Chapter 16: The Eagle's Intentions
Lin Ji got a lot of meat, and after eating most of it himself, he roasted the fat and tender fish belly half-cooked, and fed a few little wolf cubs little by little with a small stick. These little wolf cubs had been hungry for a day, and they would have bared their teeth, but now that food is delivered, they instinctively jump up and fight for it.
They are still too small to be fed bones or anything, so they have to be fed with these first.
Feeding is also a process of establishing dependency. After a few days of feeding them slowly, when these wolf cubs realize that the forest trails can bring food, they should become closer, and then increase their intimacy through other methods, which may tame these little wolves.
Of course, the process of long-term taming is also a process of screening breeding. One or two of these five little wolf cubs were more vicious, not to mention the scramble with their companions, and they dared to snort coldly against Lin Ji's men. Such a wolf cub can definitely become a strong wolf in the pack, but it may not be possible to keep it in the tribe.
Lin Ji planned to observe for two days, and if it was still like this in two days, he would eliminate these two. White-eyed wolves, of course, can't be kept in the tribe.
After feeding the fish belly, Lin Ji took a few friends to build a four-sided closed nest with stones by the side of his shack, and put a few little wolf dogs in it after spreading a little hay inside.
At this time, the eagle jumped up and down on the crutches of the big tree.
"You can't move, or you'll be ruined." Lin Ji sighed. It is difficult for people in this era to obey the doctor's advice. Especially when he wasn't a serious doctor.
The eagle stood with one foot bent and said stupidly: "It's okay, you said this one can't move, so I kept rolling it and didn't let it move." ”
But if you dangle it, the bones inside will also shift, okay? Lin Ji shouted in his heart, knowing that there was no way to explain, so he didn't say much. I have already said what I should have done and said, and the eagle is still like this, and this leg seems to be lame.
"Something?" Lin Ji could see from the eagle's stupid face that he wanted to speak and stopped. He looked at the little wolf in the nest and remembered that he had said that he could raise eagles, and couldn't help but feel a little helpless: this thing won't ask to raise eagles now, right? Where do you catch eagles?
Seeing Lin Ji's expression, the eagle waved his hand and said, "It's not a matter of raising eagles." You just raised wolves, they are like this, and the eagle will definitely not agree. And the eagle is not easy to catch. ”
This is the enlightenment, and after dying once, it becomes so reasonable? Lin Ji glanced at Yinggao and asked, "Who are you?" ”
Eagle squirmed, "Can I go with you to learn how to fish?" ”
"Fishing?"
"Hmm. Daiki told me to listen to you. I looked at what you were fishing, and I should be able to do it. The eagle stood on one foot and raised his cane to make a fishing motion, indicating that he was fine.
Lin Ji said: "It will take a hundred days to break your muscles and bones, if you move like this, this foot may not be good." Have you thought about it? ”
Eagle said: "I'm fine. Didn't you get this for me, I just have this. Will you teach me otherwise? ”
Lin Ji didn't know what the eagle had stimulated him to do this, but thinking that he didn't raise idlers in this era, he also made a choice, so he nodded and agreed. At the end, he said: "You are willing to learn to fish, but we can only fish on the shore for the past two days, and we can't catch any fish anymore, I am going to make a raft, you can help first...... Do you know where you can find bamboo? ”
The tribe has bamboo tools, but there do not seem to be bamboo forests nearby. The bamboo is hollow, and it is best to make a raft. If it were made of wood, the raft would have to be very large to have the same buoyancy. It was much more difficult for them to handle the raft for the children or the lame eagle.
Eagle said: "Bamboo is found in the upper reaches of the river. How much? What is a raft? Want to make it with bamboo? ”
"The middle of the bamboo is empty, relatively light, and easy to float on the water. Putting it in a row is a raft. We can go to the middle of the river by standing on the raft. Lin Ji explained casually, thinking that the tribe should be surrounded by small caliber bamboos, "The number of large bundles is enough." ”
Eagle said: "The boat of the bream department? ”
"Boat? It should be something about the same. What was their boat like? Lin Ji asked curiously.
Eagle said: "They are made of wood, and I don't know why the middle is empty, they can float on the water, and they can walk very fast. We can't do it, can we? People from other tribes have tried it before, and the wood will flip. The bream department has the water god to lift it. ”
Lin Ji thought that the boat in the bream department should be a canoe or something. The biggest secret of the canoe is that the bottom is flattened, otherwise it is a log that can be turned over at any time. It seems that just such a small thing has made the Li bream department a technological monopoly.
Lin Ji said: "Don't worry, our raft is not so easy to overturn." You'll know when I make it. ”
Eagle thought of Lin Ji's invention these days, and his eyes lit up: "Then I can get the bamboo tomorrow." ”
As he spoke, he was about to leave and get ready.
"You legs and feet, so much bamboo to come back?" Lin Ji pulled him and asked.
The eagle said: "I'll go upstream, throw it in the river and float back, and when you float here, you can pick it up again." "He is not preparing to go out at this time, but preparing a bow and arrows. Bamboo can be dangerous if it is grown far away. He is a lame man who probably can't call people to accompany him, and if he goes by himself, he must bring a weapon.
Seeing these forest traces, he was a little relieved, and he was busy with him.
Zhu Monkey posted over and said, "Da Ji is saying that you should teach the men to fish." ”
Lin Ji then understood the reason why the eagle hurriedly wanted to learn to fish.
The tribe now has a lot of wounded, big and small, and it has become difficult to go out hunting. If you can get food from fishing in the forest trails, it is natural to expand production. Eagle was afraid that others would learn to fish and surpass him, so he naturally came to learn first. Otherwise, he would not be able to go out hunting, and he would not be as good as the others, and the tribe would hardly have a place for him.
But it is not okay to let those with trauma go into the water. God knows if they'll die of an infected wound. Lin Ji didn't have a good impression of most men, but he wasn't enough to kill them.
Lin Ji walked to Da Ji's side, and Da Ji was really discussing the production arrangements with a few older people.
At this time, chestnut picking should continue. The uninjured men still had to be out hunting, and continued to increase their meat and fur. When a woman comes back at night, she has to knead the thread and tie the net. Sure enough, the injured men were arranged to follow Lin Ji to fish.
These people can't even accept the idea of wound cleaning, and it's useless to tell them about wound infection.
Lin Ji said: "Daji, these people have injuries on their bodies, and their smell of blood will scare the fish away." I've heard that the river gods also don't like the smell of blood the most, and whoever touches the water with a wound on their body will be blamed by the river god, and will make them grow strange white things, and even burn to death. ”
"Is there such a thing?" Daihime seems to have heard this statement for the first time.
Lin Ji nodded and said seriously: "Well, when we have injuries on our bodies, God Ji Zuli protects us the worst, so it is easy to be blamed by those gods." It is better to touch other things less than the river, so that it is not easy to grow that kind of white thing, and the wound heals quickly. If you think about it, isn't our previous hangings just ......"
The adults and children of the tribe die so many people every year, and in the memory of Lin Ji's body, there are many people who died of wound infection. He took a few people out and made an analysis, and said that everyone would be suspicious.
Superstition has always been something that people would rather believe in than believe in it. As soon as Lin Ji said this, those who had wounds on their bodies were cautious, lest they encounter something that would be invaded by evil spirits.
Lin Ji saw a rare opportunity, and by the way, he popularized a prehistoric physiological and hygiene class. He called bacteria evil. It is said that boiling water can remove evil spirits by washing wounds, keeping them clean can remove evil spirits, and having less lice on the body can remove evil spirits, etc.
It doesn't matter how much they can accept these things, these people have their own living habits, and they may not be able to change much if they force them. All sorts of things can only be done slowly.
Seeing that everyone was stunned, Lin Ji changed the topic back: "They have wounds on their bodies, and it is not easy to go into the water now." Why don't you let them pick chestnuts first, and then go fishing with me when the wound is healed. Tomorrow I need some bamboo rafts, and if they are a little less wounded, they can go with the eagle and help me get some bamboo. ”
"Rafts?" Daihime heard the new word and immediately came back to her senses from all kinds of strange evils.