Chapter 110 Fish Bladder Glue
The pack of glue brought back from the Linyan tribe was a solidified translucent block that looked like amber. It was hard when you tapped it with your hand.
Jian Mo was really curious about this glue. After studying it for two days, he said to Wu Jiong, "Why don't we use this glue to make a cabinet? Let's see what the effect is?"
The house is so big, and they need a lot of cabinets.
The previous cabinets were made with mortise and tenon structures and fixed with wooden nails, but they still wobbled a bit after being used for a long time.
Their technology here is not good, and it is difficult to make the cabinets fit tightly. The more they use the glue, the larger the gap will be. They really need glue to fix it.
Jian Mo kept staring at the glue and was really interested in it.
Wu Jiong agreed: "I will ask someone to split the wood tomorrow."
To make furniture, they have to cut the wood into boards first, then use a planer to smooth the boards, plane away all the burrs, and then assemble them.
Each of these steps requires a lot of labor.
No matter how capable Wu Jiong is, it will take him more than ten days or dozens of days
to do it alone. In this case, it is more convenient to ask someone to come and help.
Jian Mo originally thought that Wu Jiong would ask Dejiang and his team to hire young and middle-aged beastmen who are skilled and patient.
Unexpectedly, when he came back, a group of giant cats and dogs crowded briskly outside their yard, squeezed into a ball, turned back into human form, and then squeezed into the yard.
Ban Ming met Jian Mo's puzzled gaze and said with some pride: "The tribe leader asked us to come here and said he would teach us carpentry."
Jian Mo: "Will Wu Jiong reward you?"
Ban Ming scratched his head: "Yes?" Jiu Yin
behind him confirmed: "Yes, the tribe leader told us."
Jian Mo: "That's good, come in quickly."
A group of young people merged in, moving wood swiftly and preparing boards.
Their skills were not very good, but their attitude was still very positive.
Soon, several people from Dejiang also came over.
Seeing them, Jian Mo breathed a sigh of relief.
Ban Ming and others' unreliability was deeply rooted in his heart, and he still had to have reliable people to calm him down before he could feel at ease.
With everyone working together, the wood was quickly sliced into pieces, and after being planed smooth, it was made into pieces of board according to Jian Mo's requirements.
Jian Mo took out the drawings he had drawn earlier and showed them to everyone. He discussed the specific appearance of the cabinet, and then started a fire in a corner of the yard to melt the glue over water.
The glue melted very slowly.
He started melting it in the evening, and originally thought that it would be melted before dark. Unexpectedly, it was already completely dark, and the glue in the pot was only half melted.
Everyone had to light torches and wait.
They waited until late at night, and the glue in the pot finally melted.
The melted glue was in the form of a viscous, translucent liquid. It could be scraped up with a piece of wood, and the wood would hardly fall off if it was turned over. It looked very viscous.
The glue smelled strange, not the kind of smell that Jian Mo was familiar with.
The glue looked very special, and it was also very special to use. It solidified very quickly when applied to wood, and it adhered very firmly.
Jian Mo was thinking of using wooden carpenter's clamps to clamp the two pieces of wood together and wait overnight for the glue on them to dry completely.
Unexpectedly, the glue had already solidified, turned white and hardened before the carpenter's clamps were adjusted. The glue that overflowed from the gaps could not be scraped out.
Jian Mo looked at the glue in shock.
As far as he knew, some chemical glues used on Earth would not solidify so quickly.
This glue really has something. If there was such a good glue, many things could be made.
Others had no idea what it meant to have glue that solidified so quickly and stuck so firmly, and they were quite happy.
"It's very useful, it's worthy of being the secret recipe of the Linyan tribe."
"If we had known their glue was so useful, we would have changed some earlier. The wooden stool in my house is not glued, so it always shakes back and forth, and it will pinch your butt if you are not careful."
"Hahaha, last time Ah Hu sat on my wooden stool in beast form, a large piece of hair on his butt was pinched off, and it is probably still bald now."
"Your butt is bald!!!"
"Hey, hey, it's not bald, then change into beast form and show me?"
Everyone laughed and the atmosphere on the scene was very joyful - except for Ah Hu who was called out by mistake.
Ah Hu was now angry and started chasing everyone.
Jian Mo carefully checked the two wooden boards that were glued together.
With his strength, he couldn't even move the two wooden boards.
He began to understand why the axes of the Linyan tribe were glued together. They were really very strong.
Wu Jiong saw that his face had turned red, and reached out his hand: "Do I want to break it apart and glue it again?"
Jian Mo: "No, I just want to test how strong this glue is?"
Wu Jiong: "I'll try."
Wu Jiong tried in human form, but he couldn't break it apart.
Dejiang came over and tried to break it apart, but also failed.
Ban Ming and the others squeezed over and tried to break the wooden boards.
However, Wu Jiong and Dejiang couldn't break it apart, let alone the others.
One of the beastmen didn't hold the wooden board firmly, and when he was breaking it, the board slipped out of his hand and hit his chin, and blood immediately covered his face.
Jian Mo was startled and hurried to help the orc stop the bleeding.
The glue of the Linyan tribe is very useful, but it is a pity that there is too little of it. It was gone after making a wooden cabinet.
The next day, Jian Mo got up to look at the wooden cabinet hanging in the yard. The wooden cabinet had dried thoroughly and looked very beautiful. It did not shake at all when shaken by hand.
It seemed that this wooden cabinet was formed in one piece, and no glue or mortise and tenon structure was used at all. It just grew like this naturally.
Jian Mo was surprised and checked around. He felt that this was the most beautiful wooden cabinet they had ever made.
It was a pity that there was only one wooden cabinet. He turned around and looked at the materials scattered around, and was a little eager to try.
With so many materials, he should be able to make three or four wooden cabinets.
He could get some more glue and make all the wooden cabinets.
Wu Jiong knew what he was thinking as soon as he saw him: "Should we go to Linyan Tribe again and exchange some glue?"
Jian Mo: "I don't think it's possible. This glue was given to us by the people of Linyan Tribe. Even if we go again, they won't make glue again just for us."
Wu Jiong also knew this truth: "Then should we use the remaining materials to make cabinets according to our original habit?"
Jian Mo: "Let me think about it, I seem to know how to make ordinary glue."
Glue on Earth also has a very ancient history. Before chemical glue came out, people would use various animal glues.
Jian Mo came into contact with the famous donkey-hide glue when he was in school.
Donkey hide glue is actually donkey hide glue, which is essentially the same as cow hide glue. However, people later discovered its function of replenishing qi and blood, and used it as medicine. Few people use it as glue.
Jian Mo knows another kind of animal glue - fish maw glue.
This kind of glue is the same as donkey hide glue and cow hide glue, which is made by boiling collagen to make it sticky.
Jian Mo gave Wu Jiong a brief introduction on how to make fish maw gelatin: "It's been a while since we've eaten fish. Let's go catch some fish and try some fish maw."
Wu Jiong: "Let's go to Green Swamp Source. I haven't been to Green Swamp Source for a long time."
Jian Mo had no objection at all: "If we catch a lot of fish, we can make a batch of fish balls. The freshly made fish balls are quite delicious."
Many people in the tribe also wanted to go fishing. Wu Jiong made some arrangements and simply formed a large team to go to Green Swamp Source to catch fish.
When they arrived at the place, the beastmen and sub-beastmen each played to their strengths and quickly caught up big, plump fish.
They hadn't come here to catch fish collectively for almost half a year. There were a lot of big fish in the water, and they caught them every time they caught them.
Before noon, all the baskets they brought were full.
Although everyone didn't like eating fish, everyone was grinning from ear to ear with this harvest.
Catching fish here is much more rewarding than hunting and gathering.
Fortunately, the swamp here is full of wild grass, some of which are particularly strong.
People took advantage of the lunch break to cut some grass and twisted it into grass ropes. For
the fish caught in the afternoon, they put the ones with seeds in their stomachs back into the water, and for the rest, they directly used grass ropes to pass through the gills and mouths of the fish, lifted them up and brought them back to the tribe.
The fish caught today were so fresh and plump that everyone was reluctant to make them into dried fish, so they saved the fish for dinner and kept the rest in the river next to the tribe.
The next morning, most of the tribe came out to process the fish.
They killed the fish, cleaned it, filleted it, and then sent it to the stone mortar to pound it into fish paste, and then made it into fish balls.
Everyone worked together and the fish balls were made very quickly.
Jian Mo had taught everyone in the tribe how to make meatballs before, and the same steps were required for making fish balls.
All you have to do is season the fish paste and roll it into a ball, put it in hot water and cook it until it is half cooked, then you can take it out.
The fish balls made from fresh fish are fresh and chewy, completely different from the fish balls that Jian Mo bought on Earth.
Jian Mo tried taking some fish balls and stems to cook soup together, and then adding some chopped green onions after cooking. When you eat it, it is fresh and sweet, and the taste is especially good.
Jiujiu especially likes fish balls and can eat a whole bowl in one go.
Fish balls are easier to store than fish meat. It doesn't matter if you can't finish them right away. Whether you put them outside to dry, or put them in a bucket and soak them in clean water and change the water in time, they can be kept for a long time.
If someone doesn't want to cook one day, they can just cook fish ball soup. It's very convenient.
You don't need fish maw to make fish balls. Everyone knows that Jian Mo needs fish maw to make things, so he specially left the fish maw for him.
After he got the fish maw, he cleaned the debris on the surface, put it outside to dry, and then took it back, soaked it in water, and prepared to make glue.
Wu Jiong: "Since it has to be soaked in water, why do we need to dry it?"
Jian Mo shook his head: "I'm not sure either. I heard that fish maw gelatin is cooked like this, and it has to be boiled in water, otherwise it will be burnt."
Wu Jiong: "It sounds a bit complicated."
Jian Mo: "Yeah. Let's start boiling it tonight, boil it all night, and boil it for another day tomorrow, it should be almost done." Jian Mo
cut the fish maw into pieces, put it in a small ceramic pot, and then put the small ceramic pot into the large ceramic pot, add water to both pots, and slowly boil them.
He didn't dare to use the metal pot at home to boil it, for fear that if any step went wrong, the metal pot would be damaged.
The metal pot can almost be regarded as the most important property of his family. You can boil anything but the metal pot.
After a busy night and day, the fish maw cooked by Jian Mo really melted and turned into a sticky white glue that looked a bit like paste.
He was refreshed and quickly pulled Wu Jiong to assemble the cabinet with the newly cooked fish maw glue.
They assembled it smoothly, but the fish maw glue did not dry as quickly as the glue given by the Linyan tribe. They used carpenter clamps, and when they got up to check the next morning, the glue was basically dry.
Jian Mo tried to break it, and the glue was still strong. As long as he didn't use too much force, he couldn't break it off.
This kind of glue should be enough for daily use.
However, this glue is far worse than the glue from the Linyan tribe.
The glue from the Linyan tribe could not be broken even if Wu Jiong and Dejiang tried hard.
"Interesting." Jian Mo said to himself, "The glue of the Linyan tribe is so good, no wonder it is their secret recipe."
Wu Jiong came over: "Maybe this is the treasure hidden in their tribe."
Jian Mo just realized that Wu Jiong was coming, and looked up and said: "It's possible. Their glue should be the best glue among all the nearby tribes. No wonder Shu Guang still misses it after decades." Wu
Jiong: "I guess we will also miss it for decades."
Jian Mo: "No, no, no, if we can't make such a good glue, we can remember it for a lifetime."
Wu Jiong patted his shoulder comfortingly.
Jian Mo sighed: "Sure enough, other people's secret recipes are not so easy to surpass."
Jian Mo looked up: "Do you think we can exchange secret recipes with the people of the Linyan tribe? Is it possible to get it?"
Wu Jiong: "The people of Linyan tribe may not have time to pay attention to us. Even if we give them the secret recipe, they are too lazy to try it."
Jian Mo sighed: "Most likely, it's so tiring to make glass. I think they are even too lazy to build a house. They just dig a hole and live there. They probably don't need to upgrade their homes."
Wu Jiong: "If you really want it, let's go and find out what the people of Linyan tribe like? See if we can impress them."
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