When Huahong and Ye Zi came back, Mu Shi had already made three baskets. They were not big, so they could go so fast.
When the two saw the wonderful use of the basket, they immediately fell in love with it.
This thing is so practical. It can hold a lot of things and is easy to carry.
The next day, a basket trend broke out in the tribe.
Everyone who could move went out to find rattan with which to weave baskets, and began to weave baskets for themselves.
Within five days, almost every household had a basket.
Lin Yan discovered that everyone has strong hands-on skills and everyone is a master of craftsmanship.
Then, those who go out hunting have two baskets in hand. When they go out in the morning, they are empty, but when they come back, the baskets are full.
It was inconvenient to bring back the wild fruits picked in the past. We had to carry them with our hands or big leaves, and we couldn't carry a few.
Now, one basket can hold many. Efficiency has improved so much.
Then, Lin Yan received all kinds of wild fruits and no longer had to worry about having nothing to eat.
The weather was hot and the storage time was short. She took out the wild fruits and fresh meat that could not be stored at home and shared them with the elderly and children.
With a fire, smoked meat can be preserved longer.
Now people have learned to use smoked meat to store food for the cold season.
Some lonely old people with no one at home and a small population gradually moved their caves near Lin Yan's home.
These people were the first to realize that living next to Lin Yan would bring more convenience. She is busy making so many novel things every day and needs a lot of help.
This is the outskirts of the tribe, and walking inward is the hunting ground. The place is large and can accommodate as many people as possible.
There are more and more people in this area and it is becoming more and more lively.
Lin Yan gradually became familiar with the people around him.
The new neighbor is called Lao Hei. He looks very old and dying, but his actual age is less than thirty.
After a hunting trip, he was seriously injured. One leg became lame and he became a cripple. His body became weaker and weaker.
Lack of food and lack of medical treatment made Lao Hei what he is now.
Although Lao Hei is disabled, he has bright eyes and a flexible mind.
He saw the difference in Lin Yan. He changed from his usual state of waiting for death and became the first to move over and become her neighbor.
These days, Lao Hei took advantage of his neighbor's convenience and met Lin Yan frequently, so he naturally became familiar with him.
Lao Hei was like a new kid, more curious about Lin Yan. A little kid knew things that no one else knew, and led everyone to make many things together.
Lao Hei liked the fire the most. After having the fire, eating cooked meat and drinking hot water, his health gradually improved. He felt a long-lost strength.
Lin Yan called Lao Hei over and asked him to remove some of the wild fruits from the basket and take them back to eat.
Lao Hei was not polite. Although he was not good at craftsmanship, he was very good at handicrafts. He was as good as wood and stone. He could do it with just a few clicks. He often made baskets and delivered them to Lin Yan's family. If you find something weird, bring it to her right away.
These days, some people in the tribe exchanged baskets, hemp ropes, etc. with him for food.
"Old Hei, do you know where there is clay? It's different from ordinary soil."
Lao Hei was also a warrior. He had been to many places, so he had certainly seen the world.
He thought for a while and asked uncertainly: "What is clay?"
Lin Yan said: "It is a kind of soil that contains very few sand particles and is sticky. Water does not easily pass through it and has good plasticity. The color is whiter and looks different from ordinary soil."
She picked up a handful of soil from the ground and spoke to Lao Hei.
Lao Hei's eyes were blank and he didn't understand what clay Lin Yan was talking about.
He asked, "What are you doing with clay?"
“Clay can be used to fire ceramics and make something new.”
Lin Yan was not disappointed either. She had asked many people but she had never seen him before, and it was not easy to find him.
In the current situation, burning pottery is the best and can make some daily utensils.
I originally planned to make it out of wood, but unfortunately I didn’t have any cutting tools, so I had to put it on hold for now. She thought pottery would be easy to achieve.
Lin Yan made some bowls, cups, and jars out of mud, and told Lao Hei how to make pottery.
Although there are no raw materials, it doesn’t hurt to talk about it.
Old Black's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, and he wanted to find clay immediately.
"I'm going to find clay."
"Where are you looking?" Lin Yan asked hurriedly, "It's too dangerous outside, so don't go out."
"Don't go out." Lao Hei said with great interest, "There are many people in the tribe, so I will ask them one by one to see if they have seen it. Let the people in the hunting team help search for it, and they will always find it."
Seeing Lao Hei leave happily, Lin Yan felt a little more hopeful.
She was still too young to go out and find it herself.
After being dazed for a while, Lin Yan saw rabbit skins hanging not far away, some were black, some were white, some were gray, some were spotted, these were all skins that were recently peeled off by my mother-in-law.
None of them are complete, they all have holes, some big and some small, and they look tattered.
After cleaning, stock up on cold-proof supplies for the cold season.
Even though I washed it with water many times, I still can't get rid of the smell. I can always smell it.
The people in the tribe wear animal skins like this, and you can smell it as soon as you walk over.
Lin Yan entered the Science and Technology Museum to find a solution.
Soon she found the two easiest methods, one was the fire method and the other was the earth method.
Fire method: Put the leather surface on a low fire and slowly roast it until soft, then apply plant ash, charcoal, etc., beat it repeatedly, repeat this process, and finally clean it and dry it to get a softer leather.
The local method: beat the leather together with animal offal and other oils in the saline-alkali land repeatedly, then clean it, and finally get soft leather.
The leather produced by these two methods is softer and lighter in taste than the leather directly dried, so it is a good choice.
But under current conditions, the only option is fire. The local method has requirements for soil quality, which is currently not possible.
Let Mu and Shi stop weaving baskets and start making leather together. If they did, they would have soft, light-smelling rat and rabbit skins to make clothes, which would be comfortable and warm.
Warm clothing is very important to the tribe.
Mu Shi immediately put in the work and kept beating and tossing. After five days of work, he finally got a decent piece of leather.
Lin Yan squatted beside it every day, watching the wood and stone being made. She asked Pang Bao to help, make some records and summarize experience.
It can't compare with the leather recorded in the book, but compared with the original, it is much better. It doesn't have that hard, fishy smell, and can be sewn with threads to look like clothes.
This leather immediately attracted the attention of the people around him, and they came to learn how to make leather.
Every household had leather skins and needed to prepare clothes for the cold season. People took action one after another, taking out all the leather skins at home, roasting them on the fire, and beating them repeatedly.
Lin Yan can't do this job, she can only be responsible for coming up with ideas. When people start to explore, there will be nothing left for her.
In addition to teaching children to count and read, she focuses on cultivating spiritual power.
It is too difficult to change the status quo.
Lin Yan learned from Pang Bao that mental power was very important. After reaching Z level, she could attack with mental power, and she desperately wanted to become stronger.
She could feel the changes in her mental power, and the aperture gradually became wider, allowing her to see farther.
The two rat and rabbit cubs have grown up a lot, so just throw some weeds in there every day.
While staring at the pikas, Lin Yan suddenly had an idea. The young men in the tribe were busy hunting animals. She might be able to help hunt enough pikas to help people survive the cold season.
