Chapter 96 Double Happiness
The rain in this era comes slowly and falls slowly, giving people a very leisurely feeling. It is not like later generations, and it is always stormy and storms, which often makes people feel at a loss.
After the rain stopped, Li Qi immediately took the patching team to the woods and told them how to remove the cocoons. Then he came out of the woods, found some wood, took out the daggers, sat under the tree, and started making tools.
"Is this the wisdom of your New Oriental?"
Ling'er squatted in front of Li Qi, hugging her knees with her jade arms, and staring at her eyes intently.
"wisdom?"
Li Qi was a little stunned and then smiled and said, "But it can be said that, but I think this should be the wisdom of our human beings. Is your big tree tribe not producing tools?"
Ling'er shook her head gently and said, "We have very few big tree tribes."
Li Qi frowned and said, "This is impossible."
Ling'er opened her eyes wide and said, "Why is it impossible?"
Li Qi said: "Then...how did you make your clothes? Don't tell me, this is the cocoons in your place? In that case, I will not be able to resist joining your Dashu Tribe."
Ling'er chuckled: "If you want to surrender, our Dashu Tribe won't accept you." At this point, she paused, and said, "Although it's not a cocoon, it's almost the same."
Li Qi looked at Ling'er in surprise.
Ling'er's head tilted slightly and said with a smile: "If you have the chance in the future, I will invite you to our Dashu Tribe."
Li Qi said depressedly: "It's just a clothes, it's not a secret, why can't you tell me now?"
Ling'er asked back without answering, "Then tell me, what are your clothes made of and how do you make them?"
This is the secret! Li Qi immediately changed the topic and said, "Then which kind of wisdom do you think is better?"
Ling'er thought about it carefully and said, "The leader of our Dashu Tribe said that wisdom is neither good nor bad nor strong nor weak, and it is even more uncontrollable. It is determined based on the environment in which he was born. Our Dashu Tribe has everything, so we don't need to do these things. The environment of the Huaxia Alliance is not as good as our Dashu Tribe, so we need to make these tools. Therefore, we cannot look down on any creature, in fact, they are all wise."
Li Qi pondered silently when he heard this.
Ling'er looked at Li Qi and said, "Do you think I'm wrong?"
"No, no, no, I think you're saying it makes sense." Li Qi said: "It's like the No Lake tribe and our Black Stone Valley. No one in the Black Stone Valley can swim, but everyone in the No Lake tribe can do it. People swim in the water, but it's also a kind of wisdom. Good, the environment is the fundamental reason for wisdom." As he said that, he asked again: "Since your place is so rich, won't others steal your territory?"
Ling'er asked back without answering, "Your tribe should be very powerful, why did you come to Black Stone Valley?"
Li Qi sighed and said, "It seems that there is nothing else to communicate between you and me except love."
Ling'er's pretty face turned red and she spat, "Talk nonsense."
While chatting, a very simple manual silk reel truck has been made. Fortunately, Li Qi had been to the Northern Song Dynasty. So far, he has used more knowledge he obtained in the Northern Song Dynasty. The information he brought has not been used yet, but he believes it is soon because he has discovered the existence of metal.
At the same time, the stitching team also took the cocoons and filled them with ten vine baskets. However, Li Qi believes that more and more will come in the future, because the forest silkworms are protected, and more and more silkworms will come here to reproduce. This is a virtuous cycle. At this point, Li Qi still supports Ling'er's theory. Humans are not hurting creatures if they harm creatures, but for survival. This is a food chain, otherwise humans will become extinct. But if they can get their needs together, why should humans hurt them? What is it that they have nothing to do?
Of course, this special breeding method and the differences between silkworms have also changed some silk reeling procedures.
Originally, when silkworms were taken from silkworm cocoons, they could not wait until the silkworm moth broke through, because silkworm moth had to bite the silk, and the silk was broken, and they could only be used to make silk quilts. It had no value for textiles. Li Qi ignored this problem at the beginning. After all, he was not a professional spinning person. He was a chef. When he saw shrimps, he would think of spicy crayfish. When he saw silkworm pupa, the first thing he thought about was how to cook with silkworm pupa. But in fact, even if it broke out of the cocoon, the amount of silk was quite considerable, because the cocoon was very large, and of course the silk would be very long.
The procedures that Li Qi knew were usually screened first, dried, and then boiled together with silkworm pupae, and the silkworm moth died directly inside.
The drying step is mainly to dry the moisture inside the silkworm cocoon. However, in this case, there is no need to dry it. The silkworm moths have flew away, and the current conditions do not allow too complicated procedures.
The question now is how to melt the tough cocoon and get silk from it. Li Qi still tried boiling it in water, because he estimated that the reason why the cocoon is so tough should be caused by some kind of mucus.
Li Qi took out the large pot that he usually used to cook, filled it with water, and placed it on the stove.
The farmers and the others surrounded the edges. They still don’t know what Li Qi is going to do. Of course they have seen cocoons. Not only that, according to the chicken prostitutes, they have also eaten silkworm pupae. The bugs are also food these days.
Of course, Li Qi has also eaten it.
When the water reaches a certain temperature, Li Qi put down ten cocoon bags, which is equivalent to twenty.
Fortunately, this time he did not disappoint. When the water reached a certain temperature, the cocoon began to soften slowly and the thread end began to appear. Li Qi used thin branches to pick out the thread end, rub it into a thread, and then inserted it through a thin hole in the pot. He asked a woman named Huan to wrap the thread on the silk reel and slowly rotate the handle.
Only the creaking sound could be heard.
A green silk ribbon gradually appeared on the silk reel.
Huan asked, "What is this for?"
She also asked everyone about their thoughts.
"This is used to make clothes."
Li Qi headed forward and said, "Ling'er's clothes are made of this kind of silk."
Everyone looked back at Ling'er and looked at the silk again. The confusion in their eyes disappeared, and replaced by joy. Especially the appearance of Ling'er, they knew what beauty was. They began to learn from Ling'er subtly, and Huan also turned more attentively.
However, there was a strange light flashing in Li Qi's eyes, and he thought to himself, black pottery blue silk, although my arrival can change some things, it cannot change the civilization of my Chinese nation. It seems that there is God's will in this dark!
There are two highlights in the civilization of the Chinese nation, one is ceramic and the other is silk.
After Li Qi came here, he was the first to invent these two things, but he didn't deliberately do it. What he is seeking for survival now is not to think about it, but from the result, the civilization of the Chinese nation still began with these two things.
But whether it is God's will or not, in short, humans can finally wear serious clothes.
But it doesn't mean you can wear it immediately. You have to wait a while, at least you have to dry the threads and make a loom. This is not something you can do in one day.
Li Qi was not anxious. He had already obtained the clothes, and it was sooner or later. When it was dark, although Huan and the others were still very energetic, Li Qi still asked them to rest. However, he pulled out all the backbone of the previous sewing group and formed a new group called the Textile Group.
The next day.
"Li Qi! Li Qi!"
Early in the morning, Nong ran to Li Qi's tent and shouted.
"What's up?"
Li Qi stood up and rubbed his eyes.
"It's grown, it's grown!"
The Nong shouted excitedly.
Li Qi had just woken up and his head was not clear yet, so he asked, "What did it grow?"
The farmer pointed to the farmland and said, "That's...that's those seeds!"
"Yeah?"
Li Qi was overjoyed and immediately followed the farmers to the farmland.
The rest of the people followed.
When I arrived at the test field, I saw a green field.
Everyone was very happy. Although this seedling looks too ordinary and can be seen everywhere here, this is the first time that humans use their own hands to grow food. In the past, they rely entirely on the power of nature. This time they rely on their own power, which is two different things.
However, Li Qi, who came to the test field, had gradually faded away from the joy on his face, replaced by a solemn expression.
I saw him quietly holding a piece of white paper, watching while observing the green seedlings in the sky, thinking, no, how could this seedling grow more than ten times larger than the specifications on the instruction manual? There is no way this instruction manual is wrong! Could it be...Is it because of this magical land? I hope this is so, don't make any trouble for me, I can't play with this thing.
Although the seedlings have already emerged, Li Qi was still a little nervous because the seedlings are too different from the instructions. If they really can't produce fruits, then he can't change them.
After seeing each test field, Li Qi stood up and frowned and thought, and the seedlings emerged yesterday and today. It seems that as Ling'er said, only rain can nourish the earth in this era, but if this is the case, wouldn't irrigation be needed? Alas... it seems that this kind of planting road is destined to be long.
In fact, it is not just about planting, but also about textiles.
This human being was evolved step by step. From existence to non-existence is a very long process, hundreds of years, or even thousands of years, slowly improving. However, Li Qi had to accelerate, and it was in an era where civilizations were almost zero. Although it was not very difficult, trivial matters were very complicated.
The textile process, put it aside first, and the tools alone are enough to make Li Qi a headache. Many of the materials here are not available. The scissors and needles he knows are all made of iron.
Although he already owns metal, he doesn't want to take it out for the time being. Moreover, forging is also a craft. The smaller the one, the harder it is, and it is not something that can be done just by wanting to do it.
In the end, Li Qi chose to use the most primitive method to grind the needle with fish bones. As for the scissors...
"So this shrimp insect is not used to eat!"
The Nong said with a disappointed look on his face.
Xi, however, said in surprise: "So this insect pliers can still be used like this!"
When they spoke, their eyes were staring at the brand new scissors in Li Qi's hand.
It turned out that Li Qi asked someone to get some shrimp from the pincer insect part, took the sharpest part of the shrimp pincer, embedded it into the wood, and then made it into scissors.
"Try it with a vanilla!"
One person quickly picked up a piece of vine from the ground and handed it to Li Qi.
Li Qi held the scissors in his hand and cut the rattan wire immediately broke.
The people around were immediately excited. It was the first time they saw these scissors, but even without silk, they used them to work, especially those in the clampworm department. They have lived with these clampworms for so long and have always been very scared of the pair of large clamps, but they did not expect that the large clamps could still be used like this?
"Li Qi! Li Qi!"
Just then, I suddenly heard a scream.
Li Qi stood up and looked at the sound, and heard the cry, "Li Qi! Who are you going to come?"
I saw a large group of people following behind me.
"quite!"
Li Qi said in surprise.
Chapter completed!