Chapter 96: Hunting
Three days later, the Deer Tribe Hunting Party came to the Dragon Tribe's residence, bringing with them the same amount of impurities and salt as before, and after the transaction, the Deer Tribe Hunting Team left with a complete large pottery, ten pottery bowls, and enough fish for all the people of the Deer Tribe to eat for two meals.
The trade of food has started since last year, and after many transactions, the deer tribe has no shortage of flawed large pottery and various pottery bowls and pottery plates, what is missing is complete large pottery, but there are not many complete large pottery in the dragon tribe, and when the two tribes trade, it is impossible for the deer tribe to get complete large pottery every time.
Rattan items were also used as trade items, and now fish are also trade items.
With the inheritance of knowledge, the deer tribe will collect a variety of wild vegetables and plant roots for food, but some people of the deer tribe are still hungry every now and then, and it is impossible to make all the tribesmen eat every day, especially on the day when the deer tribe and the dragon tribe traded, the probability of the deer tribe hunting team getting prey has decreased a lot.
Trading some fish for food from the Dragon Tribe is a good option, and about a tenth of a portion of the Impurity Salt at a time can be exchanged for fish that can feed all the people of the Deer Tribe for two meals.
Yuan even considered exchanging salt and the dragon tribe for food every day.
Su Yan stood behind the brick wall and watched the deer tribe hunting team leave, the idea of conquering the deer tribe became stronger and stronger, and he couldn't do anything to the deer tribe for the time being, the dragon tribe had only been established for less than a month, and it would take at least a spring for the people of the two clans to get used to being dragon tribesmen.
Maybe one day in the summer is the time for the dragon tribe to go out against the deer tribe.
The first trade between the Dragon Tribe and the Deer Tribe this year has ended, and at this time, Zhi and Biao are still hunting in the jungle with a hunting team.
Equipped with the special weapon of the net, the hunting team has gradually explored various ways to use it, which has greatly improved the hunting efficiency of the hunting team, and almost every day the hunting team will obtain at least one medium-sized prey.
When the "net" was just equipped, the hunting team directly followed Su Yan's statement, "cover", and directly "covered" the net to the beast, provided that it caught up with the beast, and then the net could be covered on the beast, which did not improve the hunting efficiency much.
After that, Zhi made some improvements to the method of hunting with nets, and every two people held a net, pulled the net apart, and surrounded the prey, which could indeed improve a lot of hunting efficiency.
Now, the Zhirang people weave a kind of net that is two meters wide and more than four meters long, and the hunting team spreads this net, and the two ends of the net are tied to two large trees, and several nets are enclosed together in a semicircle as a trap, leaving only a few clansmen to guard, and the rest of the clansmen to leave by detour.
After discovering the prey, the hunting team directly rushes the prey to the trap, and in the panic, the prey can easily hit the trap.
This hunting method used by the current hunting team has improved the hunting efficiency a lot, and even if the dragon tribe does not fish in the small river, they can rely on hunting to obtain enough food.
In this primitive era, there are all kinds of beasts living on the earth, and the density is several times that of modern times, after all, after the rise of human beings, with the increase in the number of human beings, a large number of wild beasts have been hunted by humans, and modern beasts can only survive under the protection of human beings.
Maybe it's the special ingredient in the air, it can make Su Yan cultivate internal strength, and it can also make primitive people much stronger than modern people, and the beasts of the same primitive era are also larger, stronger, and faster than the modern beasts that Su Yan has seen.
The strength of primitive people and beasts has been increased by the strength of that special ingredient, but the number of primitive people is too small, and with that rudimentary weapon, it is impossible for primitive people to obtain enough food through hunting.
Dali is able to smash a beast with a stone the size of his fist, provided that it hits the beast's head, and even if it hits the head, it is possible that it will only seriously injure the beast.
As an adult male of one of the dragon tribes, it is somewhat difficult for him to throw a stone to hit the beast, and it is even more difficult to hit the beast's head, even if it hits, the strength is not enough, and the beast can still escape if it is slightly injured at most.
Traps are a good way to hunt, but most people's impressions of traps are to dig a pit in the ground, put spikes in the pit, this kind of trap is unachievable with the current situation of the dragon tribe, dig a pit with stone tools, I don't know how long it will take to dig a big pit that can hold wild beasts.
On the contrary, it is easier to lay down a trap with a net than to dig a pit as a trap.
Now the hunting of the dragon tribe hunting team should be called hunting, chasing and intercepting prey, under normal circumstances, a large number of people are required to hunt, but by arranging traps and replacing human hands with traps, the manpower required for hunting activities is reduced a lot, and sometimes a hunt can even catch multiple prey at once.
Fish meat has been used as a staple food before, but now due to the increase in animal meat, the tribesmen have switched to eating animal meat, and the daily consumption of fish and meat is much less, and the time spent by the fishing team on fishing every day is greatly reduced, and even the hunting team returns earlier every day because of the improvement of hunting efficiency.
Hunting makes the dragon tribe get a lot of animal meat every day, and also makes the beasts in the beast circle continue to increase, now the dragon tribe is only pigs, deer, roe deer, golden pheasants and other beasts for simple breeding, want to domesticate the beast into poultry in a short period of time is impossible to do, think about the huge gap between the appearance of wild boar and domestic pig can understand.
However, it must be raised, which is the way to domesticate wild beasts and turn them into fowl.
In addition, the matter of expanding the scope of the Dragon Tribe's residence has been decided by Su Yan, and the eastern, western, and southern brick walls of the residence are each expanded by about 50 meters forward, thus expanding the living area by about four times, and the amount of work on the new wall is about twice as much as the amount of work on the old wall.
The new brick wall was built from the south, and the fishing and hunting teams spent less time busy each day for food, and spent almost the rest of the day building the brick wall.
A lot of clay was needed to fire the bricks, and the dragons traveled upstream and downstream to dig the clay on the north bank of the river, leaving pits in the ground.
Sometimes Su Yan is also thinking of sending someone to find out what the situation is in the upper or lower reaches of the river, it is best to find the source of the river, in the future, with the increase in the population of the dragon tribe, this river may not be able to meet the needs of the dragon tribe, the most terrible thing is to encounter a drought year, if the river dries up, it will be a natural disaster for the dragon tribe.
It's just that there are too few people in the dragon tribe now, and the adult labor force is full of things almost every day during the day, so it is impossible to send people to find the source of the river, and there are fewer people to be dispatched, and it is likely to encounter danger, so this matter can only be abandoned temporarily.