Volume 2: The Loose World Chapter 107: Re-examination (9) Accumulation and Planting

The construction of the first house took eleven months and nearly a year to complete, and it took a lot of manpower and material resources, but thanks to his tireless guidance, several craftsmen have learned to be decent.

Towards August, more than 100 people left the cave and moved into new dormitories, much larger than expected, mainly by house, often with four or five children in a couple's home.

The tribesmen have no concept of resources, they can have as many children as they can, especially in recent years, living conditions have improved, infant mortality rates have fallen, the population has skyrocketed, and families with many children have even seven or eight children.

With the advent of houses, the tribe also had a new rule, children must live with their parents until they are ten years old, and after the age of ten, they will gather to live together, and will not move out and allocate rooms until they have a family.

Each compartment is large enough, the beds are also relatively large, there are no extra personal belongings, even if ten people live, it will not seem crowded, and it is used when sleeping at night, and it is free to move around during the day.

Adults have long been dependent on the cave, and they show all kinds of discomfort with the new house, and even if the house is assigned, they often run back to the cave to sleep on their own, but the minors are all interested.

So Yeyang discussed with the leader and made a new adjustment, only those young people and teenagers who were over ten years old and had not yet started a family were all singled out and lived in the house, and the adults were temporarily left to them, and they would be imperceptible.

Before the dry season, Yeyang took people to lay a new foundation, and after laying the foundation, it entered the busy autumn hunting, Yeyang was also busy making bows and arrows, and when the cold season came, the first batch of bows and arrows were also freshly baked.

After fixing the bow, he dissected the stout bamboo and wood, disseminated new scripts, languages, and techniques to the tribe, checked the learning of the tribesmen, and perfected the map on birch bark based on the gathering and hunting that he had been collecting and hunting for half a year.

After doing this, it was already the middle of winter, so he turned around and checked the condition of the bow body, the lacquer pattern was generally intact, only a few cracked and fell, he took the tree paint to make up for it, and waited for a few days to see that the tree paint was completely dry.

He began to wind the bow, using saber-toothed tiger tendons to check the power of the horn bow, and the arrows had already been prepared, using straight old bamboo and wood, the scissors were crushed stone tied with thin wires, and the tail of the arrow was a black finch feather bonded with fish fat glue.

Although I haven't touched the bow and arrow for many years, when I hold the bow in my hand, the familiar feeling comes back instantly, and the bow and arrow are completed in one go, and the feather arrow shuttles more than 50 zhang, shooting in the center of a big tree, and the tail of the arrow trembles......

After a simple test, the power of the bow and arrow gradually became clear, the effective range is sixty zhang, which can penetrate the flesh and blood of the beast, and within thirty zhang, it can pierce the flesh and skin of the brute beast, and the lethality is not so terrifying.

The main reason is that the materials, the six necessary raw materials, are not superb, but the effect is also amazing, and the most important thing is that even ordinary people can use it, and they can threaten warriors with bows and arrows.

However, the strength of ordinary people can only pull away most of the bow, and the most suitable is the Qi and Blood Warrior, which is just right in the early stage, barely usable in the middle stage, and chicken ribs in the later stage, but this result makes Yeyang very satisfied.

Aren't they still satisfied that ordinary people can threaten warriors with bows and arrows? Not to mention the long range of bows and arrows, and although the short wooden spears and slings he made before are very powerful, their attack range is not high.

The slings can have fifty zhang, the wooden spear is less than forty zhang, and the strength required is strong, ordinary people throw it for a while, the arm will be sore and unbearable, where is like a bow and arrow, can support long-term use.

However, the production process is also very troublesome, limited by the lack of materials, it is impossible to rush out in batches, and last year's raw season plus this year's raw season, only eight pairs of horns were traded, and eight horn bows were made.

Taking advantage of the cold winter, Yeyang organized the tribesmen, taught them the use of simple bows and arrows, picked out eight more talented ones, and handed them the bows and arrows to use.

There are six young people, a few two are in the prime of life, one old and one young are early warriors, and the others are ordinary people, and the middle and late stage blood warriors and flesh and blood warriors are not considered for the time being.

During the birth season, he followed the trading team and went to the Fire Tribe, returned with four pairs of horns, participated in the first few hunts of the birth season, and after the sacrifices, the tribesmen were busy building houses again.

After passing through the icy cave in the cold season, the tribesmen suddenly found that the houses paved with blue bricks were much more comfortable, and the small stove in the room was burned, and it was instantly warm like the birth season, so the enthusiasm for the house was high.

A few apprentices helped to watch, Yeyang was also a lot easier, and he had time to do some other things, and the construction of the upper house made him find a lot of problems, and the tribe's manpower was still too small, and it was not enough at all.

The people of the hunting team and the gathering team must not be reduced, so he put his idea on the fishing team, and the six people of the fishing team can be completely liberated and rely on the fish cage that he just remembered.

The harvest of the fish cage is certainly not as good as the fishing net, but it can save a lot of manpower, as long as the bait is put regularly every day, and it is only used for harvesting at night, he spent half a month to make twenty fish cages to replace the fishing net.

It not only liberates the fishing people, but also liberates the craftsmen who make fishing nets, the big fish in the stream, with sharp teeth, the attack power is not low, the damage rate of the fishing nets is extremely high, and new large nets are required every day.

Now that fishing has been canceled, fishing nets are naturally not needed, and there is no need to rush work every day, although the fish cages are more complex, the durability is higher, and there is no need to repair them for ten days and a half months, so that the craftsmen save a lot of effort.

However, the harvest of the fish cage was only sixty percent of the fishing net, and the food of the tribe became scarce, and Yeyang thought of the trap again, he did not dare to put it too far, for fear of being bumped into by the hunting team and injuring his own people.

So he set the trap outside the tribe, in the surrounding jungle, there were fierce beasts patrolling at night, if he could catch those guys, not only solve the food, but also reduce the potential danger of the tribe.

After the arrangement was completed, he specially told the tribesmen not to run outside, and with the fence in the way, the leader was no longer worried that it would hurt the young people, but felt that it was conducive to the safety of the tribe.

There are many nocturnal beasts in the jungle, and basically every morning when you get up, you can find a few fierce beasts, all kinds of jackals, tigers and leopards, some of them died early, and some are still struggling desperately, and they are being mended by the cheering clansmen.

The second house was completed before the dry season, and with the time it took to lay the foundation last year, it only took eight months, and the speed increased a lot, and the remaining people in the cave all moved to the new house, and the cave was completely empty.

In the cold season, Yeyang mobilized the tribesmen again, bulldozing the original layout of the cave, sealing the toilets and drainage holes, laying thick thatch on the ground, and layers of rough wooden planks to serve as a warehouse for the tribe.

The tribesmen had new dwellings, but the construction of houses did not fall, but only slowed down, and the extra tribesmen were either reclaiming the flat fields at the foot of the mountain or building simple enclosures at the bottom of the mountain.

Animal husbandry and planting can be put on the agenda, and the plants are stored in the mountaintop medicine garden, although there are no grains and grains, such as sweet potatoes, peanuts, sugar cane, gourds, powdered roots, and other foods can be planted and tried.

Powdered root is the rhizome of that plant, rich in starch, complex and tough fiber, and the night sun can't see what it is, so let's call it for the time being, powdered root has been processed and has become an important vegetarian food of the tribe.

When he was able to leave the tribe, he tried to bring back the herbivores with low attack power whenever he saw them, and also let the warriors pay attention to the cubs and try to bring them back alive.

It's a pity that the animals of the jungle, whether they eat herbs and eat meat, are wild and difficult to train, but those who have the ability to survive, after bringing them back to the tribe, they will not eat or drink, and they will be strongly vigilant against the tribesmen, and finally starve to death.

The more ignorant little beasts have not had time to wean, they can't eat grass at all, and the tribe has human milk, but even the young children don't have enough to drink, how can they feed the beasts?

Hare, lamb, piglet, chicken, fawn...... Even the little hamsters have tried a lot, and the only ones that can survive are a small lamb and two big chickens, the lambs have not grown up, and the big chickens are edible.

However, no one in the tribe will move, because the big chicken can lay eggs, and the taste of the egg is really good, and the two big chickens are the main source of arrow feathers.

In a hurry, Yeyang came to the tribe, and it has been ten years, and the remaining two houses have been built one after another, and the third house has been inhabited by most of them, plus the slaves who have been exchanged, the total population of the tribe has exceeded three hundred.

The original slaves have been integrated into the tribe and become clansmen, and there are twenty more trades later, so they can trade more, but if there are too many slaves, it is not easy to manage, and it is easy to cause unnecessary trouble.

Seventy adult men, eighty adult women, eleven old people, thirty Chinese New Year's Eve between the ages of ten and fifteen, nearly a hundred children under the age of ten, plus infants, no more than ten died during the period.

The number of tribal warriors reached sixty, and ten of them were flesh and blood warriors, and the leader was close to the peak of flesh and blood warriors, and Yeyang also went from the early stage to the middle stage of the qi and blood warriors, and his body became taller and more burly, only under the leader.

Every year, there is a fixed trade of horns, the tribe's bow and arrow has twenty, the longest range can be seventy zhang, and the archery team is specially formed by the quasi-warriors, who are responsible for guarding the tribe and guarding the safety of the tribe.

During the period, when some clansmen were collecting, their leather boots were cut by stones, bleeding nonstop, and Yeyang, who accompanied the guards, brought medicinal herbs to stop the bleeding for her, and then picked up the stone to observe, and found that it was a rare flint.

The flint is hard, not only able to rub against sparks, but also sharper than similar stones, and the stone tools made are extremely sharp, and he immediately ordered the team to look for such stones everywhere.

Soon, not far away, flint mines were discovered, and many were excavated with people, and recorded on the map, and the weapons of the tribe were updated, flint knives, flint axes, flint sickles, flint arrowheads...... Dramatically more powerful.

Ten acres of flat land under the tribe were reclaimed one after another, and sugarcane, sweet potatoes, powdered roots, gourds, peanuts, and cabbage and pumpkins were found later, and the remaining three acres were all wheat.

The discovery of wheat originated from a trade fair in a certain year's growing season, Yeyang exchanged a full ten catties of seeds from the hands of a tribe, came back to pick out full seeds, planted them in the field, and cultivated them as staple food.

In the animal cage at the foot of the mountain, there are many more breeding beasts, there are four pheasants, three females and one male, there are not many eggs, the size of a fist, the hare has a litter of more than a dozen, and even the four-toothed wild boar, there are a few small ones.

The little lamb grew into an argali, and there was an extra goat by his side, and he could not catch his kind, although it was a male and a female, and he did not know whether he could reproduce or not, and the tribe wanted stable meat, and they all counted on them.

Behind the feet of the night sun, there are also a few more howling little ones, but they are three jungle wolf cubs, the story originates from a few months ago, a group of jungle wolves, followed by the hunting team and prey, to the outside of the tribe.

Clever and stupid fellow, he lurked silently until night before attacking the tribe, but unexpectedly, outside the fence, he fell into the trap of the tribe, suffered heavy casualties, and the rest were strangled by the tribesmen.

When cleaning up the battlefield the next day, when dealing with these prey, the tribesmen found three wolf cubs not far away, and someone wanted to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but Yeyang stopped the tribesmen and left them behind.

The memories of the past gradually faded, and Yeyang's mentality gradually changed, considering the problem from the perspective of the tribe, holding the mentality of raising and trying, raising it if it was possible, and eating it if it couldn't be raised, but I didn't think that I could really feed it.