The Survival of the Wild Tribe

Before the snow began to melt, some weeds that couldn't wait began to burrow their young green shoots from the thick snow.

There is no accurate time division in this world. Except for some powerful witches, no one knows which day spring will suddenly arrive.

So when Luo Zhen opened the door early in the morning and saw the verdant green on the corner of the house, he was still stunned.

"Spring is here." Lu Zhan followed Luo Zhen's gaze, and smiled when he saw the little sprout.

"Yes." The dangers that they thought winter would be coming were not seen. The traps prepared in advance did not play any role other than catching a few beasts that came in by mistake.

With the breath of spring, the snow melted quickly, but the brown land could be seen in two days.

Luo Zhen took off the thick animal skin cloak and stretched his body. Before leaving the house, a group of little kids hurried in.

"Great Witch, are you going to start land preparation?"

"It should be digging fish ponds first. Da Wu said before that he would catch those fish and raise them back."

"Great Witch and Great Witch, let's build a beast shed first. A-niang said that at this time those mother beasts are about to give birth. Can we drink goat milk again?

"I, I, I, I can catch cuckoo birds, I want to eat custard." A child yelled with his hands high, for fear that Luo Zhen would not hear it.

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The children were so excited that they had been locked up in the tribe for a winter. Except for the older ones in A Shui who could run outside to play in the snow, the other young children didn’t even have a wooden house. I've been out, and today I heard that I can go out, everyone can't wait.

Luo Zhen was worried that the tools they were holding would injure himself, so he had to stop them, "Today we will dig the fish pond first. You hurry up and take your gadgets to take up space, otherwise there will be no space for a while. Excavated for you."

The children cheered and hugged Luo Zhen again with various gadgets.

The place for the fish pond was planned a long time ago. Because it was connected to the animal shed, I was worried that it would taste heavy in the future, so I found a downwind place that was a certain distance away from the house in the tribe.

When Luo Zhen arrived, many people were already standing there, and Lu Zhan was digging in full swing with a bone shovel.

"Great Witch." Seeing Luo Zhen coming over, other people greeted Luo Zhen one after another, Luo Zhen slightly nodded in response.

"Did you run out to dig the ground in the middle of the night?" Luo Zhen looked at the pit that was almost half a person high. Lu Zhan was covered with a lot of dirt, sweat slipped down his forehead, and he raised his hand to wipe it. Go, leaving a faint trace of mud.

The excavated soil was piled on the edge of the fish pond. Luo Zhen planned to sort out a few vegetable plots on the edge of the fish pond, and then transplant some wild fruit trees and dig some wild vegetables back. There are not many people in the tribe, only on the edge of the fish pond. The wild vegetables grown from these plots are enough for their daily consumption.

A piece of land next to the fish pond will be used to build the animal shelter, and the manure produced at that time can be directly used as natural fertilizer in the vegetable field.

However, in order to prevent the water in the animal shed and fish pond from polluting the water source of the creek, there is a distance from the creek. Luo Zhen simply asked him to dig a shallow water channel on the ice city wall and wait for the ice city wall to melt. , The snow water can flow directly into this fish pond, saving the need to draw water from the creek.

"No, it was already dawn when I came out."

Luo Zhen handed him the food box he brought out. The food box was made of wood. When Lu Zhan was bored, he used a whole piece of wood to hollow out. It was square and polished very smoothly, even if it was used for soup. Worried about leakage.

Lu Zhan held on to the edge, turned over and jumped out of the pothole, wiped his dirty hands with the snow that hadn't had time to melt next to him, took the food container and the chopsticks that Luo Zhen handed him to eat.

Today I ate fried fish cakes. The mashed fish meat is mixed with bird eggs and fried on both sides. You don’t need to pay attention to the fish bones that can damage your throat. You can swallow it directly by pinching it in your mouth and chewing. The fish is so fragrant, but it is very convenient to eat. Although Lu Zhan is not afraid of fish bones, he prefers this way of eating fried fish cakes.

The only bad point is that the ingredients are too little, and the fried fish cakes made are loose and shattered in one clip.

"You are very fast. It seems that you can dig the fish pond today." Luo Zhen praised with satisfaction, picking up the bone shovel that Lu Zhan put aside, and wanted to go down and dig for a while.

Lu Zhan hurriedly reached out to stop, "Aren't you going to dig some wild vegetables nearby and plant them? That ability to identify plants is too energy-consuming, so don't waste your energy on these things."

Luo Zhen thought about it and thought it was so, so he didn't insist on it. After a winter trial, he found that he could identify about ten kinds of plants in a day, and more headaches would appear, such as rare plants like Tai Sui. He once Only one kind can be recognized. Now he can gradually change from the original passive recognition to the ability to control and use this ability. Even if he usually goes out to dig wild vegetables, he does not need to bring thick animal skins like before. gloves.

Everyone in the Riyao tribe participated in this activity of digging fish ponds. Because Tai Sui had been found in the tribe before, Luo Zhen asked them to pile up the grass roots they dug up this time, and waited for him to see them all. Treat it later.

When Luo Zhen came back from digging a large bag of wild vegetables nearby, Lu Zhan had already led people to do the final finishing work of the fish pond. In order to prevent water leakage, in addition to tamping the dug fish pond, Luo Zhen also asked them to I dug some clay back and spread it to the bottom of the pool and the surroundings.

The river at the foot of the mountain was named Riyao River by Luo Zhen. At the lower reaches of the Riyao River, when Luo Zhen and his party first came to wash, they found the shoal where Cigu was washed. The silt there was sticky. In addition, the mud glue is mixed together, and it can play a certain role in preventing leakage after tamping.

Luo Zhen also intends to use the silt there to try to make some mud bricks. There is a lot of rain in summer. In addition, this winter, Luo Zhen found that the warmth of the wooden houses is not good. Once the fire in the house is extinguished, the house will be able to keep warm. It was as cold as falling into an ice cellar. He had long wanted to use another material to build the house.

But after deliberation, all they can make now is mud bricks.

The strength and speed of the orc warriors were great, and it didn't take much effort to pick the mud back and forth between the two places. Before the sky went dark, they gathered the ground on the edge of the pond into vegetable plots.

Luo Zhen didn't expect these people to be so efficient.

After all, it was the day when the snow melted. The temperature at night was still very cold. Lu Zhan came out with dripping wet hair and saw that Luo Zhenzheng had grown some things that seemed to be useful but could not be identified for the time being. The grass roots with green shoots are placed in the vacant flower pots one by one.

The weeds raised in winter have been eaten by them. Luo Zhen's ability is that the plants cannot be identified without growing in the soil, which is very tasteless and inconvenient.

"Can you improve your ability?" Lu Zhan took a pot of water and put it next to Luo Zhen. Now he also knows a little about planting, knowing that all the plants just planted in the pots need to be watered with a little water. Easier to survive.

Luo Zhen directly washed his hands in the pot, and then carefully poured the water into the flower pots just planted, and then moved the flower pots one by one back to the wooden shelf by the window. Luo Zhen did not need to take these grass roots. How well he grows, his purpose is just to know what these plants are. After these grass roots formally take root in the soil, it will only take two or three days for him to use his recognition ability.

"I don't know." Luo Zhen shook his head. He also felt that this ability was very inconvenient, and if it weren't for plants he had known before, he could only recognize simple names for other plants. There is no poison, no amount of it can be done.

Lu Zhan put the last pot of plants on the highest wooden shelf, and sat back by the fire. "What wild vegetables did you dig today? Are you going to plant it by the fish pond tomorrow?"

"Some wild lettuce, as well as big thistle and plantain." They are all plants that are easier to grow alive. Luo Zhen doesn't have to worry that they won't survive, and he plans to keep all the first crops for planting. Luo Zhen does not want to waste. In time, he has to store enough things for the winter before the next winter, so when spring is just beginning, he can't wait to start preparing for planting.

Seeing that Lu Zhan had no intention of wiping the wet hair, Luo Zhen picked up the dry animal skin on one side and put it on the other's head. "When will your problem of shampooing your hair not being wiped be corrected? It’s still so cold now, and you’re not afraid of headaches with the water on your head?"

Luo Zhen tried a little bit. Lu Zhan was pulling his scalp sore. Hearing the other party's hiss, Luo Zhen softened the strength in his hand.

"Isn't you here? You wipe it for me. It's comfortable." Lu Zhan told the truth. He never wiped it off when he was bathing in the river. After all, he could dry it after being blown by the wind, but since Luo Zhen After looking down and helping him wipe it, Lu Zhan ran to wash his hair every day, and then ran in front of Luo Zhen to sway.

When Luo Zhen helped him wipe his hair, he would help him to comb his hair. The feeling of running his fingers across his scalp made Lu Zhan a little addicted.

Luo Zhen rolled his eyes helplessly when he heard the words, but the movements in his hand did not stop.

"The animals that used to live in the basin are also going to migrate back, right? Are you going to hunt directly here or go outside the mountains for the first time?"

In the past month, Lu Zhan has never left the tribe. In winter, the various fishes that have been stored have already been eaten almost. They caught too much in the Riyao River last time, and there were fewer fish in it. Many, Luo Zhen didn't want to catch the fish in that river for the time being, and if they didn't go hunting these days, they would have no other meat except the weeds that had just grown nearby.

"After two days waiting for the fish pond and animal shed to be built, I will take two soldiers to the outside of the mountain to see the situation. The animals in the basin have just returned. If we hunt intensively, we will scare them away."

Luo Zhen nodded, "Well, when you come back from hunting, we will also prepare to pick a batch of staghorn horses."

"Are you going to start training the cavalry you mentioned earlier?" Lu Zhan looked up at him.

Luo Zhen smashed his head back, "Well, when our strength improves, we can try to absorb some foreigners in."