Chapter 56: Knotting the Date (Please Collect and Recommend)

The Rat Wizard looked at Luo Chong in confusion, saying that he didn't understand what a "calendar" was. Luo Chong patted his head and asked in a different way: "How do you calculate the sunrise and sunset?"

This time the Rat Wizard understood, and fumbled to take out a triangular piece of bone from his arms. Luo Chong recognized that it should be the shoulder blade of some large animal.

The bone looked old, with a yellow-brown surface. It must have been played with often, and it was shiny and shiny, and it felt like a plaything.

There were 15 holes on one of the edges, and ropes of unknown material were passed through the holes, with many knots on it, and some symbols were engraved on the bone. The Rat Wizard handed the bone to Luo Chong and asked him to look at it himself.

There were 14 circles engraved on the top of the bone, but the difference was that the first 13 were concentric circles, that is, rings, and the last circle was only one circle, and it was slightly larger than the previous ones.

There are four trees carved on the edge below. The first tree has leaves on it. There are three corresponding round holes below. A rope is passed through each hole, and each rope has 30 knots.

What the hell is this? Three months for a season, 30 days per month? Who made this? It's so

awesome. Luo Chong was surprised to look at the rat witch, and then continued to look down. The second tree not only has leaves, but also flowers. Although the flowers don't look like flowers, it doesn't hinder Luo Chong's understanding. This time, the corresponding holes have become 4, and there is still a rope in each hole, and 30 knots in each rope.

The third tree has no flowers and fewer leaves, but there are many round things on it, which should be fruits. There are three holes below, and 30 knots in each hole.

The fourth tree is directly bald, with no leaves, flowers, or fruits. There are four round holes below, and 30 knots in each hole.

There is another hole at the end, but there is no pattern on it, and there are only 14 knots on the rope of this hole.

Luo Chong frowned and analyzed the rules. The leaves should grow in spring, the flowers bloom in summer, the fruits grow in autumn, and nothing grows in winter.

But according to the record of the rat witch, spring and autumn are three months, 30 days per month, and summer and winter are four months, 30 days per month. Does that mean there are fourteen months in a year?

No, maybe the recorder made a mistake and recorded the days repeatedly. Luo Chong still couldn't accept the fact that there are 14 months in a year.

Luo Chong frowned and asked the rat witch: "What do you observe to determine these times? Is it accurate?"

The rat witch calmly pointed to the fourteen circles above, and then pointed to the sky.

"Look at the sun?" Luo Chong asked in confusion.

"No, it's at night, the two circles in the sky." The rat witch explained.

Then he stroked a knot below, pointed to the ring above, and then looked up at the sky and gestured to Luo Chong: every 30 sunsets, there will be a full moon, and when the two full moons in the sky intersect, they will form a ring. Every 13 ring months, a big moon will appear.

According to modern science, the larger moon blocks the smaller moon, forming a lunar eclipse, so only a large full moon can be seen.

That is to say, on the 14th full moon day, there is only one large moon in the sky; it repeats over and over again, and the appearance of a large moon is considered a cycle, that is, a year, and the four seasons will rotate once; then every fourteen years when the large moon appears, there will be 14 more nights of round moons, and the round moon can be seen every night for those 14 days.

The rat witch also said that he had seen this situation four times.

"That is to say, this old guy is over 50 years old, but I don't know how many generations of rat witches have been passed down to look at this bone." Luo Chong thought to himself.

However, this person must be very idle and have nothing to do to stay up every night and get up to look at the moon, and look at it for decades.

Luo Chong knew very well that it would definitely not be possible to summarize such a complete lunar calendar in a cycle of 14 years. It would take at least a lifetime of observation and verification.

"So this winter is the 14th big winter, and there will be 14 more days?" Luo Chong pointed at the bone and asked.

The Rat Wizard nodded, and then put the bone calendar away again, looking very precious.

Luo Chong secretly looked down on him. If you put it away, I don't know it, I will remember it after reading it once.

However, as a newcomer, it is unlikely that I can summarize a complete calendar by myself after less than half a year in this world. For this, Luo Chong should thank the Rat Wizard.

After moving the rabbit outside, the Rat Wizard also visited the animal pen. The group walked around inside the wall again. The people of the Black Rat Tribe were interested in everything, small carts, various bronzes, blue bricks, pottery, breeding, and the lunch of the Han Tribe: fish soup.

Rat Da drank the fish soup and looked at Luo Chong, looking like he wanted to say something but stopped. He couldn't hold it back for a long time.

"Leader of the Han Tribe, can our Black Rat Tribe learn breeding?" As

soon as Rat Da finished speaking, other people in the Black Rat Tribe, including the Rat Wizard, also looked at Luo Chong.

Luo Chong smiled faintly, then shook his head and said, "You can't learn it. Only I can raise animals."

Shu Da was a little unwilling, "Why can't we?"

"First of all, you have to catch live animals, and you also have to know what they eat and keep providing them with food. If you raise too few, they won't reproduce. If you raise too many, they will get sick. Then not only the animals will die, but all the people in your tribe will die as well." Luo Chong explained.

Luo Chong is not exaggerating. There is a saying among modern breeders: A fortune does not count as long as the fur.

In other words, even if you are rich, if you do not do a good job of epidemic prevention, it will be all over.

For example, if you raise rabbits on a small scale, with dozens of rabbits, the genes will degenerate if they do not breed for more than five generations. You must catch wild rabbits from the wild every year to optimize the genes, otherwise it will be all inbreeding, and they will all die in less than a year.

If the scale is large, the hygiene of the rabbit pen and the feed conditions will cause an epidemic if you are a little careless. At that time, not only the rabbits will die, but the people who raise rabbits may also be infected and die.

The scale of the Suoxinghan tribe is not large. When there are thousands of rabbits in the future, you must be careful. First of all, there must be a clean rabbit house, and there must be a special person to clean and feed every day, and disinfect and inspect from time to time.

Luo Chong can only do this in the simplest way, spreading quicklime for disinfection and feeding realgar powder to kill parasites. He has no other good ideas.

In a word: breeding is risky, investment needs to be cautious.

The rat thought of those people in the tribe who got sick and died, and imagined that the animals he raised also got sick and died, and died one by one, and finally all the people died. He couldn't help but sighed, why is it so difficult.

The clever rat witch obviously had a different brain circuit from others. He suddenly asked Luo Chong: "Leader of the Han tribe, can you heal diseases?"

"I know a little. Some diseases can be cured, but it is best not to get sick." Luo Chong nodded slightly.

The rat witch was completely stunned. This Han tribe leader is simply omnipotent. If someone said he was not a god, he would be the first to refuse.

In fact, he didn't know that Luo Chong only knew some simple operations such as battlefield first aid, and what his chemistry teacher taught him when he was in college.

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