Chapter 137 Cotton
Bolls Jian Mo and his friends went into the mountains early the next morning.
The Jiu Nian tribe may have a closer relationship with its tribe members than other tribes because its chieftain is an orc, and the people are more lively.
Everyone is a little afraid of Wu Jiong, but they are very close to Jian Mo. They chat around Jian Mo all morning, talking about gossips about the tribes and asking about health issues.
Jian Mo answered all of them.
They walked up the mountain and soon stopped in front of a big tree.
Xin Jun turned to Jian Mo and Wu Jiong and introduced them, "This is the tree with the cloth. We rely on it to make clothes."
Jian Mo looked up at the tree.
The tree has a very smooth skin, and its leaves are a bit like the leaves of a palm tree. A large leaf is composed of countless long leaves forming an oval leaf, which looks like a big cattail leaf fan.
The trunk of this kind of tree is green, and the leaves are also green.
He looked for a long time but couldn't figure out where the so-called cloth was growing.
The people from the Jiunian tribe had already put their backpacks on the ground, tucked their metal knives behind their waists, and were holding onto the tree. They jumped up and down, and in a few steps they climbed up the tree.
Then, the person who was almost at the top of the tree chopped off the leaves.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong stood aside, and waited until the leaves had almost fallen, and the person who was chopping the leaves slid down holding the tree, and then they went forward to pick up the leaves.
When he got the leaves in his hands, Jian Mo discovered that there were hard things like tendons on the edges of the leaves. If he tore them off slightly, the tendons turned into threads.
Jian Mo asked Xin Jun: "Is this the thread used to make clothes?"
Xin Jun nodded: "That's it, but it has to be processed before it can be used."
As he spoke, Xin Jun also picked up a leaf, cut the long green leaf directly from the root, and tore off the veins on both sides of the green leaf with two swipes.
He moved quickly, and in just a moment, he had accumulated a handful of light green veins in his hand.
Jian Mo looked at it and found that the veins torn from both sides of the leaf were of different lengths, thicknesses, and should not meet the requirements for direct weaving.
He originally thought that he could skip the spinning step, but now it seems unlikely.
Maybe because the large leaves were too difficult to carry back, everyone stood under the tree, swishing and tearing the leaves, only taking the veins on both sides of the leaves.
After taking them, the people of the Jiu Nian tribe gathered the broken leaves and piled them under the big tree again.
Jian Mo looked up and saw that the leaves on the top of the tree were still lush.
The people of the Jiunian tribe left some leaves when they cut them, and did not cut off all the leaves, which did not affect the growth of the tree.
He now understood why the trunk of the tree was so smooth. It should be that the people of the Jiunian tribe had cut the leaves when the tree was still young, and over time, there were no leaves at the bottom.
Xin Jun called Jian Mo and the others to move forward: "There are still many cloth trees ahead."
Jian Mo: "It seems that it is not easy to get some cloth."
Xin Jun laughed: "What is easy? Hunting is difficult, gathering is difficult, and weaving is naturally difficult. Don't your tribes that use animal hair to weave cloth directly have more steps?"
Jian Mo nodded: "Yes, so everyone is very hard."
Xin Jun: "It's okay, just chat and work hard and it will be done."
The people of the Jiu Nian tribe continued to move forward with Wu Jiong and Jian Mo.
Jian Mo didn't find too many interesting things. He only got to know a few new wild fruits and spices, all of which were of ordinary taste and not worth bringing to the riverside tribe.
Everyone worked all day and went back in the afternoon.
After returning to the Jiunian tribe, the people of the Jiunian tribe started a fire, boiled water in several large earthenware pots, and then threw the cloth in to cook.
The tribe was filled with hot steam, and the whole tribe was filled with the special smell of cooking plants.
Jian Mo could understand. After all, plant materials must be further processed to remove organic matter that is prone to mold and deterioration, otherwise the cloth would be useless after it was made.
However, what surprised Jian Mo was that when the cloth was almost cooked, the people of the Jiunian tribe took out a strange-looking wooden rack.
The wooden rack was a bit like a floor lamp, but there was a piece of wood the size of a lotus bud on the top.
Jian Mo observed it for a while, and then found that they put the wooden rack in front of them, then picked up the freshly boiled cloth, threaded it from one end, and then pulled it out from the other end.
When pulling the cloth, the beastman turned his palms into claws. He pinched the cloth with his long claws and pushed and pulled it, appearing to be very flexible.
Jian Mo asked, "Is this for removing the leaf flesh on the cloth?"
Xin Jun motioned for him to look over: "Of course not, if you just want to remove the leaf flesh, you just need to boil it for a while, then beat and rinse it repeatedly. It's too troublesome to do that."
Xin Jun: "We mainly want to pull the cloth into threads of similar thickness. You see there are metal blades around this hole. Put the thread in and pull it. If the thread is too thick, the metal blades will scrape off a layer, and then it can be used."
Jian Mo squatted down and took a closer look. Sure enough, he saw the tiny metal blades inside the wooden frame. He couldn't help but sighed, "How did you come up with this?"
In this era, the people of the Jiunian tribe actually did quality control. Their concept of concern was too advanced.
Xin Jun: "Before, we used cloth to weave clothes, but the clothes we made were bumpy, ugly and uncomfortable to wear. Later, we invented this little tool."
Jian Mo: "That's amazing. You told me now?" As expected, we
should not underestimate the people of any tribe.
Xin Jun smiled: "It's nothing. Even if I tell you the secret, you are probably still too lazy to cut leaves to make clothes, and you will still come to us to exchange them in the end."
Jian Mo: "Really, it's too troublesome. You are experienced, so you can do it so quickly. If I were to do it, I probably wouldn't be able to put in a thread for a long time."
Xin Jun: "That's not the case. It's very fast to use claws."
Xin Jun just said this casually, but Jian Mo and Wu Jiong looked at each other.
Jian Mo stretched out his hand in front of Wu Jiong, and his hand turned into claws, with particularly sharp claws.
However, his claws were not well developed, and were relatively thin and long, not as sharp and cold as those of ordinary orcs.
The claws of ordinary orcs can really be used for hunting and assisting daily work, while Jian Mo's claws are more decorative.
Wu Jiong reached out and gently held his hand.
Xin Jun also looked over and praised: "Your claws are so beautiful."
Jian Mo smiled: "Not as good as yours."
Xin Jun: "This is really not difficult, I will teach you."
Xin Jun quickly taught Jian Mo how to thread and pull the thread. The cloth has a certain hardness. After finding the right angle, it can be pulled quickly.
Jian Mo tried several times, and each time was a great success. It was quite a sense of accomplishment after trying.
After a little more cloth was accumulated, the people of the Jiu Nian tribe poured the cloth together, and then took out the shuttle and the simple weaving rack, and went to the side to weave cloth.
Some people also started to cook dinner.
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong learned to weave for a while, and after they had roughly mastered it, they went to help cook dinner.
Compared to weaving, Jian Mo has more advantages in cooking.
When Jian Mo and his friends went out today, they specially collected some food. After the people from the Jiu Nian tribe finished cooking, Jian Mo specially borrowed a stove and said he wanted to cook food for Jiu Jiu and the others. The people
from the Jiu Nian tribe did not refuse, but said to Jian Mo: "Aren't you too meticulous in raising the flying winged beasts?"
Jian Mo smiled and said: "They have to work hard to carry us out to visit various tribes. If we don't take good care of them, I'm afraid we won't be able to control them."
The people from the Jiu Nian tribe: "That's right. You raise the flying winged beasts very well. We also want to raise them, but they eat too much. It's very troublesome to raise them. Later, I thought about it and realized that we don't go to other tribes very often, so forget it."
In other tribes, Jian Mo couldn't do too much, and finally stewed a pot of meat for Jiu Jiu and the others in a pot.
Jiujiu didn't mind. When Jian Mo went to the opposite side of the Jiu Nian tribe to bring it food, it kept jumping around "jiujiujiujiu".
In comparison, Ying Ao was much quieter and yawned loudly.
Jian Mo fed Jiujiu twice and Ying Ao one bite.
Ying Ao no longer resisted the food made by Jian Mo and the others, but only ate the delicious food and not the unpalatable food.
While Jian Mo was feeding them, Wu Jiong combed their fur with his fingers.
I don't know where Jiujiu and Ying Ao went today. They were covered with leaves and grass clippings.
Wu Jiong combed his hair for a while, put the debris he combed out into his palm, and suddenly said: "Jiujiu, they may go to Baizhi tribe today."
Jian Mo leaned over to look: "Why do you say that?"
Wu Jiong spread out his palm for Jian Mo to see: "This kind of sticky grass grows on the snow mountain, a little below the top of the snow mountain. The Jiunian tribe should not have this kind of sticky grass."
Jian Mo took a closer look: "It seems to be true. The terrain here is relatively low, and there are no snow mountains, right?"
Wu Jiong: "Well, it is not ruled out that they flew to other places, but among the nearby tribes, they are most familiar with the Baizhi tribe."
Jiujiu didn't know that Wu Jiong had roughly calculated their itinerary for today based on just a few blades of grass, and was still struggling with the slightly tough meat in his mouth.
Its teeth were not very good. It bit with its left and then right, but it still couldn't chew the meat thoroughly.
Jian Mo didn't care and patted Jiujiu's wings: "That's good. Now you have friends. You know to go and play with them when you're free."
Jiujiu would answer every question, no matter if he understood or not, he would always chirp a few words.
Now Jian Mo was talking to it. It looked up at Jian Mo and said happily: "Chirp."
Jian Mo: "Since you can fly back and forth today, it seems that this place is not far from Baizhi Tribe."
Chirp: "Chirp!"
Jian Mo turned to look at Wu Jiong: "How about we go to Baizhi Tribe for a stroll tomorrow? Last time they helped us carry the pearl rice and honey sparrow nests back, and we didn't thank them sincerely."
Wu Jiong: "Let Xin Jun know later."
Xin Jun had no objection to their itinerary. After hearing that they were going to Baizhi Tribe, he wanted to ask them for help embarrassedly: "If you want to go to Baizhi Tribe, you can Can't you help us change to a white milk fruit?"
Jian Mo: "What is that?"
Xin Jun: "It's a kind of fruit that is unique to their tribe. This fruit is crushed and squeezed into juice, and then applied to the cloth. The places where it is applied will not be stained. We want to use this fruit to print patterns."
Jian Mo understood a little: "You can paint the juice of this fruit on the cloth. After drawing the pattern, the dyeing can also make the pattern keep the original color of the cloth, right?"
Xin Jun nodded: "If it is a symmetrical complex pattern, we will tie the cloth tightly and then put it in the pot to dye. Asymmetrical complex patterns can only be drawn with juice first, Protect it and then dye it. The people of Baizhi tribe know that we have the habit of using white milk fruit. You tell them and they will know. "
This is just a small matter, Jian Mo agreed immediately: "No problem, we will go there and tell them tomorrow."
Xin Jun took out two rolls of cloth and gave them: "The white milk fruit exchanged for these two rolls of cloth is enough for us. I really trouble you, we can't fly, and it's very tiring to go there."
Jian Mo: "It's a small matter."
Xin Jun said again: "When you come back in the evening, our cloth should be almost woven, and you can choose any pattern you want. We can discuss it later."
Jian Mo said happily: "Okay, I really want some more special patterns. How many colors can you dye now?"
Xin Jun: "There are about six kinds of dyes prepared now - red, yellow, orange, blue, black, and brown. We have pre-dyed cloth pieces, I will get them to show you. Some colors are a bit strange when used for clothes, but they look good for headwear and bracelets. "
Xin Jun and his friends have good aesthetic ability. Not only did they bring pieces of cloth to show Jian Mo and his friends, they also brought some headwear, earrings, cloth bracelets and the like.
These accessories are particularly exquisitely made, and the color collision on the accessories is also particularly artistic.
Especially the cloth earrings with a collision of blue and orange, which immediately caught Jian Mo's attention.
When the strange beastman put on the cloth earrings, it was as if an orange light suddenly fell on his ears, making him bright.
This feeling full of vitality, even if Jian Mo had been in school for more than ten years, he could not learn the relevant knowledge from textbooks.
The people of the Jiu Nian tribe were very happy to see that Jian Mo liked it.
Later, the people of the Jiu Nian tribe asked Jian Mo to help pierce their ears. They also heard that Jian Mo's ear holes were very good, very symmetrical, healed quickly, and did not hurt.
Jian Mo could not refuse the kindness, so he found his own medical kit and really helped the people of the Jiu Nian tribe pierce their ears for half a night, and also exchanged a lot of cloth.
When Jian Mo was so tired that his hands were weak and he was packing up to rest, an orc ran towards him and said, "Doctor Jian Mo, didn't you say you like the white, soft fruit? I have some fruit I picked before at home. Can you see if it's this kind?"
The fabric of the Jiu Nian tribe is a bit like linen and relatively rough.
Jian Mo mentioned cotton cloth when chatting with them, and mentioned the general appearance of cotton bolls, wanting to find out if there are anything similar to cotton bolls in the local area.
I didn't expect the orcs to really bring it!
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