primitive survival evolution

Chapter 21

"Patriarch."

All the men and women collecting around stood up.

There was also a man walking with two half-meter-long catfish on his back with a smile on his back.

The man put the fish on the ground, scratched the back of his head, and said with a smile: "Patriarch, I just caught two big fish today."

Li Yan looked at the clansmen who were fishing on the other side of the river. Some of them used nets to catch fish together, and some used bows and arrows to shoot fish. In fact, even if they had nets, the efficiency was not high.

"Uh-huh."

Li Yan nodded, and then asked the child to find Tamar.

"Let's go there and have a look first." Li Yan carried the man to the river.

The people are fishing.

The deepest part of this creek is only waist deep, and the narrowest point is only five meters. Li Yan thinks that if a fish dam is built here, there will be a stable fish catch every day in the future.

Choose the location of the fish dam by the river.

So Li Yan went to find his younger sister and collected berries with her.

There is a berry grove here, a kind of purple fruit, which tastes sour and sweet, and sometimes wild deer come to eat it.

After collecting berries, the eight men and women, together with Li Yan and five children, returned to the tribe.

After crossing the river and returning to the foot of the mountain, the ten men and women farming over there have already planted a small half of the land, and it is estimated that they can finish planting today.

Back to the tribe.

Several elderly women sorted the collected food.

Fish and baby corn porridge, so that everyone can eat a bite.

There are several large pottery jars in the cave, which are said to have been exchanged from the Taotang tribe. The big pottery jars are difficult to fire, and only the Taotang tribe can fire them, so those pottery jars are very precious.

And the small corn is stored in those large pottery jars, and usually a little is cooked with meat to make porridge.

Food is also very precious. In many cases, if there is not enough food collected today, everyone will starve.

Because some men and women have gone to the fields today, there are not enough people to gather them. Naturally, there is not enough food.

The small corn that is about to mature at the foot of the mountain was snatched by the Udang people. This year, the tribe has a hard time.
Mu and Black and White Witch also woke up. Before the collection team came back, they had already sacrificed to the sacred tree.

After Li Yan came back, he even ran under the sacred tree.

At this time, Mu was holding a tree fruit, which Li Yan dug out from the tree man Zhou.

Li Yan asked, "Mum, what is that?"

"This? This is the plant core of a tree and grass-like beast. Humans can devour the spirit of ferocious beasts to gain power, and totem trees can also swallow the plant core to gain power." Mu said flatly, "Fortunately, bring back the plant core, we Only the tribe's totem tree can be saved."

Mu is like this, her emotions and anger are invisible, in Li Yan's impression, it seems that she has never seen her smile.

Mu split the fruit with a stone knife, and the fruit immediately oozes green juice.

Tom buried it at the foot of the totem tree.

Mu said again: "Within three days, the totem tree will change back to what it was before."

Now that the tree is bare, it only takes three days for it to become full of branches and leaves?

Li Yan obviously didn't believe it, but he didn't show it.

Soon, breakfast will be ready.

In fact, this can’t be called breakfast. The tribe only eats two meals a day. It’s about ten o’clock now, and they have another meal at five o’clock in the afternoon. When it’s dark, people will fall asleep.

During the meal, Li Yan told everyone that he wanted to build a fish dam, and that after the fish dam was built, a lot of manpower could be reduced, and the rest of the people didn't understand what kind of broken fish dam he was talking about. things, but Mu said let him try.

So, after eating, Li Yan took five men and set off with cutting tools such as stone adzes and stone axes.

Because Li Yan transferred five men away, the ten men and women had to put down their work of farming and participate in the work of food gathering.

Li Yan led five men to find a suitable shrub in the valley.

This shrub has a somewhat thick bark and a thinner trunk inside, making it an easier tree to work with.

This kind of tree is not tall, only as thick as the forearm of an ordinary person. This tree also has a characteristic, that is, it grows tenaciously. Even if it is cut down and placed in water, it can still grow, similar to evergreen.

"All of you come and see, the felled wood should be cut into such a length." Li Yan marked out a length of about 1.5 meters on the ground and asked them to cut it according to the comparison.

"Uh-huh."

"understood."

"This kind of tree is easy to cut."

Under the leadership of Li Yan, these five men began to cut down trees. Fortunately, this kind of tree is easier to process. Usually, it can be cut down within 3 minutes with a stone adze.

Everyone chopped for a while and took a rest. In the afternoon, they finally cut out a hundred or so stakes.

So, Li Yan asked them to move the stakes to the river bank.

However, by the evening, they hadn't finished moving yet.

Everyone had to go back to the tribe.

During the dinner, Li Yan proposed to Mu again that the five men should be requisitioned tomorrow, and Mu thought about it and agreed.

The tribe has a relatively strict division of labor. If there are not enough collectors, the food obtained will be insufficient.

The next morning.

When Li Yan walked out of the cave, he saw that the totem tree had magically sprouted new shoots. The speed of recovery was really fast.
The totem tree sprouts buds and revitalizes, which means that the tribe will also recover.

The worries of the clansmen for the past few days disappeared, and all of them smiled.

Because Li Yan wanted to recruit men to build the dam again, Mu arranged for millstone workers, bone and wood makers, and some older children to participate in the work of food collection. Even Wen Ge, who was handicapped, had to go .

Li Yan felt very stressed at this moment. If the fish dam failed, he didn't know how to face these clansmen who trusted him.

He took five men to move the timber to the river bank and began to build the fish dam.

In fact, this fish dam is a big trap, which can catch all the fish passing through the river, which is of great significance.

He drove a section of wooden pile into the bottom of the river, and there was a lot of sand on the bottom of the river, which was easy to drive in.

He made two rows of wooden stakes, which are two wooden fences facing the "eight" shape with a gap in the middle. The gap is made smaller to allow fish to enter, and they are directly blocked in the river to form an area. For the sake of stability, he Tie the stakes across to a piece of wood to connect them.

Fish are very smart, so branches and leaves were inserted at the fish-blocking stakes to cover them up, and some weeds were pulled out and thrown into the fish-blocking dam.

After finishing these, the sky gradually darkened.

Li Yan took them back to the tribe.

The next day, Li Yan and a few men brought fishing nets and ran to the fish blocking dam early in the morning to see what the results were.

They blocked the entrance of the fish dam, and then began to cast nets to collect fish.

However, this seems a bit disappointing
What exactly went wrong?
(End of this chapter)