The stone was tried several times. Although the strength of the naughty stone was not greatly improved after adding bone meal, the color of the pottery produced was lighter.
Anyway, the pottery in the tribe is now strong enough. It has basically caught up with Song Xuan's basic impression of pottery, and is even better. Whether the bone pottery can be made or not will not have much impact, but the color change is still useful. Yes, at least it can provide you with a new choice.
Now Song Xuan also felt Shi Shi's talent, so he decided to give him a better working environment first. The current two kilns were still too crude.
It was planned before and built with bricks. Although building a larger kiln requires a lot of bricks, we can only take our time now. After the new kiln is built, the production capacity should increase a lot. At that time, Song Xuan's idea of making bricks and tiles on a large scale could be satisfied.
Just when Song Xuan was thinking about the future, the hunting team finally came back. The last time was relatively short, but this time it was unexpectedly long. Everyone only hunted for five or six days at a time. After all, the harvest in this season is still good. Yes, you can basically get enough prey in five or six days.
Naturally, there were a lot of prey brought back this time, but Shi Meng's face looked a bit ugly. Even when he saw Song Xuan, he looked like he was pulling the corners of his mouth.
"What's going on? Are you in any danger?"
Seeing Shi Meng's very uncomfortable expression, Song Xuan's first reaction was whether someone was seriously injured or died. But if it was such an unexpected situation, the tribe should be notified in advance.
"It's okay, angel!"
Shi Meng still looked listless.
This is a stuffed animal that Shi Yong took out from the bag behind him:
"It's okay, angel, look!"
Song Xuan took a closer look and saw that it was actually a puppy. No, it should be said to be a wolf cub. After all, dogs seemed to have not been domesticated in this era.
Although he knew that this was a little wolf cub in front of him, Song Xuan was instantly enchanted by him, and he started to act up after taking it.
"Ah woo~"
As if feeling the change in the environment, the wolf cub in Song Xuan's hand gave a soft cry, then changed its position and played for a while. Then Song Xuan asked:
"How did you catch such a small wolf?"
It looked like it was only a few days old. If you wanted to catch it, it meant that this pack of wolves must have been eaten in one pot. Sure enough, when the people from the hunting team opened the package, there was indeed a young wolf skin inside.
Then Shi Yong looked at Shi Meng, and told the story while wanting to laugh but not daring to laugh.
This hunting originally followed the usual procedures, setting traps and chasing prey, which were all things we had done before. If this had happened before, everyone would have felt a little happy about the good harvest.
But with Song Xuan's Zhu Yu in front, everyone was not very happy this time until they met a group of hunting wild wolves.
The hunting team used the classic Russian rescue method, including the captured prey and the hunting wolves, all in one pot.
With their numerical advantage, they were all surrounded.
At this moment, Shi Meng had a sudden idea and wanted to imitate Song Xuan's persuasion to Uncle Lu. Shi Meng walked up with his head held high and was about to make a gesture. Unexpectedly, the wolves' counterattack came. Regardless of what the person in front of him was holding, he almost bit Shi Meng with a flying swoop.
Shi Meng was also frightened by the actions of the wolves and retreated repeatedly. This wave of imitating others picked up rocks and smashed their feet, which made everyone in the hunting team laugh. Shi Meng also became angry and launched an encirclement and suppression campaign. Order.
The ferocious wolves were naturally not as easy to deal with as Uncle Deer and his family. Not only did they run fast, they even caused a lot of trouble to the hunting team under the leadership of the alpha wolf. Many people were injured as a result. Fortunately, the harvest was not bad, except A small number of people escaped, and the rest became everyone's bag.
The one who escaped was a she-wolf. Because she had two arrows stuck in her body, she became the main target of everyone's pursuit. What everyone didn't expect was that this she-wolf was still able to run despite being injured, and they continued to chase her. He was able to capture the wolf's den, and everyone also found the little wolf cub that had just been born in the wolf's den.
Although he didn't directly persuade the prey like Song Xuan, he still had it, so although he was a bit worried about his face, Shi Meng still brought him back with a shy face.
When Song Xuan first heard Shi Yong say it, he knew that Shi Meng's plan would definitely not succeed. As the saying goes, wolves with white eyes are not so easy to tame. Without any unexpected circumstances, it would be impossible. Even if an accident occurs, there is a high probability that the wolves of a group will not follow the alpha wolf to surrender to humans.
But it is very suitable to catch a wolf cub and bring it back, especially one that has just been born. It may not even recognize its parents. If it can be raised, it will basically be tamed directly, and the effect will be even better. It's better to come.
Looking at Shi Meng who was a little unhappy, Song Xuan comforted him:
"It's okay, this is much easier to feed than catching it directly!"
You must know that when Song Xuan first asked everyone to catch them alive, basically everyone who went out would encounter one or two every day. But in the end, they could be fed in the tribe, but now there are only a few of them, and the rest will either die directly. , or died slowly, anyway, he didn't survive.
To catch a live prey, the cost of manpower and time required can be said to be several times that of direct hunting. Including the dead ones, the time required to completely feed a suitable prey is at least You can catch a dozen of them and bring them back.
This is also the reason why everyone has never raised animals. If you have time, why not go outside for a walk? The prey you bring back is enough for everyone, so there is no need to spend so much time.
As for the wolves, although they don't taste very good, their fur is still good.
And its most important role is naturally not for eating. With wolves, you can slowly train it in the direction of a dog. It can at least be used to look after homes and homes, and it is even possible to accompany it on hunting in the future.
No matter how ferocious his nature is, I believe that as long as he grew up in the tribe, he will not be as ambitious as the outsiders.
After listening to Song Xuan's words, Shi Meng's mood improved a little:
"Angel, is it true?"
"You'll know when you raise it!"
But the most troublesome thing now is how to feed this little wolf cub. It is not the time for the animals in the tribe to produce milk. There are a few rabbits, but they can hardly feed their own family with the amount of milk, let alone Not to mention giving it to wolves that are bigger than them.
After thinking about it, in the end, I had to let a few women in the tribe who were still breastfeeding to feed the little wolf cub. They had to squeeze out two bowls of it every day. Song Xuan made a small nest for it, with a box next to it. Bowl with milk.
There are currently four women in the tribe who are still breastfeeding, and it is not difficult for each of them to express a little.
Although Song Xuan himself said this kind of thing, the people in the tribe would definitely agree, and this was not a big deal in a primitive society where sex was relatively open, but Song Xuan, as a modern person, at least in his soul A modern person is still somewhat shy.
After struggling for a long time, Song Xuan finally asked Shi Meng to speak. The women agreed without saying any nonsense.
Maybe everyone saw Song Xuan's shyness, so every morning and afternoon they would prepare the milk and wait for Song Xuan to come and take it away. After all, Song Xuan would take the initiative to avoid it when they were breastfeeding, and so would everyone who came and went. Know this situation.
Seeing the little wolf cub getting stronger day by day, Song Xuan was also very pleased. Now the little wolf cub has completely regarded it as his own master. Song Xuan also gave him a very rustic and easy-to-provide name - Wangcai. .
As a synonym for authentic Chinese pastoral dogs, Wangcai can also be said to be of extraordinary significance in the dog world.
It's easy to make a living with a bad name. In order to let it grow up well, Song Xuan did everything he could.
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After more than ten days of growth, most of the seedlings planted in the tribe have grown up a lot. Although a few have died, it is not harmful.
The overall growth is still very gratifying, and the rice fields are getting greener day by day.
As for the amount of water in the field, Song Xuan is still controlling the amount of water in it. Although he has never planted rice, he also knows that rice has a water-demand period, that is when it grows rapidly and starts to grow. As for At other times, the demand for water should not be very great, but it certainly cannot be allowed to dry out the fields and can only remain in a shallow state.
Since it is not clear, we can only fumble a little bit. For this reason, Song Xuan also divided the rice field into several pieces, mainly to see whether the amount of water would affect it, but it certainly cannot wait until it is fully mature. Now through the rice The growth can also be judged. Anyway, the summer here is quite long, so there is plenty of time for experiments.
The rice is growing well, and most of the unknown seeds sown before have grown. Even though it is not mature yet, Song Xuan still saw a few things from it, which seemed to be familiar.
At least they looked like they should be edible. Even if they looked inedible at a glance, Song Xuan didn't shovel them out right away. Anyway, there was plenty of open space in the tribe, so raising them didn't take much effort. , just let them grow in the ground, just in case something useful pops up again.
Now that summer has gradually begun, various harvests in the tribe have begun to increase. Song Xuan also asked everyone to look for other edible things when they were outside. Regardless of whether they are useful or not, as long as they are not poisonous, you can bring them first Let's talk about it when we get back. After all, Song Xuan can't go out to identify them one by one.
This year's fishing industry has seen a significant improvement compared to last year. Last year, there were only three or four fishing nets in operation. This year, the number has increased to eight, so that the children in the tribe do not have enough. Some women were transferred to the team.
Although he was still worried about some of the prisoners, Song Xuan finally selected a few more suitable prisoners to help together. Fortunately, even if they knew that there were such things as fishing nets, if they returned to the Wuyu tribe, they would be useless as heroes.
There are not so many rivers around Karasuba, and there are relatively few aquatic products. Fishing is not a very important means of survival for them, and is more used to improve their taste.
Of course, the most important reason is that most tribes cannot produce relatively narrow animal skin strips on a large scale like Soaring Snake, and fishing nets made of wide animal skins will be very difficult to use.
The fishing nets currently used by the tribe have been updated. Even the narrowest animal skins used at that time are a bit heavy now.
The current fishing net is much lighter than the previous one after it is launched into the water, especially after it is filled with fish. Every pound lighter is a very good relief for fishing, especially since the main force of Teng She is those who are underage. Children, naturally the lighter the better.
But if Shi Meng and the others were using it to catch fish, it wouldn't matter. A few dozen kilograms would be almost weightless to them.
Therefore, the previous fishing nets were not abandoned. Occasionally when they came back and there was not much going on, they could throw the nets into the river.
As it develops further upstream and downstream, the fishing mode has also changed. It is no longer like it was at the beginning, when dozens of people were needed to rush in. Instead, several nets were connected into a slightly larger net, and then a piece of water was selected to catch the fish. It was surrounded, and finally the people on the shore and the people in the river worked together to slowly drag the net up.
In this way, although more effort is used to fish each time, the manpower is reduced. After all, if you want to rush in, you must have a certain density, otherwise the fish can easily slip through the gap in the middle. Go, the loss will be relatively large.
Nowadays, if you are in a place where you have never caught fish, you can still catch dozens of kilograms in one net. After such a long period of fishing, the fish catch is not as abundant as before. As for the main stream further downstream, the Tengshe tribe currently It is far from developed, and the water gets deeper as you go downstream, so the current fishing nets are not easy to use.
Even a mile or two downstream of Teng She, the fishing net has been widened twice, otherwise it would be impossible to use. After the fishing net is cast down, it will be empty directly above it. Without the obstruction of the fishing net, no less than 100 people can easily use it. Cross over from here.
Although the fish catch is not as abundant as it was at the beginning, the fish farming industry in the tribe has become more and more developed. The surrounding creeks are no longer enough, and everyone has opened up the areas that can be developed, especially now that the weather is so good. , it is no problem to put dozens of kilograms of them inside in the winter, but now we have to give them enough space to grow.
So after thinking again and again, Song Xuan decided to use the river to raise fish. The creek was still too narrow.
It's very simple to say, just use wood to circle a place in the river. The circle can be as big as you need, and you can make multiples and raise them directly in the water, so you don't have to worry about space. Although the tribe The creek at the door is not that big, but it is about ten meters wide. Even if only one third is used, it is much wider than the creek.
Now that we have decided on the idea, we can directly implement it. However, using wood is still too wasteful. Most of the wood was chopped out by everyone with one axe. I don’t know how much it took and how many stone axes collapsed due to the strength, but The harvest is very limited.
It's better to use these wood in a place that is more suitable for them. Plug it into the river. It is estimated that it will have to be replaced every one or two years. The current Tengshe and Tengshe cannot withstand such torment. It is not good for the tribe to have a better one. Material, that is bamboo.
Compared with wood, although it is not as strong, it also has many advantages. The first is that it is very straight. If you cut a bamboo randomly around the tribe, the usable part will be at least ten meters.
This pillar alone can be divided into three sections. Whether it is burned with fire or chopped with an ax, it is much easier than chopping wood. The key is to use a large amount of pipes. If you want to chop such a large amount of wood, it is estimated that Several acres of land must be cut down.
Song Xuan took more than a dozen people to chop for two days and got back nearly 200 bamboos. Each section was divided into lengths of about three meters. In the end, including the slightly shorter ones, there were almost 600 bamboos. look.
The river at the entrance of the tribe is not a square swimming pool. It is the same depth in every place. The place near the shore must be shallower, so a shorter one will also work. As for the one that is really too short Naturally, it cannot be used if it is gone, but it can also be used in other places. Even if it is used as firewood, it is also a good material.
After collecting enough materials, we started to enclose the land in the water. In order to slightly reduce the erosion of the bamboo by the water flow, we finally chose a place closer to the shore.
It is generally about four meters away from the shore. The water depth in this place is about to reach the neck but not too deep. In this way, the bamboos separated can ensure that a certain length is exposed and can be nailed underneath. Go in quite a bit and make sure it doesn't shake easily.
He nailed more than half a meter of bamboo into the water to ensure it was stable enough. Song Xuan didn't do it either. He asked everyone to stick to each other one by one like building a house. Instead, the middle of each bamboo stick was exposed about three fingers apart.
Leaving a gap is also to save materials. Secondly, in this way, the water inside and the river water can be fully exchanged. There is basically not much difference between raising the fish inside and placing the fish directly in the river, except that the density is slightly higher. Just a little bit, but you can still get a lot of nutrients directly from the river, which reduces the burden on the tribe.
Some small fish and miscellaneous fish can even come in directly and become food for some of the fish inside. This way, after raising them for a few months, the fish will not lose much meat all of a sudden, or even become thin and lose their appearance.
Anyway, fishing in the tribe doesn't look down on small fish, so it's better to let them enter freely, maybe they can get in and be full before they can get out.
In addition to the vertical ones, in order to ensure stability, Song Xuan also asked everyone to add a few more horizontal reinforcements on top, one at the bottom, one in the middle and one at the top. Fortunately, the water here is not that deep. , everyone can easily tie it up while holding their breath.
Worried that the buoyancy of the bamboo was too great, Song Xuan also asked everyone to break some of the bamboo slightly, so that if the water got in, it would at least reduce some of the buoyancy. Of course, this cannot be done for all bamboos. The most important thing is to make it strong. If it is not strong, Not to mention anything else, such a fish pond with a width of four meters and a length of more than ten meters can raise at least two to three hundred kilograms of fish. If all of them were lost, it would be a huge loss.
When it comes to things related to food, Teng She's people have always worked very hard. In just three days, four fish ponds have been built, and all the fish that were previously raised in the nearby creek have also been built. Transferred.
Even this is just enough. You can also see how large the inventory in the tribe was before. Even the live fish weighed almost a thousand kilograms, which was enough for everyone to eat for a long time.
Fortunately, there are many places that can be used along the river. You can cut off a section and nail bamboo directly into it. As for the reason why such a large pond is made, it is also because there are now three or four nets connected in the tribe, which can probably directly cover such a small pond. If necessary, just use a fishing net to catch it and catch it all at once.
If they are too big, large-scale fishing will not be so easy when you want to eat them. If they are too small, it will seem a bit wasteful. After all, these bamboos are slowly chopped back one by one. In order to ensure enough safety, Song Xuan has not yet Let everyone connect the two pools, so each pool has three sides. The more bamboos are built, the more bamboo will be used.
The fish raised in the river are mainly larger ones such as silver carp, bighead carp, and carp. Not all fish can easily grow to more than ten kilograms like them, and some fish only weigh a few kilograms when they are stretched to death. These fish still have to be kept in nearby streams.
Song Xuan still prefers to eat those with fewer fish bones, which are not troublesome to chew, and generally taste better. As for the big fish in the tribe, they only have more meat than one fish. Song Xuan becomes picky after eating too much. stand up.
Among them, what Song Xuan eats the most is black fish. Whether it is used to stew soup or grilled, it tastes better. This may be because the water quality in the tribe is very good and there is no messy smell. Of course, the water quality in this era They were all very good, and all the fish were much more delicious than what Song Xuan had eaten before.
Even if it is just sprinkled with a little salt, the grilled taste is quite good. As long as it is not eaten every day, it is still very good from a sensory perspective. However, there are more fish in summer, and compared with meat, fish loses more when stored, so now this During the season, people generally still eat fish.
Basically, you have to eat a meal every day, whether it is fish or other things fished out of the river. Under the leadership of Song Xuan, many people now start to eat river shrimps and crabs. Before, everyone disliked his taste. There is little hard meat, and you don't realize how delicious it is until you actually eat it.
In future generations, the river prawns here would cost at least hundreds of dollars per catty, but he could eat them whenever he wanted. The portions were large and he was full. Song Xuan felt quite comfortable eating the delicious fish.
