survival in the wilderness

Chapter 14

While writing, Lin Yan talked about why he wrote it like this, why there are lines connecting people, they are direct blood relatives.

The tribe respects women, and the mother is sure, but the father is not sure.

There was only one man in the second generation of Ah Lan's family. After confirming again and again, Lin Yan wrote him next to Ah Hong, and wrote their children below.

More than a dozen stone slabs are full of writing.

Alan's family returned home satisfied.

There are many people in the tribe, and Lin Yan didn't go out for three days, waiting at home to help most of the families write down the clan.Have them go back and practice writing their names while learning Arabic numerals.

Huang Ye's family had the most people. They brought Lin Yan a whole pika, and the dead ones hadn't been dealt with yet.Temporarily solved the meat problem of the Huahong family.

Lin Yan also led a group of children to learn how to count.

The child learns to go back and give it to the family.

The adults are busy during the day, and when night falls, they will practice names around the fire and learn to count.

She also took the opportunity to dig a pit with a few children, fearing that the pika would escape from the hole, so she built it with stones and laid a slab underneath, raised the two pika cubs, and threw some weeds into the pit to feed them. .

The matter of the name came to an end for the time being, Lin Yan was going to take back that piece of hemp.

She specially asked a few strong men to help, including Black Soil.That juma grows thick and thick, and only those with great strength can break it with bare hands.

Let A Niang, Ye Zi, and a few women spread a small piece of river sand in front of the cave entrance, spread it with stone slabs as much as possible, and then pick large leaves to spread it on.

Here is ready to pile up the pockmarks, and follow-up processing pockmarks.

Lin Yan helped everyone write names and teach counting, and her status in people's hearts became very different. Everyone was happy to help her work.

There are many people and strength, and it took only one morning to collect all the juma.

People were curious about what Lin Yan wanted to use.She picked a bunch of pockmarks and peeled off the outer skin to reveal the pockmarks inside.

The pockmarked grains are larger than those in the book, about the size of peanuts, round and can be eaten raw.

Lin Yan demonstrated by biting open the hemp seeds with his teeth, exposing the white kernels inside, which tasted good and had a high oil content.

The others followed Lin Yan's example and began to eat pockmarks.

It turned out to be edible, different from the sweet and sour taste of wild fruits, it is a completely new taste.This is the smell of oil that Lin Yan was talking about.

A few days after Ju Ma has been exposed to the sun, the outer skin covering the pockmarks leaves, and the pockmarks immediately fall off after being lightly beaten on the stone slab.

Ask someone to help, knock down all the pockmarks in one day, and pile them together.Cover it with big leaves for fear of rain.

The yield of juma is very high, and there are a lot of pockmarks harvested from that small piece. After sharing some with each person who came to help, there are still a lot left.

After the pockmarks were taken back, the adults were busy hunting, because most of the hot season was over, and they had to prepare food for the cold season.

There were too many people going out, and he couldn't go out by himself, so Lin Yan asked the adults to help him bring back something that they thought was different.

She didn't say anything specific, it's just that everyone thinks it's novel, and it doesn't matter if you don't know it.It doesn't matter if it's a stone or a piece of grass.

These days, people know that Lin Yan can recognize everything, and when they start to recognize characters, they are curious, and they all agree with Lin Yan's request, promising to bring her back.

Without the help of adults, Lin Yan asked Mu Shi to find more than a dozen old people in the tribe who could not go out, together with a group of children, began to peel the bark of Ju Ma's stems.

It took three days of peeling before all the skin was peeled off. The skin that had been dried in the sun was dry heather gray, thick and thin, long and short.

Pick out the thin and soft inner skin and knead it into a thin line, and knead the thicker outer skin into a thicker line.

Next, two or three strands of the thick thread are twisted together, and this process is repeated continuously, and finally a thin hemp rope is made, about one meter long.It is full of toughness, and its firmness is comparable to ordinary bark and straw rope.

After seeing this process in person, the old people immediately understood and began to twist the hemp rope.

This process is time-consuming and labor-intensive. Fortunately, this group of people are idle and bored every day, and they feel novelty and energy in everything they do, and they can endure loneliness.

In two days, more than a dozen old people twisted out several hemp ropes of different lengths.The length can be controlled freely, and you can make it as long as you want.

The thick skin was used up, and the result was a few hemp ropes, and everyone was very excited.

Every day, I can see the results I made by myself, and I have an extraordinary sense of accomplishment, and the participants are very satisfied.

Shuisheng has been rubbing hemp rope for the past few days. He thinks doing this is much more interesting than going out.

When the rough skin was used up, he looked at the thin skin and asked, "What are these used for?" It must not be rubbing hemp rope, otherwise Lin Yan asked everyone to use it together.

Lin Yan smiled, "I'll find out tomorrow, go back and prepare some smooth branches, I'll use them tomorrow."

She found a branch nearby, buried it in the fire for a while, and immediately took it out and pressed it with stones to shape it. After it cooled down completely, she peeled it and got a smooth and hard branch.

Then grind it on the stone, and sharpen the two pieces.A wooden stick is finished.

The whole process was so fast that the children were amazed and immediately went home to try it out.

After they left, Ye Ya approached Lin Yan, "Someone took the hemp rope away, you don't care."

"Take it away, take it away, anyway, it's a test product. It's enough for everyone to learn it, and you can make it yourself in the future."

"Okay." Ye Ya was a little unhappy, it belonged to Lin Yan, and they took it away without asking. He felt that this was wrong, but he didn't know how to say it.

After Lin Yan grabbed grass and fed the cubs, he set up a pot to cook broth.

The food is too simple, every day is either barbecue or broth, the taste is very ordinary, not delicious.Occasionally there are wild fruits to eat.

I heard that the wild fruits grow in places where there are many ferocious beasts. People in the tribe dare not go too far, and they all move around, mainly hunting pikas and rabbits.

This is an experience passed down from generation to generation. Pikas are the safest, even if they cannot be caught, they will not be injured.But other beasts are different, with strong attack power, it is much more difficult to hunt.

After the bonus came back, Lin Yan immediately said, "Aniang, today's harvest is good."

"Yes." Hua Hong raised the pika in his hand, a complete one, "I met a hunting team today and gave us one."

It turned out to be the case.

Hua Hong smiled and said, "It's for you. You've helped everyone so much, and they gave you food, and they come and go."

"Hey, Ma'am is also very good." Lin Yan smiled and picked up the hemp rope, "Ma'am, look, this is hemp rope, it is stronger than grass rope and bark, you go out tomorrow and bring one for use Bundle of firewood."

After having a fire, people began to pick up dead branches as firewood to make more preparations for the cold season.

Huahong responded with a smile and started to barbecue.

Unlike her daughter, she likes barbecue, but she always feels that she can't get enough of soup.

After eating and tidying up, it was time to fall asleep.

People in the tribe never come out at night. It is said that the night is very dangerous. There are various beasts coming out to look for food. It is best to sleep in the cave.

Lin Yan began to exercise her mental strength. She would spend more than two hours a day practicing, and she had formed a habit.

(End of this chapter)