Chapter 190 (1/2)

It's not easy to make leather boots.

First of all, raw animal skins should be tanned into leather.

It was the easiest step to get animal skins. In primitive society, there were many kinds of animal skins. Ye Xi gave up conventional leather materials such as cowhide and sheepskin, but chose a kind of ant eating tapir skin.

The animal's skin is more durable and more resilient.

Soak the peeled skin in a bucket for about four days. Take out the soft raw skin and clean the fat and meat foam on the skin with a stone knife. The skin of an ant eating tapir does not grow hair, so the hair removal procedure can be omitted.

Then we need to use the chemical solution mirabilite solution.

Mirabilite is a kind of sulfate mineral, which is formed naturally in salt lakes and other places. Later, Tu Shan asked the secret of Huangbo's salt production from the slaves, and knew that their tribe had found a salt spring.

Ye Xi spent a day to take some natural Glauber's salt from this salt spring and made it into mirabilite solution.

The next step is to make leather.

In the Green Valley, ye Xiqing came out of a piece of land and asked everyone to help build a stove.

Setting up a stove is a simple job. Originally, ye Xi asked ordinary men in the tribe to help, but cangpan soldiers, who knew about it, were very active in holding stones to build the stove.

”Come on, come on, let's do this. You can do something else.” Cangpan squatted on the ground with a smile and built a stone stove.

Qi was half kneeling on the ground to grind the stones so that the stones could fit better. He said to the men without lifting his head: ”yes, you can do other things.”

Cones, minks and porpoises all pushed over with stones, pushing these ordinary men aside.

These men are not willing to go.

They finally had a chance to help Ye Xi do things. They heard that they were going to make a pair of ”leather boots” that would not hurt their feet. How could they be willing to go? At the beginning, cangpan and their experience of making salt were shown off by them intentionally or unintentionally.

But cangpan and they were all soldiers of the tribe. They did not dare to disobey them, so they could only look at Ye Xi with the eyes of praying.

Ye Xiqing coughed: ”I'll ask you for help later. You'll have to wait.”

They were relieved.

A simple and honest man said to Ye Xi: ”if you have any work, please tell me, we can do anything!”

”Good.” Ye Xi nodded with a smile.

With so many people working together, the stove was set up quickly, and the fire under it was soon set up.

Ye Xi said to the simple and honest man: ”now I need a stone bucket. Help me to get a stone bucket from the cave.”

”OK!” As soon as the man's eyes lit up, he would go.

But at this time, a group of soldiers rushed to the cave like an arrow leaving the string, which disappeared for a while.

Men can only look at their strong back, messy in the wind.

Ye Xi shook his head, some speechless.

It's just to make a pair of boots. They look like they're building rockets.

The stone bucket was quickly taken, and ye Xi put it on the fire, and then poured the mirabilite solution into it. After the heat is heated to a temperature slightly higher than the body temperature, wring the skin dry and putting it into the pot.

A group of people around him looked serious from afar.