There are a few ducks raised in the yard, which seems to be more lively.
You can hear the quacking sounds all day long.
A group of children gathered around outside the duck house to watch, pulling some grass or insects from outside and throwing them in to feed.
Adults would gather around and watch whenever they had free time. The women would feed some fresh wild vegetables, and the men would throw in some fish gills and intestines when they came back from fishing.
In addition to patrolling the farmland every day, Xu Chen continued to take Gu Heju to the Wild Wolf Valley to set up fish cages and catch fish on the river beach. Some of the small fish and shrimps harvested were taken back to feed the ducks, while others were kept in fish baskets.
Then he took the rattan basket to find a place to lay traps and continued to expand his poultry domestication plan.
But maybe the wild ducks were frightened. The number of wild ducks living in the valley seemed to have decreased a lot overnight. They went to several places to set nets, but in three days they harvested little, and only caught two wild ducks in total.
Once he had already covered a wild goose, but unfortunately the vine net was too small. Before he could rush forward, the wild goose had already overturned the vine net and escaped. As a result, a group of wild geese living in the valley also escaped.
Left quickly.
After two days of catching nothing, he had to temporarily terminate the bird hunting activity.
However, he was relieved that the seven wild ducks he had captured finally began to lay eggs under the careful care and feeding of the whole tribe, and each of the two nests laid one egg.
This time everyone was surprised and excited.
However, these eggs cannot be eaten yet and must be kept to hatch the ducklings.
Under his grand blueprint of ducks laying eggs, eggs hatching ducks, and endless descendants, the whole clan became even more excited and happy, collectively drooling as they imagined that there would be countless ducks in the future and endless duck eggs to eat every day.
, so I worked harder to feed these wild ducks. After a few days, there were already several eggs in the two nests.
The duck farming is almost going smoothly, but the well digging project is very difficult.
After suspending the bird-catching plan, Xu Chen focused on digging wells.
Although the tribesmen did not understand Xu Chen's whimsical move, they did not stop it. Instead, they were all in a state of bystanders hoping that God would open their eyes. However, after a few days of digging, Xu Chen became very angry.
The tools are too poor. Whether it is a wooden hoe or a stone hoe, they are only suitable for simple superficial operations and are not suitable for narrow terrain containing a large amount of sand and gravel.
Therefore, the well digging project lasted intermittently for seven or eight days. After six or seven hoe diggings were damaged, we could only dig down to a depth of about two meters. Further down, there was thick mud, sand and stones. Not only was it very difficult to dig, there was not even a drop of water.
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The well understood by the tribe is completely different from the well planned by Xu Chen.
According to Xu Chen's geological analysis, if you dig deep anywhere at the foot of the mountain, there will definitely be water, because there is a river a hundred meters away, and underneath the river bed is a layer of sediment formed by hundreds of millions of years of impact.
The shallow groundwater in this structure is very abundant. You only need to dig to the level of the river bed, and water will definitely come out of the well.
The current terrain of the compound is about three meters higher than the river beach.
In other words, as long as you dig down another meter or so, there should be water.
But it's a pity that there are all big and small stones below. Small ones are as big as basketballs and volleyballs, and the big ones are bigger than millstones. One stone weighs dozens or hundreds of kilograms. Sometimes I just compete with a stone for an hour or two.
After the three of them managed to get it out, they dug a few hoes and found bigger rocks.
So there was little progress in the past few days, which made Xu Chen want to give up.
Seeing him with Gu and Ju, they were as tired as dogs every day, but there was no trace of water. Not only Mother Ba tried her best to persuade him to give up, but almost all the adults began to dislike his miraculous project and kindly reminded him not to do it.
Since I wasted no effort, I might as well follow Feng and wait for a group of people to go hunting for birds at the mouth of a large river outside the valley.
Because these wild ducks have been very competitive in the past few days, they have almost laid ten eggs, and one of them has already started to lay a nest.
According to one guy's words: "If an egg becomes a duck, a well will become a duck!"
Xu Chen was angered by these primitive savages.
He became stubborn and continued digging the well, determined not to stop until water came out.
Seeing that their persuasion was ineffective, the tribesmen all began to pity him. Their eyes were full of strangeness and pity every day, as if his magical aura was quickly fading.
But Xu Chen doesn't care about the opinions of these uncivilized savages. He must slap these savages in the face with practical results.
Let them know that their magical light will never fade away.
What's more, his plan was to dig an ordinary well, a common deep well in rural areas, the kind that uses bamboo poles or reels to lift water, not a spring well that the tribesmen imagined was completely different from the naturally flowing spring on the mountainside.
As long as there is water in this well, it will be fine.
So he decided to work hard to create a miracle, and he must make the well full of water.
In order to speed up the excavation of the well, he asked people to carry seven or eight pieces of wood, and built a tripod on each side of the pit, with a beam placed horizontally on it, and crossed wrenches were tied at both ends with arm-thick wooden sticks and ropes.
Just like flipping the wooden rack of a barbecue, it forms a simple lifting device.
In the middle, ropes are used to hoist rattan baskets to carry stones and sand.
This magical and simple structure once again caused a sensation in the entire tribe, and also made a large group of men interested in participating. They would also be happy to help dig in their spare time. Although the sand and gravel underground were still mixed, it was still difficult to dig, and the wooden hoe and stone hoe were still difficult to dig.
The losses were huge, but the progress was accelerated a lot.
In mid-February, the Uzbek people came again.
Only a dozen people came this time, and a few of them were still hired workers from last time.
The main purpose of their visit this time is to inform the Ba people to participate in the Mother's Day sacrificial activities to be held next month.
At the same time, they also brought some animal skins, feathers, horns and a lot of ores, as well as a small amount of amber and gold, in order to exchange for linen.
None of these things are necessary for the Ba people at the moment. Except for the copper ore inside, Xu Chen has little interest in them.
But wealth is something that is accumulated slowly.
Only through exchange can the connection between tribes be made closer.
Therefore, the exchange went very smoothly this time. Regardless of whether it was useful or not, Xu Chen accepted the order and gave it to the Uzbek people in exchange for dozens of pieces of linen.
Nearly five months have passed in the blink of an eye since the Witch Lords Conference last autumn.
The changes in the Ba people in the past five months can be described as earth-shaking.
After moving from the mountains to living at the foot of the mountains, the entire tribe seemed to have stepped from primitive times to the rural life of later generations. Both the living environment and quality of life were completely different.
Many people still miss the time of living in caves occasionally.
Muba and others would go up the mountain every few days to check on the conditions of the cave.
But with the arrival of spring, the road up the mountain soon began to become deserted. The front of the cave where I used to live has become overgrown with weeds because no one has cared for it. A large number of birds, snakes, and rats have used the cave as a shelter from the wind and rain.
, and began to settle down there.
Every time I come down after seeing it from the mountain, everyone has a disappointed expression on their faces.
That narrow, crowded, dark, and cold cave carries the memories and experiences of the entire tribe's survival.
The walls, fire pits, stoves, grain cellars, wells, and toilets that Xu Chen spent a lot of effort to build are now abandoned.
The large number of handwriting and patterns left on the stone wall are still clear, but there is no longer a lively scene of a group of children learning to read.
Everything seems to be frozen in yesterday, turning into sad sadness and memories in the blink of an eye.
Muba was once distressed because the cave was too small to accommodate more tribesmen, and she had been feeling helpless and confused because she could not attract more strong men to join the tribe on Mother's Day.
Although she missed every plant and tree in the cave, she was reluctant to give up the habitat that her mother had found with so much hard work and at great cost.
But she also knew that everything Xu Chen had done had brought completely different development opportunities to the Ba people.
With this spacious, comfortable and safe house, pottery and linen, she needs to recruit a few strong men for the tribe on Mother's Day this year.
Compared to gatherings such as the Witch Lords Conference, which are purely men's activities.
Mother's Day is not only more sacred, but also more exciting.
Because this is a marriage event between tribes, it is related to the survival and development of all tribes. Only by attracting enough strong men to join the tribe can the tribe develop and grow.
So after the Uzbek people left, Muba and a group of older women began to prepare for the Mother's Day.
They want to dress up the young women of the tribe to be more beautiful, sew the best clothes for them out of linen, and teach them how to attract men.
However, Xu Chen was not optimistic about this group of aunts who were already married women and mothers.
Let these aunts come forward, it is better to just throw money.
Take out a large amount of pottery and linen and put it on the table, and tell the other tribe directly that we are interested in your youngest and strongest man, yes, the one with the biggest chest muscles. Can you replace the five pots, or add another bowl if you can't...
…What, you want twenty pieces of cloth, how about that? Let’s change the tribe and talk... As long as ten pieces of cloth, that’s about the same...
They say money can make the world go round.
Xu Chen believed that as long as the Ba tribe provided enough wealth, they would definitely make other tribes jealous to the point of selling their people.
Of course, doing so will also attract more hate.
However, for a tribe like the Uzbek people with a large family and business, this method happens to be the most acceptable to them.
After all, they have nothing but people, and they are poor and eat dirt.
Last time, a group of migrant workers were arranged to come to a wealthy family to spend the spring. If Gu and Ju hadn't been poisoned by snake venom and fell into a coma, that matter would have been difficult to solve.
Although no one from the other smaller tribes came to join in the fun, they probably weren't doing well either.
These stubborn savages don't understand the world at all, let alone what white lies are. Their simple way of thinking makes Xu Chen have the urge to kill himself three times at any time.
This is true for the Wu people, and the same is true for the Ba people. Even if Xu Chen guides and educates them every day, the results are very little.
Therefore, Xu Chen's plan of exchanging wealth for people will definitely not be realized.
Therefore, on Mother's Day this time, we can only see whether a group of aunts are coquettish enough.