Farming in the Primitive Tribe

After eating the food, it was still very early. The tribesmen sat around and laughed. Shen Xiaoxiao picked some branches and put them at the entrance of the cave to sit on. Then she brought the canes over, four canes in total. Then arrange the four pieces of rattan into a rice shape, take a new piece of rattan and press it on the four pieces. After braiding one piece, connect it to another. The method of splicing the canes is also very simple. On the already braided rattan, braid about 30 centimeters and start weaving upwards. Use two rattans to twist and weave. At the same time, divide the four-bone rattan into two strands. The original eight strands of rattan become sixteen strands. .

Place one cane below and one on top. Twist the top one downwards and pull the two strands upward. The original cane below is twisted to the top. Then repeat this action and pull the top cane upward. Twist to the bottom, and twist the bottom to the top, always pressing the two strands of cane in the middle.

Shen Xiaoxiao's fingers quickly shuttled among the rattan, and soon the prototype of a basket was already in place. At this time, almost all the people in the tribe returned to the cave. When they first saw Shen Xiaoxiao weaving rattan, they all gathered around curiously, but They were all confused and didn't know what she was doing. They wanted to ask, but they stopped when they saw Shen Xiaoxiao's serious expression. After watching for a while, they felt bored and dispersed.

Seeing that Xiao Yan was taking it seriously, Shen Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "Otherwise, you should also learn to make it up."

"Yes." Xiao Yan nodded, and then put the prepared cane in front of her, as if he had planned it for a long time. Shen Xiaoxiao was dumbfounded and laughed. This fool, how can he not learn to speak directly.

Shen Xiaoxiao explained to him carefully, and gave him another head to knit, and then started knitting the one in her hand. When she was knitting, she would often look up to see how Xiao Yan was knitting, but she saw nothing. When asked, he lowered his head and continued the work at hand.

She knitted about twenty centimeters, and Xiao Yan also knitted the chassis. Then she started to tell him how to knit the basket body, and knitted the beginning of the knitting for him. She watched him knit two circles before continuing. Although Xiao Yan was unfamiliar with her movements, he did not make any mistakes. He gradually got started. Although he was not as fast as Shen Xiaoxiao, he was still winning and did not make any mistakes.

On the branches above the moon, except for the occasional sounds of animals, the rest was the sound of them weaving rattan. Shen Xiaoxiao twisted her neck, put the basket on the ground and looked at the height, and then looked at the moonlight. Deciding to finish, she took one of the remaining tail strands and pressed it down to the side, then repeated the operation to press the next strand to the side, pressing the first strand of rattan underneath, and repeated the action to push the last strand down. Dress well.

Seeing that there was still a little bit left, she braided a circle around the outside using a ponytail method, and finally collected the remaining bit in every possible way, thus saving the trouble of cutting it off. After all, there were no scissors now. It would be troublesome.

Then she braided the rattan handles that she had expected to use as handles. She originally wanted to use them as a basket, but she was in a hurry to use it. If she wanted to carry a basket, she would need to braid it higher. She was afraid she wouldn't have time to braid it for tomorrow. , she made a handle, so that she could carry it around. If it was small, she could also carry it. It was a bit bigger, but the height was not as high as the basket on her back.

After finishing the handle, she looked at Xiao Yan and saw that his movements were becoming more and more skillful. She couldn't help but smile. His knitting was almost as high as hers. Shen Xiaoxiao took over the knitting after looking at the moonlight. When she got up, she didn't know the time, but they had made it up for a long time. Normally, she would have gone to bed at this time, and she had to go into the mountains tomorrow, so it would be best to rest early.

Finally, Shen Xiaoxiao started to tell him how to finish the work, and she asked him to move it. She even told him to move the handle. Looking at the two baskets, Shen Xiaoxiao smiled with satisfaction.

It was estimated to be ten or eleven now. Although she had been busy for a long time, the result was still very good. She put the things away, closed the door and rested.

When they got up the next day, they told the witch doctor that Xiao Yan would not go hunting with him. The witch doctor just sighed and said nothing more. On the contrary, Dali and the others wanted to say something, but thought that they had been separated now and did not speak again. , after all, they can't ask Xiao Yan to help them hunt without his share, so they can wait until winter to get hungry.

Xiao Yan didn't know what they were thinking. After eating some food, she and Shen Xiaoxiao came to the river and dug soil and mud. Shen Xiaoxiao taught him how to roll the mud strips. She started to coil them in circles. The water tank made is small at the bottom, large in the middle, and the mouth of the tank is retracted.

She still had to go into the mountains. The pot she made was not very big, only reaching the middle of her thighs. After the water tank was finished, she made a lid with a concave center and slight bulges on both sides. There was still a little mud strip left. , she made another plate.

Xiao Yan's eyes were full of surprise, thinking that this was the pot Xiaoxiao mentioned before, but weren't these all mud? But he also knew that Shen Xiaoxiao would not do useless things, so he suppressed the doubts in his heart.

Shen Xiaoxiao looked at the pot she made yesterday again, and Xiao Yan followed and asked, "Are these ready to be used after they are cooked?"

"Yes, if it doesn't crack, it can be used after it's burned."

"But isn't it all mud?" Xiao Yan couldn't hold back his curiosity after all. When eating food cooked with mud, wouldn't his mouth be full of dirt?

"Yes, but it won't be the case after it's burned." Shen Xiaoxiao could see that Xiao Yan was still confused, but she didn't know how to explain it to him for a while.

"Burn it directly with fire?"

"Yeah." After drying, she burned it directly with firewood. Just because she didn't want to waste the firewood, she rushed out another vat today so that they could be burned together. Otherwise, she would already be on the mountain with Xiao Yan.

The two took the baskets they had made yesterday and went up the mountain with a very clear purpose: to pick persimmons.

Originally Shen Xiaoxiao wanted to pick chestnuts, but thinking that the persimmons would rot over time, they picked the persimmons first. Although they were walking very fast, Shen Xiaoxiao saw a few mushrooms with her sharp eyes and thought about picking them later. You can take some back and eat them dried, or you can just make soup.

The two arrived at the place where they picked persimmons last time. Xiao Yan put the basket down and started to climb the tree. When he got to the tree, he broke off the branches and threw them down. Shen Xiaoxiao was frightened when he saw it, for fear that he would not be able to stand alone. Fall down steadily.

As for the fact that she broke off the branches of the persimmon, she didn't think it was a big deal. Firstly, it was because the persimmon had lush branches, and Xiao Yan broke off small branches, which did not hurt the tree. Secondly, it was also because of the environment. , if they take such a big basket up, it will be troublesome to take it down. Another reason is that the persimmon tree needs to be pruned so that the older persimmons will be good in the future.

After Xiao Yan threw down the branch, she picked it from below and put it in the basket. I have to say that this persimmon tree produced really many fruits. There were more than a dozen persimmons hanging on each branch. After a while, she The basket is half full.

Xiao Yan kept throwing it down, and soon the ground was full of branches. Shen Xiaoxiao put the branches that had been picked aside, and soon she filled two baskets. She asked Xiao Yan to come down first, and they Take this back to the tribe and come again.

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