Chapter 21 Making a cart

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When Yang Erzhuang heard this, he quickly said: "Oh, why didn't we think of it? Really, this Gao Tou is also made of iron. If you put it on top of the stone, it will be much more forbidden than the stone that is forbidden to be smashed and burned."

The women helped arrange the things on the donkey cart, washed the cinders from the donkey cart, and then went home to rest.

They didn't sleep all night last night and haven't rested since. They happened to catch up on their sleep while the men were working.

Once the car is ready, you can get on the road and go straight away, saving you a lot of slouching.

If it weren't for their weak strength, they wouldn't be able to do the blacksmithing work. In fact, they could switch shifts and let the men take a rest.

After two days and one night, everyone was holding on tight and their nerves were tense.

This means that the string has not been loosened yet. If it were loosened, it would probably fall down.

Qingyan watched for a while, then took a hammer and tried it. Everyone in Yang Dashan knew that she was very strong, so they didn't stop her.

As a result, we found that there is a benefit to having strong strength. If you hit them with one blow, they would hit them with ten blows.

So Qingyan directly took over the work and let them take turns to rest.

Her body had been transformed by the spiritual spring water. It didn't matter if she didn't sleep for two nights, let alone one night. At most, she would just have dark circles under her eyes.

Moreover, Chou Chou was eager to try next to him. If it hadn't been so small, he would have tried to swing a sledgehammer.

In this way, we drove slowly and hurriedly, and finally the wheel of the car was repaired before dark.

But I can't leave yet. I have to sleep in the village tonight, and I have to get a cart tomorrow. I can't just repair the wheels, but I also have to fix the cart. After all, they didn't have any ready-made ones, so they had to piece them together using boards.

Fortunately, now that I have the tools, I can work much faster.

Unlike cart wheels, which require iron sheets and nails, they only need to be connected using a mortise and tenon structure.

Yang Erzhuang knows some carpentry work, so it's no problem for him to do it, and the boards are all ready-made, just put them together.

The most important thing is to add two shafts to the front. Without the shafts, it cannot be pushed or pulled, nor can it be placed on an animal.

However, when they went to bed, they did not all go to rest directly. Instead, five men changed shifts and took turns watching at the entrance of the village.

If there is any movement, you can come back quickly to warn.

If everyone hides in the cellar or takes precautions in advance, they will never be caught off guard.

Although Chou Chou can do this for him, it can not only keep vigil at night, but also directly extinguish the enemy.

However, they both don't know when they will leave. They have to arrange this kind of thing themselves so that there will be no chaos in the future.

It is better to be vigilant. In these troubled times, if you want to live well, you will die the fastest if you are not vigilant.

So the five men agreed that each of them would watch for an hour while the rest went to sleep.

Moreover, when they slept this time, they did not go back to their own homes, but gathered at Yang Dashan and Yang Dawang's homes.

Their two families are almost right next to each other, separated by a road. This way, you don’t have to go to each house to call them if something happens. Everything is already packed anyway, so you just need to bring the quilt over.

It’s fine if the women live in one family and the men live in one family.

The house in Yang Dashan's house is larger, so the women sleep there, and the men sleep in Yang Dawang's house.

It was a very peaceful night, and no convoy like yesterday passed by.

At dawn, everyone got up. The women cooked, and the men pieced together the previously unloaded door panels and bed panels to create a cart that was one foot long and half wide.

That is, it is three meters long and one and a half meters wide. The reason why it is not made too wide is because they will walk on a mountain road later.

Of course, instead of walking through the woods, we should take the path on the mountain. If it is too wide, we will not be able to pass at all.

Moreover, while everyone was working on it, Liu Sanli, who was watching from the side, had a sudden idea to connect the two cars together, so as to save people pulling.

The car that Chou Chou originally thought was brought back was pulled by a man. Later, after they filled the cart, they let the donkey try it and found that it could pull it very easily.

When Liu Sanli saw it, he said: "Just tie the small cart at the back to the cart in front, so that the donkey can pull two carts. When there is a bumpy road, just push it from behind."

This was a really good idea. The luggage was left in the car and all they had to do was leave empty-handed.

The car only has things to pull and Liu Sanli, who can't walk, would be much easier.

Although the wooden wheels are heavy, the donkey is really strong, so there should be no problem.

This donkey must have been running in the mountains. Although it has never pulled a cart, it was well trained by Chou Chou.

No, when I came back yesterday, it was the first time I pulled a car.

After they finished loading both cars, they saw that there were a lot of things. In fact, it was not heavy at all. After all, they were all miscellaneous things that could be used in daily life, as well as some clothes and bedding.

When she mentioned that bedding, Qingyan wanted to cover her forehead.

It's just shredded wheat straw and two patches of coarse cloth, which really doesn't have any warming effect.

It is estimated that they don't go out in the winter, they only rely on firewood to burn the kang for warmth, and spend the winter at home. Otherwise, they just have the bedding. It makes no difference whether they have it or not.

Fortunately, it is summer now, so I can sleep without a quilt.

They simply rolled up their bedding and placed it on top of the donkey cart, because those with pots and pans were afraid of being bumped, so squeezing them in with the bedding would provide some buffering, and save those pots and pans from being smashed. .

If there is any extra, cover it on top, add a layer of straw mat, and tie it with a hemp rope to prevent the loose objects from falling out.

If you look at it this way, it looks pretty decent.

There seems to be a problem now that we no longer have the large swords we used to use as self-defense weapons.

After all, they have to take a mountain road. The mountains are not safe, but there are wild animals.

There are wild ass and wild boar in the mountains here, and occasionally you can encounter a leopard covered in money.

Fortunately, they were going south. If they were going northwest, there would still be wolves on the grassland...