Chapter 04: Teaching
In the Stone Age, people have learned to use fire to drive away wild animals and use fire to bake food. Except for some super-large festivals, it is rare that everyone usually has a small amount of meat and fruit to fill their stomachs. This new patriarch's ceremony can eat rich meat. Almost no matter men, women, young and old, everyone is like a carnivorous beast, biting the meat in their hands.
"Oh..." Looking at the scene in front of you, Hua Xi's eyes turned red for no reason. Now there are 67 tribesmen who need to rely on Hua Xi to take them out of the predicament. Hua Xi felt that the burden on her was so heavy for the first time. From this moment on, she was the leader of the tribe. She had to think about everything before she could do it. After eating, except for leaving one person to stand guard at night and adding some firewood to the camp fire bonnet in the camp, the rest of the people were either in the straw shed or in the cave on the stone wall and could not sleep in the dim fire. Two figures were patrolling around the tribe camp. They were the new clan leader Hua Xi and the elder Ding.
To take the tribe out of this dilemma of not having a meal, and starving to death in winter, we must first solve the food problem. There are many wild dogs killed today. Including the 9 wild dogs and a coyote whom he killed on the tree, there are as many as 23. Even after eating this meal, there are still nearly thirty dogs about 2,000 pounds of pure dog meat. According to an average of 5 kilograms of meat and 2 kilograms of fruit per day, it is barely supported by 8.9 days. Of course, if they calculated according to their usual calculations before, it would not be a problem to last half of the month. During the inspection tonight, Hua Xi found that the tribe members would not preserve meat at all. They simply peeled the dog meat, removed the internal organs and placed it on a ventilated rock. Such meat would easily rot and smelly. It was extremely unhygienic. But looking at their appearance, even if they eat rotten meat, it would be delicious!
Sleepless all night, some hazy plans and ideas about the future of the Aquarium were intertwined from time to time in Hua Xi's mind. The morning sun came in from outside the cave. Hua Xi's biological clock, who was used to getting up early, woke up automatically at 7 o'clock. However, when Hua Xi walked out of the cave, he suddenly found that the entire Aquarium tribe was standing in front of his cave. It seemed that he was waiting for the new patriarch to issue a commander.
"Hua Xi" Hua Xi kept shouting his name, pointing his finger at him, and signaling the tribe members below to try to shout a few words. At first, many people looked at him without understanding, but with the gestures of the new clan leader constantly, they basically understood that "Hua Xi" was the name of the clan leader. Then the shouting "Hua Xi" was just a short word. It took Hua Xi several dozen minutes to let the clan members understand the meaning, and also made Hua Xi realize the importance of language and words. However, this thing takes a relatively long cycle to promote and educate. Only by using it more in daily life can it be a better promotion.
Two things are the first priority: safety and how to store food
After a wild dog was furious yesterday, the fences with more people above the guardrails were damaged and loosened to varying degrees. Some places have large holes of half a meter in radius. These hidden dangers pose a great threat to the safety of the tribe. Another is the problem of meat storage. Although the tribes can speak some Mandarin, most languages cannot be communicated. It must be thought of a way. Since language communication is not very convenient, then we can solve it with our hands, which is subtle. Perhaps the best educational method.
The first thing Hua Xi has to do is to strengthen the guardrail first. After all, the safety of the tribe's life is the most important thing. Food can support it for a few days. In Hua Xi's eyes, the original guardrail is useless. If it were a wolf or a larger beast yesterday, there would probably be no aquarium anymore. I don't know what kind of field it is now. This time he learned his lesson. He first communicated with Zi Ding with language and body movements, and then asked Zi Ding to issue his orders. In this way, the time will be in full swing.
It saved many elders Ding also learned in this exchange that the language of the clan leader called those things wood, large and thick stone tools were called stone axes, flat and sharp ones were called stone knives, and there was also something called vine to search for wood. The order of grass vine was quickly conveyed. The stone hammer quickly left with twenty aquarium warriors because they wanted to know how the new macho leader wanted to reinforce the guardrail. In their opinion, the guardrail was already quite good, and no matter how hard it was reinforced, it would not be much improved.
Taking advantage of the time when Shi Hammer and their friends went out to search for fortification materials, Hua Xi ordered that except for two women who cared for the baby, the other women and children would go to the nearby woods to collect some fruits and hay, broken branches and other flammable firewood, of course, a few men were also inseparable from guarding Hua Xi, and took Elder Ding and 9 young and middle-aged people to create a simple and solid, 2x2-specification double-layer frame material was built with very hard logs on a half-meter-high rectangular stone furnace made of dozens of stones and mud blocks. There was a 30 cm wide furnace mouth on the south side. When used as a firewood to plug in the construction process, Hua Xi did not forget to hold up the things in his hand and teach the language: "Stone, stone...wood, mud..."
Our ancestors' intelligence cannot be guessed with a skeptical attitude. After Hua Xi's teachings for nearly an hour, Elder Ding and the other nine tribesmen learned to build stone furnaces and a few simple words. Hua Xi and his men just finished their work and went out to search for trees, vines, fruit stone hammers and others also returned to the camp of the Youshui Tribe to report the situation they had obtained.
Logs, tree roots, grass vines, dead grass, etc. are about 20 bundles. Although the guardrail cannot be made indestructible, it can resist the invasion of wild beasts and foreigners. Hua Xi, a child, still follows the old method. He pointed to the tree and said loudly: "Tree". After the others figured it out, he first picked a thicker log, picked up a knife and sharpened one end of the log, and then ordered the stone hammer to dig a hole along the guardrail every two steps. Obviously, this kind of physical work was not done by modern people like Hua Xi. After cutting it a few times, he felt his arms were sore and soft.
It seems that I can only let the virtuous. Fortunately, there are a few people in the clan who seem to be smart. Hua Xi demonstrated it step by step and taught it after demonstrating it a few times. The horror of Park Dao was also regarded as a magical artifact by the tribe. After digging it, there were 23 soil pits. Then insert the sharpened logs diagonally upside down. However, the work of the guardrail has not been completed yet. The last step is to let the tribes wrap some thicker branches and grass vines around the original guardrail. In this way, it is not so easy for wild beasts to get in. It is also easy to be severely hit by the tribesmen in the guardrail with wooden sticks or stone hammers.
After seeing this, the men, women, young and old people showed some puzzled expressions in their eyes. If it is understandable to reinforce the guardrails, the reinforced guardrails are indeed stronger than their original ones, much safer, but the sharp wooden sticks inserted under the guardrails are useless. Even the "informed" elder Ding looked at Hua Xi with confusion, and hesitated and asked what they had been together for a day. He didn't know what the big question mark on their heads meant, but he just smiled but did not explain it, and it couldn't be explained. This thing would come in handy sooner or later, and they would naturally understand it.
After finishing these things, it was already sunset and dusk. The lazy sun shone with the last afterglow of the day. The busy camp, gurgling river, towering mountains and the vast grassland formed a happy and carefree rural landscape painting, revealing indescribable ease and carefreeness.
Yet, is this really the case?
In the next time, we will naturally teach the tribesmen to learn to preserve meat. What Hua Xi knew before traveling through time was only fumigation and wax. Both are based on removing moisture and then reproduce. The first thing we need to do is to divide the dog meat into pieces. This is naturally the great patriarch. This is a rare performance opportunity. From one of the women who cut it with a stone knife for a long time but didn't have much effect, he took a whole wild dog's left leg. A cold light flashed. He raised his hand and fell. The sound of the "Pu" the "Pu" the sound of the "Pu" the "Pu" the "Pu" the sound of the "Pu" passing the bone was very crisp. Then there was "Pu...Pu" dozens of strokes. A left leg of about ten pounds was chopped open by him without any effort.
"Suck..." I was shocked again when I saw the power of this terrifying weapon. All the tribesmen were shocked. Some even knelt on the ground, muttering words...
Chapter completed!