Reborn stone tools to farm

The sun was just right, and the old grandmother gathered the entire tribe in the open space early in the morning, led Tang Zheng to the front of the crowd, and stood aside by herself, squinting at her with carte blanche.

Tang Zheng had no choice but to look away from the old grandmother. Standing in front of so many people was a little nervous, especially when a group of people looked at you with blank eyes, her heart beat slightly faster.

After calming down, Tang Zheng straightened her small body to make herself look more confident, and said loudly: "How many people still remember that we used to be a powerful tribe, with abilities that other tribes envied, let alone fear of the coming Snow season!"

After finishing speaking, whispers began to come from below. After a pause, Tang Zheng glanced around before continuing: "The ancestors gave me wisdom and craftsmanship, which helped us become stronger again, so we can no longer be the same as before!"

"Then, what are we going to do then?" Bee couldn't help asking in a low voice.

Tang Zheng glanced at him approvingly, the eldest brother is really good, next time I will treat him to chicken legs.

"There are a lot of things to do, some of which you may not be able to understand for the time being, but please listen to me and do it."

Hearing this, everyone instinctively looked at the old grandmother, including Tang Zheng. After all, she was the person in charge of the entire tribe.

The old grandmother didn't say much, just nodded slightly to Tang Zheng with a smile, but it hit Tang Zheng's heart like a booster, and the others no longer questioned it. They were better than soldiers in obeying the leader.

"Wu, you and Song led the people..." Tang Zheng took the branches prepared before and drew on the ground as he spoke. What he drew was a map centered on where they were and spread out. Tang Zheng stayed up late yesterday to discuss the results with his grandmother.

Wu is the mother of two little babies. She is not outstanding in the collection team, but she has an excellent eloquence. Except for the old grandmother, she is relied on for most of the negotiations.

Song is the oldest of the seven men. Although he is not as strong as a bear, as fast as a crow, and as nimble as a bee, he has the richest hunting experience, and he presumably is a good hand at observing the situation.

"When you go to trade in other tribes, wait for most people to go out before going out. Half of the people stay outside to avoid being discovered, and the other half go with only two leathers. Don't want too many. You can bring as many as you want in the basket. Let's say recently. You can’t find anything to hunt, so you have to go to the Stone Tribe for salt to eat, do you understand?”

"Yes, I understand." Wu nodded, she was in charge of lobbying and let her be the team leader.

"If you encounter a domineering one, don't worry about the leather if you can't beat them. When you come back, you can't lose any of them, and don't get hurt again." At the end, Tang Zheng couldn't help admonishing, and everyone who went out nodded in agreement. .

Without further ado, Tang Zheng let Wu and the others go on the road after the planning process was finalized. Except for the injured Tan and the youngest Bai, the men were all in the team to protect the safety of the supplies, and the only women were Wu and Tao, both of whom were searching for plants. Master, you can be completely self-sufficient on the road, and it doesn't matter if the journey is relatively slow.

After tidying up all the necessary things, watching a group of people gradually disappear into the woods with their baskets on their backs, the task was arranged neatly just now, but now they are still worried.

After being patted twice on the shoulder, Tang Zheng looked sideways and saw that it was the old grandmother.

"It'll be all right."

"En." Tang Zheng replied, then looked back at Lin Zi, who was no longer there, talked to the old grandmother, then turned to look for other people, worrying that it would be useless, it would be better to do more practical things.

The main problem of getting through the snow season is to resist the severe cold and have enough food. The latter is barely satisfied, so the next thing to prepare is naturally the former.

After consulting the old grandmother's consent, Tang Zheng asked people to move out all the things in the cave. Tang Zheng wanted to clean up this smelly cave for a long time. The dirty and messy environment not only made people feel uncomfortable, but also It is easy to make people sick, but now a small cold can easily take a person's life.

The ground in the cave was rocky and hard because it had been trampled hard. Tang Zheng found a charred stick with a burnt top to draw lines on the ground, starting from her fire ditch and extending inwards to the end, drawing parallel lines at intervals of two meters. , and then asked Bo to take a stone hoe and start digging along the trench, and then spread soil on it to form pipes, and the heat from burning dry wood in the fire ditch can spread throughout the entire cave through these pipes, probably like simple floor heating.

Tang Zheng only scratched half of the position of the smoked skin at the entrance of the cave, and expanded two new fire ditches, and the other half was used for people to leave, including of course for her to sleep.

The stone hoe is very convenient for digging, but unfortunately there is only one. Tang Zheng asked other people to get together to make the stone hoe. Half of the people grinded the stone slices, and half made the handles. He pulled the mountain to burn the kiln.

The two tripods are buckled together in opposite directions. Tang Zheng measured the diameter of the opening with a branch when making it, and it basically matches. The bowl blanks are neatly stacked inside. The last tripod is too heavy, and the three corners cannot be completely aligned. That one was not put on because I was afraid it would be crushed during the fire, and I saved it for the next fire.

From entering the kiln to lighting the fire, it was all handled by the mountain. Tang Zheng just stood aside and watched, which made him very nervous.

When the fire at the kiln mouth stabilized and the top was covered with flakes of stone, Shan looked at the master with a little excitement that could not be suppressed.

"Well, it's great that you can operate alone in the future." Tang Zheng praised as usual, and she was also happy to see the silly apprentice smiling happily. From the moment the kiln fire rose, she could completely entrust the pottery making Give the mountain away.She doesn't know much at all, and she knows in her heart that no matter what kind of craftsmanship requires her own concentration and time accumulation, she is destined to not be able to devote herself to the craft of pottery. The ultimate achievement and development will be the glory of Shan, and all she can do is hand him a fishing rod.

When Shan's excitement passed, Tang Zheng took him to the woods to collect dry firewood and dead leaves. The amount needed later was too great to prepare as soon as possible.

Baskets and baskets of firewood were stacked two meters high, and the stone hoes were basically finished. Tang Zhengs who could be equipped with stone hoes were sent to dig ditches in the cave, while others carried the dug up soil in baskets and dumped them. In the pit where you step into the mud, sprinkle rotten leaves or damp weeds that have dried up before, and stir evenly with your feet to increase the stickiness of the soil.

After the ditch in the cave was dug vertically, Tang Zheng asked someone to dig three more horizontally, not too much, and then put stone chips on the ditch, and paved it from the innermost side with the reconciled mud.

The cave is said to be small, and it looks like it has been paved for about three meters. Tang Zheng stopped them, and then began to smooth the surface with a straight long stick, and lit a fire in the small hole under the stone flakes to bake the freshly paved. wet mud.

The smell of burning firewood in the cave was very choking, so Tang Zheng took people and started digging a pool next to the chicken coop.

Speaking of this pool, Tang Zheng had thought about it for a long time. Naturally, the stream next to it was not for the convenience of fetching water. Every time I saw a fat and big fish swimming in front of me, I always felt a pity. It would be better to catch and circle them and live Don't worry about rot problem.

It's not that the people in the clan don't know how to fish. Tang Zheng saw several wooden harpoons among the tools piled up next to him. It's just that it's a bit wasteful to do this in this harvest season.

The mud spread on the ground dried up a bit, Tang Zheng began to spread leaves and dead branches on it, put the fire down, and after a while, the mud underneath could be solidified by firing porcelain, which is the same principle as firing pottery.

After the fire was extinguished, Tang Zheng stood up and tried it. It was indeed hard enough and a little smooth. The next thing to do was to clean up the ash left by the burning, and then repeat the work.

Burning the floor is time-consuming, and one-fifth of the cave has been processed in a whole day, so everyone sleeps in the open space with a campfire at night. The night wind in late autumn is a bit cool, but no one has the slightest opinion. When the time comes, they gather in piles and go to sleep.

I don't know when Tang Zheng got the habit of looking at the stars. Lying on the ground, the night sky above his head is so clear and breathtaking. This feeling of using the sky as the seat and the ground as the seat is inexplicably comfortable. Close your eyes and believe that the next time the sun will When it rises, it will be a better tomorrow.

Time passed quickly. By the third day, the large pool had been dug. The area was about ten by twenty, and the depth was about one and a half meters. It was dug from the side of the mountain to the junction with the forest, and then dug horizontally. A two-meter-wide ditch brings water from the stream.

A fence was made of bamboo to block the water inlet of the pond, allowing the water to circulate while preventing the fish caught in the future from escaping, and then a bamboo raft was tied across the ditch, so it would not be difficult to walk.Bamboo is light and easy to remove when sleeping at night, which can also be regarded as a line of defense.

Thinking of the line of defense, Tang Zheng is here again. Pay attention. People are not the only ones who lack food in the snow season, but other animals are also the same. At that time, carnivores will inevitably stare at them, especially at night. They are most likely to be attacked. It is also crucial to do a defensive job. of.

If there is no condition to build a city wall, it is always possible to make a few wooden cones. The thick wood of the bowl is sharpened, and the three are tied together and supported on the ground. The vines, generally beasts will not come in.

Another day later, the project in the cave was basically completed. Tang Zheng led a group of people walking on the ground after clearing the ashes. They were quite surprised by the warmth coming from their feet.

Considering the heavy snowfall during the snow season, Tang Zheng asked people to build a half wall between the fire ditch and the pipes, and filled it with stone flakes, which was much stronger and faster than a complete mud wall.

Tang Zheng thought for a while, and finally built a half-block at the entrance of the cave, and the top was not sealed so that the smoke from the fire could be discharged.

The whole project took a week. Standing at the entrance of the cave, Tang Zheng was very satisfied with his work.Now the cave is clean and has no peculiar smell. The whole space is warm and harmonious.