Savage Tribe Survival

"We can't hunt here on a large scale, right? If we hunt too much, these animals know the danger here, will they come back next time?" Luo Zhen expressed her concern.

Lu Zhan shook his head, "In winter, the temperature on the mountain is lower than here. Animals can't just hide nearby for the winter, they should go farther. Even if they stay nearby, they should choose some hidden cliff caves , we don't think it's easy to find them directly in winter. If we don't hunt them while they're still around, we won't have enough food this winter."

"Then how about we try to disturb their groups as little as possible, or just find some animals that are alone?" Someone suggested.

"We only have seven warriors who can go hunting. If we use this method to hunt, how long will it take us to hunt enough food?" Heifu retorted.

"And what Luo Zhen said just now makes sense. If we don't have a way to preserve meat, even if the animals come back from hunting, all the food will rot before winter."

The question came back again, "What if I use salted fruit? Apply the salty juice to the surface of the meat. The salted fruit is also salty, so it should have the same effect as rock salt?"

"Maybe we can try it." Although the taste of salted fruit is much milder than rock salt, it should also be used instead of rock salt.

Lu Zhan shook his head in disapproval. He is more familiar with this place than these people. Although there are more salty fruit trees growing here than other places, there are not so many that they can waste them on meat, and more What's more, salted fruits are not as durable as rock salt. After estimating the number of salted fruits in the mountain depression, it is just enough for them to use the next batch of salted fruits to ripen.

You must know that the second batch of salted fruit cannot be picked immediately in the spring, and it will take several months to wait for it to bloom, bear fruit and mature.Lu Zhan looked at Luo Zhen, "Didn't you get a kind of dried meat before? It looks like it can be stored for many days."

"You mean smoked meat?" Luo Zhen recalled that in the hot weather before, in order to prevent the fresh meat from rotting too quickly, he would smoke and dry the meat when he lit the fire, but Lu Zhan didn't like to eat this kind of dried meat at the time Eat food, but I didn't expect the other party to remember it. "Smoked meat can be stored for a few days, but it won't last through the winter."

Luo Zhen thought for a while, "What if we don't kill the prey when hunting, but catch them alive and raise them in captivity?"

"Like the two cuckoo birds you raised?" Ashue asked.

"Well." Luo Zhen nodded, "The animals here are basically vegetarian animals, as long as they are provided with enough pasture, they can be raised until winter."

"But when winter comes, the weeds here will wither and turn yellow. What shall we feed them then?"

"Isn't it snowing in winter?" Luo Zhen smiled, "At that time, just slaughter it and freeze it outside the house. The frozen meat can be stored for a long time, and you can eat it until spring comes."

Everyone nodded in amazement. Indeed, in the winter, they would find that the meat would be frozen into a rock-like hard appearance. The frozen meat would not rot so easily. Sometimes they encountered it in the wild. The corpses of the beasts who had been dead for an unknown period of time and were frozen under the snow were also very well preserved, with no signs of decay at all, and the soldiers could still have a full meal in the cold winter.

Everyone felt that Luo Zhen's method was feasible, but there was also a problem, that is, if a large number of animals were caught, would it scare these animals to come back to this basin next time?

"Let's catch a group of animals and raise them first. If there is still a lack of food in winter, I will take you outside to look for it." Lu Zhan didn't care whether those animals would come back. There were not many of them in the first place. , even he alone can feed them.

"I saw that there are a lot of fish in the river at the foot of the mountain. We can dig a fish pond to catch some fish if we can't do it. Maybe we can go directly to the river to catch some fish after we lack food in winter." Their current tools are still It is too scarce, and it is a bit unrealistic to dig fish ponds directly. In addition, all the fish in the river will not disappear. With this skill, it is better to let everyone live in a house first.

If you want to raise such a large animal in captivity, you can't tie a rope directly to the foot like raising a cuckoo bird to prevent the other party from running away.

Luo Zhen marked out a large area next door to the second house, and planned to fence the surrounding area as a place to raise animals.

There is no way to set the captive place next to the house where you live. Although there are no large and ferocious carnivores like tigers, lions and black bears here, there are still foxes and wild wolves. Luo Zhen doesn't want to The movements that I have worked so hard to raise are being snatched away where I don't notice.

The fence is much simpler than building a house, and ordinary people can do it. After confirming it, they had no time to celebrate the completion of the new house, so they divided into two groups to do their own work.

Lu Zhan's action was the fastest. Just after a few stakes were laid on the fence, the other party came back with a lamb that had not yet grown up. The lamb's mouth was tightly covered by the other party, and a pair of big, round eyes were full of Frightened, Lu Zhan exerted great strength, and the little lamb couldn't even use the slightest strength to struggle, so he could only be carried by the opponent obediently.

"Why did you hunt such a small one back?" Luo Zhen was a little puzzled. In the past, Lu Zhan used to hunt that kind of adult prey. Luo Zhen only saw this half-cub animal when he was still living in the Black Panther tribe. The opponent has hunted.

"This is for you. The meat of animal cubs is tender. It will be difficult to eat in winter. You can raise this first." Now is not the time to give birth to cubs. It is not easy to find such small cubs.

Luo Zhen looked at the lamb. The lamb of this size should only be two or three months old, and it should still be in the stage of suckling. The water and grass in the basin are abundant, and the ewes have no shortage of food and drink, and there should be no worries about running out of milk.

The goat that Lu Zhan came back from hunting last time was an adult billy goat. Luo Zhen hadn't thought about goat milk yet, but now that he saw the lamb, he remembered it. Thinking of all kinds of delicious dairy products, Luo Zhen couldn't bear it. Stop drooling, "Zhan, can you also catch the ewe of this little lamb?"

"Do you want ewes?" The mutton has a foul smell, and there is no seasoning to remove the taste. After eating it last time, Lu Zhan didn't like it very much. He would take the initiative to ignore this group when hunting. The last time this little lamb bumped into him, thinking about the tenderness of the lamb, he grabbed it back.

"Well, I want goat's milk." Luo Zhen nodded emphatically.

Lu Zhan looked Luo Zhen up and down without a word. He thought that Luo Zhen was just a little weaker than ordinary people, but he never thought that the other party was not weaned yet, and even wanted to drink goat milk.He reflected on what he had given the other party to eat before. Apart from meat and wild fruits, there was no female beast that could produce milk.

"Okay, I'll catch the ewe for you." Lu Zhan said as he tied the lamb's four hooves with animal skin ropes, stuffed it into Luo Zhen's arms, turned around and continued hunting.

Luo Zhen didn't know what the other party was thinking. Looking at the man who was running away in a hurry, Luo Zhen lowered her head, each with big eyes and small eyes. Luo Zhen gently stroked the soft hair of the little lamb, "Don't worry , I will reunite you with your mother in a while."

The little lamb whose mouth was finally free looked at Luo Zhen, and softly called out, "Baa."

It only took half a day to make the fence, because the animals captured by the soldiers were different, Luo Zhen also separated many small fences between the big fences, so as to prevent some animals from fighting.

Axue brought back several bags of fresh and tender weeds. In addition, except for some overgrown weeds that were cut down, the rest of the fence remained in its original state, so there was no need to worry about bringing new ones back. animals are hungry.

The little lamb probably couldn't adapt to the new environment, and hid in the grass and shivered. The fence next to it was a bison that Heifu led people to capture together.

The bison is not as docile as a lamb, and a big battle is necessary in the process of catching it, and it is so powerful that the wooden stakes of the fence can be easily knocked down by the opponent. The hooves were all broken, making it impossible for the opponent to get up, but the pain kept the bison lying on the ground and screaming "moo".

Hei Fu also had some wounds on his body. Luo Zhen bandaged him with a big thistle compress. Looking at the bison in the enclosure, he couldn't bear it. In spring, if possible, let’s try to catch some young calves and bring them back to captivity. If they can be matured, in addition to eating them, we can also let them do things for us in the future.”

"Use wild beasts to do things for us? Will they be obedient?" In Heifu's heart, the relationship between them and wild beasts is only the relationship between hunter and prey. Apart from eating them to fill their stomachs, they never thought that those wild beasts are still alive. What can it do.

Luo Zhen tied up the animal skin bandages, and was not in a hurry to delve into this topic, "I will tell you about this in detail later, now you can capture the animals you need first, and we will continue to build houses after we are done, I hope We'll all be able to live in our own homes before winter officially sets in."

The two were talking, Ah Shui ran over panting on his short legs, shouting as he ran, "Luo Zhen, Luo Zhen, gave birth, gave birth."

Ah Shui's voice caught everyone's attention, and everyone stopped what they were doing and looked this way.

Luo Zhen's head is full of black lines. Can this dead child speak? What does Luo Zhen have to give birth to? What can he give birth to as a man?Oh, by the way, he suddenly remembered that Ah Shui was born by a man.

"What are you talking about, what are you shouting for?" Luo Zhen stopped the child who was rushing towards him, and ruthlessly stroked the other's fluffy hair, and asked.

Ah Shui's small face was flushed with excitement, and he carefully handed the things in his hand to Luo Zhen, "Look, the eggs, the cuckoo eggs are still hot just after they were born, those cuckoo birds are really hot!" can lay eggs."

Luo Zhen lowered her head, and sure enough, she saw Ah Shui holding a bird egg as big as a thumb in his hand.