Chapter 527 Your Majesty the Witch King, I'm Pregnant
In my busy life, it has already entered mid-February.
Both sides of the Jicang River are already covered with grass growing and orioles flying, and flowers blooming like brocade. Tribes have cultivated farmland for sowing. Wheat beans have sprouted more than a foot high. The lush green looks neat and refreshing.
On the south bank after another fire burned, in addition to the gratifying growth of crops in the farmland, a layer of fresh and green weeds still grew in the gray-brown open space, with large wild flowers mixed in. The entire river beach was more than ten miles up and down.
It's like a carpet of green grass that undulates with the terrain, and it's so beautiful that you'll be mesmerized.
But it's a pity that Xu Chen didn't have the time or mood to appreciate such a beautiful scenery.
His main focus was on building new floating bridges.
Because the old pontoon bridge was washed away by the rising river water after February.
From the end of January, after the spring plowing and house construction of various tribes were completed, he also began to convene the tribes to level and excavate the foundation of the royal city. Thousands of people travel between the two sides of the strait every day, and it would be completely impossible without a bridge.
A group of carpenters built more than 20 simple single-hull wooden boats. After processing, these wooden boats were bundled in pairs to form a bridge. After measuring, Xu Chen felt that the number was enough, so he chose a sunny day to start the overall assembly.
pontoon.
On this day, all the tribesmen, men, women and children on both sides of the Jicang River gathered together, and more than 2,000 people gathered near the docks on both sides to watch.
Hundreds of young and strong hunters who are proficient in water skills served as the bridge construction team.
The assembled bridge body section by section was pushed into the river, and then dozens of people worked together to push it to the predetermined position, and tied the bridge body and the submerged boulders together with arm-thick cables.
After the bridge body is fixed, the segments of the bridge body are then spliced together in pairs and tightly tied together with wooden squares and hemp ropes. The joints are then laid with wooden boards and nailed with copper nails.
Because wooden boats have high buoyancy and strong load-bearing capacity, the materials used for this pontoon bridge are thick wooden boards and wooden cubes. After being tied and connected in this way, the entire bridge deck can be suspended nearly two feet above the river, and it can even be washed away by the rapid river water.
It's just a slight sway, but it looks a little bit stronger than the first pontoon bridge. The overall effect is countless times better.
Because the river water can hardly impact the bridge deck, and the overall draft of the wooden boat used as a floating pier is also very shallow, the entire bridge is truly like a road, floating steadily on the wide river.
Although well prepared, the bridge construction still lasted a whole day.
Because from the design to the construction and erection of this bridge, almost every structure and detail was designed by Xu Chen in advance. Therefore, when fixing the connection, there are requirements for where different wooden squares and planks are used, and in the end
The difficulty is still in fixing each section of the bridge.
Because after February, the water in the Jicang River has risen several feet, and the width of the river has reached more than 40 meters. The low and gentle areas on both sides of the river beach have been flooded. Although it does not affect boating and rafting, it is not suitable for working in the water.
In fact, the difficulty has increased a lot.
First of all, the bridge body using wooden boats as floating piers has high buoyancy and is easily washed away by the water. The closer it is to the center of the river, the deeper the water, the greater the flow speed. In order to fix the bridge deck, enough people are needed to first fix the bridge.
The body was fixed in the middle of the river, and then people dived into the water and tied the cable tightly to the big underwater rocks.
This job was too difficult. The three core sections of the bridge in the center of the river took nearly four hours to install, and nearly two hundred people were employed. Hunters continued to dive into the water, and many people were swept downstream by the river.
He was rescued ashore after walking dozens of meters.
But the hard work pays off in the end.
By sunset in the evening, after hundreds of people worked hard all day long, this huge floating bridge across the river was finally installed successfully.
When Xu Chen carefully inspected back and forth several times, and finally ran across the pontoon in one breath with his horse whipped, cheers erupted from both sides of the strait.
After passing through, Xu Chen took a long breath, picked up a wooden loudspeaker and stood on the shore and shouted, asking officers from each tribe to lead a team of fifty people at a time to cross the pontoon to verify the carrying capacity.
So a group of hunters, who were as tired as dogs after a long day of work and with smoke coming from their soles as they waited, lined up under the command of officers such as Feng Helei and started to cross the river, howling like ghosts and wolves.
There are fifty people in a river more than forty meters wide, and the distance between each person is less than one meter. However, under such a large density, the pontoon only sinks slightly. Apart from shaking more violently, there is no problem.
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Seeing fifty people shouting and screaming as they crossed the pontoon and successfully reached the other side, men, women and children on both sides of the Taiwan Strait once again burst into enthusiastic cheers.
At this time, the little witch of the Gonghuo Clan and the little witch of the Five Ghost Clan were standing together, surrounded by their respective clan heads and family leaders. They looked at the young man riding a horse on the other side of the river with blurred eyes, and felt their hearts pounding.
They were beating like they were about to leave their bodies. After looking at each other, they slowly squatted down together.
"Wuga!"
Seeing the two great witches squatting down, the chiefs and clansmen of the two tribes also squatted down, and then the cheering men, women, and children on both sides of the strait squatted down in groups. The roars of the witches and witches were heard in the spring sky full of sunset.
In the evening, the sound echoed on both sides of the Jicang River.
A bridge, a magical idea, and a great legend.
His Majesty the Witch King used his magical creation skills to once again prove his unparalleled magic and greatness.
This brand-new pontoon bridge will make communication between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait smooth and there will be no barriers.
After the floating bridge was built, dozens of tribes from the five major ethnic groups on both sides of the Taiwan Strait held a grand bonfire celebration.
After the excitement, Xu Chen spent the rest of his time focusing on the construction of the royal city.
Nowadays, each tribe has entered their off-farm time. In addition to some people who have been summoned to participate in the construction of the royal city, some people have begun to build roads and ditches between the tribes.
So from February to March, the planning area on the south bank of the Jicang River is full of hordes of laborers. Strong men and women carry baskets on their backs, push carts and horses on the river beach full of green and blooming flowers every day.
After returning to work, the prototypes of horizontal and vertical roads and ditches slowly appeared. In the area where the royal city is located, the foundations of various planned buildings were slowly leveled out, and crisscrossing wall ditches and ponds began to be excavated.
After entering March, as the rain gradually increased, the intermittent work of various projects gradually became irregular, and the progress of the project began to stagnate.
It was raining that day, so Xu Chen did not go to the construction site. Instead, he continued to design various architectural drawings for the royal city in his room. Suddenly, a group of hunters rode straight towards him from the other side of the river in the rain.
Several hunters from the Ji tribe came, accompanied by two officers from the Pi tribe.
Looking at a group of guys who were soaked in the rain, Xu Chen looked puzzled.
"Your Majesty the Witch King, they said that the great witch of the Pi tribe has sent an urgent letter and needs to be handed over to you in person, so we will arrange a horse to send them over!" the leader of the Ji tribe hunter said with his fists clasped.
"Letter to me!"
Xu Chen was stunned for a moment, and a leather tribe officer quickly pulled out a neatly folded piece of soft animal skin from his leather belt and handed it over with both hands.
Xu Chen opened it and read it at a glance. His face trembled and the animal skin almost fell to the ground.
The handwriting is very sloppy and childish, crooked and sloppy like a kindergarten handwriting, and there are only a few words, which can be vaguely recognized as: Your Majesty the Witch King, I am pregnant.
Everything that was envisioned became a reality.
Xu Chen stayed for a long time after looking at the animal skins, feeling both happy and melancholy in his heart.
I am happy that my functions are still good after traveling through time, and I have become famous and want to become a father.
What's sad is that this matter can't be admitted yet.
Although in this era of social gatherings and sex, all children only know their mother but not their father.
The thunder god in the sky is bigger than the uncle on earth.
Children in all tribes regard their uncles as their closest relatives and elders.
But Xu Chen was different. It would be fine if he didn't know, but he definitely couldn't do it despite knowing that the Pi tribe witch was pregnant with his child.
Being a man in two lifetimes and becoming a father once, this kind of knowing but not being able to recognize each other is what depresses him the most.
And this matter must have been known to everyone in the Pi tribe. After all, from September last year to March now, she has been pregnant for almost six months. No one will turn a blind eye. The purpose of the Pi tribe witch writing to him must be the same.
Want to ask for help.
After all, the pregnancy of a great witch is a treasonous act that goes against the will of heaven and will arouse the anger of the gods. The tribesmen may act very irrationally out of fear.
Although the Pi witch's letter did not contain any emotions, it was just stating a fact.
But Xu Chen believed that her current situation must be very bad.
Therefore, just a moment after reading the letter, Xu Chen called Ju He Gao and asked him to summon the hunters with the best riding skills from the Ba, Lei, and Gonghuo tribes to form a team and quickly go to the Pi tribe to protect the witch.
Therefore, I will escort him to the Ba tribe before Mother's Day.
Mother's Day is just around the corner, less than ten days ago.
The purpose of the Pi tribe witch's letter was not just to tell him about her pregnancy, but also to tell him about all the witches and tribes she was about to face on Mother's Day.
If this matter cannot be handled well, not only the Pi tribe will be in chaos, but other tribes will also be in chaos after word spreads, and her life will also be greatly threatened.
This is a result Xu Chen absolutely does not want to see.
Therefore, we must make arrangements in advance to completely resolve the matter on Mother's Day, so that the Pi tribe witch can survive this crisis safely and give birth to the child safely.
To resolve this matter, we must first convince a group of witches that this was done by gods, not humans.
And if you want a group of witches to believe it, you must first make the little witch who is a big witch believe it and cooperate with you to explain.
Although the preliminary preparation has been completed.
But Xu Chen still felt a little nervous.
After all, the child is his, and he doesn't want anything to go wrong.
So after waiting for Ju and Gao to go to the Pi tribe in the rain with more than 20 gathered hunters, Xu Chen also carefully thought about the matter from front to back in his mind. Early the next morning,
So he took Gu Heju and others on horseback to return to the Ba tribe in advance.