Chapter 62: It's Winter
"Wow, it's snowing~"
Chen Chao was still sleeping in the animal skin, when he heard the sound of Huang Yan's joy outside the house.
The fire kang under him burned so hot that it was hotter than turning on an electric blanket. The witch next to the beast skin quilt in the middle of the night did not do less, and sometimes he got up in the middle of the night to go to the toilet to take a look at the witch's side.
As for the animal skin quilt on Yuan's body, he is a strong old man, so there is no need to care~
The rest of the people still live in the cave, and in the winter the entrance to the cave is blocked with a huge rock, leaving only a small crack during the day to keep the heating and at night to seal the hole.
There are also mountains of chestnuts and timber in the cave, and a mountain of meat, but it is all dried meat. The chestnuts are resistant to storage, and the wild fruits that I have been eating before are gone.
There are also two additional grass hills, one for the rabbits in the rabbit house, and the other for the necessary materials for rubbing the straw rope. After all, there is no need to collect food now, and the women of the gathering team can start weaving straw sandals to wear in the spring.
Straw sandals are still relatively wearable. The batch I wore in the previous autumn was basically broken.
There are also more than 200 rabbits in the rabbit house as reserve food, and the previous female rabbits have bred in waves, and the number has rapidly increased from 160 to 200.
These are the winter stocks of the entire tribe, and they really have food at hand and do not panic in their hearts.
In the heart of a certain system boss: the food storage plan, achieved!
In the few remaining autumn days, Chen Chao led the entire tribe to work overtime, and finally made all the animal skins before the first snow fell, 45 giant wolf skins, 25 alpaca skins, 15 sheep skins, plus the earliest total of 70 black wolf skins, 21 big lynx skins and 37 small lynx skins.
All the stocks of animal skins are enough for everyone in the tribe to live a life of sleeping one by one.
Even the little kids and the elderly, who usually get the least resources, are no exception.
Men such as Wu and the leader Yuan also have two skins each, but they will have an extra simple animal skin clothes, as well as an extremely thick alpaca blanket, which can also be used as a coat.
Actually, this alpaca coat, it's really useless. Because now that the fire has been lit, if you sleep at night and cover another layer, it will really be hot to death.
Moreover, the little old man usually doesn't go out of the tribe much, and it is not his turn to do dirty work, tiring and physical work. usually takes his old attendant to prepare breakfast for everyone in the morning, and the chance of using it is really rare.
It was a little old man with sheep's horns at that time who fell in love with the soft touch on the llama skin, which was much more comfortable than the one on the wolfskin!
So in the end, these three alpaca coats were reduced to status symbols, and only the three highest leaders of the tribe (sensitive words) had them.
But Chen Chao really underestimated the little old man's love for the alpaca coat, as long as he went out of the house, it didn't matter if he was wearing animal skin clothes or not, the alpaca coat was put on~
Before going to bed, no matter how hot the fire pit is, put on the alpaca coat ~
Forget it, kick off the ground in the middle of the night and get dusty, don't you have to feel distressed for a long time when you get up in the morning? And in the middle of the night, I was so hot that I kicked the quilt, and if I was old enough to freeze and get sick, where to get some cold medicine and antibiotics to eat!
It's no joke to be sick now, it's a real feeling that people will die if they take a risk.
As for the set of animal skin clothes and pants inside, the problem with the pants is okay, and the jacket has something that is not easy to deal with at the collar office, but it is not a big problem.
If you feel very cold and want to go out, you can also drape or wrap the cover on your body.
The strong laborers of the Hides Brigade also had a simple suit of hides, and two skins to sleep on.
However, when I sleep, I still have to put some hay under my body, and it is still a little hard to sleep directly on the ground.
Just by allocating the eight adult men and the three highest leaders of the tribe with these, a full 70 black wolf skins and 6 alpaca skins were used.
As for some of the remaining limb skins, each person was given four limb skins as socks to wrap their feet and two simple crotch cloths.
The three supreme leaders each have 8 pieces of limb skins and 4 simple crotch cloths for easy washing.
The half-grown men of the hunting party also had two sleeping skins and a simple suit of animal skins, but their furs were made of old hides by the women of the gathering party.
They also felt that they were not as good as the new hides, so when it was not the most necessary, they also followed the women of the gathering team, wearing the hides around their bodies as skirts, and sleeping on them as shawls.
The rest of the women and old men of the gathering party were also given two skins, so 45 wolf skins and 20 lynx skins were also declared out (one of which was first given to One-Eye).
And because the little kids are small, they use lynx skins. The nine little children also used only 18 lynx skins, and if they wanted to go out of the cave on weekdays, they would also wear animal skins around their bodies like the women of the collecting team.
The skins of the heads of the hides were all separated, and the two were sewn together to make hats, and small holes were cut into stones, and then tied together with straw ropes. Although the shape is strange and even a little ugly, it doesn't matter, as long as the effect is good.
Everyone also received one, otherwise it would be very troublesome to get frostbite in the ears in the winter. Although the cloak also has a certain warmth effect, if conditions permit, it is definitely necessary to wear a hat.
So this is actually the first year that the Tianyuan tribe began to have inventory, and there were 19 alpaca skins and 15 sheep skins, 17 lynx skins, and countless animal skins on all four limbs.
A little old man with a sheep's horn tirelessly counts and counts every day, and the more he counts, the happier he becomes.
I don't know and think he has mastered the count of more than 20, although people don't know how to count more than 20, but people are not stupid, 20 or more can't count, 2 20 still can't ~
This stack is 20, that stack is 20, and this stack is 11.
As for how Wu learned to count 20 without a teacher, when his fingers were not enough, he would swing his toes, and if the four of them got together, wouldn't there be 20? ~
As for the animal skin on the limbs, the little old man waved his hand, that is a small thing, there is no need to count it, Wu I am very busy, I don't have time to count that every day~~
In the heart of a certain system boss: keep warm plan, achieve!
And then each person has a pair of hemp nests, as for pottery pots, pottery bowls, soup spoons or something, the Tianyuan tribe has already gotten the freedom of pottery, but it is not needed so much now, it is enough at present.
In winter, birds are rarely seen landing at the mouth of the cave, and the slate of the little kids is becoming useless. But they didn't manage to catch it a few times in the fall, mainly because they were so busy that when they woke up, they had to be pulled and rubbed with straw ropes, and everyone had a target, at least enough to rub as many straw ropes as the fingers and toes of their hands and feet.
Now that it's winter, the time to rub the straw rope has been moved to the afternoon and evening, and the amount of work has been greatly reduced.
Although they don't have to rub straw ropes early in the morning, these little kids still have a lot to do, such as going to the house where they live to learn the language and learn to speak.
Teaching handwriting is not realistic yet, or it is not enough to teach too much, about five words a day.
The adults also want to come together, and the old people who want to come also come. However, their learning tasks are relatively light, they do not need to learn to write, they only need to learn five sentences of daily language every day.
Every morning, they would put on their own hemp nest straw sandals, with small feet wrapped in animal skins, and walk warmly, to the power center of the Tianyuan tribe to start a day of study.
The ground is white and the wind is cold, and the snowflakes are as big as hands. As soon as Chen Chao walked out of the house, he saw this picturesque scene.
When I looked up, there was a white expanse, and I watched the snowflakes fall. He didn't believe it before, but now he does, really, the snowflakes are as big as his hands.
Today's breakfast is still fish, Chen Chao is wondering, how to eat fish recently, I saw the witch who had just finished counting the skins on the side sighed.
'Well, usually at this time, the little old man is very happy, huh? What's going on today? ’