Chapter 363: Retting Hemp and Cold Dew



After the wild hemp was unloaded, Han Cheng made some arrangements in front of the four people from the Fire Tribe.

When these people are present, do not fire the kiln and use bows and arrows as little as possible.

It is not allowed to disclose confidential matters such as the method of salt production.

This is a very necessary thing.

The four people of the Fire Tribe were completely stunned by what they saw. They had no idea what the warm, hospitable, and magical Son of God meant by what he had just said. If they had understood, I wonder how they would feel...

Heiwa and his friends treasured four and a half pottery jars of iron bacteria very much and rolled them into mud balls, carefully placed them in an open space in the house to dry in the shade. These were good things that could be used to make iron tools.

While Heiwa and the others were doing this, Han Cheng, along with his eldest brother and the four people from the Fire Tribe, came to the downstream of the stream.

A ditch connecting to a small river was blocked with a bone shovel. After the water inside was drained out, they began to deepen and expand the area.

After expansion, dig the hole, let in river water and then seal it again.

While they were doing these things, the minors, the elderly and the weak in the tribe were not idle. They pulled out the hemp pods from the wild hemp, took out the hemp seeds inside, and stored them in pottery jars as seeds for planting next year.

Bundles of wild hemp with the seeds removed were thrown into the expanded puddle and then weighed down with stones.

In order to obtain hemp thread and weave cloth, retting hemp is an essential step.

After retting, the microorganisms in the water will decompose the useless parts of the hemp skin, leaving behind flexible fibers.

These fibers are what is really needed for spinning and weaving.

Moreover, after fermentation, the hemp skin and hemp bones become loose, making it easier to peel.

It's the taste of time...

Han Cheng couldn't help but sniffle when he thought of it.

It's not much better than the sewer, it smells so bad!

While doing these, Han Cheng would occasionally ask Bai Xuemei to talk to a few people from the Human Fire Tribe and ask them to remember the procedures.

When the time comes to transport hemp here, we will transport the hemp skin peeled off after fermentation.

In order to make the people of the Fire Tribe understand what was going on, after the hemp had been buried in the water for ten days, Han Cheng fished out a bundle, pulled out a few plants, peeled them and demonstrated to them.

Of course, it would take ten days to ferment the hemp well. The reason why the hemp was taken out and bundled and peeled so quickly was because the four people from the Fire Tribe were going back.

Han Cheng's plan of having the Fire Tribe woven cloth and transporting it here definitely cannot be carried out this year, because just retting the hemp takes a long time.

In addition, they themselves had not yet mastered the procedures for spinning and weaving, so the teaching to the four people of the Fire Tribe could only go as far as retting flax.

As for the subsequent weaving, we can only wait until they come again next year.

Han Cheng is confident that he will be able to weave the cloth by next year.

As for the fact that the four people from the Fire Tribe will not come next year, Han Cheng is not worried, because among the people of the Fire Tribe, they are the only ones who can row a boat on the water.

Another thing is the charm of salt.

People who are used to eating salt will feel very uncomfortable if they stop eating salt for a long time.

One is the taste, the other is the body.

People who are used to being vigorous and energetic really don't want to go back to that state of being drained of their body...

A small boat was moored by the river, with two jars of salt, some salted fish, two stone sickles, and some other gifts from the Qingque tribe in it.

Han Cheng walked forward and shook hands with several people from the Fire Tribe in turn to express his desire to retain them.

The rest of the Green Bird tribe members also came over to shake hands with them.

"Come back when the leaves fall."

Sister Bai Xue conveyed Han Cheng's meaning to the four people.

The four people from the Fire Tribe, who were almost in tears due to the enthusiasm of the Green Bird Tribe, nodded vigorously, indicating that they would definitely come back.

The boat left the shore, and amid the sound of waves, the people standing on the shore gradually became blurred, turned into black dots, and finally disappeared completely.

The only thing left in the field of vision was the ochre-colored wall connected to the mountain range.

The four people from the Fire Tribe looked at the precious things placed on the boat and recalled their experiences over the past ten days. It really felt like a dream.

It turns out that what the minor in my tribe said was true. It turns out that people can live like this...

At this moment, the four of them all had the urge to row the boat back, live in this water tribe permanently, and never leave, just like the minor in their own tribe who had fallen ill and was cured.

Come back when the leaves fall! With hemp skin.

They thought to themselves as they looked at the neatly bound hemp skins on the boat.

As long as we and others bring such hemp skins, we can exchange them for these precious things.

As they thought this, they kept recalling the process of making hemp skin in their minds, fearing that they would forget some of the steps.

Ten days later, the four people from the Fire Tribe rowed their boat back to where they left.

They returned with a lot of precious things and were warmly welcomed. People treated them like warriors who had captured a lot of prey.

The four of them told the tribesmen who surrounded them and wanted to know whether what Sister Bai Xue said was true. After hearing what they saw and heard in the Green Bird Tribe, everyone in the Fire Tribe was stunned and amazed.

They originally thought that what Sister Bai Xue said was exaggerated enough, but they didn't expect that all of this was actually true, and the current situation of the tribe was even better than what Sister Bai Xue said!

With the return of these people, the people of the Fire Tribe became even more yearning for that wonderful water tribe.

Even the leader of the Fire Tribe, who was looking at the hemp skin brought back by the others, wanted to go and take a look...

Some of the grass has turned yellow, while some has become even greener. These grasses of different colors, as well as the fallen leaves on the ground, are now covered with a layer of cool dew.

It is the Cold Dew season, and the next season will be the Frost Descent.

Shi Tou, who was standing on the wall with Han Cheng and looking out, recorded this feeling on the ceramic plate with thirty grids and a moon painted on each grid, which corresponded to today's grid.

After being inspired and guided by Han Cheng, Shitou's attention was no longer limited to the changes in the moon. The daily climate changes and corresponding changes in plants were all within the scope of his observation and recording.

The calendar never exists in isolation; it should also have a series of extended things.

What Shitou is doing now is to supplement and extend the calendar.

Many people in the tribe disagreed with Shitou's behavior, thinking that it was not realistic to earn food without working.

As a latecomer, Han Cheng understood the significance of this and affirmed and strongly supported Shi Tou's work.

Not long after, in addition to Cold Dew, there was another record in this grid today...


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