Chapter 15 Stone Eggs and Thorny Fruits

Walking in the jungle, Jiang Xuan looked at his bamboo spear thoughtfully, or to be more precise, at the juice on the bamboo spear.

"Sister, do other tribes know this kind of cage vine?"

Chishao turned around and said, "I don't know. This kind of vine is rare. I have only heard stories about cage vines from people in the hunting team. This is the first time I have seen it."

Jiang Xuan's eyes lit up, and he said, "What do you think if we plant a large number of cage vines around the tribe to protect it?"

In this primitive world, the most dangerous things are not only the wild beasts, but also other tribes, such as the Deer Tribe, which was destroyed by the Crow Tribe.

Every year, countless tribes rise up in the primitive jungle, and countless tribes are destroyed.

A tribe like the Teng Tribe, which has only five people, would be wiped out if they were not careful.

Therefore, self-protection is something Jiang Xuan must consider.

Jiang Xuan felt that ferocious plants like the cage vine were very suitable for protecting the tribe.

Chishao thought for a moment and said, "Other tribes would try their best to eradicate these dangerous plants when they encounter them. I don't know if they can be used to protect the tribe, but we can give it a try first."

Uncaria next to him asked curiously, "Chief, this cage vine is so rare, where can we find enough vines to plant to protect the tribe?"

Jiang Xuan said: "There will always be a way. It's not just the cage vine that can be planted. Other ferocious plants can also be planted. There's no rush for this."

The five people continued to move forward. Not long after they walked, Chishao seemed to see something. He walked quickly to a rock, pulled a dead vine from the rock, and then followed the vine to find the location of its roots.

"Nanxing, bring the bone hoe over here."

The youngest, Nanxing, carried a bone hoe, which was specially used for digging plants.

“Here I come.”

Nanxing ran to Chishao and handed her the bone hoe.

Chishao took a bone hoe, dug up the dead branches, leaves and weeds on the ground, and then started digging on the ground.

Jiang Xuan walked over and asked curiously, "Sister, what are you digging?"

Chishao answered as he dug: "Dig for stone eggs."

"Stone egg!"

Jiang Xuan's eyes lit up. He already knew what this thing was from his memory.

This is a grayish-white tuber of a vine plant. The largest one can grow as big as a washbasin, while the smallest one can be as small as a bird's egg.

Because it usually grows next to stones and its color is very similar to that of stones, the original tribesmen believed that it was an egg laid by stones, so they called it stone egg.

After being baked, the stone eggs taste similar to potatoes, are rich in starch, can satisfy hunger, and are one of the traditional foods of the tribe.

This is good stuff!

Jiang Xuan keenly realized that if the stone eggs could be planted in large quantities, then the Teng tribe would have its first food crop! Soon, the soil on the ground was dug up, and the stone eggs hidden underground gradually appeared.

It was about the size of a soup bowl, and its exterior was rock-gray in color and relatively round. Jiang Xuan roughly estimated that this stone egg should weigh about seven or eight kilograms.

Chishao dug up all the soil around the stone egg, then held the stone egg with both hands and twisted it hard. With a "crack" sound, the rhizome at the bottom of the stone egg was broken.

"What a big stone egg!"

Chishao picked up the stone egg and exclaimed in admiration.

"show me."

Jiang Xuan took the stone egg. It felt heavy in his hand and exuded a faint fragrance of tuberous plants.

Jiang Xuan said with satisfaction: "This thing is great. We can dig up the small ones and plant them. If everything goes well, we will have more stone eggs than we can eat in the future."

After listening to Jiang Xuan's words, Chishao lowered his head and continued digging.

She is a person of action, doesn't like to talk much, and is very efficient in doing things.

After a while, Chishao dug out seven or eight small stone eggs from the ground. The big ones were as big as an adult's fist, and the small ones were only as big as a thumb.

Jiang Xuan packed these small stone eggs in an animal skin bag and said with satisfaction: "With these seeds, we can go back and try to plant them."

Because stone eggs like to grow close to rocks, Jiang Xuan plans to plant them in places with large rocks, trying to keep it consistent with their living environment in the wild, and then try other planting methods later.

After digging the stone eggs, the group continued to move forward.

"Moo..."

In the distance, a group of bison passed by. They were covered with brown hair, had a pair of sharp horns on their heads, and their shoulders were taller than humans. An adult bison weighed at least three thousand kilograms.

Such a bison is a real giant!

Jiang Xuan felt his scalp tingling when he thought about having to hunt a wild buffalo alone to become a tricolor warrior.

Bison usually travel in groups. Once they are injured and become crazy, they will become extremely violent and actively launch attacks.

Therefore, if you want to hunt an adult bison, in addition to strength, speed, and hunting skills, you also need a smart mind, otherwise you may not only fail to hunt but also die under the horns of the bison.

Jiang Xuan had no intention of provoking this group of big guys, at least not now.

When you become stronger in the future, you can try to capture a few calves and bring them back to tame. If you can tame them successfully, you can use them to plow the fields, which can greatly improve productivity.

After bypassing the herd of bison, Chishao found a large wild fruit tree, around which there were some small saplings.

Chishao picked up a fruit about the size of a fist and covered with hard thorns from the ground, cut it open with a stone knife, revealing the pale yellow flesh inside.

"This is called a thorn fruit. You should have eaten it before. It has sharp thorns on the outside, but it's full of flesh inside. After you pick it up, you can roast it over a fire and eat it. When it's roasted, the thorns on the outside will be almost burned off."

Jiang Xuan also picked up a thorn fruit from the ground. The flesh inside was a round ball, not divided into two halves like a chestnut, and was not wrapped in a hard shell.

The flesh of the thorn fruit tastes similar to other nuts, and is larger in size, making it a good thing to fill your stomach.

In addition, it is durable to storage, and even if it falls to the ground in the wild, it will take a long time for it to crack and rot.

"This stuff is great. Dig up the saplings and plant them, and pick up the edible fruits."

Chishao nodded, then used the bone hoe again to dig up the surrounding small thorny fruit trees with their roots and soil, wrapped the roots with broad leaves, and then put them in the rattan basket.

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With the efforts of the five people, they picked up a basket of intact thorn fruits and dug up five saplings.

After finishing, Jiang Xuan also noted the location of the big thorny fruit tree.

Chishao looked at the sky and said, "It's getting late. We can't go any further. Let's go back first."

Spending the night in the wild is extremely dangerous, because no one knows whether they will be attacked by wild beasts at night. No one would want to spend the night in the wild unless they have no other choice.

"Okay, go back first and come out earlier next time."

Jiang Xuan nodded in agreement and returned the same way.

"Gou Teng, come down quickly." Jiang Xuan looked up and shouted.

The Uncaria rhynchophylla has climbed to the top of the giant thorny fruit tree. This guy loves climbing trees.

"Okay, I'll be right down."

Uncaria rhynchophylla stood on a high treetop, nodded in agreement, and looked at the surrounding scenery reluctantly.

Standing on the treetops, he could see the forest farther away, and he liked this feeling very much.

Just as Uncaria was about to climb down, suddenly, he saw a ray of green smoke in the distance.

"Huh?"

The Uncaria rhynchophylla did not climb down any further. He observed carefully for a moment, and his expression gradually became serious.

"Why haven't you come down yet?" Jiang Xuan was urging him from below.

Uncaria bowed his head and said, "Chief, it seems someone has started a fire over there."

The four people below suddenly became nervous when they heard this.

It is not a good thing to meet people from other tribes in the forest. If you meet a barbaric tribe, they will fight directly.

"Did you see it clearly?" Jiang Xuan asked.

"Look carefully, someone must have started a fire."

"I'll come up and take a look."

Jiang Xuan immediately climbed up the tree. He was already a skilled warrior and climbed the tree very quickly. Before long, he was standing shoulder to shoulder with Uncaria.

"Chief, it's over there." Hook Teng pointed to the south.

Jiang Xuan looked in the direction pointed by the hook vine, and saw a thick smoke rising straight into the sky. It was indeed the shape of smoke that would appear when a bonfire was lit.

Jiang Xuan's heart sank. Although that place was still far away from here, no one could guarantee when those people would appear around the Teng tribe.

It seems that the environment in which the Teng tribe lives is not that safe.

"Let's go back first."

Jiang Xuan and Uncaria Rhyncho climbed down from the tree together. Jiang Xuan briefly told Chishao and others about the smoke.

Because they were afraid of danger, the five people did not stop, nor did they investigate the source of the smoke. They returned directly to the Teng Tribe along the same route.

Although they had not seen anyone from the outside tribe yet, a sense of crisis had already enveloped the five people.

The Teng Tribe had just been established and was too weak to withstand any attack. Jiang Xuan hoped that these people were just passing by and would not pose a threat to the Teng Tribe.

Thanks to the book friend "Descendants of Emperor Shun" for the reward.

(End of this chapter)