primitive survival evolution

Chapter 50 I Want to Grow Vegetables (Please recommend!)
The Yang tribe merged with the Taka tribe, took "Ginger" as the totem, and took Jiang as the family name, and the valley was also named Jianggu, and the river in the valley was also named "Jiangshui".

After seven days, the sheep tribe slowly adapted to the new tribe.

Now, there are many thatched huts in the tribe, and even the animal pen where the dodos were raised has been moved outside. 75 people are crowded in the tribe, which seems a bit crowded.

Under the totem tree.

People from the Jiang tribe gathered around to eat in twos and threes.

The totem tree has begun to bear fruit, and the small blue fruits are very tempting.

"The totem tree of our sheep tribe was destroyed. Fortunately, your Taka tribe took us in."

Yang Yan handed a pottery bowl of warm goat's milk to Li Yan, and said, "Patriarch, this milk is ready for you to drink."

All the sheep people around watched eagerly, expecting Li Yan to drink it. Li Yan defeated the Wudang people that day and saved the sheep tribe. The sheep tribe worshiped him very much.

"We will be a tribe from now on." Li Yan drank it unceremoniously, "By the way, how many milk-producing sheep does our tribe have?"

"We have twelve ewes and two rams. Five lambs that have not grown up." Yang Yan replied, "It is enough to keep two rams. Now there are seven ewes that can produce milk, and the rest Ewes don’t have milk until after their lambs are born.”

Li Yan continued: "How about this, you save some milk every day for children under three years old, and pregnant women also give them, so that people in the tribe can drink goat's milk every day."

This can ensure the nutrition of pregnant women and children, which can increase the survival rate of tribal babies. The average age of primitive people is low because babies are prone to premature death. Just like the skeletons of old people unearthed from the cave ruins, many of them are over 60 years old, but their The average age is only in their twenties.

"Yeah." Yang Yan nodded.

After breakfast, everyone started their day's work again.

Ying, who was standing not far away, saw Li Yan stand up, and immediately ran over, saying, "Brother, the seeds you gave me have sprouted."

"Huh?" Li Yan pushed her away, "Come on, let's go and have a look."

The two soon came to the side of the cave, next to a thatched cottage.

There are pottery bowls filled with water on the ground.

The seeds contained in it all have a little yellow-green shoots.

Seeds should be soaked before planting to increase the germination rate.

The Taka people seldom grow vegetables. In their words, there is not enough for mice and bugs to eat, so they don’t grow vegetables.

The place where the sheep tribe is located is quite special. There is a special rat-eating animal living there, where there are fewer rats, and they will plant vegetables next to the tribe.

The tribe always collects wild vegetables to eat, which is not stable at all, and the dishes they eat are also messy.

Li Yan has long wanted to eat the vegetables he grew himself, but he has not found suitable seeds.

"You find a few women who are good at farming to prepare for planting, and I will go outside and choose a suitable place to plant vegetables." Li Yan said.

"Yeah." Sakura nodded, and she didn't forget to fart. This girl is good at everything, but she likes to fart.

The first condition for choosing a planting place is to be close to a water source. In the primitive era, there were no high-tech utensils such as wooden barrels, and pottery was heavy, easy to break, and extremely precious, so it was not suitable for irrigation.

Therefore, the only planting method he can choose is to dig ditches and use ditches for irrigation. This method is still widely used in the rabbit country in the 21st century.

Li Yan and his clan walked around Jiangshui several times, and finally chose a small river that flows into Jiangshui as the main ditch. On the other side of this ditch is the newly planted wheat this year. Those wheats are growing green now. It is estimated that this year there will be The wheat is eaten.

"here."

"We're just digging here, you guys watch me dig first."

"You, come and help."

Li Yan started to build a vegetable field with a newly built iron hoe. This iron hoe is a bit thick, much worse than modern hoes, but it is also much stronger than stone tools. With a single hoe, it can lift a large piece of soil, which is very good.

The soil is soft, it has been eaten by new elephants before, there is a lot of indigestible feces in the mud, and there are also a lot of grass heads, the manure is good fertilizer, but the grass heads are disgusting garbage. It will continue to grow, which is very annoying, so pick out the grass heads one by one from the vegetable field.

The vegetable field he built is relatively simple, that is, a rectangular ditch is dug, and a pile of flat mud platforms are piled in the middle of the ditch, on which the vegetables are planted.

In this way, when the vegetables grow in such a high-lying place, they will not be submerged when it rains, and the surrounding ditch can play a role in moisturizing. As long as a person holds a water ladle, the water in the ditch can be drained. It is very convenient to irrigate directly into the crops, and it plays the role of ensuring harvest in drought and flood.

Li Yan believes that in this world, except for the Jiang tribe, no tribe has thought of this advanced planting technology that guarantees harvest in drought and flood.

Connect the ditch of this vegetable field with the small river next to it, and the clear river water will pour into the ditch, and the ditch will be filled soon.

"Patriarch! Isn't it easy to water the crops like this?" A man suddenly realized, "We used to seldom water the crops. Sometimes we used clam shells to water the crops when it was too dry. We had to run a long way every time. Sometimes a lot of crops will die due to drought.”

"Yes, I will also make a dung scoop, which will be more convenient then." Li Yan smiled, "Do you know how to make this vegetable field?"

"Know!"

"It's good to know, come, let's build a vegetable field."

"We'll have to ask Wingo to make twenty more iron picks later."

They dug a total of ten vegetable plots.

However, there is another problem to be solved next. There are many weeds around here, and there are many snakes, insects, rats and ants in those weeds, especially mice.

This mouse is a particularly fucking thing. They don't like to eat the leaves of grass plants, but they especially like to eat those fresh and tender melon and vegetable seedlings.

If it is planted like this, the seedlings will be destroyed by mice as soon as they grow.

In addition to mice, there are also hares and pheasants in the grass. These animals also like to eat vegetables.

After the fields have been reclaimed, Sakura also took the tribal women down the mountain and found this place.

"From now on, we can directly use the water from these ditches to irrigate the vegetables, so we don't have to travel so far." Seeing them coming, Li Yan quickly demonstrated the method of irrigation.

"Wow wow."

"You guys are so amazing that you even thought of this method."

These tribal women all looked at them with golden eyes. For them, Li Yan's irrigation technology was too convenient and advanced.

Soon, a tribal woman hurried back to the tribe, saying that she wanted to tell Mu that the patriarch had invented another technology that made great contributions to the tribe.

major contribution
This is the intellectual property of the tribe. Every time the ancestors of the tribe invent something that helps the tribe, the witch (mu) will carefully record it and pass it on as knowledge to the next generation. In this way, the knowledge will be passed down from generation to generation.

Soon, Mu, Bai Wu and other women, holding pieces of shoulder bones and flint blades, rushed to the side of the vegetable field to appreciate Li Yan's masterpiece.

At this moment, Li Yan is holding a hoe and teaching the women to build vegetable fields and dig ditches.

Under the sun, Li Yan was bending over, holding a hoe to loosen the soil a little bit. Behind his background was a piece of gratifying wheat field.

Mu felt that Li Yan's invention of digging and building fields should be recorded today. However, digging does not mean growing crops. How should this be recorded?
After a while, she saw the field behind Li Yan again.

She smiled slowly, carved a stick figure of a person holding a hoe on the shoulder bone, and carved a few squares on top of the person to represent fields.

"See if my painting is correct. The top is the field, and the bottom is people digging the soil. From now on, this painting will be a bone inscription, so that our descendants can inherit this knowledge."

With a happy face, Mu passed the bone to the women beside him to have a look.

This is valuable knowledge, and they should strive to record it and pass it on to the next generation in the future.

"Yan, come here." Mu shouted, her voice was still a little hoarse, and the shouting was a little soft.

"Yan, come here."

"inflammation"

Mu yelled twice more, but unfortunately Li Yan still didn't hear it, and she suddenly became a little angry.

At this time, the white witch next to her held the shoulder bones and asked her for advice: "Mum, how do you read this bone inscription?"

Mu was silent for a moment, then replied: "This word reads deaf (Nong)."

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