Instead of all five blades being sent to the sacrificial hall, they were given to the old grandmother for safekeeping.

When it was necessary to sacrifice, he would take it out, but usually the fish intestine sword became the first kitchen knife in the clan, and Chen Jian also fulfilled his promise, and the clansmen ate fish fillets as thin as cicada wings, no longer meat pieces cut by stone knives.

Thrushes are used to shave or cut messy hair. The women learned to trim their eyebrows and to tie twine into a slipknot to twist the hairs on their faces.

The remaining three handles are temporarily placed in the sacrificial hall and are not needed for the time being.

It's snowing, and a lot of things can't be done.

Although the grass river is not frozen, there is some ice, and it is impossible to sail.

The copper mine is too far away, and there is not much livestock to be transported back by this point, so it can only be transported by water. Birch bark is difficult to pick off in winter, and there is no way to prepare enough boats.

The meteorite tribe in the east is not a big threat for the time being, it is not suitable to fight in winter, it is easy to lose temperature and die after being injured, it is not wise to fight, unless you don't fight, you will starve to death.

There is also a lot to deal with in the tribe, and the women are pregnant and need someone to take care of them.

Ewes and horned deer are also pregnant, and due to feeding and abundance of food, these animals also come into heat a little earlier and may give birth before the winter is over. Someone has to keep an eye on this, the newborn lamb is covered in amniotic fluid, and early birth may freeze to death before the ewe licks the dry amniotic fluid.

In addition, the management of wheat fields after the snow melts, the preparation of charcoal for copper smelting, etc., all require time and manpower.

The tribe cannot afford to raise soldiers who are completely out of production for the time being, everything has to take into account the reality of the situation, and the reality is often helpless, and even fighting a war is not something that can be fought when you want to.

Of course, with the snow falling, there is also a lot to do.

A few days after the snow, Jian Chen led his tribesmen to cut down a tree and made some single-person snow climbing plows and put them on the horned deer.

He was going to take advantage of the heavy snow to go to the north, whether the tribe in the north had pointed out the wheel technology or was still riding a horse, such weather was not suitable for action. The tribal snow plough and horned deer are the best means of transport for this weather.

Only by knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent can one not be defeated.

He wants to determine the strength of the tribe in the north, a primitive nomadic settlement? Or have small states been formed? Is it yellow? Or are they of the rest of the races? How far is it from your own tribe? Is it chasing aquatic plants to get here occasionally? Or have you already settled here?

The best archers of the four tribes were selected, and Jian Chen did not carry Wu Feng, but only bows and arrows and stone axes. He's going to take people to see the tribe himself.

There are many things that can be observed with your own eyes, and letting others see them may miss some important points, and the scouts of the tribe are not qualified, and they also need to use this action to teach them how to use their own eyes.

The thirty men selected had prepared the best charcoal and food, clothed themselves in animal skins, and did not raise flags.

It is especially important that charcoal fires do not produce thick smoke and can be protected from detection by enemies. The smoke could be seen clearly from more than a dozen miles away.

The footprints left behind by the snow are the best clues, even if the scalping tribe learns to ambush, such a snowy day will always leave clues, otherwise the aimless search will definitely result in nothing.

A few days later, the thirty or so people finally arrived near the tribal cave where the scalp was last found, and there was no trace of people here, and several wild beasts occupied the cave that they had not even dared to approach.

Drove away the wild beasts, ignoring the stench, lit charcoal inside, and barbecued food.

"We may encounter that tribe at any time in the future, so we have to be careful in everything."

"But our plough will leave a mark." Wolf Skin rubbed his hands together, stood at the mouth of the cave and looked at the long trails on the snow outside, and shook his head.

"It's up to you. Brother, you bring a few people with me. ”

Chen Jian came out of the cave and came to the place where the horseshoe prints had been found, which was a meadow, and not far away was a dense forest.

Those people who came on horseback would certainly not walk in the jungle, the wild jungle of this era was full of thick trees that fell to the ground, which would not completely rot, and would form dirt bags that were more than one person high, and it was difficult to pass through them on horseback, so they could only advance along the meadow valley.

"Climb up the tree, and walk along the branches, against the edge of the meadow."

These pine forests are so dense that the branches are so close to each other that the dexterous bodies of the people can walk on them, leaving no footprints on the ground.

"Take eight people, two people in a team. After walking forward for a long time, one person was left to report the news. We'll follow behind and come back as soon as we find footprints, large hoof prints. ”

Walking a short distance on a tree branch every day, but coming down every once in a while can completely hide the traces.

In the previous life, the bandits in the north also used this method, and the people who were best at climbing trees could walk dozens of miles a day to completely hide the traces of the bandits' dens.

Without footprints, a distance of fifty or sixty miles is enough for that tribe to find no trace, and they will even think that a divine soldier has descended from heaven.

The wolfskin understood, and climbed to the branches of a pine tree, the distance between the branches of the completely primeval forest was very close. In order to be safe, I also carried some hemp rope, and if there was a break, I could swing over.

Eight of the best climbers left quietly along the treetops, carrying food and charcoal on their backs.

Four days later, Jian Chen walked nearly 120 miles with the rest of the people.

A few people were left here to watch the horned deer, and he climbed the tree with the rest of the people.

Because the wolf skin brought a message that smoke had been found in front.

Two days later, two dozen people walked with difficulty from the trees to the place where the wolf skin had found smoke.

Standing on an extremely tall pine tree, looking into the distance, there was a river, and on both sides of the river was a snowy field without trees, which should be a grassland, or a wetland not suitable for the growth of trees.

I could only see smoke floating there, but I couldn't see the people there clearly, because it was too far away.

"Go up the tree, go in circles in the direction the sun rises, and go over there."

He led the people around the trees for a long time, and came down by a river, deliberately leaving footprints, as if these footprints suddenly appeared out of the river.

Today is the fifteenth day of the family calendar, and it is the time when there is no moon, and looking at the flickering fires in the distance at night, it seems that there are quite a lot of people.

The twenty or so men still walked in front of them in a few groups, moving forward little by little in the snow, trying to follow the ridges on both sides of the valley, preferring to go far away than walk the flat valley.

When they finally approached the tribe, it was already early in the morning of the next day, and they were now on a hill near the settlement, only a few thousand steps away from the tribe.

When they saw this settlement with their own eyes, everyone was a little panicked.

Not far from the bottom of the mountain, there are dozens of large and small houses, which look very low, a bit like the semi-underground structures that live in the villages on the lower reaches of the Grass River.

But what is even more strange is that in addition to these houses, there are some tents made of skin or bark outside, which are too far away to be seen, but it can be determined that they are not in the same style as those houses.

"Why don't they all live in the house?"

"Could it be that there was a tribe here that used to live in a house, but they killed it all?"

Chen Jian guessed this possibility, and it could be seen from the distribution of those houses that the tribes that used to live here should be at least semi-sedentary tribes, and the houses were very scattered.

It's a pity that there seems to be no sense of crisis at all, or before they have time to dig a trench or tie up a wooden fence, they are exterminated.

In this cruel era, anything is possible, the destruction of a nascent civilization may only take a day, and the accumulation of a civilization out of the mountains takes decades.

After listening to Jian Chen's speculation, those few people suddenly felt cold, so many rooms, not to mention a big tribe of three or four hundred people, just gone?

"Someone's coming!"

The tanuki pointed nervously into the distance, a little flustered, and although it couldn't see clearly, it could see a large group of people walking towards it.

"Will you find us?"

"No, if they find us, they'll chase us on that animal."

Jian Chen listened carefully to the movements below, and made sure that there were no wolves or dogs, so he was relieved. As long as there are no wolves or dogs, you are safe in the mountains for the time being.

When those people approached, Jian Chen found that there were quite a few people, both men and women, young and old, judging from their height, but unfortunately they couldn't see their faces clearly.

Not far from the bottom of the mountain there were several huge stones, with a lot of fur and animal tails tied to them, and the whole stone was dyed dark red, I don't know if it was blood or ochre.

The stone is clearly artificial, not natural. A feldspar lay horizontally on top of two large stones, and there were remnants of plant ash nearby.

Several men carried a man, probably someone from the tribe who died.