Chapter 68: The City of Sacred Fire
The fat witch held a sacrificial ceremony as usual, and then, in the two places of Banpo Dolphin and Shuangshan Land, on the same day, began to harvest the crops.
The wind and rain are smooth before the grain is ripe, which does not mean that there will be no problems during harvesting, so harvesting grain is a fierce war for Banpo dolphins. Last year, the stupid behavior of not using the carriage and horses, relying on the clansmen's shoulders to carry them is naturally gone, and the various farm tools made by Tang Ge have finally come to use.
The first to ripen is oilseed rape. As usual, a line of people walked in motion, selecting the best plants for seed, and as soon as the front feet of the group passed, the people behind them bent down and began to harvest frantically with sharp scythes in hand. The harvesters worked hard to put the piles of rapeseed on one side, and some people gathered all the rapeseed into a pile, and then used a golden fork to pick up the collected grain to the double cart, and after the cart was filled, the driver pulled the rapeseed to the threshing floor, which had already been tamped and smooth, and there was not even a crack in the ground, and spread it out to dry. What's more, there are huge skins stitched together on top of each other on the threshing floor, and at the slightest sign of rain, these hides are quickly covered with the crops.
A whole assembly line, with a clear division of labor and an orderly manner, in just two days, all the rape was harvested.
The rape shops on the threshing floor are densely packed, and some people turn over from time to time to make the rape more thoroughly exposed to the sun. After three or four days of scorching sun, the rape trees are completely dried, and the stones are dragged out, and the threshing is completed by rolling back and forth on the rapeseed over and over again, and then the rape plants are picked up and gathered up, and there is only a layer of black rapeseed left on the ground.
Rapeseed particles are very small, so collecting rapeseed is a meticulous work, not only to pay attention not to omission, but also to prevent debris mixed with it, and then it is to raise ash, and then pick up the sundries again, but also continue to dry.
When the rapeseed was completely dried and harvested, the tribesmen rested for a few days, and the wheat harvest was about to begin.
The steps of harvesting wheat are the same as those of rapeseed, and after practicing with rapeseed, the tribesmen become more and more proficient. It stands to reason that in addition to the stupid method of harvesting wheat with a sickle, Tang Ge also made another harvesting artifact, called "sweeping", which is composed of bamboo baskets, blades and ropes. The harvester hangs the rope on this large harvesting tool, raises the "sweep" high, and sweeps the wheat against the wheat, and the narrow blade at the mouth of the wide bamboo basket will cut off a large piece of ripe wheat, and the harvested wheat will lie in the bamboo basket, and then fall on its back, and a large piece of wheat will be harvested. This artifact can increase the efficiency of harvesting wheat tenfold! It can be said to save time and effort, but the tribesmen dislike this harvesting method is too rough, and it is easy to cause wheat threshing, so it can only be kept for the record, and after the food of the Banpo dolphin has been eaten in the future, there will be a place for this artifact.
God was very open-eyed, and there was no heavy rain during the harvest, so the wheat of the Banpo dolphin was harvested smoothly, and the tribesmen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Threshing, dusting, drying, collection. After a set of processes was completed, the whole tribe cheered. More than a dozen large grinding discs that had been prepared long ago were opened at full power, and Tang Ge personally supervised them, took the whitest flour from the beginning, and made all kinds of sumptuous pastries for the clansmen as a celebration.
The celebration lasted for three days! During the period, all kinds of noodles, cakes, dumplings, wontons, twists, pancakes, etc., as long as Tang Ge could think of them, they would do them in different ways. On the last day, Tang Ge even made fermented noodles, steamed buns, flower rolls, buns, and even bread and cakes!
Tang Ge said that a single crop of wheat can raise generations of people and live for tens of millions of years. The clansmen didn't understand it at first, but after seeing all kinds of pastries in just three days, they completely understood Tang Ge's words. A single crop, generations of people keep eating, and never get bored, because the pastry is so multi-faceted and diverse, its variety is endless!
After three days of carnival, Tang Ge was also excited for three days. His dream was to give his people a place to live and work in peace, and now he had plenty of food, and it was still a small grain, so that they would not be hungry or sick, and the tribe also grazed a large number of livestock, let alone have to fight beasts in exchange for food. In this way, Tang Ge's dream has been completed for more than half of the time, and only one of them has not yet been completed, and now the construction of the new city is just around the corner, and when the time comes, Tang Ge's dream will be completely realized!
"I have only fulfilled my lifelong dream at a young age, what should I do if I don't have a life goal in the future?" Tang Ge even thought about his life philosophy a little bit.
After three days of celebration, the tribesmen once again plunged into the construction of the city with a lingering taste of excitement. It was not only Tang Ge who felt satisfied, but also the clansmen who saw the hope of a happy life. Although compared to other tribes in the wasteland and even those big tribes in Zhongzhou, Banpo Dolphin has lived a paradise-like life, but people are always not satisfied, they can live better, who will be satisfied with the status quo? Therefore, after having enough food to base upon, the tribesmen are more motivated.
In the blink of an eye, another month has passed, and the construction work of the new city has been completed! The rest of the work, only the walls and moats, have already begun, but the brand-new houses in the city, after careful renovation, are fully habitable.
The day of the relocation of the Banpo dolphin family is officially coming.
After the Fat Witch's prayers, the official relocation date was set for the next full moon, and there were still more than twenty days left, when even the sacred flame would be transferred to the sacred fire altar in the center of the city. After that, the original site of the Banpo dolphin tribe will be completely reduced to a reserve base or breeding center, and even the cultivated fields will be abandoned!
There is still some time before the day of relocation, but all the people who have fallen have already started to get busy like ants moving. The new house should be cleaned, the furniture should be moved quickly, and the flowers and plants you like should also be transplanted.
Although the relocation work is imminent, the urban construction project is still being carried out in a hurry, and the construction period is even tighter than before. Because Tang Ge decided to build the main city gate tower in the south of the city before the relocation of the Ju clan.
But every city must have a name, and the name of the new city, as expected, has to be determined by the fat witch to be the Holy Fire City!
Tang Ge has a quota of four bodyguards of Zhang Long, Zhao Hu Dynasty, Ma Han, and the work of moving is a lot easier, although he has a lot of bits and pieces, but after running back and forth two or three times, the family has been moved completely. The new house can only be sprinkled and cleaned but not inhabited, but he has always lived in a tent on the construction site, so he does not need to leave anything in the middle of the slope.
Tang Ge's new house is also easy to clean, Dashi, Tang Ge plus four bodyguards, six people wiped the bluestone floor and walls in half a day, and then put the furniture one by one, even if it is completely completed.
Standing on the second floor of the new house, opening the colorful glass window, looking at the wide, neat and smooth courtyard, and listening to the excited shouts of Qingguo next door, Tang Ge was full of a sense of achievement.
Finally, his dream is about to be fully realized, and in just two years, he has allowed his people to live a healthy life without worrying about food and clothing, and this city, from today onwards, will surely become an unprecedented legend in the wasteland and even the entire land of human existence.
These are all from his own wisdom and the efforts of his clansmen, and all of this adds up, how can he not make Tang Ge proud.
The construction of the city gate tower was very fast, and the construction was completed smoothly before the migration of the people. The gate tower occupies a large area and is divided into three floors, the first floor borders the city wall, and the overall height is about four meters, and the second and third floors are a high palace-like building, each floor is about three meters high, which can be used as a watchtower, as well as a rest room and duty room for the gatekeepers. The whole city gate looks majestic and magnificent, and as the façade building of Banpo dolphin, it is simply the meaning of domineering and mighty to the fullest.
Downstairs of the city gate is the door hole, the door hole is very wide, can accommodate two double-wheel carts in parallel, it stands to reason that the door hole should be engraved with the name of the city, but there is no text in this year, and others do not know the pinyin carving, so it is logical that a big flame totem is engraved.
On both sides of the city gate hole, there are two ivory tusks, one long and one short, as decoration, the long one, the whole condition, curved and hideous, and the short one is broken from the middle, which looks very out of tune with the other. The two tusks were placed on both sides of the doorway very incoherently, but no one would think that these two tusks had damaged the façade of the Banpo dolphin. Because this is the tooth of the remnant fang, the natives of the wasteland know that the remnant tooth is the most unprovoked existence in the wasteland, but now it is silently hunted by the Banpo dolphin.
The teeth of the stump were hung on both sides of the city gate, and it was a symbol of absolute strength.
Tang Ge stood on the highest floor of the city gate tower, climbing high and looking into the distance, with a lot of thoughts.
As far as the eye could see, there were barren grasses and wild trees, and the entire Holy Flame City was like a pearl surrounded by barrenness, standing alone in this wild land. The city is full of people, jubilant, clean and tidy, and it can even be said that there is no place that is not a scenery, and outside the city, there is no way in and out, Liao is uninhabited, the barren grass is all over the sky, there is a dead silence, inside the city and outside the city, it is simply two worlds, so that he has a sense of loneliness in brocade clothes at night.