Chapter 79: How to get salt from the mountain (recommendations and rewards)
"No more salt? Well, let's eat the pickled meat first. There is a lot of salt in the pickled meat, which is salty. Eating the pickled meat first can temporarily replenish the salt." Luo Chong thought for a while and said.
"Then why don't we go to collect salt? I heard from Shitou and others that they saw the cave with salty stones in the karst cave in the west mountain last time. Can't we just collect it directly?" The elder asked in confusion.
"I have seen that cave. The entrance is too small. Only children of three or four years old can get in. We can't let children go down to collect salt. Not to mention that they are too young to do heavy work, what if they can't come up? No, it's too dangerous. We have to find a way to open the cave." Luo Chong spread his hands helplessly and explained to the elder.
"Open? That's a stone cave. How to open it? Didn't the Bald Tribe use children to collect salt in the past?" The elder continued to ask in confusion.
"No, I absolutely disagree with letting the kids go into the mines. Baldness is baldness, but I am me. He is willing to let the kids do it, but I can't bear to let the kids of the Han tribe die. There is no need to discuss this matter, I will not agree." Luo Chong frowned and said seriously.
"Then, what should we do, can the stone cave really be opened?" Seeing Luo Chong's firm attitude, the elders only had one way left, which was to open the cave, but he still couldn't figure out how to open the stone cave.
"Of course, I have a way to make something to open the mountain, but I still lack materials. I need to go to Babaoshan to dig some minerals back. Let's eat pickled meat for the time being." Luo Chong explained confidently.
"Well, then, okay, I will tell them to eat pickled meat for the time being." The elders heard the affirmative answer and were relieved. Since Luo Chong said there was a way, he didn't have to worry about it anymore.
"Well, that's it. After we finish plowing the land in the next few days, we will go to mine. You can stay at home in the tribe at that time." Luo Chong instructed.
The elders left to arrange the tribesmen's future meals, while Luo Chong went to instruct the tribesmen on how to cultivate the land.
The 400-meter-long cultivated land next to the water diversion river was divided into 20 rice fields of equal size by 20 canals, each covering an area of 3.2 acres.
In the rice fields, a man in front led the cow, a man in the back held the plow, and a few teenagers with baskets on their backs followed behind, constantly picking up grass roots and other debris in the soil, and a few men followed at the end to level the soil with wooden rakes.
Luo Chong walked in the very loose soil that had been plowed, squatted down and put his hand into the soil to feel the temperature. The
current temperature is not the time to sow, at least the temperature of the soil layer cannot be lower than ten degrees before sowing, so we should wait until we come back from mining before sowing.
Three days later, all 64 acres of rice fields were plowed, and the Han tribe began to prepare for mining.
"Push harder, it's almost there, it's almost there, don't stop, don't stop, we'll be there soon." Ahhhhhh
" Oh, why are you pushing so hard, you've made me wet." "Who told you to let go first? I'm wet too." "Stop arguing, look, this wooden boat is so heavy, but it can actually float on the water, it's amazing." Luo Chong led a group of men to lift the wooden boat to the west end of the water diversion river. When they arrived at the place, no one knew who let go first, and the wooden boat hit the water directly, and the splashing water soaked everyone. The three-meter-wide wooden boat was placed in a four-meter-wide river, which looked very big. The tribesmen were surprised to see the wooden boat floating on the water. Such a heavy thing could still float. "Can people really sit on this boat? They won't fall into the water as soon as they get on it." Dali said doubtfully. "Of course people can sit on it. Even if we all get on it, we won't fall into the water. Give me the rope, I'll go first." Luo Chong said affirmatively. The wooden boat can definitely accommodate people, and the quality will not be a problem, but the tribesmen are worried. At this time, Luo Chong needs to set an example. He must be the first to get on. The boat is less than one meter wide from the river bank, and Luo Chong stepped on it in one step. The wooden boat shook in the water, but it always floated on the water, and Luo Chong was also safe and sound. "How is it, is it okay? Who else wants to get on? If you don't get on, you will have to pull the boat on the shore later. If you want to get on, hurry up." Luo Chong said while tying two ropes on both sides of the bow . The river is too narrow, and rowing is definitely difficult. You can only be a tracker on the shore to pull the boat away, and you can row it after the boat leaves the artificial river. As soon as Luo Chong finished speaking, several tribesmen jumped on the boat. Seeing that Luo Chong was fine on the boat, they were bolder this time. In addition, the wooden boat almost occupied the entire width of the water, which did not cause them any fear visually.
You haven't seen the vastness of the sea yet.
Luo Chong looked at them and shook his head with a wry smile, then threw the rope to the people standing on the shore and asked them to pull the boat into the stream.
It was another farewell. This time, Luo Chong was no longer going out alone, but with more than 20 men, four men from the Yuanshu tribe, three men from the Xieding tribe, six men from the Han tribe, and the teenagers from the Black Rat tribe. Together with Luo Chong, there were 26 people in total.
Each of the men who were about to leave had a spear, a longbow, a copper shovel, a quiver, and 50 feather arrows. Each of the four men from Dashu also brought a short-handled copper axe.
Basically, all the adult male laborers from the Han tribe were here, and those teenagers from the Li tribe were left in the tribe. They had not yet learned Chinese well, so it was inconvenient to communicate.
There were more people coming to see them off, and adults and children in the tribe came to the river to see them off.
The women led the children to load dried meat, pottery pots, and hay bales onto the wooden boats, and 20 bison carried large baskets on their backs.
The children led eight wolf cubs to the shore and watched the adults rowing. They came to see the fun and see something new. Only Qubing came to see Luo Chong off.
Qubing led Benben to the river and handed a snake skin water bag to Luo Chong, "Chief, what else will you bring back this time?"
"Haha, don't you have Benben? Why did you ask me to bring you something? I'm just going to dig some stones this time and will be back soon."
Luo Chong rubbed Qubing's head and Benben's big head. The corners on its nose had already protruded a little.
"I don't want anything. I like Benben very much. Having him is enough for me, but I also want to go with you. I haven't been to such a far place yet." Qubing said, hugging Benben's neck.
"You are still too young. When you grow up and can protect yourself, you can go out with me. The outside world is still very dangerous. You should be obedient at home, help your mother with work, and don't forget to continue learning Chinese characters." Luo Chong kept telling Qubing something.
"Well, I'll wait for you at home." Qubing nodded honestly.
Luo Chong said goodbye to all the tribesmen, boarded the wooden boat and rowed upstream with everyone.
Dashu and Mutun rode Huishan and Rourou, tied 20 cows with ropes on the river bank and followed them upstream.
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Thank you all for your support and thank you for feeding. The following is today's reward list.
Book friend "The Little Boy Who Scared the Tiger"
book friend "Xia Wenxici"
book friend "Bei Xiao" book friend
"Passerby A2" book friend
"Jie Se"
book friend "Sao Nian Stand Up and Masturbate" (a little masturbation is pleasant, but heavy masturbation hurts the kidneys. You must pay attention to your health, brother dei, and eat more kidneys to replenish it)
Thank you very much, and thank you to all the book friends who voted for recommendations. As I said, Qingshu is not picky about food. Recommendation votes, comments, hearts, rewards, please feel free to feed. If the breeder doesn't give us food, we will rely on you to live.
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