Chapter 74: Violent Bird
Humans are born with a desire for beauty, even the people in the orc world are the same.
Although it was hard to find dyes, everyone still climbed up and down, found a lot of dyes, and dyed pieces of light-colored cloth into tan or blue.
During the dyeing process, Jian Mo found that the color of indigo cloth was very stable, and it was basically this color every time it was dyed.
The tan color was different. Sometimes it was orange-yellow, sometimes yellow-brown, and once it was light yellow. The product was very unstable.
Jian Mo was not very familiar with dyeing cloth, but he had seen a lot.
After dyeing a few more times, Jian Mo remembered the tie-dyeing craft on Earth, and taught the people in the tribe to tie-dye.
The technique of tie-dyeing is not difficult. It mainly involves tying up the areas you don't want to dye, or covering them with objects and then tying them up. Finally, the areas you don't want to dye form a pattern.
Jian Mo couldn't find substances like beeswax, so he experimented a few times and found that the effect of applying hair root starch was good, so he led everyone to use hair root starch for tie-dyeing.
In the field of art, Ye Luo and his friends are much better than Jian Mo, and they soon took the lead and developed various beautiful patterns.
Jian Mo learned a lot from behind, and finally asked Ye Luo and his friends to help dye together.
There are only two people in Jian Mo's family, so there are not many fabrics that need to be dyed.
After collecting dyes a few times, he moved to other collection groups.
Relatively speaking, he is more interested in food.
In the evening, Jian Mo finished his housework and prepared the side dishes after collecting. Seeing that Wu Jiong's hunting team had not returned yet, he went to the mortar to help pound today's dye.
Zhou Fu saw him coming, straightened up and asked, "How come you have time to come here today?"
Jian Mo: "I came here after finishing my housework."
Zhou Fu: "So soon? Didn't your collection team just come back not long ago? Don't we have to cut grass for Jiujiu today?"
Jian Mo shook his head: "Jiujiu was taken out by Ban Ming and the others today. They will be responsible for feeding it. We just need to give it a snack later."
Zhou Fu: "I was wondering why you have time today? Hey, don't pound it, just help pick the leaves. The dyeing leaves age very quickly. Some of the leaves picked today are particularly old, and there is not much juice in them. You can pick them out and put them aside."
Jian Mo walked to the basket and picked up a handful of dyeing leaves.
The dye leaves were indeed a bit old, and they were so thick that they were difficult to pick. The leaves were also much larger, much older than the first time he went to pick them, when he could squeeze out a handful of juice.
He picked out the leaves with particularly thick veins and put them aside.
Soon, all the dye leaves were picked.
Jian Mo put away the old dye leaves and asked, "What should we do with these dye leaves?"
Zhou Fu looked up and said casually, "Just throw them in the woods. They are useless."
Jian Mo pinched them. He had picked them from afar and carried them back. A lot of sweat had condensed in them. It would be a pity to throw them away in vain.
He looked at the leaves with very clear veins in his hand, and suddenly an idea came to him - the shape of this leaf is quite beautiful, I wonder if I can print it on clothes?
Jian Mo looked up and asked Zhou Fu: "Can you give me these unwanted leaves?"
Zhou Fu: "Of course, take them if you want. What do you want to do with them?"
Jian Mo: "Print them on clothes."
Zhou Fu was shocked: "Print on clothes? That would be so weird!"
Jian Mo smiled: "Why would it be weird? The patterns on the leaves are so beautiful."
After saying goodbye to Zhou Fu, Jian Mo took half a basket of dyed leaves home.
He searched on the second floor and found a roll of linen cloth. He took the cloth and dyed leaves to the yard and prepared to make rubbings.
He had never made rubbings before, but he roughly knew the process.
He thought about it, spread out the cloth and laid it flat on the ground in the yard, then sandwiched the dyed leaves between two pieces of cloth, and then put flat stones under the cloth.
After putting the stones in place, he picked up a stone and tapped it carefully where the dyed leaves were.
The juice of the dyed leaves was knocked out and printed on the fabric, forming a very impactful leaf pattern.
It looks a little blurry, but it doesn't matter, it looks pretty good.
When Wu Jiong came back, he saw him playing with the fabric in the yard and asked, "What are you doing?"
Jian Mo looked up and said, "Printing leaves on the fabric, come and have a look."
Wu Jiong walked over and took a closer look: "It looks good."
Jian Mo looked at the fabric below that was already printed with patterns with satisfaction: "I think it's good too."
After the fabric with the printed patterns dried, Jian Mo tried to fix the color with salt water.
After washing it with water, Jian Mo saw that the pattern of the leaves was still on the fabric - it was a success.
The fabric printed in this way really looked good. Jian Mo took the fabric with satisfaction and asked Qing Kuan to help make two sets of pajamas for her.
Qingkuang looked at it carefully again and again: "What a beautiful pattern, you always have so many wonderful ideas."
Jian Mo: "It's not my idea. Someone in our place does the same thing, and I borrowed it for reference. It's a pity that I don't know which process went wrong, the pattern is a little faint, the original pattern should be very clear and beautiful."
Qingkuang didn't notice where it was faint at all, and said to Jian Mo: "I think it looks good enough like this, very special."
Jian Mo: "I'll think about it later. You make two sets of pajamas for us first, one for me and one for Wu Jiong. Do you want me to give you more sizes?"
Qingkuang waved his hand: "I can tell from your figures. What size do you want?"
After the pajamas were made, everyone looked at the large leaf patterns on the pajamas and ran over to watch.
The leaf pattern is really beautiful, and it brings a different style to the pajamas. The tribe has never dyed similar fabrics.
Jian Mo looked at the finished clothes, and he felt a little satisfied. Just looking at the fabric, you might think the pattern is a little light, but looking at the finished clothes, it feels okay.
The clear pattern has a clear beauty, and the light pattern also has a light beauty.
Everyone thinks that the pattern printed out is very beautiful, and it is completely different from the pattern formed by tie-dyeing, so they came together with the fabric to ask Jian Mo for advice.
This is not something that requires special technical content.
Jian Mo taught everything he could, but he still felt that the patterns everyone had printed were not clear enough.
Wu Jiong saw that he was struggling with this and asked, "Maybe it's because there is no boiling process?"
Jian Mo subconsciously retorted, "If it is boiled, the freshly printed pattern will definitely fade..."
Halfway through his words, Jian Mo suddenly realized that if the pattern would fade when boiled, what about steaming it?
They had a large iron pot at home, and it was not like the ceramic pot before, which would crack if it was steamed casually.
The more Jian Mo thought about it, the more he thought it was feasible. He put his arm around Wu Jiong's shoulders and kissed him: "You are such a genius! I will go and prepare now!"
Since it was going to be steamed, Jian Mo directly put the cloth in water to wet it, then picked it up and twisted it until it was half dry, and then used the dye leaves to print it.
This time he did not take out the dye leaves, but directly rolled the cloth and leaves together and put them in the iron pot to steam.
After steaming for half a night, he took out the cloth and opened it. He found that the texture on it was much clearer, and the leaf veins on it were particularly beautiful.
Jian Mo showed the cloth to Wu Jiong: "Great, this is the cloth I originally wanted."
Wu Jiong picked it up and looked at the brightly colored and clearly patterned cloth, and thought it was better than before: "It looks more exquisite."
Jian Mo: "Yes! I think so too, it's very artistic. In two days, I will pick up other leaves and flowers and print them on the cloth together."
The dyed leaves and fruits they collected are very good dyes. The juice inside is squeezed out and concentrated, and then the flowers or leaves are soaked in the dye liquid, and then printed on the clothes.
The dyed effect is very good, and the patterns are also varied.
Jian Mo was very interested in the cloth and experimented for a long time.
Many people in the tribe followed him in the experiment, and eventually they dyed a large number of fabrics with various patterns or leaf patterns.
The colors of this batch of fabrics were more vivid, the patterns were clearer, and they looked quite artistic.
Everyone loved this batch of fabrics and cut them into various clothes.
The low-key patterns were indeed beautiful, and they were not eye-catching after being turned into clothes, but only made people feel special.
They went out hunting and gathering in patterned clothes, and gradually, people from several surrounding tribes knew about it, and they loved their fabrics so much that they formed teams and brought fabrics to exchange for dyed fabrics with them.
Jian Mo and his friends had just made a batch of clothes, and the fabrics at home had decreased slightly. After this exchange, the fabrics increased greatly and filled the cabinets again.
He didn't have a collecting habit, but he couldn't help but feel happy when he saw the closet full of cloth.
At least this year, they won't be short of cloth.
The growth rate of plants is very fast. The growth time of dyed leaves and dyed fruits is only more than ten days in total. After that, the dyed fruits disappear. The dyed leaves can still be used, but the quality is much worse.
Jian Mo stopped the experiment with an unfinished mind and turned his focus back to collecting food.
One day, when Jian Mo was resting, Ban Ming and a few others ran over and asked Jian Mo: "Brother Jian Mo, do you want to go pick up bird eggs with us tomorrow?"
Jian Mo asked puzzledly: "Don't the tribe forbid picking bird eggs in spring?"
Spring is the breeding season for birds. If bird eggs are picked at this time, they will not be able to hatch the next generation.
For a tribe that lives on gathering, it is a great pity that no chicks hatch in the spring, and naturally no birds to eat in the summer and autumn.
Ban Ming said mysteriously: "That kind of bird is different."
Jian Mo: "How different is it?"
Ban Ming: "Brother Jian Mo, you know that birds lay eggs and hatch them together, right?"
Jian Mo nodded. He is a veterinarian after all, and he learned it in school.
If bird eggs are laid and not hatched immediately, they will fall into a dormant period and can remain fresh for a period of time. Therefore, birds usually gather bird eggs and hatch them together after a certain number of eggs are gathered.
Ban Ming: "The kind of bird we are going to find will hatch five eggs each time. If there are not enough eggs in the nest, it will lay five eggs before hatching. So when it lays three or four eggs, we can touch away two of them, and then wait for it to lay more."
Jian Mo was amazed: "Can it be like this?"
Ban Ming: "Of course it can. Touching two eggs will not affect it at all, and it will not react. But if you touch too many, it will not be able to lay more. In agitation, it will push all the eggs in the nest out and smash them."
Jian Mo: "It sounds quite irritable."
Ban Ming was beside him. While showing a mouthful of big white teeth: "Yes, its name is Tyrannosaurus. What do you think? Brother Jian Mo, do you want to go with us? If you go, don't call the tribe leader."
Jian Mo smiled: "Then I'll tell him, okay?"
Ban Ming: "You can tell him, but it's better not to go out together. I always feel uncomfortable going out with the tribe leader."
Jian Mo: "Okay, then I'll tell him and we won't go out together."
Ban Ming nodded: "That's fine, we have found the place, it's over at Baishazhou. You tell the tribe leader, it's very safe there, there are no dangerous creatures."
Jian Mo told Wu Jiong that night.
Wu Jiong said: "The Violent Bird is indeed OK, and its eggs are also fresh, but it is quite fierce and will peck people."
Jian Mo: "Don't worry, I'll go with Ban Ming and the others, Xilu and the others will be there too, so nothing should really happen. The Violent Bird is not
big, right?" Wu Jiong: "It's about the same size as the purple bird we ate before."
Jian Mo understood, that is, it is as big as a duck: "That's okay, it's much smaller than us, and it shouldn't cause any serious consequences."
Wu Jiong: "Then you guys go, I'll tell Ban Ming."
Jian Mo: "Okay, watch me get a few more eggs and fry them for you."
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