Travel through prehistory with a commissary

After pondering for a moment, Shuo said, "There are two ways to obtain salt.

"The first one is to buy it from the Taiyan clan. Before last autumn, our salt came from there, but now that the Taiyan clan has surrendered to the temple, we can no longer get close to them.

"The second way is to cross the Taiyan clan and continue to the east. There are salt-producing tribes there. They are not people from the temple. We can exchange them directly, but the journey is far away."

When he went to dig clay and was in distress, Yu Xin asked Ming about the Taiyan family.

The Taiyan family is downstream of the Youhao family, and it takes five or six days to walk east along the river to reach their territory.In the past, when the Taiyan clan did not belong to the temple, the Youhao clan walked with them quite frequently. Since the Taiyan clan ushered in the priests of the temple last autumn, people from the Hao clan did not dare to go there.

Taiyan used to be their source of salt, and it is for this reason that they dare not exchange salt with them.

The Taiyan clan couldn't go this way, so they could only choose the second way, going further east to exchange salt with tribes who knew how to produce salt.

Others obviously thought of this, and even the carefree Chi looked solemn: "We have never been to the tribes further east, and we all heard from the Taiyan clan, and the Taiyan clan said that they would go to the next tribe to ask for help." We walked for eight days, but that tribe was not a salt-producing tribe, so we had to go further east. No one has traveled this road, so it is very dangerous."

The river near Youhao's flows from west to east, which means that the mouth of the sea should be on the east.The so-called salt-producing tribes are probably tribes that live by the sea and can cook sea salt.It's really hard to tell how long it will take.

"When the rabbits in the tribe give birth to babies, we will go to the east to exchange salt," Shuo said.

After the little rabbits are born, there will be more meat in the tribe, so even if the hunting team leaves, they can barely cope with the collection team.Then comes the warm spring with lush water and grass, and there is still a lot of time until the leaves turn yellow, and they will definitely be able to come back before then.

Yu Xin frowned, this method is very risky.

Not to mention how far it is to the mouth of the sea, there will definitely be other tribes along the way, as well as beasts and poisonous insects. If the hunting team is wiped out, not only will they not be able to exchange for salt, but most of the people left behind will not be able to survive this winter.

But salt is necessary.

The Taiyan family has many more people than the Youhao family, so they can't go grab it.

On second thought, there must be other ways.Yu Xin reminded herself.

According to what they just said, the salt of the Taiyan clan was exchanged from the tribes in the east, and the tribes in the east exchanged salt from the tribes further east.Assume that there is a tribe who cooks sea salt for a living at the mouth of the sea in the east. Since then, the tribes scattered on both sides of the river have formed a sea salt trade channel for barter.

Where there is trade, there will be merchants.

Is it possible that primitive society also had such a group of people who survived by trade?

Yu Xin still doesn't know enough about this world, and he can't find a breakthrough when he thinks about it. After he crossed over, he only came into contact with people with the Hao family, and he knew nothing about the outside world.

"By the way," Yu Xin said, "Didn't the Taiyan clan trade for salt from the tribe to the east? We can exchange it with them."

Yu Xin's brows and eyes stretched. Why didn't he expect such a simple method, there is no need to really find the source of this trade channel.

Shuo shook his head: "No, that tribe believed in the temple earlier, and it would be dangerous to contact them."

Another road was blocked, and the power of the temple was terrible.

Where are the tribes in the east? They have no information, and it is very dangerous to go there without authorization. After all, there are no such things as visas and customs clearance documents.

After all, it seems that there is only one option to go to the east estuary.

This is really a very dangerous thing.

The others also understand, but there is no other way, just like Shuo said, wait until the rabbits give birth to babies and the food in the tribe is sufficient.

After the meeting ended that night, Yu Xinmeng was also thinking about it, but she didn't come to any conclusion.

Yu Xin failed in firing pottery for the first time. Even though it took most of the night, the pottery was not fully cooked and broke immediately.When I went to collect the next day, Yu Xin took people to dig the soil again, and did it again when I came back.

This time he had experience and made a large pot out of clay.

It took another two days for the newly made pottery to be shaped and dried, and Shuo's hunting team returned with a full load.They killed three young crocodiles and a juvenile rhino near the swamp in the prairie.

After peeling off the thick skin, the meat of baby crocodiles and rhinos is unexpectedly delicious.The taste of crocodile meat is a bit like chicken, while that of rhino is closer to pork.

Because of the large harvest, the tribe got a lot of meat that day, so I was very happy.

Yu Xin asked for the skin of a small crocodile, and also took away a big turtle that Chi and his team had captured.He asked Ye Heli to kill the tortoise, shared the meat with them, and kept the tortoise shell for himself.

He put the cleaned tortoise shell and alligator skin back into the hole, and put them together with his deer ligaments, bone needles, and some scraps of fur in a square bamboo basket he wove himself.

After putting everything away, he called the two collection team members who watched the fire last time over to discuss how to burn the pottery this time.

After an agreement, they called a few more people over, dug a circular shallow pit on a muddy ground in the tribe, spread firewood in it, and piled the dried pottery with the firewood, and finally let them The man moved a few long logs directly from the tree trunks, and set up a pyramid-shaped shelf on the pile of firewood and pottery.

After finishing everything, Yu Xin patted the ashes off his hands: "It's ok, this way there will be fire from top to bottom, and there will be hot air, the temperature should be enough."

Yu Xin asked people to burn pottery.

All the people in Luo knew that Yu Xin was making pottery. Although they didn't understand the principle, judging from the semi-finished pottery, they also felt that these things were much better than the bamboo tubes and bone bowls they used.

There are roughly three kinds of utensils for holding food in the tribe.

The first type is insect-repelling leaves, and insect-repelling leaves are not the leaves of a specific tree, but a general term for a class of plants whose leaves have insect-repelling effects.People in the tribe are used to using insect repellent leaves to pack food, and they will use insect repellent leaves to store some non-flowing things such as meat and fruits.

The second is the bamboo tube, which is mainly to split the bamboo and use its naturally grown bamboo joints as containers.

The third kind of Yu Xin is more repulsive, which is animals, or even human skulls.But the appearance of this kind of thing is the most similar to the bowl that Yu Xin is familiar with.

When pottery was available, he would have to figure out a way to ban bone bowls, at least not human skulls.

The pile of pottery was burning, and Yu Xin called the members of the collection team and asked them to bring the small bones that he had told them, intending to teach them to sharpen bone needles.

Mian also came over to listen with the baby in her arms.

Seeing her coming, Yu Xin asked someone to get her an extra piece of fur under her buttocks.

There is no such thing as confinement in the tribe, and Mian is also in good health. She can walk freely not long after giving birth. Her face is ruddy and her milk is sufficient. She is not at all like the new mothers Yu Xin has seen before.

But in his concept, giving birth to a child is still a debilitating thing, and it needs to be taken care of.So recently he didn't let Mian go with the collection team, but the food he gave her didn't decrease, but more.

Some people in the collection team complained a lot at the beginning. Yu Xin said that in the future, pregnant women who have just given birth will be like this, so they have nothing to say.

Yu Xin looks white and tender, thin and weak, but he is an envoy of gods, not only can communicate with gods, but also knows many things that they don't know.

Since he became the captain of the collection team, the tasks in the team are not only to pick some wild fruits and carry firewood for water sources, they can catch fish and make pottery, which is becoming more and more important to the tribe. The food also gradually increased.

It is very lucky to have Yu Xin as their captain.

"If he can give birth to his child, he must be very smart." Several young women from the collection team laughed together in a low voice.

They used to like hunting party men because they were tall and strong, and if they stayed with them, they could get more food and have strong children.

Although women in the tribe often change men, if they find a man as strong as Shuo, they will not let go easily.

It's a pity that Shuodu is 17 years old, and he has no intention of looking for a woman at all, even Shanyue doesn't like him.

Not only Shuo, Chi and Ding of the hunting team are not looking for women either.

Wu Yan's hunting team left, and their choices became less and less.Later, someone thought that Xin is also a man. Although he is not strong, he is smart and respected.

When other women heard it, it was the truth.Moreover, Yu Xin would distribute food to others. If she became his woman, she would definitely get it too. He has a lot of food, so he is indeed a good person.

So, without Yu Xin's knowledge, he silently became the grass of the tribe.

"...It needs to be ground so thin and so sharp." Yu Xin took out his ground bone needles and showed them to the members of the collection team.

After showing it, he let the team members grind it, and took the needle to the big bonfire in the middle of the tribe.

Everyone else was here, and it was very lively, with many people dancing around the campfire.He found Shuo on a big rock not far from the campfire.Shuo likes to come here to daze when he is tired.

"Suo, can you do me a favor?" Yu Xin asked him.

Shuo turned his head and said nothing.It seems that I am too tired and haven't slowed down yet.

Yu Xin showed him the ground bone needle: "I want to poke a hole here, but I don't know how to do it." He pointed out the place where the needle hole was going to be made to Shuo.

Shuo looked at it for a moment, got up, went back to his cave and took out a small knife.

To be precise, it was a knife made from the teeth of some kind of animal.With a little effort from Shuo, the hole on the bone needle was pierced.

"Hey, thank you." Yu Xin took back the bone needle and said.

Shuo nodded, pointed at the bone needle, but still didn't speak.

Yu Xin immediately understood what he meant, and explained: "This is a needle. I want to sew things with needles and threads, so that I can make many things with animal skins. The ligaments of the deer you hunted last time are threads. When I finish them show you."

Shuo nodded, because of being tired, his face was numb and expressionless.

Yu Xin turned to leave, when a thought flashed through his mind.

He turned his head, half thinking and half discussing: "Animals also need salt. Carnivores get it from the flesh and blood of their prey. What about herbivores? There is no salt in grass...they have to find natural salt...

"Salt block,

"Yes, they lick salt cubes.

"Just find the salt block, and we'll have salt!"