At noon, the people who stayed in the tribe to cook finished the meal and came out to say something to the person standing on the low wall on the west side. The person then spoke loudly to the people who were busy in the fields not far away.
Open your voice to announce that dinner is ready.
Everyone in the Qingque tribe ate the soup boiled with salt in their big bowls, feeling very happy.
Although the salt was only produced by Han Cheng for more than a year, it has already been deeply imprinted in the bones of the Qingque tribe, as deep-rooted as a habit passed down from a long time ago.
If you let them eat broth without salt at this time, most of them will find it difficult to swallow.
Salt is such a magical existence.
When eating, many people will involuntarily look up at the built houses. On the walls under the eaves, there are not only numerous pieces of meat being dried, but also pieces of meat that are divided into several handfuls and hung there.
Millet.
They couldn't get enough of this scenery.
The eldest brother ate very quickly. He put two chopsticks on the bowl and threw it away when it was empty. He wiped his mouth and went to rest.
After preparing to take a nap, we will continue to reclaim the wasteland and finish this area before dark.
Han Cheng stopped his senior brother and told him to wait a moment while he had something to show him.
The senior brother stopped as he was told and looked at the Son of God with some expectation. He couldn't help but wonder in his heart what good thing the Son of God had come up with.
Han Cheng did not lower his voice deliberately when he said this, and many people heard it. They all speeded up their meals and wanted to follow suit.
Well, curiosity is probably innate.
The lame chopper on the side was eating the rice faster because the thing the Son of God was talking about came from his hands.
When Han Cheng finished his meal, everyone around him had finished eating. Han Cheng sniffed slightly helplessly, smiled and waved to everyone, and walked towards the open space in the courtyard.
Han Chengchao looked at his lame with a somewhat excited look and nodded, then he limped quickly to the three tile-roofed houses and came out again in a blink of an eye, holding an oval wooden raft in his hand.
This wooden raft is different from the common wooden raft used by the Qingque tribe to sandwich the wall during block building. The weaving technique is much more complicated, similar to the technique of braiding rafters, but more complicated than it. The wooden raft
It is also more solid.
The raft is not that big, eighty centimeters long and fifty centimeters wide at its widest point. It is somewhat similar to the pot lids made of split sticks and grass stems in the tribe.
Everyone looked at this familiar yet strange thing, and for a moment they couldn't figure out the intention of the Son of God. They didn't know what this strange-looking raft could be used for.
The version is definitely not good, it's too small.
It won't work if you use it to cover a vat for making soup. There are too many gaps and it will be exposed.
Han Cheng took the strange-looking raft from his lame hand, held the wooden handle with a diameter of two or three centimeters horizontally in the middle of the back of the raft, and lifted it up.
The wooden handle is curved, with a span of about ten centimeters, and the highest point is about five centimeters away from the raft.
Like the rafter handle, the two ends are woven directly into the wooden raft.
If you have the strength to weave a rafter head woven in this way, even if you put more than two hundred kilograms of stones inside, the handle of the rafter head will not be separated from the rafter head when you lift it up. It is conceivable that this weird-looking wooden raft will
How strong is the handle in the middle that you hold with your hands?
Okay, I think many people have already guessed what this thing is, so don’t worry about it.
Yes, this is a shield.
Although it looks a little weird and a bit too simple, it has everything a shield should have.
Regarding the matter of improved weapons, Han Cheng has actually been thinking about it for a long time. However, because of the current limited conditions, many things cannot be made, and various things are complicated. He has not yet figured out what kind of weapons to make and what to use.
Materials and how to make them have always been left to chance.
After such a long period of planning, it can be said that the right time, place and people are right, so this woven rattan shield came into being.
In fact, at the beginning, Han Cheng did not think about making a shield, but wanted to make an offensive weapon.
He forgot where he heard the saying "offense is the best defense" and it always stayed in his mind. Moreover, he was passionate about it and felt that offense was more effective than passive defense.
Such thoughts continued until he saw the 'rice bowl' of a primitive woman nursing a child, and then he stopped abruptly.
The 'rice bowl' that the primitive woman prepared for her children had a patch of green on it, which was the mark left by the stones of the Soaring Snake Tribe who came to attack last winter.
When Han Cheng saw it, it had been almost three months since the Soaring Snake Tribe attacked.
More than three months have passed, and the bruises on this primitive woman's body have not been completely eliminated, which shows that her injuries are serious.
It was this bruise that had not been completely eliminated that made Han Cheng completely change his mind.
Fighting with weapons and watching the enemies fall one by one under your own hands can indeed make people's blood boil, but where can there be any good thing in this world where you can just take advantage without suffering a loss?
Last time, the Qingque Tribe relied on the wall to gain such a big advantage, and some people were injured, let alone chasing others with weapons...
Speaking of defensive weapons, Han Cheng's first thought was armor, not the warrior type, just ordinary ones.
It's just that such a relatively high-demand thing obviously cannot be produced according to the current level of the Qingque tribe.
So we had to settle for the next best thing and build a shield.
The materials that the Qingque Tribe can currently use include wood, stone and soil.
It is obviously impossible to make a shield from stone. Pottery can be made from clay. According to Heiwa's current level, it is not impossible to make a pottery shield, but this thing is too heavy and too fragile...
Han Cheng's next idea was to find some wooden sticks of similar thickness, split them in half, and then put them together with the flat sides facing up to make a shield.
Then draw three horizontal lines on the back, the upper, middle and lower lines. Along these lines, make a groove two centimeters deep and narrow at the top and wide at the bottom. Then use a wooden strip with a wide bottom and a narrow top to penetrate the groove from the edge.
, so that these loose wood pieces will be firmly connected together.
He told Lame this idea little by little, and then he and Lame started trying to make it like this, and then... gave up.
This approach requires very high tools and technology.
I remembered the Nanman rattan armor army that Zhuge Liang had burned with fire, and saw the wooden rafts that were very common in my tribe. In addition, Lame had mastered the technique of weaving taff heads, so the rattan shield appeared.
