"That's enough." The girl said, and the Yi people put down the buckets and built another frame with bamboos next to the so-called salt well - which is still a pit filled with water. This shelf is something that the Yi people are slightly familiar with, but they are "familiar" in different directions. Some Yi people who have gone out to plunder recognized it: "Isn't this a super large spinning wheel?" Some have never seen it before. The Yi people in the mountain forest thought: "This is the rotor used by priests to play drums. It is so big that it must be a powerful spirit that has never been seen before to help dig the well." However, people like Shomon Butler were originally from outside the mountains. , who has lived in Yishan for many years and is accustomed to the customs of the Yi people and is considered by other Yi people to be Yi people. At first, he prepared to speak with contempt: "You haven't even seen a waterwheel? This is..." Then, I vaguely remembered the village where I lived when I was a child, the waterwheel outside the village, and my parents whose faces I had long forgotten, so I fell silent.
The first batch of bamboos transported to the salt well construction site were the smallest ones. They were almost the first choice for any Yi people who wanted to be lazy and save effort. Once they arrived, they were quickly processed into bamboo strips and bamboo pots. Hualin said The reward given to the Yi people who completed the task quickly by carrying small bamboo felling was to make them bear the subsequent transportation work and various laborers on the construction site, so that the remaining people would see it and dare not do this again. Something slippery. In the face of such reasonable labor remuneration, the second batch of cut bamboos is obviously much stronger and can be used to build various shelves needed on the construction site. When the third batch comes, Hualin will personally select it. They are so picky that the barbarians are all tongue-tied. They don’t have to be slightly curved, and they have to be of average length and thickness. After cutting down a dozen trees and placing them on the construction site, it doesn’t look like they were chopped from an entire mountain. , but they are all born from the same mother.
The Yi people soon learned the usefulness of these bamboos. They were hung on the spinning wheel-like thing. As the "spinning wheel" rotated, they sank into the newly dug salt wells filled with water. When they sank to a certain depth, Following the girl's command, the barbarians turned their carts and lifted the bamboos from the salt well.
When the bamboo tube was lifted up, Paigang Toast happened to be standing next to it. As he watched the bamboo tube being turned to the side, someone carefully uncovered the cowhide covering the bamboo tube. A lot of sediment flowed into the shallow pit dug in advance and was picked up by other people. The Yi people picked it up and found that the cart was used to lower the bamboo tube to clean the sediment from digging the well. The previous irrigation also allowed the excavated gravel and mud to flow into the bamboo tube with the water and be lifted out by the bamboo tube.
"You can just let a child go down and dig out the sand. Why waste so much effort?" Chief Paigang was about to show his new master his skill in using slaves. Suddenly, he thought of something and did not dare to move: "This bamboo tube lift When we came up, it was full of water and sand. It was so heavy. How did the cowhide at the bottom support it and keep it from leaking out halfway? No! If the cowhide was glued firmly, , isn’t this just a solid thing? How come you lifted the water and sand up from underneath without turning around after putting it down? Could it be that this girl used magic?”
So when he put the bamboo tube down again, he deliberately stayed there for a while and looked carefully. No Yi people had put anything on the bamboo tube at all. He just watched the cowhide hanging on the bamboo tube and sinking it into the well. Go down.
After a while, the car turned, and another bamboo tube filled with cement and sand was lifted up, dumped in a shallow pit, and picked away by other barbarians.
This time, Chief Paigang looked at it carefully again. When he lifted it up, the cowhide was well covered at the bottom of the bamboo tube. Until the Yi people on the well lowered the bamboo tube, uncovered the cowhide, and poured out the sand.
"She must have summoned the invisible divine messenger, put the sand into the bamboo tube underground, and covered it with cowhide." Chieftain Paigang thought with great certainty that his daughter had a treasure gifted by the high priest, which could summon the invisible messenger. The god's messenger came and repeatedly performed extraordinary feats on the battlefield. This girl must have similar treasures, and they are stronger than his daughter's. Ujida's divine messenger has to shake the bell and add a spell to perform a simple action. How can he be like this girl's divine messenger who can wash out mud and stick seals, and also works hard and uncomplainingly like slaves in the well? Work - It is obviously impossible for Chief Gang to change his childhood concept of "working is a slave". He will only judge based on this that the girl has a higher-level "warrior angel" to abuse her like this. Powerful God Envoy - Treating work as abuse is also a very standard barbarian mentality.
Naturally, Hualin did not give Paigang Chieftain a physics class to teach him what a one-way valve is, what "the upward tension of the muddy water in the well pushes the leather valve into the bamboo tube" and what "once the bamboo tube is lifted, the downward pressure of the muddy water in the tube pushes In the interest of keeping the leather valve from leaking, he was busy assigning one task after another to the barbarians under his command. After cleaning up the sediment at the bottom of the well, he sank a thick bamboo tube close to the well wall into the well to isolate water seepage. , strengthen the well wall, and the drill bit digs deeper.
If there are wells on all sides and a place where brine is dug all year round, it is common for a salt well to be opened for ten years. But for the well opened by Hualin, not only was there no salt well nearby, but there was not even a well. Moreover, he did not dig it randomly. He chose a place on the ground where the salt brine seeped out and dug straight down. So after a few days, the bamboo tube picked up the turbid brine and poured it into the deep pit dug in advance on the other side.
"Salt is going to be made now." The Yi people near the salt well thought so. They had never seen salt making before, so it was definitely worth seeing! Even if it's not worth watching... at least it's something new to watch! They were tired of digging soil, chopping bamboo, and riding the seesaw day after day. If it were a second person, although they might not have rebelled, they would have escaped into the forest at night and screamed in the wind. Never had they worked so hard since they were born! In the conscience of heaven and earth, not even their slaves have ever worked so hard!
It's not that these slave owners are kind to their slaves, but in their consciousness, there are only a few farm tasks: turning the soil, sowing seeds, harvesting, hoeing every day, etc. are not in their dictionary at all, that is, I can't think of forcing slaves to do it. The only way they can think of for exploitation is to let slaves cultivate as much land as possible in the spring. Although these tasks are also very arduous, spring will always pass one day. By then, the lazy barbarians will already be celebrating that they have finally escaped from After taking over the hard work of overseeing work, he began to plan on making wine, entertaining guests, and plundering his neighbors.
But to their surprise, Hualin's new order was for them to sink the prepared bamboo pot into brine and soak it!
Of course, they did not dare to object, because their other question was finally answered at this time - they wanted to build a new stove and a hut to cover the stove next to the salt well!
