(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 "田" 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.
下面出头是好往驴车上留出的孔洞里放，上面出头是为了多挡住一些装在上面的庄稼。
之所以将这个工具称之为‘羊角子’，是因为将这两个往外倾斜的工具，一前一后的插在驴车上之后，从侧面看去，很像羊头顶上长着的那两根倒‘八’形状的角。
有了这两个工具一前一后的横着将驴车给堵起来，驴车之上才能多多的装上庄稼。
不然的话单单只是一个光板的驴车，装不了多少东西，就已经装不下了。
“先装两头！”
驴车进入收割后的谷子地之后，就有人抱着地上收割过的谷子往驴车上装，不过却被韩成给止住了。
这种双轮的驴车装起来可是有着很多的讲究的，不能再像独轮车那样装的随意。
首先就是驴车空间有限，如果不好好装的话，最大的可能就是没怎么装，一车就已经满了。
这样的一车所能拉的庄稼，两车都抵不上人家一车。
这方面注意到，一层层的排列上去之后，还有不少地方需要注意。
那就是尽量的将车装平衡。
前面装的太多，驴车以及车上大量庄稼的重量就都会压在驴子身上，驴子承受不住。
但也不能为了减轻驴子的负重而一味的往车子后半部分装，这样做最可能发生的事情就是，遇到上坡的时候，驴车会吊起来。
如果驴车后面装的东西足够多、而坡度又足够大的话，连带着前面拉车的驴子都能一起被吊起来。
除此之外，驴车的左右两侧在装的时候，也要尽可能的做到平衡。
因为若是一面装的凹下去，另外一面装的凸出来，遇到不平稳的路的时候，容易翻车。
而且凸出来的那一部分，很有可能到不了打谷场，就会彻底的崩塌，这样一来，就需要重新装车，那麻烦可就大了！
往车上装庄稼，在韩成那里被称为‘盘车’，单单一个‘盘’字，就能知道这不是一个随随便便的事情，而是一个农家人必备的技能。
对于这些事情，韩成一点都不陌生，因为在他儿时的时候，一到夏天放‘麦假’，就会跟着家里的大人一起到地里跟着收麦、装车。
有很多时候，为了一车多拉回去一些麦子，在将麦子装了到和‘羊角子’平齐的时候，就会让他到车上去踩车，同时负责将大人用木叉扣上来的麦子一层层的在上面摆开。
那时候韩成没少因此而挨训，不过挨的训多了，慢慢的也就能够将车装好了。
在今天，韩成决定将他儿时没少挨训而学会的技能，传授出去。
在向那些等会儿了需要装车的人说出了这样的话之后，拿着木叉铲起一堆带杆谷子的韩成，走到驴车边上，手上稍微用力，原本平端着的木叉，在空中转了半圈，扣在驴车上。
这样扣着装车的方法，不仅仅取木叉的时候好取，不会将装到车上的谷子带掉，而且还非常密，谷子不松散，装的多。
这第一叉韩成扣在了驴车前面、木车帮和‘羊角子’中间的那个三十多厘米的空档里。
谷穗朝内，谷杆朝外，并有大约一半的长度，突出在车的外面，凌空存在。
谷穗朝内，一方面是因为如果谷穗往下掉子的话，就会掉在车上不会浪费。
另外一方面就是，沉重的谷穗在内，能够让谷杆尽可能多的突出车身，这样的话能够多装谷子。
这一木叉扣好之后，韩成又拿着木叉，连续铲了几木叉谷子，将驴车前后左右四个车帮与‘羊角子’之间的空档装好，装到大约和车帮平齐之后方才住手。
而后又将铲起的谷子往车身中间装。
驴车车帮不高，大约也就二十厘米那样，没有往上面装几木叉，车身里面的谷子就已经和车帮平齐了。
韩成见此，就不再继续往这里装谷子了，而起铲起谷子开始在驴车的一侧，从前往后，如同最开始那样，谷穗朝里的往车上扣。
扣上去之后，谷杆同样有大约一半的长度超出车身。
这一次，大约往上装了二三十厘米的高度。
一侧装好之后，再去装另外一侧。
两侧都装好之后，再开始装最中间留出来的那个空档。
装的时候同样从前往后，不过最前面的那一木叉谷子，需要谷穗朝上的半斜着靠在‘羊角子’子上。
将中间从前往后的装上一轮之后，就接着重复之前的动作……
在装车的过程里，距离车子近的谷子装完之后，需要人牵着驴子往前走，和谷子堆之间的距离拉近之后，停下继续往上装车，这样不仅快，而且装车的人也没有那样累。
就这样一连装了两层之后，韩成才让跟在周围的那些人，拿着木叉，两个一组的去按照他刚才的方法去装车。
两个人一个在驴车的左面，一个在驴车的右面，再找一个未成年人站在前面，牵着驴子头上的缰绳，让它不要乱动，装车三人组也就成了。
当时站在那里看韩成装车的时候，众人也不觉得多难，用木叉铲起谷子往上面扣也就成了。
但真的轮到自己动手装车的时候，就会发现各种问题都出来了。
不是这里装多了，就是那里装少，还有的一木叉扣错，将谷穗装成朝外了……
韩成则充当起来技术指导，告诉他们该怎么进行修整补救，同时还拿着木叉进行做示范。
这样一边教，一边装车，等到所有的驴车都装的和‘羊角子’平齐之后，韩成将这些人叫来，继续看他做示范，超过‘羊角子’之后，往上装的方法，和之前有所不同……
“这最后一层，不要装两边，一定要装最顶层，从前往后装，一木叉压着一木叉，这样的话，能够压着茬，在车往前走的时候，庄稼不容易掉！”
韩成一边装着车，一边开口给众人做交代，讲解重点。
将最后一木叉装好之后，韩成没有让人牵着驴车走。
这是时候车上装的庄稼已经远远的超出了车帮，需要用绳子‘刹’住，不然的话走不了多远，这些好不容易才装上去的庄稼便会被颠掉。
韩成拿起早就备好的、足足有小孩子手臂粗细的‘刹绳’，一端拴在一侧车辕的根部，剩下的绳子散开，从装满庄稼的车顶甩过去。
驴车的车身下面，在车轮前面和车轮后都分别留出了一个长约五厘米、厚两厘米、宽三厘米的木栓。
韩成俯下身去，将甩过来的刹绳拌在木栓上。
“你拉着这头，待会儿我一用力，你就也用力！”
韩成把绳子长的那头递给站在一边学习如何使用这种新工具装车的大师兄，同时出声交代道。
见大师兄明白他的意思之后，就双手握着这段从车顶绕过来的绳子，用力的往下拉。
谷杆松散不够瓷实，随着韩成的用力，绳子顿时就压着谷杆往下陷入了不少。
大师兄也按照韩成的交代适时的用力拉，于是，这些多余出来的绳子，就被大师兄给拉走了。
韩成又拉着绳子使劲往下拉了四五次，见基本上已经不会再有绳子多余出来、这一道的谷子已经被绳子牢牢的勒紧之后，便住了手。
“你拉住不要松手，我让你松你再松。”
韩成将余下的刹绳再次从车顶丢到车子的另外一侧之后，对大师兄说道。
见大师兄点头示意明白之后，这才然后车子的另外一面，同样是俯下身子将绳子挂在木栓上，然后用力拉紧，这才出声让大师兄松手，并让大师兄过来。
韩成将手里的长绳子交给大师兄之后，自己如同刚才那样，继续拉着绳子往下使劲的拉。
随着他的用力，驴车也一左一右的微微摇晃着。
剩下的事情都是如法炮制，只需要将最后的绳头绑好，不让它散开松劲，那这个车也算是彻底的刹好了。
因为这些谷子装的时候，都是一茬压着一茬的，因此上，虽然只是几道绳子，但只要绳子不开，整辆车上的谷子就都不散落。
韩成做了示范之后，这才让周围看的那些人，学着他刚才的样子，两人一组的进行刹车，而他，则在周围转着进行指导。
许多事情都是这样，看着别人做的时候都觉得很简单，很容易，但真的到了自己动手做的时候就比较困难了。
就比如这看起来极为简单的用绳子刹车。
纵然青雀部落的不少人在他们伟大的神子的影响下，都比较精通捆绑法，但在这个过程里也不算太过于顺利，不少人都或多或少的出了一些差子。
这样过了好一阵儿之后，这二十三辆第一次拉谷子的驴车才算是被彻底的装好。
装好车的众人左右看看，不用的过多的比较，就能看出自己等人装的车，和神子装出的车有多大的区别。
不过虽然是如此，这些人还是非常的高兴，因为这一驴车装的得超过两米高！
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 harvesting millet, thus promoting the speed 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...