While drinking the broth from the bowl and looking at the deer having fun in the snow, Shi Meng salivated again, but he could only sip the soup to satisfy his craving.
Although he was greedy, these were the favorites of the divine envoy and naturally he could not eat them. However, thinking about the pie that Song Xuan drew for him, Shi Meng was full of energy. If the tribe raised more animals, Then there will be a lot of fresh meat even in winter.
There is no need to be like now, running around for more than half a year, and in the end, the dried meat is so dry that your teeth can be knocked out.
The days in winter are always very long. Even though Song Xuan has thought of ways to make everyone do more than a single job every day, being trapped in the house all day long will inevitably become a bit depressing and occasionally cause trouble. Small contradiction.
But one good thing about this era is that once everyone feels unhappy, they will speak out directly, and then when it's time to fight and make noise, the others will make way for a small circle for the two of them to have a good fall.
Daily training will at least ensure that these savages will not be full and have nothing to do.
Teng She is now very different from before. Before, she couldn't even eat enough, so she was naturally not in the mood to think about other things. Now, although the ration is not as good as usual, the corresponding amount of activity is also much less, so it is still okay to eat enough. .
The development of the plow was relatively successful. After Song Xuan assembled it, he found a few places in the tribe to experiment. Although the area was not large, it was basically able to simulate how it would be used in the field. It could be pulled up by manpower. It's still a bit stumbling, but I think it would be better to use cows or deer.
If you want to achieve the effect of later generations, you will definitely have to go through repeated polishing and perfection, but now it has reached a point where it can be used, and the efficiency will definitely be much faster than the current slowly digging with grass. .
Although he hasn't really experimented in the field yet, Song Xuan has already started to ask Shi Ban and others to make plows and shovels. This is also the most critical part, and it is relatively troublesome to make. Most other things can be used. By splicing the wood together, even the shafts of curved shaft plows can be made on a large scale.
To make a plow and shovel, one person needs at least two or three days to do it. If he doesn't start until next year, he will definitely not be able to catch up.
As long as the plow and shovel can be used, other parts can be adjusted slowly, and Song Xuan's expectations are not too high, he just wants it to be usable.
The entire tribe is helping, which has reduced the burden on Shi Ban and the others. At least in just one month, they have already made twenty new bows, but nearly half of them are for children.
Even so, the speed is more than twice as fast as before. After winter, Yui Yi and the others no longer need to worry about other things. If there are any tasks that everyone can complete, they can just hand them over to others.
They only need to concentrate on making bows and assembling arrows, and the speed is naturally faster. Now not only can each person have twenty arrows, but they even have a stock. There is never too much arrows, the more they can be used, I feel more at ease.
When there were not enough arrows before, Shi Yu and the others were very careful every time they shot, trying to ensure the accuracy as much as possible. Although they used less arrows, it was easy to miss good opportunities.
Although it can't be said to be used openly now, it won't be too sneaky. The efficiency will naturally be much faster. Try not to send people to solve problems that can be solved with bows and arrows. This is also Song Xuan's consistent philosophy.
As the saying goes, when you are poor, you use tactics to intersperse, and when you are rich, you provide firepower coverage. Song Xuan is also a person in the late stage of phobia of insufficient firepower.
At the same time, this concept has gradually been accepted by everyone. The main reason is that it is so cool to use fire coverage. Even the stones thrown by the sling can pose a considerable threat as long as the quantity is sufficient.
Everyone focuses on this aspect in their daily training. Whether it was the last time against the Black Feather Tribe or the usual hunting experience, it all shows the importance of long-range weapons, especially when the number is at a disadvantage.
No matter how powerful you are in this era, it is still personal courage. Generally speaking, when the number of people is the same, the strength of most tribes is not very different. They all rely on their two feet to run all over the mountains and fields, fighting against wild beasts all day long. The weak have long been eliminated by this environment, and the remaining ones are not easy to mess with.
In this form, weapons are particularly important, and bows and arrows are the only place where Soaring Snakes can possibly surpass the Black Feather Tribe. Although they need to master the production technology first, if they are not particularly lucky, they want to find Sufficiently high-quality materials are definitely not easy to come by.
Even if you make do with other wood, the performance will naturally be inferior. Of course, the most important thing is that the few people in the Wuyu tribe who know how to make bows and arrows are here now. The only one who may have a chance of turning around, Wulin, is still half dead. In such a poor state, at least when he was carried out from Soaring Snake, there were not a few complete bones on his body.
Song Xuan was confident that even if he were still alive, the Wuyu tribe would never be able to keep up with Teng She in terms of the speed of making bows and arrows.
Although the space inside the house is not particularly spacious, it is still enough for simulation training:
"shoot!"
Shi Yu is training the archery team's ability to shoot volleys. It may be a good thing for some people who are particularly strong in archery to let everyone perform individually, but for most people, they will soon fall into difficulty in making a choice. When a fight breaks out, it's easy to lose sight of the target.
And the shocking effect is far less than this large-scale salvo. Eighty bows in the tribe shoot at the target in a predetermined direction at the same time. A salvo fires over, and there are a total of twenty grass targets in two rows. Almost every target is There are arrows stuck on the target.
With such power, the effect of frustrating the enemy's attack is quite good. Even if it encounters a shrinking tribe, the effect is considerable based on the existing defenses of other tribes.
Not every tribe has a solid wall like Teng She. Before, it could only be said to be a fence. Now, after layers of reinforcement, it can be said to be a wall. Moreover, Song Xuan has also made a decision. If he really finds Lime For a mine, the first thing to do is to upgrade the existing defense measures. The house can be slightly poorer, but there is no room for sloppiness in terms of safety.
However, the width of the house still limits the power of bows and arrows. Everyone can only go out to practice when it is not snowing. Fortunately, the wind and snow are not as frequent as they were at the beginning. Although there are occasional heavy snowfalls, no matter Neither the duration nor the power can be compared to the initial period.
However, the weather was still very cold. Song Xuan sometimes wanted to go out and wander around, but he quickly retreated as soon as he left the house.
The current temperature is getting lower day by day, and it has basically reached the coldest time of the year. The temperature in this world is also abnormal enough. When it is hot, it can kill people, and when it is cold, it can freeze people to death.
At least Song Xuan, as a half-southerner, had never experienced such low temperatures before.
Fortunately, there was enough wood in the tribe, and the house was very warm. Even in the house where the animals lived, Song Xuan provided them with heating equipment.
Every room where animals live will have an opening of about half a meter, which Song Xuan left early in the morning to prevent the temperature from being too low in winter. Although the room is more comfortable to sit in, when it comes to keeping warm. In fact, it is not necessarily comparable to the cave outside.
At least the cave in Tengsheyuan tribe is easier to warm than the current house, and the temperature is not easy to leak out. The caves where most animals live are also carefully selected, basically warm in winter and cool in summer.
But after being caught here, although a wooden house has been built outside, it is made of wood and grass mud after all, and is not very thick. Even if the door is blocked with wooden doors and curtains, there is still ventilation.
In recent days, every time Song Xuan went to visit Uncle Lu, they would always huddle together, obviously still affected by the wind, snow and low temperature.
When it was not snowing, Song Xuan gave them the small kang he imagined in advance. In fact, it was just a stove built with bricks. At night, he would burn a few fires in the stove to warm it up. Just put in a few large firewood sticks that can withstand burning.
Although the effect is not as good as the heating in the back room, at least it will not make the inside of the house too cold, and the outside is blocked by a small wooden shed, so the fire can usually burn until late at night.
This was just a makeshift thing. Song Xuan didn't make it at first, and he didn't expect that this winter would be even colder than last year.
However, whether you make it now or not, just think of it as accumulating experience for the hot kang. Although the scale and production methods are different, the technical principles are still the same. At least after using it for so many days, it seems that it can be expanded. However, the kang can only be matched with brick and earth walls, and the existing wooden walls are not suitable for the time being.
The same goes for the livestock kangs. A lot of mud was used to paste the surroundings. Otherwise, if the fire was too big, it would be easy to char the surrounding wood. Although it would not cause a fire, there would definitely be air leakage everywhere.
Fortunately, this kind of weather will only last for a few months at most, and it won't last too long. As long as you survive this period of time, it won't be so cold anymore. At least you can stay in an airtight room.
The weather is cold, and everyone's work efficiency has also slowed down, but Song Xuan also knows that this is inevitable. After all, according to the habit of previous years, they are all lying in the house to rest at this time, which means they have enough food this year. Only then can it meet the needs of everyone's daily activities.
Anyway, there is still enough time, and most of the set goals have been completed, so there is no need to be too anxious. A comfortable life is quite good, and it is rare to have such leisure time in a year.
