Er Chong's mother reached out and touched Er Chong's bare head.
Er Chong without the messy hair looks a bit unaccustomed, but the head is very comfortable to touch with your hands, and Er Chong's mother actually feels like she can't put it down.
Looking around, it turned out to be a tribe of people. The men's unkempt hair has now been cut off by sharp knives. The short hair looks like it makes people reach out and touch it.
In fact, not only the men and male children, but also the female primitives such as the two insect mothers are also very different now compared to before.
Some of their messy hair was also cut off, and the remaining hair was smeared with something called "soap" that looked delicious, and then washed carefully with warm water.
After being covered by the white foam that looked like the clouds in the sky, the hair that used to look messy now became fragrant. After being braided into a big braid and tied with a rope, it looked very neat.
Er Chong's mother and other primitive women in the original semi-agricultural tribe fell in love with this method of hair treatment that they had never seen before.
Women are always willing to work hard on their hair, and the same goes for Er Chong's mothers.
Wash your hair, then comb it with something called a 'comb' made of bamboo, braid it, and tie it up with a rope. This kind of thing seems to be troublesome to men, but it is not easy for them to do it.
It’s a joy that never gets tired.
This somewhat troublesome change in hair is something Mother Erchong and the others are happy to see, because not only will they look better, but with such an obvious difference, they don't need to run as much as before.
When you stand in front of someone, you can tell whether they are a boy or a girl by looking at their chests.
Moreover, after washing their hair, they were all taught by the people of this tribe to comb their hair over and over again with something called a comb that looked similar to a comb but was much finer.
The extremely distressing little bugs that were hidden in the hair before and could not be caught no matter how hard it was were quickly combed out.
Squeezing these little bugs with your fingernails to make a crackling sound makes people feel happy. Er Chong's mother likes to do these things the most.
Not only that, they were also ordered to take a bath in such a season, and they had to scrub all the ashes off their bodies. If anyone dared to perfunctory, someone from the tribe would put them in a hot water tank and carry them.
Using a big brush made of wild boar hair, scrub back and forth.
The feeling of being scrubbed with a brush made of hard boar hair was not pleasant at all. After three or four people were treated so roughly in a row, and listening to their miserable howls, the rest of the people did not dare to
Neglected.
When they were taking a bath, Erchong's mother, like many people in the tribe, was quite complaining about these innocent things. After all, they had basically never taken a bath in the past, and they were still living well. Why?
After arriving in this tribe, there were so many more rules?
But now, Er Chong's mother no longer complains about this, and she even likes taking a bath.
Because after taking a shower, my body was naked and warm, and my whole body suddenly became much lighter.
Looking at her hand where she could see the true color of the skin, Er Chong's mother released her hand from the braid and held the animal skin wrapped around her body.
These animal skins are very soft. Although they are still the original animal skins, they have become softer after being thrown into large vats with fire, boiled vigorously and dried.
Not only that, the little bugs that were crawling inside the animal skin have been boiled to death. Now when you wear it again, it is warm and soft, and you will no longer feel itchy...
These troublesome things gave Er Chong's mother a headache when they first started doing them. However, after doing them more often and realizing the benefits, they gradually stopped feeling uncomfortable and started to like them instead.
Erchong's mother and the others have compared with the original tribe more than once. The female priest who seemed to them to be very smart at first, now looks at her again and feels that she is not very smart.
Because these are not complicated things that can make people feel comfortable, but the female priests of her tribe don't know.
Moreover, the pottery made by the female priests was simply incomparable with the current tribes.
The bowls they use to eat today are better than the best pottery made by the female priests in the past.
When they learned that the female priest had abandoned them, Er Chong's mother, like many people in the tribe, felt panicked. However, after living in this tribe for a period of time, Er Chong's mother no longer felt this way.
There are even many times when they feel that it is a good thing for the female priest to abandon them.
Because after the female priest abandoned them, they had a wiser and younger son of God.
Of course, the things that people like Er Chong's mother found troublesome at first and then fell in love with it did not include the troublesome chopsticks and the language that was so difficult to pronounce that it made people want to bite their tongues.
But there is no way, they have to learn these two things, because if they don't eat with the two small wooden sticks called 'chopsticks', they can't eat food.
The same is true for this awkward language. Everyone must learn five of them every day. If one of them cannot learn it, they will eat less food. If two of them cannot learn it, they will go hungry.
Under the protest of their stomachs and the temptation of food, they could only try their best to learn this painfully difficult language.
This language called Mandarin is really daunting to learn.
This is not the most uncomfortable thing. The most uncomfortable thing is the pattern called Chinese characters.
Each of these patterns looks square and square. In the eyes of Er Chong's mother and most people in the semi-agricultural tribe, these patterns are all the same. However, the people who teach these patterns in the tribe can point out their differences.
different.
In the past, Er Chong's mother only admired male primitive men who were strong and could bring back a lot of food. Now, Er Chong's mother's mind has changed.
I have even more admiration for people who can 'draw' these patterns and recognize them one by one.
Because in her opinion, this is more difficult than hunting. Fortunately, the people of this tribe did not force them to learn this...
Han Cheng, who had been tortured by English, could understand the mood of these people. Seeing them being tortured while learning Chinese, Han Cheng felt particularly happy.
This kind of enjoyment is only a little bit worse than seeing those foreign friends who are tortured to learn Chinese, scratching their heads and roaring to the sky.
Of course, Han Cheng's happiness only lasted for a moment. When his eyes moved away from the semi-agricultural tribe slaves who had lost their hair due to Chinese language and fell on the food that was decreasing at a speed that could be seen with the naked eye, this kind of
The joy was immediately replaced by a kind of melancholy with physical pain.
According to his previous idea, when the tribesmen were digging soil to build houses, a cylindrical grain cellar with a depth of more than four meters and a diameter of more than ten meters had already been formed, and the grass sheds above to protect it from wind and rain had been built.
It only requires a little tidying up before you can put food inside.
However, now, the built grain cellar is still empty.
The reason is simply that there were more than two hundred mouths in the tribe that needed to eat.
War has always involved more than just force. Food and grass are also very important things.
This can be seen from the Qingque tribe's campaign against the semi-agricultural tribe.
After a long march, plus the more than two hundred people from the Qingque Alliance Army, the food consumption was extremely alarming.
This time they plundered a lot of food from the semi-agricultural tribe, but the quality of their food was far less high than that of the Qingque tribe, and they could only barely make up for the food consumption during this expedition.
However, we have made up for it, but from now on, the more than two hundred eating mouths can only be fed by the Qingque tribe.
The open mouths are like bottomless pits for absorbing food, but there is no other way to feed them.
If it weren't for the bronze plows that increased the efficiency of farming in the tribe, expanded the area of cultivated land, greatly increased the total food output, and suddenly added so many mouths to the tribe, even Han Cheng would be extremely melancholy.
After these years of development, the population of the Qingque tribe has grown extremely rapidly.
After successively absorbing the Pig Tribe, Bone Tribe, Green Tribe, Donkey Tribe, Huangguo Tribe and the remaining Sheep Tribe, coupled with the improvement of the living conditions and medical and health conditions of the Qingque Tribe, the number of babies born in these years is still
The survival rate has been greatly improved.
So now, the total population of Qingque tribe citizens has reached 513!
Among them, there were a total of 204 adults, 71 males, and the remaining 133 adult females.
There are 309 minors, 12 of whom are about to enter adulthood.
Now, the earliest batch of children born after Han Cheng arrived are already eight years old, including their virtual age.
Primitive people came of age early. In the next five or six years, when these children grow up, there is no need to absorb outsiders. Just the number of adults in their own tribe can reach up to twenty every year!
And this only counts the number of citizens in the tribe, not the slaves in the tribe.
In the past few years, after successively taking down two large tribes, the Tengshe Tribe and the Semi-Farmer Tribe, the number of slaves in the Qingque Tribe has also grown rapidly!
Originally, there were one hundred and seventy-eight slaves obtained from the Soaring Snake Tribe.
Counting those who were promoted to Qingque Tribe citizens due to their outstanding performance in the past few years, as well as the two or three people who died due to various reasons, as well as the new-born babies, the number of slaves in the Tengshe Tribe has remained at the same level as before.
Under the circumstances, it increased by a few more.
Now, coupled with the more than two hundred slaves from the semi-peasant tribe and a few people from the Sheep tribe with tattoos on their faces, the total number of slaves in the Qingque tribe has reached 426.
Among them, there are 64 male adult slaves and 153 female adult slaves, for a total of 217 adult slaves.
There are fifteen slaves who are about to reach adulthood, and the rest are relatively younger slaves, totaling two hundred and nine people.
Adding up the citizens of the Qingque Tribe and the slaves of the Qingque Tribe, the total population of the Qingque Tribe has reached 939, a number that astonishes many tribes in this era!
Compared with when Han Cheng first came to the Qingque Tribe, the tribe's population has increased nearly twenty times!
If spring comes next year and the men and women in the tribe work harder, by the time the ten years of Qingque are about to end, maybe the tribe will be able to break through the thousand-person mark!
With such a population, even in later generations, if not compared with those large villages in the plains, it can be called a quite small village!
Such a large population is a valuable asset to the Qingque tribe, but at the same time, if it is not used properly, it is also a big burden for the leader of the tribe. This burden only needs to be looked at the daily consumption.
You can tell how big it is by dropping the food.
Hurry up and start the spring. After the spring starts, the tribe can continue to cultivate land and grow food.
At the same time, you can also get some other food to supplement it, so you don't have to stick to the stored food.
As long as there is a little bit of income, the food stored in the tribe will not be consumed so quickly.
Now, under such huge population and food pressure, even Han Cheng couldn't help but look forward to the arrival of the girl named Chun.
After looking at the granary for a while, and then staring at the book recording the population, Han Cheng's brows gradually furrowed.
His frown was not due to the rate at which food was consumed each day.
Although the food consumption is high now, judging from the amount of food stored in the Qingque tribe, the tribe's food supply is only slightly tight, and food shortages will not happen.
What made him frown was the number of Qingque tribe citizens and slaves.
Judging from the total number of people, there are only 87 more citizens of the Qingque tribe than slaves.
If we only compare the number of adults, after the semi-agricultural tribe joined, there are thirteen more adult slaves in the tribe than the adult citizens of the Qingque tribe!
This kind of thing is not very good news for the tribe.
According to Han Cheng's previous assumptions, the ratio between citizens and slaves was two to one, which was considered a relatively safe line.
But now, the population of adult slaves directly exceeds that of citizens, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.
Han Cheng didn't notice this before, but now that he did, he woke up immediately.
It is time to quickly find a way to re-maintain the balance that has been disrupted by the influx of large numbers of slaves from semi-agrarian tribes.
To a certain extent, this matter is even more urgent than cultivating land.
