Chapter 148: Window Cloth With The Same Translucency As Gauze Curtains
The cooked red-skinned pig hide was taken out by Su Ran, and she processed them one by one.
She cleared out the heated brick bed in the west bedroom, and even rolled up the animal hide blanket on top.
Then she first laid a steaming hot pig hide flat on the heated brick bed with its cement surface exposed, and opened the west bedroom window to the maximum.
Now the heated brick bed in the west bedroom was burning so hot that no one could sit on it.
The red-skinned pig inside the house was also steaming, with the heat dispersing inside the room. Even with the window open, it wouldn’t make anyone feel cold.
At this time, Su Ran took out a scallop knife, moved over a small stool, and sat on the edge of the heated brick bed, starting to scrape the cooked red-skinned pig hide.
She scraped the side facing inside the animal hide.
Besides the fat and flesh still sticking to it, Su Ran also scraped off a layer from the animal hide itself.
Because it was to be used as window cloth, if the animal hide was scratched, wind would leak through the hole, and the window cloth couldn’t be used.
So while scraping, Su Ran was always extra careful.
Fortunately, after a long stewing, the pig hide had become very soft and tender, but just right—not so soft that it would fall apart when picked up.
It was also very convenient to scrape.
About half an hour later, Su Ran scraped out a piece of animal hide half a meter long and thirty centimeters wide.
She picked up the whole animal hide, then took it to the window side, held up the scraped piece, pressed it against the top of the window frame, and compared it to the outside.
Sure enough, after becoming thinner, the translucency of the pig hide immediately increased by several degrees!
Su Ran was delighted in her heart!
She then went back, laid out the animal hide properly, and processed the remaining part on the animal hide even more quickly.
Processing the first animal hide took Su Ran a full three hours.
By the time she went to get the second red-skinned pig hide, the water in the pot was no longer very hot.
Just at this moment, Gray returned from his third hunt outside.
Su Ran quickly called him over and had him first help process one of the remaining two red-skinned pig hides out.
With Gray’s help, the remaining two animal hides were all processed within two hours.
So Su Ran had Gray help unfold the animal hide, then block it in front of the open window.
It was now four in the afternoon, and the light was much dimmer than in the morning.
But this dim light still shone in from the other side of the very thinly scraped red-skinned pig hide.
Although the light coming in now wasn’t much, almost no different from dim moonlight, Su Ran already felt it was sufficient.
After all, when winter really came and it was really this time of day, it wouldn’t be long before closing the windows and entering night.
The scraped red-skinned pig hide couldn’t be used directly yet; it had to wait until it was dried.
Su Ran didn’t rush to cut the several red-skinned pig hides right now.
Because after the red-skinned pig hide dried, the animal hide would actually shrink a little.
She took the several processed red-skinned pig hides outside to dry, humming a little song lightly with a relaxed mood, feeling that she had finally solved this most difficult problem.
At Gray’s request, the food eaten tonight was still stewed large bones.
Only this time, it changed from four-eared ox bone to red-skinned pig.
Today Su Ran didn’t make staple food; she directly stewed half a pig to let Gray eat his fill.
Su Ran felt that not only had Gray’s body size recently become a bit larger. Even the prey he brought back from recent hunts seemed much larger in size.
She thought it was because these animals were also preparing to overwinter, so they were all trying hard to eat more to grow fat on their bodies to withstand the severe cold of winter.
This always made Su Ran feel that the footsteps of winter seemed even closer…
The processed red-skinned pig hide was completely dry after two days.
Early this morning, Su Ran excitedly carried the several animal hides back inside the room, then laid them out on the heated brick bed.
These red-skinned pig hides were mainly to first install on all the windows of the main house where Su Ran and Gray lived.
In the main house, including one each in the east and west bedrooms, one in the kitchen, and one in the small storage room behind, there were a total of four windows.
And the size of one red-skinned pig hide was only enough to cover one window.
So Su Ran first gave up on the small storage room behind and installed them on the main bedrooms and kitchen first.
Su Ran still remembered the dimensions of the windows; she first measured the appropriate sizes on the several red-skinned pig hides and cut them out with the scallop knife.
Because the window boards could only open outward, the red-skinned pig hide had to be installed on the inner side of the window board, that is, the side inside the house.
At this point, Su Ran actually somewhat regretted the direction of the window board installation when building the house.
Because the window board opened outward, the red-skinned pig hide couldn’t be installed outside the house.
If installed outside, the window board would be blocked by the pig hide window cloth and couldn’t open.
But if installed inside the house, the window board could open. It just meant every time, one had to go outside the house to open the window board from outside.
And also had to leave a small hole about one finger thick on the pig hide window cloth.
Because the window board fit tightly with the window frame, normally it could only be pushed open from inside the house outward.
So after installing the animal hide window cloth, a hole had to be left in the window cloth. When wanting to open the window, use a stick from inside the house, thread it through the hole, prop up the window board a crack, then go outside to fully open the window board.
It was really quite troublesome.
Su Ran looked at the window in front of her for a long time, pondering a solution in her mind.
Finally, after hesitating off and on for more than half an hour, she decided to make another inward-opening window board.
Fortunately, the window frame she made for the windows was relatively wide, so once the new window board was made and installed, it would also be very convenient.
And to make the window board, the time was delayed by another two days.
She thought she should finish installing this thing as soon as possible, then she could peacefully do other things.
For the new window boards, Su Ran only made them for these four windows in the main house.
After installing the new window boards, she removed the previous old window boards and put them in the storage room outside.
She thought that next year when the weather warmed up, she would swap the window boards back.
Because in summer, it was still more comfortable to have the window boards opening outward.
And after installing the window boards, Su Ran began installing the animal hide window cloth on the windows.
The installation method was also very simple.
She took out some blue worm internal organs stored at home.
After turning them into glue, she coated a circle around the cut window cloth, then coated a circle on the outside of the window frame, and directly unfolded and stuck the whole window cloth on.
After sticking it on, once the blue worm glue inside dried, the window cloth and window frame would stick very tightly.
As long as not roasted with fire, the blue worm glue inside wouldn’t burn into black charcoal, and the window cloth wouldn’t fall off.
After the window cloth was stuck on, Su Ran propped up the window board from inside the house.
It was now exactly twelve-thirty noon, the time of day with the most abundant sunlight in the forest.
And at this time, this sunlight passed through the thin animal hide and shone inside the room.
Although it wasn’t like clean, transparent glass, making the light inside the room very abundant.
But Su Ran looked at this animal hide window cloth in front of her, which had almost the same translucency effect as that thin gauze curtain fabric, and was already extremely satisfied in her heart!
