Sister Bai Xue reached out and plucked a feather from Little Pea's head that had been kicked off by the big goose, and threw it away.
But the next moment she quickly reached out to scoop up the fluff that was still floating in the air and swaying down.
The fluff was light, and was immediately blown up and down by the wind from her palm.
It took me a while to finally get it in my hands.
Children love to play and often do not have long-term memory.
If you are distracted by other things, it is easy to forget what you just did.
For example, Xiao Xing'er, who was just scared by the big goose and burst into tears, and Little Pea, who was looking at her mother with admiration, immediately forgot what had just happened after discovering this funny thing.
The two of them picked up some fluff that their mother had kicked off the goose, threw it into the air, caught it with their little hands, or tilted their heads back, puffed up their cheeks and blew hard to make it fly higher. They were having a lot of fun.
Xiao Xing'er, whose tear marks had not yet disappeared from her face, was laughing even harder and was extremely happy.
Sister Bai Xue stood here without moving, holding the fluff in her hand, looking at the fluff, her eyes sparkling, as if there was a spirit flowing in them.
The fluff was very light, but to Sister Bai Xue, it felt as heavy as a mountain.
Well, that's how the saying "lighter than a feather, heavier than Mount Tai" comes from.
The down on the goose feels smooth to the touch and warm in the hand, which is very comfortable.
Sister Snow White discovered that she seemed to have found a way to make a new and very warm clothing.
In winter, the weather is so cold that geese and ducks spend the winter wearing such clothes.
Not only that, they also swim in the water wearing such clothes in winter, and even dive directly into the water, without any fear of the cold at all.
This is because they have such feathers!
How warm would it be if we took off all their feathers and made them into clothes to wear?
Not to mention the cold winter, you can wear it and dive into the water to take a bath like geese and ducks. As long as you can walk in the snow without feeling cold, it will be enough.
After this method and cognition came to her mind, Sister Bai Xue became extremely excited.
Because this is indeed very feasible.
In the past, the people in the tribe, including her, only focused on the prey running on the ground, and the plants like hemp and small insects like silkworms growing on the ground, but had always forgotten the birds flying in the sky.
The fur of prey that run on the ground can be peeled off and made into clothes for people to wear, so why can't the feathers of birds that fly in the sky be made into clothes for people to wear?
Sister Bai Xue, holding a piece of fluff in her hand, became more and more excited the more she thought about it, and the joy on her face became more and more intense.
The emergence of this idea was like a tightly closed window being suddenly pushed open, allowing her to see a completely new direction.
She stood here for a while, then ran outside and rushed towards the group of geese that were fleeing in panic.
The big geese, which had just calmed down, suddenly panicked when they saw Snow White rushing towards them. They didn't want to experience the feeling of taking off again, so they ran away.
I've seen people protecting their calves, but I've never seen anyone protecting their calves like this.
However, there was no chance of escape this time. The big goose that had pecked Little Pea's head was lifted up from the ground by Sister Snow White, grabbing its neck.
In a different posture, I once again experienced the feeling of flying.
There are also loyal ones among the big geese. When two of them saw their companions being treated like this by Sister Bai Xue, they flapped their broken wings, stretched out their long necks, and rushed forward shouting.
However, this was of no use as they were kicked into the sky by Sister Bai Xue.
The geese that have experienced the feeling of flying and seen the world in the sky are different. After landing, they shake their heads vigorously, then scream in fear and run away without looking back, no longer thinking about rescuing their companions.
It's not that the goose is disloyal, it's just that the human who is protecting its cubs is too cruel.
Sister Bai Xue ignored the other geese that ran away and only focused on dealing with the one she caught.
Holding the thin and long goose neck, she felt a familiar feeling. She stepped on the goose's two paws with one foot, making it unable to move. Then she untied the hairband from her head with one hand and tied its flapping wings together. The goose immediately calmed down a lot.
When it thought the nightmare was over, it had actually just begun.
Bai Xue found two ropes from other places and tied up its legs and its biting mouth.
Then, under the horrified gaze of the previously arrogant goose, Snow White, who had transformed into a female hooligan, began to pull out the goose's feathers one clump at a time.
Well, this fluff is like clothes to the goose.
The big goose was tied up and fell to the ground, unable to move, with fear written in its black eyes.
Female hooligans, especially violent ones, are really scary.
Isn't it just bullying your child? Is it necessary for you to make such a fuss and bully the goose like this?
The goose doesn’t care about its face?
Doesn't the goose need to maintain a tall and mighty image in front of the goslings?
If time could go back, even if those two naughty kids were running towards this side and bullying the little goose, the gander pinned to the ground would never dare to attack them again.
Maybe it will use its own unique way to order the goose to stand there and not move...
Hearing the sound, Little Pea and Little Xing'er ran over from the inner courtyard. Seeing that the arrogant goose was treated like this by their mother, they immediately clapped their hands for joy.
My respect and admiration for my mother is growing rapidly.
After standing here and watching for a while, the two little guys also joined the ranks of plucking feathers from the big goose.
This family of three is simply the embodiment of the fleeced white clouds, they are all equally stubborn.
It was such a big goose that the three of them had to each catch it in one place and pull it out.
Among them, the young Xiao Xing'er had some obsessive-compulsive disorder. Seeing that there were still one or two hairs left where the hair had been plucked, she kindly stretched out her little hand and plucked them out...
So, when Bai Xuemei and her two daughters stopped and untied the rope on the goose, and let the goose go, the feathers on half of the goose's neck and half of its chest were gone. It looked like it was wearing a unique vest, and it was particularly majestic and domineering...
The badly-wounded goose didn't dare to stay here any longer. It ran outside to find the rest of the geese.
The other geese that were foraging were stunned when they saw this guy's unique appearance. A blade of grass fell from the mouth of one of them...
Sister Bai Xue didn't have the time to care about how the mighty and domineering goose would be treated.
At this moment, her mind was full of thoughts on how to make new clothes with these feathers.
She carefully wrapped the feathers and brought them into the room.
Give Little Pea and Little Xing'er three each, and let them go into the yard to jump and play with the feathers, so that the wind will not blow the light feathers all over the sky.
Sister Snow White sat in the house thinking about how to make clothes out of these feathers.
After staring at these very fresh feathers for a while, Sister Bai Xue encountered a problem again.
The problem was that she didn't know how to make the feathers into wearable clothing.
After worrying for a while, she thought of the feather crowns that Wu and the next Wu Shitou wore during sacrifices.
These crests are made up of three rings and feathers tied to the rings.
If I did the same...
Thinking of this, Sister Bai Xue immediately became excited and started to practice.
But she soon found that this method was simply not feasible, because the feather crowns worn by Wu and Shitou were made of large feathers from the wings, and the feathers she plucked were all small feathers. It was too difficult to tie them on one by one.
She wanted to go out and find the big goose to borrow some feathers from its wings, but after thinking it over, she stopped.
The large feathers on wings are not as warm as the small feathers.
The tribe has been raising poultry for such a long time, so Sister Bai Xue knows about this.
The reason she wanted to make new clothes was to fight the severe cold.
Large feathers are not warm, so there is naturally no need to use them to make clothes.
So, Sister Bai Xue fell into distress again.
After an unknown amount of time this state lasted, Sister Bai Xue took action once again.
She found a piece of her own linen clothing, took the small winnowing basket that held the needle and thread, and began to sew the small pieces of fluff into the inside of the clothing, doing it very carefully and meticulously...
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye it was already night.
After Little Pea and Little Xing'er fell asleep, Sister Bai Xue sat on the kang, leaning against the wall, and continued sewing stitch by stitch in the light of the dim oil lamp.
As she pulled, the sound of a rope being passed through clothes was heard. Under the light of the orange oil lamp, it seemed particularly warm and made the night even more tranquil.
As Sister Bai Xue continued to move, she sewed the feathers one by one to the inside of the clothes with needle and thread.
A few days passed in a flash, and after catching a few geese and giving them unique shapes, this unique and original down jacket sewn by Sister Snow White was finally officially released.
Sister Bai Xue put it on and felt it carefully. It was indeed very warm. After wearing it for a while, she could not help sweating.
This made her extremely happy. After all, she had created a new type of clothing that could keep people warm.
After being happy for a while, Sister Bai Xue stopped again. She tilted her head and thought for a while, then took off the original down jacket and found winter clothes from the cabinet made of logs.
These clothes are basically made of various fur products. They are soft against the body and warm to wear.
Sister Bai Xue found a set of clothes she wore last winter and put them on. After wearing them for a while, she started sweating. She felt even hotter than when she was wearing the original down jacket.
After such a comparison, she immediately understood that the clothes made of feathers and linen were hotter to wear. It turned out that it was not because they were warm, but because the weather was not particularly cold and it was not a cold winter yet.
This means that the clothes that I spent a lot of effort to make are still far less warm than animal skins...
This discovery made Sister Bai Xue very depressed.
This is a normal phenomenon. Anyone who finds that he or she has worked hard for a long time but ultimately does not achieve the desired result will not feel much better than Sister Bai Xue.
However, this frustration did not last long. As a person who is very good at weaving silk threads into cloth, Sister Bai Xue has enough patience and resilience.
She put her winter clothes back into the closet, then picked up the linen shirt with many feathers sewn on it and continued to look at it, looking for a solution.
After looking at it for a while, she really found the problem.
The problem she discovered was that there were too few feathers she had sewed onto the clothes!
Even though she had sewed as many feathers as possible on it, the feathers on the dress still seemed rather sparse, and far less dense than the feathers on a goose.
After realizing this problem, and thinking about the clothes she had made from her sweaty fur not long ago, she suddenly understood what she needed to do next...
Over at the goose pen, there was a goose that looked depressed for some reason, which was really heartbreaking to see.
Sister Bai Xue is an extremely kind person. Not only can she not bear to see other people suffer, she even cannot bear to see geese suffer.
She knew the treatment method. It was similar to the legendary story of Cao Cao who suffered from a severe headache and sought out the famous doctor Hua Tuo. The treatment method Hua Tuo suggested was similar in nature. It was easy. Just chop the head with a sharp axe...
So, this depressed goose was taken out by Sister Snow White.
He didn't chop it on the head with an axe, but simply held its thin and long neck with both hands and twisted it hard, and its illness was completely cured...
Sister Bai Xue stood in front of the tree stump, holding a sharp copper knife in her hand, carefully peeling the skin of the goose.
In the past, when the tribe ate geese, they would do it the same way as when they killed chickens. They would put them in a ceramic basin and scald them with boiling water before plucking the feathers and then gutting the geese.
But this time was different. Snow White wanted to get their fur to see if it could be used to make warm clothes, so she just used a knife to peel them.