Chapter 793 New Animals of the Qingque Tribe (Three and One)
Three days later, Han Cheng and his people also set off from the Tongshan residential area and began their return journey.
In the past few days, Han Cheng and the people who followed Han Cheng got a full rest.
On the way to rest, Han Cheng also sorted out the topography and landforms he had drawn.
He also followed Junior Brother Sha to inspect the mines on Tongshan, the mining of ores, the smelting of copper and tin, the reclamation of land, and the planting of food.
While expressing full affirmation of these things made in Tongshan Residential Area, we also put forward some guiding suggestions.
Among them, he was most concerned about cutting down more trees to support the dug out mine.
The mines in Tongshan are not deep and are quite strong. There has been no collapse so far, and no one has died as a result. But the more this happens, the more careful you need to be.
As the mine continues to deepen, the risk factor will become greater. Necessary protective measures must be used to the best of your ability, otherwise it will be uncomfortable if something like a mine collapse occurs.
In later generations, when mining disasters occurred, many people could be rescued with the help of advanced instruments, professional rescue teams, and efforts at all costs.
In this day and age, once something like this happens, it basically declares the death of the person buried, so protective measures must be taken seriously.
While inspecting the copper mine, Han Cheng met Meng.
He was the one who wanted to pull some people to escape with him because of his grievances, and then was caught and punished as a slave who kept digging copper in the Copper Mountain.
At this time, Meng had no human appearance at all. His beard and hair were tangled together and his hair was long and dirty.
There is a thick layer of dust mixture on the body and face, like armor.
His whole body exuded a layer of stench, and his expression looked very dull.
At that time, Han Cheng was about to go down the mountain, accompanied by Junior Brother Sha and others. Meng was carrying a load of dug-out ore on a pole and a pole, and walked forward tremblingly. When he saw Junior Brother Sha and others, his whole body became agitated.
He was stunned and then involuntarily accelerated his walking pace.
After realizing that this was Meng, Han Cheng suddenly felt a little uncomfortable.
After all, Han Cheng is a man who has received nine years of compulsory education. Apart from not having a girlfriend and being a homebody, there is nothing wrong with his outlook on life.
Seeing Meng become so miserable under his orders, it is normal to feel a little uncomfortable.
When Meng planned to escape, everyone in the tribe was very angry, and Han Cheng was equally angry.
However, unlike others, most of Han Cheng's anger was pretended to be seen by the tribe, so that everyone could clearly know his attitude towards this kind of thing, and by the way, he also created momentum for the introduction of corresponding laws in the future.
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In fact, Han Cheng had some unknown appreciation for Meng's behavior of wanting to sneak away and not want to be a slave.
He came from the later generations. If someone dared to make him a slave, Han Cheng would definitely resist desperately. It would be easy to sneak away like Meng, and maybe he would get some poisonous grass and other juices to make him.
Go into the rice and let everyone in that tribe eat it...
However, I admire Meng's behavior in my heart, but I can't be lenient at all when dealing with it. After all, the position is different. Now he is a slave owner, not a slave, and his butt cannot be crooked.
However, after seeing Meng's appearance at this time, Han Cheng finally felt compassion.
After careful calculation, Meng could only consider this an attempted escape.
Besides wanting to escape, he also showed no intention of hurting anyone or damaging property.
Tongshan's several years of inhumane mining treatment can basically offset the mistakes it made. At the same time, it also served to alert everyone and deter the young people.
So after some thinking, in the afternoon of that day, Han Chenggong gathered everyone in the Tongshan residential area, and then asked people to get Meng out of the mine in Tongshan.
In front of everyone, Han Cheng reiterated the mistakes Meng had made and the laws of the tribe.
Just when everyone thought Han Cheng was going to kill Meng, Han Cheng said that Meng had not been lazy during his several years of mining career, and then announced an appropriate sentencing for Meng.
The sentence included being allowed to sleep in the slave yard in the Tongshan residential area at night, and the food could be a little worse than the other slaves, but still better than what they had been in the Tongshan cave before.
Appropriate reductions have also been made to Meng’s daily workload.
After understanding what Han Cheng meant, Meng was stunned for a while, then knelt down to Han Cheng, lying on the ground and crying loudly.
Such a scene not only allowed the people of the Qingque tribe in the Tongshan residential area to further feel the kindness from the Son of God, but the slaves looked miserable and cried Meng who was lying on the ground.
The thought of making mistakes like a lemon.
Just thinking about what Meng has experienced in the past few years, they can't help but shudder...
On the way back, Han Cheng and the others did not take the road they often took when traveling to and from the Qingque tribe. They still took the same area they explored when they came here.
On this return trip, in addition to clarifying the situation in the area where we went astray, we also need to thoroughly determine the route of the Bronze Expressway, and then try to build a dozen or twenty highways before the autumn harvest.
The road comes many miles away.
"Dangdangdang..."
The sound of impact echoed in the summer forest, startling several pairs of birds wanting to have fun.
On the way back, Han Cheng held some small sharpened wooden sticks in his arms. After observing them carefully, he inserted them into the ground.
Someone behind was carrying a bronze hammer, pulling out the wooden stick he had inserted there, and then nailing the big tree stick chopped out with a bronze ax to its original position as a more eye-catching sign.
The rest of the people, holding sickles, axes and other things in their hands, attacked the bushes that were not too thick on both sides of the nailed sticks, and initially cleared a passage more than one meter wide to facilitate walking.
It can also make the sign more eye-catching.
The team just walked, nailed, and cleaned up all the way, slowly approaching the Qingque tribe.
This is the real road ahead, overcoming thorns and thorns...
Nearly twenty days later, a group of people who looked a bit more primitive than ordinary primitive people returned from the west of the tribe.
If it weren't for the Qingque flag fluttering in the wind with a hole in it, as well as the following deer, dogs, and the right number of people, who were looking forward to the return of the Son of God and others, they would hardly be able to believe it.
, people dressed like this could actually be the Son of God and the others.
"Son, call me daddy!"
The unshaven Han Cheng looked at Xiao Wandou who was following Bai Xuemei to greet him, and shouted with a loud smile.
"It's not dad, ugly..."
The little guy said while hiding next to Bai Xuemei.
It wasn't until Han Cheng took out two red fruits and three fluffy birds from the bag that he couldn't recognize his father's little peas, that he was coaxed into following them.
He briefly greeted Wu, Senior Brother, and Bai Xuemei, and briefly asked about what happened in the tribe after he left. After learning that nothing major happened, Han Cheng hurriedly threw away the things he brought back, and then
Taking the clean clothes that Bai Xuemei had found and the bathing basket, she hurriedly walked to the lower reaches of the river.
There is a place specially opened for bathing.
The surrounding area is covered with soft sand, and when you step on it with bare feet, your soles feel itchy.
Moreover, some pits of less than half a meter were dug artificially. It is very comfortable to lie in them with your head exposed and take an open-air bath.
Where this area connects to the creek, there is a bamboo fence made of broken bamboo, and the trees are there to block it.
This is mainly to keep the fish in the river out and prevent them from entering.
After all, at this time, some of the fish living in the river are quite fierce. It is better for smaller fish to swim over. Being bitten by two of them will not cause much hindrance. I am afraid that if I encounter those big ones, I will be attacked.
After that, there will be no happiness at all.
“Comfortable!”
He quickly threw off the extremely uncomfortable clothes on his body, then came into the water and lay down in the dug hole. The water warmed by the sun came up and wrapped around his whole body, which made him feel so comfortable.
Forget it.
After Han Cheng lay there for a while, he held his breath and went under the water. He directly pressed his body against the sand below, and it took a while before he came out of the water.
While venting his anger, he wiped the water on his face with his hands and couldn't help but praise it.
The only drawback is that there is no watermelon at this time, and there is no peanut field around the bath.
Otherwise, if you hold a watermelon and throw it into the water, pick up some peanuts and throw it into the water, take a bath for a while, pound the watermelon open, eat the watermelon for a while and then eat the peanuts, the taste will be so comfortable.
You can't think about this, because just thinking about it makes you want to drool.
Although I once gathered peanuts from someone else's field with a few friends around me, the woman took my clothes away while taking a bath, and stayed in the water for a long time, and my lips were all black, but now I thought
When I woke up, I still missed it immensely.
It's a pity that Han Cheng and the others are not the seven fairies who went down to the mortal world to play in the water. The woman who took their clothes and didn't give them to them until it was too dark soon also doesn't have a talking old cow at home. Otherwise, they can create another one.
Maybe there is a legend...
People who had followed Han Cheng to the Tongshan residential area also came over one after another at this time, plopping into the water like dumplings, and there was a sudden roar of joy.
At this time, there were also happy sounds from some places downstream of the river. It was the primitive women who followed Han Cheng to the Tongshan residential area and entered the water.
Under the subtle influence of Han Cheng, the people in the tribe already knew that men and women were different, and gradually began to show it in their actions.
For example, in the current Qingque tribe, generally speaking, no adult women are shirtless anymore in the hot summer.
There are even no more primitive women who unbutton their clothes in public to look cool.
When building the summer open-air baths, no one was at all puzzled by Han Cheng's direct construction of two.
After all, the toilets in the tribe and the bathing pools used for bathing in winter are also divided into men and women.
There is a dense field of hemp planted between the two open-air baths, so they can effectively isolate the sight of each other.
However, when the sound of women playing in the baths downstream came from the baths, no one said anything. The originally noisy men's baths quickly became quiet...
In this regard, both the men of this era and the men of later generations are surprisingly similar...
A little separation is better than a wedding. It took more than a month for Han Cheng to leave the tribe and return. At this time, there was naturally a tenderness between Han Cheng and his child bride-in-law, Bai Xuemei, which need not be elaborated.
On the second day, after shaving off his beard and cutting off his excessively long hair with bronze scissors with a jagged gap on one side, Han Cheng looked much more energetic and no longer as slovenly as when he came back yesterday.
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After getting up, he took Xiao Wandou to the field ridges around the tribe, caught some grasshoppers, and came back to feed the few birds that Han Cheng picked up by the stream when he came back.
These three little guys are still a little afraid of people. When they see people approaching, they hide near the edge of the circle.
But no matter how afraid of people you are, you can't resist the temptation of delicious food.
After Han Cheng and Xiao Wandou tied the grasshoppers they caught, piercing the backs of their heads in the bushes with dog tails into a bunch, big and small grasshoppers, and threw them one by one into the plates in the cage, there
The frightened and squawking little ones still slowly and tentatively came to the edge of the plate.
He stretched his neck, picked up a dead grasshopper with his unique bright yellow beak, turned around and ran back.
After arriving at the corner where he was staying before, he raised his neck and swallowed the grasshopper in his mouth whole.
After eating, he tilted his head and looked at the two hairless monkeys, one big and one small, squatting on the ground looking at them, and then continued to try to eat the grasshoppers.
After repeating this action two or three times in a row, these guys became more courageous. They no longer ran away after picking up a grasshopper as before, but stood on the plate and continued with their flat mouths.
Keep swallowing.
Despite their small size, their eating speed is not slow at all, and most of the grasshoppers in a few bunches were quickly eaten by them.
After eating these grasshoppers, some of the little guys became bolder, and one of them even stretched out his mouth to eat the grasshopper that was placed in Xiao Pea's open palm.
The flat and tender mouth touched the soft and tender palm of the little pea, and it tickled, making the little guy happy.
However, this baby bird was frightened by the laughter of the little pea, holding the grasshopper in its mouth, fluttering its little fleshy wings and ran away quickly...
These three little guys, covered in gray down, with flat beaks and also grayish webbed feet, are the young of a kind of wild duck.
At that time, when passing by the narrow stream, many flying wild ducks and other birds were frightened and flew around. These three little guys were the people of the Qingque tribe who nailed wooden stakes there and
Found and caught while cutting down the surrounding vegetation.
When it was first discovered, there were a dozen or so in the nest.
It's just that the speed of these little guys is really too fast. Even though they are still far from full-grown, they are very fast when they walk through the grass one by one.
After everyone was in a hurry, they caught these three.
With experience in feeding deer, donkeys, geese, and chickens, those traveling with him naturally knew the purpose of the Son of God asking them to catch such a bird that could swim in the water.
It is very possible that they are raised like chickens and geese, and when the time comes, they are used to lay eggs or directly raised for slaughter and meat.
However, although they understood Han Cheng's intention, Mao and others who were traveling with him were not too enthusiastic about such things.
Because the tribe already has chickens and geese, two types of poultry that can lay eggs.
Of these two things, one lays eggs very frequently, and the other lays very large eggs. As the two complement each other, it doesn't matter whether there are other birds in the tribe to supplement them.
Han Cheng did not agree with this concept at all. He came from a later generation and had a deep obsession with gathering chickens, ducks and geese, the three leaders in the poultry world.
Moreover, if ducks are raised and cultivated well, they will also have strong advantages in laying eggs.
Not only are they much larger than eggs, but if fed well and fed enough, these guys can sometimes lay two eggs a day.
One when it gets dark, and another when it gets light.
Moreover, the pickled salted duck eggs with their red oil oozing out are also a great food to go with rice, especially the duck egg yolk, which is at least comfortable to eat.
Of course, eggs can also be eaten salted, but compared with salted duck eggs, the taste is always much inferior.
In addition to salted duck eggs, roast duck is also a delicacy that cannot be forgotten.
Han Cheng has never tasted Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck, which is extremely famous in later generations, but he has eaten ten ordinary roast ducks sold on the street for more than 30 yuan each. It is said that they are roasted with fruit tree charcoal.
The outer layer is stained with cumin and chili powder, and the roasted golden skin tastes the most delicious...
When the grasshoppers were full, the little ducks would lie there and stretch their legs or wings from time to time. Unknown to them, the big, hairless monkey in front of them was already drooling and trying to take advantage of them and their offspring.
, if I knew it, I don’t know if I could still be as calm as I am now...
The Bronze Expressway is something that affects everyone's minds and needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
When Han Cheng left, he told the stonemason Mu Mu, the part-time coppersmith Second Brother and others who stayed in the tribe to use this period of time to build some tools needed for road construction.
Now that the tools are complete and the route has been determined by Han Cheng, road construction can begin.
On the second day after returning from the Tongshan residential area, in the morning, he took Xiao peas to catch some grasshoppers and fed them to the ducklings. After breakfast, Han Chenggong began to discuss some matters with Wu, senior brother, second senior brother, Shang and others.
Regarding the matter of road construction, and then, while ensuring that the rest of the tribe's affairs can proceed normally, we began to arrange and deploy manpower to prepare for road construction.
More than half of the people who were drawn out to work on road construction were slaves of the Qingque tribe.
The hard work of building roads is naturally indispensable for them...
'Dang Dang Dang...'
At the quarry of the Qingque Tribe, someone was knocking up pieces of shale from there, and then loading these rock pieces onto the two-wheeled donkey cart parked next to it.
"ha!"
Following the driver's shout, the donkey pulling the donkey cart and the deer standing in the deputy position began to pull hard, pulling some stone slabs loaded on the cart, and turned around along the previously paved stone road.
After making two turns, it rumbled all the way towards the western end of the Qingque Tribe's field.
In the farmland surrounding the Qingque tribe, stone roads have been built long ago, and there is also a main road leading to the west.
This time when the Bronze Expressway was built, this main road that had been built before was directly used by Han Cheng, becoming the easternmost starting point of the Bronze Expressway.
However, when this road was first built, the tribe did not have two-wheeled vehicles, only wheelbarrows.
Therefore, although it is a main road, its width is only about two meters.
It will need to be widened when the time comes.
However, because the crops in the farmland on both sides are not mature yet, if we start to widen it now, a lot of crops will be destroyed.
Therefore, the construction of the Bronze Expressway this time will directly follow the main road to the west and continue to the west.
As for the widening of this section of the old road, we can only wait until the crops in the fields are harvested before proceeding.
At this time, there were many people scattered at the end of this old road.
These people held various tools in their hands and were busy following the tasks assigned previously.
Someone was carrying sickles, axes, saws, etc., and continued to clear the grass and trees along the wooden piles that Han Cheng and the others had nailed when they came back, as well as the simply opened passage, widening the passage, and opening up enough space for the subsequent construction.
Space to display.
A group of relatively high-end talents such as Lame, Shitou, Yuan, etc., under Han Cheng's teaching, used cord-grass tape measures, long ropes, benchmarks and other things to move along the site cleared by the people in front according to Han Cheng's instructions.
The wooden stakes were roughly nailed before to straighten the road, and lime powder was used to circle the exact position of the road, as well as the width of the road.
Behind them came another group of people, carrying metal tools such as shovels and hoe heads, leveling the land along the path marked out with lime powder.
Later, someone used tamping tools to pound the loose soil into a solid state and smooth it out.
On the initially leveled land, someone used stone slabs pulled from the quarry to pave it.
The stone road is still more durable than the ordinary dirt road, and the road paving the stone does not need to be too compacted. Han Cheng finally decided to lay a section of the stone road.
Of course, the decision was made on the premise that the distance from the quarry is not too far. Once the road extends five or six miles forward and the place where the road is laid is too far from the quarry, we can only start building pure
The road is dirt.
Of course, if a large amount of shale is found along the road, the situation will be different.
In fact, even stone roads are not as good as cement roads.
But now the tribe can only burn white ash, and the currently known limestone origin is relatively far away from the Qingque tribe. Even if cement can really be fired, at this time, according to the manpower and material resources of the Qingque tribe, it will be built.
Building such a long concrete road is also unrealistic...
