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Chapter 96
, while pressing the cotton on it, the clumps of cotton will be finely shredded by the barbs, while introducing to Li Xiaoxiao: "We used to use this machine to thresh millet."
With a thought, Li Xiaoxiao has already made up her mind to wait for the rice to be planted, and then she will come and prostitute the carding machine of the textile workshop.
This machine is dangerous to use, but it is really convenient. After combing the cotton thinly, Su Qing stopped stepping on her feet, and the roller stopped slowly. The barbs were full of cotton. She took out the thin cottonDown, the distance between the barbs has been calculated, so the thickness of the hooked cotton is just right, no further processing is required.
The next step is to rub the cotton thread.
They returned to the machine that looked like a water wheel, and Li Xiaoxiao pointed to the wheel: "Is this the rubbing machine?"
Su Qing shook her head, asked her to sit on the stool, and tapped the awl in front of her: "Use this to rub."
Li Xiaoxiao was astonished, it was different from what she imagined, she thought she used the big wooden wheel to spin the thread, but it turned out that this was only used to drive the awl, the handle under her big wooden wheel, the big wooden wheel turned quickly, and at the same time the awl followedTurn up.
She thought about it, figured out how to use the cotton thread machine, wrapped the cotton around the awl, looked at Su Qing, who nodded, she shook the handle boldly, and the awl turned quickly, driving the cotton on it, almost in the blink of an eye, the cotton turned into thread, and then spread all the way towards her palm.
Li Xiaoxiao panicked: "Sister Qing, what should I do next?"
Su Qing held her hand: "Don't worry, the cotton that is combed out is very long, you just need to hold it so that the cotton doesn't get knotted."
Hearing Sister Qing's unhurried voice, Li Xiaoxiao calmed down, and then found that this was not as difficult as she imagined, watching the fluffy cotton turn into a strong cotton thread in her hands, wrapping around the awl,It felt novel and fulfilling.
Behold, here is the thread she spun.
But Li Xiaoxiao is tender after all, her hand started to ache after holding it up for a while, and in the end it was Su Qing, a veteran, who came out and spun the remaining cotton thread.
But Li Xiaoxiao was not idle either. Sister Qing spun the thread, so she went to deal with the remaining cotton, remove the cotton seeds, move it to dry, and turn over the cotton that was dried before. These are all things she can do.
When she returned to the workshop, she found that Sister Qing was fascinated with a white spinning cone. When she heard her coming in, she said, "Xiao Xiao, I found a problem. Although the workshop can change any spinning machine, the parts are onlyOne serving, just like this spinning cone is full, if I take it down, a new spinning cone will not be created."
Sister Qing obviously used the double-sided spinning cone, and the operation with two hands is also very smooth, and there will be no knotting of the hands. It is as smooth as the single-sided operation, and the efficiency is improved.
The three of them worked together in a division of labor. Su Qing spun thread, Li Xiaoxiao de-seeded the picked cotton, and Chen Mo made new spinning cones at the side. Judging by the amount of cotton, making another twenty or thirty would probably not be enough.
After working for a long time, Li Xiaoxiao wanted to talk: "Sister Qing, after the thread is spun, is it just weaving?"
Su Qing replied: "Not so fast, don't forget that we also nailed wooden stakes."
That’s right, the wooden stake hasn’t been used yet. Li Xiaoxiao first thought about what the wooden stake can be used for, and thought of Sister Qing’s specially scratched marks on it, so she guessed: “Then the next step is to tie the cotton thread to the wooden stake.?”
Originally thought the answer was definitely right, but Su Qing just shook her head.
Isn't that all? She shouted about the complexity of making cotton cloth. At this moment, she has an understanding of the weaving process. If she thinks about it carefully, she may be able to guess it. After thinking about it carefully, she finds that she can't figure it out.
"What is that?"
Su Qing told her: "It's better to rub the cotton thread."
Or rubbing cotton thread, rubbing a ball of cotton twice?Isn't it already formed?
Li Xiaoxiao picked up a spinning awl in puzzlement, and stared at the white cotton thread on it. The spiral pattern on it was clear, so that it was twisted very firmly, and it didn't seem to be unraveled at all.
Optimistic about peanuts, the main thing is to make sure that there are not too many grasshoppers. She didn’t see a few grasshoppers, and the scourge was getting less and less. She began to worry about the rations of her little bullfrogs. If the number continued to decrease, she decided to sell another one.Batch little bullfrogs, let Xingfu worry about it.
But what accident happened to the grasshoppers that led to such a sharp decrease in the number? Is it related to the foggy area discovered by the patrol camp?
At this time, her phone rang suddenly, and the number turned out to be Wang Jiajia. She didn't call the other party, but this person called. She answered the phone, "Hello, Jiajia."
This person did it on purpose. Wang Jiajia was already so angry with her that she lost her temper and didn't want to express her opinion on her name. Anyway, Li Xiaoxiao, a pimp, wouldn't listen, "Well, it's me."
Li Xiaoxiao: "What's the matter, Jiajia?"
This is the tone of a veteran cadre. Wang Jiajia talked about serious business: "Don't go to the west recently, and don't go to the creek. The fog has expanded."
Li Xiaoxiao's heart tightened. The mutated wasp crisis caused by the red moon last time still impressed her deeply. The foggy area created this time is also very dangerous, but she is not sure where the danger comes from.
Although the mist was close to her farm before, it did not move. The captain led people to explore the edge of the mist several times, but found nothing. Gradually, she forgot about this potential danger. She never thought that she would come out to show her presence at this time.
"Where did it expand?"
"Let me see," Wang Jiajia heard the sound of getting up, "there is only three kilometers away from the creek."
That's really close. Her farm is only more than 500 meters away from the creek, less than one kilometer, and the two sides add up to less than four kilometers.
Li Xiaoxiao felt an urgent crisis coming.
If it got any closer, Xiaomo Farm would be swallowed into the mist. She stared at the terrain she had drawn on the ground with a wooden stick, and made a big cross in the mist.
Li Xiaoxiao couldn't help asking: "What the hell is the mist?"
Wang Jiajia pondered: "Our side also has a unified view on this. Some people say that the minerals were eroded by the red moon to release the mist, and some people speculated that it came from some kind of organism, and it was more likely from the transpiration of plants. Anyway, eachMakes sense."
She touched it with her fingers and felt the slightly hard and rough texture under her fingertips. When she noticed something, she stroked it for a while and felt blessed immediately: "It's to make the cotton thread smoother and softer, isn't it!"
"Yes, smart."
Su Qing made no secret of her praise: "The surface of the cotton thread that has just come out is rough, and needs to be rubbed to make it smooth and soft."
Li Xiaoxiao sighed sincerely: "It's really not easy to weave a piece of cloth."
There are already six steps from removing cotton seeds, drying in the sun to remove moisture, and now tanning stakes on cotton thread. If the next step is not spinning, there will be more steps.
It's not easy.
Su Qing laughed: "Where did I go this time, the cloth was not woven, and the clothes were not cut."
But Li Xiaoxiao was exhausted physically and mentally after listening to these processes, and felt that the clothes were ready (x).
After this batch of cotton combed by the carding machine is finished, Su Qing will start tanning the cotton thread. She briefly described the machine, and a small thing like a saddle appeared in the workshop.
The machine for soft cotton thread is very small. There is a piece of leather on the saddle, and there is a groove in the middle to fix the cotton thread. This needs to be done manually without the help of the machine. Pull off the cotton thread from the spinning cone and rub it back and forth on the leather.
There is no technical content in this process, it all depends on your own feel, but after rubbing the cotton thread, the color becomes softer, not as stiff and white as before, and the touch is smoother, more flexible and soft, and it feels very comfortable against the skin.
The cloth woven with such cotton thread must be very good to wear next to the body, and she began to look forward to the effect of the clothes.
Li Xiaoxiao originally wanted to tan cotton thread as well, but later she found that only one machine of the same kind was allowed in the workshop, so she gave up this idea and did other things she could do.
When there was really nothing for her to do, Li Xiaoxiao went around her vegetable field.
The peanuts obtained from Wang Jiajia have been planted. The leaves of the peanut seedlings are very strange, oval-shaped, with a deep leaf stalk in the middle, and there are no other lines. The leaves are very smooth, a bit like a four-leaf clover.Even the three leaves are squeezed together, but the shape of the leaves is different.
The first time she saw peanut seedlings protruding from the soil, she thought that Wang Jiajia took the wrong seedlings and sent over the weeds on the side of the road. She was going to trouble Wang Jiajia, but then found that the 'clover' grew taller and taller.She silently put down her phone.
Unexpectedly, the shells of peanuts are pitted, but the leaves are so smooth, it is really peanuts.
Li Xiaoxiao rubbed between her eyebrows: "Is it harmful to the human body?"
Wang Jiajia: "It is harmless to the body, but it will make people who enter it disoriented and unable to get out of the fog."
hell.
Li Xiaoxiao is very annoying. The fog itself is not a problem, and it is not a problem if she can't get out. After all, she has a camphor tree that breaks the negative effects of the spirit, and she is not afraid of this fog. What is really disturbing is that they don't know what is in the fog and why the fog is formedpregnancy.
Wang Jiajia finally told her: "Get ready, if the mist crosses the creek, you will all move."
She understands that this is for their safety, but she doesn't want to transfer. The fruit trees raised by her own land are all on this land. Leaving means that she may start all over again. All the efforts during this period will be in vain.It was something she couldn't accept and wasn't willing to do.
"I……"
Wang Jiajia's tone was serious: "It's about human life, without me, you have to obey Xingfu's arrangements."
Li Xiaoxiao exhaled: "Okay, I understand, I will obey."
When the call was hung up, she was still in a bad mood. When she regained her senses, she had already walked near the beehive. Going forward was the creek, and beyond that was the mist.
Li Xiaoxiao raised her head and looked at the sky through the gap in the tree canopy. Of course she couldn't see the fog from such a long distance, so she climbed to her own camphor tree. There were no bugs on it, and she could see far from it.
She had expected to see a canopy of trees, but instead she saw mist.
The far side of the stream was shrouded in mist, even the sky. Only when it went up and up did the mist gradually fade away to reveal the original color of the sky. She stared at the gray mist, an unhealthy gray., there seems to be some kind of tiny substance floating in it.
Once the carnivorous bee flew over the creek, the feedback to her changed, and the queen bee meant that her children were disturbed.
Li Xiaoxiao pondered the meaning of this sentence, there were creatures threatening them nearby, but the carnivorous bees didn't know where the danger came from.
It really isn't safe in the mist.
After thinking about it for a while, she decided to let the carnivorous bee take a turn around. It should be safe here. The patrol team came several times before, and they all returned safely and were not attacked.
The carnivorous bee entered the mist carefully, and the queen bee gave it a quick feedback after entering, and the queen bee could not feel her children.
Li Xiaoxiao didn't expect that the fog could actually cut off the connection between the worker bees and the queen bee. Couldn't it mean that all five carnivorous bees were folded inside, because the last order the queen bee gave them was to go in and slowly fly around the periphery, find the place where the sense of danger is strongest, they will not fly out until a new order is issued, even if there are camphor leaves.
She stood up, took a few steps in place, and rushed into the storage room, took out a bit of queen bee powder, and let the second queen bee eat it.
Queen Bee No. 2 is very well-behaved. She ate the powder bit by bit, and the effect appeared very well. Almost as soon as she finished eating, the queen bee's body swelled up, and the metallic feeling on her body became stronger and stronger, shining brightly in the sun., the whole bee seems to be poured from pure gold.
She waits for the queen bee to recover. The good news is that the queen bee feels the presence of her children. The bad news is that the connection is weak and may be broken at any time.
She then fed the queen bee a bit of queen bee powder, this time the effect was not great, and did not deepen the connection. She guessed that the evolution of the queen bee had reached a bottleneck, and there would be major changes after breaking through. If there is no breakthrough, continue to feed the powder.Not too big.
Li Xiaoxiao originally wanted the carnivorous bee to come back, but when she thought about it, she had already gone in. Wouldn't it be a waste of risk to come back directly?
And they didn't encounter any danger during the time they lost contact, which means that the nearby ones are safe, and it would be a waste not to take this opportunity to explore the surroundings.
So the carnivorous bees continued to fly forward according to the established path, and the feedback they sent was very strange, and there were terrible dangers everywhere.
Li Xiaoxiao frowned, feeling that this was impossible. If this was the case, wouldn't it mean that the thing was full of gray mist, and the only thing she could do this after thinking about it was the gray mist itself, but the news from the patrol camp was that the gray mist was harmless.She believed that the Patrol Battalion could do no wrong, after all they had some sort of identification technique.
When she looked back, she vaguely felt that there was a light spot flashing in the canopy of the tree, and it disappeared when she looked seriously.
I don't know if she misread it, or if there is really a flash of light.
Li Xiaoxiao got down from the camphor tree and spotted the nest made by Queen Bee No. 2 on the branch of the camphor tree. She didn't pay attention to it for a while, but it was actually longer than her palm. Most of the hexagonal holes contained larvae and worker bees.She was transporting food back and forth, and she moved closer to see it more clearly. Immediately, there was a dense buzzing sound inside, and dozens of carnivorous bees flew out of the hive aggressively. After seeing her, they circled around twice to express their intimacy.
At first it was quite intimidating.
She stretched out her fingers, and the nearest carnivorous bee landed on her fingertips, bigger than her fingers, with huge and sharp sickle-shaped mouthparts, even though she didn't use any force to land on her hand, she still felt the stingIt hurts, it's just the claws on the back, the forelimbs have evolved into long knives, and they didn't touch her hand, and the winged muscles on its back are very strong, although the color is still yellow and black, but the yellow is brighter than the brown and yellow of beesMany are dangerous to look at.
The whole body of the carnivorous bee is completely born for fighting.
It's risky for people to go into the fog, she can let the carnivorous bees investigate.
Li Xiaoxiao's eyes lit up, fearing that the strange misty effect of the mist would also work on the carnivorous bees, she took off the leaves of the camphor tree, tore them into small pieces and stuck them to the bees' abdomens to help them return from the mist.
She cannot give orders to the worker bees directly, but she can command the worker bees through the second queen bee.
As soon as the order was issued, five carnivorous bees flew out of the hive and flew towards the foggy area. The message from the queen bee was rather vague, for example, it was safe nearby, and no dangerous mutated creatures or medium and large beasts were found.
This is an ability evolved by the No. 2 queen bee. It can sense danger and avoid the area where the lurkers are located, increasing the chance of survival. The queen bee and her children rely on this skill to increase the chance of survival.
Excluding the gray fog, there are only two possibilities. One is that this kind of thing is very small and there are many of them, swimming in the gray fog; the other is that this thing is so huge that the entire gray fog can hold it, so no matter in which direction, the carnivorous bee will feel the danger.
Which one is it, or is it a third possibility?
Li Xiaoxiao rubbed her head, the carnivorous bee had already flown fifteen kilometers away from the creek, and the feedback it brought back was still the same, it was extremely dangerous, but she didn't know the source of the danger, or the whole area was dangerous.
It was difficult to find anything after further investigation, so she let the five carnivorous bees come back and stared at the bees flying in front of her in a daze.
Although the investigation revealed very little information, she also learned some things. No matter how big or small the things in the gray fog were, it was not a good thing for her.
Li Xiaoxiao discovered the shocking secret, and felt that her blood was speeding up, and a chance to verify it was in front of her, but she was hesitant, because the result of the attempt would probably kill her carnivorous bee.
It was a matter of the whole farm, so she decided to give it a try.
However, she also prepared as much as possible to let the carnivorous bees come to the edge of the fog, and they can rush out of the fog with just one acceleration.When in danger, they will attack together, help the companions in front to get out of trouble, and escape together