Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

In this world without paper, to learn to write, one can only use local materials. Chen Qi asked a few female sons to make several wooden boards, briefly polished the wood thorns on the surface, and then each gave two pieces.

There was only one brush that Chen Qi made temporarily in the morning, so Chen Qi found a few slender pieces of charcoal and let a few people learn to write on the wooden board with the charcoal. Chen Qi's charcoal wood is relatively hard, and even if it has been burned into carbon, it will not easily shatter.

It was the first time for Chen Qi to teach people to learn to write, or to teach people who had never been exposed to writing. He first briefly explained the meaning of strokes to a few people, and then taught them the composition of the strokes of the characters they wanted to learn one-on-one. Write the sequence down on a board and have them imitate the writing.

The wooden board is not big. After it is full, it needs to be wiped with water-soaked animal skins and dried by the fire before it can be used again. Chen Qi found that the first word Ake wrote was a card character, while the first word Carlo wrote was a gram character. When teaching them, Chen Qi felt that he had eaten a full mouthful of dog food.

"Chen Qi." Afraid that the charcoal would stain the kang, Ajing also got close to the fire. Chen Qi made several layers of thick animal skins to make cushions for him to lean on, but the little guy said that his injury had already healed. , Sit firmly away from the cushion and keep your back straight.

Hearing Ajing calling him, Chen Qi leaned over and asked with concern, "What's the matter? Where do you not understand?" Ajing's wooden board was already full of characters, and Chen Qi rubbed the other person in praise. With a small head, he asked: "Ajing is really amazing. He has already finished writing. Do I need to keep the words I wrote for the first time? I will bring you a new board."

Ajing nodded vigorously, Chen Qi replaced him with a new board, Ajing hesitated for a moment, the little wolf cub moved at his feet, "Can you teach me how to write wolf characters?"

"Wolf?"

"Yeah." A Jing picked up the little wolf cub, "Aze said it didn't have a name yet, so let me name it. It's the cub of the giant wolf god, and it's so small, so I call it the little wolf."

Xiaolang, although the name is a bit more straightforward, it's not bad. Chen Qi showed Ajing how to write the wolf character several times, and when he saw that Ajing was able to stumble and write the wolf character, he rubbed the other party's little boy with satisfaction. Head, stand up and plan to check other people's situation.

A Ze wrote carefully, and didn't notice Chen Qi coming over. When he found out, it was too late to put the board away. Chen Qi was stunned when he saw the words written on A Ze's wooden board. A Ze didn't write his name, but was writing a letter. Chen Qi didn't teach him the stroke order of the letter, so he wrote Sometimes it was written from right to left, and it was said to be written, but in fact it was more like looking at the drawing.

The tip of Azer's ears was red when he was discovered. Chen Qi smiled, walked behind him, and leaned over to hold Azer's hand holding the charcoal, "Your word order is wrong, it should be written like this." Chen Qi held With his hand, he slowly wrote the words stroke by stroke, and when he finished, he asked with a smile, "Do you understand?"

A Ze raised his head and just saw Chen Qi's smiling face, perhaps because the distance was too close, A Ze felt a little lost by Chen Qi's smile, and shook his head blankly.

"Then I'll show you one more time, you should read it carefully." Chen Qi grabbed his hand and wrote again, until the wooden board was filled with words, and Aze nodded with a hot face, indicating that he would write. .

The orcs who learned to write for the first time were excited to write until the middle of the night and rested. They not only learned to write their own names, but also learned to write other people's names. The next morning, Chen Qi was afraid that they would forget, and asked them to write it again before starting their work today.

A Zhang and A Ze continued to go hunting, while A Li picked up the wool cocoon and continued to weave. He planned to make a set of comfortable cloth clothes for everyone. Like Chen Qi, he would wear the cloth clothes inside and then put them on the outside. Putting on animal skins not only keeps you warm, but also is much more comfortable than wearing animal skins directly.

The antelope that came back from hunting yesterday has been dealt with. Chen Qi boiled the antelope bone soup today. Seeing that A Jing sat and wrote for a long time yesterday, he was fine. The brat didn't know what was going on. He hadn't slept for a long time in the past two days, and he even started running around the house in high spirits this morning.

Chen Qi used Linglong's hair to make a few more brushes. Ake went to the bamboo forest and chopped two bamboos back. He chopped them all and Carlo made them into bamboo pieces. There were too many bamboo pieces, so Chen Qi asked them to make them. Set up a wooden rack, put the bamboo pieces outside to dry first, and put a small part directly on the fire to bake.

Today's sun is warm on people. After all, it is inconvenient to use charcoal to practice writing. Not only will it make the hands black, but even if you wipe it with water, it will not be clean. Chen Qi sent Ake to Chishui. After digging a large bag of river sand by the river, Chen Qi planned to make a few sand tables for them to practice calligraphy.

There was a lot of soil mixed in the river sand. Chen Qi melted a large plate of snow water, washed the sand outside the house first, then put the clean sand in a pottery plate, and put the pottery plate in a fire to dry the water. Chen Qi made several quill pens. When the sand was hot, he inserted the quill tube into the hot sand, and used the temperature of the sand to harden the quill tube, which was much more convenient to use.

Chen Qi made several wooden boxes the size of A4 paper, glued them together with glue fruit liquid, and planned to pick some glue leaves while waiting for the glue fruit to dry. But not afraid of cold. Gum leaves also turn yellow in winter, but they don't drop, they start to grow new leaves in summer. A few people from Carlo had picked gum when they were building a new house before. Chen Qi had seen yellow gum leaves. The surface was rough but not withered and curled like other leaves. It was perfect for writing instead of paper. .

A Jing's wound was just right, and Chen Qi was reluctant to let him go out, so he asked Ali to stay at home with him, while he went to pick gum leaves with Ake and Carlo.

Even with warmer weather, the snow showed no sign of melting, and walking in knee-high snow was a chore.

"If you need gum leaves, I'll just pick them by myself." Seeing the two males walking fast, Ake couldn't help but suggested that they could run back and forth several times at their speed.

Chen Qi shook his head, "The gum tree is not far from here, and there is no danger nearby. I haven't been out since the winter, so this time I just came out for a walk."

"Yeah, there's nothing to hurry to do anyway, let's just walk slowly." Carlo replied.

Ake had no choice but to walk slowly in the direction of the gum tree behind the two of them.

A few people went out after having lunch early, but it was almost evening when they returned home after picking. When Carlo entered the door, he slumped on the animal skin blanket by the fire and shouted, "I didn't expect it to be so tiring to walk in the snow. Yes, I don't want to move anymore."

Chen Qi was better than him. He checked the condition of the quill first, took it out from the cold sand, and was about to pour the sand into the wooden box on the side. The wooden box was not big, so It is not necessary to wait for the pumice to dry completely before using it.

"You guys are back? Did you see A Jing?" Ali hurried in from the door and asked quickly when he saw several people.

"No, what's wrong?" Chen Qi put down the sand in his hand and asked suspiciously.

"I was so involved in weaving that I didn't pay attention to him. I was just about to make dinner when I found that A Jing was gone." Ali explained angrily, "I have searched all around, but I couldn't find it, and I don't know where he ran to. , even the little wolf cub is gone."

Chen Qi patted A Li on the shoulder comfortingly, "Don't worry, there is snow outside the fence, and it hasn't snowed in this period of time. If A Jing leaves, he should leave traces."

"Yes." Ali patted his forehead, "I was really confused just now, let's go check it out."

The soldiers were divided into two groups. Chen Qi and Ali went to the front door, while Ake and Carlo went to the back door. Because of the relationship between moving house and building a house and going in and out of hunting, the front door was trampled on the snow with many potholes, and there was no way to identify whose footprints were.

The two walked a long distance along these traces, and only then did they find a small footprint. If they continued to walk forward, they would find that the footprint was going in the direction of the tribe.

"The kid doesn't want to go back to the tribe, does he?"

Chen Qi shook his head with a headache. He had explained to the other party many times that no one in the tribe was unsafe now, but he didn't expect this bear child to sneak back while they were away. "Let's go back to Ake first and let him go to the tribe to see."

Ali nodded, he was better, but it would be too risky to take Chen Qi to the direction of the tribe. Just as he was about to turn his head, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a small black dot moving in the distance. , Ali grabbed Chen Qi's sleeve, "Chen Qi, look at that over there is A Jing."

Chen Qi looked in the direction of Ali's finger, and saw a small figure moving slowly in the distance. He was also wearing the fiery red animal skin coat that Chen Qi specially made Ali to make, which was particularly conspicuous on the white snow field. Who else could A Jing be.

A Jing's speed was very slow. Ali caught up in three or two steps, and scolded his face: "You kid, don't you know that the tribe is very dangerous now? Why did you run out without saying a word."

A Jing was carrying an animal skin backpack that was about the same height as him. The animal skin backpack was bulging and seemed to be full of things. The little wolf cub in his arms heard Ali's voice and called out to Ali a few times in dissatisfaction.

A Jing stroked the hair on the little wolf cub's head to make it quiet. Then he raised his head and said to Ali, "I didn't bother you when I saw you were busy."

At this time, Chen Qi also caught up. Running in the snow, his center of gravity was unsteady, and he fell. His clothes were still covered with snow that he didn't have time to take off. He saw the backpack behind A Jing, "Go back to the tribe. Packed up."

Ah Jing nodded, put the little wolf cub on the ground, unfastened the backpack from behind him, and handed it to Chen Qi, "This is the food I have collected for the winter, I will give it to you." After thinking about it, he said, "Inside And some milk fruit, those are for the little wolf."

The little wolf cub at his feet let out a cry, as if responding to what A Jing said.

A Li originally wanted to teach A Jing a few words, but he swallowed the words just after hearing A Jing's words.

Chen Qi squatted down and touched A Jing's little head, "Even if you go to the tribe to get something, you can't just leave without saying hello, we will be very worried."

A Jing looked at Chen Qi and then at A Li, "Did you guys come out to find me because you were worried about me?"

Chen Qi nodded, "Ali has searched the neighborhood to find you. You don't know how worried he is."

A Jing took the little wolf cub back into his arms, perhaps because of too much force, the little wolf cub twisted his body uncomfortably, A Jing raised his head and looked directly at Ali, "I'm sorry, I will never let go Say hello and leave."

Ali moved his lips and jaws a few times, and finally sighed, raised his hand and squeezed his little face, "Look at you, it's going to be frozen after being out for so long, let's go back first."

"I will be a beast, and I will not freeze."

Ali choked, picked up the animal skin backpack on the ground and turned away. Chen Qi originally wanted to back Ajing, but Ajing was naturally unwilling. In the end, he could only hold Ajing's little hand and walked towards the house.

There were long footprints on the white snow field.