From Chief to Ball

The woman in charge of divination smiled and said: "Yue, I have already thought about it. They gave us silk moths, and we asked the tribe to carve a cluster of jade. The plant he painted on the silk should be the surname of their tribe. It looks fine."

"What about the others?"

"Food is easy to say, jerky, fermented sauce, millet cake, dates. Playthings are also good, seashells, juniper. Seeds give back corn and beans, and musical instruments include horns and silk strings. Let's give back the Nine Numbers map for the ruler, and it will definitely not Let him laugh at us. Just..."

Speaking of this, she looked at the unknown scale and hesitated for a while.

The top of the wooden pole was engraved with star marks. After thinking for a while, the woman thought that this should be a calendar for stargazing. Maybe they used the stars to guide the farming season?

If this is the case, we can only give back to the model, but it took a few years to observe the complete model after we moved here.

But other than that, there was no equal gift, so the woman decided to make a piece of earthenware, a watch without scales.

The base is round, and there is a trace of the sun in the center. The tribe worships brilliance and the sun, and also believes that the sky is round.

The engravings on the four sides are not words, but a few fixed stars and the sun and moon rising in the east and setting in the west. The only thing missing is the scale on the watch, which is not perfect, but she really can't think of anything to give back. .

After the gift is set, the rest needs to wait, and someone will prepare it all.

E Yue drew the idea of ​​not moving the spear on the silk with ox blood, and pressed it with a jade wrench finger stained with blood.The pull finger can hook the string, and there are some patterns on the front that represent rights and his surname. The carving is extremely delicate. The groove for pulling the string and the logo of the surname are mixed together, which is much more beautiful than Chen Jian's imprint in this regard.

When these people were preparing the presents, Song was also inquiring about the presents delivered this time in the hut where Song and others were recuperating outside the house, tsk-tsk surprised.

He has never seen most of the things, such as the bronze mirror, but he has missed so many things in just one month, so he wants to go back even more.

But the rider shook his head and said: "Jian said, let you stay here for a while, learn their words, and see their tribe."

"Their tribe is not the same as ours. Their things belong to individuals, not tribes."

"Jian said, no matter what strange places you see, write them down, learn their language as soon as possible, talk to them more, but don't go to places they don't want you to see."

Song laughed and said, "I'm not going to watch it. It's not like our tribe doesn't have it. Maybe if I come a few months later, we'll have all the things they don't want me to see."

The clansmen all laughed and compared their lives a few months ago in unison.

After laughing for a while, Song frowned and said, "Then I won't go back, I'll learn what they say. If they ask about our tribe, what should I say?"

"Except for copper smelting, you can talk about anything."

"I see."

After the rider explained everything, he took a large package from the back of the horned deer, and said, "Try it, this is prepared by Jian for you. It tastes like home. We have never eaten it."

Song squeezed out two pieces of nut candies with his fingers, stuffed them into his mouth and chewed one piece carefully. The crispy nuts were mixed with the aroma of deer milk, and the unique sweetness of maple syrup made him smile.

"Sweet, it really tastes like home."

He carefully put away the piece of candy he didn't eat, and said in his heart that he didn't know how long it would take to learn their words.

It may take a long time, but when you feel homesick, take it out and lick it.

There are also sweet foods here, but it is not always the taste of home.

Chapter 65 Drive!

A few days later, E Yue finally prepared the gifts, and sent some clansmen to carry the gifts, and followed the riders to Chen Jian's city.

The two most powerful tribes within three hundred miles along the Caohe River finally started their first communication.

E Yue's favorite wife also went there together. In the era when patriarchy had not completely suppressed women's rights, the woman in charge of divination was a very high status existence in the tribe.

This is an attitude of importance, and it is also for better understanding of Chen Jian's tribe.

The woman wanted to see Chen Jian's frowning and pensive expression when he saw the figure of nine numbers, and also wanted Chen Jian to ask her how to use the watch dial.Of course, maybe I can also ask myself what that piece of wood covered with star marks is for.

Chen Jian, who was three hundred miles away, did not know the specifications of this return visit.

In the past few days, he has been devastated, and his younger brothers and sisters follow him every day, making him fulfill the original promise.

These children made scales, and the accuracy was almost the same as that of the first steelyard. The surface was covered with grease and turpentine for waterproofing. Although the gourds were drawn in the same way, it is possible that this level has far exceeded Chen Jian's expectations.

Children are the future, so Chen Jian can only learn from Zeng Zi to kill pigs.

He promised that if his younger siblings made a claim, he would give them a very funny thing.

Now the only thing that can restrain these children is the wheel. Metal tools have appeared, and it is not impossible to make a wheel.

It's just that I didn't know until I actually did it. No wonder this thing is an invention that changed the history of the world. No wonder many races have not invented this technology for thousands of years. It is too difficult to make.

If planting is the sprout of civilization, then metals, wheels and wells are the buds of civilization. With these three, the seeds of civilization can be spread all over the world.

Needless to say, the significance of metal, the well makes the place where there is no river a place to live.

The meaning of the wheel is not only a means of transportation, but also enables human beings to leave the river bank and reclaim the land far away from the river bank.

The purpose of reclaiming the land is to accumulate grain in their own warehouses instead of rotting in the ground.

Without wheels, the only way to transport food back is to rely on rivers and boats.

The same is true in war, without wheels, the range of the expedition is only three hundred miles, and the food supply cannot keep up no matter how far away, unless it is by the river.

It can be said that without wheels, for human beings, a place with a river is a meaningful world.

Whether it is to fulfill the previous promise, or because his tribe is a real square country with a radius of [-] miles, instead of a line of [-] miles along the river, he must get the wheels out.

For the understanding of ancient wheels, Chen Jian only stayed at the point where the wood was straight and the rope was in the middle, and the wheel was thought of as a wheel, so he knew that the wheel should be spliced ​​​​by curved wood.

If it is not spliced, it can be directly sawed with a log when the wheel is too heavy and easily damaged.

Splicing obviously requires spokes to help the wheel carry weight.

It was obviously impossible for one person to conceive the shape of the wheel, so more than 20 people were hired to work together.

Since the wheel is spliced ​​out of arc wood, the first step is to determine the diameter of the wheel and the number of spliced ​​arcs.

The wooden wheel cannot be round, it should be an irregular circle. If you want to be as round as possible, you need to increase the number of splicing arcs, but too many splicing will affect the compression resistance of the wheel, so it is best It's six or eight yuan.

A rope of about 1.2 meters was chosen as the diameter of the wheel.

Then fold the rope in half into a radius, draw a circle on the ground, and divide the circle into eight equal parts with a square and a ruler.

Then use thin wood, carefully cut out the shape of a sliced ​​pizza with a knife, which happens to be a circular arc with a top angle of 45 degrees.A total of eight were made and distributed to the tribe.

Then go to pick fresh wood, straighten it with hanging wire and ink line, saw out a plank about half the width of a palm, soak it and put it on the fire to bake.

Under the steaming of the flame, the wood will naturally bend, and the size of the bend is not perfect, so it is necessary to use the quantity to make up for the probability.There are dozens of roots, and there are always seven or eight that are suitable.

Select some wood that looks similar to the arc, and use the prepared arc ruler to measure. The cut surface to be spliced ​​in the future is cut along the two sides of the arc ruler with a saw, and then the arc is trimmed with a knife. Try to match the arc ruler approximate.