After this display, the enthusiasm of the tribe members to work increased again.

The spinning speed is getting faster and faster.

Every tribe is looking forward to wearing new clothes.

So it must be very comfortable to make smooth fabrics into clothes and wear them on your body!

Moreover, you can do more than one set, wear one set, and change one set, which is so pleasant!

As spinning machines are put into use one after another, more and more yarns are spinned, while fewer and fewer hemp fibers are stored, and they are almost exhausted.

The hemp fiber stored in each household is no less than fifty kilograms, and the stock of these fifty kilograms was sufficient for the past for each household.

However, now that there is a spinning machine, this amount is far from enough to consume dozens of spinning machines.

Looking at the piles of spinned twine, the tribe members were both happy and distressed.

Happiness is easy to understand. The twine that usually takes a lot of time to spin is now piled up on the ground and is almost out of place.

The trouble is because there is not enough hemp fiber.

Good things are always the better.

Even if you can’t use it all, it will feel comfortable to pile it up wherever you are!

This is a worry of happiness, a worry that the tribe members never had the opportunity to experience!

Ye Qing was a little strange and asked his clan members:

"The wild hemp is there. If there is not enough hemp fiber, just peel it!"

The tribe members are silent.

After asking carefully, I found out where the problem was.

It turns out that tribes usually start to pick hemp shortly after summer.

When picking hemp, you should cut back the whole hemp rod, tie it into bundles, and throw it into stream water to soak it.

This time is very long, until the hemp rod and the hemp leaves are soaked, then fish them out and pound them hard.

Then clean it again, and it needs to be washed several times.

This way, clean and white hemp fibers are obtained.

"The pond at the East Gate can be used to refry hemp."

The "hemp" in the Book of Songs refers to this way of making it.

Some people do not follow this time node and at other times, they cut the hemp and make hemp fibers.

But what you end up with is rotten or unclean hemp fiber.

There are many things to do when reinforcing hemp. The soaking time should not be too long, and the hemp shell must rot.

If the soaking time is too long, the hemp fiber will rot and be unbearable to use.

But if you don’t soak it for a long time, you can’t completely rot and get rid of the hemp shell, and you can’t make white and clean hemp fibers.

"Qimin Yaoshu" says this:

"If you want to have clear water, turbid water will be black, and if you have less water, you will be crispy."

"If you grow it, it is suitable for mature and mature, it is difficult to peel it. If you are too bad, it will not be allowed."

Reinforcing hemp is not only a beautiful feeling in the poem, but also a very hard work that pays attention to seasons, technology and is a very hard work.

Therefore, tribes are always in the season and only pick hemp once a year.

Ye Qing understood in his heart that the key is the problem of squid skin removal, degumming and bleaching.

He knew that the hemp crop grew very fast and could be harvested at least twice a year. In such a warm climate as it is now, there is no problem in picking three times a year.

So he asked his tribe members to go to the wild to pick hemp.

The practice is different from before.

He repeatedly told his tribe members that they should use peeling the skin, just use the skin and do not.

Then he went to the copper smelting area to make a numbing scraper.

The numbing scraper removes shelling for the numbing skin. As for degumming, he plans to boil it in lime water.

In this way, hemp is not restricted by seasons. Hemp can be collected when it grows almost, and it can be collected multiple times a year, greatly increasing the yield of hemp fibers in the tribe.

The numbing device is very simple, two bronze blades with no edges are installed on the bench and arranged in a right angle, one piece is fixed and the other piece can move.

Insert the squid straight into the right angle junction of the blades of the two blades, pull inward, and the squid shell will naturally be scraped off, leaving only the squid fibers.

He used bronze plates to cut more than fifty sets.

After the tribe members came back from picking hemp, he asked the tribe members to soak the fresh hemp skin in water for an hour or two, and began to teach them how to scrape numbness.

Ye Qing demonstrated this simplicity several times and everyone learned it.

The tribesmen began to numb with joy.

The hemp skin that was picked was quickly scraped, and they went to the wild to pick hemp again.

Repeat this until you can no longer find the hemp plant in close proximity in the wild.

In the tribe, there are towering bamboo pole racks standing everywhere.

This time, batch hemp production is comparable to the tribe's production in the previous three or four years.

Wherever you go, all you see is the hemp fibers fluttering in the wind.

The hemp fiber is very long, almost one person long, hanging densely on the horizontal bamboo pole, fluttering in the wind, like a veil, hazy, agile, and graceful.

Looking at the eyes of the hemp fibers, the faces of the tribesmen were filled with happiness.

What is happiness?

Others don't have it, I have it.

There wasn't before, but now there is.

This much more hemp fiber than in previous years is the happiness of the tribe.

Simple, simple!

The carefree children, regardless of the sun's exposure and the adults' scolding, played hide-and-seek in the bamboo jungle, through the hazy, veil-like hemp fibers.

The children were sweating, screaming, chasing, and playing.

I don’t cry when I fall, get up, join the pursuit, and continue to be crazy.

This spectacular scene has become a paradise for children.

...

However, the hemp fiber made in this way is OK to make ropes, but textile and clothing are not good. They are too hard and too rough.

To weaving clothes, we need to remove the glue.

Degumming requires a large pot and lime.

Neither of these two things is yet to be done.

It should be said that there is still a little lime, but there is a little lime in the patriarch's Witch House... The patriarch used it as paint.

The tribe actually already knows how to burn lime.

It's just not used on a large scale.

The tribe doesn't know how to use lime fully.

The preparation of lime is very simple. Just put the limestone everywhere in the kiln and burn it.

To degumming, put the vegetarian food into a pot with lime water, cook slowly, and cook the plant glue on the vegetarian fibers.

When cooking mahjong, the tribe's pottery cauldron can also be used, but the cauldron is too small, and the efficiency of cooking mahjong is too low.

Therefore, the pot must be cast.

Moreover, the tribe's cooking utensils also need to be improved.

The main cooking utensil for the tribe to cook food is the pottery cauldron. After tossing and turning, there are only steaming, boiling, and stewing.

Too monotonous!

Oh, and baked.

Is the barbecue delicious?

In modern times, the barbecue that Ye Qing has eaten has tasted good.

But after actually trying the tribe's barbecue, I never thought so again.

Without modern seasonings, and without modern ideas and various barbecue tools, eating barbecue... is suffering and reducing life!

He doubted that the normal life span of people in this era is mostly around 40 years old, which is related to eating too much barbecue.

He had roast beef once.
To be continued...