Chapter 280: Cold Comes and Summer
Wang Chuan's appointment with the baby elephant a year ago to raise it and cultivate the land finally came true this year. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
The purpose of Wang Chuan's ironworks was to make plowshares. And I got it straight out of the curved plow. Wang Chuan understands the principle that the curved plow is less labor-saving than the straight plow, and there is no need to take a detour when the technology is appropriate.
The baby elephant is accustomed to pulling carts and sleighs, and it is not very repelled when it comes to pulling up plowshares. But every time he finishes pulling an acre or so, he will always stop and get tired of being crooked in front of Wang Chuan for a while, and he will continue only if he wants to eat something. This is the hourly wage, Wang Chuan gives it very happily, and every time it is served with tender grass and potatoes and even sake lees.
In addition to the baby elephants, the baby rhinos were also put on reins to help pull the plow. The baby rhinoceros is much simpler, as long as you tie a handful of grass in front of its forehead, it can run around for a day without stopping.
Several calves that had been raised by the tribe for a year were also pulled out and learned to plow the land by one person in front and one person in the back. These cows, which have been put away by the children of the tribe and the wolf dogs for almost a year, are also quite obedient, except for the stubbornness that makes them and has to use the whip.
But the bison that were newly hunted last year were not good. The big guys didn't walk and went backwards, and as soon as they got on the reins, they jumped endlessly, and the small ones were too small to pull. Wang Chuan had no choice but to kill those big ones and reward everyone for spring ploughing.
Sometimes the vicissitudes of life are really fleeting.
Digging from the ground and not being involved in it, it's really hard to imagine the hardships.
When Wang Chuan was thirteen years old, he planned to plant 500 acres of rice, and a number of other crops such as potatoes, gourds, purple, and jute. As a result, the beast hunters had not yet returned, and the spring rain began to fall. As a result, there was a flood and then a drought this year, and less than 300 acres of rice were planted as planned, so they were not further planted, and all the seedlings planted in low-lying areas were soaked to death. Fortunately, the lake built by Wang Chuan first solved many problems, and the harvest of potatoes was not bad, and the people of the tribe did not go hungry.
The winter of this year was also warm, and as a result, in the summer when Wang Chuan was fourteen years old, there was a big locust plague. Although it did not end up with no grains, the fields were doubled this year, and the harvest was not much different from last year.
Fortunately, locusts can also be eaten, Wang Chuan dried the locusts as a reserve of dry food, stewed with fish in winter, the taste is similar to shrimp, so that many people in the tribe are full of praise.
In the fifteenth year of Wang Chuan, the wind and rain were smooth, and the harvest was about to be harvested, and the last migratory bird tide descended on the tribe...... This winter, everyone's staple food is all kinds of birds and birds, and the price of rice in the market is still three taels of rice, which is worth a pound of meat.
In the blink of an eye, Wang Chuan came to the fifth Spring Festival of this era. He will be sixteen years old after the Spring Festival.
Three years have passed in the blink of an eye. Sometimes Wang Chuan inevitably sighed that he had spent the past few years looking down and scavenging from the ground, and he didn't have time to do anything else.
In the past three years, Wang Chuan's new inventions have only a handful, and they are all dispensable in the eyes of the tribesmen.
Wang Chuan made paper out of bamboo and miscanthus grass. These papers are yellowed straw paper, brittle, untasty, and of little use except for school-going children. But this paper workshop still occupies a lot of manpower.
Wang Chuan also made ink with pine tobacco and leather glue, and the black paint stuff couldn't be eaten, and it was basically useless except for the students who could use it in other places.
The abacus, a thing strung together with beads, is something that few people in the tribe would use. People who can use it are all in their hands every day, looking like they don't want to enter, and they don't like it when they look at it.
The candle, which is a lit thing, is a little brighter than an oil lamp. But it is very rare, and the river tribe is using a few heads, and it is used a little less, which makes people feel distressed to watch.
The rest, basically, is gone.
But in the past three years, the River tribe has grown from more than 1,000 people to 4,000 people. The old village has been expanded and built larger than the new village. On the other side of the river, where the old man lived, a new stockade was also built. The size of this stockade is not smaller than the two opposites. The old man's house was enclosed.
At the same time, the industrial village built by the river was refilled with ground, and a new family area was built, and many people lived in it.
The Horde's army grew to six hundred, and a hundred professional soldiers appeared. These 100 professional soldiers are under the command of Zhuang Niu, and the main force is these students of Dahei.
In three years, Zhuang Niu really grew into a big man. He was half a head taller than the tiger, and his stature was on par with Rumbla. Force value is the first person in the younger generation.
In the past three years, Wang Chuan has also grown into a great guy. He was shorter than the tiger and had a slender and sturdy build. But according to his own account, he can be a little longer. This made Bihu very dissatisfied.
Both the baby elephant and the baby rhino have grown up. The little rhinoceros has basically become a big rhinoceros, with a length of five meters, and the sharp horns on its head are half a meter long. No one dared to approach it. But it has become more and more restrained, and it is rarely topped. Because Wang Chuan hung an iron shield on its sharp corner.
However, the baby elephant is still the same, and after a big circle, his temperament is still like that of a child. Its teeth finally grow, and they are half a meter long, but it still doesn't forage for food on its own, and if someone feeds it to its mouth, it won't pick it up by itself. Fortunately, it has made a lot of efforts to help the tribe in spring and winter every year, and the tribesmen spoil it very much, so even if it is lazy and out of style, it is still not afraid of having nothing to eat.
The second generation of the tribe's wolfdogs has also grown up. Wolf Ting is good at math, but she didn't expect how many wolf dogs would give birth to a dozen female wolf dogs without a limit. Now between the three villages in the tribe, dozens or hundreds of wolf dogs are running around all day long, causing the whole world to be uneasy. So Wang Chuan found that someone in the tribe had quietly eaten mutton without hooves......
After perching back, Wang Chuan thought she would come again in the fall. It didn't. Wang Chuan asked people to inquire with the people of the West Cattle Department, and they also said that there were still migrants in the beast tide, but there was no wave of Yi people. This year, Wang Chuan was busy fighting drought and didn't have time to think about it.
In the autumn of the following year, Qi did not come. Yiren still didn't appear in the beast tide. Wang Chuan was worried that they would be robbed and killed halfway, so he asked people to go to the beast tide to inquire about other migrants. No one knows anything about them.
The same is true in the autumn of the third year.
It's sad to kill the bark, the eaglet and the mother.
When she left, she was already pregnant. The bark couldn't keep her, so she had to go back. But who wants to say goodbye for three years without any news?
After the eaglet left, he was strictly guarded by Wang Chuan. Although it has grown to a meter tall now, it still misses that warm embrace.
Mother is worried, because Wang Chuan has reached the age of marriage.