He looked down at the Chinese characters and numbers Meng Yuqing had marked on the hide. "My intuition tells me this is a great concept. If we can use symbols to represent everything, then we won't have to worry about things disappearing forever without us sharing them with the younger generation when we die."
After a pause, he continued, "When we track prey separately, we leave marks for our companions so they can follow them to find us. However, each person's mark is different. Even the same person's marks may not be the same each time. Moreover, our marks cannot accurately convey the message we want to convey to the other party. Inexperienced young orcs can easily misjudge the marks."
He looked at Meng Yuqing with a sincere look in his eyes. "Is our mark considered a type of symbol?"
Meng Yuqing looked at Yang in shock. In this world without words, he could think of so many things when he saw the words.
Even the benefits of words came directly to mind, and the connection between words and the symbols they were using now.
Yang sat down and looked at Meng Yuqing with a gentle look. "Looking at your expression, I know I'm right. Each symbol was created by the orcs themselves. Can we also create this symbol ourselves and then have the entire tribe learn it together so that they understand what each symbol represents?"
After a long while, Meng Yuqing finally found his voice. "This kind of symbol is called writing. It was created by humans and can record everything. You can write down everything you know and want to say. A long time later, someone who can understand writing will see the record you left and know everything you said. It can transcend time and transcend life and death."
"I understand." Yang lowered his head and said nothing more. He knew that this text was something left behind by Meng Yuqing's former tribe. It was such a precious thing, so he didn't have any expectations about whether Meng Yuqing would teach them.
Meng Yuqing was already very generous. If his tribe could create writing, then his own tribe could certainly do it as well. Even if he couldn't complete it during his lifetime, the descendants of the tribe could continue to create it.
Meng Yuqing looked at Yang who was thinking with his head down in front of him, and suddenly felt that he might have something to do in the winter.
Anyway, everyone has to stay in the tribe in winter and can't do any production, so why not learn together.
"The creation of characters is very complex and will take a long time to perfect. If you are willing, we can build a large house and study characters together there during the winter."
He looked at Yang and smiled brightly, "My writing is the most perfect and best writing. No other writing can compare to it."
Yang stood up, bowed deeply to Meng Yuqing, and left without saying anything.
Meng Yuqing lay on the ground with his hands behind his head, "System, I'm going to teach them Chinese characters."
"Well, host, thank you."
After a long time, the system answered softly.
The next morning, Meng Yuqing followed Ronglin to the newly enclosed land.
They have done the most basic zoning and the weeds have been cleared.
Bags of potatoes had been carried over. Meng Yuqing took a look and saw that there were more than seventy sub-beasts participating in the planting this time. Apart from those who gathered in the square, this was the first time he had seen so many sub-beasts.
"They will follow us to finish the front-end work, and then everyone will take turns to take care of it." Ronglin explained.
Meng Yuqing nodded, these people were enough.
Everyone is here, and there are about twenty orcs guarding here.
The area enclosed this time is very large, so it is located in the patrol area. It is not far from the tribe, but it still needs to be guarded by orcs.
Seeing that everything was almost ready, Meng Yuqing asked each of them to take a potato, and then he and Ronglin and the other two taught them how to plant it.
They studied very seriously, and no one fell behind. The orcs guarding nearby were also watching this side attentively.
Soon the process of processing potatoes was taught, and Meng Yuqing, Rong Lin and others walked into the crowd and checked the potatoes they had processed one by one.
"Now each of you is given twenty potatoes to process. We are here. If you can't remember any step, just call us. Don't keep it to yourself." After making sure that the potatoes they processed met the standards, they were asked to put them aside.
After distributing the potatoes, Meng Yuqing and Rong Lin did not deal with them anymore, but walked aside and started sowing radish seeds.
Planting radishes was not a complicated process. They called over a few orc guards, asked them to transform into beast forms, and then dug shallow trenches in the designated radish planting area.
This speed is much faster than if they used tools to plan it themselves.
After digging the shallow trench, pour some water on it. After the water has thoroughly soaked the soil, spread the radish seeds evenly in the trench.
Because the land is wide enough, there is enough space between the seeds.
On the potato processing side, some people occasionally don't understand one or two steps, but they take this matter very seriously and ask questions immediately if they are unclear about something.
When they finished processing the twenty potatoes, Meng Yuqing and Rong Lin stopped sowing and checked the potatoes they had processed. Seeing that they were all qualified, he felt relieved.
The number of potatoes harvested was more than expected. They only processed less than ten bags on the first day, and it would take seven or eight days to process all the potatoes.
The radish seeds were not all sown. Thinking that the main force for planting these things in the future would still be the group of sub-beasts, Meng Yuqing called them all over.
Demonstrated to them how to sow radish seeds.
This process is much simpler than processing potatoes. After one demonstration, they can basically get the hang of it.
On the third day, seeing that they were all on the right track, Meng Yuqing did not go to plant potatoes. He had too much to do.
Yang came to see him again in the evening of the second day after talking with him. "While this period is not the busiest, I want to build a house to teach the tribe members to learn characters in the winter."
He has decided to learn the writing of Meng Yuqing's tribe, and he has already told Xia about it. Xia has given him full authority to handle this matter.
"Okay, make this house as big as possible. Leave a few holes on each wall, about one at this distance." Meng Yuqing gestured with his hands to indicate the distance. "I'll make something to keep warm when the time comes."
"Are the beast forms of the orcs in our tribe resistant to cold?" he asked Yang.
Yang shook his head and said, "Most of the beast forms in our tribe are fine. The beast forms of the Shuilin tribe are very afraid of the cold in winter. The beast forms of Mu Heli and his tribe are also afraid of the cold in winter. If it's too cold, they will want to sleep."
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