I am a Primitive Man

After going back, be sure to smoke the inside and outside of the cave in the tribe!

The terrified Han Cheng made this decision.

That night, instead of resting in the cave of the Tengshe tribe, the members of the Qingque tribe rested in the open air at a leeward place more than 100 meters away from the entrance of the cave, because the flames in the cave had not been completely extinguished.

In fact, at the beginning, there was no need to sleep outside, mainly because Han Cheng was concerned with copper mines. After arriving here, he only wanted to find copper mines as soon as possible. remember.

Fortunately, it was summer at this time, as long as it didn't rain, there was no big problem spending the night outside.

A few piles of bonfires were lit, and two people were left to watch the night. The rest slept on the spread out leather sheets, covered with some leather sheets, and soon fell into a dream.

Fu Jiang waited for a group of dog legs and Uncle Lu to rest around. With Fu Jiang and these highly alert guys around, he felt much more at ease camping outside at night.

The next day, after breakfast, a few people were asked to watch the deer grazing near the Copper Mountain. Han Cheng and the rest came to the top of the Copper Mountain together, and continued to fight against the mine found yesterday.

As the copper pits become larger and deeper, the mining speed of copper mines is also gradually decreasing.

But there are also new surprises.

This is not a big surprise, that is, as the excavation continued, some yellow copper ore began to appear under the malachite.

Han Cheng was a little melancholy, and the melancholy thing was copper ore.

Not the mining of copper ore, but the transportation.

In this era, the best mode of transportation is to use boats to travel by water.

Not only the amount of transport is large, but also the labor is light and the risk factor is low.

However, Han Cheng can only imagine the matter of transporting copper ore by boat, because there is no waterway that can lead to the Qingque tribe from here.

There are actually two creeks here, but after three or four miles of foreign exchange converged together, they went all the way north.

Han Cheng led his people to walk another seven or eight miles from the confluence of the two streams before the stream finally turned into a winding river.

The river is far less abundant than the small river in front of the Qingque Tribe,

Bamboo rafts that are not wide can still barely walk on them, but if they are replaced with boats with a relatively deep draft, especially after they are loaded with copper ore, they will not be able to walk on them.

This is not the most important thing, the most important thing is that the river is winding all the way to the north, Han Cheng led his people along the river for more than 20 miles, but did not find that it had a tendency to flow east .

Thinking about the width of the small river in front of my tribe and the annual water volume, the river near the Tengshe tribe is obviously not the upper reaches.

All Han Cheng who led people to search for a day can only give up the method of water transportation and switch to land transportation.

Land transportation is undoubtedly extremely costly in manpower and material resources, even if there are deer in the tribe, it is not easy to handle.

However, there is no good way, and the only option is to use land transportation that consumes manpower and material resources.

After the loose ore on the surface is excavated, it becomes more and more difficult to dig below, and the speed becomes slower and slower.

But everything is afraid of the word persistence. Even so, on the eighth day, there are quite a lot of ore piled up on the copper mountain.

After estimating the weight and time, Han Cheng made a noise to tell everyone to stop mining, and began to move the ore to the side of the mountain and roll it down.

After they all rolled down, people put them in the leather pockets they brought.

There is not too much in each pocket, and it looks like about forty catties.

After loading, the two bags are tied together, and then put on the deer's back, let the deer carry it.

No one was idle, and each person carried two bags on a shoulder pole made of temporary local sticks.

But it is lighter than the deer pack, a bag is only about 30 catties.

However, it is not possible to travel far with a light load. Things of fifty or sixty kilograms may not look very heavy at the moment, but just thinking about carrying them for a few days will immediately make people feel uncomfortable all over.

However, in the case of almost all hands-on, the effect is still very obvious.

Excluding the weapons, food, cooking utensils, some fodder for deer, rain gear, bedding, etc. that they carried, the ore they brought back on this trip was about three thousand catties.

Three thousand catties of copper ore should produce a lot of copper.

However, it is regrettable that Han Cheng has not found tin ore or lead ore near the Copper Mountain in the past few days.

It seems that we can only practice copper first, and then consider tin or lead ore.

He had to eat one bite at a time, and many things could not be rushed out at once, so although Han Cheng was a little regretful that he hadn't found the other two mines for the time being, it didn't affect his mood too much.

Traveling long distances has never been such an easy job, even with empty hands, let alone with a heavy load.

On the way back, the speed was much slower than when we came here. In addition, it was summer and the weather was hot, and the whole journey was covered with sweat after carrying things, which made everyone more tired.

After a day of driving, Han Cheng immediately changed his schedule, that is, he set off early, stayed in the shade when it was hot at noon, and waited until the weather was cooler before moving on.

In this way, the journey will be slower.

Sunlight leaked from the branches and leaves, and the terrifying temperature spread unscrupulously in the world.

Shirtless Han Cheng sat on a piece of bluestone with his back against a big tree, panting heavily, sweat flowing down like money.

Unplugged the mouth of the water jug ​​that I carried with me, pointed it at my mouth and took a breath of cool water with salt and water. Only then did I feel that I had saved my life. Turning his head to look around, he saw a group of disheveled people, all of whom were in the same state as Han Cheng.

If it hadn't been for Han Cheng's strict order not to allow people to strip naked in public after linen clothes gradually became popular, I'm afraid there would be many more free people at this moment.

Looking at the bags of ore, and at the sweaty people and deer, Han Cheng, who was so tired that he didn't want to move, couldn't help sniffling.

There are many bronze wares in the tribe, whether it is farming or fighting, they can be much higher than other tribes. When I think of such a scene, it makes people feel so excited. When I work hard for such a scene, I will suffer so much. .

It seems that there are not too many things in this world that can be successful casually, especially what you want to do most.

Even if you have paid a lot for it, it may not be successful, let alone thinking about being lazy and slippery.

gone!

The sun gradually set to the west. After eating and drinking enough, Han Cheng stood up with the support of the tree and shouted to the crowd.

Everyone acted one after another, putting supplies on the deer, and they themselves began to shoulder the burden.

After Han Cheng shouted this sentence, he gritted his teeth secretly, squatted down, and used his swollen shoulders to pick up his burden.

Although he thought about throwing away these ores more than once when he was picking them, he still didn't throw them away, but picked them all the way down, and continued to walk towards the tribe...