The tribe that migrated to a new place soon became busy after a short rest.

The strong men in the tribe were carrying stone axes and cutting down the not-so-tall trees near the stream.

The stone axes in their hands are different from those of most tribes.

Their stone axes were not tied to wooden sticks with ropes. This was also different from the stone axes that the Qingque tribe discovered after Han Cheng arrived, which had holes drilled in the stone axes and then had wooden handles inserted into them.

Their stone axes were made by first hollowing out an oval hole at one end of the wooden handle, and then hammering the sharpened stone axe into the hole, with the small end on top and the wider axe blade on the bottom, so that the stone could be firmly combined with the wooden handle.

And the stone axe will only become stronger with each blow, not loosen...

They dragged the felled trees to a relatively gentle slope about four to five hundred meters away from the stream.

These are great materials for building.

While these strong men were cutting down trees, the women and children were also busy.

Some of them were looking around for tall hay that had not rotted after the winter, while others were breaking off branches from the trees that had been cut down and dragged back by the strong men and putting them together.

Not all the strong people were cutting down trees. Some of them were digging the soil on the gentle slope with the tools in their hands along the circle drawn on the ground by the priestess.

They have done this kind of thing many times, so they seem to be very good at it.

When digging became difficult after reaching a certain depth, people would fetch water from the stream in pottery jars made by female priests and pour it into the pits.

The people digging the pits went to the side to dig the rest of the round pits. After the water in the previous pits had almost seeped down, they came back to continue digging.

After the circular pit in the center was dug, someone began to use the broken branches to insert them along the edge of the pit, leaving only one place towards the south without branches. This was the location of the door.

After inserting the branches, people continued to use clay pots to draw water and mix the soil that was dug when digging the hole.

Then he used his hands to break the mud into large pieces and piled them on both sides of the inserted branches. Gradually, a circle of mud wall was formed.

And because there are branches inside, acting like steel bars, the wall made of mud is still very strong.

The mud wall stopped after it reached a person's chest level.

Then some people placed five or six wooden sticks tied together on the top of the circular mud wall.

These sticks were not tied together side by side to form a bundle, but only tied at one end.

When placed on the round mud wall, it looks like an open umbrella rib.

After all this was done, women began to take the hay they had collected earlier and tie it up in circles. When these "umbrella ribs" were covered with a dense layer of grass, a house that was half underground and half above ground was built.

Compared to the Qingque tribe's houses, which were built by digging the foundation, laying stones as the base, tamping the earth into walls, erecting wooden beams, putting up rafters, laying fences, covering the houses with mud, and finally covering them with thatch, the houses built by this tribe were much simpler and quicker.

Of course, their houses are far inferior to the houses of the Qingque tribe in terms of spaciousness and brightness.

After building four such houses in a row, the tribe shifted the focus of their work to cultivating the land.

This is because although it is autumn now, the weather is still very cold, especially at night, so it is necessary to build some houses for living.

These four round houses are certainly not enough for the people in the tribe to live in, but they can barely accommodate minors and those in poor health.

It's just a little crowded when sleeping at night.

The people of this tribe are also very experienced in how to cultivate land.

They chose a relatively clear day, cleared the surrounding yellow grass and trees to make a gap, and then set a fire when new grass sprouts just grew...

The warm sunlight scattered down and illuminated the earth. This place, which seemed desolate before, gradually became different after having such a group of people.

An elderly female priest walked barefoot on the ash-covered land, holding a digging tool made of branches in one hand.

She moved her waist and used the simple tool in her hand to dig a hole in the ash-covered ground. Then, with her other hand, she picked up three gray-brown fruits from the pottery jar beside her and placed them in the small hole, then stepped on them with her bare feet.

There are many people around her who are doing these things. This method of farming, which does not require much plowing of the land, can save them a lot of time.

While they were doing these things, most of the men who had cleared the land went hunting in the surrounding areas under the leadership of their chief.

During this period of time, they had not obtained much food and had to rely entirely on the stored gray-brown fruits to fill their stomachs, and they consumed a lot of these fruits.

If we plant another batch now, the fruit will become less and less, and it will be time to find food.

The remaining young and strong people began to continue building houses there. After all, living in a place without shelter from wind and rain for a long time is not a good thing.

Of course, before continuing to build houses, they first built a cattle pen with wooden sticks. After all, these things are rare for their tribe!

The emergence of the copper plow and deer plow greatly liberated the productivity of the Qingque tribe. Especially when this farming method was used on cultivated land, the speed was extremely fast.

It was also because of this that Han Cheng dared to let the trade team go out when the spring plowing was halfway done.

The purpose was not to trade or plunder the surrounding tribes, but to allow the trading team to transport some stones back.

These stones are actually limestone.

Limestone has been discovered in the tribe for a long time, but Han Cheng has never asked the tribesmen to transport it back on a large scale, nor has he burned lime.

This is because it is not easy to transport stones over long distances. Another reason is that lime is not used very often in the tribe, so when it is needed, they just make do with earth cement made from wood ash.

But that is no longer possible. With the successful construction of the wall and the end of spring plowing, many houses and other things will soon need to be built, which will require a lot of lime.

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