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Published at 4th of January 2023 11:27:52 AM


Chapter 71

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The sentence "You look so bearish" made Li Hu and Ming Guang stare at each other, and it also reminded Mu Feng of an incident when he was in college.

A senior who played basketball with them for three years and was extremely tanned posted a wedding photo when they got married, and several close classmates left messages below.

One of the most classic comments is: "Thanks to the photographer and polishing technology, let us see what you look like!"

Lihu and Mingguang have never thought about washing their faces for many years. Who cares about who looks like?

Even the most exaggerated is that some young people in the tribe have stains on their bodies and faces because they haven't washed their faces all year round. They only judge who is who by the animal skins on their bodies.

But now with soap, all this has changed.

With soap, the clansmen don't have to be as dirty as beggars—this is also Mufeng's first step in changing Jiang's spiritual outlook.

"Okay!" Mu Feng looked at the two people with big eyes and small eyes, and said with a smile, "You have also seen the effect of soap. In the future, everyone can let the clansmen wash their faces with soap."

"Well, I have to wash my body when necessary!" A flash of inspiration flashed in Mu Feng's mind, "I will build a bathing place in the tribe soon, and I will go and wash my body!"

After a pause, he finally couldn't help complaining: "Every one is dirty, it's too embarrassing!"

Li Hu and Ming Guang were extremely embarrassed, they lowered their heads and touched their noses.

Li Hu bite the bullet and asked: "Great chief, this thing... Soap, how do you make it, it smells pretty good!"

"The pancreas and plant ash from the wild boar!" Mu Feng explained, "It's the things from the wild boar, and the ashes left over from burning plants and trees."

"Ah?" Li Hu was surprised, "Then how did you make this soap?"

"I'll teach you how to make soap later. Now I have a few things to tell you. The tribe needs to make some changes!"

As soon as they heard that Mu Feng had something to explain, the two of them immediately looked solemn: "Please give guidance to the great chief!"

Mu Feng waved his hand, and said directly: "The stone pots used by the tribe to cook rice are too troublesome and heavy. The most important thing is that it is troublesome to make. I want to make a lighter container that can be used to hold rice. Put things."

"What's that?" White Fang asked with fluttering eyes.

"Claypot!"

"Claypot?" The three of them were all taken aback, "What is that?"

"You will know about this in due time!" Mu Feng also knew that he would not be able to explain clearly for a while, so he simply refused to explain, "I need some soil for making pottery. It's the mud from the sand pond by the lake."

After a pause, he continued: "If you can find that kind of soil, the whitish kaolin will be even better!"

"The alluvial soil in the river, the sand pond mud, and the white kaolin?" The three of them looked at me, and I looked at Ni, but none of them understood.

Mu Feng sighed, thinking "It really is so".

So he had no choice but to say: "Well, tomorrow Uncle Mingguang will bring a few people and take me to the river where we fetched water before. Let's go there and have a look!"

"Yes!" Mingguang replied.

"As for Uncle Li Hu, you take Bai Fang and try to make a bow and arrow!"

"Yes!" Both of them nodded in unison.

"Also, tell Ji Yang that you don't need to kill pigs for the next two days, but kill a few sheep for a while." Mu Feng rubbed his teeth, "He wasted too many good things!"

"Ah?" Now Li Hu was stunned, "Ji Yang is the most fair person in the tribe, how could he waste things?"

"That's not what I meant!" Mu Feng waved his hand, "It's just that many of the things he threw away are still edible, but everyone can't cook them!"

"Oh!" Li Hu finally realized, "I know!"

"Okay, let's do this for today. Go back and rest early. Make some preparations..."

"Yes!" The three left.

In the morning of the next day, Mu Feng carried a bow and arrow, took a shovel, and led a dozen people, followed Ming Guang out of the tribe and headed southeast.

They need to bypass Nanshan, and then head southeast close to the foot of Nanshan - there is a river in the southeast direction, and the tribe used to draw water from this river when there were no wells in the past.

No one knows the name of this river, but the general direction is from northwest to southeast, and the water is fairly clear.

Because of the early departure, Mu Feng and his party of about ten people walked through the jungle and passed a waist-deep grassy beach before arriving at the river.

According to Mingguang, there were many wild wolves and wild bears in the jungle they passed through, but fortunately they did not encounter them.

Both sides of the river are already lush with water and grass, and the water is also full of algae.

"No wonder the water smelled like mud before!" Mu Feng looked at the mud by the river, it was all mixed with black and gray mud.

"Mud?" Mu Feng frowned.

Due to the growth of vegetation and aquatic plants along the river, the rotting roots of plants will mix with the soil over time to form black-gray silt.

Although the silt soil is fertile, it is not suitable for making pottery.

What he was looking for was under the silt, the silted soil formed by the long-term impact of the river.

He dug a few times with an iron shovel and first shoveled off the surface silt of more than ten centimeters, revealing a layer of dark and soft soil underneath. After smelling it, he shook his head and continued to dig.

After digging to a depth of 20 to 30 centimeters, the black silt gradually turned into black and yellow ooze.

Even the mud at the depth of about 30 centimeters is no longer black and gray, but yellow!

"Yellow clay!" Mu Feng exclaimed in surprise, "I found it!"

(end of this chapter)




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