"Huh! God's envoy, it's really good to eat! ”

"No wonder black and white...... Oh...... Pandas love to eat so much! ”

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Although everyone was a little skeptical about Song Xuan's words when digging bamboo shoots, the crisp taste in his mouth still made everyone's eyes shine.

"Divine envoy, don't you really catch it and come back and taste it, bear...... Cats are delicious! ”

Song Xuan shook his head lightly and refused before.

Shi Meng and his party were also in a hurry, and returned to the tribe in the evening, eating the bamboo shoot broth in the pot, but they were very greedy for the pandas in the bamboo forest.

After hearing that Song Xuan had been refusing to let him move, Shi Meng also came to lobby repeatedly.

However, since the divine envoy did not agree, Shi Meng naturally would not forcibly go hunting.

Compared to other beasts, pandas are relatively gentle, and although they are omnivores, they seem to prefer bamboo forests.

Shi Meng also thought about the situation when he met pandas before, most of them were around the bamboo forest, which was similar to what the divine envoy said.

Although Song Xuan didn't let them catch the panda, everyone didn't worry too much about safety, after all, under normal circumstances, pandas don't take the initiative to hurt people, and this one shouldn't have settled here for a long time.

The various beasts around the tribe had already been touched by Shi Meng, this panda obviously moved over after the beginning of spring, Song Xuan suspected that it was more likely that it knew that there was a bamboo forest here, and then took advantage of this time to come and try it.

The bamboo shoots produced by this bamboo forest can't be eaten in the tribe, so it's better to share them together.

Although the bamboo shoots were not easy to pack, the special taste still made everyone very interested, and after dinner, everyone did not disperse, they all stayed in the main house and began to peel the bamboo shoots.

After peeling the shell, they gently smash it open with a stone, and then collect it and pour it into a pot to blanch it.

Finally, it was spread on top of the hides outside, and the weather has been quite good lately, so you can take advantage of this time to dry them, and as for the fresh ones, they are available every day anyway, so you don't need to keep them.

Taking advantage of the fact that there is still a period of time before the exchange conference, Shi Meng went out with the hunting team again, and when the time comes, he has to send out more than a dozen people to participate in the exchange conference, and there are still things like looking for ore and going to the cattle tribe to pull livestock, and the manpower is not so sufficient, and everyone is also thinking of taking advantage of this time to accumulate a little more food.

The most important thing is that Song Xuan has already made an appointment in advance for a month in the tribe after the exchange conference, although he doesn't know whether it is more or less, but it is always not wrong to plan in advance.

Although the time may not be continuous, it should take continuous time to turn over this large piece of land, and it is estimated that it will take about 20 days, not to mention the rice planting in the back, which will definitely not be completed in a short time.

In fact, there is still a lot of conflict between the time of planting rice and the time when the hunting officially begins, but fortunately, the family background in the tribe last year is relatively solid, and since the beginning of spring, although there are not many people who go out, the harvest is not bad, so it can tolerate Song Xuan's arrangement, otherwise the conflict between the two will be very big.

Fortunately, what made Song Xuan a little relieved was that at least the Wuyu tribe did not come over to make trouble this spring, thinking that it was hurt by last year.

However, Song Xuan will not have any hope for it, both sides are currently in the stage of accumulating strength, at least on the Teng Snake side, as for Song Xuan on the side of the Wuyu tribe, it is unknown, but the due vigilance against it still has to be arranged.

So even though the manpower in the tribe was so tight, Song Xuan discussed it with several leaders and decided to send a few people to sentry on the road that must be passed.

The work of sentry is not tiring, most of the time is mainly staring at the same place, and the tribe will also prepare enough food for them, at least they can eat for ten days and half a month, so a few people summed it up, mainly to send people from the sheep tribe over, after all, their people are not very obvious in the tribe now, although it is not easy to go to the sentry, but in addition to going back and forth, there is no physical activity.

However, they didn't have relevant experience, so Song Xuan still picked three people from Teng Snake's side, as the leader, one person would definitely not be able to sentry, and his energy would not be able to control it.

The two of them can not only take turns to rest, but also take care of each other, especially the people of the sheep tribe, although they can obviously feel the recovery of their spirits, but the physical deficit is not something that can be raised in a day or two.

If they really meet someone from the Wuyu tribe, if they want to run back quickly over the mountains and mountains to report the news, this is obviously too difficult for their bodies.

Although the people of the Black Feather Tribe had already been blocked from the mountain pass once last year, and if they wanted to come over again, the possibility of passing through here would be much smaller, but no one was sure that the Black Feather Tribe would definitely change the route, so the main route still had to be covered.

Fortunately, there are not many directions that can come directly to the north of Teng Snake, except for the two mountain passes last year, and then there is the west side of the tribe.

Therefore, the tribe also sent a team of people to the west of the mountain pass this year, but the terrain in the west is relatively gentle, and there are relatively many routes that can be passed, and whether you can meet it can only depend on luck.

Teng Snake can't be taken care of in every direction, this is just a block in a place where the possibility is relatively large, I really want to go around, in fact, there are still quite a lot of routes of the Wuyu tribe.

But no matter what, someone is guarding, everyone has to be more at ease after all, even if they don't find it or the Black Feather tribe doesn't have the idea of doing something for the Teng Snake tribe for the time being, but Teng Snake will not lose anything, at most, a few people have wasted some time.

But just like last year, once it was discovered that for Teng Snake, it was basically the existence that saved the fate of the tribe.

Of course, this sentry will not last long, no matter what tribe starts a war, it is usually carried out after the beginning of spring or before the beginning of winter.

Once summer begins, all the tribes will find a way to get enough food, except for the northern tribes, which usually make up for the shortfall.

Therefore, even the Black Feather tribe will not take the risk of invading other tribes after entering the summer, even if it succeeds, it will waste a lot of manpower, this time is the best time for hunting, and going out can be busy for ten days and half a month.

Even if a lot of captives are caught, they will waste their manpower, at least the captives will definitely not be able to create too good benefits in a short period of time.

Not to mention that there will be a risk of failure, once it fails, there will be nothing, it is good to lose less manpower, if there are more, it may have a big blow to the development of the tribe, otherwise the Black Feather tribe would not have licked its face and came over to exchange prisoners last year.

Therefore, it takes the recent period of relatively tight manpower in the tribe, and there is no need to worry too much about the safety in the future, at least as long as the manpower is sufficient and the tribe is guarded, there is still no big problem.

Although they didn't go hunting for a whole winter, everyone's training never fell, and even if they couldn't do one training a day, at least half a day every two days would be spent on training various weapons and tactics.

And the object is not limited to beasts, especially after having a shield, everyone's imaginary enemy is more of a human, to put it more bluntly, that is, the people of the Black Feather Tribe.

So although there are not many prey brought back recently, Shi Meng also said that everyone's cooperation is a notch higher than last year, and he doesn't even need superfluous words to know what he needs to do.

With this tacit understanding, hunting is naturally more handy, at least in the arrangement of manpower will save a lot of time, and the communication between the two sides is less, and it will be easier to succeed when hunting, and it will not attract the attention of the prey at every turn as before.

Although there are few prey now, it is not yet visible, but when the mountain forest becomes active, it will still be able to see more obvious effects in the future.

Although the shield was designed to fight the enemy, Shi Meng and the others also used it in hunting.

The improved shield is basically about the same width as everyone's shoulders, so it will not affect the movement when hunting, and it is used in many places, especially when confronting wild beasts, with the shield, everyone's confidence is obviously more sufficient.

Not as afraid as before, for fear that a careless, will be injured by the prey, which from the situation of everyone injured after going out, you can also see the role of the shield, although there are still people injured in the hands of these hands, but the open wounds caused by the direct attack of the prey before are a lot less.

It's good to practice with these prey, at least when you face the enemy in the future, you will feel more confident, and the enemy who has not faced new weapons is even inferior to these beasts.

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This trip to Shi Meng was quite long, a full ten days, and Song Xuan also led people to dig bamboo shoots in the bamboo forest for ten days.

As a result, dried bamboo shoots can basically be seen in large and small open spaces in the tribe.

Fortunately, everyone will never get bored with eating, and they are very happy to see more and more dried bamboo shoots.

Counting the time, he almost had to rush over to attend the exchange conference, and Song Xuan was also making the final arrangements after dinner.

Shui Yun definitely can't follow this time, I think the bear tribe has already known the news of the disappearance of the Black Water tribe, and it is very likely that several tribes downstream also know about it.

The people of the Blackwater Tribe were naturally not suitable to appear in the exchange conference, but Song Xuan felt that it was still necessary for Yang Yang to go with him.

Although like the news of the disappearance of the Blackwater Tribe, some tribes already knew that the Sheep Tribe had joined the Teng Snake, Song Xuan felt that it was still necessary to reassure the other tribes and let them know that this was the voluntary decision of the Sheep Tribe, not the malicious annexation of the Teng Snake.

Even Song Xuan had always thought that his image was okay among the surrounding tribes, but for the merger of one tribe into another, it was difficult not to have superfluous associations.

Let everyone understand the origin of the matter, it will be much easier to accept, of course, why the Teng Snake tribe, and not other tribes, then leave it to them to consider for themselves, who told this place not to say that it is a charcoal in the snow, and there are few people who even add icing on the cake.

In addition, a woman, two men, and three children who are about to become adults have to be brought over, this time in addition to the exchange and blind dates, it is not possible without them.

Later, whether it was going to the Kite Tribe to see the limestone situation, or going to the Niu Tribe to pull livestock, it would all require manpower, so Song Xuan decided to bring more people this time.

"Good!"

……

Hearing that Song Xuan was finally going to bring more manpower, Shi Meng and the others were very excited, after all, they had always thought that Song Xuan brought too few people every time he went out, at least there was no way to ensure Song Xuan's safety.

Even if he has been living here for almost two years, Teng Snake is still a little wary of other tribes, let them go by themselves, Shi Meng must feel that there is nothing, the big deal is just a life, but if there is no Song Xuan, Teng Snake everyone is not willing to imagine what kind of life will be in the future, after all, almost all the changes that Teng Snake has made now are brought by Song Xuan to everyone little by little in the past two years.

And the addition of the sheep tribe and the black water tribe, the most critical factor in this is also Song Xuan, after all, if you get along normally, everyone should be about the same, although the feelings are there, but they will not be too profound, even if there is a natural and man-made disaster, then which tribe to defect to is also to defect There is no need to come to Teng Snake.

Especially since the people of the two tribes know that Teng Snake has a very powerful enemy, and the other tribes are much better.

Of course, the Yang Luo Department's kindness to Song Xuan would have been felt even more, if it weren't for Song Xuan sending people to visit them many times, the Yang tribe would probably have disappeared.

After deliberating for a long time, it was finally decided to send out three boats, six people in each boat, that is, eighteen people.

It's almost one-tenth of the people in the tribe now, although it's not a lot, but it's a lot, but compared with other tribes, there are as few as four or five people and as many as seven or eight people.

Fortunately, there are no strict restrictions on the manpower of the exchange conference, but it is generally not necessary to bring too many people, after all, the host tribe is at least responsible for one meal, and there is no blind date, that is, they are responsible for the whole day.

There is a blind date year, because the number of people in each tribe in the past will basically double, and then let them be responsible for the expenses of these hundreds of people for a day, it may be a little difficult for the tribe with more average strength, so they will bring some food by themselves.

However, generally each tribe will bring enough food, except for a few powerful tribes, most of them don't eat much, each part understands the general situation of other tribes, eating this meal will not become a big deal, rubbing a meal will not let themselves fall, life has changed too obviously.

On the contrary, for a small tribe with only a few dozen people, it may be their rations for several days, comparing hearts to hearts, doing such a thing will not be beneficial, the most important thing is that every tribe around will have a turn, if it is done too much, it will only form a vicious circle, and in the end even the exchange conference may not be held.

Naturally, the manpower is still dominated by people from the hunting team, plus Song Xuan has a total of ten people, except for the three children, the remaining six people Song Xuan is ready to pick people from the gathering team.

Although the exchange meetings are usually dominated by men, there are also tribes that bring one or two women with them.

Women are still relatively good at details and cooking, and if they come too much, men will lose more for tribes that are not well manned.

The current Teng Snake people are still a little nervous, so it is understandable to add more from the gatherers, and Shihua and the others have long shown curiosity about the exchange conference.

Every time I come back, I ask what's going on, and this time I just brought some people from them over to take a look, and it can be regarded as seeing the world, after all, this kind of activity is only two times a year, and it can be regarded as a grand event in primitive society.

Although a patriarchal society has basically been formed now, and all tribes are dominated by men, no one has ever ignored the role of women in the tribe, and even many tribes have women involved in hunting.

But this is also full of risks, and you will also encounter ferocious beasts, even if they are not as experienced as Shi Meng, but they can basically deal with it.

In terms of combat effectiveness, the women of each tribe are not too bad, and of course, they always feel that the women of their tribe may be stronger than the men of some small tribes.

You must know that women will also participate in winter training, of course, less frequently than hunting teams, but they will also know the latest weapons and tactical arrangements of the tribe.

Especially bows and arrows, now nearly half of the women of the Teng Snake and Blackwater tribes are equipped with bows and arrows, although few people can reach the level of Shi Yu, but most of them are above the level, about thirty meters of the target, as long as the people in the tribe have been trained, the arrows are basically not off the target.

In addition, they use the stone flowers of the slingling shield well, so in terms of combat effectiveness, it can be said that they are alone in the surrounding tribes.

Shi Mengren has no opinion on Song Xuan's arrangement, after all, they are also very clear about the strength of these women, but not only men will often compete, but women will often participate, which has wins and losses, especially Shi Hua, who relies on a good figure, but overwhelms a group of strong men.

"Flower, you go and arrange manpower first!"

Seeing that Shihua's mouth was full of joy, Song Xuan simply asked him to spread the news in advance, and at the same time select people, after all, he will go to the place of this transaction tomorrow.

"Alright, God's Messenger, I'll go!"

Looking at the stone flower walking out with his big hips, Song Xuan's heart was also very down-to-earth.

Song Xuan doesn't have to worry about the candidates, these leaders in the tribe are very reliable, and the people they choose will naturally not make mistakes.

As for the other things, Song Xuan had already prepared them when the Bear Tribe sent people over, and he would be able to set off directly tomorrow when he got on the boat.

But as for which leader to go with Song Xuan, Shi Meng and Shi Yong argued very fiercely.

It even looks like it's going to fight!

Seeing that both of them wanted to follow the past, Song Xuan was also a little embarrassed, his original idea was to let Shi Yong follow him, now there are more people in the tribe, and the prestige of Shui Yun is not enough to suppress everyone for the time being, although Song Xuan is not worried that there will be a big event, but if he goes out, it will not be good if the tribe is unhappy.

In terms of prestige, Song Xuan is naturally the first in the tribe, but Shi Meng is closely followed, although there was no leakage of mountains and water before, but since he migrated, his ability has indeed been growing, which is obvious to all the people who are snakes.

Although Shi Yong is not bad, his organizational skills are relatively poor, and when he encounters a major event, it is still a little difficult for him to make up his mind alone.

Even with Shui Yun on the side, Song Xuan was worried that the two would not be able to cope with it, although it was a little difficult, Song Xuan still decided to let Shi Meng stay in the tribe, in this case, the tribe would often participate in this situation, but there was no need to worry about this or twice.

Song Xuan also knew that this was also a whole winter, even if he went out hunting for a while, he had never seen anyone else, and he naturally didn't want to give up if he had such an opportunity for the time being.

But after hearing that Song Xuan had finalized it, Shi Meng didn't say anything more, just looked at Shi Yong with great envy, and finally slammed it over.

"Bang~"

The two are also good family members who love and kill each other, Song Xuan smiled, and asked everyone to go back to arrange manpower, and at the same time rest early, they will leave the tribe tomorrow.

"Alright, don't make trouble, let's go!"

“……”

For the next tribe, Song Xuan will completely hand it over to Shi Meng, of course, he doesn't have to continue to take people to hunt, Song Xuan is ready to let Shui Yun take more than a dozen people, and then select a group of people from among the women to form a small hunting team, the number of people is not too much, forty people is about the same.

If there are too many, the rest of the tribe will be busy, and the captives and the sheep tribe will still be responsible for handling the roots in the fields.

After working for more than half a month, the roots of the trees in the field have basically been cleared for most of the time, and it is estimated that it will take another half a month to reach the point where they can be cultivated.

In addition, there is still a period of time to dig bamboo shoots, while there is still nature to save more, with more and more bamboo shoots, the tribe has also added some other ways to eat, everyone especially likes to talk about dried bamboo shoots and marinated bacon steamed together.

Of course, it is naturally rice that matches this better, and there is no need for Song Xuan to bring it up, some people in the tribe think of rice when they eat it, but even if they eat it alone, the taste is quite good, and compared with the fresh one, it has more flavor.

The children still have to be responsible for fishing, and now that there are more children, the number of adults who are equipped with them must also be appropriately increased, otherwise they may not be able to manage it.