Chapter 15: An Autumn Rain and a Cold

In view of the fact that Huang Yan ate a roast bird alone at dinner yesterday, as soon as Chen Chao stepped out of the cave today, he found that there were all little children pulling straw ropes outside, and his two eyes were staring directly at the stone slab propped up by small sticks.

It seems that it will be difficult to hear the beautiful bird calls in the morning...

It's all "chirp.. Haw... Syllable! ”

Chen Chao looked up at the sky, the dark clouds covered the top, and there was a feeling that the wind and rain were coming.

Only the gathering team went out early in the morning, and the members of the hunting team only fished in rattan baskets by the river, all trying to gather more food before the rain.

After all, it's not a joke to feel like it's raining now, it's really careless, and you'll die.

While the members of the hunting team were fishing, Chen Chao asked them to keep the swim bladder for themselves when handling the fish, and after using the swim bladder glue well, plus the previous moa feathers, they could add a balanced tail to the spear.

If you add a rear wing, you can call it a javelin, but it is not necessary for the time being. After looking for a relatively straight wood, you can also consider making bows and arrows.

The team finally came back just in time for the rain, but the harvest was not very large, only about 5-60 pieces. Now with rattan baskets, the fruit does not have to be poured directly on the ground.

Chen Chao found that although the collection team went out with 19 people each time, the fruits collected were basically only enough for 2 per person in the tribe, and on average, only 5-6 were picked per person, and there were even fewer rattan baskets in the past, and basically each person could only get 1.

But it's normal to think about it, before the discovery of an exclusive collection site, it was similar to some large fruit forest, and every thing that humans could eat was bought at the cost of their lives.

And it's going to rain today, so I didn't go far, and it's normal for the collection team to have little harvest, but fortunately, it's close to the river, and there are enough fish to eat today.

Chen Chao, who was standing at the entrance of the cave, shuddered, it was really an autumn rain and a cold, and ten autumn rains had to wear cotton...

Not to mention wearing cotton, now everyone is basically naked, that is, after the appearance of the rattan basket, a part of the animal skin was liberated, and the adult men were wrapped in animal skins around their waists, and as for women, children and the elderly, only the witch had an animal skin.

But these hides are a bit hard to describe...

The animal skins on themselves, Yuan and Wu are better, and the animal skins on other people's bodies, because they have not been nitrated, cracked, dry, smelly, and dehaired, even if they are fresh, there is also a stinky fishy smell.

Moa only has hair to use, after the hair is removed, the skin can also be eaten, and the boar skin, it is not good to wear, it is okay to use it to make leather shoes, but now who is willing to wear animal skin on the feet.

Even if you don't get two hides in the tribe now, I'm afraid that in the winter you won't be able to spread one and cover the other, and you have to make do with hay under your body, and if you don't hurry up hunting, I'm afraid that the women and children will have to find a way to squeeze with the adult men.

Rabbit skin is not used for the time being, 10 rabbits are all killed and the skin is only enough for 1 person to cover, now there are a total of 20 rabbits in the tribe, and they are still counting on them to give birth to sons and grandchildren, it is really not possible to raise them until winter and let the whole tribe eat a meal of fresh meat.

Didn't you see a lynx last time, this thing is a lynx? The size is much larger than that of a cat, and the body length of the lynx is about 80-130CM, which can be covered by a child alone, so that 3 lynx skins can wrap an adult, if you can get a dozen, it is now more fragrant than rabbit fur and wild boar skin...

But it's a solitary animal...

But if there is a lynx in that area, then there must be a lot of lynx living in this mountain, right?

That's you!

Chen Chao said with a smile, on the golden finger!

The scenery within a radius of ten miles kept switching in Chen Chao's eyes, the rain falling from the treetops, the leaves trembling in the wind, the chestnuts that were knocked off the branches by the rain, the rabbit family huddled in the hole, and the lynx licking the fur of their mate!

Well? Chestnut?

The characteristics of the chestnut thing are quite obvious, and now it is the season of autumn ripening! But how come I never saw it in the fruit that the gathering team brought back?

And the chestnuts can be eaten raw, marking the chestnut forest, Chen Chao turned his eyes to the lynx.

Not all of them live alone, Chen Chao has seen several lynx families, but there are also those who act alone. After marking the location, a total of 10 pairs of lynx with children were found, with an average of more than 2 children, and there were about 2-30 lynx alone, but because they were too scattered, it was not cost-effective.

If you can take all the lynx in the family unit, then most of the tribe can get a skin, which is the best situation, but it's useless to think too much now, let's really get these lynx skins first.

It's just that no matter whether you can get lynx skins or not, the nitrate of the skins must be put on the agenda, after all, it is almost winter, and the skins must be made before winter.

The animal skin that has not been nitrated is uncomfortable to wear, and the second is that it is not durable, let alone in years, it will crack after not wearing it for a long time, and it will become hard.

Thinking of this, Chen Chao gestured to Wu and said, if there is grass and wood ash recently, keep it, he is useful.

Wu nodded, he picked up the cracked clay pot again, pointed to the clay embryo placed in the corner of the cave, and then pointed to the clay pot in his hand, and asked Chen Chao with a gesture, "Clay pot, rain." ”

Chen Chao thought about it and felt that what Wu wanted to ask should be whether the rain would have an impact on the production of the clay pot. He shook his head and said no.

Listening to the sound of raindrops hitting the trees and making a ticking sound, I felt that I wouldn't go out today anyway, and I should call all the children over to learn Mandarin.

Otherwise, the exchange will be even confused.

A group of children sat down beside Wu under the leadership of Huang Yan, and Chen Chao pointed to the clay pot in Wu's hand and said, "Pottery, pot, broken, it's broken." ”

Wu and the children also repeated, "Pottery, pots, broken, broken." ”

He pointed to the crack again, "Pottery, pot, broken, broken, cracked, opened." ”

"The pot, the pot, broken, broken, broken, opened."

Chen Chao pointed to the outside of the cave again, "It's raining." ”

"I, we, in, in the mountains, in the caves."

The rest of the tribe also gathered around curiously, and those who were willing to learn also followed them along, and each sentence had to be repeated an average of 3-5 times to have a correct and coherent pronunciation.