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The snow fell heavily before nightfall, and looking at the goose-feathered snow, the tribesmen speculated that after this heavy snowfall, the snow would become less and less.
Since the oil for cooking now depends on the previous animal training, it has always been tight, so Li Yue did not make a lamp, and even if there is still some work to be done in the dark, he will wait for tomorrow, and let them go back to rest today.
Li Yue didn't let them monopolize the house just because they were the leader, they had to be distributed like all the clansmen, and dozens of people lived in one room. Qiao and Jiang Zi happened to be in the same house.
After dinner, the two of them found their place to live under the leadership of the tribesmen, and like most people, they also learned to gather the same tribesmen, wash their feet, wash their faces before entering the room, as soon as they entered the door, they saw that the straw mats on the ground were spread all over the room, and there was nothing else, and the quilt was impossible now, but I heard that if the cotton next year was a big success, the quilt would not be a problem.
People have no probability about the quilt, so they are very longing for Li Yue's words.
As soon as the ground is warm, the straw mat will be warm, and people will be very comfortable to sleep on, and there is a natural fragrance in it.
There is also a window in every room, and if you want to ventilate, you have to roll up the fur, because now it is coal that burns the floor heating, and burning will emit toxic gases, and the windows of each house are open, but the room is still warm.
Qiao and Jiang Zi lay down on the straw mat and chatted. For what they saw today, in addition to the initial shock, the next thing was a passionate thought. It's all about the people and the great challenges and reforms they are facing.
Whether they can take advantage of the situation to take off now depends on whether they can keep up with Li Yue's footsteps.
On the other side, Lu Ying was arranged by Lu Yin, and after dinner, she took her sister to the house and asked her to change into the clothes she had learned to make.
"Sure enough, my sister is very suitable for wearing," Lu Yin was very satisfied with her craftsmanship.
"What are you?" Now unlike her own tribe, she can wear it as much as she wants, and Lu Ying is afraid that her sister will do something that breaks the rules.
Greene knew at a glance what her sister was thinking, her sister was bold in the face of wild beasts and enemies, but always restrained in the face of her sister.
"Sister, don't worry, these are all made of materials that the garment department gives us that we don't use, if it weren't for this set of clothes, I wouldn't have been able to officially make clothes for the tribe."
"You're amazing!" After listening to Lu Ying, she was much more relieved, her sister was really the best.
"Sister, I'm so glad to have come to the Ji tribe, you see that the clothing, food, and housing here are very different, it's so big! There are a lot of things I haven't seen before, all kinds of useful and practical ones, you said that if we had these conditions earlier, we wouldn't die if we had a mother."
Lu Ying gently hugged the green. The death of the mother has always been a pain in the hearts of the two sisters, and the younger sister has been blaming herself all these years, in fact, a situation like Lu Ying's mother happens every day in the whole continent, and there is a shortage of food and no warm clothes, which is also a helpless thing.
In fact, this is also normal, everything Li Yue does today is the wisdom that tens of millions of years have gathered. Can that be said to be a success with a single thought? He is nothing more than the heir of the times.
"Although our grandmother will not be resurrected, we can make the situation of our grandmother not repeat itself to the clan"
"So we have to ......" Lu Ying's eyes burst into a firm belief and wanted to speak freely, but she was confused by a handful of hay stuffed into it.
"Sister, I'll teach you how to weave, you see that these are all woven by us in a room!" The green grass is like the hay in her hand, looking at her with pride.
"Uh...... Okay, "As for the ambitious thing, she still has to keep it in her heart."
The next morning, most of the newcomers also encountered a group toilet incident, and after explaining the reason, they honestly complied.
It had snowed all night, and the snow had stopped early in the morning, and the snow seemed to be the last struggle, and the snow piled up deep on the ground. As far as the eye could see, it was completely snowy, and the ground and roof were buried with snow.
Someone on every roof is working hard to clear the snow. The spirit shouted slogans. A scene of joy and joy that makes people forget how painful the winter used to be.
"Good morning! Thank you for your hard work," Li Yue greeted the man who was clearing the snow from the roof of the conference room.
"Worship your lord! We are unfortunate and bitter," the greeting clansmen responded with great joy.
"You all have a good rest," Li Yue poured water for himself, Shi Li and the others.
"The rest is good, this house is really suitable for the elderly and children," Jiang Zi said.
The rest of the people chimed in.
Li Yue was a little surprised, Jiang Zi was the first to speak.
"Then let's start the next work deployment, you can use the wooden board in front of you to record it" Li Yue found that although they did not have a unified text, they still had a set of their own recording methods, so they put a smooth wooden board and charcoal in front of them.
"Yesterday's departments, as the leaders, you go to study for a period of time in each place, and arrange suitable people to do it" Li Yue looked at these leaders and said seriously: "Those disabled elderly people are the same, everyone has a job that suits them, it depends on how you arrange it"
Seeing them, they didn't say anything. Li Yue didn't say much.
"The next thing you haven't been to is the salt-making place."
At this point, Li Yue paused to observe their reaction to being able to make their own salt.
"Master, it turns out that your salt is made by yourself!" Qiao thought it was the inventory brought by the Fire Tribe before. Now I tell him that he is home-grown salt, such a big base, no wonder there is salt in every meal, and there are a lot of cured meats, etc.
"Yes, but the place is far away, if you go, let the leader of Shili take you" Since it has become a family, Li Yue will not hide this matter.
"Well, it just so happens that we also wonder why our tribe's salt is more delicate, beautiful in color and better in taste, and it is an eye-opener to have time to see how it is made" Lu Ying and Qiao have different concerns, she wants to know more about how to obtain salt. The same Jiang Zi also nodded in agreement, and then said that he would go with Shi Li to take a look after arranging the things in hand.
Sure enough, the charm and weapons of salt are the focus of primitive people's attention, and Li Yue thinks that he has to take the lead in planting this piece at present.
"In addition to these, we need to go to the Bei tribe to mine coal, we need to arrange a team of people to collect as much as we do now before the beginning of spring, I know that it is more dangerous in winter now, but in the same way, we can use sleds under the effect of snow to greatly reduce physical strength, can shorten the wasted time"
"This time is a bit tight, and the manpower is really insufficient," Shi Li roughly estimated, and it was indeed a big challenge to get so much coal before the snow began to melt.
"So the four of you have to coordinate the work, and the manpower that each work department needs is also arranged, and all of this must be completed before the snow melts, and you must be skilled"
"Lord Sacrifice, I don't know what reason you emphasized before the beginning of spring?" Is there anything that must be done after the beginning of spring? Do you need all the people to do this kind of work in the winter? Lu Ying said she didn't understand.
"Because after the beginning of spring, all the staff have to open up the wasteland, we have to start planting food in a large area, this thing is the most important, we must stop other things, we want to end the picking life of relying on the sky to eat, we have to start from planting. If you want to feed your people, you have to carry the hoe in your hand, and we can already say that we can get out of the cave and now we can get rid of the hungry life."
After hearing this, they all nodded, agreeing with this plan. Li Yue's passionate goal planning has already presented a picture of a better life in their minds, and they are very supportive and understanding of the spring planting plan.
"The master is really amazing!"
"The Sacrifice Lord is far-sighted!"
"I'm not very familiar with the tribe's patrol and hunting department, you can discuss it yourself after the meeting, but I can suggest that watchtowers be built in the front and back of the tribe, and set traps in some places that are not easy to find or easy to hide."
Shi Li and the others immediately wrote down the contents. This is an important indication for the safety of the tribe.
"As for the old people and children in the tribe and the disabled, it is really inconvenient, you can teach them to weave hay mats, we will use them in all aspects in the future, and you can also make a lot of handicrafts when you find Nanzhu, and you can hand over the cotton to them after the weaving is mature."
After hearing this, except for Shi Li, the other three people all felt weird, how did they feel that the sacrifice could not see anyone idle. Make it clear that no matter who you are, you have to have a job!
In this regard, Li Yue just wants to defend himself, not that he can't see it, but that there are too many things that need to be done now, and many things that can be solved by machines in the future generations now have to be done manually, which greatly increases the workload. And they happen to be too few people!
After arranging everything roughly, it depends on how they implement and refine, and he also helps them allocate the manpower needed for each position as much as possible, and the whole thing is going on slowly.
A month passed like this, and the people who went to dig coal before setting out had successively transported the coal back, and the people who went out to hunt because three leaders had personally gone there, and made a group of wild boars, about 20 large and small, except for the smallest piglet, the others were hung on the wall and stewed in pots.
"Sacrifice to my lord, this intestine is also or?" The people in the cafeteria took over the slaughtered pigs and prepared to ask Li Yue to teach them a new method. Seeing that the internal organs they usually threw away were put away by the sacrificial adults, they asked curiously.
"Yes, yes, this is delicious, but you have to work hard to clean up the things inside, and remember to carry the feces inside to the manure pit"
Li Yue was on the other side to guide the knife change, and came over again and hurriedly ran to watch the clansmen clean up the internal organs.
"Got it," the clansmen laughed and couldn't answer.
The wild boar of this era is still particularly primitive, the two big fangs are grown outside, the head is high, the buttocks are petite, at a glance, it is good at bouncing and powerful, very aggressive, the whole body is black and bright, the fur is thicker, the muscles inside are the majority, and the fat is only there in the stomach, which is used to fry the third line just right, and when the beans are planted next year, you can make braised pork after making soybean oil.
The rest of the lean meat was cut off, all the ribs were slaughtered and stewed, and the four pig's trotters were kept for bacon.
"Sacrifice to the lord, everything is done" The clansmen brought over the cleaned internal organs, Li Yue was ready to make the pork liver, let the clansmen replenish iron, stir-fry the large intestine, and cut the rest of the heart and lungs into stewed taro.
Li Yue is going to make a whole pig feast today, the first thing is to stir-fry the third-line meat, because the pigs are more smelly now, Li Yue put a lot of wild garlic and chili spices when frying. Successfully masked the smell. None of the people who ate it knew it was wild boar.
The second is the stewed pork ribs with yam, the soft and rotten pork ribs stewed with the glutinous yam are combined, exuding a natural freshness, which is the first choice for the elderly and young children.
The second is stir-fried pork liver and stir-fried fat sausage. Two special flavors made the tribe accept the way of eating offal.
Then there is the elastic pig heart and pig lungs, and many warriors like this feeling of fresh meat and satisfy their appetite.
The whole 20 wild boars were finished in one meal, Li Yue was a little confused, and suddenly made him feel that the stored grain might not be enough to support the spring, and it was estimated that it was still far away to live a full life, and he couldn't help but have a big head.
Fortunately, when they went out to hunt, they harvested a lot every time, and judging from the grain stored by the tribe, it was still enough.
Time passed slowly, the sky was no longer white, the sun was shining through the clouds, the snow on the ground was beginning to melt, and it was time to plan a place to open up.
Knowing that there was a river not far from the tribe, Li Yue originally said that he would go to find a suitable place for the tribe to settle down.
Since he didn't change the location, Li Yue decided to set off to plan the planting site. After cleaning up the seeds in the warehouse, Li Yue went with a few clansmen to check the surrounding situation of the river.
The walk to the river took about half a day.
Along the way, there are no trees or hills except for small forests, and without large areas of mountain forests, there are no large numbers of animals, and the threat to food becomes smaller. This is a plus.
Passing through a sparse cluster of trees, I saw a 200-meter-wide ice surface, and a dense forest growing on the other side of the river. Above and below the river, there are no large hills, and the whole is relatively flat.
Li Yue dug up the snow and revealed that the soil inside was all healthy black loess with no gravel, and it seemed that this place was very suitable for planting.
It is estimated that there are 40 kilometers from here to the tribe, and if you want to open up the wasteland here, Li Yue feels that this spring ploughing may cause everyone to lose a layer of skin.
Cattle and horses are indispensable for farming, and these two are good helpers in agriculture, and some must be domesticated as well.
Li Yue thought for a while, walked to the ice, pointed to the opposite side and asked.
"Are there tribes across the river?"
"Sacrifice lords, it seems that there is not" They often go out to hunt, and they often walk this area, as if they have never seen anyone on the other side.
"Have you ever been there?
It's not that he uses small belly chicken intestines to measure others, it's just that he doesn't worry that someone will come out to make trouble.
"I went there in the year I just migrated, but then I didn't have it, and there were no mountains and forests on that side, and it was only in winter, so we didn't go there to find out."
Li Yue looked at the surface for a while, thinking about something, and suddenly saw that something seemed to be frozen on the ice, and the scene of the New Year in the Northeast flashed in his mind.
Oh, there's a lot of delicious food in the river!
Li Yue stared at the river and asked, "Do you usually eat fish?" ”
"Except for the very little food, I don't eat it at other times" is mainly because this thing is not easy to catch.
In that case, the fish must be overflowing.
Li Yue took out his knife and poked it fiercely, and the clansmen all helped when they saw it, and after a while, they made a hole about half a meter away.
"Priest-sama, what are you doing here?" Now the snow is starting to melt, but the ice is still very hard, so it feels like a lot of work to make an ice cave. The two gasped and asked.
"Wait and see, the fish will jump out, take out the hay nets you brought and put them in the fish" Li Yue crossed his arms and stared at the ice cave with burning eyes.
Several warriors looked at Li Yue, who was confident, as if they had misheard, and then looked at each other.
When do hard-to-catch fish jump out of the way? The clansmen thought it was impossible, but they thought that this was a sacrifice, so it wasn't impossible!
While everyone was waiting, after a while, a scene of black pressure appeared at the entrance of the cave, and one by one the fish mouths appeared at the entrance of the cave and breathed vigorously.
So, how did all these fish come here? The Warriors found it incredible.
After a few more minutes, a large fish jumped out of the ice cave after being squeezed, and fell on the ice and kept bouncing. In surprise, the warrior hurried to pick up the fish, and found that one after another fish had jumped out of the ice. It's like I can't wait to die.
It's the first time they've seen food delivered to their door! The Sacrifice Lady is simply amazing!
The warriors quickly picked up the fish and put them in the net, only picking up the big ones, and the small ones were not looked down upon, but the speed of picking up could not keep up with the speed of the fish jumping out.
"I can't install my net anymore, do you have any extra nets?" The net in the hands of the four warriors was no longer full. They asked their companions.
"No" came out this time, thinking about protecting the safety of the sacrifice, and didn't think about hunting, so it's good to have a net on everyone.
"There are still fish in the cave, and when we send the priest back, we will pretend again"
Food is not as important as the safety of the sacrifice. This is the main sacrifice of every warrior.
"Don't bother, just go to the woods and cut a few resilient vines through the fish plug."
As soon as they heard Li Yue's suggestion, the clansmen's eyes lit up.
"Okay, keep the sacrifice, I'll go find it," one of the warriors handed the net in his hand, handed it to one of the warriors, turned and left.
It seems that the Ji tribe's obsession with eating is not ordinary, and they also want to change their tastes, the current meats naturally have a fishy smell, Li Yue is not used to eating them, and it is also a good choice to supplement protein with fish. And the way to eat fish is also varied, and the fish everywhere is estimated to be not enough for him.
The gluttonous people cut a lot of vines and came back......
So when the four of them appeared in the tribe, they all caused exclamations.
The three warriors carried a large net of fish on their shoulders, a fish strung around their necks, and a lot of fish hanging from their hands, and the whole person was covered with fish, as if a fish had grown on a person. And these fish are also very large. I don't know how they managed to get so many fish in one trip, and these fish are harder to catch than their prey.
"Lord Priest, how did you fish come about?" The crowd surrounded them, and one by one they were either happy or confused.
"I'll tell you! I'll say it! "The warriors who hung the fish couldn't wait to share the magic catch with their people.
"This fish is a method that the priest came up with!" The clansmen looked at Li Yue one after another.
After drawing up the curiosity of the clansmen, the clansmen said: "Do you know, as long as you make a hole in the ice, those fish can't wait to jump out!" ”
"Ah! Sure enough, there are many ways to sacrifice adults! ”
"That's it, it's amazing, these things are usually hard for us to catch, now that we know this method, we can catch more fish in the future!"
"Hey, the fish is so thorny, it's not delicious~" When the people heard it, it was indeed too troublesome to eat fish.
"Harm, what are you afraid of, is there anything that is not delicious in the hands of the sacrificial lord?"
"That's right!" The clansmen all suddenly realized, and immediately looked at Li Yue with hot eyes, and then at the fish.
Yes, I'll just change my career to be a cook, Li Yue smiled dotingly.
"Go get all the rest of the fish back and make you a whole fish feast today!" Give them the hard food they get before the spring ploughing!
"Are there any more fish?" The clansmen exclaimed.
"Yes, yes, yes! There were a lot of jumps out of that hole, and we were still jumping when we walked! The warrior with the fish was excited, and he wanted to pick up the fish once and enjoy the pleasure of the prey being delivered to his door.
"Then what are you waiting for, pick up the net, let's go!" After that, they dispersed in a hurry, and everyone rushed back to get the net.
Li Yue couldn't laugh or cry when he saw it, forget it, let's get the fish up first.
There are many ways to make fish, and considering the problem of fish bones, Li Yue is ready to make a soup of soaked bamboo shoots and fish fillet.
First, remove the scales, shave off the belly meat on both sides, slice it into pieces, put it aside for later use, and put the remaining fish bones, fish heads and tails.
Boil the bamboo shoot soup until fragrant, and then put the fish fillets in and cook for 2 minutes, generally speaking, the thinness of the slices is only tens of seconds, but Li Yue is afraid that the parasites in it will not kill them, and the people will lose more than they will lose when they eat them.
Now the tribe generally learns Li Yue to drink boiled water, and slowly puts an end to the habit of drinking raw water, and gradually many old people say that their stomachs are not as painful as before.
But Li Yue is still careful that there must be a lot of worms in his stomach, and he is also actively looking for natural insecticide, but unfortunately he hasn't seen it yet, but the pumpkin seeds he collected are a bit of an insecticide, and as long as the harvest is good next year, he can eat one.
After making the soup, Li Yue checked that the steamed fish on the other side was ready, and he only needed to pour the seasoning on it before serving.
Next, take out the oil from the previous pig killing and use the oil to fry the fish bones and fish pieces, and it is very delicious when you bite into it.
It's a pity that he doesn't have extra time to build the iron plate, otherwise he will definitely get the grilled fish that he must order for the barbecue.
The fish they brought back also had thousands of catties, and Li Yue made all of them on the table, and the rest waited for the clansmen to make the rest of the fish into dried smoked fish, and also made some pickled sour fish unique to the Miao family.
Looking at these fish feasts he made, he was confident that he would make his people fall in love with eating fish!
As he expected, everyone in the tribe was not happy to eat, except for the steamed fish, which was eaten slowly, and the other fish fillets and fried fish were all snatched up.
"Since I joined the Ji tribe, I suddenly feel that this is the life of a human being" There was a half-hour break after the meal, and many clansmen chatted on the wooden benches next to the cafeteria.
"Me too, why do you say that he has so many tricks when you say that he is a priest?"
"I don't know, that's why this is a sacrifice! In the future, our tribe will definitely be stronger than those tribes in the west and north! "They've been in the tribe all their lives, and the tribe has always been the same, every day they just worry about food, nothing has changed, and they haven't gone out to contact many other tribes. I don't know anything about the outside world.
"I think we're stronger than the tribes now, at least these ways of eating and weapons, they definitely don't have houses!"
"Hey, when it comes to the house, the priest said that he said that he would build a family personal house after next year's spring ploughing, as long as he works hard, everyone can have his own house" The man yearned, thinking that he could have a house of his own, that is, he could sleep how he wanted, and he could also hold his favorite person together, how cool it was, it was not too comfortable to live with a bunch of men now!
"That's it, I haven't lived with my woman for a long time" Although the house is stronger than living in a cave, but the stinky men on the left and right sides are really uncomfortable, and the snoring at night is still bigger than the other, and one is louder than the other! That's comfortable to sleep with a woman.
"Hurry up and come in the spring—"
At the same time, in a cave not far from the Ji tribe. A tall man is feeding another man and drinking snow water. Both of them were in a state of embarrassment, and the only fur around the tall man's body was stained with blood, and his bare skin was covered with scars. The man lying on the ground was pale, with a patch of fur on his body and a long wound on one of his legs. The wound was black and red and swollen, it seemed that the wound had suppurated, and even though he was covered with a lot of fur, he was still shivering with cold.
The fire in the cave was like it was going to be extinguished.
"Master, do you still want to drink" Seeing that the man drank a leaf of water in one go, the tall man was ready to scoop the snow.
"Don't drink it, how are you going to check" Although the man with a small figure had a sickly face and a weak voice, his momentum as a superior person was still undiminished.
"Master, there are still a small number of Sanshao people over there, where are the handles, it seems that Sanshao estimates that the surrounding tribes have been gathered"
"It shouldn't be possible, according to that arrogant guy, it's impossible to keep only a few people here, what about the other tribes?" Sanshao, his younger brother is a proud, complacent, spoiled person, as long as he has something to show off, not to mention that he has conquered the tribe, he must be showing off his power when he gets it, and it is impossible to stay there at all.
"Back to the master, the surrounding tribe is very strange, many of them are empty" He walked to the fire tribe and saw the three young people, and then went to the light tribe and the bei tribe not far away, only saw the traces of the tribe's existence, and did not see people, it stands to reason that if they run away, they will also take things away, if they are caught as slaves, then they should also meet along the way.
"It's really strange, the third brother didn't leave anyone here, and the people from the original tribe disappeared again......" The man squinted his eyes and guessed the reason.
"Master, did you say something happened to the leader?"
Putting aside the anomalies here, just take Sanshao's point of view, it is estimated that only the leader can ask him to evacuate the manpower, or something urgent happened. Otherwise, they will definitely face the three less people along the way.
Moreover, they have been hunted down for half a year, and a lot of news from the west has been lost.
"No matter what happens over there, since I've been abandoned by the leader, that side has nothing to do with me anymore!" The man said irritably.
"Master—"
"Shut up!" The man interrupted him, leaning against the stone behind him and closing his eyes.
The tall man was not annoyed, and slowly came out of the cave and took a few lumps of snow and placed them among the leaves, waiting for the light of the fire to turn into water.
The person lying on the ground is the 2nd Young Chiba of the Beast Tribe, and before the battle between the leaders of the Great Young and the Third Young Leader begins, he has been hunted down by his older brother and younger brother.
Originally, he was a person with no power or wealth, and he should have little chance of winning the next leader, but the bad thing is that 2 Shao's reputation in many vassal tribes is too good, and he maintains an opposition to the slaves, and wants to free these slaves.
This behavior is completely challenging the interests of the two people behind him, not only can he not be allowed to seize power. They wanted to kill him all the time.
Finally, one day, a slave girl he liked was brutally tortured to death, and he killed the people who tortured the girl, which caused the anger of the chief, and under the bewitchment of those people, the leader sent him out of the tribe, and made him reflect on himself! In fact, he gave up as the heir.
Only then did the two of them find an opportunity to join forces to strangle him, but unfortunately they have not succeeded until now, but they also killed the loyal subordinates around him until only Huan was left.
Half a year's escape and the gradual death of his subordinates hit Chiba, so that his determination to free the slaves was a little shaken, and now his injuries are still serious, and he wants to do it and is powerless, I'm afraid that he will live up to the expectations of Huan and others.
If you can't have your own place in the west, you can only venture to the north.
After resting for the night, Chiba told Huan about his plans, and despite Huan's persuasion, he walked all the way to the Ji tribe with a foot injury.