Chapter 100: Dividing spouses, straw baskets and wooden baskets
It is very necessary to teach the people of the Yuanzhu tribe to learn the lifestyle of the Qingque tribe and learn to speak Mandarin.
Firstly, compared with their original living habits, these things are more healthy and beneficial to the people themselves. Secondly, these things can allow them to truly integrate into the Qingque tribe.
Han Cheng did not directly intervene in the matter of people from the Yuanzhu tribe learning to speak Mandarin, but delegated it to Shitou.
Shitou was the most gifted in language and writing among the children taught by Han Cheng.
Up to now, Shitou has basically mastered the commonly used Chinese characters, and is even more proficient in Mandarin.
It is more than enough for him to teach these people of the original pig tribe.
Also receiving lessons were the three captured primitive women.
Because it was winter, wounds were not easily infected, and primitive people had a tough life, all three women survived.
Among them, the one who recovered the fastest from his injuries was Ruhua, whose stomach was scratched by a stone spear and his intestines were leaking out.
Now, she looks no different from a normal person.
The other two primitive women who were injured in the legs looked uncomfortable. Their bones were damaged to varying degrees. Although the injuries were not fatal, recovery would be much more difficult, and even if the injuries were completely healed,
It will also leave some disabilities, and walking will definitely be affected.
Because the injuries they suffered were on their left leg and right leg respectively, Han Chengcheng called them "left lame" and "right lame"
In other words, with the lame who is extremely skilled in weaving wooden rafts and fish cages, the Qingque tribe now has three lame.
Regarding these three prisoners of war, Han Cheng's original idea was to treat them as female slaves of the tribe, but as time went by, the people in the Qingque tribe no longer had much hostility towards them, and they were used to it.
Living in the Qingque tribe.
Now a group of people from the pig tribe have come in, and there are more men than women. In line with the principle that land cannot be left unused and seeds cannot be idle, Han Chenggong abolished the status of slaves for them and divided the left and right lame respectively.
Gave as spouses to two men from the original pig tribe.
As for Ruhua, Han Chengcheng gave her to Tietou, who still has no wife.
From Han Cheng's point of view, Ruhua looks really like a flower, but in Tietou's eyes, Ruhua is also really like a flower. For Tietou, who has been grudged about the beautiful Zhuang being married off by Heiwa, it looks like a flower.
He competes like a flower with Zhuang You, and is indeed his good companion.
Moreover, Ruhua is not very old, not much older than Tietou.
At the beginning, due to injuries and long hours of walking in the snow, Ruhua looked really haggard and vicissitudes of life. Now after nearly a month of recuperation at the Qingque Tribe, where she eats and drinks every day, she has changed.
The glory glowed.
However, after Tietou and Ruhua confirmed their partnership, Han Cheng did not let them live together. The reason was that the wound on Ruhua's stomach had not healed completely. If they couldn't resist the temptation of the original ditty at night, they would also join in the singing.
When a cow encounters a fertile field and the wound on Ruhua’s belly is opened, it’s going to be a big deal!
The people of the original pig tribe were relatively weak due to hunger and long hours of traveling in the ice and snow, so Han Cheng asked them to rest for three days.
Three days later, they began to join the Qingque tribe in their winter labor.
Since they had not fully recovered and were unfamiliar with many things in the Qingque Tribe, Han Chenggong did not ask them to do any heavy work at the beginning. Instead, he followed the minors in the tribe to the tribe wall.
On the outside, collect tree strips to provide raw materials for them to weave fences.
The leader of the original pig tribe, now Shang, found that it was not unreasonable for this tribe to be rich. In the winter, when he and others were hiding in the tribe and sleeping, the people of this tribe were still working hard.
Shang has now become accustomed to the change in his status. In this vibrant tribe, his whole spirit has become particularly good.
However, Shang also had worries, not for himself, but for the entire Qingque tribe.
The joining of ten of them greatly accelerated the consumption of the food stored by the Qingque Tribe. In addition, the Qingque Tribe ate three times a day, so the food was consumed faster.
As a tribal leader who was once frightened by hunger, he was very concerned about and concerned about food issues.
He was worried that the wealthy tribe would also fall into a food crisis. Seeing that the food was dwindling day by day, and the cold winter had not yet passed, Shang hesitated for a long time and finally expressed his worries to his senior brother.
What surprised Shang was that after hearing his words, this leader, who didn't look stupid, not only didn't have the slightest worry, but actually laughed.
Shang was very puzzled by this matter.
It wasn't until the afternoon of that day that all the fences on the roof of the deer pen were completed. The senior brother took people with straw baskets to the frozen river and broke open the thick ice. He was shocked and also
I understand where the tribe’s confidence lies…
Because there were ten more adult laborers at once, the fence on the deer pen was completed four days earlier than expected.
Because a large amount of soil would be excavated in the beginning of spring to improve the roof of the deer pen, heighten the fence, and build houses, the people of the Qingque tribe did not rest for too long, and then began to work intermittently on making bone shovels.
The making of the bone shovel was not carried out, not because he was too skilled and looked down upon the middle-class work, but because he was researching and learning to weave straw baskets, and the samples were those left by the Soaring Snake tribe.
Used to hold fish or fruits and carry soil, these baskets are light and not easy to break, and can hold more than clay pots or animal skin wrappers.
In addition, Lame has gained a lot of status in the tribe by relying on his excellent craftsmanship, so he is more interested in this kind of thing.
In fact, at the beginning, after Han Cheng saw the straw baskets, he wanted Lame to weave not straw baskets, but wooden baskets woven with flexible wooden strips.
In the hometown of Han Cheng's later generations, this kind of wooden basket made of wooden strips was called "Toutou", which is a basket two sizes larger than the "Toutou". Those two sizes larger than the "Toutou" are called straw baskets.
The reason why it is called a straw basket is that this extra-large basket can only be used to carry light things such as firewood and hay. The other heavy items will not be able to be lifted if packed in a straw basket.
There was naturally a reason why Han Cheng temporarily changed his mind and gave up the more durable and easy-to-use wooden basket.
In fact, it is very simple to say, because once winter comes, the branches of trees will become brittle, which is okay for making fences, but not for weaving baskets, because they will break as soon as they are weaved.
Therefore, for now, we can only try to make straw baskets first, and then we can start weaving wooden baskets after the tree branches gradually soften in spring.
