Chapter 800 The Sad Elder Brother

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As the number one carpenter and weaver of the Qingque Tribe, there is nothing to say about lame craftsmanship and comprehension ability.

Compared with hard hats, helmets are much more complicated to weave, but Han Cheng used language to guide them. After more than two days of exploration, the Qingque tribe's first helmet with certain defensive capabilities, Still appeared in lame hands.

This kind of helmet covers more places. It doesn't only cover the top of the head like a hard hat, but also covers all the places on the back of the head.

After all, this helmet is prepared for those who keep up with the battlefield, and on the battlefield, it is not surprising to be attacked anywhere, unlike mining, as long as it protects against falling objects.

After another experience of being hit on the head with a bronze hammer, it was confirmed that an improved version of the rattan helmet with considerable defensive capabilities began to be mass-produced.

Looking at some armors woven by the lame group, Han Cheng suddenly had the idea of ​​showing Hei Wa and the second senior brother to try to cast some bronze helmets in their free time.

Wearing such a helmet can not only be used to resist the enemy's attack, but when you can't find anything like a pot for cooking, 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 without oil...

It is a helmet made of bronze, which is a bit too heavy. Wearing it may not only make the top of the head bald, but also make people uncomfortable, requiring a long time of running-in...

There is no rush to do this matter. Judging from the current situation, simple rattan armor and rattan helmet are enough.

Regarding the equipment or types of troops in the tribe, there is another more important thing that Han Cheng needs to consider.

This is the Vine Shield team.

With rattan armor and helmets, and after everyone in the tribe equipped them, the rattan shield team headed by the senior brother seemed a little weak.

After all, there is no need to rely on the defense of the big brothers. The Changge team and the bow and arrow team wearing these equipment can also resist some attacks from the enemy.

In the same way, the eldest brother who wore rattan armor and a rattan helmet, and carried a big rattan shield in their hands, also seemed redundant.

After all, rattan shields are relatively bulky, and they are mainly used for defense, but they are far inferior to bronze spears, bows and arrows, and slings in terms of offense.

The more Han Cheng sat here and thought about it, the more he felt that the Rattan Shield team was too weak now.

After thinking about it for a while, the elder brother just happened to walk in from the outside.

When Han Cheng saw the big brother coming in, he stopped him and told him about the rattan shield.

Although Han Cheng's words were more tactful, after understanding what Han Cheng meant, the elder brother remained silent.

After all, he has used the rattan shield for several years, and he has already fallen in love with it.

At this time, after hearing Han Cheng talk about the embarrassing situation of the rattan shield, and Han Cheng's idea of ​​abolishing the rattan shield team and incorporating it into other arms, it would be strange if the senior brother was not silent.

In fact, after the appearance of the rattan armor, the elder brother knew something about the embarrassment of the rattan shield, earlier than Han Cheng thought about it.

It's just because he has used this weapon well and doesn't want to change it, so he hasn't said anything.

But a heart hangs there after all, worrying that Shenzi or Wu will reorganize the Fujishield team after discovering this problem.

Such fears have finally become a reality today...

Seeing his gloomy expression and standing there not knowing what to say, Han Cheng also felt uncomfortable.

This somewhat means that the Seventh Steel Company was reorganized in "Soldier Assault", and the members of the entire company were either retired, or were incorporated into other companies in batches.

As the person whose eyes were red from crying while sitting by the TV, Han Cheng can certainly understand the mood of the elder brother at the moment.

"Let's talk about this matter later, I just have an idea now, this matter is not certain.

And the autumn harvest is coming soon, even if you want to make changes, you need to wait until after the autumn harvest, and it will take a long time.

After such a long time, it is not impossible to find a way to get the best of both worlds..."

Han Cheng comforted the elder brother with a voice.

"Um."

The elder brother nodded dully, and then left, his whole person looked a little heavy.

Looking at the way the elder brother left, Han Cheng's heart also became heavy.

I even regretted saying these things to my elder brother...

Time passed quietly as the ears of corn became fuller and humbled day by day.

All the people who went out to build the Bronze Expressway were taken back. Looking at the large, large pieces of millet with their heads bowed, they were full of expectations.

In the threshing floor, someone is holding a copper shovel in his hand to clean up some weeds growing on it.

Some people lead donkeys or deer, and pull stone rollers around the threshing floor.

Behind the roller frame is tied a cluster of ‘栳子’ made of twigs with leaves, and some copper shovels and some moist soil are buckled on it to increase the weight...

The carpenter's room also stopped weaving helmets, and Limp and a few others began to repair sickles, wheelbarrows and other things here.

Some people cut off bamboo poles as thick as little fingers, and tie them together densely. After making the shape, they roast it on the lit fire to remove the bamboo leaves and help them shape. .

Then they landed in groups of five and pressed down with a heavy stone slab.

After taking it out after a few days, the upper part of these bamboo brooms not only became fine and dense, but also flattened, and a bamboo broom that is very suitable for "plundering" and cleaning the raised grain was successful. manufactured.

In the shade of the tribe, many men squatted there, picked up some water from the earthen basin and poured it on the fine and smooth whetstone, and then held the sickle with both hands, rubbing it back and forth on the whetstone.

After rubbing for a while, I will stop and try the blade lightly with my fingers...

The women in the tribe have been busy preparing food these days, preparing to make a sumptuous sickle feast.

After all, once the autumn harvest starts, the whole tribe will be busy, and there will be no time or energy to make these foods.

The deer and donkeys in the tribe can get some bean dregs when they are eating grass recently...

In the field, Han Cheng, Wu, and several people in the tribe who often tended the crops searched the millet field together, inspecting the first batch of millet planted.

From time to time, they would grab a few ears of millet and rub them in their hands, put the grains into the mouth, and bite them with their teeth to judge the maturity of the millet.

This is a very testing thing.

Millet takes several months from planting to harvesting.

In the few months, the most important thing is the last few days, because this is the critical time for Guzi to "grow benevolence".

At this time, if the harvest is early, the yield of the same mu of land will be reduced a lot, and the grains pounded out by the time will not be full and round enough.

But it can't be harvested too late. If the harvest is too late, once the weather is not good, the large amount of grain will not be harvested.

"It's ok, the stubble of millet will be harvested tomorrow, and the harvest should start from the west end."

After summarizing the opinions of several people and combining his own feelings, Han Cheng finally nodded and clarified the time to harvest the millet.

The reason for harvesting from west to east is because the terrain in the west is relatively high, and the moisture in the field 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.

Those who had been preparing for a few days began to wash all kinds of food and put them in the pot. The smell of the food, mixed with the joy of everyone, spread throughout the tribe...

The next day was bright, and those who ate the scythe feast yesterday and had a good night's sleep had already gotten up, carrying sickles and other tools, talking and laughing with each other and leaving the tribe, heading towards the mature crop fields...

"Open the scythe!"

Han Cheng cut off the first handful of millet, held it up high, and shouted at the crowd, the crowd standing on the ground holding the sickle and getting ready bent down one after another, holding the mature millet in one hand, and the other The sickle in one hand stretched towards the root of the millet, and then quickly pulled it back, and a handful of millet was cut off.

As the morning wind blew, many millet surged with the wind in a golden wave. The rustling sound of the ears and leaves colliding with each other and the sound of the sickle cutting the millet mixed together, playing a wonderful movement...

There are many people and strength, and by the afternoon, a large area of ​​millet has been harvested.

So some men stopped harvesting millet, went back to the tribe, put on a donkey cart, led the donkey with two wheels, rolled over the stone road all the way, and then drove into the field along the cleared land.

The donkey cart is different from the ones seen before, it is no longer a bare cart, but in the holes left before and after the donkey cart, a "crown horn" in the shape of a "field" is placed on each of them.

It is not very accurate to say that it is a matt shape. The borders on both sides of the matt shape go out from top to bottom.

The lower part is good for putting into the hole left on the donkey cart, and the upper part is to block more crops on it.

The reason why this tool is called "claws" is because the two tools that are tilted outwards are inserted into the donkey cart one after the other. When viewed from the side, they look like the ones on the top of the sheep's head. Two inverted 'eight' shaped horns.

With these two tools one after the other to block the donkey cart horizontally, a lot of crops can be loaded on the donkey cart.

Otherwise, it's just a bare donkey cart, which can't hold much stuff, and it can't hold it anymore.

"Put both ends first!"

After the donkey cart entered the harvested millet field, someone loaded the donkey cart with the harvested millet, but Han Cheng stopped it.

This kind of two-wheeled donkey cart is loaded with a lot of attention, and it can no longer be installed casually like a wheelbarrow.

First of all, the donkey cart has limited space. If it is not well loaded, the biggest possibility is that there is not much loading, and the cart is already full.

The crops that such a cart can pull, two carts are not worth one cart.

In this regard, it is noticed that after the layers are arranged, there are still many places that need to be paid attention to.

That is to try to balance the car.

If there is too much load in the front, the weight of the donkey cart and a large amount of crops on the cart will be on the donkey, and the donkey cannot bear it.

But you can’t blindly load the donkey on the back half of the car in order to reduce the load of the donkey. The most likely thing that will happen in this way is that the donkey cart will be hoisted when it encounters an uphill slope.

If there are enough things in the back of the donkey cart and the slope is big enough, even the donkey pulling the cart in front can be hoisted together.

In addition, when the left and right sides of the donkey cart are loaded, they should be as balanced as possible.

Because if one side is concave and the other side is protruding, it is easy to overturn when encountering an unstable road.

Moreover, the protruding part is very likely to fail to reach the threshing ground, and it will collapse completely. In this case, the car needs to be reloaded, and that will be a big trouble!

Loading crops on the car is called "turning the car" in Han Cheng's place. Just the word "turning" can tell that this is not a casual thing, but a necessary skill for a farmer.

Han Cheng is not unfamiliar with these things at all, because when he was a child, he would go to the field to collect wheat and load cars with the adults in his family when the "wheat holiday" came in summer.

Many times, in order to bring back more wheat for one cart, when the wheat is loaded to the same level as the 'horns', he will be asked to step on the cart, and at the same time be responsible for buckling up the wheat that adults use wooden forks Spread out layer by layer.

At that time, Han Cheng was often trained for this, but after receiving more training, he was able to install the car slowly.

Today, Han Cheng decided to pass on the skills he learned from training in childhood.

After saying this to those who need to load their carts later, Han Cheng, who was shoveling up a pile of grains with poles with a wooden fork, walked to the side of the donkey cart, exerting a little force on his hands, The wooden fork turned half a circle in the air and was buckled on the donkey cart.

This method of buckling and loading the cart is not only easy to pick up when picking up the wooden fork, but also will not take away the grains loaded on the cart, and it is also very dense, so that the grains are not loose and can be packed more.

The first fork, Han Cheng, was caught in the gap of more than 30 centimeters between the front of the donkey cart, the side of the wooden cart and the 'claw'.

The ear of grain faces inward, the stem of grain faces outward, and has about half the length, protruding from the outside of the car, and exists in the air.

The ear of grain faces inward, on the one hand, because if the ear of grain falls down, it will fall on the car and will not be wasted.

On the other hand, including the heavy grain ear, the grain stem can protrude as much as possible from the vehicle body, so that more grain can be loaded.

After the wooden fork was fastened, Han Cheng took the wooden fork again, shoveled a few wooden forks and grains in succession, and installed the space between the front, rear, left, and right sides of the donkey cart and the 'horns' until about the same Only after the side of the car was leveled did he stop.

Then put the shoveled millet into the middle of the car body.

The side of the donkey cart is not high, only about 20 centimeters. Without a few wooden forks on it, the grain inside the car body is already level with the side of the cart.

Seeing this, Han Cheng stopped loading the grain here, and started to shovel the grain to the side of the donkey cart. From front to back, as in the beginning, the ears of grain were buckled on the cart.

After buckling up, the grain pole also has about half of the length beyond the body.

This time, about 20 to 30 centimeters were installed upwards.

After one side is installed, go to install the other side.

After both sides are installed, start to install the gap left in the middle.

When loading, it is also from the front to the back, but the wooden fork in the front needs to lean on the "horns" with the ear of the grain facing upwards.

After installing a round from front to back in the middle, then repeat the previous action...

During the loading process, after the grain close to the vehicle is loaded, people need to lead the donkey forward. After the distance between the donkey and the grain pile is shortened, it stops and continues to load the vehicle. This is not only fast, but also easy to load. The people in the car are not as tired.

After installing two layers in a row, Han Cheng asked the people who followed him to carry wooden forks and go in groups of two to load the car according to the method he had just done.

One of the two people is on the left side of the donkey cart, and the other is on the right side of the donkey cart. Then find a minor to stand in front and hold the rein on the donkey's head to keep it from moving, and the three-person loading team is formed.

When standing there watching Han Cheng loading the car, everyone didn't think it was too difficult, just shoveled up the grain with a wooden fork and buckled it up.

But when it's really your turn to load the car yourself, you will find that various problems have emerged.

Either there is too much here, or there is not enough there, and a wooden fork is wrongly buckled, and the ear of grain is placed outward...

Han Cheng acted as a technical guide, telling them how to repair and remedy, and at the same time holding a wooden fork to demonstrate.

In this way, while teaching, while loading the carts, after all the donkey carts are loaded to the same level as the 'croiss', Han Cheng called these people, and continued to watch him demonstrate how to load them up after surpassing the 'crown' , which is different from before...

"For the last layer, don't install it on both sides. It must be installed on the top layer. Install it from front to back. One wooden fork is pressed against the other. In this way, the stubble can be pressed, and the crops are not easy to fall when the car is moving forward. !"

While loading the car, Han Cheng opened his mouth to explain the key points to everyone.

After installing the last wooden fork, Han Cheng didn't let anyone lead the donkey cart away.

At this time, the crops loaded on the cart have far exceeded the side of the cart, and they need to be 'braked' with a rope, otherwise they won't be able to go very far, and the crops that have been loaded with great difficulty will be knocked over.

Han Cheng picked up the 'brake rope' that had been prepared a long time ago, which was as thick as a child's arm, and tied one end to the root of one side of the shaft.

Under the body of the donkey cart, there is a wooden peg about five centimeters long, two centimeters thick and three centimeters wide in front of the wheel and behind the wheel.

Han Cheng leaned over and mixed the thrown brake rope on the wooden peg.

"You pull this end, and when I exert force later, you will also exert force!"

Han Cheng handed the long end of the rope to the elder brother who was standing aside to learn how to use this new tool to load the car, and at the same time explained aloud.

Seeing that the elder brother understood what he meant, he held the rope that had come around from the roof of the car with both hands and pulled it down vigorously.

The grain pole was loose and not solid enough. With Han Cheng's force, the rope immediately pressed down on the grain pole and sank a lot.

The elder brother also pulled hard at the right time according to Han Cheng's instructions, so the extra rope was pulled away by the elder brother.

Han Cheng pulled the rope and pulled it down four or five times. Seeing that there was basically no more rope left, and the grain of rice had been firmly tightened by the rope, he stopped.

"You hold on and don't let go, I will let you loose and you will let go."

After Han Cheng threw the remaining brake rope from the roof to the other side of the car again, he said to the elder brother.

Seeing that the senior brother nodded to show that he understood, he went to the other side of the car, bent down and hung the rope on the peg, and then tightened it tightly, and then made a sound to let the senior brother let go, and let the senior brother come over.

After Han Cheng handed over the long rope in his hand to the elder brother, he continued to pull the rope down hard as before.

With his exertion, the donkey cart shook slightly from left to right.

The rest of the things are done in the same way, only need to tie the end of the rope well, don't let it loose, then the car can be regarded as completely braked.

Because these grains are packed one after the other, so even though there are only a few ropes, as long as the ropes are not opened, the grains on the whole car will not be scattered.

After Han Cheng made a demonstration, he asked the people watching around to imitate what he did just now, and brake in groups of two, while he turned around to give instructions.

This is the case with many things. When you watch others do it, you feel very simple and easy, but when it comes to doing it yourself, it is more difficult.

For example, this looks extremely simple to brake with a rope.

Even though many people in the Qingque Tribe are relatively proficient in the binding method under the influence of their great son of God, but the process is not too smooth, and many people have more or less made some mistakes.

After a long while like this, the twenty-three donkey carts that were pulling the grain for the first time were completely loaded.

The people who installed the car looked around, and without too much comparison, they could see the difference between the car they installed and the car that Shenzi installed.

Even so, these people were very happy, because the donkey cart was over two meters high!

The Son of God said before that one donkey cart can hold five wheelbarrows worth of crops. At that time, I and others were already surprised.

Now it seems that this donkey cart is pulled by more than five wheelbarrows! The least one cart can hold more than six wheelbarrows!

It turns out that what the Son of God said before was all about being humble!

Wu, and the rest of the people involved in harvesting the crops are looking at the twenty-three donkey carts that are loaded like hills, and their eyes are shining.

In the morning, the millet harvested by everyone together, according to previous estimates, is enough for the people in charge of transporting it in a wheelbarrow for an entire afternoon. , Just installed a small half of it!

Although they had known for a long time that these donkey carts could be loaded, everyone did not expect that they could be loaded like this!

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 gods who had never paid any attention to him.

But he also understands that now is an important time for the autumn harvest, so he has no choice but to hold back.

"gone!"

Han Cheng led the front donkey cart that he loaded himself, yelled, led the donkey and the deer pulling the cart, turned around in the field and walked towards the road first.

With the donkey cart, today he regained the feeling of harvesting wheat in the fields and loading carts when he was a child. Therefore, even though he was sweating from exhaustion, he was still very energetic.

The hometown that I can’t go back, the childhood that I can’t go back, are always so unforgettable, people laugh or have red eyes to recall, to miss...

"what!"

There was a not-so-big slope between the land and the stone slab, so it was no problem to pull an empty cart up there, but it was not so easy to pull a cart full of crops now.

When there were still 20 to 30 meters away from the slope, Han Chengcheng, who was standing on the side of the chariot, yelled, and at the same time reached out and slapped the donkey pulling the cart to speed up the donkey.

Then one person, one donkey and one deer began to trot. With momentum, they pulled the cart all the way up the dirt slope to the stone road, without any knocking, which made Han Cheng very satisfied.

The people behind the donkey cart also followed suit. When they approached the dirt slope, they started to speed up ahead of time. They also went up the dirt slope without much effort and came to the stone road. Walk out to the threshing floor.

"One two, three! One two, three!"

When they came to the threshing ground, they took the car to the previously scheduled place and untied the brake rope that bound the grain.

Someone wanted to climb onto the donkey cart and use a wooden fork to pick up the crops above, but Han Cheng called to stop him.

Ask a minor following the cart to stand in front of the cart and hold the donkey to prevent it from leaving. Then, together with two adults, they pull out the wooden fork with the handle inserted into the crop cart and come to the side of the cart.

Lift the wooden fork in the hand towards the diagonal upwards, and insert it on the crops on the cart.

Then chanting a simple chant, the three of them held the handle of the wooden fork and pushed the crops off the cart in two or three strokes.

This is much faster than climbing onto the cart and picking one wooden fork down the other...

This year's Qingque Tribe's autumn harvest, these twenty-three two-wheeled donkey carts have become the most eye-catching scenery.

It was quite complicated when I started to get in touch with the car, but after installing it a few times, I can gradually master it.

It took more than a day for Han Cheng to lead these people to demonstrate and teach them hand in hand. This group of people who are responsible for loading and transporting crops have already learned this skill.

Although most of them are not up to Han Cheng's level, they are already usable...

On the threshing floor, the millet that was first harvested and transported was spread out to dry and dried.

Some people who had been assigned the task of playing the field led the deer and the stone roller and began to spin it around in circles.

Because the adult donkeys in the tribe are basically used to pull the donkey carts to pull crops out, so the thing that needs to be constantly turned around in the field still falls on these deer.

Because of these more than 20 donkey carts, the delivery of crops this year is not only fast, but also does not require so many people.

As a result, these saved manpower were invested in the harvest of millet, thus promoting the improvement of the entire autumn harvest speed.

The millet at Yanshan was also ripe, and Han Cheng sent some people to Yanshan to harvest it.

The small courtyard in Yanshan has also been built, it is not big, only a dozen houses and surrounding walls, it looks a bit like a courtyard.

It is too close to the main tribe of Qingque, and it is destined to not be too large.

However, since the spring of this year, a lot of fields there have been opened up, covering more than two hundred mu.

It is too troublesome to pull these grains back and forth, so after harvesting, they will be processed there, and when the time comes, it is only necessary to transport the finished grains back.

As the cartloads of crops were transported to the threshing ground, and the newly threshed millet was dried and transported to the granary, the entire Qingque tribe was immersed in joy.

But this piece of joy did not include Senior Brother, the leader of the Qingque Tribe.

Faced with such a harvest, it can't be said that senior brother is not happy, but his joy is always mixed with some other things.

Especially when alone, sitting there alone looks preoccupied and out of mind.

When he was free after a busy day, what he did the most was to find out the rattan shield he often used.

Or sit there and fill some tree branches inside to rest, or stand up and dance a few times with the vine shield in front of you, looking quite lonely and dull.

The entire tribe is now in the midst of the busyness and joy of the harvest, and few people have noticed that the senior brother's state is not right.

However, Han Cheng was not among these people.

Ever since he had a brief discussion with the senior brother about the future of Fujishield and the Fujishield team that day, Han Chenggong noticed that the senior brother's mood was not right, and has been paying attention to the senior brother's behavior.

Seeing the appearance of the elder brother, Han Cheng also became a little silent and uncomfortable.

People living in this world always have to face many things and make choices one by one.

Some decisions can be made easily, such as simple eating and dressing or even which leg to take first, which has long been taken for granted.

But some choices are not so easy to make, and the choices are always full of all kinds of reluctance mixed with sadness...

The bright moon hangs high in the night sky, pouring down the bright moonlight.

The Qingque Tribe, who had been busy for a day, became more and more quiet as the night deepened. Only the person in charge of the night watch walked quietly on the inner and outer walls with weapons.

Along with the night wind, the fragrance of ripe millet is sent...

"Bang~ bang~ bang..."

There were some not-so-loud sounds in the inner courtyard. People who had worked hard all day had already fallen into a deep sleep at this time, and basically no one noticed the somewhat abrupt sound.

Lying on the kang in the room, thinking about how to deal with the rattan shield and the rattan shield team, Han Cheng, who had no idea, was stunned for a moment, then quietly got up and came to the window...