After all the grain in the farmland was dried and returned to the warehouse, Xu Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Starting from the burning of wasteland in winter, I have been busy to this day for more than half a year.
Today it’s finally time to verify the harvest.
He called Ye Cangfang, pointed to the numbers recorded on the grain cellar, and asked her to sum them up and calculate them all.
So Ye took a ceramic plate and charcoal strips and began to calculate slowly.
Ye can now calculate simple additions and subtractions of hundreds of digits, but Xu Chen often only asks some simple questions for assessment, but has never used this skill in life.
In fact, after Xu Chen created numerical symbols and simple calculations, this was also the first time that Xu Chen seriously applied mathematics to real life.
All the tribesmen don't quite understand the use of Xu Chen teaching a group of children to count, because in their view, as long as they can distinguish the size of the pile, it is enough, and numbers exceeding ten are of little significance.
Tribe swapping, you do the same thing and I do the same thing slowly.
Just counting on your fingers is enough.
But people are different.
After personally participating in and witnessing the exchange of pottery with several foreign tribes last winter, Xu Chen became determined to change this extremely cruel reality.
In the future, if you want to exchange with tribes who don't know how to count, you must add more money, otherwise your life will be short.
There were four small grain cellars in total, and Ye counted them very slowly. After each calculation, he had to recalculate it twice under Xu Chen's reminder to confirm that there were no mistakes in the calculation before recording it on the wall of the warehouse.
After the four granaries are all summarized correctly, add up all four numbers to get all the harvest from this year's farming.
But seeing that these four were all three-digit numbers with very large amounts, Ye suddenly became nervous. After adding the first two numbers for a long time, he still couldn't get the result. In the end, he could only hand the ceramic plate to Xu Chen with a face full of shame.
He lowered his head and hummed softly: "I can't!"
"Why not? Come, let me teach you..."
Xu Chen pointed at the two three-digit numbers on the pottery board that both started with nine and started adding them from the ones digit. When adding to the hundreds digit, he explained with special emphasis: "Note, the tens digit is carried once here, so after adding the hundreds digit, you have to add it again."
Add one, two hundred and ninety-eight, plus one is nineteen, so nineteen should be written in front, then the two numbers add up to one thousand nine hundred and sixty-two, do you understand!"
"I understand... I understand!"
Ye was surrounded by Xu Chen in his arms, feeling his heart beating very fast, and smelling the slight smell of sweat on Xu Chen's body. His cheeks turned red and his breathing became heavier. His hands and feet were a little nervous and had nowhere to rest. Unconsciously, his little hands
Then he touched Xu Chen's butt.
Xu Chen:……
Amitabha!
Feeling the strong emotional changes of his little mother's savage cousin, Xu Chen quickly put the pottery board into her hand and said: "If you understand, go and add the two granaries at the back."
"oh!"
Ye took the pottery plate very disappointed, pouted and started adding the last two numbers.
In recent times, Ye's physical changes have been obvious.
She has gotten rid of her former dark and skinny little savage state, and has begun to move towards a little village girl. Although she is still dark, she is no longer particularly thin. Her whole body looks much fuller and more symmetrical, and her small breasts are gradually gaining shape.
Recently, they have been busy with work, and the two of them rarely have time to communicate alone.
However, my little cousin's desire to mate with him has never disappeared, and I must not let her misunderstand.
After all, what I want is the kind of girl with a pretty girl and a cute body, which has nothing to do with village girls.
"Chen Ga, go to the cave tomorrow... okay?"
Ye lowered his head and hummed softly.
"Go to the cave?" Xu Chen's eyebrows jumped.
"Mother Ba Gaga said... She said she wanted to put feathers on me..."
Ye's voice is even quieter.
Xu Chen was stunned, and suddenly understood in his heart that putting feathers on a woman was a rite of passage, which meant...she was becoming an aunt!
When a woman has her aunt, it means she can get married when she reaches adulthood.
This actually made him feel a little confused for a moment.
Although he never thought that he would marry her one day, he felt a little uncomfortable when he thought that she would be harmed by wild men from other tribes when she became an adult, just like a toy that belonged to him was suddenly snatched away.
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After getting along for more than a year, it can be said that the relationship between the entire tribe and Ye is the closest. It can be regarded as childhood sweethearts, because the two grew up naked together since childhood. They are familiar with each other and there is no need to guess. The size and length are clear.
"Mother, Ba Ga Ga, tell me tomorrow?" Xu Chen calmed down and asked.
"Moga, I want to go to the cave with... and you first... to see..." Ye answered nervously.
Xu Chen breathed a sigh of relief, touched her hair and shook his head and said, "I'm busy harvesting now. No one has been to the mountain for a long time. There are snakes and wild beasts everywhere. It's better not to go!"
"Oh!" Ye lowered his head, tears welling up in his eyes.
"Don't cry, wait until autumn when we pick vine fruits and make wine, then go up and have a look!" Xu Chen could only comfort her softly.
He still cherishes the relationship between his childhood sweethearts.
After all, there are only a few people in a tribe, and he doesn't want anyone to feel alienated or alienated.
He knew Ye's thoughts very clearly.
But facing a girl who was just in junior high school, he couldn't feel any desire, he just felt a little lost.
Unexpectedly, in the blink of an eye, this savage girl who was wearing a fur skirt and running around with her bare buttocks not long ago would become an adult. I am afraid that she will never be able to get along with her as intimately as before.
And I seem to be...an adult.
He recalled the sleepless night he had not long ago after being seduced by Ye Momo. He actually dreamed of the twin little witches of the Wu tribe, and they were also tied up in a strange erotic dream.
I talk about being crazy as a teenager, thousands of miles away from my grave, and nowhere to talk about my desolation.
In another time and space, the grass on my grave might have been one meter high.
But I didn’t expect that the middle-aged foot-picking uncle could actually come to this primitive tribe to rejuvenate himself.
I got the love from a young female savage who was only twelve or thirteen years old.
Is this because God is blind, or is it because the Space and Time Administration has lost its moral character and arranged for him such a heart-wrenching fate that he can't let go of?
Whether he loves it or not, he must handle this relationship properly.
We can neither let her down nor let her succeed.
This is an extremely difficult task. If you are not careful, it will cause the tribe to be shaken and the people to be distracted.
He still knows a little bit about tribal coming-of-age ceremonies, which are usually a simple ceremony held by the tribe leader or shaman.
It is held in the cave where the ancestors lived. The woman puts on a feather and the man paints on his body.
But this just means that they have this status, and it does not mean that they can fully enjoy the qualifications of inserting feathers and painting oil paints.
This feather will be taken off after the ceremony, which means that after the ceremony, the child can obtain the right to mate. Unless the child reaches adulthood and becomes an elder, he will not be able to insert a second feather in his life.
Men also have to hunt their first wild beast after reaching adulthood before they have the right to apply oil paint for a long time.
This ancient ritual and habit will gradually turn into a more solemn etiquette or festival with the passage of time and the advancement of civilization.
Apparently after Ye's aunt arrived, her mother had already started to arrange the matter, so she had other ideas.
However, Xu Chen would not satisfy her wild plan.
Although he is a savage now, he will never admit that he is an ordinary savage.
He is a new-age savage with ideals and ambitions.
He didn't want to disband his tribe before he even started his journey to conquer the stars and the sea.
Ye was emotionally unstable and finally added the data of the last two grain cellars after exhausting his efforts.
However, when faced with the addition of two thousand-digit data, she was completely helpless. She cried and put the ceramic plate into Xu Chen's hand again: "I can't!"
Xu Chen did not explain it carefully to her this time, but just let her watch and add the values.
One hundred acres of field yielded a total harvest of 3,775 kilograms.
Three warehouses of oats and one warehouse of miscellaneous beans.
In addition, oats and beans with full grains were deliberately selected and packed in clay pots for hundreds of kilograms each. They were not included in the harvest. They were reserved as improved seeds and planted in a separate field next year to see the effect.
This is the total harvest from half a year of farming.
Although the unit of kilogram is slightly different from the units of measurement that he was familiar with, he feels that the difference will not be too big. The plus or minus will not exceed fifty grams, which means the total amount will not exceed two hundred kilograms.
This income was more than a thousand kilograms less than the fifty kilograms per mu he originally expected, but it was also several hundred kilograms more than the later estimate.
If it weren't for the constant troubles caused by wild horses and other wild beasts during the growth process, the harvest would have increased a bit, but it would no longer matter. After all, any time you farm, this hidden consumption is included in the calculation. Excluding natural and man-made disasters, everything will eventually be harvested.
Only look at real income.
During dinner in the evening, Xu Chen reported this year's harvest figures to Muba and all the tribesmen.
Although everyone could not understand such a large number, after Xu Chen explained it using a pottery bowl as a measuring tool, everyone was still very excited and excited for a long time.
According to Xu Chen, with so much grain, even if a thousand kilograms were left as seeds, and each person could eat a bowl of the rest every day, it would be enough for the entire tribe to eat for two full months.
In fact, the daily food mix cannot eat so much, because there are also meat, fruits and wild vegetables, and one-third of the food every day is enough to satisfy everyone. Therefore, this much food is enough for the entire tribe to survive the entire winter and spring.
In addition, this is only the collection and harvesting of farmland, and the harvesting in the wild has not yet begun. From now until the end of August, we can continue to collect wheat, beans, and other grains in the wild. Judging from last year's harvest, at least more than a thousand kilograms can still be harvested.
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In this way, even if the hunting harvest in winter and spring is seriously insufficient, the entire tribe will be able to hold on until next summer and no longer have to worry about starvation.
What's more, now that we have bows and arrows and fishing nets, as long as the weather is not extremely bad, we can basically get a harvest from hunting, and occasionally there will even be too much food to eat.
In the past three months of summer, the two wolf cubs and a group of monkeys had gained a lot of weight due to the abundant hunting. The changes in the entire tribe were obvious to all.
In addition, more than a dozen ducklings hatched from a few wild ducks caught in the spring have now grown up, almost the same size as adult wild ducks. Because they were kept in cages and fed all day long, they all grew fat and fat, almost almost to the point of death.
Lost the ability to fly.
By the spring of next year, these ducklings will also start laying eggs as adults, and the duck eggs alone will become an important food source for the tribe.
The six months since we moved to the foot of the mountain can be said to be the greatest change and innovation in the history of the entire tribe. Farming, breeding and hunting have achieved great success. The tribe has completely gotten rid of the worry about food all year round that it had before last year.
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Coupled with the abundant supplies such as pottery, cloth, animal skins, spacious yards, and neat and clean houses, the life of the Ba people has undergone earth-shaking changes.