There is a stream here, and if you go down the stream for a distance of ten or so miles, you will see a small lake, and the water surface is about four or five miles.

It is made up of multiple streams of water.

It is not easy to build roads in such a place, because of the streams, and bridges need to be built in some places.

In fact, if the road is stretched in a straight line, the Bronze Highway is basically going to pass through this wild lake.

Of course, such a project is not something that the current Qingque tribe can complete.

Even if he could complete it, Han Cheng would not lead the people in the tribe to do it thanklessly.

In order to bypass this lake and the two relatively large rivers that flow into the lake, after surveying, Han Cheng finally made the decision to move the road to the south of the lake for nearly ten miles.

This does not completely avoid the stream.

However, compared to the lake and the two relatively wide rivers, the amount of work to move the road here has become much smaller.

Han Cheng wasn't thinking about building bridges now.

Compared with normal road construction, things like building bridges are much more troublesome.

However, according to the current manpower and material resources of the Qingque tribe, it is not a problem to build some stone bridges with short spans.

What Han Cheng was thinking about now was accommodation, or rather the establishment of a post station here.

The nature of the Bronze Expressway's connection to the main tribe of the Green Sparrow and the Copper Mountain settlement determines its important role in the future.

This finalized route, when Han Cheng went to the Tongshan residential area this time, he made a rough measurement, and after the bend was straightened, it was nearly 170 miles.

It is impossible to run such a long distance in one day before the horse appears.

In this way, it became very necessary to build a post station on this road.

In the past, including now, people from tribes, including trade groups that travel frequently, carry tents and ropes with them when they go out.

When camping at night, a tent is set up and a relatively safe area is enclosed with ropes around the tent.

This way of camping was much safer than the way most tribes of this era camped directly in the wilderness.

But from the perspective of Han Cheng, a later man, this way of camping is not very safe.

And in addition to the factor of insecurity, there are many other factors of inconvenience.

Not to mention the rest, just carrying tents, ropes, and other things with you takes up quite a lot of space, and it's quite tiring.

In addition, after arriving at the camping place every day, the tent is set up, ropes are laid around it, and the tent is removed early the next morning......

These things are troublesome to think about.

When a trade team goes out to trade, they need to go to many places, and it is not realistic to build fixed rest places along the way.

It is precisely because of this that although Han Cheng felt that this kind of use of tents and ropes to build a temporary camp was not only unsafe, but also troublesome, he never proposed to build something like a post station.

But now, the same thing is put on the Bronze Highway, and it becomes different.

In the future, the transportation volume of the Tongshan residential area will be relatively large, and unlike the road they took when they went out to trade, this road is fixed, and in this case, the construction of a post station on this road can also be considered.

This place, which had just been named Wild Duck Bridge by Han Cheng, was about sixty miles away from the Tongshan residential area.

It's almost a third of the way through the bronze highway.

Here, as well as at the other third of the nodes, a post station was built to artificially divide the entire bronze highway into three sections.

Walking on a flat road, instead of walking over mountains and mountains as before, it is not a problem to walk sixty miles from morning to evening.

As for a man who rides a donkey and carries two donkeys in case of emergency, it is not a problem to walk a hundred and twenty a day.

In this way, whether it is a person who pulls a donkey cart or rides a donkey to report an emergency, he or she will have a place to stay on the road.

It is very reasonable to divide the entire bronze highway into three sections roughly and evenly with a single post station.

Of course, the post station envisioned by Han Cheng is very different from the traditional post station where special people are guarded, horses are fed, and food and lodging are provided.

The biggest difference is that after the construction of the two inns, there are no special guards here.

Its main function is only to allow the people of the Qingque tribe to travel between the main tribe of Qingque and the residential area of Tongshan to have a safe and comfortable place to stay, and no longer have to worry about it now.

When the time comes, you can also build some stoves here for people to make fires and cook.

It can even store a small amount of food in some dark rooms and use it as relief food for people who come and go.

Some people consume the food, and when they come next time, they bring some food and make up for it.

As for the question of whether it will be destroyed by people if there is no one to guard it, it does not need to be considered too much in this era.

If any tribe really discovered these two caravans and inhabited them, this ......

This is not only not a bad thing for the Qingque tribe, on the contrary, it is a very good thing.

These are just Han Cheng's early plans for these two post stations.

Later, when there were more and more people in the tribe and there was not enough land around them to plant, they could consider 'immigrating' to these two post stations.

Then, with these two stations as the center, they developed towards the surrounding area, cultivating land and growing food.

Here, ten miles to the north, there is a small lake, and there are some rivers around it, which can also develop fishing while developing the planting industry.

It is foreseeable that these two post stations, one close to the Tongshan residential area and the other close to the Qingque main tribe, and both are still located on the Bronze Expressway, as long as there are enough people, then in the future, they will definitely be able to develop.

Maybe later, it is not impossible to develop an economic belt along the entire bronze highway on both sides of the road!

Sure enough, if you want to get rich, you must first build roads!

Looking at those mallard ducks swimming in the water, diving under the water from time to time, and then popping up in another place, Han Cheng, who was in a good mood, remembered the words that were widely circulated in later generations, and thought it was true.

After thinking about these things, Han Cheng took out the leather bag he was carrying from behind his back, took out the large map inside that showed the roughly known terrain from the Qingque main tribe to the Tongshan settlement, and found the location of this place on the bronze highway marked with red lines, and dotted a dot on it.

And a simple small house was painted around it, and the words 'Wild Duck Station' were written on the house.

At this time, Mao had already led people to set up the camp for the accommodation.

For the people of the trade team who travel frequently, relying on tents and ropes to build such a camp is already very familiar.

And when the camp was set up and the fire for cooking was raised, the mourners who had gone out with others also returned.

In his hands, he carried two mallard ducks that had been shot with bows and arrows, and in the pockets of several other people, he found more than a dozen green-skinned duck eggs.

The two wild ducks were happily plucked by Han Cheng, and then put them on sticks and roasted them on this charcoal fire.

As for the ten wild duck eggs that were much larger than the eggs in the tribe, Han Cheng didn't let people eat them.

Instead, he pulled out a lot of grass and put it in an empty clay pot, and after making it soft, he put the duck eggs in it.

If you want to let the tribe have a flock of wild ducks as soon as possible, and breed these wild ducks, it is too slow to rely on the three little ones that were caught last time.

These wild duck eggs, Han Cheng is going to take them back for hatching, and get a batch of ducklings.

Regarding the question of how to hatch ducklings into ducklings without adult ducks in the tribe, Han Cheng is not worried at all.

It's true that there are no adult ducks in the tribe, but there are many adult chickens in the tribe.

When you go back, let the chickens hatch the ducklings.

Letting chickens incubate duck eggs may sound like a bit of, but it's actually not at all.

When Han Cheng was a child, he had seen an old hen lead a group of children who were obviously not his own, looking for food more than once.

In fact, it's not just duck eggs that can be hatched by chickens, but even goose eggs that need to be hatched for a longer period of time.

Because chickens are more dead-eyed, once they want to start hatching chicks, they will not end the incubation period if they do not hatch things out of the eggs under them.

In other words, the length of its incubation period depends entirely on whether something is hatched or not.

In later generations, some people thought that it took too long for chickens to hatch eggs, and after the chickens entered the hatching period, they went directly to the town to buy the chicks hatched by others.

At night, the chicks are secretly put under the body of the old hen who is ready to hatch the eggs, and the next morning, the old hen will end the hatching period, and then happily take the chickens that have suddenly appeared, looking for food everywhere, and treating the biological no different.

After the two roast ducks were roasted, Han Cheng tore off a duck leg, and let everyone share the rest.

There was no marinating in advance, and there was a lack of sauces, so of course the taste was not as good as the roast duck sold in later generations, but I still ate the roast duck after all.

The next day, Han Cheng did not immediately set off from here with people, but let people disperse in several groups, looking for wild duck eggs in this piece of grass.

At this time, autumn is coming, and most of the wild ducks have ended laying eggs and hatching eggs, which is the matter of giving birth to offspring, and have successfully become duck mothers.

However, this is the most important thing in the world is the accident, so many wild ducks, there are always some, when incubating eggs, there will be some egg thieves, resulting in no eggs to hatch, and the incubation period is broken and ends early.

After a period of adjustment, the eggs are laid again for incubation.

The ugly duckling in the well-known story of the ugly duckling was in an accident when its parents hatched the last round of eggs.

Otherwise, the swans born in the spring will have basically grown up by the autumn, and they can move south with the large army, and there will never be an ugly duckling that has not yet faded its fur.

At this time, although the peak period of wild duck incubation has passed, but the base of wild ducks is large, and the people of the Qingque tribe still found nearly twenty duck eggs here after some careful search under Han Cheng's order.

Then he continued to walk back under the leadership of Han Cheng.

These nearly 30 wild duck eggs will be able to hatch ducklings when the time comes.

The reason why Han Cheng has such low expectations for the hatching rate of these duck eggs is because there must be a lot of duck eggs among them, the kind that have been hatched by wild ducks for a while.

In this way, the eggs are stopped hatching halfway, and the ducklings that are hatching inside will definitely stop developing and die......

This time, I don't have to do things like exploring the terrain anymore, and I can rush wholeheartedly, and the speed will naturally become faster.

Two days later, at noon, Han Cheng and the others stopped at one place.

There are patches of pine trees growing here, some of which are too many people to hold onto.

However, the overall terrain is relatively flat, and it is more suitable for reclamation of wasteland at the right time.

This is the Qingque Expressway, another three-point node.

The team stopped at Han Cheng's orders, and Han Cheng wandered around here for a long time, and then looked for a more suitable place here, and made a mark with stones, and when the time came, a post station would be built here.

After the sign was laid, the location was found on the map, and a simple small house was drawn on the side, with the words 'Pine Forest Station' written on it.

After doing these things, the sun had already reached the middle of the western sky, and Han Cheng simply gave the order to set up camp and rest here tonight.

And he, with some people, opened the thick pine needles here, looked for pine nuts, and brought back some gifts......

Fourteen or fifteen miles away from the end of the old road of the Qingque tribe, a group of people were holding tools and building the road in full swing.

Today, as the road continues to stretch further and further away from the quarry, it is becoming more and more difficult to transport the stone slabs, and the paving of the stone road has been stopped since six days ago.

Now the construction is pure dirt roads.

Because of the large number of people used here, the number of adults who have carried out road repair has reached more than 80, and the people of the Qingque tribe are already familiar with the tools of the copper shovel, so the road construction has been carried out very quickly, and in the past two days, it has reached a distance of 700 meters a day!

"One, two, three! Hey~"

Following the route opened up before, Han Cheng, who was walking back with people all the way, heard the faint sound of the trumpet from afar, and couldn't help but smile on his face.

After waiting here for a while, Han Cheng and the others quickened their pace back......

"Miko! Son of God, they're back! ”

Someone saw Han Cheng coming back from the other side of the road with people, and he couldn't help shouting, and the next moment, the entire hot construction site became boiling......

After some joy of returning, Han Cheng saw that the time was still relatively early, and he was not in a hurry to go back, and after learning about some road repairs, he retreated a few miles back, and the members of the trade teams such as Yan and Mao cleaned up the site there, and began to build temporary living sheds, and let these people live outside when they were ready to wait......

Evening of the Blue Sparrow Tribe.

The tribe that had become lively because of Han Cheng's return had completely quieted down at this time.

The night sky is full of stars, and in the grass around the tribe, there are high and low insect chirps constantly sounding, and green fireflies are flying slowly in the night, echoing with the starlight in the sky.

The whole tribe was shrouded in the tranquility of the night.

In the room, the little pea has fallen asleep, and the child's sleepiness is always so good.

The orange light danced gently, and Han Cheng leaned sideways and put his ear on Bai Xuemei's gradually bulging belly, quietly listening to the movement coming from inside.

Up to now, Bai Xuemei has been pregnant for more than five months, and sometimes, she can feel some fetal movements.

Looking at the son who was falling asleep over there, holding his daughter-in-law in his arms, and feeling the movement of the other little guy who was still in his belly, Han Cheng felt that his life was worth it!

Han Cheng, who was still asleep the next day, was woken up by the little pea who had already gotten up and dressed by himself.

"Dad, look at the ducklings!"

Seeing Han Cheng wake up, Little Pea pulled Han Cheng out excitedly.

The child never understands the hard work of adults day and night, and Han Cheng, who still wants to lie down and sleep again, can only dispel this idea when he sees the little guy's expectant look, yawns and gets up, and after a simple wash, he goes to the little duck house to see the ducklings under the pull of the little guy.

For the three ducklings brought back by Han Cheng, the little peas are very tight, and during the time that Han Cheng left, he took pandas to catch grasshoppers and feed them.

I haven't seen them for a while, and these ducklings have grown up a lot compared to when Han Cheng left, and their growth is very gratifying.

"Good boy, good job!"

Han Cheng stretched out his hand and rubbed the head of the little pea who was wearing open crotch pants and squatting beside him to watch the duckling, and praised it very seriously.

Little Pea suddenly burst into laughter.

The little pea who was praised was even more energetic, and pulled Han Chengcheng to go out and continue to catch grasshoppers and feed the ducklings.

Han Cheng turned around and called Bai Xuemei and asked her to go out with her.

Bai Xuemei is already pregnant, and she needs to go around a little more.

Han Cheng was holding Bai Xuemei with one hand, pulling the little pea who always wanted to run fast with the other, followed by the Fu Jiang who was wagging his tail straight behind his buttocks, and the family of three plus a dog walked towards the outside of the courtyard gate together.

Before he walked out of the courtyard gate, the round panda rolled over like a ball and joined the ranks of going out.

"Yoyo ......"

Such an occasion is of course indispensable to Uncle Lu, the leader of the animal world of the Green Sparrow Tribe.

The guy himself used his antlers to pick the deer pen open, and when he came out, he didn't forget to gently close the door with a hoof on his hind legs.

Then with an elegant step, he gave full play to the advantage of long legs, and soon caught up with Han Cheng's line, and rested his chin on Han Cheng's shoulder from behind, looking very lazy and moving forward.

I haven't seen Uncle Lu for a while, and Han Cheng misses it very much, so he tilts his head and rubs against Uncle Lu's long face.

However, this longing did not last long, and it developed into extreme disgust.

Because Uncle Lu took advantage of Han Cheng's inattention, he stretched out his rough tongue and 'banged' on Han Cheng's face.

Looking at the two-legged beast who was wiping his saliva with his hands with a disgusted face and glaring at him, Uncle Deer, whose face was twisted twice by Han Cheng, did not feel the slightest discomfort, but instead stretched his neck and cocked the upper skin of his mouth, revealing his big yellow teeth and a look of twitching......

Throwing the few strings of grasshoppers and small peas he caught back into the duck house, looking at a duckling that was choked by a big grasshopper and stretched out its neck, Han Cheng suddenly remembered the nearly thirty wild duck eggs he brought back.

These things need to be found quickly and the chickens start hatching!

Han Cheng miscalculated.

Originally, he thought that there were so many chickens in the tribe, and one or two would always be in the incubation stage, and these duck eggs would not be able to hatch at all.

However, it turned out that there was not even a chicken holding a nest!

This made Han Cheng very melancholy.

If the chickens do not hold the nest, they will not hatch ducklings, and if they can't hatch ducklings, the duck flock of the tribe will grow slowly, and the development will be slow, and if you want to eat roast duck and salted duck eggs in the future, you need to wait longer......

It was at this time that the old rooster who always liked to mix in the hen flock and looked like a sister to the hen head to head came into Han Cheng's eyes.

This is the gelding rooster.

Needless to say, this great and difficult task can only be handed over to this guy.

A moment later, the panicked rooster was caught by Han Cheng under the gaze of the rest of the panicked chickens.

After the small half bowl of fruit wine was eaten, the rooster who was still scared just now suddenly became quiet, and the cockscomb was very red.

Han Cheng put the drunken rooster into a chicken coop made of bricks and golden millet stalks, buckled it with a bamboo sieve, and began to dig duck eggs out of the clay pot.

Twenty-eight duck eggs were placed there, not a small pile.

Generally, it is difficult for a chicken to hatch twenty or thirty eggs at once, let alone duck eggs that are much larger than the size of the eggs!

The twenty-eight duck eggs in front of him, this rooster obviously can't hatch at once.

Is it possible to geldle another rooster and let the two of them hatch together?

After thinking about it, Han Cheng still didn't do this cruel thing, but got half a basin of warm water and put these duck eggs into the basin.

Some of the duck eggs are placed in the basin and then slowly sink to the bottom, while others float to the surface.

Han Cheng fished out the eleven floating duck eggs and put them aside, there was no need to hatch them, and no more hatching could hatch the ducklings.

The remaining seventeen duck eggs were fished out, dried with a burlap, and one by one was placed under the drunken rooster.

When this rooster wakes up, it will go further and further on the road to becoming a glorious mother duck......