Chapter 32 Entering a New Era
The cavemen were so inspired and excited that they came forward to ask for battle.
Luo Jiu said calmly: "The snake must be killed, but not now. In battle, we must follow orders and follow strategies. I have made a thorough plan. Three months later, we will make the snake pay with blood!"
"Blood debt must be paid with blood! Blood debt must be paid with blood!" Datian and her brother happily agreed and went back to eat meat. However, Feng Qi was worried.
She asked Luo Jiu: "Three months later, are we really going to kill the big snake?"
Luo Jiu: "Of course not. How can I lead everyone to die without the certainty of victory?"
Feng Qi asked again: "What is your plan?"
Luo Jiu: "I haven't figured out the plan yet."
Feng Qi's eyes widened instantly, "Then tell them that three months later..."
Luo Jiu looked at her deeply and said, "Are you stupid? They don't have a calendar. If you don't tell me, it will never be three months later. Be prepared. It will be three months later at any time."
Feng Qi stood there for a long time, muttering to himself: "I really should be the last one, it's better to use less brain and more work."
That night, everyone's emotions were aroused, and the unprecedented gains made everyone feel unprecedented happiness.
At the end of dinner, Zhong Jialing lit a bonfire and led everyone to sing and dance around it.
Luo Jiu had previously asked her to teach art, and she actually taught everyone to sing a song.
"Come on, let's line up and perform the song we learned for Auntie One, Auntie Two, Auntie Three. I'll start, and I'll always want to... one! two!"
All the cavemen stretched out one hand, pretending to perform on stage, "I always want to confess to you how heroic my feelings are. I always want to tell you how much I love life. The hardworking and brave Chinese people are stepping into a new era with high spirits. Ah, we are stepping into that new era with high spirits..."
Luo Jiu and the others clapped along and enjoyed the scene with pleasure.
It was hard to imagine that when they first met not long ago, these primitive people were half-naked, mute, and drove them away with stones.
In a blink of an eye, he was calling them mom and singing "Entering the New Era" in front of them in a very realistic manner.
When he heard them sing: "The leader who carries on the past and opens up the future, leads us into the new era, holds high the banner and creates the future... Let me tell the world that China is in control of its own destiny...", Luo Jiu felt inexplicably sad.
There may be greater challenges in the future than today, but they cannot give up or retreat, because the Chinese nation must survive and move forward forever.
Cheng Yaoyao and Feng Qi simultaneously put their hands on the back of her hands and said in a low but firm voice: "We can definitely do it."
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The next day, the sun rose as usual.
Cheng Yaoyao and Zhong Jialing led everyone to collect the dried grass, bring it into the classroom, and start today's class.
The classroom is modeled after a modern rural classroom, with a camping lamp hanging in the middle, making the dark cave always bright.
There is a whiteboard in front and a curtain next to it.
The teacher's position has two folding tables and two folding chairs, because there are often two teachers teaching together.
A circle of stools and long tables were placed in front of the students. Whenever the horn sounded for class, the cavemen would come to class happily in groups of three or five, carrying their beloved Ba Wang Tea bags.
Cheng Yaoyao gave a keynote speech today, "Today we are learning how to make shoes. Shoes wrap up our feet, so our feet won't be easily injured in the future.
Students, pick up the hay in front of you and do what the teacher does..."
Zhong Jialing assisted in the teaching, "Shoes are what teachers wear on their feet. Straw shoes are made of straw. Today we are learning how to make straw shoes. Whoever succeeds will be rewarded with a new bag."
In the classroom over here, people are studying shoe-making; in the cave over there, Luo Jiu is studying weaving.
In ancient society, everything had to be started from scratch, which was not easy for them. A good cook cannot cook without rice. Without anything, it is difficult to do anything.
Initially, everything they prepared was for the end of the world. They could never imagine that one day they would have to study how to sew shoe soles or make a piece of cloth.
Here, weaving cloth begins with cutting grass and bark, which are then woven into rough twine before being further processed.
Luo Jiu tried hard to recall the appearance of the earliest loom and drew some patterns in a draft book, but he just couldn't feel something was right.
Feng Qi saw that she was frowning, so he stretched his neck to take a look, "I have never seen a loom since I was a child. Where did you see these drawings?"
Luo Jiu circled them with Xiaomi's giant writing pen and explained to her one by one, "This is what the Jenny machine in the textbook looks like, but the picture is not very clear, that's all I remember. And compared to the earliest weaving machines, the Jenny machine was invented during the Industrial Revolution, it's relatively complex, and it's difficult to imitate under our current conditions.
I saw this in the TV series "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils". Didn't Qiao Feng's adoptive mother have a loom? It looked like this in the show, but it looked like something was missing, and I don't know if the loom the props set put in was intact."
Zhong Jialing came in hurriedly and heard Luo Jiu talking about this. She said hurriedly: "Do you want the oldest kind of loom? I've seen it."
Luo Jiu asked hurriedly: "Where have you seen it? In which museum?"
Zhong Jialing: "No, there is a skin for Wang Zhaojun in King of Glory that is made of fabric, but I just remember it looked like a table, I don't remember what it looked like specifically."
Luo Jiu and Feng Qi rolled their eyes at the same time. Zhong Jialing pouted and said, "That's right. The human eye is not a video recorder. It can't remember what it has seen. Do you still expect me to have a photographic memory? Tsk, it's a pity. I'm a V10 noble in King of Glory. Now there's no internet, so I can't play it."
Luo Jiu rubbed his brows and asked, "How is the weaving of straw sandals going over there? Is it going smoothly?"
Zhong Jialing sighed, "Don't mention it, it looks easier than it is. Yaoyao asked if you had any other teaching videos. The video I found before simplified a lot of steps, and everyone couldn't follow it. If it's not good, we can only make a bunch of straw ropes.
Yaoyao asked me to go into the space and find something that can be used as soles. If that doesn’t work, I can tie the soles to my feet with hemp ropes. It can barely be considered a shoe.”
Feng Qi said regretfully, "If we had known earlier, we should have stocked up on larger-sized shoes. Their feet are too big, and they can't fit into my shoes. If they could fit into our shoes, we wouldn't have to go through all this trouble."
Luo Jiu shook his head. "Even if they can be worn, we still have to study how to make shoes. Because things will break sooner or later. No matter how much inventory there is, if there is no increase in stock, it will be used up sooner or later. Only by mastering the production technology can it be passed down from generation to generation. Teaching video..."
Luo Jiu tried to recall that she had downloaded a lot of videos from Douyin and Bilibili at the time, and she downloaded all the videos with the words "traditional handicrafts", "intangible cultural heritage" and "teaching" in batches. Her tablets and mobile phones were full of videos, and it was like looking for a needle in a haystack to find them.
The three of them turned on each of the cameras and searched by keywords one by one, and they actually found a video titled "Lost Traditional Handicraft - Straw Sandal Making."
The video was more than seven minutes long, and each step was explained in great detail. Luo Jiu quickly sent it to Cheng Yaoyao.
"That's right. I was wondering why the edge couldn't be locked." Cheng Yaoyao hung a wooden pole on her waist and asked her while working, "Are you still thinking about the loom?"
Luo Jiu was helpless, "I've been thinking, since we have iron skewers, we can use them as knitting needles first and then knit clothes directly.
And didn’t Aunt Baiyun say that she could pull wool and tie it into yarn to knit sweaters, so we can also study in the direction of pure handwork and improve it slowly.”
The two chatted for a while, and Cheng Yaoyao's hands did not stop. A sole was already woven. Although the straw sandals were rough, they were better than walking barefoot. At least there was a base, and when stepping on the stones, my feet would not hurt.
With a great sense of accomplishment, she took the finished product to show everyone, and walked over to give the cavemen some pointers on the operation.
Datian's mother finished first. She couldn't wait to put on the straw sandals and took a few steps, attracting everyone's envious gazes.
Zhong Jialing came in with a bunch of takeaway bags of milk tea and desserts and asked her to pick one bag as a reward.
Cheng Yaoyao looked at Datian's sister-in-law's work and said hurriedly, "Yours is too small, you can't wear it."
Datian's wife pointed to her belly shyly and said, "I'm making shoes for the baby."
"Oh, you want to make it for your child first." Cheng Yaoyao touched the rough surface of the straw sandals, "This is too rough for the baby, it will be uncomfortable. When your child is born, I will give you a pair of shoes that the child can wear."
Luo Jiu and Zhong Jialing looked at her in disbelief, "Where did you get the shoes for the child?"
"Well..." Cheng Yaoyao pulled the two of them outside and said hesitantly, "I'm not afraid that any of you will have a love affair. In case you have a baby, I stocked up some milk powder, bottles, baby products, maternity products, etc..."
Luo Jiu: "Who would have a love-crazy attack in the end times? Do you think I look like that?"
Cheng Yaoyao quickly denied, "Of course you wouldn't."
Zhong Jialing bared her teeth when she heard this. "Then you said I was in love? How can you scold me? My brain was eaten by zombies, and I went to have a child? I find the toilet smelly when I go to it, and you want me to take care of a child's poop and pee?"
Cheng Yaoyao couldn't afford to offend these two ancestors, so she immediately used the principle of absence, "I'm not talking about you, I'm talking about... Sister Qi."
"Sister Qi?"
Before she could finish her words, a "dong dong dong" sound came from the entrance of the cave where they lived.
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