After returning from the Shangui Tribe, Jiang Xuan personally dug a deep pool in the yard, dug out a lot of fertile mud from the pond, and then planted the five ice lotus roots in the mud.
Finally, Jiang Xuan connected the bamboo pipe with flowing water to the pool, so that the pool would have living water instead of a pool of stagnant water.
After everything was done, Jiang Xuan washed his hands and said, "I hope I can make a living."
After planting the ice lotus roots, Jiang Xuan flew to a high mountain to the west of the tribe on his glutinous rice balls.
This mountain is relatively close to the Teng tribe, but halfway up the mountain, the environment is closer to where the Yanyang tribe was before.
"Boom!"
The glutinous rice balls landed on a gentle slope halfway up the mountain, and then like a giant eagle, stretched out a wing and leaned diagonally against the ground.
Jiang Xuan followed its wings to the ground.
Not far away, there is a newly opened wasteland. The weeds and shrubs on the wasteland have been cleared away, and now there are only some tender green grass buds.
In the wasteland, six small saplings were planted, all of which were wax trees brought back from the Blue Sheep tribe.
"Hey, it sprouted!"
After Jiang Xuan got closer, he found that there were several small buds growing on the two wax saplings, which were in the shape of balls and had not yet spread out.
This means that the two wax saplings are alive. This discovery makes Jiang Xuan very happy.
"Since these two saplings can be planted, other saplings should be able to be planted as well. If more saplings are transplanted in the future, this place can become a wax forest."
With wax forests, wax worms can be raised.
In other words, if everything goes well, the Vine Tribe can raise waxworms on this mountain in the future without risking going so far to the Blue Sheep Tribe.
This made Jiang Xuan feel very happy. If the Vine Tribe could produce a large amount of insect wax in the future, it would be great whether it was used by himself or traded.
Jiang Xuan squatted down and patiently pulled out the weeds that had just grown next to the saplings, before riding Tangyuan back to the tribe.
When he returned to the tribe, he went to the breeding area again.
In the current breeding area, there are twenty or thirty sheds where various livestock are kept, and there are also more than a dozen caves. Because they have been breeding but not eating much, the number has increased rapidly.
Among them, the most numerous ones are not colorful ducks, colorful pheasants or one-horned birds, but bamboo rats and long-tailed rabbits!
The bamboo rat can give birth to four litters a year, with three to five pups in each litter.
The long-tailed rabbit can actually give birth to six babies a year, with three to ten cubs in each litter. Its reproductive capacity is simply terrifying.
In just two years, the bamboo rats and long-tailed rabbits have begun to take shape, occupying at least half of the breeding team's pens.
Jiang Xuan stood in front of a shack, looking through the strong fence door at a large pile of long-tailed rabbits inside, and sighed: "Our tribe's future meat is guaranteed."
Dajiao stood next to Jiang Xuan and said enthusiastically: "Chief, it's not just meat. The long-tailed rabbit's skin is thicker and its fur is very warm. It can be made into animal skin clothing in the future."
Jiang Xuan said with approval: "Yes, in this way, our people of the Vine Tribe will not only have meat to eat, but also animal skins to wear. Your breeding team has made a great contribution!"
Dajiao was delighted by Jiang Xuan's words and became more motivated to work.
Jiang Xuan checked other livestock and found that the colorful ducks had laid many duck eggs, and the mother ducks were busy incubating them.
Not only colorful ducks, but also colorful pheasants and unicorn birds almost always lay eggs and hatch their young around this time.
Unlike the poultry Jiang Xuan had seen in his previous life, these birds, which have not yet been fully domesticated, only lay eggs twice a year, once in spring and once in autumn.
If you want them to lay eggs all year round, I don't know how many generations of breeding it will take.
After inspecting the breeding team, Jiang Xuan walked to the Feiyu River again.
The fishing team is trying to build wooden boats.
Of course, it is not a boat made of spliced wooden boards. That is a job that can only be done by professional carpenters, and it cannot be done by people like the fishing team.
What they made was a boat similar to a canoe, but much roomier than a canoe.
"Crack, crackle, crackle..."
On the river beach, the fishing team soldiers lit a bonfire and then placed a piece of wood on top of the bonfire to burn.
This piece of wood is about five meters long and about one and a half meters in diameter. It is very thick.
If the warriors of the tribe were not strong enough and the wood was already dry, it would have been a big problem to carry it back.
This piece of wood was found by Jing Jie and others into the forest. After it died, it fell to the ground. Some of it was already rotten, but the piece they brought back was still relatively intact.
After carrying it back, he first used a stone ax to chop hard, peel off the outer skin, and cut the upper and lower sides into flat surfaces.
Beside the bonfire, Nepeta was holding a boat made of clay and watching it carefully.
This is a model of a flat-bottomed fishing boat. The style is very simple, with a large center, small ends, and two oars.
Even if the style is very simple, it is not that easy to make it.
One is because there is no experience, and the other is because the tools are too primitive and it is very laborious to cut the wood into shape.
Nepeta could only follow the method provided by Jiang Xuan. After cutting the wood into a flat surface, he turned it over, covered it with a thick layer of wet mud, and then put it on the fire to burn. With the power of the flame, it burned bit by bit. Burn the inside of the wood.
Because it is covered with wet mud, except for the middle, other parts are not easily burned.
When Jiang Xuan came over, five or six soldiers from the fishing team were busy moving the huge piece of wood away from the fire and turning it over.
The middle of the wood was still burning. The soldiers from the fishing team sprinkled some water on it to extinguish the open flame, and then used stone adzes to chip away the black charcoal bit by bit.
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This way, you can burn more wood the next time you burn it.
After Jiang Xuan came over, Jingjie immediately stood up and said: "Chief."
Jiang Xuan waved his hand and said, "I'm just here to take a look, don't worry about me."
Nepeta said with a bitter face: "This wooden boat is too difficult to build. We have already burnt one big log, and this is the second one."
"What's the problem?" Jiang Xuan asked.
"It burned too deep and the wood split, so this time we're going to burn it lighter."
Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "The first time is always more difficult, just do it a few more times and learn more from experience."
Jingjie hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask: "Chief, why do we have to work hard to build a wooden boat? I think bamboo rafts are also very good, and the soldiers in the fishing team also use them smoothly."
Jiang Xuandao: "You have been using bamboo rafts for so long. Have you ever found that when the current is strong, the bamboo rafts shake violently and it is difficult to control the direction?"
Jing Jie nodded and said: "That's true. Sometimes it rains heavily and the river is fast. When I hold the bamboo raft, I feel like I can't control it."
"That's because the bamboo raft has too shallow draft, and water will get in between the bamboos, and the buoyancy is not strong enough. It is difficult to control it with a bamboo pole."
Jiang Xuan pointed to the wooden boat model in Jing Jie's hand again and said: "But the wooden boat is different. After people sit on it, it has a deeper draft, is more stable than a bamboo raft, and is easier to turn. Moreover, its oars are wider than a bamboo raft. Better for paddling.”
"Let's put it this way, if our Teng tribe only makes bamboo rafts, then the scope of your fishing team's activities will also be this small section of the river in front of the tribe."
"But if you can make wooden boats and keep improving them, your fishing team can own the entire river in the future!"
After listening to Jiang Xuan's words, Jing Jie felt that a fire was lit in her heart.
Jingjie nodded solemnly and said: "Chief, I understand, we will definitely make the wooden boat!"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said: "This is the first time I'm making a wooden boat. It doesn't matter if it's a little crude or rough. If you improve it slowly, it will always get better."
After Jiang Xuan finished chatting with Jingjie, he walked over in person, took a stone ax to chop the giant wood, and chopped it into a wooden boat.
This is a very laborious job that tests patience. Fortunately, Jiang Xuan is not lacking in strength or patience.
Seeing that the leader had helped, Jingjie naturally couldn't stand aside. He also picked up a stone ax and worked hard with Jiang Xuan to build the first wooden boat of the Teng tribe.
In addition to the soldiers who made wooden boats, there were also some soldiers in the fishing team who worked hard to set up fishing traps, fish cages, fish, and cast nets by the river.
Fishing is their most important daily job, and the catch is one of the important food sources for the Vine tribe.
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On the outskirts of the Vine Tribe, Nanxing was constantly patrolling with soldiers from the guard team.
They need to go back and forth every day to check for dangers around the tribe and check whether the traps have been triggered.
"Yo...Yo yo..."
When they were walking through a forest, Nanxing suddenly heard the cry of deer.
Perhaps because he was born in the deer tribe, Nanxing always had some special feelings for deer.
Therefore, after hearing such a sound, he immediately walked over there with the soldiers of the guard.
When they walked over, they discovered a large herd of big-antlered deer!
These big-horned deer must have just migrated here, because the forest near the Teng tribe has been raided countless times by hunting teams, and such a large group of big-horned deer has never been found before.
"Chief, do we want to capture some big-antlered deer?"
The soldiers of the guard team are ready to move. If they encounter prey during patrol every day, they will also hunt to add meat to the tribe.
For small tribes like the Vine Tribe, it is not possible to let these warriors out of work. They can only let them focus on guarding the tribe.
Nan Xing stared at the group of big-horned deer for a long time. Out of his special feelings for deer, he didn't want these big-horned deer to be eaten, but he couldn't stop the soldiers from hunting them for his own selfish reasons.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind: other tribes have battle pets or mounts, but the Vine tribe does not have real mounts yet.
If these big-antlered deer can be tamed into mounts, it will not only prevent them from being hunted, but also enhance the combat effectiveness of the Vine Tribe!
Thinking of this, Nan Xing suddenly made a decision in his heart.
Nan Xing asked the guard soldiers: "What do you think about us capturing these big-antlered deer and using them as mounts?"
Nan Xing's words made the guards' eyes light up.
As a warrior, who hasn’t imagined the scene of riding a mount roaring in the forest?
Although the giant horned deer is not a ferocious beast, it is very large. The size of an adult giant horned deer weighs about one thousand kilograms. It is no problem to carry people. Moreover, because it has a pair of large horns, its combat effectiveness is not weak.
"But how can we catch these big-antlered deer?" a soldier asked.
Big-horned deer are wary by nature, making them difficult to hunt, let alone capture alive.
Nan Xing took out a bone whistle from the animal skin bag he carried and said, "Use this to lure them here."
Nanxing has carried this bone whistle with him for a long time, and the surface has become oily and slippery due to long-term exposure.
The most amazing thing about this kind of bone whistle is that it can make lifelike bird calls and deer calls.
The deer tribe used to use bone whistles to attract deer.
Nanxing plans to use the same method to capture these big-antlered deer alive.
