The Survival of the Wild Tribe

"We can't hunt here on a large scale? If we hunt too much, these animals know that this place is dangerous, will they come back next time?" Luo Zhen expressed his concerns.

Lu Zhan shook his head, "In winter, the temperature on the mountain is lower than here. Animals can't just hide nearby for the winter. They should go farther. Even if they stay nearby, they should choose some hidden cliff caves. It’s not easy for us to find them directly in winter. If we don’t hunt while they are still there, we won’t have enough food this winter.”

"Then we can try our best to not disturb their groups, or just find some animals alone?" Someone gave a suggestion.

"We only have seven warriors who can go out hunting. If we use this method to hunt, how long will it take us to hunt for enough food?" Hei Fu retorted.

"And what Luo Zhen said just now also makes sense. If we don't have a way to preserve the meat, even if the animals come back from hunting, then the food will all rot before winter."

The question came back again, "If you use salted fruit? If you apply salty juice to the surface of the meat, the salted fruit is also salty. It should have the same effect as rock salt?"

"Perhaps we can try." Although the taste of salted fruit is much lighter than that of stone salt, it should also be used instead of stone salt.

Lu Zhan shook his head in disapproval. He is more familiar with this place than these people. Although there are more salty fruit trees growing here than in other places, there are not so many that they can waste all their meat. Besides, the salted fruit is not as durable as rock salt. Estimated the number of those salted fruit in the col, it is just enough for them to use the next batch of salted fruit to mature.

You must know that the second batch of salted fruit cannot be picked immediately in the beginning of spring, and it will take several months to wait for it to bloom and mature. Lu Zhan looked at Luo Zhen, "Didn't you make a kind of dried meat before? It looks like it can last for many days."

"You mean smoked meat?" Luo Zhen remembered that it was hot before. In order to prevent the fresh meat from rotting too fast, he would smoke the meat by the way when burning the fire, but Lu Zhan did not like to eat this kind of jerky at the time. Eating food, I didn't expect the other party to remember. "Although smoked meat can be stored for a few days, it can't last the entire winter."

Luo Zhen thought for a while, "What if we don't kill the prey when we hunt, but catch it alive and keep it in captivity?"

"Like the two cuckoo birds you raised?" Axue asked.

"Yeah." Luo Zhen nodded. "The animals here are basically vegetarian animals. As long as you provide them with enough forage, you can raise them until winter."

"But the weeds here will wither and turn yellow when winter arrives. What shall we eat for them?"

"Isn't it going to snow in winter?" Luo Zhen smiled, "At that time, just slaughter it and put it outside the house and freeze it. The frozen meat can be stored for a long time, and it can be eaten directly until spring comes."

Everyone nodded suddenly. Indeed, in the winter, they would find that the meat would be frozen like a rock hard, and the frozen meat would not rot so easily. Sometimes they encountered it in the wild. I don’t know how long the dead beast’s body was frozen in the snow, but it was also very well preserved. There was no sign of decay at all. The soldiers could still have a good meal in the cold winter.

Everyone felt that Luo Zhen's method was feasible, but there was also a problem, that is, if a large number of arrests would scare these animals back to this basin next time?

"Let’s catch a batch of animals and keep them there. If there is still a shortage of food in winter, I will take you outside to find it." Lu Zhan doesn’t care whether the animals will come back or not. The number of them is not large. , Even he alone can feed them.

"I see that there are a lot of fish in the river at the foot of the mountain. It's really impossible. We can dig a pond to catch some fish to raise. Maybe we can go directly to the river to catch them when we lack food in winter." They still have tools now. It's too scarce. It's a bit unrealistic to dig fish ponds directly. In addition, all the fish in the river will not disappear. With this effort, it is better to let everyone live in a house first.

To keep such a large animal in captivity, it is natural not to tie a rope directly to the feet like the cuckoo bird can make the other party unable to run away.

Luo Zhen delineated a large area next to the second house, planning to use a fence around it as a place for raising animals.

There is no other way to set a captive place next to the house where you live. Although there are no fierce large carnivores like tigers, lions, black bears, but there are still foxes and wild wolves, Luo Zhen doesn’t want it. The movements that he had worked so hard to cultivate were taken away where he could not notice.

The fence is much simpler than building a house, and ordinary people can do it. After they are determined, they have no time to celebrate the completion of the new house, so they are divided into two ways.

Lu Zhan’s movements were the fastest. Just after he had hit a few stakes in the fence, the other side carried a young lamb that had not yet grown up. The mouth of the little lamb was tightly covered by the other side, and his large round eyes were full. After the panic, Lu Zhan's strength was so great that the little lamb couldn't even use the slightest struggling strength, so he could only be held by the opponent obediently.

"Why did you come back from hunting such a small one?" Luo Zhen was a little puzzled. Lu Zhan used to hunt for adult prey. This kind of half-cub animal Luo Zhen only saw him when he was still living in the Black Panther Tribe. The other party has hunted.

"This is for you. The meat of animal cubs is tender, and it is hard to eat in winter. You can raise this first." It is not easy to find such a small cub now when it is not the time to give birth.

Luo Zhen looked at the little lamb. This lamb should be only two or three months old and should still be at the stage of feeding. The water plants in the basin are abundant, and the ewes do not lack food and drink, and there should be no worries about lack of milk.

The goat that Lu Zhan came back from the last hunt is an adult male goat. Luo Zhen hasn't thought about goat milk yet. Now that he sees the lamb, he thinks of it, thinking of all kinds of delicious dairy products. Luo Zhen couldn't bear it. Stop drooling and flood, "A Zhan, can you catch the ewe of this little lamb too?"

"You want a ewe?" Lamb has a nasty smell, and there is no seasoning to taste. Lu Zhan didn't like it very much after eating it last time. When hunting, he would take the initiative to ignore this ethnic group. This time, the little lamb ran into him, thinking about the tenderness of the lamb's meat, and then he grabbed it back easily.

"Well, I want goat's milk." Luo Zhen nodded heavily.

Lu Zhan looked up and down Luo Zhen with difficulty. He thought Luo Zhen was just a little weaker than ordinary people, but he couldn't think that the other party hadn't been weaned yet, and even wanted to drink goat's milk. He reflected on what he had given him to eat before, except for meat and wild fruits, there was no mother animal that could still produce milk.

"Okay, I'll catch the ewe for you." Lu Zhan said as he tied the four hooves of the lamb with a rope of animal skins, and then stuffed it into Luo Zhen's arms and turned to continue hunting.

Luo Zhen didn't know what the other party was thinking. Looking at the man who ran away in a hurry, Luo Zhen lowered his head and stared at each other. Luo Zhen gently stroked the soft hair of the little lamb, "Don't worry. , I'll be reunited with your mother in a while."

The little lamb, whose mouth was finally free, looked at Luo Zhen and yelled softly, "Hey."

It only took a long time for the fence to be almost finished. Because the types of animals captured by the soldiers were different, Luo Zhen also separated a lot of small fences out of the big fence to prevent some animals from fighting.

Axue brought several bags of fresh weeds back. Besides, in the fence, except for some of the weeds that were too tall were cut off, the other places remained intact, so there is no need to worry about catching them back. The animals are hungry.

The little lamb probably didn't get used to the new environment, hiding in the grass and shivering. The fence next to it was a bison that was captured by the black carps.

The bison is not as docile as the little lamb. There must be a big battle in the process of catching. Moreover, its strength is very strong. The stakes of the fence can be easily knocked down by the opponent. There is no way. In the end, Heifu can only take two of the bison. The hoofs were all broken, making the opponent unable to get up, but the pain kept the bison lying on the ground and yelling "moo".

Hei Fu also had a little wound on his body. Luo Zhen put a big thistle on the other party, and looked at the bison in the enclosure a little bit unbearable, "This adult bison already has wild nature and can’t grow up. I’ll wait for next year. In the spring, if possible, let’s try to catch some calves that have not been born long before and come back to captivity. If they can be raised, in addition to eating, we can let them do things for us in the future."

"Use wild beasts to help us do things? Will they be obedient?" In Heifu's heart, there is only a relationship between predator and prey between them and wild beasts. Apart from eating them to fill up their stomachs, he never thought that those wild beasts would still What can it do.

Luo Zhen tied the animal skin bandages, and was not in a hurry to dive into this topic. "I will tell you more about this later. Now you can catch the animals you need first. We will continue to build the house when it is done. Before winter officially arrives, all of us can live in our own houses."

The two were talking, Ah Shui ran over with short legs panting and shouting as he ran, "Luo Zhen, Luo Zhen, gave birth, gave birth."

Ah Shui's voice caught everyone's attention, and everyone stopped their movements and looked here.

Luo Zhen is full of black lines. Will this dead child know how to speak, what is Luo Zhensheng, and what can he give birth to a man? Oh, yes, he suddenly remembered that Ah Shui was born by a man.

"What are you yelling at?" Luo Zhen stopped the kid who was rushing forward and slapped the other's shaggy hair, and asked.

A Shui’s small face was flushed with excitement, and he carefully handed what he was holding to Luo Zhen’s face, “Look, the bird’s egg, the cuckoo bird was just born, it’s still hot, those cuckoo birds are really Can lay eggs."

Luo Zhen lowered his head and saw Ah Shui holding a thumb-sized bird egg in his hand.