“Bang!”
"Bang~"
Some noises kept coming out, making the place seem very empty.
On the river bank of the Qingque tribe, the wheel of the water mill kept turning in circles under the impact of the water flow. The water mill in the house rose and fell like a pecking rooster driven by the rotating wooden pole.
In such ups and downs, the millet in the stone mortar below was gradually cracked by the impact, revealing the bright yellow millet...
Han Cheng stood here, staring at the running water mill in a trance.
The people pounding rice here didn't know what the Son of God was thinking, and didn't dare to ask.
When pounding rice, everyone tried to be as careful as possible and not make too much noise.
Worried that it might disturb the Son of God.
After standing here for a while, Han Cheng suddenly came back to his senses.
He nodded to the man who was busy pounding rice nearby, then turned around and walked out of the house without saying a word and walked back to the tribe.
Instead of going anywhere else, he made his way to the carpenter's room.
Lame and some other carpenters who were concentrating on building the sailboat with him were not in the carpenter's room.
These people were staying outside the tribe at this time.
To be more specific, they were staying on the bank of the river downstream, more than three miles away from the main tribe.
The water surface in that place is wider than the river in front of the Qingque tribe.
Having gained a lot of experience on small sailboats, they were ready to build larger sailboats. However, it would be unrealistic to do so in the carpenter's yard.
It is necessary to build a special shipyard to allow them to play freely.
This place was chosen as the location for building a shipyard because it was at a suitable distance from the tribe and had a wide water surface.
The location where the shipyard was built was originally planted with hemp.
At this time, the hemp was basically mature, so under Han Cheng's order, they harvested that piece of hemp first.
It's just a little bit short of success. For the more important sailboat, Han Cheng can still afford this loss.
"Son of God."
"Son of God."
As Han Cheng walked in, the people who were busy here greeted him one after another.
Han Cheng smiled and nodded to them, responding one by one.
The carpenter's room seemed a lot quieter without the presence of people like Bo.
Han Cheng walked straight into the carpenter's room, and soon came out with an axe and a saw.
He found some more wood, placed it under the shade of the tree, and then began to work.
People always change, and these changes are often related to the living environment around them.
After living in such an era for such a long time, Han Cheng's hands-on ability began to improve sharply.
For example, carpentry.
Han Cheng is certainly not a professional.
However, because I have been exposed to more things in this era, my hands-on ability has been enhanced.
If he doesn't want to ask others to do some small things, he can just take the axe and other tools and slowly make them himself.
And it can also be done in a decent manner.
He first placed a piece of wood flat on the pier, then lifted one foot and stepped on it, pressing hard to secure it.
After finishing these things, Han Cheng started sawing wood with the saw in his hand...
While Han Cheng was working, a carpenter from the tribe came over to talk to him.
After Han Cheng expressed that he wanted to explore slowly and didn't need help from others for the time being, no one came to disturb him...
As the axe chopped and the plane pushed, time passed little by little, and the wood began to gradually take shape...
In the carpenter's room, Han Cheng was sitting on a bench with something placed in front of him.
The shape of this thing looks a bit like a windlass used to draw water from a well, but there are still some differences.
Han Cheng held the curved wooden handle in his hand and turned it gently, and the thing started to turn.
The wooden handle is connected to a piece of wood as thick as a bowl and about thirty centimeters long.
As the wooden handle turns, the section of wood also starts to move.
In the middle of the top flat surface of the wood, there are seven wooden sticks as thick as chopsticks, made of very strong wood.
There are grooves carved on the wooden stick, which is convenient for tying ropes.
After shaking the wooden handle for a while and feeling how easy and smooth it was, Han Cheng stopped and started picking up some fibers that were placed on the side and began to tie them to the small wooden stakes.
After tying fibers to the seven small wooden pillars one by one, Han Cheng began to shake the handle of the tool.
The wooden handle drives the wooden pillar to rotate, and the wooden pillars nailed on it also rotate accordingly.
Also rotating together are the fibers tied to the wooden pillars.
This is the spinning machine that Han Cheng is trying to make.
It is obvious that this thing is not mature at all, but a particularly pure experiment.
After only turning it a few times with his hands, Han Cheng had to stop and start a new round of thinking.
Just now, there was a very obvious problem with this simple spinning machine.
The problem is that the fibers tied to the spinning machine will actually rotate as the spinning machine rotates.
However, because the other end of these fibers is not fixed, the entire fiber rotates when the simple spinning machine turns.
Under such circumstances, the force that is transmitted to the rope through the rotation of the spinning machine is lost, which means that the work is in vain.
If you want to prevent the force on the rope from escaping, you have to fix it.
After thinking for a while, Han Cheng came up with this solution.
After realizing what he needed to do to solve the problem, Han Cheng thought for a while, then began to untie the fibers tied to the spinning machine, which was still in the experimental stage, and then found wood and tools, followed by a series of clinking and knocking sounds.
The sound was not smooth, because Han Cheng's thinking was not smooth at all, and he often needed to stop and think for a while while doing something.
Sometimes you just need to pause for a while, and sometimes there is no movement for a long time...
With Han Cheng's unremitting efforts, something finally appeared.
This is something like a shelf.
On the shelf, there was a log corresponding to the simple spinning machine made by Han Cheng.
There are seven regular holes on the cylinder, corresponding to the seven chopstick-like sticks on the simple spinning machine.
Sister Bai Xue stood here watching the fun, observing Han Cheng's actions seriously with a look of a little fangirl in her eyes.
Although she didn't understand what Brother Cheng was doing now, and was basically certain that what Brother Cheng was doing would not succeed, it still couldn't stop Sister Bai Xue from looking at Han Cheng with stars on her face.
Generally speaking, women who are infatuated with others or in love are like this.
Of course, if two people have lived together for many years and have two or three children, it can still be called a romantic relationship...
Han Cheng placed it opposite the simple spinning machine. After adjusting the position, he began to tie three fibers for synthetic yarn together on a small pillar of the experimental spinning machine.
Han Cheng is very good at tying ropes. In the tribe, he can basically be regarded as a pioneer.
Of course, the rope here is a relatively thick rope, not something that is just a few fibers put together and can’t even be considered a connecting line.
Sister Bai Xue was not someone who just sat there to do the work. When she saw Han Cheng feeling a little awkward doing these things, she immediately came over and helped Han Cheng.
Sister Bai Xue, who has been dealing with these thin threads for many years, is naturally very adept at doing these things. These thin fibers, which some grown men cannot even hold in their fingers, seem to have life in her hands. In a short while, she has tied the fibers to several small wooden pillars.
When Han Cheng saw Bai Xuemei taking action, he automatically stepped down and gave way to others.
After Sister Bai Xue tied it up, he pulled the fiber, which was divided into seven strands, and walked towards the rack that had just been set up.
A fiber is inserted into a corresponding hole and then blocked with a small wooden post.
In this way, the fiber is fixed.
He performed the operation one by one, and in a short while, Han Cheng had fixed the seven fibers.
After doing all this, Han Cheng came to the experimental spinning machine, held the handle with his hands and started to spin.
As he shook the loom, the seven fibers tied to the loom began to rotate.
Because this time several fibers were fixed at the other end, the upward force as the spinning machine turned did not escape, so these scattered fibers quickly synthesized together to become qualified yarn.
Han Cheng showed a satisfied smile, and Bai Xuemei next to him also showed an expression of amazement on her face.
Because the hand-cranked spinning machine created by Han Cheng can spin seven threads of yarn at a time, its efficiency is much faster than using a spinning top!
Brother Cheng is really smart!
There is a kind of handsomeness that only lasts three seconds.
This kind of thing is most suitable for Han Cheng.
No sooner had one problem been solved than another arose.
The problem is how to wind the strong line onto the corresponding stick.
When using a spinning top to wind the yarn, it is manually wound onto the long handle attached to the spinning top.
Han Cheng stood here and watched for a while, and found that there was no other way to use the experimental spinning machine he made except to wind it manually.
Han Cheng pulled out the wooden plug that fixed a piece of yarn, then took it to the simple spinning machine and wrapped it around the corresponding wooden pillar in circles.
After wrapping up the strong part, tie a knot and tie it here to prevent it from coming apart.
Then the remaining six...
After finally finishing these things, Han Cheng encountered another situation.
This situation is that the length of the fiber is limited. After the previous winding, the existing fiber is not long enough, and new fibers need to be inserted into it to make it longer.
When adding new fibers, there is a necessary condition, which is to rub the yarn to make it rotate vigorously.
When the force in the rope passes through the junction of the new and old fibers, the new and old fibers will connect together to become a whole.
During this process, one hand is needed to pull the yarn while the other hand is responsible for turning it in circles.
In this case, one hand can only be responsible for one thread of yarn at a time, but the spinning machine made by Han Cheng has seven threads!
By this calculation, at least four people are needed to work together to ensure that this simple machine works normally and spins yarn.
This is obviously extremely uneconomical.
Even if four people used spinning tops alone to spin the yarn, their efficiency would be higher than this.
After realizing this problem, Han Cheng once again stopped his work and fell into a new round of thinking...
When it was noon, the tinkling sound was heard again.
After a while of operation, Han Cheng, who was getting more and more courageous and trying his best to operate the spinning machine, put down the tools in his hands.
At this time, this simple spinning machine has undergone changes again.
There is not much change overall. The biggest change is that the original seven small wooden pillars have become one small wooden pillar now.
After a long period of thinking and a long period of busy work, the frame for fixing the fibers, which took almost two days to make, was abandoned and became useless.
Abandoned aside.
Han Cheng cranked the experimental spinning machine by hand for a while to feel its operation.
Han Cheng originally wanted to spin a piece of yarn himself to test the effect, but after seeing Bai Xuemei coming to him with a bowl of rice, Han Cheng gave up this embarrassing idea.
He took the bowl from Snow White, took a bite, and motioned to Snow White to try out the spinning effect of this thing.
In the past few days, Sister Bai Xue has come here often to watch Han Cheng make this thing. Now, she already knows what Han Cheng wants to do and how to use this thing.
After getting Han Cheng's signal, Bai Xuemei stepped forward to start the experiment.
She tied some fibers to the thin wooden pillar in the middle, then held the handle with her right hand and began to shake it, while pinching the fibers with her left hand, replacing the discarded wooden frame and fixing the fibers.
After a while, the piece of fiber between Bai Xuemei's hand and the spinning machine was almost done.
Sister Bai Xue held the fiber in her hand and moved it toward her arms, pulling the line, which was originally parallel to the wooden pillar, into a position perpendicular to the pillar.
Then his right hand shook, and the strong line was wrapped around the wooden pillar.
After wrapping, the fiber was wrapped around the top of the wooden pole to fix it. Then the left hand holding the fiber moved back a little, pulled the fiber parallel to the wooden pole again, and started a new round of tightening...