Chapter 135 The beginning of everything is difficult
The two little wolves were lying on the ground eating, sticking out their tongues, and they were so hot that they didn't want to move. When they saw Xu Chen coming over, their mood became much more lively. They whined around him and began to nibble on the legs and feet of the small bed.
Xu Chen's face turned a little dark.
He has discovered that these two little wolves have a tendency to evolve into Erha.
Now they are chewing on everything they see. The stone nests are all gnawed with pitted teeth marks, and several pieces of wood have been chewed into the monkey cage next door, causing a very disharmonious relationship between the two groups.
And as the two little wolves grew bigger and bigger, and their claws became sharper and sharper, the monkeys no longer dared to bully the little wolves as before, and the two beast groups gradually became evenly matched.
The corridor was relatively airy, and you could still see the scenery on the river beach when you looked up. Xu Chen felt that the heat seemed to have subsided a lot. He hummed a little tune and worked faster. In the blink of an eye, two hours passed, and he heard the sound of hunters finishing their work from the direction of the valley mouth.
The cry of going home, this crib is officially finished.
The core of the rattan bed is the boxy rattan hanging basket.
Although the workmanship is rough, the materials used are absolutely solid. The frame made of wooden sticks plus ivy weighs more than thirty kilograms. Plus the bed frame outside, the total weight is no less than fifty kilograms.
In order to install the rattan bed, he called two tool men to help. The three people worked for half an hour, and the first movable crib with separate inside and outside in human history was finally completed.
The square hanging basket is hung from the bed frame with more than a dozen ropes. When pushed gently by hand, it can rock slightly from front to back and left to right. The amplitude is not large, but the stability is much more stable than a small swing-style cradle.
The rope is now six months old and can already start to sit and play. In another two or three months, it will crawl and even start to learn to walk. It must be strong enough to withstand the tossing.
What's more, according to family tradition, after the older one goes to bed, the younger one sleeps next.
Children are being born all the time, and one bed is definitely not enough, because the well and room will have to be upgraded to a larger bed before winter. In addition, in addition to the three pregnant women who were pregnant in winter and spring, there is now one more pregnant woman.
In other words, between today's autumn and winter and next year's spring, if nothing unexpected happens, four more babies will be born in the tribe.
In addition, three more aunts have been recruited this year, and there are more men driving the piles. I am afraid that there will be several more silent aunts who will become pregnant one after another.
The rush of more than a dozen aunts to conceive and give birth is a symbol of the prosperity of the tribe, but the demand for various high-quality foods and supporting facilities is also increasing.
For such a good thing as a crib, everyone must have one when the time comes, otherwise a group of aunties might start fighting over it.
Don’t worry about scarcity, but worry about inequality.
It is not uncommon for brothers and sisters to have conflicts over this kind of thing.
There can be heated arguments over how many cents you win or lose playing mahjong, and it is not surprising that you will even get a bloody head.
What's more, it is a benefit that is related to the vital interests of yourself and your children.
Although children are raised jointly by the family, people have selfish motives and differences in closeness, so in many cases it is impossible to treat everyone equally with equal distribution.
Even Muba is the same. She obviously needs to be closer to girls. Boys are all losers who have to be married off, so naturally they can only take care of them carelessly. Muba is like this, and the clan members are even more so. Only their own children will care and love them more.
, but when the mother doesn’t have enough to eat or wear or keep warm, it’s impossible to take good care of the child.
The most typical example is that Muba's mother ran away from the Uzbek ethnic group.
The two-year-old son froze to death in the cold winter.
The origin is this traditional habit of favoring girls over boys, which led to unfair distribution of food and animal skins among tribes.
The Ba people are also starting to show signs of this. As the number of people increases and the needs increase, fairness becomes increasingly difficult to grasp, and there will be more and more conflicts.
The emergence of private ownership is the inevitable result of great material abundance.
Although the Ba people are not yet rich enough to be privatized, this highly targeted property shows a tendency to be extremely privatized, because only those who have children can own it.
In the past, it was just a piece of animal hide and a few mouthfuls of dry and hard food, so there was no difference.
But now it’s completely different. With the continuous enrichment of food, under Xu Chen’s intentional intervention, food supplementation for pregnant women and children has been given top priority. It’s not that the distribution is uneven, but that the nutritional mix of food has begun to improve.
The emphasis, delicious and nutritious food is geared towards pregnant women, infants and young children.
The simplest ones, such as bird eggs, are currently the most nutritious food. Almost all of them are allocated to pregnant women and infants, but the quantity is still scarce. Even children aged five or six cannot eat them if they want to.
Semi-adults like Ye and Xu Chen can't even eat it.
Therefore, in order to weave a small mosquito net as quickly as possible, Aunt Seventeen secretly gave Ye a duck egg in private.
This duck egg is a special supply of food distributed to pregnant women every time the wild ducks lay eggs. This is their private food and does not need to be shared.
Food distribution can be intervened, but habits cannot be forcibly interfered with, just like the culture of favoring women over men.
Therefore, Xu Chen could only slowly change through his own actions.
Just like this time when making a baby cradle, he was the first to build it for the house instead of the well, which shows that he does not treat men and women differently. In order to get a cradle for her daughter, Aunt Seventeen had to beg him, even to get it
A small mosquito net, and even secretly gave Ye a duck egg as a favor.
If Muba or another adult woman arranged this matter, the first cradle would definitely be given to Jing.
In addition, the attitude of Muba and several older women can also be seen from taking care of infants and young children.
Aunt Seventeen gave birth to Jing in front of her, and Aunt Nine gave birth to a house in the back. However, Aunt Seventeen was able to weave and work at home every day to take care of Jing, but Aunt Nine had to go out to collect food as soon as her child was one month old and had to work for most of the day before she could come back.
Looking at my son, the matter of breastfeeding in the room is even more casual. Aunt Nine is not here, so Aunt Thirteen can only take a few mouthfuls of milk, and Aunt Seventeen can only take a few mouthfuls of milk. Every time after a few mouthfuls, the two young ladies start to make a fuss, and then they
I can only suffer and continue to be hungry.
Xu Chen now has a special status, and no one in the clan will object or have any objection to whatever he does.
Therefore, he gave the cradle to whomever he wanted first, and no one was privately dissatisfied.
Today, the big baby rocker that he spent a whole day making once again caused a sensation in the entire tribe.
First, the mother who stayed at home and a group of women, children and the elderly crowded into Aunt Thirteen's room to watch this magical creation. They were chattering around as if it was a strange thing and they were reluctant to cook.
A group of wild men who came back one after another and a group of children brought back by Gu Ju were also stunned by this magical rocking bed. They completely ignored Sheng Ga's feelings and carried the bed into the yard together, forming a large circle and continuing to watch.
Strange.
The structure of this bed is not complicated, but the creativity is very exciting, and it is more magical than the cradle.
So Aunt Ninth and Aunt Seventeen, who were the first to get the cradle, instantly felt that their baby cradle no longer smelled good and was no longer worth being proud of and showing off.
Only this kind of big and spacious bunk bed is the most favorite thing for my children.
But they were too embarrassed to ask Xu Chen for help with another one.
After all, Xu Chen had been busy working from dawn to dusk for two days to make the cradle and crib.
The crib is large, so the mosquito net is naturally large, so Aunt Thirteen has to work hard for several days, and Aunt Seventeen has already covered Jing's cradle with a mosquito net today.
During dinner, we took advantage of the cool weather outside, so we placed two small cradles and a baby crib side by side in the yard. Everyone gathered around to eat, watch, and laugh, and the atmosphere was very lively and harmonious.
Xu Chen once again used his magical creativity to prove that nothing is impossible except what is imaginable.
After dinner, just after dusk, some women eagerly dragged the men into their rooms. Soon, sounds inappropriate for children began to be heard from the rooms in the southeast, northwest and northwest of the courtyard.
Under the stimulation of cribs and cradle, some women who are not pregnant suddenly become impatient.
They also want to own such a beautiful and practical cradle and crib as soon as possible.
As for a group of older children, they all watched eagerly in the yard and couldn't bear to go to sleep.
These younger brothers and sisters are so lucky. They were born and raised in a cave. They had no milk, no bed, and only a piece of dirty animal skin all year round. Why are you so happy...
A furry child secretly reached out and pulled the rope on the crib until he cried loudly.