This time the distribution of bows and arrows is still based on the previous principle, whoever can shoot accurately will get it.
After some competition, Shi Yong and the other ten people also happily played with the new bows in their hands. Although it was also a show off, fortunately Song Xuan also promised the remaining people that the next batch would be made soon. .
Of course, this would not be possible without a few months. It would take at least more than a month to make a bow string from an animal sinew, and the same goes for the bow arm. But fortunately, a virtuous cycle has been formed in the tribe, and the hunting team has If you go out with bows and arrows, you can naturally bring back a lot of animal sinews. There is no shortage of materials at the moment, the only thing missing is time.
I believe that when this batch of bows and arrows are taken out, everyone will gain more.
Song Xuan is not greedy. He will try his best to give everyone in the tribe a share this year. I believe that the combat power of the tribe will also increase a lot by then.
In fact, the total number of men and women is only over fifty, and now they have completed a quarter. This goal is not too difficult. As for the captives, it still depends on their performance. If there are extra, they can naturally be included in the comparison. good person.
Fortunately, there are new shamans in the tribe now, and Shi Jiu often brainwashes them... High emotional intelligence should be said to spread Teng She's belief. With Song Xuan as a living example, the captives accepted it very quickly.
The hunting team got new bows and arrows and set off. This time, nearly half of the people used bows and arrows. Everyone was very confident. Shi Meng also picked a place with relatively many prey.
However, although the number of bows has increased, arrows are still somewhat lacking, not so much other parts, but mainly ropes and arrow feathers.
Song Xuan kept the hemp around the tribe for seeding, so he didn't dare to cut it more. However, it was definitely not enough to use animal skins for arrows, so Xuan Song could only ask Shihua and the others to pay attention when they went out to pick wild fruits. After a while, if the quantity is not particularly large, just chop it down and bring it back. If there are more, you can write down the location. Later, depending on the situation, you can decide whether to chop it back now or keep it for seeding.
As for the feathers, it's even harder to get. Now Shipi doesn't run around in the tribe every day like he used to. He has to be busy fishing. The feathers he took out before have been almost used, and the rest are probably You can also make a dozen arrows.
So Shi Meng and the others had a new mission, which was to take out as many arrows as possible and bring back a corresponding number of feathers.
Although it is mandatory, if you want to do it, this task is not difficult to complete. Even in the forest, there are many birds and beasts. Just catch one and you can make dozens or twenty arrows. , if that doesn't work, go look for pheasants in the low bushes in the wild, and you can use the plucked feathers.
Anyway, no matter whether they shoot with slings or bows and arrows, they just need to get more. Arrows are consumables after all. It will definitely be more secure to reserve more. Now everyone only gets five or six. To be honest, it doesn't matter. It's not enough. When encountering large-scale prey, it can only be used at critical moments, otherwise it will be shot in one round.
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The rice in the tribe is now more than 20 centimeters high. The primitive rice of this era is not as tall and strong as the ones Song Xuan saw on TV before. The rice here is still relatively short. According to the withered rice of the Blackwater tribe, Judging from the seedlings, it is basically half grown, although of course the time is still far behind.
In addition to the few acres of land planted by the tribe, Song Xuan also found some on the other side of the river. The other side of the river has not always been a key development area for the Tengshe tribe. Although the section of the river at the entrance of the tribe is not wide, it is about ten meters long. The distance is also difficult to traverse unless you take a boat.
The river in the middle is almost three to four meters deep, and even this side of the river is enough for everyone's production and life, so everyone is not thinking about going there. Of course, the main reason is that the other side accounts for a relatively small proportion.
This river is a very large bend from upstream to downstream. The Tengshe is relatively part of a concave bank, so the area where it can move is relatively large, and people rarely have to go through it.
But Song Xuan has been searching for things around the tribe recently, and he found a small clump of wild rice not far away. The number was not large, only a few dozen plants. These rice plants were used by Song Xuan as samples for reference, and Compared with those in the tribe, they obviously grow better, the color of the leaves is darker, and they are obviously more fertile.
Of course, this is not the happiest thing for Song Xuan. What makes him happiest is that among the seeds collected last year, several rapeseed plants were grown. Although they are slightly different from those of later generations, they look and taste the same. Quite similar.
However, Song Xuan only dared to pinch a little and taste it. After basically confirming it, he cleared away some obviously inedible weeds around him and left them enough living space. I believe they will be able to survive when they mature. There will be more seeds. Song Xuan still values rapeseed very much, because when it is young, it can be directly used for cooking. When it is old, it is better and can be used to squeeze oil.
Soaring snakes now have only one way to obtain oil. They can only scrape some from the prey they catch and collect it. But only in late autumn, when these prey begin to store fat for the winter, will the oil on their bodies be more.
In other seasons, you are either too hungry and don’t have much fuel, or because you have more ways to obtain food, you don’t want to save more fat, and you exercise a lot, so you naturally don’t have much fuel.
The meat is quite good to eat directly, but it is a bit reluctant to save some oil for use at other times. Sometimes several prey cannot scrape off two bowls of oil, and even less after refining.
Fortunately, Song Xuan has higher requirements for these things. Most people in the tribe just want to fill their stomachs. They have all lived through the most difficult days and do not have high requirements for food.
But Song Xuan is not only thinking about the immediate appetite. There is no problem with hunting now, but it will be difficult to say when he starts to focus on planting in the future. Without enough oil, even if he has rice, it is estimated that I can't even eat it.
In the past, we could only place our hopes on the prey raised by the tribe, but the emergence of rapeseed has indeed increased the ways to obtain oil. Even if the oil cannot be squeezed out, it can still be used as vegetables. Song Xuan simply tasted a little, The taste is quite good, at least much stronger than most wild vegetables.
But even for wild vegetables, Song Xuan also marked a lot of them around the tribe. If there are seeds, he will naturally keep them. When they mature, he will collect the seeds. If there are no seeds, he will also observe their growth throughout the cycle. After all, there are some things It's delicious when it's tender, but it tastes better when it's mature.
Moreover, this era is still very different from the era before Song Xuan. Most things have evolved over tens of thousands of years, especially those artificially cultivated things, which are even more different from the original varieties. Now Those things that seem inedible may be very popular in future generations, not to mention these. At present, it seems that eating is pretty good, so there is definitely no problem in taking a closer look.
Song Xuan alone can't do much or strong. Fortunately, Teng She's people will help continue to collect seeds. Song Xuan also gave instructions to the surrounding tribes before. I believe that driven by interests, , they should be very thorough in their execution.
Wow~
"Hey, it's been raining for five days, why doesn't it stop~"
"…………"
The rainy season of the year is finally here.
Although Teng She's original tribe was not really that far away from where we are now, only three to four hundred miles away, due to the barrier of mountains, the climate was still quite different. According to Shi Meng and the others Having said that, I can clearly feel that there is more rain here now.
Heavy rains like this, which last for several days, might not happen once in a few years in the previous tribes. However, this is already the second long-term heavy rain in recent times. The previous rain also lasted three times. sky.
Fortunately, although we can't go out hunting, there are still many jobs in the tribe that can be done. It's a good time to mobilize everyone to make more things, whether it's arrows or wooden boards, or even helping to make pottery.
Everyone has been out for more than three months since we were able to hunt. Most of the weapons have a lot of wear and tear. Although they are usually polished a little, they are not properly maintained after all. It is just a good time to strap the weapons again. A little tighter.
However, when there were the most prey, the continuous heavy rain was still very disturbing, making everyone in the tribe feel itchy.
"Yo~"
Even the deer came over to join in the fun. Naturally, they can't go out when it rains. They can only eat the grass that the tribe usually saves. Even if the grass was cut just before the rain, it is not very fresh now. , this is still a bit uncomfortable for Mr. Deer who is used to eating the best quality tender grass. After all, it is not winter now.
But it was going to rain and Mother was getting married. No matter how powerful Song Xuan was, there was nothing he could do to God. He could only touch his head soothingly, and then moved Uncle Lu's big head to the side. This huge head really had some influence. Song Xuan made arrows.
Since the hunting team and gathering team were given the task of collecting materials, they would bring some with them every time they came back one after another. No matter how small the quantity was, it would be there every time. The more times they went, the more they would accumulate.
Now is the rare free time in recent times, so they can make them all and put them to use in time. During this period of time, they have made a batch of new bows, but the number is not large, only five.
But after this round of carving up the previous arrows, everyone really didn’t get many. Every time everyone went hunting, they would complain about not having enough arrows.
Now almost everyone is in the tribe, so it can be done quickly. In just two days, more than a hundred arrows were made, and finally the number of arrows assigned to everyone was increased to a usable level.
