Not wanting to disturb them, Ding Qi and Cang went to the other side for a small meeting.

"Everyone did well today, at least no one was hurt when they caught the donkeys. But I still have to tell everyone to pay attention to safety when facing these large herbivores. ”

Ding Qi was very satisfied with everyone's performance during the day, and he encouraged him.

"Cang, tell me what information you got in that tribe."

After seeing those few people secretly watching, Ding Qi moved his mind to follow them. Therefore, after using a grassy slope to block the other party's view, Kura led the chestnut horse around the other grassy slopes and followed the other party back to the tribe from a distance.

Cang reported the information he had observed to Ding Qi, and at the same time sorted out some of his conjectures and said them together. For example, if the other party seems to have come to the conclusion that the horse can be ridden and that the horse and donkey are also captured for the purpose of riding through their own behavior and methods of catching wild donkeys and riding horses, this shows that the other party is more intelligent and can immediately think of experimenting with the horses in his pen.

"Well, judging from what you have observed, their tribe should be a tribe that is good at learning, and the overall strength of the tribe is relatively strong. But at the moment, it is not clear whether they are friends or foes, so we must continue to be vigilant, lest we capsize in the gutter like the Tuvan tribe did last time, and almost be served by others. ”

Ding Qi nodded, pondered for a while and said, pointing out that everyone should be vigilant so as not to be hacked.

"In addition, this tribe is most likely the same tribe of horse hunters, as you can tell from the wounded horses they keep in captivity, and their main food is horses. We can try to make contact with them, and if possible, teach them how to catch horses, and then we can exchange horses from them if we need them, which can reduce a lot of labor and save us a lot of time. ”

Picking up the pottery bowl beside him, Ding Qi thought for a moment and continued:

"So be it! Tomorrow morning we will go to that tribe to find out who they are and if they are friendly. Bring two sets of pottery as gifts for them, and as long as they are not greedy people, then we can socialize with them and move on to the next step, and by the way, we can also inquire about the distribution of horses in this area. To tell the truth, their tribe is located on this grassland, and it must be a very rich tribe! ”

Cang and Ling laughed, they knew that as long as it was a rich tribe, their tribe would have a long heritage, and there would be some good things in the tribe that could be exchanged. Especially in the grasslands, the terrain is open and rich in minerals, and it is very likely that there are collections of minerals and gems within their tribe.

These things, to the Ding tribe, are treasures! And the pottery owned by the Ding tribe is even more precious to those of them who have never seen pottery!

Ding Qi took out a roll of sheepskin from a leather pouch on his chest, spread it out on a stone, and said to the cang:

"Come, mark the location of the horse hunting tribe you observed today on this map. Ling, you can also learn along. In the future, when you are traveling, you must learn to make maps along the route. Through the map, we can intuitively see the location and distance of the other party, so that people who have seen the map but have not been to that place can find that place by themselves. ”

As he spoke, Ding Qi took out a charcoal pen made of birch bark wrapped in a charcoal core, handed it to Cang, and asked Ling to learn how to make a map as well.

Making maps along the line, for Tinch, that's part of his travels. Every day when he returned to the camp, he would take some time out to draw a map, and he would be able to visualize the places he had experienced on the map.

In the tribe before, he had taught deer, Ben, barn, rat and white fang, and he also taught moo and strong when he was away this time. They will all follow Dingqi's request to add unfamiliar areas to the map, and wait until they return to the tribe, and then hand them over to the Witch Deer

She comes to add, draw and keep. At the same time, they will also train more warriors to learn to read and draw maps, which is required to become a necessary skill for warriors. When the tribe's papermaking skills developed, it would be their daily habit to have a map in hand.

The night was quiet, and the flame of dried cow dung swayed in the wind, spreading the faint scent of grass into the nostrils of every creature. With a fur bag on his head, looking up at the Milky Way and the stars, Ding Qi gradually fell asleep. Not even the roar of the beast in the distance could not wake it up.

Outside the campfire, two warriors were patrolling between the two herds, lest predators sneak up and attack the piles of meat they see. Probably because he killed a lot of black wolves last night, so that the surrounding predators did not dare to approach. However, this has caused other herbivores to suffer, and from time to time herds are forced to run around human camps to avoid predators.

Cattle are intelligent animals, they are able to judge the situation, and when they see that their kind are well protected, they also come to seek refuge.

Thundered!

The sound of hooves shook and pounded on the earth, finally waking Ding Qi up.

Ding Qi stared in confusion, looking around with the help of the light of the campfire, and couldn't help but gasp. There were too many herbivores around, except for the river behind them, so there were no animals, all kinds of herbivores were standing in the other directions, and the noisy sound had filled the sky over the entire camp.

Farther away, there were already many flashes of light in pairs, and it was clear that there were more carnivores coming behind the herd.

This does not mean that these animals are not afraid of humans, but that they have a herd mentality. Regardless of their psychology, Tinki must now disperse the animals. In the event of an attack from outside by beasts like saber-toothed tigers and lions, everyone in this camp will not survive, and will become a pile of rotten flesh to nourish the meadow.

The soldiers on duty saw Ding Qi wake up and hurried over to check. Ding Qi directly interrupted the other party and said:

"Quick, wake everyone up."

Soon, everyone stood in front of the campfire and waited for Ding Qi's order. They knew that there was nothing special, and Tinch would not wake everyone up in the middle of the night.

"Long story short. You have also seen many herbivores taking refuge around, but there are too many. If the herd riots, there's a good chance they'll storm our camp and trample us to the ground. ”

Ding Qi pointed to the surging beasts outside, so that everyone could see the situation clearly.

"Now, go and light the dry cow dung we prepared earlier, and slowly drive the animals outward, away from the camp and away from the carnivores."

The crowd quickly sprang into action, setting fire to the dung heaps one by one, driving away the surrounding herbivores, except for the mother cow and the donkey. Ten tribal warriors, including Tinch, lit torches, mounted horses, and drove them away around a herd of bison in the direction of the predators who had slowly gathered around.

Fifty or sixty bison ran in formation, and the earth shook. They were like heavy tanks, controlled by Tinch and the others to rush towards the predators who came in search of taste. Knock the herd of predators apart, gather and scatter again until the surrounding predators are driven away. There were three saber-toothed tigers and five leopards trying to break into the herd behind them, but Ding Qi, who had discovered them in advance, was driven away.

As for the bison, which were actually driven by torches in the hands of humans, they had already returned to the grassland, grabbing on the fat forage on the ground as if nothing had happened.

A crisis was resolved with the efforts of everyone.

In the morning, the prairie is misty. After a period of extreme silence, the whole grassland woke up, and the sounds of all kinds of animals, whether birds or animals, filled the vast grassland.

People who have been tired all night slowly wake up, boil water to boil meat to make tea, and prepare breakfast. The earth drove the herds and

The donkeys graze on the surrounding grasslands to feed the pot-bellied men. They are at ease when humans help keep them safe.

Horse Hunter Tribe, a team of tribal warriors are looking for prey on the grasslands. Their main purpose in coming out was to look for the captured donkey they had seen in this direction yesterday. They were ordered by the tribal physicians and chieftains to catch some live horses or donkeys and return to the tribe, so they prepared some necessary ropes and flying stone lines.

The rope is a hunting weapon invented by their tribe, a rope with a stone tied to each end, and people can throw the rope at the target's leg to wrap around the opponent, so as to restrict the movement of the animal, and try to catch some horses or donkeys alive that are not injured.

Only by getting these uninjured horses can we use the poles of the lassos or donkeys that humans used yesterday to catch more horses and expand the size of the tribe's horses.

"Tuk Tuk!"

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves reached their ears. Everyone was overjoyed, and finally waited for the horses. They sped up under their feet and wanted to rush up the grassy slope over there to observe. Soon, however, they were frightened by the horses and humans that appeared on the top of the slope.

The appearance of ten horses charging down the grassy slope, like a demon god descending to earth, shook their hearts and crushed their souls!

"Phew!"

"Herod!"

Riding on a red horse, Tinch was like a burning flame, and at the moment when those people felt that they were about to be devoured, he pulled the horse and stopped in front of them.

I came out today to ride Xiao Erhei, but I didn't think that a donkey would be pestering Xiao Erhei, and I would follow wherever I went. Ding Qi saw that he had no choice, so he could only change the horse of another left-behind warrior and take Cang and Ling to the horse hunting tribe.

After rushing up a grassy slope halfway, I didn't expect to collide with the people in front of me. On the downhill slope, Ding Qi and the others did not dare to reclaim their horses, so they could only steer their horses and rush down to the other side to avoid bumping into these innocent tribesmen. Tinch's equestrian skills were better, but he could stop in front of them, and frightened the crowd into a huddle with a terrified look on their faces.

"Hello. I'm sorry, I almost bumped into you, come on, hurry up. ”

Tinc gave them an intertribal salute and stretched out his hand to pull the man up beside him. Cang and Ling also stepped forward one after another and pulled up the fallen people one by one.

"Excuse me, are you from the Horse Hunting Tribe? We come from the distant Ding tribe. ”

After these people were frightened, Cang continued to step forward, played the role of the captain of his tribe, and began to talk to the people in front of him. It's just that the eyes of three or five of them are a little evasive, and they are the same people who peeped at Ding Qi and their wild asses on the top of the grassy slope yesterday.

These dozen or so people were indeed from the tribe of horse hunters, and they came out to hunt. After hearing that the other party was from the Ding tribe in the far east, they all expressed their surprise, they could never have imagined that they could cross such a long distance to come to this prairie.

Their hearts were full of surprise and shock, and they had long been wary of Ding Qi and them, and shouted loudly, saying that they would invite Ding Qi and the others to their tribe. Soon they turned the conversation to the horses behind the barn, asking how to catch them alive, how to tame them for man, and how to make the rope in the horse's mouth. One question after another was thrown, but it was asked very accurately.

"Guys, these questions you are asking are related to our tribal heritage and secrets, and I would like to explain them to you after meeting your tribal leader, is that okay?"

As soon as they saw that they could not ask for any information, they immediately stopped, and one of the warriors stepped forward.

"Friends from afar, I am the tail of the horse hunting tribe, welcome friends to the horse hunting tribe, please come with us."

This warrior, named Horsetail, walked ahead and led them to the Horse Hunting Tribe.