Early the next morning, Song Xuan didn't even have time to eat after getting up, so he went directly to the workshop.
He untied the rope that tied the feathers and gently pulled it twice. The feathers were really stuck to it, but they were not as strong as Song Xuan's ideal arrow feathers. With a little strength, they could still be pulled apart easily. of.
But you must know that there is nothing else to help fix the arrow feathers. If you tie it with a rope, it is basically usable.
Although this sap is not the most ideal material, it does solve the urgent need of the Soaring Snake Tribe. Until a better adhesive is found, this can still be used.
Song Xuan also took this arrow and tried it directly. With the arrow feathers, the flying posture is indeed much more stable, and the shooting range has been increased by one-third, although it is no longer easy to hit a target beyond 60 or 70 meters. , but with the blessing of arrowheads, the power is still quite good.
It's a pity that there is only this one now, and that's the only new bow that can be made. It will still take some time to apply it on a large scale.
The weather is getting hotter and hotter, and the rice fields have basically been cleared away. The roots of the trees in the fields have been repeatedly burned and flooded. At least the upper layers have disappeared. As for the lower ones, they can only wait for them to slowly rot. Fortunately, they are no longer there. It will affect the planting in the tribe.
Although Song Xuan has never planted rice before, he has heard the term "double rush", which means rushing to harvest and planting. The time is usually in July and August, when the early rice has begun to be harvested. Pushing forward, now this The time has almost passed the earliest planting time of early rice.
However, Song Xuan had no idea of planting double-cropping rice. To be on the safe side, it was better to plant only one season. Song Xuan decided to start planting in the next few months.
But what will be planted will definitely be seedlings, so now we can get out a piece of seedlings in advance and grow them from seeds to seedlings that can be planted. It should not take more than twenty or thirty days.
Seedlings are the most important thing in rice planting. Unfortunately, Song Xuan only knows the general process and only hopes that these seeds will not be affected. However, Song Xuan thinks that they can survive in such a harsh environment in the wild and he can do it again. No matter what, we won't kill them all.
However, in order to prevent all the rice seeds from being ruined by one mistake, Song Xuan decided to experiment with some of them first and choose the best plan.
If you want to have seedlings, you must first breed them and germinate them. Otherwise, if they are all scattered in the field, there will be no harvest if they are all rotten.
The animal skins in the tribe were not very breathable, so Song Xuan naturally did not dare to use them. Fortunately, the clothes he wore when he came here were still there. Although they were a bit torn by branches on the way Teng She moved, they were still barely usable. , at least much more breathable than these things in the tribe.
This is the only thing that Song Xuan misses a little bit. Although he knows that he is unlikely to be able to go back, he has always kept it, and now it comes in handy.
Touching the soft clothes in his hands, Song Xuan felt that he would never be able to wear such comfortable clothes in his life. He was thankful to be able to use hemp. He didn't dare to think about other things.
After wetting the clothes, he took out the rice that had been soaked overnight. There were not many here, and it was Song Xuan's first time doing it, so he only grabbed a small handful, spread them out gently, and then covered them with clothes. Sprinkle a little water on it every half day to keep it moist as much as possible.
He was afraid that they would stop sprouting if he was not careful, so Song Xuan did not dare to take another look. He took a look in the morning and again in the evening. There was no movement for three days, which made Song Xuan think that he was going to fail.
Finally, on the fourth day, after a night, more than half of the rice sprouts had small white buds. Although not big, they were quite obvious. Song Xuan was not relieved until then. This first step It can be considered a success. The next step is to wait for the buds to grow a little longer and then spread them into the ground.
Although the rice has not yet been germinated on a large scale, the land needed to cultivate the seedlings has been cleared. Song Xuan didn't know how much land was needed for these ten kilograms of seeds, so he directly asked the prisoners to get half an acre.
This small piece of land requires no less effort than re-opening a piece of land. Every small clod of soil has been broken into pieces. Song Xuan even asked Shi Ban to make a few simple wooden peg rakes. If I insist on it, it is quite similar. Zhu Bajie's nine-tooth rake is also somewhat similar, but it looks a little uglier.
A piece of wood is clamped across the front of a stick, and the two sides are also tied with wood to form a triangle. Seven or eight holes are burned into the crossbar, and then the wood is inserted into it, exposing about ten centimeters.
Use this rake to crawl back and forth in the field repeatedly until the rice field is completely leveled.
Just when Song Xuan was throwing seeds into the rice fields, Shi Yong and his party, who had been away for almost a month, finally came back. The harvest this time was of course not as much as the last time. Although each tribe owed money, most of them only had a small amount left. .
However, this is not the only purpose of Song Xuan letting them pass. The most important thing is to run around all the tribes. Although they have been traveling among the tribes for a month, Shi Yong and the others seem to be in good condition.
"God's envoy, it turns out that the three tribes of Wolf, Bear, and Zi are all nearby us. They will be there in two or three days by boat!"
As soon as Shi Yong came back, he introduced the situation of the surrounding tribes to Song Xuan. These three tribes were further north than Teng She, and the nearest Zhu tribe could even be rushed there in two days.
They are also in the upper reaches of the tributaries of the big river, but the tributaries they are located are further upstream than Soaring Snake. Due to the obstruction of many rivers, and the main hunting center of Soaring Snake is still in the mountains to the north, there is no contact with them. .
As for other tribes, they are all downstream of Teng She, and most of them are built near the water. However, like Heishui, this is the only one who builds their houses directly by the river.
The farthest tribe even takes six or seven days to reach by boat. Fortunately, the water flow becomes gentler as you go downstream, otherwise you may not be able to row back with the goods.
After Shi Yong and the others came back, the population of the tribe finally reached its peak. Including prisoners, there were already more than a hundred people. Compared with when they came here, it had doubled, and most of them were Teng She himself. people.
Knowing that Shi Jiu had become a witch after returning, Shi Yong was also very excited. He took his people to find Shi Jiu to bask in the glory of the gods. As a witch, although Shi Jiu did not have to hunt like Shi Meng and the others, he still worked in the tribe. .
The body was still in short supply, so Song Xuan asked them to hunt with their children. Fish now accounted for a very large proportion in the tribe, especially for the captives. They basically had them for meals, and at most they occasionally exchanged them for snails and river mussels. Change the taste.
