Xu Chen found hemostatic powder and linen to wrap the child's injured finger, and then the mother calmed down a little and went to work.
"Okay, okay, why are you aggrieved? It's because you did something wrong!"
Seeing the aggrieved look on Ye Man's face, Xu Chen rubbed her head to comfort her, dumbfounded.
"It's because he's stupid..." The little female savage was still unconvinced.
"You weren't as stupid as you were when you were a child. Fortunately, the copper knife is not too sharp. Otherwise, Pu Ga's fingers would be cut off. I'll see if the mother doesn't hit you. Forget it. If you like wine, go make wine and I'll cut the fruit!"
Xu Chen glared angrily, took the copper knife that fell to the ground, washed it by the well, and led a group of children to start cutting fruits, stringing them and drying them.
Ye Du opened his mouth to squeeze the vine fruit to make wine.
Because I was a little angry, I couldn't be friendly towards the little witch. From time to time, I kept finding faults and complaining that the vines were not clean, not yet ripe, and they were not pinched carefully enough, etc.
The little witch was inherently introverted. She blushed and didn't dare to help anymore. She could only stand aside and watch blankly. After a while, she saw Xu Chen chatting lively with a group of children, and she couldn't bear it.
She walked over to watch, and Xu Chen smiled and told her how to cut the fruit and string it up with copper needles and twine.
So the little witch rolled up her sleeves, chatted and laughed intimately with Xu Chen, and began to cooperate.
"Wine making, why do you want to make wine? I also have to cut fruits..."
Her stomach was full of leaves, and she felt aggrieved and uncomfortable in her heart. She was so angry that she threw a lot of wild fruits directly into the clay pot. Several children who were helping saw it and immediately started to accuse her of doing it.
The work is not serious.
The mother heard this and ran over to take a look. She couldn't help but scolded her again.
Ye had no choice but to find out the wild fruits he had thrown in and crush them again. He was filled with grievances and had nowhere to vent, and tears fell down his face while he was working.
Xu Chen had no choice but to smile bitterly and hand the copper knife to the little witch, carefully telling her to be careful, and then turned back to make wine with Ye.
Since the arrival of the little witch, the little female savage cousin has become more and more emotional.
He was comforted and cared for every day.
However, this time we hadn’t worked for a long time when the mother came out and found the little witch cutting fruit. She immediately screamed and stepped forward to snatch the knife away. She took the little witch’s hand and looked at and touched it for fear of fear.
He cut a little of the skin, then pointed at the leaf and scolded it again.
Ye couldn't hold back at all, turned around and ran outside the yard while crying.
The little witch stood beside her at a loss.
Xu Chen could only sigh with helplessness.
If there are too many women, there will be too much trouble.
Ye Duo was good in the past, lively, outspoken and cute, like a carefree elf girl.
But now, it is about to become a jealous jar.
She was so aggrieved, and she didn't know if the wine she brewed would also turn sour.
It is said that wine making is related to mood, and people who are in a bad mood will become vinegar.
However, it seems that it would be good to get some fruit vinegar.
Sweet and sour, nutritious and helpful for digestion, it is suitable for women and children.
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In the next few days, a group of people kept going up the mountain to pick vine fruits, and then went down the mountain to make wine and dry the fruits.
Because we were fully prepared this year and happened to choose the time when a large number of vine fruits are ripe, most of them have not yet matured and fallen, so the quantity picked is also very considerable, more than double that of last year, and the total amount is over a thousand kilograms.
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Every day, the whole tribe, including a group of monkeys, were full and full. Twenty jars of fruit wine were gradually added to the warehouse. The rest were all cut and dried, so the yard was full of rattans spread out to dry.
The burlap wooden shelves were also densely covered with bunches of fruits.
The entire yard was filled with the rich and sweet smell of vine fruits, and there was also a faint scent of ripe fruit wine.
At the same time, in the open space of the yard, a large number of hazelnuts, chestnuts, acorns and other dried fruits are picked from the mountains and carried back to dry in the sun every day.
As soon as you enter the yard, the smell of harvest is everywhere.
This was a harvest the tribe had never had before.
Although these wild and dried fruits are not a staple food, they will provide sufficient nutritional supplements for the entire tribe, especially for pregnant women and children who need a lot of nutrition. They are indispensable food.
For adults, this is also a rare snack. Eat a few pieces every day. It is delicious and nutritious, and can also replenish the trace element consumption of pile driving in time.
The food stored this fall will be enough to last until spring.
The whole August was spent in this rich and sweet harvest.
In addition to several warehouses full of oats and wild beans harvested in summer and autumn, the two warehouses were gradually filled with various wild and dried fruits, and large and small rattan-framed earthen pots were piled up, making it impossible to find a place to set foot inside.
Mother and a group of women were laughing from ear to ear all day long.
They have never experienced this unprecedented harvest before.
In previous years, the mountain was occupied by a group of hundreds of monkeys, and the foot of the mountain was occupied by a group of wild wolves. The collection area was limited to the area below the mountainside and near the river beach at the foot of the mountain.
But this year, the tribe's collection range spread across the entire river valley.
Coupled with the concentrated harvest brought by farming, the reserve of plant food has reached an unprecedented scale.
In addition, thanks to the construction of a large number of houses, rattan containers and increasingly larger and larger pottery vessels as storage containers, all harvests can also be stored excellently.
In addition, the number of men suddenly increased by more than ten this year, and the harvest of fishing and hunting has also greatly increased. Stimulated by Xu Chen's military training and reward and punishment measures, the men's enthusiasm for work is also much higher than in previous years, and they can eat a lot of fish.
Animal and animal meat was also dried and stored.
But after eating too much, some headaches gradually began to appear.
That means the house is not enough.
Originally, the compound was newly built last year, and after allocating the houses to two people per room, there were still a few extra rooms available as warehouses, and Xu Chen could even use one of them as a classroom.
But after the little witch arrived with a group of Uzbek people, the house instantly became tense. Xu Chen had to let many men sleep four to a room. In addition, the classroom was specially changed into the little witch's bedroom, leaving only two rooms in the warehouse.
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But right now, the two rooms are clearly not enough.
So Xu Chen had to start the house expansion plan in advance and prepare to build a second-phase residential project.
In the past, when planning the compound, enough room for expansion was left for the second phase of the project, but all the masonry, wood, lime, thatch, etc. needed to build the house had to be prepared again, and the foundation naturally needed to be burned and excavated again.
All in all, this is another huge project.
But fortunately, with the addition of a group of Uzbek people this year, there is no shortage of labor, and it can be completed without hiring large-scale workers.
There is room for expansion on both sides of the compound. This year, Xu Chen only plans to build the area close to the kiln.
In order to finish the work before the spring rainy season, everyone except the men who hunted and burned kilns began to prepare for the construction of new houses starting from late August.
Large-scale brick building has resumed on the river beach.
Some people are responsible for cutting down trees, while others are responsible for picking up stones.
The kiln has been firing pottery since the beginning of autumn to prepare for the trade after the Witch Lords Conference. It is also firing lime, so there is no shortage or even a surplus of lime at the moment.
After the food gathering and harvesting came to an end, women began to devote more energy to spinning and weaving.
The demand for linen last year did not come as expected, but everyone believes that the trend of linen replacing animal skins will come soon.
Maybe after next spring.
Of course, Xu Chen also knew that the tribes were now poor in wealth and still struggling with lack of food and clothing. This need was not particularly obvious.
However, these huge advances in farming, animal husbandry, and textiles will definitely bring about huge changes in society, and then promote earth-shaking changes in the entire human society.
It's just that the time has not yet come.
But after all, it has been accumulated for more than a year, and after fermentation, various tribes will also undergo considerable changes.
Progress in technology will inevitably lead to increased wealth.
Increased wealth will also inevitably promote business development.
The simplest example is the invention and spread of fishing nets, which will greatly supplement the food of each tribe and allow other tribes to have more manpower to collect more wealth.
He is now looking forward to the Uzbek tribe collecting more copper ore in exchange for it.
The copper smelted in the first furnace was very small, only about twenty kilograms in total. In the end, only a few small objects were made, but with these copper tools, many things became more convenient and simpler.
Just like a copper knife, although it is not strong in texture, it is thin and sharp. It is much more convenient to cut fruits and cut linen bark than a stone knife.
In addition, needles made of copper are much stronger and more durable than wooden needles. Although they are not as penetrating as bone needles, they are easier to make and less likely to break.
Wealth is accumulated, not created out of thin air.
The Ba people now have enough financial and material resources to collect a large amount of ore and start to activate the metal smelting skill.
However, it would definitely be too slow for him to wait for the Uzbek people to rely on primitive means to collect ore and develop smelting technology.
His purpose was to completely split the Uzbek tribe, annex several of the tribes, and seize the copper mines within the Uzbek tribe's territory.
This is a big step for snakes to swallow elephants.
You might get choked if you're not careful.
So he needs to plan carefully.
Since arranging an envoy to appease the Uzbek people with gifts, there has been no movement from the Uzbek people recently, which shows that all his plans to please the Uzbek people and to win over the people have been successful.
What he needs to do now is to be more prepared.
At the upcoming witchcraft conference, the identity of the successor of the great witch of the Wu tribe will be revealed, and the power of the other four tribes will be combined to completely dismember the Wu tribe and establish the great witch of the Ba tribe.
With the help of the great witch as the spiritual leader, he first unified the five tribes under the leadership of the Ba people as the core based on their beliefs.
Then the little witch stood in front and he supported her from behind.