After breakfast, Han Dashenzi, in a very good mood, strolled around the tribe and came to a place not far from the kitchen.

Wells are being dug here now.

As the well diggers continued to work, the well had been dug more than two meters and was nearly three meters deep.

The newly excavated soil can no longer be thrown out directly with a shovel. Someone is needed to pull it out with ropes and hoes.

Han Cheng was not unfamiliar with digging wells, mainly because when he was a child, the government in his area took the initiative to implement a well-digging policy.

It seems that every family is required to dig a well, and each well is subsidized with 100 yuan.

One hundred yuan at that time was not a small amount of money. For a farmer who had almost no other source of income except farming, it was a lot.

As a result, every family in the village started digging wells, and Han Cheng's family was no exception.

I remember that year we were growing mushrooms at home and we were very busy, but my father still dug a well at home.

The policy of promoting well digging is really an excellent policy.

Before wells were dug, there were hundreds of people in the village, but only three wells in total.

What Han Cheng remembers most clearly is that as soon as the roosters crowed in the morning and the sky was just beginning to darken, the people in his family had already gotten up, carrying buckets and ropes to the well at the entrance of the village to fetch water and bring it home.

You can't go too late, because if you go too late there will be no water in the well.

There were a few times when we got up late and there was no water in the well, but the family was waiting for water for cooking. My father would take a ladle and a bucket and step on the edge of the well to go down into the well. He would use the ladle to "scrape" two buckets of muddy well water with sand and bring it back, and then use it for cooking after it was clarified.

As for the water for the cows to drink, it was carried back from a big pit in the village.

Later, every household dug a well, and they no longer had to get up early in the morning to rush for water. Using water became much more convenient, and people became much more relaxed.

When Han Cheng grew up, he once asked his father why the villagers didn't know how to dig wells at home and relied on the three ancient wells for water.

The answer I got was that at that time people thought digging a well was extremely difficult and that one had to dig a long way down before water would come out.

When we actually started digging, we found that digging a well was much easier than we had imagined.

For example, the well in Han Cheng's home has water coming out when it is only a little over three meters deep.

If we had known that digging wells was so easy, we would have started digging long ago, even without subsidies.

This is what Han Cheng heard from his father more than once.

Standing beside the well being dug and recalling the past, Han Cheng couldn't help but sniff.

It sounds easy to dig a well, but sometimes it is not that easy, such as encountering a rock layer when digging downwards...

This is really a headache.

Filling it up and starting over in another place would be a waste of time, but if I don't start over, this stone slab is really a headache.

Fortunately, the fertilizer called ammonium nitrate was still being produced and sold at that time. I bought some sulfur and other things, set up a broken iron pot in the yard, and burned some fire underneath, and I could make homemade explosives myself. (I don’t know how other places do it, but we use an iron pot to stir and mix and stir. I have seen it with my own eyes, but it is not very safe. I heard that there were people who collapsed the house because of the frying.)

With the help of detonators and fuses obtained from the stone mining factory, the rocks in the well below can be blown up.

Of course, this process is somewhat thrilling and problems can easily occur if not handled properly.

For example, Han Cheng's second uncle's family, who lived next door to him, did not choose the right thing to cover the well when they were blasting the rocks in the well.

As a result, after the cannon was fired, the oxcart board used to cover the wellhead was directly blown to pieces, and some flying rocks fell on Han Cheng's house, smashing several tiles.

This is why Han Cheng sniffed.

In that era, there was ammonium nitrate fertilizer, and you could also buy sulfur and charcoal. After mixing them with earth explosives, you could deal with the rock layers encountered in the well.

It would be very frustrating if our tribe encountered a layer of stone when digging a well downwards.

Although I remember how to make it, I have no saltpeter or sulfur, so charcoal is useless.

It is also because of this that Han Cheng is feeling rather uneasy at the moment. He always comes here for a walk whenever he has time, hoping that the well will produce water sooner and not encounter any rock layers.

Otherwise, depending on the tribe's current conditions, once they encounter a problem, they will most likely have to refill the wells they have dug very deep, and then choose another place to dig, and try their luck.

"Alright! Pull!"

After watching here for a while, a sound came from the well.

After hearing the sound, the people guarding the wellhead began to grab the rope and pull it up with all their strength. The rope was stretched taut.

After a while, the basket filled with soil came to the ground.

When the people on top are pulling the auger up, the people in the well should stand on one side, close to the well wall, and try not to stand under the auger, to prevent mud or the entire auger filled with mud from falling and hitting people.

The person above put the hoe filled with soil at a place far away from the wellhead, removed the rope with a hook from the curved handle of the hoe, hooked another empty hoe, and lowered it down.

After doing all this, the man carried the basket filled with soil to another place, poured the soil pulled out of the well into a low-lying area in the yard, spread it out, and stomped it down with his feet.

It is not easy to pull the soil up one scoop at a time. Now the well is not deep enough, so it is still easier. But when the well is deeper, it will be even more difficult to pull the soil up.

After standing here and watching for a while, Han Cheng remembered a simple tool that was often used in conjunction with wells: a windlass.

Han Cheng had seen things like windlasses before, but not very many.

This is mainly because, after every household in their area started digging wells, a better and more convenient water-drawing device than the windlass appeared.

This water-drawing device is called "well pressure" there.

Because of the use of the lever principle, it is very easy to draw water from a well pressure. You only need one hand and not much effort to pump water out of the well. It is much faster than using a faucet.

Moreover, there is a prerequisite for installing a well pressure device made of pig iron and rubber, which is that a well platform higher than the ground needs to be built above the wellhead and a relatively heavy cover needs to be placed on it.

In this way, not only can dust and other things be prevented from falling into the well, but there is also no need to worry about children at home accidentally falling into the well.

Therefore, the windlass, a tool that had been used for many years to draw water from wells, was soon eliminated.

However, what would be considered obsolete in later generations is undoubtedly a powerful weapon in this era.

At least until the tribe is able to produce a tool for drawing water called a "well pressure", the windlass, a simple, practical and inexpensive water-drawing tool, will not be eliminated.

It is really not easy to make something like a well pressure in the tribe. As for pig iron casting, it is still possible to make it once we find high-quality coal and iron ore, build blast furnaces, develop steel smelting technology, and further improve casting technology.

However, the rubber sheet covering the hole below is really a headache. Perhaps you need to sail far away in a small boat to find some of it, and then there is a long list of technical problems that need to be solved.

Therefore, the technology tree is not something you can just click on if you want to, nor is it something you can just do if you know how to make it. If you don’t even have the raw materials, what’s the point of knowing more? You’ll just be staring blankly.

Instead of thinking about something unrealistic, it is better to first develop some tools that can be put into practical use and improve productivity based on existing conditions.

It is always faster to ride a donkey to find a good horse than to walk on your own two legs.

Han Cheng naturally knew this principle, so after standing here for a while, he simply returned to his room to find paper and pen to draw the windlass.

The structure of a windlass is very simple. You can think of it as an enlarged version of the key to a four-wheeled vehicle that looks very cool when hung around the waist.

The only difference is that the part that is placed inside the front of the car and used to rock the car is longer, and the middle part is a cylinder that is many times thicker.

This is because if the part of the windlass used to wrap the rope is thicker, more well rope can be wrapped around it in the same circle, and the bucket can be pulled out faster.

The structure of the windlass is simple, and after repeated "training", Han Dashenzi's painting skills have improved significantly, so Han Cheng did not spend too much effort to sketch it out, and then took it to find Bo, the master craftsman.

Under Han Cheng's instructions, the second senior brother used meteorite iron to make saws, plane blades and other things specially used by carpenters.

Today, the carpenter's room has a complete set of tools made from meteorite iron.

The people in the carpenter's room, led by Bo, have not yet recovered from the excitement of obtaining the meteorite tools. Every day when they walk into the carpenter's room and see the meteorite tools inside, they can't help but get excited as if they were given a shot of chicken blood. The morale boosting effect is simply too good.

When Han Cheng walked in, several people were still busy working inside.

Even if there is not much work to do, in order to use more of the extremely handy and convenient meteorite tools, people will try their best to find some work to do.

所以，当看到韩成拿着一张图纸走进来之后，跛等人都显得极为兴奋。

因为这不仅仅意味着他们又有新的东西制造了，还表示他们有着更多使用陨铁工具的机会。

韩成将手中的图纸递给跛，跛拿着仔细的观看，其余几个木匠也都凑到一边跟着看，叮叮哐哐的木匠室之中，安静了下来。

“看明白了没有？”

这样过了一阵儿之后，韩成见跛抬起头来，就笑着问道。

“神子放心，一定能做出来！”

跛现在很有大匠的风范，带着青雀部落第一高手匠人该有的自信，听到神子发问，就将胸膛拍的砰砰作响，进行保证。

一个人气质，是可以进行后天培养的，同时也跟其所处在的位置有很大的关系。

就比如跛，成为了部落里在木工与编制上面最为优秀的人，在部落里的地位得到极大提高之后，跛整个人的气质变得都不太一样了。

不再是之前那种唯唯诺诺，处处陪着小心，看东西都不敢正眼去看的样子。

而是变得有自信，走路腰杆都能挺的老直。

如果不是这样，几天前的他，也不敢一把推开自己的配偶了。

“那就好，你看看能尽快做出来了就尽快做出来，做出来之后好将之架在井上。

不过当作轴来用的这一根木头，一定要用结实的木料来做，不然往上面提水的时候断掉了可就不好了。”

韩成笑着对跛进行交道。

后世时他所见到的辘轳，中间的轴是用铁棍充当的，整体构造跟烧柴油的四轮车或者是三轮车的车摇把，穿上一截没有它长的圆木之中，非常的相像。

不过大铁棍这些，部落里并没有，只能是用木料来代替。

好在用辘轳提水一次也不会特别的多，就部落里用来提水的罐子，一次能够有装个四五十斤就已经顶天了，再多也装不了，因此上用结实的木料当作里面用来承重的轴也可以的。

跛用力的点点头，表示自己已经明白了神子的意思，然后操着陨铁工具忙碌开了。

先找来一根成人胳膊粗细、很是坚实的木料过来，丈量了长度，在其中比较细的那一端留下印记之后，就让猫耳拿着陨铁锯子，沿着那道印记将之截断。

而他则去做其余的事情。

这种被跛他们叫做铜木的木料真的非常坚实，纵然使用的是陨铁打造出来的锯子，猫耳也是花费了不短的功夫才将这根成年人胳膊差不多的木料截断。

韩成将掉落在地上的那一节大约还有三十厘米长的铜木捡拾起来，拿在手中。

入手很是沉重，远比一般的树木要结重。

而且被截断的断口处，有着一圈圈细密的年轮。

这些细密的年轮几乎是一圈紧挨着一圈，密密麻麻的，跟杨树、泡桐等这些生长快的树木，两个年轮之间能够相差两三厘米的距离相比起来，要密集的太多。

韩成粗略的数了一下，这根胳膊粗细的铜木上，足足有四十三个圈。

也就是说，看起来不怎么起眼的它已经生活了四十三年了。

怪不得这样的坚实。

韩成这样的感慨着，并伸手在因为被截断而显露出来的年轮上摸摸，上面带着一些温度。

这是不久之前被锯子磨擦的了。

猫耳将这跟铜木截好之后，又在跛的命令下将上面的皮给尽数揭掉，并用斧头将一些疙瘩这些砍去。

砍过之后，又用小刨子将之一下下刨的平滑。

随着时间的逐渐流逝，如今当初那个因为画不好线而被难为的直掉眼泪的未成年人，如今成长为青雀部落之内，仅次于跛的木匠了。

而当初韩成带着他做出来的那个墨斗，进过长时间的使用之后，已经开裂了。

并且，随着技艺的进步，部落里后来用制作出了更多、更为精美的墨斗，但那个显得粗糙，并且已经开裂不能够使用的墨斗，猫耳也一直没有舍得丢掉。

它被猫耳珍藏了起来，就放在属于他睡觉的炕的最里面，与他头枕的地方平齐。

睡觉的时候，只要他一转头，就能看到这个墨斗，就能想起当初的事情。

他能够一直坚持不懈的练习手艺，并达到青雀部落第二的位置，这个墨斗以及神子当初对自己说的那些话，起着极其重要的作用。

在加班加点的练习手艺的时候，有不少时候，猫耳都觉得自己太累，觉得自己或许不需要这样拼命，自己可以和其余学习木匠手艺的人一样，多休息休息。

但他一直都没有这样做。

那个墨斗，以及神子曾经与自己说过的话，让猫耳就这样一直坚持了下来。

当日复一日的这样埋头练习手艺，持续了很长的时间之后，再回首的时候，猫耳忽然间发现，自己已经走了很远很远。

当初比自己学习木匠活计早的人，以及比自己在这方面有天赋的人，都在不知不觉之中被自己超越，被自己给远远的甩在了后面。

人的一生很长，也很短。

在这一生之中，会遇到许许多多的人，经历许许多多的事情，但有些事情，只能一个人去做，有些路，只能一个人走。

独自一个人品味着孤独，承受着前行路上的压力与痛苦，熬过了患难，再回首时，人们往往会为自己当时的坚持而感到骄傲。

感谢当时的自己没有停止不前，没有半途而废，而是一路坚持了下来。

而往往，这个状态出现的时候，也是一个人成长最快、进步最大的时候。

猫耳将这根铜木的轴打制好之后，跛还有另外的一些人也将外面的那个圆柱给做好了。

将铜木的轴从圆木的中间穿过，找好位置之后，用笔做出记号，又将铜木周从中间抽出来。

然后跛以及猫耳两个人，分别按照之前做出来的印记，拿着斧头、凿子在铜木轴上，以及外面的那个圆柱上面凿孔。

铜木过于结实，所以跛使用的是陨铁斧头与凿子。

猫耳使用的是青铜斧头与凿子。

至于另外几个木匠，则开始拿着斧头等工具，在那里制作木钉，为跛与猫耳两个人打下手。

好一阵儿叮叮当当的声响过后，铜木轴以及外面的洞都被打好。

跛他们再次将铜木轴穿进直径大约二十厘米的圆木之中，稍微调整之后，使得两者之上的孔对照整齐。

而后跛接过一根木钉穿进去，用斧头将之钉牢。

木钉多余的部分，则用斧头砍去，使得其与外面的圆柱平齐。

这样的几圈木钉定下来之后，外面的那个圆木，就跟铜木轴牢牢的结合在一起了。

只需要在装上一个L形的柄，辘轳的主体也就成了。

“再做出来一些两厘米厚、四厘米宽的木板，截的和辘轳上面的圆柱一样长。

等到将辘轳上面涮过桐油之后，就每隔两厘米左右的距离，往上面弄一片，稍微固定，再用结实的藤条分成三道或者是五道，将之捆扎结实，而后再通体涮桐油。”

见众人已经将这些给做出来了，在一旁站着没有离开的韩成，就出声给出新的命令。

这些东西，之前的时候他没有往图纸上画。

倒不是说他想要学习猫主子留一手，而是因为在画的时候，他没有想起来这些东西有什么用。

现在，他已经想明白了，这些被牢牢捆在外面的木板，是用来防止那一截圆木开裂不能使用的。

有了外围的这层隔开捆起来的木板在，就算是里面被穿起来的圆木真的裂开了，也一样不会影响辘轳的使用。

并且，多了这层厚度为两厘米左右的木板之后，辘轳的整体也会变得更粗，缠绕绳子的时候也会变得更快。

明白了韩成的意思之后，跛几个人就立刻就开始照做。

这些事情简单，再加上人手多，可以进行分工，所以过了一阵儿之后，便已经将之做好了。

把这些做好的同时，另外一个人，也将用来支辘轳的架子给做好了。

很简单，就是两组交叉捆绑起来的木棍，呈现X形。

只不过交叉点要高一些，最需要注意的地方就是两组架子的交叉点的高度要一样。

当然，就算是高度不太一样也没有关系，进行固定的时候，将比较高的那一侧多往地下埋一点也就是了。

桐油这东西与油漆有着很大的不同，油漆刷上之后，在干之前绝对不能去碰，但如果刷的是桐油，只要不介意手上沾染上一些桐油的话，是没有什么关系的。

所以，在想要早些看到辘轳效果的几人的操作之下，刚刚刷了桐油的辘轳就被架在了厨房那里的那口井上。

找来一根结实、而且又长的麻绳，将其牢牢绑在辘轳上面，搅动辘轳把绳子一圈圈缠在辘轳上，就可以投入使用了。

把往外装土的椤头往缠绕在辘轳上面的绳子上的一绑，再把手一丢，在地心引力的作用下，椤头就朝着井里面坠去。

At the same time, the windlass is rotated rapidly with the rope until the plunger reaches the bottom of the well, and then the windlass stops rotating.

"Alright! Pull!"

After a while, the sound of soil being loaded came from below.

The man who was pulling the soil before seemed a little excited as he held the handle of this new tool and stirred it in circles, and the rope was wrapped around the windlass.

After a while, a basket filled with soil appeared above the wellhead.

The man held the windlass handle with one hand and stretched out his other hand to pull it out of the well, then took off the rope.

After completing this set of actions, the man's face turned red.

It’s not because I’m too excited about using new tools, but because I’m tired!