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Chapter 25 The Stone Axe Project

"The upper is double-line, so it won't be airtight. The sole should have been replaced by wood, but now we can't meet the conditions, so we just go to the fourth line and braid it a little thicker. As long as we don't wade, there is no problem. At the beginning, it's a cross braiding method, just like braiding. Okay, you don't braiding, but the technique is like this, you're good..." Wang Wei said beside the fire.

Six women surrounded Wang Wei and looked at his technique carefully.

In this process, Wang Wei either stared at the straw sandals or tried to look straight.

Although these tribe members are black and thin, and look a little malnourished, the characteristics of women are still very obvious.

The two balls hanging on the chest were very eye-catching without being blocked. It was not that Wang Wei had any special thoughts about them, but that whenever he glanced at them, he would always look at them uncontrollably.

This is human nature, like a piece of white paper with a black dot drawn on it. No matter who it is, you will first look at the black dot, but you must know that the black dot accounts for less than one percent of the white paper.

The same is true for looking at people. No matter how you look, if you look at them at first, you will always see some more prominent features.

For example, buck teeth, such as large moles on the face, or cross-eyes.

Before traveling through time, even in the hot summer, people hid the ball under their clothes. Once they were accidentally exposed, it was definitely the most eye-catching and prominent feature.

Compared to buck teeth, cross-eyes are countless times more eye-catching. After all, whether it is buck teeth or cross-eyes, they are placed on the table for people to see casually, unlike balls, they are usually hidden so deeply.

Therefore, although it has been several days, Wang Wei still has not adapted to this kind of life of the balls coming and going in front of him.

Maybe after a while, Wang Wei will get used to this kind of life, but to be honest, this kind of scene will have a relatively strong impact on him.

No matter in which era or country, women are always more suitable for this simple and single mechanical labor.

Of course, this place is no exception.

The craftsman of rubbing straw ropes has long mastered it, so after briefly teaching it, Wang Wei started to teach everyone how to weave straw sandals.

In front of the six women, each with a simple straw sandal rake. Wang Wei explained various techniques to them in detail and demonstrated them at the same time.

Unlike straw sandals worn in summer, the requirements for straw sandals in winter are more stringent, and there should be no gaps in the sole or upper to avoid airflow and freezing to the feet.

Hundreds of straw ropes and thousands of steps can make a pair of straw sandals. This complexity sounds like it will make many people feel timid.

But in fact, after mastering this craft, you will find that this is actually a very simple thing.

It’s like paving a road with bricks. A road worth hundreds of meters is spent on thousands of bricks to pave it slowly. It sounds so complicated that it makes people feel troublesome.

In fact, when it comes to making, it is nothing more than laying a brick first, then laying one piece. Slowly, accumulating the bricks into tens of thousands of pieces as small as possible.

After learning the beginning, the following is nothing more than repeated mechanical movements. In just one morning, several tribe members were able to make a simple sole.

However, the soles of the shoes were woven out, and at the end of the slightly more complicated ending, they had a very difficult grasp.

Wang Wei has taught him more than ten times, but only one tribe member has barely learned it.

At this time, Wang Wei also weaves a pair of straw sandals and comes out.

Reward this pair of straw sandals as a prize to this tribe who has learned to finish the soles of the shoe to stimulate everyone's ambition.

Sure enough, when they saw their companions get straw sandals because they learned to weave shoes, their eyes lit up.

They opened their eyes wide and used twelve minutes to learn and remember Wang Wei's techniques.

The sky was drowsy, and Wang Wei didn't know how long it had passed.

Although the fire was burning, Wang Wei's hands were still not as flexible as usual.

Wang Wei was so cold in clothes, and the few tribe members who were naked and learning to weave straw sandals naturally became even colder.

Fortunately, Tongshu and the others pulled back a lot of swords and thatchs in the morning. After drying the moisture on the surface, they could barely keep warm while sitting in the haystack.

While weaving straw sandals, Wang Wei was thinking about how to maximize the use of sword thatch.

In the valley, sword thatch is everywhere.

After the snow melted, Wang Wei discovered that apart from the woods, most of the green in the valley was paved with sword thatch.

However, because of the rapid cooling of the climate, most of the sword thatch is sick and looks like it will rot at any time.

However, this is not a big problem for Wang Wei. The temperature is very low now, and it takes time for plants to rot. Just pull out the sword thatch, dry it over fire, and then keep it dry, so they can naturally prevent them from rotting.

After the experiment of making straw sandals and laying beds in the past few days, Wang Wei also found that sword thatch does not have any obvious harm to the human body. After drying, the slightly sharp grass blade will curl up and will not cut the body. At the same time, the dry sword thatch also has a very strong warmth.

Based on these characteristics, the function of these sword thatch is not limited to making straw sandals.

Wear it with a rope and tie it to your body, which can completely replace the animal skin and become a turf jacket that can drive away the cold and keep warm.

Spread on the ground, it can be made into a warm grass nest for sleeping.

If matched with wood, it can be made into a simple thatched hut.

Not only practical, but also very wide-ranging.

However, if you want to do these things, you must have a lot of sword thatch.

Without tools, the tung trees and the others will pull them out clusters, let alone laying grass nests, just making grass skirts for the tribe members is far from enough.

Moreover, the weather is too cold now. If you want to dry the sword thatch quickly, you can only use a fire to do it.

However, there are no scattered dead trees in the nearby woods.

There are quite a lot of trees that have collapsed by the snow, but if you want to cut them into small pieces of firewood, you need tools to do it.

Thinking of this, Wang Wei gradually had a clear idea in his mind.

First, you have to make a stone axe.

With the stone axe, the tung tree and the others can cut down the trees directly and save time in finding dead trees in the forest.

At this time, they can draw more swords and thatchs back.

At the same time, sufficient firewood also provides guarantee for the drying of sword thatch.

As there are too many sword thatchs, you can make a few more turf coats yourself.

People who wear turf jackets and straw sandals don’t have to fear the severe cold outside, so there will be more people who log and pull weeds.

When these tribe members trapped in the caves by the cold were liberated, they could cut down more wood, pull out more grass, and free up more people to go to the mountains to find dead animals.

After sorting out his thoughts, Wang Wei went to carry the stones he picked up yesterday.

Several tribe members were learning to weave straw sandals and saw Wang Wei bringing over a bunch of stones and knocking them, and they were a little confused.

It seems that only children like to smash stones. Wang Wei is so powerful that he can weave straw sandals and can roast meat that is not battered, but he actually plays with stones.

The stones on the mountain are relatively strong. After Wang Wei struggled to break a few pieces, he picked out some stones with relatively good shape and size from them.

I picked some handy wooden sticks from the firewood pile, and the women stared at them with strange expressions.

"What are you looking at? Look at your hands. The soles of the shoe are all off-the-shelf. You have finished the wrong ending. If you leave a single line, how can you connect the upper later? Don't laugh at others. Look at how big your shoe soles are? Is such a big soles for elephants?" Wang Wei said with a stern face.

Then, they corrected the wrong places and asked them to practice on their own. They asked themselves if they didn’t understand.
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