Go back to the valley to farm

Chapter 517

Chapter 510 Eighth Sheath

Xiaomei looked at the scene of Li Junge and Ayin playing the flute and pole on the bamboo raft in the TV, and said: "This place is really beautiful. It is like a painting from the lake. You said that if we also find a place How beautiful would it be to live a small life in a place like this?"

Zhu Chaoan's face turned pale with fright: "Honey, you don't take it seriously, do you? That's Ayin Erpi and the others. Look at the other couples. Who is not half-starved and eats chaff and vegetables, and their lives are almost like primitive people. , then who in Russia is driving sheep with stone axes all over the mountain..."

Speaking of this, Xiaomei couldn't help laughing: "It's true, you have to be able to get it today, the Argentine couple haven't had sex since they came to the island..."

Zhu Chaoan laughed wildly and slapped Sim Mengsi: "You don't look carefully, who said there are no frogs, you worked so hard to catch a few frogs, and you vomited immediately after taking a bite!"

Xiaomei laughed loudly: "Where do you think Piwa learned all these strange skills? Nothing can be troubled! Even pickles have been made a few jars!"

Zhu Chaoan thought for a while and said: "Everything really has roots. I heard that there are many things such as resin buckets, collecting firewood, finding bamboo shoots and digging wild vegetables. These were the daily routines of Lijiagou and Miao Village in the old days. Let's not talk about farming. , Building bamboo buildings was originally his major in college; fishing and prawns is a skill he has learned since he was a child; he must have come from his fourth grandpa for eloquence; he must have learned pottery making from his grandfather; Uncle Orion must have taught us how to run a trap in the mountains; Uncle A Chong must have stolen his carpentry from Uncle A Chong; Uncle Pharmacist must have learned how to dig out honeycombs for herbs; Grandma has been learning for more than a year, and the six-year-old child in Miao Village is an expert at playing bamboo flute and reed sheng..."

Xiao Meilai was in Zhu Chao'an's arms, and her finger circled his chest: "Be careful, you are learning everywhere. We are in Lijiagou. We see these things as normal things and don't take it seriously. It turns out that we have learned everything by hand." , and the performance is extraordinary."

Zhu Chao'an said: "This kid has been different from others since he was a child. He can tell the truth about everything. I was crushed by him at that time. He always said that I was 'learning without thinking' and 'dung. Wall', do you know the anguish of having to find someone to translate after being scolded? Hehehe, he thought I was a bully. Later, I found out about a couplet, which stumped him all of a sudden, and never dared to be arrogant in front of me again. !"

Xiaomei propped herself up and looked at her husband with admiration: "So powerful? Can you still make a match? Hee hee hee, I don't know how you behaved at Aunt Liangzi's wedding?"

Zhu Chaoan said: "Why don't you believe it anymore? Let me tell you, he has been thinking about this pair for more than ten years, but he still hasn't matched it!"

Xiaomei said: "I've never heard you say this before, let me tell you quickly."

After a story was told, Xiaomei laughed until she burst into tears. She caught Zhu Chaoan and beat her up: "You rascal! Kill you rascal!"

Zhu Chaoan held Xiaomei's little hand: "Don't make trouble, look, cooking starts..."

After finishing the meal, Xiaomei lay on the bed looking at the stars, and said faintly: "Honey, I'm a little hungry..."

Zhu Chaoan also looked at the stars and said, "I'm so hungry, you only watched it once, but I watched it twice..."

Xiaomei said: "Why don't we order two bowls of noodles? It's agreed that it will not be an example. It's too hateful. From now on, we can't watch this show in the middle of the night!"

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When it was dark, Li Junge lit the candles, and A Yin picked up the fired Wumingyi under the candlelight, while Li Junge dug out the flattened half-dried palm leaves and cut them to decorate the arrows with tail feathers.

After finishing this, Li Junge smiled at A Yin: "Okay, but this arrow can only be shot for fun. When I have time, I will make it for you with a bamboo tube. The front section is made of hardwood, so the center of gravity is more suitable for shooting fish and birds. No problem, Ayin, are you going to shoot goats? If you want, I will press some flint arrows on you..."

Ayin interrupted Li Junge, and said: "Erpi, we are not just on the island anymore. We don't need to make arrows so lethal. We can use your big bow for self-defense. I use this for practice. Treat it like a sport.”

It made sense for Li Junge to think about it. He thought it was weird to ask Ah Yin to hunt in person, so he didn't say anything more, and instead installed the bottom ring for the bucket bowl.

Put the bottom ring in place, put the bowl on the shelf and hang it upside down to dry in the shade, Li Junge went to put away the pigskin again, and the two of them went into the house to rest.

No.30 nine days.

It rained again at night, although it wasn't a heavy rain, but it didn't stop until the two of them got up in the morning, and the rain continued.

Li Junge turned to A Yin and said, "It's over, I can't play anymore."

A Yin said: "Then what should I do? How about I teach you how to play the flute?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "Well, I think about what to do more fun, by the way, why don't you make the scabbard!"

A Yin said, "What about you?"

Li Junge looked at the center of the shed, and murmured: "This height should be fine, and I don't want to wait any longer. I'm here to burn charcoal. The firewood in this shed will not be able to pile up. It would be good to reduce the inventory a little."

A Yin laughed and said, "Don't burn down the shed."

Li Junge said: "How can I, I will pile up a firewood pile half a meter high."

As soon as he said it, Li Junge took out the fish skin and pig skin and handed it to Ayin, asking her to cut out a large size according to the format of two knives. Ready to paste two kinds of leather.

The best fish skin is pearl fish skin. Pearl fish skin is not the skin of any pearl fish, but the back skin of a stingray or manta ray.

There are calcified protrusions on the surface of these fish, which are shaped like pearls. In addition, they do not have a dorsal fin, so larger skins can be obtained, and they have always been the top grade for making scabbards.

The mullet skin is not good, it is too thin, and then it is cut into two pieces by the dorsal fin, which cannot completely wrap the knife, so it can only be used as the side or back inlay of the scabbard.

However, this job is similar to that of a female celebrity insole, so A Yin can't help it.

Li Junge cut out a shape with a piece of wood compared to two knives, and then handed it over to her and left it alone.

On the other hand, he wore a bamboo hat to pick up the wet mud, and prepared to have a big fight with Cheng Mui.

First, four firewood piles were piled in the middle of the room, mainly waste bamboo meat, split into small pieces two fingers wide, with some hay sandwiched, and four cone-shaped firewood piles were piled up.

Then put some more dry leaves on the outside of the firewood pile and start applying mud on the outside.

After laying, there are four small mounds, one top hole is left on the top, and six bottom holes are opened at the bottom of each small mound.

Stuff a bunch of hay in the top hole and light it, and the fire starts to burn slowly down the bottom.

It's simple to say, but it takes a lot of time to do it. Li Junge did it all morning.

Ayin first cut off a piece of pigskin, folded it in half, wrapped it with a knife, removed the excess, then opened it, cut off the mullet skin, which is a circle smaller than the pigskin, and pasted it on the opened pigskin with fish glue In the middle, spread the leather on the wooden table, take a heavy object to press it, and then start cutting the leather.

After the machete skin is cut and glued on, take out the knife just now, and press the cut pigskin on the fish skin.

In this way, the two scabbards are made alternately, and the leather of the scabbard will be glued after one morning.

After doing this, the two began to eat.

While eating, Li Junge wandered around the four charcoal kilns. When he saw that the bottom hole of a charcoal kiln started to see the fire, he blocked that bottom hole with thin mud.

The six bottom holes are all blocked, and the charcoal in the charcoal kiln is almost completely burned, and then the top hole is also sealed and simmered.

A Yin looked at Li Junge washing his hands, eating, and getting muddy again, and said with a smile, "Can't you do it after eating?"

Li Junge turned his head and said with a smile: "Life waits for no one, I am a craftsman!"

Ayin smiled slightly, and didn't bother to care about him.

After dinner, Ayin said to Li Junge: "Craftsman, the leather of the scabbard has been glued, and you need to drill the hole next, and I will get the thread!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "Then you go to rest, I will do this!"

A Yin said: "I'm not tired today, so I won't rest. I'll continue picking stones."

So Ayin continued to pick stones, and Li Junge took out a ruler, marked the holes evenly on the leather, and punched holes in the leather of the scabbard with a fine drill.

A Yin was still reminding: "There is still a place for the buckle to be stamped, don't forget it."

Both of them were doing meticulous work, and when Li Junge finished, the two changed hands, Li Junge chose the unknown, and A Yin took out the twine, beeswax, and crochet needle, and began to put on the scabbard.

Put the inner circle first, then nail the pigskin circle, fish skin and bottom pigskin together.

Sew the belt buckle on both sides, press the leather strip of the knife, and make the seam strip, then fold the leather in half in the middle, clamp the blade mold in, smear the edge with fish glue, glue the scabbard together, and press it with a heavy object. superior.

Then do the same with the other scabbard.

It's still in rotation, wait for one to be pressed, take out the other, and start sewing with thread.

After sewing the thread, Ayin took out the knife mold, replaced it with a small knife and inserted it in. The knife-pressing strip was flipped off from the top of the scabbard, and inserted into the gap between the side leather strip and the scabbard to tighten it. He handed it to Li Junge and said: "Two Pi, how about a look?"

Li Junge took over the scabbard and looked it over. The back of the scabbard is made of mullet skin with flowers on both sides, and the outer edge is a circle of pigskin. The twine is tightly sewn. He couldn't help but praise: "Beautiful!"

He took a hemp belt and fastened it to his waist through the buckle. With his fingers, he pulled out the knife belt from the slit, pulled out the knife gently, inserted it back, and put the knife belt through the slit again. Tighten the other end and say, "That's a nice design! There's no metal clasp, so that's fine!"

Ayin said: "It's just that there are four layers of leather exposed on the bottom of the side, which is not very good-looking."

Li Junge smiled and said: "This is not yet finished, I will polish the edges to be smooth and regular later, and seal it with lacquer, so that it will be as beautiful as possible!"

Ayin smiled and said, "It's fine if you like it, I'm worried that you won't like it!"

Li Junge smiled and said: "How can you not like such a good craftsmanship? But you still have to make two belts."

A Yin said: "The belt is ready-made, just tie it around the waist and you're done?"

Li Junge smiled and said: "That's so ugly, I'll weave two buckles out of thin rattan later, and you make them out of leather! Then we'll each have one buckle."

(End of this chapter)