Hua Xi slept until noon the next day, and when the sun hit his buttocks, he got up from his big rock throne. Soon there were tribesmen serving fruits, barbecue and other food in animal skins. Hua Xi glanced at it and grabbed a green one.
Chewing on the small fruit, the sudden increase in population not only increased the pressure on food, but the originally empty valley seemed to be very popular at this night. The number of people increased four or five times compared to before, and the space for activities was obviously much less.
After lunch, Hua Xi walked outside the square and began to accept the inspection of the materials handed over by the new tribesmen.
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During the transitional period between matrilineal and patrilineal communes, the germination of private ownership had not yet emerged. Therefore, all the income from the labor of tribal people had to be handed over to the collective, and the so-called patriarch was only the leader of the tribe. It turned out that Hua Xi handed over materials to these new tribesmen.
It doesn't matter. What can the primitive people have to hand over? It's nothing more than some stones, wood, fruits or a small amount of meat. Among these 11 groups of new tribesmen with a total of 273 people, each group of primitive people will hand them over.
All the supplies were handed over to their representatives and placed on the ground in front of Hua Xi. The elder Zi Ding used bamboo pieces to record the list of items handed over on the animal skin. Of course, the so-called records were simply drawn on some similar patterns.
3 wooden sticks, 1 piece of rotten meat, fruit... things were placed in front of Hua Xi one by one.
"Huh?..." Suddenly something like gold flashed across Hua Xi's eyes. As a nervous reaction, he stepped forward and grabbed it to see several plants with a length of about 30-60 centimeters and linear-lanceolate yellow-green leaves growing on them.
There are long shuttles on both sides of the stem in the shape of an assembly line. The green and yellow grain-like plants are connected to the leaf stems one by one. They are gently swaying back and forth in Hua Xi's eyes.
"Haha, ha... That's great, it's rice, rice ears..." Hua Xi could feel the heavy weight of the rice ears on her hands. For a moment, Hua Xi couldn't help but rush towards the clan members around him.
Shouting and jumping like crazy
Why did the clan leader who was expressionless just now suddenly become crazy? Almost all the clan members had this idea. Although such an idea is extremely blasphemous and disrespectful to their great clan leader, this idea still does not live up to expectations.
appear in their minds
The symptoms of madness lasted for half a cup of tea. Hua Xi gradually realized that he had lost his composure in the eyes of the original Shui tribe and the new tribe members. He hurriedly suppressed the great joy in his heart, grabbed the ears of rice and said in a high voice with excitement: "This thing
"Hua Xi shook her left hand holding the rice ear a few times and then said: "Who put this thing... up?" Originally, Hua Xi thought it meant handing it over, but after thinking about it, primitive people probably didn't know "turning it over".
What does it mean, so I changed the word to "put"
"Um...I..." As soon as Hua Xi finished his words, a naked and "misbehaving" man spoke and pointed at himself
"Do you have any more of these? Where...where did you find these?" When Hua Xi saw someone answering, he quickly stepped forward and grabbed his shoulder and said. However, Hua Xi didn't notice that she couldn't help but,
The strength in his hands and the rush on his face had clearly frightened the primitive man in front of him.
"...I..." The original person didn't know what to say for a while.
At this time, the elder Zi Ding also saw that the plant in the hands of the clan leader seemed extremely important to the clan leader. The excited clan leader frightened the new member of the clan. Zi Ding quickly took a few steps forward and walked to Hua Xi and shouted in a low voice.
He finished: "Clan leader, you..."
Oh, haha...haha..." Hua Xi touched her hair in embarrassment and cursed secretly in her mind. It seems that her state of mind is still very immature, and what is in her heart can easily be revealed through her actions and expressions.
Needs to be strengthened
In the following question, Hua Xi learned from the new tribesman that these rice ears were growing scattered in the grass along the river. They were really hungry at that time and had no choice but to eat.
Just dry it and eat it so that you can sustain yourself until you meet Hua Xi and his team.
"Haha, it will be easy if we have ears of rice. As long as we plant it properly, we can cope with the food supply problem even if the population is larger." Hua Xi, a rural laborer from Shenzhen, has been working in the fields with her parents since she was a child, so she naturally knows how to do it.
Planting rice, peanuts and other crops
Rice likes high temperatures, high humidity, short days, and is not strict with the soil. Paddy soil is the best. Rice grows very fast. Generally, it takes three to five months to germinate, bloom, and complete fruiting. Image in Hua Xi’s hometown in Guangdong
In this area with a mild climate, rice can be grown three times a year. As a child of a farmer, Hua Xi is not clear about the other industrial, medical and other uses of rice, but he knows that in addition to being an important food crop, rice can also be used for other purposes.
It can be used to make starch, make wine, and make vinegar; rice bran can be used to make sugar, and rice straw can also be used as livestock feed and crop fertilizer for oil extraction.
"It seems that there will be no rest time in the next few months. The task is too heavy." Hua Xi soon woke up from the great joy of getting rice ears. Judging from the weather, it should be in early summer. The climate of the primitive era.
It was much colder than in modern times. Just as the sun is hanging overhead now, Hua Xi is flammable. Feeling that her skin is cold, Hua Xi must rush to make animal skin sweaters to avoid the cold, a house to protect from wind and rain, and to store enough food before winter comes.
I used to watch the program "Looking for Our Ancestors" on the CCTV popular science channel and learned that in the primitive Stone Age, the biggest killers of human ancestors were hunger and cold. Every winter, not to mention the individuals who left the group, even hundreds of
Thousands of groups living together will also die in large numbers due to hunger and cold.
In Hua Xi's view, it seems that whether it is from the primitive Stone Age to the highly developed civilized society of the 21st century, the problem of food and clothing has always been the root of the stability or corruption of a race or even a country. Food is the foundation of everything and has developed from history.
From a perspective, in areas where natural and man-made disasters and military calamities continue one after another, the root cause is that those in power cannot solve the problem of people's food and clothing. Only when the people's food and clothing are solved, will development and derivatives such as religion, politics, industry and commerce, and scientific and technological research be achieved.
To put it simply and directly, when we are waiting for new things, we are almost starving to death. Who has time to do other things?
Time was running out, and the tribesmen did not understand these things. Hua Xi could only exploit his own labor force. Under the leadership of the new tribesman, Hua Xi came to the river section where rice grew. Hua Xi glanced at it, along the river on both sides
Among the weeds, there are a lot of scattered rice plants that stretch into the distance.