Soaring snake tribe.
After working hard for more than half a month, all the hundred acres of rice was finally returned to the granary.
Although there are more than 100 acres, the harvest is not particularly large. It is only filled with five full grain cellars. Song Xuan asked everyone to pack the extra grain in jars. After all, there are only about 200 kilograms left, which is enough to fill the grain cellars. There is a bit of waste inside the cellar. We need to eat it anyway, so it would be more convenient to put it outside.
As for the individually selected seeds, Song Xuan put them in jars and placed them in the center of the grain cellar. This was basically foolproof. Unless floods and earthquakes washed away the entire tribe, they would not be harmed.
Although Song Xuan later gave everyone tasks, there were still only a few good seeds after all. Even if they were selected by everyone, Song Xuan would sift through them and divide them into two levels according to their appearance. One was particularly good. Of course, most of them are not that perfect. As for the ones that are similar to ordinary rice, they are all scattered back on the grain field.
However, it is impossible to plant all the fields with these seeds alone, not to mention that it will definitely be expanded again next year. Song Xuan's temporary goal is to plant another hundred acres, which can basically satisfy Teng She's staple food. , meat can be completely turned into dishes if needed.
However, the pressure of re-opening wasteland and reclaiming the existing more than 100 acres is definitely not small. Song Xuan does not expect to completely reach this number. As long as it can increase by half, it will be quite good.
After harvesting, the biggest task is to dry it, so it’s not too busy. I finally have time to pound some new rice. In the past, the tribe mainly drank porridge. I have never experienced eating just rice. Now there is plenty of food. , I can splurge a little, and it can be regarded as a reward for the hard work in the past half month.
Although Song Xuan ate it quite sweet, even if it was eaten dry, the rice was a bit dry to other people in the tribe.
It seems that the sudden change is still a bit too fast, and everyone has not yet fully adapted. If you want to use rice as a staple food, you still have to do it slowly.
As for the cooking method, you can also put more meat in it like the pilaf in later generations, which will make it richer in fat and more suitable for everyone's daily eating habits.
But even so, everyone still devoured the food. After all, it was something that had been worked hard for so many days. Although it was not delicious, it was a real thing that could fill the stomach.
After all the rice was harvested, not only Song Xuan, but everyone in the tribe seemed a lot more relaxed for a while. In addition, with the food accumulated from hunting and gathering outside in the past six months, it is no longer a problem to eat for more than half a year, even if If we only eat this rice, if one person only needs 7 or 8 taels per day, he can eat it for more than three months.
Although food is still somewhat scarce at the beginning of spring, Teng She has completely escaped the food crisis at this time. Even if she does nothing now, she can still plant all the rice next year.
But now the weather is just right. Although there is no shortage of food in the tribe, no one wants to give up this good opportunity. The two months before winter are when the beasts are crazily gaining weight, and they are all very fat.
And now that there is enough food, it is time for the tribe's breeding industry to start expanding its scale. Although the existing livestock seems to be a lot, they will not last for a few days if they really want to eat. If they are left open for ten and a half days, Yue also finished eating.
Therefore, the next hunting operation will be very targeted, mainly to catch more prey that can be fed.
In addition to the existing sheep and deer, Song Xuan is also very interested in the wild boars in the mountains.
Although deer are relatively easy to feed, the only drawback is that there are not many around the tribe. They can only be seen in places with sparse trees. Moreover, the deer around the tribe are all such big-antlered deer. Although they are relatively large, they are very rare.
But the elder Song Xuan was a little reluctant to kill them. The best way to use them was to let them work for the tribe. If they were eaten directly as meat, it would be a waste. And with Uncle Deer here as the leader of the deer group, as long as If they are well raised, it will not be a problem to transport goods and cultivate land. Although it is not as good as cattle, it is already the best livestock that Teng She can use.
Although cattle are good, the channels for obtaining them are still too limited. There are no traces of cattle near Teng She. Even if Song Xuan asked Shi Meng and the others to go downstream, there is no trace of cattle. It seems that there is still only the cattle tribe. Yes, after all, Song Xuan didn't find any meat exchanged from other tribes that tasted similar.
Therefore, it is not easy to increase the number in a short period of time. The strength of the cattle tribe is here. It is considered a very good thing to have two or three animals a year. Such a behemoth is important to every tribe. It is said that it is very difficult to capture, and no one can resist just a collision.
Compared with these two animals, sheep are easier to capture and raise, and their numbers are much greater, but the number is limited.
When the number of a single animal cannot grow rapidly, it is very necessary to increase the types of livestock. Although the number and types of beasts in the forest are relatively large, not many are suitable for large-scale breeding, and most of them are too fierce. For some, Song Xuan could only base his judgment on the experience of later generations. After all, those were selected through layers of screening. They may not necessarily be the best, but they must be the most suitable for raising.
It is not unreasonable for pigs to be the most consumed meat, even much higher than cattle and sheep. Of course, the meat pigs of later generations are still very different from the large wild boars that like to wallow in the mud in the forest today, but they are also domesticated from wild boars. Come on, the breeding prospects are still very broad.
Moreover, the weight of each wild boar is not small. Most of the adult wild boars hunted by the tribe weigh more than 200 kilograms. Their weight is very considerable, and they are worth three sheep or two deer.
Although Song Xuan always felt a bit coquettish when eating it, he also knew that this was the result of not being castrated. In terms of meat quality alone, it was still quite good. As long as it was stewed to a paste, it was very popular.
And even wild boars have a thick layer of oil in this season, let alone if they are raised in a tribe, then Teng Snake will have a relatively fixed supply of meat oil, unlike now where all kinds of animals are mixed with oil. Although it tastes good, the quantity and quality cannot be guaranteed.
However, it is not that easy to raise wild boars. The tribe has tried to catch them, but the chance of success is low. Even after catching two wild boars, they did not survive for ten days.
Wild boars are in a very violent mood, and they like to travel in groups. There are usually at least five or six, and as many as twenty or thirty. Shi Meng and the others have also encountered such a team. Even a hunting team can only If you take a detour and get targeted by them, it won't be that easy to escape.
With these weapons in the tribe, hunting ordinary beasts is not a problem. Even if it is a giant tiger, bows and arrows can penetrate its fur, but when facing wild boars, bows and arrows are basically useless.
The thick mane is usually covered with a lot of dried mud, and the pig skin is completely impossible for bows and arrows polished from these bones to penetrate.
Even the spear is not that effective. Even if it can barely penetrate, the wear and tear is quite large, and sometimes it is directly broken.
Against wild boars, the cumbersome weapons are more useful. Although the stone ax cannot break the defense, the damage caused by hitting it is quite good, especially if it hits the head, they can deal with it with the strength of Shi Meng and their lower body.
But close contact means huge risks. Wild boars are full-fledged omnivores, and they also have sharp tusks and are as fierce as other beasts.
Most of the time, the tribe caught them by relying on traps, or they encountered lone ones, relying on their numerical advantage and risking injury while holding up their shields to forcibly hunt them.
Therefore, although the number of wild boars in the forest is not small, not many have been truly eliminated. Even those near Soaring Snakes are mainly driven away.
As long as they don't threaten the safety of the tribe, that's fine.
After hearing Song Xuan's idea of raising wild boars, everyone did not agree. Although the wild boars they saw appeared in groups, and there were quite a lot of them, it showed that reproductive capacity was not a problem at all.
Not to mention the taste, there are no other shortcomings except that the skin is difficult to clean.
But the hardest part is capturing this:
"Angel, isn't it too dangerous to catch pigs?"
Although Shi Meng followed Song Xuan's decisions most of the time, even if he had doubts, he would follow Song Xuan's words, but this time he directly put forward a different opinion, obviously not wanting to take it with him. People take the risk.
After all, it is too dangerous to catch a wild boar, and the hundreds of people in the tribe are really not enough to mess with. Even a slight scratch will result in a minor injury, and the least minor injury in the tribe is blood.
Not to mention if he was hit in the front or bitten, it would be a question of whether his life could be saved.
So although he knew the many benefits of raising wild boars, Shi Meng still disapproved of it. After all, Song Xuan didn't go out for hunting much, and he was protected most of the time. He didn't know how dangerous it was to face these beasts. and pressure.
"What about traps in the tribe?"
After all, most wild boars are caught through traps, and needless to say, the traps in the tribe are the best in power and placement. The hundreds of people from the Wuyu tribe can definitely come and testify to this. But it adds a lot of difficulty to them.
"You can, but you can only try your luck..."
Although most of the traps are arranged on the routes passed by wild beasts, whether they can be stepped on depends on luck. Maybe they will be bypassed with a shake, and even if they are hit, they will still have traps. opportunity of escape.
It would be even more difficult to catch groups of wild boars with traps. If Song Xuan only wanted one or two, it would not be a difficult task for Shi Meng and the others.
As long as they are arranged properly, you should be able to bring them back after a trip, but if you want to capture and breed them on a large scale, one or two will obviously not be effective, not to mention, you will have to risk breeding failure.
Although the tribe does not have rich breeding experience, it has lasted for more than a year and dozens of large and small beasts have been captured. Generally speaking, if they are captured in groups, they will be relatively It is said that the possibility of survival is greater. Of course, the most typical representative of this is Uncle Lu and his family.
Of course, Uncle Lu is an exception after all. Song Xuan has not found a beast that is more spiritual than him, even if it is a wealth, it is far behind.
But most of the sheep in the tribe were caught by Teng She herself. Although her personality was relatively docile, the survival rate of a single sheep was obviously lower than that of two or three sheep caught together.
Even so, the death rate is over seventy or eighty.
If you want to ensure that the wild boars can survive and reach a certain scale quickly, a small fight will have no effect.
Traps are not very effective when faced with groups of wild boars. First, once a wild boar is caught, they will quickly change their route. Even if a lot of traps are placed on the same route, they can play a good role. There are only one or two that work, and if there are too few arrangements, it will have no effect. Once it is not triggered, it is basically equivalent to no arrangement.
Moreover, there are groups of wild boars opposite, they can even cooperate with each other, and traps are fine. If it is a lasso, they will even bite the rope directly. The tribe does not have the ferocious animal traps of later generations. These traditions The trap can only be used against those who are alone.
So while traps are useful, their effectiveness is rather limited.
Shi Meng knew that Song Xuan would not give up easily, so as a professional hunter, he analyzed all the situations clearly with Song Xuan.
When other people learned that Song Xuan wanted to attack the wild boar, they also stepped forward to help Song Xuan retreat. It was not that everyone was not brave enough, but it was just too difficult to catch the wild boar alive.
Song Xuan saw everyone unitely refuting his ideas for the first time. Not only did they not feel uncomfortable, but they were very happy. Usually, everyone could even be said to blindly follow Song Xuan's arrangements.
Even if it is burning forests to clear up wasteland, this kind of thing seems a bit absurd in this era. Everyone still followed the instructions, although they knew that they might not gain anything in the end from their busy work, but out of their belief in Song Xuan, everyone worked very hard, and the final result was not unfair to everyone.
But now he asked them to catch wild boars. Song Xuan also knew that if he insisted on letting them catch wild boars, Shi Meng and the others would also go, but the final consequences might not be bearable by everyone, so they still had to come up with the best solution. Good plan coming.
Seeing everyone refuting, this also shows that everyone finally no longer blindly follows. Although everyone is very simple, if the tribe wants to develop, it cannot rely on Song Xuan alone. Everyone has to participate. This kind of participation does not mean It doesn’t mean that I usually work hard, but I have my own ideas while working.
Otherwise, you can fill your stomach just by relying on the ancient hunting and gathering, but in that case, it is almost impossible to take revenge, let alone Song Xuan wants to create a more powerful tribe, since God The adventure given to him should not be wasted. If all of it was used in Teng She, a small tribe of more than a hundred people, it would be considered a wasted experience.
Although Song Xuan had a rough plan in mind, his understanding of the wild boar's habits was not as good as Shi Meng's.
So although no one supported it, Song Xuan still asked for the information he needed.
If you want to capture a wild boar, as Shi Meng and others said, you can't do it with brute force alone. This will only cause other losses. Song Xuan will never do such a stupid thing to trade a human life for a wild boar.
Now that the trap is indeed useful, Song Xuan's idea at this time has basically taken shape.
He waved his hand to signal everyone to quiet down:
"Net, use the net to catch him!"
Wow~
"Net? Isn't the net used for fishing?"
"How can such a thin net catch a wild boar? It will be broken with just one tap!"
"yes……"
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At this time, the way the legendary man looked at Song Xuan finally changed, as if he felt that there was finally something that the divine envoy didn't know about.
Song Xuan naturally knew what everyone was thinking. Of course, the fishing nets in the tribe were definitely unrealistic for catching wild boars. They only had animal skin strips one finger wide and could sometimes break even big fish, let alone two or three hundred kilograms. It's a wild boar, and I'm afraid it can easily get through with just one collision.
The net Song Xuan mentioned naturally had to be remade and made of wider animal skins. At the same time, there was no need to catch fish. In this way, the size of the mesh had to be taken into consideration. As long as the wild boar couldn't get through, that would be fine.
The only requirement is enough tenacity.
Since no one believed it, Song Xuan went directly to Shihua and asked for a few animal skin strips. They were no more than half a meter long, but more than three fingers wide.
Throw it directly to Shi Yong, who was the loudest just now:
"Yong, can you try to break it?"
Although Shi Yong is relatively simple-minded, his strength is nothing to say. With his huge strength, he can even lift two to three hundred kilograms of prey above his head.
It would be perfect to let him do the experiment.
Although he was extremely powerful, seeing how wide the animal skin strip Song Xuan handed him was, he smiled awkwardly and said:
"Angel, how can this be broken..."
He said it was impossible, but Shi Yong still tried it unbelievingly. His face turned red, but he could not pull it off.
"Can a net made of animal skin like this trap a wild boar?"
(o)!
Can it still be like this?
Hearing Song Xuan's idea, everyone's eyes suddenly widened.
Shi Meng slapped his thigh with such force that it hurt even him and he grinned.
Then they remembered that what Song Xuan had just said was a net, not the fishing net they imagined. If the net was woven with such wide animal skins, there would be no need to worry about its strength.
As long as you can find a way to let the wild boar get in, you will definitely not be able to escape in a short time.
As for the animal skin tribe, they don't say how much they want, but they can use it whenever they want. A room full of animal skins are placed there. Making a pig-catching net is much easier than a fishing net. Even Shi Meng and the others It can be made, and there is no need to pursue beauty anyway. The only requirement is that it is strong enough.
All the objections suddenly disappeared.
The reason why everyone disagrees is that it is impossible to compete face-to-face with wild boars with human power, and traps are difficult to work. Unless traps are dug all over the mountains and fields, if you have the strength, you might as well catch more other beasts, like that The cost is too high. It is estimated that it may not be successful in a month or two, and you have to bear the risk of breeding failure.
But if you follow Song Xuan's idea, it can be just like fishing. Whether it is setting up a pocket formation or setting up a net when facing a wild boar collision, it can play a very good interception role, and can even directly trap the wild boar. Inside the net.
Everyone's thoughts were suddenly opened.
Seeing everyone, Song Xuan finally stopped questioning, and saw that it was getting late:
"Okay, let's go back and rest first. We'll talk about it tomorrow!"
As soon as Song Xuan's appetite was whetted, Song Xuan's behavior naturally caused a group of wolves to howl. Even Wangcai, who was teasing the baby at the door, was alarmed and hurriedly ran in to take a look. There were also wolves entering the tribe.
Although he was happy to see everyone have their own ideas, Song Xuan still felt a little uncomfortable for everyone. Regardless of everyone's wailing, he got up, patted his butt and walked to his room.
Although they felt very itchy, since Song Xuan was about to take a rest, everyone naturally would not force it and could only helplessly watch Song Xuan go away.
However, it was indeed getting late at this time. With a lot of thoughts in mind, everyone got up and returned to their residences. It was destined to be a sleepless night for everyone.
"Wangcai is back!"
Upon hearing Song Xuan's call, Wangcai and the female wolf ran directly towards Song Xuan, with three wolf cubs following behind them.
The three wolf cubs no longer need to lie in the den to suck milk. Since the life in the tribe is pretty good and the mother wolf's milk is very abundant, the three wolf cubs grow up very fast. They can play around in just over a month, and they are all He grew up in a tribe and is not afraid of people at all.
Although the female wolf will not be as close to everyone as Wangcai, she will not show a ferocious expression when facing other people. Even when the children want to touch the wolf cub, they will not do anything to stop them. Occasionally You can also take advantage of it.
It's just that the time is short after all, and he still has some resistance to humans. Most of the time he is either in the den, and Wangcai takes him when he goes out. But Song Xuan believes that in another month or two, the female wolf will be able to I have completely adapted to the life of Teng She. After all, such a place with no worries about food and clothing is not so easy to find.
The little wolves are still much cuter than Wangcai. Song Xuan also named each of them, Fu Yi, Fu Er and Fu San.
It can also be seen from Wangcai's name that Song Xuan is not involved in this, but the untouchables are easy to make a living. Anyway, it is just a title. At least the three little ones have no objection. When they heard Song Xuan call their names, Everyone ran to Song Xuan's feet and rolled around.
And Lang Chi, who had been waiting for two days in the Yuan tribe, finally saw Yuan Yu's return:
"Old Wolf, why are you here? The exchange meeting hasn't started yet?"
When the two met, they hugged each other. After all, they were old friends who hadn't seen each other for half a year. Yuan Yu seemed very excited, while Lang Chi's eyes were a little dodgey because of something secret in his heart.
"Haha, let's go back and say..."
