Chapter 11 Recording and Counting
Just as a poor person who is afraid of getting rich overnight will continue to be excited, these days, the children in the cave have been in a state of extreme excitement.
The result of the excitement is a fight.
Outside of fishing hours, fights in the cave are frequent.
In the past, it was fought to grab food, but now it is fought to protect food, and sometimes the loot is pulled back, and whoever takes the wrong fish, no matter what, fight!
Now it's not a one-on-one heads-up, after Shao Xuan instilled in them the idea that the group is another form of hunting squad, these children are now all in groups of five people together, and the fight is of course a battle between groups and teams, which is more intense than before.
Shao Xuan sat next to him and sighed, doing his own sin!
After seeing the battle between the two groups because a child dragged the wrong fish again, Shao Xuan looked at the mess in the cave, thought for a while, and set his eyes on a smooth stone wall near the entrance of the cave.
A long time ago, when the people of the tribe lived here, they polished the walls of the stone cave, and carved words on the cave wall, and then they lived with children, and there were few words added to the stone wall, even if the children in the cave were bored or whimsical to paint, they would only be depicted near the ground, and a little higher, there were only traces left by I don't know how many years ago.
Depending on the time, the way and depth of depiction are also different, some have used plant pigments to paint, and some have been carved directly with a stone knife, and many traces have been blurred and discolored, and the original appearance can not be seen clearly. It's a waste to put it there.
Shao Xuan summoned the little cubs who were too excited and energetic, and asked them to pick up stones and start polishing the cave walls.
There were some large stones in the depths of the cave, and they moved them out together, and the polishing of the high part of the cave wall needed to step on these stones, otherwise the height would not be enough.
There is something to do, these children are really a lot more settled, plus this is Shao Xuan's order, and no one objected, even if they were reluctant, they would take the stone and grind it a few times.
Because the cave wall has been polished a long time ago, now it is just the most superficial traces to be polished, after feeling about the same, Shao Xuan took the branch that was charred due to incomplete burning, stepped on the stone below, and wrote five groups on the cave wall from one to five, who the group represents, and which five people are in the second group, all tell them one by one, for the sake of insurance, Shao Xuan also wrote the names of the group members under the number code of each group.
Every once in a while, the tribe will send someone to the cave to teach these children the most basic things, such as counting, such as some commonly used words, etc., Shao Xuan knows the words here because of this, but the children in the cave are unwilling to listen to it before, and they learn very little.
The children in the cave all wore a stone plaque around their necks, and their names were on it, and even if they could not write, they could not recognize many words, but they could still recognize their names.
The name was written, the group was divided, and the fish brought back had to be written, originally Shao Xuan only wanted to write a number to record how many fish each group caught, but those children were not satisfied. Looking at the fish hanging above the cave, Shao Xuan took the charcoal branch and drew stick figures on the cave wall - abstract fish, a fish can be made with one stroke, and it can be seen that it is a fish.
Now the little cubs were finally satisfied, and asked the most numerable person in their group to verify whether the number of fish drawn by Shao Xuan on the cave wall was consistent with the number of fish hanging on him.
Each fish is just a stroke of effort, and there are only a few dozen of them together, so it doesn't take much effort, and it's idle anyway. In addition, the cave is large and the cave wall is wide enough, so it doesn't matter if you draw a thousand fish.
Where Shao Xuan painted fish, there was a vent located high on the opposite cave wall, and the sunlight would shine in during the day, shining on this cave wall, so that the calligraphy and paintings written on the cave wall could be seen clearly.
So, every day outside of fishing time, the five of them sat together in the hole and weaved straw ropes, and after a while, they looked up at the cave wall, counted the fish in their group, and then counted the fish hanging on their "turf". Because of this, the children's counting ability has skyrocketed.
In the past, people who were not willing to count with stone sticks were not willing to count, but now they don't need to be urged, and they can do it dozens of times a day, which is still rare.
"Ah Xuan, is it twelve after ten?"
"It's Eleven!"
"Oh...... Eleven, twelve, thirteenth, fourteen...... No, Ah Xuan, why is there only fourteen fish in our team? Fifteen are painted on the wall! One is missing! Who robbed us of our fish?!!" The boy and the other four in the same group were copying sticks and stones, and their eyes were gloomy and full of anger as they looked at the other children in the cave.
Shao Xuan took a deep breath and pointed to the wall with a branch: "Don't you see that the fish drawn at the front has a rough stroke? That means that you have already eaten it, and you yourself ate it last night! Do you want to spit out the contents of your stomach to confirm it? I-but-to-help-help!"
“...... It seems to be. Tilting his head and thinking about it, the evil aura on the child's body suddenly subsided, and he threw the stick, and sat down with the other four people to continue weaving straw ropes, as if what had just happened was not alive.
"Ah Xuan, I heard Uncle Ge say that tomorrow is another good weather, shall we go to the river tomorrow?" asked a child expectantly.
The other children also pricked up their ears and stared at Shao Xuan with blazing eyes, as if as long as Shao Xuan said a "no" word, they would shatter their glass hearts.
"Well, tomorrow will be business as usual. Shao Xuan walked out of the cave and looked at the sky, and said.
Now the twenty or so children in the cave are acting together, they are greedy, they want to fish on the bank of the river all day, but they also know that it is best to act with other people, and they have to do this, for the first reason - they can't get stone worms.
Shao Xuan had tried many kinds of insects that could be found in the tribe, but only the stone worm had the best fishing effect. For those who do not obey the command and act without authorization, Shao Xuan will not give them stone worms.
If you are disobedient and still want a stone worm? Okay, you can dig it yourself, without Caesar, you may not be able to dig one for half a day. Those stone insects can move much faster than earthworms in the ground, and if they can't catch them in the first place, they will return empty-handed. In the past few days, when was it not the stone worm that Caesar helped dig?
The second reason why they had to act in unison was that they couldn't get the kind of black lump that could float on the water, and to get that, they had to catch a bug that lived in the Black Swamp, but unfortunately, none of them could get close to the Black Swamp except Caesar.
Because of this, Caesar's status in the cave has also improved a lot, at least now those children look at Caesar with the eyes of food that are not the kind of red fruit and fruit, some of them have learned to please, and they have seen Caesar gnaw animal bones before, so they gave Caesar fish bones to Caesar, but unfortunately, Caesar has no interest in fish bones at all.
In any case, the relationship between these little cubs and Caesar has eased a lot, and Shao Xuan doesn't have to worry about when these little cubs will join forces to roast Caesar.
The next day, Shao Xuan was woken up by these people early and ran to the gravel field to dig stone insects. Caesar dug one, and Shao Xuan divided one to the captain appointed by each team.
A stone worm can be used two or three times, after digging it, cut it into two pieces from the middle, and in a few minutes, the two ends that are cut can move independently, from one to two, if you give a little more time, they can grow as long as before they were cut.
As soon as he was ready, Shao Xuan led the group to the bank of the river.
The soldiers in charge of guarding the river bank changed a batch, but they quickly got acquainted with Shao Xuan, in the past two days, they all watched Shao Xuan bring the children in the cave to fish, and they would give them one every day, their impression of Shao Xuan was very good, and even the children who came out of the cave also changed a lot.
When they saw the river, the little cubs couldn't hold back and rushed to hurry up and throw bait to catch fish. was suddenly stopped by Shao Xuan.
"Retreat! Stand back! Don't touch the water! Don't throw the bait yet!" Shao Xuan grabbed the child who rushed to the front and threw it back, frowning and looking at the river.
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