After breakfast, Han Dashenzi, who was in a very good mood, walked around the tribe and came to the kitchen not far away.

Wells are now being dug here.

As the diggers continued to work, the well had been dug more than two meters down and nearly three meters deep.

The newly excavated soil can no longer be thrown out directly with a copper shovel, and someone needs to use ropes and rafters to pull it out.

Han Cheng is no stranger to drilling wells, mainly due to the fact that when he was a child, the government took the initiative to implement a policy of drilling wells.

It seems to ask each family to dig a well, and a subsidy of 100 yuan for each well.

At that time, 100 yuan was not too small a amount, and it was a lot for a farmer who had almost no other source of income except farming.

As a result, people in the village have dug wells, and Han Cheng's family is naturally no exception.

I remember that the family was still growing shiitake mushrooms that year, and it was very busy, but the well at home was still drilled out by my father.

The implementation of the policy of drilling wells is really an excellent policy.

In the past, there were only three wells in the village of hundreds of people, and there were only three wells in total.

Han Cheng remembered most clearly that the rooster crowed in the morning, and as soon as he was dizzy, the people in the family had already gotten up to carry the bucket and took the well rope to the well at the head of the village to fetch water to the house.

If you can't go, you'll be late, and if you're late, there's no water in the well.

On several occasions, when I got up late, there was no water in the well, and the family was waiting for water to cook, so my father took a scoop and a bucket and pedaled the edge of the well to the well, and used the scoop to 'scrape' two buckets of muddy well water with sand and soil, and then used it for cooking.

As for the water for drinking the oxen, it was brought back from the big pit in the village.

Later, every household dug wells, and the days of grabbing water to eat on the fifth watch were no longer used, and the water was much more convenient and people became a lot easier.

When Han grew up, he once asked his father why the people in the village didn't know how to dig wells at home before, and they all counted on the three ancient wells to grab water to eat.

The answer I got was that at that time, I thought that it was very difficult to dig a well, and I needed to dig a lot down before the water could come out.

As a result, I really started digging, only to find that digging a well was far easier than I imagined.

For example, the well in Han Cheng's house was only more than three meters old and already had water.

I knew that it was so easy to drill wells, so I started digging them a long time ago, and I did it without subsidies.

These were the words that Han Cheng had heard more than once from his father's mouth.

Standing by the well being excavated, thinking back to the past, Han Cheng couldn't help but sniff.

Digging a well is easy to say, but sometimes it is not easy, such as when you hit a layer of stones when you dig down......

It's a real headache.

Fill it in and fight it in a different place, it's really a delay in effort, don't fight again, this slate is really a headache.

Fortunately, at that time, the fertilizer called ammonium nitrate was still being produced and sold, and I bought some sulfur and other things, and set up a broken iron pot in the yard, and there was some fire burning underneath, so that I could fry the earth explosives myself. (I don't know how to do it in other places, we have it stirred and fried in an iron pot, and I have seen it with my own eyes, but it is not very safe, and I heard that there is a fried house that collapses.) ）

Coupled with a detonator and fuse from the factory that opened the stones, you can blow up the stones in the well below.

Of course, this process is a bit thrilling, and it is easy to go wrong if the operation is not good.

For example, the second uncle's family, which was close to Han Cheng, did not choose what to cover the wellhead when they blew up the stones in the well.

As a result, after the first shot rang out, the ox cart board used to cover the wellhead was directly shattered, and some crumbling stones fell on Han Cheng's house, smashing several tiles.

This is the reason why Han Cheng sniffed.

At that time, ammonium nitrate fertilizer was available, and you could buy sulfur and charcoal, and after mixing it with soil explosives, it could deal with the stone layers encountered in the well.

If your tribe also encountered a layer of stones when digging a well, it would be uncomfortable.

Although I remember how to do it, there is no nitrate, no sulfur, only charcoal is not used.

It is also because of this that Han Cheng's mood at the moment is more apprehensive, he always comes over and walks around when he has something to do, hoping that the well can come out of the water as soon as possible and not encounter the stone layer.

Otherwise, depending on the current conditions of the tribe, once encountered. Nine times out of ten, you need to refill the well that has been dug very deeply, and then choose another place to dig and try your luck.

"That's it! Pull! ”

After looking here for a while, a voice came from inside the well.

The people guarding the mouth of the well, after hearing such a sound, began to hold on to the rope and pull it up hard, and the rope was tight.

A moment later, the rafters filled with earth came to the ground.

When the person above pulls the head of the rafter, the person in the well will stand against the wall of the well, and try not to stand under the head of the rafter, so that no dirt or the whole head of the rafter containing the soil will fall down and hit the person.

The person above placed the earliner containing the earth at a distance from the mouth of the well, removed the rope with the hook from the curved handle of the rafter, hooked the other empty rafter, and lowered it.

After doing this, the man carried the rafter with the earth and went elsewhere, poured the soil pulled out of the well and flattened it in the lower part of the yard, and stepped on it with his feet.

It is not easy to lift the soil up one by one, and now the well is not deep enough, it is better to say some, and when the well is deeper, it is even more difficult to pull the soil up.

After standing here and looking at it for a while, Han Cheng remembered a simple tool that was often used with the well—the wheel.

Han Cheng had seen this kind of thing, but he hadn't seen too much.

This is mainly because, after every household in their area began to dig wells, a better and more convenient water drawing device appeared than a wheel.

This water-pumping appliance is called a 'pressure well' by them.

Because of the use of the principle of leverage, it is very easy to draw water from the well, only one hand is needed, and it does not take much effort to pump out the water in the well, which is much faster than a faucet.

Moreover, there is a prerequisite for the installation of a kill well made of pig iron and rubber, that is, a well platform raised above the ground needs to be built above the wellhead, and a relatively heavy cover should be placed on it.

In this way, not only can you prevent dust and other things from falling into the well, but you also don't have to worry about your children accidentally falling into the well.

Therefore, the tool used for many, many years to draw water from the well, was quickly eliminated.

However, what belongs to the obsolescence in later generations is undoubtedly a sharp weapon in this era.

At least until the tribe has the ability to make a sharp tool for drawing water, such as a 'pressure well', the simple and practical and inexpensive water extraction tool will not be obsolete.

It is really not easy to find such a thing as a well to appear in the tribe, and it is still possible to create it until you find high-quality coal and iron ore, build a blast furnace, point out the smelting technology of steel, and further improve the casting technology.

However, the rubber sheet covering the opening below is really head-heading, and it may be necessary to drive a flat boat away to find some back, and then there is a long list of technical problems and other things to solve.

So, this kind of thing is not a technology tree, it really doesn't mean that you can point it out if you want to, and it doesn't mean that you can do it if you know how to do it, and you don't even have the raw materials, so what's the use of knowing more? It's not about staring dryly.

Instead of thinking about something unrealistic, it is better to first come up with some tools that can be put into practice and improve productivity immediately according to the existing conditions.

It is better to find a good horse on a donkey than to walk on two legs.

Han Cheng naturally knew this truth, so after standing here for a while, he simply returned to the room to find a pen and paper to sketch the wheels.

The structure of the wheel is so simple that it can be seen as an enlarged version of the key to a four-wheeled vehicle that hangs around the waist very stylishly.

It's just that the section that is placed in the front of the car and used to rock the car is longer, and the middle part is a cylinder that is many times thicker.

This is because if the part of the roller used to wrap the rope is thicker, the same turn can wrap more well rope on it, and the barrel can be pulled out of it faster.

The structure of the wheel is simple, and after repeated 'training', Han Dashenzi's painting skills have been greatly improved, all without much effort, Han Chengcheng sketched it, and then took it to find the master craftsman of lameness.

Under Han Cheng's instructions, the second senior brother used meteorite to create things such as saws and planer blades for carpenters.

Today, the carpenter's room has a complete set of tools made of meteorite iron.

The people in the carpenter room led by the lame have not recovered from the excitement of getting the meteorite tools until now, and as long as they walk into the carpenter room every day and see the meteorite tools placed inside, they can't help but be beaten with chicken blood, and the effect of the morale bonus is simply not too good.

When Han Cheng walked in, several people were still busy inside.

Even if you don't have much work to do, in order to use more meteorite tools that are extremely easy to use, you will try to find some work to do.

Therefore, when they saw Han Cheng walking in with a drawing, the lame and the others were extremely excited.

Because it doesn't just mean that they have something new to make, but it also means that they have more opportunities to use meteorite tools.

Han Cheng handed the drawings in his hand to the cripple, and the lame took it and watched it carefully, and the rest of the carpenters also came to the side to watch, and the dinging carpenter's room fell silent.

"Do you see?"

After a while like this, Han Cheng asked with a smile when he saw that he was lame and raised his head.

"Don't worry, you can do it!"

Lame now has the demeanor of a master craftsman, with the confidence that the first master craftsman of the Qingque tribe should have, when he heard the question of the gods, he slammed his chest and assured him.

A person's temperament can be cultivated, and it also has a lot to do with the position he is in.

For example, Lame has become the best person in the tribe in carpentry and weaving, and after his status in the tribe has been greatly improved, the temperament of Lame has become different.

It's no longer the kind of submissive way before, being careful everywhere, and not daring to look at things squarely.

Instead, he became confident and walked straight.

If it weren't for that, a few days ago, he wouldn't have dared to push his spouse away.

"That's good, you can make it as soon as you can, make it as soon as possible, and then put it on the well.

However, the wood used as a shaft must be made of strong wood, otherwise it will not break when lifting water on it. ”

Han Cheng smiled and dealt with the lame.

In later generations, the central shaft of the wheel he saw was made of iron rods, and the overall structure was very similar to that of a four-wheeled bicycle or a tricycle that burned diesel, and wore a log that was not as long as it.

However, these big iron rods are not available in the tribe, so they can only be replaced by wood.

Fortunately, it will not be particularly much to use a roller to lift water once, and the jar used to carry water in the tribe can be filled with forty or fifty catties at a time, and it can not be loaded with more, so it is also possible to use strong wood as a load-bearing shaft inside.

Limp nodded vigorously, indicating that he had understood what Miko meant, and then busied himself with the meteoric iron tool.

First he brought a solid piece of wood the thickness of an adult's arm, measured the length, and after leaving a mark on the thinner end, he let the cat's ear take a meteoric iron saw and cut it off along the mark.

And he goes about the rest.

The kind of wood that they called copper wood was really very solid, and even if it was a saw made of meteoric iron, it took a lot of effort to cut off the wood that was about the size of an adult's arm.

Han Cheng picked up the piece of copper wood that had fallen on the ground, which was about thirty centimeters long, and held it in his hand.

It's very heavy to start with, much heavier than ordinary trees.

And at the truncated fracture, there are a circle of fine annual rings.

These fine growth rings are almost next to each other, densely packed, and compared with poplars, paulownia and other fast-growing trees, the distance between the two growth rings can be two or three centimeters, which is much denser.

Han Cheng roughly counted it, and there were forty-three circles on the copper wood with the thickness of this arm.

In other words, it has been living for forty-three years.

No wonder it's so solid.

Han Cheng sighed like this, and reached out to touch the annual rings that were revealed because they were truncated, with some temperature on them.

This was rubbed by a saw not so long ago.

After the cat's ears cut off the copper wood, he peeled off all the skin on it under the order of the lame, and cut off some of the lumps with an axe.

After cutting, use a small planer to smooth out the lower planer.

With the passage of time, the minor who was embarrassed to shed tears because he couldn't draw the line well has now grown into a carpenter second only to the lame carpenter in the Qingque tribe.

And the ink fountain that Han Cheng took him to make at the beginning, after using it for a long time, it had cracked.

And, with the progress of the technique, the tribe later used to make more and more exquisite ink fountains, but the ink fountain that was rough and cracked and could not be used, and the cat ears were never willing to throw away.

It was treasured by the cat's ear, and it was placed in the innermost part of the kang where he slept, level with the restrest of his head.

When he was sleeping, as long as he turned his head, he could see this ink fountain and remember what happened at the beginning.

He was able to practice his craft unremittingly and reach the second place in the Blue Sparrow Tribe, and this ink bucket and the words that Miko said to himself at the beginning played an extremely important role.

When I was working overtime to practice my craft, there were many times when Mao Er felt that she was too tired and felt that she might not need to work so hard, and that she could rest more like the rest of the people who learned the carpenter's trade.

But he never did.

That ink fountain, and what Miko had said to herself, made Cat Er stick to it like this.

After practicing his craft day after day for a long time, when he looked back, Mao Er suddenly found that he had come far, far away.

Those who learned carpentry work earlier than themselves, and those who were more talented than themselves in this area, were unconsciously surpassed by themselves and left far behind by themselves.

Human life is long and short.

In this life, you will meet a lot of people and experience a lot of things, but some things can only be done alone, and some roads can only be walked alone.

Alone savoring loneliness, bearing the pressure and pain on the way forward, surviving hardships, and looking back, people tend to be proud of their perseverance at that time.

I am grateful that I did not stop at that time, did not give up halfway, but persevered all the way.

And often, when this state appears, it is also the time when a person grows the fastest and makes the greatest progress.

After the cat's ear made the bronze and wood shaft, the lame and some other people also finished the outer cylinder.

After passing the shaft through the middle of the log, and finding a good position, make a mark with a pen, and pull out the copper and wood circumference from the middle.

Then the two people, the lame and the cat's ear, respectively took the axe and the chisel to dig holes in the copper and wood shaft, and the cylinder outside, according to the marks they had made before.

The copper wood is too strong, so the lame uses a meteoric iron axe and chisel.

Cat ears are made of bronze axes and chisels.

As for the other carpenters, they began to take axes and other tools, and made wooden nails there to help the lame and the cat's ears.

After a long jingling sound, the bronze and wood shafts and the holes outside were beaten.

Lame again they threaded the bronze shaft into a log about twenty centimeters in diameter, adjusting it slightly so that the holes above the two were in perfect contrast.

Then he limped through a wooden nail and nailed it with an axe.

The excess of the nail is cut off with an axe so that it is flush with the outer column.

After these circles of wooden nails are settled, the log outside is firmly combined with the copper and wood shaft.

It only needs to be fitted with an L-shaped shank, and the main body of the roller is completed.

"Then I made some planks two centimeters thick and four centimeters wide, as long as the cylinders on the top of the wheels.

After the roller is soaked in tung oil, a piece is made to the top every two centimeters or so, slightly fixed, and then divided into three or five ways with strong rattan, and then tied firmly, and then the whole body is soaked in tung oil. ”

Seeing that everyone had already done this, Han Cheng, who was standing on the side and did not leave, spoke out to give a new order.

He hadn't drawn these things on drawings before.

It's not that he wants to learn from the cat master to keep a hand, but because when he painted, he didn't remember what the use of these things was.

Now, he had figured out that the planks that were firmly tied to the outside were used to prevent the log from cracking and not being usable.

With this layer of wooden planks separated and bundled on the periphery, even if the logs that are worn inside are really cracked, it will not affect the use of the wheels.

In addition, with the addition of a layer of wood with a thickness of about two centimeters, the overall thickness of the reel will become thicker, and the rope will be wound faster.

After understanding what Han Cheng meant, the lame few people immediately began to do so.

These things are simple, and with the large number of people, there can be a division of labor, so after a while, they are already done.

At the same time as doing this, the other person will also do a good job of the shelves used to support the wheels.

Quite simply, it is two sets of wooden sticks that are crossed and tied together, in the shape of an X.

It's just that the intersection point should be higher, and the most important thing to pay attention to is that the height of the intersection of the two sets of shelves should be the same.

Of course, it doesn't matter if the height is different, just bury the higher side a little more in the ground when fixing it.

Tung oil is very different from paint, after the paint is brushed, you must not touch it before drying, but if the brush is tung oil, as long as you don't mind getting some tung oil on your hands, it doesn't matter.

Therefore, under the operation of a few people who wanted to see the effect of the roller earlier, the roller that had just been brushed with tung oil was erected on the well in the kitchen.

Find a strong and long hemp rope, tie it firmly to the roller, stir the roller and wrap the rope around the roller, and you can put it into use.

Tie the head of the rafter that is filled with soil to the rope wrapped around the wheel, and then throw it away, and under the action of gravity, the head of the rafter falls towards the well.

At the same time, the roller rotates rapidly with a rope, and it will not stop rotating until the head reaches the bottom of the well.

"That's it! Pull! ”

After a while, the sound of the soil was being filled from below.

The man who had pulled the soil before seemed to be a little excited to hold the handle of the newly appeared tool, stirring in circles, and the rope was wrapped around the wheel.

After a while, the coffin filled with earth appeared above the mouth of the well.

The man held the handle of the wheel with one hand, stretched out the other hand and pulled it out of the well, and then removed the rope.

After completing this set of actions, the man's face turned red.

It's not because I'm too excited to use a new tool, it's because I'm tired!