primitive survival evolution

Chapter 230 Ink Making
The autumn wind is a bit cold, blowing in the woods, rustling.

Autumn is here, and many trees are starting to wither and turn yellow, but the forest where Li Yan lives is green.

A bunch of needle-like crowns are very emerald green. This is a pine tree.

Pine trees are evergreen trees, and even in the cold winter, its leaves are emerald green.

Pine is also a very useful wood. Its pine oil can be used as medicine and can also be added to various chemicals. It is characterized by being flammable and can be used as a combustion aid, while pine is not easy to rot and prevent water seepage. However, when pine trees burn, they produce a lot of black smoke.

boom!
boom!
The dry pine trees were cut down one after another, and Li Yan led his people to cut down the pine trees here.

"We have to hurry up and get it done before the beast tide comes."

"Yes, patriarch."

After Li Yan finished speaking, he held a bundle of pine firewood and put it on the shelves on both sides of a Diplodocus's back. Although Diplodocus's combat effectiveness was poor, it had strong mobility and carrying capacity, and it was a large beast with high cost performance. Humans, especially they are easy to tame, so Li Yan tamed ten Diplodocus as the main transportation beast of the tribe, basically all Diplodocus in this area were tamed by him.

The tall Diplodocus stands in the pine forest, only one joint of its foot is a little higher, it is a giant, and it is particularly conspicuous in the pine forest.

suddenly--

brush
A sound of kicking leaves sounded from the far left, Li Yan quickly put down the work at hand and looked there.

In the sparse pine forest, there were two huge mammoths approaching from a distance, and there was a familiar person on both mammoths.

After the two mammoths approached.

Li Yan smiled and said, "Patriarch Lianshan, what a coincidence? Are you here to hunt?"

"It's almost a wave of beasts. What are you hunting for? Our Lianshan tribe made a batch of fruit wine, and my mother asked me to send some to other tribes. I'm going to your tribe!" the Lianshan patriarch replied.

The mother of the Lianshan patriarch is the cousin of Li Yan’s grandmother. Although the two clans are far apart, they have always maintained a friendly relationship. They will give some delicious food to each other to maintain the relationship. Li Yan invented hot sauce in the past. , was also asked to do so by the old grandmother.

"My mother is in the tribe. I'll send someone to go back with you. I have something to do." Li Yan replied,

"Well, I also rushed to other tribes, and I didn't stay long." Patriarch Lianshan replied.

Li Yan arranged for a member of the tribe to accompany the leader of the Lianshan tribe back to the Jiang tribe, and then he continued to cut down pine trees with the tribe.

After felling for more than half a day, Liang Long's shelves couldn't hold any more, so Li Yan took his tribe back to the Jiang tribe on Liang Long's back.

When they returned to the Jiang Tribe, Patriarch Lianshan had already left, and many tribes were very busy as the beast tide approached.

This year's beast tide seems to have come later, and the crops in the tribe have all been harvested. Around the valley, those tyrannosaurus piranhas have grown up, and a dense row guards the valley, even a tyrannosaur can hardly break in.

Speaking of the date of this world, after several years of research, Li Yan found that this world has only 360 days a year, it seems that the days of spring, summer, autumn and winter are all fixed, even the sun and the constant position in the sky The moon operates at a fixed time. Li Yan wanted to know the secrets of this world more than once, but he had no clue.

Li Yan and his clan transported the pine firewood to the woods in the industrial park.

There is a triangular thatched hut here. To be precise, it is a triangular thatched roof that is supported on the ground. The inside is covered with a layer of paper, and the front and back are sealed with grass walls.

In front of this thatched shed is a furnace, which is square in shape, and a long pottery chimney extends into the thatched shed.

"burn!"

Following Li Yan's order, the two clansmen began to light a fire in the furnace, and soon, pitch-black pine smoke penetrated into the shed from the chimney, and the shed was soon filled with black smoke.

After burning for an hour, Li Yan ordered the chimney in the shed to be plugged.

On the second day, Li Yan came here again with tools and opened the greenhouse.

The shed was pitch black, and a thick layer of black ash had accumulated on the flat paper areas on the shed walls.

Li Yan scraped some off with his fingers, and found that the black ash was very fine and dark in color.

"Yes, Not Bad."

"You help to scrape off these black charcoal ash, this is called pine smoke, you remember."

Li Yan hastily ordered his clansmen to scrape off the soot inside and collect them in clay pots.

After collecting three pots of black pine smoke, Li Yan smiled with satisfaction.

Then, he took the pine smoke and went to a nearby yard.

There is a large clay pot in the yard, and there is a light yellow jelly in the pot, which has cooled down at this time.

"Patriarch, according to your request, I removed the hair and meat from the animal skin, and then stewed it to produce something like this. I think they look like lard. Is this for eating?" A clansman hurried away Let's talk.

"You can't eat it. It's called animal glue. It can be used to make ink, and it can also be used as glue. In the future, we will add animal glue to replace rice water in papermaking." Li Yan replied.

After speaking, he ordered someone to go to a can of animal glue, and then squatted in a corner to start making ink.

Animal glue is stewed and concentrated from animal skins. This animal glue, also called gelatin, is a water-soluble jelly.

It is very simple to make ink, just mix soot and animal glue together, the best soot is tree smoke, pine smoke is fine and dark in color, and animal glue is a coagulant.

Li Yan mixed pine smoke with animal glue, and soon got a black ball, which was very black and sticky.

Li Yan washed his hands, and then took a small piece of mud from the black ball. In fact, this is already ink, the kind of ink used for writing in ancient times. It is still wet now, but if it dries in the shade, it will become Dry ink, when you use it, grind some ink, add some water, and it will become ink.

Put the removed small piece of mud into the clay cup, then pour in an appropriate amount of water, and stir it with a branch. Soon, the water in the clay cup turns into pitch black ink.

Li Yan ordered someone to fetch a piece of paper and a chicken feather.

He wrote a few words with chicken feathers dipped in ink, and the words could be clearly written on the paper. Seeing this, Li Yan nodded in satisfaction.

Now that the ink has been made, it is not difficult to make a brush, as long as the animal hair is bundled together and embedded in a piece of bamboo.

Then, Li Yan used this method to make a brush.

Although you have to dip in ink every time you write with a brush, it is much more convenient and practical than engraving bamboo books.

"Well, the few of you will be responsible for making inks, brushes, and pottery inkstones in the future. This factory is called a stationery factory."

Li Yan finished arranging the work of the clansmen, then walked out of this courtyard, and soon came to Jiangcheng.

He had heard reports from some people that the clansman had a disease recently, so he wanted to go to the hospital to see those patients.

(End of this chapter)