The weather was hot, the surrounding vegetation was motionless, and the leaves were wilted by the scorching sun.

In such weather, the road construction team of the Qingque tribe is still working hard.

Although we have avoided the peak of the sun, everyone is still sweating profusely while building roads in the sun.

Secondly, the sun was too hot. The most uncomfortable thing was that the weather was so hot and muggy that it was almost breathless.

Many men choose to go bare-backed, and some bolder women also unbutton the front of their clothes.

It's just that the weather is too hot and muggy. Even if you wear as few clothes as possible, the sweat on your body is still flowing out. There are circles of white marks on everyone's clothes.

This is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that many of the people building the roads have become unable to eat.

It was under such circumstances that several two-wheeled donkey carts drove towards this side along the already built road.

There was also a blue bird flag on the donkey cart at the front.

"The tribe is coming! The tribe is coming!"

Even in such weather, after seeing the fluttering blue bird flag and the people driving donkey carts, the road builders couldn't help but cheer.

"The Son of God knew that you were too hot to eat, so he asked us to bring you delicious food!"

As soon as the driver met the road builders who were cheering and cheering, he announced the good news with joy on his face.

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone who was already a little excited became even more excited.

"What delicious food? We're so hot that we don't even want to eat..."

Someone asked.

"We'll find out later. I'm sure you won't get enough of this kind of food!"

The person who came had a mysterious face and spoke proudly, and he actually pretended to be a bit secretive.

Then he began to carry the things pulled by the donkey cart down.

The first thing to be carried down was a set of stone mills.

This kind of stone mill is different from the stone mill originally made by the tribe. The bottom stone mill and the surrounding gully used to collect ground soy milk and other things are made from the same granite.

Such stone mills are easy to move.

After the stone mill was moved down, the two tanks were filled with peas that had been soaked in water since the start.

There are also three bags of dried peas and some other food.

Several people found stones and other things, set up a platform under the shade of a tree on the roadside, and then placed the movable stone mill on it. After placing it firmly, they began to scoop the soaked peas into the grinding eye.

Inside, start grinding the peas in circles.

The people in the road construction team were looking expectantly at this side while building the road, waiting for the appearance of this new food sent by the Son of God...

“Delicious! Delicious!”

"Is there more? One more bowl..."

When the jelly was made, someone used a bronze scraper to scrape it into the basin, mixed it, and announced it was ready to eat. The open-air canteen suddenly heard the sound of people drinking jelly. In this sound

, mixed with people's vague admiration.

The people from the tribe were right, this is indeed a good food that can make people appetite in such weather!

"Hiccup~"

After Big Foot burped, he licked the corners of his mouth again. After drinking three bowls of jelly, he felt that all the pores on his body were comfortable.

Looking at the bags of peas packed in animal skin bags, Bigfoot looked a little regretful and shook his head.

Bigfoot is a slave from a semi-agricultural tribe. He is shaking his head at this moment not because he thinks the jelly made from peas is not delicious, but because he thinks of what happened before.

Before his original tribe was broken up, the current tribe did not have this kind of food called peas by the Son of God.

However, after the peas arrived in this tribe, under the leadership of the Son of God, not only did they grow better than in their tribe, but they also used them to create such delicious food!

Even though he saw with his own eyes how the people in the tribe used peas to make delicious and appetizing jelly that people couldn't get enough of, Bigfoot still couldn't believe it.

You must know that their tribe has owned and cultivated this kind of food for many years, and there is no other way to eat it except adding water to the pot and boiling it.

But today's tribe uses it to make jelly that is not only beautiful, but also delicious...

Not only this person had such an idea, but the rest of the original semi-agricultural tribes were basically the same at this time.

Comparing these two situations, what emerged was not only the idea that the original tribe was far inferior to the current tribe, but also a greater respect for the Son of God, and a greater identification with the current tribe...

After eating the delicious and refreshing jelly, these road construction team members took a short rest and then began to continue building the road with great enthusiasm.

The Son of God did not forget them. He prepared delicious food and even had people pull it from the tribe on a donkey cart such a long distance to cook it specially for them.

Under such circumstances, what reason do they have for not building roads properly?

The dull weather cannot stop everyone from working hard to build roads...

Within the Qingque Tribe, Han Cheng's mood was not happy for a long time after the jelly, a good summer food, was brought out, and then he was affected again.

It's not because the jelly lacks various seasonings and lacks flavor, but because there is a problem with the rattan armor in the tribe!

Of course, there is nothing to say about Lai's craftsmanship. The other people in the tribe who learned crafts from Lai have also not learned the 'noble' quality of cutting corners.

The quality problems of the rattan armor in the tribe have nothing to do with their craftsmanship, but problems with their later maintenance.

The rattan armor is different from the rattan shield in the tribe. The rattan shield is usually only held during training or a few times when going out to fight. However, when the road construction team starts to build the road, the rattan armor basically follows the regulations.

Everyone has to wear it.

This is an order issued by Han Cheng in order to prevent unexpected events during road construction.

Naturally, the people in the tribe obeyed Han Cheng's orders, and almost no one took them off except when the heat was unbearable.

After being exposed to the wind and sun all day long, as well as being exposed to dew from time to time, these rattan armors, which are often worn by people, gradually develop problems.

Compared with when they were newly weaved, these rattan armors have begun to slowly fade.

This is not the most serious place. The most serious place is the edge of the vine armor.

When weaving rattan armor with rattan, the edges need to be folded in half to a large extent.

During this process, many canes will be twisted and cracked.

The cracked rattan not only loses the protection of the bark, but also is divided into several parts. The strength and toughness will not be affected on weekdays, but the ability to resist corrosion is greatly weakened.

In the summer, due to the wind and sun, coupled with the humidity of the air and the infiltration of sweat, these places are easily corroded.

Looking at the edges of the pair of vines in his hand, there were already two vines that had deteriorated and broke off after a few hard presses with his fingernails. Han Cheng's eyebrows were slightly raised.

Limping aside, he said that he could repair the damaged rattan armor.

Han Cheng shook his head and did not agree.

Han Cheng knew how to repair the rattan armor, which was to pull out part of the broken rattan and replace it with a new one.

This kind of rattan that was filled in later is naturally not as strong as the previous kind of rattan that was directly braided in.

The reason for this is secondary. The most important reason is that Han Cheng feels that doing so is too troublesome.

The service life of rattan armor is too short. Quality problems will appear within half a year, and various repairs will be needed later. This feeling is really bad.

If quality problems occurred in the past two or three years, this would still be within Han Cheng's acceptance range, but now it only takes half a year...

The number of rattan armors in the tribe will eventually grow to hundreds. If we don't find a way to fundamentally solve the problem, we will have more troubles later on. We will almost have to arrange special people to repair the rattan armors...

Han Cheng knew how to make rattan armor stronger and more corrosion-resistant, because in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Mr. Kong Ming wrote about it when he burned the Nanman rattan armor army.

That is to soak the woven rattan nails in oil and then dry them. After they are dry, continue soaking and then dry them.

The rattan armor made in this way will become extremely tough and can withstand cuts with knives and axes, and it will not be exposed to rain, because when water falls on it, it will turn into water droplets and slide to the ground, which is basically useless.

Can't adsorb

Moreover, the buoyancy of the rattan armor produced by this method is not small, and it can be used as a life jacket at critical moments.

The only drawback is that I am afraid of fire.

However, it is not easy to burn the Tengjia Army with fire. You need to force the Tengjia Army into a desperate situation first.

From this aspect, this kind of rattan armor is indeed very suitable for the current Qingque tribe.

However, just knowing the method will not work, because there is no oil in the tribe.

If there was oil, Han Chenggong would have already started processing the rattan armor when it was produced.

The oil used to soak the rattan beetles is not ordinary cooking oil, but tung oil.

Tung oil is squeezed from the fruits of the tung oil tree. Even in later generations, it is still an important industrial oil.

In the past few years, the Qingque tribe and other tribes have been using new seeds and stones to exchange for salt and pottery. However, Han Cheng did not find any trace of tung oil eggs in these fruits.

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Han Cheng was no stranger to tung oil trees and their fruit ‘tung oil eggs’, because they had planted tung oil trees more than once on the hilly land there.

However, most of the tung oil trees have not grown yet.

Because in less than two years, these trees will be cut down and the rest will be replanted.
To be continued...