Chapter 75: The Cotery
Lin Ji lit a charcoal fire in the wooden room, put oil in a clay pot and stir-fried the small goat meat chopped into pieces, then added water, put mushrooms and yams, and secretly put a little cinnamon and salt to stew.
The fragrance spread, and the rest of the tribe who had already started eating all looked at the broth like washing pot water in their hands, and looked at the side of the forest trail wood stunned room.
It is said that it is an independent wooden house in the forest traces, but in fact, there are still a few friends such as the forest traces and the red monkeys.
Since the abundance of broth, the tribesmen gave full play to their ingenuity, so bamboo tubes, wooden bowls made by digging holes in the wood, etc., began to become popular.
After Lin Ji waited for the meat to be cooked, he filled a large bowl of mutton in a rough wooden bowl and asked Dunmu to send it to Daji. After that, Lin Ji filled another bowl and handed it to the Yimu who had dropped a lot of saliva at the door, and by the way, he asked Shibei to take the Yimu to a shack on the side. Finally, let the vermilion monkey call the arc and the eagle.
Po Tu is waiting on the side to eat, so there is no need to scream.
Luo Que sent her sister over under the pretext, picked up the largest piece with chopsticks and left, and soon outside the door there was a sound of laughter from her and Qiao Xicaiyu and several other women who were satisfied.
A pot of meat has not started on its own, and it is already half missing.
But the eagle and the arc have already been eaten. Knowing this, Po Tu had already begun to peel chestnuts and fill himself half-full.
When the three adults and four teenagers sat down together, they started to rob it, and the second piece of meat that Lin Ji caught was asked out by the sassy Luo Que outside the door, so he had to fish some yams to fill his stomach.
In the end, even the soup in the clay pot was swept away by the vermilion monkey, and Lin Ji reluctantly put down the chopsticks and said, "You said, this clay pot is taken out and exchanged, what price can it be exchanged?" ”
As soon as these words came out, the three of them all looked at each other. In the past, the clay pots were like treasures in the surrounding tribes, and if they didn't take them out to meet people, how could there be any exchange?
Lin Ji said: "Let me assume, now whether it is Youda or the gray wolf, they are willing to send three men to help us go hunting and exchange." It's dangerous to hunt, isn't it? Maybe these three people will be injured and die. You say that if we exchange a clay pot for a person, will anyone be willing to exchange it? ”
Po Tu, Eagle and Hair Arc shine brightly in their eyes. Lin Ji's words make a lot of sense. If one pottery can really be exchanged for one person, it is almost easy for the tribe to make pottery now, so how many people can be exchanged for it?
But in the face of the problem of forest traces, no one can be sure of them.
Lin Ji was helpless, so he had to shout: "Qiao Huan, you can talk about it." ”
Qiao Qiao, who is very likely to become the next Daji, came in from outside with a smile: "Don't call me when you eat meat, and you will know to call me after eating and doing things?" ”
"I seem to see someone share a piece of Daji somewhere, and eat another piece outside the window." Arc choking.
"I have another piece here, for you." Po Tu Han smiled, picked up his wooden bowl, and under a small pile of bones, there was indeed a piece of mutton hidden in it, but no one found it in advance.
Po Tu, the king of big stomachs, is willing to keep his food and give it away? Lin Ji looked at Po Tu and Qiao Huan, and the fire of gossip in his eyes was burning.
Qiao Huan was accustomed to stuffing the meat into his mouth and gnawing on it, and said, "It's really possible what you said, I'll discuss it with Daji." ”
Lin Ji said: "If there are more of these things, they are not worth much, so even if we exchange, it is best to only go to a few tribes to exchange, and one tribe only exchanges one." If they haven't seen what our original clay pot looks like, it's best to say that we are in short supply of talent to change it. At this time, it is also the time when everyone can't fight privately, and it is relatively safe to go out and exchange. Tell Da Ji about it first. I think it's doable. ”
"I know that." Qiao Huan nodded, and ran out like a gust of wind.
Po Tu looked at Qiao Huan's back and didn't take his eyes back for a long time.
Hair arc tasted: "You two have been drilling into the woods a lot recently, and now Qiao Huan is ignoring me, don't you want to monopolize it?" ”
This is the disadvantage of group marriage. The men within the tribe are all competitive, and sometimes it is very difficult to work together.
Lin Ji was afraid that these two guys would fight, so he pressed his hand and said, "I haven't finished talking about what happened just now." When we go out to exchange, it's best to exchange back the men that our tribe has exchanged. They grew up in this tribe, and after all, they have more feelings for this tribe, and it is not easy to do things like white eyes. Now there are a lot of things in the tribe, and if there is theft or something, it will be a problem for us. ”
Everyone remembered what Lin Ji said before that the problem of inmates would give birth to fools. After glancing at each other, they waited for Lin Ji to continue.
"Therefore, there are new rules for the marriage of the tribe. Implement the marriage model of the spouse system. Not a spouse, can't. Now the same tribe is born, and whoever messes around has to be whipped.
"We started building wooden houses and fighting for a man. Whoever wants to go with you will live with you, close the door and do whatever you want, and you don't have to run into the woods. The two of you should also go and ask Qiao Huan who she would like to follow. If you two men are the best in the tribe, she won't choose anyone else. After she chooses, the other person chooses a woman for herself. Don't be this kind of senseless strife. ”
Po Tu and Fa Arc glanced at each other, both a little unwilling. In their opinion, the forest trail was just to make such a thing out so that they would not be swapped out, so that they would give up the whole forest.
Lin Ji rolled his eyes and said, "Be content, you guys, that woman will be yours alone." You don't want your own children, do you? ”
"And," Lin Ji lowered his voice, "and if you really have the ability at that time, you will have a few more women." Those women are your own, and they are not enough for you to be beautiful? ”
This kind of thought may have always existed in men's blood, so as soon as Lin Ji said it, it attracted a small burst of laughter.
Po Tu looked at the little sister behind Lin Ji, and there was contemplation in his eyes, obviously thinking about what his independent child was like. The arc's eyes kept turning, and I didn't know if I was thinking about the appearance of three wives and four concubines.
Eagle didn't know what to think, and after laughing, he said, "What if women also raise some men?" ”
"You are more capable than her, she naturally has to listen to you, it won't be like this."
Laughing for a while, Po Tu said: "What if there are too many men and not enough women?" And you have to carry rocks in an eye, and I'm afraid there won't be enough food. ”
If you exchange pottery for people, they must also be men, and matriarchal society will not exchange women.
Lin Ji said: "This exchange is also temporary. There shouldn't be many men in exchange. ”
Lin Ji waved his hand to let a few friends go out to watch, and then whispered: "I plan to destroy the gray wolf department." When the time comes, the gray wolf will kill some and take some prisoners. And the women snatched from them. ”
"But now is the hunting period, and the tiger barbarians are not allowed to fight." Eagle whispered anxiously.
"I didn't say I'm going now, I can't do it now, so I'll wait until I'm done hunting. We also took advantage of this time when we couldn't fight privately, and finished the pottery exchange. At the same time, while it is not yet freezing, we will do a good job of our internal construction. Get more food. ”
Several men looked at each other silently, wanting to say that it was not something they could decide, but no one spoke. A feeling of breaking free from the control of others surfaced in them, making them wish to taste as much as the lamb just now.
After that, it was the eagle who broke the silence: "Now that the house is built, what else is there to build?" And we have the tools, it shouldn't be that hard. ”
"That's a lot. In addition to building houses, we have to dig brick kilns, charcoal kilns, pottery kilns, and it is better to burn the bricks before the snow falls, and build a fireplace for each house, preferably a kang, otherwise you may die in the house in winter. For this, we have to continue to smelt copper, making hoes, shovels, pickaxes and the like. We'd better turn over the land that will be used for next year's farmland before it snows, turn the pests out of the field and water them to freeze to death, then we'll have to dig out the ditches, and I see, the roots in the ground alone are enough for us to keep busy...... In addition, our village is too small, we will not be able to live in the future, it is best to take advantage of this time to adjust, there should be a well in the village in the future......"