Chapter 11: The First Change of the Tribe
On the second day of the Mid-Autumn Festival, Wang Chuan was awakened by freezing. I don't know when the bonfire in the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info extinguished, and the cold air seemed to be killed from the north into the cave at once. At the same time, his dear father was sleeping soundly with his new wife and daughter in his arms, ignoring his miserable child.
In the tribe, the sound of people sneezing can be heard. In this era of lack of medical treatment, you can't get sick, and a cold will kill you. Fortunately, the sun rose as usual, and after basking in the warm sun for a while, and doing more than ten minutes of warm-up exercises, my body finally warmed up.
The tribesmen went out to hunt, but were stopped by Wang Chuan.
With the consent of his mother, Wang Chuan divided the tribe into two groups. One group went out as usual, and one group remained in the tribe. Five or six men who stayed in the tribe went to the river to catch crocodiles, and the women kneaded ropes and nets at home, while the people at home learned from Wang Chuan how to lay a sleeve and make traps. The two groups switched the next day. Everyone who tries to make it out of the tribe will lay a trap and cast a net. There should be at least one for every two people to have such a thing, and the work of weaving nets is a bit too much for children only.
After the baptism of two crocodiles, the people in the tribe finally knew the importance of making traps under the trap. Fighting for the net when they go out can also show that they know what the net is for. Therefore, there is no objection to Wang Chuan's suggestion.
The children's main job has also changed. In addition to going out in the morning, noon and evening to set up a set of bird squirrels, the rest of the time stays in the cave to clean up, decorate the cave, and prepare for winter.
Cleaning the cave was something that Wang Chuan had planned for a long time. I don't dare to say that Kuraku knows etiquette enough, but at least if you are well-fed, it is still necessary to make the place where you live a little like a human habit.
The people of the tribe had never had enough to eat before, and they had no concept of hygiene. This makes them not put any thought into it. Therefore, the environment of the cave where the tribe lives now is dirty and messy, which can be described as unsightly. Wang Chuan stepped on in the cave more than once, and the others need not be repeated.
Moreover, this kind of cleaning also includes a sanitary rectification of the tribe by Wang Chuan. He couldn't stand it anymore when he lived in a place worse than a kennel.
At the same time, preparations for the winter are about to begin. Looking at the huge openings of the cave, Wang Chuan remembered the winter scene in the cave in previous years, and felt that he was really lucky to be alive until now.
When the cold wind blows and the snow begins to fall, the cold wind will blow into the cave like the heavy snow, and the tribesmen can only huddle into a pile on the edge of the fire to keep each other warm. At this time, it is the time when the body needs calories, but there is always only a little bit of food. The twin layers of hunger and cold, many people will wake up and find cold corpses.
Wang Chuan felt that if this year was like this again, let alone his mother, he might not be able to survive.
Tie a thin branch into a broom and sweep it from the inside out. The cave is uneven, and I usually don't think there is much dirt hidden in it, but this cleaning, not to mention the dead branches and leaves, bones, stones, and dry feces are also normal. In some of the crevices, four or five centipedes the size of a comb drilled out, and there were countless smaller ones. The rest of the rats, poisonous snakes, and spiders are actually hidden in a nest of them. Seeing that my mother, who had lived in the cave for forty years, her face turned blue.
The cave seemed to be a little brighter after being cleaned, but the fishy smell inside still lingered. Wang Chuan simply didn't do anything, asked the adults to help break a lot of bamboo, used the method of poking the big bamboo with the small bamboo to open the bamboo joints, and then connected a bamboo pipe from the upper reaches of the creek. Taking advantage of the dryness of autumn, I directly cleaned the cave inside and out.
This may be the first time in thousands of years that the cave has been washed with water, and this washing has washed out a lot of poisonous insects and poisons from the rock crevices. made Wang Chuan have the idea of living away from the cave.
After the cave was cleaned, all kinds of strange smells finally disappeared with the dissipated water vapor. Then the decoration work begins. Wet soil was brought from the creek in rattan baskets and crevices of various sizes were plugged in to prevent snakes and rats from getting in.
The few things in the cave are placed according to the area, and the various functional areas of the cave are also demarcated, which is convenient for life and can also maintain hygiene.
Firewood is placed on the left hand side of the cave entrance, and the right hand side is used for roasting and slaughtering, which is considered a kitchen. The bamboo pipe that diverted water to wash the cave was not removed, and it was reinforced with tree branches and faced a groove at the mouth of the cave, where you can drink water, bathe, and scrub your prey. You don't have to run down the rock wall and walk into the creek or don't clean it. In the past, the tribesmen rarely cleaned their prey after slaughtering, and the meat was full of stone tool scraps, which often broke many people's teeth.
Next to the kitchen is a rock wall with a variety of wooden shelves for smoked and grilled meat, where smoked and grilled jerky is hung, and it is easy to access without oil dripping everywhere.
Going inside the kitchen is the sleeping area, and all kinds of plants and grains and my mother's private collection are placed in the innermost mural area.
The decoration of the cave entrance and sleeping quarters is the focus.
Wang Chuan planned to use a thick fence made of grass and trees as a baffle to block all the entrances to the cave with interlaced canine teeth. Only the entrance and exit and the kitchen are reserved for the closed door. Although this design will still leak air, it is much stronger than the unobstructed one. The weak ventilation is just enough to change the air in the cavern and prevent everyone from being smoked to death.
At the entrance of the cave next to the firewood, there is a long stone crack more than ten centimeters wide. Wang Chuan put an extra fence around it as a baffle and decided to use it as a toilet. If you want to get up at night or don't want to go out in winter, you can solve it here, and if you go out at night in the province, you will be taken away by some animal. After dawn, the ashes from the cave were poured here to neutralize the stench.
The sleeping area still has to be reserved for a fire, but you can't barbecue meat here. Wang Chuan thought of a way to put an end to barbecue meat everywhere, and in the future, the chef fixed people, and when he ate, he would receive cooked food and eat it directly like a big canteen. It also avoids wasting food by people who don't know how to bake it. He even thought about the choice of the cook. A few women in the tribe with bellies. These people, like everyone else, have to go out to gather. If there is plenty of food, they don't have to risk it. However, this matter will have to be postponed for a few days, and we will see how the results of the trap and the killing of crocodiles can be told to my mother.
The practice of casually laying dry branches and hay as mats in the sleeping area should also be changed, these things are not warm, not to mention, and it is easy to get everywhere. There are many lichens as thick as blankets in the mountain forest. Peel off the pieces of sediment, wash them in the creek, and put them on the rocks to dry. If you spread it in a cave, you can use it as a blanket, and if you put it together, it won't be a big problem as a quilt.
This thing is thick and warm, not to mention, and it looks very pleasing to the eye and clean. Once the sleeping area is laid, the whole cave feels like a holiday villa in the future.
After the cave is cleaned and decorated, there is nothing to say about both hygiene and comfort. But to keep it that way, it is essential to change the habits of the tribesmen and make them follow a little hygiene code.
On the first day of cleaning, Wang Chuan announced several simple hygiene rules for the tribe.
First, it is forbidden to defecate in the cave. Second, spitting is not allowed, things cannot be placed indiscriminately, and prey cannot be slaughtered, roasted and eaten in the sleeping area in the future. Third, pay attention to personal hygiene, wash your feet and body frequently, and do not have lice on your body. For the above three items, the violator's meal will be halved and the cave will be cleaned once before going to bed.
Three simple rules made the tribesmen completely dumbfounded. It's one thing to be able to do it or not, and they rarely remember even the most basic things.
In order for them to remember this, Wang Chuan had to retell the story of Chang'e's flight to the moon the next night. She said that she is a good kindergarten student who does not urinate and urinate everywhere, loves to be neat, loves to be clean, washes her hands frequently, and has no lice on her body, even rabbits......
Wang Chuan hoped to make the tribesmen remember these rules through the power of example and stories, but one evening a man actually climbed up a big tree and refused to come down, thinking that he was afraid of soiling the cave. After asking, he said that he was waiting for the moon to come out. Why? said that he wanted to catch Chang'e's rabbit and used a net......
However, the tribesmen began to change their behavior when they saw the caves that were changing day by day. With toilets, defecation and defecation are rarely done in the open. Once you know which side is the kitchen, you won't move your bloody prey into the cave. When the sleeping area was decorated, they also knew that they had mud on their feet and did not dare to step on the lichen......
Children are still the fastest at accepting new things. The tribe is what they clean and decorate, and they also know best how to cherish the fruits of their labor. And after being fooled by Wang Chuan for a few words, he can also say a few words about the importance of hygiene habits. Therefore, many adults' hygiene habits are led by them to change. Before eating, let the adults wash their hands, take advantage of the warm weather to ask them to take a bath, get rid of lice on their bodies or something, they are stricter than the rules.
In addition, my mother is really strict and allows a few people to only eat half full, and hygiene habits have gradually become deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
Mother's support for Wang Chuan was rewarded. She was pleased with her new bed again, and sat on it up and down. Under her bed was a mattress of thin branches of hay and dried lichen. Next to it was a candied crocodile skin for her quilt. The pillows at the head of the bed are still net pillows stuffed with feathers and squirrel skin. The floor of the cave is never flat, so the bed is flat, warm and soft, and you can know how comfortable it is to sleep when you think about it.
There is a roaring fireman, maybe you can survive this winter? Grandma was looking forward to it.
There are only two such beds in the whole cave. The other is Wang Chuan's own. However, there is no crocodile skin on his bed, and the pillows are different. He used a thin net to hold a quilt made of dry lichen, and the pillow was several layers of dry lichen. These don't look as good as crocodile skin, but the warmth is not bad at all.
In the past few days, he has to keep an eye on the sanitation and rectification of the cave, and he has to teach the tribesmen the use of various traps and ropes, which is really tiring. Now that he finally felt that the place where he lived was a little decent, and that there was no longer those strange fishy smells on the tip of his nose, he just wanted to sleep well, and when he woke up tomorrow, he had to teach the idiots of the tribe.