Chapter 87: A Reed Crossing the River
Sun Yi looked at Qiqige's wine bowl hesitantly, and the little girl looked at Sun Yi and began to sing again. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
Sun Yi can't understand the lyrics, but everyone understands the honey-like affection in the adjustable.
Yang Ritian held the wine bowl and looked at Li Del Ye in embarrassment, not to drink, not to drink.
Battle had a pair of big bull-like eyes, staring at Yang Ritian.
If Sun Yi didn't drink this bowl of wine, Yang Ritian would definitely not drink it, and the beams of Tiemuying and Battle would be dead.
If he drank it, Sun Yi would provoke this underage girl.
In later generations, girls of this age are crazy star chasers. The little girls were enthusiastic for three minutes, and they came and went quickly. Maybe I'll forget about it in two days.
Sun Yi immediately took Qiqige's wine bowl and drank it all. Qiqige looked at Sun Yi's eyes, and immediately felt a little different.
Yang Ritian drank all the mare's milk wine in one gulp. Battle immediately smiled happily, "After drinking my wine, you're a friend." ”
Yang Ritian said, "Battle, we are here to learn how to build a straw raft. ”
Battle replied briskly, "It's easy! Nomads are most familiar with grass, and we all know where we are by smelling the grass with our eyes closed in the dark. The raft was made of reeds at the water's edge, and it was stronger than a sheepskin raft! Walk, go to the river, and we'll teach you! ”
Battle came out of Geer, whistled, and for a while, seven or eight men took their scythes and turned on their horses.
It's just a matter of doing it, and it's going to be taught on the spot.
Sun Yi and Yang Ritian got on their horses and urged their mounts, and the horse team kicked up dust and went straight to Sun Yi's military camp.
When the smoke and dust fell, there was only one person left at the door of Geer, and the stuffy man spat out, "Phew! Brag! A broken grass raft can be stronger than a leather raft! Then he took a big stride back.
"Cluck", a little red horse crossed by the stuffy egg, and splashed a mouthful of mud on the stuffy egg.
The little red horse caught up with the horse team in a few strokes, and a few of them moved to the front.
Yang Ritian drove the horse, deliberately lagging behind the head of the horse, accompanied by the side of the horse, and suddenly felt that his horse was crooked and was squeezed out. A red horse was inserted between himself and the master, and a little girl lay on the red horse, clinging to the master's horse.
When the horse team arrived outside the barracks, the straw raft that Bartel and the others had driven was still parked on the river beach.
Battle and the others dismounted, "This raft is not good, it was done in too haste." Dismantle it, and we'll teach you to make a bigger and more stable one from scratch. ”
Everyone moved, and in a few moments the raft became a pile of loose reeds.
Three or four people tore the long reed leaves from the reed stalks, tore them into thin strips, straightened them out one by one, and put them in several clusters. Someone picks up a tuft, ties a knot at one end, divides the leaf cluster into three locks from the other end, and twists each lock in a clockwise direction. Sun Yi understands that this is called "twisting", which is to make straw ropes, and he will also do straw rope emergencies when he is alone in the wild.
Three reeds with "twist" are automatically coiled into a rope, and whenever the leaves are about to use two-thirds, someone grabs some new reed leaves and continues to go up, and the leaves keep extending, and a green reed rope is also extended.
The rest of the people were tidying up the reed stalks that had lost their leaves. They staggered the reed poles about one zhang long into arm-thick bundles of reeds, each three or four zhang long, and then tied one at every other foot with freshly made reed ropes. The reeds all over the ground were like green worms crawling on the ground.
Sun Yi picked up a piece of reed pole. The reed stalk is hollow like bamboo and wheat stalks. Pinch it with your hand, and the skin of the reed stem is quite hard.
Sun Yi also noticed that when Battle's men worked, they sometimes communicated in Mongolian, and sometimes they even communicated in the northern Jinbei dialect.
Wang Erniu, who heard the news, led a group of people, standing by the side to watch the doorway at first, and now they are all coming down to help. Everyone communicates in northern Shaanxi dialect, and they can actually understand each other.
Sun Yi was a little bored, lying on the ground with his back facing the sky, looking at the white clouds, and began to think about the communication code in his mind again, how could 45 codes be enough......
Kikige sat beside him, holding Sun Yi's reed pole in his hand and drawing on the ground.
I don't know how long it took, Sun Yi couldn't help it, and turned his head to see what the little girl was drawing. I saw the ground in front of Kikige, a zigzag symbol. Sun Yi knew this symbol, and it was also on the name coin.
"Can you write Mongolian characters?" Sun Yi asked.
"Yes." Kikige replied softly.
"Are Mongolian characters easy to learn?" Sun Yi asked again.
"I can speak and write Mongolian characters, and it only took me two months to learn them." Kikige replied.
Sun Yi got up one by one, "Qiqige, you teach me Mongolian characters!" ”
"Okay!" Kikig smiled happily. "I'll teach you every day from now on."
However, Sun Yi called Qiqige "disappointed", and Sun learned it in half an hour.
Mongolian is a phonetic script that is written from top to bottom, just like Chinese characters. Mongolian is another language with very simple pronunciation, with only five vowels, no diphthongs, seventeen single consonants, and no compound consonants.
(Author's note: Whether or not the Mongolian language has diphthongs is controversial; There are 24 consonants in modern Mongolian, but 7 are used only to spell foreign words)
Sun Yi learned Hanyu Pinyin since he was a child, and when he grew up, he learned English and phonetic transcription, as long as he made a contrast between the Mongolian alphabet and the phonetic transcription, he could stumble to read Mongolian.
Referring to a small piece of paper, Sun Yi pointed to a word on the ground in front of Kikige and tried to read: "lea... Der......, Ridder, right? ”
Kikige's eyes lit up and nodded, a girl of such a size has never seen such a smart person in the world!
Next, Sun Yi tried to read: "Sun... One..., Sun Yi, my name! ”
Sun Yile is happy, it's not difficult at all.
Sun Yi picked up the reed pole and tried to draw on the ground while reading, "Its... That... Right? ”
The little girl's face was flushed with excitement, and she couldn't speak at all, so she nodded vigorously.
Sun Yi then read to the Mongolian text on the ground: "Yihe... Aha, what do you mean? ”
Kikige stumbled and said, "It's the big brother, the first brother."
Sun read down again and again, "Tower...... Cloth...... What does it mean ...... sac? ”
Suddenly, there was a cheer.
Sun Yi looked at it, and it turned out that Batel and the others had made dozens of arm-thick reed poles into a large bundle with reed ropes, thick in the middle and slender at both ends. The pointed ends were tied up on stilts by reeds, and in Sun Yi's opinion, they were like a long green banana. A few young men carried the "green banana" to the river, one, two, three, and threw it in the water.
Battle exclaimed, "This is the simplest reed raft!" Now that there are not enough reeds, send a few people to cut reeds on the other side! ”
The "Reed Banana" swung twice in the water, and then turned over automatically, its pointed ends pointing into the air, and its bulging belly floated steadily on the water. It turns out that this upturned tip also has the function of changing the center of gravity of the raft so that the raft body automatically recovers.
I don't know when I arrived a dragon jumped up one by one, stomped and jumped on the reed raft a few times, and the raft only swung a few times from side to side.
A dragon shouted, "No problem!" A few robed brothers fluttered and "rode" up.
With a little stick, the reeds and bananas rolled in the garden left the shore and sailed steadily towards the opposite bank.
Yang Ritian hurriedly arranged for several sheepskin rafts to be launched into the water to escort him.
"I think that at the beginning, the Bodhidharma Patriarch crossed the river with a reed, I'm afraid it's just that!" Jia Daoshi, who was standing on the shore with a feather fan, sighed.
"Who is Bodhidharma?" The sullen asked the Taoist.
"A great monk, a monk in the Shaolin Temple." Jia Daoshi replied.
The stuffy man immediately shouted to the smug Battle: "Lao Liu, don't be stinky, this reed raft has the ability to be hungry, a Han monk surnamed Da will know it a long time ago!" ”
Sun Yi sweated violently and hurriedly reminded the stuffy man: "Bodhidharma is a Tianzhu person!" ”
The stuffy man immediately shouted again: "Monk Da is a hungry Tianzhu person!" ”
Sun Yi's face was stunned, "Stuffy, do you know where Tianzhu is?" ”
The sullen replied, "I don't know." It is estimated that it is not far from Tianshui. ”
Battle choked on the stuffy and cried out hatefully, "Then why don't you build a reed raft now?" ”
The stuffy man immediately replied: "Forget it!" ”
Battle scolded viciously: "Shame on your ancestors! You see, I'll make you a better raft! ”
As he spoke, two large bundles of "reed bananas" were ready. Battle held a sturdy reed rope and walked between the two "bananas" placed side by side, pulling his hands and feet tightly every two inches. When Battle finishes cooking, the two "bananas" become a flat "dragon boat", and the two pointed ends of the "bananas" tied together are the dragon head and tail of the "dragon boat" on stilts.
The "dragon boat raft" was launched. It is perfectly possible for people to sit or stand on the spacious "belly of the raft". Moreover, the "dragon boat raft" is more stable on the calm water surface of the Shennong River, even if the people who don't know how to go up the water, they don't feel afraid.
For a brief demonstration, the "dragon boat raft" carrying four or five people also sailed to the opposite bank to cut reeds. It happened to pass by the "reed bananas" that were dragging the reeds like a hill towards the back.
When the third raft was launched, it was already a real dragon boat.
At Yang Ritian's request, Battle tied a bunch of reed poles to each wing of the "dragon boat raft" as a "boat gang". The "boat gang" erected high surrounded the "cabin", so that the people would not be "wet" and could also transport goods that were afraid of water. Someone brought a wooden plank to make an oar, and the reed boat, which looked bulky, was made of hollow material, and under the control of the "oar", it actually advanced and retreated freely on the calm water surface of the Shennong River.
Yang Ritian couldn't close his mouth with a smile, "Just do it like this!" ”
Wang Erniu had already assigned manpower, some of whom were specially responsible for cutting reeds on the other side, some were responsible for dragging the reeds back from the other bank, some were responsible for making reed ropes, those who made reed bundles, those who made reeds, and some who were specially responsible for the final assembly.
Sheepskin rafts with five-pointed star red flags and reed rafts with Taiji blue sky flags shuttled across the river, and the reeds dragged back formed a hill.
Sun Yi has experienced what geometric progression is.
At first there were less than ten rafts on the river,
After an hour, it became more than twenty.
After another hour, it became more than forty rafts, most of which were still reed boats that could be paddled.
Later generations often talked about "air supremacy" and "sea supremacy", and Sun Yijue's "river supremacy" is now 100% in his hands!
The reed rafts brought back from the other side could not be used up for a while, so a reed dock was built in one by one. Just outside the barracks, at the end of the north and south streets of the people's village, a dragon asked people to stack the reeds one by one foot horizontally and vertically, and float on the water, so that the raft did not have to rush to the beach every time it came back, and just leaned on the wharf. At the end of the street leading to the wharf, someone tied a high arch with a bundle of reeds and planted the Taiji five-pointed star flag, which is quite like the old railway station in later generations.
The reeds still can't be used up, Yang Ritian is arrogant, and points to the other side with his hand, "The reeds on the other side don't have to be dragged back first!" The reed ditch, and that and that, get me the reeds and plug them up!" These bandits don't dare to show their heads, so I'll suffocate him to death! ”