Stood up and staggered back to his cabin. A great sense of loss enveloped the old priest Witch Walk, who felt that he had suddenly lost a lot of things, not the kind that had substance, but which was extremely precious.

The noise and laughter crept into his ears like winged elves, and the old priest flicked helplessly with his stick the ashes of the fire. After living in Panshizhai for many years, he has long forgotten that he is a nobleman. has a surname, or a witch practitioner, but never puts a shelf in front of people to use privileges...... Many times, the villagers also forget about this.

Fu Song's death was a great stimulus to Wu Xing. He didn't like Fu Song, and his reckless approach of disregarding the whole for the sake of personal interests was destined to go too far. But no matter what, Fu Song is the leader of this village after all.

Tianhao went to Black Horn City again, and he actually brought back a letter of appointment from the leader signed by the patriarch. There is a new brand on the left arm, which is slightly smaller than the previous "Hundred Human Heads" brand, and the pattern is a bull's head with simple strokes. With these two things, no one would question the identity of the leader of his stockade.

Wu Xing just felt that Fu Song's sin was not to death. There are many ways to deal with him, you can arrest and imprison him, you can arrest people and send them to the clan city to ask the patriarch to send him down, and you can also mobilize the villagers to carry out public elections and elect Tianhao, the new leader...... But he took the most radical approach.

There was a knock on the door outside, a familiar rhythm. The old priest was silent for a few seconds, sighed secretly, and waved his hand to his son, who was standing nearby. Wu Ji walked over and opened the door, only to see Tianhao and Tianmad carrying a huge black wolf, sending it directly into the house and placing it in front of the old priest.

Tianhao's expression was very solemn, he put the wolf corpse on the floor horizontally, knelt down in a standard sacrificial movement, palms of his hands down, fingertips closed, and his forehead touched the surface of the back of his hand when his head slowly fell towards the old priest.

This shows that the black wolf in front of him is a gift to himself.

Dissatisfaction and anger disappear little by little, and complex psychology with emotional elements occupies most of the thinking space. The old priest raised his wrinkled hand, and an embarrassed expression appeared on his withered and apricot-like face. He gently stroked the top of Tianhao's head who was kneeling in front of him, for a long time, and let out a long sigh.

"You're a capable and smart kid. But...... You shouldn't have killed Fu Song. ”

"He's an exception. I promise that nothing like this will never happen again. With his forehead lowered, Tianhao's voice was full of unquestionable sincerity.

It was the largest black howling wolf of all its prey, its eyes were shot by feathered arrows, the sharp arrows pierced through the brain to death, and the whole wolf skin was intact, which was indeed the best gift to the nobles.

The old priest's heart, which had been imprisoned in silence for a long time, gradually became hot.

"I heard Yonggang say, you did a good job by the sea this time, no one died, everyone lived...... I'm too old to go out with you, so I'll leave the matter of sacrifice to me!" Our village is small, and we can't afford to toss like Fusong. Forget about the past and do what you think. Remember what you said to me: keep everyone well fed and warm. ”

……

The construction of the new home is progressing steadily.

The original buildings inside the Panshi Village are disorganized, and all the wooden houses are located in a disorderly manner, except for the central plaza and the common warehouse. Tianhao led people to sprinkle white lines on the ground with lime, and the position 50 meters outside the wall was designated as a new residential area. Twenty new stone houses began to be built on this basis. The villagers find it difficult to understand that the houses built here are not protected by the walls, and in the winter, they are vulnerable to wild beasts.

Tian Hao did not explain this, and he arranged for the construction of a guard tower on the outside of the new residential area. Fifteen meters high, there is a wide passage between it and the outermost edge of the new house. Even in the worst-case scenario, the occupants of the house will have enough time to escape back inside the walls and be safe, under the cover of the tower's armed personnel.

The population of Panshizhai is not large, and it is obviously impossible to build a small city with cumbersome functions at one time. The fortress was one of the finest military fortresses in Europe in ancient times. Tianhao's plan is huge, he wants to include the spring in the nearby mountain and the river in the south, and turn the rock village into an extremely strong "rock fort".

This kind of thing has to be done little by little. Military buildings have a strong block defense function. Just like a small square, with 20 to 50 people living inside each "grid", as long as a guard tower is built at the main outer point of the grid, the safety of these residents can be guaranteed to the greatest extent.

As the population increases, the number of squares will also expand. Walls and sidewalks can be used together, and the original buildings can be continuously increased, and the perimeter is surrounded by walls between the guard towers, and the control area will continue to be expanded in this way, and when the population of Panshizhai reaches several thousand, a small fortress will naturally begin to take shape.

There is a lot of engineering and mathematical calculations involved. For Tianhao, it is not a profound knowledge.

……

The grayish-white sea salt is large and looks dirty.

There is no process for the manufacture of coarse salt, and the work of boiling water in an iron pot can be done by a child. The elderly and children were not idle, as in previous years, they gathered on the seashore and kept adding firewood and water to make sure that the work of boiling salt would not be interrupted. The best hunters in the stockade are arranged on the guard tower, and if they find that the situation is not right, they will blow the horns of the bull as soon as they notice it.

Where the freshwater river connects to the sea, Tianhao led the villagers to catch a large number of trout.

This fish is somewhat different from the familiar species of civilization in memory. Sharp teeth indicate that they are more predatory, and the skin of the fish loses its phosphorescent light, and fine spikes appear on the neck and head. Usually lodging in a smooth state, it does not affect its speed in the water, and when it encounters an enemy, it immediately straightens up, which is quite similar to an angry puffer fish.

The practice of weaving fishing nets is a new skill that Tianhao has taught to the women in the village. In fact, he is also a beginner in this area, not an expert, but just well-informed. Make a simple grid pattern on the ground with a branch, gesture with your fingers, and try to explain it in words that the barbarians of this era can understand, and then pick up a few prepared hemp vines, clumsily tie them in knots in the way the grids are intertwined, and connect them...... Tianhao didn't waste much time on this work, he only made a small piece of rope net with five or six meshes. The facts proved once again that the wisdom of the people is indeed inexhaustible, and the women have a wisdom in this respect that he is ashamed of. They soon invented the method of cutting branches into shuttles and weaving them back and forth between grids with hemp vines. The rope knots are so tightly connected that even a fierce man like a madman in the stockade can't break it.

In Panshizhai, pants are a luxury. Watch as a group of sturdy women hang rope nets between several large trees, weaving them back and forth flexibly with shuttle needles.

The monsters of the sea have been killed. With nets, there are naturally fish.

The pink fish has a tight texture and is still delicious, but unfortunately there is no soy sauce...... In the civilized era, the islanders also had a unique taste for food cooking, and sashimi was carried forward in the hands of a group of lazy chefs. The poor and hungry villagers of Panshizhai did not even let go of the trout offal. Although they were eating happily, Tianhao felt sick to his stomach when he looked at his lips chewing raw fish intestines. When it comes to "eating," he prefers to spend more time with the old priests.

Cleaned fish cut into thick slices and placed on a plate, purple-black lime fruit can be substituted for lemon, sprinkled with a little powdered salt, and a little "thyme" exclusive to the barbaric era, this kind of sashimi dish looks so-so and barely passable.

As soon as the old priest tasted a piece, he fell in love with this way of eating.

My sister Tianshuang has never been resistant to food. Especially after eating the bear meat made by Tianhao for the first time, she had a deep awareness in her mind that it would never change: even if the third brother brought a plate of poop to the table, that thing must be delicious.

The villagers of Panshizhai, who are accustomed to eating animal meat all year round, suddenly find that there are other beautiful things in this world. All this was brought by the young chief: salt, beautiful and sturdy new houses, nets made of hemp and rattan, fresh and delicious fish......

What were we doing last spring?

After the planting season, as usual, everyone is organized to go up to the mountains to hunt. More than half of the people in the stockade were idle, watching the sun rise and set every day, cursing when the monster in the sea would suddenly die, and wondering if there would be a winged creature in the sky. If it was a man, I would take a bow and shoot him down, take him home, pluck out the feathers, cut them into pieces, put them in a pot and cook them...... It is said that the taste of the birdman is very good.

The trout population is quite large. The mutant ribbon fish that was killed should be an important reason for restricting the increase of marine animal populations in this area. Tianhao has measured that the sea temperature here is indeed higher than in other places, and it may be just in time for the trout migration period...... In all, in a little more than a week, people caught dozens of tons of fish from the sea.

The construction of the houses was halted, and most of the manpower was urgently transferred to boil the sea salt. Drying the fish is the most important part of all work, which is the process of disemboweling the whole fish, cutting off the head of the fish, and smearing salt grains on the surface of the fish in half. Direct exposure to the sun will only make the fish smelly, and the circulating air will evaporate the moisture in a short period of time, making the fish dry.