Under the leadership of Chen Chao, everyone walked through the forest, rested by a small stream, and continued to set off after having some lunch.
After lunch, everyone couldn't find a way to cross the creek, so they could only walk a little farther and bypass the creek.
After bypassing the creek, Chen Chao climbed to the halfway up the mountain with excitement, and finally came to the first stop of the itinerary, the Brown Tribe.
Of course, the name Brown Tribe was also given to them by Super Chen. As for them, they haven't thought about the name of their own tribe. If they need to communicate what tribe they are, most of them will tell the other party where their tribe is probably with the direction of their fingers.
The reason why Chao Chen chose this tribe as the first site was mainly because he noticed that there were some sparse palm trees in the forest around this tribe.
Not much, but it does work.
And this palm tree is a good thing to say.
Its skin (brown skin fiber/leaf sheath fiber has strong tensile strength, wear resistance and corrosion resistance), which can be used as rope (old leaves), weaving coir raincoats, brown stretchers, carpets, brushes, etc.;
Bleached young leaves can be used to make fans and straw hats. Of course, there is no condition for bleaching now, but it may be no problem to make a straw hat without bleaching.
And the unopened buds of palm trees are also called "brown fish". This thing is still edible, but Chen Chao has never eaten it, so he doesn't know what it tastes like, and whether it is delicious or not.
Even brown skin and petiole (brown board) calcined charcoal can also be used as medicine to stop bleeding, and fruits, leaves, flowers, roots, etc. are also used as medicine.
In general, palm trees are simply treasures.
And it can be manufactured into the two things that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs most at this stage, that is, the coir raincoat and the straw hat!
Chen Chao searched around the Tianyuan Tribe, but he couldn't find any materials suitable for making raincoats. Going out without a raincoat is a hassle. So before it rains or snows, try to find a way to equip it.
Moreover, whether it is animal skins or straw sandals on the wheelbarrow, an additional layer of protection is required, and a layer of palm tree bark will have to be spread on it.
So this simple version of the raincoat-coir raincoat is essential.
As for the straw hat, the straw rope produced in the tribe can also be woven, but it will be softer and the rainproof effect is not as good. The main point is, especially waste grass rope. Weaving a straw hat can almost make two pairs of pockmarked straw sandals.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs basically lacks nothing now, except for rainproof things. Therefore, Chen Chao chose the Brown Tribe as his first stop.
At least make up for your shortcomings.
Otherwise, whether it is raining or snowing, the things on the car may be a little troublesome.
Moreover, the Brown tribe is only a medium-sized tribe with a hundred or so members. Whether the other party is concerned about the goods or food in our hands, he has to consider that we have ten strong laborers with excellent weapons and equipment.
Of course, at this time, the animal skin clothes, stone axes, short spears, Mawozi straw sandals and other equipment, as well as the goods on the wind-powered unicycle pushed by myself, are indeed well-equipped rich and handsome primitive people.
When we arrived near the Brown Tribe, the sun was already setting, so Chen Chao didn't rush to scare people at night.
Going at this time will not only make people think that you are not a good person, but it will also make it difficult to start the following things.
It's winter, and it's almost dark. If a dozen strong men suddenly appear outside the tribe, who would not think too much about it
At that time, the other party came to a group of people in order to defend, and it was hard to say whether it was a robbery or a deal, after all, this place was someone else's territory.
So simply visit the Brown tribe early tomorrow morning, so that the other party can have a psychological preparation and be able to decide things more rationally.
After deciding to visit the Brown Tribe tomorrow in broad daylight, everything else will remain the same.
First find a suitable cave as a place to rest at night. After arranging their respective affairs, Chen Chao took Broken Finger Li Nong and Cao Jia from the Killer Five to check the situation near the Brown Tribe.
The three of them walked lightly to the woods not far from the Brown Tribe. The Brown Tribe's residence was also in a large cave surrounded by a not-so-dense forest.
Chen Chao took a closer look, and found no small river source similar to the Tianyuan tribe near the Brown tribe.
At least within the line of sight of the three of them, no similar water source was found, but it could not be ruled out that it was frozen. After all, there is still snow everywhere now, and there is no way to tell whether it is land or a river under the snow.
As the sun set, there was no movement at the cave entrance of the Brown Tribe. The distance is too far, and I can't hear whether there is a sound coming from inside.
The three squatted in the bushes for half an hour before they saw a few peeing people coming out of the bushes.
Their bodies were only covered with simple animal skins, but they didn't look like it. The distance was a bit far away, and the light was not very good, so Chen Chao couldn't tell what kind of material they were wearing.
I saw several people at the entrance of the cave shuddered at the same time after finishing the solution, and then went back to the cave together.
The three of them waited for a while, but they didn't wait for the second wave of people to come out before it was getting dark. Chen Chao had no choice but to give up, and took the other two people back. On the way, the three of them even picked up an armful of logs.
Back in the cave, the bonfire was already lit. Freshly boiled snow water is also burning in the ceramic pot on the simple stove.
Chen Chao hurriedly asked the little old man to fill several bowls of hot water. In this winter, it was really hard to spend an hour in the snow, and his hands and feet were almost numb from the cold.
After drinking a bowl of hot water, Chen Chao felt a little relieved. While putting dried meat and chestnuts into the pot, the little old man instructed the other people to pay careful attention to the wild mouse meat in the pot.
The wild mouse was caught in the forest by two people who didn't push the cart today, and they immediately brought two litters of big mice. All of them are fat-headed and big-eared, and they don't eat less when they look at winter.
After that, under the guidance of Chen Chao, they took out a lot of nuts from the mouse's nest.
It just so happened that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave a two-day chestnut stew soup~
So today's dinner at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is extraordinarily rich. In addition to the several broths that I used to eat, there are also more rat broth and roast rat meat. On average, each person can share a big rat and a dozen nuts .
After finishing today's dinner, Chen Chao briefly exchanged with the little old man about the specific situation that he saw just now, and then continued his map plan with charcoal on the wooden board.
After Chen Chao fixed the approximate position on the wooden board with charcoal, the little old man took the wooden board and began to dig out pits bit by bit with sharp stones by the light of the fire.
Today's vigil has been changed to a new batch, yesterday's late-night vigil is the first batch today, and the others are rotated in turn.
Nothing to say all night.
The next day, the people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still got up early, and after a hasty breakfast, Chen Chao first took Severed Finger Li Nong and Killer Five Cao Jia to look around the cave entrance of the Brown Tribe and confirm the surrounding area. After some people had already been active, they came back and called the big troops to set off together pushing the wind-powered trolley.
When Chen Chao and others pushed six wheelbarrows and appeared at the entrance of the Brown Tribe Mountain, what they got first was not a warm welcome, but a circle of more than thirty men holding sticks and stones.
And at this time, Super Chen saw clearly what they were wearing. These men are wearing the bark of palm trees.
It seems that the people of the palm tribe have learned to peel off the bark of the palm tree and put it on their bodies.
When there is no animal skin to keep out the cold, the bark of the palm tree may not be able to keep out the cold, but it can still block some wind. Generally speaking, it is better than nothing.
While yelling threateningly, they waved sticks or stones in their hands, or made some squeaky noises, probably the dialect of their tribe.
In fact, it was not these strong men who first discovered Chen Chao and the others, but a few women who came out to pick snow with stone basins in their arms.
When the women saw so many strange men coming to the entrance of the cave, they were so frightened that they didn't even want the stone basin, the family heirloom of the tribe, and ran back to the cave in a hurry.
Not long after, a few men with wooden sticks ran out. Most of them ran out with bare hands, and the stones in their hands were temporarily picked up on the ground.