wild trail

Chapter 107 Preparing to Build a Car
At dusk, the group pushing the stakes finally returned to the tribe.

Although Wang Lang has described the concept of a car to people, these people have no experience in this field after all, and cannot imagine what a car is.

Seeing the people pushing a few huge wooden stakes back, everyone surrounded them curiously, wondering what the use of Wang Lang's efforts to get them back.

"Patriarch, is this stake the so-called wheel?" Bark asked curiously.

Wang Lang nodded and said, "Well, these are used to make wheels. With vehicles, we can transport more things."

The bark scratched his head, he couldn't think of how these few wooden stakes could transport things, but such troublesome things are usually solved by Wang Lang, it doesn't matter if you don't understand, you can do it yourself , why think so much and add trouble to yourself.

No longer thinking about such troublesome things, Bark's eyes moved to those strange things in the back basket, which were not there when they left in the morning. Obviously, Wang Lang and the others must have found something good again.

"Patriarch, what's in the basket, is it edible?" Bark licked his lips and said.

Wang Lang smiled and said, "It's indeed for food, those..."

Before Wang Lang could finish speaking, Bark took out a cucumber from the basket at a speed that could not cover his ears and steal the bell, and took a bite without even wiping off the fluff on the skin.

But in a blink of an eye, the bark spit out the eaten cucumber.

"Patriarch, what is this, why is it so unpalatable." Bark said with a depressed face.

Looking at the appearance of the bark, other people would definitely laugh at the bark if it wasn't because of their status, but now they can only laugh and dare not laugh, and they are so uncomfortable.

Wang Lang chuckled lightly and said, "Why are you so anxious? This thing won't run away with long legs. You eat it before I finish talking. You really deserve it."

The bark was a little embarrassed by what Wang Lang said, and he smiled and said, "Then isn't this thing eaten directly?"

"This thing is called cucumber. It can't be eaten directly like this kind of brown skin. It can be barely eaten after cooking, but the taste should not be very good." Wang Lang said.

Kong Yi at the side asked with some doubts: "Then since this food is not tasty, what's the use of bringing it back?"

Wang Lang said with a smile: "The ripe ones are not tasty, but the ones with green skin are still good."

After finishing speaking, Kong Yi and Shupi's eyes lit up, and they quickly found a few green cucumbers from the basket.

Because of the lesson Bark just learned, neither of them dared to eat directly, Kong Yi asked: "Boss, can this be eaten directly?"

Wang Lang nodded and said, "Yes, just remove the layer of fluff on the outside."

Hearing this, the two smiled, rubbed the cucumber a few times casually, and began to eat.

The sweetness and crisp taste of the cucumber immediately caught the eyes of the two of them. This is different from the sweetness of the fruit, and the cool and refreshing feeling made the two of them enjoy eating it.

But this kind of primitive cucumber was too small, and it was gone in a few bites. When the two wanted to eat more, Wang Lang stopped them and said, "Don't eat all of them. There are not many green ones. Wash some with water later. Cut it open for everyone to taste."

The two of them resentfully put the cucumbers in their hands into the basket, and the pleasure of having good things that they couldn't eat really made them feel very uncomfortable.

At night, in the cool breeze, people eat barbecue with cucumber, enjoying the rare comfort.

After dinner, Wang Lang asked Kong Yi and Kong Er to teach the newcomers the language of the tribe. If the language is not understood for a long time, there will be a gap sooner or later, and it will be very inconvenient to communicate.

Language, if you learn it with an exam mentality, is simply extremely difficult, but for the needs of life, and living in this language environment for a long time, learning it will get twice the result with half the effort.

The language of the jungle tribes is not that complicated, and there are only a few hundred commonly used words. Some things invented by Wang Lang are pronounced in Mandarin. Nouns are just for people to remember things. Aotian is still a dragon dog, he just won't change anything because of his name.

In the early morning of the next day, Wang Lang began to prepare for making the vehicle. He showed the designed compartment to others. The production of the compartment was very simple, just joining pieces of wood with wooden strips. Although this thing is not complicated for one person , but it is time-consuming to make, the wood for making planks, and those small trees as thick as a person on the edge of the deep forest are more suitable materials.

Kong Yi took the people under his management to cut down trees, and Wang Lang took the rest of the people to make wheels. Since the wheels were made of solid wood, the process was much simpler. Wang Lang twisted a thin straw rope with weeds to measure Remove the bark width of the wooden pier at once, fold the straw rope in half, and carve out the middle position with a dagger.

A wooden pier can just make two wheels, and what Wang Lang plans to make is also a two-wheeled vehicle. The most troublesome thing about a four-wheeled vehicle is the steering problem, which cannot be solved with his current level.

Regarding the question whether two-wheeled or four-wheeled is better, Wang Lang didn't have an answer in mind.

Modern Chinese carriages are still two-wheeled vehicles. He thinks that it is not because of technical reasons that four-wheeled vehicles have not been made. After watching so many historical TV dramas, in ancient wars, there were four-wheeled or even eight-wheeled vehicles used to siege cities. , but why two-wheeled vehicles are still used in life, he believes that two-wheeled vehicles must have its advantages.

There are many people and strong strength. Several people are in charge of a wooden pier. In less than an hour, all the wooden pier was sawed into two discs of similar size. Next, Wang Lang asked someone to chisel the middle of the disc with a bronze chisel. It took a long time for everyone to make a rectangular hole, and the four wheels were not completed until evening.

The next day, Wang Lang asked some people to continue making wheels, and he took a few people to find materials for making the axles. Since the axles carried almost the entire weight of the car, ordinary wood would definitely not work, and hard and durable wood must be used. Ground wood is fine.

Seven or eight people, holding axes, walked along the edge of the forest and saw trees as thick as calves, so they went there and chopped them down a couple of times. Wang Lang hadn't done much research on trees, and in his impression, pine trees were relatively hard wood. , but now in the tropics, there will be no such trees, so we can only use this method to try tree by tree.

After a busy day, he cut down hundreds of trees, but he couldn't find a suitable tree, which made Wang Lang a little frustrated. If he couldn't find a suitable wood, he could only use ordinary trees instead, but in that way, the service life of the vehicle would be greatly reduced. Greatly shortened, the load capacity will be much smaller.

(End of this chapter)