Chapter 438 The Fire Tribe Comes in the Hemp Peeling Season
Autumn is getting stronger, and there is a chill in the morning air.
People of the Qingque tribe no longer wear "fashion-forward" bikinis, but instead wear clothing made of fur.
The clothes they wear now are all made of relatively thin leather. When the weather gets colder, they will change into thicker clothes.
As pottery and salt were continuously transported out by the hard-working donkey tribe, the Qingque tribe's skins became more and more abundant.
At some tributaries upstream of the river, two people, Zhuang and Qinghua, wearing straw sandals, were using dustpans and small sieves made of coarse linen and wood to clean the millet pounded out of the water buckets.
At this time, there were already four water dams here.
The four water basins are filled with water from two bamboo tubes, one after another, just like four big roosters pecking at rice and eating.
The seemingly empty sound came from here and spread out towards the early morning wilderness, making the surroundings more peaceful.
Zhuang and Qinghua looked at these water dams, and their hearts became more and more happy.
In the past, they would suffer from backache and lack of energy after grinding rice for half a day, but now it is completely different.
With the water hammer, the two of them can pound rice non-stop all day long without feeling tired.
Because the water buckets are tireless, now with the four water buckets open, they can pound more rice in one day than they used to grind in two days.
It is said that with such efficiency, they don't have to get up so early to pound rice. They only need to pound rice for half a day every day, which is enough for the people in the tribe to eat.
They thought so at first, but after Shenzi told them that winter was coming soon and the river would freeze, the two of them immediately became diligent.
Yes, in winter, after the river freezes, the water hammer cannot be used. Think about the situation in the cold winter, holding the stick with your hands and pounding rice, the two people immediately became extremely diligent.
It is better to pound some more millet and store it while the water hammer is available at this time.
In this way, when the cold winter comes, they can stay in a warm room and twist twine, or when the sun is right, they can sit in the leeward place with other people in the tribe, basking in the sun while doing it.
Some shoes, gloves and other clothing...
"Crash..."
The calm water surface was broken, a stick with a wooden hook was withdrawn from the water, and with it came out a bundle of hemp that had been soaked in the water for a long time.
The hemp has been soaked beyond recognition, the hemp skin peels off, revealing white fibers, and there is a layer of slippery, dark green stuff on the entire bundle of hemp.
With the appearance of this bundle of flax, the smell that had been sealed under the water suddenly spread, filling the nostrils of everyone around him.
The hemp retting by the Qingque tribe this year was grown by the tribe themselves.
Because there is no need to travel back and forth to Yau Ma Tei, even if it takes more time to brew, it will be ready much earlier than last year.
The people of the Qingque tribe have already experienced firsthand the benefits and many uses of linen, so now that they start peeling hemp, everyone is very motivated.
Compared with other jobs, peeling hemp is troublesome, but it is not tiring. Therefore, most of the people who peel hemp here today are the old and weak of the Qingque tribe and some people who are not very strong.
Those who were physically strong were taken away by the senior brother, carrying ten or twenty of them, carrying stone hoe heads, bone shovels, some tree ferns and other things, and went all the way to the Salt Mountain.
It's not that I go there to make salt, but I go to the spring on the edge of the salt mountain to dig traps and capture some prey for the winter.
After all, rabbits can only catch some small prey with these traps, and they can't do anything to deal with larger ones.
The Yanshan Spring is now a good hunting ground. Because the people of the Qingque tribe often boil salt there, the water there is somewhat salty. So after the people in the tribe who cooked the salt left,
More and more animals are going there to drink water.
Senior Brother and others had the idea of wanting to hunt there before, but Han Cheng did not agree. Now that there are traps and it is relatively free, it is a good time to harvest a wave.
The animals there really need to be harvested, otherwise when more and more people from the Qingque tribe go to boil salt, they may be attacked.
Han Cheng didn't interfere with the peeling of hemp this time. In fact, since he taught everyone how to do it last year, he has rarely interfered with this work. It's not that he is too lazy, but the smell is too touching.
While everyone was peeling hemp, Han Chengli stood by the river and looked downstream.
Occasionally, yellow or red leaves drifted away with the current.
Bai Xuemei, who had changed into braids, stood beside Han Cheng and looked down the river together.
She knew that Brother Cheng was waiting for people from her original tribe to come.
Calculating the time, the people of the Fire Tribe should have arrived at this time. Why are they still missing?
Looking at the empty river, Han Cheng felt a little worried and anxious.
In the plan he envisioned, the Fire Tribe was a very important part.
It is also a long-term line he placed.
If people from the Fire Tribe don't come this year, it means that all the things he imagined about the Fire Tribe will basically become a fantasy.
Not only the textiles of the Qingque tribe will be affected, but the longer-term development and expansion in the future will also be affected to a certain extent.
"Brother Cheng, look!"
While thinking this way, Bai Xuemei on the side suddenly made a sound of surprise and pointed to the lower reaches of the river.
The river, which was not too wide to begin with, flowed downward for a while and became farther away, turning into a bright ribbon.
On the originally empty belt, several dark shadows suddenly appeared.
Those are several standing figures!
After the figure grew a little bigger, the boat they sat on slowly appeared in the field of vision.
If you come to the tribe during this season and come by boat, you are most likely to be the Fire Tribe.
Han Cheng breathed a sigh of relief and a smile appeared on his face.
He immediately ordered people to go back and put away some things in the tribe that could easily be imitated and that he did not want the Fire Tribe people to learn.
Then not far from the river, I saw people coming by boat. They stood there and watched the Fire Tribe getting closer and closer.
"%￥%......!"
The people from the Fire Tribe who were rowing also saw Han Cheng and the others standing by the river. The four people who had been to the Qingque Tribe and lived here for a while turned to the other four and said excitedly.
Meaning, are we right? This is a very hospitable, friendly and hospitable tribe, and they were already here to greet us before we even arrived.
The other four people, watching this scene, suddenly felt as if they had returned from collecting hemp in Yau Ma Tei and the people of their own tribe had stood by the river to greet them. They were very cordial.
When these people heard these words, they all nodded vigorously. This is indeed a very friendly and hospitable tribe.
The boat and raft docked, and Han Cheng, accompanied by his second senior brother and several others who came after hearing the news, expressed welcome to the Fire Tribe.
Then he led these eight Fire Tribe people, who were a little unsteady when walking because of the long boat ride, to the tribe.
“#￥￥!”
Before they reached the tribe, the people from the Fire Tribe suddenly screamed in surprise.
