Qiao Yu did not leave, but stood there watching the men training.
After a while, Yu came running over panting, followed by a group of women.
"Yu, we want to sign up for work now." Yu said.
They had been ostracized in the Shanyin tribe, and their lives were unsatisfactory, so they followed Ming out of the Shanyin tribe and came here. They had almost finished the dried meat they had. If they didn't work to earn more, they would starve.
They are all used to working, and now they have to take a break, they don’t know what to do.
"Okay." Qiao Yu said, and asked Liu Shui to notify the captains of each team outside the hunting team.
It was barely dawn when Man blew his whistle to gather the hunting teams. Now it was bright, and the captains of each team had gone out with their men to work. Fortunately, the women were all in the tribe, and they arrived at the clearing shortly after hearing the call.
Qiao Yu asked the captains of each team to explain their situation and said, "Except for the nine families that caused trouble last night, everyone else can sign up for a team that you're good at and interested in. However, each team requires different numbers of people. Some have strict requirements and personnel restrictions, while others are more relaxed and require more people. The captain will screen based on these requirements, and you may not be selected just by signing up, so be prepared."
"Also, the pottery and planting teams don't do this work year-round. They only make pottery and plant when the tribe has assigned them a mission. Even when there aren't any missions, you'll still have to go out with the gathering team to gather. When the planting team needs something, everyone will also be busy planting. Everything will be based on the missions assigned by the tribe."
Compared to his majesty when lecturing men and his iron-blooded tactics last night, Qiao Yu seemed particularly gentle and easy to talk to today.
Seeing her like this, the women of the Shanyin tribe relaxed a lot. They were all surprised to hear that the Dragon Tribe had so many options and that they could do different jobs.
In the Shanyin tribe, men hunted and women gathered. While some people made pottery and polished stone tools, these weren't jobs they chose to enroll in. Instead, they were required to inherit the skills through family connections or connections, so they couldn't even dream of joining.
I didn’t expect the Dragon Tribe to be so fair.
Everyone was very excited and whispered about what to sign up for.
A woman saw Mang's disabled body and heard that the breeding team was full of disabled people working there. She asked in a trembling voice, "My husband had his hand bitten off by a wolf. Can I enroll him in the breeding team?"
"Of course," Qiao Yu said with a smile. "As long as they are willing, everyone in our tribe can find a job. If you have a disability in your legs but your hands are good, you can join the weaving team or the carpentry team."
The eyes of two women in the crowd also lit up, and one of them choked out a sob and said, "That's great, that's great."
Chun felt a strong empathy for these women as she watched their emotions shift. When Mang was crippled, she, like these women, felt depressed and bleak about her future. When Yu started raising livestock, she, too, was moved to tears of gratitude.
She believed that because of this, the women of the Shanyin tribe would be willing to stay here and be loyal to the Dragon Tribe for the rest of their lives.
"Okay, everyone, hurry up and sign up. Then get to work." Qiao Yu urged.
As a result, a lot of people went to the pottery making area.
Xiaoxi had been prepared. She calmly took out a large piece of kneaded mud and gave a small piece to each person who registered. She asked them to make pottery pots according to her image within the specified time. Soon, six people were selected.
Of the eight women who had originally studied pottery with Qiao Yu, Ye and another woman had joined the women's hunting team, leaving six remaining. They not only made pottery, but also burned charcoal in the fall. With too few people, the two activities were too busy. Now, with six more, the team now had twelve people, which was basically enough to keep them busy.
The women and children from the nine families who had made the mistake the previous night also arrived. Seeing that everyone had signed up for the pottery-making team first, their faces were filled with envy and regret. They had little choice but to sign up for the gathering team.
After arguing for half an hour, the women all signed up for teams and followed the team leader. Qiao Yu rubbed his brows and went to the planting area to check the watering situation. He then went to see the men making bricks, and then took Liu Shui to allocate homesteads to the people of the Shanyin tribe.
The residential area was originally built in a circle, with a team of 20 people building 20 houses around the hillside.
But the further down the mountain you go, the longer the circle becomes. The circle below the elders' quarters is just the right size for twenty houses. There's room left over after that.
Starting with the third team's circle, Qiao Yu reserved a plot of land between one house and another, thinking that if someone joined, he could build a house on the vacant land. If no one joined, he would keep the two houses farther apart to avoid interference and conflicts between neighbors.
At this moment, the gaps in the houses of the Shanyin tribe were being filled. By filling up these empty spaces, the people of the Shanyin tribe and the Long tribe could live together, which would make it easier for them to integrate into the group.
The only downside is that you no longer have a small group living in a circle, which is not very friendly for people with obsessive-compulsive disorder.
After looking at the homestead, she went to look for Shi.
"Are there any slabs made of white stone?"
"Yes." Shi nodded.
He walked into the house used as a warehouse, searched inside for a while, and came out with a rectangular stone slab in his hand, about thirty to forty centimeters long.
"How about this?"
"It's very suitable." Qiao Yu nodded, took the slate, took out a charcoal stick she found from the fire hall, and began to write on the slate.
"Yu, what is this you drew?" Shi's grandson Jian leaned over and looked at the words written by Qiao Yu curiously.
"Surname." Qiao Yu said.
Chinese surnames originated in the matriarchal clan period and then gradually evolved.
Although Qiao Yu didn't know why the tribes she traveled through didn't have surnames even after the patriarchal clan period, it didn't matter, and she didn't bother to find out. She just wanted to make sure that the tribes, with a growing population, no longer had the same name, but had surnames.
It would have been more meaningful to have the people of the Valley Tribe share one surname, and the Stone Tribe and the Shanyin Tribe each share another surname. However, Qiao Yu had finally managed to integrate everyone into one, and she didn't want to artificially divide them into three camps.
So she planned to list ten surnames from the Hundred Family Surnames that were easy to use and meaningful, such as Shi, Shui, Kong, Yun, Ma, etc. If people did not want to use their ancestors' names as their surnames, they could pick one from these and use the one they chose.
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