Encouraged by Han Cheng's words, Wu looked a lot younger. In the Black Stone Tribe in the north, sitting on a stone outside the Black Stone Tribe's cave, watching the setting sun gradually setting over the mountain, Shuba looked listless and as if he had aged a lot.
He sat here quietly, looking at the redness in the western sky, lost in thought. He no longer felt the joy he had when he killed the leader of the Blue Flower Tribe and gained the trust of the Black Stone Tribe.
The reason for this was that his plan of finding salt and pottery, letting the leaders of the Black Stone Tribe experience the benefits of these two things, and then using this to convince the leaders of the Black Stone Tribe to take their people south to launch a suicidal attack on the Green Bird Tribe, was once again proven to be a failure.
This was not because salt and pottery were not good enough or attractive enough, but because he found that he had no way to get these two things.
Before, he had proposed to take some furs, food and other things, as well as some people, and go south to find the Qingque tribe to exchange for salt and pottery, but he was not allowed.
All he got was a few hard slaps on the head from the leader of the Black Rock tribe.
Because the leader of the Blackrock Tribe felt that his actions were an attempt to take people away from the great Blackrock Tribe.
After being slapped twice, the leader of the Black Stone tribe solemnly warned Tree Bark, saying that if Tree Bark had such thoughts again, he and other people in the tribe would kill him and eat his meat, and put his skull together with that of the leader of the Blue Hu tribe.
The leader of the Blackrock Tribe is not just someone who talks, he and other people in the tribe are really capable of doing such a thing.
This is why the bark appears so uncomfortable.
He thought he found that when facing the leader of the Blackrock Tribe, he seemed to have no way out and was always suppressed by this damn guy.
When going out hunting or doing other things, Shupi had thought about quietly slipping away when no one was paying attention, and then heading south to find the Green Bird Tribe, and letting the people of the Green Bird Tribe come to attack the Black Stone Tribe.
But such an idea is just an idea after all.
Not to mention whether there is anyone willing to go with him, or whether he can definitely find the Qingque tribe. Even if he can find the Qingque tribe right away, Shupi feels that such a thing will never happen.
Because the Black Stone Tribe is too far away from the Green Bird Tribe, it poses no threat to the Green Bird Tribe at all.
Moreover, the Green Bird Tribe is even richer than the Black Stone Tribe. Under such circumstances, the people of the Green Bird Tribe would never do this.
Moreover, he was a person who was expelled from the tribe. If he went back like this, there was a high possibility that he would not even be able to enter the gate of the Qingque tribe.
Not only that, they might kill themselves.
Until now, Shupi still clearly remembers the looks on his face when he was expelled from the tribe.
If the Son of God had not said that he would expel him, those people in the tribe would have killed him.
As for taking people there quietly, exchanging only for some salt and pottery, not mentioning anything about the Black Rock Tribe, and then taking the salt and pottery back to the Black Rock Tribe to use them to induce the leader of the Black Rock Tribe, Shupi had also thought about it.
But like all his other ideas, he rejected it himself.
Because he knew the brutal leader of the Blackrock tribe too well.
No matter whether the salt he brought back tasted good or the pottery was useful, as long as he went against what he had said before, this cruel guy would definitely kill him and eat his meat as he had said before.
You can't think about these things. As soon as you think about them, Tree Bark will feel full of melancholy, the kind that can't be relieved.
He sat like this for a long time, until the aroma of food wafted out of the cave, then Tree Bark stood up and walked into the cave.
But he looked particularly listless, even more tired than the old deer who could fight with many young does in a day after the arrival of spring.
Because just now, he decided not to think about this impossible thing anymore...
After staying in the Tongshan residential area for two days, Han Cheng and Wu and others left the Tongshan residential area and returned along the Qingtong Expressway.
On the way back, Wu rarely took the car and insisted on walking with Han Cheng.
This is the importance of psychological suggestion.
In the past, Mr. Wu always thought that he was getting old and that he might die. Under such constant psychological suggestion, he naturally became listless.
But now, after suddenly learning from the Son of God that people can live to such an old age, and that his age is completely young compared to the old age the Son of God talked about, his mentality suddenly changed.
The same principle applies to some elderly people in their sixties or seventies whose parents are still alive.
When your parents are still alive, no matter how old you are, you still feel that you are relatively young.
But once their parents pass away, these elderly people will feel that they are aging particularly quickly.
Han Cheng was naturally very happy to see Wu in this state, but after accompanying Wu for a while, he still let Wu sit on the donkey cart to rest for a while.
After all, although human consciousness has subjective initiative and has a certain regulatory effect on the body, subjective consciousness is still to a large extent subject to the body.
In fact, it was not only Han Cheng who was delighted with the wonderful changes that Wu had undergone, and the happiest person was not Han Cheng, but Wu's hand warmer, the sacrificial circle of the original semi-agricultural tribe.
Yuan has been in great spirits these past two days. He looks radiant and walks with a breeze. He looks much younger than Wu.
This is truly a pair of twilight love that grows stronger with age!
Han Cheng looked at Wu who was walking with him along the car, and then looked at Yuan who was very energetic not far away. As he thought this in his heart, a smile appeared on his face, although it looked a little bit vulgar.
Watching the Son of God, the witch and others leave, the people in the Tongshan residential area felt sad and reluctant.
This emotion lasted for a while, then gradually dissipated and was replaced by joy.
Because these people remembered the news that the Son of God brought this time.
There are islands in the Wild Duck Lake, and on the islands there are a lot of bird droppings. In addition, there is a new kind of food that tastes very delicious.
This time when the Son of God and his companions came, they brought some with them, and they tasted really good.
How could they not be happy when such a good thing happened to them?
They are all members of the Qingque tribe, so naturally, the more good things the tribe has, the happier they are.
Because over the years, even those who joined later have a relatively detailed understanding of the Qingque tribe's history of development.
In the beginning, the tribe was very poor. After the Son of God came here, he made a little change today and created something good tomorrow, and so on, day after day. Now, the tribe has changed a lot and has undergone earth-shaking changes.
Those who live in the Qingque tribe have become the envy of many people in other tribes of this era...
We set out from Tongshan residential area in the morning and arrived at the Longmen Inn which was under construction in the late afternoon.
On the second day, Han Cheng and his group did not continue eastward along the Bronze Highway to the Green Bird Tribe, but stayed here for a day.
We did not have any free time during the day's stay, but went to Lotus Island in Wild Duck Lake.
This time the trip was no longer for adventure and sightseeing, but for work.
After everyone arrived at Lotus Island, they were roughly divided into two groups. One group, led by Han Cheng, started touching lotus roots at the edge of the island.
The other part started from the east side of the island, along the relatively flat area, all the way forward to the area where there were a lot of guano, and excavated the guano.
As the crowd continued to move, the lotus flowers that were to be admired from afar but not touched were stepped on one by one, and the lotus roots growing underneath were taken out and prepared to be eaten.
In the southern part of the island, the excavation of guano is also in full swing.
With the help of tools such as bronze hammers, bronze hoes and bronze shovels, the guano stone, which was not as hard as real stone, was crushed and put into rattan baskets.
These two things will be brought back to the main tribe later.
The saying "a thief never leaves empty-handed" is quite appropriate to describe the Qingque tribe under the leadership of Han Cheng.
Now that a trip full of fun has come to an end and it's time to go back, we certainly can't go back empty-handed, otherwise it would be a big loss, right?
So, today's trip to Lotus Island came about.
Many things are more fresh when you first start doing them, but once you do them for a long time, they become difficult to do.
For example, the lotus root digging that is currently going on.
When he first touched the lotus root, Han Cheng was extremely excited, but after touching it for half a day, the excitement gradually disappeared.
There were many red marks on my legs and arms from the thorns on the lotus stems, and my toes hurt from stepping on the mud below.
The silt under the water is only soft and thin on the surface, while the layer below is hard and solid.
Lotus roots generally do not grow in the thin mud on the upper layer, but in the harder mud below. It takes a lot of effort to use your feet to step on the mud and take out the lotus roots, especially the big thumbs on both feet, which exert the most effort in this process.
By the time they finished digging lotus roots in the afternoon, Han Cheng simply didn't want to move.
And because of too much close contact with the mud and lotus roots below, both hands and feet were stained and discolored.
Lotus roots can grow out of the mud without being stained, but the people who dig them cannot.
However, all the hard work was not in vain. This time, Han Cheng and his team caught more than a thousand kilograms of lotus roots.
Han Cheng made a rough selection among the lotus roots he found, mainly putting aside those with some pointed lotus roots that had not been broken and had not yet grown out of the water.
This is ready to be planted around the tribe.
In addition to having small lotus root buds, it is best if the lotus roots do not have any holes, otherwise they will easily rot when buried in the mud in the water.
As the sun sets, baskets of guano and a large amount of lotus roots are carried by rafts away from the island and onto the lakeshore. After being unloaded from the rafts, they are transported to the Dragon Gate Inn...
The next morning, after having breakfast, Han Cheng and his companions set out on their journey back. The donkey cart was loaded with these things, and the people who were traveling with them also carried some things to a greater or lesser extent.
Even the witch was wrapped in an animal skin with some guano stones, and the panda Tuan Tuan also had two packages hanging on his body.
Although it was a bit hard on the way back, everyone was in a good mood. Carrying these things made people feel more at ease than walking empty-handed.
Because it's not a waste of time.
On the afternoon of the next day, the group returned to the Qingque main tribe. When the people who stayed in the tribe saw Han Cheng and his group return, they all cheered and came forward to greet them.
It was the first time that Han Cheng, the Son of God, left the tribe with the witch. Although Han Cheng and his friends made some explanations to the eldest brother, the leader, and the next witch Shitou before leaving, the people who stayed in the tribe still felt empty and nervous.
During the few days that Han Cheng and his companions were away, the Qingque tribe was on high alert and everyone was holding their breath. When they went to bed at night, they felt like they were not sure they could sleep soundly.
Now, with the return of Han Cheng and Wu, this tense atmosphere suddenly disappeared, and it returned to the relatively peaceful state before.
After seeing the guano and lotus roots brought back by Han Cheng and his companions, and listening to the people who returned with Han Cheng and his companions talk about the benefits of guano and lotus roots, and what they saw and heard on Lotus Island, the atmosphere in the tribe became even more lively.
Han Cheng did not say a word, but just watched everything with a smile, leaving the opportunity to tell everyone who stayed in the tribe about his experiences during the trip to other people in the tribe. Han Cheng did not want to compete for the happiness that came from returning from the trip.
Wu also didn't say anything. He looked at everything in front of him with a smile on his face.
Listening to the stories of the returnees, everyone who stayed in the tribe became fascinated. Even the eldest brother, Shitou and others wanted to go to Wild Duck Lake, to the Lotus Island, to touch the lotus roots in the water, and to see the guano stones that covered the island like stones.
They have never been to Lotus Island in Wild Duck Lake.
After everyone's excitement had passed a little, Han Cheng took some people, carrying bronze shovels and taking carefully selected lotus roots to be used as seeds, and went to the potholes around the tribe to plant lotus roots.
The witch was a little worried and asked Shitou about what had happened in the tribe during the few days he was away.
The witch became even happier when he learned that everything was fine and that a female donkey had given birth to a donkey.
“Crash~”
The bronze shovel inserted into the pit picked up some sludge and placed it aside. Then the bronze shovel moved again. Not long after, a trench more than a bronze shovel deep was shoveled out under the water.
After shoveling, Han Cheng picked up a bunch of lotus roots and put them in, carefully covering them with mud so as not to break the small lotus buds on top.
After covering, the lotus roots can be considered planted.
Ripe lotus seeds can also be used for sowing, but compared to directly burying lotus roots in water, planting lotus seeds is too slow. Han Cheng, who wants lotus roots to multiply quickly around the tribe, naturally would not do this.
The first place to bury the lotus roots was the retaining ditch surrounding the tribal wall.
Thanks to the hard-working gardener Bugs Bunny's continuous efforts in the nursery, the tribe now has enough saplings that need to be planted artificially and have grown in scale, such as various fruit trees and mulberry trees.
Of course, there is no shortage of saplings for the trees in the iron fence house either.
In the spring of the year when the outer wall of the tribe was just built, the outer side of the retaining ditch was densely planted with iron fence house seedlings.
A few years have passed, and now these seedlings have grown to be as tall as a person, standing there like a green wall that blooms and bears fruits.
With the existence of this wall, the retaining ditch outside the Qingque tribe seems less important.
The deepest part of today's retaining wall ditch is enough to drown a person, and the shallow water at the edge is only enough to drown up to the calves.
Although the protective wall ditch surrounding the Qingque tribe is relatively narrow, only three or four meters long, it is long enough. If all is counted, the total area is about thirty to forty acres.
Not to mention other places, just the lotus roots in the retaining wall ditch have grown and a lot of lotus roots can be produced in a year.
In addition to lotus roots, there are also fish growing in this retaining wall ditch.
These fish were put in gradually in recent years.
Planting lotus roots may reduce the function of the retaining ditch, but with the increasingly solid iron fence outside, there is no need to consider this compromise.
Lotus roots reproduce quickly, so when burying them in the water, Han Cheng did not bury them too densely, only about one lotus root every two meters.
But even so, the lotus roots that were brought back as seeds this time were gone before they even finished burying the ditch on the west side.
But there is no need to worry about this. After the people who returned from the trip spread the word, those who stayed in the tribe all wanted to go to Lotus Island very much. As long as Han Cheng gave the order, they could immediately organize a team to collect lotus roots and transport fertilizer.
“Huh~”
At night, after washing up, Han Cheng lay on the kang and let out a long sigh. The feeling of lying on the kang in his own room was so comfortable!
Originally, Han Cheng wanted to fall asleep directly, but due to some reasons, he was forced to extend his sleeping time by nearly an hour.
This is the bad thing about adult men who are not single. They often sleep shorter than they expected and easily fall into a state of sleep deprivation.
Fortunately, Han Cheng now lives in a slow-paced primitive society, and has become a leader in the tribe. If he wants, he doesn't have to participate in any labor, so the next day, he slept until noon before getting up.
This feeling of being refreshed all over is so comfortable.
On that day, Han Cheng began to ask Bo and his men to inspect the tribe's wooden boats and the bamboo rafts that had been built originally. After they were repaired, they would be transported to Wild Duck Lake at Longmen Post Station.
Compared with bamboo rafts and wooden boats, wooden rafts are heavier and have inferior buoyancy to the other two. In addition, the Qingque tribe generally does not paddle their boats along the big river east of the small river in front of the tribe, so Han Cheng plans to have someone transport it to Wild Duck Lake.
After all, the water surface there is wide enough, and in the future, the tribe will transport bird droppings from Lotus Island and continue to pick some lotus roots to plant or eat, so these things can be used.
After resting in the tribe for three days, Han Cheng set out again with his men. This time Wu and his men did not go. More than half of the people in the team had never been to the Tongshan residential area or Lotus Island before.
In addition to the donkey carts, the people who went there also pushed twenty wheelbarrows, which were used to transport the guano back.
After the group arrived at the Longmen Inn which was under construction, Han Cheng first arranged for two people who had traveled to the Tongshan residential area several times to accompany those who had not been to the Tongshan residential area to the Tongshan residential area. He and the others who had been to the Tongshan residential area brought wooden boats, bamboo rafts, baskets and other things to Wild Duck Lake, and then took them to Lotus Island.
After arriving on the island, we first arranged for people to roughly clear out a road from the guano gathering place to the simple pier on the island. Only after the road was repaired did we start digging the guano.
The excavated guano stones were packed into baskets and transported to a simple dock. When they gathered to a certain level, someone would put them on wooden boats and bamboo rafts and start transporting them to the lakeshore.
The guano stones transported to the lake shore were not transported directly to Longmen Inn, but to a relatively open place on the river bank far away from the lake.
Once the guano stones here have accumulated to a certain level, they will be transported to the Longmen Inn, and then to the Qingque main tribe and the Tongshan residential area.
When there is insufficient manpower, this method of segmented transportation can greatly improve work efficiency.
While everyone was digging and transporting the guano stone, the team building the bridge and the team building the Longmen Inn, under the command of Han Dashenzi, temporarily put down what they were doing and began to build the road from Longmen Inn to Wild Duck Lake.
The specifications are slightly lower than those of the Bronze Highway, and it was also built jointly from Longmen Inn and Wild Duck Lake.
For those who had built the Bronze Highway, building a road with lower specifications than the Bronze Highway was too easy. It took about eleven or twelve days to build this ten-mile road...
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