Forced by Yuan Zhan, Yan Mo finally thought of squatting down to hide his body.
"What is flax? What's its use?" Yuan Zhan asked.
He has seen this kind of weeds in other places. People in the clan tried to harvest their seeds, thinking that they could be eaten like millet. The old priest asked the slaves to try it first, and two of the three slaves had diarrhea. The old priest declared it unfit to eat.
"It is a very useful herb. The seeds can be used as medicine, flat in nature, non-toxic, sweet and pungent. It is specially used to dispel wind-heat and dampness, and can treat wind-heat and ringworm, tuberculosis, constipation, chronic hepatitis, etc. Oh, flax seeds and Suaeda pterygium seeds It can also extract oil." As a doctor, the first thing Yan Mo thinks of is naturally the efficacy of Chinese medicine. Thinking of squeezing oil, he suddenly realized that he only knew that oil could be squeezed, but he didn't know how to squeeze it.
"That's it?" Yuan Zhan couldn't understand much, but he also heard that it was for curing diseases, so he immediately lost interest in flax.
"Of course it's more than that." Yan Mo felt very displeased with the young man's ignorance. This guy has an indifferent attitude towards any herbal medicine, which is the best, and it doesn't matter if you don't have it. Typically, he only pays attention to eating, drinking and sleeping, and doesn't pay attention to the development of medicine.
"The flax plant itself can obtain flax fiber through retting, and this flax fiber can be used to make hemp rope and linen cloth. The hemp rope is much stronger than the straw rope we usually use, and the thick rope is made to bind the iron back dragon No problem. And linen can be made into clothes, although the clothes made of linen are relatively stiff and rough, but they are much better than wearing animal skins directly."
"Hemp rope? Make clothes?" Yuan Zhan became interested, "How?"
"It is to extract the fiber first, and then spin the fiber into hemp thread. The hemp thread can be made into rope or woven into...cloth, and cloth can be made into clothes." Yan Mo almost got stuck in the middle of his speech, and he discovered a new problem. It can be made into linen, but he doesn't know how to weave it into thread and then weave it into cloth!
What to do with the textile machine? Yan Mo got into a dead end.
Yuan Zhan didn't know Yan Mo's misery, he looked at the large flax, and was already planning to grab those future clothes immediately after killing or subduing the Awu tribe.
With so much flax, it should be possible to make a lot of clothes, right
There is also hemp rope, if it is as strong as the boy said, this will be the most useful.
Yan Mo stared at the few Awu people working by the lake with piercing eyes, trying to see what they were doing.
The hair of those Awu people was loose, and their bodies were wrapped in fur, and they couldn't tell the gender. Some were squatting, some were standing, and they were all busy with something in their hands.
Yan Mo rubbed his chin, how do these people look like they are collecting flax fibers? Did they also discover the use of flax
This is not impossible. If flax is left unharvested in winter, it will slowly decompose the wax on the surface under natural conditions such as dew and the sun, exposing the fibers inside the hemp stem. The Awu people who have lived by this lake for a long time are very likely to have accidentally discovered flax fiber and developed the most primitive and simple usage, such as rubbing flax fiber by hand to make rope.
The flax can't escape here, so Yan Mo temporarily put it aside and didn't continue to worry about how to get the flax. He asked the young man: "What do you think of the land of the Awu people? Is it suitable for the new tribe's residence? "
Yuan Zhan shook his head, he had seen the surrounding environment pretty much all the way here, and after he saw clearly where the Awu tribe lived, he already had the answer.
"Not suitable?" Yan Mo didn't understand this at all.
Yuan Zhan pointed to the small lake and the residence of the Awu tribe, "This place is relatively sunken, like a big pit. Although it is windproof and concealed, once it is besieged by people, it is difficult to escape. And once it comes to the rainy season, the lake will expand. Look at it. The residence of the Wu nationality, they should live in the open ground below in winter, and they will move up in the rainy season.”
"Then why are they here?"
"Water source and safety." Yuan Zhan turned around, pointing to the distance behind them that they couldn't see, "the best site is there, the very big lake we saw at the stone pillar."
"You want to establish a tribe in the grassland between the salt lake and the big lake?" Yan Mo also thinks that place is good.
"No." Yuan Zhan shook his head again. He didn't know how to describe it. He pulled a grass stem and drew an obtuse triangle on the ground. First, he tapped the two acute angles on the bottom left and right. "This is the salt lake and that big lake." Finally. Click on the obtuse angle above the triangle, "This piece of land is relatively high, not far from the two lakes, not far from the forest, and in the center of the grassland. This is the best place."
Yan Mo recalled carefully, it seemed that the land mentioned by Yuan Zhan was indeed higher than the surroundings from a distance, but the terrain was flat, not a sudden rise, but a very gentle flat slope.
"If we subdue the Awu tribe first, and then occupy that territory, first of all, the large area to the south of us will not be in danger." Yuan Zhan drew a circle, which mainly belonged to Jiufeng's territory.
"Then we will advance to the forests and mountains on the east and west sides, and eliminate the enemies near the forests on both sides, so that we don't have to worry too much on the east and west sides, because the forest will be our best protector, we just need to prevent them from coming out of the forest Beasts."
"Finally, our biggest defense is the north! The mountains in the distance to the north are flat, and there must be many tribes living in them. I don't know if they have enough salt and food there, but once we establish tribes here, Sooner or later, they will find out. Before we are not strong, we cannot let them find out that we have a big salt lake. And when we become strong, we can..." The young man didn't finish speaking, he just gently symbolized the piece of land in the north Swipe up and pull.
ambition! Yan Mo saw the naked ambition in the young man's plan.
If Yan Mo originally thought of starting from a small corner and slowly developing, his purpose was to let his small life live well first. But the young man has already planned how to nibble away at the enemy little by little, and use the method of fighting to support the war to quickly achieve his goal. He doesn't plan for the present, he plans for the future!
Dare this guy not just heal his injuries and practice his ability to control himself? What was this primitive man thinking about? Why did he dare to have such big ambitions
In fact, Yan Mo also knows the answer, because ambition is cultivated.
If Yuan Zhan is still in the original tribe, because of his surrounding environment and human suppression, his eyes can only focus on the relatively narrow road of trying to survive, working hard to upgrade, and becoming the chief of the tribe if possible. If you have greater ambitions, you can't use them until you can become the chief of the original tribe.
But now, Yuan Zhan is not suppressed by the original old priest, and there is no pain to hold him back. The problem of upgrading may also be solved. He has even mastered more applications of the ability to control the soil without a teacher.
What's more, he now has several major factors that allow his ambition to take off.
There is the patron saint of the tribe, Jiufeng.
The foundation of supporting a tribe, there is salt, salt lake.
He also has the last priest who is indispensable to the tribe, and that is Yan Mo.
How could Yuan Zhan, who found himself possessing all this, not be ambitious
"That is to say, there is no value worthy of our aggression here except for flax?" Yan Mo half-jokingly said.
"Who said that?" Yuan Zhan looked at the young man, and suddenly grinned, "I was wrong, you and the old priest Qiushi are still very different, although you know more than him, you are still younger than him too much."
What do you mean
Yuan Zhan pointed at the few Awu people who were busy by the lake, "This is the purpose of my coming here. I don't want this territory, but the people here. I want to subdue the Awu people, too. For their people."
"I understand this. Manpower is definitely needed to develop the tribe. Then how do we win over them? Provide them with food and teach them to build warmer houses?" Yan Mo wondered whether to deal with the big witch of this tribe first, after all, they are too big At least, if the Awu tribe wants to control them in turn, it will be troublesome. The great witch or priest is often the most insightful and wise person in a tribe, even more able to determine the direction of the tribe than the patriarch. Keeping these people is indeed like leaving a factor of instability.
Yan Mo started to be a priest himself, and only then began to understand why the primitive people here were unwilling to accept and be wary of priests from other races.
"Win?" Yuan Zhan looked at Yan Mo with a mocking expression, "Of course not! My lord priest, we only need to keep some useful and obedient slaves, and kill all the others!"
"what?!"
"You have to make them afraid so they can obey."
Yan Mo didn't know how to subdue primitive people, maybe Yuan Zhan was more experienced, and what he said was the most correct way, but!
Please don't kill anyone, the guide will torture me to death first! Even the great witch who wanted to kill the other party had to use his brains desperately to see how he would not involve himself in the other party's death. Now that Yuan Zhan said he wanted to kill more people, it was still in front of him. If he doesn't try to save him, just wait for the guide to happily add ten points to him and add another ten points. If he kills ten in the original battle, he can enjoy another big punishment again.
Speaking of the previous ten days, he finally managed to reduce the scum value by nearly a thousand points. Because he was forced and unintentionally eating the future queen bee, the guide didn't add scum value to him on it. Although the bee colony died in large numbers, it did not increase his scum value. He speculated that this might be related to the active attack of the bee colony.
And he took the initiative to feed Jiufeng with blood and heal his wounds. In the name of treating rare and precious species, the guide reduced his scum value by 50 points.
He feeds the carnivorous bees with blood and raises new queen bees. Because of the situation of redemption, he only gets a 20-point reduction.
Healing Yuan Zhan's wounds will result in a reduction of 10 points.
According to the latest points he saw last night, he has now lost a total of 986 points. As long as he works a little harder, he can get back his surgical tools again.
Under such circumstances, how could he be willing to let Yuan Zhan kill someone in front of him
Begging to kill must kill behind my back, don't let me know!
In order to get rid of the terrible idea of Yuan Zhande's tribe taking others as slaves, Yan Mo made a serious look and said: "You are right, but making people afraid is not the only way to win people's hearts, and it is not good for you either. For a long time. If your parents and relatives are killed, do you want to take revenge? Even if you are afraid now, will you want to take revenge and resist when you have the ability in the future?"
Yuan Zhan's solution to this is very simple, "Kill if you dare to disagree. Except for adult men, those women and children will not want revenge. It is men, you just need to make them fear you, give them women and food, and they will all Be obedient."
Well, this is a world where family ties are still relatively indifferent. Talking to them about revenge for parents, children, wives and friends is undoubtedly playing the piano to the bull. In this world, perhaps for the vast majority of primitive people, the hatred you have for killing his family is similar to robbing him of a prey, and as long as you feed him afterwards, he will quickly feed himself again as long as he has the ability. Find a fertile woman.
The elderly, women, and children may be more indifferent to hatred, because they usually play the role of victims in the clan.
"Let's observe first, and then try to contact them. It would be best if we can subdue them without bloodshed. If it really doesn't work..." Yan Mo made a embarrassed look.
Yuan Zhan bared his teeth and smiled, stretched out his hand and rubbed the boy's head, "Now I feel that you and your face are the same again."
After all, he is still a teenager, and his heart is not cruel enough, but such a priest seems to be good? Yuan Zhan didn't understand why he didn't want his priest to be too ruthless, although a ruthless and decisive priest could make the tribe stronger.
Yan Mo didn't understand at first, but after realizing it later, he raised his hand and slapped Yuan Houhou on the head.
It's a pity that he didn't hit him, and he was grabbed by the wrist before his hand touched his head.
Yuan Zhan rubbed the boy's cold paws with one hand, and said casually, "It's fine for you to be like this, I will protect you, don't become like the old priest Qiu Shi, it will make me want to beat you."
He still remembers the last priest of the Xiyang tribe. They were more used to calling him Dawu at that time. He was a kind-hearted person. He especially liked children. Unfortunately, after the blood of the last patriarch died, he also died. , died inexplicably.
He will not let his priests die in ignorance, nor will his own priests die before him.
Yan Mo sneered, "We don't know who is protecting whom yet, just wait, sooner or later I'll beat you up, and then remember to wash your ass clean!"
"I'll wait." Yuan Zhan looked at the other paw stretched out in front of him angrily and amusedly, grabbed it too, and clasped his hands for him to rub together.
Uncle Yan Mo was enjoying the other party's service, and finally resisted the desire to stuff his feet into the other party's arms for warmth, and said: "Anyway, I don't want to kill people first, look at those by the lake..."
Before he could finish speaking, there were suddenly chaotic shouts in the distance.
Yan Mo immediately withdrew his hand, Yuan Zhan also quickly grabbed the wooden stick, and pressed the small stone ax on his waist with the other hand.
Among the few people who were busy by the lake, one of them heard the shout and suddenly let out a long howl like crying, threw away the things in his hand, and rushed in the direction of the sound.
Yan Mo raised his body a little, and saw a group of people rushing towards them from a distance, either supporting or carrying two people.
The originally quiet tent area became noisy immediately after these people returned. Most of the tents were opened, and many people walked out from inside.
"They came in the same direction as the group of white-tailed wolves were running. They probably encountered a pack of wolves during the hunt." Yuan Zhan frowned, "It's better they didn't kill those wolves, otherwise..."
When Yan Mo saw that someone was injured, he was immediately excited, the opportunity to make contact has come! But he had to think about how to come up with a way to appear that was reasonable and enough to calm down these Awu people.
It's a pity that Jiufeng's wings were injured, otherwise he could achieve his goal even if he came over with Jiufeng's claws.
Yuan Zhan's expression of excitement and expectation was completely different from Yan Mo's. He was vigilantly searching the distant grassland with his eyes, as if there were enemies hidden in the withered grass that made him even more afraid.
Yan Mo's excitement turned to excitement, seeing that Yuan Zhan didn't move, he wouldn't be so stupid to run out by himself, and looking at Yuan Zhan's expression, maybe the danger is yet to come.