She had carefully observed the area before arriving. Certain areas were frequented by animal footprints and feces, indicating the animals' habit of roaming. This spot, for example, was like this one: on one side was a cliff with a large rock jutting out from it, and on the other side were shrubs entwined with vines. This area, less than three meters away, was the only way for animals to descend, as other areas were difficult to navigate. This was the perfect place to set a trap.
There is little rain in autumn, and many streams in the mountains gradually dry up. The animals in the mountains can only go to the river at the foot of the mountain to drink water. This is the only way.
In fact, setting traps is not the best method. After all, straw traps can only catch one or two medium-sized animals. They are not reliable and are easy to escape.
If you can dig a big pit as a trap, camouflage it on the top and put spikes on the bottom, so that animals passing through it will fall into it, the harvest will be huge. No matter how big or small, you can seize them all.
Anyway, apart from their team, no one comes here, so setting traps will not cause any harm to humans.
Unfortunately, tools were so backward these days. Without iron tools and farming, there were no hoes or shovels. The soil here was also not soft, so digging a large pit to set up a trap was incredibly difficult. Especially since everyone had little confidence in the trap, it wasn't appropriate to spend so much effort on it.
So, I have to find a way to make some tools. It would be great if I could find iron ore.
In addition to this one, Qiao Yu set traps at several other locations. She also caught two goats and three rabbits alive with her bare hands when she saw them along the way.
They set traps along the way and when they reached the place where the hairy sweet potatoes were discovered yesterday, they saw a group of women picking fruits with their children.
The fruits the women picked were different in each season. This time, they picked a kind of fruit similar to oranges, sour and sweet, about the size of a ping-pong ball.
When there wasn't enough meat at home, women would give it to the men and children, eating only a small amount themselves and eating the fruit when they were hungry. Men who cared about their families would also eat some of the fruit, saving some meat for the women or storing it.
In Qiao Yu's opinion, this was a blessing in disguise, because this fruit can supplement vitamins. Eating only meat without vitamins for a long time is absolutely not acceptable.
The women and children were surprised to see them dragging four wild boars and capturing two goats alive. "Did you hunt so many prey today?"
The attentive woman saw the four wild boars and quickly searched for her relatives in the crowd. She asked worriedly, "Are there any casualties?"
"No," the men laughed. "We killed all these wild boars. We didn't even scratch their hides."
The women finally felt relieved and looked at Qiao Yu with gratitude: "Thank goodness for Yu."
"Yu is really capable."
Qiao Yu smiled and nodded to everyone.
She turned to the hunting party and said, "Everyone, put down your prey and take a break. I have something to say to the women."
The hunting team was now completely convinced by her and obeyed her every word. After hearing her words, everyone put down their things without saying a word and found a place to sit down and rest.
Qiao Yu glanced at the women and asked, "I want to choose a team leader from among the women. Who among you is willing to be the leader?"
The women fell silent, looking at each other, without saying a word.
Ah Hua frowned and was about to speak when she saw a woman walk past the crowd, approach Qiao Yu, and ask, "Yu, can I?"
Qiao Yu looked closely and found that this person was Chun, Mang's wife and the mother of Dali and Xiaoli.
In the original owner's impression, Chun is a capable, tenacious and very decisive person.
She was not one to stand out. The reason she stood up and wanted to be the team leader was definitely because she gave Mang a chance and gave him hope to survive.
With this gratitude, I believe she will be able to listen to my instructions well.
Qiao Yu nodded with satisfaction: "Absolutely. Chun, you will be the captain of the collection team from now on."
"Okay." Chun was a little excited and his face turned slightly red.
"Come with me." Qiao Yu took her to a bunch of sweet potatoes.
Others followed curiously and gathered around, even the men.
Qiao Yu began to dig the ground with branches.
"Huh." Everyone was surprised to see Qiao Yu digging along a few thin vines and digging out such a large pile of things.
People always pick fruits on the ground and never know that there are such things hidden underground.
Qiao Yu took the yams in her hand and showed them to everyone: "I think this thing is edible. I'll give it to the goats and rabbits to try when I get home. If it's edible..." She pointed to the vines of the yams and said, "Chun, you've got to pick this. From now on, you'll bring everyone here to dig this up every day and take it back to feed the goats and rabbits."
Chun carefully identified it and memorized the appearance of the leaves and vines.
She nodded: "Okay, I understand."
It was still early, so the gathering team didn't have time to go back. Qiao Yu dug a few more bunches of yams, then carried them back to the tribe with the hunting team.
Almost everyone in the tribe had gone out, and the tribal open space was very quiet.
Lu Heshi, who went to talk to Shan, heard the noise and came out. He was shocked to see several such big wild boars.
Xiaoquan also ran out. Seeing Qiao Yu, he breathed a sigh of relief and ran to her and asked, "Sister, father wants to know if anyone was injured today."
"No one was injured. Don't worry." Qiao Yu pointed at the wild boars and said, "We killed four wild boars. Tell Father."
"Yes, your sister is very powerful. She stabbed these four wild boars to death by herself." The members of the hunting team have now transformed into Yubuki. They hold Koizumi and tell him, Lu and Shi about the experience of hunting wild boars in vivid detail.
Qiao Yu rolled his eyes and had to go back to the cave to comfort Shan so that he wouldn't worry and be anxious.
He sent Xiaoquan to ask about it, no doubt because he was worried that something might happen to her on her first hunt in the mountains. He was also worried that something might happen to the people she brought out, which would affect her prestige as a leader.
When I walked into the cave, I saw Shan sitting on the stone bed, turning his head to look towards the door.
She hurried over and smiled at Shan, "Father, I'm back."
Shan felt relieved and looked her up and down: "Are you hurt?"
"No. Not only me, but no one in our team was injured." Qiao Yu said.
The expression on Shan's face finally softened, and he asked gently, "Why are you back so early? Did you catch anything big?"
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