Yanhu and Cangshi were both a little confused about Yang Cheng leaving the tribe.
However, after experiencing so many things, they did not ask any questions. Anyway, the witches would not run out to play around. Every time they went outside the tribe, they had a purpose.
Sure enough, it was just as Yanhu and the two expected.
Yang Cheng took them not far, but took them to the bamboo forest next to the tribe.
This bamboo forest grows next to the Qingque tribe, which is really bad luck.
This bamboo forest, which was originally so dense that thousands of bamboos could be considered a sea of bamboos, is now no longer airtight. Large areas are bare, as if they have lost their hair.
Only small pieces of bamboo still exist. The reason why these bamboos still exist is not because the people of the Qingque tribe are kind and let them go, but that these bamboos all have shortcomings. Either this bamboo is thin, or that bamboo is thin. A bamboo grows crookedly.
All in all, due to various reasons, everyone in the Qingque tribe allowed them to live here.
But their good fortune must eventually come to an end.
This time Yang Cheng did not intend to let go of these "crooked melons and cracked dates", because considering what Yang Cheng wanted to use these bamboos for, he only needed them to be "eatable".
"Cut all these bamboos and bring them back to the tribe."
Yang Cheng gave the order, and Yan Hu and other totem warriors took action together. They came forward with stone knives and bone knives and chopped at the roots of the bamboo.
For a moment, these withered yellow bamboos howled and fell to the ground under the cruel executioner.
There were not many bamboos left, and the totem warriors worked quickly. After more than half an hour, all the remaining bamboos in the bamboo forest fell down, and no more standing bamboos could be seen. It truly became a bare patch.
Yang Cheng is not worried about this. Bamboo is a plant with tenacious vitality. If the prediction is good, after spring tomorrow, dense bamboo will grow in this area again, and a sea-like bamboo forest will appear again.
After cutting the bamboos, Yang Cheng did not stay outside the tribe any longer. He asked the totem warriors to tie up the chopped bamboos and put them on the long-nosed elephant before returning to the tribe.
After returning to the tribe, Yang Cheng asked the totem warriors to unload the bamboo, then found a place with no snow on the ground, placed the bamboo on it, and dried the water in the same way.
At this time, Yan Hu couldn't bear it any longer.
After watching for a long time, he didn't understand why Yang Cheng mobilized all his troops to ask them to go out and come back specifically to cut down these bamboos.
These bamboos are crooked and cracked, and cannot be used as water pipes. I don't see what use they can have.
Yang Cheng smiled and asked him to calm down. By night, they would know the function of these bamboos.
Hearing what Yang Cheng said, Yanhu and the others had no choice but to endure their curiosity and wait for the night to arrive.
However, Yang Cheng did not leave them idle. He found Yan Lin and Xing and asked them to take Yan Hu and others to pick flowers.
When they heard that the witch asked them to pick flowers again and bring Yan Hu and other totem warriors with them, Yan Lin, Xing and the other beast-eared girls pursed their lips.
They have been picking flowers these days and they are all bored to death.
Fortunately, Yang Cheng said that picking flowers this time was not just about petals, but also the branches. He also took them to build snowmen at night.
The beast-ear girls became happy, and then hurried away with Yanhu and the others.
Because Yang Cheng gave them the order, although they don't need to pick the petals individually, the entire branch can be picked back. This makes the work easier, but they have to pick more, which will increase the workload.
Moreover, the petals around the tribe have been picked off, so they have to run a little further, and there is not enough time.
However, with the help of Yanhu and other totem warriors, Yang Cheng believed that they could complete this task.
After Yanhu and the others left, Yang Cheng found Yangbei again.
After more than a month of observation, Yang Cheng confirmed Yangbei's ability and let him serve as the manager of second-class citizens, no longer serving as deputy to Yanhu and Cangshi.
After finding Yangbei, Yang Cheng asked him to lead the new tribe members to mobilize and clean up the entire tribe for a general cleaning.
Yang Cheng did not forget the custom of New Year's Eve, and he wanted to carry out general cleaning to get rid of the old and welcome the new.
In addition to this custom, Yang Cheng has not forgotten another New Year's Eve custom, which is posting couplets.
The couplets are written on red paper with pen and ink, and then posted on both sides of the door.
The Qingque tribe does not have this condition, but Yang Cheng has his own method.
He asked people to find dozens of wooden boards, which are commonly used in warehouses, because many couples in the Qingque tribe have recently married, and they like to make noise at night, so the wooden boards used to make beds are always broken.
So on weekdays, whenever Yang Cheng had something to do, he would ask his clansmen to make wooden boards to replenish everyone's beds.
After getting the wooden boards, Yang Cheng asked the tribesmen to split the wooden boards vertically into long boards of the same size.
Then take a bone knife and carve words on it.
Writing Spring Festival couplets is not a big deal for Yang Cheng. During the Chinese New Year when he was a child, he always liked to run around in the countryside with his friends.
While begging for candies and cigarettes, they will also look at the Spring Festival couplets of each house to see if there are any that are the same, and see which house has posted them backwards to make fun of them.
Some of these couplets are still deeply remembered in Yang Cheng's mind.
Things like "Auspicious snow heralds a good harvest and spring will return to the earth; spring will bring infinite happiness to the world", "Everything will go smoothly and the auspicious stars will arrive, and everything will go well" and so on.
Yang Cheng took the bone knife and carved it out on the wooden board.
The characters carved with a bone knife are far inferior to the habit of writing on paper with a pen, but Yang Cheng has carved a lot of witch bone tablets in the past few months and has become accustomed to the bone knife.
The characters he carved with the bone knife were not crooked, and although they were not pretty, they were square.
It took more than two hours to carve the Spring Festival couplets.
By the time Yang Cheng finished carving, the sun had tilted downwards.
There was not much time, so Yang Cheng did not waste any time. Followed by several tribesmen holding these Spring Festival couplets, Yang Cheng came to everyone's house.
At this time, Yang Cheng discovered another problem.
No nails.
Since the main body of the Spring Festival couplets he made are wooden boards, this means that they cannot be stuck on the wall with tape or glue like the Spring Festival couplets on Earth.
The houses made by the Qingque tribe are all made of stone, and it is impossible to cut a hole in them and hang them like wood.
So what to do?
Yang Cheng thought for a moment and then thought of a way. He looked at the Niu Niu who followed him curiously...
Instantly, Xi Ni Niu shuddered and had a bad premonition.
Half an hour later, a Spring Festival couplet appeared on the door of the house where the tribesmen lived.
Two parallel holes were drilled from the top of the Spring Festival couplet board. A rope was used to connect the two holes and hung on a wooden stick connected to the wall.
And at their connection is a pile of black mud that has dried.
