Erchong's mother reached out and touched Erchong's bald head.

Er Chong looked a little strange without his messy hair, but his head felt very comfortable to touch, and his mother couldn't let go of it.

Looking around, I saw that the men of the original tribe had their messy hair cut off with a sharp knife, and their short hair looked so short that it made people want to touch it.

In fact, it's not just the men and male children, but also the female primitive people such as the two-worm mother, who are now very different from before.

Some of their messy hair was cut off, and the remaining hair was smeared with something called "soap" that looked delicious, and then carefully scrubbed with warm water.

After being covered with the white foam that looked like clouds in the sky, the hair that looked messy before now became fragrant. After being braided into a big braid and tied with a rope, it looked very neat.

This method of hair treatment, which had never been seen before, made Erchong's mother and other female primitive people in the original semi-agricultural tribe fall in love with it at once.

When it comes to their hair, women are always willing to put effort into it, and Erchong's mother is no exception.

They wash their hair, comb it with a bamboo thing called a 'comb', braid it, and tie it up with a rope. This task seems troublesome and daunting to men, but they enjoy doing it.

This somewhat troublesome change in the hair was what the two insect mothers and the others were happy to see, because not only did they look better, but there was also an obvious difference. They no longer had to run up to people and see if the breasts were tall in order to identify whether it was a boy or a girl as before.

Moreover, after washing their hair, they were taught by the people of this tribe to comb their hair over and over again with something called a comb, which looks like a comb but is more fine.

Those tiny bugs that used to hide in the hair and were impossible to catch, causing extreme distress, were now quickly combed out.

Squeezing these little bugs with fingernails makes a crackling sound, which makes people feel happy. The mother of Erchong likes to do this the most.

Not only that, they were also ordered to take a bath in this season and had to scrub off all the dust on their bodies. If anyone dared to be perfunctory, someone from the tribe would press them into a hot water vat and scrub them back and forth with a large brush made of wild boar hair.

It was not a pleasant feeling to be scrubbed with a brush made of hard wild boar hair. After three or four people were treated so roughly, hearing their screams, the rest of the people did not dare to be negligent.

When taking a bath, Erchong's mother, like many people in the tribe, felt quite resentful about these unnecessary troubles. After all, they had basically never taken a bath in the past, and they lived just fine. Why were there so many more rules after they came to this tribe?

But now, Erchong's mother no longer has any complaints about this, and she even likes taking a bath.

After taking a shower, my body is naked and warm, and I feel a lot lighter all of a sudden.

Looking at her hands where she could see the natural color of her skin, Erchong's mother loosened her grip on her braids and grasped the animal skin that was wrapped around her body.

These animal skins are very soft. Although they are still the original animal skins, they become soft after being thrown into a large vat with fire and boiled and dried by the people of this tribe.

Not only that, the little bugs that crawled inside the animal skins were boiled to death. Now when I wear them, they are warm and soft, and I won’t feel itchy anymore…

These rather troublesome tasks gave Erchong's mother and others a headache when they first started doing them. However, after doing them more and realizing the benefits, they gradually stopped feeling uncomfortable and even began to like them.

Erchong's mother and her tribe have compared themselves with their original tribe more than once. The female priest who originally seemed very wise to them, now seems not so wise when they look at her again.

Because these things, which are not complicated but can make people feel comfortable, are unknown to the female priestess of her own tribe.

Moreover, the pottery made by the female priests cannot be compared with that of today's tribes.

The bowls they ate from now were better than the best pottery ever made by the priestesses.

When they learned that the female priest had abandoned them, Erchong's mother, like many people in the tribe, felt uneasy. But after living in this tribe for a while, Erchong's mother no longer had this feeling. There were even many times when she felt that it was a good thing that the female priest had abandoned them.

Because after the priestess abandoned them, they had a wiser and younger son of God.

Of course, the things that people like Erchong's mother first found troublesome but then liked did not include the cumbersome chopsticks and the language that was so difficult to pronounce that it made people want to bite their tongues.

But there is no way, they have to learn these two things, because if they don't use the two small wooden sticks called "chopsticks", they can't eat the food.

The same is true for this difficult language. Everyone must learn five of them every day. If you can't learn one, you have to eat less food. If you can't learn two, you will have to go hungry.

Under the protest of their stomachs and the temptation of food, they could only try their best to learn this language that was so difficult to understand that it made them want to die.

This language called Mandarin is really a headache to learn.

This is not the most uncomfortable thing. The most uncomfortable thing is the pattern called Chinese characters.

Each of these patterns looks square. To Erchong's mother and the vast majority of people in the semi-agricultural tribe, these patterns are the same. However, the people in the tribe who teach these are able to point out their differences.

In the past, Erchong’s mother only admired strong male primitive people who could bring back a lot of food. But now, Erchong’s mother’s mind has changed.

I have even more respect for those who can 'draw' these patterns and recognize them one by one.

Because in her opinion, this is more difficult than hunting. Fortunately, the people in this tribe did not force them to learn these...

Han Cheng, who had been tortured by English, could understand these people's feelings. Seeing them being tortured by learning Chinese, Han Cheng felt particularly happy.

This kind of joy is only slightly worse than seeing those foreign friends scratching their heads and roaring to the sky while being tortured by learning Chinese.

Of course, Han Cheng's joy only lasted for a moment. When his gaze shifted from the semi-agricultural tribal slaves who were losing their hair due to the torture of Chinese language and fell on the food that was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, this joy was immediately replaced by a kind of melancholy with physical pain.

According to his previous idea, when the people in the tribe were digging the earth and building houses, a cylindrical grain cellar with a depth of more than four meters and a diameter of more than ten meters had already taken shape, and the thatched huts to shelter from wind and rain had already been built on top. It only needed a little tidying up before the grain could be loaded into it.

However, now, the built granary is still empty.

The reason was simple: there were suddenly more than two hundred mouths in the tribe that needed to feed.

In war, it has always been more than just the force of arms. Food and fodder are also very important.

This can be seen from the Green Bird Tribe's conquest of the Bannong Tribe.

The long march, coupled with the presence of more than 200 Green Bird coalition forces, resulted in an alarming food consumption.

This time, they plundered a lot of food from the semi-agricultural tribe, but their food was far inferior to the quality of the Green Bird tribe's food, and could only barely make up for the food consumption of this expedition.

However, the compensation was made, but from now on, these two hundred mouths to feed can only be fed by the Qingque tribe.

These mouths are bottomless pits that absorb food, but there is no way around it, they have to be fed.

If it weren't for the bronze plow, which increased the efficiency of farming in the tribe, expanded the cultivated land area, and greatly increased the total grain output, and the tribe suddenly had so many mouths to feed, even Han Cheng would have been extremely melancholy.

After years of development, the population of the Qingque tribe has grown extremely rapidly.

After gradually absorbing the Pig Tribe, Bone Tribe, Green Tribe, Donkey Tribe, Yellow Fruit Tribe and the remaining Sheep Tribe, and with the improvement and enhancement of the living conditions and medical and health conditions of the Green Bird Tribe, the number of babies born and the survival rate have been greatly improved in recent years.

So up to now, the total population of citizens of the Green Bird Tribe has reached five hundred and thirteen!

There were a total of 204 adults, 71 of whom were males, and the remaining 133 were adult females.

There are 309 minors, 12 of whom are about to reach adulthood.

Now, the earliest batch of children born after Han Cheng arrived are already eight years old in terms of their lunar age.

Primitive people reach adulthood early. In another five or six years, when these children grow up, there will be no need to absorb outside population. The number of people who reach adulthood in their own tribe alone can reach more than 20 each year!

And this only counts the number of citizens in the tribe, not the number of slaves in the tribe.

In the past few years, after successively conquering the two large tribes, the Tengshe Tribe and the Bannong Tribe, the number of slaves in the Qingque Tribe has also increased rapidly!

Originally, there were about 178 slaves obtained from the Tengshe tribe.

In the past few years, including those who were promoted to citizens of the Qingque tribe because of their outstanding performance, as well as two or three people who died for various reasons, and including newly born babies, the number of slaves in the Tengshe tribe has increased by a few while maintaining the original number.

Now, with the addition of the more than 200 slaves from the Bannong tribe and a few people from the Sheep tribe with tattoos on their faces, the total number of slaves in the Green Bird tribe has reached 426.

Among them, there were 64 male adult slaves and 153 female adult slaves, for a total of 217 adult slaves.

There were fifteen slaves who were about to reach adulthood, and the rest were relatively younger slaves, making a total of two hundred and nine people.

Adding up the citizens of the Qingque tribe and the slaves of the Qingque tribe, the total population of the Qingque tribe has reached nine hundred and thirty-nine, a number that astonished many tribes of that era!

Compared to when Han Cheng first arrived at the Qingque tribe, the tribe’s population has increased nearly twenty times!

If the men and women in the tribe work harder in the spring of next year, by the end of the Qingque Ten Years, it is possible that the number of people in the tribe will exceed one thousand!

With such a population, even in later generations, if it is not compared with those large villages in the plains, it can be considered a not small village!

Such a large population is a valuable asset to the Qingque tribe, but at the same time, if not utilized properly, it will also be a considerable burden for the tribe's leader. You can know how big this burden is by just looking at the food consumed every day.

Let the spring come quickly. After the spring, the tribe can continue to cultivate the land and grow food.

At the same time, you can also get some other food to replenish it without having to hold on to the stored food.

As long as there was a little income, the food stored in the tribe would not be consumed so quickly.

Now, under such great population and food pressure, even Han Cheng couldn't help but look forward to the arrival of the girl who was calling for sex.

After looking at the granary for a while and then staring at the notebook recording the population number for a while, Han Cheng's brows gradually frowned.

His frown was not because of the speed at which he consumed his food every day.

Although food consumption is high nowadays, according to the grain storage capacity of the Qingque tribe, the tribe’s food is only slightly tight and a famine will not occur.

What made him frown was the number of citizens and slaves in the Green Bird Tribe.

In terms of the total number of people, the number of citizens in the Green Bird tribe was only 87 more than the number of slaves.

If we only compare the number of adults, after the semi-agricultural tribe joined, the number of adult slaves in the tribe was thirteen more than the adult citizens of the Green Bird tribe!

This is not good news for the tribe.

According to Han Cheng's previous idea, the ratio between citizens and slaves was two to one, which was a relatively safe line.

But now, the population of adult slaves directly exceeds that of citizens, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.

Han Cheng didn't notice these things before, but now that he did, he woke up immediately.

It is time to find a way to restore the balance that has been disrupted by the influx of a large number of semi-agricultural tribal slaves.

To a certain extent, this matter is even more urgent than reclaiming land.