Over the next few days, with the help of the men, Gu Guo made a bow for each member of the hunt.

With the increasing number of armed bows and arrows, the food brought back by the hunting team every day also increased day by day, and almost every day they could bring back three or four hundred catties of food. In comparison, the women's harvest is a little inadequate.

The wild vegetables and fruits collected by the women led by Hongmei herself every day were less than a fraction of the men's, so they simply helped Gu Guo burn salt.

Under Gu Guo's arrangement, Hongmei and the women under her worked to weave ropes, burn pottery, burn bricks, and make salt.

Looking at the busy figures of the women, Gu Guo sighed, thinking that just a bow and arrow would change the way women in the tribe produced, and such progress was a little too fast.

Today's primitive tribes are still in a matriarchal society, and the average life expectancy of men is much lower than that of women because they need to go out to hunt. Therefore, the burden of passing on the knowledge of the tribe fell to the woman, which is the main reason why the priests passed on the women to the men.

Matrilineal societies are not matriarchal societies, where men and women are equal because they have equal responsibilities for the tribe, i.e., the same amount of food for hunting and gathering.

However, the advent of bows and arrows quickly upset this balance.

Men hunt for food several times as much as before, while women gather within a radius of several kilometres, and in the long run, the responsibilities of men and women for the tribe are unbalanced.

More responsibilities should be accompanied by more rights.

When men can support the food source and tool production of the entire tribe, the day of the arrival of a patriarchal society will not be far away. The next time equality is restored, it will be after the Industrial Revolution and the World Wars.

The trend of history cannot be changed, and the development of the productive forces is like a rolling wheel, which will only be ruthlessly run over.

But Gu Guo is from the 21st century, and from the history books, he has witnessed the blood and tears shed by women in pursuit of equality, shuttled in the roaring machinery for equality, and constantly realized self-worth in the process of industrialization for equality.

Improving women's productivity is the only way to put an end to inequality between men and women.

These days, Gu Guo not only made bows, but also repaired the stove with the help of the women, and built two large kilns, and now can produce more than a dozen clay pots every day, and the women are thinking about making bigger clay pots, so that in winter, there is no need to run to the river every day to fetch water.

Of course, the most important thing is a large net woven by everyone, which is a relatively sparse plant fiber cloth, more than 20 meters long, stacked together and needs to be carried by two people.

When Gu Guo pinched the clay pot more than half a month ago, he found that there were many fish in the river on the side, he couldn't recognize what kind of species, the fat fish were scurrying in the aquatic plants, which caused Gu Guo to drool at that time, but there were no good fishing tools, and the hit rate of the stone spear was too low, so he could only look at the fish and sigh.

But now it's not what it used to be, he Gu Guo came with a fishing net!

The women came to the river with the fiber cloth, and they guessed that Gu Guo had come to fish, because every time the priest's son made a new gadget, it was related to food. But they didn't understand what fishing had to do with the freshly woven cloth.

Gu Guo led the women to use large stones to place a figure of eight in the narrowest part of the river, the large mouth was facing upstream, and the position of the small mouth was guarded by Hongmei and his other aunt, and the two of them held a plant fiber net similar to a snakeskin bag structure on the left and right, the mesh was relatively large, and a fish as small as a finger would slip out of the mesh and not be extinct.

The rest of the people went to the upper reaches of the river, stretched out the plant fiber cloth, and more than a dozen people stood in the river, but it was not crowded.

The group walked slowly downstream, and the fish caught in the middle could not break through the barrier of the fiber net, so they could only go downstream and throw themselves into the net.

"Fish! Fish! The fish jumped! ”

Xiao Feng shouted excitedly on the riverbank.

Before the group approached the red plum area, there were already fish fluttering on the water, and this watershed, which had never been explored by humans, was producing its ointment at the fastest speed.

As the compressed waters became less and less, the surface of the river seemed to be a boiling water with the white belly of the fish, and countless fish of different species vied to escape from this airborne cage. They flapped their strong tail fins and leaped out from above the stone walls, splashing red plums.

"Fish! Fish! ”

It seemed that she was infected by Xiao Feng, Hongmei held the net pocket tightly in her hand, and she already felt the strength of the underwater fish's struggle. The surface of the water is getting more and more muddy, and the mud mixed with the river water blocks Hongmei's view, but it can't hide the heavier and heavier weight on her hands.

"There are too many fish! I can't catch it! ”

"Go and help!" Gu Guo shouted, and everyone quickened their pace.

Hongmei's face was flushed, she felt that she was about to lose her strength, a little like being tossed by men from other tribes a few years ago, she was and is happy. She seems to see her children waiting for the cooked fish in front of the clay pot, or the crowd gathered around the campfire, each holding a fish in his hand, eating and discussing their dreams.

A pair of hands stretched out from the front, skillfully tied the opening of the net pocket with a rope, and everyone took the net bag in the hands of Hongmei and dragged it to the shore.

Hongmei settled down and looked at Gu Guo's back, the slanted sun stretched his shadow long, and she could see that under the shadows of everyone, the fish were panicking in the muddy water.

"Sister, you have a good son."

Hongmei sighed and took a step to catch up with everyone.

The women threaded four or five fish together with fibre ropes, each carrying a string or two of fat fish towards the cave, and some people chatting and laughing happily about their future lives.

The men who returned from hunting gathered around, and it was the first time they had seen so many fish, Xiao Feng circled around the men, telling them about the fish that jumped up, and the lack of words caused the little girl to blush and couldn't hold back two sentences, and shouted vigorously: "The fish is jumping!" There are so many fish! ”

The people laughed and cooed in admiration from the bottom of their hearts, the priest's son was always performing miracles they could not have imagined.

Tonight, the clansmen ate fish, each of them was divided into a piece, each of them was cooked in a pile, and Hongmei cooked a pot of fish soup on the side, although the seasoning was only salt, and the soup also had the fishy smell of fish, but the clansmen were all happy after being given a bowl of fish soup per person.

Thanks to the efforts of the women, more than 40 clay pots, more than 200 clay bowls, and six clay pots have been piled up in the cave. The priest was going to exchange some of the pots and bowls at a tribal gathering in a few days. With the production capacity of more than 20 women under the leadership of Hongmei, Gu Guosuo, a tribe of more than 70 people, has basically saturated the demand for pottery.

Trade is an important way to promote regional development, but Gu Guo feels that under the current level of productivity, those bitter tribes do not have much food to exchange.

Then it can only be that the first rich will lead the latter to become rich.