Xu Chen threw the bark trumpet to Gu Heju, and then a group of people started to fight to play it. The sound of whining continued one after another, and the huge sound echoed in the valley. Xu Chen stood nearby and his face twitched.
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I didn’t realize it when I played it myself, but when I heard it played by others, it turned out to be extremely loud and unpleasant.
"Wow, bad!"
The bark horn was originally made casually and was not strong. You fought for it and it broke after just a few blows. A group of people watched it turn into a long bark horn in their hands, and then they all pointed with their fingers.
Lift means that he blew it.
Jiu Ye was petrified, holding a long snake-shaped piece of bark at a loss.
"It's not broken, just roll it up!"
Xu Chen took the bark, quickly rolled it into the shape of a trumpet, tied it randomly with thin bark, inserted the willow flute into it, and it turned into a bark trumpet again.
“Sou Ga~~”
Now everyone understood the principle of making this bark horn, and they all showed obvious excitement and surprise.
Gu took out the bone dagger from his waist and ran towards the willow forest on the river bank.
"Horn quack!"
A group of children cheered and rushed away.
Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief and prepared to go back to the yard.
Making a bark horn is simple and you can do it at a glance, so there is no need for him to teach you personally.
Not only is this thing scary to horses, it can also scare people silly if it comes on suddenly.
I guess the horses were quite frightened today, and they probably won't come to harm the crops again in the near future.
Besides, Gu Heju and a group of children will definitely have one person each after a while. The blowing will be even more noisy and scary, and the birds will probably not dare to come closer.
As long as you ensure that the half-month seed maturity period has passed before entering the harvesting stage, there will basically be no problem.
"By the way, where's the monkey?"
Xu Chen had just taken a few steps when he suddenly remembered that he had not seen any monkeys today.
"Wow!"
After regaining consciousness for a moment, I quickly looked in the direction of the farmland, but I saw that the sky was vast and the fields were vast, and the wind was blowing over the grass.
Xu Chen instantly understood that these people had lost the monkey when they ran back.
"I'll go find..."
He stood up and started to leave with a face filled with shame. Xu Chen quickly grabbed him and said, "Don't worry, I'm probably frightened by the sound of the horn. You can try summoning him!"
Then he shouted a few times loudly, and as the sound echoed far away in the valley, he soon saw two monkeys emerging from the grass in the distance, dragging ropes and carefully crawling out. They looked very alert and frightened.
He looked around, then squeaked, jumped and ran into the yard to hide.
Although only two came back, Xu Chen still breathed a sigh of relief.
This group of monkeys have been raised for half a year and have become accustomed to living with humans. They eat and drink well every day and go out on patrol to help catch rats, snakes and birds. Apart from being quite noisy, they have actually done a lot of good work. Now the entire tribe has
They already regard them as half members of the tribe, and every time they bring back some food, they will be thrown to them.
In fact, living with humans not only provides food and drink, but also a large yard to protect them from the wind and rain. With the IQ of a group of monkeys, they can also understand the difference between a full meal and a full meal.
Since moving down the mountain, even if they are allowed to be fed, one has never escaped.
The few monkeys must have been frightened away by the sound of bark trumpets at the moment, and they might all come back later.
So he ignored it and went back to the yard.
The result was similar to what he had guessed. He held it on the river beach and kept shouting and calling, and soon two more monkeys came running back. But just as they arrived at the gate of the yard, Gu and a group of children took a prepared bark trumpet and blew it wildly.
When he came back to show off, the two monkeys were so frightened that they jumped and fled into the wild.
Moreover, the terrifying and loud bark trumpet sound not only scared the monkeys, but also made the four children in the family cry.
Mother Ba and a group of women rushed out, grabbed Gu and several wild children, and scolded him, so Gu had no choice but to take a group of children and flee to the river beach to continue playing the trumpet.
Xu Chen sat in his room, listening to the sound of horns coming from outside the yard, and his face kept twitching.
Ever since the willow flute was invented, a group of children would play it non-stop in and outside the yard all day long. After being scolded by the mother and a group of women, they finally stopped for a few days. Now that the sound is louder and more
The scary speaker, I'm afraid it won't be quiet these days.
However, although the bark horn is simple to make, the sound is unpleasant and easy to break. If we want to solve the problem once and for all, it is best to make the horn horn.
After all, it will still be necessary to train the army as a command in the future.
It would be great if we could make a cowhide drum.
Put a few noodles near the farmland and beat them a few times a day. It is estimated that the birds and beasts in the entire valley will be unable to stay.
It's a pity that cowhide is available, but drums cannot be made, and there are no sharp and strong tools to handle the wood.
"Just do it slowly!"
Xu Chen sighed, picked a good-looking horn from the pile in front of him, found a bone knife and slowly started cutting it.
Just remove the horn tips and the rest will be easy.
However, it is really difficult to saw this thing open with only simple tools such as bones and stones.
Only the most primitive, barbaric and ancient tricks can be used.
The dripping water penetrates the stone, and the rope cuts the wood.
as long as you try very hard, you can achieve anything.
Before the time travel, the Chinese ancestors had left him enough life skills and philosophies, and he believed that this difficulty could be overcome.
What's more, he lacks everything right now, except time.
So in the extreme heat and silence, Xu Chen sat in front of the brick table, patiently using the bone knife to slowly compete with the horns, with a ferocious look on his face as he gritted his teeth. After half an hour, a piece of bone was slowly filed out of the horns.
A small gap.
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The appearance of the Bark Horn was like a heaven-defying artifact, and it immediately became the favorite toy of all the men and children in the tribe.
Every day from morning to night, various high, low, and long trumpets can be heard outside the yard.
The peaceful and peaceful life was completely shattered.
Xu Chen suffered a lot.
He finally realized the joyful liveliness of Africans.
It seems that in their bones, they have the blood and genes to make all kinds of noise.
In the past, I would hoot a few times when I had nothing to do, but now I never leave my hand and blow the trumpet wherever I go.
However, since the advent of the bark horn, the various beasts and birds that covet farmland and crops have really not been scared away under the stimulation of this terrifying noise.
It is rare to hear Gu Heju complaining about wild animals eating crops.
As the days passed, not only did he become accustomed to the noise, but a group of monkeys, after being frightened for a period of time, also slowly began to get used to the call of the horn. Every time he saw Gu Heju and a group of children holding the horn, they were whining.
As soon as I went out, everyone jumped up and down to follow me.
The crops in the farmland are turning yellow and maturing day by day amid the sound of the trumpet.
The Ba people finally ushered in the first harvest of the farming era one year after Xu Chen traveled through time.
In order to compete with the birds and the weather, all the women of the tribe were mobilized, including many pregnant women. In addition to a few hunters who wanted to hunt, other men who made tools and defended the family also helped. Even three
The babies who were still nursing were also taken to the fields and left with the help of several children to take care of them. During the collection break, they quickly fed a few mouthfuls, and then continued their work.
Women carry baskets on their backs and pick rattan baskets in the fields. When the harvest is full, they pour it into large rattan baskets. Men carry it home on poles and dry it in the open space in the middle of the yard.
Xu Chen, Gu, and Ju were responsible for drying the food at home. A group of monkeys and wolves were responsible for driving away the birds that stole food. Ye and his two older children were responsible for logistics, delivering water to the workers.
The entire tribe has entered the most lively and busiest time during this summer and autumn period.
Although busy and tiring, the results are also very gratifying.
Harvested and dried grains are being put into warehouses one after another, and several grain cellars are being filled.
In order to protect the grain from insects, Xu Chen also brought back a lot of peach leaves, polygonum and mugwort with Gu Heju, dried them and mixed them with the grain.
This is an ancient habit of storing grain in rural areas.
When Xu Chen was a child, he saw his father doing this.
As for the reason, it is probably that the leaves of these plants emit strong smells.
The farmland harvesting lasted ten days before it came to an end.
In order to roughly and accurately judge the harvest of farming, Xu Chen also took the time to make a steelyard.
The scale weight is made of gold. Use a piece of smooth and straight wood about one meter long to cut and polish it into a scale beam with a thick end and a thin end. Tie the lifting rope and lanyard, hang the scale weight to fix the astrolabe, and put a bowl of oats on the cloth.
As the measurement unit of one pound in the pocket, weigh and set the scale of one catty, and then use five bowls and ten bowls to set the scales of five catties and ten catties respectively. After roughly determining the distance between the scales, follow the equidistant
Mark the divisions, and a simple steelyard is ready.
This steelyard can weigh up to fifty pounds at a time.
Precision is of course impossible.
You only need to be able to roughly confirm the harvest quantity.
And weighing with a steelyard is definitely much more accurate than estimating by eyes and hand.
Therefore, every time before Xu Chen put the dried grain into the warehouse, he would ask Gu Heju to carry a scale to weigh the grain next to each other, and then use charcoal to record it on the outer wall of each grain cellar.
Although the tribesmen were very puzzled by Xu Chen's behavior, looking at Xu Chen's serious look, they all felt a sense of incomprehension, as if Xu Chen was performing a very serious ceremony, so this pole was called a scale.
Naturally, there is a bit more awe in the things.
Using gold as a weight, Xu Chen was both helpless and extremely proud.
In the whole world, there will never be another poor person as arrogant and arrogant as him.
If this golden weight is passed down in the future, it will definitely become a priceless national treasure in the eyes of archaeologists.