Chapter 14 Rubbing the hemp rope

As Lin Yan wrote, he talked about why it was written like this and why there are lines connecting people. They are direct blood relatives.

The tribe respects women. The mother is very sure, but the father is not.

Only one man in the second generation of A-Lan's family was confirmed. After Lin Yan confirmed it again and again, he wrote him next to A-Hong and wrote down their children below.

More than a dozen stone tablets are filled with writings.

Alan's family returned home satisfied.

There were many people in the tribe, so Lin Yan didn't go out for three days. He waited at home and helped most of the families write their clan names. He asked them to go back and practice writing their names and learn Arabic numerals.

The Huang Ye family had the largest number of people. They brought Lin Yan a whole rat and rabbit, which had not yet been disposed of. This temporarily solved the Huahong family's meat problem.

Lin Yan also led a group of children to learn counting.

The child learned to return to his family.

The adults are busy during the day, and when night falls, they will gather around the fire to practice names and learn to count.

She also took the opportunity to dig a pit with several children. In order to prevent the rats and rabbits from escaping through holes, she built it with stones and laid slabs underneath. She raised the two rat and rabbit cubs and threw some weeds into the pit to feed them.

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The name matter came to an end for the time being, and Lin Yan was ready to take back the piece of juma.

She specially asked a few strong men to help, including Kurotsuchi. The juma was so thick that only those with strong strength could break it with bare hands.

Let Aniang, Ye Zi, and a few women spread a small piece of river sand in front of the cave entrance, spread it with stone slabs as much as possible, and then picked big leaves and spread them on it.

Here we prepare to pile up the roe and subsequently process the pockmarks.

Lin Yan helped everyone write their names and taught them how to count. Her status in people's hearts became very different, and everyone was happy to help her with her work.

With more people and greater strength, we collected all the juma in just one morning.

People were curious as to what Lin Yan wanted the pockmarks for. She picked a bunch of pockmarks and peeled off the outer skin to reveal the pockmarks inside.

The pockmarked particles are larger than those in the book, about the size of peanuts, round, and can be eaten raw.

Lin Yan demonstrated it himself, biting open the pockmarked kernels with his teeth to reveal the white kernel inside, which had a good taste and high oil content.

Others followed Lin Yan's example and started eating pockmarks.

It turns out that it is edible. It is different from the sweet and sour taste of wild fruits. It has a completely new taste. This is the oily taste that Lin Yan was talking about.

After the roe has been exposed to the sun for a few days, the outer skin wrapping the pockmarks peels away, and the pockmarks fall off immediately after being lightly beaten on the stone slab.

I asked someone to help me, and in one day I removed all the pockmarks and piled them together. If it rained, I covered them with big leaves.

The yield of hemp is very high, and a large amount of hemp seeds are harvested from that small area. After dividing some among the people who came to help, there is still a lot left.

After the pockmarks were recovered, the adults were busy hunting, because the hot season was more than half over, and they had to prepare and store food for the cold season.

There were too many people going out and he couldn't go out. Lin Yan asked the adults to help bring back things they thought were different.

She didn't say anything specific, but it could be anything that everyone thought was novel or unfamiliar. It didn't matter if it was a stone or a piece of grass.

These days, people all know that Lin Yan can recognize all things, and they have begun to read. When they are curious, they all agree with Lin Yan's request and promise to bring it back to her.

Without the help of adults, Lin Yan asked Mu Shi to find a dozen old people in the tribe who could not go out, plus a group of children, and began to peel the bark of the juma stems.

It took three days of peeling before all the transdermal skin was peeled off. The dried transdermal skin turned out to be dry heather gray, some were thick, some were thin, some were long and some were short.

Pick out the thin and soft inner skin and knead it into thin threads, and knead the thick and hard outer skin into thicker threads.

Next, twist two or three strands of thick wire together, and repeat this process. Finally, you will get a thin hemp rope, about one meter long. It is full of toughness, and its firmness is not comparable to that of ordinary bark and grass ropes.

After seeing this process in person, the old people immediately understood and began to twist the hemp rope.

This process is time-consuming and labor-intensive, but fortunately, this group of people are idle and bored every day, find everything they do novel and exciting, and can endure loneliness.

In two days, a dozen old people each rolled out several hemp ropes of different lengths. The lengths can be freely controlled and made as long as you want.

The thick outer skin was used up, and the result was a few hemp ropes. Everyone was very excited.

Every day I can see the results made by my own hands, which gives me an extraordinary sense of accomplishment and makes everyone involved very satisfied.

Shuisheng has been rolling hemp rope these days. He thinks doing this is much more interesting than going out.

When the thick leather was used up, he looked at the thin leather and asked, "What are these used for?" It must not be for twisting hemp rope, otherwise Lin Yan would have let everyone use it together.

Lin Yan smiled and said, "We'll find out tomorrow. Go back and prepare some smooth branches for tomorrow's use."

She found a branch nearby, buried it in the fire for a while, then took it out and pressed it with a stone to shape it. When it was completely cold, she peeled off the bark and got a smooth hard branch.

Then polish it on the stone and grind the two sticks into sharp points. A wooden skewer is completed.

The whole process was very fast, and the children were amazed and immediately went home to try it out.

After the others left, Ye Ya approached Lin Yan and said, "Someone took the hemp rope away, you don't care."

"Just take it away. It's a test product anyway. As long as everyone learns it, you can do it yourself in the future."

"Okay." Yeya was a little unhappy. It was Lin Yan's thing and they took it away without asking. He felt that this was wrong, but he didn't know what to say.

Lin Yan grabbed some grass and fed the rat and rabbit cubs, then set up a pot to make broth.

The food is too simple. Every day we have either barbecue or broth. The taste is very average and not delicious. We only have wild fruits occasionally.

I heard that wild fruits grow in places where there are many ferocious beasts. People in the tribe do not dare to go too far, so they all stay nearby, mainly hunting rats and rabbits.

This is an experience passed down from generation to generation. Rats and rabbits are the safest and will not be hurt even if they cannot be caught. But other beasts are different. They have strong attack power and make hunting much more difficult.

After the bonus came back, Lin Yan immediately said: "Mom, you got a good harvest today."

"Yes." Huahong raised the pika in his hand, a complete one, "I met a hunting team today and gave one to us."

So that’s it.

Huahong smiled and said: "It's for you. You have helped everyone so much. They send you food, and they come and go."

"Hey, grandma is also very powerful." Lin Yan smiled and picked up the hemp rope, "Mom, look, this is a hemp rope, stronger than straw rope and tree bark. You can bring one with you when you go out tomorrow.

Bundle firewood.”

After having a fire, people began to collect dead branches and burn them as firewood to prepare for the cold season.

Huahong agreed with a smile and started grilling meat.

Unlike my daughter, she likes barbecue and never feels full after drinking soup.

After eating and cleaning up, it was time to go to sleep.

People in the tribe never go out at night. It is said that it is very dangerous at night, as various animals come out to look for food. It is best to sleep in a hole.

Lin Yan began to exercise her mental strength. She would spend more than two hours practicing every day and it had become a habit.
Chapter completed!