Chapter 188 Flower Pigs (Please vote and subscribe)
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The sun gradually sets, and the women of the Lu tribe come back with groups of small flower pigs. Yes, they have to go out to herd the pigs every day. Because they don't know what to feed the pigs, they can only let them out to feed themselves, just like herding sheep.
Fortunately, the small flower pigs know what to eat. Although they are free-range, they are not hungry. There is a kind of wild spherical plant around the Lu tribe. It is a cabbage made up of many large leaves wrapped together. The tribesmen of the Lu tribe will not eat that thing. It is specially reserved for the flower pigs to eat. In addition to cabbage, there are many vines and tubers nearby. They are the favorites of the small flower pigs.
The area where the pigs are released is not far from the tribe's residence. The area within a few miles has been cleared by the men of the Lu tribe. They will hunt the surrounding wild animals in groups, and then set up some defensive traps around them to prevent the wild animals from coming in easily. Even if some individual wild animals can break through the obstacles, they will eventually become food for the Lu tribe.
Therefore, the women of the Lu tribe can release pigs around the tribe with peace of mind. This arrangement is equivalent to a large wild boar farm.
Each woman has to take care of several spotted pigs, big and small, ranging from five or six to eleven or twelve, scattered in different areas for the spotted pigs to feed themselves. The pigs
they raise are of various colors, some are pure black, some are black and white, and some are dark brown. The main colors are black, brown, and spotted. They have very fine short hair on their bodies, short but strong limbs, and they don't run fast. They have a particularly large belly and several folds on both sides of their waists, which look a bit like Shar Pei dogs.
The spotted pig has a big nose and long ears that hang down and cannot stand up. When it hangs down, the ears can cover the face on both sides; the head, neck, shoulders and hips are relatively high, and the back is concave. From the side, it looks like a rocking chair, with two ends tilted and the middle low.
Youfu has never seen this kind of pig before, let alone him, even Luo Chong has never seen it. This should be a unique breed that the Lu tribe has bred for many generations after domestication.
The four ancient pig species are the ancient giant pig, the long-toothed pig, the dread-jawed pig, and the black pig.
Except for the black pig, the other three are monsters that are as big as wild buffaloes. Their staple food is plants, and sometimes they also eat carrion. The more ferocious ones will also hunt by themselves, depending on the target. Those who can beat them are generally killed directly. The black pig is the smallest one among them, similar to the domestic pig.
Most modern domestic pigs are descendants of the black pig lineage, but modern pigs have been domesticated for thousands of years, and coupled with deliberate control by humans, many of them are white, which is already considered a genetic mutation.
No one knows how long the Lu tribe has raised pigs. It seems that they have been doing this for generations. Judging from the pigs they raise, they are also descendants of black pigs, and they are very different from the original species because the pigs they raise have changed color, especially the black and white ones, which are very similar to the native pigs in modern rural areas.
The spotted pigs were driven into a pigsty made of stones. The pigs were divided into several pens, with boars living in single rooms, sows pregnant and waiting to give birth, and other half-grown piglets distributed in several large pens. The total number of large and small pigs is no less than 800, which is more than the population of ordinary tribes.
From this, we can also see how powerful the Lu tribe is. This tribe, which relies entirely on its own reproduction and never invades the outside world, has a population of more than 700. They have sufficient food, basically reaching the level of one pig per capita.
This is the benefit of breeding, which is stable, safe, and less risky than hunting, so the survival rate of men is very high, which is also the reason for their large population. Only with sufficient and stable food sources can the number of humans grow rapidly. This is an eternal law.
This morning, the You tribe team entered the defense range of the Lu tribe. You Ye, his brother, who was sent by You Fu to explore the way ahead, accidentally fell into the trap dug by the Lu tribe. Fortunately, there were no barbs in the trap, and You Ye was still alive.
So he began to shout for help. After a while, the You tribe behind him found You Ye in the trap, but at the same time, his cry for help also attracted the hunting warriors of the Lu tribe.
There are many warriors in the Lu tribe, and more than 100 adult men can be easily assembled. They not only have to defend against wild beasts and protect the safety of the territory, but also prevent attacks from other tribes, because in the history of the Lu tribe, other tribes have come to rob pigs. This time, they heard human shouts in the direction of the trap and thought that other tribes were coming to rob pigs again, so they immediately assembled a large number of warriors to surround this place.
What they didn't expect was that this tribe didn't seem to be here to rob. Has anyone ever seen a family with children, even two or three years old, going to rob? That's not robbing, that's sending people to their deaths.
What surprised them even more was that this tribe actually domesticated wild animals and used them to help pull a movable house, which contained many things and children.
This situation was quite special. The leader of the Lu tribe, Ju, hesitated and didn't respond for a while, but Youfu had experienced such scenes many times, so he immediately stepped forward to communicate.
"Hello, respected leader, my tribe is just passing by here, and we have no ill intentions. I hope you can let our people leave, and we can leave immediately." Youfu gestured and communicated with the leader of the Lu tribe, Ju.
Seeing the situation on the scene, Ju had already seen that this was not an enemy, and the other tribe also raised wild animals and let the wild animals help people work. Such tribes are usually very powerful, just like their Lu tribe.
Tribes that know how to raise animals will never lack food, and their strength is certainly not weak. Ju did not intend to conflict with the tribe in front of him. He even thought that they were the same kind as him. They were all tribes that raised wild animals, and perhaps they could exchange experiences with each other.
Ju waved his hand and asked the warriors behind him to pull Youye up with a rope, and gave it back to Youfu, then asked Youfu.
"You also raise animals. Which tribe are you from? Why are you passing through here? What are the names of the animals you raise? What's being pulled behind is a house?" Ju talked and gestured for a long time before Youfu understood his question.
"We are the You tribe. This is called an ox, and this is called a deer. What's being pulled behind is a car. We travel everywhere and trade with other tribes.
Trade, do you understand? It means exchanging my things for your things."
"I understand. Then what are you exchanging?" Ju nodded in understanding, and continued to ask.
(End of this chapter)
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