Sister Bai Xue held a small knife in one hand and pulled the skin of the goose with the other, peeling it off slowly.
Compared with rabbits, deer, and sheep, the skin of geese is not easy to peel, mainly because the skin is too thin and the skin is tightly connected to the muscles underneath.
If it's the skin of a rabbit, you just need to pull the skin with one hand and use the other hand to cut it with a knife. It will be easy to peel off. Even a novice can get the hang of it soon.
However, when it comes to skinning, Snow White is clearly not a novice.
Although her focus was basically on spinning and weaving, raising silkworms and reeling silk, taking care of children, and feeding her brother Cheng sleeping pills when she had nothing to do, but as a person of this era, she was no stranger to dealing with prey.
Therefore, although the goose skin was not easy to peel, she was able to peel it off relatively completely after some careful operation.
After peeling off the goose's skin, she did not rush to deal with the other things, but instead gutted the goose. Needless to say, the goose liver and the like were naturally gone. Even the goose intestines were not wasted. She used a small copper knife to split them in the middle, cleaned them, added some salt, and scrubbed them vigorously with freshly drawn well water.
After placing the processed meat on a table built in the kitchen and covering it with a clay basin, Sister Bai Xue began to process the peeled goose skin.
It is basically modeled after the processing of animal skins.
For example, first use a relatively thin bamboo strip to scrape off as much fat and oil as possible, then spread it out to dry and nitrate it.
At the beginning, Sister Bai Xue only focused on the big goose. After dealing with the goose, she changed her mind and came to the duck house again, her eyes constantly scanning the ducks in the pen.
After a while, she found another unhappy duck.
Bai Xuemei, who is deeply influenced by her spouse, Han Dashenzi, also has a good heart and treats everyone equally.
Since we have given all the geese the same treatment, we naturally cannot favor one over the other.
So this depressed and unhappy duck was soon treated by Sister Snow White in the duck house.
There is no need to go into detail about the process, all you need to know is that the final result is that the duck that is treated and brought into the kitchen is as peaceful as a goose.
After treating the geese and ducks, Sister Bai Xue's gaze fell on the chicken coop. With just a quick glance inside, she immediately found several chickens that needed treatment.
Finally, I chose a patient who was more seriously ill and took action...
Compared with geese and ducks, the skin of chicken is more difficult to peel, but Sister Bai Xue still peeled it off.
After this operation, it is still unknown whether warm clothes can be made in this way, but Sister Bai Xue knows another thing.
Not only did she know about it, but many people in the Qingque tribe, including Wu, the eldest brother, Shitou, Yuan, etc., also knew about it.
The thing is, after the skin is peeled, the geese and ducks are delicious when cooked, and the meat is easy to chew.
Unlike before, the outer layer of skin was cooked for a long time and it was still difficult to chew it when eaten, which greatly affected the taste.
The duck is only delicious if it is roasted slowly over charcoal fire without peeling the skin.
With this understanding, it became more natural for the tribe to skin ducks and geese when eating them.
In the past, people in the tribe did not have so many particularities, but as life got better day by day, food became more abundant day by day, and with the leadership of their big foodie, it was natural for them to become more particular about food.
This would also allow Snow White to have more materials to try to make new clothes, instead of just poking around in the goose pen and duck coop like she does now, trying to find the unhappy ones and give them treatment first.
The geese and ducks in the goose pen and duck house didn't have to act that hard. Every time they saw this cruel woman coming, even if they were dozing off, they would quack non-stop to prove that they were not depressed at all...
As time passed, the original down jacket made by Bai Xuemei was improved day by day.
The dried duck's fur appears very hard, but problems such as hair loss rarely occur.
Sister Bai Xue also nitrated it in the same way as she nitrated ordinary animal fur, but the effect was limited.
Moreover, duck skin and goose skin are not as strong and easy to sew as the fur of animals such as rabbit and deer.
So after trying to connect several pieces of skin together, Snow White gave up the idea of making clothes directly with such feathers.
Then, just like before, he began to sew these feathers into the linen shirt, turning them into the lining.
As time goes by, the temperature is gradually decreasing. Before we know it, it is already late autumn and early winter. Even the wind has a hint of winter, making people feel a little chilly.
Sister Bai Xue didn't feel the slightest bit of cold. On the contrary, she even felt a little hot at this moment.
This result was easy to come by, for she was wearing a new kind of clothing which had just been made from linen and the furs of geese and ducks.
Because this new type of clothes was generally sewn with a layer of goose and duck feathers inside, Snow White called it a feather coat.
After this feather coat was made and many people in the tribe felt its benefits, it immediately became popular in the Qingque tribe.
If it weren't for the fact that the geese and ducks in the tribe could lay eggs, these guys would have been labeled as depressed by the people of the Green Bird Tribe, and then they would have been caught and collectively treated by the people of the Green Bird Tribe...
Sister Bai Xue's initiative is very meaningful.
It’s not that the feather clothes she made through this means are better at keeping out the cold and keeping warm than the animal skin clothes that the people in the tribe have always worn.
It was because with the influx of a large population, the Qingque tribe’s fur storage was no longer sufficient.
The Qingque tribe now mainly relies on agricultural planting, supplemented by hunting and grazing, and the amount of furs obtained each year is relatively limited.
The amount of furs obtained through trade exchanges is not as much as before.
In such circumstances, it is not uncommon to find that the fur is not enough.
Now, Sister Snow White has used feathers, which the tribe had never paid much attention to before, and combined them with linen to make a kind of clothing that is just as warm as fur. This is indeed a very good thing for the tribe.
More importantly, compared with animal skin clothes, this feather coat made of feathers and linen is very light. You will hardly feel its weight when you wear it. It is much more comfortable than animal skins.
That is why, after Sister Bai Xue successfully made it, it became popular in the tribe.
Especially Wu, after putting on a feather robe made specifically for him, he was reluctant to take it off.
However, because the tribe did not raise enough geese and ducks and could not kill them in large numbers, the number of these new types of feathers was not too large.
While everyone was feeling sad and regretful for having wasted so many feathers, the lotus root digging team from the Green Bird Tribe also set out from the tribe and headed for Lotus Island to dig lotus roots, moving along the Bronze Highway.
On Lotus Island, the Son of God made a special rule that birds are not allowed to be arrested there. No one in the Green Bird Tribe dared to violate this rule.
But in the spare time of picking lotus roots, there is no problem in going on a large-scale hunt for the wild ducks living near the former Wild Duck Station, now the Longmen Inn.
As a result, the wild ducks here soon suffered.
Although they are all full of life, the people of the Green Bird Tribe gave them a diagnosis of being depressed.
They were also kind enough to use the Green Bird Tribe's method to treat them.
They were not the only ones who were forcibly treated. Some wild geese that had landed on the ground to rest on their way back south and were found by the people of the Green Bird Tribe also had to accept treatment from the people of the Green Bird Tribe...
There is no way. Under the continuous influence of their wise, majestic, bright, and titled Son of God, they are so loving...
Inside the Qingque tribe, Sister Bai Xue was sitting there, holding needle and thread, sewing the processed goose skin into the lining of a piece of clothing.
The movements are very careful and serious, and the stitches are sewn densely.
Moreover, unlike other feather coats that are made by mixing duck feathers and goose feathers, this feather coat being sewn is made entirely of goose feathers, which looks very uniform and beautiful.
Of course, this dress was not made by Sister Bai Xue for herself, nor for anyone else in the tribe. Instead, it was made for Brother Cheng, who was leading people to build the city far away in Jinguan City.
People are really strange. Some people are obviously far away from you and not around you, but once something good happens, you will always think of them involuntarily and want to leave the best for them.
Happier than getting it myself...
A chilly wind blew, and the leaves on the trees rustled. Many of the leaves still looked green, but were actually burnt, and made a crisp, burnt sound when stepped on.
At the hemp pond located downstream of the small river in the main Qingque tribe, many people gather here.
Bundles of fermented hemp were taken out from inside, and people were peeling the hemp here.
The hemp has been left in water for a long time, and the outer skin has rotted away, leaving only thin fibers, which do not smell good at all.
However, no one in the Qingque tribe despised it. Even the witch brought a small stool made of a few pieces of wood and sat here to peel hemp.
After years of development, hemp has penetrated into every aspect of the Qingque tribe. The people of the Qingque tribe can no longer live without ropes made of hemp and linen cloth woven with hemp.
That is why the crowd did not mind the strong smell of the work at all. Not only did they not mind it, but they all had smiles on their faces.
Near the fragrant hemp pond, a rough and primitive song can be heard from time to time: "The black hemp skin is yours..."
Often after a male primitive man sings, a female primitive man will continue to sing.
The lyrics are simple and straightforward, often carrying some strong feelings, things that both men and women are concerned about.
After years of development, the population of the Green Bird Tribe itself has continued to grow. The Sheep Tribe, Green Tribe, Donkey Tribe, and Bone Tribe, which were originally relatively close to the Green Bird Tribe, have all joined the Green Bird Tribe in one way or another, and the joyous party has not been held for many years.
Because the Qingque tribe has been absorbing and integrating with other tribes, there is no need for the Qingque tribe to hold happy gatherings anymore.
In the past, people sang songs while retting and peeling hemp, but now it has been given other meanings and has become an important day and activity for people in the tribe to choose and determine their spouses.
Nowadays, those who sing while peeling hemp are basically adults or people who are almost adults in the tribe.
During the singing competition, if both parties can make eye contact with each other, they can immediately go to the side and hide in the dry grass.
Of course, once they got into the dry grass, they had become a formal couple.
Later, you can go to the witch, and have the witch issue you something called a marriage certificate by the Son of God, and you can become an official couple.
This kind of marriage certificate is a small rectangular copper plate made of bronze, with the names of both parties engraved on it with a knife made of meteorite.
On the north side of the copper plate, there is a relatively rough "囍" and a blue bird shape, both of which are directly carved and cast.
It is difficult to tear up such a marriage certificate. If you want to divorce, you need to find a witch again and ask the witch to take back the marriage certificate, which can then be melted down to make other things.
Of course, divorce has not happened yet. The marriage concept of the people in the tribe has been gradually strengthened after Han Cheng's arrival. It is still in a relatively primitive stage and people don't have too many ideas. In addition, the tribe is still generally in the stage of "big pot meal" and the gap between each other is not too big, so no one thinks about divorce.
In the understanding of Qingque people, once they become spouses, they become spouses, so why should they dissolve the relationship between each other?
Isn't this troublesome?
Therefore, the Qingque tribe usually dissolves a spouse relationship only after one of the spouses dies. After the other spouse dies, the remaining spouse can find a new spouse.
Another aspect that needs to be mentioned is that the Qingque tribe does not practice monogamy.
This was not the result of Han Cheng's deliberate guidance, but was determined by the objective conditions in the tribe.