They went early and came back early, arriving at the tribe just around noon.
The Snake Tribe usually does not eat at noon, but that does not mean they can sit idle.
Under the leadership of Jiang Xue, the tribe quickly erected five wooden men and a dozen thatched men, which was what she had promised Mu Feng last night.
In fact, it was obvious that the people who came to rob from the Eagle Tribe were not much different from the people in their tribe, but they always won the battle, while they could only lose and watch their things being stolen.
It would be fine if this happened once or twice, but the Snake Tribe was defeated again and again. They didn't know how to look for the reasons within themselves, but just waited for the hunting team to come back and cry to them.
The Snake Tribe was previously divided into two factions. On the surface, they were in harmony, but behind the scenes, the old patriarch was the rotten apple.
Now that the rat shit has been driven away, there are no other voices in the entire tribe, which is something Jiang Xue is very satisfied with. However, it is hard to say whether those who were loyal to the old patriarch before are now truly loyal to Mu Feng.
As soon as the wooden and thatched men stood up, Jiang Xue asked the women in the tribe to take stone spears and start practicing assassination techniques in batches.
As for training, there is no special technique involved. You just have to spend time and work hard to practice.
Fortunately, although they are women, they can endure hardships. More than a dozen women take turns practicing, and the atmosphere is cheerful.
The men’s training targets are those wooden men.
The wooden man is made of mortise and tenon structure and straw rope. Simply put, it is a wooden cross with stone fixed at the bottom, allowing men to practice with their bare hands on the wooden man.
This is only the first generation of wooden dummy, and it will definitely need to be upgraded in the future. Furthermore, wooden dummy alone is definitely not enough. While wooden dummy is good for overall mobility, it's not good for flexibility. We'll definitely need to add a few plum blossom dummy poles in the future.
The functions of plum blossom pile and wooden man pile are different. Plum blossom pile is mainly used to practice flexibility of body movements.
Finally, Jiang Xue has not forgotten a very important training item - running.
Running was commonplace for the Snake Tribe, but Jiang Xue was a bit naive. She tied a bag of dirt wrapped in animal skin to each man's foot. At first, they were very uncomfortable and complained bitterly, but after two days of running, Jiang Xue saw that their speed had improved, so she increased the weight of the dirt bag.
Running is actually an activity that can greatly improve physical fitness and willpower. If they can overcome it, then even if they cannot beat others in the future, they will definitely be able to outrun them.
While the young and middle-aged men were busy training, the elders weren't idle either. They broke bamboo and twisted straw ropes. Children in the Snake Tribe were considered adults at twelve, and the younger children (ages 7-10) were assigned to the women's group, where they practiced assassination or twisted ropes with the elders. The younger ones, too young to lift anything, were left to mess around in the tribe.
But human cubs are very good at learning. These little kids either run after adults or pick up sticks and poke the thorn wall, having a lot of fun. In addition, they will also help the tribe with things they can do.
The tribe now needs a lot of straw ropes. As long as the tribe's thatch is used up, they will go and cut it without Jiang Xue's special instructions. This saves Jiang Xue a lot of trouble.
The meal that night was roasted bamboo rat and raw lotus root.
More than twenty bamboo rats were served. Except for salt, nothing else was added, just as usual.
It tastes really bland in the mouth.
The longer Jiang Xue lived here, the more she wanted to complain about them.
It’s okay if you don’t know how to farm. At worst, you can hunt and gather in the woods, and you can barely make ends meet.
It doesn't matter if she doesn't know how to make a backpack basket. I can teach her slowly. But she only knows a few kinds of them. Sooner or later, I will teach her all of them. When that day comes, I can only fuss around in the dark.
But if you can only rely on banana leaves and stone knives for eating utensils, it would be very tiring.
It’s not that tableware made of stone and leaves is bad. This is more primitive. In the beginning, they would use them directly after picking them up, and never wash them. It was really unhygienic.
Jiang Xue couldn't bear to watch, so she didn't ask them to wash, she only washed her own. Under her guidance, they gradually followed her example, and made the half-grown children go to the river to wash the banana leaves before eating.
Jiang Xue saw it but said nothing, but she was still quite satisfied. At least it was progress.
No matter what, don't push it too hard. If you push it too hard, it may backfire.
If the tribe wants to develop for a long time, it can only do so step by step.
Jiang Xue is a former spy after all. Although she is not very proficient in some knowledge, she still has some knowledge.
For example, clay.
Clay is generally used to make pottery, but there are several types. Purple clay is naturally the best, and the most famous purple clay teapot is made from it. Other types can only be used to make ordinary ceramic bowls and other items.
In Jiang Xue's memory, clay was usually excavated at river bends or wetlands.
As for the river, there was a river behind the tribe, which saved her the trouble of taking a long detour. So, while everyone else was enthusiastically practicing, she went to dig mud and take soil by herself.
There was no suitable tool at hand. Although the stone knife was useful, it took too much time to sharpen it. Jiang Xue felt a little reluctant, so she found a piece of wood and sharpened one end to use as a shovel.
This thing was not very easy to use and seemed extremely bulky, but at least she didn't have to dig with her bare hands.
The biggest difference between clay and soil is that clay is stickier and absorbs water better. There is currently no better way to tell the difference, you can only feel it yourself.
Jiang Xue used the wood to dig the mud at the bend for a whole morning, about half a meter, before she finally found the clay.
Once you have the clay, you naturally have to start polishing it.
The first step is kneading.
Jiang Xue swore that she had never treated a handful of soil as carefully as she did today, like kneading flour.
The second step is to plate.
Without a pottery wheel, she could only use the most primitive method, rolling the clay into long strips, then rolling it up little by little with water, modifying and shaping it as she went along, until it looked the way she wanted.
The third step is air drying.
Jiang Xue had never done this before and didn't know how long she would have to wait. She put the finished embryo into the cave and placed it at the head of the bed like a treasure, and no one was allowed to touch it.
But what she didn't expect was that this step alone took seven or eight days!
The last step is firing.
It is best to build a special kiln first to fire clay, but she was just doing an experiment, so she didn't need a large kiln. She directly made a chimney-shaped stove with mud, divided into two parts, upper and lower, with mud as a partition in the middle, and started firing when it was almost dry.
Of course, the opening above the stove still needs to be sealed with wet mud.
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