Chapter 135: An Unexpected Discovery
The planting team is planting, the salt mining team is collecting salt, both teams are busy, they only have three days to plant or collect salt, the fourth day will set off in the morning, and the two teams will meet in the afternoon.
It's busy here, and so are the people who stay in their new homes.
Zhi is responsible for guarding the tribe and is also responsible for the in-depth renovation of the primary houses where the dragon tribe now lives, Shen takes the fishing team to the big river to fish in the morning, and has one more important thing to do in the afternoon - firing adobe bricks.
Take the clay from the river, make it into a piece of adobe bricks, and then fire, "a furnace" of adobe bricks are baked, this adobe bricks are not used to build walls and houses, with the current scale of the dragon tribe, if you want to use adobe bricks to build walls and houses, I am afraid that hundreds of thousands of adobe bricks are needed, and there are not many adobe bricks that are carefully fired, because Shen wants to build three pottery kilns with adobe bricks.
From Su Yan to bring the technology of firing pottery to the Dragon Tribe, the Dragon Tribe has fired countless pottery, the pottery is large and small, the diameter of the large pottery can exceed half a meter, the diameter of the small pottery is only five centimeters, the pottery bowls and plates of various specifications are integrated into the daily life of the Dragon Tribe, and these pottery are greatly convenient for people's lives.
When moving from home to a new home, the large and flawed pottery and some pottery bowls and plates were left behind, and the moving team could not carry so many things, so they could only leave some of the pottery behind to lighten the burden.
Now that the Dragon Tribe has stabilized, the construction of a pottery kiln to burn pottery is a plan that needs to be carried out, compared with the two things of collecting salt and planting hemp, the matter of firing pottery is not so anxious, the existing pottery of the Dragon Tribe is barely enough to use, even if it is fired again next year, it doesn't matter.
It only takes three days at most to build a pottery kiln by firing adobe bricks, and the pottery firing will continue forever, but it will not take much manpower, so it is better to build the pottery kiln as soon as possible, and the more pottery the better, even if there are defective large pottery, it can be used to place food.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye, the pottery kiln in the Dragon Tribe's residence was built, and the two teams far away from the Dragon Tribe's new home also completed their respective tasks.
Packing their bags, the two teams set out on their return journey early in the morning of the eighth day after leaving their new home.
The planting team walked for more than half a day, came to the place where the last time and the salt mining team "broke up", the salt mining team arrived earlier than the planting team, sat here to rest and wait for the planting team to arrive, if the planting team has not arrived, the edge has to send someone to meet the planting team.
"King!" Yuan and Song came to Su Yan.
Su Yan: "Your team has rested enough, right?" Keep moving. ”
"No."
The salt mining team and the planting team merged into one team and continued to move forward, although the planting team walked for more than half a day without rest, but the people of the planting team were not tired, they did not have much weight on their bodies, even if they walked in the jungle all day, they would not feel tired, but the slaves of the salt mining team carried salt on their backs, and they needed to stop and rest after walking for a while, or change people to carry salt.
When he came, he was in a hurry, and although he had to hurry up when he returned, Su Yan had the heart to observe the scenery along the way, and even collected some of the precious herbs found during the trip.
At noon on the second day of the return trip, Su Yan had an accident, and in the face of this harvest, Su Yan couldn't cry or laugh, because this harvest was a piece of gold, to be exact, a piece of "dog's head gold" the size of a child's fist and a stumbling appearance.
Dog's head gold is a naturally occurring, impure texture, large particle size and irregular shape of nuggets, and the ability to find doghead gold means that there are gold mines around.
Gold became the first metal discovered by Su Yan, but Su Yan didn't have much feeling about the discovery of gold, and if gold was replaced with copper or iron, Su Yan could jump up happily.
For no other reason, the effect of gold on Su Yan is too small.
In modern times, gold is a precious metal, which can be stored as a store of value, can also be made into jewelry or decorations, and can also become an important material in the electronics industry, modern communications, aerospace industry and other industries, and gold can be extracted from an old-fashioned mobile phone.
In ancient times, gold could be used as a currency for trading, and it could also be made into jewelry or ornaments, but in the primitive era, gold had almost no effect, anyway, Su Yan could not use gold, maybe gold would be used as a trading currency or made into jewelry and ornaments in the future, but this is probably a matter of decades or even hundreds of years later.
Looking at the dog's head gold in his hand, Su Yan was very speechless, the trip continued, and the dog's head gold was not thrown away, but left as a collection, Su Yan also left a mark on the map, indicating that the dog's head gold had been found here, and there may be gold mines here.
On the morning of the third day of the return trip, a rain came unexpectedly, Su Yan asked the team to stop and rest for a while, looking at the somewhat gloomy sky, Su Yan could feel that this was a light rain, and the second half of the day was too much.
As Su Yan expected, the rain stopped before noon, and in the afternoon, the dark clouds in the sky were all gone, and the next few days would be a good day.
On the afternoon of the fifth day of the return trip, the team finally returned to the new home of the dragon tribe, some people in the team carried salt, and there was a light rain on the way, and the return trip took more time than when they went, and the whole trip took a total of eleven and a half days, and nearly half a month passed.
When he returned to the tribe, Su Yan found that three pottery kilns larger than his hometown had been built in the south of his residence, and the pottery kilns had been put into use, firing two batches of pottery.
Aside from these three pottery kilns, the place where the dragon tribe lived did not change much.
The team that went out had just returned, Su Yan let them rest well, and walked back and forth for so many days, although it was mainly the slaves who carried salt on their backs, but sleeping in the open air all the time would also make the tribesmen physically and mentally tired, so they would have a good rest from now on, and they would be able to devote themselves to work again tomorrow.
Su Yan didn't go to rest, sleeping in the same wind and eating for so many days, Su Yan didn't feel much tired.
Su Yan is fifteen years old this year, with the gradual maturity of his body, Su Yan is also slowly speeding up the progress of practicing internal strength, and Su Yan's strength is also improving rapidly.
The most important thing is that with the support of internal strength, Su Yan's staying power may be the tallest person in the Dragon Tribe.
[Internal force, internal strength, true qi, all mean the same thing, some people may be a little embarrassed to see the internal force, use "internal strength" in the future, the previous text will be changed when there is time, and you can put forward your opinions]