mtl008 Chapter 174: The same idea as the ancient Chinese
Chapter 174: The same idea as the ancient Chinese
Artis had already prepared breakfast.
Xiaomo ate a few bites in a hurry, then finished weaving the rest of the cloth with Artis.
After working for most of the day, the fabric was finished.
Attis took the lotus stem and began to break it to extract the silk.
The stem of the lotus is relatively moist, so it is easy to pull out the lotus fibers inside after breaking it.
"Artis, can the silk inside the lotus stem be used?" Su Xiaomo was shocked.
"Sure," Artis said, "but the process of making lotus silk is more complicated, and the material is a bit harder, so it is used to make decorative flowers."
Xiaomo felt like she needed to get to know Artis all over again.
There is silk in the lotus stem, and it can be made into cloth?
She had never heard of these.
There is also a lotus pond in my city. I went there and just looked at the beautiful lotus flowers, but I never pulled a lotus stem.
It is not allowed in the park.
Xiaomo looked at Attis, took out four lotus stems, and broke them together. Sure enough, lotus threads were revealed inside.
With a twist of the hands and a little force, the long lotus thread was pulled out.
On the flat stone slab, rubbing it with your hands will produce a white line.
"I want to try it too," Su Xiaomo ran over excitedly, "This is fun, this is the first time I've seen it."
Artis was helpless.
I originally wanted to let Xiaomo have a rest and just stay with him.
But she wanted to do everything.
Artis handed Xiaomo a lotus stem.
She is small, so just pull one.
Su Xiaomo directly took four pieces of thread that Artis had twisted with four lotus stems. She had to pull them one by one and twist them again with great effort. It was much easier to do it in one go.
"Artis, I'll do this," Xiaomo said with a smile, "You can take care of the other things."
There weren't many places to use the lotus silk, and Artis didn't pick many lotus stems, not enough for Xiaomo to play with.
The white thread made from lotus silk has a fresh fragrance of lotus, and it smells like you are in a lotus pond.
Spider silk has its own fragrance, as well as the scent of lotus. This piece of clothing will surely attract a swarm of butterflies.
Su Xiaomo was looking forward to it.
If you do something you are interested in, you will finish it faster.
Soon, Xiaomo took out all the lotus threads.
Attis wove lotus silk cloth, picked many beautiful flowers, squeezed out the flower juice and dyed the cloth.
"Artis, I never realized," Xiaomo said, looking at the serious Artis, "you actually have so many skills."
If it were in modern times, with such a handsome, muscular man who has so many skills, Su Xiaomo probably wouldn't even be able to look at him.
There would be so many people surrounding us that we wouldn't be able to squeeze in.
"Xiaomo, these are all inspired by you," Artis said with a smile, "In the future, the Lion Clan will devote all their energy to developing more advanced technology and living a better life."
"Artis, when we settle down, we can make more things together," Xiaomo said, "such as paper, ink, and medical skills. There are so many things that we can realize little by little."
"Okay," Artis nodded. "I've always wanted to know about the paper and writing you mentioned. Can we write down what we say?"
"Of course," Xiaomo said with a smile, "In our original world, there are many countries and various languages, and they can all be written down, that is, text."
Unfortunately, Xiaomo can only write Chinese.
I can speak English and Japanese, but I have almost forgotten them.
Ha, it would be good if we could teach all the beastmen in the beast world Chinese language and Chinese characters.
Besides, she didn’t even have a dictionary with her, and she couldn’t learn all the Chinese characters by herself.
"Xiaomo, don't move yet." Artis said behind Xiaomo. He used a string to measure Xiaomo's size. "I'll mark these sizes first, so it will be easier to cut."
"Artis, in fact, if you were in our place, you would be very impressive," Xiaomo said seriously, "You made a wedding dress in seven days without any fabric, starting from scratch. That's amazing."
"Don't joke," Artis said with a smile, "If I go to your world, I won't know anything and will be regarded as a monster by others."
"I'm talking about ability," Xiaomo looked at Artis who was dyeing his hair, "His ability is definitely stronger than many people in our place, but the two worlds are completely different, so it was difficult for him to adapt in the past."
Xiaomo had long given up the idea of returning to modern society.
In just a few months, she got to know Artis and his family and felt their love.
Even if I return to modern society, I will never accept the love of another man.
And when Attis and his friends returned to modern society, they couldn't adapt.
It’s better to be a little fairy in the animal world, which is more worth looking forward to.
After cutting the cloth, Attis went to the waterfall again to retrieve the jade he had picked up.
It turned out that Attis placed the jade under the waterfall and used the impact of the water to wash away the dust on the surface of the jade.
The wet jade stones are as bright as the stars in the sky.
Xiaomo was very much looking forward to seeing how Attis carved jade.
Xiaomo knows very little about jade.
Although she had seen videos of others carving jade, and it was all handmade, they were all modern techniques and required the use of many tools.
Jade is hard in texture, so it would have been difficult to make it into exquisite ornaments in primitive society.
"Xiaomo, these jades need to be processed in a place with flowing water," Artis said to Xiaomo, "Will you accompany me to the downstream of the waterfall?"
"Sure." Xiaomo agreed happily. She had long wanted to see how Atis processed jade.
Xiaomo followed Attis to the downstream of the waterfall.
On the rocks by the water, there was something like a long table.
There are many kinds of round, thin pieces that look like iron hanging on it.
Su Xiaomo felt that these seemed similar to the jade-making tools used in ancient China.
It should be used for polishing jade.
But these are all methods thought up by our Chinese ancestors. Attis is an orc in primitive society, but his ideas are the same as those of the ancient Chinese?
It seems that all the stupid methods are similar.
"Artis, are these tools already there?" Xiaomo asked curiously.
At least, before she came, the Lion Tribe had never developed iron ore. So what are these iron-like metals?
"No," Attis smiled and said, "In the past, when we made jade, we would use grinding stones to polish the jade. Since you forged iron objects, I asked the guards to remake tools for processing jade. They are very useful."
After saying that, Artis walked to the long table and sat down.
The feet stepped on the wooden pedals under the table, the iron rollers started to roll, and the sound of jade being polished was heard.
A thin stream of water flowed down the table, immediately washing away the impurities from grinding, and also cooling the iron roller, so there was no need to worry about it getting electrified and heating up due to friction.