The snow falls and I don’t know how much time has passed, and the three months in the mountains don’t feel long.
The snow that has been falling for several months has finally begun to melt. Although the knee-deep snow will not melt away in a day or two, there is finally hope.
Teng She and the others didn't feel anything even if they stayed at home all winter. After all, the only thought at that time was to fill their stomachs, but now they can't stay even after the heavy snow has closed the mountains for several months, let alone Song Xuan, walking around several rooms all day long, is really suffocating.
Although it is a bit boring, the preparations for this winter are quite sufficient. All weapons and tools have been upgraded, a bunch of commonly used axes have been made, and a sufficient number of farm tools for reclamation have been accumulated.
The training of various weapons has not been left behind. The main room is now big enough, and dozens of people can use it. When making tools is boring, I unconsciously want to move around. Going back and forth has actually formed a fixed time. .
Song Xuan and Shi Meng decided that instead of letting everyone mess around, they should directly use them and train commonly used weapons.
Spears, stone axes, and even javelins and slings can be deployed in the main room, but the latter two must have a certain degree of accuracy. Not to mention that they can hit the target every time, but they cannot miss too far, at least Also on the hide at the back.
After a few months, the results are quite good. Even Song Xuan can now be regarded as a half-qualified warrior. As for half, it is mainly because he has not experienced actual combat testing.
Song Xuan can also say that he is no longer Wu Xia Amen. He can also play with slings very smoothly. Within ten meters, he can hit wherever he wants. Song Xuan is not a stupid person in the first place. After learning these simple skills Weapons are even less difficult.
After several months of meat-feeding, he is much stronger than when he first came here. Although the muscles on his body are not very obvious at ordinary times, if he really exerts force, it is quite terrifying, and Song Xuan is taller than He was taller than everyone else in Teng She, and looked more imposing.
With enough food, many people in the tribe gained weight after one winter. At the same time, nearly half of the women in the tribe became pregnant.
Looking at Shi Meng who was giggling beside him, Song Xuan couldn't help but want to kick him twice. This was all due to his good rhythm.
Since moving out of the cave, the originally suppressed voice has now been released. Even across the house, it is no worse than before. Fortunately, the rest time is relatively early now, so it does not affect Song Xuan's rest.
Fortunately, the women here are very tough and can still work even though they are pregnant. There is no such thing as confinement. With a little training, they are almost like normal people.
Although the tribe lost a large number of people before, it has finally recovered slowly. If it continues at this pace, the tribe's population will soon be enriched.
The weather was gradually getting warmer, and before the ice and snow had completely melted, Shi Meng took the hunting team and set off again. The hunting team, which had been holding back for several months, were all howling and ready to do something big.
In order to ensure sufficient combat effectiveness, all the existing pottery pills in the tribe were concentrated in their hands, so that one person could have three or four. Although it was not a lot, it was almost enough for hunting. With new weapons, hunting began Hunting is naturally more convenient.
As for the rest of the tribe, they can only wait for the snow to slowly melt. Although the women of Soaring Snake can hold up half of the sky, hunting is usually done by men.
In the current environment, there is no way to get food from other places, so we can only cook as much as possible in the tribe.
In winter, two more babies were born in the tribe, one boy and one girl, which was quite balanced. The previous method in the tribe was to have the mother carry them around.
Now that the tribe is no longer hungry, this situation is no longer necessary. Song Xuan's arrangement is that the two mothers take turns taking care of the children. After all, there is only one day during the day, so the milk is almost enough. In this way First, it can still relieve them a lot of pressure.
It is definitely inconvenient no matter what you do with your children outside.
Here at Shitou, Song Xuan also found two apprentices for him. Although Shitou is currently enough for one person, the scale of pottery burning in the tribe will definitely be getting bigger and bigger in the future, so it is better to reserve talents in advance.
When the time comes, it may be too late to train them at the last minute. Of course, these two people are not full-time kilns like Shitou. The main thing is to start when needed and learn the main steps at the same time.
Most of the time, Shitou would definitely follow the large troops and call them if necessary. Song Xuan made arrangements in advance to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings.
After waiting for more than half a month, the melted ground finally became a little dry, and the Soaring Snake tribe began to take action on a large scale.
However, spring has just begun, and there are not so many wild fruits to pick outside, so the women in the tribe also formed a hunting team, but the scope of responsibility is still different from that of Shi Meng and others.
Mainly around the tribe, the time was not as long as Shi Meng and the others, usually only one or two days, and the surrounding area of the tribe was also raided many times by hunting teams.
The ferocious beasts have either become meat in everyone's belly, or been expelled. The ones left here are not much of a threat, and Shihua and the others have no pressure to clean them up.
After a winter of training, the women in the tribe have greatly improved their abilities. Although their main task is not hunting, they will still encounter dangers when they go out. There are only disadvantages to being stronger in combat.
Especially now that there are more and more pregnant women in the tribe. Generally, there is no problem for them to work, but it may be almost useless if they fight. Under such circumstances, the stronger the others, the more they can make up for the gap.
As for Song Xuan, he and a few people were busy planning the cultivated land. In order to facilitate the care, the first batch of cultivated land was chosen on the upstream flat land not far away.
It was only a hundred meters away from the tribe, which was very convenient. Since the area required was not large, Song Xuan only enclosed a small piece of land, which was only fifty or sixty meters long and wide, about five or six acres of land.
It's a good choice, but the weeds and trees on it are difficult to deal with, so setting fire to them is the most convenient way. Song Xuan didn't think about letting the whole tribe work together on these acres of land. Normally, this is the only area in the tribe. A few people.
There are few people, so this area faces the river on one side and is close to the tribe on the other. This area is already an open space, and the trees in the middle have long been cleared away by Teng She and others.
So what needed to be cleaned up were the other two directions. Song Xuan thought about cutting out a fireproof belt on each side. As for the one inside the ground, there was no need to bother. By then, the entire fire would be burned cleanly.
It not only saves time, but also can leave a large amount of plant ash to be used as fertilizer, which can be regarded as killing two birds with one stone. Otherwise, if you want to cut down such a large area of forest, the whole tribe will act together, which will not be feasible in less than ten days and a half.
The trees along the river are not as dense as those in the mountains, and are smaller in size. They are not too difficult to cut down. The width of the fire break is only three or four meters. As long as it cannot be burned down, everyone will cut it if it is too wide. It’s hard.
But even so, the progress of the few people was not fast. At the end of the day, they only advanced about ten meters. This was because all the children in the tribe came to help.
The current river water is still too cold, and it is too dangerous to fish in the water. The children cannot use their fishing skills, so Song Xuan simply asked them to help cut down the trees.
Not all the cut trees were dragged back to the tribe. Some stones suitable for making charcoal were selected and piled directly on the open space. After drying, they could be directly burned into charcoal. This can be regarded as reducing everyone's pressure.
Song Xuan asked everyone to drag the remaining branches directly into the ground, hoping to increase the intensity of the fire when setting fire to them later.
After all, the winter snow has just melted, and there are not many wild beasts outside. Many ferocious beasts are still in hibernation. Therefore, the harvest of the hunting team is not rich, but the harvest of the women in the tribe is quite good. Once the snow melts, all kinds of beasts can be seen. The little animals all ran out, and they were all very hungry and couldn't run fast, so they were very easy to catch.
The only drawback is that there is a little bit of meat after being captured. Due to the low difficulty of catching, everyone no longer uses weapons. Whether it is a spear or a sling, they will end up in a bloody mess, which affects the appearance. , and it tastes uncomfortable.
On the contrary, it is better to capture them alive. Although these animals are very wild, as long as they are caught, they will not cause any trouble. Their limbs are tied up, and each of them is honest.
If a disobedient one is about to die, everyone will naturally help it. If it dies, it won’t taste that good. If you kill it in advance, you can bleed it, so it doesn’t taste fishy.
As for the animals with higher consciousness among them, they were all brought back to the tribe. They thought of raising them in the tribe for a while and then killing them when they were fat. However, there were relatively few animals with such high consciousness, and they were usually Rabbits are smaller.
After several visits, there were many more small animals in the tribe, including a dozen rabbits and even two sheep.
Raising animals can actually be regarded as a tradition of Soaring Snakes. They have been raised before, but the conditions were difficult. They were killed for food during the evacuation, and there were not many Soaring Snakes left at that time.
Later, there was always the problem of insufficient food, so everyone did not put in the effort to raise them. Now that the conditions have improved, the idea of breeding has become more active.
Song Xuan is naturally very supportive of this behavior. Since the first live sheep was brought back, Song Xuan has re-planned the breeding plan of his tribe.
In the past, they would kill and eat the meat after it was fat, but that was no longer possible now. Song Xuan wanted to develop the scale first. As long as the scale was large enough, even if he did not go out to hunt later, he would rely on the animals he raised and the rice grown in the tribe. , and you can live a good life.
[(To explain the language issue, I forgot to mention it earlier. Before the winter, the communication method in the tribe was mainly gestures and some words. In order to avoid mentioning this every time and avoiding the suspicion that the number of words is too high and cumbersome, I just omitted it. As everyone knows, after the winter, speaking has become the main method, and gestures are only used in a small number of situations. Of course, speaking is also a relatively simple kind, not standard. In more than half a year, it should be okay to reach this level, no As for it being too outrageous, I still rely on gestures with other tribes, which will be gradually promoted later and will be written in the following article.)]
