Chapter 247: The Secret on the Deer Skin

After Wang An returned home, he saw Liu Liu Guilan fiddling with the sewing machine.

Perhaps she hadn't figured it out, so Liu Liu Guilan had an anxious and annoyed expression on her face.

And Mu Mu Xueqing and Wang Wang Dazhu, who were standing by, were also full of question marks and anxious, unable to help at all, because neither of them knew how to use this thing.

Wang An almost laughed out loud at the state of these three people spinning around.

In fact, this is normal. Although the sewing machine looks simple, it is a new thing in this era.

Besides, in the entire Kaoshan Settlement, Wang An's family's sewing machine was the second one. As for the first one, it was naturally at the home of the former settlement head, Niu Yiqun.

So not only did Liu Liu Guilan and the three of them not understand the sewing machine, but most people in the country at this time didn't understand it either.

Seeing Wang An enter the house, Liu Liu Guilan's eyes lit up instantly, and she shouted: "Big son, come over quickly. We've been studying it for a long time, and this thing can't be used at all."

Wang An put away his smile and began to teach the three of them how to use the sewing machine. Fortunately, the sewing machine had an instruction manual and drawings.

Otherwise, although Wang An was extremely familiar with the sewing machine, he really couldn't name many of the parts.

The sewing machine is still very easy to learn, but it is worth noting that when threading the needle, you must use your left hand.

Because if you use your right hand, the thread will go in the opposite direction, which will cause the upper thread and the lower thread not to loop.

Wang An explained it very carefully and demonstrated how to use the sewing machine to make shoe uppers.

And although Wang Wang Dazhu didn't do needlework, he learned it quite seriously.

Wang An felt that as long as you knew how to use a sewing machine to make shoe uppers, using a sewing machine to do other things would be a small matter.

Cloth shoes in this era were all made of cloth "stiffened layers," and cloth "stiffened layers" was actually a cloth board formed by pasting multiple layers of cloth with paste.

That cloth "stiffened layers" was quite thick, and the shoe upper was made of a layer of cloth "stiffened layers" and two layers of upper cloth sewn together.

And the sole, which is what people often call the "thousand-layer sole," is actually many layers of cloth "stiffened layers" sewn together stitch by stitch with fine hemp rope.

Making soles is a job that women in rural areas in this era can't stop doing. As long as they are free in all four seasons, they must make soles.

However, even if they make soles all year round, they still can't keep up with the family's shoe needs, because cloth shoes are actually just many layers of cloth.

They are not very wear-resistant, not very sturdy, and this kind of cloth shoe with a thousand-layer sole is not comfortable to wear.

Although it is called a thousand-layer sole, it is afraid of water and snow. Wearing these shoes in winter and stepping on the land, it only takes less than a minute for the soles of the feet to feel icy cold.

So if you want to keep your feet from freezing in the Northeast in this era, you have to wear Wula shoes made of fur. If you wear cloth shoes, you have to make the shoe upper higher, and then put insoles made of Wula grass in the shoes.

Ever since Wang An splashed blood on his cloth shoes while hunting, he now wears Wula shoes made by Mu Mu Xueqing. Although ugly, these shoes are quite comfortable for mountain hunting.

After completely teaching his mother and wife how to use the sewing machine, Wang An became idle.

If a person is idle, they will find work for themselves.

So Wang An boiled some hot water and scalded the bear gallbladder that had swollen again.

This bear gallbladder is not something that can be done once, but needs to be scalded multiple times.

Every time it is scalded, the gallbladder skin will be scalded and shriveled, and after a few days, the gallbladder skin will be swollen again by the bile. At this time, it needs to be scalded again.

Only when the bear gallbladder bile is completely dried into gallbladder powder can this bear gallbladder be sold, and only in this way will the supply and marketing cooperative purchase it. Of course, if you want to sell the bear gallbladder quickly, you can put it in a slightly hotter place to accelerate the bile into gallbladder powder.

When scalding the gallbladder, Wang An discovered that the big bear gallbladder, the Jin Tie grass gallbladder, and the bear gallbladder gold gallbladder that he and Mu Mu Xueli had hunted could now be sold.

Although Wang An is not short of money now, and Wang An also knows that bear gallbladder will rise in price in a few years.

But it is better to sell bear gallbladder, because bear gallbladder becomes medicine after it is dried into powder.

And storing this thing is really not ordinary trouble. It is afraid of insects and dampness. If a good bear gallbladder becomes worthless, it will make people cry to death.

Besides, whether it is bear gallbladder or fur, it is always just an object in hand, and it is an object with no great use.

Only by selling it for money can you experience the joy of labor, which has nothing to do with whether you have money or not.

After fiddling with the bear gallbladder, Wang An took out the deer skin that had been sewn into a large piece again.

Just when Wang An was getting sleepy and about to fall asleep, he suddenly discovered that the mountain range on this deer skin was actually just a guide, or a positioning.

And the most important thing on this map was actually the river under the mountain range.

Wang An carefully searched his memory and vaguely remembered that this river was in YJ County next to JY County.

Before Wang An was sent to the "fence" (prison) in his previous life, the newspaper said that a large placer gold mine was discovered in this YJ County again.

Placer gold is gold sand. This kind of gold is generally mixed with sand in the river. Of course, there is a proper gold mine under the river.

What people often call gold panning is actually washing sand in the river with a winnowing basket like washing rice. The little gold powder left at the bottom of the winnowing basket is gold sand!

This discovery made Wang An immediately not sleepy and instantly became very energetic.

What is the concept of a gold mine?

The most important thing is that the location of this gold mine might only be known to him, and it would be more than ten years before it was discovered by the state.

But what is equally damn is, how can he maximize the benefits?

You know, when Wang An was in the south in his previous life, he truly witnessed the hardship of gold panners.

Barefoot, standing in the river for a whole day, and having to risk being beaten to death at any time.

Because gold is absolutely the thing that makes people lose their minds the most and makes people the most inhumane.

In fact, after Wang An went to the "fence," he also "had the honor" to do the gold panning work himself.

However, the method was much faster than the people in the south who used winnowing baskets to pan for gold, and he did it for nearly two years.

Of course, he was forced to do it, and it was pure labor, basically with no subsidies.

And no matter how much gold sand was washed out, he would not be rewarded with an extra steamed bun.

If it weren't for a ruthless person who ran away while working, their batch of people might have done this work until they died.

In the wilderness, as long as you are ruthless enough, you can definitely run out.

In fact, Wang An had prepared everything at that time, but what was damn was that Wang An's plan was two days later than that ruthless person, so he didn't run away.

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