Chapter 44: The Cellar and the Yellow Clay

After dealing with the dead apes, although the apes felt a little sad in their hearts, they couldn't help but be overjoyed when they looked at the corpses of jackals and gray wolves on the ground, these were their prey.

When their hearts are excited, it also indicates that they will not have to worry about food for a long time to come.

Only Chen Xu, a modern person who understands the shelf life of food, understands that things are not so optimistic.

In the past, when there were not many prey, these apes could be allowed to move, and anyway, it would not take many days for the food to be completely consumed, and there was no need to worry about decay and deterioration.

But now, these 100 gray wolves, plus fifty or sixty jackals, are not a small number, and if you want to preserve these foods, you need some skills.

So, under the command of Chen Xu, the god of fire, the remaining 200 apes in the tribe began to divide and cooperate, first using sharp stone tools and bone tools to peel off the wolf skin and jackal skin, wash it with clean water by the river, and put it on the rocks near the hill to dry.

Then, the peeled prey is cut into small pieces with stone tools, and under Chen Xu's demonstration, the meat pieces are made into layers, like leaves, and placed on the exposed rocks to dry, making jerky.

It took a night's work, and when the sun rose the next day, when the branches of the forest showed their lazy appearance, all the prey was almost fiddled, and only a hundred skeletons remained.

Of course, because the tools used for cutting were too rudimentary to remove the bones cleanly, the food of the ape-men within a few days was to gnaw on the bones.

Although the bones cannot be boiled and gnawed because there is no large pot, there is too much meat left on it, so it is very good to eat after grilling.

And because the thick layer of meat has been cut off, the ripeness of the meat bones baked in this way has reached the first grade, which makes the apes eat with their mouths full of oil and excitement, in their opinion, this thing is much stronger than the previous half-baked thing.

Eating a few bones at random, filling his stomach, looking at the sun on the three poles, Chen Xu clapped his hands and shouted from the ground after being tired all night.

Yesterday, although they repelled the attack of the wolves, but also leaked the weakness of this tribe, the fence is still too low, too weak, if the number of wolves doubled yesterday, I am afraid that what awaits them will be the end of more flowering.

In addition, the pit at the main gate on the back is still too shallow, and after yesterday's war, it has been almost destroyed, and it must be rearranged.

All this requires everyone to rise up and work.

Fortunately, as long as the apes can eat and drink enough, they still have no resistance to labor, especially under the guidance of Chen Xu, a prestigious fire god, they are even more willing.

After a few breaths and a little recuperation, the renovation activity continued in full swing, and the apes cut and cut the trees, increasing the height and strength of the fence.

Under the guidance of Chen Xu, the first walled gate in history was also produced in the jungle, although it was only tied up with thick vines, but it was also a heavy wooden door.

After installing the wooden door and briefly trying a few times, Chen Xu nodded with satisfaction and let the other apes continue to be busy with other things, while he found the old ape-man.

Before this, the old ape-man was arranged by him to refine long arrows, and with the fangs and bones of these more than 100 beasts, sufficient arrowheads were guaranteed.

As a result, the old ape-man did not disappoint him, and by now, more than 200 arrows had been milled in the tribe, and as long as they were supplemented by suitable bamboo poles, they were more than 200 long arrows.

It's just that further down, it takes a lot of work, and this time the parts that are easy to make arrowheads have been removed, and the rest of the parts need to be carefully polished.

patted the old ape-man on the shoulder appreciatively, making this youthful old guy a little flattered, Chen Xu didn't delay his time any longer, and asked him to go back and continue to command the manufacture of bows and arrows.

In this jungle, the bow and arrow, as the weapon of the new generation, its sharpness was completely revealed in the battle with the wolves yesterday, if there were no bows and arrows, I am afraid that they would not even be able to block the impact of the first wave of wolves yesterday.

Therefore, Chen Xu attaches great importance to bows and arrows.

After checking the production of the bow and arrow, Chen Xu rolled his eyes, then looked at the dried meat on the big stone, walked over to test the humidity, and found that under the rich sunlight in early summer, coupled with the temperature baking on the mountain stones, these dried meat dried quickly, and at this time there was already some alkali on the surface.

"It seems to dry quickly, so that the storage time can be extended for a long time, but after drying, it should not be left outside, so as not to rot. ”

After thinking about it, Chen Xu summoned Ape Man No. 1 and asked him to find a few strong apes, take wooden shovels, and come to a high ground near the hill.

After making a gesture towards Ape Man No. 1, Chen Xu drew a circle on the ground, and then ordered the group of apes to dig down, and after a while, with the participation of more apemen, a cellar leading diagonally to the base rock of the hill appeared.

The cellar is seven or eight meters long, stretching diagonally at an angle of 45 degrees, and at the end is a hard stone wall, which is so high that even if it rains heavily, no rainwater will penetrate into it.

After the cellar was completed, Chen Xu found a stone the size of a grinding plate from the side and handed it to the apes to polish it, and after the bottom of the stone was polished, a cellar lid was completed!

A piece of animal fur was brought and put on the cellar, and then the lid was placed on the fur, so that a cellar that could store food for a long time was created in the Stone Age.

At this point, the development of the tribe is officially on the right track, and the results of yesterday's battle have been quickly digested, and now, it has been transformed into the foundation of the Vulcan tribe, although it is not of much help to the direct combat power, but in the long run, it has extremely profound significance.

Since he doesn't have to worry about food for many days in the future, Chen Xu can also allocate enough manpower to carry out some construction with his modern knowledge.

After the apes had greatly strengthened the fence, he ordered them to stop when the three poles were raised, and this matter of strengthening the fence was a relatively long-term work, not something that could be completed in a short time, so it was good to be able to spare two or three hours to build it every day.

Chen Xu gathered the ape-men and divided them into several groups, one of them continued to build bamboo spears, stone tools and other weapons under the leadership of the old ape-man, and some of them went to the surrounding jungle to pick wild fruits.

Of course, these jungles are all away from the territory of the jungle overlord, there is not much danger, and they are not far from the tribe, and the warriors of the tribe can support them at any time.

Most of the remaining ape-men were assigned by Chen Xu to cut down trees and try to clear the jungle next to the fence, so that one could obtain a lot of usable wood, and the other could expand the edge of the tribe, so that some wild beasts could not spy on the tribe in the jungle.

The most important point is that Chen Xu plans to build a low wooden house in this very suitable place for people to live!

Although there is no reinforced concrete and no building materials, if the cut and flat wood are piled up, if it is not very elegant, one or two small cabins can still be built.

However, this is not a short-term task, at this stage, all Chen Xu needs to do is to let the ape-men keep cutting down trees, pile up usable wood in the tribe, and then assign people to do simple cutting.

The reason why Chen Xu tried his best to drive away King Kong and occupy this territory is that in addition to its unique environment and abundant aquatic products, there is also the problem of clay for firing pottery.

Good clay is hard to find, but the simple river sand and the yellow mud with a strong pliable surname are more or less in the area along the edge of this small river.

After the tribe was on the right track and arranged everything, Chen Xu began to refine pottery, which was a very important part of his expansion plan, just like opium during foreign invasions in later generations, and was an excellent item to open the threshold of different tribes.

So, the two big men of Ape Man No. 1 and Captain Ape led dozens of apes in a daze, and under the leadership of Chen Xu, they went to the small river and began to dig river mud with the simple wooden shovel in their hands.

After a while, the layer of decaying mud on the riverbed faded, revealing the dark yellow mud underneath, which is one of the good materials for firing pottery, yellow mud!

With a slight light in his eyes, Chen Xu's heart was a little excited, so he shouted, ordering these apes not to be lazy, digging out all the yellow mud underneath, and instructing them to dig out the soil and send it to the tribe without any mistakes.

The bewildered apes couldn't figure out what the yellow dirt was for, and in their simple brains, it was estimated that it was useful to eat except for weapons for war, and such things seemed to them to be a complete pile of waste, but this was the order of the great god of fire, and they had to dig hard.

Half an hour later, on the rocks of the tribe, a large pool of pure yellow mud appeared, and next to the yellow mud was a group of apes like mud monkeys.

"Go cut down the trees!"

With a wave of his hand, driving away these curious apes who were constantly watching, Chen Xu took a vertical leap and came to the rock, reached out and picked up a piece of yellow clay, and twisted it carefully with his hand.

"Yes, the soil is very pure, grandma's, pottery, it's exciting to think about, anyway, I still have those eggs, and when I have pottery, my dream of eating boiled eggs will come true!"

Roaring excitedly, Chen Xu sat up with his legs down, picked up the yellow mud with both hands, and began to fabricate the utensils according to the things in his impression.

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