Prehistoric Widows Survival [Farming]

When the first crop of wheat was earing, Shi Shi, who went back to his hometown to teach new farming knowledge, came back from the giant tooth tribe.

Unlike the lonely state when he went to the Giant Fang tribe, this time he was followed by a long line of teams, walking along the dirt road in the fields, looking around all the way, and finally stopped outside the Redwood tribe.

When he arrived in front of Teng, he brought the leader of the Giant Fang tribe, and said, "Leader, father said that he wants to bring the Giant Fang tribe to join us."

Even Jiao and Lu Wei had never seen such a formation where the whole family came to vote, and they were dumbfounded for a moment.

Teng and the leader of the Juya tribe were old acquaintances, and they were not polite, and asked bluntly, "Jun, what are you doing?"

"We can't get along, so we come to join you." Jun pushed his son aside and said with a smile, "To tell you the truth, the Redwood Tribe is short of people, so we came here."

He pointed to the clansmen of the Giant Fang tribe who stopped outside the tribe, and said with some pride, "The orcs of our Giant Fang tribe are all excellent, and they won't drag you down."

Teng naturally knew that the quality of the orcs in the Jufang tribe was good, a little better than that of the previous Redwood tribe; the leader's character was also good, and the tribal ethos they brought out was not bad.

But he had never heard of such a thing as raising a family to vote, so he had to carefully confirm it: "Haven't you already learned how to farm the land, why can't you get along?"

Jiao and Lu Er stood behind Teng, also holding a wait-and-see attitude and did not speak.

Jun already knew from the truth that these three people had almost all the right to speak in the Redwood Tribe, and seeing that they had to give an explanation, he sighed and told the truth: "To be honest, I actually had this in the past two years. Intend."

Teng was even more surprised now: "Why?"

In the past two years, the overall strength of the Redwood Tribe was a little weaker than that of the Giant Tooth Tribe.

"Teng, you should have noticed that the climate has changed more and more frequently these years, droughts and floods often occur, and the cold season is sometimes long and sometimes short." Jun found a seat and sat down familiarly. He picked up a cup and poured a glass of water by himself, "Big tribes like the Heihe tribe are okay, they have a large population and strong strength, and there is no problem in resisting for a few years; but small tribes like ours, when they encounter a little disaster, they are almost Annihilation."

Teng frowned, not understanding: "Didn't we come here all these years? We have only encountered this disaster of God's punishment in these few years."

"Before God's punishment, did our tribe grow? It's not that the population is decreasing." Jun drank his saliva, and a trace of sadness flashed across his face, "I have been the leader for many years. I know the situation of the tribe very well. Food is plentiful, When the water source was abundant, we didn’t expand the scale of the tribe, and we had to wait to die when there was a disaster.”

At this time Teng was still a little confused, but Lu You had already understood, and looked at the rhino orc with a hint of surprise in his eyes.

In this era, there are really not many orcs with this vision.

"The Heihe tribe grew up when several small tribes joined together, so I thought before that if we merged into one tribe, wouldn't life be much better than now?" Jun rubbed his head and smacked his lips regretfully. "I didn't expect you to suddenly have a good witch doctor, and you suddenly became prosperous. We were a little embarrassed to mention this matter; I didn't think about it again until the disaster of God's punishment came."

In the process of migrating due to divine punishment, even though the Jufang tribe had made preparations in advance, they still lost several tribesmen, which made the leader Jun heartbroken.

The most primitive reason for living in groups is to support each other. The more people there are, the more things they can do and the greater their ability to resist risks.

This is why Lu You has been actively suggesting to recruit more stray orcs.Although the Redwood tribe is much richer and stronger now, and they have food reserves to cope with the cold season, their ability to resist risks is still not worth mentioning in the face of this dangerous environment.

Raging animal hordes, unpredictable weather, various incurable diseases... are not what the current Redwood tribe can handle.

Unexpectedly, the leader of this giant tooth tribe would have such foresight... and he is quite shrewd.

Lu You didn't believe that the Jufang tribe, which was far more powerful than the Redwood tribe two years ago, wanted to defect to the Redwood tribe—it should be said that it would be more appropriate to annex it?

Obviously now that the Redwood tribe has developed, the attitude of the Jufang tribe has changed from "annexation" to "defection".

However, Lu You didn't mind these small details. He was more concerned about whether the Giant Fang tribe really wanted to join them.

Lu Er didn't want the tribe that had worked so hard to develop to perish in internal strife.

He was not familiar with the leader of the Jufang tribe, so the judgment in this aspect could only be left to Teng and Jiao.Lu You believed that Teng and Jiao would not miss this point.

Teng pressed his chin lightly in silence, lost in thought.

He was the former leader of the Redwood Tribe, the witch doctor was Lu Er, and although Jiao didn't have a leadership position in name, he still had enough right to speak. Major events in the tribe were almost always decided by the three of them.Because the relationship between the three of them is very close, there is a tacit understanding in many things, and conflicts can be easily resolved internally, so far there has been no trouble.

It's fine to absorb the stragglers, but if the leader of the Giant Fang tribe has a conflict with them, what will they do?

"Jun, if the Tusk Tribe joins us, who will your orcs listen to?"

Jun had expected it a long time ago, and clapped his hands with a smile: "Don't worry, I told you in advance, I must listen to you - we are all for survival, and we are not as stupid as the Xiaoshi tribe."

After the leader of the Xiaoshi tribe died under Jiao's hands, the internal struggle for the leader's position was fiercely weakened, and the whole tribe fell apart after the disaster of God's Punishment.Jun came here with the intention of keeping warm with the Redwood tribe, so naturally he would not repeat the mistakes of the Xiaoshi tribe.

Thinking of this, Jun looked at Lu You with some pity.

After learning that the witch doctor's partner of the Redwood Tribe had passed away, he hastily sent his son Shi over here, hoping that Shi could pursue Lu Er and bring Lu Er back to the Giant Tooth Tribe—on the one hand, he was interested in this The huge energy of the witch doctor itself, on the other hand, also considers that with the witch doctor, when the time comes to discuss the merger with the Redwood tribe, the initiative will be higher.

Unexpectedly, it was only after arriving at the Redwood Tribe that Lu You's partner, Jiao Jiao, came back safe and sound.Jun is naturally aware of Jiao's illustrious reputation, and it is impossible for a sub-beast to steal Jiao, so he is not in a hurry to merge with the Redwood Tribe.

He didn't think about it too much, he just wanted to have more say on his side after the merger of the two, and to protect his clansmen so as not to be treated unfairly.

It's just that the situation changed suddenly when God's punishment came.

The different harvests of the two tribes during the God's Punishment Migration made Jun suddenly realize that some of the food and animal skins he cares about may not be anything in the eyes of the Redwood Tribe—they even have the strength to absorb the wandering orcs they encounter along the way. !

This not only shows that the Redwood Tribe can support a large group of people with ease, but also shows that the Redwood Tribe itself is also expanding in scale!

If you don't join now, you may not be able to get in the car later.

So after the cold season ended, he quickly started his plan to join the Redwood Tribe.

Teng communicated with Jiao and Lu Wei, and finally made up his mind: "In this case, you are welcome to join!"

Although absorbing the entire Jufang tribe at once is a bit risky, the two families know each other well and have a good relationship. In the end, they still think that this is an excellent opportunity for the tribe to expand its scale and should not be missed.

……

The population of the Giant Fang tribe is almost half of the current population of the Redwood tribe, and they can only live in tents like some wandering orcs they absorbed before.

But also because of their large population, they can build houses by themselves.

The Redwood Tribe has built so many courtyard houses before, and already has a rich set of experience.Teng arranged for the main cadres of the original construction team to lead the orcs of the Giant Fang tribe in shifts to start building houses first.

According to Lu Yi planting two crops of grain a year, the first crop of grain is now just in the middle of the growth cycle.It is too early for the people of the Juya tribe to reclaim the fields to keep up with the first crop, and it is too early to follow the second crop. They simply use the stored food and prey supplies first, and focus on building houses first.

The busiest time for spring plowing has passed, and now the orcs of the Redwood Tribe are not too busy, and they can just guide them to build houses together.

By the way, the houses of the wandering orcs that were absorbed before are now also settled together.

The newly joined orcs only feel at ease looking at the thick walls outside. Now that they see the foundation, beams, and bricks, they realize how troublesome it is to build a house.

Fortunately, in order to survive and survive better, what the orcs are most afraid of is hard work and trouble. The second vigorous house building activity of the Redwood Tribe began.

This time the house was built next to the former quadrangle courtyard of the Redwood Tribe, no matter the location or the style, it is no different from the previous one.Lu Er didn't want to artificially create a gap between the new members and the old members, so he tried his best to break up and integrate the two parts of the orcs in various ways to avoid the formation of a small group.

The effect is also good. After the initial run-in period, the population of the Redwood Tribe has not had any major conflicts, and everyone is working hard for a new life.

The only big contradiction is that new members find it difficult to understand why the prey must go to the exchange to exchange for copper coins before they can be exchanged for other things.

According to Lu Er's request, nothing in the tribe can be obtained for free, even if the food provided for new members is at a very low price, they have to buy it with money.

The measures to promote currency are also implemented here.

Even Jun couldn't understand such a move, and secretly protested with Lu Yi, saying that their orcs couldn't count, and it was hard to tell whether they were suffering or not.

Lu You's response to this was: "There will be a basic mathematics class in Li's place at night, do you want to go and listen?"

Jun: "..."

Of course, Lu You didn't completely ignore the concerns of the new members. He transferred the real person to the exchange, and he and Li were responsible for currency conversion for the new members.

After all, they were former members of the Giant Tooth Tribe, and they were very convinced of Shi, so the voice of opposition was much smaller, and they also grasped the truth as a reference when buying things.

Shi suddenly became the "Mr. Accountant" of dozens of people, and his head was almost bald, so he could only urge Jun aggrievedly to go to math class as soon as possible.

……

During such a lively running-in process, the first batch of wheat quietly matured, and the pasta that Lu Yi had been thinking about finally appeared.

The first batch of new wheat is collected, the reserved seeds are set aside, and the rest is dried and sent to the mill.

The mill was built together during the second house building after the giant tooth tribe merged.

The stone mill that used to grind beans was moved to an old orc's house after the cold season came.The old orcs and the old Asian beasts live together, and they have few things in the house, so they put the stone mill in their place for the time being, so that they can make soy milk and tofu when it snows.

Now grinding wheat into flour requires a heavier and finer millstone, so Lu You simply arranged for the construction team to build a special mill so that the orcs could grind grain freely.

After the first wheat was planted, the orcs thought that the way to eat wheat was the same as millet, they would remove the chaff and cook it directly.

Lu You called a few Asian beasts and orcs who were good at cooking, and instructed the big lion to push a bigger stone mill to grind the new wheat into white flour.

The more troublesome thing is the flour filter.

As early as after getting the wheat seeds, Lu You thought of this problem, and visited Duo Yu and Bai Xu in person with a full stomach.

In the past, Duo Yu was good at straw weaving. Later, Lu Er created wool and began to study wool weaving.Lu Er found Baixu and Duoyu, proposed the concept of "cloth", and asked them if they could try to make it.

The mesh used to filter flour does not need to be very fine, and the difficulty of weaving should be simpler than that of cloth in modern society.

Baixu and Duoyu accepted Lu You's request, and then tried to weave cloth with animal wool for a long time, and finally came up with a relatively suitable mesh cloth, which was made into a dustpan for sifting out chaff.

Lu You bought a large bag of flour with copper coins.

The filtered white flour was kneaded with water, and the paste was baked on a hot clay pot to form a delicious noodle cake. Lu Wei ate several of the noodle cakes that he hadn't seen for a long time, and ate several of them with the chili sauce alone.

Ever since her stomach got bigger and bigger, Lu You has become a bit picky when eating, and her face has lost a lot of weight.Seeing it in his eyes, he was anxious in his heart, once Lu Wei had something he liked to eat, no matter how much trouble he had, he would try his best to get it for Lu Wei to eat.

Seeing that Lu You likes eating pasta so much this time, Jiao immediately suppressed his curiosity about the tempting fragrance of the pasta, and poured a glass of water without taking a bite, and persuaded, "Eat slowly."

Lu You ate several, only to realize that Jiao hadn't eaten anything, and felt a little embarrassed, so he quickly distributed some to Jiao: "Try it too, it's delicious."

A long time ago, Lu Er once found a low-matching variety of wheat and made a small noodle pancake.It's just that the seeds of that kind of plant are not suitable for consumption, and the noodle cakes made have a bit of astringency, so Xiao Mi is not interested.

This time the noodle cake smelled very fragrant. Seeing that Lu Wei was full, he took a bite, the rich aroma of wheat filled his mouth, and the heavy satisfaction settled in his abdomen with a bite of noodle cake, which was more delicious than millet. And sweet potatoes are much tastier.

"From now on, this will be the main grain we will grow in the first half of the year." Lu You relished the aroma of the noodle cakes, and couldn't help but smile as he watched the corners of his mouth covered with crumbs.

Looking at the few pancakes that were left on the table exuding a burnt aroma, Lu You didn't know what to think of, and suddenly said: "I want to eat eggs."

Perhaps it is the familiarity of the modern society brought by the noodles, which made him miss the foods that were once readily available but are now almost hard to eat.

The corner conditioned reflex generally raised his head: "I'll go find it."

Then he reacted, "What's an egg, a bird's egg?"

"Well, it's probably similar." Lu You roughly described the poultry raised in modern society, "We all keep a kind of bird called 'chicken' in the pen, and they lay eggs every day and eat them directly."

Jiao was a little confused: "Don't birds fly away?"

"Those chickens have been domesticated, and their ability to fly has degraded badly, and the chickens are also used to being raised by humans, so they won't fly away." Lu Wei rubbed his belly and sighed softly, "I've also considered being in a tribe. Raises a little poultry, but never finds time."

There are too many things to consider in the development of the tribe starting from a blank sheet of paper. Lu Er wanted to build a chicken coop a few times, but he couldn't remember the few times.

And unlike cattle, sheep and pigs, raising poultry requires real grain as feed, and the former Redwood tribes were not so rich that they could use grain to feed chickens.

Moreover, the most troublesome thing about raising poultry is that wild birds are easy to fly away, and they are not watching all the time; it is not appropriate to put a rope around the neck of the birds.

As long as Lu Er wants something, Jiao will not let it go easily.He stuffed the last mouthful of bread into his mouth, chewed and swallowed it, and took another sip of water: "I'll go out and catch some cloud-spotted birds later."

"How do you raise them after you catch them?" Lu You felt helpless, "They will fly away."

"I have a solution for this." Jiao was full of confidence, "You wait."

……

In the evening, the mighty lion orc carried two struggling cloud-spotted birds in each hand, and threw them back into the yard.

What is strange is that although the four birds were free, they just fluttered in place, the highest flight was no higher than one person, and there was no sign of flying away at all.

The ewes are still grazing outside, and the ram is tied to the door alone. He was very curious to see the new member of the family, so he leaned over and sniffed it, as if he wanted to know if these colorful things could be eaten.

The cloud-spotted bird fluttered, and the ram shrank back in fright, and hid in the shed that Jiao built for him.

Lu Er was a little puzzled: "Did you hurt them?"

"No, just cut off the feathers under their wings." Horn has been hunting for many years, and is very clear about the weakness of this delicious bird. "A few feathers are related to their flight. As long as the feathers are broken, they will not be able to fly." gone."

Lu You is not clear about the habits of the cloud-spotted bird, but he is very satisfied with the effect in front of him, and said happily: "That's fine, the cubs that hatch later will have their feathers removed before they can fly. , you can try to let go slowly.”

Lu You's satisfaction is Diagon's biggest compliment.Jiao happily went over to pick up one: "Where are these birds kept?"

"It can be raised in the yard, but a chicken coop needs to be built." Lu Er thought for a while, and gestured at the other side of their door opposite the sheep shed, "It's right here."

He did what he said, and went to tear down a few bamboos, and quickly repaired the fence, threw the four cloud-spotted birds in, thought for a while, and stood outside and solemnly announced: "From now on, you will be called chickens."

In this way, the eggs they lay are eggs.

The four cloud-spotted birds seemed to be exhausted from fluttering. They piled up together, and their small black bean-like eyes looked at this bad orc who cruelly cut off their feathers and forced them to change their names: "Chacha!"

Lu Er laughed out loud from the side.

……

Not long after Jiao caught the chicken, the heavy rain that entered the warm season came as expected.

The sheep lay leisurely in the sheep shed and chewed fresh grass; the chickens raised in the yard were not so lucky, and there was no place to hide from the rain, so they huddled together and shivered.

Jiao had to urgently build a chicken shed to let a few chickens in to shelter from the rain.

The second batch of new houses in the Redwood Tribe had been built before the rainy season, and all the new members happily moved into the high-walled brick houses.Although there is nothing in the new house, it is enough to make them happy.

On the other side, wooden umbrellas come in handy now.

After two years of improvement, under the guidance of Lu Er's theory, the wooden umbrella Feng made is already very light, and can be folded up when not in use. Almost every household has one or two umbrellas on hand.

In the past, the orcs would turn into beasts and rely on the fur on their bodies to harden their heads, but now they no longer force themselves.

So the continuous heavy rain did not completely trap the orcs at home.Every day they hold umbrellas to inspect the fields.

If there is too much rain in the field, they have to dig ditches to divert the water away so as not to waterlog the roots.

In addition, at home, the sub-beasts made sweaters from the fluff that the orcs replaced at the end of the cold season, and on the other hand, they also put their minds on making pasta.

Kneadable dough brings new innovations to food.After Lu Er instructed Hongyun to make the first bowl of noodles, all the sub-beasts followed suit and made all kinds of grilled, steamed, boiled and fried delicacies.

This time the heavy rain did not last long and stopped within a few days.

This means that the rain in the warm season this year may not be as abundant as in previous years.However, according to Lu Er's understanding in the past two years since he came to this world, this level of rain is enough to nourish their crops, not to mention that there are rivers and lakes near the tribe, which is more than enough to irrigate the crops.

After the heavy rain, the originally compacted roads in the tribe became a bit muddy, and the courtyards of the courtyard houses and even the ground in the houses became muddy.

Lu Er really doesn't know how to make cement, and now the corner doesn't let him try it, so he suggested firing floor tiles to pave the floor.

Leaving aside the road, each house can be paved with floor tiles, at least to ensure that the house is clean.

The brick-burning group started to work again.

On the other hand, Lu Er also asked a few orcs who were interested in casting technology to study how to smelt bronze.

The copper mine discovered at the former site of the Redwood tribe is the only metal mine they have found so far. Every once in a while, they will send a few orcs to pull a cart back.

Some of the copper mines were simply smelted into copper coins, and the other part was used to experiment with making real metal utensils.

Copper can be used as currency mainly because it has value in itself; and its greatest value at the current stage is to make utensils.

The emergence of metal agricultural tools and tools can greatly improve the efficiency and development of all walks of life.

Possessing metal weapons can also maximize the combat effectiveness and protection of the tribal orcs.Now the number of orcs going out to hunt is much lower than before, but the special training of the horns has not relaxed in the slightest.

The god envoy, the enemy, has not been eradicated, and there are many dangers in the wild. Even the other tribes that do business with them now, if they were not intimidated by their powerful orc combat power, they would not be so friendly.

Since Lu Er noticed the blind faith in him in the tribe, he released many problems that the orcs had to figure out and solve by themselves, hoping to exercise the orcs' independent thinking ability.

After the Jufang tribe merged, although there were no major conflicts, the two orcs still had a lot of competition during the running-in period.

The Giant Tooth Tribe felt that the Redwood Tribe was just lucky enough to have a witch doctor who knew everything, which was actually worse than their tribe; the Redwood Tribe had developed a subtle sense of superiority in the past two years, and felt that the Giant Tooth who knew nothing The tribe is a group of "bumpkins".

Healthy competition helps tribes develop rapidly.Lu You, who was aware of this, did not interfere too much, as long as it was fair and reasonable, they were allowed to fight each other, and even provided a little stimulation.

For this copper smelting attempt, the tribe divided into two teams and asked them to compete to see who could successfully smelt the first real bronze.