From Chief to Ball

"Well, but where can I find it?"

"Go up along the river. After arriving at the cave of the Hua tribe, walk up the river for three days. If not, go up along the Hecha stream, also for three days."

The vast majority of the tribes should still live along the river. It is northerly, the rainfall is not too much, and the river does not often flood, so there is no need to go to high places to figure out the technology of digging wells.Three days is the limit of a tribe's activities, and the combination of the two is roughly the scope of that tribe.

He took them back to the village, and took out what the women had prepared for the past few days-four woven bark nets.

I found a tree and climbed up, and tied the two ends of the net to the branches to form a simple hammock.

"Don't light a fire at night, just sleep in a net, where wild animals can't bite. Food is also prepared for you, and you don't need to light a fire. You are alone in the front, and the three behind you are pulling the birch bark boat. Put it in a boat. Once they see it, they can row down the river and come back with the current, so they can’t catch up.”

Chen Jian took out food for them, packed it up, looked at the sky, and said, "Go tomorrow morning and come back early. Hua, remember, you can't kill the enemy alone."

Hua nodded, and Chen Jian grabbed the stone civet cat beside him and said, "If Hua insists on fighting them, don't pull him. You can just row back."

The stone civet cat nodded. He had a boar-toothed dagger hanging around his neck, which was given to him by the two patriarchs after the last sacrifice.He believes that as long as he wants to run, no one can catch him.

In the early morning of the next day, when the four earliest scouts set off, Chen Jian sent them to the river, checked the salted lard and dried tubers in the jar, and wished them an early return.

Looking at their backs, Chen Jian secretly made a decision.

"Even if the number of enemies is not large, they will not fight in the near future."

He was going to drag the must-fight battle until autumn.

One is that the tribe can make a whole team of fifteen steps; the other is that if they fight, they have to grab things. No matter whether the tribe is a primitive nomad or slash-and-burn, they can only grab things in autumn; Give away everything that should be harvested, and let them feel the charm of the Winter Goddess.

Chapter 2 Voluntary labor on ten-week holidays

The third day after the scouts left was Taoyue's second ten-week break.

Since it is a peach moon, there are naturally peaches.

The clansmen looked at the sky and the mountains in the distance, and finally decided to take only half a day off and spend the morning picking peaches.

Because according to what Chen Jian said, Yu Qian'er has arranged the time for ten days, and she can't change it usually, so she has to use the rest time.

At this time, picking peaches has already become a habit.Chen Jian broke this habit and didn't need to live on peaches for a whole month.But the people of the tribe always feel distressed when they see the messy peaches that fell on the ground and were eaten by insects and ants.

The peaches and plums made their own way without saying a word, the grass was trampled on the ground and wailed, but the barefoot clansmen couldn't hear it at all, they just laughed, comparing who picked the peaches bigger and redder.

The peaches that have not been artificially selected are not very large, and occasionally there are slightly larger ones.In the past, there were no wicker baskets, and the peaches were carried in animal skins, but now you can put the peaches in the basket with peace of mind and boldness.Don't be afraid of too much, I'm afraid you don't have the strength to back it.

Originally, peaches were the main food of Taoyue because peaches were difficult to store.It’s just that the people of the clan thought that since apricots could be stored in that way, so could peaches, so they didn’t care about breaking them. Anyway, there were still many pottery pots, and more than 20 men and women were responsible for making pottery.

Chen Jian wiped the hair off the peach and took a bite. It was a little sour and hard, and it needed to be softened before it could be delicious.

He originally planned to use peaches to make wine, but the sugar content is too low, which is completely different from the peaches he saw and imagined in his previous life. Only through selective breeding from generation to generation can there be such a large and sweet peach.

Yu Qian'er took out a big one from the basket, followed Chen Jian's example, wiped it casually, and took a bite.Xu Shi was caught by Chen Jian's mouth these days, spit it out, frowned, and said: "Sour, why is it not as good as the food at Taohe's?"

Everyone laughed, and a few of them took a few bites and said, "It's not as delicious as Taohe's. It's because I eat maple syrup and honey these days, which makes Yuqian'er's mouth sweet. This peach It's naturally sour."

This is true, the peaches here are actually much larger than those near the Tao River.However, in the past, they had to be eaten as food, otherwise they would be hungry; now that Chen Jian brought them something else to eat, the taste of the peaches was not as good as before.

Chen Jian said with a smile: "If you want to eat sweetness, you have to suffer first. If you eat the honey of other people's bees, they will come to sting you. If you eat the baby of other people's peaches, Taozi will inevitably cry a few tears. Of course, it is sour and delicious. astringent."

Yu Qian'er looked at the damaged places on the peach trees, some translucent peach gum flowed out, she really thought it was the tears of peaches, and wondered why the tears of peaches were so sticky?I put a little bit of it in my mouth with my hand, and quickly spit it out: "I'm not afraid of bee stings. Besides, brother, you taught me to use smoke, and those bees won't sting. We haven't eaten honey for a long time. Today is a ten-day break." , let’s find some honey to eat in the afternoon.”

Wolfpi came over, found the reddest peach and handed it to Yuqian'er, saying, "I brought back all the honey nearby. Didn't you eat bees and bugs a few days ago? Well, try this, this one is big and delicious." Red, maybe sweet."

Yu Qian'er pinched the peach, and Chen Jian said with a smile: "Are you really not afraid of stings? If you are not afraid, I can let you eat honey every day. But you are not allowed to cry when you are stung."

She tilted her head, pinched her braids, thought about the smell of honey, recalled the pain when she was stung, and nodded.

The pain of the bee sting is quickly forgotten. What I am most afraid of is when it is buzzing around me and I don’t know it. If it really stings, it will be the same.It is the taste of honey, but it is unforgettable for a long time, especially now that the mountain flowers are blooming, and even the wind carries a drunken fragrance.

It was a coincidence that Yuqian'er said this, a gust of wind blew the fragrance of the blooming linden trees in the distance.The clansmen stopped picking peaches, closed their eyes and sniffed the scent of linden flowers, swallowed involuntarily.

Several clansmen yelled: "Jian, if you say it, it will definitely be done. We are really not afraid of the sting."

Song Ye said: "Yes, last time you wrapped honey on the wound, we will fight against Hua's enemies in the future, and we will also fight against the Meteor tribe. We must prepare some fresh ones."

Yu Qian'er even tugged at his hand, begging him.Yu Qian'er knew that as long as he asked his brother, he would definitely agree.

Chen Jian said with a smile: "Then we won't be able to take a ten-day break. Yuqianer has already arranged for the next ten-day work."

In the past few days, I have been digging soil or moving bricks, and I am indeed a little tired.I can imagine that it would be really pleasant to drink a jar of honey and cold spring water on the hottest afternoon of hoeing.

After weighing it up, I feel that this time will be endless, and there will be a next time. Anyway, there is no need to line up in the evening today, and you don’t need to run up the mountain listening to the sound of drums. You just need to wash up at night, and you don’t have to worry about mosquitoes by the water when you order wormwood.

"Then do it in the afternoon, it won't delay tomorrow's work."

The speed of picking peaches was accelerated one after another. The men carried several baskets home and piled them up in a room. They covered them with fur and grass leaves to soften the sour and hard peaches.

Chen Jian pondered the possibility of beekeeping, and found that the feasibility was relatively high.The topic brought up by these peaches reminded him.

Bees don't need much care, and the family has a complete set of tools.Honey is next, and beeswax is the most important.

There is no ash pole here, so there is no way to raise ash worms. If you want to get enough wax, you can only use beeswax.Although other methods can be used to smelt bronzes in the future, the lost wax method is better.It's too late to wait until it's time to use it, and everything has to be arranged in advance.

Things are easy to handle when there are many people. The only thing missing is the saw. You don't need to think about this thing before it has no metal.A saw made from a few broken river shells can cut maple sugar, but not a big log.

Let a few people fight to bring a few dry trees, without a saw, you have to cut them with stones bit by bit.There is no need to cut it into boards, just make a flat surface that can be easily glued into a beehive.

The uncle took a few young people who often made tenons and tenons there, and the rest of the men were chipping wood. This work is not tiring, and it doesn't need to be too smooth, and stones can also be done.

Light the fire, and bring a large basket of fish maw and fish bubbles. From the beginning of eating fish to the present, the fish bubbles in the belly of the fish are piled up together, which is more fish than the people in the Taohe cave eat in a year.

These swim bladders have been dried long ago. They are not the top quality Huangyu, but all kinds of miscellaneous fish. However, the swim bladder glue used to boil wood is still no problem.

Isingas is a traditional carpenter's adhesive, which has been used for thousands of years. It was not until the advent of chemical synthetic glue that it disappeared from the stage of history.The treasure ship of the Sanbao eunuch in the previous life was glued with swim bladder glue in many places, which is extremely tough and waterproof.

After crushing these dried fish maws and soaking them in clay bowls and pots, Chen Jian went to get wood.

After lunch, the swim bladders were slightly soaked. They were miscellaneous fish in the first place, not as good as sturgeon and yellow carp, and it didn’t take a whole day to soak them.

By means of a bonfire, a few logs were placed horizontally in a large pottery basin, above the surface of the water.

Put the earthenware pot containing the swim bladder on top, cover it, and start steaming over high heat.

The clansmen looked at it curiously, thinking what is this going to do?Chen Jian never let them throw away these strange things, neither did the pig urine bubbles last time, nor did these fish bubbles, and those fish bones.

But since Jian wanted to get it, it must be a very useful and good thing, and they had never seen it before, so they were all full of curiosity.

The white air has been steaming for a long time, and the clansmen gradually lost interest, thinking that they don't have to wait long.At the beginning, Jian talked about digging toilets, and later showed them the power of thunder and lightning, but now he hasn't seen it for so long.

Chen Jian lifted the lid, twisted it with chopsticks, and found that it was almost done. He took it out and squeezed out the water inside. After continuing to steam for a while, he took out several bowls of steamed sticky fish maw, and touched his ears so hot.