Chapter 800: The Sad Senior Brother (four in one, there are
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As the top carpenter and weaver of the Qingque tribe, Lai's craftsmanship and understanding ability are naturally nothing to say.
Although the weaving of a helmet is much more complicated than a helmet, with Han Cheng on the side for guidance using language, after more than two days of exploration, the Qingque Tribe's first helmet with certain defensive capabilities was created.
It still appeared in the lame hands.
This kind of helmet covers more places. It no longer only protects the top of the head like a safety helmet, but also protects the back of the head.
After all, this helmet is prepared for those who follow the battlefield, and on the battlefield, it is not surprising to be attacked anywhere. Unlike mining, you only need to guard against falling objects from high altitudes.
After once again being hit on the head with a bronze hammer, it was confirmed that the improved rattan helmet had considerable defensive capabilities, and mass production began.
Looking at some of the armors that Lame and the others had woven, Han Cheng suddenly had the idea of letting Hei Wa, Second Senior Brother and the others try to cast some bronze helmets when he had some free time.
Wearing such a helmet can not only be used to resist enemy attacks. When you can't find a pot or the like for cooking, you can take the helmet off your head, put a few stones around it, and add water to it.
It can be used to cook food.
And there’s no need to put in oil…
It's a helmet made of bronze. It's a bit too heavy. Wearing it may not only make the top of your head bald, but also make people uncomfortable and require a long period of break-in...
There is no rush to do this. Judging from the current situation, simple rattan armor and rattan helmet are enough.
Regarding the equipment or arms in the tribe, there is another more important issue that Han Cheng needs to consider.
This is Team Vine Shield.
With the vine armor and helmets, and after everyone in the tribe equipped them, the vine shield team headed by the senior brother seemed a bit useless.
After all, there is no need to rely on the defense of the senior brothers. The Changge team and archery team wearing these equipment can also resist some attacks from the enemy.
Similarly, the senior brothers wearing rattan armor and rattan helmets, and carrying a large rattan shield in their hands, also seemed redundant.
After all, rattan shields are relatively bulky, and they are mainly used for defense. In terms of offense, they are far inferior to bronze swords, bows and arrows, and slings.
The more Han Cheng sat here and thought about it, the more he felt that the Vine Shield team was too useless now.
After pondering this for a while, senior brother happened to walk in from outside.
When Han Cheng saw his senior brother come in, he stopped him and told him about the Vine Shield.
Although Han Cheng said it more tactfully, senior brother still fell silent after understanding what Han Cheng meant.
After all, he has been using the Vine Shield for several years and has already fallen in love with it.
At this time, after hearing Han Cheng talk about the embarrassing situation of the Vine Shield, and Han Cheng's expressed idea of abolishing the Vine Shield team and integrating it into other arms, it would be strange if the senior brother did not remain silent.
In fact, after the emergence of things like Tengjia, the senior brother also knew a little about the embarrassing situation of Tengdun, and he thought about it earlier than Han Cheng.
It was just because he was already comfortable using this weapon and didn't want to change it, so he never said anything about it.
But one heart was hanging there after all, worried about Shenzi or Wu and the others. After discovering this problem, they reorganized the Vine Shield Team.
Such worries have finally become a reality today...
Seeing the senior brother with a gloomy expression and standing there not knowing what to say, Han Cheng felt uncomfortable.
This has some meaning to the Seventh Steel Company being reorganized in "Soldier Assault", and all the people in the company were either discharged from the army, or were incorporated into other companies in batches.
As someone who had his eyes red from crying while sitting next to the TV, Han Cheng can certainly understand the mood of his senior brother at this moment.
"We'll discuss this later. I just have an idea now, and I'm not sure about it.
And the autumn harvest is coming soon. Even if you want to make changes, you can only do it after the autumn harvest, and it will take a long time.
After such a long time, it is not impossible to come up with a way to get the best of both worlds..."
Han Cheng spoke out to comfort his senior brother.
"Um."
The eldest brother nodded somewhat dullly, and then left. His whole person looked a little heavy.
Seeing the way his senior brother left, Han Cheng's heart became heavy.
I even regret saying these things to my senior brother...
Time passes quietly as the ears of grain become fuller day by day and the heads are lowered and become humble.
All the people who went out to build the Bronze Expressway were taken back. They looked at the large areas of millet with their heads lowered, full of expectation.
In the threshing floor, someone holding a shovel was cleaning some weeds growing on it.
Someone was leading a donkey or a deer, pulling a stone roller around in circles on the threshing floor.
At the back of the drum frame is tied a clump of '栳子' made of thin branches with leaves, and a few copper shovels with some moist soil are fastened on it to increase the weight...
The carpenter's room also stopped weaving helmets, and the lame and a few other people began to repair sickles, wheelbarrows and other things here.
Some people cut off bamboo poles as thick as their little finger and tied them together tightly. After getting the shape, they grilled it on a lit fire, removed the bamboo leaves, and helped shape it.
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Then they fell together in groups of five and pressed them down with a heavy stone slab.
After taking them out after a few days, the upper parts of these bamboo brooms not only become fine, but also become flat. A bamboo broom that is very suitable for 'skimming' and making the millet cleaner becomes a success.
was manufactured.
In the shade of the tribe, many men squatted there, scooping up some water from the earthen basin and pouring it onto the fine, smooth whetstone. Then they held the sickle in both hands and rubbed it back and forth on the whetstone.
After rubbing for a while, he would stop and gently test the blade with his fingers...
The women in the tribe have been busy preparing food in the past few days, preparing to make a sumptuous feast.
After all, once the autumn harvest begins, the entire tribe will become busy, and there will be no time or energy to prepare these foods.
The deer and donkeys in the tribe can get some bean dregs when they eat forage recently...
In the field, Han Cheng, Wu, and a few people from the tribe who often tended the crops were searching in the millet field, inspecting the first batch of millet planted.
From time to time, they would pick off a few ears of millet, rub them in their hands, put the grains into their mouths, and bite them with their teeth to judge the maturity of the millet.
This is a very testing thing.
It takes several months from planting to harvesting millet.
In the past few months, the most important ones are the last few days, because this is the critical time for the growth of millet.
At this time, if the harvest is early, the yield of the same acre of land will be reduced a lot, and the grains pounded out by the time will not be full and round enough.
But you can’t harvest too late. If you harvest too late, once the weather is not good, a lot of food will not be harvested.
"Okay, this crop of millet will be harvested tomorrow. When harvesting, we should start harvesting from the west end."
After combining the opinions of several people and his own feelings, Han Cheng finally nodded and clarified the time for harvesting the millet.
The reason why we harvest from west to east is because the terrain in the west is relatively high and the soil moisture is not as good as that in the east, so the crops here will mature a day or two earlier.
After such a decision was made and spread, the entire Qingque tribe suddenly became lively.
The people who had been preparing for several days began to wash various foods and then put them into the pot. The smell of the food, mixed with the joyful emotions of everyone, spread throughout the tribe...
At dawn the next day, those who had eaten the sickle banquet yesterday and had a good sleep had already gotten up, carrying sickles and other tools, chatting and laughing with each other, and left the tribe, heading towards the mature crop fields...
"Open the sickle!"
Han Cheng cut off the first handful of millet and raised it high. After shouting to everyone, the people who were standing on the ground ready with sickles bent down one after another, holding the mature millet in one hand.
The sickle in one hand stretched towards the root of the millet, then quickly pulled it back, and a handful of millet was cut off.
The morning breeze blew by, and the many millets surged into golden waves with the wind. The rustling sound of the ears and leaves of the grains colliding with each other and the sound of the sickle cutting the grains mixed together to create a beautiful movement...
With more people and greater strength, by the afternoon, a large field of grain had been harvested.
So some men began to stop harvesting millet, returned to the tribe, hitched up donkey carts, led the two-wheeled donkeys all the way across the stone road, and then drove into the fields along the cleared fields.
The donkey cart was different from what we had seen before. It no longer looked like a bare cart. Instead, a "field"-shaped "sheep's horn" was placed in the holes left on the front and rear of the donkey cart.
It is said that it is a Tian-shaped shape, but it is actually not accurate. The borders on both sides of the Tian-shaped shape are outwards at the top and bottom.
The bottom part is for putting it into the hole left in the donkey cart, and the top part is to block some of the crops loaded on it.
The reason why this tool is called "sheep's horn" is because when these two outward-angled tools are inserted into the donkey cart one after another, when viewed from the side, they look like the horns on the top of a sheep's head.
Two corners in the shape of an inverted 'eight'.
With these two tools, one behind the other, the donkey cart is blocked sideways, so that more crops can be loaded onto the donkey cart.
Otherwise, it is just a bare donkey cart, which cannot hold many things, and it will no longer be able to hold it.
"Pretend both ends first!"
After the donkey cart entered the harvested millet field, some people loaded the donkey cart with the harvested millet on the ground, but Han Cheng stopped them.
This kind of two-wheeled donkey cart requires a lot of care when installing it, and it can no longer be installed casually like a wheelbarrow.
First of all, the space in the donkey cart is limited. If you don’t load it properly, the most likely thing is that the donkey cart will be full without much loading.
The amount of crops that one such cart can pull is not as much as two carts can carry with one cart.
In this regard, I noticed that after arranging the layers one by one, there are still many places that need attention.
That is to try to balance the car as much as possible.
If there is too much loaded on the front, the weight of the donkey cart and the large amount of crops on the cart will bear on the donkey, and the donkey will not be able to bear it.
However, you cannot blindly load the back half of the cart in order to reduce the load of the donkey. What is most likely to happen is that the donkey cart will be hoisted when it encounters an uphill slope.
If there are enough things loaded on the back of the donkey cart and the slope is steep enough, even the donkey pulling the cart in front can be hoisted together.
In addition, the left and right sides of the donkey cart must be as balanced as possible when loading.
Because if one side is installed concavely and the other side is installed protrudingly, the vehicle will easily overturn when encountering an unstable road.
Moreover, the protruding part may not reach the threshing floor and will completely collapse. In this case, the truck will need to be reloaded, which will be a big trouble!
Loading crops onto the truck is called "panning" in Han Cheng. Just the word "pan" tells you that this is not a casual thing, but a necessary skill for farmers.
Han Cheng is no stranger to these things, because when he was a child, during the wheat holiday in the summer, he would go to the fields with the adults at home to harvest wheat and load it into the truck.
Many times, in order to bring back more wheat in a cart, when the wheat is loaded to the level of the 'sheep's horn', he will be asked to go to the cart to pedal the cart, and at the same time he will be responsible for picking up the wheat with a wooden fork.
Lay them out layer by layer.
At that time, Han Cheng received a lot of training for this, but the more training he received, the more he was able to install the car slowly.
Today, Han Cheng decided to pass on the skills he learned through repeated training as a child.
After saying these words to those who needed to load the cart later, Han Cheng took a wooden fork and shoveled a pile of millet with poles, walked to the side of the donkey cart, and with a little force on his hand, Han Cheng, who was originally holding it flat,
The wooden fork spun half a circle in the air and was fastened to the donkey cart.
This method of buckling and loading the cart is not only easy to pick up when taking out the wooden fork, but will not take away the millet loaded on the cart, and it is also very dense, so the millet is not loose and can be loaded in large quantities.
The first fork Han Cheng buckled in the gap of more than 30 centimeters in front of the donkey cart, between the wooden cart side and the 'sheep's horn'.
The ears of grain face inward, and the stalks face outward, and are about half the length, protruding outside the cart, existing in the air.
On the one hand, the ears of grain face inward because if the ears of grain fall downward, they will fall on the car and not be wasted.
On the other hand, including the heavy ears of grain allows the stalks to protrude as much as possible from the car body, so that more grains can be loaded.
After the wooden fork was fastened, Han Cheng took the wooden fork and shoveled several wooden forks of millet in succession, and installed the gaps between the four front and rear sides of the donkey cart and the 'sheep's horn' until it was about
Stop after the sides of the car are even.
Then he put the shoveled millet into the middle of the car body.
The side of the donkey cart is not high, only about twenty centimeters. Without installing a few wooden forks on it, the grain inside the cart is already level with the side of the cart.
Seeing this, Han Cheng stopped loading the grain here, and began to shovel the grain on the side of the donkey cart. From front to back, just like at the beginning, the ears of grain were facing inward and buckled onto the cart.
After being buckled on, about half of the length of the grain pole also extends beyond the body.
This time, it was installed about twenty or thirty centimeters higher.
After installing one side, install the other side.
After both sides are installed, start installing the gap left in the middle.
When loading, it is also from front to back, but the wooden cross at the front needs to rest half diagonally on the 'sheep's horn' with the ear of the grain pointing upward.
After loading the middle one from front to back, repeat the previous action...
During the loading process, after loading the millet that is closest to the car, someone needs to lead the donkey forward. After the distance between the donkey and the pile of millet is shortened, it stops and continues to load the truck. This is not only faster, but also loading.
The people in the car were not that tired either.
After installing two layers in a row, Han Cheng asked the people around him to load the car in groups of two with wooden forks according to the method he just used.
There are two people, one on the left side of the donkey cart and one on the right side of the donkey cart. Then find a minor to stand in front and hold the reins on the donkey's head to keep it from moving. This completes the threesome of loading the cart.
When they stood there watching Han Cheng load the truck, everyone didn't think it was too difficult. They just used wooden forks to scoop up the millet and buckle it.
But when it is really your turn to install the car, you will find that various problems have arisen.
Either there is too much here, there is too little there, or there is a wooden fork that is buckled incorrectly, so that the ears of grain are facing outward...
Han Cheng acted as a technical guide, telling them how to make repairs and repairs, and also demonstrated with a wooden fork.
In this way, he was teaching and loading the carts at the same time. After all the donkey carts were loaded at the same level as the 'sheep's horn', Han Cheng called these people over and continued to watch him demonstrate how to load the donkey cart after surpassing the 'sheep's horn'.
, different from before...
"This last layer should not be installed on both sides, but must be installed on the top layer. Install it from front to back, with one wooden fork pressing against the other. In this way, the stubble can be pressed down, and the crops will not fall easily when the car moves forward.
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While loading the car, Han Cheng spoke to everyone and explained the key points.
After installing the last wooden fork, Han Cheng did not let anyone lead the donkey cart away.
At this time, the crops loaded on the truck have far exceeded the side of the truck, and they need to be 'braked' with ropes. Otherwise, they will not be able to go very far, and the crops that were loaded with great difficulty will be knocked over.
Han Cheng picked up the "brake rope" that had been prepared long ago and was as thick as a child's arm. One end was tied to the root of one side of the vehicle shaft. The remaining rope was spread out and swung over the roof of the vehicle filled with crops.
Under the body of the donkey cart, there are wooden pegs about five centimeters long, two centimeters thick, and three centimeters wide in front of the wheels and behind the wheels.
Han Cheng leaned over and mixed the swung brake rope onto the wooden bolt.
"You pull this end, and when I push hard later, you will push harder too!"
Han Cheng handed the long end of the rope to his senior brother who was standing aside to learn how to use this new tool to load the truck, and explained aloud at the same time.
Seeing that the senior brother understood what he meant, he held the rope that was wrapped around the roof of the car with both hands and pulled it down hard.
The grain stem was loose and not solid enough. As Han Cheng exerted more force, the rope immediately pressed against the grain stem and sank a lot deeper.
The senior brother also pulled hard in time according to Han Cheng's instructions, so the excess rope was pulled away by the senior brother.
Han Cheng pulled the rope down four or five times. When he saw that there was almost no more rope left and the grain in this section had been tightly tightened by the rope, he stopped.
"Hold on and don't let go. I'll let you go and let go again."
Han Cheng threw the remaining brake rope from the roof to the other side of the car and said to his senior brother.
After seeing the senior brother nod to indicate understanding, he then went to the other side of the car, also leaned down to hang the rope on the wooden bolt, and then tightened it hard, then asked the senior brother to let go and asked the senior brother to come over.
After Han Cheng handed the long rope in his hand to his senior brother, he continued to pull the rope downwards as hard as before.
As he exerted more force, the donkey cart swayed slightly from left to right.
The rest of the work is done in the same way. You only need to tie the last rope end to prevent it from loosening. Then the car can be considered to be completely braked.
Because the grains are loaded one on top of the other, so even though there are only a few ropes on the cart, as long as the ropes are not opened, the grains on the entire cart will not be scattered.
After Han Cheng gave a demonstration, he asked those watching around to imitate what he had just done, brake in pairs, while he walked around to give instructions.
Many things are like this. When you watch others do it, you feel very simple and easy, but when it comes to doing it yourself, it becomes more difficult.
For example, this seems very simple to brake with a rope.
Even though many people in the Qingque tribe are relatively proficient in binding methods under the influence of their great son of God, the process is not too smooth, and many people make some mistakes more or less.
After a long period of time, the twenty-three donkey carts used to pull grain for the first time were completely loaded.
The people who had installed the cars looked around and without too much comparison, they could see how different the car they and others had installed was from the car installed by Shenzi.
But despite this, these people were still very happy because the donkey cart was more than two meters high!
The Son of God said before that one donkey cart could carry five wheelbarrows of crops. At that time, I and others were already astonished.
Now it seems that this donkey cart can pull more than five wheelbarrows! The minimum one cart can carry more than six wheelbarrows!
It turns out that what the Son of God said before was all about modesty!
Wu and the other people involved in harvesting the crops were all looking at the twenty-three donkey carts loaded like hills, with their eyes shining brightly.
In the morning, everyone harvested the millet together. According to previous estimates, the people responsible for transporting it were enough to transport it in a wheelbarrow for an entire afternoon without even the slightest pause. But now, this is just one trip.
, just installed less than half of it!
Although they had long known that these donkey carts could be loaded, no one expected that they could be loaded in this way!
This...this is really a miracle!
At this moment, looking at this situation, Wu suddenly had the urge to tell this miraculous thing to the god who had never paid any attention to him.
However, he also understood that now was an important time for the autumn harvest, so he had no choice but to endure it.
"Let's go!"
Han Cheng led the front donkey cart that he loaded himself, shouted, led the donkey and the deer pulling the cart, lost its head in the field and walked towards the road first.
With the donkey cart, he rediscovered the feeling of harvesting wheat and loading the cart when he was a child. Therefore, although he was exhausted and sweating all over, his spirit was still very high.
The hometown that cannot be returned, the childhood that cannot be returned, are always so unforgettable, making people laugh or have red eyes to recall and miss...
"ha!"
There is a not too big slope between the land and the stone slabs. There is no problem in pulling an empty cart up there, but now it is not so easy to pull a cart full of crops.
When he was still twenty or thirty meters away from the slope, Han Chenggong, who was standing on the side of the carriage shaft, shouted, and at the same time reached out and slapped the donkey pulling the carriage, asking the donkey to speed up.
Then one person, one donkey and one deer began to trot, carrying the momentum, pulling the cart all the way up the dirt slope to the stone road without any bumps, which made Han Cheng very satisfied.
The people behind the donkey cart also followed suit. When they approached the dirt slope, they began to accelerate in advance. They also went up the dirt slope without much effort and came to the stone road, which had been cleared all the way.
Walk out to the threshing floor.
"One two, three! One two, three!"
Arrive at the threshing floor, lead the car to the predetermined place, and untie the brake rope that binds the millet.
Someone wanted to climb onto the donkey cart and use a wooden fork to lift the crops down, but Han Cheng stopped him.
Ask a minor who is following the cart to stand in front of the cart and hold the donkey to prevent it from moving away. Then, together with two adults, pull out the wooden fork whose handle is inserted into the crop cart and come to the side of the cart.
He raised the wooden fork in his hand diagonally upward and inserted it into the crops on the cart.
Then shouting simple chants, the three of them held the handles of the wooden forks and pushed the crops off the cart in a few clicks.
This is much faster than climbing on the car and picking the wood down one by one...
This year's Qingque tribe's autumn harvest, these twenty-three two-wheeled donkey carts have become the most eye-catching scenery.
When I first started to install the car, I thought it was quite complicated, but after installing it a few times, I gradually became able to master it.
With Han Cheng leading these people, giving demonstrations and teaching step by step, it took more than a day for this group of people who were responsible for loading trucks and transporting crops to learn this skill.
Although most of them are not up to Han Cheng's level, they are still usable...
On the threshing floor, the first grains to be harvested and transported were spread out to dry in the sun.
Someone who was assigned the task of hunting the field led the deer and the stone roller and began to spin it in circles.
Because the adult donkeys in the tribe are basically used to pull donkey carts to pull crops, so the task of hunting the field, which requires constant turning, still has to fall on these deer.
Because of these more than 20 donkey carts, the transportation of crops this year is not only fast, but also does not require so many manpower.
As a result, these saved manpower were invested in harvesting millet, thus promoting the increase in the speed of the entire autumn harvest.
The millet in Yanshan was also ripe, so Han Cheng sent some people to Yanshan to harvest.
The small courtyard in Yanshan has also been built. It is not big, with only a dozen houses and surrounding walls. It looks a bit like a courtyard.
It is too close to the main tribe of Qingque, so its scale is destined not to be too large.
However, a lot of the fields there have been opened up since the spring of this year, covering more than 200 acres.
It is too troublesome to haul this grain back and forth, so after harvesting it is processed there. When the time comes, you only need to transport the prepared millet back.
As cartloads of crops were transported to the threshing floor, and the newly threshed millet was dried and then transported to the granary, the entire Qingque tribe was immersed in joy.
However, this joy did not include Eldest Brother, the leader of the Qingque Tribe.
Faced with such a harvest, it cannot be said that the senior brother is not happy, but his joy is always mixed with some other things.
Especially when alone, a person sitting there seems worried and distracted.
In his free time after a busy day, what he did most was to find the vine shield he often used.
Either they sit there and fill some tree strips inside to rest, or they stand up and hold the vine shield in front of them and dance a few times, looking quite lonely and dull.
The entire tribe is now in the midst of the busyness and joy of the harvest, and few of them have noticed that something is not right with the eldest brother.
However, these people did not include Han Cheng.
Since that day when he and his senior brother had a brief discussion about the future of Vine Shield and Team Vine Shield, Han Chenggong noticed something was wrong with his senior brother's mood and has been paying attention to his behavior.
Seeing his senior brother's appearance, Han Cheng also felt a little silent and uncomfortable.
When people live in the world, they always have to face many things and make choices one after another.
Some decisions are easy to make, such as simple things like eating and dressing, or even which leg to step first, which are already commonplace.
But some choices are not so easy to make. The choice is always filled with various kinds of reluctance mixed with sadness...
The bright moon hung high in the night sky, pouring down the bright moonlight.
After a busy day, the Qingque tribe became quieter and quieter as the night deepened. Only the people responsible for the night watch walked quietly on the inner and outer walls with weapons in hand.
Along with the gusts of night wind, the fragrance of ripe millet comes...
"Bang~bang~bang..."
There were some moderate noises in the inner courtyard. People who had worked hard all day had already fallen into a deep sleep. Basically no one noticed the somewhat sudden noise.
Han Cheng, who was lying on the kang in the room, thinking about how to deal with the Vine Shield and the Vine Shield team without any clue. After being stunned for a moment, he quietly got up and came to the window... bdshare();
