Chapter 6: You're My Man
When the sun sets in the west, the children of the tribe reap very little.
The thorny hook was not very good in the first place, and they became anxious when they knew that they would have to help the forest get enough food to feed the children and their mothers, and their harvest was much worse than usual.
A pregnant woman quietly came to the river to take a look, and saw that the children only got three or two small fish and shrimp, and she couldn't help but feel sad. The men have returned, and if the woods don't work, the babies may not survive tomorrow morning. How can this be?
The eldest child saw that it was getting late, dropped the fishing rod and stood up and said, "No more fishing, let's go upstream to see the harvest." ”
Fishing is actually very technical, and all of them don't have as much as forest trails combined.
At this time, the mother realized that the forest trace was not among the child. She followed the children upstream, and soon smelled the bloody smell of killing fish by the river. Then she saw the forest trails where the fish were being killed, and the pile of scary food beside him.
It is estimated that no less than ten catties of grass carp, other large and small carp or silver carp, these fish are afraid that half of the tribe can eat half of the tribe. Behind Lin Ji, there is also a small pile of kudzu and yam that are strange for this era.
These are all things that can be found in the small-town wet market. Grass carp can be found in the river, and can also be found near the yams and kudzu tribes. There are no living creatures in the small town, the fish is killed and put on the board, and after Lin Ji takes it out, he uses a bone knife to peel it indiscriminately, making it look like he killed himself.
"Alive, alive." The mother wept bitterly and hurried back to give good news to her companions. If Lin Ji could get so much food every day, those children would definitely survive.
He's really able to get that much food.
The children rarely saw such a big fish, and they were all amazed to see it, and the smaller ones were about to run to the tribe and fall.
When the children returned to the tribe carrying or dragging the food, the men who had been hunting for two days also returned. They brought back only three or two small birds and beasts, and a tattered skin of a fawn. The harvest is not as much as that of the group of children in the forest trails.
Da Ji who came out didn't give a good face when he looked at the men, but he became kind when he looked at Lin Ji.
She let go of the forest trail during the day, and she didn't expect that the forest trail could really get so much food. Her plan at that time was simpler than Lin Ji's thoughts, since this child can fish, and when he grows up next year, he will definitely be able to come back with a stronger man if he takes it out, so it's a pity to hang himself like this.
As for what Lin Ji said about raising four children and giving birth, she is only now beginning to pay attention to it.
A few women in the back happily gathered around and took all kinds of things from Lin Ji's hands. The tribe doesn't have tea yet, otherwise it is estimated that someone will serve tea to Lin Ji.
Seeing their expressions, Lin Ji felt that it was really meaningful for him to stay. For the sake of their smiling faces, it is nothing to suffer a little by yourself.
Da Ji had seen the harvest of the forest ruins, and routinely asked about the specific harvest locations of the forest ruins, and asked if there could be any more detailed information. It was her duty as a leader to obtain the food in the future.
Lin Ji took the opportunity to say: "These stems are all seen by chance on the bank of the river, I have looked for them, and there should be no more." However, there are a lot of fish in the river, but it is already difficult to catch them. I want the adults to help with the threading and weaving the net, I don't know if it's okay? ”
"Weaving a web?" Daiki heard Caiyu say it during the day, but she didn't know what this net was.
Lin Rui drew a net on the ground with a tree branch, and immediately surrounded by a bunch of human heads.
Da Ji said: "Do you know how to weave this net? Who taught you? ”
Lin Ji remembered that the fishing net was still made by someone among the three emperors and five emperors, and it should not be at this time, and it was not easy to say that it was not easy to teach it, so he said: "I also figured it out myself." I thought if the rattan basket can catch fish, why not make it bigger and make the eyes of the rattan basket a little bigger? In this way, the water runs faster, and it should be easier to catch fish. Later, I thought about it myself, and I probably knew how to make it up, but I still need the help of adults. ”
When the mothers heard that the fish was not easy to catch, their hearts rose again. Hearing that this net was simpler than fishing, they looked at Daji with blazing eyes one by one.
Da Ji knew that even if he didn't understand, he couldn't stop him, so he asked the four mothers to help Lin Ji.
Perhaps today Da Ji was happy, and she also took out one of the tribe's treasures—a crooked clay pot, and then, with her own hands, began to cook fish soup with clear water. Other women began to bake what the men had brought with them, or to coat some of the stems in mud and roast them in the fire.
In the case of lack of materials, it is impossible for Lin Ji to feed four mothers alone. Everyone also needs to huddle together to keep warm. The food brought back by Lin Ji was eaten by four mothers for a day, but Daji cooked it all without distinguishing between them.
Because of that small pot of fish soup, the atmosphere of the whole tribe has become different. Several bonfires were lit, and the sunset in the sky turned into one color. Children are walking around, women are grilling food, and men are arranging their spears and bows with black faces. Lin Ji also began to arrange for a few women to start weaving nets.
The tribe had collected kudzu for thread and rope. Kudzu rattan is slender and easy to peel, and later generations have used it to weave cloth. However, the tribe has not yet developed the craft of weaving, and the thread is only used to sew animal skins. Lin Ji is now using these lines first.
The fishing nets of later generations include purse seine nets, trawl nets, trap nets, and cast nets. Lin Ji planned to let the women weave two nets first, and then try to weave a net or block it.
Lin Ji chose a thin wooden stick more than two meters long, broke it round, roasted it over the fire for a while, and then hung it horizontally to the side. Cut the thin wire into two meters and fold it in half and tie it in a circle. Tie a thin wire every two centimeters or so. Once the threads are tied to the circle, the threads are knotted at intervals of two centimeters with the threads next to them. In this way, a knot can be tied to form a mesh, and a round net pocket will slowly take shape.
This kind of work is not very difficult, and the woman is more careful, and under the joint efforts of several people, when it is completely dark, a net bag is basically completed.
At this time, the food was fragrant, and Daji also began to distribute the food.
As the biggest hero, Lin Ji divided a large piece of hot fish. Unfortunately, there is no bowl, so it can only be stuck with a small branch. Lin Ji was full of food in the small town, and he was not interested in this fish meat that had no taste and fishy smell, so he took it to the dark place and pretended to take a bite, and casually distributed it to Caiyu Zhu Monkey and a few other children.
These children are very good at eating when they are half the size of the child. Give an extra bite and a half, and swallow it in two bites, Lin Ji is afraid that they will be pierced by fish bones.
The men with black faces finally held the pot and got a little fish soup, so that they looked happy. Later, I also told everyone about the reason for their failure in this hunt.
Half a day's journey to the east, a pack of wolves suddenly came, more than a dozen. When they were chasing a pack of deer, they encountered these wolves, and in the end, not only did they lose their prey, but they also almost injured people. They wanted to drive them away, but their bows and spearheads were almost exhausted, and they abandoned the plan for the time being. So come back and build the tools first, and then go kill the wolves in two days. And when they returned, they were afraid that these wolves would follow them to the tribe, and they would go around the road for a day.
This is indeed bad news. Half a day's journey, walking in the forest, is estimated to be less than 10 kilometers. And the radius of activity of the wolf can also reach ten kilometers, or even more. Wolves are scattered in spring and summer, and in autumn and winter, and it is normal for a pack of only a dozen wolves to become thirty or forty by the time it snows.
At that time, it is difficult to say whether the ownership of this territory will belong to this group of wolves or to the Ji Lin Department.
This is a big problem, and Da Ji immediately discussed countermeasures with everyone, and decided to let the men rest for a day tomorrow, polish their tools, and set off the day after tomorrow to drive away the wolves. Because of this, the men got a lot of food, and they were even more smiling.
It was only at this point that Lin Ji realized that the tribe did not have dogs. Humans are said to have kept dogs for more than 30,000 years. With a bow or something, if there is a dog, a lot of arrow feathers can be picked up. Later generations of dogs will pick up sticks, which is a continuation of this ability. The tribe did not have dogs, and the loss of weapons was mostly large.
It was also at this time that Lin Ji took a closer look at the men's weapons.
This period is called the Stone Age because of the archaeological discoveries, all that remains at this time are stone tools. However, the proportion of stone tools in real use is not very high. More of the tools used in this era were made of bamboo and wood. The same goes for the weapons of the tribal men.
The spear is a two-meter-high straight wooden pole, and the part that is burned on one side should be the tip of the spear.
Someone made a short spear out of flint tied with a short rod, but the spear may have been thrown out, and the spearhead had been broken.
The bow is a broken branch, and the whole bend is not very regular. It is estimated that no one can shoot this bow accurately except for the familiar master.
Arrows are made of broken pieces of bamboo or short shrubs. But the arrows were only sharpened, and there were few clusters of arrows, and the tail feathers were not visible.
Lin Ji understood after thinking about it for a while, not to mention that these arrows were shot out accurately, eighty percent of them could not be picked up, and there was definitely no need to spend more effort on them.
As for the other, more refined polished weapons, they are all small stone knives and the like, this kind of thing is okay for cutting meat, and it is basically not used for hunting.
After the man finished his food over the campfire, he began to sharpen his weapon.
Lin Ji saw them smashing stones with great effort, or breaking crooked bushes and bamboos to roast them straight, and he couldn't help but feel the urge to cover his face.
Since flint spearheads are prone to breakage, why not think about grinding some granite or other stones or getting sharp-edged bones as spearheads? Since you know that the fire can easily straighten the pruning, why not fix the pruning straight and then put it on the fire to roast? As for the one who scraped the thorn from the short stick with a stone knife, it was even more eyeless.
Lin Ji was instructing the woman to weave the net, went to the place where the tribe had lost bones, picked up a bone fragment, smashed it with a stone, picked up the pointed part of it, polished it slightly, and tied it to a short rod with a rope.
"If you fix it again, as long as you don't hit the stones, it shouldn't be broken."
Lin Xi picked up one of the straightest rods, tied the arrow shaft of a man next to him with five sections, and then put it on the fire to roast, and when the arrow shaft was almost hot, he took it down and dried, and untied the rope when it cooled, and a large number of arrow shafts became straight.
"If you want to sand the burr, you can do it." Lin Ji picked up a short stick with thorns, put it in the sand on the side and dragged it back and forth, turned it and dragged it again, and it didn't take long for a smooth and thornless short stick to appear. The little bark that was still on it also became untouchable.
The men looked at the spearhead, at the arrow shaft, at the short stick, at the forest traces, and at the work in their hands, and they were all a little silent.
Lin Ji knew that it was not a good thing to appear too smart in a circle of stupid people. But seeing that these men couldn't eat enough and were grinding foreign workers, he was really a little angry. As long as these men are more angry, where is he worried about being exchanged next year?
Guidance depends on mood, learning depends on comprehension, and Lin Ji is simply ready to be smart at one time: "These are all ways to make weapons faster." Actually, I know that the arrow has a little feather symmetrically on the tail...... Shoot more accurately, what is symmetry? I'll draw you a picture, and you'll see for yourselves......"
When Lin Ji talked about feathers, he suddenly remembered the eagle still hanging under the tree. He seems to have been crazy for a long time, and I don't know if he is dead now.