Desert Island Survival: I took my concubine and raised wolf cubs

Chapter 36
The two little rabbits, one male and one female, just happened to be left to be raised. When they grow up, they can continue to breed rabbits.

As for the two big rabbits, just kill them and skin them for meat.

While others were building a rabbit nest, Wen Xian and Fang Jiaren each picked up a big rabbit and walked to the beach.

Slaughtering a rabbit is not troublesome, but skinning and tanning the skin is troublesome.

Animal fur is very warm, especially rabbit fur, which is very popular among women.As long as you use the right techniques, the skins of these two rabbits can be made into two good skins.

They were living on a deserted island with only the clothes they were wearing, so it would be very difficult for them in the winter.

Now I have the opportunity to start collecting furs, hoping to make a fur coat by myself before winter comes.

Wen Xian did the work of slaughtering and skinning the rabbit. Fang Jiaren helped hold the rabbit's hind legs, while Wen Xian carefully stabbed the rabbit's neck.

The blood released from the rabbit's neck was dug directly into a hole and buried on the spot. It was not put into the sea, nor was it given to Xiao Huihui to eat.

Although the sea is calm now, as long as the smell of blood continues, there is no telling what strange things will be attracted.

Wen Xian would not do such a risky thing.

The little Huihui in the satchel was still small, and she didn't want the little Huihui to be stained with blood too early, so as not to arouse the wolf nature prematurely and have to find meat for it to eat in the future.

They have no meat to eat themselves, let alone a pet.Moreover, once the wolf becomes carnivorous, it will become dangerous for them to live together day and night.

After draining the blood from the two rabbits, Wen Xian began to skin them.

Peeling off the skin was not a difficult task for a medical student like her.She peeled off the skin completely with three strokes, and she was sighing at the good craftsmanship.

But she didn't know Fang Jiaren's horrified expression when he saw her skilful skinning and looking at the rabbit skin with a mysterious smile on his face.

Wen Xian didn't know what Fang Jiaren was thinking, so she handed the skinned rabbit to Fang Jiaren and said, "I'll tan the skin and leave the rest to you. Can you take out the internal organs and bury them, and then wash the rabbit clean?" . One is cut into pieces and stewed, and the other is taken back whole to make roasted whole rabbit."

She actually wanted to make diced chili rabbit, but there was no oil and other seasonings, so she had to give up the idea for the time being.

Fang Jiaren took the rabbit with both hands and nodded quickly: "No problem, ma'am, just leave it to me."

Although she had countless questions in her mind, such as why Wen Xian knew how to tan skin, and why she was so skilled at dissecting rabbits.

However, she didn't dare ask.She could only hide all her doubts in her heart and start working.

Wen Xian chuckled lightly, without intending to comfort Fang Jiaren, and began to prepare the skin.

The leather tanning process is complicated, usually involving washing, cooking and cutting the leather before it can be sewn into leather jackets, leather trousers and leather mattresses.

First of all, a sulfate mineral called Glauber's salt is used to wash the skin.

In "Compendium of Materia Medica", "This thing will disappear when it sees water, and it can also eliminate all things, so it is called Xiao. It is born in the land of salt brine and looks like powdered salt. The skin of all cattle and horses needs to be cured and cooked, so it is a common saying today." It is also known as saltpeter and skinpeter.”

Glauber's salt can also be used as a traditional Chinese medicine, which can treat "stagnation of excess heat, abdominal fullness and pain".

But there is no Glauber's salt right now, so Wen Xian has no choice but to use the oldest method to tan the skin.

As early as a long time ago, smart people among the ancients, when tanning skin, first rubbed the skin with their hands, scraped it with a bone knife, and ground it on stones to make it softer.

The ancestors who lived near the sea accidentally used the saline-alkali soil that was close to the sea and was rich in salt and nitrate. After repeatedly rubbing the leather, they were surprised to find that the leather became softer, wrapped more closely around the body, and could be cut with a sharp stone knife. It cuts open.So, they twisted the bark into a rope, threaded the rope with bone needles, and then connected several pieces of animal skin together, and leather clothing was born.

It is this original skin tanning method that Wen Xian is imitating now.

She first chose a beach, grabbed some dirt from the beach, folded it and rubbed it on the rabbit skin.Of course, put the soil on the skin side and rub the skin, not the rabbit fur.

Fortunately, rabbit skin is not big, so although it is laborious to knead it, it is easier than other large animal skins.

It's just that no matter how small the skin is, it still takes a lot of time to carefully knead all aspects.

After Fang Jiaren cleaned the rabbit and cut one on the stone nearby, he saw that she was still rubbing the first rabbit skin.

So, she said: "This is the step of tanning the skin? Madam, can you teach me, and I will do this."

The smell of greasy rabbit skin is unpleasant, but under the current conditions, no matter how uncomfortable it is, you have to endure it.

However, Wen Xian shook her head and said: "No need, I will nitrate the rabbit skin in my hand first to see the effect. If the effect is good, then nitrate the second one. If the effect is not good, then think of another way. You take the rabbit meat first Just go back, make lunch and call me again.

Remember to boil one of the eggs laid by the pheasant yesterday for Jingwan.There is also sea urchin, and you can make steamed sea urchin eggs. "

Although she has been busy these past few days, she is still working hard to help the pheasant find bugs to eat, and from time to time she also picks up a few dead clams to add to its meal.

Therefore, pheasants still lay eggs diligently.Except for being frightened and not laying eggs the next day after being caught, they laid eggs every day.

After hearing what she said, Fang Jiaren had no choice but to give up.After returning the dagger to her, he walked back with a piece of rabbit meat in a banana leaf.

Roast rabbit can't be done without salt. Try not to eat the coarse salt in the earthen stove where water is boiled.

But this time, Wen Xian asked Fang Jiaren to take some to marinate the rabbit meat.Scoop out the rest first and wait until she gets back.

There isn't much salt in the earthen stove now, so she plans to boil some more and then combine them to refine the salt.

Thinking of this, Wen Xian couldn't help but shake her head, she really couldn't rest for a moment.

After rubbing the rabbit skin in my hand, it became much softer.She poured away the soil, then picked up the dagger and began to scrape the grease on the rabbit skin.

Scraping grease is a technical job. The grease is close to the skin. You have to be very careful when scraping to ensure not to scratch the rabbit skin.

Of course, Wen Xian still believes in the accuracy of her years of studying medicine.Although I was nervous when shaving, I managed to finish a piece of rabbit skin before lunch.

Looking at the rabbit skin that had been shaved and greased, Wen Xian raised the corners of her lips with a satisfied smile on her face.

After grease scraping, the next step is to clean the fur.She shook out the rabbit skin, went to the beach, soaked the rabbit skin in the sea and washed it.

There is no suitable place at the moment, so I can only simply clean it first.

Before the cleaning was finished, Jiang Lingling's voice was heard from far away.She was running over here, calling her to go back for lunch.

Wen Xian's eyebrows were curved, and she pushed the broken hair blown by the sea breeze to her ears.Then he picked up the rabbit skin from the sea and shook it into the water, ready to take it back to dry.

As for the remaining rabbit skin, she would come over and continue to process it after dinner.

(End of this chapter)