Chapter 29: Freezing Rain Now Threatened
Wang Chuan picked up the broken teeth and iron spears on the ground, and ran quickly to the cave to report the good news to his mother. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 Before leaving, he said to Ling: "Let Uncle Bihu live in the cave today, he is also tired for a day." ”
Seeing such a thing, I'm afraid that Bihu won't be able to drive away if he wants to. I can't control his heart now, and it will be even more impossible in the future.
Mother looked at the things that had been jingling in her hands for a day, and her eyes were full of joy. What the fire boy makes is good. Look, such hard fangs have been cut off. As for the credit of the tiger and the strong bull who mainly contributed to the beating, of course, it is ignored.
As soon as she was happy, her mother almost said that she wanted to celebrate with unlimited open food, but fortunately she was stopped by Wang Chuan in time.
Today the tribesmen ate a meal of sliced meat that they had never eaten before. Wang Chuan deliberately cut the meat into slices of the same size to tell the tribesmen the difference brought about by steel.
At the same time, the person who peeled the crocodile used it to peel off the most complete piece of crocodile skin. The barbecue woman used it to cut neat pieces of meat. Spirit used it to cut the leather of crocodile leather shoes for five people in a very short time. Wang Chuan also used it to trim his nails for his mother and Kuan once. The one that was used to polish the stone tools, although you said you were very prescient, the knife was not sharpened like that......
When Bihu entered the cave, the tribesmen were scrambling to try out this cross-era weapon.
At this time, Bihu's whole body was washed cleanly, his hair was still dripping with water, and the tiger skin he was wearing was also washed, and he kept dripping water on his hands. And he himself was trembling slightly in the night wind, naked......
Although this shape is very attractive to the eyes of tribal women, Wang Chuan always feels that something is wrong.
When he took the crocodile vest handed over by Wang Chuan, Bihu said very seriously: "I washed it with ash, three times!" He held up four fingers as he spoke.
Four fingers is the sequelae of this guy learning decimal. The decimal system has to add two numbers after eight, and he will always unconsciously add one or two numbers in his movements......
Washing plant ash can remove grease and dirt, and lice will also be washed off after three times. But you didn't let him do that, did you? Especially now that the night is cold and windy. Wang Chuan set his eyes on Ling, this black-bellied girl who thought she was Wang Chuan's spokesperson pouted a little, "If you let him live in, you must let him know the rules of the tribe." Since you're new, you should be stricter. ”
There is nothing disgruntled about Bihu. After meeting his mother, he sat down on the bed in his dry lichen bunk and let out a sigh of satisfaction. I didn't mind that my bed was next to the dry pyre at the entrance of the cave.
The iron spear was passed in the hands of the tribesmen, and when it returned to Wang Chuan, Wang Chuan launched a mobilization in front of the fire. Briefly talked about the various tools that can be made from this kind of steel, taught everyone to recognize iron ore, and then asked the tribe to go to the river to pick up iron ore and come back. How many to have.
When the tribe appears with this kind of thing that everyone wants, there are more people who ask for it. Those who go out hunting need spears and machetes made of these things, and those who hunt crocodiles need hooks and spears made of these things. Pregnant women in the kitchen want to be able to cut meat with this. The spirit wanted a knife and a needle made of this thing. The bull wants the arrows that this thing is made of. Even my mother wanted a knife to cut meat......
The striking of iron continued in the days to come. However, the first piece of iron was not taken out and used by the tribe's adults, and the second was not what the tribe demanded.
Wang Chuan felt that he could no longer endure the life of iron-striking like that day, so the conditions for iron-striking needed to be improved. The first iron tool was left by him to be used as a tool for improvement. The second piece of iron was made of a hammer for striking iron.
The fire with firewood is too inefficient, and charcoal is burned. For the time being, the amount of charcoal used is not large, so the wood is burned by digging a pit and watering it. Now that autumn is dry, wet charcoal can be used after a day or two of drying.
The piston bellows are laborious and windless, and now you can use an iron spear to cut the planks and make a two-way multi-valve long box bellows. Bihu has a good understanding and strength, and after the plank was sharpened for a long time, Wang Chuan commanded him to nail it up with bamboo nails. The piston bellows are not dismantled and are kept for backup.
Hammers are the easiest thing to pour, but now there is no blast furnace that can be made into molten steel, so they still have to be made by hand.
The previous process is the same. The hammer is a little more troublesome when it comes to forming. If there is no hole in the middle of the hammer, the installation of the hammer handle will be a big problem. Therefore, when molding, first thin the middle, put a wet wooden stick soaked in water and roll it in the middle, and then slowly hammer out the shape of a hammer.
After the shape of the hammer is about formed, the stick will be heated and burned repeatedly, and the remaining piece is wrapped in the hammer, at this time, the whole hammer is slowly burned on the fire, and the wooden block inside is also burned, and the hammer hole comes out.
The hammer with holes was fitted with a wooden handle, and the second iron tool was baked, so that there would be no need for several people to pick up the stones, and one person would tie the hammer next to it. Iron striking can officially enter the mass production stage.
There were thousands of kinds of iron tools in later generations, and the needs of tribes for iron tools were also diverse. But at the beginning, Wang Chuan felt that it was more important to build a spear. This thing is not only used in hunting, but also in offensive and defensive battles.
Spears are the best things for tribal men. With this thing, it's not too late to build the rest slowly, and of course, in this process, it is still necessary to make some meat cutting knives and spiritual needles. Wang Chuan also felt that he should have a dagger to defend himself......
Since the appearance of the first hammer, Bihu and Zhuangniu have become blacksmiths, busy between iron and fire, tinkling to shape the future of the tribe.
Wang Chuan sometimes picks up a hammer and hits it dozens of times to boil his body, but he is always disliked by the tiger and the strong cow. But now the process of striking iron is inseparable from him. For example, like injections, they don't know how to punch the pinholes. Wang Chuan asked them to make one end thinner, then bend back and knock the interface back so that the pinhole came out.
A few days later, it rained in the autumn after a long period of sunshine. The air is getting damp and cold, and winter is getting thicker.
The blacksmith shop was transferred to the abandoned cave before the rain, and the space inside was not large, and the activities of two or three people were okay, but the ore charcoal could not be put down. Bihu went to the cave to get charcoal. Wang Chuan looked at the mountains and forests outside in a daze.
The children of the tribe wore animal skin clothes, pants and shoes, and for the first time they were not afraid of the cold rain and had a good time in the open field. Wang Chuan's gaze passed over them and thought of the dolphin tribe. There has been no news for so long, and he thinks that the people from the Dolphin Tribe should not come.
The threat from the Dolphin Tribe was like a sword hanging over his head to him, and at first glance it seemed extremely dangerous, but now that it was not moving, it made people wonder if the sword was a good thing.
Now that even the freezing rain is falling, and they have clearly missed the best time for a long run. Without caves and fire, the dolphin tribe may have begun to freeze to death. After a long time, they found a better way to survive the winter, or did they get enough supplies at a smaller cost?
Wang Chuan is still preparing these days, and with the addition of Bihu and the appearance of iron weapons, he feels that he is more sure of resisting. However, this punch seemed to hit the cotton, which made him feel a little uncomfortable when he couldn't make it stronger.
Just as he was thinking about this, a tiger roar came from the mountains and forests.