As soon as Yuan Zhan came back, he first went around the cave house on the hill, and then went to the stone house. He needed to meet his priest and tell him what he saw along the way, and there was another special thing to do. tell him.
Yuan Zhan, who had no habit of knocking on the door, wanted to push the wooden door open but didn't. Then he thought that Yan Mo had made that thing called the door latch, so he had to knock on the wooden door.
The wooden door opened, and the hot air rushed in. Yuan Zhan looked down and saw a small hairy head.
Feeling the cold outside and Yuan Zhan's uncontrollable murderous aura, Xiao Maotou took a step back and turned to look at the priest sitting cross-legged on the ground.
Yan Mo stood up and walked towards Yuan Zhan, "I'm back."
It was a very ordinary greeting, but hearing Yuan Zhan, who had been running outside in the cold and snow for more than half a month, felt as comfortable as drinking a bowl of hot soup.
"Go to the mountain." He could see that Yuan Zhan had something to say to him, and he wanted to ask him what he had seen in the past 21 days, but this was not the place to talk.
Yuan Zhan looked at the stone house casually, and he always felt that the stone house seemed to have changed a lot compared to before.
Looking at it, he found that the change was really great. First, get clean. Secondly, there are many more things.
But with so many extra things, he still feels tidier than when he and Meng lived together before.
The most eye-catching thing in the whole stone house is not the children, but an extra wooden product like a shelf. A row of wooden bowls were placed on the wooden shelf, and two thin and short wooden sticks were placed beside each wooden bowl. Besides, there were some odds and ends.
Following Yuan Zhan's puzzled gaze, Yan Mo glanced at him and explained: "Oh, that's the first wooden frame that Er Meng and the others just made according to my drawing. It's rough, but it's still solid. This room It’s too small, but there are many things. With this shelf, children can put their things on the shelf, and the bedding can be stacked by the wall. They can be rolled up when they sleep at night and rolled up when they study during the day, so that the room can also look spacious. and neater."
Yuan Zhan looked at the... sand in front of each child again
Yan Mo laughed, "That's a sand table for learning writing and arithmetic. I asked Er Meng to make it for me."
Then he turned his head and said to all the children sitting on the ground in the room: "I will not come here again today. When I come tomorrow, I want each of you to learn the knowledge taught today."
After finishing speaking, Yan Mo nodded on the ground where he was sitting just now, and there was also a wooden sand table on which the simplest addition within ten digits was written with branches. There are also some small branches and seeds used for demonstration in front of the sand table.
The children couldn't understand the priest's words, but they could understand his movements. Everyone nodded in unison and said, "Yes, priest." These five words are the best for these children.
The two stepped on the snow with one foot deep and the other shallow and walked up the small rocky mountain.
There is a cave house dug out by Yuan Zhan on the mountain. It is very warm with a wooden door and a fire pit dug inside to light a fire.
Yuan Zhan was still thinking about whether to take back Yan Mo's sand table in the stone house. He felt that there was such a thing, and some of his descriptions could make it clearer. A bigger sandbox.
"I sometimes come over to talk to Er Meng about something, it's more convenient to have that."
Just right! Yuan Zhan went to the firepit to blow the smoldering embers with hay, and then set up firewood. He hadn't eaten hot food or hot water for a long time. If it wasn't for his ability to control the soil, he wouldn't dare to stand in the snow on a snowy day. Running outside for so long.
When he was looking at the stone house before the original battle, Yan Mo was also looking at him.
I haven't seen him for more than half a month. The young man has lost weight visibly with the naked eye. The exposed skin on his face and body was frozen red and cracked by the wind and snow. Some small wounds that are healing can still be seen on his body, but his overall spirit looks down. not bad.
After lighting the fire, Yuan Zhan went to the depths of the burrow, took out the thing that had been hidden inside, carried the thing to the boy, and casually threw it at him.
Yan Mo was about to take the stone pot out to dig snow, but when he turned around, something covered his head and face.
Yan Mo hurriedly put down the stone pot to grab something covering his face.
Soft to the touch, it feels and weighs like some kind of fine fur on the head.
After taking the things down for a look, Yan Mo's eyes widened.
Yuan Zhan said proudly: "How is it? It's a good thing, I want to snatch it for you as soon as I see it."
"Steal... Where did you snatch it from?" Yan Mo's voice trembled a little. The thing in his hand is definitely the most civilized thing he has seen since he came here. The feel, style, and stitching are obviously a fur coat with open collar and long sleeves, which should never appear in primitive society. stuff!
"What's wrong?"
Yan Mo stared at the fur coat in his hand with complicated eyes, "I knew God would not let me have such a good time, I just started to start, and he created such a powerful enemy for me..."
Yuan Zhan turned his head to look at him, what is this kid mumbling about? He also spoke the language of the ancestor gods that he could not understand.
"Is it too late for us to return this dress?" Someone looked blank.
"Go back? Why?" Yuan Zhan looked at the young man with a silly expression on his face, and ordered: "You stay to sleep at night, this can always let me sleep with you for a few days, right?"
Yan Mo endured the urge to throw the coat back on the opponent's face, directly took off the hard dry fur coat on his body, and put on this fine and soft fur coat close to his body.
As soon as the coat was put on, Yan Mo almost groaned, it was so comfortable! Warm, light and comfortable, this is the clothes that people wear!
Yuan Zhan stared at the boy in the coat, and his Adam's apple moved slightly. He suddenly realized that the boy looked pretty good like this? His face seemed to be a bit fleshier than before. Just now when the other party took off the animal fur coat, he could see clearly that the buttocks were obviously a little fuller than before.
Woohoo! I really want to take off the fur that he just put on!
Yan Mo took out his golden needle and shook the man who looked at him with green eyes and drooling, "Tell me, where did this coat come from? Tell me the time, place, passing by, and who you met!"
Yuan Zhan wiped his saliva, "I'm hungry."
Yan Mo, who had just received a high-quality coat from someone else, decided to give back a little. As for the objects that were robbed, they had already been robbed anyway, and Yuan Zhan was able to run back and look okay, so the situation must not be too critical.
Yan Mo picked up the stone pot on the ground and went out to dig a pot of snow according to the original plan, and put it on the firepit to burn, but this time he not only boiled the water, but also cut some bacon hanging on the wall, and cut it into pieces with a scalpel. One by one, take out some herbs and fruits from the herbal medicine bag, and put them into the stone pot together with the meat slices.
"What's that in your hand?" Yuan Zhan, who was sitting by the fire rubbing his hands and feet, was attracted by the scalpel at a glance.
Yan Mo looked at his dirty hands rubbing his feet with distaste, but still handed him the scalpel, "This is one of the treasures that the ancestor God gave me back then, it is much faster than ordinary knives, you have to be younger..."
Before he finished speaking, Yuan Zhan, who was quick to try the blade, had his finger cut by the scalpel.
Yuan Zhan put the bleeding finger to his mouth indifferently and licked it, while his eyes stared at the scalpel, revealing an obvious desire to possess.
"Good stuff." Yuan Zhanli praised, "Can you give it to me?"
"No. I'll just do this." Yan Mo stretched out his hand.
"If I had known you wouldn't let me sleep, I would have traded that fur for your knife."
"Ten pieces will not be exchanged!"
Yuan Zhan curled his lips, this little slave was raised in vain, he was fed meat, built a house, gave furs and didn't even sleep once, so he couldn't help reaching out and pinching his face.
Yan Mo glared at the other party angrily, "After touching my feet, you dare to touch my face! Give me back the knife!"
Yuan Zhan didn't know why his hand couldn't touch his face after touching his feet, but he returned the scalpel to him and said, "It doesn't look like it's made of stone."
"I don't know what material it is." Anyway, it doesn't look like metal. Yan Mo, who had just received the gift from Shunxin, was still in a good mood, and his anger didn't last long. He took the scalpel, wiped it with snow water, and put it on the fire to sterilize it.
Yuan Zhan said casually: "It looks a bit like some kind of bone."
"Bones?" Something flashed in Yan Mo's mind, but it flashed too fast for him to catch it.
Yuan Zhan stretched his head to look at the stone pot, sniffed his nose, "What are you cooking? It smells so good."
Yan Mo picked up a long wooden spoon and put it into the stone pot to stir, while stirring, he said: "The broth with medicinal herbs can dispel the cold and invigorate Qi, but it's a pity it's not mutton, otherwise the effect will be better."
"Sheep?" Speaking of sheep, Yuan Zhan suddenly became inexplicably excited, "I was about to tell you that I found a herd of wild goats on the way to the north, and the total number was no less than three to five hundred."
"Really? Is it far from here?" Yan Mo was also excited.
"Far away." Yuan Zhan succeeded in cooling Yan Mo down with just one word, "About eight or nine days' journey, on a rocky mountain near the forest in the northwest."
As for how far a day is, Yan Mo doesn't have a quantification. He only knows from Yuan Zhan that it is calculated based on the distance that each soldier can walk in a day.
In the past, ordinary people in the world can walk 20-40 kilometers if they walk ten hours a day, and people with good physical strength can walk 50-60 kilometers. That counts as about 50 kilometers.
If calculated according to this value, the distance of eight to nine daylight hours mentioned in the original battle is about 450 kilometers.
"Are you walking slower than usual when it's snowing?"
"Of course." Yuan Zhan's hungry stomach couldn't bear the stimulation of the aroma of the broth, so he asked Yan Mo for a wooden spoon, and stirred vigorously in the pot, wishing it would boil quickly.
"How much slower?"
"half."
That's around 220-250 kilometers. It's still too far away, maybe he can try to let Er Meng lead the Awu people to make sleds
But this is not urgent, anyway, they are not short of food now.
"Have you found the tribal settlement you want?" Is there a higher civilization living there? Then why didn't they find such a big salt lake? He didn't think that a single Nine Winds could deter the warriors of an entire high-level civilized tribe.
Yuan Zhan nodded, and couldn't help but want to scoop up a mouthful of broth with a wooden spoon to drink, but Yan Mo slapped the back of his hand quickly.
"There are herbs in it, it must be boiled. Just wait!"
Yuan Zhan stared at the boy for a while, touched his nose, and obediently went to stir the broth.
Yan Mo put away the golden needle and continued to ask: "Are there other tribes nearby?"
"I didn't see it. It took me ten days to get there, and I went to the lake to see. I didn't see any other tribes in that large area, but there were beasts, but I didn't find what kind of beasts. Maybe they hide and sleep in winter gone."
Ten days away, which is about 250-300 kilometers. But if you didn't see other tribes, where did you get this fur coat
Hearing that there are no powerful enemies nearby, Yan Mo felt a little relieved, and hurriedly asked the most basic question of people's livelihood: "How is the product over there compared to here?"
"I don't have to worry about food. At least one primitive tribe is enough. Besides the goats, I also saw giant cows, wild horses, long-headed beasts, and many wild beasts such as roe deer, rabbits, foxes, and wolves."
"Looks like we've reached a place where there are more beasts than people."
Yuan Zhan glanced at him strangely, "There are more beasts than people."
"Yes." Yan Mo sneered, he just took it for granted that this world is full of human beings, and he was surprised to hear that such a large area was not occupied.
"I plan to move there during the winter." Yuan Zhan said suddenly.
"Hey? Winter? Why?" Yan Mo was startled.
"Although the way to get there is dangerous, as long as you avoid the hunting grounds of wolves and long-headed beasts, there is no big problem. I have already found out the way, as long as the people behind follow me." Seeing that the broth is not cooked yet , Yuan Zhan simply got up and dragged the sand table over, and drew a very simple road map on it with a branch.
"As for why we have to pass in winter, I suspect that there is a very powerful beast living there. If we don't rush over to occupy the territory while the other party is sleeping in winter, we will probably have to go all the way next spring. Hit it, it will hurt too much."
Yan Mo calculated, "But there is nothing there, we still have so many children, now in the past..."
"Not everyone." Yuan Zhan obviously had already thought about it on the way, "I'll take some people there first and build houses there. The stone mountain where wild goats live is not far from the place I'm looking for. I have control over it." With the ability of soil and stones, it is not difficult to collect those rocks to make houses. And I have tried, this time there is no need to grind the stones into a concave-convex structure, just paste it with mud."
Speaking of mud, Yan Mo thought of the colloidal lime mud, "When you were away, we discovered a soil-rock binder that is much better than mud."
Yan Mo first explained what adhesive is, and then said: "I have tried it. Burn that stone to ashes with fire, or smash it to pieces with a stone hammer, mix it with water, and it can turn into a mud state again. Considering this kind of primitive The mud is very viscous. I tried to mix some sand into it, and found that as long as the amount of water is paid attention to, the mud mixed with a lot of sand still has a certain degree of adhesion. And this kind of mud mixed with sand Leave it in for a day or two, and it will still congeal into a rocky shape and be very strong."
"How much is that kind of mud?" Yuan Zhan was thinking, if there is a lot, can he directly use this kind of mud to build a house.
"I went to see the rotten mud pond. It's not big. It's less than a thousand square meters in size. The surrounding depths vary. I used a two-meter-long wooden stick to probe the side, but it didn't go all the way. How deep is the middle? I don’t know at all, but I don’t recommend using it to build a house directly. It’s too wasteful. It’s good to use it as a soil-rock adhesive. I’ve calculated that as long as a rough mud stone the size of a human head is turned into powder , mixed with sand and water, you can get enough cemented mortar to build two or three stone houses."
"Okay, I'll take a few stones with me to see." He has the power to control the soil, and he can crush this kind of mud stone without even burning it. Yuan Zhan didn't care about what he said at this time, he had no idea what kind of surprise the colloidal lime mud would bring him in the back.
Yan Mo watched Yuan Zhan draw the future appearance of the tribe's settlement on the sand table. He even mentioned the concept of the city he drew last time. This kid planned to use stones as stone walls to surround the settlement before building the house.
However, due to limited knowledge, the appearance of Yuan Zhanxiang's residence is full of the simplicity of a primitive village.
Although Yan Mo doesn't know much about architecture and urban planning, he has never seen a pig walk or ate pork. Living in a modern society with massive information every day, he naturally despises such a village-style small residence that is easily breached.
Of course, it was impossible for him to discuss various concepts of city construction with Yuan Zhan, such as sewer laying, division of functional areas, and introduction of water sources, with such a shortage of manpower.
"It's a good idea to use a stone wall to block wild beasts, but your stone wall covers too much area, and only one stone wall is relatively weak. I suggest that we can get a small one first, as long as it can protect us, it's less than a hundred A small place for people is enough, so that we can make the stone walls and houses more solid. Have you ever thought that if the stone walls can leave people, we can condescend to deal with beasts... "
Yan Mo began to teach Yuan Zhan again, using pictures and oral descriptions to broaden his thinking.
Yuan Zhan listened very carefully, but when the broth in the stone pot boiled, his attention was drawn away.
Yuan Zhan didn't care about burning his mouth, and directly ate it in a stone pot with a wooden spoon until he was sweating. He ate a big pot of broth, and he ate it up in a short while, leaving no drop of soup.
"It's gone." Yuan Zhan scraped the bottom of the pot with a wooden spoon, and scraped off a bit of the charred bottom of the pot and stuffed it into his mouth.
Yan Mo took his pulse, "You can't eat any more if it's gone, you don't have to eat until you're full. Remember, you are not allowed to eat anything else within two hours."
"You cook it for me at night, and I'll go hunting."
Rolling his eyes secretly at the young man's natural tone, Yan Mo said: "You come to the stone house to eat at night. I have already taught those children how to make broth, and I have been eating with them during this time." As a cook, "By the way, where did you get that coat?"
Although Yuan Zhan didn't want to eat with a group of kids, but he was greedy for the taste of broth, so he could only reluctantly agree, "Oh, you said this fur, I picked it off a person."
"People? Who?" Yan Mo frowned.
"Woman, red hair, white tits, big round butt." Yuan Zhan dropped the licked wooden spoon and said casually, "I brought her back."
"What?! Where is the man?"
The author has something to say: nonsense small theater:
Yuan Zhan: I'm back!
Yan Mo: I need to bring some specialties when I go out, so bring them.
Yuan Zhan: Here!
Yan Mo: ... What is this
The original battle: woman.
Yan Mo: Where have you been? The souvenirs there are women
Original War: Daughter Country. In the future, we will no longer have to worry about the reproduction of our tribe! I have already made up my mind, the princess will belong to me, and the queen and prime minister will belong to you.