As time passed, the relationship between the snake tribe and the tiger tribe became closer, the people of both tribes spoke dragon language, the adult men went out hunting together, the adult women went to the river to fish together, and the children played together, almost like one tribe.

The Tiger Witch seems to have given up on letting the people of the Tiger Tribe re-establish the Tiger Tribe's home next to the Snake Tribe's residence, thanks to the concept that Su Yan has been transmitting to the Tiger Witch for months, the Tiger Tribe, which represents the Tiger Tribe, and as long as the Tiger surname does not disappear, the Tiger Tribe will never disappear.

The total number of people in the Snake and Tiger Tribal Alliance is 300, and in the autumn, with the birth of a large number of babies, the total population of the Snake and Tiger Tribal Alliance will be greatly increased.

It is not possible to hunt prey every day when the snake and tiger tribal joint hunting team goes out to hunt, and the fish in the small river are the main source of food for the snake and tiger tribal alliance.

For many years, the snake tribe has been fishing from this small river, and in the last two years, especially this year, the snake and tiger tribal alliance has caught more fish from the small river every day, but the swimming fish in the small river have not decreased at all.

Su Yan made some guesses, it is very likely that this small river is connected to a large lake, or this small river is a tributary of a large river, or it may be a tributary and tributary of a large river, and the swimming fish in the small river are all swimming from the lake or the big river, no matter how the snake and tiger tribal alliance catches, the fish in the small river will not decrease.

This is a good thing, for primitive people, food is undoubtedly the most important thing, only enough food, primitive tribes can continue to survive and develop, there are enough fish in the creek for the snake and tiger tribal alliance to catch, which means that the snake and tiger tribal alliance does not need to be forced to move because of food problems.

Every time the primitive tribe moves, it is a huge harm to itself, if it is not necessary, the primitive tribe will not move at will, even if it wants to move, it will choose the location of the new home in advance.

It's a good thing that there are plenty of fish in the creek, but there's another thing that is bothering the Snake and Tiger Tribal Alliance: the time between each trade between the Deer and Snake tribes has become longer, from ten days and half a month to about a month.

It is probably because the Deer Tribe has obtained enough pottery from the Snake Tribe, so the frequency of trading between the two tribes has been reduced.

In the past, the people of the snake tribe did not eat salt, how to live their lives, how to continue to live, as the deer tribe brought salt to the snake tribe, the importance of salt in the snake tribe is also increasing, salt is not only the flavoring agent of food, eating salt can also make people continue to work longer.

While the amount of salt traded each time didn't change much, the longer intervals between trades resulted in the amount of salt the snake tribe was able to obtain more than half each year.

Last year, the Snake Tribe exchanged a large amount of salt from the Deer Tribe, which was stored in the Snake Tribe's population after eating and pickling some food.

This year, with the arrival of the Tiger Tribe, the interval between each transaction between the Deer Tribe and the Snake Tribe has become longer, even if the salt obtained is still enough, but the issue of salt has been put on the spotlight by Su Yan.

Su Yan understood the importance of salt very well, and after obtaining salt from the deer tribe, he asked Zhi to take the hunting team to look for salt during the hunting team, and with the salt obtained by the deer tribe as a reference, Zhi understood what to look for.

It took a lot of time to find the origin of impurity salt, but found several places where salt soil came from.

The salt content of saline soil is far from being comparable to the salt content of impurity salt, and it takes at least ten people to spend a lot of time and energy to purify refined salt from saline soil.

The task of finding salt has not ended, and Zhi and Biao have been paying attention to finding salt when they go out hunting with the snake and tiger tribe joint hunting team, but unfortunately they have not yet found the salt source with a high amount of salt.

Compared with the painstaking effort to search everywhere, Su Yan is more optimistic about the salt pan in the hands of the deer tribe that can produce impurity salt.

Su Yan had wanted Zhi to find the salt pan of the deer tribe, but unfortunately failed, it was expected that the salt pan of the deer tribe was farther away, and the hunting team could not reach this salt pan in half a day.

An idea popped up in Su Yan's mind, if he wanted to obtain this salt pan, the best way was to annex the deer tribe, not only to obtain the salt pan, but also to increase his own population.

It's a pity that the snake tribe and the tiger tribe have not yet merged, let alone annex the deer tribe, and when the snake tribe and the tiger tribe merge into one tribe, it will be feasible to force the deer tribe or conquer the deer tribe by force.

In the current situation, if the Deer Tribe continues to reduce the frequency of trading between the two tribes, so that the salt traded cannot meet the daily needs of the Snake and Tiger Tribal Alliance, I am afraid that the Snake and Tiger Tribal Alliance can only dig up the salt soil from the salt soil source closest to the Snake Tribe's residence and come back to purify the refined salt for consumption.

By the end of summer, some of the fruits that could be stored for a longer time were ripe, and the snake and tiger tribes also reduced the frequency of going out, picking fruits with adult women and storing them as food for the winter.

In fact, there are fruits ripening at the beginning of summer, such as apricots and cherries, but these fruits cannot be stored for too long, and they are all picked and eaten.

From late summer to early winter, the main task of the two tribes is to collect more food for the winter, and even some children who are close to adulthood are involved.

A large number of fruits are picked up by adult males with flat belts and rattan baskets, and carefully placed so that children want to eat these sweet and sour fruits but dare not take them.

Late summer to autumn is the busiest time of the year, not only to collect food for the winter, but also to give birth during this time period, most of the people inside and outside the residence, only at night can they rest for a while, but there are pregnant women who give birth at night, and a small number of people cannot rest well at night.

Fortunately, there is no need to hold an "uncovered conference" this year, and if there is a "no-cover conference" this year, some time will be wasted, and people will be even busier.

Winter is approaching, the temperature is dropping rapidly, this time the meat can be stored for a longer time, adults give up picking fruit, hunting teams go out to hunt wild animals, fishing teams fish by the river all day long, seize the time to catch as many fish as possible before the river freezes.

In the eyes of primitive people, pickled food tastes inferior to fresh food, but the snake tribe has been pickling food, after all, pickled food can be stored for a longer time, once it rains for several days in a row, you can't go out hunting and fishing, just eat these pickled food.

Over the course of the year, in winter, a large amount of pickled food is also stored in the snake tribe, plus the food collected from late summer to early winter, the two snake and tiger tribes have plenty of food, even if they encounter a long winter, they will not go hungry.

Of course, in the cold winter, firewood and grass for heating are also very important, and it is more convenient to collect firewood and grass, which is found near the residence of the snake tribe.