Chapter 800: The Sentimental Senior Brother (Four in One, with More)
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As the first carpenter and weaver of the Qingque tribe, there is naturally nothing to say about the craftsmanship and comprehension ability of the lame.
Although the helmet is much more complicated to weave than the helmet, Han Cheng used language to guide him, and after more than two days of exploration, the first helmet of the Qingque tribe with a certain defensive ability still appeared in the hands of the lame.
This kind of helmet covers more places, not like a helmet, only protecting the top of the head, but even the back of the head is protected together.
After all, this helmet is prepared by those who follow the battlefield, and on the battlefield, it is not strange to be attacked anywhere, unlike mining, as long as you prevent falling objects from high altitudes.
After another experience of hitting the head with a bronze hammer, it was confirmed that an improved rattan helmet with considerable defensive capabilities began mass production.
Looking at some of the armor they had wove out, Han Cheng suddenly had the idea of waiting for his leisure time to let Heiwa and the second senior brother see how to try to cast some bronze helmets.
Wearing such a helmet can not only be used to defend against enemy attacks, but when you can't find something like a pot to cook, you can take the helmet off your head and use a few stones around it, and add water to it to cook food.
And you don't have to drain oil......
It's a helmet made of bronze, which is a bit too heavy, and wearing it may not only wear the top of the head bald, but also make people uncomfortable and need to run in for a long time......
There is no hurry to do this, according to the current situation, simple rattan armor and rattan helmet are enough.
Regarding the equipment in the tribe, or the question of the type of troops, there is a more important one that Han Cheng needs to consider.
This is the Vine Shield.
With the rattan armor and helmet, and the people in the tribe equipping it, the rattan shield team led by the senior brother is a bit of a chicken rib.
After all, they don't have to rely on the defense of the senior brothers, and the Changge team and the archery team wearing these equipment can also resist some attacks from the enemy.
Similarly, the senior brothers who wore rattan armor and wore rattan helmets also looked redundant with a large rattan shield in their hands.
After all, the vine shield is relatively cumbersome, and it is mainly used as a defense, but in terms of offense, it is far inferior to such things as bronze ge, bows and arrows, and slings.
The more Han Cheng sat here, the more he thought about it, the more he felt that the Vine Shield Team was too chicken now.
After pondering like this for a while, the senior brother just walked in from outside.
When Han Cheng saw the senior brother come in, he called him to stop him and tell him about the vine shield.
Although Han Cheng said it more tactfully, after figuring out what Han Cheng meant, the senior brother was still silent.
After all, he had been using this weapon for several years, and he had already liked it.
At this time, after hearing Han Cheng say about the embarrassing situation of the vine shield, as well as Han Cheng's idea of abolishing the vine shield team and integrating it into other arms, it would be strange if the senior brother was not silent.
In fact, after the appearance of these things like the vine armor, the senior brother also knew something about the embarrassing place of the vine shield, and he thought about it earlier than Han Cheng.
It's just that he has already used this weapon and doesn't want to replace it, so he hasn't said it.
But a heart is hanging there after all, worried about the gods or witches, and after discovering this problem, the vine shield team was reorganized.
Such fears have finally become a reality today......
Looking at the elder brother who looked gloomy and didn't know what to say, Han Cheng felt uncomfortable in his heart.
This is a bit of the meaning that the Seventh Company of Steel in "Soldier Assault" was reorganized, and the people of the whole company were either discharged from the army, or they were incorporated into the rest of the company in batches.
As the person who sat next to the TV and cried with red eyes, Han Cheng could certainly understand the mood of the senior brother at the moment.
"Wait a minute, I just have an idea right now, and I'm not sure.
And the autumn harvest is coming soon, and even if you want to make changes, you will need to do it after the autumn harvest, and it will take a long time.
It's not impossible to come up with the best of both worlds for such a long time......"
Han Cheng said comfortingly to the senior brother.
"Hmm."
The senior brother nodded a little dullly, and then left, the whole person looking a little heavy.
Looking at the way the senior brother left, Han Cheng's heart also became heavy.
I even regretted saying these things to my senior brother......
Time passed quietly as the ears of grain became fuller and more humble day by day.
The people who went out to build the Bronze Highway were all taken back, looking at the large, large pieces of grain with their heads lowered, full of anticipation.
In the threshing floor, someone is cleaning up some of the weeds that have grown on it with a copper shovel in his hand.
Someone led a donkey or a deer, and pulled the stone stone around the threshing floor.
Behind the frame is a clump of 'twigs' tied with thin branches with leaves, and a few copper shovels of moist soil are buckled on top to add weight......
The carpenter's room also stopped weaving helmets, and Lame and the rest of the people began to repair scythes, wheelbarrows, and other things here.
Others cut down bamboo poles the size of little fingers, tie them tightly together, and after making the shape, they are roasted on a lit fire to remove the bamboo leaves and help shape them.
Then the groups of five fell together and were pressed against a large heavy stone slab.
After a few days, the upper part of these bamboo brooms became not only fine, but also flattened, and a bamboo broom that was perfect for 'plundering' and making the raised grain cleaner was successfully made.
In the shaded areas of the tribe, many men squatted there, plucked some water from the clay basin and poured it on the fine, smooth whetstone, and then rubbed the sickle back and forth on the whetstone with both hands.
After rubbing for a while, they will stop and gently test the blade with their fingers......
The women of the tribe have been busy preparing food and preparing a sumptuous feast these days.
After all, once the autumn harvest begins, the whole tribe will become busy, and there will be no time or energy to make these foods.
The deer and donkeys in the tribe can get some okara when they eat grass recently......
In the field, Han Cheng, Wu, and a few people in the tribe who often tended to the crops searched together in the grain field, inspecting the first batch of millet planted.
From time to time, I will pull off a few ears of millet and rub them in my hands, put the grains in my mouth, and bite them with my teeth to judge the ripeness of the millet.
It's a very challenging thing.
It takes several months from planting to harvesting.
In the last few months, the most important thing is these last days, because this is the critical time for the millet to 'grow in'.
At this time, if the harvest is early, the yield of the same acre will be reduced a lot, and the grains scooped out by time will not be full and round.
But you can't harvest too late, if you harvest too late, once the weather is not beautiful, then a lot of grain will not be harvested.
"It's okay, this stubble of millet will be harvested tomorrow, and the harvest will start from the west."
Synthesizing the opinions of several people, combined with his own feelings, Han Cheng finally nodded and clarified the time to harvest the grain.
The reason why the harvest is from west to east is because the terrain in the west is relatively high, and the moisture in the field is not as good as that in the east, so the crops here should ripen a day or two earlier.
After such a decision was made and rumored, the entire Qingque tribe suddenly became lively.
Those who had been preparing for several days began to wash and put the food in the pot, and the smell of the food, mixed with the joy of the people, spread throughout the tribe......
The next day dawned, and those who had eaten the scythe feast yesterday and slept well had already gotten up, carrying sickles and other tools, and left the tribe with laughter and laughter, and headed for the ripe crops......
"Open the sickle!"
Han Cheng cut off the first handful of grain, lifted it high, and shouted to everyone, everyone who was standing on the ground with a sickle in their hands and ready to prepare bent down one after another, holding the ripe grain in one hand, and the sickle in the other hand stretched towards the root of the grain, and then quickly pulled it back, and a handful of millet was cut off.
When the morning breeze blows, many grains swell with the wind in a golden wave, and the rustling sound of the ears and leaves of the grain and the sound of the sickle cutting the grain are mixed together, and a beautiful movement is played......
There was great strength in numbers, and by the afternoon, a large field of grain had been harvested.
So some of the men began to stop harvesting the grain, returned to the tribe, put on a donkey cart, led the two-wheeled donkey all the way over the stone road, and then drove down the cleared field into the field.
The donkey cart is different from what I saw before, it is no longer the appearance of a bare cart, but a 'sheep's horn' in the shape of a 'field' is placed in the holes left in advance before and after the donkey cart.
It is said that it is a Tian zigzag, but it is not very accurate, and the borders on both sides of the Tian Zigbo are going out up and down.
The bottom is to be placed in the hole left in the donkey cart, and the top is to block some of the crops on it.
The reason why this tool is called 'sheep's horn' is because the two tools that are tilted outward, one after the other, are inserted into the donkey cart, and when viewed from the side, they look like the two inverted 'eight' shaped horns growing on the top of the sheep's head.
With these two tools, the donkey cart can be blocked horizontally one after the other, so that the donkey cart can be loaded with more crops.
Otherwise, it will be just a donkey cart with a bare board, and it will not be able to hold much, and it will not be able to fit much.
"Install the two ends first!"
After the donkey cart entered the harvested grain field, someone held the harvested grain on the ground and loaded it onto the donkey cart, but Han Cheng stopped him.
This two-wheeled donkey cart has a lot of attention to loading, and it can no longer be loaded as casually as a wheelbarrow.
The first is that the donkey cart has limited space, if it is not well loaded, the biggest possibility is that it is not loaded much, and the cart is already full.
Such a cart can pull crops, and two carts are not worth a cart of people.
In this regard, it is noted that after the layers are arranged, there are still many places that need attention.
It's about trying to balance the car as much as possible.
If there is too much in front, the weight of the donkey cart and the large amount of crops on the cart will weigh on the donkey, and the donkey will not be able to bear it.
However, you can't just load the back half of the cart in order to reduce the weight of the donkey, and the most likely thing that will happen is that the donkey cart will be hoisted up when it comes up a hill.
If there is enough stuff in the back of the cart and the slope is large enough, even the donkey with the cart in front can be hoisted together.
In addition, the left and right sides of the donkey cart should also be balanced as much as possible when loading.
Because if one side is concave and the other side is convex, it is easy to overturn when encountering unstable roads.
And the protruding part is likely to collapse completely if it can't reach the threshing floor, so that it needs to be reloaded, which is a big trouble!
Loading crops on the cart is called 'panche' in Han Cheng's place, and with just the word 'pan', you can know that this is not a casual thing, but a necessary skill for a farmer's family.
Han Cheng is no stranger to these things, because when he was a child, as soon as he had a 'wheat holiday' in the summer, he would follow the adults in the family to the field to collect wheat and load the car.
In many cases, in order to bring back some wheat in a cart, when the wheat was loaded to the level of the 'horns', he would be asked to go to the cart and pedal the cart, and at the same time be responsible for laying out the wheat that the adults had buckled with a wooden fork on top of it.
At that time, Han Cheng was trained a lot because of this, but he was trained a lot, and he was able to load the car slowly.
Today, Han Cheng decided to pass on the skills he had learned as a child.
After saying such words to those who needed to load the cart after waiting for a while, Han Cheng took a wooden fork and shoveled up a bunch of millet with a pole, walked to the side of the donkey cart, and with a little force in his hand, the wooden fork that was originally flat turned half a circle in the air and buckled on the donkey cart.
In this way, the method of buckling and loading the car is not only easy to take when taking the wooden fork, and will not take off the millet loaded on the car, but also very dense, the millet is not loose, and it is loaded more.
This first fork Han Cheng buckled in the gap of more than 30 centimeters in front of the donkey cart, between the wooden cart gang and the 'sheep's horns'.
The ears of grain are facing inward, the grain poles are facing outward, and are about half the length, protruding from the outside of the car, and the volley exists.
On the one hand, the ears of grain face inward, because if the ears of grain fall down, they will fall on the car and will not be wasted.
On the other hand, the heavy ears of grain can make the grain pole protrude as much as possible from the body, so that more grain can be loaded.
After the wooden fork was buckled, Han Cheng took the wooden fork again, shoveled a few wooden forks of millet in a row, and installed the gap between the four chauffs in the front and rear of the donkey cart and the 'sheep's horns', and installed it until it was about level with the chariot before stopping.
Then he shoveled up the millet and loaded it into the middle of the body.
The donkey cart is not high, about twenty centimeters, and without a few wooden forks on it, the grain in the body is already level with the cart.
Seeing this, Han Cheng stopped loading the grain here, but picked up the grain and began to put it on the side of the donkey cart.
When buckled, the bars are also about half the length of the body.
This time, it was about twenty or thirty centimeters high.
Once one side is installed, go to the other side.
Once both sides are installed, start installing the space left in the middle.
When loading, it is also from the front to the back, but the front of the wooden fork millet needs to be leaned against the 'horns' with the ears facing upwards.
After loading the middle from front to back, repeat the previous movement......
In the process of loading, after the millet close to the car is loaded, people need to lead the donkey forward, and after the distance between the millet pile is shortened, stop and continue to load the car, so that not only is it fast, but the person who loads the car is not so tired.
After installing two layers in a row, Han Cheng asked the people who followed him to take wooden forks and go to load the car in groups according to the method he had just made.
Two people are on the left side of the donkey cart and one on the right side of the donkey cart, and a minor is found to stand in front, holding the reins on the donkey's head, so that it does not move, and the loading trio is formed.
At that time, when standing there and watching Han Cheng load the car, everyone didn't think it was too difficult, and it was enough to shovel up the millet with a wooden fork and buckle it up.
But when it's really your turn to load the car yourself, you will find that all kinds of problems come out.
Either there is too much here, or there is too little, and there is a wooden fork that is wrongly buckled, and the ears of grain are pretended to be facing outward......
Han Cheng acted as a technical guide, telling them how to repair and remedy, and at the same time holding a wooden fork to demonstrate.
In this way, while teaching, loading the carts, and waiting until all the donkey carts were loaded with the 'horns', Han Cheng called these people over and continued to watch him demonstrate, after surpassing the 'horns', the method of loading them was different from before......
"This last layer, don't install both sides, you must install the top layer, from the front to the rear, a wooden fork presses a wooden fork, so that you can press the stubble, and when the car goes forward, the crops are not easy to fall!"
While loading the car, Han Cheng opened his mouth to explain to everyone and explain the key points.
After the last wooden fork was installed, Han Cheng did not let the donkey cart go.
At this time, the crops loaded on the cart have far exceeded the gang, and it needs to be 'braked' with a rope, otherwise it will not be able to go far, and the crops that have been loaded with great difficulty will be reversed.
Han Cheng picked up the 'brake rope' that had been prepared long ago and was the thickness of a child's arm, tied one end to the root of the wheel on one side, and the rest of the rope spread out and threw it over the roof of the car full of crops.
Under the body of the donkey cart, a wooden bolt about five centimeters long, two centimeters thick, and three centimeters wide is left in front of the wheels and behind the wheels.
Han Cheng leaned down and tossed the brake rope that had been thrown over on the wooden bolt.
"You pull this head, and when I push hard later, you will also pull hard!"
Han Cheng handed the long end of the rope to the senior brother who was standing aside to learn how to use this new tool to load the car, and explained in a loud voice.
After seeing that the senior brother understood what he meant, he held the rope that came around the roof of the car with both hands and pulled it down hard.
The grain pole was loose and not porcelain enough, and with Han Cheng's strength, the rope suddenly pressed the grain pole and fell down a lot.
The senior brother also pulled hard in a timely manner according to Han Cheng's explanation, so these extra ropes were pulled away by the senior brother.
Han Cheng pulled the rope down four or five more times, and when he saw that there was basically no more rope coming out, and this grain had been firmly tightened by the rope, he stopped.
"You hold on and don't let go, I'll let you loose, and then let you go."
After Han Cheng threw the remaining brake rope from the roof of the car to the other side of the car again, he said to the senior brother.
Seeing that the senior brother nodded to understand, then the other side of the car also leaned down to hang the rope on the wooden bolt, and then pulled it tightly, and then let the senior brother let go, and let the senior brother come over.
After Han Cheng handed over the long rope in his hand to the senior brother, he continued to pull the rope down vigorously as he did just now.
With his exertion, the donkey cart also swayed slightly from left to right.
The rest of the things are concocted in the same way, you only need to tie the last rope to prevent it from spreading loose, then the car can be regarded as completely braked.
Because when these grains are loaded, they are all pressed one stubble after another, so although there are only a few ropes, as long as the ropes are not opened, the grain on the whole car will not be scattered.
After Han Cheng made a demonstration, he asked the people around him to follow his example just now, braking in pairs, while he was walking around to instruct.
Many things are like this, when you watch others do it, it feels very simple and easy, but when it comes to doing it yourself, it is more difficult.
For example, this seems very simple to brake with a rope.
Even though many people in the Qingque tribe were relatively proficient in the binding method under the influence of their great gods, the process was not too smooth, and many of them had some mistakes to a greater or lesser extent.
After a long time, the twenty-three donkey carts that pulled the grain for the first time were completely loaded.
The people who loaded the car looked left and right, and without too much comparison, they could see how different the car they and others loaded was from the car loaded by the gods.
But even so, the people were very happy, because the donkey cart was more than two meters high!
Before, Shenzizhi said that a donkey cart could hold five wheelbarrows of crops, and he and the others were already surprised at that time.
Now it seems that this donkey cart is not only loaded with five wheelbarrows! The smallest car can fit more than six wheelbarrows!
It turns out that what the Son of God said before was all about humility!
Wu, and the rest of the people involved in the harvest, were now looking at the twenty-three donkey carts loaded like hills, and their eyes lit up.
In the morning, everyone started harvesting the grain, according to previous estimates, enough for these people in charge of transporting it to transport it in a wheelbarrow for an afternoon, and they did not dare to stop at all to finish the transport, and now, this is just a trip, and a small half of it is directly loaded!
Although they have long known that these donkey carts can be loaded, everyone did not expect that they can be loaded like this!
This...... What a miracle!
At this moment, looking at this situation, Wu suddenly had the urge to tell the gods who had never paid attention to him about this miracle-like thing.
However, he also understood that now was an important time for the autumn harvest, so he had to endure it vigorously.
"Gone!"
Han Cheng led the donkey cart that he had loaded by himself in the front, shouted, led the donkey and the deer pulling the cart, and took the lead towards the road after turning his head in the field.
With the donkey cart, today he rediscovered the feeling of collecting wheat and loading the truck in the field as a child, so although the whole person was tired and sweaty, his spirit was still very excited.
The hometown that can't be returned, the childhood that can't be returned, is always so unforgettable, making people smile or reminisce with red eyes, and miss it......
"Hah!"
There is a small slope between the land and the stone slabs, and there is no problem in pulling an empty cart to it, but now it is not so easy to pull a cart full of crops.
When there were still twenty or thirty meters away from this slope, Han Chengcheng, who was standing on the side of the wheel, shouted, and at the same time reached out and slapped the donkey pulling the cart, making the donkey speed up.
Then one person, one donkey and one deer began to trot, carrying momentum, pulling the car all the way up the dirt slope to the stone road, without any knocking, which made Han Cheng very satisfied.
The people leading the donkey cart behind them also did the same, and began to accelerate in advance when they approached the dirt slope, and without much effort, they went up the dirt slope to the stone road, and walked all the way to the threshing floor that had already been cleared.
"One, two, three! One, two, three! ”
Come to the threshing floor, lead the cart to the predetermined place, and untie the brake rope that binds the grain.
Someone tried to climb onto the donkey cart and pick the crops on it with a wooden fork, but Han Cheng shouted to stop him.
Let a minor who was with the cart stand in front of the cart and hold the donkey to prevent it from leaving, and then, together with two adults, pull out the wooden fork with the handle in the crop cart and come to the side of the cart.
Lift the wooden fork in your hand diagonally upwards and stick it into the crops on the cart.
Then shouting a simple trumpet, the three of them held the handle of the wooden fork and pushed the crops on the cart down in three or two strokes.
It's much faster than climbing into the car and picking up a fork from fork to fork......
In the autumn harvest of the Qingque tribe this year, these 23 two-wheeled donkey carts have become the most eye-catching scenery.
When I first started to contact the loading, I felt that it was quite complicated, but after installing it a few more times, I was able to grasp it slowly.
With Han Cheng taking these people to demonstrate and teach hand-in-hand, it took about a day or so, and this group of people who were specifically responsible for loading trucks and transporting crops had already learned this skill.
Although most of them are not up to Han Cheng's level, they can already be used......
On the threshing floor, the grains that were first harvested and transported were spread out to dry there, and they were already dry.
There are people who have been assigned to fight the field, leading the deer and pulling the stone stone and starting to circle around it.
Because the adult donkeys in the tribe are basically used to pull the donkey cart to pull the crops out, the thing that needs to be constantly turned in circles still has to fall on these deer.
Thanks to these more than 20 donkey carts, this year's crops are not only fast, but also do not require so many people.
As a result, these saved manpower were put into the harvesting of grain, thus promoting the improvement of the entire autumn harvest.
The millet in Yanshan was also ripe, and Han Cheng sent some people to Yanshan to harvest it.
The small courtyard in Yanshan has also been built, and it is not large, with only a dozen houses and a surrounding wall, which looks a bit like a courtyard house.
It is too close to the main tribe of the blue sparrow, and it is destined that its scale will not be too large.
However, after the beginning of spring this year, a lot of fields have been opened up, with more than 200 acres.
It is too troublesome to pull the grain back and forth, so after harvesting, it is processed nearby, and when the time comes, it is only necessary to transport the finished grain back.
As truckloads of crops were transported to the threshing floor, and the newly threshed grain was dried and transported to the granary, the entire Qingque tribe was immersed in a joyful atmosphere.
However, this joy does not include the elder brother, the leader of the Blue Sparrow Tribe.
In the face of such a harvest, it cannot be said that the senior brother is not happy, but his joy is always mixed with some other things.
Especially when you are alone, you can sit there alone and look preoccupied and unsettled.
In his spare time after a busy day, the most he did was to find out the rattan shield he usually used.
Or sit there and fill it with some tree strips to rest, or stand up and dance a few times in front of the rattan shield, looking quite lonely and dull.
The whole tribe was now in the midst of the busyness and joy of the harvest, and few people noticed that the elder brother was not in the right state.
However, Han Cheng was not included among these people.
Ever since he briefly talked to Senior Brother about the future of the Vine Shield and the Vine Shield Team that day, Han Chengcheng sensed that the Senior Brother's emotions were not right, and he had been paying attention to the Senior Brother's behavior.
Seeing the appearance of the senior brother, Han Cheng's heart also became a little silent and neutral.
When people live in the world, they always have to face many things and make choices one by one.
Some choices can be made easily, such as simple things like eating and dressing, or even which leg to step on first.
But some choices are not so easy to make, and the trade-offs are always full of all kinds of reluctance mixed with sadness......
The moon hangs high in the night sky, pouring the moonlight on the ground.
The Blue Sparrow tribe became quieter and quieter as the night deepened, and only the people in charge of the night patrol walked quietly on the inner and outer walls with weapons.
With the gust of night wind, the fragrance of ripe millet is sent for a while......
"Bang~Bang~Bang......"
There was a small sound in the inner courtyard, and the people who had been tired all day had fallen asleep at this time, and basically no one noticed the sound that seemed to be a little abrupt.
Han Cheng, who was lying on the kang in the room, thinking about how to deal with the vine shield and the vine shield team without the slightest clue, was stunned for a moment, and then quietly got up and came to the window......