Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 103: Re-examination (5) Development and Construction
After having the hunting net, although the hunting of the tribe did not have an immediate effect, the harvest increased a lot, and every day was better than a day, and the warriors could also fill their stomachs and have extra flesh and blood to cultivate.
But instead of declining, the number of fish caught by the tribe is gradually rising, and the gathering and hunting teams go out early and return late every day, bringing back a large amount of food, which is spread out to dry and stored.
Sometimes, they even went back and forth several times, carrying the fruit full of the basket and pouring it on a higher place in the depths of the cave, where it was specially used to store food, and then hurried to continue to go out with the empty basket on his back.
It wasn't until Yeyang stood under the big tree at the entrance of the cave, looked at the rapidly yellowing jungle in the distance, and felt the oncoming cold wind, that he reacted, the dry season was at the end, and the cold season was coming, and he had been here for half a year.
In the cold season, the snow covers the sky, everything is dead, there is no fruit to pick, the prey in the jungle is hidden, and only the hungry predators, hunting and gathering teams will not go out in the cold season.
In the cold season in my memory, the tribesmen huddled in caves, like animals hibernating, reducing food consumption, enduring hunger and cold, rarely getting up and moving, this year there is enough food, maybe it will be better.
Looking at the naked children who stood in the cold wind with their bodies in their arms, shivering, he remembered that in the cold season, there were often people who could not bear the hunger and cold, and died in their sleep, which became the ration of the tribe.
I don't like it, but I just think it's a waste, how many people are there in a tribe? How many people will die in a winter? The population of the tribe is the foundation for him to complete his task, and he will definitely not let such a thing happen again.
So he thought of the large pile of untreated hides on the big rocks in the cave, and called the half-grown boys who were playing, and brought out the hides, and made them for simple tanning and processing, and prepared to make clothes.
The animal skin clothes worn by the high-level of the tribe are directly wrapped around the waist of the animal skin, and there is no treatment at all, and the others are even wrapped in grass skirts, which is no different from being naked, how can there be any cold resistance?
There are many prey hunted, and there are many animal skins left, and if these animal skins are not used, they can only be put to mold and rot, polluting the living environment, but it is better to take them out directly and make clothes to keep the people warm.
Yeyang taught the boys and girls to use roughly polished stones to remove the residual flesh and grease on the surface of the hides, dispose of them, and use large clay jars to fill them with burned plant ash.
Then pour in warm boiling water, stir evenly, put the treated animal skins into the turbid water, stir and beat vigorously with wooden sticks, soak for a few days, take them out to clean, dry, and become a good leather.
After tanning, the fur has become much softer, and there is not much smell left, if there is alum, the effect is much better, but unfortunately he can't find it for the time being, so he can only use plant ash to settle down.
Fur shorts, fur shorts, Yeyang is often made, not hand-born, to make gowns and trousers, can also touch the bypass, but there is no strength, tools and materials are insufficient, it seems a little troublesome.
He asked the leader for the tusks of a tiger, and after grinding it for half a month, he sharpened it into a rough bone needle, made thread from the original plant fibers, and cut the animal skin with sharp stones, and began to sew clothes.
A few ingenious girls quickly learned to make it, and they learned it well, and after a while they became familiar with it, they turned out to be better than him, which really embarrassed Yeyang, and handed over the sewing work to them.
Let those young men who are not bright and have no strength to tann and process animal skins, and those who are a little careful and have some strength will grind a few more bone needles, and in the case of only one bone needle, the efficiency is pitiful.
These boys were not light or heavy, and the pottery jars were broken several times, but fortunately, Yeyang prepared in advance, and refined new pottery, specially thickened the bottom and wall of the jar, and the damage was quickly reduced.
New bone needles are grinding out one after another, not necessarily very convenient, barely usable, the rush of clothing is on the agenda, before the cold season comes, the men, women and children of the tribe basically get rid of the state of nakedness.
Everyone put on new clothes, at the beginning, there were some people who felt uncomfortable, put it away, and soon the temperature plummeted, and the cold season came, only to realize the benefits of clothes, and they couldn't put it down.
The only thing that is a little unhappy is the leader of the tribe, and a few high-level people, everyone used to wear grass skirts, and we wore animal skins, which made it easy to highlight our identity, but now we are all wearing animal skins, how to see the high and low.
Fortunately, Yeyang prepared in advance, took out a few pieces of clothes and pants woven from fibers, and handed them over, the fibers of plant rhizomes are tough and soft, and the woven clothes are not only beautiful and comfortable, but also have no low defense.
Although it is not as good as silk, it is much better than the surrounding animal skins, but the raw materials are limited, coupled with the high technology, the brains of the tribesmen cannot be understood for the time being, and they can't learn it for a few days after teaching a few girls.
Several pieces of fiber clothes and pants, all made by himself, could not be popularized for the time being, several high-level officials laughed, very satisfied, the leader was still unhappy, feeling that the clothes were edgeless, not mighty, not domineering.
Yeyang had no choice but to take out the saber-toothed tiger coat he had prepared for him and hand it to him, and the leader smiled happily and gave him a bamboo tube of brute blood.
Quietly, the cold season is quietly coming, after a night of heavy snowfall, the cold between heaven and earth is pressing, cold and frightened, even if wrapped in animal skin clothes and pants, I also feel the heartfelt cold, and I can't help but approach the fire pond.
The whole primeval jungle has become covered in silver, birds and beasts are hidden, there is a white scene everywhere, and the grassland under the mountain has also become a thick snow, boundless, stepping on it, I don't know how deep I can sink into.
The snow was blowing one after another, Yeyang sat on the edge of the cave, reached out to catch the snowflakes, the snowflakes melted in the palms, the biting cold, invaded the internal organs, it felt extremely real, not like the environment at all.
He even wondered sometimes whether it was Yeyang who participated in the assessment, entered the phantom array, and came to this continent, or whether "Fire" dreamed of the Nine Realms when he was sleeping, and became the Earth Demon Emperor Yeyang, and he couldn't tell the difference between stupidity.
Turning his head, he shrunk his frozen hands and feet into the hide, the thick calluses on his hands and feet, rubbing against the soft fur, and thinking that it was time to make gloves and boots......
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Unconsciously, he has been here for five years, from a thin and swarthy teenager to a strong and upright young man, under the bronzed skin, the muscles are strong and the contours are clear.
Reaching a height of nearly eight feet, in the entire tribe, he was only under a few people such as the leader, due to the long-term exercise, the cultivation of Hongmeng alchemy, the abundant flesh and blood, and the blood of the brute beast from time to time.
Although he has just come of age, his strength has reached the level of a blood warrior, with a strength of three hundred catties, and among his peers, no one can match it, even among the older generations, it can be regarded as a relatively strong existence.
With the support of abundant food, the tribe entered a period of rapid development, and in five years, the original 128 people grew to nearly 180 people, and nearly 60 young children were added.
Of the more than 50 babies born newly, less than one-tenth died, and in previous years, at least sixty percent of them died, which was unimaginable, and the main reason was still attributed to the clansmen.
The tribesmen have no medical knowledge, every time a baby is born, it is rudely torn off the umbilical cord, the long umbilical cord is dragged on the ground, not bandaged or treated, fragile life, infected with bacteria and wounds, those who can live are lucky.
He taught his people how to deliver babies, wiped their bodies with boiling water, and used a clean and sharp knife to cut off the excess umbilical cord and tie the rest in knots, which greatly improved the survival rate of the baby.
In recent years, under his influence, the tribe has paid great attention to the protection of the population, and only one old man has died of old age, one pregnant woman has had a difficult birth, five babies have died of illness, one teenager has died of illness, and three prime of life have died unexpectedly.
People who starve to death and freeze to death have never appeared again, old age and death are natural phenomena, no one can stop them, there is medicine to cure sickness and death, but he can't leave the tribe, he can't find suitable medicinal materials, and it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice.
Even the three prime men who died were unlucky, encountering unrivaled beasts, one was thrown away on the spot, and two were seriously injured, even if he used boiling water to sterilize, he couldn't save their lives.
The old life grew old, and the new life grew, and from the age of fifteen to adulthood, the adults of the tribe, reached a hundred, of which the warriors reached thirty, the men forty-two, and the women fifty-three.
There are also five 60-year-olds, 26 teenagers from 10 to 15 years old, and 60 infants and toddlers under the age of 10.
It is both trouble and vitality, in another ten years, these bouncing little guys can also become the power of the tribe, and the most gratifying thing is that the new breakthrough is that the two flesh warriors have broken through, and the leader has also reached the late stage of the flesh and blood warriors.
Food storage and living conditions have become the biggest problems, and the living environment has become crowded with the increase of tribal people, and the smell is especially unbearable due to the harsh environment, especially in the summer and cold seasons.
Taking advantage of the cold season of the first year, the clansmen had nothing to do, Yeyang communicated with several high-level officials, mobilized the whole clan to level the cave, knocked down the high places, filled in the low places, and cleaned up the inside of the cave.
The rest area was divided, and the people of the sect used thatch, woven into simple mattresses, and set their own beds, divided the eating area, built several stoves, and brought large and small stones to form tables, chairs and benches.
The storage area was divided, slender bamboo poles were inserted into the rock crevices, dried meat, dried fruits, and dried fish were threaded and hung on the top, and several clay jars were placed on the ground, containing cooled drinking water and starch lumps.
The warehouse area is divided into neat and tidy places, where the tribe's wooden and stone weapons, all kinds of tools to be used, as well as animal skins, animal bones, wood, stones, firewood, thatch, ropes and other raw materials.
Work areas were divided for grinding stones, making weapons, weaving hunting nets, sewing clothes, handling hides, and preparing raw materials...... The person who carries out the miscellaneous items is used exclusively by others, and no one else can approach it casually.
Eventually, the most urgent sanitation area was divided, and rows of holes were dug out to solve the problem of feces, with a small passage leading to the outside of the cave, which he had intended to build directly on.
Unexpectedly, it was opposed by all the tribesmen, including the leader, and after thinking about it, it was clear that one was troublesome, the black light was blind, and it was inconvenient to relieve it at night, especially in winter, and it was freezing outside.
The second is dangerous, outside the cave at night, there will be no shortage of nocturnal predators. There is thatch for wiping the buttocks, bamboo poles hanging from animal skins, water tanks and clay pots, and bathing can also be solved here.
The rest area, work area, eating area, and warehouse area are all built around the fire pit, the sanitary area is at the outermost, the storage area is at the innermost, and the finished cavern is still dim, but it looks much wider and more empty.