There was a child standing on a big tree shouting at the girl.
The girl obviously had no interest in helping these children pick fruits. Instead, she yelled loudly, and the group of wild children had no choice but to get down from the tree obediently.
The girl's name is Ye.
The original name of the savage boy possessed by Xu Chen in time travel was Chen. It’s not clear whether it means morning or not, but at least the pronunciation is like that.
In fact, after a day and a half of familiarity and communication, Xu Chen has discovered that although the language these savages communicate is simple, it is not completely incompatible with Chinese. They all use monosyllabic characters, which are very similar to Chinese. Each sound represents a person.
The individual meanings and even the pronunciation of some characters are very similar to Chinese.
For example, when eating, they say Ah Qi Gaga. The word "Gaga" is a modal particle, and Ah Qi is the main meaning. In southern China, the word "eat" is pronounced "qi" in many places.
In addition, the name of the old woman who is the leader is Mu Ba, and there is also the word mother in Chinese. Mu represents gender. Xu Chen is not sure what Ba represents, but if you think about it carefully, the old woman's original name may be 'Ba', and Mu may just mean her.
Honorific title.
Also, these savages call the fruit on the tree "gu", which is obviously different from Chinese, but it is not because of the ancient pronunciation. What is the original meaning of "fruit"?
Xu Chen once worked with the geological survey team in Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Guangxi for a long time.
The accents in the South are very different from those in the North, and Mandarin is even more different.
Both Hokkien and Cantonese are difficult to understand
In addition, even if you understand the dialects in the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas, the pronunciation of many characters is obviously different from those of the northern dialects.
As for the modal particle "ga", Sichuan people actually use it a lot. Those who use the word "ga" every sentence in mutual communication must be Sichuan natives.
So after thinking about it more, Xu Chen felt that the language used by these savages might be the most primitive pronunciation of ancient Chinese.
However, this speculation still needs to be verified.
But the experiment is of little significance without verification. The language of these primitive people is very simple at the moment. It is nothing more than daily communication such as eating, drinking and having sex. It is limited to the cognitive scope of the world and only expresses some things seen around them. The language system
They are still almost at the expression level of kindergarten, so even if they are not speaking Chinese, based on their pronunciation habits, Xu Chen is confident that he can guide their language to develop into the Chinese he is familiar with.
Xu Chen kept thinking about these savage tribes in his head. At the same time, he looked everywhere in the woods, hoping to find a plant similar to ramie.
Unfortunately, except for big trees and various vines, thorns and weeds, similar plants are rarely seen in this primitive forest. Even if you occasionally see a few, the skin is not strong after being broken, and it is obviously not suitable for spinning and weaving.
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What depressed Xu Chen the most was that he didn't recognize most of the plants he saw in the woods. Except for the trees, even the weeds were very different from the familiar earth environment, which was far beyond his expectation.
As a geological survey team member, Xu Chen has been working in the field with the survey team since graduation, on the border of Sichuan and Shaanxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangxi. Most of his activities were in the inaccessible mountains.
Although the salary is not high, there is a lot of experience in the field.
They hold high-tech satellite phones and various instruments, but in fact the most useful ones are the most primitive survival skills.
When working in the field, you must learn to distinguish which plants are edible, which herbs can treat bruises and snake and insect bites, and which places are suitable for camping. In addition, you must identify the direction according to the sun, moon and stars, and judge the weather according to changes in wind and clouds, because high-tech equipment is not
It is omnipotent. You can encounter any situation in some mountains. The geomagnetic field is strong in many places and any high-tech equipment is useless. If it encounters heavy rain and fog, the group may be wiped out.
Therefore, wilderness survival training is an essential skill for geological expedition team members. It can save lives in many cases. The more primitive the method, the more effective it is. The more dependent on high-tech equipment, the more dangerous it is when encountering uncertain situations.
After several years of field work, Xu Chen not only learned to identify various plants and herbs from the professors and veteran team members of the geological team, but also looked for various herbal treatments on the spot when he encountered snake and insect bites for headaches, brain fever, and even in the remote mountains of Guizhou and Yunnan.
I learned how to use straw sandals and weave fishing nets with some local mountain people.
Because in many very ancient villages, the locals still maintain the ancient living habits, such as spinning, weaving and tie-dying their own linen, putting out bamboo rafts to make local wine, and wearing straw sandals and raincoats when going out.
Rope-twirling is the simplest skill, and there is no skill at all.
Unfortunately, the skills he once learned to identify plants and herbs are somewhat useless in the current stage of prehistoric civilization.
But he is not completely discouraged. Although he is not sure whether the world he traveled to is on the earth at the moment, based on the performance of primitive people and the surrounding environment, it is very similar to the earth in the past. He only needs to continue to understand and become familiar with it. He believes
I can live very well by myself.
Because everything he saw before him was not beyond his scope of cognition.
Plants, animals, and insects are still in a normal state, and there are no monster-like species. At most, they are just unknown.
Xu Chen limped around with a wooden stick and slowly searched in this small primitive forest. His hard work paid off, and he finally discovered a relatively familiar plant, Tianqi.
Panax notoginseng, also known as Panax notoginseng or blood ginseng, is a rare traditional Chinese medicine special to Yunnan. The locals call it Jinbuhuan.
Traditional Chinese medicine compares Tianqi and ginseng. Ginseng nourishes qi and Tianqi nourishes blood. It has the effects of stopping bleeding, strengthening the heart, reducing swelling and blood stasis, relieving pain and activating blood circulation.
However, this Tianqi plant was extremely tall, more than one meter tall, and its trunk was thicker than his thumb. It was very different from the wild Tianqi he had seen in the mountains of Yunnan. It could be called an extra-large one.
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Therefore, although Xu Chen was pleasantly surprised, he was also skeptical. After observing closely for a long time, he used the wooden stick in his hand to dig up the surrounding soil.
"Chen Ga..." The girl came up to him in surprise, with confusion on her face.
"Help me dig it out!" Xu Chen said while digging the soil.
The girl seemed to understand. She squatted down and dug the soil with her hands. Her shabby fur skirt couldn't cover the spring sunshine, and half of her buttocks were exposed.
Xu Chen occasionally glanced at it and couldn't help but twitch his face a few times.
Although his skin is very dark, he is not good-looking, and he is skinny and skinny, he will always have some thoughts that are not suitable for children in this barren mountain.
However, the girl obviously didn't know that there was a lame man savage next to her who was looking at her small buttocks in wild imagination. Instead, she tried her best to help. With the cooperation of the two of them, they quickly dug down half a foot deep, and a piece was as thick as an arm.
The tubers slowly emerge.
Damn it, this is a carrot.
Looking at the exposed and strong root, Xu Chen became more and more unsure.
But thinking that this was still the primitive era, he felt a little excited and his temples were pounding.
Panax notoginseng used as medicine is graded based on the head. The larger the individual, the more expensive it is. However, the root in front of you can be regarded as a giant that has never been seen in history, and its medicinal value is immeasurable.
Of course, the prerequisite is that it must be Tianqi.
The more Xu Chen dug, the more frightened he became.
After more than ten minutes, the two finally dug up half a meter of soil around them. After completely pulling out the root of Pangasius, Xu Chen almost crashed.
In addition to the lumpy leaf heads, there is a tuber below that is more than a foot long and as thick as an arm and covered with roots, and may weigh several kilograms.
In order to verify that this giant stick was Tianqi, Xu Chen pulled off a beard, wiped the soil with his hands, put it in his mouth and chewed it.
A hint of bitterness soon turned into a sweetness, which instantly made your mouth salivate and the taste was very familiar.
Holy shit, it’s really Tian Qi.
Xu Chen sat down on the ground and gasped hard, covering his pounding heart, completely unaware of the dirt on his buttocks.
Such a big piece of wild Panax notoginseng is worth more than a hundred-year-old wild ginseng, and it is probably worth hundreds of thousands.
While Xu Chen was giggling, a line of saliva slowly dripped from the corner of his mouth.
"Chenga!"
Seeing Xu Chen's appearance, the girl was frightened.
"Oh, haha, it's okay, it's okay, I'm okay!"
Xu Chen suddenly woke up, looked at the big radish Tianqi in his hand, and then looked at the dark and thin savage girl who was as naked as himself. The excitement in his heart instantly receded like a tide.
How long has it been, and you still want to spend hundreds of thousands for nothing?
So he got up unhappily, patted the dirt on his buttocks, and unscrupulously opened the butt groove to shake out the dirt inside. Then he threw Tianqi to the girl and limped with a wooden cane.
He continued to wander in the woods.
A group of children entered the forest, which was just like entering a children's playground. They were running around, digging in the soil, climbing trees, and looking for things to stuff into their mouths. Half an hour later,
When Xu Chen decided to walk back, he found a group of children lying on a huge rotten tree digging for termites to eat.
These termites are very big and have no wings. They are crawling everywhere from the rotten wood that has been pried open. Five children, big and small, are competing to stuff them into their mouths. Xu Chen's face keeps twitching as he watches.
Termites have high nutritional value and contain several amino acids necessary for the human body. In addition, their protein content is higher than that of eggs.
There are many people eating bugs in Yunnan and Guizhou, and the locals especially like to eat bamboo shoot bugs.
Xu Chen also tasted it. The white and plump bamboo shoot worms were deep-fried and then stir-fried with chili pepper and salt. The chicken was crispy and fragrant.
But it still takes a lot of courage to eat termites alive, at least he has not tried it.
And stuffing dirt and sand into your mouth like this requires not only courage, but also a super stomach that can eliminate all kinds of bacteria and viruses.
He didn't dare to eat, but when he saw a group of children eating happily, Xu Chen felt that he was so hungry that his stomach began to rebel.
There was only two meals a day, and there was not much food. Breakfast was just a fist-sized piece of roasted meat. After half a day of labor, the energy was already insolvent and declared bankrupt.
And now...
Xu Chen looked up at the direction of the sun. It was only noon, and there were still four or five hours before dinner.
"Ye Ga, is there anything to eat nearby?"
Fang Yun rubbed his growling belly and turned his head.
The savage girl seemed to be swallowing her saliva.
Facing Xu Xia's questioning look, she thought for a moment and pointed down the mountain.
"valley!"
"Gu?" Xu Xia's eyes lit up.
The girl nodded.
"Let's go, take me there quickly!" Xu Xia turned around.
The girl gave some instructions to the children and quickly followed her.