However, when the sound of women playing in the baths downstream came from the baths, no one said anything. The originally noisy men's baths quickly became quiet...

In this regard, both the men of this era and the men of later generations are surprisingly similar...

A little separation is better than a wedding. It took more than a month for Han Cheng to leave the tribe and return. At this time, there was naturally a tenderness between Han Cheng and his child bride-in-law, Bai Xuemei, which need not be elaborated.

On the second day, after shaving off his beard and cutting off his excessively long hair with bronze scissors with a jagged gap on one side, Han Cheng looked much more energetic and no longer as slovenly as when he came back yesterday.

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After getting up, he took Xiao Wandou to the field ridges around the tribe, caught some grasshoppers, and came back to feed the few birds that Han Cheng picked up by the stream when he came back.

These three little guys are still a little afraid of people. When they see people approaching, they hide near the edge of the circle.

But no matter how afraid of people you are, you can't resist the temptation of delicious food.

After Han Cheng and Xiao Wandou tied the grasshoppers they caught, piercing the backs of their heads in the bushes with dog tails into a bunch, big and small grasshoppers, and threw them one by one into the plates in the cage, there

The frightened and squawking little ones still slowly and tentatively came to the edge of the plate.

He stretched his neck, picked up a dead grasshopper with his unique bright yellow beak, turned around and ran back.

After arriving at the corner where he was staying before, he raised his neck and swallowed the grasshopper in his mouth whole.

After eating, he tilted his head and looked at the two hairless monkeys, one big and one small, squatting on the ground looking at them, and then continued to try to eat the grasshoppers.

After repeating this action two or three times in a row, these guys became more courageous. They no longer ran away after picking up a grasshopper as before, but stood on the plate and continued with their flat mouths.

Keep swallowing.

Despite their small size, their eating speed is not slow at all, and most of the grasshoppers in a few bunches were quickly eaten by them.

After eating these grasshoppers, some of the little guys became bolder, and one of them even stretched out his mouth to eat the grasshopper that was placed in Xiao Pea's open palm.

The flat and tender mouth touched the soft and tender palm of the little pea, and it tickled, making the little guy happy.

However, this baby bird was frightened by the laughter of the little pea, holding the grasshopper in its mouth, fluttering its little fleshy wings and ran away quickly...

These three little guys, covered in gray down, with flat beaks and also grayish webbed feet, are the young of a kind of wild duck.

At that time, when passing by the narrow stream, many flying wild ducks and other birds were frightened and flew around. These three little guys were the people of the Qingque tribe who nailed wooden stakes there and

Found and caught while cutting down the surrounding vegetation.

When it was first discovered, there were a dozen or so in the nest.

It's just that the speed of these little guys is really too fast. Even though they are still far from full-grown, they are very fast when they walk through the grass one by one.

After everyone was in a hurry, they caught these three.

With experience in feeding deer, donkeys, geese, and chickens, those traveling with him naturally knew the purpose of the Son of God asking them to catch such a bird that could swim in the water.

It is very possible that they are raised like chickens and geese, and when the time comes, they are used to lay eggs or directly raised for slaughter and meat.

However, although they understood Han Cheng's intention, Mao and others who were traveling with him were not too enthusiastic about such things.

Because the tribe already has chickens and geese, two types of poultry that can lay eggs.

Of these two things, one lays eggs very frequently, and the other lays very large eggs. As the two complement each other, it doesn't matter whether there are other birds in the tribe to supplement them.

Han Cheng did not agree with this concept at all. He came from a later generation and had a deep obsession with gathering chickens, ducks and geese, the three leaders in the poultry world.

Moreover, if ducks are raised and cultivated well, they will also have strong advantages in laying eggs.

Not only are they much larger than eggs, but if fed well and fed enough, these guys can sometimes lay two eggs a day.

One when it gets dark, and another when it gets light.

Moreover, the pickled salted duck eggs with their red oil oozing out are also a great food to go with rice, especially the duck egg yolk, which is at least comfortable to eat.

Of course, eggs can also be eaten salted, but compared with salted duck eggs, the taste is always much inferior.

In addition to salted duck eggs, roast duck is also a delicacy that cannot be forgotten.

Han Cheng has never tasted Beijing Quanjude Roast Duck, which is extremely famous in later generations, but he has eaten ten ordinary roast ducks sold on the street for more than 30 yuan each. It is said that they are roasted with fruit tree charcoal.

The outer layer is stained with cumin and chili powder, and the roasted golden skin tastes the most delicious...

When the grasshoppers were full, the little ducks would lie there and stretch their legs or wings from time to time. Unknown to them, the big, hairless monkey in front of them was already drooling and trying to take advantage of them and their offspring.

, if I knew it, I don’t know if I could still be as calm as I am now...

The Bronze Expressway is something that affects everyone's minds and needs to be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

When Han Cheng left, he told the stonemason Mu Mu, the part-time coppersmith Second Brother and others who stayed in the tribe to use this period of time to build some tools needed for road construction.

Now that the tools are complete and the route has been determined by Han Cheng, road construction can begin.

On the second day after returning from the Tongshan residential area, in the morning, he took Xiao peas to catch some grasshoppers and fed them to the ducklings. After breakfast, Han Chenggong began to discuss some matters with Wu, senior brother, second senior brother, Shang and others.

Regarding the matter of road construction, and then, while ensuring that the rest of the tribe's affairs can proceed normally, we began to arrange and deploy manpower to prepare for road construction.

More than half of the people who were drawn out to work on road construction were slaves of the Qingque tribe.

The hard work of building roads is naturally indispensable for them...

'Dang Dang Dang...'

At the quarry of the Qingque Tribe, someone was knocking up pieces of shale from there, and then loading these rock pieces onto the two-wheeled donkey cart parked next to it.

"ha!"

Following the driver's shout, the donkey pulling the donkey cart and the deer standing in the deputy position began to pull hard, pulling some stone slabs loaded on the cart, and turned around along the previously paved stone road.

After making two turns, it rumbled all the way towards the western end of the Qingque Tribe's field.

In the farmland surrounding the Qingque tribe, stone roads have been built long ago, and there is also a main road leading to the west.

This time when the Bronze Expressway was built, this main road that had been built before was directly used by Han Cheng, becoming the easternmost starting point of the Bronze Expressway.

However, when this road was first built, the tribe did not have two-wheeled vehicles, only wheelbarrows.

Therefore, although it is a main road, its width is only about two meters.

It will need to be widened when the time comes.

However, because the crops in the farmland on both sides are not mature yet, if we start to widen it now, a lot of crops will be destroyed.

Therefore, the construction of the Bronze Expressway this time will directly follow the main road to the west and continue to the west.

As for the widening of this section of the old road, we can only wait until the crops in the fields are harvested before proceeding.

At this time, there were many people scattered at the end of this old road.

These people held various tools in their hands and were busy following the tasks assigned previously.

Someone was carrying sickles, axes, saws, etc., and continued to clear the grass and trees along the wooden piles that Han Cheng and the others had nailed when they came back, as well as the simply opened passage, widening the passage, and opening up enough space for the subsequent construction.

Space to display.

A group of relatively high-end talents such as Lame, Shitou, Yuan, etc., under Han Cheng's teaching, used cord-grass tape measures, long ropes, benchmarks and other things to move along the site cleared by the people in front according to Han Cheng's instructions.

The wooden stakes were roughly nailed before to straighten the road, and lime powder was used to circle the exact position of the road, as well as the width of the road.

Behind them came another group of people, carrying metal tools such as shovels and hoe heads, leveling the land along the path marked out with lime powder.

Later, someone used tamping tools to pound the loose soil into a solid state and smooth it out.

On the initially leveled land, someone used stone slabs pulled from the quarry to pave it.

The stone road is still more durable than the ordinary dirt road, and the road paving the stone does not need to be too compacted. Han Cheng finally decided to lay a section of the stone road.

Of course, the decision was made on the premise that the distance from the quarry is not too far. Once the road extends five or six miles forward and the place where the road is laid is too far from the quarry, we can only start building pure

The road is dirt.

Of course, if a large amount of shale is found along the road, the situation will be different.

In fact, even stone roads are not as good as cement roads.

But now the tribe can only burn white ash, and the currently known limestone origin is relatively far away from the Qingque tribe. Even if cement can really be fired, at this time, according to the manpower and material resources of the Qingque tribe, it will be built.
Chapter completed!