Chapter 63: Numbers
Early the next morning, after breakfast, Zhi and Biao set off with a joint hunting team of the Snake Tribe and the Tiger Tribe, plus Zhi and Biao, a total of thirty-five people, all of whom were adult males, including twenty-three people from the Snake Tribe and twelve from the Tiger Tribe.
The first time the two tribes went out hunting together, hunting was secondary, and the most important thing was for the people of the two tribes to strengthen their cooperation.
Both tribes are facing an enemy whose strength is unknown, and the number of the snake and tiger tribe's joint hunting team is about the same as the number of enemies who attacked the snake tribe's residence last time, and no one knows if the enemy will come back and bring more people to attack the snake tribe's residence.
The snake and tiger tribe joint hunting team hunting outside is also at risk of encountering the enemy, and once it encounters the enemy, there is no brick wall as a barrier, and the snake and tiger tribe joint hunting team will have a large number of casualties.
If it is a hunting party of the snake tribe or the tiger tribe alone, I am afraid that it can only flee when it encounters the enemy.
The snake and tiger joint hunting team set off, and the fishing team of the snake tribe also went to the small river to fish with fish cages and rattan baskets (plus flat belts).
Most of the adult laborers in the snake tribe have their own things to do, and in the tiger tribe that has just moved over, most of the adult male laborers also go out hunting, and the remaining adult laborers are at a loss and don't know what to do.
Seeing the adult women of the Snake Tribe walking towards the river, some adult women of the Tiger Tribe also walked over to see if there was anything they could do to help.
After that, the pregnant women and the sick and disabled of the Tiger tribe also followed the pregnant women and the sick and disabled of the snake tribe to learn to weave straw ropes, rattan shoes, rattan baskets, fish cages and other things.
The adults were busy, except for a few children who had nothing to do, playing around in the snake tribe's settlement, and they were not allowed to leave the protected area of the fence without the company of adults.
Su Yan's time to teach the students was approaching, and looking at the children of the Tiger Tribe who had moved over, Su Yan thought of an idea.
A few minutes later, a total of eleven children of the Tiger Tribe, six men and five women, who were about to reach adulthood, were called over by Su Yan.
These children of the Tiger Tribe are about to become adults, and they are more sensible than other young children, and they know that Su Yan's status in the Snake Tribe is very high, so when Su Yan called them over, they all came over obediently, and then followed Su Yan and walked to the side of the house where Su Yan lived.
Coming to the side of the house where Su Yan lived, there were already eleven minors from the snake tribe sitting on the ground waiting for Su Yan's arrival, and among the eleven minors, including Xiaohua and Xiaoyue sisters, the two were sitting at the front.
In front of the Xiaohua Satsuki sisters, close to the side wall of the house, there was a platform about half a meter high made of adobe bricks, and a stone slab with words engraved on it was placed vertically on the platform, and the words engraved on the stone slab were what they wanted to learn.
"Sit this way, and sit also." The first half of the sentence was said by Su Yan to the eleven students of the Snake Tribe, and the second half of the sentence was that Su Yan used gestures to make the eleven minors of the Tiger Tribe and the minors of the Snake Tribe sit next to each other.
Su Yan intends to teach eleven more students of the Tiger Tribe, and the integration of the two tribes should begin with language and writing.
The eleven minors of the Tiger Tribe sat down next to the minors of the Snake Tribe in a daze according to Su Yan's gestures, they didn't know what the Snake Tribe's divine envoy wanted them to do, they could only obey the divine envoy's orders.
It was the first time for the students of the Tiger Tribe to learn words, and Su Yan had to take care of these freshmen, starting with the simplest characters, and as for the students of the Snake Tribe who had already learned those words, it would be better to review them.
Standing next to the "podium", Su Yan raised his right hand and stretched out his index finger.
"One," Su Yan opened his mouth and said.
Eleven students from the "One" Snake Tribe followed closely.
Only the eleven students of the Tiger Tribe were still a little dazed, not knowing what they should do.
Su Yan turned his right hand towards the students of the Tiger Tribe, looked at them with his eyes, and opened his mouth again and said, "One"
"One"
Among the eleven students of the Tiger Tribe, there was one person who understood Su Yan's intentions, he was a thin boy with a somewhat dirty animal skin, but his dark eyes were particularly obvious.
Su Yan smiled and nodded in his direction.
With one person taking the lead, the other ten students of the Tiger Tribe quickly understood Su Yan's intentions, and they all opened their mouths and shouted, "One"
Su Yan: "One"
"One"
The students of the Tiger Tribe opened their mouths to shout, but their voices were uneven, and Su Yan continued to ask them to follow along and say "one" a few times, and the pronunciation of the students of the Tiger Tribe was finally neat.
The next step is to learn the "two" ......
For primitive people, the simplest words of numbers are still very easy to understand, Su Yan does not know the situation of the Tiger Tribe, but he knows very well about the numbers in the spoken language of the Snake Tribe before.
In the spoken language of the snake tribe, there is only the word "one", if you want to express two, you have to say "one" twice in a row, and express three, naturally you will say "one" three times in a row.
When you don't use spoken language, you can also use ten fingers of both hands to express it, and ten fingers can be represented from one to ten, and this way of expressing numbers with fingers is common in almost all primitive tribes.
However, it is more troublesome to express the number of more than ten, after all, people do not have eleven fingers, and perhaps they can express twenty by counting the toes.
There was no need for Su Yan to explain anything to the eleven students of the Tiger Tribe, they could easily understand the meaning of the pronunciation from Su Yan's outstretched fingers.
Counting from one to ten, this is the first lesson of the Tiger Tribe students, writing is the second class, the first lesson is good to learn to count from one to ten, and the same is true of the first lesson of the Snake Tribe students next to the Tiger Tribe students.
On this side, Su Yan was teaching the students to count, and on the other side, Tiger Witch and his disciples walked out of the house.
They had just come out of the somewhat dark house, and the harsh sunlight outside forced the two of them to raise their hands to block their eyes, and only after they had adjusted to the harsh sunlight did they put their hands down.
Looking around, Tiger Witch felt a lot of emotion, after seeing the situation of the Snake Tribe with his own eyes, the strength of the Snake Tribe took root in the heart of Tiger Witch, even if there was no Tiger Tribe before moving, he could not confront the Snake Tribe, not to mention that the strength of the Tiger Tribe has been greatly damaged now.
The Snake Tribe was so good to the Tiger Tribe that the Tiger Witch began to worry about the future of the Tiger Tribe, and he didn't know if the Tiger Tribe would still have a future.
Step by step, Tiger Witch and his disciples walked together in the Snake Tribe's residence, he wanted to engrave everything in the Snake Tribe's heart, maybe the Tiger Tribe could also use it in the future, but this may also feel very small in his own heart.
What is the future of the Tiger Tribe?