Faced with Feng and others' request, Xu Chen did not answer directly, but turned to see Mother Ba.

So all the men and women turned their heads to look at Mother Ba.

The old mother Ba Cang, wearing a golden feather, had anger on her face.

She knew everyone’s thoughts and needs.

Even herself, she likes such neat and clean stone houses very much.

She could understand, but did not agree. She felt that her family authority was greatly challenged at this time.

But she also knew that if she could not make the right decision, the ethnic group would have huge rifts and contradictions.

As a patriarch and parent, she must weigh the pros and cons and make the most advantageous choice.

But she had never encountered such a thing.

Therefore, she was very helpless and even a little panicked.

Her dignity comes from teaching and guidance, not control and control.

The inheritance in her bones made her work hard to maintain the survival and reproduction of the tribe.

Living together in a cave on the mountainside is an ancient custom passed down from generation to generation and a security guarantee, and she dare not make changes.

But what happened in front of her forced her to consider making changes.

So in anger, helplessness and panic, my mother wanted to seek the answer from Xu Chen.

All of this was done by Xu Chen.

If anyone else in the entire tribe can solve this problem, only Xu Chen can do it.

So in the eyes of Moba's eyes asking for advice, all the men and women all looked at Xu Chen.

"Well……"

Xu Chen smiled dryly, then turned around and pointed to a clearing area covered with thorny and wild grass not far from the kiln factory near the canyon.

"There is a big house that can be built there..."

Xu Chen gestured a large area of ​​movement with his hands.

The wind and a group of hunters were instantly lit up, their eyes yelled with excitement, and then they all looked at Moba with hope.

Mother Ba hesitated for a while, and finally nodded slightly.

"Yew~~"

The crowd burst into a shocking cheer, and all women, all their faces showed an excited and surprised smile.

Looking at the cheerful tribe members, Mother Ba Cang's shriveled face showed indescribable emotions.

There is helplessness, melancholy, and a faint sadness and loss.

She turned around with a crutch and slowly walked out of the kiln factory. Her old back was thin and lonely.

It forms a huge contrast with the cheers coming from behind.

She didn't know whether she was doing it right or wrong.

Before her death, her mother told her to take good care of all her tribe members, but she felt that she was becoming more and more powerless.

...

The moon is full and waning, and it is getting late.

The rushing river winds through the primitive and wild mountains and ridges, heading straight to the distant southeast.

In the lower reaches of the river, thirty miles away from the Ba people, there is a vast river beach.

The alluvial plains of river water over billions of years have formed here for more than ten miles.

The river beach is full of grass and wild beasts, and flocks of birds come from the northwest. They are lined up with neat geese formations and swooped down, staying on this river beach to live and forage.

Between the mountains and ridges on both sides of the river, the roar of beasts came from time to time.

Wolves cruising at the river beach and the foot of the mountain, while tigers and leopards patrol among the vast jungle.

In a valley not far from the river beach, a flock of birds suddenly flew in shock, and then there were long shouts.

As the shouts got closer, a group of primitive men in animal skins came out of the valley carrying spears and sticks.

The group of animals that were foraging on the river beach became nervous in an instant, and they all primitive ears primitively turned to look at the direction of the primitive humans. Some small beasts even began to run away.

The quiet and deserted river beach suddenly became panicked.

There were nearly twenty primitive people in total, all of which were all young men. They all looked very tall and strong, with oil paints on their bodies, various bone-tooth ornaments hanging around their necks, and even a beast-like skull on their heads. The hideous teeth and holes looked terrifying and barbaric.

These savages did not hunt wild animals on the river beach, but went up the river without stopping, making long shouts along the way, gradually moving away.

In the valley where the Ba people live, a group of primitive people live a busy and fulfilling life.

Since Muba promised to build more houses at the foot of the mountain, Xu Chen could also let go and start to implement his original plan to go down the mountain.

If you don’t go down the mountain, you will be savages after all.

Only by living under the mountains and learning to farm and grazing can human beings upgrade to a higher civilized society.

Although Moba agreed very reluctantly, her mood has been very depressed recently.

But the entire Ba tribe men, women, young and old were very excited.

Because Xu Chen drew a large-scale picture for them, it was enough to live in stone houses for all the tribesmen.

But to turn this picture into reality, everyone still needs to work together.

Therefore, after the kiln factory was built, Xu Chen brought a group of men who changed to carpenters and bricklayers to this unprecedented project.

One mile away from the kiln factory and near the foot of the canyon, there is a large area of ​​flat open space.

This position was chosen by Xu Chen after observing for a long time.

There is a canyon less than two hundred meters to the right, a small river one hundred meters ahead, and a small road up the mountain not far to the left, and the kiln factory is next to the road.

There are slightly rolling earthy hills nearby, covered with a large number of wild oats and beans and other plants.

Whether from the large-scale layout of the valley or the small-scale layout of the houses planned to be built, this place is a Feng Shui treasure land suitable for human cultivation and survival.

The mountains on both sides of the valley are not too high, and it seems flat and more secure than the undulating mountains on both sides of the river.

Because there are too many weeds and thorns and not enough manpower, Xu Chen is disdainful of doing things like weeding and cutting trees slowly. With his simple tools and more than a dozen pairs of calloused hands, it will take half a month to completely clean the foundation.

So he set a fire directly.

The trees are depressed in autumn and winter.

The plants and trees on the river beach have withered on a large scale.

After these withered and dry weeds and thorns were ignited, the entire foot of the mountain instantly turned into a sea of ​​fire, with crackling flames burning and thick smoke rushing into the sky.

Slash-and-burn farming is a symbol of human civilization moving from ancient wilderness to a new era of civilization.

Although Xu Chen has a lot of experience in distinguishing ore and even knows how copper and iron are made, at the moment, he can still only use this most primitive method.

Even if human civilization continues to the era of high-tech and even cosmic technology, as long as we still need to grow grain and eat, it is inevitable.

This primitive method is not only to clean up weeds and thorns on the ground, but also to kill various virus pests. At the same time, the wood ash left behind is rich in various mineral elements, which will provide enough nutrients for plants in the coming year.

The land that has been burned will become more fertile.

As for haze and air pollution, it does not exist.

The fires in nature are thousands of times more fierce than this.

Fire is life energy, which will stimulate more vigorous vitality of plants and animals.

Of course, Xu Chen's actions of burning the desert caused a lot of panic in the tribe. Seeing the fires at the foot of the mountain rolling into the sky, Mo Ba was so scared that he led a group of panicked women down the mountain to check. Xu Chen had to give up a lot of talk and explain to them.

Although it was burning the wasteland, Xu Chen still made sufficient preparations a few days in advance.

First, a fire belt was manually cleaned out at the foot of the mountain, and then more than a dozen men took branches and scattered around the fire to take care of them. When they encountered a fire burning out the fire belt, they quickly put out the fire belt.

Therefore, although the fire seems to be fierce, it is basically limited to the planning scope.

Of course, if the wind is too strong and it really ignites the wildfire, it is impossible for several nearby mountains to be burned out, and the life of the tribe will be greatly threatened. Whether it can be extinguished depends on whether it will rain heavily.

However, in this cool autumn season, the possibility of rain is relatively low.

Therefore, for safety reasons, he asked his mother to arrange for people to go up the mountain to clean up all the food and clothing tools dried in front of the cave, and temporarily take all the women, children, elderly and weak to the kiln factory for resettlement.

The blazing flames burned for more than an hour. The more than ten acres of wasteland planned by Xu Chen were burned clean, leaving only the black gray all over the ground and some small trees that had not yet been burned, standing scattered in the fire scene and radiating blue smoke.
Chapter completed!