inspire-indiana Chapter 14 Finding Materials
Chapter 14 Finding Materials
Lin Baiyan nodded, indicating that he understood.
He looked in the direction where the gathering team was assembled, and secretly made up his mind that he must find more food resources.
Leave a few male orcs and sub-orcs behind to guard the cubs and old orcs inside the cave, and also to polish the deer bones left over from yesterday.
Wolf Cang led twenty orcs to hunt in the plains.
Lin Baiyan and Tu Lin led the sub-beastmen into the forest once again.
First, several sub-orcs were assigned to continue digging bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest. Autumn is the time when plants grow and bear fruit, and there are plenty of bamboo shoots, so they can store more food.
Hearing Lin Baiyan's words, Tu Lin was somewhat worried, "But if we collect so much, it will be wasted if we don't store it properly."
In the world of orcs, waste is a very serious matter. Resources are scarce, and orcs take every bite of food very seriously.
Lin Baiyan explained, "We can dry the bamboo shoots into dried bamboo shoots so they can be preserved for the whole winter without spoiling."
Tu Lin's eyes lit up, and he asked as if to confirm, "Won't it spoil all winter?"
"As long as you make sure it's completely dry." The young man nodded.
Hearing Lin Baiyan say this, many sub-beastmen rubbed their hands together, seemingly eager to go and collect bamboo shoots.
“Then let’s send more people over. Let Lu Xiao and Yang Ye lead them to gather. The rest of you come with me to find new food.” Tu Lin looked at Lin Baiyan with a questioning gaze.
The young man pondered for a moment and nodded. There were a total of nineteen sub-beastmen this time, five of whom were sub-beastman cubs like Lin Baiyan, while only fourteen were adults.
“Then we will split into three teams of eight people each, with Tu Lin, Yang Ye, and Lu Xiao serving as the team leaders for your respective gathering teams.”
"Just like you said, Uncle Rabbit Forest, Yang Ye and Lu Xiao will go gather bamboo shoots. You and your team can go pick some mushrooms or chestnuts." He still felt it wasn't appropriate to call Rabbit Forest by his first name directly, so he changed his form of address.
It's been raining for the past few days, so the air in the forest is very humid. There should be quite a few mushrooms there.
Lin Baiyan pondered for a moment, then quickly finished explaining the tasks to the collection team.
After Yang Ye and Lu Xiao led their respective teams to collect the vines, the young man asked Tu Lin, "Uncle Tu Lin, do you know where there are any vines that are relatively tough?" He still hadn't given up on weaving baskets.
Yesterday, the beastmen struggled a lot to carry the bamboo shoots back; if they had baskets, it would have been much easier.
Bamboo can indeed be used to make baskets, but it requires cutting bamboo, removing nodes, and splitting it into strips... The steps are too complicated, and they don't have any sharp knives to use.
So Lin Baiyan decided to settle for second best and planned to first weave a pattern out of vines.
At first, Tu Lin felt a little awkward when the young man called him "uncle," after all, Lin Baiyan was now their priest, while he was just the captain of a gathering team. But gradually, as Lin Baiyan called him that more often, he got used to it.
Tu Lin was a little confused. "What is resilience?"
Realizing they might not know the concept, the young man rephrased it as, "It's a vine that's not easily broken but can be bent."
Upon hearing Lin Baiyan's explanation, Tu Lin suddenly understood, "Oh, that's what it means."
He thought for a moment and said, "Yesterday I went to look for some green vines around the toothed leaves, and they should be similar to what you described."
Tu Lin pointed eastward, "Just keep going in this direction, and you'll see it in no time."
Lin Baiyan was very happy to hear what he said, and carefully remembered the place that Tu Lin described, as well as the general appearance of the green vines. "Okay, then I'll go take a look."
"What do you need this for? We haven't reached the time to dry animal hides yet." For the past few days, the forest has been overcast, with very little sunshine.
Lin Baiyan smiled. "It's not for drying animal hides; I want to weave baskets."
"Basket weaving?" Tu Lin asked curiously. "What's basket weaving for?"
As Lin Baiyan walked, he said, "The basket can be used to carry food, which can save a lot of effort."
Tu Lin didn't understand what the basket Lin Baiyan was talking about was, and nodded as if he understood.
Lin Baiyan said with a smile, "Once I make it, you'll know what it is."
The young man greeted Tu Lin and began searching in the direction Tu Lin pointed. Before long, he arrived at the place Tu Lin had mentioned.
Lin Baiyan found the green vine, which was very similar to the one described by Tu Lin. It was somewhat like the willow vine from his previous life, except that the branches were much thicker than willow twigs, about the thickness of a finger, and it grew very densely on the tree, which was just right for weaving a basket.
He pulled down a large vine branch with all his might and tugged hard. This vine was just a branch on the trunk and was not easy to pull off. He looked around for the right angle, climbed up the trunk, took out the stone knife that the cubs had sharpened yesterday, and began to cut the connection between the vine and the main vine.
The stone knife wasn't very sharp, but it was the best tool Lin Baiyan had. The young man patiently and slowly cut the green vines.
After working for a while, they finally made a relatively large cut. The young man then gave it a strong pull, and the branch fell to the ground. Lin Baiyan looked at the green vines spread out on the ground and felt that it was about time.
He jumped down from the tree and began weaving a basket according to his memory. When he was a child, the baskets his family used were all woven by his grandfather.
Not only these, but also brooms for sweeping, dumpling trays, and wooden sleds for raking the fields in the village—his grandfather could make them all. His grandfather was a carpenter, and he made a living by doing these crafts.
I usually take orders for wooden cabinets, chairs, and beds, but not many. In the countryside, a cabinet or bed made can last almost a lifetime.
Life was tough, but thankfully Grandma would grow vegetables in the family garden and raise four or five chickens and ducks.
I occasionally improve Xiaobaiyan's diet.
Perhaps it was the image of her grandfather sitting on a small stool, weaving a basket while humming an unknown tune, clearly enjoying himself, that made Lin Baiyan's eyes slightly red.
Although he had no parents, his grandparents gave him almost everything they could.
This is what cultivated Lin Baiyan's incredibly patient, tenacious, and fearless character, even in the face of adversity.
He is like a straight poplar tree, standing tall no matter how strong the wind and rain.
The young man first cleared away all the small branches and leaves from the green vines, leaving only the trunks.
Then select eight branches of moderate thickness, first pairing four together to form a cross. The young man noticed that the willow vines were a bit short, so he moved them slightly, and the two vines intertwined to lengthen them.
Then, on the cross formed, use new vines to interweave with the main vines to create a basket bottom. On the basis of the round basket bottom, use vines to interweave and weave the basket body.