Chapter 804 The first prodigal son of the Qingque tribe (three in one)
The weather was hot, the surrounding vegetation was motionless, and the leaves were wilted by the scorching sun.
In such weather, the road construction team of the Qingque tribe is still working hard.
Although we have avoided the peak of the sun, everyone is still sweating profusely while building roads in the sun.
Secondly, the sun was too hot. The most uncomfortable thing was that the weather was so hot and muggy that it was almost breathless.
Many men choose to go bare-backed, and some bolder women also unbutton the front of their clothes.
It's just that the weather is too hot and muggy. Even if you wear as few clothes as possible, the sweat on your body is still flowing out. There are circles of white marks on everyone's clothes.
This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that many of the people building the roads have become unable to eat.
It was under such circumstances that several two-wheeled donkey carts drove towards this side along the already built road.
There was also a blue bird flag on the donkey cart at the front.
"The tribe is coming! The tribe is coming!"
Even in such weather, after seeing the fluttering blue bird flag and the people driving donkey carts, the road builders couldn't help but cheer.
"The Son of God knew that you were too hot to eat, so he asked us to bring you delicious food!"
As soon as the driver met the road builders who were cheering and cheering, he announced the good news with joy on his face.
As soon as these words were spoken, everyone who was already a little excited became even more excited.
"What delicious food? We're so hot that we don't even want to eat..."
Someone asked.
"We'll find out later. I'm sure you won't get enough of this kind of food!"
The person who came had a mysterious face and spoke proudly, and he actually pretended to be a bit secretive.
Then he began to carry the things pulled by the donkey cart down.
The first thing to be carried down was a set of stone mills.
This kind of stone mill is different from the stone mill originally made by the tribe. The bottom stone mill and the surrounding gully used to collect ground soy milk and other things are made from the same granite.
Such stone mills are easy to move.
After the stone mill was moved down, the two tanks were filled with peas that had been soaked in water since the start.
There are also three bags of dried peas and some other food.
Several people found stones and other things, set up a platform under the shade of a tree on the roadside, and then placed the movable stone mill on it. After placing it firmly, they began to scoop the soaked peas into the grinding eye.
Inside, start grinding the peas in circles.
The people in the road construction team were looking expectantly at this side while building the road, waiting for the appearance of this new food sent by the Son of God...
“Delicious! Delicious!”
"Is there more? One more bowl..."
When the jelly was made, someone used a bronze scraper to scrape it into the basin, mixed it, and announced it was ready to eat. The open-air canteen suddenly heard the sound of people drinking jelly. In this sound
, mixed with people's vague admiration.
The people from the tribe were right, this is indeed a good food that can make people appetite in such weather!
"Hiccup~"
After Big Foot burped, he licked the corners of his mouth again. After drinking three bowls of jelly, he felt that all the pores on his body were comfortable.
Looking at the bags of peas packed in animal skin bags, Bigfoot looked a little regretful and shook his head.
Bigfoot is a slave from a semi-agricultural tribe. He is shaking his head at this moment not because he thinks the jelly made from peas is not delicious, but because he thinks of what happened before.
Before his original tribe was broken up, the current tribe did not have this kind of food called peas by the Son of God.
However, after the peas arrived in this tribe, under the leadership of the Son of God, not only did they grow better than in their tribe, but they also used them to create such delicious food!
Even though he saw with his own eyes how the people in the tribe used peas to make delicious and appetizing jelly that people couldn't get enough of, Bigfoot still couldn't believe it.
You must know that their tribe has owned and cultivated this kind of food for many years, and there is no other way to eat it except adding water to the pot and boiling it.
But today's tribe uses it to make jelly that is not only beautiful, but also delicious...
Not only this person had such an idea, but the rest of the original semi-agricultural tribes were basically the same at this time.
Comparing these two situations, what emerged was not only the idea that the original tribe was far inferior to the current tribe, but also a greater respect for the Son of God, and a greater identification with the current tribe...
After eating the delicious and refreshing jelly, these road construction team members took a short rest and then began to continue building the road with great enthusiasm.
The Son of God did not forget them. He prepared delicious food and even had people pull it from the tribe on a donkey cart such a long distance to cook it specially for them.
Under such circumstances, what reason do they have for not building roads properly?
The dull weather cannot stop everyone from working hard to build roads...
Within the Qingque Tribe, Han Cheng's mood was not happy for a long time after the jelly, a good summer food, was brought out, and then he was affected again.
It's not because the jelly lacks various seasonings and lacks flavor, but because there is a problem with the rattan armor in the tribe!
Of course, there is nothing to say about Lai's craftsmanship. The other people in the tribe who learned crafts from Lai have also not learned the 'noble' quality of cutting corners.
The quality problems of the rattan armor in the tribe have nothing to do with their craftsmanship, but problems with their later maintenance.
The rattan armor is different from the rattan shield in the tribe. The rattan shield is usually only held during training or a few times when going out to fight. However, when the road construction team starts to build the road, the rattan armor basically follows the regulations.
Everyone has to wear it.
This is an order issued by Han Cheng in order to prevent unexpected events during road construction.
Naturally, the people in the tribe obeyed Han Cheng's orders, and almost no one took them off except when the heat was unbearable.
After being exposed to the wind and sun all day long, as well as being exposed to dew from time to time, these rattan armors, which are often worn by people, gradually develop problems.
Compared with when they were newly weaved, these rattan armors have begun to slowly fade.
This is not the most serious place. The most serious place is the edge of the vine armor.
When weaving rattan armor with rattan, the edges need to be folded in half to a large extent.
During this process, many canes will be twisted and cracked.
The cracked rattan not only loses the protection of the bark, but also is divided into several parts. The strength and toughness will not be affected on weekdays, but the ability to resist corrosion is greatly weakened.
In the summer, due to the wind and sun, coupled with the humidity of the air and the infiltration of sweat, these places are easily corroded.
Looking at the edges of the pair of vines in his hand, there were already two vines that had deteriorated and broke off after a few hard presses with his fingernails. Han Cheng's eyebrows were slightly raised.
Limping aside, he said that he could repair the damaged rattan armor.
Han Cheng shook his head and did not agree.
Han Cheng knew how to repair the rattan armor, which was to pull out part of the broken rattan and replace it with a new one.
This kind of rattan that was filled in later is naturally not as strong as the previous kind of rattan that was directly braided in.
The reason for this is secondary. The most important reason is that Han Cheng feels that doing so is too troublesome.
The service life of rattan armor is too short. Quality problems will appear within half a year, and various repairs will be needed later. This feeling is really bad.
If quality problems occurred in the past two or three years, this would still be within Han Cheng's acceptance range, but now it only takes half a year...
The number of rattan armors in the tribe will eventually grow to hundreds. If we don't find a way to fundamentally solve the problem, we will have more troubles later on. We will almost have to arrange special people to repair the rattan armors...
Han Cheng knew how to make rattan armor stronger and more corrosion-resistant, because in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mr. Kong Ming wrote about it when he burned the Nanman rattan armor army.
That is to soak the woven rattan nails in oil and then dry them. After they are dry, continue soaking and then dry them.
The rattan armor made in this way will become extremely tough and can withstand cuts with knives and axes, and it will not be exposed to rain, because when water falls on it, it will turn into water droplets and slide to the ground, which is basically useless.
Can't adsorb
Moreover, the buoyancy of the rattan armor produced by this method is not small, and it can be used as a life jacket at critical moments.
The only drawback is that I am afraid of fire.
However, it is not easy to burn the Tengjia Army with fire. You need to force the Tengjia Army into a desperate situation first.
From this aspect, this kind of rattan armor is indeed very suitable for the current Qingque tribe.
However, just knowing the method will not work, because there is no oil in the tribe.
If there was oil, Han Chenggong would have already started processing the rattan armor when it was produced.
The oil used to soak the rattan beetles is not ordinary cooking oil, but tung oil.
Tung oil is squeezed from the fruits of the tung oil tree. Even in later generations, it is still an important industrial oil.
In the past few years, the Qingque tribe and other tribes have been using new seeds and stones to exchange for salt and pottery. However, Han Cheng did not find any trace of tung oil eggs in these fruits.
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Han Cheng was no stranger to tung oil trees and their fruit ‘tung oil eggs’, because they had planted tung oil trees more than once on the hilly land there.
However, most of the tung oil trees have not grown yet.
Because in less than two years, these trees will be cut down and the rest will be replanted.
In Han Cheng's impression, gardenia trees, tung oil trees, jujube trees, pear trees, and chestnut trees were planted one after another.
Want to try it without fat oil?
Without tung oil, Han Cheng could only focus on fatty oil.
Although I knew that it would probably not work, but since I couldn't get tung oil, I had no choice but to give it a try.
After all, fat oil also has the word "oil" in it. If it becomes successful, wouldn't it be wonderful?
So, next, Han Dashenzi did something that made many people in the tribe feel distressed, that is, he used a brush made of wild boar hairs to apply semi-solidified fat oil to the vine armor over and over again.
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After asking Shenzi, I found out that this was done to make the rattan armor stronger and more durable.
The second senior brother stared at the grease-covered rattan armor and couldn't help but swallow his saliva.
The second senior brother didn't really believe what Shenzi said that applying grease might make the rattan armor stronger, because he thought he could eat the greasy rattan armor!
Han Cheng stopped brushing grease on the vine nails and then drying them in the sun for a few days.
This is not only because the effect is not good, but also because it is very easy to attract flies. More importantly, it consumes a lot of grease!
Animal fat oil is the only edible oil in the tribe and has a high status in the tribe.
If you want to obtain fatty oil, you must kill the animals, and then put the fattened parts into a clay pot for refining.
But at this time, the Qingque tribe did not yet have the ability to feed all kinds of animals to grow pigs. Often, after slaughtering an animal, they would not get much oil.
In addition to being used for eating, these fatty oils also have another use, that is, after being boiled and mixed with plant ash, they are used to make soap.
This also consumes a lot of fat and oil.
Under such circumstances, even if the fatty oil really has a good effect on the vine armor, Han Cheng cannot choose to use it too much to brush the vine armor, because this is too wasteful!
He is simply the most prodigal son of the Qingque Tribe!
Under such circumstances, it would be more cost-effective to directly arrange for a person to specialize in weaving and repairing rattan armor.
After struggling like this for a while, we came back to the starting point. The damaged rattan armor was left to be repaired by Lame. This made Han Cheng quite depressed.
But depression is depression. Under such circumstances, Han Cheng has no other way to think about except being depressed. He can only continue to be depressed until he is no longer depressed...
While Han Cheng was feeling depressed about soaking the rattan armor in oil, something happened to the Qingque Tribe road construction team working at the front!
A light autumn rain fell, and the autumn tiger that continued to show off its power was driven away.
The saying that one autumn rain brings another cold is absolutely true.
The weather, which was very hot before, suddenly became cooler after the autumn rain fell.
This makes those who are building the road ahead often breathe a sigh of relief and feel happy all over.
The autumn rain was falling steadily, and the road construction work could not be carried out for the time being. The tired road construction team ushered in a rare leisure time.
Most of the people from the road construction team stayed in the semi-burrowed round houses that were temporarily built as work sheds, taking advantage of this rare opportunity to catch up on their sleep and give their tired bodies a good rest.
But there is always a shortage of energetic people in this world, as is the case with Bigfoot and the other two people.
While the others were resting, they wore raincoats and bamboo hats and walked out of the temporary work shed together.
Autumn has arrived, and many fruits are already ripe. Some fruits are sour and sweet and are very delicious. Bigfoot and the others are going on this trip just to find some fruits to eat.
Humans are omnivores. If they only eat one kind of food, they will become tired of it over time and want to find other foods to change their taste.
One of the people who went out with Bigfoot was a slave of the semi-peasant tribe, and the other was a citizen of the Qingque tribe.
Unlike the general tense opposition between slave owners and the slave class, under Han Cheng's conscious adjustment, this opposition between the Qingque tribe was not obvious.
On the contrary, the relationship between the two classes is quite harmonious.
This can be seen when a citizen, two slaves, and three people go looking for fruit together.
However, these three people were not very lucky today, because there were not many fruit trees growing around this temporary residence.
They searched for a long time, but could not find a few, and even a small bag was not full.
Under such circumstances, the three Bigfoots began to move away from their residence...
"go back!"
After walking further forward and searching for a while, there was still not much gained. The citizen of the Qingque tribe looked back and saw that the shadow of the temporary residence could no longer be seen among the layers.
This man recalled the distance he and others had traveled, and then looked at the surrounding environment, and suddenly he felt a sense of fear.
Immediately, he called out to the two people to follow him back and stop looking for any more fruit.
As soon as he finished speaking, Bigfoot, who was walking in front on the left, shouted in surprise.
"Fruits! Fruits! Lots of them!"
He held a small tree with one hand and pointed to the sunken place in front with the other. He turned his head and shouted at the citizen of the Qingque Tribe and another slave, full of surprise.
The two people who had already wanted to go back temporarily gave up the idea of going back after hearing Bigfoot's cry.
After all, they came out this time, but they didn't gain much, which made people feel a little unhappy.
When I heard that there were so many fruits appearing in front of me, I naturally wanted to go and have a look.
The two of them came to Bigfoot one after the other and stretched their heads to look forward.
Here is a relatively steep slope, covered with fallen leaves and grass, with many dark brown round fruits falling.
He's not small, bigger than a four-year-old's fist.
Moreover, many of the fruits that fell to the ground have cracked, and the exposed kernels are very similar to chestnuts that have taken off their thorny shells.
Seeing this scene, the two people who rushed over suddenly became excited!
The fruit inside this fruit looks similar to chestnut, so the taste should be similar.
Chestnuts, acorns, pecans, etc. are the foods that people of this era like to collect and store in autumn.
Because these foods are very shelf-stable, not only delicious, but also very filling.
Seeing so many chestnut-like fruits at once, it would be strange if they weren't excited!
At that moment, the three people pulled the tree down the not too steep slope, and happily picked up the fruit in the bag they carried.
It didn't take long to fill the three bags I was carrying.
Without the bags to hold things in, the three of them could only stand here looking at the many fruits with regret.
After resting like this for a while, Bigfoot found a stone, picked up a fruit from the ground and smashed it open.
After breaking it open, put it in your mouth.
"Don't eat it!"
This citizen of the Qingque tribe opened his mouth and stopped him.
On the one hand, when collecting food in the tribe, most of them follow the principle of handing over the food and then redistributing it. Eating food privately during the process of obtaining food is generally not allowed.
On the other hand, the fruit discovered today is something they have never seen before. Although it is very similar to chestnut, it is not a real chestnut.
Faced with this kind of food that you have never eaten before, it is best not to eat it easily.
This is the understanding that the people in the tribe gained at the cost of their lives in the past. After being strengthened by Han Cheng, it has become stronger.
I used to eat big chestnuts a lot. I put them in the fire and burned them very noodles, which made them even more delicious.
He felt that there would be no danger in eating this fruit that looked very similar to chestnuts.
But after hearing the stop, I thought about it and still didn’t eat it.
A few people stayed here for a while, carrying these fruits, excitedly climbed the slope that was not too steep, and then headed all the way towards the temporary residential area...
"so much?!"
Just as Bigfoot and the others thought, when the three of them returned to the temporary residential area carrying so many fruits, the three bags full of fruits immediately attracted the attention of many people.
Even many people who were sleeping stopped sleeping. They asked Bigfoot where they picked up so many fruits and whether there were many fruits there. They planned to go there and pick them up too.
When everyone was extremely excited, the citizen of the Qingque tribe who followed said that they had never eaten this kind of fruit before.
The person who led the road construction team to build the road here was the original leader of the Green Tribe, Gu. After hearing about this, he took a closer look at the many fruits and found that the fruits looked similar to chestnuts.
Like, but definitely not chestnut.
Of course, this new food cannot be directly eaten on a large scale. Someone needs to try it out.
As soon as he expressed his intention, his big feet jumped out and patted his chest to express his willingness to try it.
This is partly because he stubbornly believes that this fruit that looks very similar to chestnuts will be as delicious as chestnuts. Even if it is not as delicious as chestnuts, it will not be poisonous.
On the other hand, Bigfoot wants to contribute to the tribe as soon as possible and then become a citizen of the tribe.
Not long after joining the tribe, the ceremony he watched, in which the Son of God personally presided over the release of slave status and the granting of citizenship cards, left a deep impression on him.
And the longer he lives in the tribe, the more he recognizes the Qingque Tribe, and the more he wants to join the Qingque Tribe, become a citizen of the tribe, and bring his ID card with you in person!
With such a fearless person willing to try the food, Gu certainly agreed. However, before Bigfoot could try the food, under the prompts of the old man from the Qingque Tribe, someone prepared something tasty outside...
