Although they wanted to check the trap first, the members of the first team still followed Qiao Yu's orders and started from the farthest place where the trap was placed and collected it all the way back.
Because Qiao Yu was teaching and learning at the same time yesterday, everyone worked together and set more condoms than the day before, and today's harvest was even greater than yesterday.
"Yu, if the prey those two teams hunt is similar to ours, our tribe will definitely have a good winter this year." Someone said happily.
Smiles appeared on everyone else's faces.
With so much prey, not only will no one starve to death in winter, but they will also be able to eat and dress warmly. Just thinking about it makes me feel very happy.
"When winter is over, by next year, we will hunt so many prey every day. Just think about how good life will be for the people in our tribe." Someone looked forward to the future.
Everyone imagined that scene, and their hearts were suddenly filled with anger.
If the tribe no longer has to worry about food, what else can they ask for?
Qiao Yu suddenly asked, "Isn't there a trade fair at the Sun Tribe at the end of spring?"
"Yes." Everyone nodded.
"Will you then take a lot of excess meat to trade for something?"
"Yes." Everyone became more and more excited. "It must be changed."
"I originally had my eyes on a bone knife, it was really good. Unfortunately, I didn't have enough meat to exchange it for, so I had to give up. When spring ends tomorrow, I will definitely exchange it for a bone knife I like, or a good bone to sharpen the road." One person said happily.
Bone knives and bone spurs can't be sharpened from ordinary bones; they must be made from the hardest bones of large beasts. For example, some of the bones of the tiger Qiao Yu hunted some time ago could be sharpened into bone knives and bone spurs.
Lu was the best weapon forger in the tribe. Qiao Yu had already handed the bones to Lu, following Shan's instructions. Those bones could be forged into four or five weapons.
At that time, Qiao Yu will pick two of them himself, and then give the two he has now to Xiaoquan. Xiaoquan is well-nourished and growing well, and he will be able to go hunting in the mountains with everyone next year or the year after.
As a rule, they would either exchange the excess with people in the tribe or take it to a trade fair to exchange for supplies.
The valley tribe was small, and their weapons were many and inadequate. In the past, when they encountered large prey, they would simply run for their lives, never killing it for its bones.
Therefore, most people in the tribe obtained their weapons by exchanging the meat they saved from their mouths at the trade fair.
There was no other way. Without weapons, there would be no hunting, and one would either die at the hands of wild beasts or starve to death. So even if one had to tighten their belts, everyone had to change their weapons.
Even with Qiao Yu in the tribe now, large prey wasn't easy to come by. It was unrealistic for her to ensure everyone in the tribe had the right weapons, and they would have to go to the trade fair to exchange them.
Qiao Yu glanced at everyone and asked, "Besides weapons, what else do you want to exchange?"
A few young men looked at each other, their faces blushing and showing shy expressions.
The older ones all laughed. "It's just a woman exchange, what else could it be? But spring won't be easy. We haven't saved enough meat, and we're not starving to death yet. You'll have to wait until the first snow next year."
In this patriarchal clan era, men could hunt and support their families, while women were subordinate to them. If a woman's husband died and she had a son, she could survive by raising him until he was eleven or twelve years old, so that he could go hunting with the men. But if she only had a daughter, even if she raised her with untold hardships and she married, she would still be left without support in her old age. After all, most men could not support their in-laws as well.
So it is very realistic that there is naturally a phenomenon of favoring boys over girls in a family.
When food is scarce, girls are often the first to die of starvation.
In this era of limited medical care and medicine, childbirth was a daunting task. Life expectancy was short, and women were often married off as soon as their period began, increasing the likelihood of a difficult birth.
Twenty to thirty percent of women in the tribe die from difficult labor situations, and another twenty to thirty percent die from inadequate postpartum care.
Childbirth is a hurdle for women.
In addition, there are also people who have no food in winter and have to take their daughters to the market to exchange for food.
There are now more than a hundred people in the tribe, including adults and children. There are more than 70 men and only about 40 women. If it weren't for the high number of men who died while hunting, this proportion would be even higher.
When Shan said that so many people starved to death in the winter, he only counted the number of people who died of starvation. Those who died in childbirth or hunting were not included.
In short, there are many bachelors in the tribe now. If you want a wife, you have to go to other tribes to exchange. In the past, there was no other way. You were in danger of starvation, so you naturally didn't have enough meat to trade for a wife, and you couldn't afford to support her. Now, thanks to traps and traps, there is more meat, and everyone has something to motivate them.
When other tribes have no food and are about to starve to death, they are naturally willing to exchange women for meat, just like the valley tribes of the past.
Qiao Yu nodded and asked everyone a question: "Have you ever thought about this? In previous years, our tribe always exchanged women for food, but now we have food in exchange for women. Will other tribes be curious about our tribe and find out why we have suddenly become so rich?"
The smiles on everyone's faces gradually disappeared.
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