Chapter 13: The Great Leap Forward in Words (Part I)

In front of the totem pole, several fish pots and a large pile of fish are piled on the ground, and the witch dances strangely around the totem pole, muttering words that he does not know.

This is a sacrifice held by the snake tribe because of the fish cage given by the gods.

The sacrifice is about to end, Wu, the leader, Su Yan, and Derpy are in the front with all the people of the snake tribe to bow down to the totem pole, the totem pole represents God, Su Yan is only the messenger of God, there is no way to exempt from bowing, if Su Yan does not kneel and worship God, it is likely that something bad will happen.

In a little more than a day, the number of fish cages of the snake tribe increased to seven, except for one fish cage placed in front of the totem pole and one fish cage left as a sample, the rest of the fish cages were given to the fishing team to use.

With the addition of the fish cage, even if the members of the fishing team are not proficient in using the fish cage to catch fish, the fishing efficiency is much improved.

On the fifth day since Su Yan made the first fish cage, the number of fish cages in the snake tribe has exceeded 20, and the fishing team only spends the morning fishing every day, and the snake tribe can also have endless food.

Even the hunting party led by the leader gave up the pursuit of having to catch prey every day, which meant that the chances of death and injury of the hunting party members were greatly reduced.

With the current rudimentary medical conditions, injuries can be a very troublesome thing, and excessive bleeding or infection of the wound can lead to death.

With enough food, in addition to the roast meat that may appear, even the elderly and the disabled in the snake tribe can take enough food from the campfire to eat at will, provided that it is not wasted.

Eating as much as you want is a fine tradition of the snake tribe and should always be maintained.

However, there is still food left, the fishing team only spent the morning fishing, every day the snake tribe will have a lot of fish left too late to eat, and finally spoiled and stinky can only be thrown away, fortunately there is enough food, and the tribesmen are not sad because of throwing away food.

How to keep the food longer is a problem for the snake tribe, and it is only near the end of autumn that the food harvested by the snake tribe can be kept longer under low temperature conditions due to the lower temperature.

Su Yan knew that salting food could keep it for a long time without spoiling, but it was hard to imagine that the snake tribe had no salt, and the tribesmen did not eat salt.

This is simply incredible, modern people know that salt is an indispensable substance for maintaining the normal development of the human body, and not eating salt will cause neurasthenia, general weakness, dizziness, blurred vision, muscle spasms, weakened reflexes and other manifestations.

The people of the snake tribe don't eat salt, how can they maintain their normal routines?

After careful thinking, Su Yan roughly guessed why the people of the snake tribe did not need to eat salt, because meat was their main food, and they could directly obtain various ingredients needed by the human body from meat, and it was expected that when humans entered the agricultural era and used grains as their staple food, they would eat a lot of salt.

Without salt, the snake tribe would not be able to pickle food so that the food could not be preserved for a longer time, Su Yan had wanted to let the hunting team look for salt when they went out, but Su Yan could not even let the leader understand "salt", Su Yan could clearly describe "salt", salty, brown or white, crystals, but the leader did not know what was "salty" and what was "sweet", only knew what was delicious and not delicious.

Being young is a troublesome thing, if you reach a height of 1.5 meters and become an adult, you can go out with the hunting party, find salt by yourself, and collect all kinds of herbs.

For the people of the Snake Tribe, injuries and illnesses are their natural enemies, and if there are herbs, Su Yan can cure them to a certain extent.

In addition, you can also look for crops that can be planted on a large scale, fishing is not an insurance food source, no one knows when the fish in the river will be eaten, there is enough food, the population of the snake tribe will increase steadily in the future, which means that the snake tribe needs more and more food, and one day the river will not be able to bear the development of the snake tribe.

Growing crops is different, land is everywhere, and the more land you cultivate, the more food you can harvest, which is the most reliable source of food.

Now Su Yan is only 1.2 meters tall, and I don't know how many years it will take to grow to 1.5 meters, but with enough food, I should be able to grow up faster.

Su Yan no longer needs to worry about the matter of compiling fish cages, he eats and sleeps every day, practices boxing again, and becomes leisurely.

In just one day, Su Yan couldn't stand such a leisurely life, and there was no entertainment to pass the time and play with his peers in this era? Anyway, Su Yan may join it, and he has the identity of a divine envoy, except for the Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters, the other children are very afraid of Su Yan.

After thinking about it, Su Yan decided to find something to do, such as making the Great Leap Forward of the Snake Tribe's pictorial characters directly into modern characters, or making pottery.

Just do it, make pottery a little more troublesome, and make it easier to evolve picture text.

Su Yan asked for a large stone slab directly from Wu, and took a sharp stone to engrave words on the stone slab, which are all traditional Chinese characters, or can be used in people's lives, such as "big", "small", "people", "more", "less", "day", "month", "one", "two", "three", "fish", "meat", "eat", "rice", "hungry", etc., many of which are in the same simplified and traditional forms.

Numbers are uppercase and lowercase, and it is more intuitive and simpler to use lowercase, as for Arabic numerals, it is better not to appear for the time being.

Wu and Derpy watched curiously as Su Yan wrote and drew on the slate, some of the words portrayed by Su Yan could be understood, and some of them could not be understood, after all, there were some words that the two could not understand after many evolutions, and if they were replaced with simplified Chinese characters, it would be even more speechless.

It wasn't until Su Yan wrote 2*2 cm square words on one side of the slate that Su Yan stopped, but saw that Wu and Derpy were already fascinated by the words on the slate, and they felt the infinite charm contained in the words portrayed by Su Yan.

The pictorial text depicted by Wu himself is very non-standardized, and often two pictorial characters with the same meaning will be more or less different.

Su Yan pushed Wu and Derpy with her hand, pushing them awake.

"Oracle, this word?" Wu asked Su Yan in surprise.

Su Yan's mind moved, and he hit the thought on the god, and then said to Wu: "This word was taught to me by God, words. ”

"Text" is the Mandarin pronunciation, and both Wu and Derpy chanted "text" several times along with Su Yan's pronunciation.