Chapter 18: The Daughter's Mind Is Thoughtful

Siu Yat Ran and Ann have been very busy and diligently rebuilding their homes. With the first rice transplants after the fire, a fifth of the fence walls were built. Not only that, but the two also went to the jungle in the west and found a lot of oak cocoons and millet fruits that can enlarge breasts.

Before seeing the millet fruit, Xiao Yiran thought that the millet fruit was a wild fruit, but it turned out to be a hard seed the size of a pea, and in order to eat the flesh inside, the outer layer of hard peel had to be broken. Xiao Yiran didn't want to be like An, every grain of millet had to be knocked with a stone, but directly put it in the fire for less, just like burning chestnuts, and soon after putting it in the fire, a layer of hard shell of the millet fruit was peeled off, and the white kernels inside were exposed. After cooking, the millet fruit has a strong milky flavor, and the taste is really good.

Xiao Yiran, who comes from modern times, knows that work efficiency will be high only if work and rest are combined. So she set a work schedule for the two of them. Before breakfast, he planted a fence for an hour, after breakfast, he took care of the rice fields and soybeans, and when the temperature rose, he and An hid in the shade of the five remaining big trees, boiled oak cocoons, and reeled silk. Two hours after lunch, the hottest time of the day, the two rested. Fence up in the evening until dinner. Before dark, Ann was taught to weave with a loom.

The loom that Xiao Yiran made last time had already been destroyed in the fire, and now this one was made by two people together. Corrected the defect in the last system zuò, and this time it is much easier to use.

Recently, especially when the two of them were resting, Xiao Yiran has been struggling with one thing, that is, whether to teach An to learn to read. Xiao Yiran remembered that it was recorded in history that during the period of Xuanyuan Yellow Emperor, his historian Cangjie collected and sorted out texts from various tribes, and since then, words have begun to spread and become popular. According to legend, it is believed that the characters were made by Cangjie and are called "the saints of word making". Whether it is collected and sorted out by Cangjie, or created by Cangjie alone, the text appeared in the period of the Yellow Emperor, which should be thousands of years later. Moreover, the first scripts were all hieroglyphs, that is, paleographs. And what Xiao Yiran knows is only the modern simplified Chinese characters, if the simplified Chinese characters are really taught and spread, will it change the course of history?

Xiao Yiran has been difficult to make a decision for this. In order to build one's own race in the future, and to let one's own race grow stronger and stronger in this era, it is necessary to have writing. However, Xiao Yiran could not predict the consequences of the spread of simplified Chinese characters.

"Ann, do you know what a word is?"

"Words? I don't know. ”

"Ann, look."

Xiao Yiran said, drawing the shape of a stone knife on the ground. When Ann saw this, he said:

"Is my sister drawing stone knives?"

"Yes, this portrait is a stone knife, and if you think of this portrait as a word, then it can be read as 'knife'."

Then, Xiao Yiran wrote down the words stone axe and stone adze. Xiao Yiran wrote simplified characters, and An naturally didn't know it. After teaching a few words, Xiao Yiran gave up, thinking that it would be better to think about it after a while.

"Ann, is there any way you can get in touch with Lin?"

"I can only get through my mother and grandpa, but it's easy to see them. We couldn't go out, and they didn't dare come in. ”

Xiao Yiran is in urgent need of a few manpower now, especially young and middle-aged manpower.

"Ann, we can't just live in this attic, we also have to build a house underground, in case it's cold, we can't stand living in a tree."

"Sister, will it be cold?"

"Haven't you been cold?"

Ann shook her head and said:

"I've heard Grandpa say that it will be cold if you go far north."

Could it be that this is really a tropical region, isn't it recorded in the history books, before the Qin and Han dynasties, the south was still a wild land, full of miasma, and it was difficult for human beings to survive here?

"Ann, not only to protect against the cold, built on the ground, or underground houses, but also to resist enemy attacks."

"Is it to prepare for wars from other races in the future?"

"Yes, when our race expands in the future, it is inevitable that there will be wars with other races. Adults can go to war, but old people and children have to hide, so we need to build more stable houses on the ground. It is even necessary to add a stone wall to the outside of the fence wall, but that will have to wait until the conditions are available in the future. ”

"Sister really wants to build her own race? It's just that Ann wants to be a great wizard and can't have children. ”

"Haha, Ann, don't worry, the great wizard of our race can have children."

"Really, sister?!"

"Of course it's true, since it's our own race, it's up to us to decide."

With Xiao Yiran's words, in the following days, An worked harder. Xiao Yiran looked at An's reaction in his eyes, and thought to himself, the ancients regarded the continuation of the race as the top priority, and this concept has long been engraved in everyone's bones, and I am afraid that this is the fundamental reason why human beings can reproduce.

The pain in the lower abdomen for several days in a row, Xiao Yiran's sunflower water came as scheduled. Seeing Xiao Yiran put on the silk shorts that had been made long ago, and put a silk bag filled with plant ash between his legs, so that Xiao Yiran could still move freely during the Kwai Shui period, An Yiran's eyes widened in surprise. Only now did she know about the shorts that Xiao Yiran had made before, and the role of the silk bag.

"Sister, are you really not the embodiment of a god?"

"Ann, sister is sister, not the embodiment of gods. The future god of our race is a dragon, remember? ”

"Remembered."

Xiao Yiran looked at An with little stars in his eyes, but a question suddenly came to mind in his heart. Although she had not seen the great gods of other races, the snake tribe had seen it. In the future, after the establishment of the race, how can the image of the dragon be combined? Not to mention the limbs of so many animals, it is probably not easy to combine them into an organic whole. Everything else can be done, Xiao Yiran knows that only faith is impossible in this era. Otherwise, there will be no cohesion among the ethnic groups, and the ethnic groups without cohesion will have no combat effectiveness, and they will not be able to survive for a long time in such a harsh environment.

There are a lot of things that need to be done, and I really need a competent helper, Xiao Yiran is becoming more and more eager to recruit talents.

"Ann, you must find a way to inform Lin and let him come once."

"Okay, find a chance, I'll sneak back. Grandpa and Mother They can't come to the forbidden land of the sacred mountain, Lin belongs to the tiger clan, and the sacred mountain has no restraint on him. ”

"Ann, can you be sure that Lin is still waiting for you?"

"Yes, we've met twice more since then, and we've sworn to our gods."

"What oath?"

Xiao Yiran's gossip psychology became strange again, but Ann did not satisfy her curiosity this time, and it was also the first time that Ann did not answer Xiao Yiran's question positively.

"Where's my sister's sweetheart? Can you be notified? ”

"Sister doesn't have a sweetheart yet."