"That's not a difficult task. Tomorrow, we'll have them cut down some trees and bamboo. We'll use the trees to make some wooden stakes for training. We'll also cut some grass and tie it to the bamboo to make some straw men. As for the rest, we'll have to meet them at the training ground."
Jiang Xue briefly stated some of her requirements.
"Okay, I'll tell them about this later." Mu Feng said and turned around to discuss it with the tribesmen.
"Since you're planning on chopping down trees tomorrow, then chop more." Jiang Xue stopped him. "Our pit toilet has already been dug. Why not bring all the materials back now?"
Bricks were not yet baked, and mud bricks were not yet made. Toilets could only be made of raw wood and bamboo.
Mu Feng immediately called the tribesmen together to discuss the matter.
They quickly came to an agreement that tomorrow, the hunting and gathering teams would go out as usual, while the others would stay in the tribe.
The people who stayed behind were divided into two groups. One group went with Jiang Xue to find things needed for training, and the other group was responsible for preparing food and weaving.
They have now learned to weave baskets, shoes and backpacks, and they enjoy doing it every day and work very hard.
The next morning, the two grandmas who were in charge of preparing food got up early without being told. Mu Feng had said last night that everyone in the tribe must follow Jiang Xue's arrangements today.
Jiang Xue was not vague either. After breakfast, she took a group of people with the prepared tools to cut down trees.
No matter what, the best thing to do is to build the WC first.
Given her experience in weaving backpacks, before leaving, she asked the people who stayed in the tribe to bring as many broken bamboo strips as possible.
The bamboos that were cut down yesterday have been almost cut down by them. In addition to cutting trees today, she also has to go to the bamboo forest to cut bamboo.
This job is not easy.
Under Xiaoxi's leadership, they successfully reached the bamboo forest.
Jiang Xue looked at the stone knife in her hand. This stone knife was sharp, but that was the only thing it was sharp. In terms of durability, the speed of making a stone knife could not even keep up with the speed of its damage.
However, the people of the Snake Tribe have experience. They know how to avoid the hardest parts of bamboo or trees to maximize efficiency.
Jiang Xue asked them to cut bamboo while she went deep into the bamboo forest to look for treasure.
Besides bamboo and bamboo shoots, there should be other things in the bamboo forest, such as pheasants. Of course, besides pheasants, there might be another animal - bamboo rats.
According to historical records, China began to eat bamboo rats as early as the Zhou Dynasty, and there should be traces of them in bamboo forests.
Jiang Xue looked around and soon found some clues.
This bamboo forest is so huge that it is not an exaggeration to describe it as a sea of bamboo.
There was a patch of dead bamboo on the second side of the bamboo forest.
The surface of the dead bamboo is slightly yellow, and the leaves have curled up due to lack of water. Some bamboos are yellow with black.
After finding this bamboo, Jiang Xue kept quiet and searched the area carefully until she finally found a mound. The soil on top of the mound was fresh, and there were no leaves or branches. The entrance was sealed with soil. Seeing this, Jiang Xue's mouth curved into an arc.
There must be bamboo rats in this pile of earth.
I just don't know whether there is a pair of bamboo rats or a group of bamboo rats.
Thinking of this, Jiang Xue quickly found a few people to help.
After roughly determining the scope along the mound, they began to knock on the ground with wooden sticks.
When they knocked on the mound, the sharp-eyed Jiang Xue suddenly noticed that the mound moved. She cheered up and got ready with the wooden stick.
The pile of earth moved again, and then a fat, gray bamboo rat jumped out.
Jiang Xue quickly picked up the wooden stick and hit it on the head. Then, without caring whether it was dead or not, she picked up its tail and threw it into the backpack.
But what happened next made her a little dumbfounded.
Bamboo rats came out of the cave one after another. She hit them one by one with a stick, and knocked out six more.
These seven bamboo rats looked like a family, two large and five small. Jiang Xue had won the first battle, so she asked them to go find the bamboo rat holes again: "Let's go find them again and catch them using the method I just used."
Catching bamboo rats was just a way to improve her life. She would go to the river and look for suitable stone slabs. She would then roast the bamboo rats on the stone slabs. It should taste better than roasting them directly on the fire.
Of course, if you have food, you naturally need to find some spices, such as chili, pepper, Sichuan pepper, star anise, cinnamon, fennel, rosemary and the like.
If she could find it, that would be great. If she couldn't find it, she wouldn't feel any loss. They might not recognize these things, and even if they did, they wouldn't necessarily know which part to use to enhance the flavor of the food.
But it would be even better if you could find onions, ginger and garlic. These three are the three musketeers to remove the real fishy smell.
But it is obvious that the onions, ginger and garlic eaten in later generations are all varieties that have been improved over thousands of years. Even if they are available now, they will definitely be different from the ones she has eaten in terms of appearance.
Following Jiang Xue's instructions, they went specifically to find piles of fresh soil under the dead bamboos.
They were lucky, as they found three more holes.
Using the previous method, they caught a total of 23 bamboo rats of different sizes.
So many bamboo rats, combined with other ingredients, are enough for them to have a meal.
"Sister Axue, do you want to take these bamboo rats that didn't die back and raise them?"
Jiang Xue shook her head. Bamboo rats are easy to raise, but the snake tribe doesn’t have the conditions!
Not to mention cement, just finding stones is difficult enough.
If you want to raise this thing, you must first build a sturdy house for it, or at least prevent it from digging a hole. Otherwise, they will run away if they dig a hole, and then how can you raise it?
"You're not raising them? Then why are you catching so many?"
"Just take them back and roast them all."
The pigs in the tribe don’t know where their food comes from during the cold season, but they want to raise everything they see once they start breeding.
But breeding is not that easy!
Not to mention that they don’t have the conditions, they don’t have the skills either!
They need to be kept warm in winter and cooled in summer. Their hygiene must be taken care of at all times. They must not be allowed to fight during the breeding season. More importantly, they must always be careful not to dig holes and escape.
Of course, if these problems are all solved, then raising the dog will not be a big problem, but if one of these problems is not solved, you will be asking for trouble.
Instead of making things difficult for yourself, it’s better to just roast it and eat it.
Four nests of bamboo rats were caught, more than thirty bamboos were cut down, and of course, more than a dozen stone knives were also wasted.
The people of the Snake Tribe are very careful with their money. If a stone knife breaks, they just throw the stone away. The knife handle is made of wood, which is still useful to them.
After all, it’s the tools that are not good enough!
If we could exchange some iron knives in the system, would the productivity of the Snake Tribe still be so low?
The speed of development will definitely skyrocket.
I just don’t know why the system boss just doesn’t allow this kind of exchange tools.
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