The Qiang tribe is a small tribe in the northwest direction of the Li tribe, although the population is not large, but with the tribe's unique skill - traps, it can catch a lot of prey, can feed the existing people, and can barely continue to survive.

When they went to the tribe to exchange power stones, they were told by the Blue Tiger that there was a tribe that needed people to build a house. That's right, that's what it says. They need people, build houses, and take care of food and shelter, and learn the skills of their tribe to make tools before leaving. For example, the rattan baskets, bamboo baskets, backs, clay pots and clay bowls that the blue tiger showed them were all very useful tools.

In particular, the clay pot can cook the meat without having to roast it black like barbecue, and it is a lot of waste. Meat and soup can also be eaten by the elders of the tribe, increasing their chances of survival. And in the force tribe, there is no exchange for force stones, but you get a yellowish-white, coarse salt. But it's the same as the power stone, it can increase strength, and the taste is better than the power stone, but there are a lot of things to exchange. Compared to a power stone of the same size, it takes three times as many items to get it, which is really outrageous. However, the quality has indeed improved, and it is more convenient to carry, but fortunately, I have prepared more animal skins this time.

Di returned to the tribe after exchanging some coarse salt, a clay pot and a few pottery bowls, and after consulting with the healer, he took half of his tribe's men to join the Li tribe. As for the clay pots and bowls, they were treated as treasures by the healers and witches, and were only shared with the elders and children of the tribe. Before leaving, the old doctor and witch also made a special confession that he wanted to exchange some more pottery for use.

Follow the leader of the Blue Tiger and two other tribes to the Ding tribe, and in the middle of the two tribes of Qiu and Gurung, they will merge with the two tribes of Qiu and Gurung. The journey was smooth, except for the infestation of fierce beasts at the beginning, there was basically no major danger in the back.

Especially after the exchange place they said, it is unimpeded, and there is still that kind of hunter's hut to live in about a day's journey, with dry firewood in it and hay in it, which makes people feel very comfortable, and there is no need to sleep outside, save time, and just add some dry firewood before leaving. The leader of the Blue Tiger said that this was prepared by the Ding tribe to facilitate the travel of various tribes, which is a very good practice that is worth advocating and promoting.

Soon came to the Ding tribe, and immediately felt that the Ding tribe has a large population, strong strength, and can domesticate animals, even the kind of horses and deer that can run fast, I really shocked and admired, but I don't know if the Ding tribe will teach me the skills of domesticating animals.

Di, who thought that the Ding tribe had finished eating the food last night and had to use a wooden stick to satisfy his hunger in the morning, asked a sentence that was famous in later generations but made Di very embarrassed:

"Elder Stag, are you gnawing on a branch? If you don't have food to eat, I can help you hunt, trust me, I'm very good at hunting. ”

The Buck Elder who was brushing his teeth was stunned and didn't react for a while, but soon he understood that the other party had misunderstood. Quickly took out the "toothbrush" and said to Di:

"Oh, I'm sorry, Boss Di, we're not gnawing on a branch, lo and behold, it's called a 'toothbrush', we're brushing our teeth!"

"What brushing your teeth? Brushing with a stick, brushing your teeth? Does a toothache hurt? Shed a lot of blood, right? ”

Di was shocked, but he didn't expect them to be eating the branches. In fact, they would not be too surprised if they ate the branches, after all, there are small tribes that cannot survive will also gnaw the bark and eat the leaves to survive.

But the answer that Elder Bucks gave himself was actually "brushing his teeth", which was really unbelievable. Do you need a brush for your teeth? Or take a wooden stick and "brush" there, it hurts to think about it!

"It's all right, you see, this branch has been bitten and sucked away, and it can remove the food debris from the teeth. Oh yes, and rinse your mouth with water after eating. Our leader said that this is good for the teeth, and when they are old, the teeth can still eat meat, but they are stronger than before. ”

The buck explained why, opened his mouth to let Di look at his teeth, and said:

"You see, I've lost a few teeth before, and sometimes I still feel like a tooth

Hurt. But now after brushing my teeth, I feel much better and my mouth doesn't smell anymore. Ha~, doesn't it stink, right? ”

The primitive people were very casual in this regard, and they passed it directly in one breath. If this had been placed in the 21st century, it would have been knocked down by the opponent's old punch. The buck showed that he didn't have bad breath, and Di really cooperated and took a deep breath, which seemed to be not smelly.

"Also, since brushing my teeth, women prefer me to kiss her with my mouth, but it feels more comfortable than before. Who uses who knows! Ha ha! ”

The buck smiled evilly, a little old and indecent, otherwise May would not have scolded him for being indecent.

Looking at the smug look of the buck, Di Ye looked yearning, thinking in his heart that this method is good, you can try it.

Do it when you think of it, Di is also a man of action, and directly takes the branch in his hand and sticks it to his mouth.

"Hiss~"

It looks a little painful, but I put up with it, as long as my mouth doesn't stink, this pain can be withstanded.

Continued, tinkering back and forth, and not long after pounding, some yellow foam came out, followed by blood foam. Kedi didn't care, and said to the buck while brushing (poking):

"Is that how it works? Well, it feels good, all the dirt is brushed out, but it just hurts a little. ”

Probably thinking of the situation when the buck bit the stick before, he bit it vigorously with his big molars more than a dozen times, and continued to stuff (poke) it into his mouth and brush it when he looked at it.

"But it's wood stubble, sharper than the original!"

The buck was shocked, and his heart twitched, but he didn't dare to say it, so as not to disturb Di's enthusiasm. Di was so cute, the buck hurriedly looked left and right, smiled and patted Di on the shoulder, and said:

"Well, that's good, just bear with it. Keep trying, and your teeth will get whiter and whiter. I'm going to have breakfast. ”

The buck hurried away from the "scene of the crime", lest Di come to a heavy hemorrhage and hang up, but he was going to find his business.

As soon as Di heard that his teeth would become whiter and whiter, he opened his mouth and laughed, but the appearance of his mouth full of blood was really terrifying. Seeing the buck running away, the heart said that the old guy was running fast, and he was happy in his heart to take the wooden stick stubble and slowly brush it from the inside to the outside to brush up and down, which is the standard brushing posture.

The premise is to ignore the wooden "toothbrush" in his hand, as well as the shaking muscles on Di's face, it really hurts!

Fortunately, Di Qi, who was brushing (poking) his teeth, was seen by Ding Qi, who had eaten and walked over, and the appearance of grinning and poking his teeth vigorously made Ding Qi, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, stop the other party from continuing to poke without saying a word. That's a real poke!

"Leader Di, what are you doing here?"

The subtext in my heart is: Don't be here if you want to harm yourself, if you poke it out, it's not good to spread it!

Di spewed a mouth full of blood foam, buzzed his nose and said:

"Leader Ding, I'm brushing my teeth here, I see that people in your tribe brush their teeth like this, I heard that after brushing their teeth, their mouths don't stink, and women like it!"

After speaking, he raised his hand and wanted to continue brushing his teeth, but was stopped again by Ding Qi, who understood.

"Don't, if you brush it again, you will vomit blood and die, and when people from other tribes see it, they think that the Ding tribe wants to harm you!"

Ding Qi stopped Di, took him to the stream to rinse his mouth, and explained to the other party the method and utensils of brushing his teeth as he walked, which made Di suddenly realize, and complained that he didn't listen to Elder Buck to understand, and smiled and said that it hurt too.

Ding Qi understood what was going on, and asked Ben to get a clay pot and give it to Di, which was regarded as apologizing to the other party on behalf of the buck.

"Alas! Leader Ding is so polite, I can get a clay pot by brushing my teeth. Why don't I brush it again and you give me another pot? ”

Ding Qi's face darkened: "......"

"Haha, I'm kidding you!"

Di's treacherous look made Ding Qi itch with hatred.

Everyone is queuing up to eat,

sent Di back to rest, and asked Ben to bring him a bowl of meat and send it over. Ding Qi, who had nothing to do, came to the cafeteria again to help Aunt Mei and them serve meat and soup to everyone.

When everyone saw that Leader Ding had come to serve him rice, they all boiled. The people who were queuing in the other queues ran to the queue in front of Ding Qi, hoping that Ding Qi would serve him a bowl of meat, which was enough to brag about himself for a while.

There was some chaos at the scene, and Ding Qi hurriedly asked everyone to return to the original queue and promised to serve everyone a meal in the evening, which brought the messy team back to normal.

"Eat and get to work!"

Breakfast ended quickly, and according to the division of labor last night, Ben led 280 of the 350 people who had dug the foundations to dig the other two foundations, and the other 70 people followed the red deer to make billets and burn bricks.

Elder Bucks took about 280 people from the four tribes and the two tribes of Qiu and Gurung to dig the two foundations and ram them. The other 30 or so old and young people were arranged to help in the canteen, boiling water and delivering water, and they were also very busy.

The whole scene was like a big construction site, and everyone was in full swing, barebacked, and bare-legged. Everyone in this side of the car held shovels and pickaxes, loosened the soil and shoveled the soil, and cooperated intimately.

On the other side, under the guidance of Ding Qi and Yan, the Qiang tribe, the Ren tribe, and the Baipu tribe used stone ramming to tamp the foundation, while the people of the Qiu tribe, the Gurung tribe, and the Li tribe used baskets and wheelbarrows to transport a thick layer of quicklime to the dug foundation under the leadership of Cang, mixed the soil and stirred it evenly, and waited for others to use the stone ram to tamp the foundation.

The two sides work under the command of their respective captains, do not interfere with each other, and coordinate with each other in an orderly manner.

The stone ram used by Ding Qi is in the shape of a bucket, consisting of a rammer head, a rammer handle and four ropes. These stone rams were made by Yan and the people of the original graystone tribe under the guidance of Ding Qi in the evening, and a total of 30 were made overtime. They know more about stones, and the stone daggers and stone axes they make are very detailed and of high quality, not to mention this kind of large stone, with bronze axes and chisels, one person can make one in two nights.

The ramming head of the stone rammer is made of bluestone, flat up and down, the bottom surface is slightly larger, the top is slightly smaller, and the weight is more than 20 kilograms. A round hole several inches deep was drilled in the center of the rammer head, and a wooden rammer was installed. On the four edges of the rammer head, each chisel a round hole, and tie a rope more than one meter long on each round hole, so that the stone rammer can be put into use.

When working with a stone rammer, five people need to work together, one person holds the rammer handle with both hands and stands in the middle, and the other four people each grab a rope and stand at the four corners, rhythmically pulling or relaxing the rope at the same time. The person who catches the tamper cooperates with the movements of the four people while controlling the posture and direction of the tammer's movement, so that the tammer can not only land in parallel, but also fall where he needs it.

However, when tamping, four people need to exert force at the same time, and the size, direction and speed of the force must be the same to ensure safety. If one of the parties is lazy and does not exert force, or makes the force weaker, or the effort is slow, then there will be danger. What is the danger? The rammer will be pushed by the power of the other three people to rush towards the lazy side that does not exert his strength, breaking the bone at least and killing him at worst.

"One, two, three, hey!"

"One, two, three, hey!"

Encouraged by the rhythmic trumpet, the stone rammer rose and fell rapidly, smashing the lime churning soil in the foundation downward. The twenty-kilogram stone rammer, hitting the foundation, is heavy and powerful, and the banging sound of one after another continues to sound, forming a symphony with the sound of the trumpet, harmonious and rhythmic.

There is another lively scene in the ash kiln.

The red deer, which had been replenished with manpower, divided the people into three parts, three-fifths of them went to pull the billets and make billets, ten went to the cave kiln where three furnaces were running at the same time to burn bricks, and the rest went to the southeast of the lumberyard and began to dig another sunken cave kiln there.