From Chief to Ball

Chen Jian took the wolf skin and others to a further place, carefully looking for the hoof marks of wild boars and deer.The routes these animals take are fixed, and they also have their own paths.

Looking for a good place, Chen Jian took these 20 men to dig a hole. The hole must not be too big, because both roe deer and sheep are good rock climbers, and they can come and go freely on the steep slope of nearly [-] degrees. Give them a little run-up The distance can jump out.

A few days ago, Langpi led people to dig a lot of holes, but Mao didn't leave a single one, so Chen Jian came today to tell them how to dig.

It's not for eating, but for feeding. Now those ruminants don't need to drink milk, it's time to feed them.

More than [-] people dug all morning and dug a hole, which was not enough, and a net was needed.

If there is no ready-made net, you have to weave it with rope.Cut the rope to a length of two or three meters, find two trees and pull a long rope, and tie the remaining ropes with a slipknot and thread them on the long rope.

Net weaving, a simple understanding is a row of people, hand in hand, foot to foot.In order to save time, the mesh made by Chen Jian is the size of a fist, so don’t worry about running away if it’s not a fish anyway.

The hole is covered with a layer of branches and grass leaves, and the net is also placed on it. There is a log in the pit, and one end of the net is tied to the log.

In this way, after an animal falls in, its hooves will get stuck in the net and get tangled up on its body, making it difficult to jump out so easily.

In particular, it will not cause huge damage like a hanging sleeve. If you get some disabilities and go back to be raised by an uncle, you will have to push them with your hands when mating.

After arranging all this, Langpi touched the edge and wondered: "Is this the end? You just got a bunch of extra ropes with me."

Chen Jian casually broke a wooden stick and said, "This is the same as the bow you used, only one piece of rope is missing. Let me tell you, don't keep thinking about shooting things when you see them. Make them work. Do you hear me? I want Live!"

"Understood, but let's talk about it first. I won't make up this website. You can find a woman to make it up."

He stretched out his short, stubby fingers in pain. Tying a knot just now was more painful than killing him.

Chapter 34 Blowing

A few days later, Wolfpi finally brought back two live animals. What he brought back that day was a roe deer and a big boar, both alive.

However, in Chen Jian's view, these two things are no different from the dead ones.Roe deer are timid and afraid of people, and they cannot be domesticated at all. If you want to raise them, you need to prepare a three-meter-high fence.The big boar is also extremely wild, and if it is put in the pigpen, the piglets may be gnawed to death, so they can only be killed.

In the evening, the men practiced queuing by the river as usual. When the bonfire was lit, the clansmen killed the pigs. Chen Jian thought about making a drum out of pigskin.

The drum is an instrument of military music and one of the earliest musical instruments of human beings. "Shangshu" once said that Tugu, 蒉桴, and Weiyan are the joys of the Yiqi family.Drums made of soil, drumsticks made of grass leaves, this Yiqi music is made to worship the heavens and pray for good weather.Probably because the drums are so loud that God can hear them.

Chen Jian didn't expect God to hear it, but he just hoped that his clansmen could hear it in future wars.

This was originally a very serious matter, but the story that happened next left a deep impression on the clansmen, and they learned a new word, a word that was not created by Chen Jian.

At that time, the pig had been slaughtered, and a large pot of pig blood was taken, and a large pottery pot next to it was boiled with boiling water to prepare for shedding.

Several children were around the fire kicking the shuttlecock that Chen Jian made for them, the younger ones were playing with the eagle and catching goose, and the little wolf cubs were circling around the dead pig, wanting to share some meat.

Because he wanted to make a leather drum, Chen Jian found a slender, pointed piece of wood and pierced it from the pig's hind leg to the abdominal cavity of the internal organs. After pulling out the wooden stick, he blew air into it with his mouth.

In this way, the pig can be blown up, which is convenient for shaving, and the skin will be very smooth. Only smooth skin can be used to make drums, and the sound will be louder.

However, it may be because the pig is a little bigger, or it may be because his technique is too rough. He bulged his cheeks and blew for a long time, but his tired cheeks hurt, but he didn't bulge much.

All the clansmen tried, but only the wolf skin could blow.After blowing hard for a while, the pig's body immediately expanded a lot.

Amidst the applause, the wolf fur was even more energetic. After blowing, he sat there panting, his eyes were black but he was very proud.

Everyone praised him a few words when they saw how hard he worked, because he was a little hypoxic at the time, so he just smiled lightly.

But after he recovered, he pointed at the room and shouted, "Don't talk about this little pig, even if it's as big as the room, I can blow it up!"

The people of the two clans were stunned for a moment, especially the people of the Shi surnamed clan laughed when they thought about what Langpi said at the meeting on the top of the mountain and shot down a house-sized falcon.

"Blow! Blow hard!"

I don't know who yelled it, everyone laughed so hard that their stomachs hurt, and suddenly felt that the word blowing was really too appropriate.

Chen Jian was even lying on the ground with a smile, and said to himself that it is fortunate that there is no cow now, otherwise he would definitely point to the cow and say that he could blow it up. If it happened to be a cow, the word would be complete.

The wolf skin was a little embarrassed by people's laughter, and squatted down beside Chen Jian to help shave the pig's hair.The pig was smoked by hot water, and the smell was extremely bad.Boars don't castrate and smell fishy, ​​but castration is also a skill, and Chen Jian doesn't know it, so it has to be left to the later generations.

Looking at the wolf skin shaving there, and thinking about the eagle shooting that the wolf skin bragged about before, Chen Jian suddenly asked: "Brother, have you seen a particularly big bird recently? Don't brag, tell the truth."

Just as Lang Pi wanted to compare his hands and feet, he rubbed his hands in embarrassment and said: "There are big eagles, and I saw a few big birds in the reed pond by the river, with very long legs."

"Then you get a few."

Wolf Pi originally wanted to shoot those waterfowls, but unfortunately Chen Jian refused to let him, so he asked, "How much do you want?"

"A dozen or so. The longer the legs, the better. The bigger the wings, the better. It doesn't matter if they taste good or not."

"Okay, I'm not bragging. I saw a bird with such long legs a few days ago. If you don't believe me, you can ask them."

Everyone laughed, and Wolfpi was even more embarrassed. In order to help him out, Chen Jian said, "Come here, let's break the pig."

To do business, the clansmen stopped laughing, and a few people came to peel off the pig's skin and open the internal organs.The women ran to the far stream to clean their bowels, the smell was too much nearby.

Chen Jian kept the urine bubbles, and blew vigorously around the wolfpi to inflate them. The clansmen laughed again, and the wolfpi himself was also happy.

The children gathered around, looking at the inflated urine bubble, they thought it was fun, and wanted to come to play, but Chen Jian didn't give it.

A few days ago, the number of these children was correct when dragging the mud. Chen Jian calculated that it was enough and set aside a few hundred yuan.The number was too much, so Yuqian used a lot of small wooden sticks, and each stick was counted separately instead of a room. In this way, the number of mud blocks exceeding the thousand was counted.

In Chen Jian's view, it is naive, but it is shining in this era. This is the concept of multiplication. I can also use this example to talk about multiplication with thinking children-he has knowledge, but the way of thinking is different from The people here are different. To give an inappropriate example, a great talent who won a Nobel Prize may not be a good kindergarten teacher.

At that time, in order to encourage his younger brothers and sisters, Chen Jian also asked his uncle to spare a day to make two seesaws for the children. He also made a small wooden horse for them. The curved base was soaked in wood and baked over fire. bending.

He imitated the story of Zeng Zi killing the pig, letting these children know from an early age that what they say counts, and he always honors them when he says he wants to reward them.

Now there are baked and bent wood as the base, a ring-rotating pottery wheel as the meaning, and mortise and tenon that can be spliced ​​as the bone. The concept of the wooden wheel can basically be realized, and the rest are technical problems.

And now the children also have a lot of toys, and the scale has also made a preliminary model. I said that if I want to give the children a fun and fun toy, I can only use a small pottery wheel to shake them.He didn't want to wait for his brothers and sisters to bring the scales, and make a fool of himself with a broken toy, and be told by the children: this is not fun at all.

There are other uses for soaking pig urine in Chen Jian. After letting the gas out and keeping them away, the children were driven away. The clansman chopped the pig into eight pieces, roasted them with salt and pine branches, or boiled them into lard and put them in pottery. Can.

Chen Jian got the pigskin he wanted, and Acorn also made a drum bottom according to Chen Jian's instructions. Two big water tanks were connected together, and a few holes were made in the drum belly below.

I found a place where no one was around, covered it with pigskin, and tapped it with a small pottery. The sound of vibration came out of the small hole through the enlarged opening of the container below. The sound was dull and surprising. Very satisfied.

Before the clansmen arrived, he took off the pigskin and went back to do other things.

As he wished, the wolf skin brought him back several long-legged cranes and big eagles.Now the meat has been stewed and the feathers have stuck to the arrows, leaving only a pile of bones.

More than [-] crane leg bones and eagle wing bones are lined up in a long row. Chen Jian carefully drills holes in them. He can play the flute, but he can't make the flute. He can only try to separate the holes little by little. distance.

The materials are all high-quality, such as straight leg bones, reed membranes, glue made of honey, and pig teeth grinding the flute plugs. However, the maker has a pair of reckless hands, and the first few can really make a sound, but this sound Can crooked to the horizon.

It is impossible for the flute to be successful once, so every night people beside the fire can hear a short humming sound, and the waste products that Chen Jian does not want are given to the children to play.Although it is not into a rhythm, it is much stronger than the willow bark whistle, and the younger brothers and sisters have another toy.

Nowadays, children's toys have increased a lot, but it is far from the scene Chen Jian expected.What he thought was that the children would get together to make nineteen paths, solve nine chains, or play with Luban locks, but he could make one of these things.The nineteen vertical and horizontal lines are in line with the myths of my own people, the rumors of black and white bears, and the flags of yin and yang fishes are all black and white, but there is no time to make them so round.He wants to subtly influence the people in one step, and guide the people to think about the primitive philosophy of yin and yang duality, so even if the difference between pottery and wood can be used as a chess piece now, he is not going to do it for the time being.