Chapter 56 Ten thousand years is too long
The full moon night is coming as scheduled.
The next morning, the entire tribe crawled out of the grass nest before dawn.
The woman was responsible for cooking, the man tied the baskets and carried the baskets and was busy until the sun came out, and Mo Ba led nearly half of the tribe members to carry the baskets and loads.
Xu Chen was mixed in the team, and Gu Heju was also in it.
As the tribe's reserve force, the three need to increase their knowledge and prepare for future tribal exchanges.
After all, tribal men have to get married. Although Mo Ba doesn't want Xu Chen to get married, she cannot stop the ancient heritage and cannot stop it selfishly. Then finding a suitable tribal marriage for them is the best choice.
Feng and other six young and strong hunters were the main force in attending the Witch Lord Conference this time.
There are also three strong assistants and seven young women.
The rest of the caves are all women, children, elderly, and weak.
For the safety of the tribe, when Muba left, he repeatedly reminded everyone except the workers who opened the kiln factory to go down the mountain and must stay on the mountain and wait until everyone comes back.
Ye couldn't go out with him because he had to take care of children and pregnant women on weekdays. He cried for the middle of the night last night. Today, he cried again in the morning. He followed a group of women, children, young and old to send a group of people down the mountain, and then sent them to the river beach from a distance. He grabbed Xu Chen's arm and cried and refused to let go. Finally, he had to stop with tears due to repeated comfort and scolding from Xu Chen, Mother Ba and others. Until Xu Chen turned around after walking a long way, he could still see the girl standing on the river beach waving.
It is said that distance produces beauty.
These words are not correct at all.
Although Ye is wearing a linen dress, she is no longer the little female savage who wears a fur skirt all day long and shows her butt when she walks naked, but she is actually unkempt and all kinds of rude and casual living habits. Xu Chen still doesn't think she has become a beautiful girl because of wearing a dress.
However, after walking far away, I looked back and saw a different hazy beauty.
The blue sky and mountain rivers, only she was wearing a white dress, alone on the river beach and grass in the morning, waving her hand from a distance, slightly surrounded by the steaming morning mist and faint sunlight, like an elf girl in the wilderness, with a beautiful artistic conception that she could not let go.
The so-called beauty is on the side of the water.
Unfortunately, she is her cousin.
Xu Chen with a little regret in his heart, he withdrew his gaze, mixed in a long line, and gradually moved farther along the river towards the valley.
This is the second time Xu Chen has gone out after traveling through time for nearly three months.
And it's a long trip.
The small pool at the entrance of the valley is still clear, but the waterfall on the cliff has stopped flowing, and the waterfall in the pond has fallen a lot. You can see many big and small fish and shrimps at the bottom of the pond.
Primitive people actually don’t like to eat fish, mainly because aquatic animals do not have oil and water, and the salt content is extremely low, and the fish are not easy to catch.
Compared to fishing, primitive people are more willing to catch some snakes and turtles.
There have been a large number of oracle bone inscriptions left in Chinese history, including more than 100,000 tortoise shells unearthed from Yinxu alone.
Why are there so many turtle shells? Because turtles are also an important source of meat, and they are relatively easy to obtain and there is no danger.
Compared to carving words on stone and casting them on metal, tortoise shells are obviously easier to use and more convenient to preserve.
Therefore, Wu Zhububu official collected a large number of inscriptions using tortoise shell seals to test the good and bad luck. As a result, it gradually accumulated and formed a huge cultural heritage, providing a large amount of material for archaeology in later generations.
In other words, the large number of oracle bone inscriptions existed as the product of the right time, place, and people, and the combination of them, and not formed by a separate reason.
It can be eaten, used and preserved for easy preservation, which has achieved the historical value of tortoise shells.
However, Xu Chen believes that because of his appearance, oracle bone inscriptions may not exist. In the future, either test the lettering of caves or test the lettering of pottery.
This is a good idea. After the witch master comes back from the meeting, he will make pottery and carve some diaries on it, not for the sake of showing off himself, but mainly to leave some useful legacy for later archaeology.
After leaving the valley, there is a rushing river.
Although the scale of this river is not as large as the Yangtze River, it is at least equivalent to a large tributary like the Han River. Although it is a dry season, the river surface is still nearly fifty meters wide, and clear flowing water rolls to the southeast. There are high mountains and ridges on both sides of the river, and between the mountains and rivers is a wide river beach.
Wild beasts are scattered in groups on this endless river beach to eat grass leisurely.
A large number of wild birds flew in flocks on the river beach.
Above the blue sky, there are goshawks spreading their wings and hovering in the extremely high sky.
The river flows, the sky is high and the earth is vast, and the whole is full of primitive and natural scenery.
And here was the border area where the Ba people hunted and lived.
There are many preys in the Great River Basin, but a huge wild wolf tribe entrenched here and became a major concern of the Ba tribe.
But ten days ago, the disaster was cleared.
Since Feng and others seized the opportunity to kill seven wild wolves in one breath, the group of wild wolves disappeared overnight.
Recently, Feng and others went out of the valley to search seven or eight miles upstream and downstream of the river beach, but they found no trace of wolves. At most, they occasionally saw one or two lonely wolves.
This kind of lone wolf is either a loser in the fight for status or an elderly and weak person driven out by the wolves. Their food is mostly made of residues left over from hares, birds, eggs, or other wild animals, and it basically does not pose a threat to humans.
With a new hunting area as big as the mouth of the river, Feng and others' hunting has become more and more stable.
However, for the primitive tribes, they would not hunt too much animals, but would only ensure that the tribe has basically sufficient meat every day.
This is because meat is not easy to preserve, and it is also to raise wild animals and maintain natural balance.
If you ask for excessive hunting, nearby beasts will flee from this area in fear, and the consequence will be that food will be scarce.
This is the oldest primitive animal husbandry method and a coexistence instinct of humans as natural animals.
As more and more humans become more and more demand for food, when large-scale hunting causes natural balance to begin to become unbalanced and hunting becomes more and more difficult, this natural accumulation will become purposeful accumulation, and livestock and poultry will slowly appear.
It is still the most basic evolutionary principle.
The lack of food forces humans to evolve.
But this evolution, driven purely by natural forces, is too slow.
Ten thousand years is too long, so I have to seize the day.
For Xu Chen, what he needs is not only food and clothing, but a more high-end living environment and living needs.
Therefore, he could only rely on his own efforts to forcibly promote the upgrading of the tribe and develop towards a higher stage of civilization.
Along the way, Fenghe group of men from the tribe joking loudly, and proudly pointed to some places along the way and told the glory of the hunt.
However, Xu Chen knew that most of them were still bragging.
Before there was no bow and arrow, I was blocked in the valley by wild wolves, and there were two groups of wolves inside and outside, and the living environment was difficult.
As for the farther downstream of the river, they go even less, and perhaps only tribal activities in spring and autumn will mobilize a large number of people to travel far every year.
But facing such a wild wilderness, a team of more than ten people cannot guarantee absolute safety. If you encounter large-scale wolves or tigers and lions, it is possible to destroy them.
From the early morning, the group of people almost stopped and kept rushing.
Men and women exchanged baskets and carried loads, and the wind led a group of hunters to escort with bows and arrows.
After walking along the river for nearly four hours, a vast impact plain appeared in front of him, and a small river meandered into the river. In the distance, a group of primitive people could be seen appearing. The goal of both sides was the same, which was a valley in the direction of the river.
"Huga!"
Feng and a group of men became a little excited.
Xu Chen understood that this was a tribe called Hu nearby.
As for what this Hu refers to, it is unknown. Just like Ba of the Ba tribe, I don’t know the meaning of this word at all. I don’t specifically refer to something called Ba during daily communication, let alone there is no word originally, but it is just a close pronunciation.
The Hu people opposite also found Xu Chen and others. Someone waved spears and sticks from a distance and greeted him.
Feng and others also responded a few times with ghosts and howling. Soon the two tribes got closer and closer, and gradually they could distinguish their body shape and appearance.
There are nearly thirty people in the Hu tribe, all of whom are young and strong men and women, with a few half-large boys about the same size as Xu Chen.
Some people in the team wrapped some things with animal skins and vines, which should be used for trading.
The outfit is similar to the Uk tribe, all of which are covered with simple animal skins and standard savage outfits with unkempt and dirty faces.
Chapter completed!