The valley Ye mentioned is not far from the mountain.
But it was not a fruit as Xu Chen thought, but a plant.
This plant looks very strange. It looks similar to a Clivia. It has wide leaves and a stem as tall as a person in the middle. However, there is an ear similar to corn growing on the top. There are many fruit pods growing on it. They are white in color.
It's red, and it's also wrapped in a thick shell. When eating it, you have to bite open the shell like melon seeds before you can eat it.
The white ones are immature seeds with soft shells and a very sour taste. The red ones are edible, but the taste is not very good either. The shells are difficult to peel and taste astringent and very sticky to the teeth. However, according to Xu
Chen's judgment is that this thing is really similar to millet and contains a lot of starch, which is suitable for planting. However, the taste is not good and the yield seems to be a bit stretched.
Such a large and sparse area has grown a lot. Although it is wild, it is obviously protected by this group of savages. There are very few thorns and weeds in it, and it is a kind of collected crop that can be planted on the hillside.
Seeing Xu Chen grinning while eating, Ye was a little ashamed, and then pointed to the side of the mountainside, then gestured and made a tooth-crushing motion.
Xu Chen understood immediately that she was talking about the kind of nuts that almost broke his teeth last night.
When Xu Chen thought of those nuts, Xu Chen's teeth became sore and at the same time, a stream of saliva came out uncontrollably.
The taste is as sweet and rich as milk chocolate, which is indeed a rare delicacy.
So the two of them walked through the vegetation and walked towards the side of the mountainside.
The road ahead is relatively difficult to walk. The hillside is relatively steep, but fortunately there are many vines hanging down. As long as you hold on to these vines, you can barely pass.
Xu Chen used to run around in the mountains during field trips. This kind of mountain road was not stressful for him. Unfortunately, his legs were a little lame now, so he could only carefully pull the vines and follow Ye slowly forward.
The hillside in front became steeper and steeper, and finally what appeared in front of the two men was a large steep rocky cliff covered with a low shrub that was more than a foot tall.
This plant is actually a vine that resembles an ivy, but its leaves are very large. The climbing vines are rooted on the rocks, and they are densely packed and occupy the entire mountainside cliff.
There are also a large number of flowers in bloom, with intertwined colors of gold and red, and a permeating fragrance, attracting a large number of bees and butterflies to circle and dance among them. The scene is spectacular.
Standing among this sea of green leaves and flowers, you can't see the top when you look up, but you can vaguely see the crown of a big tree, which seems to be the big crooked-necked tree covered with ancient vines and green fruits.
Below, there are steep cliffs dozens of meters high, and you can also see a stream running through the canyon.
Sure enough, beautiful scenery is often found in the most dangerous places.
This kind of plants and scenery will never exist on earth.
The most beautiful places are often full of unparalleled crises.
Even though he had seen many mountain roads, he felt a little frightened at this moment.
According to visual inspection, the slope of this hillside is more than 70 degrees, which is extremely steep.
If it were before, he would definitely not be afraid. After all, he had all the outdoor climbing equipment, including hiking boots and mountaineering picks, and even hung a safety rope.
When he thought of the safety rope, Xu Chen suddenly felt bad all over.
As the saying goes, if you are seeking death, you'd better be more careful in your next life.
His death was due to his carelessness in not wearing a safety rope.
However, God obviously gave him a chance to make amends, but it also seemed to give him a warning, and actually reborn him into this primitive era.
But today, he still had no chance to hang up the safety rope because conditions did not allow it.
Even now I don’t even have a pair of shoes under my feet, so I can only go barefoot. The only advantage is that my feet are covered with thick calluses, my toes are strong, and my insteps are hairy, making them very durable.
Ye carefully climbed up the steep slope by climbing the vines in front, and then rummaged carefully under the wide leaves. Soon he happily pulled down a heavy fruit, held the fruit handle in his mouth and slowly returned it to Xu.
morning.
This fruit is bigger than a fist. It has a rough peel like durian on the outside, but it has cracked a crack. It is obvious that there are several brown seeds inside, which should be the kind of nuts that I gnawed on last night.
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Xu Chen suddenly understood why this kind of fruit tastes good and is nutritious, but why these savages didn't pick it in large quantities because it was too dangerous. They could only get one at a time, otherwise they would fall into the cliff if they lost their footing.
It must be shattered to pieces.
But now that he could only eat one or two of the delicious food, he would definitely not give up, so he looked around, and then his eyes lit up.
The reason why these savages can only get one at a time is that the outer seed coat of this fruit is relatively large and difficult to carry, and there is no container in a pocket or backpack for storage, making picking and transportation very troublesome.
There were a lot of hanging ivy on the way here. This kind of rattan is slender and flexible and can be used to weave a rattan basket. In this way, you can get more in one go.
So at Xu Chen's signal, the two of them walked back dozens of meters and found a relatively safe and flat place to stay. Then they broke off a few ivy branches on the hillside with the thickness of chopsticks, and sat on the hillside.
Start compiling it.
If rope rubbing is a basic skill of rural life.
Then basket weaving is an intermediate skill. Basically, most middle-aged and elderly men can do it a few times. If they are good at weaving, they can rise to the rank of craftsmen. However, compared to more advanced skills such as carpenters and bricklayers, they are still a little behind.
Xu Chen had naturally seen rural people weaving bamboo utensils and carrying baskets and vegetable baskets, which are necessary for every household. Therefore, it is not too difficult to weave a basket with vines like a gourd and a ladle. The most important thing is that the weaving does not need to be exquisite and beautiful.
It’s enough to be able to hold a fruit that’s bigger than your fist and not miss it.
Although Ye was puzzled when he saw Xu Chen busy, he still diligently helped to break a lot of green vines from the hillside, cleaned the leaves on them, and placed them neatly next to them one by one.
Basket weaving is indeed more difficult than rope making, but at least Xu Chen has seen pigs running and knows the general procedure. He first uses a relatively thick base to make ribs, and then uses thin strips to go round and round.
Wind up.
After more than ten minutes, a basket bottom with a diameter of about one foot was woven. As he gradually became familiar with it, his movements became smoother and faster. As the rattans were intertwined in circles, a three-dimensional rattan was formed.
The prototype of the basket also slowly appeared.
The savage girl's initial confusion gradually turned into surprise and excitement.
Because Xu Chen once again showed off his magical creativity, using the most common tree vines to make an artifact she had never seen before.
And it's easy to know its purpose, which is to hold things.
Half an hour later, Xu Chen cut off the ivy. At this time, a complete rattan basket appeared in his hand. Although it was crooked and ugly, it was indeed a functional container.
In order to make it easier to use, he also braided two shoulder straps with ivy like braids, which can be carried on the back like a backpack.
"Come on, try it on your back!"
Xu Chen stood up, threw the picked fruits inside, then motioned for Ye to turn around and hung the rattan basket on her thin shoulders.
"Xia Ga, #￥..."
The girl carrying the rattan basket was trembling with excitement in her voice.
"Do you feel uncomfortable?"
Xu Chen asked while helping her adjust her shoulder straps. However, it was obvious that this sentence was too complicated and beyond Ye's understanding. However, she somewhat understood the meaning of the question through Xu Chen's movements, and her shoulders shook slightly back and forth a few times.
, meaning very comfortable.
"You can pick more when you go up this time. Pay attention to safety!"
Xu Chen pointed to the steep hillside.
So the girl excitedly carried the basket on her back, grabbed the ivy and ran away swinging. On the edge of the steep cliff, her fur skirt was flying in the wind, and Xu Chen's eyelids jumped at the sight of her black buttocks.
A naked savage girl, carrying a crooked and broken rattan basket, but cheerful like a little beast on the cliff, full of nature and simplicity, exuding the original charm of the great road.
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after an hour.
Xu Chen and Ye each carried a basket full of this wild fruit, which he named milk fruit, back to the cave.
But as soon as I walked to the front of the cave, I found several women arguing, especially three pregnant women, who seemed very excited.
A group of children had returned a long time ago. When they saw Xu Chen and the others, they immediately cheered and came towards them.
When a group of women who were quarreling saw the rattan baskets and milk fruit carried by the two of them, they all stopped quarreling and gathered around to watch.
"Come on, one for each!"
Xu Chen put down the backpack, then helped Ye put down the basket, took out a few pills from it and gave one to each little savage.
"嘢嚯~~"
The children didn't care about the rattan basket, they only cared about the food. After getting the delicious milk fruit, they immediately dispersed and each found a place to smash stones.
A group of women gathered around the rattan basket, all of them with rich and emotional expressions. Ye was even more excited, telling the group of women about Xu Chen's magical creativity with pictures and pictures.
Xu Chen took the wild Tianqi and limped straight to the puddle.
There was nothing to study about the rattan baskets. They were hurriedly woven and the workmanship was rough. They could only be said to be able to hold things, but the gaps were large and crooked so ugly that he was too embarrassed to take a second look. One of them was almost falling apart on the way back.
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Compared with simple rattan baskets, this precious wild Panax notoginseng is a life-saving treasure.
Although this world is different from the one we were familiar with, and the types of plants are also very different, but since there are medicinal materials like Tianqi, there will definitely be more familiar medicinal materials and plants, but the environment and climate are too different, resulting in unknown ones.
There are too many plants.
Such as this milk fruit.
If placed in the world that we were familiar with, it must be an excellent nut. It is absolutely impossible not to have heard of it. The most likely thing is that this thing is extinct.
According to the process of historical development, matrilineal clans still belong to ancient prehistoric civilization, and are still thousands or even tens of thousands of years away from true human civilization.
Although ten thousand years is just a blink of an eye to the earth and the universe.
But for the development of humans and nature, it is very long, enough to cause several mass extinctions of species.
Let’s not talk about the distant past, let’s just say that the prehistoric floods that have been recorded by different human civilizations, that disaster that swept the world and even caused the mass extinction of ancient humans and creatures, occurred thousands or even tens of thousands of years later than it should be now.
The prehistoric flood not only took away human civilization, but also the long-term climate disaster that followed, the earth gradually cooled, a large number of species became extinct, and food gradually became scarce. This also forced humans to develop from the gathering and hunting stage to an agricultural civilization.
, Only in this way can the survival and reproduction of the ethnic group be ensured.
In contrast, Africa has a unique climate and natural environment and rich food. Therefore, after the human races in other continents have entered high-tech civilization, the local people are still in the primitive hunting and gathering tribe stage, and do not even know how to eat.
He can't light a fire to weave cloth, nor can he make pottery or farm, but he still lives a naked life of eating hair and drinking blood.
Therefore, the basis that affects the evolution of human civilization is food sources.
When enough food is available without hard work, people become lazy.
For example, in the current tribe, the survival of the entire group can be ensured by women gathering alone. Therefore, the men are not industrious. They sleep three times a day, eat enough, and go hunting. They are out in the wild all day without knowing what they are doing. If there is anything harvested,
, just carry it back in pieces, and if there is no harvest, it will not affect their eating, drinking, and diarrhea. This is the reason why women in matriarchal tribes have a higher status than men.
Because women can live well without men.
This is a paradise for female boxing fighters.
Of course, you can say that they are not enterprising, but you can also say that they are primitively wealthy.
Right now, because of the vast land, sparsely populated areas, moderate temperatures, wide variety of animals and plants, and abundant food, these human tribes do not have enough evolutionary impetus.
But the satisfaction of primitive people does not mean that Xu Chen is also satisfied.
After all, for him, just having enough food to survive is not enough.
Let’s not talk about unimaginable technological products such as mobile phones, TVs, car refrigerators.
At least make sure you have enough food and clothing.
After all, gathering and hunting is not a long-term solution. Besides, living in caves and sleeping in grass huts, he never thought that one day he would live such a miserable life. Not even his dog had such a miserable life.
Not to mention the garden house Simmons, at least the most basic living facilities such as a large bed, pots and pans, towels and toothbrushes, bathroom and toilet are still needed.
In addition, if you have enough to eat and drink, you can't satisfy yourself every day with these rough, calloused hands. You have to have a woman...
Xu Chen turned his head and glanced at a group of barbaric female barbarians with bare breasts and dark breasts talking excitedly around the rattan basket. He couldn't help but shiver slightly, and quickly drank a few sips of cold water to calm down the shock.
Perhaps, being single for the rest of your life is also a good choice.