It's getting colder, and the leaves outside are starting to turn yellow.

The hunting party is still out and about, trying to get more prey back in this last period, and although the current stock of food is more than enough for everyone to survive this winter, no one will dislike it in any era.

The gathering team was not as busy as it used to be, and now there were not many wild fruits left on the trees except for digging some kudzu roots and the like.

At least there are not many big fruits now, some of them are small fruits on the shrubs, and the amount that one person can get back is quite limited every day, so Shihua and they also control the manpower, leaving only a part outside to continue collecting, and at the same time, they also have to complete Song Xuan's task and get some more seeds back.

Although there is not much work to be done outside, there is still a shortage of people in the tribe.

Whether it is isolating the new rice fields or Song Xuan's big project to build the bridge, it will require a lot of manpower, and this period of time is also the only time that the tribe can fish this year.

If there are more people, you can get more fish to raise back, and you can rely on these fish to eat something fresh in winter.

In addition, there is a shortage of manpower for burning bricks there.

Winter is coming, and there is definitely no way to survive the winter in the current corral, if this is still the case, these animals in the tribe that come over in a winter, it is estimated that there will be no last one left.

Therefore, it is necessary to build a suitable rabbit hutch for the rabbits with bricks, the form of the rabbit hutch is very different from that of other animals, and the other animals in the tribe are collectively 'imprisoned' together, so it is very convenient to build.

It is good to build a big house for them according to the standard of human habitation, one is not enough, then two, as long as it can block the cold wind, so that the snow cannot be crushed, and then put more thatch, animal skins and other warm things in the house, it should not be too difficult for them to survive the winter.

Rabbits are more difficult to serve, mainly because they are too small, the largest is only two or three pounds, and it is certainly not easy to raise a nest together for a long time, although it looks cute and lovely, but the character is not very gentle, but very irritable, and fights are also common.

Usually have their own nest, can be like this, if this is crowded together in winter, the consequences will definitely be unimaginable.

Of course, the main reason is that the current small dormitory has reached his loading deadline, although it has been expanded many times, but the single-story small cage is too much space, and the tribe now has more than two hundred rabbits, even big and small, and this still eats a lot.

The taste of the rabbit is still quite good, usually Song Xuan will also use them to fight the tooth sacrifice, and most of the business brought back now is processed, especially when the weather is warm some time ago, if you don't marinate and smoke it a little, it will soon be bad, so unless you encounter it temporarily on the way back, otherwise the general taste will not be particularly delicious.

Occasionally, Song Xuan was greedy, so he would get a few of them and slaughter them, anyway, they were born quickly, every litter in a month or two, and the speed was simply explosive.

Song Xuan had seen the appearance of a rabbit hutch from a distance before, but it was a wall, and then a small grid was divided, and the rabbits were directly placed in it, this kind of rabbit hutch was relatively high, and it should be that each rabbit or several were placed in a separate grid.

The most important thing is that the rabbit raised in this way tastes very ordinary, after all, after being held for a long time, the taste of the meat is naturally average, especially compared with this wild in the tribe, the gap is even greater.

In addition to resting, the rabbits in the tribe are still able to jump around in the enclosures that are encircled, and even if there are occasional fights, the most they can do is to pull them apart, without thinking about locking them all up, and if they are locked up, they will lose enough activity, and the meat will not be enough.

Anyway, these rabbits will not be eaten as a staple food, so you still have to take care of the taste, especially most of the time, he is the easiest to obtain fresh meat in the tribe, and there is no need for the current tribe to reduce the grade of food in order to pursue breeding efficiency, this breeding method obviously does not meet the needs of the tribe.

Now the amount of movement of various animals in the tribe can be said to be quite sufficient, especially after finding a small pasture downstream, although it is not very large, but it is still possible to meet the occasional consumption of these ten or twenty livestock.

Shi Yan and Shui Wu will pull out the cattle in the tribe every day or two to "loot", before only the family of the cow and the deer uncle could do it, but now a sheep has been selected from the flock, relying on its big enough charm to conquer other sheep, and has been kept in captivity for a long time, and is also used to this kind of life, so now they can also directly pull it out and let them eat grass on their own.

Needless to say, Uncle Deer's family has basically not closed the deer pen much, even if the fence is occasionally closed, they can directly push it open inside, they are also the most worry-free, no need to care about Shi Yan and Shui Wu, they will run out to eat when they are hungry, and occasionally be lazy, so they will directly eat the forage prepared in the deer pen.

So what the two of them need to take care of is the cow and the sheep, and the cow is also very obedient, although the superstar looks very huge, but the personality is relatively docile, and Song Xuan judged that these two cows should be buffaloes, after all, they like to play in the water very much, and they often soak in the river after eating grass.

The sheep only need to lead the head, and the other sheep behind the sheep will naturally follow, and some stakes are erected around the small pasture, and they will not run around, so although there are only two of them, and they are relatively old, they are not tired of taking care of so many livestock, and they can just move back after they are full.

The two also told Song Xuan that they need to increase the area of the grassland next year, and the current small piece is still naturally formed, which is enough for everyone to eat occasionally, and when they don't usually come out, they still have to rely on them to go to other places to find grass back.

But this is also in Song Xuan's plan, they like to eat this kind of grass also has seeds, as long as there are seeds, then it is easy to do, this year has also collected a lot, next year they will plant an acre and a half acre, enough for them to eat all-you-can-eat.

Although there were enough stones and bricks burned, it was all prepared by Song Xuan for building a house in the future, and at this time he had a new idea, and the time and manpower were enough, so it was better to re-burn it.

The work of firing pottery is mainly the manpower on Teng Snake's side, although Shui Yun and they have integrated quite well, and there is no big problem with the usual communication, and the general meaning can be directly expressed, but Song Xuan and Shi Meng always feel that there are so many people who don't particularly want to live in the Teng Snake Tribe, and it is estimated that they still have a little bit of thoughts about the Black Water Tribe.

Song Xuan is not easy to ask about this kind of thing, so he can only secretly keep it in his heart, and usually observe and observe, so he will basically pay attention to this kind of particularly important work.

However, pottery and porcelain were used to help him in firing and billeting, and the rest of the people were to help dig up the clay and then reconcile it according to the requirements of the stone.

It's not very difficult to live, and now there are things in the kiln area, so you don't have to worry too much.

For the new rabbit house Song Xuan, there are still ideas, if the rabbit house is still a separate layer like now, it will be more wasteful, these animals must be kept in the tribe, and Song Xuan is not at ease when placed outside.

But at present, there is not much space left in the tribe, especially after the two constructions after the arrival of the captives and the water clouds, the remaining space is quite limited.

There is only such a big place in the tribe, naturally it is possible to save it, although the Teng Snake Tribe will definitely expand again in the future, and it should be next year in Song Xuan's plan, but there is still no construction now, so the province still has to be saved, and it is not suitable to let a rabbit house occupy too large a place.

And considering that the rabbits still have time to breed, they have to leave some room for free.

Song Xuan thought about it, or decided to make a three-story rabbit hutch first, anyway, the height of a grid does not need to be very high, twenty or thirty centimeters is enough for them to drill, the third layer is at most one meter, as long as this height is done with a gentle slope, it should not be a big problem for rabbits to enter and exit, the size of each grid Song Chen wants is half a meter wide, sixty or seventy centimeters deep.

This size rabbit family is enough, although it may not be as comfortable as letting them dig their own holes, but at least there is no big problem in living, Song Xuan doesn't want to make them a little deeper, but if it is too deep, it will not be so easy to catch it when the time comes, this level is basically the length of the arm, and when you want to eat, you can just reach out inside.

However, in this way, the current bricks in the tribe are not very suitable, since they are stacked in several layers, then the brick slab in the middle must be strong enough, and the existing bricks in the tribe do not meet the requirements, so it seems that a separate batch of bricks must be customized.

Since it is to be customized, then a direct board is a good one, and it is easy to do this, this requirement is not difficult for the stone, it is just a larger burner, although the bricks proposed by Song Xuan are relatively large, but according to the current capacity of the pottery kiln, more than ten or twenty pieces can be burned at a time, and the bricks needed for fifty or sixty rabbit houses can be burned in a few days.

Song Xuan's tentative goal is ninety-nine, that is, thirty-three small grids in each row, of course, at the beginning, he must have thought of a hundred, but if there are three layers, one hundred can't be removed, in order to be neat, it will be ninety-nine, anyway, the meaning of ninety-nine is not bad.

Since the new rabbit hutch should not cover too much area, Song Xuan planned to build it directly on the dirt slope next to the cave, with his back to the hillside, which was also more secure.