Time passed by minute by minute, and everyone felt like their days were like years.
The men were still indifferent, watching the discussion with wide eyes and serious faces. The women and children had never witnessed such a large-scale wild hunting scene live, so they kept making a fuss and exclaiming.
A full hour passed, and the sounds of people on the other side howling and chasing and biting gradually became thinner. The howling sounds gradually faded away and eventually disappeared without a trace.
The dense grass and thorns on the other side of the river gradually returned to calm. After a period of silence, the voices of the hunter team passing messages to each other and summoning their companions began to be heard everywhere.
"Wolf retreat!"
A group of hunters watching on the pier roared with excitement.
"Wuga~~"
Thousands of people cheered excitedly at the same time.
Xu Chen finally breathed a sigh of relief, raised his fist and shouted: "Sound the horn, withdraw the troops!"
"Woo~~Woo~~Woo~~~~"
Gu took a deep breath and blew the horn excitedly.
With the sound of three long horns echoing on both sides of the river, this unique hunting contest officially ended.
Amid the eager anticipation and waiting of thousands of pairs of eyes, hunters slowly began to appear in the thick grass on the other side of the river. They came out in groups, carrying a wild wolf with blood still dripping from its head on their shoulders.
Although all of them looked miserable, they were all smiling and waving and shouting to the river side. Some of them raised their wild wolf carcasses with both hands high to show their fruitful results to the tribe and the audience.
As more and more hunting teams appeared on the river bank carrying prey, more and more wild wolf carcasses were dumped on the Asakusa riverbank. There were also constant screams on this side of the river, especially those who saw their own tribe hunting.
When they catch more wild wolves than others, they can't help but burst into loud cheers.
In fact, the outcome of the hunt is no longer important now.
The carcasses of so many wild wolves have shown that the benefits of this human-wolf war are unprecedented.
The hunting team used their courage to completely defeat this huge group of wild wolves.
What everyone is worried about is the safety of the participating hunters.
Fortunately, as the last team appeared, there were many hunters participating in the hunting competition. Except for more than a dozen with some injuries, no one died.
The extent of the injuries cannot be determined accurately at the moment, but judging from how they were helping each other walk, it doesn't seem to be too serious, and no one is seriously injured or dying.
Xu Chen finally let out a long breath.
This impromptu hunting competition finally came to a perfect conclusion.
What follows is a long journey across the river for the huge hunting team.
The huge raft came and went four times and took more than three hours to finally transport the hunter team and all the hunted beasts and wolves back.
From the time we set off at nine o'clock in the morning, by the time the last group of hunters returned to the dock, the sun had completely set, and it was close to six o'clock in the evening.
The two river crossings took a total of six hours. In fact, the actual hunting time was less than three hours.
At dusk, the autumn wind howls, and the Wulong River flows.
Thousands of people carried the captured and hunted beasts back to the valley. It was completely dark, but everyone did not feel tired because of the night. Instead, they were full of energy and lit bonfires, starting a grand bonfire.
Dinner.
Each beast was skinned and disemboweled on the river stall, and large pieces of various animal meats were distributed to everyone in each tribe.
A large number of earthenware pots and jars were densely packed around each bonfire. On the simple grills, half or even whole heads of wild sheep, wolves and other fresh animal meats were placed and began to be rotated and smoked.
Around each bonfire, a large number of young men and women were singing and dancing.
The rich smell of blood and the aroma of barbecued meat spread all over the valley in the night breeze.
The hunters who participated in the competition were so hungry that some couldn't wait to tear into the fresh meat. They talked and laughed loudly and exchanged their experiences and experiences on today's hunting. There were also hunters from different tribes bragging to each other.
The river beach was lively, and the Ba ethnic compound was equally lively.
Under Mu Ba's warm invitation, all the tribe chiefs and the leaders responsible for leading the team gathered in the compound, surrounded by the twin little witches, sitting around the fire pit and talking and laughing.
In the kitchen, a group of women were busy barbecuing and making dinner.
In the courtyard, a bonfire was also lit. Xu Chen, Feng, Long, Lei and other military leaders from various tribes gathered around the bonfire and chatted enthusiastically.
On the bonfire, there is half a wild sheep, which is being roasted and sizzling with oil. The courtyard is exuding a strong aroma of barbecue, and it is also mixed with a special spicy aroma, which makes people salivate faster.
Pepper is the best gift of this Witch Lord Conference, bar none.
Maybe it's God's will, or maybe it's coincidence.
The discovery of pepper near the habitat of the Hu people made Xu Chen sigh with emotion at this unparalleled coincidence and miracle.
In fact, the pepper that China calls comes from the Hu people, not the current Hu people.
In the past, pepper was produced in areas with hot and humid climates such as India and the Southeast Peninsula. Although the four seasons are distinct now, summer is more pronounced with abundant rain and hot weather. The climate in some inaccessible valleys such as Wild Wolf Valley
, obviously has a tropical style and atmosphere, so the growth of pepper does not violate the laws of nature.
The only thing that keeps Xu Chen depressed is that currently he can't accurately judge whether he is still on the earth, or whether he is still on the earth, but he can't judge where he is.
Because the scope of my experience is too small, the mountains and landforms are too complex, and there are no familiar reference points, so I can't locate it at all.
This has nothing to do with knowledge of astronomy and geography, but rather because there are quite a few differences in the star patterns for field observation and positioning that he learned with the expedition team before.
The sun seemed to be the same sun, and the moon seemed to be the same moon, but there was something obviously wrong with the arrangement and position of some of the familiar stars, so this caused a cognitive barrier for him.
It's just that he is no longer obsessed with these elements. Instead, he wants to continue to develop and live well. After he has enough knowledge and population, he will slowly find the truth of this world.
Pepper can be said to be his biggest discovery after time travel.
Especially for the current bland food, although he has become accustomed to the taste of primitive savages, the illusion in his soul cannot be compensated for.
This rich and spicy food, which is popular and spicy, is still an attachment that the soul cannot let go of.
During the spring parade, after the Hu people accidentally discovered the existence of pepper, he has been thinking about it, and the Hu people did not disappoint him. Finally, at the autumn witchcraft meeting, they brought him a small cloth pocket of pepper, about
It weighs six or seven pounds.
Although the quantity is not large, it is indeed not too small when used as condiments and spices.
The main reason is that these things are wild and very troublesome to collect. To dry six or seven kilograms in the sun, you need to collect at least four to five times the mature fresh fruits. Therefore, this small amount of pepper still consumes a lot of money for the Hu people.
Manpower and time.
For a long time, pepper, as a spice that was eagerly desired by the world's nobility, was very expensive, almost as valuable as gold, and wars over the competition for pepper were not uncommon.
Things are rare and expensive, and these are high-quality condiments and spices that Xu Chen likes very much. Therefore, Xu Chen gave the Hu people a very high price as compensation. One pound of dried pepper can be exchanged for ten pieces of pottery.
This income alone is enough to make up for the labor of the Hu people.
Sixty or seventy pieces of pottery are a huge wealth for any tribe.
Barbecued meat with added pepper naturally has a unique spicy flavor, which intensifies gastrointestinal motility and whets your appetite.
The hunting time was very long today, and I had dinner very late. In the past, I would have washed up and gone to bed at this time, but today I haven't eaten yet, and it seems that I won't be able to eat anything for at least half an hour.
"Feng, tell me the news you got today!"
Looking at a group of salivating tribal officers, Xu Chen also suppressed his saliva and started arranging tomorrow's activities.
Feng Mo nodded his head, his face a little more serious, but his eyes were still staring at the wild sheep on the grill, and he slowly and carefully described the movements of the wild sheep that He Long and others had led the team to observe today.
Long was also beside him from time to time, adding a few words about what he had learned from monitoring the horses before.
Currently, there are three large families of wild horses in the riverbank area from the Bazu to the mouth of the Uzu valley.
There are about twenty horses near the river beach near the Ba tribe. They should be the same group of wild horses as the original group in the Ba tribe valley, and were later separated into groups.
The other two groups are both near the Uzbek tribe. One group has about forty horses, and the other group has about sixty horses. However, the size and scale of these wild horse groups are not very fixed. Instead, like human tribes, they have been in the process of group splits and intermarriage exchanges.
state.
The structure of the wild horse herd is the same as that of the human race. The structure is mainly based on maternal bloodline. Generally, a strong male horse is the leader. Mature male horses are usually expelled from the group and compete for mating rights with other groups.
Therefore, in this kind of competition for mating rights, the group will be in a very unstable state, and huge changes will occur in three to five years. Once several males of equal strength compete in the same group, the group is likely to split into several
In a herd, each male horse will be followed by some mares.
However, these horse groups will live together in the same area due to their maternal blood relationship, forming a complex tribal relationship.