Leading everyone to continue walking inside, after walking for a while, they finally stopped in front of a mountain wall.
"Yu, are we going to dig a cave here?" everyone asked.
They reached out and touched the stone wall on the cliff: "This stone wall can't be chiseled open at all."
The caves they had dug before were all made of mud, while the stone caves were naturally formed and they could not dig them with stone tools.
"No digging. This place is sheltered from the wind, so we'll build some wooden houses here temporarily. We'll live somewhere else permanently, and I'll show you there when the time comes."
Although they didn't know why Qiao Yu didn't just dig the caves where the tribesmen lived, but instead built some kind of wooden house, or why they had to choose another place to live, the people of the Valley Tribe had already learned not to ask. Because even if Yu said something, they wouldn't understand.
When Yu leads them to get things done, the situation will become clear at a glance.
Qiao Yu gathered the people of the Stone Tribe and asked them, "What do you think of working with us to build a new tribe?"
"No." Everyone shook their heads. "We are willing to work."
"Yes, we won't have any ideas. Chief, please trust us."
In fact, the attitude of the people of the Stone Tribe had clearly changed after the wolf fight incident, and Qiao Yu could see it. He was asking everyone this question just to get everyone to express their opinions.
She looked at them one by one, and wherever her eyes fell, everyone in the Stone Tribe made a promise.
Qiao Yu then said to them, "They will give you stone axes while you work. When you're done, you must voluntarily hand over your stone knives. You are not allowed to keep them with you. If you do, it will be considered an attempt to resist and kill."
Everyone in the Stone Tribe made the assurance in unison.
Qiao Yu then gave the order to the second team: "Untie the vines from them."
After the vines were untied, the people of the Stone Tribe felt at ease and their expressions became much more relaxed.
Then Qiao Yu reorganized the team, disrupted the people of the Stone Tribe and added them to the team of the Valley Tribe.
The two Stone Tribes and the two Valley Tribes formed a fixed group; five groups formed a small team, with twenty people in each team. The extra Stone Tribe members were organized into a separate group and incorporated into the small team with the other groups.
Seeing that the team leader and group leader were both from the Valley Tribe appointed by Qiao Yu, the people of the Stone Tribe did not dare to raise any objection.
They were still captives, not yet accepted by the valley tribes. Every day at the end of their workday, they had to hand in their stone axes.
But what made them happy was that the houses they lived in and the food they ate were now the same as those of the people in the valley tribe. This was much better than when they were first captured, when they only ate two handfuls of chestnuts a day, were too hungry to walk, and were tied up with vines.
Now that we have enough food and warm clothes, everyone is very satisfied.
"From now on, everyone will work in groups and teams. The group that performs best will be rewarded with an extra bowl of meat broth or fish soup for each person," said Qiao Yu.
"Teams will also be evaluated. The limit is ten days. The team that performs best during these ten days will be awarded half a day of rest."
"The assessment of each team will be led by me, Man, and Liushui. The assessment of each group will be led by the team leader."
After Qiao Yu finished speaking, he glanced at everyone and asked, "What do you think about this?"
"No," the men of the Valley Tribe answered loudly and in unison. Behind them, the voices of the Stone Tribe lingered, their voices rippling incoherently.
This made the people of the Stone Tribe very upset, and they secretly resolved to be as united as the people of the Valley Tribe next time to let Yu see their sincerity in surrendering.
"Okay, now everyone should work in groups to put your things away and sleep where you put them at night. Eat something and rest for a while, and then we will chop trees in the afternoon." Qiao Yu said.
After resting for a while, everyone started cutting down trees according to Qiao Yu's request.
Dian and a man named Eagle from the Stone Tribe formed a team with two people from the Valley Tribe.
Dianben was a cautious person, but because Shuo was shot, he became even more careful in his words and actions, not daring to do anything out of line, for fear of following in Shuo's footsteps.
But when he saw his companions being dispersed and incorporated into the Valley Tribe group, he felt extremely complicated. When the two people from the Valley Tribe left temporarily for something and only he and Eagle were left at the tree-cutting site, he couldn't help but want to complain to Eagle.
"I'm really impressed. I thought Yu hadn't been in the tribe for a long time and hadn't come into contact with people like us, so she didn't know us very well. Now it seems that everything in the tribe is in her hands."
When Eagle heard Dian talking to him, he looked up at him in surprise, but the next moment he turned his head away and ignored Dian.
Dian was not at all surprised by his attitude.
He didn't need Eagle to respond. He shook his head and sighed, "I don't know the people of the Valley Tribe, but I know our people very well. When she groups them, she always puts the strongest and weakest in the same group. Not only are they the strongest and the weakest, but they also tend to have conflicts and bad relationships. She's afraid that the two strongest or closest people will unite and cause trouble."
"Humph!" Eagle actually paid attention to him this time, but responded with a cold snort. "I don't know about others, but I only know that I don't get along with you."
As he said this, he walked to the side with a stone axe, picked a tree, and started chopping the tree with the stone axe.
Lightning simply couldn't hold it back any longer and wanted to express his feelings, not expecting Eagle to chat with him. Seeing the people from the Valley Tribe return, he also started chopping trees.
The cabin was only a temporary place to stay, and Qiao Yu didn't want to spend too much time there, so he limited everyone to chopping small trees, about the thickness of an arm. Stone axes weren't very effective, but small trees weren't a problem. With so many people and so much strength, they felled two or three hundred trees in a single afternoon.
The next morning, after felling another two or three hundred trees, Qiao Yu asked everyone to stop and directed a dozen people to build a cabin.
Trees of roughly equal length were cut and driven into the ground one by one with stones. They were then wrapped tightly with thin vines, forming a square in four directions, leaving only room for an entrance on the leeward side. The walls of the house were then completed. A canopy of trees was built above, secured with vines, and the lower part where it met the wall was secured with thin vines. The simple wooden house was now complete.
With the strong man Hei around, the most difficult piling process became very simple. With so many people, a wooden house of about 20 square meters was built in less than two hours.
About a hundred men watched the construction process of the cabin, and then began to work in groups to cut wood and build cabins, and to prepare their own houses.
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