Big raindrops hit the ground. At first, the raindrops were relatively sparse, but gradually they became more and more dense.
"It's raining!"
"Go and hide from the rain..."
On the field, more than a hundred people from the Eagle Tribe who were working all ran to nearby places where they could take shelter from the rain, holding their heads in their hands.
"Crash..."
After a while, heavy rain poured down, the rain curtain blocked the sight, and the sky and the earth became hazy.
The old witch was also one of the more than 100 people.
At this time, he was holding a stone hoe and standing in the shed, looking at the pouring rain outside and the various grains and vegetables washed away by the rain in the field. A long-lost smile appeared on his face, and even his physical fatigue was relieved.
A lot.
"Vegetables have begun to produce, and the food will mature soon. By then, the tribe's food shortage problem should be alleviated a little."
The total population of the Eagle Tribe is more than 10,000, and their daily food consumption is very terrifying. After migrating to New Eagle Mountain, due to the changes in the living environment and the sharp decrease in the number of birds and animals raised, the food shortage problem became particularly prominent.
Tribal people mainly have two ways to solve the problem of food shortage, one is hunting and gathering, and the other is to rob the surrounding wealthier tribes.
Both of these methods have immediate effects in supplementing food and are very popular among tribal people.
The current shamans and leaders of the Eagle Tribe have chosen these two approaches. They need to quickly solve the current problems, but then consider the long-term development of the tribe.
However, the old witch chose the third path, which was also the path that most tribesmen disliked, which was planting.
In the traditional concept of tribal people, planting is an extremely inefficient source of food that relies on luck. They simply do not believe that planting can feed a tribe.
Therefore, even if the old witch tried his best to persuade and cited the rapid rise of the Vine Tribe as an example, the new shaman and leader of the Eagle Tribe were unwilling to invest a large amount of manpower and material resources into a plantation industry that they believed had extremely low returns.
In the end, they only sent more than a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled tribesmen to the old witch and let him try to open up wasteland and cultivate the land on his own.
It's great if the planting succeeds, but if it doesn't, it won't cause much loss to the Eagle Tribe.
The old witch took the more than a hundred old, weak, sick and disabled, and gradually opened up a large area of land under the New Eagle Mountain according to the land reclamation and planting methods he learned in the Vine Tribe, and planted various kinds of
of food crops and vegetable crops.
The reason why the old witch did this was not to prove anything to the tribe, but to consider the future development and growth of the tribe, without any selfish motives at all.
Summer rain comes and goes quickly.
After hiding in the shack for about half an hour, the heavy rain gradually stopped, the dark clouds dispersed, and the hot sunshine shone on the earth again.
"Let's go, keep working!"
The old witch took the lead and walked out of the hut carrying a stone hoe, not caring even if his feet were covered in mud.
Those members of the Eagle Tribe also left their straw sheds one after another and began to work. During the half-year-long process of land reclamation, they were also dissatisfied and privately questioned the old witch. However, when the vegetables in the vegetable field began to produce
, all dissatisfaction disappears.
For tribal people, as long as they have food and are not hungry, they can do anything life-threatening, let alone farming safely.
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In the northern part of the Southern Wilderness, the Giant Claw tribe.
"It's still cooler in the cave..."
In the afternoon, Stone Shovel rode a giant clawed beast to patrol the territory. The climate in summer is very hot. Even if there are big trees for shade, the whole body will sweat even if you move a little. It is not as comfortable as staying in a dirt cave or rock cave.
.
However, as the current leader of the Giant Claw Tribe, Stone Shovel believes that he must fulfill his responsibilities. Regardless of the scorching heat or the cold winter, he will insist on patrolling the tribe's territory every day and discover some hidden dangers and problems in a timely manner.
In fact, ordinary soldiers can do this kind of work, but Shi Shovel insists on doing it himself.
Because his status as leader was not very popular among the Giant Claw tribe, he wanted to use this method to declare his status.
Two years ago, Stone Shovel used gold to imitate the bronze sword coins of the Vine Tribe and traded them. After being discovered by the Vine Tribe, it caused great trouble to the Giant Claw Tribe.
That terrifying divine vine turned the Giant Claw tribe upside down. Even the Giant Claw God hiding underground was captured, and none of the ordinary tribesmen could escape.
Shi Tu originally thought he was dead, but he didn't expect that Jiang Xuan later took a liking to him and supported him to become the leader of the Giant Claw Tribe.
However, Stone Shovel has neither great strength nor toughness. How can the people of the Giant Claw tribe really obey him?
Therefore, Stone Shovel can only try to consolidate its position through efforts such as patrolling the territory every day.
Even if the effect is not big, it is better than not doing it at all.
"Buzz buzz..."
Just when Shi Shovel was halfway through his inspection, a huge sound of flapping wings suddenly came from the sky, and a strong sense of oppression could be felt from a long distance away.
Shi Shovel was shocked, immediately got off the back of the giant claw beast, and quickly climbed to the tallest tree nearby.
Soon, he saw the source of the sound.
They were dozens of giant dragonflies with a wingspan of six meters. On the backs of these giant dragonflies were hundreds of capable Vine tribe warriors.
The giant dragonfly was very fast, flying from the sky to the sky above the Giant Claw tribe in the blink of an eye, and quickly landed towards the forest on the ground.
Stone shovel watched the giant dragonfly getting closer and closer, and could even feel the strong wind stirred up by its wings. He dared not stay on the tree, so he quickly slid down the trunk, slid to a safe height, and jumped directly.
"Shashasha..."
After a while, the giant dragonfly landed on different tree crowns. The Vine Tribe warriors sitting on the back of the giant dragonfly jumped down one after another, and then gathered under the big tree.
The leader of these Vine tribe warriors is none other than the leader of the hunting team - Uncaria.
After Uncaria landed on the ground, he actually found Shi Shovel very quickly, but he waited for the team to assemble before he walked up to Shi Shovel to say hello.
"Chief Shovel, long time no see!"
Uncaria stepped forward to greet Shi Shi in a familiar manner and acted enthusiastically.
However, Shi Shi felt uncomfortable all over and could only manage a smile and said: "Chief Undo, why are you here? This month's gold was just delivered a few days ago."
Undo smiled and said: "Don't worry, I'm not here to ask you for gold. I have other things I want to discuss with you."
"What...what happened?"
Hearing that the other party did not come for the gold, Shi Shovel felt a little relieved, but he was also curious, besides gold, what else from the Giant Claw Tribe was worth a trip with so many people from the Vine Tribe's hunting team?
Uncaria mysteriously put its hand on Shi Shovel's shoulder and said, "Help you solve your trouble."
"What trouble is solved?"
Stone shovel had a blank look on his face, obviously unable to guess what kind of trouble he had that needed the hunting team of the Vine tribe to solve.
Uncaria looked around and said: "This is not the place to talk. We came all the way here. Doesn't the leader of Shi Shovel invite us to come in and sit down?"
Shi Shou really didn't want to invite so many people in, but since Undouji opened his mouth, he had no choice but to bite the bullet and bring Untou and others into the tribe's residential area.
When the people of the Giant Claw Tribe saw so many capable Vine Tribe warriors coming in, they thought that the stone shovel had angered the Vine Tribe again, so they were so frightened that they all hid in the underground caves, not even daring to show their faces.
Shi Shoun was quite helpless about this. He could only bring Uncaria to his place of residence to entertain him. As for the other Vine tribe warriors, he could only let them do what they wanted.