Chapter XVII
The person who can come over and be responsible for teaching will naturally not be an idiot who only knows one to ten years old, not to mention this kind of old hunter, even if the others don't know much, but counting is absolutely good, this is the knowledge that must be known when going out hunting, and the competition between the hunting team and the hunting team is also indispensable to use numbers.
Knowing that the children in the cave were almost proficient in counting from one to thirty, the old hunter was surprised and surprised, but also had a hint of joy and relief. He loved to teach, but unfortunately in the mountains, the children there didn't need him to teach.
It was rare to be interested, and the old hunter had taught him quite diligently today.
I can learn more counting, and the noisy hole is quiet, and there is no need to change people, and the cubs are listening with their ears pricked up. Shao Xuan mainly reads tribal writing, and these children learn more mathematics, and the most boring thing in the cave is probably Caesar who curls up and sleeps on a straw mat.
When the old hunter left, he hadn't taught it all the time, and he was quite reluctant, and he had come here two or three times in a winter in previous years, but now he taught it very well, even if he wanted to come a few more times, he couldn't go down the mountain every day. After thinking about it, the old hunter kept the animal skin in his hand, not the one he took out at the beginning, but a larger animal skin with more numbers and words recorded, for Shao Xuan to keep, and whoever wanted to see it would go to Shao Xuan.
The vents in the cave have been blocked with thatch, so no light comes in, and after winter, the cave is the same day and night, and it is impossible to burn a fire in the cave all day. There was firewood stored in the cave, which was carried by soldiers two days ago, but it could not afford to burn all day.
Shao Xuan looked at the fire and thought, if the cave could be brighter, it would be convenient to do anything.
Caesar lay next to Shao Xuan and nibbled on raw fish, he didn't like cooked food.
The fine teeth left over from eating the fish in the cave are not good for other tools, they are too small for them to go out hunting, and they can't use hunting tools. Shao Xuan directly made a few brushes, brushed Caesar's bristles, and combed his hair.
There are combs in the tribe, but the children in the cave are not interested in combing their hair, and the image problem is not as important as the food problem. The people of the tribe, both men and women, have long and short, and if they don't like long ones, they cut their heads short with knives, but there is no one on the side of the cave to cut off the heads of those children, and they are scattered one by one.
The slightly larger fish teeth were scrambling to make necklaces by the children in the hole.
Decorating with something more characteristic of the species, such as the horns or tusks of the prey, is a way for the tribe to show off their hunting abilities. Some warriors would give this ornament to their beloved maidens to please them, and the women would compare themselves to each other to see who was wearing a necklace, which of the bird species to which the feathers on their heads belonged to the more ferocious species, and the more powerful the prey ornament, the more envied by the tribesmen.
Naturally, children will compare with each other. Most of the necklaces worn by the children in the area near the foot of the mountain are made of the horns, teeth or bones of the prey after the elders of the family go out hunting, and many of the children in the cave have long lost their parents, and no one gives them such ornaments, and every time they go to the tribe to walk around, they are particularly envious of other children with ornaments, and often fight with other children of the tribe for this reason.
But now they can make necklaces out of the teeth of the prey they have caught, can they not be happy? Now, they have necklaces, and they don't have to wear them badly! These kids love fish so much because of the tooth necklaces.
Shao Xuan didn't grab fish teeth from them, and the bigger ones suitable for necklaces were given to other children. When he stammered to visit his sister, he carried a fish tooth with him, which was bigger than the fish teeth he had carried.
It's not easy.
When Shao Xuan was thinking about how to improve the situation in the cave, the children in the cave were not so entangled, except for sleeping every day, they only sat by the fire while eating and exchanged counting experiences. And Moore also practiced the knife every day, counting that he had already mastered, and knew more words than the other children in the cave, and every day when he lit the fire, he practiced his knife in the corner, threw a stone into the air, and then swung his knife to slash, after all, there was no night swallow here for him to practice.
After eating, the children in the cave slept one by one, and the wood in the fire was about to burn out, Shao Xuan added a piece of wood to it, and waited for the end of the wood to burn, and then took the burning wood and walked deep into the cave.
When he checked the depths of the cave that day, there was a stone room piled up with sundries, the stone room was very messy, and the stone pot used by the children in the cave was also turned out by Shao Xuan from there, except for the stone pot, Shao Xuan did not look at anything else at that time. I had nothing to do today, so I took a torch and looked at it to see if I could find something useful.
Although the vents in the sleeping area are blocked, there are still small cracks and small openings in the depths of the cave that connect to the outside, and you can feel the cold wind blowing when you continue to walk deeper.
Fortunately, the wind was not strong, and the flame only jumped a few times and would not be blown out.
Shao Xuan wrapped himself in a beast skin coat and continued to walk in according to his memory. Caesar followed closely.
There are many stone chambers in the depths of the cave, which are distributed in the form of branches, and the stone chambers that accumulate debris are the second-to-last room on the right, which is quite large.
The vents in the stone room were blocked, and Shao Xuan took a torch to look through the debris here. Some of the items have been used before, and then probably the children in the cave are too lazy to use them anymore, just waiting for the tribal food, and these tools and miscellaneous items are all piled up here and dusty
In addition to a few stone benches, there are also things that set up stone pots, and Shao Xuan is not interested.
After looking at it for a while, Shao Xuan's gaze fell on a disc, a stone disc with a flat bottom and a finger's height above the edge.
What do you do with this when you have a stone pot?
Putting the stone plate aside, he continued to look at the others, flipping through them, Shao Xuan paused, and looked back at the stone plate that was thrown aside again. He took a cursory measure with his hand, then raised his torch to see the blocked vents.
Many of the vents in the cave are relatively large, which can not only ventilate, but also transmit light.
Shao Xuan's gaze glanced back and forth between the blocked vent and the stone plate for a few times, and then picked up the stone plate and returned along the road.
He added firewood to make the fire a little hot, took snow from the thick layer of snow at the entrance of the cave and put it in the stone pot, Shao Xuan put the stone plate outside the grass curtain at the entrance of the cave, and poured the melted snow water into it. After waiting for a while, Shao Xuan went to look again, and now the water was already frozen.
The stone plate was dragged into the hole, the edge of the stone plate was burned with fire, and then the stone plate was turned upside down, and the ice cubes in the shape of a round cake were poured out.
A few children who didn't sleep looked at Shao Xuan going back and forth suspiciously, they were all curious, wrapped in blankets and too lazy to stand up for fear of the cold, they all stretched their necks to look at Shao Xuan, the fire was not lit, and they couldn't see what Shao Xuan was doing.
It was too cold to use his hands directly, Shao Xuan wrapped the ice in animal skins, stepped on a stone with the ice, and let the stammering pull out all the thatch blocking this vent.
There was nothing to block, the cold wind outside poured in, and the children in the cave were excited, and Shao Xuan, who was standing in the vent, felt even stronger, and felt that his face was wooden. Quickly join forces with the stutter and push the ice cube into the vent.
As Shao Xuan expected, the ice cube was about the same size as the vent, only a little smaller, and this point was just the right time for him to push the ice cube into the vent.
In the past, Shao Xuan didn't understand why there was a depression in the vent, but now he knows that it is used to jam the ice. There are still a little gaps, just plug them directly with thatch.
When the ice cubes were loaded, the cold wind outside did not blow in again, but the light shone into the hole through the ice. There is no blazing sun in the winter, but there is still brightness outside during the day.
In Shao Xuan's opinion, this kind of light transmittance is still not very satisfactory, and the design has many flaws, but for these children, it is already very satisfied.
One by one, they opened their mouths wide and stared at the bright vents, stunned, as if they were stupid.
It turns out that in winter, it can also be very bright.
Shao Xuan only installed one, and let others do the rest, and there were many people who volunteered this time. The people who were too lazy to get up just now came over with blankets.
instructed them to make another ice cube and install it in a vent, Shao Xuan let them continue by themselves, each child was eager to experiment with his own hands, Shao Xuan decided to come in groups, and the five of them installed one together. Where it is too high, they solve it by stacking arhats.
Shao Xuan asked them to be careful not to break when they used it, I don't know how long these stone plates have been stored here, at least they have never been used in recent years.
Seeing that there was no problem over there, Shao Xuan took the torch back to the stone room where the miscellaneous items were piled up, turned it over, and turned over to four discs, one of which was usable, and the other three were broken.
took out the second disc and made an ice cube and installed it in the vent of the stone room where the debris was kept, this time Shao Xuan could see the situation in the stone room without lighting the torch.
The children over there were busy making ice cubes, and Shao Xuan continued to flip here to see if there was anything else that could be used.
When he turned, Shao Xuan's arm brushed the stone wall, and now the stone wall is falling powder.
Shao Xuan was very puzzled, the stone walls in other places in the cave were not like this, he leaned over and took a closer look, he found that the surface of the stone wall of this stone room was covered with a layer of things, as if it had been treated with stone powder and brushed up.
He saw that some people in the tribe had used this similar method to brush wood to prevent insects and embalming, but this was only a cave, so why should such a method be used to brush the stone walls? Moreover, looking at this situation, it was old enough.
The years when it was first painted must have been tightly covered, but now it has been a long time since the tribe lived in the cave, and the powder covering the stone walls has long since become loose, and some places have begun to fall, and a lot of it can be erased with a touch of your hands.
took out a stone knife and scraped it, wiped off the stone powder on the wall, and through the light that came in, Shao Xuan saw that there were some patterns carved on the clean stone wall.
A woman holds a jar with a wide and wide diameter, but a pointed and tapered bottom, and a pattern on the jar. Shao Xuan has never seen anyone in the tribe use such a stone jar, and the people of the tribe have always paid attention to practicality, rather than exquisiteness.
Maybe the people who live in the mountains will have such a family like this. Shao Xuan thought.
In another place, the stone wall depicts a dozen warriors with bows and arrows, chasing their prey.
Shao Xuan remembered that Lang Ga told him that very few people in the tribe used bows, because there were no good materials to make bows that could withstand the strength of the totem warriors' arms, and what was made now was only used to set traps and drive prey to assist in hunting, not for totem warriors. But in these pictures carved on the stone wall, each warrior has a big bow in his hand!
Shao Xuan took the knife and planned to scrape off more stone powder to look at the other covered paintings on the stone wall, thought about it, put down the knife, Shao Xuan took water, and carefully wiped the stone wall with the animal skin dipped in water. He felt that the paintings on the stone walls of this stone chamber might tell him a lot of interesting things.
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