Chapter 10: New Day Arrangements
No one spoke that night. Maybe it was because he was too tired, but Zhou Xu slept very soundly that night.
Until he was woken by a noise outside the tent.
Before he opened his eyes, his hungry stomach began to growl, which woke Zhou Xu up quickly.
Then, as if he remembered what had happened, he sat up suddenly and almost hit the tent above his head.
[Damn it, I actually fell into a deep sleep?! ]
Although these tribal members outside respect him as their leader and appear to obey his orders, don't forget that he has only known them for less than a day.
After falling asleep, the potential risks that might exist were enough to make him break out in a cold sweat.
But Zhou Xu had to admit that he was too tired yesterday. In fact, he was still feeling dizzy. It was not realistic to expect him to stay alert all night.
When he walked out of the tent, he saw a woman waiting nearby. When she saw him come out, she immediately knelt down.
Zhou Xu originally wanted to support her and stop her from kneeling, but he was really hungry and sleepy, and his reaction was a little slow, so he failed to support her in time.
"Okay, get up. What are you doing here?"
"We dare not disturb the leader's rest, so we are waiting here for him to get up and arrange things."
I don’t know if it’s because of some of the problems he did yesterday that these tribal members are now afraid to act rashly without his orders.
I looked up at the sky. It was not yet fully light. I guessed that it was around five or six in the morning.
But they went to bed as soon as it was midnight yesterday, and probably slept for about nine to ten hours.
Standing outside the tent and taking a breath of the cool morning air, Zhou Xu immediately felt more energetic.
"May I have your name?"
"My name is Butterfly."
Zhou Xu nodded. He still had some impression of this woman named Butterfly.
"It was you who was at the altar, wasn't it?"
If he remembered correctly, the one who handed him the animal skin was the butterfly in front of him.
In response, Butterfly nodded in acknowledgement, with a bit of nervousness on her face.
Zhou Xu just asked casually, then looked up and walked towards the still burning fire.
"Okay, stop kneeling."
Seeing the tribal members along the way about to kneel down again, Zhou Xu felt a headache and stopped them in time.
"When you see me in the future, just do this and bow your head, and that will be considered a courtesy."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu put his left hand behind his waist, clenched his right fist against his chest, then leaned forward slightly and bowed his head.
He did not stop the tribal members from expressing their submission to him. After all, consolidating his rule was also important to him.
But I have to kneel down every time I see him, which is too much trouble and affects my efficiency.
Seeing this, the other members of the tribe began to follow suit.
It was a bit awkward at first, but the action itself was not difficult. After doing it a few times, I basically got used to it and found that this method was indeed much more convenient.
"What? Didn't everyone even have water to drink after waking up?"
Looking at the several fruit shell bowls filled to the brim next to the fire, Zhou Xu raised his head and looked at the tribe members around him.
At the same time, he also discovered that the tribal members around him were all looking at him eagerly.
He soon realized that in a tribe like this, supplies were extremely scarce, so even water had to be distributed by him as the leader.
Without further ado, Zhou Xu picked up a bowl of water and took a sip to moisten his throat.
"Fei Que, from today on, you will be responsible for distributing water to everyone every morning. After distributing the water, you must continue to boil it..."
While all the tribal members gathered together to drink water, he directly assigned tasks to the thirty-one people under his command.
"Butterfly, the five of you will continue to be responsible for weaving baskets and bark ropes in the tribe today."
Considering the population of their tribe, eight baskets would never be enough. If they wanted to get enough food, they had to cast a wide net.
To do this, they naturally need more basket traps.
And the five people including Butterfly were undoubtedly the five whose manual skills were recognized by him yesterday.
"You two will be responsible for tearing the bark off the tree, while watching the fire and boiling the water."
Inside the tribe, Zhou Xu was nodding at people's heads and giving orders.
"Dashan, your main task later is to pick up branches, stones and catch insects. I will tell you the details later."
Picking up branches, stones and insects may not sound like much, but it's actually a lot of work.
Especially the matter of picking up branches.
At this stage, considering the problem of drinking water, branches as the main fuel have undoubtedly become the biggest consumable of their tribe.
Under this premise, relying solely on their manpower to pick up branches would not be very efficient.
This also meant that they needed to invest more manpower to do this in order to ensure that their tribe's fires could continue to burn and provide them with a steady supply of fresh water.
"Then it's Feique. The eight of you, each take a basket, and divide up the insect heads and internal organs that you collected yesterday."
After saying that, he glanced at the tribe members who seemed eager to try, and quickly gave them a reminder.
"I'm not asking you to eat this. You can't eat this."
Knowing that they were being talked about, the tribal members couldn't help but tense up their bodies when they heard these words. At the same time, the urge to stuff something into their mouths suddenly disappeared.
Before, their urge for food would never be so weak, but after eating the delicious roasted insects yesterday, looking at these insect heads and internal organs...
After comparison, my appetite is not that strong anymore.
"We'll decide how to use it when we get to the place."
Having said this, Zhou Xu paused and thought about what else he needed to arrange.
In fact, there are still many things to be arranged, but many of them require his attention. It is highly likely that the tribal members will not be able to do it well on their own.
And he is only one person after all.
Therefore, within the limited time, he could only make sure to do a few necessary things.
Anyway, those things are not difficult in nature. He just needs to spend some time teaching them, and then he can do other things.
"You six, three people in a team, patrol near the tribe to ensure the safety of the tribe. If anything happens, run to the black forest over there to inform us. Okay, the rest of you, follow me."
As he spoke, Zhou Xu took the lead and walked towards the dark woods not far away.
During this short journey, Zhou Xu also spent a lot of time organizing his thoughts.
Although he had sorted out all the major plans before going to bed yesterday, he was too tired and his mind was groggy, so he was not very clear about some of the specific arrangements for today.
Judging from the time it would take, he should have set the trap first, after all, it takes time to wait for prey.
But for the same reason, he needed to demonstrate the process of catching prey with traps first, so that the tribe members knew exactly what to do before they could leave to do other things.
With this as a premise, if the prey didn't come, wouldn't his plan be stuck there? Thinking of this, out of caution, Zhou Xu changed his plan and first led a large force to sweep the periphery of the Black Forest and collect supplies at the same time.
The update is sent. There was a problem with my computer, so I fiddled with it for a while, so the update is late. Thanks to book friends '懒散会心', '世上闲人也', and '奇怪怪的姓名' for their rewards!
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