrapped after washing. Originally, he was worried that he would only be able to live by wearing animal fur clothes in the future, but now he has an unexpected joy.

There are steps for making linen clothes in his USB flash drive, but he was short of raw materials before, and now he has found ramie, which means that he can also weave cloth himself to wear.

Seeing that he stood there for a long time without moving, Yang asked curiously, "Do you know this plant?"

Shen Huaijin nodded, "This is called ramie, and it has a great effect."

Yang looked happily at the large ramie field, and felt that coming with Shen Huaijin was indeed the right way. He grabbed a handful of ramie leaves and asked anxiously, "Then how do you eat this kind of plant?"

Shen Huaijin was taken aback, then smiled and shook her head, "Ramie leaves are edible, but most of them are used as medicine. The biggest use of ramie is to weave clothes."

Yang turned his gaze back to Shen Huaijin, "What is cloth?"

Shen Huaijin tugged at her T-shirt, "The clothes on me are made of cloth. Ramie can be used to weave similar cloth. Wearing clothes made of cloth is cool and comfortable even in the hot season. .”

Yang's eyes lit up, he had been envious of Shen Huaijin's soft and light clothes for a long time, "Is the cloth easy to make?"

Shen Huaijin thought for a while, and told the truth, "The cloth is quite difficult, the loom is more difficult to make, and the weaving is more time-consuming."

Yanghe and the sub-beasts around him were a little disappointed when they heard this.

Shen Huaijin comforted, "It's not a big problem. If it doesn't work, let's spend more time. If we don't have time now, we will weave it in the cold season. We can wear it in the next hot season."

Yang Yi thought so too, after all, it is such a good thing, it is right to wait for a while, so he cheered up again, "Then let's hurry up and collect these ramies."

The two discussed it, and after seeking Shen Huaijin's consent, Yang proposed to everyone loudly, "Everyone heard what Jin said just now. Since none of us know how to weave, if anyone wants these cloths, they can Gather more ramie for Jin, as part of the cloth exchange in the future. The sub-beasts who don’t want the cloth are free to do so.”

Many sub-beasts are a little moved. Unlike orcs, sub-beasts can be shirtless. Even in the hot season, they have to wear animal skin vests, which is really stuffy.If she could wear Shen Huaijin's light and breathable clothes, she would be very comfortable.Therefore, even though Shen Huaijin repeatedly emphasized that the cloth is difficult to weave and requires a lot of things to exchange, they still paid the "deposit" resolutely.

Ramie does not need to be chopped off in its entirety, just remove the head and tail in the ramie field, and then peel off the hemp belt and take it away.

Due to the limited time, the collection team had to collect food and go back. The sub-beasts who wanted to change the cloth only paid half a rattan basket of hemp skin as a deposit.

Shen Huaijin asked them to use a knife to scrape off the green skin on the surface of the hemp skin and then give it to himself. This process is called "scraping green", and the rest is ramie fiber, which is the raw material of ramie after bleaching and drying.

After he went back, he flipped through the USB drive again, revisiting the process of making linen, and found that it was really complicated.

Not to mention other things, just talk about one of the cloth brushing processes.After drying, the ramie fiber will be torn into filaments, but these filaments will inevitably have some burrs on the surface.At the same time, twisting the filaments into threads by hand will also form some knots.These burrs and knots will affect the smoothness of weaving. The solution is to brush the warp thread to make the warp thread smooth.

This requires brushing with rice milk.Rice milk has to be made from rice and vegetable oil. Now he is not worried about whether he can be extravagant enough to use rice to wash the pulp, but that he has no problem with rice at all.

It is stated in the information that rice milk can also be replaced by cellulose, but it does not specify what kind of cellulose. Shen Huaijin estimated the state of rice milk, and his brain was wide open, thinking that he could try it with taro paste, sweet potato starch and water.If it is the best, if it is not, it is a big deal to make some rougher linen this year, and then slowly improve it after finding a suitable raw material for brushing.

The more difficult thing now is the loom. As far as his carpentry level is concerned, it is okay to make a table, chair and bench. It is really difficult to make a loom by himself.

It seems that we can only find foreign aid.

The first thing Shen Huaijin thought of was stone. Shi is usually very good at making stone tools and so on. He can be regarded as a dexterous old orc.Shen Huaijin didn't expect him to know it at first glance, but Shi, Li and himself, the three cobblers added up could always beat Zhuge Liang.

Shen Huaijin copied the appearance of the loom on the bark, and planned to leave to find Shi after not staying for long. She could only comfort Li with sad eyes with a kiss, and told him to remember to milk the hairy beast.

When Shen Huaijin passed by, Shi was grinding a stone ax in the square, and Shen Huaijin quickly sat down beside him.

Shi stopped what he was doing, "What's the matter, Jin?"

"Shi, I'm going to build a loom out of bamboo and wood, and use it to make cloth from ramie fibers."

Shi was dizzy when he heard so many unfamiliar words, "What is a loom? What is ramie? What is cloth?"

Shen Huaijin then explained everything about the ramie encountered in the morning collection and the function of ramie.

Only then did Shi suddenly realize that he took the bark from Shen Huaijin's hand, and the latter was explaining some structural requirements.

Shi looked at it for a moment, then said hesitantly, "This is too complicated, and I don't know how to do it."

Shen Huaijin frowned, and carefully asked: "Is there something that can't be done?"

Shi gestured with his hands, "Look at this one, and this one, how can we make it both stable and moveable?"

Shen Huaijin scratched her hair and tried her best to explain: "Like here, two holes are burned with fire, a log is put through the middle, and the two sides are fixed; here, matching grooves are dug out from two pieces of wood, and then wedged in ;..."

He tried to tell Shi the little carpentry knowledge he knew.

But Shi really understood, nodded and said: "After hearing your idea, I think I can try it, but it may take a long time, can I give it to you in the off season?"

Shen Huaijin nodded, "Of course." Anyway, he doesn't have time to weave now.

Shi said again: "These two pieces are too much for the eyes, do you think you can do it yourself?"

Shen Huaijin saw that there were two rows of reeds, and the warp thread on the loom would pass between the teeth of the reed, and the function of the reed was to push the weft thread to the weaving fell.

The reed teeth are densely packed, and making a reed is indeed a waste of eyes and a test of patience, but Shen Huaijin felt that he could still make this with a little time, so he agreed.

"This is OK. Shi, the loom is very important to me. What do you plan to exchange?"

Shi shook his head and refused, "I just give you some time to do it, so I don't want anything from you!"

Shen Huaijin thought that this stone was really a "double standard", and he said to himself: "Then I will make you a set of cloth clothes first, as for the other things, I will send them to you directly if I see your shortcomings. Okay. That's it, I'll go first, Shi, you continue to be busy!"

Before the words finished, Shen Huaijin quickly slipped away in order to prevent Shi from pulling his clothes again.

Shi smiled helplessly behind him.

When Shen Huaijin went back, Li had already squeezed the animal milk, so Shen Huaijin made it into ginger milk just like last time.

It is estimated that before the cold season, the daily output of animal milk should be relatively stable, so Shen Huaijin intends to let the orcs and sub-beasts in the tribe taste it.

Yesterday it was ginger milk delivered to the old people, today Shen Huaijin delivered it to the youngsters of the tribe, and of course Shi can't be forgotten.After all the members of the tribe had their turn, Shen Huaijin stopped giving them away.

If you still want to eat, you can exchange things with him or simply raise hairy animals yourself. Judging from the old people's praise for Jiang Zhuangnai yesterday, this may also promote the tribe's animal husbandry.If this is the case, Shen Huaijin doesn't need to feed the hairy beasts with the fruit peels and water left over from the tribe's food every day. Everyone can set a time to drive the hairy beasts to graze outside the valley, so that the hairy beasts can eat more nutrients. balanced.

As for the extra animal milk at that time, although Shen Huaijin doesn't have the conditions to store it, it should have a special taste when made into dairy products such as yogurt and cheese.

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