The Big Bear Tribe is really short of people recently!
Someone has to take care of the eggs and barley grown in the fields, making bacon requires a lot of firewood, and hunting cannot be abandoned, not to mention that recently, the priests have also started tinkering with pottery.
Making pottery requires digging mud and collecting firewood, which takes a lot of work.
Originally they thought that the Big Bear Tribe had a lot of people, but now they feel that... there are not enough people.
Because they are too busy, even people like Yang Ying and Yang Su, who used to always find opportunities to be lazy, now have no chance to be lazy.
When Kumano saw them these past two days, he found that they had become much darker, and those who always glared at him no longer had time to glare at him.
This is good.
However, just because they are short of manpower, they will not attack the Giant Tiger Tribe.
The Giant Tiger Tribe has far more people than them and is stronger. If they go to attack the Giant Tiger Tribe, it would be like running into the mouth of a Tyrannosaurus Rex!
The little monkey looked disappointed and a little pitiful after hearing this.
Xiong Ye added: "If you want to live in our tribe, you can't hide in animal form all day and do nothing... Go and help the priests. You can't do heavy work, but you can always make clay."
This guy is really weak. He is twelve years old, but he is not as tall as a ten-year-old kid in their tribe. That's not all, he also has little strength.
Perhaps because of this, the priest kept him but did not assign him any work.
But Kumano felt that he had to do the work. He had no parents to support him, and he lived and ate in the tribe, so he had to do something to contribute to the tribe.
After instructing the child, Xiong Ye stood up and said to Zhou Ji, "Zhou Ji, I'm going to dig the mud."
Zhou Ji said: "Wait."
"Anything else?" Kumano asked.
Zhou Ji stood up from the recliner: "Today is the first day of firing pottery, help me move the recliner over."
He didn't know much about pottery making, so after speaking a few words to the priest, he let the priest go about his business.
But now the pottery is about to be fired, so he has to go and watch it.
Zhou Ji's recliner was made for him by a skilled carver in the tribe at the request of the priest. It was made of a whole piece of wood and was very thick and heavy. Usually, Kumano or others would help him carry it.
Everyone thought that he couldn't move.
"Sit down." said Kumano.
Zhou Ji glanced at Kumano, sat down on the recliner, and then Kumano picked him up and moved him and the chair to the place where the priest planned to burn pottery.
It's quite a mess there.
Some people were kneading mud into all kinds of strange shapes, and also made some rectangular bricks and put them aside. Next to the place where the embryos were made, the priest had a pit dug.
"We will make pottery later, that is, put these clay objects into the fire and burn them." The priest saw Zhou Ji and immediately asked, "How long will it take?"
Zhou Ji didn’t know.
He had read about the methods of making pottery in history books and some miscellaneous books, but he never took the time to remember them. After experiencing the end of the world for many years, he had forgotten everything.
"The Beast God doesn't like people who get something for nothing. We have to try it ourselves." Zhou Ji said. He couldn't tell these people everything. They had to figure it out on their own.
Of course, he could help a little, such as using his mental power to observe the condition of the fired pottery and give some suggestions.
Those things made of mud were placed in the middle of the big pit, surrounded by a circle of bricks and a circle of firewood outside.
Once everything was in place, someone lit a circle of firewood around it.
The flames burned.
The people of the Big Bear tribe looked at the huge fire pit and discussed: "What exactly is pottery?"
"I don't know either……"
"It is said that the Beast God said something to Zhou Ji again..."
"Do you think it can be burned out?"
"This fire pit... I think we can build one in the collective cave. It will be very warm after burning a fire in the winter."
…
The flames were burning fiercely. Zhou Ji looked at the situation and felt that the pit was not dug well.
If this pit is dug diagonally downwards, it can have a lid to provide better insulation.
Now, if you want to keep the fire burning, you have to keep adding firewood.
It is summer now and the weather is extremely hot. Everyone is sweating profusely sitting next to a fire pit.
The priest was still muttering: "Eighteen bundles of firewood have been used up, and now it's nineteen bundles..."
Zhou Ji ignored the priest's thoughts and observed the situation in the fire.
After about two hours of firing, the priest asked, "Zhou Ji, is the pottery ready?"
"No." Zhou Ji said. Some of the bricks were cracked, and some looked good, but the stuff in the middle had not yet turned into pottery.
Since it was not burned well, it had to be continued burning, so the priest put in more firewood.
While the people of the Big Bear Tribe were busy, the people of the Giant Boar Tribe, who were free because they didn't have to hunt today, came to watch the fun.
Zhu Zhan thought this big bear tribe was a little funny.
The people in the Beast Temple can only produce a few hundred pieces of pottery after working for a whole year. It is said that the production method is very complicated. This Big Bear Tribe... is too much of a joke!
They just take some mud, knead something, put it in the fire, and think they can make pottery? How is that possible!
According to the Beast God Temple, this pottery is a treasure bestowed by the Beast God on the orcs. How could it be made from mud?
However, pottery is really easy to use. Apart from other things, pottery pots and bowls are much more useful than stone pots and bowls, and they are also very light.
Of course, ordinary people don’t have the opportunity to use pottery. In their tribe, pottery is a symbol of status. Some people even grind broken pottery into jewelry and wear it on their bodies.
"Didn't the Beast Temple say that pottery is made of a special kind of stone? What are they doing? Want to make pottery out of clay?"
"How can pottery be made of clay?"
"So much firewood is wasted like this..."
The people of the Giant Pig Tribe felt a little helpless when looking at the scene before them.
Of course, the person who made them most helpless was Zhou Ji.
Zhou Ji was a little close to the fire pit at first, but later felt it was too hot, so he moved away from the fire pit and went to the shade of a tree in the distance.
Then someone immediately moved his recliner over.
Later, Kumano came back. After being stopped by him, he went out from somewhere to get some fruit and ate it with him.
Someone next to Zhu Zhan clicked his tongue twice and said, "This Zhou Ji really knows how to enjoy himself, right? He lives a more comfortable life than the priest of our tribe." The priest of their tribe jumps around every day for power and works hard, but Zhou Ji is different. They have been in the Big Bear tribe for several days, and every time they see him, he is either preparing food, lying down to rest, or going for a walk outside and then bringing back some flowers and plants.
Despite this, the people in the tribe still obeyed his orders, especially Kumano.
They have discovered that Kumano is a low-level beast warrior, and even a strong one among the low-level beast warriors. In a few years, he should become a mid-level beast warrior.
Such a strong man actually only knows how to revolve around Zhou Ji...
Zhu Zhan looked down on him a little.
But they are from outside, so it's hard to say anything...
Kumano is unaware of his actions and is looked down upon by Zhuzhan.
At this moment, Zhou Ji was pulling him to learn how to write.
He found math problems difficult when Zhou Ji asked him to do them before. He didn’t expect that he would encounter even more difficult ones now!
These words...what on earth are these? !
Are there such difficult things in this world?
Take his own name for example… Why is the word “bear” so difficult to write? He kind of regretted awakening into a bear, but other animals’ characters are also difficult to write!
You shouldn’t name someone after his prototype. He should be called “Yi Yi”!
In this primitive tribe, some people, like people on Earth, began to wish that they could be called "Yi Yi".
"Zhou Ji, why do you need to write? I think it would be better to draw a bear." Xiong Ye said.
Zhou Ji said: "There are so many bears in this world. If you only draw one bear, who would know if this bear is you or someone else in the tribe?"
That’s true… Kumano nodded.
"But if you write Kumano, that would be you." Zhou Ji said again.
Xiong Ye nodded again, and then said: "But... after a person dies, the priest will often give his name to the newly born in the tribe... There was actually a Xiong Ye before me."
Zhou Ji: "..." He really didn't know about this...
Zhou Ji said: "You can carve your name and my name on the stone together for future generations to see." Teaching people who have never been exposed to writing to write simplified Chinese is actually quite difficult. Zhou Ji had no intention of doing so at the beginning.
But since he and Kumano are going to be together for the rest of their lives, they have to find something to do.
Moreover, the significance of words should be very important. Only with words can some knowledge and culture be passed on.
Of course, it doesn’t matter if he can’t pass it on. He may never use an iron pot again in his life, so what’s the point of talking about culture…
Xiong Ye was very interested in Zhou Ji's proposal. How great would it be to carve his and Zhou Ji's names on stone and pass them down forever?
He suddenly had the motivation to learn to read.
Zhou Ji slowly taught him how to write, and while he was writing, he also knitted clothes.
He made clothes for Kumano, but Kumano rarely wore them. After all, the clothes would be ruined if he changed into a beast.
In comparison, the animal skin skirt is much simpler. Even if it breaks when you turn into an animal, you can pick it up when you turn back into a human and continue to wear it.
Zhou Ji was thinking about weaving a few animal skin skirts like these for Xiong Ye to wear.
I wonder if the people here will develop like the ones on Earth. If that happens... the people in suits on the street will suddenly burst their shirts and turn into bears...
Zhou Ji suddenly wanted to see it.
Gradually, it got dark.
Today is not a hunting day for the hunting team. As time goes by, those who went out to collect firewood have returned... and everyone has gathered around the fire pit.
The priest even waved his hand and asked everyone to eat directly next to the fire pit.
After the priest said this, the tribesmen went to the fire pit, lit a fire, and started roasting potatoes and bacon beside it.
Among so many people, Zhou Ji and Xiong Ye ate the best.
Zhou Ji fried the peppers in oil, then added bacon slices and a kind of bean vegetable. After they were fragrant, he ate them as a dish with baked potatoes. It tasted very good.
They don't even have that dish alone.
Zhou Ji had dried some mushrooms before, and now he used pickles to cook a mushroom soup. In this age without MSG, such a soup is indescribably delicious.
The people of the Giant Pig Tribe were extremely jealous.
Even though they looked down on Zhou Ji, they had to admit that the food he cooked was really good!
After taking a look at the food in front of Zhou Ji, they continued to gnaw on their bacon and eat their own eggs in frustration.
In fact, these are already delicious, why do they think they don’t taste good enough?
It’s not just the people in the Giant Pig Tribe who think so.
The people of the Big Bear Tribe are also very greedy.
At this time, Zhou Ji said: "The things in the pit are almost burned out, no need to add firewood."
Relying on his mental strength, Zhou Ji kept observing the situation in the pit and asked people to add firewood from time to time.
But even so, the bricks and pottery in the pit were burned badly and basically cracked.
But at least...it was burned into "pottery fragments"?
After hearing what Zhou Ji said, the people of the Giant Pig Tribe were ready to watch the joke.
How can pottery be made so easily? If the people of this tribe could really use mud and fire to make pottery, they would definitely worship Zhou Ji in the future!
The people of the Giant Pig Tribe didn't believe that the Big Bear Tribe could make pottery with such a trivial effort, but the people of the Big Bear Tribe believed in Zhou Ji very much.
“I wonder what pottery looks like…”
"When will the fire be put out?"
"I must see the pottery before I go to bed tonight!"
…
If you stop adding firewood to the pit, the fire in the pit will slowly go out.
After the fire, which had been burning for nearly seven hours, was extinguished, the priest had the still red-hot wood taken out of the pit with tongs, and everyone finally saw what was in the middle.
One part of the brick pile had fallen over, and the dishes were not clearly visible because it was dark...
They waited for almost another hour before someone transformed into an animal, went down into the pit, and took out the things inside.
Many of the bricks were cracked. Some parts were red, some were black, and they looked weird. Some bricks looked like... pottery from the outside.
As for the bowls and plates in the middle that Zhou Ji had people make, most of them were broken.
"It's all broken." The priest was a little disappointed, but he said, "This piece of pottery is very beautiful. I will use it to decorate my cave!"
"There's nothing usable." Zhou Ji picked out a barely intact plate from a pile of things and took a look at it. He then discovered that there were some problems inside the plate and was afraid that it would break if used.
Zhou Ji was sighing, while Zhu Zhan and the others were already dumbfounded: "You...actually made pottery!"
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