Chapter 27: Deep into the Swamp (Part 1)
God knows how excited, aggrieved, and homesick Luo Chong was when he saw the rice grains, which directly led to his bursting into tears. Men don't cry easily, but they just haven't reached the point of being sad.
A good young man died before he got married, and inexplicably came to this ghost place and became a primitive man. There is no vegetable oil, no vegetables, no seasoning, no iron pot, no rice and white flour. Every day is either barbecue or meat soup. He almost vomited.
Although he can adapt to eating meat every day, it doesn't mean that he doesn't want to eat staple food.
Luo Chong wiped his tears and slapped his head. Paddy is rice, and rice is not rice. Wild rice should of course grow in swamps. Swamps are the best natural paddy fields in nature. Why didn't he think of this earlier?
Finding it is a decision that doesn't need to be thought about. How could Luo Chong ignore the first food crop he discovered in this world?
The rice grains in the goose's stomach had been corroded, revealing the rice inside. Luo Chong didn't know if such rice could still be grown, so he had to find intact rice seeds.
Moreover, he had never seen this kind of rice before. Each grain was larger than a mung bean. He didn't know if it was because it had not been polished by modern machinery, but one grain was equivalent to two or three grains of modern rice. But he was absolutely sure that this was rice.
After eating the roast goose, there was no time to rest at night. Luo Chong was busy making equipment to go deep into the swamp. Now he had to harvest the rice before those animals. Even if he harvested one more grain, it would become hundreds of grains next year.
He used local materials in the mangrove forest and used a stone axe to cut some long branches and saplings with a diameter of two centimeters. He tied them into a spindle-shaped canoe frame with pointed ends and wide in the middle. He wrapped the huge silver lungfish skin underneath. The fish skin was waterproof, and it was wrapped on the branch frame to make a simple canoe.
Considering that it has to carry a lot of things, it is made relatively large, four and a half meters long and about 80 centimeters wide. It is divided into three compartments, front, middle and back. People sit in the middle and things are placed at both ends. This is also the maximum size of this fish skin. The length of the diagonal of the rectangular fish skin is just right as the length of the boat.
This kind of canoe is very light and can be lifted by one hand. He has made it before, but at that time, it was made of plastic cloth and willow branches, and now it is made of fish skin. This simple canoe can even be made with plastic wrap. As long as it is wrapped with two more layers, it can still be used to sit people. It is very simple and practical.
He also found some thin tree vines to weave several rattan plates. The two smaller ones are 50 centimeters long and 30 centimeters wide. You can walk in the swamp by tying your feet with ropes. Tie your feet in the middle of this simple flipper, and the distance between the two feet is only 20 centimeters. Although it is a bit awkward, it does not affect walking, and it can reduce pressure. The best way is to ensure that you don’t sink into the swamp.
There is also a larger rattan shield, half a meter wide and one and a half meters long. This is the last guarantee. If you accidentally fall, you can put this big rattan shield under your body, which will definitely save your life.
After doing all this, Luo Chong checked his equipment while making a fence for the blue antelope. The fence is very simple, just erect a few wooden stakes and put a few crossbars.
A simple sheepfold with pasture and a stream inside is enough for them to eat for a day. He will not stay in the swamp until dark.
The next morning, Luo Chong drank a bowl of goose soup in the morning mist, cut some 6-meter-high sweet elephant grass for Wu Da and Ximen, and set off with his simple canoe.
He found a place with slightly deeper water to put down the canoe, paddled an inverted Y-shaped simple paddle wrapped with a layer of snake skin, and paddled towards the depths of the swamp wetland.
At the same time, in the tree tribe in the dark forest, the big tree was leading the tribe to catch snow rabbits. Now they not only hunt at night, but also start catching rabbits during the day.
Because they promised Luo Chong to help him catch live snow rabbits, they also had to store food for the winter. Although Luo Chong promised him that he would exchange it with other prey, what if there was no prey? What they held in their hands was theirs. It was not that Da Shu did not believe Luo Chong, but as a leader, he could never joke with the lives of his people.
In order to meet the needs of Luo Chong and his tribe, almost all the Shu tribe went out, leaving only the elders and children under 6 years old to watch the house. The rest of the people caught rabbits, collected mushrooms, and some grass that snow rabbits loved to eat, which was left for the rabbits to eat.
In order to increase production, Da Shu was no longer satisfied with the method of trapping with food. He even started violent demolition. After finding the rabbit hole, he dug it directly. If it didn't come out, he would burn it with fire and smoke it. He really caught a lot, and even caught a few nests of newly born rabbits.
This result was not expected by Luo Chong, otherwise he would definitely thank Da Shu. But what was even more unexpected was that Da Shu and his friends encountered some enemies while hunting.
In autumn, no matter what tribe it is, it has to store food, and the cannibal tribe is no exception. Their food is people, living people. Men can be eaten, and women can be kept to give birth or work. Humans are animals that don't have sharp teeth or claws, nor do they have thick and strong fur. They can't run fast, so they are the easiest to catch.
On the day when Luo Chong went deep into the swamp, a hunting team of a cannibal tribe encountered Dashu and his men. This team was composed of adult males, with a total of 40 people. Moreover, they rode two Deinonychus. The two Deinonychus were not big, only slightly taller than humans, and were not yet adults. They should have been captured and raised since childhood.
The weapons in their hands were all stone axes and wooden spears, which were very powerful. Compared with them, the Shu tribe had more men, women, old and young than them, not to mention that the other side was all adult males.
The reason for the encounter between the two sides was that the fire that Dashu used to burn the rabbit hole attracted them.
Facing such a powerful enemy, Dashu chose to run away directly. What a joke! If you go over with a branch, the other side can kill you with an axe, not to mention that the other side came on a Deinonychus, and the monster looked scary.
Dashu relied on his home turf to fight, or rather, run away, because he was familiar with the terrain, so he immediately gathered his tribesmen to flee. The cannibal tribe was chasing him closely, and Dashu specifically chose a difficult road to walk on, so the enemy could not catch up for a while, but some people still fell behind.
A little girl who was helping to pick mushrooms, who was only nine years old, was afraid and tripped over a tree root while running, and fell behind. As a result, she was hit in the back by a flying axe, and then was stabbed to death by a spear of the enemy who caught up with her. A group of savage cannibals laughed and surrounded her and began to drink her blood.
Dashu's eyes turned red, and his teeth were clattering, but he did not stop. He knew that he was definitely not an opponent. Even if all the tribesmen went into battle together, they would only be eaten by the enemy in the end.
Because of the dead little girl, the enemy's pursuit finally stopped for a while, and Dashu quickly returned to the tribe's tree house and told the tree elder about it.
The enemy was too strong to defeat, so the only option was to migrate. However, they had lived in this black forest for generations, so where could they move to? They didn't know much about the outside world.
Mu Tong suggested to find Luo Chong. Luo Chong had left a feather arrow, saying that if they had any difficulties, they could go to his tribe to ask for help. And judging from the weapons Luo Chong used, his tribe should be very strong.
Da Shu also agreed with this opinion, but they didn't know where Luo Chong's tribe was. They only knew that it was on the other side of the river. How could they get help?
Seeing that the enemy was about to hit their doorstep, the tree elder finally made a decision, asking Da Shu to lead the tribe to the east of the black forest to find Luo Chong. He stayed to hold back the enemy. Anyway, he was about to die and couldn't walk, so he didn't drag the tribe.
Da Shu nodded sadly and hurriedly asked people to pack their luggage.
Everyone in the tree tribe wore animal skins and only brought a small amount of dried meat. They couldn't take more, so they carried all the wooden barrels in the tribe. Containers were the most valuable things. There are also many live rabbits in the barrel, which Luo Chong specifically requested. Dashu also hopes that Luo Chong can help them for the sake of these rabbits, which can also be regarded as a bargaining chip.
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