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Chapter 401 Fish Scale Armor
After Wang An cut off a strip of the cloth jacket, he suddenly realized that it was not appropriate to just cut it like that.

The reason why the soles made of cloth are strong is not just because the cloth itself is strong. At least half of the credit lies in the densely packed fine linen ropes.

It's a thin linen rope, not ordinary thread.

Because to put it simply, making shoe soles means repeatedly and densely sewing fine linen ropes on several layers of cloth.

Therefore, if you want to make the dog's armor strong, you don't need to use thin linen ropes, but you must sew the threads densely like sewing shoe soles.

So Wang An took two pieces of cloth and walked towards the sewing machine.

With the sound of "dang dang dang", the two pieces of cloth were tightly tied together by the sewing machine.

And the distance between each two needle holes is only about two millimeters.

A cloth jacket is usually made of 3 or 4 layers of cloth glued together, but Wang An's cloth jacket is made of 5 layers of cloth.

The main reason is that Wang An’s family has too much cloth.

The more cloth there is, the more new clothes there are. With too many new clothes, the old clothes will basically be turned into cloth jackets.

Normally, the soles are made with 5 or 7 layers of cloth. It’s not that we don’t want it to be thicker, but if there are too many layers, the soles will be deformed.

The reason why Wang An used two layers of cloth was because he also had to take into account the thickness and weight of the wild boar skin.

In fact, Wang An could imagine that after such armor was made, the weight would definitely not be light. If it was worn by a dog, it would definitely reduce the dog's flexibility.

But if you have to choose between reducing flexibility and saving your life, you must choose the former.

After sewing the cloth jacket, Wang An first cut the cloth jacket into strips. However, when Wang An gathered the cut strips of cloth jacket together, he found that this thing was really fucking hard!
If this is installed on a dog, the dog's waist may not even be able to bend.

So Wang An thought about it and cut the strips of cloth into square pieces.

Because Wang An suddenly thought of fish scales, and there was fish scale armor in ancient times.

In this way, the dog's flexibility can be guaranteed to the greatest extent possible.

Then Wang An took a pile of square cloth pieces and cut pig skins and walked towards the sewing machine again.

In this way, small pieces of cloth were stuck to the wild boar skin.

Of course, Wang An made it like fish scales, with one piece pressing on the other half-pulled, not spreading it flat.

After an hour of sewing, Wang An finally made a piece of dog armor.

I have to say that the way a tailor does needlework is different. Although the material of this armor is rough, it looks beautiful and generous.

As soon as he finished making the armor, Wang An ran towards Dahei outside the house.

Dahei looked at Wang An in confusion, not knowing what Wang An was going to do. After licking Wang An's hand a few times, he just stood there obediently wagging his tail.

Wang An looked at Dahei wearing armor and felt that it was a good thing at first.

Not counting the dog's belly and back, also including Dahei's shoulders and the area above the base of Dahei's tail can be protected.

But after a while Wang An found that the armor was not very strong when worn on the dog and it was easy to spin in circles.

The main reason why it is easy to go in circles is that the armor is barrel-shaped. When the dog is running or fighting fiercely, the armor is likely to usurp the position.

After thinking for a while, Wang An decided to add a piece of deerskin with eyes to each of the four corners of the armor. In this way, the dog's four legs can be inserted into it, just like a person wearing pants, to achieve the purpose of fixing the armor.

The reason why we use deerskin is that only deerskin is so soft that it won’t rub your legs.

Although deerskin is soft, it is also a very strong leather.

So Wang An took the armor off Dahei again.

At this time, Liu Guilan, who was working in the yard, came over, looked at the armor on the dog, and immediately understood what her eldest son was doing.

Because Liu Guilan also heard what Wang An and Wu Dong said.

So when Liu Guilan saw so many cloth jackets that she had worked so hard to make being cut into small pieces and reassembled, her face was obviously filled with heartache.

However, Liu Guilan did not say a word of objection. She thought for a moment and gave Wang An some advice:

"Xiao An, you have to find a way to protect the dog's neck, otherwise what should we do if the big claw bites the dog's neck?"

Although Liu Guilan lived a somewhat frugal life, this was not actually a disadvantage, because most Chinese women of that era were experts in thrift and housekeeping.

Many of her actions that seem a bit too stingy are not because she wants to be stingy, but are actually forced by life.

You have to know that before Wang An was reborn, Wang An's family was not living well. If Liu Guilan wasn't so stingy, the whole family would have had to starve.

There is a saying that goes, "One who doesn't manage the household does not know how expensive firewood, rice, oil and salt are." So although Wang An feels helpless about his mother's usual frugal behavior, he absolutely understands it, because in Wang An's heart, his mother is, no problem!
Besides, Liu Guilan never slacked off when it came to important matters.

Hearing what his mother said, Wang An also frowned. No matter whether it was a tiger, leopard or lynx, when hunting prey that was equal to or larger than itself, the usual trick they used was to strangle the prey.

Although for a tiger, it doesn't need to bite the neck when killing a dog, because it makes no difference if it bites anywhere.

But it must be said that if the dog's neck can be protected, the dog's safety can indeed be greatly increased.

However, the flexibility of a dog's neck is much higher than that of its waist, because a dog may twist its neck to look around at any time.

At this time, Wang Dazhu, who was also working in the yard, came over.

Then the three of them looked at the dog's neck and fell into deep thought almost at the same time.

In fact, when Wang An heard Liu Guilan say to protect the dog's neck, he immediately thought of the spiked collar used in later generations. Unfortunately, he didn't have electric welding, and he didn't know if the blacksmith in the village could make one.

After a while, Wang Dazhu suddenly said, "The thing used to protect the dog's neck can't be too wide. It's best if it can keep the big paws out of its mouth."

When Liu Guilan heard this, her eyes widened and she said:

"Yes, then just nail the nails upside down into the board, and then sew the board to the leather, and that's it."

I have to say that the idea Liu Guilan came up with is quite good.

Wang Dazhu nodded subconsciously when he heard this, and said in agreement: "Yeah, this thing is really a good idea."

At this time, Wang An said to his parents: "Dad, Mom, I'm going to see Luo the blacksmith to see if he can make a barbed iron ring."

As Wang An spoke, he turned and walked out of the yard.

(End of this chapter)