Survive in the beast world

Chapter 74

"Boy, let's talk about everything after this snow season."

Qing Apa was thinking about his last words all the way, so it seems that Apa is still not optimistic about himself.Indeed, apart from the young people in the valley, for those Apas, their words don't carry much weight.Apa has no objection for the time being, and he just wants to continue to watch his own performance. He completely understands the noncommittal meaning of what he said.

Bai laughed, well, anyway, when the snow season is over, everything will be known, no, maybe it doesn't have to be the end of the snow season.

He went to the north woods without stopping, looked at Li Shizhen who was surrounded by females patiently explaining, and the males who were walking to the side to rest, and didn't know what to discuss with them.

Now there are not only males who have not been through the ceremony in the male team, but also some young males with minor injuries. They may have learned about Bai and Li Shizhen's work from their own females, and they also volunteered to join in.As for the males of Apa's age, some joined the patrol team but did not join the planting work. In their view, this was just a young man's tossing, and he stopped messing around when he was old.

In short, among the adult males in Xinhuigu, Li Shizhen and Bai have a long way to go in popularizing science.

Now that the north is in full swing, Li Shizhen divided the land into groups. Since the land was collectively reclaimed, and the land area was not large and the level of fertility was similar, he divided the land equally.

After explaining the main points of transplanting, each group transplanted on their own land, and then Li Shizhen and Ahu went back and forth to check if there was any problem.

Li Shizhen's plan is very clear. From the beginning to the end, each team is responsible for the same land. Because the males' participation in planting is not fixed, they can be counted as floating labor, but the females must completely accept a complete planting. For training, it depends on the harvest of each group in the end, and the teams with good harvest will also be rewarded.

At the same time, he also encouraged these young females to help out in the breeding area in their spare time. Asha and the others were moved to Yuam and the others to help with logistics. Although the work in the breeding area was not heavy, these young females went to help, By the way, learning experience is also necessary.

The adult females in the breeding area will also go to the extra land in the north to plant and collect forage, and take a look at how corn is grown.Once they come and go, the females on both sides will have different degrees of familiarity with planting and breeding.

I believe that females will soon discover the significance of these two tasks: there is no risk, planting and as long as God favors the face, no pains, no harvests; the same is true for breeding, as long as there is sufficient forage and the livestock is free from diseases, the harvest is also possible. foreseeable.Neither job carries as much risk and uncertainty as hunting.More importantly, this is a rewarding job that they can do without the help of males.

Li Shizhen is checking the transplanting of a small team, and it is okay, the density is reasonable, and it can be irrigated. Just after transplanting, it needs to be watered once.He nodded to the female next to him in charge of the team.

The surrounding team members all cheered, Li Shizhen ignored them, after all, it was right to celebrate when one's labor was affirmed.He turned to the leading female and talked about the amount and key points of irrigation. The female wrote it down, and after discussing it, he asked a few males to pull a trailer to the lake to pull water.

Seeing the flush of joy on the young faces, and seeing the immature seedlings lined up under his feet, Li Shizhen smiled slightly. Maybe what was planted was not only the corn seedlings, but also the drive and self-confidence in the hearts of these young people.

It is better in the valley, the females can divide their own labor and do some work within their ability, but outside the valley, the males with animal shape are the guarantee of safety, the females can only collect and do some miscellaneous work, so naturally they are more dependent on male.

Over time, once planting and breeding are popularized, females with more detailed and thoughtful personalities will obviously be more competent for this job. After they can survive on their own, will their social status change accordingly?Females are no longer so dependent on males, nor are they in such a weak position in the group.At least in difficult times like the heavy snow season, females are no longer the ones who are going to be sacrificed, or even stand up and sacrifice themselves.

Now everything is going well with the breeding side, and Bai and the others have caught some small animals. The little males and pregnant women can already eat egg products, and I believe that other people in the valley will also be able to taste them soon.Rabbits are breeding the fastest. The second batch of rabbits seems to be pregnant. Li Shizhen didn't let them kill them. It's still the key point of expanding the scale. Raise more. It's not time yet.

Other seeds brought by Ahu in the planting area have already been planted, and Li Shizhen also brought some medicinal seeds from Yang Apa to see if he can try artificial cultivation.

Li Shizhen himself also went to Yang Apa to learn some herbal knowledge from time to time. After seeing Yang Apa's various medical methods, Li Shizhen put away his hidden subtle pride.Herbal medicines are broad and profound, and they are definitely not cured by just a few prescriptions by mistake as he subconsciously thought before.

Even on Earth, traditional Chinese medicine, regarded as illogical and unscientific by Western medicine, often creates unexplainable miracles.This is even more so in this world with backward sanitary conditions. There is no time and no conditions to develop a precise discipline like Western medicine that requires logic and science, and a lot of practice. Herbal medicine can be said to be the only way out at present.

Yang Apa's superb treatment of trauma is enough to prove that the medical treatment in this world is not only herbal medicine, but also includes other extraordinary methods. For Li Shitong who has not received any medical training, these things are enough for him to digest and absorb.

In this dangerous world, it is good to have more means of self-protection.After Bai heard his plan, he naturally strongly agreed with it. Bai himself didn't have the patience to toss about those things, so Ah Chao wanted to learn from him and agree.

Yang Apa's attitude is a bit intriguing, he is actually quite happy.After all, in the eyes of Li Shizhen, a native of the earth, people who have a skill will cover them tightly. Didn’t they say that the disciples taught the master to starve to death?This respectable old man always moved Li Shizhen again and again——

In the evening, Li Shizhen took a bath in the stone house next to him, wiped his hair and returned to the house, he found that Bai had already returned, and he had "packed" the meal back, and he was setting out the bowls and tableware virtuously.

Li Shixuan asked with concern: "Is Chiapa okay?"

Bai took the animal skin from his hand and hung it up: "It's okay, Ah Mu is with him. It's better not to change into the animal shape than to lose his life. He can figure it out by himself."

Li Shizhen frowned slightly. If it was only in human form, it would indeed be less lethal.

"I just checked. The transplanting on your side is going well."

"It's okay, I divided them into groups, and each group is responsible for their own land. I told them to compare the harvest at the end. If the harvest is good, there will be rewards. Everyone has worked hard." Li Shizhen smiled so hard that his eyes narrowed Get up: "By the way, Chiapa, why don't I make him a handy weapon."

Bai sat next to Li Shizhen: "The weapon is indeed to be done, but you have to wait until you are not so busy. Recently, it is transplanting again, and it is hard work to go to Yang Apa's place."

Li Shizhen smiled slightly, took the chopsticks handed over by Bai, and the two began to eat dinner quietly. There were vegetables, fish, and fir fruits on the table. Signs of reduced snow season food in previous years.

This is also a white arrangement. There is a surplus of food this year, so you can eat whatever you want. Otherwise, young people will have to patrol and work. If you don’t eat enough, how can you get the strength? To save this food, it’s better to think about how to grow more. .

The two of them finished their meal and went out to Yangappa's place. They met many tribesmen along the way. Young people would take the initiative to come over to say hello to them. When they met elders, of course they would take the initiative to say hello.

This is also the practice these days. Li Shizhen went to learn some herbal knowledge from Yang Apa, but Bai's purpose was not clear to Li Shizhen. However, he seemed to see that Bai had been thinking about Yang Apa's symbol system?

Forget it, don't guess what the big cat is thinking, you can't guess it.

Soon, Li Shizhen didn't have the heart to think about the big cat. There are too many kinds of herbs here in Yangapa, and not only herbs, but also insects, animal bones, animal offal, etc. After they are dried in the sun, they are all shriveled lumps. Who can tell which of these things is kudzu root and which is dried snake gall!

The big cat looked at Li Shizhen, who was listening carefully on the surface, but secretly mad in his heart, smiled silently, and began to write and draw on the table by himself.

With the completion of the transplanting of corn seedlings, there will be no more labor-intensive work in the valley in the near future. It is estimated that the next time all mobilization is required will be the season of corn maturity.

Soon, Li Shizhen knew what Bai was planning.

All the males in the valley, except those Apas, have received orders, and every morning the rest team must gather for training.

The content of the training is varied. Li Shizhen watched it for a while. There are physical skills, such as simply climbing with a human figure and running in the snow; there are skills, such as how to use javelins and how to make traps; there are connections, how to use symbols to communicate with each other. , how to light different smoke signals to send different signals; there are actually squads confronting each other, different squads fight each other in different empty forests, use weapons with minimal lethality, or go into battle with bare hands, to see which side can finally defeat the other party Totally subdued.

Li Shizheng watched with great interest, and witnessed the orcs from the beginning screaming and going straight up to fight in groups, to the subsequent communication and ambush, and continuous tricks.He himself also gave the big cat a lot of ideas, such as concealment, and using painted weapons to judge injuries. After all, there are few modern boys who don't like to read military materials. Li Shizhen has accumulated some. Modern military common sense.But if you come up with an idea, Li Shizhen will never directly intervene in Bai's training plan.

There is a tacit understanding between Bai and Li Shizhen that outsiders can't understand. They are honest and understand each other enough. Some problems will be discussed with each other, and some problems will never interfere with each other. For example, Li Shizhen's manpower arrangements for planting and breeding, such as Bai's training for the males.Oddly enough, this hands-off yet cooperative system seems to be working fine so far.

During this training, or in other words, the training, what really impressed Li Shixuan was the attitude of the other elders in the valley.

Now the situation in the valley became clear, Yang Apa, Lan Amu, and Yu Amu acquiesced to Bai and continued to take care of everything, and Chiapa himself had to stay in bed and recuperate, and he couldn't take care of it.As for Qing Apa, he seemed to be watching with folded arms.

Li Shizhen saw the attitudes of the elders clearly, and found it quite interesting. He was not sure what he had done in vain, but the effect was good.Ordinarily, he was their adopted son, and while they were tossing around in the valley like this, the attitudes of the elders were also very subtle, neither publicly supporting nor publicly opposing, and there were subtle inconsistencies in this non-expression attitude.

Affected by this subtle attitude of not expressing their views, the adult males in the valley were divided into two factions according to their own will. One group thought Bai's training was quite interesting, and they were idle during the snow season, so they volunteered to join. Most of the people were about the same age as Bai Xiang; the other group just watched silently, neither joining nor opposing. Most of them were older, from Chiapa's generation.

If you want to join, Bai will make an agreement with them in three chapters. Once you join, you can't quit. Otherwise, people will come and go, and what kind of chaos will happen to him. Anyway, he will make a decision after thinking clearly.Bai, who didn't join, didn't pay any attention to it, and just did what he wanted. In Ah Chao's words, time will tell.In Bai's view, time also changes everything.

On this day, white-collar Li Shizhen visited Muapa's workshop again.

To be honest, Li Shizhen really didn't want to come. Being pushed out of this room that day was indeed a rare embarrassment and rough encounter in his life.But Bai's attitude is very firm, without it, in the valley, when it comes to making weapons, Muapa takes the second place, and no one dares to take the first place.And because he has been immersed in weapon making all year round, Muapa has collected all kinds of materials, and Li Shizhen may make new discoveries there.

It's a pity that Muapa's temper is terrible, and young people rarely get anything from him, but Bai thinks that Li Shizhen can talk to him, after all, they sometimes look alike to Bai, Occasionally, there will be some strange ideas, and occasionally I will be immersed in my own world.

"What are you doing here?" Muapa squinted with one eye and snorted.

Li Shizhen knew this would happen, even if Bai got along in the valley recently, he might not be popular with this strange old man.

"I'll show you the weapons you made."

"Weapon? Didn't you steal a stone knife to that boy Yong? Don't think I don't know! Tell me, what is your plan."

At this moment, an embarrassing expression appeared on Li Shizhen's sure white face.Haha, I didn't expect to see the embarrassment of the big cat's embarrassment being exposed. Li Shizhen felt that even if it was uncomfortable to come here at the beginning, it was worth the fare now.

"Hey, Ah Mao also has a lot of experience in making weapons, don't you want to talk about it?"

"Humph," Muapa's terrifying one-eyed glanced at Li Shizhen, making Li Shizhen feel that he was breathing cold all over.After a while, he finally said calmly: "It's just a female, what kind of weapon can you make, you should tell me what you are here for."

Li Shizhen felt the veins on his forehead twitch, this feeling of being despised...

He took a deep breath, let go of his politeness, stepped forward and grabbed a half-finished bow: "Do you know why you can't make it? Just rely on these things," Li Shizhen stretched out his arms and swept all the bows. "You will never be able to make that kind of bow." His arm finally pointed firmly to the real one on the wall.

Muapa gave him a cold look, but said nothing.

Li Shizhen put down the bow calmly: "It seems that you have been imitating that bow for a long time." Li Shizhen had a rare sarcasm on his face, and picked up the one closest to Muapa, " You just realized that the bow on the wall is a compound bow, and your other half-finished bows are all single bows. Only the few on the table have the meaning of a compound bow, but unfortunately, they are almost far away."

Li Shizhen didn't look at Muapa's face, and said calmly: "Actually, if you develop a single bow by yourself, you may not be able to make a good bow, but you blindly imitate the one on the wall, and you haven't found the right one. materials, but there is no breakthrough at both ends.”

Muapa stood up suddenly and said loudly: "Where is the material wrong?! This side is obviously made of wood and tendons!"

Li Shizhen said calmly: "It is impossible to have only two kinds of materials. The materials on the inside and outside of the bow must not be the same. This is common sense. When drawing the bow, the inside is squeezed inward and needs to be supported. There are many deformations, so it must be a flexible and ductile material, the outside may be animal tendons, and the inside must be another material."

Muapa seemed unable to refute for a while, and stood there panting.

After a while, the two started arguing about the materials and methods of the arrow. Muapa jumped on the spot, Li Shizhen looked proud and calm, and Bai stood aside, looking very happy.

For a long time, Li Shizhen could see that this old man was a technical nerd, and he was a grumpy technical nerd.This kind of people Li Shizhen has dealt with the most. They like to shut themselves in a small dark room, pondering all kinds of things in secret, and after they come up with it, they always feel that their invention will be so great that it will shock the world.

It's a pity that the things these people do either go in the wrong direction and walk into a dead end at the beginning, or they are out of touch with reality, and there are very few really awesome ones.What's even more tragic is that these people seldom pay attention to other people's progress. Often when they finally come up with a result out of the small black room, I'm sorry, someone else has already made it and published it before you.

This kind of people generally have some similar characteristics. For example, when you criticize his research direction, he will definitely jump - just look at Muapa who is running wild in front of him, for example, they are generally slow to reality - the last time Yang Apa and the others After coming out of the snow cave, the old man reacted ==

However, this kind of people are also easy to deal with. You don’t interfere with them squatting in a small dark room, and you are willing to discuss with them about inventions that are “great enough to shock the world”. As long as you are knowledgeable, you are not here to cause trouble but to help. Mostly there is no problem ╮(￣▽￣")╭ Just like today, when Li Shizhen told Muapa that the inner material can be selected from materials such as horns and bones, he successfully passed on from Muapa shot a javelin.

You know, Bai went through untold hardships in order to steal a stone knife. How many days and nights did he stay until Muapa left the house? Ordinary people like Bai can't understand the love of tech geeks for the little black house].

Speaking of which, Li Shizhen's luck is not bad. He caught up with the technical house when he was away for the first time. He was free to visit the workshop [also known as the little black house] that the technical house regards as a holy place. The first time I came here, I hit the HP of the technical house. The major technical problems that urgently need to be solved are always the most itchy place in the technical house. Therefore, Li Shizhen successfully bought a javelin that everyone in the valley loves [Mu A Pa produced].

To be honest, this old man's temper is not to be said, but the craftsmanship is really good. The javelin made by Li Shizhen himself has a thin and sharp tip, and the shape is not so perfect. The most peculiar thing is that the entire javelin tip is actually A shiny black.If Li Shizhen's guess is correct, most of the reason why this nearly perfect gun head can be manufactured is due to this black material, and the rest can be attributed to the craftsmanship of old man Mu.

Back in the stone house, Li Shizhen was a little tired. Rolling up his sleeves and arguing with the technical house was also physical work, but when he saw the black material, he suddenly became a little excited: "Bai, are there any stones like this near the valley?" ?”

Bai took a closer look and nodded affirmatively: "There are many under the snow peaks further north."

Li Shizhen's eyes sparkled: "A lot?"

Bai stroked his hair: "Well, there are so many, so many that you can't imagine, that mountain is almost black."

This kind of obsidian, commonly known as obsidian, is actually a kind of natural glass. The main component is a black stone of silicon dioxide. Compared with other stones, it is easier to process. It is no wonder that Muapa can trim the shape of the javelin head so perfectly. .

Li Shizhen gave Bai a smile: "These stones can be turned into weapons. As many stones as there are, we can have as many weapons. If we have enough people."

There is no era when metal cannot change the shape of the material at will. Such easy-to-process obsidian is a godsend wealth. Compared with the distant compound bow, weapons such as javelins and spears seem to be within easy reach.

Presumably it won't be long before the young males in the valley will be armed with a javelin or a spear, and maybe an obsidian-encrusted knife if they're good?