Section 83 Marriage
Artificial insemination of female deer is a technical job. No one has done this before, and even Tianhao has no experience with it. The barbaric people can only follow the orders of the young leader, referring to the normal practice between men and women, and clumsy, and pass the entire process artificially on female deer.
Poor animals who have learned to obey initially must be in pain, but humans will never worry about their feelings.
More than 200 female deer conceived successfully, and other female deer who failed to get pregnant will still undergo a fixed and rough process.
The work of catching wild deer is still continuing. Tianhao assigned 200 people to the ranch, and Tong Biao's eldest son Yuan Kai became the ranch manager. He did a good job and the hunting team could bring back a certain number of wild deer every day. When it was small, five, six, and dozens of them were large. Yuan Kai kept in mind Tianhao's order: catch more female deer, and be sure to keep the ratio of bucks to female deer at about one to one hundred.
As the scale of the ranch continues to expand, this proportion will further decrease.
The first batch of pregnant female deer starts giving birth before heavy snow falls. If nothing unexpected happens, they will remain breastfeeding for a long time.
Killing deer and getting meat is the lowest-level practice. Before the successful domestication of large-scale domestication, it is difficult for the pasture to provide large quantities of meat and form a stable and orderly livestock slaughtering process. In contrast, the acquisition of dairy products is simpler. As the number of female deer entering the breastfeeding period continues to increase, Panshizhai can obtain fresh deer milk and a certain amount of cheese.
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The road leading to the beach was constantly widening, and people cut down trees and moved away large rocks on the ground that were in trouble. The work of smashing small stones with hammers was handed over to the women and children who were exchanged for them. The stones were spread out in an orderly manner, and the strong men dragged the big stone mill back and forth several times, and a spacious new road appeared.
With the same construction method as Panshi Village, people built towers and houses on high ground not far from the beach. There are now as many as four towers here, and the newly built houses can accommodate at least 600 people. The warehouse is full of fishing nets and peat, and the number of people taking water and boiling salt continues to increase, from the initial dozens to the current 200 people.
The shipbuilding technology of the northern barbarians is very simple, and the current population of Panshi Village is not enough to maintain the idea of advancing to the deep sea. Tianhao positioned this newly built small village as a "fishing village". There is a simple dock in the village. People spent several months cutting down trees and following his instructions, they built four small flatbeds.
This kind of boat can only cruise along the shore and catch sea fish. If you row a little farther away and encounter slight wind and waves, it will be the result of the ship being destroyed and the people being killed.
Zhenhui was appointed as the fishing ground supervisor, and this place became a food supply base for more and more new population in Panshi Village, which is more important than the Giant-horned Deer Ranch in the north.
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Tian Kuang returned from Chiti City.
He locked himself in the house, and Tianfeng and Tianshuang couldn't open it no matter how they knocked it. Tianhao went to the fishing ground early in the morning, took Zhenhui and others to observe the terrain along the beach, looking for large-scale fish traces... He didn't hear about this until he came back in the evening.
Perhaps it was because of the long thinking during the day that Tian Kuang's mind became calm, and he did not continue to confine himself. The door opened a crack. He lowered his head, with a tight muscle expression, and said nothing, and turned sideways to let Tian Hao and others waiting outside come in. He walked silently to the fire where only a few embers were left to sit down.
Tianfeng was about to open his mouth, but Tianhao raised his hand to block it. He ordered his sister Tianshuang, who was sitting next to him anxiously: "Go and make some firewood, burn the fire. Make some food, and the second brother hasn't eaten all day."
A few simple words made Tian Kuang's heart, which seemed to be frozen by the cold, gradually warmed up. He raised a little lowered head and watched his sister Tian Shuang busy in front of the fire.
Soon, the aroma of broth scented in the room. Tianhao picked up a piece of hot dough cake and handed it to Tiankuang with a bowl of steaming soup: "No matter what, I can't treat myself badly. Even if there is a big deal, this family has a big brother and me."
Tianfeng sat cross-legged, held his hands on his knees, and nodded calmly: "Dragon, what happened?"
The aroma of the broth penetrated into Tiankuang's nostrils. This was his favorite food, but at this moment he had no temptation to him. The dull thinking in his brain made him unable to develop appetite: "...A Jiao is dead."
Tianshuang, who was adding firewood to the fire, stopped moving, raised her head, and looked at Tiankuang with a shocked look.
Tianfeng was stunned and then asked quickly: "What the hell is going on?"
Tian Hao frowned slightly and asked more directly: "Who did it?"
"A guy named Changmao. He is the manager of Qinglongzhai." Tian Kuang picked up the dough cake placed in front of him, opened his mouth and bit it hard, chewing it very hard. Every time his teeth bite, the strong masseter muscles on both sides of his cheeks would bulge high, as if food was an irreconcilable enemy.
Gillian is a widow, and her husband died in the battle at Loong Pass. According to the regulations that all the northern barbarians have jointly followed, the warrior widow can give preferential treatment in terms of taxation and annual food payment. But Gillian is a woman after all, and in this barbaric world where men are respected, she must obey her father's arrangements.
Changmao is the manager of Qinglongzhai. He proposed marriage to Gillian as a "head of a hundred people", which is considered a good match. Gillian actually doesn't like Changmao, but Gillian's father took a fancy to the generous dowry and forced her out despite Gillian's opposition.
Tian Kuang went too late, and Gillian was married by Changmao a few months ago.
Barbarian women rarely have independent voice in marriage.
"Changmao from Qinglong Village..." Tianhao pondered for a moment, broke a branch in his hand hard, and asked seriously: "Why did he marry Ah Jiao? Is it because he really likes it, or something else?"
"He took a fancy to Ah Gillian's property." Tian Kuang had red eyes and swallowed the chewed food in his mouth: "Ah Gillian's hotel run by Chiti City is very profitable. I heard from the people in the city that Changmao had been thinking about this from the beginning. Ah Gillian's father was a slut and asked for a large amount of bride price from Changmao. He bribed a manager in Chiti City in advance. After the two got married, he used the excuse that Gillian followed her husband's house and forcibly took away all her industries. What's more hateful is that he did not give Ah Gillian a dowry, and he didn't even have a piece of meat, a bag of food, or a piece of skin."
The room was in silence for a long time, with only the "crackling" sound of firewood burning.
"A Jiao was abused to death by Changmao." Tian Kuang's breathing became heavy, and his dull voice popped out from the cracks of his teeth: "He couldn't get any benefits from A Jiao. On the first day of his marriage, he couldn't get out of bed."
Chapter completed!