Song Zhuiyan didn't refuse and shamelessly accepted them. They were all good things, and she wanted them all, sob sob sob.
"I heard that animal hides have to be processed. Auntie, do you know how to process them?" Song Tantan stared at the bloody animal hide, feeling a little nauseous. She didn't think she could wear it to keep warm, and it would be useless even as a cushion for a chair.
"If you don't know how, you should learn! I'm so good with my hands, how could I be stumped by a single animal hide? There will be other animal hides in the future, how can I not learn them? I have to learn them." She didn't want the previous wolf hide, she didn't care for it.
In fact, Zhong Qingyi had said she would help her process the hides before giving them to her, but Song Zhuiyan insisted that she could do it herself because she really wanted to learn how to process animal hides. She had given the rabbit hides from the small game she had hunted to Zhu Xiu and the others, as well as the wild boar hides. To be honest, if it weren't for Zhu Xiu and the others saying that animal hides were precious and could keep warm, and that they insisted on keeping them...
According to her, it should be stewed until it's very soft and eaten directly. In modern times, people cook everything with the skin on, so who would peel it?
It's very bloody.
Song Tantan and Song Zhuiyan locked the door and then went into the space together. The former took out alkali, alum, and salt, and then watched her aunt work.
The first step is to soak the raw hides in clean water for about two and a half hours. During this time, they cook and eat, and after eating, they eat fruit. When the time is almost up, they use a knife to scrape off the dirt from the hides and then wash them in warm alkaline water.
The second step is to soak it in a solution of alum and salt.
The third step is to hang the soaked animal hides up to dry.
The process was actually very time-consuming and troublesome. Well, it seems like nothing is easy. In short, it took several days to finish making the animal hides, and then I left them in my space and didn't bother with them.
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