Original War

Chapter 12 Recording and Counting

Just like the poor and scared people will continue to be emotional after getting rich overnight, these days, the children in the cave have been in a state of extreme excitement.

The result of excitement is fighting.

Outside of fishing time, fights in the cave happen frequently.

In the past it was fighting to grab food, now it is fighting to protect the food, and sometimes the trophy is brought back. If anyone takes the wrong fish, there is nothing wrong with fighting!

Now it’s not a one-on-one singles. After Shao Xuan instilled in them the idea that a group is another form of hunting squad, these children are now gathered in groups of five, and fights are of course group-to-group. The battle between teams is fiercer than ever.

Shao Xuan sat down with his head down and sighed, committing a sin!

After seeing the battle between the two groups caused by a child dragging the wrong fish, Shao Xuan looked at the mess in the cave, thought about it, and set his eyes on the smooth rock wall near the entrance of the cave.

A long time ago, people in the tribe polished the cave walls when they lived here, and even engraved on the cave walls. Later, when they lived with children, there were very few words added on the walls, even in the cave. Children who are bored or want to paint on a whim will only paint near the ground, and the taller ones will only be traces left unknowingly many years ago.

Depending on the time, the method and depth of the depiction are different. Some of the paintings are painted with pigments made with plant pigments, and some are directly carved with stone knives. Many of the traces have been blurred and discolored, making it difficult to see the original appearance. Putting it there is also a waste.

Shao Xuan recruited the little boys who were too excited and energetic, and asked them to pick up rocks and start polishing the cave wall.

There were some larger stones deep in the cave, and they moved them out together. The high part of the cave wall needs to be polished by stepping on these stones, otherwise the height is not enough.

If they had something to do, these children really felt a lot of peace. In addition, this was Shao Xuan’s order, and no one opposed it. Even if they were reluctant, they would take a stone and rub them a few times.

Because the cave wall has been polished a long time ago, now it is just to polish away the most surface traces. After feeling almost the same, Shao Xuan took the charred branches due to incomplete combustion, stepped on the rocks below, One to five wrote five groups, who is one group represents, and which five people are in group two, tell them all one by one. To be on the safe side, Shao Xuan also wrote the names of the group members under the number code of each group. .

Every once in a while, the tribe would send people to the cave to teach these children the most basic things, such as counting, such as some commonly used characters, etc. Shao Xuan knew the characters here, but the children in the cave were not willing before. Listening, I learned very little. Every time someone comes over, Shao Xuan listens carefully.

The children in the cave all carry a stone tablet around their necks. The stone tablet is their name. Even if they can’t write, they can’t recognize many characters, but the name of own is still recognizable.

The name was written, the group was divided, and the fish brought back had to be written. Originally, Shao Xuan only wanted to write a number to record how many fish each group caught, but the children were not satisfied. Looking at the fishes hanging above the cave, Shao Xuan took the charcoal sticks and drew simple strokes on the cave wall—abstract fishes. One fish can be done with one stroke, and you can see that it is a fish.

Now the boys were finally satisfied, and asked the person who could count the most in his group to check to make sure that the number of fish that Shao Xuan painted on the cave wall was the same as the number of fish hanging on the cave wall.

Each fish is just a sum of effort, and there are only dozens of fish in total here. It doesn’t take much effort. Anyway, idle is idle. In addition, the hole is big and the walls are wide enough to draw a thousand fishes.

In the place where Shao Xuan painted the fish, there is a high vent on the opposite wall of the cave. During the day, sunlight will come in and shine on the wall of the cave, so that all the paintings and calligraphy written on the cave wall can be seen. very clear.

So, every day outside of fishing time, the group of five children sat together in the hole weaving straw ropes. After weaving them for a while, they looked up at the wall of the cave, counted the fish in their own group, and then counted the fish hanging above them. Fish on their own “turf”. It is precisely because of this that the counting ability of this group of children has rapidly increased.

People who used to knock with stone sticks and were unwilling to count, now do not need to remind them, they can come dozens of times a day, which is still rare.

“A Xuan, is it twelve after ten?”

“It’s eleven!”

“Oh… eleven, twelve, thirteen, fourteen…it’s not right, A Xuan, why does our team only have fourteen fish? There are fifteen fish on the wall! One less! Who robbed us Fish?!!!” The child and the other four in the same group copied wooden sticks and stones, and looked at the other children in the cave with gloomy eyes full of Killing intent.

Shao Xuan took a deep breath, holding a branch and pointing to the wall: “Don’t you see that the fish painted in the front has another rough stroke? That means you have eaten it. You ate it last night. Do you want to spit out the contents in your stomach for confirmation? I—may—help—be a favor!”

“…It seems to be.” Tilted his head and thought about it, the Killing intent on the kid suddenly subsided, the stick was thrown away, and the other four people sat down and continued to weave the straw rope, as if nothing happened just now.

“Axuan, I heard Uncle Ge explained that the weather is good again, shall we still be by the river tomorrow?” a child asked expectantly.

The other children also pricked their ears and stared at Shao Xuan with shining eyes, as if as long as Shao Xuan said a “no”, the glass heart would be broken.

“Well, tomorrow as usual.” Shao Xuan walked out of the cave and looked at the sky, and said.

Now more than 20 children in the cave are all acting together. They are greedy and want to spend all day fishing on the river bank, but they also know that acting with other people is the best, and they have to do this. Reason one—— They can’t get stone worms.

Shao Xuan tried many kinds of insects that can be found in the tribe, and only stone insects have the best fishing effect. Shao Xuan will not give them stone worms for those who do not obey orders and act arbitrarily.

Do you want stone bugs even if you are not obedient? Okay, you can dig it yourself. Without Caesar, you may not be able to dig one for a long time. Those stone worms can act underground much faster than earthworms. If they can’t be caught in the first time, they will return empty-handed. Which stone worm did not Caesar help to dig these past few days?

The second reason why they had to act in unison: They couldn’t get the small black pieces that could float on the water. To get that, they had to catch a bug like Life in the Black Swamp. Unfortunately, except for Caesar, they all Can’t approach the Black Swamp.

Because of this, Caesar’s status in the cave has also improved a lot. At least now, the eyes of those children looking at Caesar are not the kind of red alder fruit. Some of the more flexible minds have also learned to please. I have seen them before. Caesar gnawed on the bones of the beasts and gave the bones of fish to Caesar. Unfortunately, Caesar was not interested in fish bones at all.

In any case, the relationship between these little boys and Caesar has eased a lot, and Shao Xuan doesn’t have to worry about when these little boys will join forces to roast Caesar.

The next day, Shao Xuan was awakened by the group early, and ran to the gravel to dig stone insects. Caesar dug one, and Shao Xuan assigned one to the captain appointed by each team.

A stone worm can be used two to three times. After it is dug up, it is cut into two sections from the middle. After a few minutes, the two ends of the cut can move on their own, from one to two. If you give a little more time, They can grow as long as they were before they were cut.

When everything was ready, Shao Xuan brought a group of people to the river bank.

The soldiers who guarded the river bank changed a group, but they quickly became acquainted with Shao Xuan. For the past two days, they watched Shao Xuan bring the children in the cave over to fish, and they would give them one every day. The impression of Shao Xuan is very good, and even the children coming out of the cave have changed a lot.

Seeing the river, these little boys couldn’t restrain themselves, rushing to throw bait to fish. It was suddenly stopped by Shao Xuan.

“Retreat! Back! Don’t touch the water! Don’t throw the bait!” Shao Xuan grabbed the child who rushed to the front and flicked it back, frowning and looking at the river.

Something is wrong today.