primitive survival evolution

Chapter 9
There is a big tree with three people hugging in the middle of the Taka tribe.

This tree looks like a banyan tree, it was broken by lightning, and now it looks like a bonsai tree. Because it has many fibrous roots, Li Yan thinks it is a kind of banyan tree.

Every year, the banyan tree bears a grape-sized pink berry, which tastes sweet and sour, and the tribal people like to eat it very much.

It is like a strong guard, guarding generations of the Taka tribe.

At the same time, it is also the sacred totem tree of the Taka tribe.

The body of the sacred tree is engraved with a totem of the surname tribe. The Taka tribe is a small branch of the surname tribe and uses the "totem of the surname surname".

The tribe with the surname 妘 worships clouds, and the totem is five clouds, representing the five big clans.

People in the Taka tribe respect this sacred tree very much, and people "wear" a layer of grass on it.

Even before each meal, a pottery bowl of rich food is placed in front of it. After the tribal people eat, this bowl of food will be distributed to the children of the tribe. In the words of Mu, the children of the tribe will be healthy after eating these foods grow up.

In addition, whenever the tribe performs sacrifices, it also worships this sacred tree.

Mu and five old women are responsible for offering sacrifices and imparting knowledge in the tribe, and they are now offering sacrifices around the sacred tree.

A bowl of berries and a bowl of roast meat are offerings.

Tom and these old women are five or sixty years old.

Li Yan put the stone ax and pickaxe on the ground, came to them and said, "Mu!"

"Mum!"

At this time, Tamar also came here.

Mu is the highest-ranking person in the tribe and the "elder" of everyone in the tribe, and everyone respects her very much.

Although Mu often does some incomprehensible behaviors, Li Yan will respect her.

Mu asked Li Yan and Tamar to kneel in front of the sacred tree and face the totem on the tree.

The two knelt together, looking very respectful.

Mu held a pottery bowl of water in his left hand, and held a bunch of leaves in his right hand. While sprinkling water on the two of them, he spoke seriously.

"The place where the thorn grass is collected is in the Agate Forest, a few days away from the tribe. There is a strange beast in the Agate Forest, the 'Zhou Shuren'. This kind of beast will pretend to be a tree. When a living beast passes by, it will prey."

Mu took back the pottery bowl, and a woman next to her handed her a large skin pouch.

"This is gray grass mud. After you reach the agate forest, use this gray grass mud to smear your whole body, and the strange beasts there will not approach you."

Li Yan and Tamar stood up, and Tamar took the bag.

Tamar opened the skin and took a look.

It turned out that it was a kind of mud mixed with gray-black grass dregs, and the smell was ordinary rotten grass.

"Mum, Tamar and I will definitely bring the thornweed back to the Horde."

At this time, the direwolf also rushed to Li Yan's feet.

Li Yan squatted down, said a few words to the direwolf in a low voice, stood up again, and said to Mu: "General Bai is a dire wolf variant, I plan to keep him in the tribe, so that even if the Udang people come to attack the tribe, it will able to protect the tribe."

Mu pondered for a moment, then nodded and said: "The treemen there are covered with trees, and the direwolves can't help there. It's good to let them stay in the tribe, but you have to remember that they can only be collected at the edge of the agate forest. Thorn grass, don't go deep."

"Uh-huh."

Both Li Yan and Tamar nodded.

Then Mu looked at Tamar again and said, "Ma, I know you have been looking for your mother outside for so many years, but you must not go deep into the agate forest on this trip, it is a place where strange beasts haunt, do you know?"

"Got it," Tamar whispered.

Li Yan and Tamar were the only two people who went to the Agate Forest this time. Tamar had rich experience in living in the wild, and Li Yan was a Pangu warrior. Mu thought it would be most appropriate to send these two people there.

Mu told these two people everything he knew about the agate forest.

The two also tried their best to write down, such as how to go on the road, what kind of plants to pay attention to and so on.
The Taka tribe is surrounded by lush vegetation and many beasts. For the Taka people guarding the valley, food is not a serious problem.

The Taka people also grow some plants, but they still stay in the slash-and-burn production method. The tribe mainly relies on gathering economy, supplemented by fishing and hunting economy.

The collection economy is not just collecting wild fruits and grass roots, but collecting all edible things within a range, including small animals such as snails, bugs, snake frogs, and fishing at the foot of the mountain.

People seldom go out of the valley, but the resources in the valley are always limited, so every once in a while, the hunting team will go out to hunt.

The outside of the valley is very dangerous, those beasts are too powerful and terrifying, every time they go out of the valley, someone may lose their life.

If there is a choice, the tribesmen are absolutely unwilling to go out of the valley.

Food is very precious to people and cannot be wasted. Every child understands this from an early age.

Breakfast is ready.

The people of the Taka tribe sat around under the sacred tree. Everyone looked at the food in front of the sacred tree, and everyone's eyes were shining. The food is too precious, from small bugs to large bones, it is hard-won food.

There are only two ways to cook food, one is roasting and the other is boiling.

Because there is not much meat, most of the time it is made into broth, so that everyone can have a bite. Sometimes when there is little meat, some bones are boiled repeatedly.

Boiled worms, snake frog broth, fish thin rice, berries, grass leaves, etc.
Tom and the old woman were in charge of distributing the food, and the food was distributed as needed.

There are too few pottery in the tribe, and the quality is not good. Many durable pottery have to be exchanged from other tribes with the same surname.

There are also various containers used by the Taka tribe, among which the most are clam shells, in addition there are turtle shells, and even some animal skulls.

The tribe practices pairing marriage, that is, a man and a woman form a spouse to raise their offspring together. However, the marriage relationship is not stable, but the clan rules prohibit unions with the same family, which greatly prevents inbreeding.

After receiving the food, many men and women consciously stay aside to raise their children.

Those half-grown wild children are usually naughty, but when it comes to meal time, they are very well-behaved. They don't dare to play wild in front of Mu. If Mu is not happy and doesn't give them food, it will be miserable.

After distributing the food, these children can't wait to grab the food with their hands, which makes them scream. Some adults are smarter, and they eat the soup after it cools down. Some even know how to eat soup with a bone spoon.

The bone spoon is their own, not invented by Li Yan.

Li Yan also taught them not to eat with their hands before, but it didn't work, so he gave up altogether in the end.

The two straight branches are Li Yan's chopsticks, which are simple and practical.

Mu broke the only baked rabbit in half and distributed it to Li Yan and Tamar.

The tribesmen immediately looked at the roasted rabbit. Meat is very precious. Only when the hunting team catches a big prey, can everyone have a large piece of meat to eat.

Mu has the right to distribute food. Although the children are very greedy, they dare not make mistakes.

Li Yan and Tamar took the roasted rabbit, and soon started to eat it.

Li Yan ate a few mouthfuls indiscriminately, and said, "I'm full."

After that, he handed half of the roasted rabbit to the child next to him, and said with a smile, "I've finished eating, you guys can eat."

These children didn't even say thank you, they took the roasted rabbit and ate it with great relish.

After Li Yan and Tamar finished eating, they were ready to go to the Agate Forest.

The black witch prepared supplies for them to go out.

It is some animal dung and animal skins. The weapons are several spears and two spear throwers. There are no bows and arrows. Bows and arrows can only shoot small animals such as fish and wild birds. Bows and arrows cannot hunt animals above goats at all. Spears It is the killer weapon used by primitive people to hunt and kill wild animals.

The tribal people knew that Li Yan and Tamar were going out, and they were all very worried. It was too dangerous outside the valley.

Fortunately, Mu told everyone that they would come back safely, so everyone was relieved.

After saying goodbye to the tribesmen, Li Yan and Tamar left the tribe. They were going to collect thorn grass to prevent Wudang black witch from sneaking into the tribe at night to harm people.

(End of this chapter)