Lin Gang came for a few days, and was shocked by the things in Xiao Yiran and An's homeland, first the first time he ate sweet rice, the first time he ate golden soybeans, the first time he saw the white fine salt dried with brine slurry, the first time he saw silk, the first time he saw the so-called "loom", weaving fine silk into "cloth", and Xiao Yiran and An's clothes, Lin also began to be in awe of Xiao Yiran from the bottom of his heart.

It's good to have awe, Xiao Yiran knows that if you want to control a group, you must let each tribe revere themselves and the gods they have set up for them.

Within a month of the forest's arrival, the fence wall was built, and the first batch of rice and soybeans after the fire were harvested. The matter of using the stone mortar rice was completely handled by Lin alone. Since then, Xiao Yiran and An have been freed from the heaviest labor. In addition to helping Lin Shi with the crops, the two of them mainly focused on finding oak wood cocoons and reeling silk weaving.

"Ann, we're going to build a grass shed to raise silkworms. Otherwise, it's too troublesome to go out and look for it like this all the time. ”

"Sister, can silkworms be raised?"

"Yes."

The grass shed was quickly built, and inside it was half a meter above the ground, a platform was built with thin branches, and the cocooned oak silkworms were placed on it, waiting for the silkworms to turn into butterflies. In fact, Xiao Yiran didn't know how to raise silkworms, but he only saw some of them in the article before his rebirth. I remember that the silkworm cocoon is called "going up the mountain", as if it is to be tied up with straw to let the silkworm that wants to form a cocoon climb up. Now what Xiao Yiran and the two of them picked up are all silkworms that have formed cocoons, so there is the process left.

"Sister, I want to take the rice I just planted to the clan to see if I can recruit people again."

Lin also began to follow An and call Sister Xiao Yiran.

"It won't be dangerous, will it?"

"Sister, no. Lin didn't come here to break the clan rules, nor was he abandoned by the gods, and there was no danger for him to go back. ”

"That's good, not only to the Tiger Clan, but also to the Eagle Clan and other tribes if they can. We need a lot of manpower, young and old. ”

Xiao Yiran knew that if you want to establish an ethnic group, you can't just absorb people from one ethnic group, otherwise there will be a matter of close relatives, which will be detrimental to the development of the ethnic group. Xiao Yiran and An wanted to bring Lin Duo some rice, but they didn't have tools. Thinking about it, I can only use the silk cloth that I have worked so hard to weave, although I am very distressed, and I can only cut my love for the sake of the ethnic group. Sewed a bag that could hold about 20 catties, filled the rice, and let Lin carry it on his back. Sending Lin all the way to the foot of Dongshan, Xiao Yiran advised:

"Lin should pay attention to safety, and then he must go early and return early, the second batch of rice will be planted soon, and manpower is needed."

It wasn't until Lin couldn't be seen anymore that the two returned to the station.

Xu was nourished by love, An became much quieter, and began to pay attention to her dress. Every day, I will go to the shallow pool, take the pool water as a mirror, and carefully clean up. An has long liked the bra and silk pants that Xiao Yiran made for her now, and she has to wash them almost every evening, and of course she will bring Xiao Yiran to wash them together. When Lin was there, Ann didn't take off her bra behind Lin's back, but judging from the change in Ann's expression, she began to feel a little embarrassed. Xiao Yiran couldn't help but be a little funny, he couldn't imagine that this thin layer of silk cloth had such a function, and it didn't take more than ten days before and after to make An feel ashamed.

Xiao Yiran naturally never took off her bra and silk pants in front of Lin, she was not like An, but she had long been accustomed to treating some parts of her body as a forbidden place for women.

Lin came back quickly, and it took less than five days before and after. Lin's harvest from going out this time was completely unexpected by Xiao Yiran. On the evening of the fourth day, when Lin led a group of people to come, not only Xiao Yiran was shocked, but An was also a little surprised. After the two of them caught up, Lin introduced them to the people behind them one by one. Xiao Yiran counted it, and there were as many as thirty-six people. Twenty-one adult men, all between fourteen or fifteen years old and twenty-two or three, listened to Lin's introduction, they came from the four ethnic groups of the Tiger Clan, the Eagle Clan, the Snake Clan, and the Turtle Clan. Of the other fifteen women, there are two children, nine adult girls ranging in age from 14 to 20, and the remaining four are elderly women in their forties. In this era, the life span of people is very short, and after the age of thirty-five is considered old age.

After coming to the station together, what Lin said made Xiao Yiran ponder.

"Sister, some of them were sent by the clan and wanted to learn from us. When I learn it, I'll go back. ”

"Could it be that they are here to study in vain, and there is no quid pro quo for the ethnic group?"

"Yes, during this time here, they have to work for us, and if they don't want to go back in the future, they can choose to stay."

That's fine, if you want to find a way to keep them, you can't keep all of them, and it's okay to leave a lot of them.

If there are people, it is natural to prepare a place for them to live. With people, it's a lot easier to build a thatched hut. It was a little late that day, Xiao Yiran and An arranged for the two young children to live in the attic with themselves, and the others could only sleep overnight.

It's just that the two didn't expect so many people to arrive, and food became a problem for a while. In the first batch of rice, half of it was taken out to make seeds, and the remaining half was taken away by Lin for one-fifth, and the rest was only seventy or eighty catties. Soybeans are less than a hundred pounds. Xiao Yiran could only arrange for them, and after building a grass hut, all the adult men hunted in the jungle to the west, and the women stayed to plant rice and tend to the crops.

On the third day after Lin returned, the oak cocoon pupated into a butterfly. Xiao Yiran knows that the lifespan of butterflies is very short, and the butterflies are only to mate and lay eggs. Fifteen days later, the butterflies that laid the eggs died. Looking at the dense silkworm eggs in the grass shed, Xiao Yiran began to prepare a basket for the young silkworms that were about to be born. First, let the men break many flexible and thin branches from the dense forest, and Xiao Yiran taught the women to weave the basket hand in hand. After the baskets are braided, the silkworm eggs also hatch out of small gray-white silkworms. Leave two elderly women to watch the young silkworms, and let most of the adult women go to the jungle to collect the young leaves of the oak wood and come back to feed the silkworms.

It's just the first time that Xiao Yiran has to teach them personally. After Andu learns it, it will be completely handed over to Andu to manage. Similarly, those adult men were also handed over to Lin for management, and Xiao Yiran gradually broke away from labor and became the head of a clan.

A few days later, Xiao Yiran called Lin He'an to him and instructed:

"Lin, you divide the men into three groups, one group farms the land and serves the crops, and brings the brine slurry over; One group is responsible for hunting; The other group was responsible for carrying stones and cutting timber. ”

"Ann, you divide the adult women into three groups, one group is responsible for feeding silkworms and picking young leaves of oak trees; One group is responsible for cooking rice and drying salt; One group is responsible for reeling silk and weaving, and before the young silkworms we raise have no cocoons, we first go to the mountains and forests to pick up the cocoons on the oak trees and teach them slowly. ”

Xiao Yiran thought that it was time to start preparing for the construction of the tulou.