Orcs through the age

I asked A Rui to help put all the water out of wooden bowls. While encouraging everyone to be careful for a while, and pay attention to it soon, I quickly put the two wooden bowls filled with water with the help of A Man and A Lin. Get the bucket here, I will take one for myself, and let Ah Man and A Lin hold the other.

From the roof of the bullock cart, I dug out the cowhide that had been drying during this period, quickly cut it to size with a bone knife, and asked Ah Man and Ah Lin to do the same as I did.

Drill holes in the sun-dried cowhide, and then use cowhide ropes to hang these holes on wooden blocks at intervals, so that the whole piece of cowhide covers the surface of the barrel due to gravity, and then fasten these holes with thick linen ropes. Tie the wooden blocks of the buckled leather rope tightly to make the cowhide more tightly on the barrel, and use the wooden nails left over from our bullock cart to nail into the cowhide drum one by one, so that the drum surface is not easy to loosen. , a simple cowhide drum with only one side is ready.

In fact, the production of cowhide drums is of course not so simple, but now the conditions are limited, so I have to do it first.

In order to make the cowhide drum make a louder sound, while Aman and Alin were making the second drum, I split a piece of wood into four pieces, briefly sharpened it, and used Make drumsticks.

We didn't spend a lot of time making these drums because of the simplicity of making them, and of course, I'm not sure how well they will work.

I tapped it lightly with a well-made drumstick, and the sound was still there. When I started experimenting, I didn't dare to hit it too loudly, after all, people here can't stand it.

Ask Ah Man and Ah Lin to put their finished drums on the opposite side and give them the drumsticks.And remind our own people to pay attention.

I took the drumstick and knocked it down hard!

At first, I was worried that the drum produced in this way would have sound, but it is amazing, maybe it is really immortal, the sound of this drum is actually very loud.

Not to mention that the pack of wolves on the opposite side suddenly got into a mess, a few wolves even jumped back a few meters hastily, the whole formation was messed up, and even our own people were a little bit more careful when they heard my shout. Mentally prepared, when the sound rang, I was still shocked, and some even looked back at us.

If the wolves hadn't been startled by the sound, this was simply an opportunity to take advantage of.

I didn't care how surprised they were, and yelled at Ah Man and A Lin, they continued to beat the drum vigorously, and at the same time, I also beat the thumping drum vigorously, no matter how painful my ears and hands were.

While watching Canaan and Luo Lei have organized everyone to drive away the wolves.

Maybe it was the first time I heard this kind of sound, and the wolves were a little confused.

Although our people are also a little distraught, at least they are not as chaotic as a pack of wolves.Because it was the first time to hear such a noisy and non-stop sound, our hunters launched an attack again, and soon, these wolves who had come prepared fled away in a hurry under the leadership of the head wolf.

In order to make sure that they had been driven away, they chased them with lit torches for a while, and confirmed that they had driven them to a place far away from us.

Seeing the danger nearby, we didn't dare to stay any longer.Look at everyone, although they are tired, but their spirits are still good, and because we drove away such a large group of sharp-horned wolves, everyone's spirits are also quite uplifted.In line with the principle of going all out, he didn't even take care of camping and resting.We also carried the two drums to the car and took turns eating some jerky.Taking advantage of the night, we continued to rush to another river.

On the road, in order to avoid the danger of driving at night, I specially asked the clansmen who were on duty to wear winter shoes, lit torches, and opened the way ahead with a long wooden fork.When it was their turn to rest, the clansmen squeezed each other to sleep on the bullock cart.

Although Canaan and Luo Lei advised me to rest for a while, after seeing such a scene during the day, I dare not close my eyes anymore.

They all came out with me, and I am responsible for them all. Now that we can't say it's safe, how dare I sleep.

Just ask them to pay more attention to the situation when they take turns to watch the night, and ask those who open the road to pay more attention to their feet and sides when they move forward, and sit against the frame of the bullock cart.

Luo Lei wanted to comfort me at first, but seeing that I was very determined, he didn't say anything else. He just hugged Ari, who was holding his breath, and patted Rona on the shoulder, and then went to the front of the team to open the way. .

Beside the second bullock cart, Canaan patted Ye Jia's hair, said something to Ye Jia, and also went to the back of the line to break the back.

I sat, didn't dare to sleep all night, arranged for everyone to eat in the morning, and asked Canaan about how long it would take to reach our destination.Let Canaan tell everyone that we are only half a day away from where we are going. Everyone continue to hurry up today. By this evening, we will be able to reach the river we will cross tomorrow. You can go to the location of the new tribe!

Perhaps it was because of such good news that the clansmen were very excited. Although none of the families from the He clan had been there, the dozen or so people from the You clan had all been there, and everyone knew about it.

In the morning, everyone moved much faster.It was supposed to arrive at the river in the evening, but it actually arrived in the middle of the afternoon.

Looking at the wide river with a width of 50 meters in front of me, and looking at the river that is twice as wide as this place in the distance, I have to say that I am a little surprised.

In front of this river, the one we walked before is indeed a veritable river.This river is not only within the range of sight, the narrowest river surface is also 50 meters wide, and the widest part of the upstream is about 80 meters wide. Even the river banks and depressions formed by the rivers on both sides are estimated to be 200 meters meters wide.No wonder Canaan said that after crossing the river, it would take half a day to walk from the river to the depression we were going to.

I also asked Canaan, even if it is a wider upstream, we will definitely not be able to wade through.That's why Canaan proposed that the males carry all the things and then the people. As for the cattle, they will be used as food for these two days.

Not to mention that I also have feelings for these cows, three of which were raised by our family.Even if it is a captured cow, I can't agree with this point of view.

Luo Lei also disagreed. He asked Canaan, after we passed, should the bullock carts and things be carried by the males?Not to mention the problem of physical strength, in this kind of weather, walking with these things on our backs can easily make our hunters lose their physical strength. I don’t know what will happen over there. If we lose our physical strength and encounter wolves or other people What danger is there, what should we do?Besides, cattle are also an important labor force in our daily life, used to carry things, trailers and so on.Now we have fewer people than before, just when we need cattle, how can we kill the mature cattle so easily?

Although cows have no other role in our life except tow trucks, I am still very happy that Luo Lei can think of so many things, and it is not in vain that I tell him something that is not here.

However, in this way, how to carry things across the river with the cattle has become a big problem.

Generally speaking, boats are needed to cross the river, but it is not realistic to build boats now.Not to mention that the males here have never built a boat, even if I do it myself, I don't know how to build a boat.

Seeing everyone preparing for tonight's camping and dinner, I was trying to think of a way to cross the river while I was busy.

The surface of the river is calm, and occasionally there are some aquatic plants that do not know where they come from and stay along the water.There are no trees on the plain here, so it is very sunny here, and it is summer again. I look at the tree protruding from the foot of the mountain opposite with a sweaty face, and I am very envious.I also remembered going to Guilin to make bamboo rafts one year.

Yes, bamboo rafts!

Thinking of bamboo rafts, I thought of rafts again!A raft is much easier to build than a boat, as long as it is properly lashed and each tree trunk is secured with sticks, it can float on the water.The important thing is that the trees here are all tall, and the length can almost make a raft that two cows can stand on without any problem.

Just do it, I immediately want to call Canaan and Luo Lei who are still discussing with everyone how to cross the river.

I saw Luo Lei standing behind me, holding something similar to a raft made of a few pieces of wood, and handing it to me.

Good guy!

I've seen it before, so I knew what to do, and this guy figured it out on his own.

For a while, I felt a sense of pride that I deserved to be the Luo Lei of our family.

I looked at some untidy rafts in my hand, and looked at Luo Lei: "How did you think of it?"

I saw him straighten my hair that was blown by the wind: "You said before that there are things that can float on the water, and then you can transport them back and forth. I have seen that when the water is rising, there are logs floating on the water. On the water. I think that's probably what you mean by boat."

I laughed: "This is not a boat. This is called a raft, or a wooden raft. If it is made of bamboo, it is called a bamboo raft. If it is made of sheepskin bags, it should be called a sheepskin raft."

I said so much in one breath, Luo Lei seemed a little confused. Indeed, he had never seen it, and it was impossible for him to have an intuitive impression. It was hard to imagine these things just by listening, let alone something like a sheepskin raft.I don't say much.Just let him ask Canaan to come over, we are going to ask people to go to the other side of the river to cut wood and make rafts!

Because Luo Lei knows how to make rafts, I also told him that they directly cut taller trees of similar thickness and removed the branches, instead of splitting them into pieces, they directly cut these trees of similar thickness with flax rope Tie them together tightly, and then nail the back with wooden blocks to stabilize them so that the trunk will not fall apart.So the task of taking a few people to the other side of the river to cut wood and make a raft was assigned to Luo Lei.

Everyone here started to set up their tents and be on alert at all times, ready to start eating dinner and rest for a night, and get ready to cross the river tomorrow morning.

Luo Lei went there with a few people and took the wooden nails that had been made and had no use.Although it took a little longer than the phenomenon, I didn't see the fire on the river until it was dark, and then I heard Lukes and the others shouting.

But looking at the huge wooden raft on the river, I still feel very satisfied.

Luo Lei was very thoughtful in this regard, the size and thickness of the wood were about the same, and the length was also about the same, and the wooden raft was made very strong. Just now, two or three males came over by standing on the wooden raft.

Sim Mu told me that when he stood on the raft for the first time, he was a little nervous, because they used to fly across the river, but now they stepped on the water, which is really unbelievable.

Hongda said that when the water moved a few times, he wanted to fly, but it looked good, so he persisted and came over.

I think he told me so enthusiastically that he actually wanted me to praise him, so I smiled and told him, very good.He seemed disappointed.

Now that everyone came back, they dragged the raft to the shallow water beach here, and built a big wooden stake on the bank to tie the raft.

Everyone started to eat dinner, because we didn't go hunting today, so we ate relatively simple. After eating, everyone should watch the night and rest.For the sake of safety, I still let the night watchman put the cowhide drum, on the one hand, it can deter those animals, on the other hand, it can also wake up the sleeping people.However, perhaps because we gave up hunting us, we slept well that night.

Early the next morning, we started crossing the river.

Because I don't know how much the raft can bear and how much water it can draft.So we didn't dare to drive the oxen and the oxcart up at once. We first moved the things off the oxcart and put them on the raft bit by bit.

We were very happy when we found that this wooden raft can hold a whole bullock cart and its contents, and several people can stand on it.

So the second time, we directly pushed a family of bullock carts onto the wooden raft.

After going back and forth several times, things, females and children all passed by with the raft.A few were left with the "sonic weapon" to protect the young and females who had crossed the river.Now, only Luo Lei and I and a few people are left here to take the cattle across the river.

When the cows have their eyes open, no matter how much they are led, they are unwilling to walk on the raft.I think they probably can't become buffaloes.

In order to make them willing to go on the raft, I finally had to propose to cover their eyes with animal skins.

Covering their eyes with animal skins allowed them to follow the raft smoothly, but when they first got on the raft, it still caused a small struggle, and even the raft almost turned over.At that time, because I was standing on the raft commanding, Luo Lei was so frightened that he hugged me for a long time and turned pale.No matter how I appease him, I will not be allowed to direct the matter of pulling cattle again.

Although I didn't have much influence when I went to command, Luo Lei got the job done smoothly, probably because of the influence of his coercion as a griffin. After getting off the raft, it was more honest to have Luo Lei standing by his side.So it was Raleigh and I standing on the raft leading the unicorns.In the sky, Hong Da and Mo Hei pulled the rope and flew to the other side of the river.

After going back and forth like this several times, we finally all crossed the river, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.Within sight, the grass on this side of the river seems to be lower than that on the other side where we just came over. Although we saw a few herds of bison and wild sheep in the distance, there seemed to be no animals such as wolves.

Looking at the bank on the other side of the river, I don’t know when it ran over again, standing on the bank of the river and looking at our wolves, we all feel that we are so lucky!