Chapter 698 As long as the hoe swings well, how can there be a root that cannot be dug down?
Of course, when people from the trade team go to this tribe, they won't say, "We dug your family's mine near your tribe, and now we will give you some compensation."
People at this time did not have such a strong concept. In their understanding, as long as they did not go to other tribes' caves to rob, or kill other tribes' prey and then rob it, there would be no problem.
Things like stones that cannot be eaten or worn are different from things like fruit-bearing baby animals.
Fruity animal cubs were exchanged among the tribes. After they were found to be useful, if they wanted to obtain them from these tribes again, they would need to exchange them for things like salt, but for stones, there was no need at all.
No matter whether the stone is useful to the tribe or not, after exchanging it once, when you obtain it again, you will never exchange it with these tribes again.
This is because people from the Qingque tribe will come to mine it themselves, instead of exchanging it from the people of these tribes like before.
The people from the trading team went to this tribe at this time just to conduct a normal transaction and use canned goods to cultivate their relationship with the minors of this tribe.
After all, this tribe has not been here for a long time. Now it is very necessary to mine stones nearby and do such things on the way.
The arrival of the Qingque Tribe trading team brought a lot of joy to the people of this tribe, especially the minors who were eating sweet and sour cans.
These minors were eating happily, and Shang Mao and others were also laughing happily. The eyes looking at these minors were full of smiles, as if they were looking at their stupid sons.
At a place not too far from the stream, Mao and other members of the trading team were wielding copper axes in their hands and vigorously cutting down trees.
With the copper axes, they could cut down trees much faster.
They chopped down trees one by one and cut them into lengths of about three meters.
These tree trunks and some thicker branches were tied together with a relatively flexible branch to make a raft.
These rafts are used to carry stones.
This is what Han Cheng thought of.
Before serious roads were built and two-wheeled or four-wheeled deer carts or other vehicles with strong load-bearing capacity were built, it was very labor-intensive and time-consuming to rely on land for transportation of things like stones.
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Han Cheng realized this clearly when he led people to transport ore back from Tongshan.
Now the place where the limestone exists is close to a stream, and the flow of this stream is not bad, and it is also connected to the lower reaches of the river in front of the tribe. If Han Cheng didn't know how to take the water route, he would be a little too naive.
It is a very good thing to cut down trees to make rafts here. First of all, when coming here, the people of the trade team do not have to drag many rafts all the way against the current, which can save a lot of hard work.
Secondly, these rafts that carry the stones back together are also very useful.
Some are tall and straight, with suitable thickness, and can be used as beams and other building materials.
Some of the less practical ones can be used to burn charcoal. Even if it is not enough to burn charcoal, they can also be used to make fire for cooking, and then the ashes can be used to fertilize the fields.
Words and phrases such as having to grab two handfuls of mud before getting up after falling to the ground with precise calculations can be applied to Han Cheng at this time.
Before Shang joined the trade team, what he did most in the Qingque tribe was mining stones, so now he was asked to resume his old business, and his work was particularly smooth.
After carrying all the scattered stones that were easier to carry to the creek, under his leadership, another group of people began to burn the stones with fire until they were boiling hot, and then poured cold water on them.
While they were doing these things, there were quite a few minors running around.
Or follow Mao and others to get branches.
Or holding a clay pot and following Shang and others to get water from the stream to the rocks, waiting to splash water on the rocks, or carrying some small stones to the stream...
Not only them, but most of the primitive women who stayed in this tribe to dig wild vegetables or spear fish for food also came here to dig wild vegetables.
While digging for wild vegetables, I would stand aside for a while and watch the people in the trade team doing these strange and very methodical things.
Some primitive women with more lively temperaments sometimes join in like these minors.
There are men, women, and some lively children. They look like people from a tribe.
These minors like this kind of life and like to get along with these friendly people.
I like to see them quickly cutting down a thick tree, and I like to see them tying these downed trees that they had taken a long time to break together side by side, and then carrying them into the stream.
Such things will not sink to the bottom after being placed in water, and people can stand on them.
They were particularly surprised that they could stand on the water without sinking.
That's not the only thing that surprised them, the beautiful tool that was extremely sharp and could cut down a tree very quickly also surprised them.
The most surprising thing is not these, the most surprising thing is the cracked stones in the diffuse smoke and heat wave!
It's really amazing that such a strong stone can be broken open in this way!
Even though many of them have participated in this incident, they still feel excited and surprised every time they see this spectacular sight.
Through such contact, they learned more about the Qingque tribe.
It turns out that the people of this tribe, in addition to being very wealthy and friendly, actually own so many amazing things.
The more I know about it, the more I yearn for the Qingque Tribe.
After participating in these labors and experiencing the life of the Qingque tribe, these minors, including many adult female primitives, unconsciously compared the life of the Qingque tribe with the life of their own tribe.
The result of the comparison is that the boring and repetitive life of my own tribe day after day is not as desirable as the novel lifestyle of the Qingque tribe.
Although they didn't know why the people of this tribe cut down trees and collected so many stones.
At noon, the people in the trade team began to eat lunch, which basically did not exist in this era. The minors and women of the tribe would be given some.
Shang Hemao and others did not feel bad about the food that was given out at all. They thought that when the time comes, these people will grow more food when they come to the tribe...
