At the beginning, Tang Ge felt that such a day was very cool, eating and waiting for death every day, and not doing anything, which was the ideal life he had always dreamed of. But it didn't take long for him to get bored with this kind of life.

Every day, every day, we have to face the same people, the same things. The scenery is monotonous, life is boring, the diet is single, and the only entertainment activities are lackluster. As a result, Tang Ge, who was isolated from the world, began to look forward to the end of this kind of poor and boring days as soon as possible.

The more bored he was, the more he felt that time was slow, so Tang Ge, who was living like a year, began to have fun for himself. Building snowmen, having snowball fights, skating, playing tops, all get tired of having fun. And the ice fishing he had been looking forward to made him even more depressed. Because he made people waste all their strength, and finally smashed open an ice surface, he found that there was mud directly under the ice! The angry Tang Ge jumped to his feet and scolded, and since then he has completely broken the idea of ice fishing.

The equally boring clansmen asked Tang Ge to tell Journey to the West again, but Tang Ge sternly refused. Tang Ge himself has no entertainment activities, where is he in the mood to entertain them.

After Tang Ge meditated hard and racked his brains, but found nothing, he was extremely bored and had to vent his energy in the doll cave and the sword house. As a result, the study of the elite class and the development of glass have greatly accelerated the progress. By the time the snow melted and the ground began to warm up, a few top students in the elite class were already teaching the other children. And the glaze workshop has finally made a flowing cloud glaze, natural color, beautiful glazed handicrafts.

Glass is different from glass, glass is made of glazed stone and glazed mother, glazed stone is a natural crystal, which is circulated as a low-grade gemstone, so the cost is very high, and the main material of glass is quartz sand, the cost is very low. But when it comes to ornamentality, glass is much higher than glass.

Now, after trial and error, the process of making glass and glass has been thoroughly understood, and the new task of the craftsmen is to try different pigment recipes and combine the two processes of glass and glass to see if they can make something more beautiful but inexpensive.

With the three magic weapons of glass, wine and gold, Banpo Dolphin has become the largest local tyrant in the entire wasteland and even the entire Zhongzhou, it can be said that as long as money can solve the problem, it is not a problem for Banpo Dolphin. Unfortunately, most of the problems in this world cannot be solved by money.

On a sunny morning, Tang Ge came to the fat witch's house with two heavy treasures produced by Jianlu. These two heavy treasures are a glazed sculpture and a bronze tripod respectively.

The glazed sculpture was made by the glaze workshop over a month. The whole sculpture is about 30 centimeters high, in the shape of a flame, the whole is roughly red, and there are various complex colors circulating on it, its colors are gorgeous, and even make people feel a sense of dazzle. Especially under the sunlight, the whole sculpture looks beautiful like a colorful flame that is jumping and burning.

The fat witch hugged the flame sculpture and burst into tears, because the shape of this sculpture is the totem of the Yan clan! Fat Wu naturally knew about this sculpture, but when the real thing was placed in front of her, she was still involuntarily full of sentimentality.

Tang Ge's attention was on the bronze tripod.

On one of the walls in the fat witch's room, there was an animal skin, and on the animal skin, the totem of the Yan clan was painted. And this painting is tightly covered by another animal skin. It is said that the painting was hung by the old witch himself, and to this day, the animal skin on the painting has not been lifted. The bronze tripod is placed directly below the painting.

This bronze tripod, with two ears and four legs, is square, the mouth of the tripod is three feet long, two feet wide, the wall is five centimeters thick, and it weighs thousands of catties. The body of the tripod is dominated by flame patterns, and there are yang-carved sacrifices, hunting, wars, mountains, rivers, sun and moon maps on all sides, and the tripod belly depicts a big Yan totem.

Compared with the production process of glaze, the production process of the bronze tripod is not complicated, it is nothing more than casting the mold first, then burning the copper juice and pouring it into the grinding tool, and then smashing the mold after cooling and taking out the bronze tripod for later processing, that's all. In his previous life, Tang Ge heard that the bronze tripod was the important weapon of the country, and it took a long time to cast a tripod, so it was extremely precious, and he also scoffed at it, secretly laughing at the ancients for being too stupid, but when he did it himself, he understood the hardships in the middle.

To make a bronze tripod, the lost wax method is used. The lost wax method refers to the first use of beeswax to make a tripod, and then cover the clay on the wax tripod to burn the mold, and then heat it on the fire, in this process, the clay outside the wax tripod gradually dries and solidifies, and the wax tripod will melt and lose in the heating process, so the model that is exactly the same as the wax tripod is done.

The molds made by the lost wax method can be large or small, complex or simple, and even some hollow utensils with complex patterns or exquisite clarity can also be easily made by the lost wax method. This simple and affordable method has been highly praised since its inception, and has been passed down from generation to generation, and has not been replaced for thousands of years, and even in the era of Tang Ge's previous life, when technology was very developed, this convenient mold-making method is still the mainstream of making large bronzes.

After the mold is made, all that remains is to pour copper juice into the mold, wait for the copper juice to cool down, smash the mud fan, and then process it.

Making a bronze tripod is easy to say, but it is very difficult to really do. First of all, the wax carving is labor-intensive and time-consuming, and when the wax carving is done, it may not be successful when the mold is burned. Finally, the firing was successful, and when the copper was poured to make the tripod, the failure rate was still high, and once it failed, the whole process had to start all over again. Banpo dolphin was able to produce this Sifang Ding within half a year, or because the tribe had not yet begun to refine the bronze, it had already begun to carve wax molds for later use. If it weren't for Tang Ge's precautions and thinking of these preparations when he hadn't found the lead and tin, he wouldn't know when the first tripod would have been published.

After the fat witch finally cleaned up his mood and stopped crying, Tang Ge patted his body and asked triumphantly: "How is it, these two things are amazing!" ”

The fat witch wiped the corners of his eyes, and said with a sad face: "What's the use of the thing, no matter how good it is, we don't have a totem, we can't use this thing." ”

Tang Ge was silent for a long time when he heard this.

Although no one has ever mentioned it on the surface, Tang Ge understands that without a totem, it is the eternal pain of the clansmen.

In this world, whether it is a large tribe, a small tribe, or even a miniature tribe with only a dozen people, they hide in the inaccessible mountains and old forests to survive, and all they do is to hold their totem. Because the totem is their faith, their destination, their roots.

The Banpo dolphins look beautiful and powerful, but they are a group of people without roots. This is also the reason why it is difficult for Banpo dolphins to gain a foothold in the wasteland, and there are still many tribes who look down on them or even hostile them.

"Why did the old witch agree to give up the use of totems back then?" After a long silence, Tang Ge asked.

The fat witch sighed and replied, "If you don't give up the totem, he won't be able to leave." Those people were deliberately trying to make things difficult for him. ”

Tang Ge said: "But those people in the Yan Alliance don't know where we are, even if we worship the totem here, it doesn't matter, right?" ”

The Fat Witch sneered, "You know a fart! Back then, the old witch swore an oath in front of the Holy Fire Totem! Besides, if there is no holy flame, how can you worship the totem! ”

"Holy Flame?" Tang Ge looked puzzled.

Fat Wu said with an impassioned face: "Back then, our ancestor Suiren clan once placed the holy flame on the top of the mountain for people to use, and this holy fire, from the day when the ancestor Suiren clan lit it himself, has been burning until now, no matter under any circumstances, the holy flame has never been extinguished, and this holy flame is the place where the soul of our clan returns to the ancestors. Therefore, if you want to worship the totem, you must first get the fire from the sacred fire! ”

Tang Ge disagreed in his heart, in his opinion, as long as it was fire, no matter who lit it, wouldn't it all be the same? However, for this fire to burn from the time of the Suiren clan to the present, he also secretly smacked his tongue and admired.

After pondering for a long time again, Tang Ge asked cautiously, "You say...... Can we buy the totem back? ”

"Buy it back!?" Fat Witch's eyes lit up suddenly.

Tang Ge carefully analyzed: "That's right! It's to buy it back. The reason why the old witch hid his whereabouts back then was just because he was afraid that the people in the alliance would take advantage of their unstable foothold and fall into the ground. Now that we have the gold weapon, we are no longer afraid of anyone doing bad to us, so we can go to the alliance to communicate in the name of the old witch. ”

Finding that the fat witch's eyes were getting brighter and brighter, Tang Ge patted the golden tripod beside him and continued: "This copper tripod, as well as the glass in your hand, are all rare treasures. If we give these to the Alliance, and by the way, send some gifts to the family members of the various tribes, there is a great chance to persuade those people to agree to our totem use rights, after all, the Yan clan has the final say, but your brother, presumably he will not be difficult for us, right? And our foothold in the wasteland has also contributed to the spread of the Yan Clan. ”

Fat Wu slapped his thigh and said excitedly: "Geeyang will definitely not be embarrassed for us, as for the others, it is impossible to convince them all, but it is still okay to persuade most of them." As long as the majority of those who support us, those who oppose the old witch will not have the slightest recourse. Besides, the old witch has been gone for so many years, and the person who was against him at the beginning is estimated to be almost dead! ”

The fat witch laughed as he spoke, looking crazy: "I should have thought of it a long time ago!" Now that we have the gold, who are we afraid of? Even if those who hate the old witch know our whereabouts, they can't do anything about us! Hahaha! This is long overdue! This is long overdue! ”