Chapter 75 The Walnut Cart and the Rogue Whistle (2)
After three days and three nights of hard work, my whistling skills have improved significantly.
Ever since she was able to whistle and her tone changed, she often whistles.
Before getting out of bed early in the morning, he would shush at Xu Que, who was still fast asleep.
Upon hearing the urinating sound, Xu Que suddenly felt a chill run down his spine, his whole body ache, and he had an urge to urinate!
From then on, shouting at Xu Que to wake him up was replaced by whistling.
"Ugh! Do you want to die?! Can you please stop blowing so early in the morning? It's making me want to pee!" Xu Que, having been forced to pee, no longer wanted to stay in bed. He quickly got dressed, went to the toilet, washed up, and then prepared to go outside to sunbathe.
With a pout and whistling, he started designing hairstyles for the cavemen who were lining up to get their hair done.
Gradually, the deputy chief of the Flower and Black Deer tribes also started whistling.
Hua walked up to Hou and leaned in to observe the shape of her mouth when she blew and inhaled.
After trying to imitate her three or five times, I still couldn't make a sound.
"You can blow so smoothly in one breath, but I can't make a sound. I've been blowing so hard that my mouth is watering, but I still can't make a sound!" Hua said, smacking her lips.
As the deputy chieftain of the Black Deer tribe was whistling, she suddenly produced a sharp, piercing whistle. Even she was shocked: "Huh? I think I've mastered the core technique of whistling! I don't think whistling is difficult at all! It's quite simple! Look, I learned it in less than a minute!"
Hua tried her best to blow a few more times, but still couldn't make a sound. She glanced at the smug deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe beside her and said to her in a questioning tone, "Then blow it again and let me hear it!"
"I said I learned it, and I learned it! Why don't you believe me? Then I'll show you! Listen carefully!" The deputy leader pursed her thick, wide lips and blew, but there was no sound! Only the hissing sound of rapid airflow.
The deputy chief of the Black Deer tribe panicked immediately and blew again, but still no sound. She then blew three or five more times, but still no sound!
"Ugh! I'm doomed! It won't make a sound! I could definitely whistle it just now, why can't I whistle again?! Whistling is so hard! It's so inexplicable!"
Hua felt a little comforted when she heard the Black Deer Tribe's deputy chief say that. She looked at the deputy chief with a gloating gaze: "See! I told you so! I've tried so many times and failed. How could you possibly succeed after only three or five tries? You're not a genius! That sharp, piercing sound just now was definitely just a fluke!"
“Yes! That’s right! I can’t even whistle anymore!” The deputy leader of the Black Deer tribe said, and then he and Hua practiced whistling while helping out.
Ha Gang was counting the number of people who were going to the primeval forest to log, and he would whistle every now and then.
Pingyao and Hagang exchanged a final glance, then simultaneously pouted and used a whistle that wasn't blown to replace the command to set off for logging in the primeval forest.
Before leaving, he turned back and told Xu Que, "When you come back, I'll fill this animal hide food bag with green walnuts for you again!"
"Thanks!" Xu Que called out to Ha Gang and Ping Yao, then lowered his head again and continued chopping walnuts.
Hou would occasionally glance at Xu Que, as if to see if the pile of walnut kernels he had scooped out would be enough to fill her greedy mouth.
Xu Que picked out a few walnuts whose green husks had fallen off from the pile of walnuts, held them in his hand, and weighed them to feel their weight. Compared to the other walnuts without husks, these few walnuts without husks were significantly lighter! Presumably, the kernels inside had gone bad or rotten, commonly known as "black-hearted walnuts".
Looking at the smooth, regular, delicate and symmetrical shell, Xu Que stared at it for a moment as if it were a chicken bone, tasteless to eat but a pity to throw away!
After thinking it over and hesitating for a while, I decided to just make a walnut cart as a toy to play with!
Xu Que acted immediately, finding thin ropes, planks, and bamboo branches made of cowhide in the tribe's cave storage room.
He first took out a multi-functional automatic drill from the system warehouse, replaced it with a drill bit about the thickness of a chopstick, fixed a walnut with its green skin removed to a wooden block by hand, picked up the multi-functional automatic drill, and drilled into its shell.
Xu Que drilled through ten walnuts in one go, letting the drill bit go through the entire shell. Then he replaced the drill bit, which was about the thickness of a chopstick, with a drill bit two sizes smaller, and gently drilled into the side of the walnut shell. This time, he couldn't drill through the whole shell, but only through one side.
After doing all this, Xu Que picked up each walnut with three holes drilled in it, tapped it on a wooden block, and scooped out the dried kernel and other debris. He then neatly placed them aside.
They removed the drill bit from the multi-functional automatic drill and replaced it with a carving-specific drill bit, then carved the thin wood pieces taken from the village cave storage room into various patterns and shapes, such as five-pointed stars, irregular shapes, crescent shapes, and layered peonies…
Xu Que took these wooden planks, made of different textures and shapes, and finally punched holes in the center of each one, each as thick as a bamboo branch.
Cut the bamboo branch into sections about 15 centimeters long. Tie a thin cowhide rope into a knot on the bamboo branch. Then, thread the bamboo branch through the hole in the walnut shell and pull the rope out through the small hole on the side. Finally, attach the layered peony-shaped wooden board to the bamboo branch, making sure it has the right eye in the middle. This completes the walnut cart.
Xu Que took the finished walnut cart in his hand, rubbed the end of the bamboo branch that was not inlaid with wood, and turned it to the right until the long cowhide rope that was exposed was completely tucked into the walnut shell.
Xu Que gently tugged at the end of the rope that was sticking out of the walnut shell, and the walnut cart started spinning.
Hou, who was busy cutting hair for the members of the Black Deer Tribe, hurriedly put away the electric clippers and ran over to Xu Que.
"What is this thing? How can it spin? It's so much fun!" She squatted down next to Xu Que, resting her chin on her hands, staring at it in a daze.
Xu Que continued to play with the walnut cart he had made, pulling and releasing it at the same time, his restless hands always ready to snatch it from his grasp.
She couldn't wait for Xu Que to finish demonstrating the movements, so she snatched it from his hand and started pulling it herself.
Xu Que finished the remaining nine pieces in one go, adding different shapes and patterns to the top of each one.
"Give me one! Give me one!" The Black Deer Tribe leader, Hua, and the deputy leader ran over to Xu Que and each took a walnut cart.
Xu Que specially reserved two walnut carts engraved with the image of Hercules for Ha Gang and Ping Yao, the strongmen of the tribe, and gave the rest to the children and others in the tribe.
Hou, pulling the walnut cart, seemed lost in his own world: "Wow! This is so much fun! It's so much fun!"
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