Survival of Prehistoric Widows [Farming] - Chapter 72

When the first crop of wheat was heading, the one who went back to his hometown to teach new farming knowledge actually came back from the Juya tribe.

Different from the solitary state when he went to the Jufang tribe, this time he was followed by a long line, walking along the dirt road in the fields, looking east and west, and finally stopped outside the Redwood tribe.

When he arrived in front of Teng, he brought the leader of the Jufang Tribe, and said: “The leader, my father said that he wants to take the Jufang Tribe to join us.”

Even Jiao and Lu Ning had never seen such a formation cast by the clan, and they were dumbfounded for a while.

The leader of Tenghe Juya tribe was considered an old acquaintance, and he was not polite, and asked bluntly: “Jun, what are you doing?”

“We can’t get along, so we came to join you.” Jun pushed his son aside and said with a smile, “To be honest, the Redwood Tribe is currently short of people, so we are here.”

He pointed to the tribesmen of the Tooth Tribe who stopped outside the tribe, and said proudly, “The orcs of the Tooth Tribe are all excellent and will not drag you down.”

Teng naturally knew that the quality of the orcs of the Tusk tribe was good, a little stronger than the previous mahogany tribe; the leader’s character was good, and the tribal atmosphere he brought out was not bad.

However, he has never heard of such a thing as a clan to vote, and he has to carefully confirm it: “Didn’t you already learn how to farm, how can you not get mixed up?”

Jiao and Lu Er stood behind Teng, also holding a wait-and-see attitude, without speaking.

Jun already knew from the truth that these three people almost have all the right to speak in the Redwood tribe. Seeing that they must give an explanation by themselves, he sighed and told the truth: “To be honest, I actually had this two years ago. intend.”

Teng was even more surprised now: “Why?”

In the past two years, the overall strength of the Mahogany Tribe was a little weaker than the Jufang Tribe.

“Teng, you should have noticed that climate change has become more and more frequent in recent years. Droughts and floods often occur. The cold season is sometimes long and sometimes short.” Jun Zilai found a place to sit down and touched it. A cup, and poured a cup of water on his own. “It’s okay for a big tribe like the Heihe tribe. It has a large population and strong strength. It’s no problem to resist for a few years; but if a small tribe like us encounters a little disaster, it’s almost The disaster of extinction.”

Teng frowned and didn’t understand: “Did we all come here for so many years? We have also encountered the disaster of God’s punishment in the past few years.”

“Before God’s punishment, did our tribe grow? It’s not that the population is declining.” Jun drank a mouthful of water, a trace of misery flashed across his face, “I have been the leader for many years. I know the situation of the tribe very well. The food is abundant. When the water source was abundant, we didn’t expand the scale of the tribe, and we had to wait for death in case of disaster.”

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

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

“The Heihe tribe was only made up of a few small tribes to grow, so I used to think that if we merged into one tribe, would life be much better than now?” Jun touched his head and slapped his mouth regretfully. “Unexpectedly, you suddenly developed a good witch doctor, and suddenly developed, we are a little embarrassed to mention this; when the disaster of God’s punishment comes, I have this idea again.”

In the process of migrating because of divine punishment, even if the Juyao Tribe made preparations in advance, it still lost a few tribesmen, making Jun, the leader, 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 the ability to resist risks.

Lu Er has been actively suggesting to attract more stray orcs for this reason. Although the Hongmu tribe is now much more prosperous and strong, and there are grains to cope with the cold season, the ability to resist risks is still not worth mentioning in the face of this dangerous environment.

The violent beasts, the unpredictable weather, and all kinds of incurable diseases… are not what the current Redwood Tribe can cope with.

Unexpectedly, the leader of this giant tooth tribe had such a vision… and was quite shrewd.

Lu Yan didn’t believe that the Tusk Tribe, which was more powerful than the Redwood Tribe two years ago, wanted to join the Redwood Tribe-should it be said that annexation is more appropriate?

Obviously now that the Mahogany Tribe has developed, the attitude of the Jufang Tribe has changed from “annexation” to “departure.”

But Lu Er didn’t mind these little details, he was more concerned about whether the Jufang Tribe really wanted to defect to them.

Lu Yan didn’t want the tribe that he had developed so hard to eventually die out in internal fighting.

He is not familiar with the leader of the Jufang tribe, and the judgment in this respect can only be left to Teng He Jiao. Lu Er believed that Teng Hejiao would not fail to think of this.

Teng was silent and lightly pressed his chin, lost in thought.

The former leader of the Redwood tribe was him, and the witch doctor was Green-eared. Although the horns did not have a nominal leadership position, they had enough voice. Almost all major events in the tribe were decided by the three of them. Because the three of them are very close in their own right, many things have a tacit understanding, and conflicts can be easily resolved internally, and so far there has been no trouble.

Just absorb the skirmishers, and absorb the Jufang tribe as a whole. What if the leader of the Jufang tribe has a conflict with them?

“Jun, if the Tooth Tribe joins us, who do your orcs listen to?”

Jun had expected it a long time ago, smiled and clapped his hands: “Don’t worry, I told you in advance, I must have listened 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 at the hands of the corner, the internal struggle for the position of the leader was fought to death and life, and the strength was greatly weakened, and the divine punishment and disaster were all gone. Jun came with the desire to hug the Redwood tribe to keep warm, so naturally he will not repeat the mistakes of the Xiaoshi tribe.

Thinking of this, Jun gave Lu Wei a pity.

After learning that the partner of the witch doctor of the Redwood tribe had passed away, he hurriedly sent his child to Shishi, hoping that he could pursue Lu Er and bring Lu Shi back to the Jufang tribe together-on the one hand, he fancy this. The huge energy of the witch doctor itself, on the other hand, is also considering that if there is a witch doctor, then when the time comes to discuss the issue of merger with the Redwood tribe, the initiative will be higher.

Unexpectedly, when he arrived in the Redwood tribe, he learned that Lu Yan’s companion corner came back safe and sound. Jun naturally knew that the horns were so prestigious, and the Asian beast who really wanted to take the horns was a fantasy, so he didn’t rush to merge with the Redwood tribe.

He didn’t think too much, he just wanted to have a little more voice on his side after the merger of the two, and to protect his own people, so as not to receive unfair treatment.

But I didn’t expect the situation to change suddenly when God punished him.

The different gains of the two tribes during the migration of God’s Punishment made Jun suddenly realize that some of the food and animal skins he cares about may be nothing in the eyes of the Redwood tribe—they even have spare capacity to absorb the stray orcs they encounter along the way. !

This not only shows that the Redwood Tribe can easily feed a large group of children, but also shows that the Redwood Tribe itself is also expanding!

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

Therefore, after the end of the cold season, he quickly began his plan to join the Redwood Tribe.

Teng talked with Jiao and Lu Er, and finally made up his mind: “In that case, you are welcome to join!”

Although it was a bit risky to absorb the entire Jufang tribe at once, the two knew their roots and had a good relationship. They finally thought this was an excellent opportunity for a tribe to expand its scale and should not be missed.

…

The population of the Tusk tribe is almost half of the current population of the Hongmu tribe, and they can only live in tents with some of the wandering orcs they had previously absorbed.

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

The Redwood Tribe has built so many courtyards before and already has a wealth of experience. Teng arranged that the backbone of the original construction team would lead the orcs of the Tusk tribe in shifts to start building houses.

Based on Lu’s planting two crops of grain a year, the first crop of grain is now in the middle of the growth cycle. It is too early for the people of the Juya tribe to reclaim the fields, and it is too early to follow the second crop, so they simply use the stored grain and prey to supply, and the main energy is to build houses.

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

By the way, the homes of the wandering orcs that had been absorbed before are now also settled together.

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

Fortunately, in order to survive and survive better, the orcs are least afraid of hard work and trouble. The second vigorous house-building activity of the Redwood Tribe has begun.

This time the house was built next to the former courtyard house of the Redwood Tribe, and its location and style are no different from the previous ones. Lu Yan didn’t want to artificially create a gap between the new members and the old members, so in all aspects, he tried to break up the two orcs to avoid the formation of small groups.

The effect is also good. After the initial running-in period, the mahogany tribe with its expanded population did not have any major conflicts, and everyone was struggling for a new life.

The only big contradiction is that the new members have difficulty understanding 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 could not be obtained for nothing, even if the food provided for the new members depressed the price very low, they had to take money to buy it.

Measures to promote currency are also implemented here.

Even Jun couldn’t understand such a move. He and Lu Wei secretly protested, saying that their orcs were ignorant of numbers, and it was difficult to tell whether they had suffered or not.

Lu Er’s response to this was: “A basic mathematics class will be held in Li in the evening. Would you like to listen to it?”

Jun: “…”

Of course, Lu Er did not completely ignore the worries of the new members. He transferred the facts to the exchange, and Heli was responsible for currency conversion for the new members.

After all, Shi is former members of the Juya tribe. They are also very convinced of Shi, and their voices of opposition are much smaller. They also pay attention to Shi when they buy things for reference.

In fact, he suddenly became the “Mr. Accountant” of dozens of people, and his head was almost bald, so he could only urge Jun aggrievedly and let him go to math class as soon as possible.

…

In such a lively running-in process, the first batch of wheat matured quietly, and the noodles that Lu Er was thinking of 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 after the merging of the Tusk tribes during the second house building.

The stone mill that used to grind beans was transferred to an old orc’s house after the arrival of the cold season. This old orc and old Asian beast lived together, and there were few things in the house, so they temporarily put the stone mill with them so that they could make soy milk and tofu when it snowed.

Now that wheat needs to be grinded into flour with a heavier and more detailed grinding disc, Lu Lin simply arranged for the construction team to set up a special mill so that the beasts could grind the grain freely.

After the wheat was first planted, the beasts thought that the way to eat wheat is the same as millet, which is to cook and eat directly after removing the husk.

Lu Ling called several Asian beasts and orcs who were good at cooking, and pointed the big lion to push a larger stone mill to grind the new wheat into white flour.

The more troublesome thing is the flour filter.

As long as he got the wheat seeds, Lu Er thought about this problem and visited Duoyu and Baibei in person.

In the past, Duo Yu was good at straw weaving. Later, Lu Er created woolen yarn and began to study woolen weaving again. Lu Ren found Baixu and Duoyu, proposed the concept of “cloth”, and asked them if they could try it out.

The mesh cloth for filtering flour does not need to be so fine, the difficulty of weaving should be simpler than that of cloth in modern society.

Baixu and Duoyu accepted Lu Er’s request, and later tried to use animal hair spinning for a long time. Later, they finally came up with a relatively suitable mesh and made a dustpan that can sift out the chaff.

Lu Er deliberately bought a large bag of flour with copper coins.

The filtered white noodles were kneaded with water and battered in a hot pottery pan to create fragrant noodles. After Lu Er ate the long-lost noodles, he ate several of them with chili sauce alone.

Since his belly grew bigger and bigger, Lu Er had become a bit picky when he was eating, and his face had lost a lot of weight. Jiao Jian was anxious in his eyes, if Lu Er had something to eat, he would try to get Lu Er to eat if he troubled him.

This time, seeing Lu Er likes to eat pasta so much, Jiao immediately suppressed the curiosity about the tempting aroma of the pasta. He didn’t move a mouthful, poured a glass of water, and said, “Eat slowly.”

Lu Er ate a few, and then realized that the horns had nothing to eat. He was a little embarrassed, and quickly divided a few into the horns: “You can try it too, it’s delicious.”

A long, long time ago, Lu Ling once found a low-match wheat variety and made a small bread. It’s just that the seeds of that plant are not suitable for eating, and the dough that is made still has a bit of astringency, so Xiao Mi is not interested.

This time the flour cake smelled extraordinarily fragrant. I saw that Lu Wei was full and took a bite. The rich aroma of wheat filled his mouth, and the heavy content settled on his abdomen with the lower belly of the cake, which was better than that of millet. And sweet potatoes are much more delicious.

“From now on, this will be the main food we planted in the first half of the year.” Lu Wei recalled the fragrance of the noodles. He couldn’t help but smile when he looked at the corners of his mouth and his mouth was full of scum.

Looking at the remaining burnt-flavored buns on the table, Lu Yan didn’t know what he thought of, so he said abruptly, “I want to eat eggs.”

Perhaps it was the buns that brought the familiarity of modern society, which made him miss more and more foods that were once easy to get daily but are now almost hard to eat.

Angular conditioned reflex generally raises his head: “I’ll look for it.”

Then he reacted, “What is an egg, a bird’s egg?”

“Well, it’s probably similar.” Lu Ling gave a rough picture of 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 take them directly to eat.”

Horn is a little confused: “Can’t the bird fly away?”

“Those chickens have been domesticated, and their ability to fly is very degraded, and the chickens are used to the life of being raised by humans and will not fly away.” Lu Ling touched his stomach and sighed softly, “I also considered being in the tribe. Raise some poultry, but I haven’t found time.”

There are too many things to consider for tribal development starting from white paper. Lu Yan wanted to build a chicken shed several times, but he didn’t remember several times.

Moreover, unlike cattle, sheep and pigs, poultry requires tangible food for feed. The former Hongmu tribes were not so well-off to feed their chickens with food.

Moreover, the most troublesome thing about raising poultry is that wild birds can easily fly away, and they don’t always watch by the side; it is also inappropriate to put a rope around the neck of the birds.

As long as Lu Er wanted something, Jiao didn’t plan to let it go easily. He stuffed the last bite of the dough into his mouth, chewed it down, and drank another sip of water: “I will go out to catch a few cloud-spotted birds later.”

“How do you raise it back?” Lu Er was helpless, “They will fly away.”

“I have a solution for this.” Horn is confident, “You wait.”

…

In the evening, the powerful lion orc came back with two struggling cloudbirds in one hand and threw it into the yard.

What is strange is that even though the four birds were free, they only fluttered on the spot. The highest one could not reach the height of one person, and there was no sign of flying away at all.

The ewes are still grazing outside, and the rams are tied to the door alone. Seeing the new members of the family, they are very curious. They leaned in and sniffed them. They seemed to want to know if these colorful things could be eaten.

The clouded bird fluttered, and the ram shrank away in fright and hid in the shed built for him by the horn.

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

“No, just cut off the feathers under their wings.” Horn hunting for many years, is very clear about the weakness of this delicious bird, “There are a few feathers related to their flight, as long as the feathers are broken, they can’t fly. Up.”

Lu Ling is not clear about the habit of the cloud spotted bird, but the effect in front of him is very satisfying, and he happily said: “That’s okay, wait for the cubs that hatch later, and dispose of the feathers before they can fly, so that after a few generations , You can try to let go slowly.”

Lu Er’s satisfaction is the biggest compliment to the corner. Jiao happily went over and picked up one: “Where are these birds kept?”

“It can be kept in the yard, but you need to build a chicken pen.” Lu Ling thought for a while, and gestured on the opposite side of their house from the sheep shed, “Just here.”

I just did it. I went to the corner to tear down a few bamboos. I quickly built a fence and threw the four cloud-spotted birds in. After thinking about it, I stood outside and solemnly announced: “You will be called chickens from now on.”

So the eggs they lay are eggs.

The four cloud-spotted birds seemed to be struggling and tired, piled together, black bean-like small eyes looked grievously at this bad orc who cruelly cut their feathers and forced them to change their names: “Chuck!”

Lu Wei laughed “poof” from the side.

…

It didn’t take long for the horns to catch the chickens, and the heavy rain that entered the warm season came as scheduled.

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

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 Hongmu tribe had been built before the rainy season, and all the newly joined members happily moved into the high-wall brick houses. Although there is nothing in the new house, it is enough to make them happy.

On the other side, the wooden umbrella now comes in handy.

After two years of improvement, under the guidance of Lu Er’s theory, the wooden umbrella made by Feng is already very light and can be folded up when not needed. Almost every household has one or two.

In the past, the orcs would become animal-shaped, relying on the fur on their bodies, and now they no longer force themselves.

Therefore, the continuous heavy rain did not completely trap the orcs at home. They would go to the fields to inspect the fields once a day under an umbrella.

If there is too much rain in the ground, they have to dig ditches to divert the water away to avoid flooding roots.

In addition, the Asian beasts at home made sweaters from the fur that the beasts had replaced at the end of the cold season, and on the other hand, they put their minds on the making of pasta.

The dough that can be kneaded freely brings new innovations to food. After Lu Yan pointed to Hongyun to make the first bowl of noodles, the Asian beasts followed suit and made new ones, making a variety of grilled, steamed, boiled, and stir-fried delicacies.

The heavy rain this time didn’t last long, and it stopped within a few days.

This means that the rain in this year’s warm season may not be as abundant as in previous years. However, based on what Lu Lin has learned in the past two years in this world, this level of rain is enough to nourish their crops. If there are rivers and lakes near the tribe, it is more than enough to irrigate the crops.

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

Lu Ye really didn’t know how to make cement, and now Jiao didn’t let him try, so he suggested that he could burn floor tiles and pave the floor.

Not to mention the road, each house can be paved with floor tiles, at least to ensure that the house is clean.

The brick-burning group is busy 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 found on the 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.

One part of the copper mine is simply smelted and cast into copper coins, and the other part is used to experiment and build real metal utensils.

Copper can be used as currency, mainly because it is valuable in itself; and at this stage, its greatest value is to build appliances.

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

With metal weapons, it can also maximize the combat effectiveness and protection of the tribal orcs. The number of orcs going out hunting nowadays is much lower than before, but the special training of the horns has not relaxed in the slightest.

The enemy of the gods has not been wiped out, and the dangers in the wild are too numerous. Even other tribes with whom they trade now would not be so friendly if it were not for the deterrence of their powerful orcs.

Since Lu Er noticed the situation of blind faith in the tribe, he has released a lot of problems that need to be solved by the orcs themselves, hoping to exercise the orcs’ independent thinking ability.

After the giant tooth tribe merged, although there was no major contradiction, the two orcs still developed a lot of competitive psychology during the running-in period.

The Jufang tribe feels that the Redwood tribe is just lucky to have a witch doctor who knows everything, but in fact it is worse than their tribe; the Hongmu tribe has developed a subtle sense of superiority in the past two years and feels that they don’t understand anything. The tribe is a group of “soil buns”.

Healthy competition helps the tribe develop quickly. Lu Er, who was aware of this, did not interfere too much, as long as they were fair and reasonable, allowed them to fight with each other, and even provided a little stimulus.

In this attempt to smelt the copper, the tribe was divided into two teams and let them compete to see who succeeded in smelting the first real bronze.