From Chief to Ball

Forgetting one's ancestors, using other people's characters, speaking other people's languages, and wearing other people's clothes, then even if the blood of this ethnic group is still flowing in the veins, the ethnic group is actually dead.

In addition, several confinement rooms need to be built. Although the current clan does not pay so much attention to childbirth, and even works before the amniotic fluid breaks, confinement can prevent many women's diseases-an average 30-year-old expectation Naturally, there is no problem with the chronic disease of lifespan. With the increase in lifespan caused by settled agriculture, it is better to pay attention in advance.

Standing on the cliff, he sketched the layout of the village on the bark with charcoal, and called Yu Qian'er to his side to let her learn.

"Look carefully, and you will arrange it in a few days."

"I?"

Yuqian'er was a little scared. This was a matter for two or three hundred people, and it was a major event related to the entire tribe. She felt that she couldn't do it.

"Brother, I won't."

"Ten days ago, you didn't know how to use chopsticks, so there's nothing you know or don't know. Last time you saw how the clansman built the house, so why don't you tell me what to do?"

Yu Qian'er asked timidly, "Why me?"

"Because you're the only one who can count to nine hundred. Come on, tell me what to do to build a house?"

Yu Qian'er recalled it for a while, and said: "First dig a hole, then burn stones to fill it up, support wood, dig a hole and ram the earth, and the dug hole can be used to raise fish."

"Yeah, isn't that great."

"But... how to tamp earth, how to mortise and mortise wood, I don't know how to do it."

"You don't need to know that, you just need to know who can."

"Oh, will the other brothers and sisters also learn?"

"Study, I will teach you, you teach them, you not only have to learn how to do it, but also how to let others do it."

Chen Jian was preparing to train these children as successors, while the rest of the clan had matured and their thinking had solidified.You can know it, but it's hard to know why.

In the future, these children can also spread outside, spread out, and have the insights that a ruling class should have. It will take at least ten or twenty years for them to learn rational analysis.Wait until slavery comes, let them know the irreconcilable contradiction between the ruler and the ruled.

Don't ask them to have a conscience, just ask them to know how to sit on their buttocks, find a balance between the cost of repression and the severity of oppression, and just don't kill themselves.

Chen Jian thought for a while, looked at Yu Qian'er and said, "Follow me, see with your eyes, listen with your ears, and ask if you don't understand, do you hear me?"

"Brother, what are you going to do then?"

"More important things."

"Is it more important than building a house?"

"Yes."

Yu Qian'er couldn't understand what was more important than building a house and fishing, but she nodded obediently and followed Chen Jianjian step by step.

Chen Jian took all the clansmen to go upstream to cut trees, whether it was twigs or future rafters, they needed to be well prepared and put them down along the river.

So Yu Qian'er had her first question.

"Why don't you dig the soil first? It's enough for Brother Wolfpi to lead people to cut down trees like last time."

Chen Jian didn't answer immediately, but took people to fish up the wood, and some branches were piled up by the river to dry before he took people to dig the soil.

The next day, after the wood was dried, Chen Jian took some people to pile up the branches on the cliff wall. After lighting the fire, Yu Qian'er looked at the pile of flames and suddenly figured it out.

"Brother, I know. Because the wood is wet when it is fished out of the river, it must be dried before burning stones to break it. We can dig the soil while waiting for it to dry. While the sun is working, It's us who do the work."

Chen Jian nodded with a smile: "Yes, that's it. Let me ask you, if you are given a pile of firewood, a pot, and an uncut sheep, just you, how can you make this sheep Fastest to cook?"

Yu Qian'er pondered for a while and said, "Sir, fire the fire, pour water, and wait for the water to boil to cut the sheep. This is the fastest way."

"That's right, building a house is the same. It's just that there are more things to do. You use charcoal to draw all the possible things to do today, as long as you can understand it yourself. See how many steps are needed in total?"

"Oh."

Yu Qian'er agreed, took a piece of charcoal, and followed behind Chen Jian, frowning all the while watching and listening.

She spent the whole three days like this. According to what Chen Jian said, she used charcoal to draw all the steps that she knew. She was shocked when she saw everything densely packed.

Eating, cooking, drinking salt water, digging pits, burning rocks, cutting trees, ramming earth, mortise and tenon, mowing grass, drying grass, dragging mud, drying mud, diverting water and mud, cutting turpentine, pulling bark...

She held the bark, pointed to the various symbols on it, and explained them one by one to Chen Jian who was making mud there.

But Chen Jian asked her to think clearly, which ones need people and which ones depend on the sun.How many days are needed for those who need the help of the sun?How much wood does it take to build a house?How much mud is needed to build a kang and a chimney?

Yu Qian'er stared at the group of rammed earth for another day, counted the numbers, and wrote them down on the bark.At night when everyone was sleeping, she was outside counting the numbers by the moonlight.Of course, she still remembered what her brother said at the beginning, she wanted to know how many times the moon was round, so she would not forget to draw the shape of the moon every day before going to bed.

In the morning, when she went to find Chen Jian again, she finally got a compliment from her brother, because she not only counted the number of logs needed for a house, but also counted how many houses could be built with the logs cut a few days ago.

It's just that the bark of a birch tree as tall as a person has been densely painted with charcoal black marks, and her eyes are also burnt red.

But she was very happy, because her brother not only smiled, but also stroked her hair, which she knew would happen every time her brother pampered her.

"Look, isn't it difficult?"

"Ah."

"Tomorrow you will bring people to drag the mud at home, and the pottery molds will be there. You can calculate how many mud bricks and chimneys are needed for these wooden houses, and there will be some extra in case they are cracked by the sun. Go, take care Think about it, take your younger siblings and let them count for you tomorrow."

The next morning, Yu Qian'er did not see her brother, her grandmother and some old people were not there, brother Langpi and some people were also gone.

After asking the clansmen, they found out that they left early in the morning, and Yu Qian'er became flustered.Today is my brother who let me really take care of these things, but don't make any mistakes.

Her heart was pounding, and she felt like when those little wolf cubs who had left their mothers were just captured.

To count the amount of mud, to make a meal, not to let the clansmen have enough to eat, and to have the water boiled in advance... She took a few deep breaths to calm her beating heart, gritted her teeth and thought: "I want to be good and let my brother know that I have grown up!"

The clansmen looked at her laughingly, and teased their little niece, thinking that she would cry, but they didn't hear the tears. Instead, they watched her with her mouth flattened and her fists clenched, and she led everyone to the river, and started to cry. day's work.

When the clansmen started making mud, Chen Jian also took the old people of the two clans and some women who could not do heavy physical labor to the upper reaches of the river.

There are many apricot trees on a hill there, and it's time to pick them.

Chen Jian wanted to shout a slogan, such as eating fish for 20 days and building [-] houses, but the clansmen were really tired of eating fish these days.

There are too many people, and it is impossible to cook so delicately.Boiled fish in clear water today, boiled fish in clear water tomorrow, I am tired of eating, good logistics is the guarantee of work progress, just a change of taste.

He needs the nutrients and sugars in those apricots too, with some experimentation and preparation ahead of time.In addition, with the maturity of various fruits, it is time for the clansmen to produce an additional condiment.

And almonds are great as food in winter.There is a small amount of amygdalin in it, so it is really no problem to soak it in water.

Wild fruit trees and nuts are divided into different years. Their nutrition is not enough to support them to have a baby once a year. They can only have one baby every three years and one big baby every five years.This year is a big year, with a lot of apricots, and a lot of wild fruits, hazelnuts and acorns. It is a good year.

The old grandmother brought people here to pick apricots and put them in wicker baskets. These people are good at picking fruits and can withstand this kind of repetitive labor.