The bow made by the tribe was already very close to what Song Xuan remembered, but Song Xuan also knew that there must be something missing on both sides of the bow, so he could only find it slowly.

However, the increase in power is real, and the existing bows can also be directly transformed, which saves a lot of effort, after all, these bows are made of the best wood.

Since it was not easy to change the thickness and shape of the bow arm with tools such as stone axes, the most suitable trees could only be selected as much as possible, and even if the trees were carefully selected, in most cases only one section could be cut out, and the rest could not be used for others.

Although the most suitable trees for work are slower to grow, and have grown for years to the point where they can make bows, the harder they are must be stronger, and these trees have not been able to use them before.

Now that they have bronze tools, the choice will be wider in the future, and they will also try to make them with higher quality wood, so there is still a lot of room for improvement in the bows and arrows in the tribe.

Almost the whole winter has not rested, the level of the carpenters in the stone class has really improved a lot, and the newly made tables, chairs and benches can be clearly seen to be much more refined than the beginning, and the speed has also improved very significantly.

In the case of limited tools and lack of professionalism, if everyone can share a set of tools, I believe that their strength can be improved a little, at least with an axe to carve on the wooden board, no one in the tribe can do it except them.

Let a few of them stay in the tribe to work, at first Song Xuan was still under a lot of pressure, after all, the number of people was not large at that time, and the output of the stone class was also a little slow, until the bow and arrow began to be popularized on a large scale, which was slightly better.

But at this time, it was only a short winter, which brought very big changes to the tribe, and it was not obvious from the outside, but as soon as you entered the house or looked at the weapons and equipment in everyone's hands, you could clearly notice that it was very different from before.

Now, in addition to improving the bow and arrow, several people are trying to make the gate in the tribe, especially the gate, which is basically a small section of the wall that is torn down, and a row of trees is clamped with two logs on the top and bottom.

Each piece of wood is naturally held in place with a rope, but even so, it looks a little stronger, and the gap between each piece of wood is not small.

And every time the door is opened and closed is very troublesome, every time the whole door needs to be opened, and one person can not operate for the sake of safety, and the use of thick and hard wood, such a door is still very heavy, the strength is a little smaller, two people may not be able to toss.

Song Xuan asked them to do it now is naturally the kind of wooden door in the later generations, at least it is not so laborious to open and close the door, and if you want to ensure that it is not so easy to open, it is easy to directly find a thick wood to lay behind it, just like the city gate in the later generations.

And this kind of door can be popularized, and the large and small houses in the tribe can also be used, so there is no need to make several layers of animal skin curtains in winter as it is now, but once the weather is hot, it has to be removed and replaced with a fence.

If there is a wooden door, at most a layer of animal skin curtain can be made in winter to block the temperature, and there is no effect on entering and exiting at ordinary times.

Of course, the house where everyone lives is not exquisite, the trouble is not enough, the most important thing is to use it in the warehouse of the tribe, although the current fence and animal skin can also be sealed more tightly, but it is very troublesome to open and close the door, after all, the warehouse is to store all kinds of materials used in the tribe every day, up to food, down to various tools, pots and pans, there is no strong and easy to open and close the door, it is not convenient to use.

In addition, if the door could be stronger, it would be much easier to hold the captives, and after the snow melted, the captives returned to their pre-winter life last year, and the management of them by the snake became stricter again.

In addition to working, you have to stay in the yard, of course, you are basically working during the day, and you can only go back to rest at night, after a winter of education, there is no big problem for the captives to communicate, although some people may not be able to speak very fluently, but they must be able to understand, and the general meaning can be expressed clearly, but the word order has to be learned slowly.

Overall, Song Xuan is still very satisfied with this, although the progress in the back is a little slower, but language is a thing that needs practice to improve, and it is definitely not so fast to learn just by teaching word by word.

The winter captives lived alone in their courtyards, and the level was not very high, and the effect of communication was naturally not so good, but now everyone was mixed together during the day, and there were people to supervise them at night, and the language environment must be much better than before, I believe that in a few months they will be able to speak very proficiently, and there should be no too heavy accent or anything.

Considering the physical and mental health of Ebony, not every room will be stared at now, but they will all watch one day at a time.

This winter is not only in terms of culture and education, but also in terms of ebony and their hearts, at least most people's current mentality has changed, and they don't have too much hope for the tribe to send people over.

Although there is still a lot of combat power in the tribe, what kind of price will it pay if it attacks the Teng Snake again?

Two or three hundred people don't seem to have much effect, after all, after this battle, the population of Teng Snake has increased instead of decreasing, and it has increased by dozens to the naked eye, and the wolf tribe that is also a captive with them is obviously not in the same heart.

Teng Snake gave them much better conditions, not to mention, they themselves also took the initiative to keep a distance from the group of people in the black feather, in fact, the wolf tribe also participated in the war under the situation of the black feather half-pushed, and it can be regarded as being implicated, and they have no good face for the group of black feathers, and even have a little hatred.

If Wu Yu wanted to do something, the group of people in the wolf tribe would definitely not participate, at least not the vast majority of people.

Their children have basically mingled with the children of Teng Snake, especially the younger ones, after the indoctrination of Teng Snake's side, plus the wolf tribe, everyone has not affected them, these children under the age of seven or eight have completely regarded Teng Snake as their own tribe.

Coupled with the relationship between Xue'er and Song Xuan, it is visibly getting closer and closer to the naked eye, and at first I was worried that the divine envoy would not accept Xue'er, but after a while, I completely lost this worry.

And now they think that they are basically the same as Teng Snake and others, that is, they hope that the two will have a child as soon as possible, which will be more beneficial to them, but they are not qualified to speak about this kind of thing now, so even if Xue'er is over, they don't dare to say more, for fear that it will backfire.

But no matter what, with these two layers of relationship, the people of the tribe are also trying to get closer to Teng Snake's side, and they also have the experience of being bullied by the Black Feather people, which is in stark contrast to Teng Snake's attitude towards them.

It can be said that if the group of people in Wuyu come over to invade the Teng Snake Wolf Tribe again, this group of people will most likely still help Teng Snake defend, even if they are prisoners and slaves, they will not be worse than Wu Yu on Teng Snake's side, and the two sides are still allies at that time, but the wolf tribe is not much better treated than the enemy.

There are many women in the wolf tribe who are pregnant with children, and several of the men have died in battle, and it is difficult to say whose child is in the womb, but as long as it is born, it is the person who is the snake, although the children of the captives are currently in the snake, even if they grow up, they are definitely not allowed to hold important positions, but the basic treatment will not be too bad.

Most of the captives of Ebony have already given birth, even before they officially joined Teng Snake, they are all fed the same, there will be no difference, not to mention now, Teng Snake everyone also completely treats them as their own.

Therefore, if Wu Yu wants to get this group of people back, if he doesn't want to pay the price of a large number of deaths, he can only send people over to discuss how to exchange prisoners as before.

However, even if they send people over to exchange prisoners, it is difficult for the current Wuyu tribe to get so many things, at least the various things of Teng Snake do not look worse than those of the Wuyu tribe, and even the salt is not lacking.

As for food, you must know that they were outside for almost two months before winter, although there was not much food taken from the tribe, but so many days without hunting was a big loss for Wu Yu, and they didn't even dare to think about how much food they needed for another person.

And what they can't imagine is that Teng Snake really didn't starve them to death last year. Although I usually don't eat very well, at least I won't be hungry for a long time, and I occasionally have extra meals, and after a winter, although I have lost a lot of weight, but overall it is still within the acceptable range.

With the strength of Teng Snake, if you want to exchange a person and use the corresponding weight of food, it is definitely impossible for them to make their own decisions, and they must report it twice or three times, after all, the benefits that an adult male can bring are far more than this number.

But when I think of the situation of my tribe, many people lose hope, it is quite good to be able to exchange the important leaders and the like here, the others are not very likely, and it is very troublesome to transport so much food, and even the loss in the middle is not small.

So it is almost impossible for them to return to the Black Feather tribe through a regular way, although the current Teng Snake has not completely subverted the ability of the Black Feather, but it is not so easy for the Black Feather to successfully solve the Teng Snake.

However, if you take advantage of the hunting to engage in a sneak attack, the certainty of success is not small, but the risk is also very large, after all, I don't know when the snake will go out to hunt, and whether it will be found when it comes, once it is found or most of the people are in the tribe, it will be a real dilemma, and the attack will definitely have to pay a lot of casualties, and it is even unlikely to succeed, and if you return, it will be a waste of work for so many days.

No matter what Wu Yu did, Song Xuan had already made a plan, that is, when the weather was a little better, a group of sentry posts could be arranged around later, or the same as before, in pairs, as long as he could watch the main road.

This time, Song Xuan didn't plan to arrange the sentry too far, as long as it was within the range of about two days around the Teng Snake, so the area that needed to be responsible would be much smaller, and the route was relatively familiar to everyone, and the location chosen was definitely easier for ordinary people to pass by.

Although the forest around the snake is dense, as long as the location is chosen, two people can watch a considerable number of 700 people walking in the forest, and it is almost impossible to ensure complete secrecy, at least the birds in the forest are still easily alarmed, and if you add some traps or something, it will be easier to detect whether there are people walking.

And the most important thing is that Teng Snake will only spend more and more time in the tribe in the future, after all, rice planting is the top priority, even if he goes out to hunt later, it should only be carried out in batches, on the one hand, because there are too many people, the unified action of hundreds of people is not effective, and secondly, there must be someone in the tribe watching these captives, but if the women say, there is still a threat, at least twenty or thirty warriors must be arranged.

As long as it is not attacked suddenly, and the number of enemies is particularly large, Teng Snake Road will not be too dangerous.

The relevant situation has also been discussed many times in the tribe, and Song Xuan also told everyone that even if the tribe really falls and gets the news, if there is no complete certainty, the hunting team outside cannot directly attack the tribe.

Song Xuan instead asked them to go directly to the Black Feather Tribe, after all, if they want to capture the Teng Snake, the people from the Black Feather Tribe are bound to be too few, and with this failed experience, the number of people will definitely be more than less, and then the Black Feather Tribe will be relatively empty, as long as the timing is right, dozens of people can also turn it upside down, although it sounds very difficult at first, but in fact, it is easier to succeed than directly encountering this group of enemies.

Instead of dozens of people launching a deadly attack, it is better to directly exchange homes with the enemy, so that no matter how bad the situation is, there is a possibility of turning things around.

However, the possibility of this kind of thing breaking out is already very small, Song Xuan even felt that the possibility of the enemy coming over to exchange prisoners was not particularly large, although the tribe was strong, how could the loss of three hundred people be so easy to alleviate, let alone that there were other tribes eyeing each other.

If you really want to capture the Teng Snake with confidence, you can only move the clan, even if it succeeds in the end, the loss and the final harvest, it is difficult to say who is big and who is small, at least in the high probability that this will definitely be a loss-making war.

But even if it is unlikely, the preparations that should be made still have to be done, after all, you can't use your own thinking to measure the enemy's thoughts, and what they said in Wucang is not necessarily completely true, although Song Xuan asked many people, but after all, they have been away speechless for a long time, especially when they first set off, there is still a period of time before winter, in case something happens in the middle, it is not easy to say.

As long as you are prepared, even if you really encounter the worst, there is still the possibility of continuing the battle here.

So even if you have to pay some price for this, and even if these things are useless, none of the people in Teng Snake will object.

Of course, this is also related to the relatively optimistic situation of Teng Snake, which has a certain relationship, after eating it in a winter, the food in the tribe can continue to eat for at least two months, and this is still calculated according to the amount of food that everyone does daily work.

Although there is not much food left, it is barely enough to support the daily operation of the snake, and after the beginning of spring, there is no need for everyone to stay in the tribe to continue cultivating the rice fields, and some people can be separated to go out hunting, and there will definitely be corresponding supplements in food at that time.

As long as there is no shortage of food, according to Teng Snake's current manpower, it will not be particularly difficult to do anything.

And if it is a little warmer, I can continue fishing, and this year there are many more children, and many fishing nets have been rewoven in winter, and I believe that the harvest in this area will increase a lot, at least much more than the children of the major tribes who hunted or went to gather wild fruits before.

In other tribes, at this time after the beginning of spring, it is basically difficult for a child who cannot participate in the hunt to play a role, even if he finds something to eat from the forest, but it is not enough to make ends meet, and it is quite good to be able to fill his own stomach, and in most cases he has to continue to consume the things in the tribe.

And Teng Snake can solve this embarrassing situation by fishing, as long as the children choose a good position and work a little harder, it is not even less than the food brought back by going out hunting.

Of course, after several years of fishing, the upstream and downstream of the river in front of Teng Snake have significantly reduced a lot of fish, and if they want to form a sufficient scale, they can only continue to go down, and even close to the main stream.

However, it is only expedient to let the children fish on a large scale, as long as the food determined later is not too tight, and the Wuyu tribe does not come over, it can be restored to the previous state, and even after the autumn harvest, the number of fish caught in the wild can be gradually reduced, and slowly enter the stage of breeding.

But before that, we still have to do more work, I believe this time will not last, too long half a year or a few months, while you can have the corresponding reserves, and there will be a trading conference next, Teng Snake should be able to exchange a lot of things through salt.

The Wagyu tribe has already paid some salt in exchange last year, plus this year's should not have too much food in the past, and the food of the remaining three tribes is likely to be net, although the amount may not be too large, but for the current Teng snake, it can still relieve some pressure.

I believe that a variety of measures, implemented at the same time, and with the food support of these two months now, this year's food crisis is at least much lighter than the year when we first moved here.

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The design of the door Song Xuan is basically the same as described by a few people, the bluestone is used as the base below, and two holes are made on a beam above, corresponding to the bluestone below, so that the energy can be limited, and the wooden door is just a few slightly thicker planks spliced together, and it is not so particular on the side of the Teng Snake, even if it is rough, it is much finer than the previous fence gate.

Coupled with things like door bolts, although the whole is not complicated, and there are not many parts, but Song Xuan asked them to make the gate, it still takes a few days to fully study and understand, and it takes a certain amount of time to make it, and the bluestone below has to go to the mountain to choose the right one.

However, it has been so long since the goal was scored, and I am not in a hurry for this day or two.

The snow on the sunny side had almost melted, and although the ground was still a little muddy, the captives had already begun to turn over the soil in the fields.

Last year, the time was relatively tight, and tools such as rakes did not make too many preparations, and the captives did not make less in the winter, and now there is not much shortage of tools, except that the quality is not very good, each person can get several handfuls.

Although it was still a little cold to step on the ground, the human rights of the captives were here, and not letting them go out to work against the snow was already considered a mercy of the snake.

However, Song Xuan still took them into consideration, and after Xue'er proposed it, he agreed to give each of these captives a pair of straw sandals that he had made not long ago.

Although it can't block the moisture, there is still less contact with the muddy soil, and the key is to give them some small pieces of animal skin, which can cover the surface of their feet a little.

After mastering the production method, straw shoes are still quite fast, and there is no shortage of related materials in the tribe, after improvement, straw shoes are basically only the bottom is made of straw, and the belt on it is connected by animal skin ropes except for the two main bodies.

Although there are some more steps, the comfort of the instep will be improved a lot, basically there will not be too much friction, and the shape of straw sandals is similar to that of sandals, most of the places are hollowed, and it will not feel particularly hot to wear in summer.

But now it's not so wonderful to wear this season, of course, the captives can only wear this, Teng Snake also has new shoes in development, Song Xuan wants to let Xue'er and Shihua put several layers of animal skins together, so that they can be completely worn daily, not only limited to winter or summer, of course, it is still difficult to make.

Whether it is straw shoes or animal leather shoes, there are corresponding seasons, and the four seasons of the snake change is very obvious, if you want to wear more comfortable, you can only think of a way from the style, fortunately, the overall change is not big, or from the straw shoes and animal skin shoes back and forth, blend with each other.