Chapter 1852 Bad Broken
The empty valley is quiet and the sun is shining brightly. Those huge tombs made of huge rocks in this shallow grass-covered valley, combined with the stories about them told by Zhou Zhi, gave everyone a sense of wonder. The nostalgia of ancient times.
Only one of the horses chirped rhythmically, expressing dissatisfaction at being ignored.
Lao Chiri smiled and said: "I was so absorbed in listening to Zhuzi's talk about ancient times that I forgot to feed the horses soybeans. They were angry."
"Are you going to feed the horses? "Li Lu is actually a little scared of the horse's big head, but she can't help but be curious. She's timid and likes to talk about it.
Lao Chiri took out a cloth bag from the horse's buttocks, which contained a mixture of soybean meal, beans, and feed. He closed the bag around the horse's mouth, hung the bag on the bridle, and the horse went on its own. He ate obediently.
"Grandpa Chiri, please hold it, and I will try it too." Old girls living in the city are full of the urge to try these things. At least this looks much simpler than milking cows and sheep. .
Lao Chiri smiled kindly, untied the second horse's bean bag, held the horse's head, and handed the bag to her: "Good girl, come and try it!"
“Horses, it turns out, need training and conditioning.” Zhou Zhi said: “I used to never figure out why the horses raised in the Central Plains couldn’t defeat the nomads. Later I found out about this horse. You are not born with the ability to run. The nomads have their own method of training horses. Starting from the foals, after several years of training, they can be divided into several categories: draft horses, carriage horses, war horses, and sentinel horses."
"This method is followed. , The war horses in the Central Plains are just like us ordinary people, while the horses of the nomadic people are warriors and athletes. Thinking about the difference in physical fitness between us and athletes, this thing is really impossible to compete with. ”
"We didn't walk too much today," Lao Chiri said, "so we don't need to replenish too much concentrate. If the horse caravans were like that back then, they would have to prepare at least one and a half kilograms of concentrate for each horse a day. , otherwise the horse will be useless after the trip.”
“There is indeed a horse training method mentioned by Xiuzi. Our caravan is mainly a pack horse, and we also need to organize the ponies into the team, not to carry things, but to just follow. Let the old horse go Shandao, you have to learn this stuff too." After saying that, he rubbed the head horse's forehead lovingly: "This horse is just like a human being, it can be alert or not."
Except for horses! The children needed food, and so did the people. Zhou Zhi found a place with leeward wind, built a fire pit with stones, and took out a bamboo tube, a D-shaped iron tool, and a red stone.
"What is this?" The iron tool was made of iron bars and bent into some beautiful arcs, but Liang Guangping didn't understand what it was.
"Fire sickle." Zhou Zhi said: "I have learned how to make fire with flint for a long time, but I am still not very good at making fire. Today I will try it on the fire hammer."
"You know how to do this? How do you play with it?" Liu Hongtao ran over: "Isn't it drilling wood to make fire?"
"There are many ways to make fire. Drilling wood to make fire is just one way. In fact, it is more efficient. It’s very low, and it’s not as fast as rubbing to make fire, let alone this.”
Pull off the cover of the fire folder, revealing a piece of moxa velvet inside. The moxa velvet has been used, and now the head is black. Huhu carbonized fiber.
When Zhou Zhi was learning how to make fire with Tu Ziri, Tu Ziri was used to using dried moss, dried usnea, bunched up flowers, even bird's nests, dried polypores... Anyway, just use whatever you have on hand, and you can basically make a fire successfully.
Zhou Zhi is not very good at using those things, and the success rate is extremely low.
However, if you use dry carbon wool, the success rate will be much higher. Carbon fleece is to put plant fibers such as paper, cloth, moss, sesame balls and the like into a sealed iron can and roast it in a fire. The fibers in the iron can burn and consume the oxygen in the can, leaving behind The part will no longer burn due to loss of oxygen, but will become carbonized.
This kind of carbonized fiber is the most convenient fire starter, and it often only takes a little spark to ignite.
The carbonized moxa velvet on Huo Zhezi's head has the same properties as this kind of fire starter, so Zhou Zhi feels that he is very sure of starting a fire.
Lao Chiri finished putting the sperm bag on the horse and watched the three boys sticking their butts out and trying to light a fire in the fire pit. He didn't think it was funny, so he took out the orchid smoke stick from the horse's saddlebags and touched it. The Zhibao lighter given to him by De Zhouzhi lit it with a snap, then took a puff of cigarette and watched them light it with a smile, not bothering to intervene.
"Kata!" "Kata!" The striker struck on the red flint, and small sparks kept coming out.
These small sparks are actually caused by the friction of the striker on the flint. Because the hardness of the flint is extremely high, after the striker collides with it, the instant friction and high temperature will cause some tiny iron filings on the striker to melt. Into small red bright iron droplets.
The temperature loss of this small iron drop is only an instant, so whether it can ignite a fire actually depends on whether it can ignite the fiber in an instant.
Zhou Zhi taught Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao the theoretical knowledge of making fire with flint, while trying hard. In order to make more sparks, there are actually some skills. The surface of the iron tool that contacts the flint should be as sharp and powerful as possible. It should be as short as possible. Of course, the most important thing is to be able to predict the path of the sparks flying out, so that they can land on the moxa head of Huozhezi.
Finally, two sparks landed accurately on the tinder. Unlike the previous small sparks that went out when they landed on it, this time the small spark stayed on.
"It's done!" Liang Guangping shouted excitedly, but the air he blew out was too big, blowing out one of the small sparks.
Zhou Zhi quickly protected the remaining sparks with his hands to avoid repeating the same mistake, and then gently shook the fire folder to supply oxygen to the sparks without taking away too much temperature.
The sparks slowly turned into a small red spot, and then spread quickly, covering the entire surface of Huozhezi Head.
Now it was safe, Zhou Zhi breathed twice at the fire folding piece, and a small blue, faint flame sprang out from the fire folding piece.
He took small firewood to light the fire and put it into the firewood pile that had been piled into a mound shape in the fire pit. After a while, a bonfire ignited.
"It's amazing!" Li Lu came over just now and didn't dare to take a deep breath. Now she finally clapped her hands happily: "You really hit my elbow!"
"Hehehehe..." Zhou Zhi himself was also a little proud. Today was the smoothest time for him to start a fire with flint and steel, although Tu Ziri despised him for making fire like this, which was tantamount to cheating.
If the Yi people go out with a fire stick, they must bring a burning fire. No one is stupid enough to carry an extinguished fire stick with them. When they arrive at the campsite, they first use a flint to light the fire stick. Then take the fire folding piece to light the fire.
Isn’t this really bad? !
Cha De Po means fool in Yi language. This fool is still a man. If she is a woman, she should be called Cha De Po.
When the fire was lit, Liang Guangping and Liu Hongtao cheered for a while, and then they saw the beautiful lighter in Lao Chiri's hand. They couldn't help but look at each other, feeling that they were "bad".