Amidst the wonderful expectations of the leader of the Green Tribe, the first batch of millet planted by the Qingque Tribe has sprouted, and the second batch of millet has also been planted today.
The small millet seedlings, tender and green, are very similar to several types of grasses such as dogtail grass that are common in later generations.
But when they grow up, you can tell the difference between them.
Millet can produce food that satisfies people, and those weeds that were not much worse than millet before were only a few grass seeds that were not valued by people.
It also took more than half a year, and the difference in what was harvested was really quite big.
The people from the Donkey Tribe are here again. This is their third trip since the beginning of spring, two more times than the other tribes.
And unlike several other tribes, they basically only need salt and rarely bring food or furs in exchange for pottery.
Every time people from the donkey tribe come, they bring a lot of furs and a lot of food.
These furs and food will be turned into pottery and taken back.
Han Cheng calculated and found that so far, the people of the Donkey tribe have exchanged the most pottery from the Qingque tribe among the surrounding tribes.
There are more people than the Bone Tribe, whose numbers are comparable to the Qingque Tribe, and the richest Sheep Tribe.
Could it be that I was wrong at the beginning? Not only was the Donkey Tribe not the poorest, but it was also the richest among the surrounding tribes?
Is he a well-hidden big dog owner?
Han Cheng thought with confusion as he looked at the figures of the Donkey Tribe who left a pile of things and walked out of the gate to the east with many of the pottery they had exchanged.
Today, the people of the Qingque tribe did not go to work in the fields anymore, but went to Salt Mountain with some tools and weapons.
Provide free salt to several tribes, so that the salt saved by their tribes is consumed very quickly.
Especially the people of the Donkey Tribe, they would bring a lot of salt with them every time they came back. This time they even brought three cans with them. This made Han Cheng strongly doubt whether these guys were using salt as food.
"Dong dong dong..."
"Crash..."
The people of the Qingque tribe are already very good at boiling salt. After arriving at the salt mountain, some people smashed the salt ore, some were responsible for filtering it, and some were boiling it with fire.
Nowadays, the people of the Qingque tribe no longer carry salt ore back to cook it as they did before. It is too troublesome.
Instead, I took the tools directly to Salt Mountain and cooked them here.
It is much easier to bring back finished salt than salt ore.
The actual place where salt is boiled is not actually at the Salt Mountain, but at the spring not far from the Salt Mountain.
This is the place where Han Cheng, Tietou and others filled the clay pots with water and salt in order to abduct Uncle Lu and others.
This spring was not very strong originally, so it was not enough for boiling salt.
But such a thing is obviously not difficult for Han Cheng.
When he took his senior brother and the others to dig the spring half a meter deep, and dug a five-meter-deep reservoir not far away, there was no shortage of water for boiling salt.
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A clearing was opened near the spring, and three fires were burning in the clearing. On top of each fire was a large vat for boiling salt.
As the water evaporates, the salt melted in the water will condense on the bottom of the tank...
Water is the source of all things. In mountains and forests, where there is water, there will generally be more birds and beasts. There are many footprints left on the wetlands at the edges of reservoirs and springs.
However, the birds and wild beasts who came to drink water today were destined to return disappointed, because this water source was occupied by a group of domineering monkeys.
This group of monkeys can not only walk on only two legs, but can also make all kinds of strange things, especially the red and beating things, which are the most frightening to animals...
Boiling salt directly in the salt mountain is very efficient. In five days, the Qingque tribe not only made up for the shortfall, but also had eight more jars of salt than before.
This salt is enough to last for quite some time.
After Han Cheng and others leave, those who remain in the tribe will not have to worry about salt.
The weather was getting warmer day by day, and when the last batch of millet was planted, the rapeseed in that patch had already fully grown, almost half a meter high.
Some of the impatient ones have already bloomed a little golden.
Many things in the world will definitely happen when they are supposed to happen. Blindly escaping is not a very smart way. Apart from making your heart panic, the gains in other aspects are generally not very big.
Han Cheng, who had no other reasons, was finally going to embark on his first real journey since coming to this world.
"Bang bang bang..."
This is not the banging of the clapper when someone comes to the tribe, but the lame who is using stone knives, stone chisels, and wooden sticks to make the last spare oar.
The construction of oars is a must, otherwise how can we move forward? We can't rely entirely on waves, right?
Although Han Cheng was a little sullen at times, his level of skill was still far from enough to make the boat wave, so he had no choice but to build oars honestly.
A total of four canoes belonging to the Qingque tribe have been launched into the water and are now parked at a sufficient temporary dock next to the river in front of the tribe.
The cables were tied to the big wooden pegs nailed to the shore. Several canoes were crowded together, floating up and down in a small range with the water waves, which was very rhythmic.
Senior Brother, Shang, and Junior Brother Sha held paddles tied with leather ropes under their arms, pulled the cables, and pulled the canoe to the shore. While the canoe was swinging back and forth, they arrived on the canoe.
After more than ten consecutive days of practice and familiarity, senior brother and others are now able to face this level of swaying calmly, and their legs will no longer tremble unconsciously like before.
There is no such worry as "after I get up, the boat will be pressed to the bottom of the water".
On both sides of the bow of the canoe, there is a tree stick about 20 centimeters higher than the body of the canoe. Each canoe has a tree branch on the upper side of the four wooden sticks in total.
After the senior brother got on the canoe, he skillfully hung the paddle in his arms on the wooden branch.
Then I started to receive some bottles and cans handed over from the shore.
These were all things they had prepared in advance for this long trip.
The most prepared thing among them is food. In addition to the jars placed at the beginning, there are also a lot of pickled and dried salted fish and bacon.
Among them, there are clay pots for cooking rice and boiling water, and bowls for serving rice.
Weapons such as bows and arrows, rattan shields, slings, spears, and throwing spears will naturally not fall.
These things they carried were all put separately, and there were some on each of the four canoes. This was to prevent them from losing all their supplies, getting into trouble, or even being killed if any of the canoes encountered an accident.
