Chapter 230: Crafting Weapons

In the past, if Song Xuan had put on such a posture, naturally no one would dare to object, but today everyone did not retreat, even the stone who had always listened to Song Xuan's words.

Song Xuan thought about it, anyway, this is also the kindness of everyone, and it does not necessarily mean that it will definitely not be successful, even if it is not successful, it is still no problem to save a dagger or something like that in the front, and as Shi Meng said, most of the people in the tribe are not very able to use it at present.

In addition to the stone class here is a must, you can also use it to clean up the rice field, use the axe to cut off the dug roots, and it can also facilitate the planting of the next year, although the efficiency is a little lower, but it is better than setting fire, or letting it rot on its own faster.

"I want a dagger!"

In terms of practicality, it must be that the knife should be more realistic, and if it is handsome, the sword will naturally be a lot more chic, but both will cost more bronze, and now it is better to use a dagger to make do, anyway, Song Xuan usually does not use many places, and it is convenient to take a small dagger with him.

Hearing that Song Xuan agreed, everyone retreated, and Shi Ban also held the axe in his arms like a baby.

Although it had been determined that the bronze could be refined, Song Xuan did not make the next move, but pondered a new mold with the stone.

In addition to daggers, there are other things in the tribe, but after all, they are tied to wooden sticks with stones, and the difference between them and bronze is still very large.

And these things have never been seen in stone, so he still has to rely on Song Xuan to describe them, and it is not difficult to do it, just take the clay and pinch out a similar one, as long as it is hard, it can be used as a model.

This template is completely made according to the size of the need to burn in the future, and after it is burned, you can also take it in your hand to try it, which does not conform to the daily use habits, anyway, it is burned out of clay, and it is very easy to modify it, since it has been determined, although I am very excited, but everyone is not in a hurry.

Song Xuan also told the stone that it must be made into the most suitable feel and then made into a mold, compared with refining metal, this kind of pottery that basically has no requirements is still much simpler, and it doesn't have to be like the pottery used in the tribe, which generally has to be burned all night or even longer to maintain enough hardness, this kind of as long as it is formed, it can hold copper water, and it doesn't overflow, anyway, it has to be knocked out later, and the quality of it is poor, but it is easier.

Since the kiln needs to be opened, then simply burn out a batch of pottery, after all, it is winter next, and it is not so convenient to burn a large number of pottery, even now, and mud is also a very cold thing, do not set up a big fire next to it, there is no way to do it at all.

The stone also called the two stone pottery over, and now the workload is not something he can complete alone, he also needs to make molds, and the work of firing pottery can only be handed over to the stone pottery two, they have also followed the stone to learn to make pottery for a long time, and most of the pottery is no problem to make, but it usually does not need so many people.

There is no problem with the stone to do some work normally, but if he walks for a long time or does heavy physical work, it is still a little reluctant, and if he goes outside to participate in the hunt, it is estimated that he can only drag everyone back, it is better to stay in the tribe to ponder the production of pottery, anyway, every time the exchange is exchanged, the benefits of pottery to Teng Snake can be far more than that brought back by one or two people from hunting.

Compared with the original pottery, the pottery in the tribe is not only much thinner and lighter, but also harder, and everyone can see these changes.

So even if they don't participate in the hunt, everyone has no complaints.

But after all, no kaolin was found, and the porcelain that Song Xuan wanted couldn't be made for the time being, but fortunately, the current pottery was a little uglier, and there was no problem at all with it, and the stone had even begun to ponder and draw patterns on it, but the pigment had not yet found a suitable one, and now it could only make some black patterns, although it was not so good-looking, but it could also give the tribe a shock that everyone did not know.

After all, it is the icing on the cake, Song Xuan neither supports nor opposes this, just let the stone figure it out by itself, and it will not delay the usual production anyway.

It should take a day or two to complete the production of various weapon molds, so Song Xuan did not continue to delay things here, but came to work in the fields with everyone.

The axe that was originally going to be returned to the furnace was also here, and the stone class had already wedged the handle, which was still relatively handy, at least more convenient than the stone axe in the tribe, but it was still somewhat heavier, but if it was used to chop things, this weight not only did not make people feel more tired, but it was easier and more labor-saving to use.

Since Shi Meng and the others didn't choose the stone axe at the beginning, Song Xuan also fought back a little, handed the bronze axe to Shi Yu, and asked him to cut the roots of the tree with him.

Although Shi Yu knew about the bronze weapon, Song Xuan didn't keep him before, after all, he would definitely use the bronze arrow in the future, if it was paired with the bronze weapon, under the existing conditions, it would be much more used than everyone else.

Song Xuan talked a lot to Shi Yu on the way back, so this time he didn't give it to him, and Shi Yu didn't care about it at all, compared to those things, the position of bows and arrows in his mind was obviously much more important.

Without a bow and arrow, Shi Yu may have been ordinary in the tribe, although his strength is not weak, but there is nothing outstanding about it.

But when he participates in the hunt after having arrows, he plays a role that is sometimes even greater than several people combined, and the same is true in battle, starting to shoot arrows from the enemy into the attack range, even if only four or five arrows are fired, it also means that there are four or five people on the opposite side to reduce the number of people, basically all arrows are not missing, even if they can't be shot on the spot, there is no problem in temporarily losing their combat effectiveness.

Therefore, after Song Xuan promised to make him some bronze arrowheads, Shi Yu was not interested in other weapons at all, and Shi Yu had already used the arrows collected from the archers of the Wuyu tribe at this time, and mounted it on the shaft of the Teng Snake's arrows.

Although the penetration power is not as strong as that of real bronze, the power is obviously much better than that of ordinary bone polishing, but it is not without its drawbacks, that is, the ore polished is still rough after all, and the size is very uneven.

For a master like Shi Yu, the change in weight is still quite sensitive, not to mention that the smallest ore arrow can be nearly half smaller than the largest, although Shi Yu tied several with interest, but after shooting a few arrows in his hand, he put it in the deepest part of the quiver.

Although the power has become a lot greater, but the feel is a lot worse, and it has also lost the previous accuracy, and the deviation between the aiming place and the shooting part is still quite large, for the master, such an error is really unacceptable.

After all, the bronze weapon is a secret in the tribe, although it is extracted from the weapon of the black feather, but the people who believe in the black feather do not believe that the stone in their hands will one day become so shiny.

In order not to attract attention, Song Xuan and Shi Yu could only stay away from the large army, driving the captives farther away, and at the same time put the axe in the mud and rolled it around, although it was a little distressing, but after taking it out again, it was obvious that it was ordinary all of a sudden, not closer, if you carefully observe the axe blade, it is difficult to see the original luster.

The rice field opposite the tribe must be a key planting place in the future, so the two of them also picked a secluded corner here and began to clean up the roots that the captives had dug up.

It is indeed much easier to have an axe, two fingers thick roots, two or three axes can basically cut it off, although it has been dug up, but it does not mean that it will disappear by the time the plough next year.

Unless you are very lucky, the level is dry, and you will burn a fire clean, but the possibility is not great, after all, not all the roots have been dug up, each root is only half exposed at most, and most of the rest is still buried in the ground, like Song Xuan's way of cutting it off at this time, it can be pulled up a lot at once, and when it reaches the desired position or can't be pulled, the effect of directly cutting it is much better than other methods.

It's slow and cumbersome, but it's not a big deal to make it easier to grow next year and have a higher yield.

After all, it is not so easy to make it really completely rotten, even if there are still many roots under the 100 acres of rice fields that have been planted with rice this year, there are still many roots that are not completely rotten, and it will definitely cause some trouble when plowing the land next year.

However, the number should not be too much, at most there will be a year to go, and the roots inside should be completely rotten, at least this layer of rice cultivation in the tribe must be gone.

In addition to weapons, there is also a convenient plough in the tribe that needs bronze, and now the plough is still made of bone and stone, and the disadvantages are naturally the same as ordinary weapons.

If the ore behind can also be refined into bronze, then it should be used on the plow, if there is a plough made of bronze, it will definitely be much easier to plow next year.

You must know that there are five or six hundred acres of vacant land in the tribe now, which is not a small project, even if it is only planted three or four hundred acres, it is enough for everyone to be busy, Song Xuan has even done it, and in the end, even if he does not open it, he has to forcibly plant it.

Although the yield may be lower, it is better to harvest something more or less than to have no harvest at all.

But no matter what, the more than 200 acres of land opposite the tribe must be managed well, which is also the basic plate of the tribe.

These lands must be cleaned up, and it is better not to worry about such things in the next year.

However, Song Xuan felt that even if the ore behind it could not be refined into a more perfect bronze, if it was only used on the plow, it should not be a particularly big problem.

Although the current livestock in the tribe is not particularly large, it can barely meet the needs of agriculture, and the calves that have been exchanged this year have also grown up a lot, plus the agreement with the cattle tribe, as well as Uncle Lu's family, to form a dozen plow pulling teams, there should be no problem.

If you just do some simple reclamation, the speed should not be too slow.

Although he was holding an axe made of bronze, cutting the roots of the tree was also a tiring thing, and it didn't take long for Song Xuan's movements to slow down.

Where the two passed, several small bags made of tree roots were piled up, and this could be set on fire next year.

Not to mention the rest, the land around Teng Snake is still quite fertile, which has not been developed and utilized before, and there is a thick layer of vegetation accumulated on it, although the land is full of tree roots, but the slightly better places are also black soil when digging down thirty or forty centimeters.

Although there is no shortage of nutrients, Song Xuan doesn't want to waste it, anyway, there is nothing bad about being fertile.

The ditch of the rice field opposite the tribe has begun to take shape, of course, it is impossible to completely divide the rice field like the first hundred acres, for the convenience and time saving, only around the circle, and then a few inside.

This kind of work has also begun to be dug up on the hundreds of acres of rice fields downstream, which must be completely dug before the arrival of winter, when all the water can be brought in and soaked for a whole winter, which is much better than a dry snow cover.

Especially the grass ash on the surface can slowly seep into the ground in this way, and it has been on the ground, and it is not particularly convenient to cultivate, just like Song Xuan and the two of them have black hands and feet at this time, and even there are several black marks on their faces.

Of course, the people working in the fields at this time were also similar, and the captives did not have enough to raise, and many of them only used a piece of wood, on which they did not even have time to tie the bones, first, there was not enough time, and secondly, there were not so many ropes and sharpened fan bones.

Both of them will take time, but fortunately, Shihua and the others are also working overtime to cut the animal skin, and the bones are distributed to the captives so that they can polish them in the past few days.

In the future, with bronze knives, it will be much easier for Shihua to do their work, especially on cutting animal skins, how thin the animal skin strips they want can be cut, and it must be fast and good.

But it's a pity that the animal skin has slowly lost its original status in the snake, and next year it will definitely be to further expand the cultivation of hemp, first of all, I want to strive for the tribe to try not to use the animal skin strip next year, of course, this certainly does not include the captives.

In any case, as long as the tools used by the captives are still a little behind the snakes, and they also need to be strictly guarded, even if they are like ropes.

Most of the surrounding tribes still use ropes cut out of animal skins, and Song Xuan has also seen them rubbed out of tree bark and the like, but the quality is not very good, and even the animal skin rope is not comparable, let alone the hemp rope of the Teng snake.

Obviously, this has been aware, but I haven't found the right materials, after all, not everyone has a plug-in like Song Xuan and can take many detours.

Since the death of the dark cloud, the captives of the tribe have not only become much more honest, but also have a lot of changes in their mentality.

Now there are only a small number of people who still want to escape, even among these small number of people, they don't think about running away now, after all, now is definitely not a good time, the weather is already so cold, even if they escape, there is a high probability that they will not survive in the wild, they still have a very clear understanding of this.

In addition to these people, many people from the Ebony tribe also began to understand why Ebony would stay in Teng Snake so desperately after the appearance of these people in Ebony.

Not only did he let them join Teng Snake very generously, but he even treated them as his own people completely, but he also arranged a spouse for them, and the life they lived was not even worse than that of them from the Black Feather Tribe.

Ask yourself, in the Blackfeather Tribe, prisoners of war and slaves are never treated like this, and even the leaders of friendly tribes like Wolf Blaze are treated as inferior.

Teng Snake's combat power they have already seen, know how strong it is, although they occupy the right time and place to fight, after all, they had a numerical advantage at that time, and it was quite large, and defeat cannot be completely said to be a matter of luck.

Although it has not been long since he became a captive, some of them have already begun to start thinking of not resisting, of course, this is only limited to the people of the Black Feather Tribe, those people of the Wolf Tribe have not thought of resisting for a long time, especially after the death of the wolf, although the leader is dead, but almost no one in the Wolf Tribe thinks about avenging the leader.

Although most people also know that Wolf Chi is taking the blame for the entire Wolf Tribe, even if Wolf Chi is alive, he should not think of rebelling against the Teng Snake Tribe, after all, that is not good for the Wolf Tribe, and with the current strength of the Wolf Tribe, it is no longer qualified to become a large tribe, let alone lose the protection of the black feather.

Even if the Teng Snake lets them go now, the next days of the wolf tribe will not be too easy, and then not only need to avoid the Teng Snake, but also have to avoid the Black Feather Tribe, the group of people in the dark clouds have not heard from them for a long time, it is estimated that they will be the first to find them, and by then it will be really the big in the world, but there is no place to live.

So instead of thinking about how to escape, it is better to work on Teng Snake's side, at least Teng Snake's attitude towards them is much better than that of Wu Yuna.

Of course, the most important thing is that everyone in the wolf tribe now knows that Xue'er has become a messenger, although they don't know the progress, but they really haven't seen Xue'er working together today, at least it should still be in the tribe.

With this relationship, Teng Snake must be better for them, but people who have this kind of thinking basically think more about themselves.

Although the relationship between Xue'er and Song Xuan is now well known in the tribe, it has nothing to do with the rest of the wolf tribe, and the reason why Teng Snake has a slightly better attitude is completely because of those women and children, and everyone can't have a good impression of the adult men who came to attack Teng Snake.

There is even some disgust, especially the iris rain, if it weren't for the fact that Wolf Chi had committed suicide, this emotion would be even more serious, but for this kind of anti-bone boy, it must be well educated in the future.

Even if most of the people of the wolf tribe have recognized their mistakes, after all, they have done this kind of wrong thing, which cannot be solved by a wolf blazing suicide.

However, Teng Snake's main task now is to clean up the rice fields, and at the same time, before the winter comes, the necessary houses will be built, these people can only be put back, and now give the captives so much food, but also worry that they will not be able to eat enough to work, but it is not Teng Snake is generous, even the captives are willing to let them have a full meal every day.

Considering the situation in the tribe, Song Xuan was ready to eat fish for the captives, whether it was live fish or dead fish, there were a lot of them in the tribe, especially this year, there was basically no shortage of salt, and there were more pickled fish.

This year, the children also worked very hard, and every time they went out, they brought back a lot of fish, most of which were naturally released into the river.

Although Teng Snake and everyone usually eat, they don't eat too much, after all, just get a few big ones, you can satisfy your usual appetite.

Small fish will naturally be released, but it is obviously not cost-effective to raise large fish in the river, especially the kind of ten or twenty catties, which will only get thinner and thinner, it is better to eat it on the catch, and you can eat it freshly and enjoy it.

Coupled with snails and river mussels, even if it is a water cloud, they will not have the slightest discomfort when they arrive at Teng Snake.

However, Shui Yun and they eat these things more because of the necessity of life, after all, the strength of the tribe is not strong, and sometimes they may not be able to get enough prey, so they naturally have to fish something from the river to fill their stomachs.

In addition, there are no novel production methods, they are all roasted on the fire, whether it is taste or texture, it cannot be regarded as delicious, but for the service, there are not such high requirements, it is quite good to be able to eat, and according to Shi Meng, the captives of the Wuyu tribe seem to be very interested in the things in the river.

After all, there are no decent rivers near the Wuyu tribe, and the river fresh food that can be eaten is naturally quite limited, not to mention that it can be as rich as Teng Snake, so the first time they ate all kinds of shellfish in the river, the eyes of the people in the dark clouds lit up one by one, and these things were still quite delicious for them.

However, the things in the river are used to fight the tooth sacrifice, as a staple food, or a few days will be full of that fishy smell, which Teng Snake people have personally experienced, when the Teng Snake tribe just moved over, if it were not for this small river that is not too big, it may not be able to survive the first difficult winter.

So although I was tired of eating at the beginning, everyone would go to the river from time to time to touch some and come back, in addition to wanting to eat, I also had the meaning of nostalgia for those days, which was the most difficult time for the Teng Snake people.

But Song Xuan doesn't like these gadgets very much, he still likes to eat the big crabs in the river, and he has eaten a lot after the autumn this year, after all, everyone has roughly figured out Song Xuan's preferences, and the children will sneak back when they meet, but unfortunately the final tasting time was destroyed by Wu Yu, and when Song Xuan came back from the exchange conference, there were no crabs, and they had already gone into the hole and came out.