From Chief to Ball

"Correct."

"What about you, just think of a way with your brothers and sisters, get out sand and stones that are as heavy as this piece of meat, and put them in a cloth bag. If you can get out sand that is as heavy as this piece of meat, I will tell you what to do .”

Yu Qian'er looked at the bacon and thought to himself, this is not easy, how can we get sand as heavy as this piece of bacon?

Chen Jian called the rest of his siblings and asked them to find a way with Yu Qian'er.I went to count the remaining food and all the property of the tribe, as well as the most important population.

Now my tribe does not have a surname, and the tribe needs to discuss the surname, but the people of Huaihua can definitely be regarded as part of their own tribe.

Today, there are 210 people in the family, 130 are light and strong, more than 20 are disabled, sick and injured, and the rest are old people and children.

There are more than 90 people in the tribe surnamed Shi, and more than 60 are light and strong. Now, the labor force that I can call is close to [-].

A village of more than 300 people needs about seven to eight hundred catties of food every day, which is equivalent to four or five sheep plus tubers and wild vegetables, and a lot of fish.

I don’t eat much salt every day, and the saline-alkali soil dug back can last for a long time.

There are still four jars of maple syrup. Only maple and birch trees that germinate in spring can collect sugar. If these sugars are not eaten, we will have to wait until next spring.

A jar of honey and a jar of beeswax.The former can be eaten, and the latter can be used.

There are still three or four baskets of dried fish. There are obviously more live fish in the pond, and some need to be caught, otherwise they will easily suffocate to death due to lack of oxygen.

Chen Jian also saw the red fish that Yu Qian'er was talking about, it was very eye-catching, with a beard around his mouth, it must be a carp.He decided not to eat this fish and keep it for the next generation.

The lotus root in the pond has also begun to germinate. The water on the shore is very shallow and the temperature is high. It is the season suitable for growing, but it is not expected to be edible for the time being.

That's all there is to eat. Tomorrow, all the members must go hunting.With the current tools and technology, and fish that have not been caught in the water, how can there be three or five days free in a day to do things that have nothing to do with food.

Relying on water to eat water, Chen Jian has been preparing to put his main food on fish for a long time.Tuber seeds and the like, stored as much as possible, as seeds.

Today's fishing methods are only fishing with wicker baskets and river forks. He can weave fishing nets, but the current fiber ropes are not good at all, they are too thick and not soft enough.

It is early summer now, and it will take three more months for the nettles and weeds to grow.Only when the wood fiber is retting can the hemp silk be extracted, and the real cloth and thread can appear.

He doesn't have the druid's ability in fantasy novels, which can speed up the growth of plants, so he can only rely on time.

When taking out the charcoal and planning the assignment of future tasks on the slate, Yu Qian'er shouted at him from a distance: "Brother, come, we have found a way!"

Chen Jian was taken aback, thinking that this was impossible.

Yuqian took his hand and ran to a small tree. Chen Jian couldn't help laughing when he saw it.

There was a piece of bacon hanging on the branch of this very thin willow tree. She was so tired that she bent over and weighed the elm money. The willow branch just hung down to her shoulder.

Yu Qian'er couldn't wait to say: "Look, look, I took the meat away, and it straightened again."

Picking it up straight, a small bag of stones was hung up again, the willow branch bent down again, but it was lower than last time, and she took out two pieces until it reached her shoulder.

"The pebbles in here must be as heavy as the bacon!"

Yuqian'er spoke confidently, quite proudly in her words, but seeing her brother smiling there, she snorted a little angrily.

The idea is correct, even if the error is only two or two for one catty, it is still rare.

"Brother, are these two the same weight? Can you tell me what to do now?"

"Well, they are the same weight. Well, call your brothers and sisters over, we have to do something very important."

Yu Qian'er laughed and ran away. Chen Jian found a piece of wood with the same thickness before and after. After finding the balance, he folded the rope in half to select the midpoint, dug a hole in the middle with a stone, and nailed a thin piece of wood as a shaft.

I found a few pieces of leftover mud, built a mud pit, and put this simple balance on it.

After trying to level it out, I smeared some dirt on the light part, and finally it was balanced.

The accuracy of this is estimated to be about one or two. Now the clansman does not need too small a unit, and generally speaking it is still possible.

Yu Qian'er ran over with her younger brothers and sisters, looking at this balanced log, Yu Qian'er seemed to understand.

Chen Jian hung the bacon on one end and the stone on the other end. It was not balanced, but it was about the same.

"Pretty good, almost the same weight. Do you understand?"

"understood."

Not only Yu Qian'er, but also several children understood.

"Then go ahead and make 99 cloth bags of the same weight, and put stones in them."

The younger brothers and sisters quickly got busy, weighing bags by bag, filled with stones, and taking them out or adding them in bit by bit.

Chen Jian took a stone knife to chop a length of slender pine wood as thick as three fingers, scraped off the pine bark, and smeared the surface with boiled pine resin.

A stone is added to the front end as a counterweight, and a buckle made of tanned leather is stuck on the front of the wood as a carrying point for the scale.

Because of the weight of the stone, even though the distance behind the leather buckle is very long, the front of the leather buckle still hangs down.

I chose a stone as a weight, drilled a hole, put on a rope, and carried these messy things to the side of my younger brother and sister.

At this time, there were already a lot of stones and cloth bags on the ground, and after a calculation, it was almost the same, so he called the children over.

I found a stick and put it into the leather buckle, and asked the two younger brothers to carry it on their shoulders, put the weight on it, and gently push it to find the balance point, which is the so-called fixed disk star.

When the front and rear were balanced, Chen Jian asked Yu Qian'er to carve marks where the weights were.

Then hung the piece of bacon on the front, moved the weight back a bit, and carved a mark.

After taking off the bacon and putting it in a cloth bag, Yu Qianer naturally did not move the weight and said, "It must be flat."

Sure enough, the children cheered immediately.

Then, two cloth bags, three cloth bags, four and five...

Every time you hang one more, move the weight back a bit to carve a mark.After all the weighed stones are hung up, the scales are already densely drawn.

A regular scale is definitely not so simple, it needs to be dried and painted with turpentine to ensure that it will not be deformed by moisture.This kind of large lifting scale can weigh tens of catties, but the error is too large. If you want to weigh small things, you must be small.

But now it is no problem to make do with it. He has already demonstrated the idea of ​​making a scale to his younger brothers and sisters. Chen Jian thinks that these children will figure out a better way.

The children looked at this strange thing curiously. Chen Jian held the piece of bacon and said, "There must be a name for it? What do you call it for it's weight?"

"Full?"

"One piece of meat?"

"A pig?"

The younger brothers and sisters talked about all kinds of weird names, and as the name of this weight unit, it just became more and more outrageous.