Through the wild age

Recently, Chen Qiao has an extra job, which is drying salt.Ada has almost eaten up the salt she brought with her. Fortunately, this is the seaside, so it would be fine to directly dry it with sea water.This task was still assigned to Chen Qiao, and Dilla and Mai Xi followed suit.

They first found a big rock with grooves, and then a few people used bamboo tubes to pour sea water into the groove to dry. However, they didn't need much, and after a few days, they got enough salt for them to eat for a while.

When the sun was setting, they finished their day's work and went back with the last salt they collected. They went to the stream to take a bath first, and they estimated that they would have delicious barbecue when they got home.

The water of this creek is collected from the springs on the mountain, and the water is cool and sweet.The three of them directly pulled the animal skin and carried it into the water. The two children started to play with the water, and Chen Qiao also let out a sigh of relief.

Chen Qiao's animal skin started to smell a little in the past two days. He wanted to soak it in the water for a while, but he was afraid of being washed away by the current, so he took a stone from the bottom of the stream and pressed it. The stones in this stream are very special. When it was dark, there were some silver bright spots on it, as if sprinkled with silver powder, and the stone was much heavier than other places.

Chen Qiao suddenly remembered something, found a few more stones to observe carefully, and shook them with her hands.He thought, these are not the legendary meteorites, right?

These two days, Chen Qiao was always absent-minded, and the thoughts of meteorite occupied his whole mind.Because if it is what he thinks, then their lives may undergo earth-shaking changes in the future. The presence of metal means that there will be a lot of room for improvement in production tools.

But he has never been in contact with these things before, but he has only heard that even if those things are meteorites, it is not so easy to smelt them into knives and the like, so Chen Qiao has been in pain recently.The most tangled thing in this world is not that there is no hope, but that you clearly see that hope is ahead, but you can't find the way to get there.

It took him nearly half a month to figure out the trick just to turn the raw iron stone into fine iron sand particles. He used the principle of thermal expansion and contraction of the stone, heated and cooled it repeatedly, and then used the stone hammer tap.

This method was stupid, time-consuming and labor-intensive, but he had no other choice, so he had to work hard for more than ten days. By the time he finished getting the stones, midsummer had already arrived.

Then there is smelting, and now I can piece together my own memories and integrate them into a roughly feasible plan, but who knows whether I can burn molten iron or not.

In the past two days, Ada made a knife mold according to Chen Qiao's request.After the two of them communicated constantly, Ada finally knew what kind of thing Chen Qiao wanted. Although she didn't know what the use of such a thing was, it didn't matter. Chen Qiao was someone he trusted and respected.

But this mold is a bit difficult. At first, it is very different from what I have done before, and then the mold must be very flat, and the surface cannot be sloped or undulated.

It took Ada several days to make a usable one. Now she was a little curious about what Chen Qiao wanted to do recently. She watched him play with those stones by the stream every day. It turned out that the whole stone was taken by him. I don't know how to make fine gravel sand.

After getting along for so long, she knew that Chen Qiao would not spend so much time and experience fiddling with useless things, so no matter what he wanted to do, Ada and his party would only fully support him.

Throughout the summer, Chen Qiao dealt with those iron stones. The fire was smoky and the sun was shining. His whole body was black and red, but everything paid off. They had the first knife in their lives.However, the most important thing is that Chen Qiao figured out the smelting process.

On the same day, he opened the kitchen knife. When everyone came back in the evening, he asked Ada to grab a chicken and performed the whole process of killing a chicken with a kitchen knife in front of everyone. Seeing the admiration in everyone's eyes, he also Can't stand the elation.

At the beginning, everyone was somewhat in awe of this "kitchen knife". After all, they had never seen such a sharp thing, and every piece of meat was so powerful and terrifying.But after getting used to it, everyone will stop making a fuss.Ada and Kevin use it to cut vegetables and meat every day, and it becomes more and more handy.

Chen Qiao even made a small machete for Dila to cut pigweed. Dila couldn't put it down with that knife. Then he followed Chen Qiao's advice and made a sheath for his own knife with bamboo. Hanging it on your waist, you can't wait to show it off to all the little animals in the mountains.

Mai Xi was very jealous, and everyone unanimously forbade him to get close to the knife, which made him very unhappy. He cried and played with his temper for a long time, but he didn't see the slightest compromise from Chen Qiao, so he had no choice but to accept that he was still young. this fact.

Before autumn came, he bought another machete for Ada and Kevin. It looked rough and heavy, but it was full of materials. When they went hunting in the future, Chen Qiao felt more at ease.

Seeing that the weather is getting cooler day by day, the chestnuts on the trees are about to ripen again, and the pheasants at home have laid a lot of eggs one after another. I picked up the eggs and looked carefully through the sun. If there are black spots inside, they can be hatched. As for the chicks, Macy often holds the eggs and watches them in the yard for a long time.

They were inexperienced when the first hen hugged the nest, with a dozen eggs, only five chicks hatched in the end.Dilla and Maixi were full of pity, and Chen Qiao told him that they should learn from experience and try to hatch a few more next time, and they looked forward to it again, hoping that there would be a hen that could nest early.

Leaving these chores to the two children, the three adults started to work on building the house again.This time there was plenty of time, both Dila and Caesar wanted to build a bigger house, but Chen Qiao shared her idea.

"Dilla and Macy are both young now, but they will grow up soon. There is no one else here, um... no... women, so we will probably leave here in the future."

What Chen Qiao didn't say was that if there were any survivors in the tribe, they would probably find this place to join them.Regarding the matter of the house, Chen Qiao wanted to leave it until then to make plans based on the situation.

The two of them were silent for a while, but they also felt that what Chen Qiao said was very reasonable, so they changed the big house they planned at first into a small house next to the original house.But this time the house was built more comfortably, because they had knives to cut down trees.

By the way, repair the original house, re-do the roof and so on, and they can start storing food for the winter.

Every day, the two brothers happily went to the hillside to pick up chestnuts with baskets on their backs. After picking up chestnuts, they went to pick some fruits and brought them back with them.

Recently, they helped Chen Qiao dig taro. Because they didn't plant it carefully, the harvest was not very good, but with the ones dug from the land where they grew, it was enough for a few of them to survive the winter.

Worried that the pigs and chickens would not be able to survive the winter because of the cold weather, they built a thatched hut in the pig pen and the chicken pen.Chen Qiao asked Ada to cut some tall weeds and dry them in the sun, and then went to get some bamboo vines back, grabbed one end of the weeds, and tied them tightly to the bamboo one by one.It becomes very easy to build a thatched hut with a few more such straw drapes.

Finally, after everything was busy, they could eat roasted chestnuts around the fire again. The two brothers were still wearing last year's one-piece suits, and they were still so cute.