primitive survival evolution

Chapter 148 Hog and Pheasant

The autumn wind blows, the leaves fall, and in the valley, the garden is full of autumn colors, and the mature millet and corn are golden. They will be harvested in just one month.

In the vast fields, people in several villages are busy harvesting vegetables and fruits such as potatoes and kudzu.

And at the mouth of the valley.

"Break some stones and send them there."

"Yes, mix gravel and sand into the cement."

"Build it higher, temporarily build it seven meters high."

A group of people and a few beasts are building the city wall here, and Li Yan is personally supervising the work. The city wall at Taniguchi is tens of meters long. They plan to raise it from the original five meters to seven meters. If it is not for the lack of cement, they will It is also planned to rise to ten meters.

After a while, someone on the city wall suddenly shouted down: "Patriarch, there is a team of beasts outside!"

Hearing this, Li Yan immediately ran out of the city. The guards outside the city immediately held spears to be vigilant. They all watched a team of beasts approaching slowly from a thousand meters away. Outside the valley was a forest with many towering ancient trees. Not clear.

Soon, a velociraptor walked quickly through the forest and came to the city gate.

"The patriarch is a tribe of the alliance. They come to trade with us." This is a ginger warrior who is patrolling outside.

"The Horde of the Alliance? Well, you step back."

"Yes!"

Li Yan then directed the people behind: "It's okay, you are from the alliance, you continue to build the wall."

"Yes, patriarch."

After more than ten minutes, the animal team came to the mouth of the valley, led by a stegosaurus, and behind them were giant herbivorous beasts such as Triceratops, Elephant, and Parasaurolophus, all of which were entry-level beasts.

Patriarch Mu is riding a stegosaurus, he is very airy.

After the Stegosaurus landed on all fours, its head was relatively low from the ground, even shorter than a human, but its back was very tall and majestic. The Stegosaurus saddle was installed on the front part of its body. Very scary.

Patriarch Mu got off the sword dragon, came to Li Yan, and said with a smile, "Patriarch Yan."

"Mu Patriarch, please come inside, let's go in and talk." Li Yan recognized this Mu tribe. He had received a Stegosaurus mission from their tribe before taming the Therxosaurus last time.

"it is good."

Li Yan warmly greeted the beast team to enter the valley, more than a dozen beasts, one after another passed through the unrepaired city wall.

They stopped by the river and began to unload the beast's load on the ground.

Baskets filled with goods and covered with animal skins, pieces of animal skins, and some herbs and dried meat.

Small tribes are relatively poor, and they don't have many shell coins, and most of the time they still rely on barter trade.

Li Yan stood watching from the sidelines when Patriarch Mu and two middle-aged men in animal skins came in front of him.

"Patriarch Yan, let me introduce you."

"This is the chief of the Hog Tribe."

"This is the patriarch of the Pheasant Tribe."

After Patriarch Mu introduced the two skin men to Li Yan, he also introduced Li Yan to them.

The two sides got to know each other briefly.

"Did you come together?" Li Yan asked.

"Yes, we came together."

The Mu tribe pointed to the northeast and said: "Our tribes are over there. It is more than a day's journey away from here. It is near the Taotang tribe. Our tribes usually go to the Taotang tribe for trade, but this year , some of our tribes want to exchange some pottery with your tribe before the autumn meeting."

"Patriarch Yan, last time at the Yi tribe, our Hog tribe exchanged some pottery with you. I heard that the pottery of your tribe is cheaper than that of the Taotang tribe, so we came to find you together." The chief pheasant followed Said.

"Last time. At the Yi tribe?" Li Yan had no impression.

"Yes, at that time you were still making deals with the chief of the Bang tribe, but it seemed that you entered the city at that time, and I exchanged some pottery with you Jiang tribe." The chief hog said.

"Oh, that's right, I had work to do then."

Li Yan patted his head and said enthusiastically: "How about it, what kind of pottery do you want? Our Jiang tribe still has a lot of stock."

"Let's take a look at our goods first." Patriarch Mu laughed quickly, "The goods of our small tribe are not very expensive, but they are all good goods."

"That's right, Patriarch Yan, this is a specialty of our Hog Tribe."

Pu Shan, the leader of the Hog tribe, touched the side with his big hand, grabbed two baskets covered with animal skins, and put them in front of Li Yan. While removing the animal skins, he said: "This is a special product of our tribe. It is called pigs. These are pigs. Little pigs, don't look at them now, they will grow heavier than a human in a year, it's amazing!"

After the animal skin was lifted, I saw four black and fat piglets lying in two baskets. These piglets were only the size of a pug dog. There were also some feces and grass leaves in the baskets. Arched, and screaming.

Li Yan was very happy to see it. He has always wanted to get some livestock. He asked the caravan to pay attention to other tribes before, but he didn't expect this to be delivered to his door. Moreover, these black pigs can be seen as domesticated livestock. It is much easier to raise. The pigs raised in ancient China are black pigs, which are similar to this one.

"I heard from your tribe that you want to raise some animals. It happened that the pigs in our tribe gave birth to a few litters of piglets, so I brought them to you. There are 24 piglets in total. If some of them didn't die on the way, I would There are thirty of them," said the Hog Patriarch.

"Patriarch Hog, I like these little pigs very much. Tell me, what kind of pottery do you want to change?"

"We want to change some large clay pots, two little pigs for one, how about it?"

The large pottery vat costs ten shells each, which is about one hundred catties of grain. Two piglets are exchanged for one, which is equivalent to one piglet being exchanged for fifty catties of grain, or five shells. The price offered by the head of the pig is not bad .

"Okay, I'll change it with you."

Seeing that the pig clan leader had exchanged successfully, the pheasant clan leader also brought out the special products of their pheasant tribe, which were also two baskets covered with animal skins.

When I opened the basket, I saw a few chickens with bound feet inside. These chickens were the same size as modern chickens, except that their feathers were very special. The hens were brown, while the roosters were golden with colorful feathers. They still retained the pheasant a little feature.

"Patriarch Yan, our pheasant tribe is good at raising birds. This is a pheasant. It can lay fifty eggs in half a year. It's amazing. Two pairs of chickens can be exchanged for a big pottery vat. What do you think?" said the chief pheasant.

Fifty eggs are laid in half a year, and a year is one hundred. This egg production rate is at the middle-low level in Li Yan's era, but it is far better than those pheasants that only lay two eggs a year. .

Li Yan frowned and looked at the pair of chickens in the basket, and couldn't help saying: "Chief Pheasant, can I not have so many roosters?"

The female ones can lay eggs and reproduce, but the male ones are useless and are used for food. Li Yan thinks it is enough to keep a few.

Unexpectedly, the pheasant patriarch quickly shook his head and said: "No way! Chickens are all exchanged together like this, and other tribes are also like this!"

In ancient times, there was no castration technology, and there was no capon. The meat of the capon would not be dry and hard, so the rooster was worthless. Many tribes exchanged chickens with hens.

"Okay, I promise you, two pairs of chickens will be exchanged for a big pot, right?" Li Yan said.

"Yep."

"Then, how about going to see the pottery of our ginger tribe?"

"Ok."

The transaction was a success, and both parties were very satisfied. The Jiang Tribe got a lot of good things before the Autumn Festival and the beast tide.

The most important thing is that more than 20 small black pigs and more than 30 chickens have been replaced. In addition, there are many animal skins, horns, animal bones and other materials for cultivating beasts. Small tribes may not need to cultivate beasts, but Jiang The Horde desperately needs these resources.

The Mu tribe, the pheasant tribe, and the pig tribe exchanged a lot of pottery and some vegetables with the ginger tribe, such as carrots and corn, which are used to make animal feed. Now that the ginger tribe has a bumper harvest, they don’t mind selling these vegetables to them. .

However, when the three tribes left the Jiang tribe and returned, some people were worried.

"Old Mu, you said we made a deal with the Jiang tribe, will the Taotang tribe be unhappy?"

"The Taotang tribe has been bullying us, haven't you seen it? The pottery sold by the Jiang tribe is cheaper than the pottery of the Taotang tribe, and it is also durable. Last time I exchanged a batch of pottery bowls with the Jiang tribe. It’s not broken, and the Taotang tribe is too bad, always mixing some rotten pottery in exchange for our tribe, huh!”

"That's right, the last time our Hog tribe exchanged a batch of pottery bowls with the Taotang tribe. When I went back, half of them were chipped, and they were all broken after less than half a year. Their big tribes didn't look down on us little ones at all. Tribe, anyway, I would rather go a little farther and exchange pottery with Jiang tribe than with Taotang tribe."

"That's right, you're right! This Taotang tribe is also too bad. They drove us out everywhere when they had hunting guards in their own tribe. Last time, our pheasant tribe managed to tame two charcoal turtles. When we turned around, we gave them patrolling guards." Wei was killed and didn't even give us any compensation, how could our tribe go to get their mines? It's so annoying!"

The team of beasts was advancing in the woods, and the three patriarchs were chatting.

They didn't know that at this time, in the sky, there were two ancient god pterosaurs following them, and there were two powerful fighters on the ancient god pterosaurs.

(End of this chapter)