Chapter 4 Skilled Workers
The next morning, Xu Chen was woken up by someone.
It was just dawning.
There are many savages in the cave huddled in their nests to sleep.
He opened his eyes in a daze and saw the savage girl squatting next to his grass nest with excitement on her face.
"What's the matter..."
Xu Chen quickly sat up, and while talking, he realized that the savage couldn't understand either, so he could only look at the girl with a confused face.
"Chenga~"
The girl pulled him hard.
Xu Chen had no choice but to get up from his grass nest reluctantly, then looked down, and was embarrassed and quickly pulled down the black and dirty fur skirt a few times, covering something tense, and then staggered and limped out of the cave with the girl.
At this time, the morning light appeared slightly in the sky, and the morning birds were leaping, and the cave was full of vitality.
The feathered mother Ba was surrounded by a group of women and was having fun communication near the fire pit.
Seeing Xu Chen come out, Mother Ba excitedly came up with a long bark rope in her hand.
“&*#@…”
Xu Chen was confused.
"Chenga..."
The girl shook his arm excitedly and pulled him to the position where she wrote, pointing to the rope letter he wrote yesterday.
This hieroglyph is a two-sentence s entangled together, which looks like the structural state of the rope. Therefore, according to the intelligence of the primitive man, it is easy to recognize that what he is painting should be the rope.
As for the crescent moon behind, you should be able to recognize it.
In the excited introduction of the girl's paintings, Mother Ba became more and more excited. She turned her head and picked up a few barks from the ground and handed them to Xu Chen.
Xu Chen had no choice but to nod and began to demonstrate how to tear the bark into thin silk. The girl was helping around, and a group of women were all around to watch carefully.
Soon Xu Chen rubbed the torn thin wire into bunches of long strips, and then rubbed them together with his hands and twisted them into a rope.
"Shengga, Ropegga!"
A group of women of all sizes suddenly exclaimed.
The excitement outside the cave also woke up a group of men and children sleeping in the cave. People yawned and rubbed their eyes. When they saw so many people gathered together and didn't know what to do, they all gathered around curiously and watched. When they saw the ropes rubbed out from Xu Chen's hands, they screamed as if they saw ghosts.
For a moment, hundreds of birds flew in front of the cave halfway up the mountain, and even caused the roar of wild beasts in the distant mountains.
More than ten minutes later, Xu Chen had already rubbed a half-meter-long bark rope. At this time, everyone from the entire tribe gathered around to watch. They were both surprised and excited, especially when they looked at Xu Chen, the eyes were obviously different from yesterday, and they all had a sense of awe.
Although they are primitive people and are still in a semi-savage state, they are already standard intelligent humans and have an unusual enthusiasm for creation.
Since ancient humans learned to make sharp stone axes with stones, humans began to embark on the path of civilization evolution from the state of wild beasts.
But they stagnated for millions of years in the stone stage.
In the past million years, there has been almost no great progress and development is very slow. The biggest obstacle is that we have not created enough tools and learned to grow livestock to improve our survival.
Once new tools and ways of survival appear, human civilization will undergo a rapid evolution.
For example, the ancient Three Emperors in Chinese legend.
Suiren was invented to drill wood to make fire, which made humans use fire from a natural random state to normal, and their dietary structure began to undergo tremendous changes.
In addition, Shennong identified grains and various plants and led mankind into agricultural civilization.
Farming and animal husbandry can be regarded as the watershed between ancient and modern human civilization.
Taking this step is the Neolithic Age of slash-and-burn cultivation.
Geology and archaeology are inseparable.
Although Xu Chen learned about mineral geology, he was still very clear about the connection between stratigraphic age and the evolution of human civilization.
Knotting things can be regarded as the greatest invention before the birth of text.
At present, the primitive tribe where Xu Chen is located has not invented the rope, and he also eats raw meat and drinks blood. It can be seen that the current civilization has not yet entered the Neolithic civilization.
But humans have accumulated millions of years since ancient times and are very familiar with the understanding of the natural environment. They only need the guidance of a wise man to easily overcome this hurdle.
At least judging from the time we spent together for just one day, this tribe is no longer much different from the former primitive tribes of Africa. The only difference is just an opportunity for evolution.
And today, Xu Chen rubbed a rope, which made the tribe suddenly rejuvenate.
This group of primitive people who already have language communication skills can easily understand the benefits of ropes.
After all, bundling items is the most common behavior in life, including the fur around everyone's waist, which is still tied with grass vines.
Xu Chen rubbed the rope, and the girl was next to him to tear the bark. Mother Ba and a group of women also helped find more bark to tear them into thin silk.
After Xu Chen finished rubbing more than one meter in one breath, he shook his hands and rested. Looking at the pile of bark in front of him, his eyes turned black and almost hit the ground.
He can't finish rubbing such a big pile in a day.
Even after rubbing, I guess these rough hands will peel off a layer of calluses and then grow thicker calluses.
My body is not even a beard, and I guess I am only twelve or thirteen years old.
How can I be so happy in the middle of the night with a pair of calluses?
Thinking of Xu Chen's urge to collapse, he quickly dropped the rope and stood up, limping straight to the woods on the side of the cave.
"Chenga..."
The girl nervously caught up with her.
"Don't follow me, I'm going to pee!"
Xu Chen plunged into the woods, lifted up his fur skirt and started to swear. Amid the sound of running water, a burst of laughter came from behind him.
After two minutes, Xu Chen was refreshed and shook his hands out of the woods.
At this time, the sun had already jumped out of the mountains in the east, the sky was clear and fresh, and it looked like another good weather that I had never seen before.
A group of men gathered at Xu Chen's rope-tightening position to study, while a group of women scattered around and started to make breakfast.
Fang Yun went to the water spring to wash his face and hands. After seeing a black face like a charcoal burner in the water puddle, he was stunned for a while, shivered and quickly took a few sips of cold water to suppress his shock. Then he limped to a group of men.
"Chenga!"
A group of men were as respectful and enthusiastic as the kings who were welcomed back.
A group of guys who changed their minds and laughed at me last night.
Xu Chen curled his lips disdainfully, then sat down and continued to rub the ropes. The group of wild men all squatted or stood around, without blinking each other.
As the sun gradually rose, the aroma of food barbecue slowly drifted away in front of the cave.
Xu Chen's stomach started to make noise. After rubbing for more than two meters, he waited until his mother started to summon the table and quickly threw the rope straight to the fire pit.
Soon dozens of savages, both men, women, young and old, surrounded them, and a group of women began to distribute food, but the first one was placed on Xu Chen's hand, and it was a piece of hot barbecue, which was obviously much more refined than what I roasted yesterday.
And all the savages seemed to think this should be done, and smiled with respect and enthusiasm to Xu Chenbao.
It seems that being a skilled worker is very popular.
Xu Chen felt at ease and found a stone to sit down and start eating.
A group of men surrounded him, eating and chatting, and suddenly felt a sense of déjà vu.
After breakfast, the tribe went out to hunt and collect under the arrangement of Muba. Xu Chen was unable to go down the mountain because his legs were inconvenient, so he had to continue to transform into Ruo Rope. Muba also arranged several weak men and women to help collect the bark and learn to Ruo Rope Rope Rope.
This kind of bark is found near the cave. It is very strong, but the fibers are thicker, and there is no big problem with rubbing ropes. But Xu Chen actually thought more about weaving cloth.
When I saw a woman who was not wearing clothes on the street, Xu Chen would definitely keep his eyes open, no matter how beautiful or ugly she was.
But in front of him, he was not interested at all. He felt embarrassed. He walked around with two eggplants hanging down. He felt that he was not happy after seeing too much.
He decided to be a leader of civilization and lead this group of primitive savages on the path of development of having enough food and clothing.
He can't do enough food at the moment, but it doesn't seem difficult to wear a lot of clothes.
And I don’t know if this ghost place is cold in winter. If I run around naked in vacuum fur in the middle of winter, I’m afraid that I will freeze undescribable sequelae.
However, for the current conditions, it is not so easy to advance from Rope Root to Weaver. First of all, you need to find a plant similar to hemp.
So in the morning, after teaching several men and women to rub ropes, Xu Chen stood on a wooden stick as a crutch and decided to go shopping near the cave to see if he could find a material suitable for spinning and weaving.
The savage girl almost became his royal follower, following him step by step, and a few bare-ass savages were also running around him in a hurry.
It should be safer near the cave. In addition to a rugged path down the mountain, the woods are also wider. Many places have been cleared of thorns. On some open spaces and slopes, stones are even built into terraces. There are some fruit trees or plants that are not recognized at all. Some fruit trees and intertwined fruits are hung on them.
Looking at the situation in front of him, Xu Chen began to overturn his previous thoughts and judgments again.
This group of savages did not know how to plant, but had learned the planting technique, but it was still very primitive. They just transplanted some edible plants according to local conditions and did not evolve to a conscious large-scale sowing and cultivation state.
This is the mountainside, and the trees are very tall. It takes several people to embrace any tree. Even on the edge of the cliff not far from the bottom of the cave, you can see a big tree with a diameter of at least five meters. It is rooted in the cracks of the rocks. The branches are twisted and rugged like a green dragon. The bark is cracked and covered with thick moss, growing tilted on the cliff. It is wrapped with thick vines, hanging like a python, and is densely hung on it. It is densely hung with strings of green fruits.
“Grievance…Grievance…”
A group of children were happily crawling up along the tilted tree trunks, and the speed was very fast. In the blink of an eye, someone climbed to seven or eight meters high, and accidentally fell below the cliff, which made Xu Chen sweat all over.
However, a group of children seemed to be very sensible. They basically stopped when they reached this height, and then climbed the ancient vine that was thicker than their waists and shook it hard, but it turned out to be like a slut that was shaking a big tree without any movement.
This kind of fruit seems to be the kind given to her by the girl last night, and it tastes very good.
Chapter completed!