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The next morning, Xu Chen was woken up by Ye from his sleep, and then pulled him out of the grass nest with excitement on his face.

He walked out of the cave in a daze, yawning and tucking his eyes.

At this time, it was already another beautiful sunny weather outside.

The woman has started to make breakfast, and the barbecue food is fragrant by the fireworks surround the fire.

A group of children who usually sleep in, are squatting around the fire pit with their bare butts.

They were not waiting for breakfast, but were observing the strange items made of mud that Xu Chen put in the fire yesterday.

Of course, what they are most interested in is the two clay sculpture villains.

There were even two older children who were pulling them out in the fire with wooden sticks, as if they wanted to get the two clay figures out.

Mother Ba and several women were observing the earth stove that Xu Chen made yesterday.

Seeing Xu Chen come out, a group of children were immediately frightened and timid even hid behind several women.

"Moxie Gaga..."

Mo Ba pointed at Tuzao with a puzzled and strange expression on his face.

Moxi, with a sense of inquiry, is very similar to what, but its pronunciation is inverted.

Although Xu Chen was not sure that the group of primitive people were speaking ancient Chinese, after he continued to familiarize himself and summarize, he could basically confirm that this is a language that is very similar to Chinese.

In Wuhan, the locals ask why, and they usually ask Moss.

Therefore, this is also in line with the pronunciation habits of some southern Chinese languages.

Regarding the mother's problem, Xu Chen pointed to the pottery that had been burned overnight in the fire pit, used a stick to pull out a largest open bowl from it, wrapped it in a piece of animal skin, poured it clean and placed it on the earthen stove.

This earth stove is very small, just about the size of a small honeycomb coal stove. This pottery bowl is placed just to cover the furnace mouth. There are gaps left by stones around it, which can ventilate and exhaust smoke.

The pottery bowl has not been cooked again, and it cannot be cooked successfully in this kind of fire pit. However, after a night of smoke and roasting, the pottery bowl is already very strong and does not crack, which surprised Xu Chen, which shows that the clay under the earthen hills at the foot of the mountain is of very good quality and is definitely suitable for firing pottery.

However, Xu Chen's invention of this advanced combination was too complicated, and Mo Ba and several women still couldn't understand it. Looking at Huozhao, he looked confused.

Xu Chen had no choice but to continue the demonstration.

Therefore, he grabbed a few pieces of mixed grains that were being grilled on the stone slab and threw them into the pottery bowl, and then moved some burning wooden sticks from the fire pit to the stove.

After this operation, Mo Ba and several women understood instantly. While they covered their mouths and exclaimed, their faces also showed an excited and surprised expression.

On weekdays, the staple food is a ball of miscellaneous grains, but because there is no container to put it in, you can only make it wet into cake balls and put it on a stone slab to grill it. Not only is the slow speed, it will easily fall into the carbon ash in the fire pit.

But Xu Chen combined these two things together to cook a large bowl of grains at a time, and it doesn’t need to be pinched into a ball, and just put it in the container made of mud.

Ye Qingxue was even more excited.

When she came back yesterday, Xu Chen was busy working on these things, both mud and stones. She helped to do them for a long time, but she didn't know what Xu Chen was doing to do these things.

Now she finally realized that it was used to roast food.

And it is indeed very convenient to grill food like this.

"Bann!" Xu Chen pointed at the big pottery bowl.

"Benga!" Mother Ba and a group of women followed excitedly.

Xu Chen had no choice but to point to the fire stove below.

"kitchen!"

"Sauga."

Xu Chen rubbed his temples and smiled bitterly.

Originally, he wanted to demonstrate to a group of women how to cook water and vegetables with pottery bowls, but unfortunately the pottery bowl has not been cooked yet and is still in a state of mud and tiles. It is estimated that the water will be broken soon after it is put in. Therefore, he gave up and took the pottery bowl and put it into the carbon fire in the middle of the fire pit to continue burning. At the same time, the pottery was not strong enough and needed to be burned with fire.

After Mother Ba understood, she quickly asked someone to add more firewood into the fire pit. Soon, this super fire pit with a diameter of three meters was in a blazing flames, and thick smoke was churning at the entrance of the cave, smoking all the men who were still sleeping in from the cave.

After breakfast, a group of women carried baskets and rattan baskets and wooden hoes down the mountain to collect food.

A group of men were also divided into two groups. Feng led a few young and strong men down the mountain to hunt, and the rest stayed on the mountain to continue preparing materials for the production of bows and arrows.

The life of the primitive man is simple and pure.

Either looking for something to eat or on the way to eat.

It looks extremely boring.

However, for Xu Chen, this is a new life for safety.

Stay away from the temptation of technology, stay away from the bustling hustle and bustle, stay away from the noisy cities and humans, be with mountains and rivers, be with birds and beasts, and be friends with a group of prehistoric humans. The tools and lifestyles that once seemed backward in the countryside were now unprecedented inventions and creations.

In his simple creation, it brought new life and hope to a group of primitive humans who were not covered in clothes and had no food to fill their stomachs.

This kind of success and joy is something I have never experienced before.

Therefore, he did not feel simplicity or boredom at all, but instead felt a sense of high spirits.

After a group of primitive people were all busy going out, he carried a bow and arrow, a basket, and a wooden hoe. He found two half-aged children of his age to prepare to go down the mountain.

It is not suitable for burning kilns on the mountain, so he wants to build a kiln factory at the foot of the mountain.

It doesn't need to be too big, it just needs to burn pottery that can be eaten and consumed by dozens of people on a daily basis.

Seeing Xu Chen and the other two leaving, Ye was very nervous and pulled his hoe and refused to let go.

"Dig the soil at the foot of the mountain, and basin!"

Xu Chen pointed to the foot of the mountain not far away and explained the explanation of how to draw a painting.

The two teenagers also held up the spear and wooden hoe in their hands and explained with a quack smile, saying that they would never put Xu Chen in danger.

After much persuasion, Ye just refused to let go. In the end, Xu Chen could only point to the fire pit and explain to the little pony, and Ye Cai reluctantly let go.

Ye, like him, is a child without a mother.

In this era, both men and women have a short lifespan. Generally, children in their teens are basically orphans. Therefore, family and tribes are the key to raising children and growing up.

No one will despise orphans, but a completely harmonious family. They raise children together, and raising children is all women's business, and men are only responsible for roaming outside.

It is impossible to find a father when encountering difficulties, because no one knows who his father is, and he can only bear all the sorrows and joys by himself.

A half-grown child like Xu Chen has basically become the tribe's reserve force and has to go down the mountain to hunt and open up the land.

But at this age, he is slow to hang up very quickly.

It's like he died not long ago.

It seemed that the tribe members were not very sad, and they were ready to burn him to sacrifice to heaven.

Two young men following Xu Chen down the mountain, one named Gu and the other named Ju.

In ancient times, it means sticks, and in lifting, it means feathers.

Judging from the pronunciation, ancient and sticks are somewhat similar, and ju and feathers are also somewhat similar. Therefore, Xu Chen is becoming more and more convinced that the languages ​​of these primitive people should be related to ancient Chinese. He can create the two words "stick and feather" based on these two pronunciations, and then treat it as an ancient Chinese dialect similar to Hakka. There is no problem after getting used to it.

Half an hour later, the three of them walked to the foot of the mountain talking and laughing.

Momba and a group of women were collecting oatmeal and beans nearby.

Before Xu Chen could walk far away, he found a suitable location near the foot of the mountain and directed his two companions to help and start digging up.

The earth kiln is just a larger fire stove.

However, in order to ensure that the temperature does not disappear too quickly, the soil is usually dug up and built into the soil, so a certain slope is required.

The location Xu Chen chose was a soil slope with no big trees around it and was relatively open, but the ground was still covered with weeds and thorns.

If I wanted to dig a pit in the past, I could only use a simple stick or even a hand to dig it, but the appearance of a wooden hoe greatly improved the working conditions.

Although the two teenagers didn't know what Xu Chen was going to do, they were still happy to accept the command. After all, the matter of the earthen stove and the pottery basin had spread, and everyone was surprised and interested in these two things.

The three of them talked and laughed. Although the conversation was often awkward, the atmosphere was quite harmonious.

A group of women collected nearby would occasionally come to check it out when they were resting. When they learned that Xu Chen was planning to build a large stove here to make a pottery basin, they were surprised and persuaded him a few words, saying that it was not suitable for cooking here, but Xu Chen couldn't explain clearly, so he could only insist on doing his own thing.

Half a day passed by, and the three of them dug out a large pit with a diameter of three meters at the foot of the mountain, but the depth was far from enough. However, such overloaded labor made Xu Chen feel that all the food he ate in the morning was consumed and he was so hungry that he had no energy. So the three of them stopped and went to the nearby forest to find some food to satisfy their hunger.

There are low soil slopes and hills at the foot of the mountain, without too many large plants, mainly weeds and thorns. The three of them went back and forth to find edible wild fruits and rhizomes. What surprised Xu Chen was that there were a large number of mushrooms in the grass.

These mushrooms have many types and vary in color and shape.

Maybe the temperature rose after a heavy rain yesterday, and it was filled with mountains and fields overnight.

When he was inspecting in Yunnan, Xu Chen followed the survey team to eat many mushrooms.

Beef liver, chicken oil, green hands, chicken mushrooms, brooms, and old people's heads are common fungi in Yunnan.

Of course, I eat more and vomit more, and I have strange hallucinations several times. In short, wild mushrooms are both delicious and dangerous. Even the natives of Yunnan are not considered authentic without being poisoned several times a year.

Red umbrella, white pole, and lying on the board together after eating...

If there is no local guidance on picking and cooking, you can usually invite the suona team to play music and start the meal after eating.

Therefore, wild mushrooms make many people love and hate them.

Xu Chen was right now, and he was surprised and happy to see the mushrooms everywhere in the grass and woods.
To be continued...