Frost fell on October 11th, the second year after the establishment of the Vine Tribe.
The cold wind howled last night. When Jiang Xuan got up in the morning, he found that the outside had turned into a vast white scene.
A layer of white frost has condensed on the ground and roof, and even the grass in the yard is frozen hard. When you step on it, it makes a crisp "thumping" sound, as if you are stepping on paper.
In the forest, a layer of rime has condensed on the trees, which is whiter than snow and very beautiful.
Although the scenery is beautiful, the weather is getting colder day by day, and even Tangyuan is not as active as usual. Instead, he sleeps in the bamboo shed and hides his head under the feathers.
Jiang Xuan returned to the bamboo house, found the calendar bamboo tube, and engraved the word "Frost Descent" next to today's date.
He dug out last year's calendar bamboo tube and found that last year's frost fell on September 12th, which meant that it was a full month off.
"It's too different, it gives me a headache."
Jiang Xuan scratched his head and couldn't figure out what was going on. It seemed that making an accurate calendar was a long way to go.
However, he was not discouraged. Anyway, he just recorded it every day and it didn't take much time.
"Leader Xuan."
At this moment, there was a knock on the door outside, and Tangyuan in the bamboo shed also raised his head and stood up, with a wary look in his eyes.
Tangyuan is now covered with purple feathers, its beak is sharpened, and its claws are thicker and more powerful. The overall look is very fierce, and it already has the temperament of a fierce bird.
Jiang Xuan walked into the courtyard, and Tang Yuan followed him step by step.
After the door opened, Jiang Xuan saw Dong Kui.
He felt a headache, so he wanted to close the door again, but Magnolia quickly squeezed through the door into the yard.
"Chief, what are you doing? I won't eat you."
Dong Kui had a successful smile on her face, but the next moment, a big head stretched out in front of her.
"Soup... glutinous rice balls..."
Dong Kui pretended to be calm, but actually she felt a little weak when she saw Tang Yuan's sharp eyes.
"Tang Yuan goes to bed."
Jiang Xuan opened the big head of Tangyuan.
Tang Yuan looked at Dong Kui, then waddled into the bamboo shed and squatted down to sleep again.
"looking for me?"
"Chief, do you have a torn animal skin coat that you need to sew? I just learned how to sew animal skin coats, and I brought this with me!"
Like magic, Magnolia took out a sharp bone needle and some threads made from the small intestines of animals.
The bone needle is relatively large, with a sharp front end and a hole drilled at the end for threading.
The animal skin clothing of the tribal people is basically sewn with this kind of bone needle and gut thread.
It is said that the tribesmen who first sewed clothes were inspired by seeing a tailor bird weaving a nest.
The tailor bird is a very peculiar bird. It has superb sewing skills and can use natural threads such as spider webs and cotton to sew together several large leaves to build its own nest.
After the tribal people who were good at learning saw this sewing method, they initially used sharp bone spurs to poke holes in the edges of the animal skins, and then used thin ropes to sew several pieces of animal skins together, becoming the simplest animal sewing method. Leather jacket.
Later, some people felt that it was very troublesome to poke holes with bone spurs and then thread them inside. Moreover, the holes drilled were relatively large, and the animal skin clothes leaked air.
So they came up with a way, which was to drill a small hole at the end of the bone spur and turn the bone spur into a bone spicule.
The bone needle can bring the string through while pricking the hole, which not only makes the sewing faster, but also does not need to poke a big hole, and the animal skin clothing is less leaky.
Later, the tribesmen discovered that whether it was a bark rope or a straw rope, it was easier to break after being worn for a long time. Moreover, the rope was rough and difficult to pull through the small holes when sewing.
After constant attempts, they unexpectedly discovered that the gut made from the small intestines of animals is not only smooth, slender, but also durable, making it very suitable for sewing animal skin clothing.
So they began to use gut to sew animal skin clothing, a method that continues to this day.
Jiang Xuan looked at the bone needles and catgut in Dong Kui's hand, and said helplessly: "Thank you, I don't have any animal skin clothes to sew."
Magnolia put away the bone needles and catgut in disappointment, and then looked inside the bamboo house. She saw some semi-finished stone tools on the ground at a glance, so she added: "Then let me help you sharpen the stone tools. I am very patient. It can definitely be sharpened.”
"Need not……"
Before Jiang Xuan finished speaking, Dong Kui had already entered the room and started grinding, giving Jiang Xuan no chance to refuse.
Faced with this situation, Jiang Xuan had no experience in dealing with it, so he had no choice but to let Dong Kui slowly grind the stone inside.
Polishing stone tools is a job that requires a lot of patience and strength.
Because a good stone tool often needs to be polished for more than ten days, or even several months.
From a stone of suitable shape, it is polished into a rough blank, and then polished into shape. Some stone tools even need to be drilled, which takes a very long time.
Tribal people usually polish it slowly for a period of time every day on rainy days when they cannot go out, or during other free time.
However, Jiang Xuan heard that some tribes have professional stone tools. They don't have to hunt or do anything else every day. They just polish stone tools with very high skills.
If there is a chance in the future, Jiang Xuan also wants to train a few stone tool masters in the Teng tribe so that the tribesmen can use really good stone tools.
Jiang Xuan washed himself briefly, and then started to prepare breakfast. He saw Dongkui still sitting by the fire pit, polishing the stone tools carefully, with no intention of leaving. He sighed slightly and silently cooked an extra portion.
Jiang Xuan uses a small three-legged round tripod with a cover and two tripod ears, which can be easily moved.
He first moved the round tripod outside and cleaned it, then added a few scoops of water into it with a gourd-shaped gourd-shaped plant, and added some washed animal meat, round potatoes, stone eggs, and some pickles.
Then he moved it back to the fire pit and burned the burning wood under the three-legged round tripod.
Not long after, the water in the round tripod began to steam.
Jiang Xuan was not idle either. He found an animal tooth and slowly polished it into a tooth knife.
While grinding, he asked Magnolia: "Why do you always come to me?"
Dong Kui raised her head, looked at Jiang Xuandu with burning eyes and said, "Because I want to live with you and give you many children."
Jiang Xuan said helplessly: "Tell the truth."
"That's the truth."
Jiang Xuandao: "If you don't tell the truth again, I will kick you out."
Dongkui was silent for a moment, then slowly lowered her head and said, "Okay, I admit, I just want to become a true member of the Vine Tribe and don't want to be driven away one day."
"Who told you that you would be driven away?" Jiang Xuan looked at her helplessly.
Magnolia said: "Every tribe is like this. When there is a shortage of food in winter, those unimportant people will be driven out and starve to death or freeze to death."
"They will even eat us like food like the mosquito tribe."
Jiang Xuan couldn't help but said: "But our Vine Tribe has plenty of food. As long as you don't have any dissent and work hard, you will become a true Vine Tribe member sooner or later!"
Dong Kui retorted: "But what if the tribe encountered a disaster before becoming a member of the Vine Tribe?"
Jiang Xuan was speechless for a moment. Everyone is close or distant. If the tribe really encounters a disaster, the first priority must be the real tribesmen.
Dong Kui continued: "So, I want to give you a few children, so that for the sake of the children, you will not kick me out."
Jiang Xuan looked at Dong Kui's face. She was not too old, she still looked a little immature, and her body was not fully developed.
But perhaps due to the difficult environment, her mentality has become a real adult, knowing how to use her body in exchange for some benefits.
To be honest, Jiang Xuan felt a little distressed by this, but it didn't mean that he had to accept Dong Kui.
He feels that it is better for people to have a certain bottom line.
Jiang Xuan's bottom line is that he cannot do those indescribable things without any emotion or understanding.
Jiang Xuan wanted to say something, but fell silent in the end.
Dong Kui continued to polish the stone tools with her head down, the firewood burning in the fire pit made a crackling sound from time to time, the water in the pottery tripod was slowly boiled, and the food began to tumble...
