In the next few days, under Muba's arrangement, a group of men did not go out hunting, but fully cooperated with Xu Chen in weaving rattan baskets.
Some people are responsible for collecting ivy, others help collect bark and make ropes, and some young and flexible people carry braided rattan baskets on their backs to pick milk fruits on the cliffs halfway up the mountain.
Compared with women, men are more comfortable doing these dangerous jobs.
After all, women are thin and can easily get into trouble while carrying a rattan basket on a cliff.
With the help of rattan baskets, a powerful loading tool, and the men's frantic power output, in just a few days, all the ripe milk fruits on the hillside were picked and piled up in the open space in front of the cave.
A group of women, children, old and young went into battle together with rocks and sticks, prying and digging to get out the nuts inside, then spread them out on the ground to dry.
In the past few days of training, Xu Chen's injuries have completely improved, and he no longer needs a wooden crutch to walk.
Of course, because of these two innovative inventions, his status in the ethnic group has become quite different, and he has gained the love and respect of everyone. The girl Ye also directly changed jobs and became his personal follower, and her status has also been much higher.
When people see her, they will unconsciously smile to express respect and love. When eating, she also eats a lot more food than usual. Therefore, after a few days, it seems that her dark and thin face and cheeks have begun to become plumper.
However, in Xu Chen's view, it was still dark, and the fur skirt could not block the light. Occasionally, she would have some unconscious impulses, but most of the time, her heart would be as calm as water, and she would watch the sunrise and sunset, clouds and clouds like a single dog.
Juan Yunshu.
The shells left behind after prying off the milk berries were of no use and were all thrown into the woods. In the open space in front of the cave, a thick layer of milk berries was densely packed to dry.
Because of this unprecedented bumper harvest, Xu Chen also ate for several days. He finally satisfied his love for this special and delicious nut and saw that he no longer had such a strong desire to eat.
In his free time, Xu Chen would go to the forested hillsides around the cave every day. While getting familiar with the living environment, he also looked for some animals and plants he was familiar with, and collected some emergency medicinal materials.
The hard work paid off. During this search, in addition to finding some large wild Tianqi, he also found another very valuable medicinal material, Chonglou.
Chonglou is slightly poisonous, but it has the special effect of fighting poison with poison. It can cure many snake venoms and is also a good medicine for treating abscesses. In this primitive and barbaric era, Chonglou may be more valuable than Tianqi.
These two kinds of medicinal materials are concentrated in the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas on the earth that Xu Chen is familiar with. Therefore, he estimated that his current location might be in the southwest mountainous area where he was conducting fieldwork, but the surrounding environment was completely unfamiliar to him.
Not sure.
In addition, before traveling through time, he had never heard of traces of relatively advanced primitive life in the Yunnan, Guizhou, and Sichuan areas. There was only one Yuanmou Man, but judging from the geological survey, it was still the ancient ape-man tribe millions of years ago, which was different from what he was currently experiencing.
The levels of the tribes there are very different.
Therefore, he was even more confused as to whether this was the earth and whether it was the Yunnan-Guizhou-Sichuan area.
In addition to these two relatively rare medicinal materials, we also found some common medicinal materials such as yam, turmeric, and angelica, as well as some familiar trees and flowers.
These plants all have one thing in common, that is, they all grow very tall.
In particular, he found a nest of yams that grew like a large vine. The main stem was as thick as an egg, and was covered with bell-like fruit pods. The leaves were bigger than the face, and they covered hundreds of meters of trees densely. If it weren't for the fruits,
The pattern of pods and leaves was familiar, and he almost didn't recognize it.
However, this nest of yams was too big, and it would be difficult to dig it out with the simple stick tools, so he decided to wait until winter to deal with it slowly.
Based on his common sense of living in the wild, if all the yams were dug out, the yield would be at least two to three hundred kilograms, which would probably be enough to feed the entire tribe for several days.
I used to follow the geological team to explore the southwest, and there were two favorite foods in the wild.
The first is the big snake stewed in an iron pot, a taste you won’t get tired of eating.
In addition, there are wild yams, which are everywhere. It is difficult to get them with an engineer shovel or a pickaxe. However, there is no need to wash them after digging them out. They are directly thrown into the fire and roasted. They are fragrant and exude a strong medicinal aroma, which is both filling and aphrodisiac.
, I feel so energetic after eating that my pickaxe can fly up while mining.
In addition to these familiar plants, there are even more unknown ones.
The large trees and vines are basically unknown, and there are many types and quantities, especially some fruits and plant seeds. If Youye hadn't followed him every day, he would have been poisoned many times.
Because there are many fruits of various colors hanging on the vine branches, they look very tempting, but every time they want to eat, Ye will quickly stop them. Judging from Ye's exaggerated movements and expressions, these must be poisonous.
Therefore, he gradually gave up his plan to advance to the Shennong clan, and decided to just be an ordinary savage baby, eating, drinking and sleeping with the tribe.
After all, the Shennong family has a mythical aura covering their body, and it comes with a detoxification buff, making them immune to all poisons.
As for my small body, it's better to take it easy.
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Seven or eight days passed in the blink of an eye. As Xu Chen gradually became familiar with the surrounding environment, he also became familiar with the simple language of these primitive people. He was gradually able to have some simple communications with the tribesmen, and his life gradually became simpler and more harmonious.
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And he also planned to follow a group of male savages down the mountain to see the outside world.
In his opinion, the tribe can only truly develop if it moves to the foot of the mountain as soon as possible, starts farming and grazing, and slowly gets rid of this primitive way of gathering and hunting.
Because after several days of communication, he learned that there were several primitive tribes not far away.
The group of men in the tribe all come from these different tribes through marriage.
According to the matrilineal clan's marriage tradition, I guess I will be married off in a few years.
Xu Chen couldn't laugh or cry when he thought that he, a grown-up man, would one day get married.
In order to find a good in-law for himself, or to find a bare-butt female savage wife that he admires, he still needs to find out the details of these strange tribes as soon as possible.
With the aura of being a rope-twisting and basket-weaving person, as well as being the leader of endless inventions, even if you get married, you must marry freely. You must not make do with it, let alone marry a tall and thick female savage who is being fucked every day.
Waste.
Because as he became familiar with this tribe, his eyes were opened to its living habits.
He found that these adult men and women did not distinguish between husband and wife, but could choose the person they liked to sleep with at any time. Of course, most of the time, the woman took the initiative.
Every night before going to bed, men and women in need will choose each other, and young women have priority.
The men and women who are not selected will take the initiative to take care of the children, wash them and sleep.
Of course, sometimes two women will argue about wanting to sleep with the same man, and the mother-in-law will mediate and maintain harmonious relations among the clan.
When sleeping, the child will follow its mother.
Although half-grown minors like Xu Chen and Ye have their own nests, they are protected objects and need to go to the innermost part to sleep.
This situation was so confusing that he was speechless.
As a person who has been influenced by advanced human civilization, he can accept eating animals, drinking blood and hunting and gathering...
Therefore, he hopes that one day he can unify these primitive tribes and form a super large tribe, and at the same time abolish this chaotic habit of living in groups, so that human civilization can evolve from a matrilineal clan that drinks hair and blood to a large-scale tribal system and even a patriarchal society with a kingship system.
It would be such a satisfying and awesome thing to be able to establish a large-scale human empire in this barbaric era in one's lifetime, with a king coming to the world and ruling the world.
However, there were many dangers at the foot of the mountain, with venomous snakes and beasts emerging one after another. His frail little body must not die early, so he had to make himself a handy weapon.
But in this era where there was only stone besides bone sticks and wood, he decided to make himself a bow after thinking for a few days.
Of course, he had never seen a real bow and arrow. He had only made toy bows and arrows out of bamboo wool when he was a child, but this experience was enough.
Compared to a group of bare-butt savages hunting a wild beast by running for miles on a forest river beach with speed, things like bows and arrows are destined to become the greatest invention second only to metal in the history of human civilization.
A few days after he decided to make bows and arrows, Xu Chen successively chopped down several pieces of wood of different materials from the nearby mountains and forests.
These woods have a common feature, that is, they are straight, relatively strong, very tough, and not easy to break when bent.
The wood didn't have time to dry in the shade, so I had to make do with it.
After some selection, he found a piece of wood that was relatively neither soft nor hard in bends. He used a bone knife to scrape off the skin on it, and then used a stone ax to trim it slightly so that the overall thickness and bends looked similar.
It was also flattened, and the two ends were simply polished to create a depression on the stone, and then a three-strand string twisted out of the bark of the tree that I carefully selected was stretched as a bow string, and a simple wooden bow was ready.
I tried to pull it with my hands, but it was very difficult and I could barely open it to full capacity.
Based on his own arm strength, Xu Chen estimated that he weighed about 20 kilograms.
According to the ancient classification of bow strength, this kind of bow can't even weigh a stone, but this is already the limit of what he can draw.
But no matter what, he believed that this bow would be enough to kill the rabbit.
The premise is that you get close enough, aim accurately enough, and move quickly enough. When the rabbit is not paying attention, shoot an arrow in its neck.
As for prey other than rabbits, such as wolves, bears, tigers and leopards, it’s better not to joke around. Don’t hit them when greeted. It’s wisest to give in with your chrysanthemum between your legs.
The bow is finished, but it still lacks arrows.
If you want to shoot accurately, in addition to the superb skills of the shooter, the arrow is also very important. You must ensure that the arrow can maintain a balanced flight when shot.
In order to maintain balance, in addition to the appropriate weight of the arrowhead and arrow body, the tail feathers are also critical.
So Xu Chen spent another day looking for materials suitable for making arrows.
Finally I chose a fern-like plant.
The stems of this plant are slender and woody. They grow on sparse sunny slopes and are relatively uniform in thickness. However, they are very tough and not easy to break. It took Xu Chen a long time to chop down twenty stems with a stone knife.
go back.
He had an arrow shaft, but the arrow material left him scratching his head.
In the end, he had to look for some bones and teeth from the garbage piles discarded by the woods, select some of the right size, and asked Ye and a few older children to help him simply polish them on the rocks, and then split the front of the arrow shaft.
Make a small opening and insert it to serve as an arrowhead, and tie it tightly with a string.
As for the tail feathers, the fixing method is the same. Since there is no glue, you can only split the arrow shaft into a slit, select the neatly found feathers and cut them with a stone knife, then clamp them in, and also tie them firmly with a string.
After the first arrow was made, Xu Chen tested it and found that it could still be shot smoothly. Depending on the strength of the bow and arrow, it could shoot as far as about thirty meters away, and within ten meters, it could shoot almost half an inch thick.
in the bark of the tree.
I don’t know if it can penetrate a wolf’s skin at this depth, but it will have no problem shooting people and rabbits.
What is lacking right now is accuracy.
Because of the distance of ten meters, he shot five times before hitting a tree trunk that was one foot thick.
This kind of accuracy can't be said to be for shooting rabbits. I'm afraid only cows and horses can be reluctant targets.
However, this was a problem of ability, not weapons. Therefore, after confirming that the arrows made in this way could be used, Xu Chen began to produce them on a large scale.
After working like this for another two days, he finally made fifteen arrows.
In order to ensure his own safety, he also made himself a piece of armor and a quiver using fine vines and some scraps of animal skins.
After picking the milk fruit on the hillside, a group of primitive people once again resumed their daily routine. The women went out early in the morning and came back late every day to collect and dig various foods and take care of the family, while a group of men went down the mountain to hunt and explore after eating and sleeping every day.
world.
Because of the help of backpacks, the harvest has obviously increased. A group of women are divided into several groups, and they continue to transport a large number of roots and fruit seeds to the cave every day. A group of men will also carry several backpacks when they go down the mountain, and hunt further away.
Collect food along the way.
Therefore, when we eat every day, there are always more fresh ingredients, sometimes fruits, sometimes melons or beans, and the amount of food in each meal has also quietly increased a lot.
After all, it was because of the emergence of backpacks that the types and quantities of food were greatly increased. Sufficient food also brought a lot of joy and laughter to the entire tribe, and the atmosphere became more relaxed and warm.
Due to his special situation, Xu Chen has been upgraded to a special tribe member. Apart from instructing the tribesmen to make ropes and baskets every day, he does not need to participate in any other labor at all, and can have plenty of time to arrange his own work.
Therefore, whenever all the tribesmen set out to work, he took Ye and a group of children to make bows and arrows as well as supporting protective equipment.
The group of women, children, old and weak people staying in the cave were all busy with their own affairs, and almost no one had the time to care about what he was doing every day.
Amidst such leisure and busyness, Xu Chen's equipment was gradually completed.