【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 310: Primitive Tribe Chieftain Mother-in-law 30

Turn up the heat, add the crushed garlic cloves and ginger slices, and when the aroma comes out, put the fish head and fish fillet into the pot; stir-fry twice, pour in about a small bowl of cooking wine, half a spoonful of salt, and add three or four bowls of boiling water; wait for the fish head soup to boil and release the flavor, place the fish fillets one by one flat in the boiling soup; the fish fillets will cook quickly, so add appropriate amount of chicken essence, white pepper powder and pepper salt powder before serving.

Put the blanched wild vegetables in the basin, pour the soup of the fish fillets into the clay pot, add chopped green onion and coriander, and finally heat the lard again, add chili and Sichuan pepper, stir-fry until fragrant, then pour it on top to stimulate the aroma.

The boiled fish fillets were ready. Of course, she was the only one in the kitchen, and she wouldn't take things out of the space at will if there were too many people around.

Dry pot shrimp is even simpler. The tribesmen have helped to clean the river shrimp. Wash the iron pan, heat it, add oil, put in ginger, garlic, chili peppers and other spices, stir-fry until fragrant, then add shrimp and stir-fry. The last is steamed crab, which is even simpler. Just put a few slices of ginger on it and steam it. Pour some vinegar to eat with it.

For Ying's maternity meal, Yun Xi prepared two dishes and a soup: a large plate of beef brisket stewed with tomatoes, a bowl of egg custard and a pot of black chicken soup. The staple food was steamed yam.

Outside, Tao Zheng was telling everyone with a disappointed look on his face that he hadn't caught many prey.

"The cattle have learned their lesson this time. We only managed to capture a wounded calf, and the tribe devoured the meat in just two days." Tao danced excitedly, "We must think of other ways, like traps or something. I see the cattle are migrating southwest, and their movement has slowed down quite a bit lately. We must seize the opportunity."

Xue Qing said, "There are too many cattle in the herd, and we are too few to fight head-on. It would be better to split the herd and separate a few cattle from the main group, and then we can hunt together."

Tao's eyes lit up, "That's a good idea, why didn't I think of it?"

Xing suggested, "This will have a greater chance of success when the herd is resting."

Bingyu agreed, "When they're resting, the cattle aren't very aggressive and don't have a strong desire to pursue us."

"Try tomorrow."

"Okay, let's eat."

Yun Xi took a look at the fish they were grilling and it was almost done.

"Dinner is ready! I can smell the delicious food."

“The clan leader’s cooking is the best.”

“Rich in flavor.”

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Everyone was talking and queuing up to scoop up the dishes. Each person got four spoonfuls of boiled fish, twenty dry-pot shrimps and two steamed crabs, and five grilled fish per person, with children getting half the amount.

Xueqing, Bingyu and others who had just joined the tribe all looked incredulous. Not only was the food so plentiful, it was also so delicious. It was truly satisfying. They had made the right choice.

"Ying, here's your meal. How have you been these past two days? It's almost time."

Yun Xi looked at her belly. It was now the end of August and the fetus was already nine and a half months old. With her rich experience in delivering babies, she could tell that the child would be born soon.

"It's okay, I don't feel anything too bad." Ying said, "I guess I can stay for a few more days."

"Remember not to do strenuous exercise. Let the baby mature naturally. This will be good for both you and the baby." Yun Xi also started eating.

"it is good."

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The days passed by in the gathering and hunting. Ten days passed quickly. The people of the Yuncai tribe left with bricks and tiles. Yun Xi took her two daughters and son-in-law to deal with the soaked hemp. There seemed to be a lot of hemp, but not much could be made into clothes.

Turning plant hemp into linen is quite complicated and requires seven steps.

The first step in beating the hemp is to remove the thin fibers from between the skin and the stem. This process involves five steps: beating, peeling, washing, smoking, and scraping (cutting). Each step is meticulously performed to ensure the quality of the fibers.

Soaking hemp in water is to facilitate beating. After beating the hemp in water, impurities can be easily removed and the hemp fiber can be obtained.

The second step, bleaching, is quite simple. The fibers are bleached using a variety of methods, including water bleaching, sunlight bleaching, dew bleaching, limewater bleaching, and charcoal fumigation. After these steps, the hemp fibers become pure white ramie, which is then graded by quality and length.

Yun Xi usually uses the clean water bleaching method, which is the simplest and can quickly produce white ramie.

The third step, rolling the ramie into a ball, requires patience. The naturally bleached ramie is torn into pieces, rolled into strands, placed in a basin of clean water, combed into fine strands with fingers, and then rolled into a ball using a cylinder. This process makes the ramie more organized and more suitable for weaving.

The fourth step is making taro thread: taro thread is the weft thread for making cloth. Put the hemp ball in a bamboo bag, use bamboo branches or sorghum stalks to roll it into taro with small ends and a large middle, and then pull out the taro stick.

The fifth step is threading the buttons and applying slurry. Pass one end of the pulled thread through the shuttle one by one, string them together with bamboo strips, and fix them on the horn stand. Put the other end on a moving object, keep a certain distance between them, and then use a wooden tripod at the same height as the horn stand to spread the thread and apply slurry.

The sixth step is weaving, which is the core link of weaving. Weaving requires high craftsmanship. The force of throwing the shuttle and pushing the button should be uniform. The flat edge of the cloth should be woven smoothly and stretched, without any tear or breakage, and there should be no traces of thread breakage and joints. The vertical threads should be evenly sparse and dense.

The seventh step is rinsing and shaping. Rinse the woven cloth in the river water, then stretch it to straighten it, thread one end through a wooden stick and place it on a bamboo rack to dry. After drying, shape it. You can use a stone mill to roll it or place it on a wooden bench and use a wooden hammer to shape it.

Through these steps, the hemp fibers are finally woven into white linen cloth.

Safflower was everywhere, and the dyeing steps were too complicated to be completed in one day. Yun Xi simply crushed the safflower and put it in water. She soaked the white linen in the water and dyed it for 30 minutes, repeating this three times. Finally, she added a fixing agent and dyed it again and dried it in the shade three times to get pink linen.

The steps are simplified. If you are more strict, you can dye it pure red, but pink is also good.

"No! No! No!"

Xing gestured at Bing with the linen cloth, but little Bing frowned and refused repeatedly.

Xing was puzzled, "It looks great, don't you like it?"

Bing turned his head to the side.

Xing looked at Yunxi. Yunxi rested her chin on her hand and thought for a moment before asking Yue, "I remember you picked some indigo?"

"Yes, does the clan leader want it?" Yue nodded.

"The roots of Isatis indigotica are used as medicine, and the stems and leaves can be used for dyeing. I dyed my child's hair blue."

Practice makes perfect, and the blue linen was quickly dyed. Bing liked it very much this time. It was hard to tell whether the child really understood or was just pretending, but she acted as if she really did.

Yuhuahuahu and the two new children in the tribe, Xuejiu and Bingliu, were all envious.

Yun Xi asked Yue, "Have you distributed linen to the new tribe members?"

Yue nodded, "Yes, I sent it out. I was going to make new clothes for everyone, but after sending them all out, there are no more left."

"Bring the ones you want to dye, and I'll dye them for you."

"Great!"

Yun Xi didn’t mind the old linen clothes brought by the four children from Yuhuahu Lake and the new linen brought by the other two children. She dyed them all and waited for them to dry.