Prehistoric Survival Records

At this time, when autumn is not yet autumn, half of the hundreds of acres of flax fields have grown into yellow mature flax.

Rieger rubbed his nose, which was stimulated by the wind in the flax field and made him want to sneeze a little. He felt that his sense of smell is really too sensitive now. He never felt any smell when he visited the flax plant before. It may be that he had little contact in his previous life, but now he is actually standing in the middle of hundreds of acres of flax fields.

Among the orc warriors, those with a keen sense of smell covered their noses a little too much: "Fuck, Er Bao, the smell is too strong in here. My nose is about to fall off. Let's go."

Laika also took a few steps back, and then looked at Lige with a tangled face: "Erbao, you have seen it and touched it, the smell is so strong here, Dad thinks it smells a little bad, what do you think?"

Although Lige also had the urge to retreat, but when he thought of the prickly heat on his buttocks and the fear of being dominated by animal skins, and the breathability and coolness of the linen, he strengthened his conviction and shook his head: "Listen to me, this kind of The plant is called flax, which is very useful. Flax fiber can be used to make hemp rope and weave cloth. Cloth is slippery and cool. It can replace animal skins and wool to make clothes and pants. After we have cloth , There will be no more prickly heat in summer, and more importantly, cloth can be made into all kinds of clothes, skirts, and vests, anyway, cloth is a very important thing."

After Lige finished speaking, he realized that everyone was staring at him with embarrassment, and suddenly realized, Grandpa Bu's name is Bu, would it sound strange to them?

Busy explained again: "It's not the patriarch's cloth, I mean something that can be made into clothes."

After a pause, he added: "It's the fiber of this plant, which can be made. And the seeds and roots of flax can be used as medicine, mainly for laxative, that is to say, eat some flax when you can't come out." Seeds can treat constipation and let you come out easily, how about flax, isn’t it very useful.”

After Rieg finished speaking, he looked up at the orcs to see their reactions.

"Sounds great."

"Recently, the prickly heat on the buttocks has become serious again. If this cloth is really so magical, I think it is a good thing."

"Rig, you are a wise man, we will do what you say."

"Yeah, it's always been like this."

The two fathers also tenderly expressed the above thoughts.

Rieger, that's right, that's right, you are really a group of good orcs, you deserve to eat and drink with Lord Rieger, and you will still have clothes to wear in the future.

"Then since everyone has no objections, let's go back to the tribe today, and call the rest of the tribe to harvest the flax in the morning tomorrow. There is already a lot of flax here. If you don't step up the harvest, it may be retting in the ground." , then it will be wasted.”

Everyone looked at the sky, so they took the time to go back to the tribe to announce the news that they had found flax. Under the exaggeration of the orc warriors, the fact that flax was harvested to make clothes caused a sensation in the tribe. I was so worried, I really wanted the day to come soon, and I almost lost sleep collectively.

Rigg: Well done!

So before dawn, the tribe was full of fire and cooking. Lige said last night that today's harvesting task is heavy, and the strong will not be short of hungry soldiers. The little wise man's words carried as much weight as the patriarch's orders. Because of the new atmosphere that Lige had brought to the tribe in such a short period of time, the orcs were all convinced, and it was very easy to say anything.

Everyone ate a full meal, and the bamboo tubes they carried with them were filled with honey water and straddled their waists, and they carried small backpacks each on their backs. In the backpacks were the preventive medicines Lige kneaded with a kind of cool grass juice mixed with grass mud. The pills for heatstroke (actually peppermint balls), headed for the flax field full of energy.

Although they had made good mental preparations before coming, the orcs were still taken aback when they saw the endless flax fields in front of them.

Chacha weakly raised his paw and asked, "Erbao, are we going to cut off all these flax and flax?"

Rigg said with certainty, "No."

Zhacha breathed a sigh of relief, and before he could let go of the other half of his breath, Lige said again: "We just need to cut off the mature flax these days, here," Lige wiped the other half with his fingers. The orc looked, "That's the color that turns yellow overall. The green and yellow ones over there are immature. We have to wait and don't need to harvest for the time being."

The cold sweat that wiped fell off: "But, Erbao, even if you only harvest yellow flax, there are still a lot."

Lige deliberately pretended not to understand the meaning of the words, and pretended to be stupid: "So we must hurry up, we must work overtime to harvest the flax, and then we can spare the immature flax before it turns yellow." Take some time to rest, and when the flax is all yellow, there will be no time to rest, everyone, come on, I am optimistic about you."

Wipe:  …

What else can I say, hurry up and do it.

The others were also accustomed to obeying the orders of this little wise man. Although they had never harvested before, since Rieg had spoken, they could only do it even if it seemed that the orcs would be exhausted to death.

So without saying anything, they untied all the supplies on their bodies and threw them outside on the ground, took stone knives and burrowed into the flax bushes, and started working in full swing.

From time to time, Rig gave instructions to cut the blade at an angle and cut along the root of the stalk.

He also instructed the orcs to adjust their strange standing postures to a labor-saving and easy-to-strength harvesting posture. According to what he said, the orcs bent their waists naturally, and took advantage of their long arms to hold the long stone knife in their hands with a handful of straw. At the root of the stalk, he cut it hard, and a sheaf of flax was cut down.

Rigg walked up and down the field and found that the orcs were very smart. As long as they found that using the posture he instructed could save a lot of effort and cut it easier, they would pay attention to maintaining that posture.

Without a sickle, the orcs cut rather than cut. Fortunately, although the stone knives were not sharp enough, the orcs were strong, and the mature flax stalks were crisp and yellow. It's not difficult, but as for how neat the knife edge is, that's a challenge for strong beasts. Fortunately, the flax is cut to be sent to the river for retting, and it's not for exhibition, so there's no need to worry about its appearance. Pick and choose places.

After working all morning, the temperature gradually increased. Rieger looked at the results. He was busy greening the whole morning, and the lodging flax was about a dozen acres. It was cut down, but for these farming beginners, it is already a commendable thing to have this result in the morning.

After wiping the sweat off his brow, Lige called everyone to stop and come out to rest and drink some water.

As soon as he heard Lige's words, he threw the stone knife on the ground without a second thought, and almost hit his instep, and ran out, found a hidden place to release water, and after he finished skimming the small strips, he rushed to the grass and grabbed it. Picking up the bamboo tube in his back basket and uncorking the bottle, he gave a strong drink. Gulu Gulu drank the whole bottle of water before he let out a big breath, feeling like he was alive.

Rieger witnessed a series of his movements, three black lines hanging from his head, I don’t seem to be some devil contractor, am I so harsh that you are not allowed to go to the toilet to drink water, he turned to other orcs, and found that everyone was in the same movement , go to pee first, and then come back and drink up the water in the bamboo tube in one breath, panting heavily, looking like half-life exhausted.

Hey, let me tell you, as for it, just harvest ready-made flax and that’s it. If we find rice seed, wheat seed, cotton seed, etc. in the four seasons of the year, we need to sow seeds, water them, weed insects, and harvest them. Can't bring the dog on the spot?

Saying one thousand, saying ten thousand, there is still less daily practice. Obviously, all of them are orcs with excellent physique. The convenient endurance in farming is not as good as that of other farmer uncles. They are all lazy on a daily basis. Practice more, you have to build the tribe into a good shape, and the work is far more than that, so where is this? - and you are not a devil.

After the orcs finished drinking the water, stretched their waists, and looked at the sun in the center, although Rieg felt that the orcs lacked training, he still couldn't be cruel enough to let them cut flax under the poisonous sun.

However, not cutting flax does not mean that there is no other work to do.

To make flax into clothes, harvesting is only the first step. The next step is to remove the flax seeds, and then find a place with calm water flow to pile the flax in and retch the flax fiber. After the flax fiber undergoes a series of physical and chemical reactions from colloid The hemp is separated from the inside, and then the hemp has to be peeled and dried. The last step is to use the dried hemp fiber to make hemp products.

However, among these steps, the most important thing is retting, which is commonly known as the degumming process.

There are two retting methods in Rieger’s memory, one is dew retting, that is, spreading the cut hemp on the ground, and under the action of sunlight, rain, dew and microorganisms, the hemp fiber is separated from other substances; the other is dew retting. One is retting in a pool. Find a place with calm water flow, soak the hemp in it, press on stone slabs and other objects, let the microorganisms in the water multiply by relying on the nutrients in the hemp, dissolve the shell of the flax, and decompose the hemp fiber come out.

These two methods have their own advantages and disadvantages. Dew retting requires less effort. Just find a flat and ventilated place to spread the hemp evenly. The hemp will be automatically retting during the process of sun exposure and night dew, but there is also a disadvantage. It takes a long time and is greatly affected by the weather. For example, this season in Lige's grassland, there is little precipitation, large temperature difference, and sunshine during the day, so this method is not suitable.

Restricted by this geographical condition, the only thing left for Lige is to retch in the pool. Fortunately, the pool is also very convenient. Just throw the hemp into the running water. According to the actual situation of the hemp, wait for 6 days at the fastest, and at the last 20 days later, you can get retting hemp.

Before the sun had risen to the highest point, Lige hurriedly called out all the orcs who were sitting and resting, telling them to take the time to transport the felled hemp out of the field and tie it up.

The orcs got into the flax bushes, and after a while, they came out dragging a lot of flax stalks.

Rieg called two orcs to stand aside, and was responsible for tying up the hemp shipped out in bundles with straw ropes.

Fortunately, the heat is unbearable these days, most of the females will gather together to chat and make straw ropes when they are bored at noon, so the tribe has a lot of straw ropes out of thin air. Straw ropes were used to tie them up, it was really wrong, the female is mighty.

Thousands of [-]-jin hemp sticks were bundled together in pieces, which looked a bit shocking visually, but this was not the time to stop and express emotion. When tying just now, Lige had already asked people to stay at intervals in advance. Take out a piece of straw rope to facilitate dragging.

So at this moment, it is still a good place to drag these hemp to the nearest river.

The orcs grabbed the rope one by one and pulled with all their strength, and the hemp bundle was dragged up.

Rieg had already looked for a water source nearby while the orcs were working, and knew that there was a relatively wide river not far from here.

That river flows down a long distance. The place where Lige and the others are located should be located downstream. The water flow is relatively gentle. Due to the perennial water erosion on the river bank, a concave semicircle is naturally eroded. This semicircle Inside the shape is the retting pond that Lige had been optimistic about early in the morning.

Pushing the hemp into the river and pressing several huge stones on it is not to prevent the current from washing the hemp away, but to ensure that all the hemp is completely soaked in the water.

During the retting process, it is necessary to observe from time to time to judge which stage has been reached and whether the hemp fibers have been completely separated, but this is a step to be carried out later in Rieger. For the time being, this is enough.

At this moment the sun had risen to the top of everyone's heads, and Lige was also a little dizzy from the sun. He waved his hand to indicate that the work would be suspended at noon, and he would go back to the tribe to avoid it.

Lying in the shade of the pergola, looking at the skylight through the gap, after a long time, double images appeared in front of his eyes, Rieg turned over and looked at the grass and continued to ponder.

This is no good. Although there is only a tail left in summer, the sun may not be milder than in summer in the first two months of autumn. Otherwise, why does the old saying say that there are eighteen autumn tigers.

Right now is the season when flax is ripe. If you don’t harvest it quickly, let alone whether you will grow old in the field. When the crops in the experimental field mature in autumn, you will be very busy for a while, and the tribe’s construction is still going on. But come on, if he only does so much work before sunrise and after sunset a day, he can't satisfy the increasing construction speed at all, and he has to go out to find some new seeds in autumn when everything is strong, pigs in the tribe He can't just eat grass and snails, but also has to enrich his diet. After autumn, there will be a winter that will be frozen for several months. He is not willing to feed the good reserve grain to the pigs, and the wool reserve grain has also bottomed out. Now, since we want to spend the winter well, among other things, at least it is not too much for one person to wear woolen clothes and pants, and we have to prepare a lot of wool before winter.

Lig grabbed his head and rolled on the ground, ah, ah ah ah, such a thought, time is really urgent.No!and!ah!

How can we reasonably increase the working hours of the orcs and maintain their health? The rising and setting of the sun is beyond the reach of manpower, and Rigg can't control it, so we have to start with the orcs themselves.

Increase working time = reduce the impact of the sun on orcs = avoid heat and shade

Looking at the equation he drew on the ground, a light bulb suddenly lit up on Rieger's forehead, yes, sunscreen, straw hat!

I'm so stupid, Rieg knocked his head hard, almost despairing of his IQ.

The author has something to say: Ah Xuan, I’m back again, gentlemen, I haven’t seen you for a day, I miss you so much, wipe away your tears

Also, I didn't chop my hands. I only bought things for less than 100 yuan on Double Eleven, and I gave the rest of the time to work. I raised my hands to show my innocence.

感谢在2019-11-1023:12:07~2019-11-1300:20:12期间为我投出霸王票或灌溉营养液的小天使哦~

Thanks to the little angels who irrigate the nutrient solution: 5 bottles of Yanyan; 2 bottles of flipping books;

Thank you very much for your support, I will continue to work hard!