"Because I'm not sure where the place is. The priest told me about it in a hurry, and I only remembered a few key points." Yan Mo said. His expression did not have the fear and respect of a third-level fighter, and his tone of voice was normal.
Bing returned to his senses. The little slave's attitude made him feel a little strange. He felt that the little slave was really brave, and it also made him doubt the identity of the boy. "Why did the priest of the Yanshan tribe tell you about the new Yandi?"
Yan Mo's response to this kind of thing is just a trivial matter, and he immediately said with appropriate sadness and grief on his face: "Because the Yi tribe attacked our tribe, the disciple of the priest was killed. At that time, I was the only one with the priest. He is going to give The remaining warriors gave me strength, so they could only tell me something in a hurry before leaving, so that I could convey it to other tribesmen. But I was bitten by a wild animal on the way to escape with my tribe, and then separated from my tribe, and finally rescued by Ah Zhan .”
Yuan Zhan, who was picking up the leather armor and asking Kusamachi to help him put it on, raised his eyebrows, isn't this the master
Yan Mo was stabbed with the mark of a slave on his shoulder and back, but he had no intention of being a real slave at all. He believed that Yuan Zhan, Lie and others would not dare to treat him as a real slave after knowing that he was a priest disciple of the Yanshan tribe.
Bing didn't care about what strange Zhan was strapping to his body, staring at the young man and said, "Then it's your idea to go south?"
"Yes." Yan Mo nodded.
"Salt in the south?"
"It's possible." Yan Mo said slyly, and refused to give an affirmative answer.
Bing no longer looked at the young man, but instead looked at Lie, "We should immediately return to the tribe and tell the chief and the priest about this matter."
"And then?" Lie asked lightly.
"Then..." Ice stopped.
Lie continued his words and said: "Then the chief and the priest will send people to find the new salt land with this child, but because we talked about this first, the chief and the others will have great hopes. If we return If you don’t go or can’t find it, you can imagine how disappointed they will be, so why don’t we find the salt land first and give them a surprise?”
Ice is silent. He admitted that Lie was right. No matter whether he told the chief or others about this matter, the end result would be the same. The priest must still want to go out to find salt, and the chief would definitely let him go out with him to calm down the Rang and Feisha The injustice of the tribe.
Bing was about to ask Yan Mo about the new Yandi again, when he raised his head, he almost blinded his most proud eagle eyes!
What are Zhan Heshan and others wearing
Not the simple leather skirts common to warriors, nor the animal mantles worn by winter warriors when they go out to fetch water, find food, or fend off enemies.
The animal cloak is to take a large animal skin and make a hole in the middle. When you go out, you only need to put the hole around your neck, and the animal skin can hang back and forth to cover the chest and back, and then use a straw rope to tie it around the waist. , and keep out the wind without getting in the way.
Zhan and the others seem to be wearing animal cloaks on their upper body at this time, but they are completely different.
If you look closely, the left and right shoulders of the original animal cape are thickened with small pieces of animal skin. The thickening method is also simple, that is, to drill holes around the small pieces of animal skin and tie them tightly with leather ropes to the animal skin below.
In addition to the shoulders, layers of cut animal skins of the same size were also added to the chest and back of the animal cloak. The layers of animal skins were tightly packed and looked particularly thick.
This kind of thickened and multi-layered animal skin that specially protects the vital parts of his chest and back looks like a thick tortoise shell. Maybe it should be called animal skin armor? Armor
Perhaps in order to prevent the leather armor from being separated from the front and back, the excess leather ropes under the ribs on both sides of the leather armor can be fastened to each other, so that the animal leather armor can be tightly applied to the body.
The excess part of the animal cloak naturally hangs down to the waist, and the animal hide in this part is not thickened, presumably to allow the waist to rotate flexibly.
Below the waist is a leather skirt, and the lower legs are also wrapped in animal skins, as are the wrists.
The hide on the calf stretches from above the ankle to below the knee, and the hide on the wrist extends from the wrist to the elbow.
Regardless of the animal skin on the calf or the wrist, the middle part is specially thickened.
Such a set of rough but thick enough animal skin battle armor not only protected most of the vital points of the soldiers, but also perfectly outlined and set off the tall and majestic bodies of the soldiers.
Why didn't everyone think of doing this before
After Bing was shocked, his expression immediately became complicated.
The four Zhan, Shan, Diao and Meng who put on such a set of animal skin battle armor made him feel strange at first glance.
They just slightly changed the shape of the usual animal skins and put them on. Why did they look so different
Capable, chilling, majestic, full of wildness and full of a masculine charm, what is even more frightening is the aura they give people, as if they can be invincible. The companions who were once familiar seem to be stronger than ever at this time.
impossible! This is an illusion! Bingyi clenched his fists, he couldn't be suppressed by their momentum, he was a third-level fighter, how could he show weakness to these second-level fighters
Lie has been paying attention to Bing's expression. When he saw that he was first shocked, then puzzled, then envious, and finally lost and dissatisfied, he gave Yuan Zhan a wink.
Yuan Zhan silently took out a set of bound leather armor from his bag and threw it at Bing.
Bing was startled, and almost knocked away a large bundle that was thrown over.
Liekou said: "This is for you, put it on immediately."
The carving over there also found a set and handed it to Missing Tooth. Missing Tooth's black mouth was so happy that he couldn't hide it, he opened his mouth wide and laughed straight away, and repeated in a distinctive airy voice: "I also have a share? Really? mine?"
Diao hit his chest with his right fist, "Brother!"
Missing Teeth immediately beat his chest with his right fist and said heavily, "Brother!"
Bing hugged the big bundle, lowered his head, didn't speak, and began to dress when he walked to the side, and his slave immediately ran to his side to help him.
Yuan Zhan didn't feel too surprised that he didn't hear Bing's thanks, just like they prepared a set of leather armor for Bing and Missing Tooth.
He and Bing are enemies in the tribe, but they are brothers in the same tribe when they go out! This point, any warrior of the original tribe can not violate, and will not violate.
Yan Mo looked at these primitive hunks and wondered, where are the shoes
Why don't you wear shoes
Of course, that may not be called shoes, but foot bindings.
But regardless of the shape of the shoes, being able to wrap the feet with a piece of animal skin will also reduce a lot of danger and injury.
In the past, when I went to collect medicine in the mountains, shoes and trousers were the most important things, and everything had to be wrapped tightly without leaving any gaps, because there are many poisonous snakes and poisonous insects in the mountains, and it is a bad thing to be bitten or drilled.
But the last time he saw these soldiers were all barefoot when they came back, this time even he specially made foot bindings, but they didn't put them on, obviously they had told them how to wear them.
Why? Could it be that the soles of their feet and the skin of their feet are very thick, so they are not afraid of abrasions or bites and scratches
In order to find out the reason, Yan Mo personally took out the piece of foot wrap from the package, and shook it at his hairy owner.
Yuan Zhan glanced at the animal hide in disgust, "Don't use it, your feet will rot."
ha? what…
Yan Mo quickly came to his senses, he understood what was going on. He has seen many cases like this before - tinea pedis, a seemingly insignificant ailment that can be particularly tormenting.
Most of them are caused by airtight shoes, long-term contact with moisture, or infection.
Judging by Yuan Zhan's expression, people from the Yuanji tribe probably used animal skins to wrap their feet before, but due to various reasons such as improper tanning of the animal skins, or lack of attention to hygiene and ventilation, severe athlete's foot developed on their feet. Commonly known as beriberi. In the absence of symptomatic drug treatment, athlete's foot will only become more and more severe, and eventually cause feet not only smelly but also itchy, and in severe cases, feet will rot.
Athlete's foot is one of the most common intractable human diseases in the world he came from. No matter how many thousands of people have been suffering from this disease for thousands of years.
Yan Mo had a whim, could it be because of this that the people of the Yuanji tribe ignored the further use of animal skins intentionally or unintentionally
"Bang!" The heavy animal skin coat fell on his head.
Yuan Zhan ordered: "Put it on, hurry up, don't dawdle."
Yan Mo didn't resist, and obediently put on the animal fur coat made of twisted two large pieces of animal skin.
After everyone was dressed, Meng and Diao had a more lively personality, wearing the new animal skin battle armor, walking around in front of their slaves to show off.
Yuan Zhan stretched out his thick thighs in front of Yan Mo.
Yan Mo, "..." What do you mean
After showing off with his slaves, Yuan Zhan, who was more majestic than other fighters, stepped aside to talk to Hunter.
Bing refused to be excluded and walked over.
The slaves quickly piled up the rest of the luggage, and Kuomachi came to help Yan Mo after finishing his own work.
There are ready-made backpacks, which are easy to pack, and can fit everything in the backpack. The ones that are too large and not heavy, such as wooden scoops, are hung on the belt.
Speaking of backpacks, there is another episode that I have to say.
At the beginning, Yan Mo asked Cao Ding to help sew two kinds of backpacks, one shoulder bag and one waist bag. In his opinion, this should be very simple.
But after the actual operation, it was found that it was very difficult! Not only the technology is difficult, the materials are lacking, but most importantly, the time is not enough.
After repeated discussions with Kusamachi, he overturned all the original ideas, and worked with Kusamachi to finalize a more feasible backpack style and production method.
A backpack with double shoulder straps and cover.
It is made as follows:
First make the two straps for the shoulders. For this, they used two long animal skins with better toughness to make them. Before doing it, fold a long piece of animal skin several times, fold it into about half a palm width, and then sew stitches back and forth on the folded animal skin, and sew the folded long animal skin tightly, which can greatly increase the toughness of the strap and firmness.
Next, make the body of the backpack. This requires a relatively large animal hide, first cut into a regular square, and then drill holes in the edges that usually need to be stitched. The holes should be small and dense. Then use the small hole as a button hole, and lock the edge with needle and thread, so that the perforated part is not easy to be torn by the leather rope due to the load. Then connect the holes on each side, tie it tightly with a leather rope, and then sew a few stitches up and down with a needle thread, and a cylindrical bag body is ready.
Next, connect the backpack to the harness. Because the suture materials and techniques were not good enough, Yan Mo thought twice, and made a slit at the parallel position of the bottom and top of the bag body, inserted the strap through the inside of the bag, and then closely connected the slits at both ends with the strap. Sew, and also sew the straps and the body of the bag through the inside of the backpack tightly. In this way, the risk of separation or cracking between the backpack and the harness due to excessive load can be minimized under the current limited conditions.
The final closing and the cover are relatively simple. You only need to drill a circle of holes in the uppermost part of the closing, and use a leather rope to tighten it. The rainproof cover only needs to sew a piece of animal skin directly on the bag body.
The backpack made in this way is about the size of a rice bucket that can hold 10 kilograms of rice, and can carry a load of about 15 kilograms. It is not a problem to stuff 30 yuan of cured meat the size of an adult's fist, but the backpack will become full.
Although the production method of this backpack is not difficult, there are many places where needlework is used, and it takes a lot of time just to hem the holes. Da Shan took a few pieces of animal skins and asked the brown soil and hunting slaves for help.
That's it, they were busy till dark, and all of them only made five such backpacks in total.
So a full set of animal hide armor can be provided for Ice and Missing Tooth, but the backpack is not for them.
With a whistle, everyone moved closer to the river bank, and Yan Mo counted the heads again.
In addition to the seven soldiers, there were five slaves including him on this trip, a total of twelve people, ten men and two women.
Kusamachi and Mosquito knew him. That stout woman named Xia Fei was the hunting slave girl, about the same age as Kusamachi. Bing's slave is called Yangwei. He is in his early twenties and looks a bit timid.
Neither Meng nor Tooth took slaves.
It wasn't until the next few days that Yan Mo knew that the two brothers, Lie and Meng, shared a slave in various senses, and fortunately Xia was fat and strong, and could endure tossing.
Missing teeth means that he can barely support himself, so naturally it is impossible to raise another slave.
Because of this, Yan Mo also discovered that the slavery here is actually very deformed. From the descriptions of Yuan Zhan and others, it can be seen that if the master cannot suppress his slaves in all directions, then it is better not to own slaves, because if the master only If you blindly squeeze your own slave and don't let him eat enough, you may be killed by the slave in turn.
Slaves who don't want to be enslaved will run away, Yan Mo only found out later that Bing thought his slave Yang Tong had run away.
"Salt silence."
Yan Mo raised his head when he heard Lie calling him.
Everyone looked at him.
Yuan Zhan stood beside him, supporting his body.
"I don't need you to tell me all the points about finding new salt fields, but if we go south, we may encounter great danger, you must give us the first hint." Lie sullenly serious road.
Yan Mo quickly calculated in his mind, do he really want to go south? Maybe the East is also good.
No, still go south. If the old priest Qiushi's divine vision is fine, he said that there is heavy snow in the north, which means that the north here is colder than the south, so at least he doesn't have to worry about going to the South Pole if he goes south.
But if the situation in the south is worse and more dangerous than here...
"Yan Mo?" Lie called him again as if urging him.
"We want to find the sea." Yan Mo said. Hai, he pronounced it in Chinese. There is no way, the boy's memory has no vocabulary related to the sea.
"Sea?" Lie's pronunciation was a bit strange.
Yan Mo nodded, "The sea is a very large lake that is much larger than lakes and rivers. It is as vast as the sky. The color of the water is deeper than the blue of the sky. The taste of the water is salty, bitter and fishy."
"Is there salt in the sea? Or is there salt near the sea?" Yuan Zhan asked.
Yan Mo replied: "The priests of my family once told me that the salt in the sea is not only inexhaustible, but also relatively easy to obtain. At the same time, there is a lot of food in the sea, very much."
Everyone's eyes widened, their faces full of disbelief and joy, "Really? Such a place really exists?"
Yan Mo continued to fool around: "The priests of my clan said yes."
"Where is it?" Bing Qiang asked impatiently before everyone else.
"At... the end of the continent."
Yan Mo habitually pretended, he thought he would see a silent face, and was about to wait for someone to ask him where the end of the continent was, so he tried to reveal something to shock these primitive people a little bit, so that he could be sure that he was in the team Its status is more than just a guidepost for searching for salt, and then I will learn more about the geographical conditions in the vicinity from the public, and then infer the future direction.
Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished speaking, the missing teeth suddenly shouted: "I've heard the end of the continent, I've heard people say it!"