She pointed to a patch of dirt and said, "We need to move some rocks here and fill it up." She then indicated a few sunken areas and said, "Enclose these areas with fences, dividing them into several areas so you can raise the rabbits separately. Build another fence at the entrance to the cave. That way, you'll have two lines of defense. When you come in to feed them, the rabbits will be trapped inside and won't be able to escape easily."
"Fence? What is that?" Mang asked puzzledly.
After thinking about the difficulty and workload, Qiao Yu said, "I'll ask them to do it later."
When she came out of the cave, she saw the hunting team gathered in the open space to kill a wild boar. When they saw her coming, they greeted her.
Qiao Yu said, "Those who are butchering the pigs, stay. Everyone else, do as I tell you."
She pointed at a few and said, "You guys, go find some rocks this big. They'll cost about one or two hundred yuan." She gestured a shape the size of a basketball.
"One or two hundred?" Everyone was a little confused. "How much is that?"
Qiao Yu: “…”
Faced with a group of illiterate people, she really didn't know how to tell them how much one or two hundred was.
She held up two fingers and asked everyone, "What's this?"
Some people were completely confused, but two or three could answer: "Two."
"What about this?" Qiao Yu stretched out another slap.
This time, no one could answer, except one: "Five."
Qiao Yu glanced at him and found that the man was Yan.
Yan saw her looking at him, a little nervous, but pretended to be calm on the surface: "Not right?"
"Yes." Qiao Yu held up his palm and two fingers of his left hand and asked him, "How much is this?"
Yan couldn't answer for a moment and his face turned red.
He asked back somewhat unconvincedly: "How much did you say?"
Qiao Yu glanced at him and said, "Seven."
Qiao Yu stretched out his two palms and counted to Yan with his fingers one by one: "One, two, three, four... ten. We have ten fingers, understand?"
Seeing Yan remained silent, she continued, "One hundred is ten tens."
She paused, letting Yan understand what she had said, before continuing, "In other words, you'll need to pile up ten piles of ten stones each, so that the total will be a hundred stones."
Without looking at the rock again, she instructed everyone, "Alright, go find some rocks." She pointed to the cave in the south and said, "We'll move them there. You can look around there first to see if there are any. It's easier to move them if they're nearby."
In the original owner's memory, Lu valued his grandson Yan very much and taught him meticulously. Yan was also quite skilled in martial arts and intelligent, considered a leader among the younger generation. Otherwise, Shan would not have considered marrying his daughter to him.
Such people are naturally proud.
Now that he had come through, he was far superior to Yan in both strength and intelligence, and had even become the leader. How could the proud young man accept this? Not to mention revealing his lack of knowledge in front of her.
It would take time for him to accept reality and adjust his position and attitude. Qiao Yu understood this very well.
The members of the hunting team were now very convinced of her, and they hurried south after hearing her instructions.
Yan didn't move. He opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but after looking at the four people waiting beside him, he said nothing and turned around and left.
Qiao Yu then said to the remaining four people, "Find some strong vines."
The four of them agreed, discussed for a few sentences, asked Qiao Yu again, and then went back to their own caves to get the vines.
Normally, after roasting or even drying the meat, people would tie it with vines and hang it in a well-ventilated place in the cave. This is a combination of bacon and air-dried meat. This way, it is easy to preserve and can be taken with you to eat when you go up the mountain. Therefore, every household would prepare some dried and strong vines.
Qiao Yu needed it urgently, so everyone took what they had at home. Anyway, it was easy to get, so they could just chop some more and dry them in the sun tomorrow.
After arranging all this, Qiao Yu left the tribe alone and went to the bamboo forest. He knocked down some bamboos, used a bone knife and some force to break the bamboos in half, and carried them back to the cave.
The vine finders had returned, and Qiao Yu asked them to help her weave the vines around the bamboo to create a sturdy, seamless fence. She then fixed it upright with stones, surrounding the areas she had chosen.
Mang looked at everyone busy and felt a little uneasy: "Yu, what are you doing..."
"Rabbits dig holes and are small, so they can easily escape," Qiao Yu explained. "The fence you built won't be able to contain the rabbits. This one I built now, with its outer layer of bamboo and vines, is also easily damaged by rabbits, so it's just a temporary fix. You guys should keep an eye on this place during normal times, and it's best to assign someone to guard it at night."
Mang nodded.
"Rabbits are easily frightened. Once this place is ready, no one except me and your breeding team will be allowed to come in. I will explain this rule to the tribe when the time comes."
"Yes." Mang Ying said.
"I'll go see if the potatoes are cooked."
"good."
When Qiao Yu came out of the cave, he saw that the four wild boars had been dealt with, and the women and children who had been collecting wild fruits had also returned. The valley was very lively.
She walked to the fire, dug the largest potato out of the ashes with a branch, and poked it with the branch.
If you can poke through the thickest part of the potato, it's cooked. If it's still raw, the center is hard and you can't poke it easily with a stick.
When she poked it, she saw a branch extending from the other end of the potato.
"Okay," she said, pulling all the potatoes out of the pile.
Koizumi watched her movements without blinking, watching her dig out the black hairy potatoes, his face full of confusion: "Sister, is this edible?"
The group of women and children watching nearby had the same expression.
They had wanted to ask about it when they saw Yu digging it out of the ground, but their attention was diverted by the matter of being chosen as the team leader.
"Yes, it's dark." said a woman.
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