Early the next morning, the entire tribe crawled out of their hay nests before dawn.
The women are responsible for cooking, while the men bundle the baskets on their backs and carry the baskets. They are busy until the sun comes out, and the mother-in-law leads nearly half of the tribe to carry the baskets and carry the loads.
Xu Chen was among the team, and Gu Heju was among them.
As the reserve force of the tribe, the three of them need to increase their knowledge and prepare for future tribal exchanges.
After all, tribal men have to get married. Although Mu Ba doesn't want Xu Chen to get married, the ancient inheritance is like this. She can't stop it, and she can't stop it selfishly, so it is best to find a suitable tribal marriage for them.
choose.
Feng and other six young and strong hunters are the main force participating in the Witch Lord Conference.
There are also three able-bodied assistants and seven young women.
Those who were left in the cave were all women, children, the elderly, weak and pregnant.
For the safety of the tribe, Mother Ba repeatedly told her when she left that no one except the kiln workers was allowed to go down the mountain, and that they must stay on the mountain until everyone came back.
Because Ye had to take care of children and pregnant women on weekdays, he couldn't go out with him. He cried aggrievedly for half the night last night, and cried again all morning today. He followed a group of women, children, old and young people to send a group of people down the mountain, and further to the river beach, dragging them along.
Xu Chen cried and refused to let go of his arms. Finally, he had to stop with tears after being repeatedly comforted and scolded by Xu Chen, Mu Ba and others. It was not until Xu Chen turned around after walking far away that he could still see this girl standing there.
Waving from afar on the river beach.
They say distance creates beauty.
These sentences are absolutely correct.
Although Ye wears linen clothes on weekdays, she is no longer the little savage who wears a fur skirt all day long, and her buttocks are exposed when she walks bare-chested, but she actually has an unkempt appearance and various rude and casual living habits.
, Xu Chen still never felt that she became a beautiful girl just because she wore a top or skirt.
However, after walking far away and taking a quick look back, I found a different kind of hazy beauty.
In the clear blue sky and the mountain stream, she is alone in a white dress, waving from a distance on the river beach grass in the early morning, with the slightly lingering steaming morning mist and faint sunshine, just like an elf girl in the wilderness, with an unforgettable and beautiful artistic conception
.
The so-called beauty is on the side of the water.
It's a pity that she is his cousin.
Xu Chen withdrew his gaze with a slight regret in his heart, and was mixed in with the long queue, walking gradually farther and farther along the river towards the valley.
This is the second time Xu Chen has gone out in nearly three months.
And he still travels far.
The small pool at the mouth of the valley is still crystal clear, but the waterfall on the cliff has stopped flowing, the water in the pool has dropped a lot, and many large and small fish and shrimps can be seen at the bottom of the pool.
Primitive people actually don’t like to eat fish, mainly because aquatic animals have no oil and water, and their salt content is extremely low, and fish are difficult to catch.
Rather than fishing, primitive people would rather catch some snakes and turtles.
There have been a large number of oracle bone inscriptions left in Chinese history, including more than 100,000 pieces of tortoise shells unearthed from the Yin Ruins alone.
Why are there so many turtle shells? Because turtles are also an important source of meat, and they are relatively easy to obtain without any danger.
Compared with engraving words on stone or casting them on metal, tortoise shell is obviously easier to use and more convenient to preserve.
Therefore, the sorcerers and fortune tellers collected a large number of inscriptions carved with tortoise shells to predict bad luck, etc. This slowly accumulated and formed a huge cultural heritage, which provided a large amount of material for archeology in later generations.
In other words, the existence of a large number of oracle bone inscriptions is the product of the combination of good time, place, and people, and is not the result of a single reason.
Being edible, usable and easy to preserve has contributed to the historical value of tortoise shells.
However, Xu Chen believed that because of his appearance, things like oracle bone inscriptions would most likely not survive. In the future, either cave inscriptions or pottery inscriptions would be verified.
This is a good idea. After the Witch Lords Conference comes back, they can engrave some diaries on the pottery they make in the future. This is not to show off for themselves, but mainly to leave some useful legacies for future generations of archeology.
When you leave the valley, you will see the roaring river.
Although this river is not as large as the Yangtze River, it is at least equivalent to a large tributary like the Han River. Although it is the dry season, the river is still nearly fifty meters wide. The clear water rolls toward the southeast. Both sides of the river are surrounded by mountains.
Between the mountains and the river is a wide river beach.
Groups of wild animals, big and small, are scattered in groups grazing leisurely on the river beach as far as the eye can see.
A large number of wild birds are flying and playing in flocks on the river beach.
Above the blue sky, there is a goshawk flying high in the sky.
The river is flowing, the sky is high and the sky is high, the whole place is a primitive and natural beautiful scenery.
This place used to be the border area where the Ba people lived and hunted.
There are many prey in the river basin, but a huge tribe of wild wolves is entrenched here, which has become a serious problem for the Ba people.
But ten days ago, this scourge was eliminated.
Ever since Feng and others took the opportunity to kill seven wild wolves in one go, this group of wild wolves disappeared overnight.
Recently, Feng and others went out of the valley to search up and down the river for seven or eight miles, but found no trace of the pack of wolves. At most, they occasionally saw one or two lone wolves.
This kind of lone wolf is either a loser in the competition for status, or an old and infirm person who has been expelled by the wolf pack. Their food mostly consists of hare, bird eggs or even the leftover residues eaten by other wild animals, and they have basically no impact on humans.
threaten.
With a new hunting area as large as the river mouth, Feng and others' hunting became more and more stable.
However, for primitive tribes, they will not hunt too many animals, but only need to ensure that the tribe has basically enough meat every day.
This is not only because meat is not easy to preserve, but also to breed wild animals and maintain natural balance.
If the demands are excessive and the animals are killed arbitrarily, the nearby beasts will be afraid and flee the area, resulting in a shortage of food.
This is one of the oldest and most primitive methods of animal husbandry, and it is also a coexistence instinct of humans as natural animals.
As the number of humans increases, the demand for food increases. When large-scale hunting causes the natural balance to become imbalanced and hunting becomes more and more difficult, this natural breeding will turn into purposeful breeding of livestock and poultry.
It will appear slowly.
It is still the most basic principle of evolution.
The scarcity of food forced humans to evolve.
But this kind of evolution driven purely by natural forces is too slow.
ten thousand years is too long, fight for now.
For Xu Chen, what he needs is not just food and clothing, but a more high-end living environment and living needs.
Therefore, he could only rely on his own efforts to force the tribe to upgrade and develop to a higher stage of civilization.
Along the way, Fenghe and a group of men from the tribe laughed loudly, pointing proudly at some places along the way and recounting the glory of hunting.
But Xu Chen knew that most of them were still bragging.
Before there were bows and arrows, wild wolves blocked the valley, and there were two packs of wolves inside and outside. The living environment was very difficult.
As for the farther downstream of the river, there are even fewer of them. Perhaps only tribal activities in spring and autumn every year will lead to large-scale expeditions.
However, facing such a wild wilderness, a team of more than ten people cannot guarantee absolute safety. If it encounters a large group of wolves or tigers and lions, the team may be wiped out.
Starting from early morning, a group of people almost never stopped and were on their way all the time.
Men and women exchanged baskets and burdens, and the wind led a group of hunters with bows and arrows to follow behind and escort them.
After walking along the river for nearly four hours, a vast impact plain appeared ahead. A small river meandered into the big river. In the distance, a group of primitive people could be seen appearing. Both sides had the same goal, which was a small river in the direction of the river.
valley.
"Huga!"
Feng and the other group of men became slightly excited.
Xu Chen understood that this was a nearby tribe called Hu.
As for what this Hu refers to, it is unknown. Just like the Ba of the Ba people, the meaning of this word is not clear at all. In daily communication, there is no specific thing called Ba. Moreover, there is no word in the first place, just a close word.
Just sound.
People from the Hu tribe on the opposite side also spotted Xu Chen and others. From a distance, there were people waving spears and sticks and saying hello.
Feng and others also responded with a few cries of ghosts and howls, and soon the two tribes got closer and closer, and they were gradually able to distinguish their body shape and appearance.
There are nearly thirty people in the Hu tribe, all of whom are young and strong men and women, with a few half-grown boys about the same size as Xu Chen among them.
Someone in the team wrapped some things with animal skins and tree vines, which should be goods used for trading.
Their attire is similar to that of the Uzbek people. They are all wrapped in simple animal skins from bottom to top and have standard savage attire with unkempt hair.
The difference is that the Ba people's clothing is completely out of the category of savages. Everyone is wearing gray linen clothes. A few hunters are also covered with rattan armor and carry quivers on their backs. As for the others,
, either carrying a basket or carrying a load, I feel completely different from the other person.