(Additional chapters 4/5 for book lovers' book Eden rewards)
As the number one carpenter and weaver of the Green Bird Tribe, Bo's craftsmanship and comprehension ability are naturally impeccable.
Although it is much more complicated to weave a helmet than a safety helmet, with Han Cheng's verbal guidance, after more than two days of trial and error, the first helmet with certain defensive capabilities of the Qingque tribe finally appeared in Bo's hands.
This type of helmet covers more areas. It does not only protect the top of the head like a safety helmet, but also protects the back of the head.
After all, this helmet is prepared for people going to the battlefield. On the battlefield, it is not surprising to be attacked anywhere. It is not like mining, where you just need to protect yourself from falling objects from high altitudes.
After once again experiencing being hit on the head with a bronze hammer, the improved rattan helmet was confirmed to have considerable defensive capabilities and began mass production.
Looking at the armors woven by Bo and the others, Han Cheng suddenly had the idea of letting Heiwa and the second senior brother try to cast some bronze helmets when he had free time.
Wearing such a helmet can not only be used to resist enemy attacks, but also when you can't find a pot or something to cook, you can take off the helmet from your head, put a few stones around it, add water into it, and use it to cook food.
And no need to add oil...
The helmet is made of bronze, which is a bit too heavy. Not only will it cause your head to rub bald, but it will also make you uncomfortable and require a long time to get used to it...
There is no need to rush to do this. According to the current situation, simple rattan armor and rattan helmets are enough.
Regarding the equipment or military type in the tribe, there is another more important thing that Han Cheng needs to consider.
This is the Rattan Team.
With the rattan armor and helmets, after everyone in the tribe was equipped with them, the rattan shield team led by the eldest brother seemed a bit useless.
After all, there is no need to rely on the defense of the eldest brother and others. The long spear team and archery team wearing these equipment can also withstand some attacks from the enemy.
Similarly, the eldest brother and his companions, who were wearing rattan armor and helmets and holding a large rattan shield in their hands, also seemed redundant.
After all, rattan shields are relatively bulky, and they are mainly used for defense. In terms of offense, they are far inferior to bronze spears, bows and arrows, and slings.
The more Han Cheng sat here and thought about it, the more he felt that the Tengdun Team was now too useless.
After thinking about it for a while, the eldest senior brother just happened to walk in from outside.
When Han Cheng saw his senior brother coming in, he stopped him and told him about Teng Dun.
Although Han Cheng's words were rather tactful, the eldest senior brother fell silent after understanding what Han Cheng meant.
After all, he has been using the rattan shield as a weapon for several years and has long fallen in love with it.
After hearing Han Cheng talk about the embarrassing situation of Rattan Shield and his idea of abolishing the Rattan Shield team and incorporating it into other arms, it would be strange if the eldest brother did not remain silent.
In fact, after the appearance of things like rattan armor, the eldest senior brother also knew something about the embarrassing situation of the rattan shield, even earlier than Han Cheng thought about it.
It was just because he had already gotten used to using this weapon and didn't want to change it, so he never said anything.
But I was still worried, fearing that the Son of God or Wu and the others would discover this problem and reorganize the Tengdun Team.
This worry finally became a reality today...
Han Cheng felt uncomfortable looking at his senior brother who looked gloomy and stood there not knowing what to say.
This is somewhat similar to the reorganization of the 7th Steel Company in the TV series "Soldier Assault", where all the people in the company were either discharged from the army or incorporated into other companies in batches.
As someone who had cried in front of the TV with red eyes, Han Cheng could certainly understand the senior brother's feelings at the moment.
"Let's talk about this later. I just have an idea now, and it's not certain.
Moreover, the autumn harvest is coming soon. Even if we want to make any changes, we have to wait until after the autumn harvest, which will take a long time.
With such a long time, it is not impossible to come up with a solution that has the best of both worlds..."
Han Cheng spoke up to comfort his senior brother.
"Um."
The eldest brother nodded somewhat dully, then left, looking somewhat heavy.
Looking at the appearance of the eldest senior brother when he left, Han Cheng's heart also became heavy.
I even regretted telling these things to my senior brother...
Time passes quietly as the ears of grain grow fuller and droop their heads humbly.
All the people who had gone out to build the Bronze Expressway were brought back. Looking at the vast fields of millet drooping their heads, they were full of anticipation.
In the threshing floor, someone was using a shovel to clear away some weeds growing on the field.
Some people were leading donkeys or deer, pulling stone rollers and turning them around in circles on the threshing floor.
Behind the roller frame was a bunch of 'luozi' made of thin branches with leaves, and a few copper shovels of moist soil were placed on top to increase the weight...
The carpenter's room also stopped weaving helmets, and Bo and a few other people began to repair sickles, wheelbarrows and other things.
Some people also cut bamboo poles as thick as their little fingers, tie them together tightly, and after shaping them, roast them over a lit fire to remove the bamboo leaves and help shape them.
Then they fell together in groups of five and were pressed down with a heavy stone slab.
After a few days, the upper parts of these bamboo brooms became not only fine and dense, but also flat. A bamboo broom that was very suitable for "sweeping" and making winnowed grain cleaner was successfully produced.
In the shade of the tribe, many men squatted there, scooped some water from the clay basin and poured it onto the fine and smooth whetstone, then held the sickle in both hands and rubbed it back and forth on the whetstone.
After rubbing for a while, he would stop and gently test the blade with his fingers...
The women in the tribe have been busy preparing food these days, ready to make a sumptuous harvest feast.
After all, once the autumn harvest begins, the entire tribe will become busy, and by then there will be no time or energy to prepare these foods.
The deer and donkeys in the tribe have been eating some bean dregs recently...
In the fields, Han Cheng, Wu, and several people in the tribe who often tended the crops were searching through the millet fields, checking the first batch of millet that had been planted.
From time to time, they would pluck a few millet ears, rub them in their hands, put the grains into their mouths and bite them with their teeth to judge the maturity of the millet.
This is a very challenging thing.
It takes several months from planting to harvesting millet.
Among the months, the most important ones are these last few days, because this is the critical time for the millet to grow kernels.
At this time, if the harvest is too early, the yield of the same acre of land will be greatly reduced, and the grains pounded out in time will not be full and round enough.
But the harvest cannot be too late. If it is harvested too late, if the weather is not good, a lot of grain will not be harvested.
"Okay, this first crop of millet can be harvested tomorrow. We should start from the west end."
After combining the opinions of several people and his own feelings, Han Cheng finally nodded and determined the time for harvesting the millet.
The reason why we harvest from west to east is that the terrain in the west is higher and the moisture in the land is not as good as that in the east, so the crops here mature one or two days earlier.
After this decision was made and announced, the entire Qingque tribe suddenly became lively.
The people who had been preparing for a few days began to wash all kinds of food and put them into the pot. The aroma of the food, mixed with everyone's joy, spread throughout the tribe...
At dawn the next day, those who had eaten the feast and had a good sleep yesterday had already gotten up, carrying sickles and other tools, chatting and laughing with each other as they left the tribe and headed towards the ripe crops...
"Open the sickle!"
Han Cheng cut the first handful of millet, held it high, and shouted to everyone. Then, everyone who was standing at the edge of the field holding sickles and ready, bent down, holding the ripe millet in one hand and stretching the sickle in the other hand towards the root of the millet, then quickly pulled it back, and a handful of millet was cut.
The morning breeze blew, and the many millets surged into a golden wave. The rustling sound of the millet ears and leaves colliding with each other and the sound of the sickle cutting the millet mixed together, playing a beautiful movement...
There is strength in numbers. By the afternoon, a large field of millet had been harvested.
So some men stopped harvesting millet, returned to the tribe, harnessed the donkey carts, led the two-wheeled donkeys across the stone road, and then drove into the fields along the cleared edge of the field.
The donkey cart was different from the ones I had seen before. It was no longer a plain cart, but had a "sheep horn" in the shape of a "field" placed in the holes left in front and behind the donkey cart.
Although it is called a "田" shape, it is not quite accurate, as both sides of the "田" shape's borders extend outwards at the top and bottom.
The protruding part at the bottom is for putting the food into the hole left on the donkey cart, and the protruding part at the top is for blocking more crops loaded on it.
The reason why this tool is called "sheep horns" is that when the two outward-tilted tools are inserted into the donkey cart one after the other, they look like the two inverted "eight" shaped horns on a sheep's head when viewed from the side.
With these two tools, the donkey cart can be blocked horizontally, one in front and one behind, so that more crops can be loaded on the donkey cart.
Otherwise, it would be too empty to carry much stuff with just a bare donkey cart.
"Install both ends first!"
After the donkey cart entered the harvested millet field, someone carried the harvested millet from the ground and loaded it onto the donkey cart, but was stopped by Han Cheng.
There are many requirements for assembling this kind of two-wheeled donkey cart, and it cannot be assembled casually like a unicycle.
First of all, the space on the donkey cart is limited. If you don’t load things properly, the most likely scenario is that the cart will be full before you can load much.
The amount of crops that can be carried by a cart like this is more than two carts of this kind can carry.
In this regard, it is noted that after arranging them layer by layer, there are still many areas that need attention.
That is to balance the car as much as possible.
If there is too much loading in the front, the weight of the donkey cart and the large amount of crops on the cart will fall on the donkey, and the donkey will not be able to bear it.
However, you cannot simply load the items onto the back half of the cart in order to reduce the donkey's load. The most likely outcome of doing so is that the donkey cart will lift up when encountering an uphill slope.
If there are enough things loaded on the back of the donkey cart and the slope is steep enough, the donkey pulling the cart in front can be lifted up together.
In addition, the left and right sides of the donkey cart should be as balanced as possible when loading.
Because if one side is installed concavely and the other side is installed convexly, it is easy to overturn when encountering an unstable road.
Moreover, the protruding part may not reach the threshing ground and will collapse completely. In this case, it will need to be loaded onto the truck again, which will be a big trouble!
Loading crops onto a cart is called "pan the cart" by Han Cheng. Just the word "pan" shows that it is not a casual task, but a necessary skill for a farmer.
Han Cheng was not unfamiliar with these things, because when he was a child, during the summer "wheat holiday", he would follow the adults in his family to the fields to harvest wheat and load it onto trucks.
There were many times, in order to bring back more wheat on a cart, when the wheat was loaded to the level of the 'sheep's horns', he would be asked to step on the cart and at the same time be responsible for spreading the wheat that the adults had picked up with wooden forks layer by layer on top.
At that time, Han Cheng was often scolded for this, but after being scolded so many times, he was able to assemble the car slowly.
Today, Han Cheng decided to pass on the skills he learned from the training he received as a child.
After saying these words to the people who were waiting to load the carts, Han Cheng, who was shoveling a pile of stalked grains with a wooden fork, walked to the side of the donkey cart. With a little force in his hand, the wooden fork, which was originally held horizontally, turned half a circle in the air and buckled onto the donkey cart.
This method of loading the grain onto the vehicle is not only easier to remove when taking out the wooden fork, and will not carry away the grain on the vehicle, but it also makes the grain very dense, so the grain is not loose and can be loaded more.
Han Cheng used the first fork to hook into the thirty-centimeter gap between the front of the donkey cart, the wooden side of the cart, and the "sheep's horn".
The ears of grain face inwards, the stalks face outwards, and about half of their length protrudes outside the cart, suspended in the air.
The ears of grain face inwards, on the one hand, because if the ears of grain fall down, they will fall onto the car and will not be wasted.
On the other hand, the heavy ears of grain can make the stalks protrude from the vehicle body as much as possible, so that more grain can be loaded.
After fastening the wooden fork, Han Cheng took the wooden fork and shoveled a few forks of grain in succession, filling the gaps between the four sides of the donkey cart and the "sheep's horns". He stopped only after the four sides were roughly level with the sides.
Then the shoveled grain was loaded into the middle of the car body.
The side of the donkey cart was not high, only about twenty centimeters. Even without installing a few wooden forks on it, the grain in the body of the cart was already level with the side.
Seeing this, Han Cheng stopped loading millet here and shoveled the millet and started to put it on one side of the donkey cart, from front to back, just like at the beginning, with the ears of millet facing inwards.
After buckling up, about half of the length of the straw also extends beyond the body of the car.
This time, it was installed about 20 to 30 centimeters higher.
After one side is installed, install the other side.
After both sides are installed, start installing the empty space in the middle.
When loading, it is also from front to back, but the front wooden fork of millet needs to be half-slanted with the ear of millet facing upwards and leaning against the "sheep's horn".
After installing a round in the middle from front to back, repeat the previous steps...
During the loading process, after the millet close to the car is loaded, someone needs to lead the donkey forward. After the distance between the donkey and the millet pile is shortened, the donkey stops and continues to load. This is not only faster, but also less tiring for the loaders.
After loading two layers in a row, Han Cheng asked the people who were following him to take wooden forks and work in groups of two to load the truck according to the method he had just used.
Two people stand on the donkey cart, one on the left and one on the right, and a minor stands in the front, holding the reins on the donkey's head to prevent it from moving. The three-person team for loading the donkey is ready.
When standing there watching Han Cheng loading the grains, everyone didn't think it was that difficult. They just used a wooden fork to scoop up the grains and put them on.
But when it really comes to loading the car yourself, you will find all kinds of problems arise.
Either there was too much here, or too little there, or one of the forks was placed wrongly, with the ears of corn facing outwards...
Han Cheng acted as a technical instructor, telling them how to repair and remedy the situation, and also demonstrated with a wooden fork.
He taught and loaded the carts at the same time. When all the carts were loaded to the level of the "sheep's horns", Han Cheng called these people over and asked them to continue watching him demonstrate. After passing the "sheep's horns", the method of loading upwards was different from before...
"For this last layer, don't install it on the sides, but on the top layer, from front to back, with one fork on top of another. This way, the stubble can be pressed down, and the crops will not fall easily when the vehicle moves forward!"
While loading the car, Han Cheng gave instructions to everyone and explained the key points.
After installing the last wooden fork, Han Cheng did not let anyone lead the donkey cart away.
At this time, the crops loaded on the cart have far exceeded the side of the cart and need to be "brake" with a rope. Otherwise, the cart will not be able to go far and the crops that have been loaded with great difficulty will be thrown off.
Han Cheng picked up the 'brake rope' that he had prepared long ago, which was as thick as a child's arm. He tied one end to the base of the shaft on one side of the cart, and let the rest of the rope spread out and swung over the roof of the cart filled with crops.
Under the body of the donkey cart, a wooden plug about five centimeters long, two centimeters thick and three centimeters wide was left in front of and behind the wheels.
Han Cheng bent down and tied the brake rope to the wooden bolt.
"Hold this end, and when I push, you push too!"
Han Cheng handed the long end of the rope to his senior brother who was standing aside and learning how to use this new tool to load the truck, and gave instructions at the same time.
Seeing that the eldest brother understood what he meant, he grasped the rope that was wrapped around the roof of the car with both hands and pulled it down hard.
The stalks were loose and not solid enough. As Han Cheng exerted force, the rope pressed down a lot under the stalks.
The eldest brother also pulled hard at the right time according to Han Cheng's instructions, so the extra rope was pulled away by the eldest brother.
Han Cheng pulled the rope down four or five more times, and when he saw that there was basically no more rope left and the grain had been firmly tightened by the rope, he stopped.
"Hold on and don't let go. I'll let you go."
After Han Cheng threw the remaining brake rope from the roof to the other side of the car again, he said to his eldest brother.
After seeing that the eldest brother nodded to indicate that he understood, he then went to the other side of the car, bent down, hung the rope on the wooden plug, and then pulled it tight. Then he told the eldest brother to let go and asked him to come over.
After Han Cheng handed the long rope in his hand to the eldest brother, he continued to pull the rope down with all his strength as he had done before.
As he exerted force, the donkey cart swayed slightly from left to right.
The rest of the steps are done in the same way. You just need to tie the last end of the rope tightly to prevent it from loosening. Then the car will be completely braked.
Because the grains are loaded one crop on top of another, therefore, even though there are only a few ropes, as long as the ropes are not untied, the grains on the entire car will not scatter.
After Han Cheng demonstrated, he asked the people watching around to imitate him and brake in groups of two, while he walked around and gave instructions.
This is the case with many things. When you watch others do them, they seem simple and easy, but when you really start to do it yourself, it becomes more difficult.
For example, this seemingly simple method of braking with a rope.
Even though many people in the Green Bird Tribe were proficient in the binding technique under the influence of their great Son of God, the process was not too smooth, and many people made some mistakes to varying degrees.
After a long time, the twenty-three donkey carts that were carrying grain for the first time were finally completely loaded.
After loading the car, everyone looked around. Without too much comparison, they could see how big the difference was between the car they loaded and the car loaded by the Son of God.
But despite this, these people were still very happy because the donkey cart was loaded more than two meters high!
The Son of God had said before that a donkey cart could carry as much crops as five wheelbarrows, which shocked everyone at the time.
Now it seems that this donkey cart carries more than five wheelbarrows! Even the smallest cart can carry more than six wheelbarrows!
It turns out that what the Son of God said before was just modesty!
Wu and the other people who were participating in the harvest were now looking at the twenty-three donkey carts that were loaded like a mountain, their eyes shining.
In the morning, everyone worked together to harvest the millet. According to previous estimates, it was enough for the people in charge of transportation to carry it in wheelbarrows for an entire afternoon, and they didn't dare to stop for the slightest while to finish transporting it. And now, it was only one trip, and they had already loaded a small half of it!
Although everyone knew that these donkey carts could carry a lot, no one had expected that they could carry so much!
This... this is truly a miracle!
At this moment, looking at this scene, Wu suddenly had the urge to tell the gods who had never paid any attention to him about this miraculous event.
However, he also understood that this was an important time for the autumn harvest, so he had to endure it.
"Let's go!"
Han Cheng led the donkey cart in the front, which he had loaded himself. He shouted, and then he led the donkey and the deer pulling the cart, turned around in the field, and walked towards the main road first.
With the donkey cart, today he rediscovered the feeling of harvesting wheat and loading it into the cart as a child. Therefore, although he was exhausted and sweating, he was still very excited.
The hometown that can never be returned to, the childhood that can never be returned to, are always so unforgettable, making people recall and miss them with a smile or tears in their eyes...
"ha!"
There was a not-too-big slope between the land and the stone slab, so it was no problem to pull an empty cart up there, but now it was not so easy to pull a full cart of crops.
When they were still twenty or thirty meters away from the slope, Han Cheng, who was standing on the side of the cart, shouted and at the same time reached out and slapped the donkey pulling the cart, asking it to speed up.
Then the man, the donkey and the deer all started to trot, carrying the momentum, pulling the cart all the way up the dirt slope and to the stone road, without any bumps at all, which made Han Cheng very satisfied.
The people pulling the donkey carts at the back also followed suit. When they were near the slope, they started to accelerate in advance. They also climbed the slope without much effort and came to the stone road, rumbling all the way to the threshing ground that had been cleared long ago.
"One, two, three! One, two, three!"
When we arrived at the threshing ground, we pulled the cart to the previously designated location and untied the brake ropes that bound the grain.
Someone wanted to climb onto the donkey cart and use a wooden fork to pick up the crops from above and move them down, but Han Cheng stopped him.
Have a minor following the cart stand in front of the cart to hold the donkey to prevent it from moving, and then work with two adults to pull out the wooden fork whose handle is stuck in the cart and go to the side of the cart.
He raised the wooden fork in his hand diagonally upwards and stuck it into the crops on the cart.
Then they shouted a simple slogan, and the three of them held the handles of the wooden forks and pulled together, and in no time they pushed the crops off the cart.
This is much faster than climbing onto the car and picking up the wood forks one by one...
During the autumn harvest of the Qingque tribe this year, these twenty-three two-wheeled donkey carts became the most eye-catching scenery.
When I first started installing the car, I found it quite complicated, but after doing it a few times, I was able to master it slowly.
With Han Cheng demonstrating and teaching these people, it took about a day and all the people who were responsible for loading and transporting crops had learned the skill.
Although most of them have not reached Han Cheng's level, they are already usable...
In the threshing floor, the first grains that were harvested and transported were spread out to dry. They were already dry.
Those who were assigned the task of threshing led the deer and pulled the stone roller, which started to turn in circles.
Because most of the adult donkeys in the tribe are used to pull donkey carts to transport crops, the task of threshing, which requires constant turning in circles, still falls on these deer.
Because of these twenty or so donkey carts, the transportation of crops this year is not only fast but also does not require so many people.
Therefore, the saved manpower was put into millet, thus promoting the speed of harvest of the entire autumn harvest.
The millet in Yanshan was ripe, so Han Cheng sent some people to Yanshan to harvest it.
The small courtyard in Yanshan has also been built. It is not big, with only a dozen houses and surrounding walls. It looks a bit like a siheyuan.
Being too close to the Qingque main tribe, it was destined to be small in size.
However, a lot of farmland there has been opened up since the beginning of spring this year, totaling more than 200 acres.
It is too troublesome to transport the grains back and forth, so after the harvest, they are processed nearby, and when the time comes, all you have to do is transport the prepared grains back.
As cartloads of crops were transported to the threshing ground and the newly threshed grains were dried and then transported to the granary, the entire Qingque tribe was immersed in a festive atmosphere.
However, this joy did not include the eldest brother, the leader of the Qingque tribe.
Faced with such a harvest, it cannot be said that the eldest brother is unhappy, but his joy is always mixed with something else.
Especially when one is alone, a person sitting there appears to be someone who is preoccupied and absent-minded.
In his free time after a busy day, the thing he did most was to find the rattan shield he often used.
He would either sit there and fill the space with some tree branches to rest, or stand up and hold the rattan shield in front of him and wave it a few times, looking quite lonely and dull.
The entire tribe is now busy and happy about the harvest, and few people notice that something is not right with the eldest brother.
However, Han Cheng was not among these people.
Ever since he had a brief conversation with his senior brother about Tengdun and the future of the Tengdun team that day, Han Cheng noticed that his senior brother was in a bad mood and had been keeping an eye on his behavior.
Seeing the look on Senior Brother's face, Han Cheng felt silent and uncomfortable.
When people live in this world, they always have to face many things and make many choices.
Some decisions are easy to make, such as simple things like eating, getting dressed, or even which leg to move first, which are things we have already taken for granted.
But some choices are not so easy to make, and the choices are always filled with all kinds of sadness...
The moon hangs high in the night sky, pouring down bright moonlight on the ground.
The Qingque tribe, which had been busy all day, became increasingly quiet as the night deepened. Only the people in charge of night patrol were walking quietly on the inner and outer walls with weapons in hand.
Along with the night breeze, the fragrance of ripe grains came...
“Bang, bang, bang…”
A not-so-loud noise was heard in the inner courtyard. People who had been tired after a day's work had fallen into a deep sleep at this time, and basically no one noticed this seemingly abrupt sound.
Han Cheng was lying on the kang in the room, thinking about how to deal with the rattan shield and the rattan shield team without any clue. After a moment of hesitation, he quietly stood up and walked to the window...
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