Prehistoric Widows Survival [Farming]

While the old priest was still struggling, time passed, and soon the cold season would come completely.

The winter preparations for the Redwood Tribe this year are very complete. Those orcs who joined the Redwood Tribe for the first time were a little skeptical about the Redwood Tribe’s reputation in the past. , and became very relieved.

From the beginning of the previous cold season, they would anxiously count the food they had saved at the end of the warm season in their respective tents, thinking about how much to eat each day to survive the long, desperate cold;

But now, the grain harvested in the farmland and the fat pigs in the pigsty make them have no doubt that even if they eat with their stomachs open, the food will be enough to support their family to live happily until the end of the cold season next year.

In the cold season, they don't need to look at the weather to think about when to go out to hunt a few poor prey. They just need to heat up the kang, study how to eat three meals a day in different ways, and then go to Lu Er's class to learn writing. and counting...

This is really the most comfortable winter season for them.

It was fine in the tribe, and what worried Lu Wei was that until the winter season officially came, they still hadn't found out about Zitong.

This is undoubtedly the worst case scenario.

No matter who is the sacred orc who kidnapped Zitong, he has no good intentions towards the Redwood tribe; would such a person, in the cold season when there is generally not enough to eat, waste food for Zitong to let him survive the cold season?

This possibility made Lu Wei very worried, and it also made the sub-beast who raised Zitong even more sad.

……

Zitong, who was worried by relatives and friends in the Redwood Tribe, also missed them.

However, unlike the difficult conditions that Lu Wei and the others had imagined, Zitong was sitting by the warm campfire, wrapped in a thick layer of animal skin, and there was a hoof of a beast roasting on the campfire, emitting a sizzle. Greasy aroma.

Not long after, the curtain of the tent was lifted, and Ao walked in carrying a wild bird that was still struggling. Seeing Zitong staring at the bonfire in a daze, he froze for a moment, and said with a smile: "Zitong, look what I brought you. What happened?"

Zi Tong gave him a weak look.

Since he was brought to this tribe, this Ao has been very kind to help him prepare tents and bring food over every day...

The intention is too obvious.

Three years ago, if Zitong was pursued by such a tall and handsome orc, he would have hung on for a while and then quickly agreed; now that Zitong is around Lu Wei, she has subconsciously regarded Lu Wei as her own. Mate selection criteria.

Smart, gentle, calm...

This Ao has nothing to do with it!

Zitong sighed and rubbed her face: "Thank you, Ao, but I haven't finished eating the meat before, so don't send me so much."

Ao touched his head in distress, thought for a while, and said, "Do you want to go out and play?"

"It's too cold to go out now."

"I can prepare sackcloth for you."

Zi Tong was taken aback: "What is that?"

It was rare to see what Zitong was interested in, and Ao suddenly became excited: "There is a plant near our tribe that can extract silk, weave it into soft linen, and make clothes, which are very comfortable to wear."

Zi Tong was originally a little interested in the "linen" that Ao said, but seeing Ao's fiery eyes, he held back the "yes" in his mouth.

Apart from his face, this Ao has a silly head, which doesn't suit my liking at all...

Thinking about it this way, Zitong lacked interest again, shook his head to express his refusal, and sat by the campfire to continue in a daze.

Ao scratched his head, a little at a loss.

In the tribe, he has always been very popular among sub-beasts because of his noble status, strength, and handsome appearance; it's just that he has a high vision and has always been single.

When picking up the clansman who was left outside this time, the two orcs who took Zitong away confessed that they noticed him when they saw Zitong's dance, and that there was a kind of beast on Zitong's body that was similar to other sub-beasts. a different feeling.

Ao didn't take it seriously at first—the sub-beasts that came out of those small tribes with few people all looked numb and struggling to survive?

It was only when he saw Zitong that he realized that this sub-beast was really different.

Zi Tong seems to have an inexplicable generosity and confidence in her speech and actions. When referring to the small tribe called "Redwood Tribe", there is always a hint of pride in her tone.

Ao suddenly felt that he had also reached the age to find a partner.

It's just that in the past few days he has shown courtesy to Zitong, but Zitong doesn't buy it very much. He doesn't have the joy and gratitude he imagined to be out of the sea of ​​suffering. Instead, he often mentions the Redwood Tribe.

This made Ao surprised and a little unconvinced at the same time—this sub-beast was raised by those small tribes with poor vision, so it couldn't see how rich their tribe was!

Can ordinary tribes afford these thick tents, warm animal skins, and fat prey?

Although he felt a little aggrieved, Ao thought that he was an orc from a big tribe and shouldn't care about sub-beasts like Zitong who were rescued from a small tribe, so he decided to prepare a sackcloth for Zitong.

Although Zitong said that he was not interested, but he really got the clothes made of linen, and subconsciously compared them with the sweaters of the Redwood Tribe.

Compared with sweaters, this kind of linen clothes are much less warm, but much lighter.It must be nice to wear it in the warm season.

Seeing that Zitong was very interested, Ao also showed Zitong a tour of the tent where they stored purple hemp, and said proudly: "This is what our tribe lives on, and other tribes will not give it in exchange."

In the tent, there are bundles of sun-dried purple hemp, half-processed hemp twine, and some hemp rope.

Zi Tong approached those bundles of hemp, knelt down and touched them, and asked curiously, "Where did you plant these?"

"The species?" Ao was a little confused, "These are all harvested directly from the wild."

"It will grow by itself without doing anything?"

"That's not true. At the beginning of the warm season, the seeds will be thrown on the ground, and then a grand sacrificial ceremony will be held. The power of the gods will allow the seeds to take root and germinate."

Zi Tong understood.He tried to pull a few hemp ropes, and found that the toughness of these hemp ropes was stronger than any kind of straw ropes from the Redwood tribe.

The purple hemp tribe obviously hasn't awakened the awareness of planting...

Zitong pondered for a while: If the Zima tribe has no bad intentions, can they cooperate with the Redwood tribe to grow this seemingly useful plant?

……

After the heavy snowfall, the orcs of the Redwood Tribe began to build a protective wall.

Foundation pits and bricks are prepared before the cold season.Now they just need to lay the bricks into the walls.

In addition to building the wall, they also took the opportunity to smelt all the ore dug out before into bronze ware in this season when there was no busy farming.

Now they have very few bronze wares, and the number of agricultural tools and knives cannot be supplied to all families. Basically, several families use one and take turns.

The main problem is that they have too few copper mines—there are not many orcs in the old site, and at the same time, they have to take into account mining, farming, and tree planting, so the efficiency of mining is not very high.

Lu Er took this into consideration when he first smelted the bronze wares, and asked Teng to show the copper ore when promoting copper coins, and tell other tribes that copper coins can be extracted from this ore, so that they can Take it to the Redwood Tribe to exchange copper coins.

Although there is no news so far, Lu You speculates that there will be good news after the spring of next year.

Lu You is preparing the calendar recently.

When communicating with Jiao before, he taught Jiao the 24 solar terms.But that's just giving Kok a taste of the world he lives in, like something new.

But at that time, Lu You did have the idea of ​​re-enacting the calendar of this world.

The time in this world is roughly the same as that of the earth. The time is calculated according to the position of the sun during the day, a cycle is calculated according to the waxing and waning of the moon in a month, and a year is calculated after a warm season and a cold season cycle in twelve months.

But that's all.There are no solar terms, months, four seasons, or years.

At least from the perspective of the Redwood tribe, their name for time is very crude.

The existence of the calendar is also very important for the records of civilization, and more importantly, the solar terms themselves have extremely high significance for the macro-control of agriculture.

It is impossible for Lu Er to always decide for the orcs when to plant and when to harvest. These should be judged by the orcs themselves based on time and climate.

The 24 solar terms on the earth cannot be directly used in this world, because there are still many differences in the time and climate of this world and the earth.

So Lu Er is re-making the calendar.

Based on his understanding of the calendar and solar terms on the earth, and his three-year experience in this world, he summed up a new set of calendars, including different time concepts such as month, date, solar terms, and time.

In order to ensure the accuracy and practicality of this set of calendars, Lu Er also brought the old priest over and asked him to participate in the formulation of the calendar.

The Shentan tribe already has the basic concept of time calculation, but it is not as systematic as Lu Er's calendar.

When the old priest first learned that Lu Er was also a visitor from other worlds like those alien races who called themselves "God Envoys", he was actually full of vigilance towards Lu Er because of the various behaviors of the alien race.

Just seeing the abundance of the Redwood Tribe, especially the process of the Redwood Tribe's abundance is completely reproducible and scalable, and any tribe can follow the road of the Redwood Tribe to become rich, and the old priest's attitude changed.

In particular, he and Lu Er spent several months together on the border of God's Punishment Wasteland, fully understanding how gentle and fraternal this soul from another world is, and caring about this world no worse than any orc.

Therefore, the old priest has great enthusiasm for any new things that Lu Er proposes, and thinks about how the experience of the development of civilizations in these other worlds can be applied to the world of orcs.

The altar tribe's calendar is very simple, except for the basic time calculation, there are only two "points".

Lu Er was a little curious: "What point?"

"One is when the moon is in the sky at night, which is the end of the previous day and the beginning of the second day; the other is the last crescent moon of the year, which is the end of the previous year and the beginning of the next year."

Lu You raised her eyebrows in surprise: "This is 0 o'clock and the New Year."

"Yes, these two concepts are very similar to yours." The old priest nodded.That's all he wanted to say.Every new year, the altar tribe will sing, dance, cheer and celebrate for a long time.

"Where do these two points come from?"

"Instructions from the gods." The old priest cleared his throat, and his expression became a little more serious. "The gods gave instructions to the totem, and the totem conveyed it to us. We will spread it to the entire orc world."

Lu You nodded thoughtfully.

The existence of God is beyond doubt now, but he still doesn't know what kind of individual God is.

I asked the old priest, but the old priest didn’t know—it used to be the totem to communicate with the god, but after the death of the totem, he had difficulty contacting the god, and broke contact with the god after a few words.

Since there is no conflict between God's calendar and the calendar formulated by Lu Er, then Lu Er is relieved and handed over this set of calendars to Teng, who plans to implement it from this year.

In addition, Lu Er asked Jiao to polish a huge sundial and put it at the gate of the tribe as a simple timetable.

Most people in the tribe can already recognize simple numbers and characters. Lu Er forces them to express the time in the future by "what time is the month and day" instead of "when the sun is in the middle".

At this time, there was almost one month left before the New Year appointed by God.

After discussing with the Redwood Tribe who got the new calendar, they decided to imitate the Altar Tribe and celebrate their first New Year.