Chapter Twenty-Three: The Valley of Change
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info There was a slight breeze blowing through the lush land.
The temperature is still a little high, and the heavy rain that has just fallen in the previous two days has not diminished the summer heat.
Only in the shade under the big trees can you feel cool.
The large predators of the jungle lazily hide in the shade of the sun, while the herbivores and small animals take their time to swallow as much food as they can find.
It had been seventeen days since Wu Xuan had the last conversation with Elder Zhihuo, Yi, and Qi.
The clansmen of the Xuanhu tribe in the valley are busy doing their own work.
If someone who is familiar with the previous valley comes to the current valley, I am afraid that the valley will become strange.
The biggest change in the whole valley is at the mouth of the valley, where the gravel used to be all over the ground, but now the gravel is gone, and a fence made up of thick pine trunks has been erected next to the mountain wall, and in the middle part of the fence there is a gap that can be passed by three people side by side, and a gate is installed on the gap, and the gate is made of bamboo poles the thickness of an adult's arm.
Behind the gate, there is a bamboo building built up with bamboo poles, next to the mountain wall on one side, there are figures flashing on the bamboo tower from time to time, it seems that someone is guarding the border on it.
Walking inside from the gate, there is a dirt road that extends to the entrance of the cave of the Xuanhu tribe, this dirt road is more than a fist higher than the surrounding land, and is as wide as an adult four paces away, obviously newly paved, and the earth color looks very new.
At that time, when Wu Xuan proposed to build this dirt road, Elder Zhihuo still disagreed, saying that there was no need to repair it, and the clansmen would have a road if they walked more.
Wu Xuan strongly suggested that this road should be built, and explained that after the road was repaired, he would teach the tribesmen to make vehicles, which could load more things and save a lot of effort when transporting goods.
In fact, it is a four-wheeled frame car, or all wooden, in order to make the axle of the wheel, Wu Xuan is almost embarrassed to death, and he is almost tired of listening to Wu Xuan's command, in short, the first car on the unknown continent in this unknown world was built.
Later, this car played a great role in transporting the pine trunks needed for the mouth of the valley, which greatly saved manpower.
In a large clearing between the mouth of the cave and the pine forest of the Xuanhu tribe, the tribesmen used thin bamboo poles and branches to enclose several clearings, and the weeds and shrubs in the clearing were cleaned, and the soil in the clearing was also turned over.
There is only a small part of the land in the clearing where there are several different plants, there is camelin, there is plantain, and there is a plant that resembles a seedling of Chinese cabbage, and the least planted is a plant that looks like a shallot, pick a stem and leaf and smell it, well, it's a shallot.
In the open space next to the cave there were two places enclosed by thin bamboo poles and branches, where the four small guinea beasts and five or six pheasant-like birds with their wings tied were kept.
These are the animals and birds that Wu Xuan proposed to try to domesticate.
Wu Xuan estimates that it will take at least a year to domesticate the animals.
The location of the rock salt mine in the valley has been mined out of a big hole, a bamboo building has been built next to the mine, and a fence has been enclosed around the mine, according to Wu Xuan, this rock salt mine can be mined to make fine salt powder in the future, which is a good thing that can be exchanged with other tribes, of course, the small animals in the valley can not be wasted, and in the future, there will be more people, except for the animals in captivity, other wild animals in the valley should not be expelled, or not become the food of the tribe, there is no other choice.
In the whole valley, the people of the Xuanhu tribe subconsciously avoided the bamboo forest on the other side, and only went there when they wanted to use bamboo poles, and left there in a hurry when they had cut down enough bamboo poles, even if they wanted to go to the waterhole at the other end of the bamboo forest to get water, they all walked around the beast road on the periphery of the bamboo forest.
Of course, this beast road has also been widened now, and it can completely pass the big car made by Wu Xuan's guidance, which can hold four water tanks at a time, which is enough for two or three days for a hundred clansmen of the Xuanhu tribe.
Yes, it's the dosage, not the dosage.
The current clansmen of the Xuanhu tribe under the suggestion of Wu Xuan, under the supervision of Elder Zhihuo, began to pay attention to hygiene, washing their bodies every day, and after the original messy hair was also cleaned, they were neatly combed with the bone comb and wooden comb made under the guidance of Wu Xuan, and tied with animal tendons.
Everyone looks refreshing and comfortable.
Under the guidance of Wu Xuan, the women of the Xuanhu tribe also made shorts and sleeveless short tops out of animal skins, which made the people of the Xuanhu tribe look much more energetic.
Of course, Wu Xuan will not forget to make shoes, at first they were made of animal skin, but everyone didn't like to wear the shoes they made, and then Wu Xuan had an idea, remembering Comrade Liu Bei in his previous life, and then the straw sandals were made naturally, which was well received by everyone.
The pottery kiln of the Xuanhu tribe was opened smoothly, opened twice, and harvested four water tanks that could stand a child, just one person carrying twenty clay pots that were not strenuous on his back, thirty clay pots, ten clay pots of different sizes, one hundred and forty-six clay bowls that were as big as the face, and a few other small cups and spoons.
Wu Xuan was actually very dissatisfied, when he started firing, there were twice as many things in the kiln, and as a result, he only got less than three percent of the finished product, only which pottery pot had a success rate of burning, and he put five into it, and it became four.
The cave of the Xuanhu tribe is the place that has changed the most, and the entrance of the cave has not yet been installed, only a few large stones are placed on the inside of the door, so that the entrance of the cave can be blocked when there are any powerful animals invading.
The ground inside the cave has been leveled, and all the fires that had been lit before have been extinguished, and only on the inside of the cave entrance has been made of yellow mud to form an oversized stove, and there are ten stoves of various sizes on the stove.
The straw that had been piled up in the cave as a bedding for sleeping has been cleared and replaced with a thick straw mat made of fresh grass blades dried and braided, which looks much more neat.
On the other side of the cave, an attached hole had just been opened, and the entrance of the cave, which was more than one person high, was only three or four steps deep.
It is worth mentioning that there are no tools when opening this attached hole, and the stone knife and stone axe in the tribe cannot cut the rock on the mountain wall at all, only the original crack on the rock wall can be excavated a little, and then Hurricane remembered that he hid a pair of eagle claws in his hand, and felt that he could break the rock, and tried it, but it worked, but this pair of eagle claws is a little small, and the rocks pulled down each time are not much, and it took so long to open this not deep attached hole.
Elder Zhihuo looked at the changes in the Xuanhu tribe, and he was very happy in his heart, the life of the clan was guaranteed, and they would not get sick as easily as they did before, or they would be injured and die while hunting, and there would be some attrition or something in a few dozen days.
And now since being stationed in this valley, there has been no attrition in the Wuxuan tribe, on the contrary, there are still two women in the tribe who should be pregnant, and it seems that there will be new members in the tribe by the next year.
Wu Xuan looked at the Elder Zhihuo who was distracted with a happy face, and shook his head in his heart, what an easy person to be satisfied!
But look at Yi next to him, he is also in a state of distraction, I don't know what I'm thinking?
Forget it, let's not talk about it, anyway, the Xuanhu tribe has changed a lot in the past ten days.
Although I didn't find the whole grains, sweet potatoes and yam that I wanted to find the most that could be used as a staple food, and I didn't find the metals, iron, copper and other things that I needed the most, but with the several wild vegetables I identified, the pine seeds that will grow in the pine forest after a while, the dried meat that the tribe has stored in advance, at most, after a while, let Elder Zhihuo lead people to the waterhole to catch some fish, thinking that the cold season after the hot season should not be too difficult.
Forget it, that's all for this routine two-day meeting of leaders.
Wu Xuan's Xuanhu tribe was already living a good life in the eyes of the tribal leader Elder Zhihuo and Yi, while Rick in the other world just now. What kind of experience will Challus have?