Taking a closer look at those footprints, Zhou Xu still found it strange, so he hurriedly led the warriors away, because he was afraid that the other things he was looking for would also be taken away by the child.
People in this world don't know what garlic is, so Zhou Xu actually still has a doubt in his heart, that is, this child may also come from time travel. After all, there is already Zhou Xu and Ruan Shijin here, and there is a third one. impossible.
After walking not far, Zhou Xu found the potato tree he was looking for. The small white flowers on it had already withered, and it should be in the growing stage, but Zhou Xu couldn't wait any longer. That kid poached.
So Zhou Xu said to the warrior behind: "Bring the soil and dig this potato tree back for me."
"Potato?"
"Yes, this is a potato. The thing that grows is edible and good for the body. The key is that this thing can keep you full. Even if there is a disaster, our tribe will not be hungry because of this alone."
"So good? But will it taste bad? Surely it won't taste as good as meat?"
"This, you will know when the time comes."
Zhou Xu didn't intend to explain any further, because at this time his feet were actually not well established, and he couldn't walk too far, and it would be too dangerous if it was dark.
Commanding the warriors to dig out the potatoes and put them into the sack together with the soil, Zhou Xu led them to move forward.
If I remember correctly, there is still a place in front, where there are twenty or thirty corns growing, and the corns were almost ripe when I saw them last time, I will go to see them again this time, if they are ripe, Zhou Xu decides Just pick it off, open up a piece of land, and plant the corn again. After three months, they may have corn to eat.
Going forward, walking, Yan He suddenly stretched out his hand, stopped them, and whispered: "There is something in front."
Everyone immediately became alert, but Zhou Xu said, "It's okay, there should be no danger."
He didn't feel any danger, which meant that the animals in front might be afraid of people.
Yan He looked at Zhou Xu, and said, "Even if there is no danger, you should be careful."
Nodding his head, Zhou Xu wanted to go forward, but Yan He grabbed him, pulled him behind him, and walked in front of him.
Unable to twitch the corner of his mouth, Zhou Xu felt that although Yan He was a bit stupid sometimes, he was really a warm man. Of course, if he could smile more, maybe it would be even better.
Yan He led the team forward, and after a few steps, Zhou Xu also heard the rustling sound. Looking at the direction from which the sound came from, it was the cornfield that Zhou Xu was going to find, so he shouted loudly: "Who's there?!"
Then Zhou Xu heard a slightly shrill voice exclaiming: "Ah!"
Then, Zhou Xu saw a short child running in another direction with a huge sack on his back.
Zhou Xu quickly motioned to Yan He, "Go and chase."
As soon as Zhou Xu finished speaking, Yan He had disappeared. His speed was almost several times faster than that of the child running in front, so a few minutes later, the child and his huge sack were caught by Yan He up.
When the child was carried in front of Zhou Xu, Zhou Xu realized that this was not a child, but a petite woman.
"Who are you?"
The woman raised her head in frustration, looked at Zhou Xu, then lowered her head again.
Zhou Xu saw this woman's appearance clearly, she was very beautiful, but her face was dirty, so she looked very embarrassed, but even so, this woman's temperament and feeling were different from those of the tribal women.
Suddenly thinking of his initial guess, Zhou Xu said to the people around him: "You all stand back first, I have something to ask her."
Except for Yan He, the other warriors retreated a few meters consciously.
Zhou Xu looked at Yan He and said, "You also step back."
"you like her?"
"Ah?" Zhou Xu and the girl expressed surprise in unison. Finally Zhou Xu saw that Yan He seemed to really care, so he said, "I don't like her, don't worry, I only like you."
This time the woman was surprised, and Yan He stepped back a certain distance contentedly so that Zhou Xu could talk to this woman.
Looking back to confirm their distance, they probably wouldn't hear anything, so Zhou Xu asked directly, "Are you from time travel?"
Suddenly, the woman's pupils shrank slightly. She looked at Zhou Xu and opened her mouth, but she didn't speak for a long time.
Seeing her behavior like this, Zhou Xu knew he had guessed right, so he continued, "Since you, a woman, have already started looking for food, it means that your tribe is in crisis, right?"
The woman lowered her head dejectedly this time, and said slowly, "I did come here through time travel. I live in modern times, but one day I was hit by a car, and somehow I came here."
Zhou Xu didn't speak, and listened to her quietly.
"The body I passed through is the daughter of the patriarch of the Lingshan tribe. The Lingshan tribe is not big, and people are hardworking and live in seclusion, so they have always been peaceful and stable. But a few days ago, we were attacked by people from the Hexi tribe. gone."
When Zhou Xu heard this, he understood roughly that after the Hexi tribe was defeated by them, they began to plunder those small tribes frantically.
"Our tribe has only 300 people in total, and all the warriors add up to less than 100. In the end, we had to be merged by them, and after the merger, the food they allocated to our tribe was only half of their own. Basically, we can only eat one meal a day. These days, they don’t even give us food, and we have nothing to do. I know a little about crops, and then I came out to find something to eat, because our tribe The people who are now starting to get sick, they are so weak that they can’t even eat enough, so I beg you, don’t kill me, don’t take my food away…”
Zhou Xu thought for a while, and then asked, "Do you know about crops?"
The woman replied: "Well, I grew up in a rural area, and I also went to an agricultural university in university."
After thinking about it for a while, Zhou Xu suddenly had an idea, so he said, "Well, tomorrow you bring a sick person from your tribe over, and I'll treat it, but you have to promise me one thing."
"You can heal?"
"I also time-traveled, and my job is to be a doctor." Zhou Xu said solemnly, and Zhou Xu didn't think he was lying, because he had indeed been a doctor in the modern world.
"Great, thank you."
"I haven't told you what I asked you to do."
"No matter what, I agree, as long as you can save my father."
"good."
The woman's name is He Xiao, and what Zhou Xu asked her to do was to be an undercover agent for the Hedong clan.
In fact, Zhou Xu has a good impression of her, and since he is from modern times, he must know a lot, maybe even more than Ruan Shijin.
In the end, Zhou Xu asked He Xiao to keep half of the garlic she pulled out, and gave her some meat they carried with them in exchange, and He Xiao became a member of the Hedong clan.
After letting He Xiao go, Zhou Xu went back to pick the remaining corn. After that, Zhou Xu led them to find the pepper, but they still couldn't find the wild wheat.
When resting together, Zhou Xu drew the shape of the wild wheat he had seen, and as soon as he finished drawing Yan He, he said, "I've seen this kind of thing before, at the foot of the mountain."
Zhou Xu asked in surprise, "Really?"
"I'll take you there."
Zhou Xu was very excited, and followed Yan He to go. After arriving, he found that there was another thing that was more gratifying, that is, these wild wheats were already ripe, and it was not just a spot, but a whole piece of wheat. The area is all wild wheat.
Yan He looked at Zhou Xu in puzzlement and asked, "What's the use of this kind of thing?"
"eat."
Yan He is puzzled, can this kind of needle-like sharp thing be eaten
In front of him was a piece of yellow-orange wheat. Zhou Xu could even imagine that after a few years, their staple food would change. It would no longer be meat, but pasta.
By the way, he still needs to think about how the noodle grinder works. If possible, he wants to get a machine that can grind noodle.
In addition, there is also the problem of energy. Without electricity, maybe steam can be used.
An entire town even appeared in Zhou Xu's mind. People don't have to go hunting every day, and there won't be undue deaths.
But before that, Zhou Xu knew that he must harvest this piece of wild wheat well. This is the basis of everything he dreamed of.
"Yan He, you go back and call more warriors. Those who have knives bring knives. We have to collect them all and bring them all back to our tribe."
Yan He looked at those sharp edges and still didn't understand, but he believed in Zhou Xu, so he left a few warriors to accompany Zhou Xu, and he went back quickly, and he brought thirty warriors an hour later.
With an order, the warriors began to do crop work for the first time. Although it was very clumsy and the speed was surprisingly slow, after all, doing this kind of work would not kill anyone.
Thirty people quickly collected all the wild wheat, and Zhou Xu called these people to thresh the wheat again the next afternoon.
Before threshing wheat, Zhou Xu saw He Xiao again. In addition, Zhou Xu also met the patriarch of the Lingshan clan, and gave him a pulse. Zhou Xu knew the reason. This was almost the decline in physical function caused by lack of nutrition, so Will be dizzy.
Just in time, Zhou Xu thought, he can make more of his kind of pills in the future.
From then on, Zhou Xu saw He Xiao once a week and brought her some pills and food each time. At the same time, Zhou Xu also heard a lot about the Hexi tribe, one of which was that Ruan Shijin had defected to the Hexi tribe.
Zhou Xu ignored Ruan Shijin at all. He didn't care about a man who had escaped from the tribe. What he was thinking about now was that they didn't have a machine for threshing wheat. Zhou Xu could only ask the warriors to smash the ears of wheat with sticks, and then I called the women of the tribe to come and rub the ears of wheat that had not been confiscated, so that all the wheat fell.
It took them three whole days to finish such a little work.
But looking at the two big sacks full of wheat, Zhou Xu felt it was worth it.
Two bags of wheat, Zhou Xu took a whole bag to improve the wheat seeds, and the other bag Zhou Xu called a few people in charge of cooking in the clan, and taught them how to wash and dry the wheat. After that, Zhou Xu taught them How do they make rice from wheat.
When Zhou Xu ate whole wheat rice for the first time, he was moved. He hadn't eaten anything other than meat for too long.
However, because the wheat has not been improved, the flour content in the wheat is average. In other words, the skin of this kind of wild wheat is too thick. The improvement that Zhou Xu wants to do is to make the skin of the wheat thinner and increase the amount of flour inside. .
After that meal, Zhou Xu asked the clansmen for their opinions. Most of the clansmen still liked it. Even if some didn't like it, it was because of the thick husk of the barley, but none of them said they hated the taste.
Knowing this, Zhou Xu felt at ease. He was also afraid that his clansmen would not get used to eating meat for a long time.
Zhou Xu's improvement of wheat was quickly completed. After half a month, Zhou Xu asked someone to open up a farmland of about ten mu.
In fact, the process of developing farmland is also very hard, and ten acres is really not too small.
First, he asked the warriors to dig a ditch on the edge of the ten acres of land, and then Zhou Xu burned all the grass and trees on the ten acres of land, and finally, Zhou Xu asked all the warriors to give the farmland together. The soil was turned over.
The point is that at this time, they don't have any decent farm tools, so in the middle of the work, even the warriors are often exhausted and weak.
The iron-making technology in this world has indeed developed, but the farming season waits for no one. If this time passes, Zhou Xu is afraid that it will be too late to harvest in autumn.
Although the winter in this world is very short, the winter in this world is too cold, and the temperature is about 30 degrees below zero at any time. It is impossible for the crops to survive the winter, so even if Zhou Xu can produce the necessary agricultural tools, he still has to wait to get them. After all the crops are planted, we will talk about it.
The ten mu of land was all planted with wheat, and Zhou Xu asked the warriors to open up another two mu of land, and another piece of about one mu of land. The two mu of land was planted with corn, and the one mu of land was planted with Ruan Shijin. soy beans.
After these were planted, Wei Xin's two apprentices finally made the mud for building the house.
Zhou Xu went to check the situation and found that the two apprentices not only put the grass that Zhou Xu found into it, but also added something in the middle, which was finely divided sand.
After testing, this kind of mud will not crumble no matter what kind of wind and rain is there after it dries, it is basically the same as the cement in the modern world.
Zhou Xu was very satisfied, so he asked them to start building the first house. No matter how many stones were needed, Zhou Xu would find them.
After that day, the warriors began to go up the mountain to find stones every day.
During the break, the warriors would ridicule that they were no longer warriors, but the coolies of the new patriarch, but the jokes were just jokes, and they all knew that Zhou Xu was doing this for the good of the tribe.
No one is blind, of course they know how strong the newly built house is, and that's why they worked so hard to find stones.
The conversation was divided into two parts, Zhou Xu was very busy on this side, and Ruan Shijin was also very busy on the other side, because he had already gained the trust of the patriarch of the Hexi tribe and became his most capable assistant.
It has to be said that Ruan Shijin is very good at gaining people's trust, but because he doesn't know the real agricultural knowledge, he found that 60% of the soybeans he planted did not germinate.
He Xiao just watched. Although she knew what was wrong with Ruan Shijin, she didn't say anything. She hated the Hexi people, and she hated Ruan Shijin even more for betraying her own race and becoming a hero in someone else's race.
In fact, Ruan Shijin made a mistake in one point, that is, his land was opened up, but he didn't dig it.
After the seeds were sown, a heavy rain hit, the soil was wet, and the seeds were about to germinate, but because the ground was too hard, the seeds could not break through the soil at all, which is why farmers had to plow the ground before planting.
But no matter what, half of the soybeans Ruan Shi had planted had germinated, so he wasn't too embarrassed.
Not long after the soybeans were planted, the Hexi people finally prepared the "ransom".
The people they want to redeem are the warriors of the Hexi tribe. When they fought against the Hedong tribe last time, they were defeated miserably, so they had to pay for things. In the end, because they were not enough, they had to detain the hundred warriors in the hands of the Hedong tribe.
The warriors went back, but after they went back, they found that the food they ate when they were captives was even better than the food they ate when they returned to their own tribe. After returning, they couldn't even eat enough.
The warrior who came back was very depressed, so he told his family about the huge difference between the two tribes. The warrior's family was also very depressed because they could eat less than the warrior.
Food has always been a big problem for their tribe, and their land is relatively barren, and there are not many animals in the forest. After hunting collectively, the prey is only enough for two or three days, but many warriors will die every time they hunt .
After Ruan Shi came in, he taught the warriors how to set traps and how to catch the most elusive birds. The tribe had made some progress, but it was still not enough, far from enough.
The same is true for Ruan Shi. He discovered the current situation of the Hexi tribe not long after he entered the tribe, so he was very active in helping them change. However, because of his lack of experience, he was always unable to find out where the wild beasts appeared, and many traps became false. .
However, after he came here, he discovered one thing, that is, the sea here is actually very rich, which is completely different from that of the Hedong people.
He once taught the Hedong people how to dry salt. After coming here, he also taught the Hexi people how to dry salt. At the seaside, he discovered the secret of the sea here.
But for some reason, people in this world have a fear of the sea. They think the sea is vicious and will swallow people's lives, but looking at the shells on the rocks by the sea, Ruan Shijin decided to give it a try.
Ruan Shijin could swim, so he slipped to the beach while no one was looking.
The temperature of the seawater was very suitable, so he jumped down lightly. After jumping down, he realized that the sea in this world is not only rich, but also a huge breeding farm.
After landing, Ruan Shijin caught a lot of things, including abalone, octopus, and even a big lobster.
Putting these things into a sack, Ruan Shi went in to find the patriarch of the Hexi tribe.
The patriarch of the Hexi clan was very shocked, and Ruan Shijin told him that these were all obtained from the sea, so the shocked patriarch became very angry in an instant, and even drove Ruan Shijin out of his house.
Ruan Shijin didn't understand, He Xiao, who just passed by, looked at Ruan Shijin coldly and said, "The god of the sea is vicious, and so are the things in the sea. You take those vicious things to find the patriarch, and the patriarch didn't kill you, so he is doing you a favor." .”
Looking at He Xiao, Ruan Shijin was a little puzzled. It was obviously the first time he saw this woman, but why did this woman speak in a strange way
"Who are you?"
"passing by."
After finishing speaking, He Xiao left, while Ruan Shijin was very concerned about He Xiao, because he always felt that the way He Xiao looked at him was abnormal.
Sighing softly, Ruan Shijin decided to sneak a look at the Hedong tribe, or at least learn how they set traps, because they can easily get a lot of food.
Thinking of this, Ruan Shijin set out on the road. He stained his face so that even if he was caught, he would not recognize him.
After walking for more than three hours, Ruan Shijin arrived at the territory of the Hedong tribe.
Ruan Shijin knew that this forest was where the Hedong tribe got the most prey, and their traps were well designed, as long as the prey got in, they would never escape, and their bait design was also different from that of the Hexi tribe.
In the past, Ruan Shijin didn't care about these things at all, because he was never willing to hunt, all he wanted was to be a commander, but now he cared, but he was no longer in the Hedong tribe.
However, Ruan Shijin searched for a long time, but he didn't find a single trap. He was a little suspicious. Could it be that the Hedong people haven't hunted for a long time
He also found that there are very few stones on the ground here. He remembered that there were many stones in this forest before, why are there no more now
Going forward, Ruan Shijin still didn't find anything, but standing at this place, he could see the village of the Hedong tribe.
But why is the village different from before
The villages in the past were all small thatched houses, but now, the houses behind the village seem to be not thatched houses.
Ruan Shijin was really surprised this time, did the Hedong people build stone houses? But how did they solve the cement problem? It's impossible to build with pure dirt, right? In that case, a heavy rain will destroy the house.
Really curious, Ruan Shijin decided to go a little further to see what the Hedong people did, but after walking a few steps, he saw a thin figure, slipped suddenly, and fell into a trap .
Looking up, Ruan Shijin saw a person standing at the entrance of the hole where he fell, and this person was He Xiao.