"Don't ask!"

After Shi Jing heard the conversation between the two people, she also showed the majesty that her mother-in-law should have.

The two children didn't understand, but as an old man in the tribe, Shi Jing was indeed very aware of the importance of salt, although Zhen Shi may not have any extra thoughts, but this kind of thing was obviously not something he could inquire about now.

Not to mention the stone and the stone, even Shi Jing is not clear now, where the salt was brought back, and the people who participated in the salt mining are also secretive about it.

After all, it hasn't been long since he came here, and if someone else hears it and asks this kind of thing again, it will inevitably make people think about it a lot.

Shi Jing also pressed the sprouts in the cradle in time.

Hearing his mother-in-law speak, Shi Shi quickly understood, and after glancing at Shi Duo, the two stopped communicating about it.

After this salt mining, there are no particularly important things in the tribe for the time being, and everything is going according to plan.

Shi Meng also returned to the hunting team in time.

Although Yang Yang only led the team out twice, the effect seemed to be good, and the hunting income did not decrease significantly.

However, since Shi Mengdu has returned, the task of leading the team naturally has to be returned to the leader.

Although the tribe can still free up a team for Yangyang to lead if it is downsized now, in that case, the efficiency may not be as good as it is now, so it can only wait for a year or two to have more manpower, and then open a team for Yangyang.

According to the current number of children in the tribe, if it goes well, it will be able to increase the number of people by a dozen or so within a year or two.

This year, at least five people will reach the adult standard, and then they will be able to join the hunting team.

After a winter's hard work, the women of the tribe were also very competitive, and a third of them were already pregnant with children.

If it goes well, at least 20 little dolls will be on the ground by the end of the year.

However, although there are more children, it is not so easy to feed them all, and many children need to go through various hardships from childhood to adulthood, and many children cannot even spend their infancy.

Older tribes will also encounter various dangers, so although no tribe will restrict birth, but the population growth is very slow, such as the kite tribe, a slightly larger tribe, a dozen children a year is still no problem, but most tribes can stay at most, less than a third.

The children who grew up seemed to have rough skin and thick meat, that was because the ones that were not skinny had long been eliminated, even the Teng Snake tribe was like this, although a few small babies were added last year, but there were also two people who died not long after.

Song Xuan is also not a medical professional, and he can't help with this, so he can only make some suggestions on small issues, such as maintaining clean hygiene and the like.

The effect may be there, but it is not very obvious.

Fortunately, the tribe basically doesn't have to worry about food now, and the children can be better raised, and if you pay more attention, it shouldn't be a problem to increase the survival rate a little.

Although there were several children last year, these mothers soon had to continue working after giving birth.

Every day is also to take turns to raise them, as soon as there are more people, we will not take care of them so well, and there is no concept of fine feeding in everyone's concept, and the risk of contracting various diseases is naturally greater if the care is not in place.

This year, Song Xuan has already made up his mind, although it is impossible for every mother to feed alone, but it must not be able to deal with several people by one person like last year.

After everyone gave birth to children, one person could only take care of two or three children at most, although Song Xuan had never given birth to children, but in some aspects he still knew a little more than these primitive people.

At that time, we will definitely have to let everyone take care of it more carefully.

In this era, population is the primary productive force, and the more people in the tribe, the stronger the strength. No matter how powerful a tribe of sixty or seventy people is, it is difficult to compete with a tribe of a few hundred people.

Even if it is Teng Snake, he has not fallen behind in a few battles with the Wuyu tribe, but if you want to really fight for the foundation, the gap is also very big.

However, most of the children in the tribe are still relatively young, and it takes time to grow up, which is also something that cannot be rushed.

Now that most of the surrounding tribes are also relatively stable, unless they encounter a natural disaster like the black water, Song Xuan feels that it may not be so easy to pick up the leak again.

There is no way to directly absorb the whole tribe and the whole tribe, so you can only rely on your own breeding, at this time the survival rate of the baby is particularly important, if most of the dead then the development of the tribe is very slow, just like the kite tribe, although it is still a relatively powerful tribe among the surrounding tribes.

But the population growth is not fast, according to Shui Yun, the kite tribe has only increased by thirty or forty people in the past ten years, if the Teng Snake also grows at this rate, Song Xuan feels that even if he is old, he will not reach the level of Wu Yu.

But if most of them can survive, the economies of scale have been formed later, and the snowball rolls up very quickly, especially if the snake may not marry too many people in the future, as long as you pay more attention to it and try to lose as little as possible, there should be a lot of people after decades of development.

Song Xuan is not without ambitions, but the size of Teng Snake is here, and normal development can only be slowly increased over time.

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This year's climate is smooth and rainy, and there is no prolonged rainstorm like last year, even in the rainy season, the rain is non-stop, at most only five or six days.

Although the rain is not small, as long as it does not last too long, the impact on the tribe is not so great.

The rain is regarded as everyone's rest time, after all, most people are basically running outside in the past two months, and the time in the tribe is not long, like Shi Meng, they come back in the afternoon most of the time, and then set off the next morning.

This year, the cultivation of rice fields has occupied a lot of everyone's time, in the past, it was used for hunting, although the harvest is not much, but it can also meet the daily expenses of the tribe, and even save some, this year, the pressure of a large reduction in manpower will naturally be a lot greater.

And everyone also knows very well that when the autumn comes, these rice will be harvested, which is not three or five acres of land at that time, and everyone can finish it in one morning.

Harvesting rice is even more important than hunting, and it will definitely be all involved in that time, and when the game is at its fattest, these ten days can be more than the usual half a month's harvest.

So now I can only go out and run more, and now the more prey I bring back, the easier it will definitely be in the future.

Now working so hard, it is natural to prevent the rice from not being able to get enough yield, although looking at the current growth is not bad, but no one dares to guarantee it before it is put into storage.

Although the rice harvest has not yet begun, the warehouse must be planned in advance, and it will definitely be too late to wait until the harvest is harvested to build.

If this year's output can be harvested normally, it will definitely not be able to be leveled by those pots and jars last year, even if only one hundred and eighty catties of one acre of land are harvested, then there will be tens of thousands of catties.

It would definitely not work without a special place for storage, and with the experience of being ruined by rats this year, Song Xuan didn't want to encounter this kind of thing again.

Although the loss was not large, it really annoyed Song Xuan, so much so that he had to carefully inspect the entire tribe every other month, for fear that some fish would slip through the net, of course, the results were quite obvious, basically every time there was a new discovery, but fortunately, most of them were caught not long after they came, and it was difficult to escape once they poured hot water.

Under this level of clean-up by the tribe, there is a steady stream of rats coming in, and it is conceivable that once the rice is harvested, it will definitely attract a lot of rats.

And the cat that Song Xuan was thinking about had never seen a trace, and occasionally asked Shi Meng that they had no chance to meet it, and even if they saw it sometimes, they couldn't catch it, so now the main force to find mice still has to rely on Wangcai, but Wangcai is amateur after all, and there is good food and drink in the tribe, and his greater interest in mice is still on the side of playing, and he has not cultivated an interest in hunting.

When Song Xuan led people to find the mouse hole, Wangcai would also actively participate, but it was rare for him to take the initiative to find the mouse, and now Wangcai basically did not return all night.

Most of the time, I won't see him walk back slowly until the morning, and as soon as he came back, he got into his own nest, and it seemed that he was busy at night, but Song Xuan didn't know what he was doing, but fortunately, he still knew that he was back, so he didn't care much about him.

The granary Song Xuan originally wanted to be designed to pile it up directly, but it seems that the difficulty is not small, and how to control the waterproof and moisture-proof is also a very big challenge.

After thinking about it, Song Xuan still decided to make it a semi-crypt type, although the difficulty of building is not small, but relatively speaking, it is easier to prevent moisture.

Taking advantage of the heavy rain in the past few days, everyone could not go out to hunt and gather the first granary in the tribe, and they had already begun to dig.

Song Xuan didn't do it directly in the open space, it was still raining outside, and he couldn't go to work in the rain, so Song Xuan chose a house where no one lived.

Anyway, the granary behind it also has to be built, and now this empty one might as well be requisitioned in advance, if there is a need in the tribe, it is also a very fast thing to build again, after all, the manpower technology is already very mature, and the materials are also available.

First of all, you have to dig the ground and dig a hole of sufficient size.

Although there are no inhabitants in this house now, the ground was also tamped at that time, and a lot of fires were made to dry the grass and mud, but now it seems that it has added difficulties to itself, and the ground is obviously much harder, but it is only the surface layer at best.

As for after the excavation...... It's a little more difficult.

The soil layer below is the most difficult place to gnaw, especially after half a meter deep, you can already dig gravel, the stone and the dry soil are chimeral, and every small piece has to pay a lot of effort, so Song Xuan can only let everyone dig while splashing water, and it is still a lot easier to dig up after wetting the hard soil with water.