Chapter 5 Net Pocket
The appearance of pants did not become a trend in the tribe, and no one imitated them even among children. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info the number of one to two hemp is limited, and the twine is difficult to rub. Second, the problem of eating once again shrouded the children's sky. The fish in the creek have finally reached the point where they are almost out of reach.
On this day, the two children who went into the water broke another basket, and from morning until the sun was past noon, and only a few small fish were caught. Then the children were not calm, and the work of kneading the rope and tying was done so-so, and their eyes kept looking into the mountains.
Sometimes people get stuck in a difficult situation and it is difficult to get out of it, and they are caught in this cycle. For example, if there is a lack of food, you should be in a hurry to find something to eat, and it is often not too efficient to find it in a hurry, and when you find enough food to eat, people have already begun to be sleepy, take a break to bring their spirits back, and there is no more food to eat......
The situation of the tribe is that without the right tools, you can't find more food, if you don't have more food, you have to spend more time gathering and hunting, and if you spend time gathering and hunting, you can't improve your hunting tools, and you can't find more food without the right tools......
It's a very difficult ring to break, and it's for this reason that humans didn't move an inch for millions of years in the Paleolithic Age. The advent of fire allowed humans to think and improve their tools at night, and it was only under the light of fire that humans entered the Neolithic Age, and only began to rule the earth for tens of thousands of years.
Wang Chuan analyzed from the language habits of the tribe and the habits of using tools, and now this society should have entered the Neolithic Age. If we look at the question of how tribes can use fire but do not keep it, and if there are stone tools that only run after wild beasts and do not set traps, the answer can be found in geography or in the basic form of human society.
Geographically, the origin of the Chinese civilization was the Taihe River Valley, but its location was southerly, and if the geography had not changed significantly since then, the place where they were located would have been closer to the Taijiang River Valley. The big river not far from the cave flows into the Taijiang River for a few hundred miles. In other words, this is actually a remote area of this era. It is also normal for tribes to be relatively backward.
From the perspective of the basic form of society, the phenomenon of uneven development of productive forces in all strata of a society is actually very common, and when humans began to land on the moon, there were still primitive people in the Amazon forest. It is not surprising that this small, remote tribe is lagging behind the mainstream social situation.
Now, even if Wang Chuan let them use fire regularly, weave baskets so that they can bring more things back to feed their children, and help them polish their sticks so that they can spend more time hunting, these practices are still difficult to make them change their thinking in a short period of time and let them get out of the circle of predicament.
There is still a long way to go for them to come out of their old habits. And it has to be non-stop.
Wang Chuan began to try to weave nets. However, considering the long time to weave the nets, the insufficient amount of twine, and the children's work mood began to slack, he decided to weave a few nets with less material first.
There should still be fish in the creek, but after the scourge of the baskets in the past few days, the density has decreased. After all, the efficiency and caliber of the basket are limited, and it is impossible to kill all these fish. If you use a larger-diameter net bag with faster water filtration, you may be able to fish deeper, which can solve the urgent need.
There is no other trick to weaving a net, first find a raw branch of the right size and bend it into a circle, and roast it with fire when bending the circle, so that the formed circle will be fixed. After fixing, tie it with twine again and it will be perfect. The bent tree circle is hung up, the twine is folded in half and tied to the tree circle, about two centimeters or so, and the twine is tied to the vertical twine knotted in two by two centimeters. This is an ancient method of netting, and the process is not complicated.
After teaching a few obedient and skillful girls, the job was given to them. I took the rest of the twine, asked my mother for a handful of dried fruits, and took other boys who didn't want to rub the twine anymore to break bamboo sticks or branches. Didn't a lot of birds and squirrels come to loot the grain when they dried the grain two days ago, and today is the time for them to pay back.
Tie a thin thread to the elastic bamboo strip or branch, tie a slipknot rope sleeve, and tie a small wooden stick in the middle of the twine to set the pile. On the suitable soil soil, plug in the bend, use the round arch card bridge to set the pile, put two trampled small roots, pull the rope sleeve and put a few fruits under the trampled small wooden roots, a simple rope sleeve trap is set.
A child reached out to pick up fruit to eat, and when he heard the sound of piu, his hand was put on the twine. This test is well done, and the bamboo strip is pumped as a reward. Dare to cry and smoke again.
Restore this little noose trap and go to the next place. Birds that have not been baptized by human guns are completely unaware of the dangers of humans, and it is estimated that there is no difference between humans and goats in their eyes. Before the next noose was arranged, there was a sound of piu behind him, and the shadow of a bird flapping its wings suddenly appeared in the place where the nest had just been laid. The children were stunned for only a second, and then four or five people pounced, and the poor bird was pressed out of its intestines.
The little trap was put in a circle, and the sun was already in the west. When I got back to the hole, the net was almost finished. After Wang Chuan made a finish, he tied a long stick and went down to the stream. You still have to do it yourself to try out the new tools, and those wild children don't have a sense of proportion. If the rattan basket is broken, it takes a lot of time, and if it is broken, it will make people feel distressed to death.
It took more than half an hour for Wang Chuan to catch more than a dozen fish the size of two or three fingers, some of which were the size of a child's palm. If it's too small, you won't be able to catch it, and the small fish will run away from the mesh of the net. He noticed that the farther he went to the mouth of the river, the more fish there were, presumably from the river swimming back. In a small waterhole near the mouth of the river, he also fished out a turtle the size of a basin. Turtles are very rare in the creek, because the thing is slow, and the water in the creek is not deep, and it can hardly survive in the hands of these children, and it is presumably that the turtle also swam in from the great river, which must be extremely rich. However, remembering his mother's repeated instructions, after catching the turtle, he walked back without taking another step in the direction of the river.
The river in front of it was called Yeyuan River in later generations, and it was less than two kilometers away from the cave. In later generations, he was familiar with the river, and he often went for a walk by the river. At that time, the river was blocked by many reservoirs upstream, and it was a dry season all year round. There are almost no fish, and no one dares to eat them. Because that river is almost the sewer of the county seat.
But now the river is completely different from later generations. Now the river is 100 meters wide, with reeds on both sides, bushes and swamps, and God knows what the river will have? He wouldn't be surprised if a prehistoric dinosaur came out of the river this year.
I only caught a few small fish in the morning, and I barely ate them at noon, so let's roast a turtle and eat some more.
When the turtle is almost cooked, put some minced perilla, and then mash the meat pieces with sharp stones, so that the children can't stop eating at all. If you can't get enough of it, you put some water on the turtle shell and boil two fish, and after eating, there will be no more, and it will be almost dark, so you will go to see the rope tau, and some birds will catch it for dinner. This time, I pressed out the intestines and feces, so I didn't eat it at night.
When the turtle shell is cooled, it is used for divination by the mother. It's okay not to know divination and keep water in it.
The noose also worked. The children went and caught three or four birds, two squirrels and quite a few feathers. The feathers are left behind by the eagle's eating. The eagles of this age also don't know what malicious intent from humans is. Usually children run in the woods, they fly in the sky, and they have nothing to do with each other, after all, eagles with a wingspan of about one meter cannot catch children. But now that they are openly stealing like this under the noses of humans, the children are very indignant, and they are ready to catch and eat them all when they encounter them next time.
This incident reminded Wang Chuan, the eagle with a wingspan of one meter in this era can't help these children, what if they run out of a wingspan of three meters? Dinosaurs may not have been extinct in this era, and it is normal for eagles or eagles with a wingspan of three meters or larger to have them, after all, the history studied from fossils in later generations may not reflect the real situation.
With this in mind, he picked up some hard pebbles before dark, and prepared to go back to the cave after dark to polish the stone tools. You have to have a weapon, and you have to carry it with you, even if it's something as backward as a stone spear.
The birds and finches caught by the rope noose surprised the adults of the tribe a little, and the children showed off their learned skills in front of their relatives, and the adults just laughed and listened, happy but not very concerned. For them, these small birds and finches are fine for the children as snacks during the day, and they don't have enough to feed the tribe when they get them back.
There were two or three bundles of twine rope, and taking this opportunity, Wang Chuan stood up and used the thick hemp rope to show them the styles of various rope traps he could think of. The results are not very promising. These wild men who could only run behind the animals with stone spears watched Wang Chuan's demonstration again as if they were watching a high-tech press conference, with all kinds of admiration and appreciation in their eyes, but no one stood up to do the experiment with him.
This scene is not much different from telling them how to make a fire. Wang Chuan was a little disappointed. It is difficult to change people's concepts, and it is only more difficult to change the concepts of these wild people. This thing can only come subtly and slowly. As in the case of burying the earth and keeping the tinder, these people didn't care much at the time, but now when they wake up in the morning, there are at least three or four bags of earth in the cave with the tinder buried.
Or, when they need it, they'll learn. Wang Chuan could only comfort himself like this.
After the demonstration, Wang Chuan prepared to use the bonfire to polish the stone tools. Adults are enthusiastic about this.
They found a suitable piece of stone from the stone that Wang Chuan had brought back, smashed it directly on the rock of the cave, cracked it and picked out a sharp piece from it, asked Wang Chuan if he was satisfied, and then began to sharpen the edge on the rock. They are professional in doing this. It didn't take long for them to sharpen the tip of the spear.
Wang Chuan found a suitable stick by himself, carved some grooves at one end, tied the tip of the spear with twine, and a stone spear with a primitive atmosphere was newly baked.