Chapter 41 Agricultural Planning

The construction of the first wooden house allowed the tribesmen to fully feel the shock of a steel axe.

The old and young of the tribe have incarnated Grandma Liu, and regarded a wooden stunned house that can be seen through at a glance as the posture of the Grand View Garden, and the seventy or eighty people looked, touched, climbed, and rubbed inside and out......

If it weren't for Lin Ji watching, they would have taken the lichen in the crack of the tree as some kind of treasure and ate it. The roof has become a new playground for children, and they can climb up with a bamboo pole. There are even people who smear the ashes from the wood on their faces to see if they want to tear down the house......

After a lot of people smoked rattan from the forest site, everyone obediently visited.

Da Ji is very happy with the house. The only thing I was not satisfied with was that I thought that this house could have a door, and Lin Ji actually got three windows. And this window has just had a child come out of there.

Lin Ji explained for a long time that Da Ji understood what a chimney mouth was, and as for leaving two windows for ventilation to facilitate the preservation of dried fish, Da Ji was confused when he heard it.

In the meaning of the forest traces, after the wooden house is built, it is time to remove all kinds of dried meat and fish and hang them in the house for storage. There is no ventilation in the cave, and if you light a bonfire at night, the fish will go bad every day.

As a result, this suggestion was ignored, and all the people of the tribe crowded into this wooden house on the first day, and even smoked and grilled food and ate in it, and almost did not lift the roof.

Seeing the powerful function of the steel axe, Daji even took care of the axe as a treasure.

She made a cover for an axe out of the best wolf skin, and every night when no one used the axe, she wiped the axe clean and put it in, and hung it with her, even to sleep.

These days, in addition to making rat-catching bamboo tubes and wooden stun houses, the axe has also made a lot of contributions to the processing of various weapons of the tribe.

For example, the processing of bows.

After Lin Ji made the bow tire before, it was quickly learned by everyone, but in view of the difficulty of cutting the bow tire and the bow body to a more suitable degree, a large number of strings can only be used to wind to achieve the purpose of combining the two. This actually restricts the accuracy of the bow.

Now with an axe, the two can be flattened and fitted. At the same time, the bow can be easily sharpened to be more symmetrical. This greatly improves the precision and accuracy of the bow.

At the suggestion of Lin Ji, Po Tu got a thicker Zhemu and used it to make a bow. Zhemu has better elasticity and can be used to make stronger bows. However, this kind of tree is dense, and it was difficult to cut it evenly with stone tools. Now with the axe, it's all out of the way.

As for the bowstring, if it is only kneaded with coarse linen, it is not always very strong. However, the tribe rarely has large animals that can take tendons, so Lin Ji taught Po Tu a method of rotating and cutting the skin with an axe, cutting off small strips of animal skin and rubbing them together with kudzu to make a relatively strong bowstring.

With the combination of the two, Po Tu was the first to make a lethal bow fifty meters away. And it can shoot more than half an inch into the bark of the tree.

Similarly, with the axe, the arrows can be taken more accurately, and now the size of the tribe's pruning is beginning to be the same, which also greatly facilitates the production of arrow feathers.

As for sharpening wooden poles with axes, cutting animal skins, chopping large pieces of meat and bones, etc., these were used by everyone at first, but later they were restricted by Daihime.

The axe has become a large machine tool and cannot be turned on when it is idle.

In this case, Lin Ji told everyone a story of Pangu using an axe to open the world in the new wooden room, and everyone pushed the axe to the height of a god. Since then, the Jilin tribe has had an axe god, whose name is Pangu.

Everyone stayed in the new wooden room for a day. At dawn, he complained that the windows were too open and not warm, and the roof was made of wood, so he didn't even dare to burn the fire. They have asked for the future house to be tall, no windows, etc.

After such a toss, the day after the house was built, the dried fish and dried meat in the cave were finally removed, and shelves were set up in the wooden room and hung up in rows.

The jerky is placed inside, and the window is naturally blocked with thorns. This makes many children quite unhappy. They wanted to go in through this window and steal good fish and meat to eat.

In this process of transportation, Lin Ji also took the opportunity to count the existing grain stocks of the tribe to see if there was enough to survive the winter. The results were not encouraging.

This year's chestnuts were harvested from the trees, and the harvest was much higher than in previous years. Recently, the income from the catch has been stable, the men have gradually increased their hunting harvest, and the food in the cave has never been greater. Now, everyone including Dahime feels that these foods are enough to survive the winter. So recently, everyone's food is all kinds of generous.

The ironclad food of the evening was full, and what was delicious and what was fresh.

In the morning, fish or meat that has changed flavor is usually eaten with it.

Now there is a fire in the cave at night, and as a result, there are more fish that have gone bad than at the beginning. The fish could not be eaten, so the men took them out and used them as bait. The two little wolf dogs also ate round and didn't eat anymore.

Lin Ji didn't think there was anything wrong with this before counting, and the food should be enough to survive the winter.

But the result of the inventory was that less than 4,000 catties of chestnuts were dehaired. The dried fish and dried meat may add up to more than 1,000 catties. Other stems, tubers, wild fruits, dried wild vegetables, etc., are less than a few hundred catties. Based on the current daily consumption of the tribe, this is not enough to eat for two months. Even if you reduce the amount in winter, it will only be three months at most.

Lin Ji didn't know how long the winter of this era was, but he also knew that it must be more than two or three months.

After Lin Jibi told Daji about the result, the smiling face that Daji had kept for several days gradually disappeared.

"According to you, how is this to be?" Da Ji looked at the children around him who had just eaten a little blood, full of worry. In the winter, when food is cut back, these children will lose weight and will not even survive. She didn't want to go through that again.

"Me?" Lin Ji was a little stunned, this kind of question doesn't seem to ask him for his opinion, right? Lin Ji was not used to it for a while, but he quickly adjusted his mentality and replied: "We have tried to make a canoe in the past two days, and then we will send two men to fish and expand the catch." Now that the fish are out and the weather is cold, it is less likely to go bad, so that there will be more fish before the snow falls. In addition, we can try to break the ice and fish in the winter, but this requires a relatively large net, which may be ready to end now. With these two preparations, this winter should not be difficult to pass. I'm just worried about whether Meike can fish and eat meat after the beginning of spring. ”

Da Ji said: "The matter of the eye, I'll go and talk to the Li bream department, this should be feasible." Own food after the beginning of spring, what is there to worry about? ”

Lin Ji said: "We have built this kind of wooden house now, and we will be reluctant to leave this place after the beginning of spring." We eat all the food in our neighborhood, and when autumn comes we have nothing to eat. And I have been to the chestnut forest, this time we went up to the tree to pick, a lot of carelessness, damage a lot of chestnut branches and leaves, next autumn ...... Next autumn, there will be no more chestnuts to harvest. So I think some things have to be arranged from now on. ”

"Too much damage to the branches and leaves of the chestnut forest?" Da Ji muttered, and soon slapped his leg and exclaimed: "Yes, this is our nonsense, and we want to blame Chestnut God." It's like this when you're a year old...... I'm confused...... What are you talking about that can be arranged now? Is there a remedy? ”

Lin Ji saw that he was involved in the chestnut god again, and said in another way: "There are so many gods in the forest, so there must be competition." We want our Chestnut God to have a better life, so why don't we help Chestnut get rid of some of the miscellaneous gods around them? Of course, we can't defeat God, we can cut down some of the trees that the gods rely on. In this way, Chestnut God has more space in the forest, which should give us more food. ”

Well, forest trails mean to cut down the miscellaneous trees in the chestnut forest, so that the chestnut trees have more sunlight and nutrients. In the case of natural growth, a tall chestnut tree will not get much sunlight and bear many fruits, and it is completely impossible to see the fruitful situation in the orchard of later generations.

Otherwise, the chestnut trees all over the mountains would not only have such a little harvest now.

"In addition, I have observed that the fruit or stem of the plant is buried in the soil in the spring and grows on its own, and it may be harvested in the fall. I call this process planting. I want to try growing something in the spring and eat it in the fall. If this can be successful, we will plant in the spring and harvest in the autumn, and we will not be afraid of going without food for the winter. ”

In the age of fishing and hunting, food sources were unstable, and it was time to prepare for agricultural planting. And these are for Da Ji to agree.