survival in the wilderness

Chapter 18 The Stone Cauldron Cracked
The twine net hunting has been surprisingly successful and a great success.

Within two days, everyone in the tribe knew about it.

Everyone began to collect hemp rope and make a net.

More people began to look for juma and began to rub hemp rope.

With a better way of hunting, anyone who is not stupid knows what to do.

What's more, the people of the Sun Tribe have very bright minds, which may be due to the influence of life and diet, and there are great differences in their bodies.

After the hunting method spread, Lin Yan felt that there should be no need to worry about food in the cold season.

When everyone has hunted pika pups and started breeding them, there will be no meat to eat.

When Lao Hei came back in the evening, Lin Yan asked him if he had any clues about the matter with clay.

In the past few days, Lao Hei has been busy with this matter, but there has been no progress.

Lin Yan comforted him, telling him not to worry and take his time.

The next day, when she opened her eyes, it was bright again.

She lent the net to Black Soil, so that Huahong didn't have to hunt with her, and she could share the prey every time, which was enough for them to eat.

Hua Hong was squatting in front of the stove, motionless.

Lin Yan walked over, "Aniang, what's the matter?"

"Cracked." Huahong pointed to the stove. She was cooking broth when suddenly the stone mortar cracked, which shocked her greatly.

When Lin Yan saw it, his face also changed.

This stone mortar is the only one in her house that can be used as a pot, and it cannot be used if it is cracked.

Now it's all right, the broth is gone.Lin Yan wants to cry but has no tears, and wants to die once a day.

The mother put a piece of meat on a wooden stick and roasted it on the fire. There was no way, she always had to eat.

After eating briefly, Huahong asked Mu Shi to help watch Lin Yan, and she and Ye Zi went to find Shi Shi.

It is really not easy to find a stone that can be used as a stone pot. Without a sharp tool to polish it, you can only find a stone with natural grooves.

Every family in the tribe is looking for such stones, but not everyone can find them.

Lin Yan's mortar is shared with Ye Zi's family.

Seeing the situation, Ye Zi and Hua Hong would not dare to delay, what would happen to the two children in the family if they could not find the stone pot.

Adults can drink unboiled water, and their bodies can bear it, but children are weak, and drinking unboiled water is easy to get sick.

The concepts that Lin Yan has instilled in everyone in the past few months have already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

There are so many children in the tribe, accounting for one-third of the population. If they are not properly raised, it will be a huge loss.

She did statistics, and probably found the reason for the surge in the population of the Sun Tribe.

In the past few years, I have not migrated, and I have been living in this area. Relatively speaking, I have settled down and recuperated.More children are born, and although the survival rate is not high, there are quite a few.

Lin Yan understood all this in his heart.Nowadays, the most important thing is the population. In this situation where manpower is paramount, of course, the more people, the better.

She wants to improve the quality of life, and there are too many things to do, all of which require labor.

Therefore, people's diet must be improved to allow more children to survive.This is the top priority.

With more and more hemp nets, more pikas were hunted, and each family began to raise pika pups.

Then, people found that when the cubs raised grow up, they can have three or four pikas in a litter. If they continue to breed, they can completely raise pikas at home.There is no need to hunt hard, and fresh meat can be eaten at any time.

This discovery relieved the food crisis hanging over the heads of all the tribe members.

People no longer worry about having no food to satisfy their hunger, and everyone is smiling.

The only one who is unhappy is Lin Yan, she has encountered a bottleneck.

There was no clay to make pottery from, and she had no pots or hot water to drink.

The only stone pot was also cracked, and I managed to get another one, but it was very difficult to use.

Others were content with that, but she wasn't.In her opinion, the current life is no different from that of a savage.

But how can we solve the problem of equipment.

Without ingredients, nothing can be done.The most urgent task is to find all kinds of ores and clay.

It's been a month and there's no progress. Lin Yan's face is getting more and more serious.

Lao Hei went out early and returned late every day, and finally brought back a black stone the size of a head to Lin Yan.

It was a lump of coal, black and gleaming in the sun.

She asked where she found it, but couldn't find the source.

The family picked it up by accident, put it aside for an unknown period of time, and threw it aside without any use.

I am very happy.She put away the piece of coal solemnly, it will be used later.

Lin Yan changed her mind, she asked Lao Hei to dig everywhere.

Momu's family has moved here, and there are only two people.Just Mao Mu and his aunt.

Aunt Maomu is old and in poor health, and was injured when she gave birth to Maomu.Always sick.

Fortunately, Mogi survived with great difficulty, and now he has grown taller and stronger.

Mao Mu did not leave A Niang alone, relying on his brute force to hunt and support his two mothers.

He is very diligent, and he admires Lin Yan very much, and obeys his orders.Instead of going hunting every day, he just circled around Lin Yan.

Mu Shi was not in good health, and was busy making baskets and twisting hemp rope every day, so the person who took care of Lin Yan was replaced by Mao Mu.

On this day, Lin Yan asked Mao Mu to take her to the river to play.

The two came to the river, cleared out an open space, dug some mud pits, and found some large stone slabs to lay aside.

After waiting for a while, Lao Hei came with four small baskets of soil.

Lin Yan poured the soil into small piles on the stone slab, and asked Mao Mu to come over with the big leaves holding the water.

She started to liven the mud with her hands and asked Fat Bao to test it.

The science and technology museum has the detection function, but the detection of inactive things requires a contribution value.

"Pang Bao, how is it? Can this kind of soil be used?"

Fat Bao: "The ingredients are mixed, and the ingredients contained do not match the data."

Lin Yan tried them one by one, and Fat Bao's answers were all negative.

Only one has a slight touch, but the gap with real clay is still quite large.Lin Yan didn't give up, and asked Lao Hei where he dug this kind of soil, and took her to have a look.

Old Hei hesitated and said, "This one is farther away. It was dug below. No one lives there, so it's not safe."

"What are you afraid of? With you and Momu here, let's be careful."

The two took Lin Yan with them.

I walked northwestward for about three miles and arrived at the place that Lao Hei said.

Few people come here, and the vegetation grows vigorously, covering the sky and closing the sun.

Old Hei had been here before, so he boldly came over to give it a try.

When he arrived at the place, Lin Yan saw that what Lao Hei was digging was the soil near a big rock.

No wonder it's different from the others.

She looked around, but couldn't see anything, "Do you know where you can see high and far?"

The two pointed to the big tree on one side at the same time, and the meaning was self-evident.

Lin Yan was dumbfounded, why did she forget, and hurriedly said, "Take me up."

The two shook their heads at the same time.

Lao Hei persuaded: "The tree is very dangerous, you can't go up."

"There are many bugs on the tree, they bite people, so we can't go there." Mao Mu said.

"You've been there before, right?" Lin Yan looked at Momu with bright eyes.

Mogi nodded, "You are too young to go up."

"Don't be afraid, you take me up."

Under Lin Yan's twists and turns, the two had no choice but to agree to take her to climb the tree.

Picking a big tree, first let Mao Mu climb up to find the way.

Lao Hei waited below with Lin Yan.

(End of this chapter)