Chapter 574: A Powerful Cradle - One Against Twelve



Bo's craftsmanship is impeccable, and by now, it has been completely cultivated by Han Cheng using all kinds of strange and weird things.

The cradle was made very quickly. Just as Han Cheng had explained it to him the day before, the finished product was ready the next day.

The workmanship certainly cannot reach the exquisite level of later generations, but compared with Han Cheng's method of making a frame and tying a hoe on it, it is much better.

The main body of the cradle made by Bo is a wooden box made of wood boards, which is 80 cm long and 40 cm wide and deep.

The two ends of the wooden box were supported by tough vines from the bottom, then wrapped up and tied to the horizontal tree sticks.

It's not a tight tie, but a ring so that the 'wooden box' underneath can swing along.

The length of the 'wooden box' is consistent with the direction of the horizontal tree stick, and it is also horizontal, so that it can swing left and right.

Han Cheng tried shaking it and it was relatively smooth.

Giving Lame a thumbs up, Han Cheng used some things to cushion the small wooden box, picked up Little Pea, who was not yet used to tilting his head to the left and still cried from time to time, and gently placed him in the cradle.

Little Pea, who had just moved to a new place, started to make a fuss immediately, and he was spitting out some milk while making a fuss.

Han Cheng got some linen and slowly wiped it off, then pushed the cradle with his hands and rocked it gently.

Maybe he felt very comfortable this way. His head was tilted to the left by the linen pad. He soon stopped crying and looked up with his eyes open, which looked like they were crying dryly but without tears.

Seeing that the cradle was indeed effective, a smile appeared on Han Cheng's face.

Not bad. It seems this thing can be promoted in the tribe.

After pushing Little Pea for a while, Han Cheng moved the cradle frame to the side of the kang, and found a stick more than one meter long and handed it to Sister Bai Xue.

Of course, it is not used to beat the child, but to push the cradle a few times when Little Pea is crying.

After doing all this, Han Cheng began to talk to the witch about promoting the cradle in the tribe. After listening to him, the witch shook his head.

He had seen the effect of the cradle, which was indeed good for coaxing children, but he did not have much intention of promoting it in the tribe.

Firstly, it is because I think it takes a lot of time to make this thing. Secondly, it is normal for children to cry and they don’t need to be coaxed all the time. Thirdly, even if there are more cradles, the number of people who look after the babies cannot be reduced...

Han Cheng was a little surprised by Wu's reaction. After understanding what Wu meant through his words, Han Cheng couldn't help but smile. Couldn't he reduce the number of people taking care of the baby?

That's because you haven't seen the phenomenon of multiple cradles rocking together. Once you see many cradles rocking together, you won't think so anymore.

As he thought this in his mind, he began to feel the joy of 'bullying' the primitive people.

"You'll find out when you wait."

Han Cheng said to Wu with a smile.

After hearing what Han Cheng said, Wu's originally confident heart immediately began to waver.

After all, he has seen many miracles performed by the Son of God over the years.

Could it be that this seemingly inconspicuous cradle, like the other things created by the Son of God, has uses that the Son of God is unknown to him?

The witch thought so as she looked at the cradle that was being poked by Sister Bai Xue with a stick and was shaking from time to time.

After a while, the second wisest man and charlatan of the Qingque tribe turned to Han Cheng without any moral integrity.

Although he hadn't figured out how else the cradle could be used.

Han Cheng picked up a branch and began to gesture on the ground, continuing to tell Bo about the cradle.

Curious and idle, Wu squatted aside and listened, and slowly his eyes began to light up...

In a specially built nursery in the Qingque tribe, there are many wooden racks arranged in a row, and a large cradle is hung on each of them.

The cradle is really big, with a length of 1.6 meters, enough for an adult to sleep in.

The inside of the big cradle was divided into three equal parts by two horizontal bars, so one became three.

The cradle was padded with soft millet stalks, linen, etc., and a tiny baby was lying inside.

A female primitive was sitting in the room, with two cradles on her left and right sides.

There are three sticks connecting the two cradle frames, firmly connecting them together.

In the middle position of the cradle close to the female primitive, a 40-centimeter-long stick was firmly fixed.

The female primitive sat there, holding one in each hand and gently pushing it to the left and right.

The four large cradles were rocking, and the babies inside were either lying quietly, or stretching out their chubby little hands to grab the sunlight coming through the gaps, or sleeping quietly. There were very few who were crying.

That is to say, one person sitting here can coax twelve babies at once through this modified cradle.

With the growth of the population of the Qingque tribe and the improvement of living conditions, the number of newborns in the tribe is steadily increasing each year, with few birth control measures in place.

Take this year for example. The summer has not yet completely ended, but there are already twenty-three newborn babies in the tribe. Female primitive people with big bellies can still be seen everywhere in the tribe. It can be predicted that by the time of the New Year, it will not be difficult to reach fifty newborn babies.

With more newborns, the work of taking care of babies naturally increases.

Although the tribe was not as sophisticated as later generations in coaxing children and seemed extremely rough, it is undeniable that a lot of manpower was still spent on this aspect.

Especially for babies who are just a few months old and cannot walk on their own, it takes more time and effort to take care of them.

No matter how rough it is, such children need someone to be around them, and it is the best that one adult can do to take care of three of them.

Now, one person can rock twelve children in a cradle. If the material of the cradle is improved so that it takes less effort to rock, and a larger cradle is added on one side, it is not impossible for one person to rock eighteen children at the same time.

Of course, coaxing a child is not as simple as just rocking the cradle. It also requires taking care of the child's eating, drinking, defecating and urinating. If a child has a tantrum, he or she needs to be taken out and coaxed for a while, which requires separate staff.

But even so, compared with before, a lot less manpower will be spent on this.

And compared with the previous overly rough method of raising children, children are now taken care of much better.

Wu stood at the door of the room, watching this scene with a happy face.

As long as it is fast and economical, he would certainly like the children in the tribe to receive better care.

At the same time, I was once again impressed by the wisdom of the Son of God.

Although he has been convinced countless times.

Some seemingly ordinary things, when extended a little by the Son of God, can always bring unexpected surprises...


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