Chapter Twenty-Four: The Black Feather Commits
In order to take care of these dozen or so animals, Song Xuan also specially vacated a room for them, of course, this is also a temporary improvisation, and they must not be allowed to live in the house for a long time.
There is also a piece of land in the west of the tribe, which is still very good for breeding in the future, close to the river, and it is very convenient to get water.
After more than ten days of hard work, the firebreaks on both sides of the cultivated land have also been cleaned up, and when the weather is a little better, just set fire to it.
There is not a lot of rain in spring, and it will rain for a while every few days, although it is not big, but it really affects everyone's progress.
Now this rain has been falling for three days, fortunately, the rain fell on the second day after the tree was cut down, otherwise there would be a little bit of firebreak, and Song Xuan would be somewhat suffocated with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Although it was raining, Song Xuan still took people to clean up the place where the animals lived, which was actually similar to building a house, only a little lower.
Song Xuan also knows the habits of rabbits, so there are many small nests separated by stones in the rabbit house, these rabbits are carefully selected, but it is not difficult to feed, they are not picky eaters, just have any weeds.
Song Xuan handed over the task of breeding to Shi Yan, after all, there are not many of them now, and he can be busy, just get some grass every three or two days, and let them eat by themselves.
The water is also a pot each, and the rabbit normally doesn't need to drink water, but now it's just spring, and there is no tender grass, so it can only be replenished by water from the outside.
The tribe does not have a lot of experience in breeding, and everything can only be groped for.
Just when everything was going in a good direction, Shi Meng and the others brought back an uninvited guest.
"Oracle! Oracle! Chief, they're back! ”
As soon as Song Xuan lay down, he was woken up by a rush of shouting, spring is sleepy and autumn is tired, on this rainy day Song Xuan still habitually takes a nap at noon, usually no one will disturb him at this time, but today is a little abnormal.
Lifting the door curtain, Song Xuan asked:
"What's the matter, so anxious?"
"Divine envoy, the leader has captured a person, and the leader asked me to call you over to discuss!"
Hearing that Shi Meng and they could still catch people back, Song Xuan first felt that it was a black line, this hunting is really a cow, and anyone can catch it.
Before he could think about it, he was pulled by a stone and walked to the main house.
"Oracle!"
Seeing Song Xuan coming, everyone in the hunting team shouted in unison.
The group was also dusty, and some people didn't even have time to unload the prey tied to their bodies, looking at their expressions, Song Xuan felt that things didn't seem to be very wonderful.
Everyone stepped aside, and on the ground behind them lay a man who had been tied up with five flowers, and even his mouth was tightly gagged with animal skins.
Looking at the dirty animal skins and the bruises and scars on his face, he knew that this person had not been beaten.
Pointing to the captives who were still chrysalis, Song Xuan asked:
"What is this?"
"Oracle, this man is the ...... we met on the way back"
Shi Meng paused for a moment, and then continued:
"He's from the Black Feather Tribe!"
As soon as he heard about the Wuyu tribe, Song Xuan knew that something was going on, no wonder the group had a very serious expression.
The grievances between the black feather and the Teng snake are too deep, the two have reached the point of life and death, and it is not good news that people from the black feather tribe appear around the tribe.
Then Song Xuan asked about the specific situation, fortunately, this person was caught two days ago, and when the hunting team walked happily to the tribe with the prey, the sharp-eyed Shi Yu first saw a sneaky figure.
At first, everyone thought it was a bear, but they had to get a little closer to find out that it was a person, and everyone took advantage of not being found to surround it in a circle and arrest it.
As soon as he caught it, someone recognized it, and after knowing that it was from the Wuyu tribe, everyone was not polite, and beat him up frantically, but fortunately, Shi Meng stopped everyone in time, so he was not killed.
Then he took the man back to the tribe.
"Oracle, what should I do now......
Now even Shi Meng is a little flustered, the shadow left by the Black Feather Tribe is too serious, although the two sides are incompatible, but if they really want to face the Black Feather Tribe, everyone still doesn't have much confidence, after all, if there was no Song Xuan falling from the sky, the Teng Snake Tribe would have ceased to exist a long time ago.
It's really come to this point, everyone is a little overwhelmed, and Song Xuan can understand it.
The two-and-a-half-day journey, in this mountain forest, is about more than a hundred miles, except for the winding of the mountain road, this is very close to the Teng Snake Tribe.
After a moment's thought, Song Xuan asked:
"Did you ask him what he was here for?"
Shi Meng stared at the little eyes and shook his head.
Feelings are used as sandbags......
Song Xuan complained slightly, then bent down and pulled out the animal skin in this person's mouth.
"Shi Meng, you ask!"
Without waiting for Shi Meng to speak, the captives who had been holding back all the way were the first to get into trouble:
“%……@#&*……#¥#¥%”
"@#@¥, hahahaha!"
The speed of speech was too fast, and Song Xuan didn't understand a word, but he knew that it was definitely not a good word when he listened to the tone.
"The oracle, he said...... He said that the Wuyu tribe ......"
“…… The Black Feather tribe is here to find us this time! ”
Wow~
The news caused an uproar among the tribe.
The dark cloud of the Black Feather Tribe finally floated above the head of the Teng Snake again.
In order to stabilize everyone as much as possible, Song Xuan quickly made arrangements:
"Don't go out during this time, the activity is around the tribe, don't run too far!"
"Fiercely, you can ask for more news from this person's mouth."
"Alright, oracle!"
"Everyone has their weapons handy, now the others go together to reinforce the fence!"
Now I don't care about the wind and rain, the Black Feather tribe may come when, and the previous fence of the tribe is still made to defend against wild beasts.
It's not very strong, it's okay to use it to resist beasts, if you really come to get it, it's easy to turn it over, even if it's forcibly destroyed, it doesn't take much effort.
The fence can be used as a very important line of defense, and if there are too many people, it can only be relied on to defend.
Halfway through, Song Xuan said towards the stone that followed:
"Stone, you take someone to burn the projectile quickly, and burn out more batches as quickly as possible!"
"Yes, oracle!"
The pottery kilns in the tribe have not been resting since the ice and snow melted, but the things burned are varied, mainly some new things that are researched in the winter of stones, and in this gap, some projectiles will also be burned, which will be regarded as slips.
So the number is not much, most of the month, there are only three or five per person, just enough for the usual practice, now at this time, this number is a little insufficient, as the most important long-range weapon in the tribe, the slings can play a very big role in defense.
The hunting team is also unanimous about the sling, many ferocious beasts can now be hunted directly without even close contact, but the slings are not without their usefulness.
The first is that the place where it is used must be wide enough, otherwise it will not be able to be used, this condition is not easy to meet in the forest, and the second is that once it is not shot, it is not so easy for the projectile to find it back.
After all, the wild is not in the tribe, there is a large area of animal skins behind the practice, there is no such good thing in the wild, especially everyone has a lot of strength, and they can easily fly dozens of meters, and after a few hunts, the projectiles burned last winter have long been exhausted.
Fortunately, after the spring of this year, the stone took people to dig a new kiln, and the design of the new kiln should be more reasonable, and at the same time, it should be much larger.
The two kilns started at the same time, and it was not a problem to burn two or three hundred projectiles at a time, after all, the projectiles were relatively small, and they could be separated into two or three layers with pottery when burning.
After receiving Song Xuan's arrangement, Shi went to the pottery kiln non-stop, directly withdrew the fire in the furnace, and regardless of the high temperature in the furnace, he took out the unburned pottery inside.
Song Xuan said that with the fastest speed, the stone was executed very thoroughly.
Fortunately, a batch of pottery pills came out before, and now it really comes in handy, although it has not dried out, but it is almost the same at this time, the quality may be slightly worse, but it will not be too bad, at least it is used to smash a handful of people, and the stone is still very confident.
The reinforcement of the fence is not easy, and the fence of hundreds of meters has to be reinforced to the extent that the enemy cannot easily come over, and the existing rows of wood are naturally not enough.
Therefore, according to the situation, the fence has to be thickened, fortunately, there is more than one person in the previous one, and the height can be improvised.
At the same time, in order to prevent the opposite side from using fire, it must be covered with a thick layer of mud, but it is still raining, so the mud can only be transported back to the tribe first.
There is no shortage of wood in the tribe, whether it is the previous inventory or the recent cut by Song Xuan and others, it is more than enough to strengthen the fence.
All but a few babies and young children in the tribe joined in, and this was another existential crisis after the last Bewuyu crusade.
In addition to thickening the fence, Song Xuan also asked everyone to put something inside, whether it was wood or stone, which could not only be used as support, but also allow people to lean out.
In this way, whether it is a sling, a spear, or a short spear, it can come in handy, and the fence will become a simple city wall, although it is far less solid than the wall, but in this primitive era, the defense is good enough.
Although it was raining outside, it didn't seem to affect everyone's speed at all, and in half a day, a third of the fence was reinforced.
It wasn't until the sky was completely dark, everyone returned to the tribe, wiped the rain off their faces, Song Xuan hurriedly got to the fire, although he was wearing several layers of animal skins, and he also had a piece of animal skin on his head to protect himself from the rain, and the rain did not wet his body.
But now the weather is only partially wet and cold enough, and I didn't feel anything in the afternoon when I was busy nailing wood, and now when I stop, I feel the cold drilling into my body.