After just one day of running-in, Shi Meng took Shui Yun and them to hunt together.

The general direction has been explained to them clearly, and the target has been simulated a few times, as for the small cooperation, it is good to run in slowly in the hunt.

Now there are more than sixty people in the hunting party, which is more than the entire population of the Teng Snake tribe when they first came.

At the same time, Shihua also took the women of the Heishui tribe out to pick wild fruits, except for a few fruits, in fact, most of the fruits were not very sweet, at least they did not bring Song Xuan the happiness of eating fruits before.

Most of the fruits have thick skins and large pits, so there aren't many parts that can be eaten, but even so, at least they can relieve the greasy feeling of eating meat every day.

Considering that there were more and more people in the tribe, Song Xuan asked Shihua to try to clean up the surroundings of the fruit trees when they went out to pick wild fruits, so as to give the fruit trees a better growth situation.

Unfortunately, no large-scale fruit groves have been found around the tribe.

Since there are no wild ones, they can only cultivate them by themselves, so Song Xuan also let them dig up the smaller trees by the way, and it is also good to enclose a piece of land around the tribe and use it specifically to plant fruit trees.

It's a good time to plant trees at this time, but in the fall, you may not be able to plant them alive.

In order to facilitate picking, the location of the fruit forest is not particularly far, just four or five hundred meters away from Teng Snake on a mountainous area.

It's still just the preliminary stage of thinking, but Song Xuan has already begun to take a few captives and start to clean up the firebreaks around the fruit forest, and when the time comes, it will be the same as making a rice field, just burn it with a fire, and planting trees doesn't have to be as troublesome as planting rice, it can be used when it is almost burned.

The rice in the tribe has been planted for two months, and even though it has rained for more than half a month, it seems that the growth is still very good, and there are no accidents.

Song Xuan's current expectation is that they can grow rice smoothly, so that with the current plan, in two or three years, Teng Snake will no longer have to use hunting as the main way to obtain food.

However, there are still many areas that need to be improved, and we still have to take it slowly step by step.

Although Shui Yun and the others joined the tribe, after the two teams left, they almost returned to their previous calm.

Song Xuan also added a rare task to himself, that is, every afternoon, he taught the children of the Blackwater Tribe for an hour or two.

These children have a relatively strong learning ability, and using them as a breakthrough can also speed up the overall learning speed of Shui Yun's Mandarin, which has been experimented on Teng Snake, and the effect is not bad.

At the same time, when they were fishing, Song Xuan also told the children of the Tengsnake tribe that as long as they had been taught, they should try to let them say it, and it was definitely not Song Xuan's ultimate goal to understand, and the most important thing was to explain it.

There are a large number of words in the original language that cannot be expressed, and the meaning can only be conveyed through pictures, although Mandarin is a big ordeal for them to learn, but it is much more convenient after learning.

Soon the first joint hunt returned to the tribe, this time it was not particularly long compared to the previous ones, only four days out, but the harvest was quite rich.

There are more than a dozen sheep alone, and seeing the sheepskin around everyone's waist, Song Xuan estimated that this was also a litter.

However, after putting down the prey, Shi Meng mysteriously came over, took a white stone from his arms, and said to Song Xuan

"Oracle, what do you see here?"

Song Xuan took the stone, although the surface was white, but as soon as he touched it, he rubbed off part of it.

Song Xuan is not an expert in ores, he looked left and right, and he didn't understand, but he always felt a little familiar, this stone was not hard, and it could easily shatter when it collided with ordinary stones.

Looking at Shi Mengshen's mysterious appearance, Song Xuan suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

I put my finger stained with white powder on my tongue and licked it, and sure enough, a bitter salty taste immediately filled my mouth.

Song Xuan looked at Shi Meng and said excitedly:

"Salt? It's salt! ”

Seeing that Song Xuan had actually researched it, Shi Meng nodded slightly disappointed, but then responded excitedly:

"Yes, oracle, it's salt!"

Immediately told the encounter of this trip, this time due to the large number of people, Shi Meng took everyone to a place that had not been deep before, and sure enough, the prey in it did not disappoint everyone, there were many large and small types.

Although it was the first time to hunt, everyone cooperated very well, and Shuiyun also brought a lot of help to everyone, and there was no jerky feeling, and they integrated very quickly.

On the third day of the hunt, Shui Yun took the lead in discovering a group of sheep on the way, and at this time, the sheep happened to have reached the mouth of a valley, so Shui Yun did not do it immediately, and immediately notified Shi Meng not far away.

The valley was completely stone-enclosed, and unusually steep, which was not common around the snakes, and when the rocks came, the sheep did not come out.

The two discussed it for a while, and after deciding to explore the situation, they caught them all in one fell swoop, but since the last time he made a fool of himself, Shi Meng is not reluctant to capture himself alive now.

Seeing that there were only two small roads around to escape, the attack began after arranging the manpower.

The valley is not long, only more than 100 meters, and after blocking the exit, Shi Meng rushed in with people.

After walking around for dozens of meters, the scenery in front of me suddenly opened up, and I saw that this group of sheep was licking the stones on the cliff wall.

Seeing Shi Meng and them rushing over, the sheep first showed not panic, but were very surprised, and then remembered to run away, but at this time, the front and back roads had been blocked by Teng Snake's people.

Now it is not so easy to escape, and soon more than a dozen sheep were all wiped out, and one failed to escape, and even two were directly caught.

It was only then that Shi Meng looked at the rocks around him, and it was a well-known thing for sheep to eat grass, but it was the first time he had seen him eat stones.

Shi Meng, who was very curious, took advantage of everyone's inattention, and also imitated the sheep to lick on the stone, which directly made him stunned on the spot.

But fortunately, he reacted quickly, and didn't even stretch out, and secretly touched a piece and brought it back to the tribe, and the hunt ended here, fortunately, he had already got enough prey, and the previously scheduled run-in was also completed very well, so it did not arouse the suspicion of others.

There is nothing wrong with being so cautious as a leader, especially since there are still quite a few captives in the team, and although they seem to be more obedient at the moment, there is still a bit of a risk in the end.

There were twelve captives who went out to hunt alone, although being able to go out hunting meant that they had gained a certain amount of trust in Teng Snake, but whether it was Song Xuan or Shi Meng, they always had a little bit of guard against them.

Like the making of bows and arrows, the making of pottery, these are all places that they can't touch.

Not to mention that this stone may be salt, after tasting the salty taste, Song Xuan has basically determined that this should be the legendary mineral salt.

And the salt content is quite good, because it is very salty.

The importance of salt in this era is self-evident, and the Wuyu tribe made a fortune from this thing, and still exploits a large number of tribes to work for him.

Teng snake even has a period of time, because of the shortage of salt and a little panic, although I don't know the principle, but everyone knows that if you don't replenish salt for a long time, your physical strength will not be as good as before.

And in this era of hunter-gatherer as the main time to make a living, the lack of power basically announced the demise of the tribe.

Fortunately, in this year's exchange conference, Teng Snake and the Wolf Tribe exchanged some, plus the previous exchange of captives by the Black Feather Tribe, which can basically meet the needs of the tribe for a year.

Because the main food was still meat, the use of salt was not as exaggerated as in Song Xuan's previous life, and only some of them needed to be put in the soup each time, so that the entire tribe could be replenished.

Although it is used less, the value of salt is indeed unusually high, a bowl of salt and a sheep, for Song Xuan, this is simply a sky-high price, obviously slaughtering himself, but before this, Teng Snake did not find relevant resources, so he could only let them slaughter.

If the rock ore discovered this time can be mined, it will solve a big problem for Teng Snake, at least in terms of main resources, Teng Snake now does not have to beg other tribes.

It is better to have a father and a mother than to have it yourself, and this kind of strategic resource is still in your own hands, which is more reassuring.

After a little deliberation, the two decided that tomorrow they would start their next hunt, and at the same time try to mine the salt ore in the valley.

After dinner, when all the captives returned to the small courtyard of the captives, Song Xuan summoned several leaders over, and there were also water clouds among them.

Salt is not a trivial matter for Teng Snake, and Song Xuan and Shi Meng alone will definitely not be able to get it, so there is no need to keep it so strict for his own people.

But Shuiyun Song Xuan also thought about it for a long time, and finally decided to let him call him over.

Although he was the first to join the tribe, if he concealed it, it would definitely not have any impact on the surface, but Song Xuan thought that Shui Yun would definitely feel a little uncomfortable at that time, and hiding it would definitely be a sign of distrust.

As long as the salt mine is mined, it will naturally not be able to hide it at that time, at most it will be half a month, Song Xuan thought about it, or told him in advance, it seems more appropriate, and at the same time, it can also win people's hearts by the way.

Sure enough, after hearing Song Xuan say that this might be a salt ore, everyone was very shocked, the two tribes had paid a considerable price for this, and they were reluctant to eat the things they hunted, and they had to exchange them for salt.

Everyone didn't need Song Xuan to say more, they knew its importance, Xiang Shuiyun looked around very nervously, and saw that there was no one around, so he was relieved.