Mammoth!
Wow! It's this big, it must weigh over ten tons. The third time I followed the hunting team, the huge target quickly appeared.
"A charlatan!" It seems that the hunting team has never seen such a big creature. Could it be a group of mammoths migrating from afar?
"Just leave behind a few fast-footed musketeers, and the rest of you should take the flock of sheep and the six wildebeests and hide away." Ma Yue gave the order. Too many people would be a burden, not to mention that they were carrying a group of sheep that had been grazed.
Because Ma Yue always had a good harvest every time he came to hunt, whenever Ma Yue joined the hunting team, he would bring six or seven wildebeests with him, so he could bring back more prey, right?
Shan Yao, Tie Dan, Du Ji, Ju, He, Lan, the table, and the chairs—eight people remained, almost all of them Ma Yue's confidants and biggest fans. The other twenty or so members of the hunting team left with their flocks of sheep and wildebeests. Staying farther away would keep the team safer. If they were trampled by a giant like a mammoth, the damage would be too great.
There are quite a lot of mammoths, more than twenty in a group, and they are difficult to deal with.
Fortunately, the mammoth's movement speed is not very fast. The eight people left by Ma Yue are all good at long-range attacks, whether it is flying spears or flying stones. Do you dare to fight the mammoth in close combat? Stop talking nonsense!
Eight people, in groups of four, what are they doing?
The ultimate goal of attacking a herd of mammoths from a distance is to find a lone one.
The mammoths were attacked by flying spears and stones, although the effect was not very good. Mammoths have thick skin and flesh, and flying spears can't penetrate them. However, such attacks caused chaos in the mammoths.
Originally, Ma Yue was planning to find an opportunity to attack with his precise spear.
Unexpectedly, a spear from one of the two attack teams pierced the eye of one of the mammoths.
Chaos, counterattack, the mammoths are in complete chaos. Is it the mammoths that run faster, or the primitive people? Fortunately, the mammoths
The pursuit caused no casualties to the hunting team.
Ma Yue was least afraid of such clumsy, inflexible, and slow-moving creatures. Since one of his targets was already injured, it was you.
At a distance of six or seven meters, the mammoth was so big and its eyes were really big. Ma Yue's flying gun flew out and the unlucky mammoth's other eye was also hit.
The mammoths were in disarray, practically scattering in all directions. Once the other eight hunting teams realized the mammoths couldn't catch up, they resorted to long-range volleys of spears and rocks. With so many mammoths under attack, it was a strange situation.
Ma Yue was the most courageous. Among the counterattacks of several mammoths, he nimbly dodged their attacks and, seizing the opportunity, leaped onto the back of the mammoth with both eyes injured...
Ma Yue's strength was not great. Standing on the mammoth's back, he delivered a ferocious blow that actually pierced through the mammoth's thick skin. Ma Yue couldn't stay on the mammoth's back for long before he jumped down again.
Ma Yue was full of confidence as he maneuvered among the bulky mammoths.
"Yeah!" The melee lasted for more than half an hour, and the herd of mammoths left, leaving only the mammoth that had fallen to the ground and was covered in blood. The hunting team burst into huge cheers.
Ma Yue was also very tired, so he collected some firewood and lit it. This was the signal.
More than ten minutes later, a large hunting team from the Sea Tribe arrived.
With thirty men and six wildebeests, Ma Yue worried about how to get these over ten ton behemoths back to the tribe. It wasn't practical to get them all together, so he decided to disassemble them first. That would take time.
Ma Yue sent two men back on two wildebeests. What? To find help? The rest of the group used sharp weapons to dismember the prey, gathered firewood, lit a bonfire, and guarded against wild animals while surrounding the prey.
Fortunately, they didn't walk far this time. In less than half a day, the second chief Shuichong arrived with nearly two hundred men and women of the sea tribe and thirty wildebeests.
Okay, that's fine now, no need to worry.
Having harvested such a huge mammoth, the Sea Tribe held a grand bonfire sacrificial party, and the high priest began to dance again.
This big thing can last for a long time, so there is no shortage of food for the time being.
Mammoth meat was a bit rough, and Ma Yue disliked it. But primitive people, with their good teeth, didn't dislike it. As long as it was meat, it was precious. Fortunately, the tribe's harvest and other prey were enough to satisfy Ma Yue's appetite.
In the cellar, the high priest had someone pickle a lot of mammoth meat. As an old man, he knew how to take things slow and steady. A big meal is enough, right? You can't eat a lot at every meal, right?
With the huge addition of the hunting team, the laborers of the Sea Tribe have regained a lot of physical strength and have more endurance in working, right?
Ma Yue still underestimated the primitive people's willpower to endure hardships and hardship. At this rate of development, reclaiming five more acres of land was really a small matter. According to the high priest's beautiful vision, reclaiming ten more acres of land was a must.
Well, the more food, the better, and the more radishes, the better.
The land here has been reclaimed, and the men and wildebeests over there are continuing to plow a new field. Here, the young and old have already started sowing, so nothing has been delayed. The radish growing season is only about two or three months, so it's estimated that it won't delay planting or harvesting.
The original five acres of arable land were used to plant radishes, and the other five acres were used to plant sunflowers and green onions. Perhaps after today, there will really be ten more acres of land.
Is twenty mu of land a lot? In feudal society, twenty mu per household might not seem like a lot, but even a family with a hundred mu would be quite a few. The question is, is this primitive society? It's understandable that with simple tools, cultivating the land would be difficult.
"High Priest! This is not how accounts are calculated." Ma Yue had his own ideas.
"Charlatan, can there be more?" The high priest yearned for a better life.
"Don't forget, we can still sow once in the summer. So, we have a dedicated plowing team that will continuously plow the land until summer. That way, we'll have more arable land. At least, the land plowed before summer can also yield radishes before late autumn, right?"
"Yes!" The high priest finally understood. Can't we just stare at the plowed land in early spring? As a primitive man, it is normal to have limited thinking.
Burning the wasteland and turning the land has become the main part of the Hai tribe's life. If they continue to work and turn the land until early summer, there will be more arable land to harvest, and the harvest will also be greater.
Whether it is the ash left over from burning wasteland or the feces of humans and livestock, they are all good fertilizers for farmland and should not be wasted.
The Hai Tribe had a considerable number of able-bodied men. Aside from a rotating hunting team of thirty or forty men, the majority of the men were constantly engaged in tilling the soil. Ma Yue, who had become much more diligent, also frequently joined the grassland hunting team. The hunting team's harvest remained surprisingly stable, greatly supplementing the tribe's food needs.
"We're back!" Two months have passed since the spring plowing season, and the long-distance caravan led by the second priest, Hai, and Wu Qi has finally returned.
It was quite tragic. There were fifty able-bodied men when they left, but only twenty-one came back. It was a heavy loss.
It's understandable. Traveling long distances in winter is not easy. Casualties are inevitable, but aren't they too many? Fortunately, the Second Priest, Chief Hai, and Third Chief Wu Qi have all returned.
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