Chapter 507: Striking Iron and Digging Holes
When night fell, Su San was the first to wake up, and immediately woke up all the lemurs, gathered the team, and led the group of monkeys with dry firewood collected during the day to the right side of the waterhole.
And the group of capuchin monkeys on the other side of the river during the day today, because the leader of his tribe received a report from the sentry, saying that there was a large group of lemurs with wooden sticks coming towards them violently, so the leader led this group of capuchin monkeys to pick up pebbles and go to resist the enemy at the waterhole, he felt that the big waterhole was a natural barrier for them to resist foreign enemies, as long as they stayed here, the enemy was helpless against them, therefore, even at night, he did not relax his vigilance, still stationed at the edge of the waterhole with his subordinates, and also came to a "two-shift", Half of the monkeys slept and rested, half of the monkeys looked at the other side of the waterhole with wide eyes, and there were almost "no monkeys" in the tribal cottage, leaving only a dozen old, weak, sick and pregnant "caretakers".
Nearly in the middle of the night, Su San led a large group of energetic "ill-intentioned" lemurs, and finally touched the other party's lair, and was surprised to find that there were only a dozen or so old, weak, sick and pregnant people who had no combat effectiveness, and they were still sleeping, so he asked his subordinates to knock out the dozen or so capuchin monkeys one by one with wooden sticks, and then led this group of "lawless" lemurs to start setting fire everywhere in this capuchin monkey tribe cottage, and even planned to set fire to the mountain.
When the fire was everywhere and the smoke was billowing out, the leader of the capuchin monkeys who was dozing off by the waterhole found that something was wrong, and hurriedly led more than half of his subordinates to inspect and put out the fire, but found that the fire was already very large and could not be extinguished anymore.
At this moment, Su San was hiding hundreds of meters away, and the old god was quietly watching his "masterpiece" on the ground, and people were so anxious that they wanted to jump into the pool, but he was ...... It's indescribable.
As the fire grew bigger and bigger, the flames raged and the flames soared into the sky, and seeing that the tribal cottage was completely finished, the capuchin leader had to stomp his feet in pain and curse constantly, but it was already irreparable, so he had to return to the waterhole and gather all his subordinates to move out of the mountain to find a new habitat with a water source.
The fire burned for a day and a night, burning the mountain behind the waterhole, and by the way, several mountains around it, before being extinguished by a sudden heavy rainfall.
Today, even a large flat land (hundreds of meters in length and width) between the edge of the waterhole and the nearby mountain has been burned clean by the fire.
Subsequently, Su San took this large group of monkeys to carry out the "iron-making and digging holes" campaign, first transporting iron ore and coal ore dozens of miles away, and then began to make kiln bricks, but there are still several processes to make kiln bricks.
First of all, some coal blocks were pressed into powder with white rock, and then mixed into clay to make the material of kiln bricks, but to make a square brick mold, without carpenter's hand tools, Su San really had a headache for a while, and finally, he had an idea and decided to adopt a method that was not a way: find a large stone with a very flat side (if it is not flat, then find a way to use other stones to smooth it), and then, place this very flat side facing the sky, so that it is basically parallel to the horizon, and then, I used this stone plane to start making kiln brick molds, and finally made a few decent kiln brick molds, and then made a lot of kiln bricks according to the molds.
Next, the bricks are fired, and the moist kiln bricks pressed with molds are put into the brick kiln with several air vents in the arch shape in advance, and stacked horizontally and vertically, leaving a gap in the middle to facilitate air circulation and make each brick evenly heated.
Then, the lit dry branches are thrown in one by one, and the bricks are burned until the bricks in the kiln are burned red, and then the fire can be extinguished.
After firing the kiln bricks, you can use the kiln bricks to build a furnace for burning fire and iron, of course, you can also use kiln bricks to build a brick house, but Su San does not plan to do this, he just wants to build a furnace to make iron, and soon the furnace is built, and the next thing is to find charcoal or coal to make fuel for the fire, because Su San set fire to the mountain not long ago, so the mountains are full of charcoal, which is just used to burn fire and smelt iron, and now, the fuel does not have to worry.
Su San selected more than twenty strong lemurs as blacksmiths for striking iron, and then, ordered to throw a few pieces of iron ore into the red-hot furnace, when the iron ore was also burned red, and then use a wooden stick to quickly pick up the red-hot iron ore from the furnace, the first time the iron was so troublesome, and then use the already burning wooden stick to pull the red-hot iron ore to the ground made of large bluestone or flat white rock, because at this time the iron clamp and hammer had not been made (empty-handed, nothing), For the time being, use another small piece of white rock as an "iron hammer" to hammer the red-hot iron ore that falls on the big rock, if the red-hot iron ore is elongated, find a way to hammer it into an iron clip, if it is a ball or a square shape, then first hammer it into an iron hammer (you have to make an eye in the middle so that it can be used to wear a wooden handle).
With the clamps and hammers, the effectiveness increased several times, and Su San then asked the lemur "blacksmith" to hammer the much-needed clips, hammers, knives, shovels, and hoes.
In the end, he finally hit several iron clips and hammers, dozens of iron knives, shovels and hoes, during which Su San also let hundreds of lemurs continuously carry iron ore and coal ore, and the remaining lemurs were responsible for the logistics of burning coal, striking iron, hunting and barbecuing prey.
After making the labor tools needed to dig holes, Su San took the lead in carrying out the activities of "digging caves" in full swing, and he divided his "labor army" into three parts, one part was responsible for digging holes, one part was in charge of transporting soil, and the last part was responsible for logistics services such as hunting and barbecue, delivering water and food.
Almost all of them are busy and dizzy, no one is idle, oh, no, there is indeed an "idler", that is, the female lynx "heroic", but, to be precise, she can only be regarded as a "supernumerary", after all, people are bobcats, they don't belong to you lemurs, you can come and go freely, but it's a pity that she is now on Su San and doesn't want to go.
No wonder she is a cat, she doesn't want to work at all during the day, she just wants to sleep lazy, but at night, she has the spirit, jumping around, running around, and her favorite sport is to chase wild rats all over the ground to play, which is also her family's ancestral "traditional game".
Su San is also very helpless to her, he can't drive him away, not to mention that he doesn't want to drive him away now, he has feelings for a long time, although it is not that kind of "love", but it is the kind of "friendship" with deep feelings, and it even seems to be a bit like "family affection", treating her as his "own sister".
And all the lemurs except Su San "stayed away" from her, knowing that she had the best relationship with Su San, and she couldn't afford to offend her, so she didn't dare to provoke, and it was also because she didn't fit in well.