Volume 1 Building the City Chapter 83 The First Hunt (4) (Proofreading)
After Wang Tian finished speaking, the leader and the second brother understood what he meant, but they all smiled honestly, and in the conversation that followed, Wang Tian knew that in the past, everyone in the tribe came out to hunt, no matter how much prey they hit, all of them would not use meat.
The first reason is that these are the common property of the tribe, which must be distributed by the witch and enjoyed when the whole tribe is together.
Secondly, slaughtering and handling prey in the wild, the bloody gas will attract the ferocious carnivores in the vicinity, and today because it is the Son of Heaven who requires the slaughter of edible pheasants at noon. Neither the chief nor the second brother objected.
Because today the tribe came out of 35 adults to hunt, as long as they did not encounter prehistoric beasts, after having a long-range weapon such as a bow and arrow, they could be completely free from any danger, so the two agreed to slaughter food.
In the past, at noon, they would dig up grass roots and stems and pick wild fruits to fill their stomachs. In the case of a prey, the only edible thing is the blood gushing out of the prey.
The leader pointed to the people in the distance who were looking for digging grass roots, stems, and wild fruits, and gently patted Wang Tian's shoulder with his hand.
"Haha, is that so? So what, look, I'm not wrong. Wang Tian muttered in his heart, the words of the two leaders made him feel a lot more comfortable.
Wang Tian believed that on the return trip in the afternoon, the nearly 200 traps he had set would definitely be able to achieve a bumper harvest.
Wang Tian, who was in a relaxed mood, began to look at the nearby vegetation, and he was looking for several vegetables that could be used to grow.
Although primitive people also knew a lot of edible wild vegetables, they turned out to be wild vegetables, and most of the wild vegetables were relatively stiff when eaten in the mouth.
It would be nice if you could find cabbage or radishes, which can be harvested in winter, but for three or four months of winter, you can't stand eating meat alone.
A patch of white not far away caught his attention, was the snow-white color cotton? Wang Tian remembers that there is no cotton in China.
He ran over excitedly, looking at the more than 20 plants with white floc on the top of his head in front of him, Wang Tian confirmed that they were not cotton wool from reeds and weeds, and the peach-like husks that remained on the plants clearly indicated that it was cotton.
There is only one kind of cotton in the whole of Asia - coarse wool, so it is also called Asian cotton, which originated in India, due to its low yield and short fiber, it is not suitable for machine weaving in later generations, and it has been eliminated in the world.
This is not scientific, Wang Tian remembers that there is no cotton in China, and now there is cotton here, is it possible that after crossing, the land he came to is not in the Chinese region of the later generations?
But this seems unlikely, after traveling so far, Wang Tian is now gradually familiar with some tribal languages, and many words in the tribal language, both in pronunciation and pronunciation, are strong Chinese characteristics.
In any case, he was pleasantly surprised by the discovery of cotton, which was a better textile raw material than hemp.
In the next picking process, there was an even bigger surprise, he couldn't believe his eyes, and among these cotton plant beads there were five old loofahs, a shriveled and withered old cucumber, and even saw peppers.
To be precise, in Hunan vernacular, it should be called foreign chili. In later China, it was first cultivated as a medicinal plant.
What is the scientific name Wang Tian doesn't know, this thing has only become popular in recent years, Wang Tian saw it for the first time after he was discharged from the army, and there were people in Hunan in later generations who planted it on a large scale.
The shape is much larger than that of ordinary chili peppers, with fine hairs on the outside of the flesh, and the cross-section is a regular pentagonal shape, and the seeds in the shape of chili seeds are cut longitudinally, and the bunches are a bit like sesame stalks.
Because it looks so similar to chili peppers, many people call him foreign chili peppers.
In the later generations of Hunan, it was regarded as the main pillar cash crop in the local area, with government support, most of which were sold through the Internet, and the name on the Internet seemed to be called "okra".
The price is ridiculously expensive, the price of each city catty is about 20 yuan, almost twice as much as pork, it is said to contain many nutrients, it is the king of vegetables or something, and the origin is in the South Asian subcontinent of Indochina.
Wang Tian, who often reads historical novels, knows that almost all vegetable varieties such as loofah and cucumber are native to India.
Could it be that you have traveled to India yourself? In many later paleoanthropological documents, it seems that the Asian race originated from the Indian continent.
The African steppe is the cradle of human beings, and all the human races on the earth originated from Homo erectus on the African grassland, and the Homo erectus on the Indian continent is one of the African Homo erectus.
As an ardent nationalist. This made it difficult for Wang Tian to accept that the civilization of the Celestial Empire, which he was proud of, actually came from these two places.
Could it be that you have really traveled to the Indian continent more than 10,000 years ago? Or maybe it's not Earth at all.
But the climate is not right, the current location of his tribe is at least the Yellow River basin north of the Huai River in the Qinling Mountains, of course, if it is not even the earth, it is not surprising.
I can't care so much, these are all treasures, and there will be fresh melons, fruits and vegetables to eat in the future, cold cucumbers, garlic cucumbers, and sweet loofah soup!
Wang Tian called for someone to bring it to the basket. Put the cotton. Five loofahs were thrown into the back basket, and the old cucumbers that had begun to rot were carefully wrapped in a broad leaf and packed into the back basket.
At once, he got three kinds of vegetables that he often eats in the future, which makes Wang Tian very happy, there are a lot of rabbits and pheasants in the world, and they can always be obtained in the future, but these vegetables from India Ah San seem to be unattainable.
After that, Wang Tian excitedly searched carefully in the vicinity, this small piece gave him such a big surprise, Wang Tian hoped to find more other vegetable varieties.
When he saw the white "soil" on the ground, he seemed to finally understand why vegetable varieties far away in the tropics appeared in the middle temperate zone.
If you look closely, the whitening is not actually dirt, but seems to be the droppings left by some migratory birds, probably coincidentally, some of them stayed here after drinking from a nearby puddle and left their droppings here.
It makes sense that these vegetables, which seem unlikely to be found in the mid-temperate zone, are native to India and are flown in by these lovely migratory birds.
Since the migratory birds stop here, then this should be the only way for them to migrate, and after the beginning of spring next year, they must let the chiefs come here often to see, maybe they can catch geese. In that case, even geese can be had.
In later generations, Wang Tian did not like to eat goose eggs because he felt that the fishy smell was too strong, but eggs were an important source of protein, and together with fish, they were considered to be the main food for brain development.
These vegetables, which are native to India, are brought by the manure of these migratory birds, which is the only plausible reason at present.
If this is the case, then Wang Tian can't let go of these fertilizers on the ground, who knows what treasures are still in it, dig them back to the tribe, and water them after the spring next year to let them plant and sprout, maybe there will be good things.
So everyone in the tribe saw the smiling Son of Heaven happily collecting bird droppings, and everyone's faces showed incredible expressions.
The Son of Heaven arranged for so many people to go out to hunt today, but he did not lead everyone to places where large prey might appear, and spent half a day just leading everyone to make all kinds of strange traps with ropes at the foot of some mountains and ditches.
Can you really catch your prey with these strange traps? Even if there is a harvest, these hares and pheasants or something, the meat is too little, not enough for the tribe to eat.
In fact, everyone is not disgusted with these small meats, a pheasant at least has a two-pound pure meat, the average rabbit in this era has an average of 5~8 pounds, which is enough for a few adults to have a day's food.
Just to catch these small animals, it takes too much manpower and time, for example, today, in order to catch these 45 pheasants, it is a whole waste of 35 adults half a day's hunting time.