Chapter 126 Changes in the Teng Tribe
After returning from the Mountain Turtle Tribe, Jiang Xuan personally dug a deep pond in the yard, dug a lot of fertile pond mud from the pond, and then planted the five ice lotus roots in the mud.
Finally, Jiang Xuan connected a bamboo pipe with flowing water to the pool, so that the pool had running water instead of stagnant water.
After everything was done, Jiang Xuan washed his hands and said, "I hope it can survive."
After planting the frozen lotus roots, Jiang Xuan rode Tangyuan to a high mountain west of the tribe.
This mountain is relatively close to the Teng Tribe, but above the halfway point, the environment is closer to where the Blue Sheep Tribe previously was.
“Boom!”
The glutinous rice dumpling landed on a gentle slope halfway up the mountain, and then, like a giant eagle, it stretched out one wing and slanted down to the ground.
Jiang Xuan followed its wings and walked to the ground.
Not far away, there is a piece of wasteland that has been reclaimed not long ago. The weeds and bushes on the wasteland have been cleared away, and now there are only some tender green grass sprouts.
Six saplings were planted in the wasteland, all of which were wax trees brought back from the Mountain Sheep Tribe.
“Hey, it’s sprouting!”
When Jiang Xuan got closer, he found that there were several small buds growing on two wax tree saplings. They were in a cluster and had not yet fully grown out.
This means that the two wax tree seedlings have survived, and this discovery makes Jiang Xuan very happy.
"Since these two saplings can be grown, the other saplings should also be able to survive. If more saplings are transplanted in the future, this place can become a wax tree forest."
With a wax tree forest, you can raise wax worms.
That is to say, if everything goes well, the Goto tribe can raise waxworms on this mountain without having to risk traveling so far to the Mountain Sheep Tribe.
This made Jiang Xuan very happy. If the Teng Tribe could produce a large amount of insect wax in the future, it would be great whether for their own use or for trading.
Jiang Xuan squatted down and patiently pulled out the weeds that had just grown next to the saplings, then rode Tangyuan back to the tribe.
When he returned to the tribe, he went to the breeding area again.
In the current breeding areas, there are already twenty to thirty sheds for keeping various livestock, and there are more than a dozen caves. Because they are constantly breeding but not eating much, their numbers are growing very fast.
Among them, the most numerous are not the colorful duck, the colorful pheasant or the unicorn, but the bamboo rat and the long-tailed rabbit! The bamboo rat can give birth to four litters a year, with three to five cubs in each litter.
The long-tailed rabbit can give birth to six litters a year, with three to ten cubs in each litter. Its reproductive capacity is simply terrifying.
In just two years, the giant bamboo rats and long-tailed rabbits have grown to a certain size, occupying at least half of the breeding team's pens.
Jiang Xuan stood in front of a shed, looking through the sturdy fence door at the pile of plump long-tailed rabbits inside, and said with emotion: "Our tribe's meat supply is finally guaranteed in the future."
Da Jiao stood beside Jiang Xuan and said with great enthusiasm: "Chief, it's not just meat. The skin of the long-tailed rabbit is relatively thick and the fur is very warm. We can make animal skin clothes in the future."
Jiang Xuan said approvingly: "That's right. In this way, the people of our Teng tribe will not only have meat to eat, but also animal skins to wear. Your breeding team has made a great contribution!"
Da Jiao was delighted by Jiang Xuan's praise and became more motivated to work.
Jiang Xuan checked the other livestock again and found that the colorful ducks had laid a lot of eggs, and the mother ducks were busy hatching them.
Not only the colorful ducks, but also the colorful pheasants and unicorns, almost all lay eggs and hatch their young at about this time.
Unlike the poultry that Jiang Xuan had seen in his previous life, these birds, which had not yet been fully domesticated, only laid eggs twice a year, once in spring and once in autumn.
If you want them to lay eggs all year round, I don’t know how many generations of breeding will be needed.
After inspecting the breeding team, Jiang Xuan walked towards the Feiyu River.
The fishing team is trying to build a wooden boat.
Of course, it is not a boat made of wooden boards. That is a job that only professional carpenters can do. It is impossible for the people in the fishing team to make it.
What they made was a boat similar to a canoe, but much more spacious than a canoe.
“Crackle, crackle…”
On the river bank, the fishing team members lit a bonfire and then put a piece of wood on it to burn.
This piece of wood is about five meters long and about one and a half meters in diameter, and is very thick.
If the tribal warriors were not strong enough and the wood was not dry, it would have been a big problem to carry it back.
This piece of wood was found by Jingjie and his men when they entered the forest. After it had died, it fell to the ground and some of it had already rotted. The piece they carried back was still relatively intact.
After bringing it back, they first used a stone axe to chop it hard, removing the outer skin and shaving the upper and lower surfaces into flat surfaces.
Next to the campfire, Jingjie was holding a clay boat and observing it carefully.
This is a model of a flat-bottomed fishing boat. It has a very simple style, large in the middle, small at both ends, and two oars.
Even though the style is very simple, it is not easy to make.
One reason was the lack of experience, and the other was that the tools were too primitive, making it very difficult to cut the wood into shape.
Jing Jie could only follow the method provided by Jiang Xuan. After cutting a flat surface on the wood, he turned it over, covered it with a thick layer of wet mud, and then put it on the fire. Using the power of the flame, he could burn the inside of the wood bit by bit.
Because it is covered with wet mud, other places except the middle are not easily burned.
When Jiang Xuan came over, five or six soldiers from the fishing team were busy moving the huge piece of wood away from the fire and turning it over.
The middle of the wood was still burning, so the members of the fishing team sprinkled some water on it to put out the flame, and then used a stone adze to scrape off the black charcoal bit by bit.
This way, more wood can be burned the next time you burn it.
After Jiang Xuan came over, Jing Jie immediately stood up and said, "Leader."
Jiang Xuan waved his hand and said, "I just came to take a look, don't worry about me."
Jing Jie said with a bitter face: "This wooden boat is too difficult to build. We have already burned one large piece of wood, and this is the second one."
"What's the problem?" Jiang Xuan asked.
"The wood split when it burned too deep, so we're going to burn it a little lighter this time."
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "It's always harder the first time. Just do it a few more times and gain more experience."
Jingjie hesitated for a while, and finally couldn't help asking: "Chief, why do we have to go through the trouble of building wooden boats? I think bamboo rafts are also good, and the soldiers in the fishing team are also very good at using them."
Jiang Xuan said: "You have been using the bamboo raft for so long. Have you found that when the water flow is strong, the bamboo raft shakes violently and is difficult to control the direction?"
Jingjie nodded and said, "That's true. Sometimes when it rains heavily and the river flows fast, it feels like you can't control the raft."
"That's because the bamboo raft is too shallow, and water will get in between the bamboos. The buoyancy is not strong enough, so it is difficult to control it with just a bamboo pole."
Jiang Xuan pointed at the wooden boat model in Jing Jie's hand and said, "But a wooden boat is different. After people sit on it, it has a deeper draft, is more stable than a bamboo raft, and is easier to turn. In addition, the wide oars are more suitable for paddling than bamboo poles."
"Let me put it this way. If our Teng tribe has always only made bamboo rafts, then the range of your fishing team's activities will also be this small section of the river in front of the tribe."
"But if you can build a wooden boat and keep improving it, your fishing team will own the entire river in the future!"
After hearing Jiang Xuan's words, Jing Jie felt as if a fire was ignited in his heart.
Jingjie nodded solemnly and said, "Chief, I understand. We will definitely build the wooden boat!"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "This is the first time we make a wooden boat, so it doesn't matter if it's a little crude and simple. We can improve it slowly and it will get better."
After Jiang Xuan finished chatting with Jing Jie, he walked over personally, took a stone axe and chopped the huge tree into the shape of a wooden boat.
This is a very strenuous and patience-testing job. Fortunately, Jiang Xuan has neither lack of strength nor patience.
Seeing that the leader was helping, Jing Jie naturally couldn't just stand there. He also picked up a stone axe and worked with Jiang Xuan to build the first wooden boat for the Teng tribe.
In addition to the soldiers who built the wooden boats, there were also some soldiers in the fishing team who were working hard to set up fishing traps, fish cages, and fish and cast nets by the river.
Fishing is their most important daily work, and fish is one of the important food sources for the Teng tribe.
…
On the outskirts of the Teng tribe, Nanxing was patrolling with the guard team's soldiers.
Every day they need to check for dangers around the tribe and see if the traps have been triggered.
“Yo… Yo yo…”
As they were walking through a forest, Nanxing suddenly heard the calls of deer.
Perhaps because he was born in a deer tribe, Nanxing always has some special feelings for deer.
Therefore, after hearing such a sound, he immediately led the guards over there.
When they walked over, they found a large group of bighorn deer! These bighorn deer must have just migrated here, because the forest near the Teng tribe has been swept by hunting teams countless times, and such a large group of bighorn deer has never been found before.
"Chief, are we going to catch some bighorn deer?"
The soldiers of the guard team were ready to take action. When they came across prey during their daily patrols, they would hunt for it and provide more meat for the tribe.
Small tribes like the Teng tribe cannot afford to let these warriors leave their jobs, so they can only let them focus on guarding the tribe.
Nanxing stared at the group of giant deer for a long time. Due to his special feelings for deer, he did not want these giant deer to be eaten, but he could not stop the warriors from hunting for his own selfish reasons.
Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind: other tribes have battle pets or mounts, but the Teng Tribe currently has no real mounts.
If we can tame these bighorn deer and turn them into mounts, we can not only prevent them from being hunted, but also enhance the combat effectiveness of the Vine Tribe!
Thinking of this, Nanxing immediately made a decision in his heart.
Nanxing asked the guards: "What do you think? We can capture these giant deer and use them as mounts?"
Nan Xing's words made the guards' eyes light up.
As a warrior, who hasn't fantasized about riding a mount and roaring through the forest?
Although the giant deer is not a ferocious beast, it is very large. An adult giant deer weighs about one thousand pounds, so it has no problem carrying people. And because it has a pair of large horns, its combat effectiveness is not weak.
"But how can we catch these big-horned deer?" a soldier asked.
Bighorn deer are naturally wary, making them difficult to hunt, let alone capture alive.
Nanxing took out a bone whistle from his animal hide bag and said, "Use this to lure them over here."
Nanxing has been carrying this bone whistle with him for a long time. Due to long-term touching, the surface has become shiny and slippery.
The most amazing thing about this bone whistle is that it can produce lifelike bird and deer sounds.
Deer tribes used to use bone whistles to attract deer.
Nanxing plans to use the same method to capture these giant deer alive.
"Go to the fishing team first to borrow fishing nets. Hurry up."
"yes!"
Several soldiers from the guard team ran back excitedly at a very fast speed.
Nanxing looked at the group of giant deer for a long time, recalling many past events.
When he was young, he also rode a big-horned deer excitedly around the tribe with the help of his parents.
He also once fed a giant deer calf with green grass in his hands, and treated the calf as his future mount, looking forward to the calf growing up.
Later, he finally grew up a little and hoped to become a warrior and own a giant antler deer.
However, the appearance of the Crow Tribe ruthlessly shattered all these beautiful hopes, and the Deer Tribe and all kinds of deer were slaughtered.
"Damn the Crow Tribe!"
Nanxing gritted her teeth. Hatred was like a seed. It would not disappear with the passage of time. Instead, it would take root in the heart and grow bigger and bigger.
Moreover, now that the Crow Tribe has appeared again, sooner or later, a war will break out between the two tribes.
By that time, either you die or I die.
Before this great war comes, if a large number of giant elk can be tamed, the combat effectiveness of the Teng tribe can be improved to a higher level.
Thinking of this, Nanxing rubbed the bone whistle in his hand and was determined to capture the group of giant deer.
He spent a year or two practicing the bone whistle over and over again just for today.
Soon, the guards arrived with some fishing nets.
Nanxing chose a relatively narrow location and ordered the guards to ambush around it.
Nanxing took a deep breath, then put the bone whistle to his mouth and started blowing.
“Yo… Yo yo…”
The sound of the bone whistle was almost indistinguishable from the real thing and soon attracted the attention of the herd of bighorn deer.
Two curious elks were the first to come over here.
They walked slowly and cautiously, their eyes constantly looking around and their ears moving from time to time, obviously listening carefully to the sounds around them.
“Yo… Yo yo…”
Nanxing continued to blow. Although he was anxious, his hands were steady and the deer call sound from the bone whistle maintained a consistent frequency.
Gradually, the two big-horned deer walked into the encirclement of the guards. At this time, Nanxing had already moved back some distance.
When Nanxing felt that the time was ripe, the sound of the bone whistle suddenly turned into a bird's cry.
"superior!"
Two guards jumped down from the tree excitedly and opened the big net to cover the giant deer.
Several other guards also stood up and pulled a large net to block the escape route of the giant deer.
Two big-horned deer crashed into the fishing net, screaming and struggling wildly, but it was too late.
After hearing the noise here, the large group of giant deer ran away in a swarm and disappeared into the dense forest in the blink of an eye.
"Hurry, hurry, hold them down!"
The guards rushed forward together, first dragged the giant deer to the ground with a fishing net, then crowded forward, pinned down the two giant deer with their hands and feet, and tied up their hooves with ropes.
“Success!”
Nanxing raised the bone whistle and a bright smile appeared on his face.
Work hard and don't give up, it will pay off in the end.
(End of this chapter)
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