NFBE Chapter 222 Continuing to Make Soap
Chapter 222 Continuing to Make Soap
Chapter 222 Continuing to Make Soap
The colder the weather, the earlier it gets dark.
It turns out that after dinner, we have to wait a while before it gets dark.
Now, while Xing was cooking dinner, Jiang Luoluo glanced outside and saw that it was still lit. But after dinner, she couldn't see any light at all.
Ke came to see Jiang Luoluo once during dinner and brought some jam. She was relieved to learn that Xing would be with Jiang Luoluo during this time.
After Ke left, Xing put the wooden doors away as well.
Jiang Luoluo stood in front of the wooden door, feeling the occasional cold wind seeping in through the cracks.
"Xing, let's cover this place up."
Wooden doors are made of spliced wooden boards with no connecting parts in the middle, and it is impossible to achieve a perfect fit.
In addition, many of the wooden planks had been used for too long and were warped, and the gaps between the planks had become larger and larger. Previously, Ge had obtained new wood to make wooden plank doors, but the wood needed to be processed and could not be used directly. Those few new planks were placed under a pile of things in the cave against the wall to serve as shelves.
When Ge returned from hunting, Jiang Luoluo felt it was time to take out the wood and see if it could replace the old wooden door.
When it's hot, these gaps act as ventilation openings, but when it's cold, they only lower the temperature inside the cave and let in gusts of cold air.
Although Jiang Luoluo could tolerate the current temperature in the cave, she would be happy if the temperature inside the cave could be kept a little warmer.
Since we had plenty of animal hides and linen at home, and since we had dinner, went to bed a little early, had nothing to do, and some free time, we pulled Xing together to sew a large door curtain.
The curtain was made in a two-layered style, divided into three large pieces, and nailed directly to the wooden boards on both sides using broken pieces of Earth Star Stone as nails.
Because the wooden planks in the middle need to be moved during the day to make room for people to go in and out, the curtain in the middle is not fixed and is kept falling by the force of being pulled on both sides.
Jiang Luoluo felt uneasy, so she made a hook and hung it on the protrusion above the cave to support the weight of the curtain in the middle.
The curtain was made in two layers: one layer of loose, breathable linen, and the other layer of thick, windproof animal hide.
During the day, the animal hide in the middle can be lifted and hung aside, leaving only a layer of linen curtain.
The linen is not tightly woven and has a high light transmittance. Although it cannot completely block out the cold wind and air outside, it is still a guarantee, and there is no need to worry about it being too dark in the cave.
If it gets cold, you can also put down the animal skin layer. Although it will darken the light, it's still better than moving the wooden door around, saving a lot of trouble.
After spending a considerable amount of time getting the curtains ready, Jiang Luoluo and Xing went to bed to prepare for sleep. Since the feathers hadn't been washed and couldn't be used yet, they slept on animal skin rugs tonight.
Nestled in Xing's arms, Jiang Luoluo fell asleep peacefully and warmly.
Before falling asleep, Jiang Luoluo suddenly realized that the reason she felt cold at night was because no one held her while she slept!
Ge was willing to hold Jiang Luoluo while sleeping, but Jiang Luoluo felt that she wasn't a child at heart and was a little embarrassed, so she never agreed.
Ge assumed that the cub was more "independent" and didn't think much of it, little did he know that Jiang Luoluo was simply embarrassed.
The next morning, when Jiang Luoluo got up, Xing had already cleaned the cave thoroughly and prepared breakfast, waiting for her to get up.
Thin rays of sunlight shone through the linen curtain at the cave entrance into the cave. Without a clock to tell the time, Jiang Luoluo couldn't quite tell whether she had gotten up too early or too late.
However, it gets light very late in the morning now, so using the previous sunlight to tell time is no longer very accurate.
"Xing, you're up so early." Jiang Luoluo finished washing up and sat down to eat breakfast.
Xing smiled but said nothing.
Because of congenital weakness in her legs, Xing is unable to awaken her beast transformation and rarely leaves home. In order not to add more burden to her parents, she gets up earlier every day to help finish all the chores at home.
Jiang Luoluo didn't think too much about it; she just said it casually and quickly changed the subject without waiting for Xing's reply.
"Xing, how are those things? Have you seen them?" Jiang Luoluo looked curiously at the place where the grease was placed yesterday.
The view was a bit low, so I couldn't see what was happening over there. I was eating and didn't feel comfortable getting up, so I asked Xing.
Xing cleaned up the cave in the morning, so she must know the situation there.
Xing's expression froze. "Luo, you should go see for yourself later."
Jiang Luoluo couldn't imagine what problems might arise, since there were simply too many possibilities.
Hearing Xing say this, he didn't rush to get up. Instead, he obediently finished his breakfast, cleaned up the dishes and chopsticks, and then dried his hands to check the condition of the grease mixture that had been left out yesterday.
To be honest, Jiang Luoluo couldn't see anything wrong with it either.
It was still muddy like yesterday afternoon, with some minor changes, but only a small part, so they weren't very noticeable.
Jiang Luoluo wasn't sure if it was because the time was too short or for some other reason. Since Xing was going to Rong's place for an art class today, Jiang Luoluo decided to postpone it for another day and see what happened.
If things remain the same tomorrow, then it's a failure.
Although Jiang Luoluo felt that she had already failed this time, she still had to give it a chance to prove itself.
What if it's just a "late bloomer"?
……
After sending Xing to Rong's house, Jiang Luoluo sat in on the art class for a while and found that her comprehension skills seemed to be insufficient—she clearly understood some things, but it was as if she didn't quite understand them.
So he slipped and ran to the barber's house next door. The barber's house was as lively as ever, and most of the people were wearing their glasses.
As soon as Jiang Luoluo arrived, she was pulled aside and talked for a long time, mostly about the rabbit ear hat on her head. After hearing that it was warm, several quick-witted tribesmen immediately made several hats on the spot.
After trying them out one by one, they found them to be really useful and warm, so they all went home to get the materials and prepared to sew one for themselves.
Anyway, they're just idling around, and making things won't interfere with their talking and chatting.
Jiang Luoluo also saw Li here, and the little girl was learning about making glasses by following Li's instructions.
Upon hearing this, Jiang Luoluo leaned closer to hear what was going on, and then she heard a bunch of theories about different types of myopia, what kind of glasses to wear for each type of myopia, and how to determine what kind of myopia they had.
There are no technical terms; they are all quite simple and direct adjectives.
But the shock it brought to Jiang Luoluo was considerable.
Shaking her head, which had been nourished by knowledge, Jiang Luoluo left behind a bunny ear hat she had made before escaping from the sea of knowledge.
This is terrible! How come I just skipped art class and now I have to go to physics class?
I picked Xing up at noon and took her home for lunch. In the afternoon, Xing went back to class, while Jiang Luoluo, like a street urchin, went to another place to bother other people.
"It's so warm here," Jiang Luoluo exclaimed, her face flushed from the heat of the stove.
He was observing the burning, reddish-brown liquid metal without paying any attention to Jiang Luoluo.
Watch intently as the molten metal is poured into the mold and slowly solidifies.
A tense atmosphere settled in. Jiang Luoluo didn't know what Zao was doing, but she didn't dare to speak anymore. She silently followed along, observing and waiting for the result.
And here, it's not just about creating oneself.
Some of the clansmen, whom I didn't know, were also of similar age, each doing something similar to what I was doing.
It was only from the slightly different colors of the liquid metal in their hands that it was clear they were not dealing with the same metal.
"Who are they?" Jiang Luoluo remembered that when she came here last time, there weren't so many unfamiliar tribesmen.
"I'm already quite old, I can't be the only one doing all this," Zao said calmly, glancing at the cub.
That was actually what she thought at first.
Until he realized that she wanted to try so many things, and he was all alone, there were so few things he could do and it was so slow... For him, the thing he lacked most was time.
So, Zao took a step back and asked the witch to bring some people over to study these things with her.
What made Zao very happy was that this task was not difficult, at least much simpler than making stone tools, and she didn't have to worry about anyone not being able to learn it.
Currently, there are only some elderly retired clansmen here, but the shaman has already promised to build it. Once the first batch of results is completed and confirmed to be usable, he will arrange for some younger clansmen to come and learn about and take over the work at the kiln.
Inheritance...that's wonderful, she has inherited something too.