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Chapter 9 Straw Sandals

Drowsy, Wang Wei just leaned against the wall and fell asleep.

The first time he fell asleep in such an environment, he was more or less uncomfortable.

I didn't know how long I had been sleeping, but I woke up from the cold.

I groped and added some evening charcoal to the fire pit, and increased the fire a little, and soon the temperature inside the cave rose again.

Looking out of the cave, the silver-white starlight shone brightly outside through the reflection of the snow.

Wang Wei noticed before entering the cave. Although the weather was very clear, there was no moon in the sky. I don’t know if it was because today was the beginning of the moon or the end of the moon or there was no moon in this world.

Thinking randomly, Wang Wei fell asleep again without realizing it.

When he opened his eyes again, it was already bright outside.

Many people have woken up in the cave.

One by one, they crouched together to keep warm.

The temperature in the morning seems particularly cold, both inside and outside the hole.

Because he slept against the wall, Wang Wei hadn't had a good sleep last night. Now he was so dizzy that he wanted to make up for another sleep.

I shook my head, threw this lazy thought behind me, and shoveled some fire in the fire pit to make a fire with the bone shovel next to the fire pit.

When Tongshu and pine cones saw that Wang Wei had risen, they all followed him out one after another.

Both of them were very curious about the ability to make fire with ice, and they both hoped that Wang Wei could teach them as soon as possible.

In winter, because the temperature is low, the moisture in the air condenses, so the air also appears particularly dry.

Many people are prone to getting angry in winter, with dry lips and frostbite in their hands and feet. A large part of the reason is caused by dry air causing lack of moisture in the skin.

In summer, you throw a bunch of weeds outside. When you wake up the next morning, you will be full of dewdrops, but this situation will not happen in winter.

The sword thatch thatch collected by Pinecone and the others for Wang Wei was baked by flames and was mostly free of moisture. It was not moistened by dew at night. When I came out, I looked much yellower than yesterday.

Collect a piece of sword thatch around the embers and rub it with your hands without any grass juice being squeezed out. Wang Wei felt that these sword thatchs were already available. Of course, if they could be dried for another day, the effect would be better.

"Wang, Wang Wei, today, the sun is out. Teach us to use ice to make fire!" Pinecone ran over and squatted down.

"Wait until the sun rises a little, I will raise the fire first and warm the cave a little, otherwise I will be angry when the pine trees wake up and eat me again." Wang Wei said while setting the sword thatch together.

After hearing this, the two looked at each other with some disappointment, and then returned to the cave.

It was still very cold outside. Although it was covered with animal skin, it was impossible to take care of both hands and feet.

Especially when your feet are frozen, they are like needles pricked in the snow. Although they will lose their intuition after freezing for a while, when they are roasted by the fire at night, the itchyness that makes people want to chop off their entire feet.

Last night, the Pine Tree and the others grabbed their feet until they fell asleep in the middle of the night after their eyes were not hurt.

There was basically no good piece of meat on the whole feet.

Fortunately, they had this experience of frostbite in their hands and feet two years ago, so they would not have vented their anger with Wang Wei.

During this period, some people in their tribe were fantastic about wrapping their feet with their skins, but after wrapping them, they had to keep pinching the skin with their hands, and the skin would spread out as soon as they loosen their hands.

The feet are not like the body. Dig a few holes in the animal skin and put them off the head without worrying about the animal skin falling off the skin.

The feet are trampled on the animal skin below, and there is no place to hang it.

Even if the animal skin is tied to the feet with rattan, the smooth calves are thick at the top and thin at the bottom, and the animal skin still falls off after being tied for a few steps.

Tong Tree has also tried to stick animal skins to feet with tree oil in the woods.

Unfortunately, the time for tree oil to condense was too long. I did it many times but failed, so I had to give up helplessly.

It is precisely because the feet are always exposed outside and are prone to freezing, that people like to keep huddled in the cave and dare not come out.

You should know that when it was hot before, they had just dawned, they went out to hunt.

Unlike now, I would rather be hungry than come out. I have to wait until the fuel is gone and the fire is about to go out before I can go out to collect wood.

The fire soon began to grow, and Wang Wei also shoveled out a lot of the ashes in the cave fire pit and replaced it with a new fire.

The temperature inside the cave quickly rose, and the fire outside gradually became stronger.

People in the cave came out one after another.

Although they had eaten very full last night, people still had strong digestive ability. Now, they all feel hungry again.

The half-tug-of-saw-drawn pig, which was simply covered by snow, was quickly pulled out, and the pine tree threw it directly into the fire.

It seems that I plan to finish it early in the morning.

Sure enough, when the serrated pig was burned half-baked, the pine tree took the lead and feasted.

From his behavior, he could not see what saving limited resources means, nor how to maximize the utilization of these limited resources.

He just ate his fill, then threw the remaining pork to the pinecone and the others back to the cave to continue sleeping.

If an ordinary person does this, of course it is understandable. However, as the leader of a tribe, his decisions affect the fate of the entire tribe. It is a little more violent and selfish, but it is very inappropriate to do things like this and ignore future behaviors.

At least, Wang Wei was unwilling to hand over his life to such a leader.

The leaders of the tribe did not save food, and the rest would not worry about it. They rushed forward and quickly finished all the remaining pork.

Wang Wei really couldn't grab food like a wild beast. Fortunately, when Tong Tree and Pine Cone saw that he was not fighting for food, they helped him tear a piece of meat the size of a fist after eating.

After eating the food, everyone returned to the cave one after another.

When the fire gradually became smaller, the outside of the cave was not as warm as inside.

Pinecones and tung trees came over with the ice plates made by Wang Wei yesterday.

Wang Wei looked at the sun and thought it was almost the same. He inserted the meat on the side of the fire for barbecue. He taught the two of them how to use convex lenses to cause fire.

Point the mirror flat to the direction of the sun, then move back and forth, concentrate the light on the object that needs to be burned, forming a small, shiny and dazzling light spot. Finally, stay patient and wait for the temperature generated by the light spot to ignite the object.

There is nothing to say about such a simple thing.

After teaching them step by step twice and telling them the tricks of not blocking the sun with their hands or heads, the two of them lit up all the wooden sticks they prepared.

Seeing the two of them being excited as if they were 1.8 meters tall and shouting and dancing there, Wang Wei had already started to deal with the cooked barbecue.

In the backstage of the system, as the two of them ignited the small wooden stick again and again, the shock points of the system continued to increase.

After eating, Wang Wei went to the stream to wash up.

The ice layer that was broken by pine cones and the others yesterday did not condense into ice because of the constant flow of water.

Seeing this phenomenon, Wang Wei estimated that the temperature should not be very low now, at least it will not be lower than minus five degrees.

Because if the temperature is lower than this, although the stream water is flowing all the time, at this flow rate, the water surface will gradually freeze after a night.

After washing up, Wang Wei looked at the little firewood left after he brought back yesterday, picked up some straight wooden sticks with thick and thinness on his hand, polished them on the stone, and then used the stones to knock them into the soil with effort.

Although the soil layer on the surface has been thawed by Wang Wei with fire, the temperature cannot be transferred in deeper places.

Although one end of the wood has been sharpened, it is still very difficult to drill when it hits the frozen soil below.

Fortunately, the wooden sticks didn't need to be knocked too deeply. It took about twenty minutes before Wang Wei finally knocked all the wood into the soil.

Nine wooden sticks slightly thicker than their hands were fixed to the ground.

A wooden stick in the middle protrudes extra, while four wooden sticks on both sides expose the ground with a punch a little more than a distance.

What Wang Wei made was very simple, just a simple straw sandal rake.

Nowadays, in many old houses in rural areas, you can still see straw sandals and rakes hanging on the walls.

As the name suggests, straw sandal rake is a rake used to help weave straw sandals.

This rake looks like the nine-toothed rake used by Zhu Bajie, but its teeth are generally straight.

According to the customs and techniques of different places, straw sandals are divided into nine teeth and seven teeth. Generally, the middle one is longer and the teeth on both sides are lower.

Wang Wei heard that there were three-tooth and five-tooth straw sandal rakes in some places, but he had never seen them with his own eyes.

Wang Wei is naturally not idle when he does this thing.

He joined the tribe as backup rations.

If you don't show your useful and valuable side, maybe when the pine tree is on a whim, you will throw it into the fire and cook it.

The easiest way for a stranger to live in a strange tribe without an emotional foundation is to make the tribe feel that you are useful, even to the point where you are completely inseparable from you.

It is not difficult to find out from the pine trees their barefoots and frostbite with pus flowing from it, because the cold winter suddenly came, and they have not found the right warmth measures.

After all, they have been running around barefoot for more than ten years of their lives.

At this time, if Wang Wei woves straw sandals so that their feet can prevent frostbite from continuing to worsen, it goes without saying that Wang Wei's embarrassing position of spare food will definitely change.
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