Chapter 7： make bone

Now that we have a house, stocking up on food has become a top priority.

It is autumn now. There are many wild fruits and vegetables on the mountain, as well as a lot of prey. Naturally, there is no need to worry about food.

But Jiang Xuan knew from memory that it would snow in Nanhuang.

Once winter comes and the mountains are covered with snow, it will be very difficult to find food.

If you don't prepare food for winter in advance, you will face the risk of starvation at that time.

Therefore, it is necessary to reserve enough food in advance to deal with the coming cold winter.

Jiang Xuan thought for a long time and focused on digging roots and fishing.

The tuberous roots of plants can be stored, and fish can also dig a pond and raise them directly until winter. Once it snows, there is no need to worry about the problem of food spoilage.

The most important thing is that these two kinds of food are relatively easy to obtain and in large quantities.

If you want to dig plant roots and ponds, you must make a suitable digging tool. Otherwise, you need to dig with wooden sticks and hands. When will you dig?

Jiang Xuan thought about it carefully, and finally decided to make two bones (sì).

The shape of the bone scorpion is similar to that of a shovel. It is a tool specially used by tribal people to dig soil.

The materials needed to make the bone scorpion are: the shoulder blade of an artiodactyl, a sharp stone for drilling a hole, a straight wooden pole, and a rope for tying and fixing.

These materials are not difficult to obtain.

A few days ago, the lasso trap under the red peony caught a deer-like deer, but with very short horns. The meat had been eaten, but the bones were left, including two very wide shoulder blades.

The shoulder blades of cloven-hoofed animals are roughly triangular in shape and grow like a shovel.

Jiang Xuan found these two shoulder blades, took them to the stream, and found a rough stone to smooth them.

"Crack clap..."

By the creek, Jiang Xuan was grinding a shoulder blade with all his might, and from time to time he poured some water on it with a bamboo tube to wash away the bone meal from the stone.

"Xuan, what are you grinding animal bones for?"

Chi Shao came over curiously and asked Jiang Xuan.

"Make a bone stalk."

"You know how to make bone stalks?" Chi Shao looked at him in surprise.

"I saw people in the tribe have done it before. I want to try it. If we can do it successfully, it will be much more convenient for us to dig traps and wild vegetables in the future."

As Jiang Xuan said that, he continued to grind it. The animal bone is relatively hard, and it takes a long time and a lot of effort to grind it flat.

Chi Shao saw that there was a scapula next to Jiang Xuan, so she went up to pick up the scapula and said, "I'll help you grind this piece."

"it is good!"

Jiang Xuan didn't refuse. If he finished grinding the two shoulder blades by himself, it would probably take a whole day.

With the help of Chishao, the time can be shortened by more than half.

"Xuan, let's help too."

Uncaria, Shiloh, and Nanxing also came, and everyone wanted to contribute.

Jiang Xuandao: "Nan Xing, go and help me make some ropes. It needs to be woven from bark, thin and strong."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Nan Xing immediately ran to find a suitable thin bark to rub the rope. Children in this living tribe have been doing it since childhood, and it is not complicated.

A ten-year-old is when he has the strongest desire to express himself. He is very happy to be able to help others.

Jiang Xuan said to Uncaria and Shiloh again, "Go and help me chop two small trees, and choose the kinds of trees that are used as stone spears. The trunk is three fingers thick."

"Okay, let's cut it now."

There are many shrubs outside the bamboo forest, some of which are very tough, suitable for spears, and also suitable for wooden handles of bone scorpions.

Uncaria and loach found a few sharp-edged gravels by the creek, and then cut down the trees.

With the efforts of the five people, after half a day, all the materials for making the two bones were prepared.

The scapula has been ground flat, the wide end is very thin and sharp, and four holes are drilled with sharp stones in the middle, two on the left and right, for threading ropes to fix the wooden pole.

Nanxing, the string woven by tree bark, has already been twisted, and Jiang Xuan is very satisfied with the rope he has twisted.

Two straight small trees have also been cut back. Uncaria and loach have also stripped the bark, planed the surface with stones, and made wooden poles.

Everything is ready, then it's up to Jiang Xuan.

Can he succeed? Chi Shao and the three teenagers are looking forward to it.

"let's start!"

Jiang Xuan took all the materials into the bamboo hut, rubbed his hands excitedly, and started to make bone stalks.

In fact, the two wooden poles are best dried in the shade before use, so that they are not easy to crack and deform, but after drying in the shade for at least a month, Jiang Xuan can't wait that long.

He put the wooden pole on the fire pit and used the flame to quickly bake it.

After the wooden pole is burned, the moisture on the surface evaporates quickly and then carbonizes.

After the surface of the wooden pole was slightly charred, Jiang Xuan removed the wooden pole from the fire, took a look, and pressed the slightly bent part while it was still hot.

After the wooden pole is cooled, it is basically set, and it is not easy to deform again.

Next, Jiang Xuan cut one side of the bottom of the wooden pole into a flat surface with a sharp-edged gravel block, so that it could fit better with the ground scapula, and on the other side, two grooves were cut to fix the rope.

If there is no groove, the rope will be easily displaced and loosened with a little force when using the ossicle.

After processing the wooden pole, Jiang Xuan put the flattened side of the wooden pole on the shoulder blade, and continued to cut the uneven part until it fits perfectly.

Then, he used the twisted string to pass through the drilled hole in the shoulder blade, wrap it around the groove on the wooden pole, and then wrap it layer by layer.

Every time he made a turn, the two strands of the rope crossed once. When he finished wrapping the rope and tying the knot, the wooden pole and the shoulder blade were tightly bound together.

"All right!"

Jiang Xuan held the bone in both hands and tried to wave it a few times.

"Xuan, you are really amazing, you can do anything!"

Uncaria, Shiloh, and Nanxing, the three teenagers cast their admiring glances at Jiang Xuan.

Jiang Xuan built a bamboo house, made a bamboo bed, and now he made a bone stalk, which is really amazing.

Jiang Xuan was also quite proud in his heart, and said modestly: "It all depends on everyone's help, otherwise I can't do it alone."

"its not right…"

Chi Shao frowned slightly, UU reading www. uukanshu.com She looked at the bones made by Jiang Xuan and felt that there was something missing.

"What's wrong?" Jiang Xuan put away his pride and asked in surprise.

Chishao pointed to a few inches above the connection between the shoulder blade and the wooden pole: "Here, there is still a short horizontal wooden pole. I remember that it can be stepped on with a foot, saving effort."

When Jiang Xuan thought about it, it seemed to be the case, and he said shamefully, "I forgot the crossbar. Thanks to my sister's reminder, I'll add it."

The end of the small tree that Uncaria and loach cut back was still there. Jiang Xuan used a sharp stone to cut it down in two sections, each about twenty centimeters long.

He peeled off the skin of the two short rods, baked them again, flattened the side where the long rod and the short rod touched, and fit them together, and cut a groove on the other side, and then used a string to tightly fasten the long rod and the short rod. tied together.

After finishing, Jiang Xuan checked it first, and then handed the bone to Chi Shao: "Sister, do you see anything missing?"

Chishao put Gushen on the ground and stepped on the short pole with her foot. With the strength of her foot, Gushen's shovel quickly sank into the soil. She pressed the long pole, and a piece of soil was easily pried up.

Chishao smiled with satisfaction: "Xuan, you have done a good job, as good as the bone stalks I used in the tribe before."

With his sister's approval, Jiang Xuan finally breathed a sigh of relief, with a happy smile on his face.

The three teenagers also took turns to try the use of Gu Si, and they admired Jiang Xuan even more, because in the tribe, the people who can make these tools are often adult warriors.

After learning from the experience of the first one, Jiang Xuan successfully manufactured the second one.

With these two bones, Jiang Xuan can finally start the next plan in his mind - fishing.