Chapter 132 Daily Life in the Teng Tribe

On April 6, Jiang Xuan woke up early in the morning and unexpectedly discovered that the ice lotus planted in the pond in the yard had grown a leaf curled into a cylindrical shape.

It won't be long before it grows from underwater to the surface, and finally stretches out and becomes a large lotus leaf.

"I didn't expect it to grow. It seems that this thing can grow in more than just the Great Swamp. I just don't know what the difference is between the ice lotus roots grown here and those grown in the Otter Tribe."

Jiang Xuan knew that many plants were selective about where they came from.

As the saying goes, oranges grown in the south of the Huai River are oranges, while oranges grown in the north of the Huai River are sour oranges. The same is true for many plants.

However, it is already very good if it can be grown. If the results are really not good, we can find ways to improve the planting environment later.

For example, dig a very deep lake to simulate the environment of the Great Swamp.

If this doesn't work, then we can only trade frozen lotus roots with the Otter Tribe.

In addition to the frozen lotus root, most of the colored peppers and black beans have also sprouted and grown into small seedlings.

If they can bloom and bear fruit successfully, within a few years, all the people in the Teng tribe will be able to eat colored peppers and black beans.

Of course, not all tribesmen in the tribe may like chili peppers. It takes a long time of trying before they get used to this unique taste.

Just when Jiang Xuan was in a good mood about the growth of plants in the yard, Gan Song ran in in a hurry.

"Chief, this is bad."

"What happened?"

"The red rice soaked in water in the paddy field has withered."

"Go and have a look."

Jiang Xuan followed Gan Song and walked quickly towards the paddy field in the farmland.

When he walked to the edge of the field, he saw that two red rice plants that were more than half a meter tall had withered. Their leaves drooped under the sun.

Jiang Xuan had previously successfully used water to germinate red crystal rice. And red crystal rice happened to like moisture, so Jiang Xuan asked Gan Song to try to open up a paddy field and plant it like rice.

To be on the safe side, Gan Song built a mud embankment around the two red crystal rice plants after they grew up, and then poured water to submerge their roots.

In the first two days, there was nothing abnormal with the red crystal rice, which made Gansong very happy and he thought that this method would be successful.

Unexpectedly, after five days, the red crystal rice withered quickly and it looked like it could not be saved.

Jiang Xuan checked the two withered red crystal rice plants, then pulled up one of them and carefully observed its root system.

Jiang Xuan discovered that many of the young roots of this red crystal rice were black and rotten.

This shows that although red crystal rice likes moisture, it cannot be grown in paddy fields like rice.

Jiang Xuan said: "Since this method has failed, let's build ridges and soil, dig drainage ditches, and plant like other fields."

"It's impossible to always succeed in an experiment. Failure is common. Fortunately, we only lost two plants. It's not a big deal."

Although Jiang Xuan said so, Gan Song still felt a little uncomfortable. He silently pulled up another red crystal rice plant and said, "There are no extra seeds to replant. I can only plant something else."

Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "Don't worry. With the yield of red crystal rice, as long as we have a good harvest this year, we will not only have enough seeds next year, but everyone will also be able to eat red crystal rice."

"The leader is right. I will try my best to take good care of the other red crystal rice!"

Jiang Xuan said: "Come, let's transform this paddy field together to prevent it from accumulating water."

Gan Song said hurriedly: "Chief, we can do this kind of thing ourselves."

"It doesn't matter. There's nothing important to do right now anyway."

Jiang Xuan took the tools and immediately started working with Gan Song and others. Making ridges, cultivating the soil, and digging ditches were all hard work.

Jiang Xuan is always like this. As long as he is free, no matter what the work is, he is willing to work with everyone instead of giving cold orders and talking nonsense.

As a leader, he did not use his privileges to bully men and women, nor did he put on airs. When mistakes occurred, he would generously admit them and correct them.

Because of this, the people of the Teng tribe are very supportive of Jiang Xuan. Although he is not very old, no one will look down on him.

After finishing the paddy fields, Jiang Xuan went to the Feiyu River again.

After untold hardships and many failures, the fishing team's first wooden boat was finally built!

This wooden boat is made of a whole piece of huge wood. The front end is relatively pointed, the back end is relatively flat, the bottom has a certain curvature and edges, the cracks and worm holes are filled with fish bladder glue, and there are two oars.

The wooden boat is not big and can only carry three people at a time, and its carrying capacity is much lower than that of a large bamboo raft.

However, its flexibility and speed in the river far exceed those of a bamboo raft, and its performance is superior.

In the Feiyu River, in a bay with a gentle current, Jingjie was practicing rowing hard with a group of fishing team members.

The warrior asked, "Captain, why is our boat spinning?"

Jing Jie sat at the bow, looking at the oar in his hand, and said angrily: "This thing is not as useful as a bamboo pole."

Although there were two oars on the boat, Jingjie picked up one oar and paddled because he was used to paddling a bamboo raft, while the other two soldiers watched.

When Jiang Xuan walked to the river, he saw Jing Jie rowing hard, but the wooden boat was spinning in place.

The warriors on the boat shouted, "Here comes the leader!"

Jingjie was anxious. The leader had come, but they couldn't steer the wooden boat. Wouldn't this make the leader a laughing stock?

So he paddled desperately, but the harder he paddled, the faster the boat turned, and he didn't move forward very much.

Jingjie paddled for a while, looked at Jiang Xuan with shame, and said: "Leader, I am so useless."

Jiang Xuan stood on the riverbank and said with a smile: "We have gone through such a hard time building a boat, can't we even learn how to row a boat?"

Jiang Xuan pointed to another oar and said, "Each of you take an oar and sit side by side in the middle of the boat."

The soldiers on the boat immediately picked up the oars, sat side by side with Jing Jie in the middle of the boat, and waited for Jiang Xuan's next instructions.

"Hold the paddle properly, like this palm. It is definitely not possible to paddle vertically. Paddling horizontally is more powerful. Do you understand?"

Jiang Xuan squatted down and paddled with his palms. Through this simple and easy-to-understand demonstration, he made them understand how to use the paddle.

Jing Jie and the warrior immediately adjusted the oars in their hands, and continued to stare at Jiang Xuan eagerly.

Jiang Xuan said: "Now, the two of you paddle together, and your movements must be synchronized. The two oars must enter the water almost at the same time. One cannot be faster than the other."

"Okay, start rowing!"

At Jiang Xuan's command, Jing Jie and the soldier immediately started paddling at the same time.

Warriors also need to cooperate frequently when hunting, so it is easier for them to develop a tacit understanding.

At the beginning, the two oars entered the water at different speeds, but before long, the two people rowed in perfect harmony and their movements were almost identical.

Then, they were surprised to find that the wooden boat that had been spinning in place just now was now moving straight forward! "Great!"

The soldiers on the boat cheered excitedly. Jingjie was sweating profusely from paddling just now, and he was also dizzy from spinning around. Now he finally didn't have to spin around anymore.

However, just learning how to move forward is not enough. Next, Jiang Xuan taught them how the wooden boat turns.

"Think about how you were spinning in circles just now. When you want to turn, paddle one oar faster and the other paddle slower, and the boat will turn."

The two people on the boat followed Jiang Xuan's instructions and tried many times, and finally mastered the technique of making the wooden boat turn.

Jingjie finally rowed the wooden boat back to the shore and dragged it ashore.

If he continued to circle in the same place as before, he would probably have no choice but to shamefully call for the bamboo raft to come over, tie a rope and tow the wooden boat back.

Fortunately, they finally learned how to row under Jiang Xuan's guidance.

Jing Jie walked up to Jiang Xuan, lowered his head in shame and said, "If the leader hadn't come, I don't know how long I would have been in the river."

Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "Everything requires experience, just practice more and it will be fine."

"Now you are practicing with small wooden boats. When the tribe becomes stronger, we will build bigger wooden boats. There is still a lot to learn."

After all, the carrying capacity of a small wooden boat is limited, so Jiang Xuan's goal is to build a large sailing boat.

Only a truly large sailing ship could sail long distances on the river and bring great benefits to the tribe.

Of course, building a large sailing ship is a very huge project, which is much more difficult than this simple wooden boat.

Only when the tribe grows stronger and has enough manpower, materials, and various technical talents, can it try to build larger sailing ships.

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Jiang Xuan took Jing Jie to imagine the spectacular scene of the tribe owning a large fleet sailing on the river in the future.

Jing Jie was moved by the future described by Jiang Xuan, and his gaze towards the small wooden boat was different. He tried to imagine what it would look like if a sail was added to the boat.

Of course, with the current strength of the Teng Tribe, this description is just like drawing a pie in the sky. Even if the tribe can grow smoothly, it will take a very long time.

After drawing the pie, Jiang Xuan left the Feiyu River and came to a special bamboo house next to the stream at the edge of the residential area.

This bamboo house is not for people to live in, but for making clothes, shoes, hats and other things.

At present, the clothing of the Teng tribe is mainly made of animal skins and tree barks.

Animal skin clothing is very good at keeping warm and is mainly worn when the weather is cold.

Bark clothing is made of tough tree bark that is repeatedly beaten and woven. It is cool to wear and is mainly worn in hot weather.

Initially, the Teng tribe did not have bark clothes, only simple grass skirts.

However, among the group of tourists brought by Jingjie, several of them came from tribes that already had the technology to make bark clothes.

Jiang Xuan found that their homemade bark clothes were very good, so he sent some people to help them produce bark clothes in large quantities so that the people of the Teng tribe could wear this cool clothes in hot weather.

“Pah pah pah…”

When Jiang Xuan walked to the bamboo house, several female tribesmen were beating some pieces of bark with sticks.

This bark is not only tough, but also becomes softer after hammering, making it particularly suitable for making bark clothing.

"Hello, Chief."

After Jiang Xuan walked over, the women immediately greeted him.

"Is Fuling here?"

"Poria is inside."

Fuling is Uncaria's current wife. Because she is very good at making animal skin clothes and has certain leadership skills, Jiang Xuan asked her to manage this small primitive workshop.

Jiang Xuan walked into the yard and saw Fuling soaking the skin of a long-tailed rabbit in lime water.

The breeding industry of the Teng tribe has already reached a certain scale, and long-tailed rabbits are bred in large quantities. Now a small portion of them have begun to be supplied to the tribe members for consumption.

The meat of the long-tailed rabbits was distributed to the tribesmen, and the skins with soft rabbit hair were naturally brought here to make leather clothes.

Fuling carefully scraped the remaining meat off the long-tailed rabbit's skin, then soaked it in a large pit filled with lime water for a while.

Lime is more effective than wood ash for soaking animal hides.

There was no lime in the Teng tribe before, but later Jiang Xuan discovered that a large number of snail shells and shells by the river would turn white after being burned for a long time, and would quickly decompose into lime after melting water.

Not only that, a few blue-gray stones accidentally fell into the pottery furnace one day. After burning, they turned into white lime blocks.

Because of these two sources of lime, the Teng tribe began to use lime.

All bacteria and parasites on animal hides soaked in lime will be killed.

Not only that, after soaking in lime, the grease on the animal skin will be removed and it will become softer.

"Fuling, how many long-tailed rabbit skins did you collect?"

Fuling, who was busy working, raised her head and saw Jiang Xuan coming over, so she quickly replied: "Chief, we have collected a total of 32 long-tailed rabbit skins, half of which have been soaked. The breeding team will continue to slaughter long-tailed rabbits."

Ever since Jiang Xuan taught numbers and simple calculation methods to the tribesmen, half of the people in the tribe can count things.

Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "After soaking, the shed rabbit hair can be collected and put to use in the future."

"yes!"

Fuling had no idea what Jiang Xuan was going to do with the shed rabbit hair, but she just did whatever the leader told her to do.

"Besides the ones that have been distributed, how many bark coats are left?"

"Chief, there are still twenty-five pieces left. We are working hard to make more bark clothes."

Jiang Xuan said: "Okay, thank you for your hard work."

Jiang Xuan checked the animal skin and bark clothes that had already been made, and then looked at the semi-finished products. Although the supply was not sufficient, it was much better than that of other tribes.

Afterwards, Jiang Xuan inspected various parts of the tribe.

The entire Teng tribe is a thriving scene, full of vitality and vigor.

Jiang Xuan was in a good mood and more confident about the future of the tribe.

…

On April 7, the hunting teams of the Crow Tribe and the Jackal Tribe encountered each other in a forest. Because of Jiang Xuan's masterpiece, the two sides started fighting directly without any nonsense after meeting.

The battle was extremely fierce. The Jackal Tribe had the upper hand because of their larger numbers. One third of the Crow Tribe suffered casualties and fled in a panic.

Although this small-scale encounter did not result in many casualties on both sides, it marked the beginning of the war.

From that day on, the Crow Tribe and the Jackal Tribe would have small-scale battles every now and then, with each side winning and losing. Although there was no all-out war, the accumulated grievances became increasingly deeper.

Under such circumstances, the Jackal Tribe had no time to bother with the Vine Tribe. They deployed most of their manpower on the Crow Tribe, but they did not dare to easily put the entire tribe on the line and fight a decisive battle with the Crow Tribe.

Because the gap in strength between the two sides is not that big, once the war breaks out, even if one side wins, it will suffer heavy losses. If other tribes attack at that time, it will be a disaster.

Therefore, they were all waiting for an opportunity, an opportunity that would be relatively certain and would allow them to destroy the other tribe without causing much loss.

However, Jiang Xuan didn't want them to drag it out too long. He also wanted to find an opportunity to add fuel to the fire.

Thanks to the book friend "Holy Left Wing Angel Chase" for the reward.

(End of this chapter)