The early agricultural civilization of mankind lived along the river, so there are rumors of the Great Flood in ancient legends all over the world.

In China, there is the anger of Buzhou Mountain, and the water control of Kunyu; The Semites had Noah's Ark; The Sumerians had the Flood of Gilgamesh......

But the furious waters also gave birth to agriculture, soft and fertile impacting plains, irrigable land. And if seeds are sown on the soil after the annual flooding in the delta where the sea is studied, the fat silt can grow pleasant crops without the need for fertilizer.

There are pros and cons, and the key is how to choose. The peoples of the desert steppe do not have to worry about the great flood, but they cannot stand on the top of civilization.

Coming out of the cave and establishing a village is the first step for Jian Chen to lead his people to truly conquer nature, and the outcome of this expedition will determine every step in the future.

Standing in front of the poles, the narrow river gradually widened, and the people on the boat also learned to use poles and wood pulp.

The speed of the river was so fast that the wolf skin felt that his eyes were not enough, and he never thought that he could look at the banks of the river.

It's completely different from walking in the forest, with no annoying nettles and thorny roses cutting through the skin, and no need to worry about snakes popping out of the grass, one of the wolfskin's siblings was bitten to death by a poisonous snake.

There was no need to deliberately paddle, and soon it was the place where the last deer hunt was.

This is the fork where the small river joins the great river, and when the sun is setting on the side of the mountain, three birch bark boats reach the great river.

The nearly 200-meter-wide river is lined with tall grass on both sides, and there are faint animals running in the sunset.

There were sheep drinking water by the river, looking curiously at the boat floating in the water, and hurriedly ran away.

The water was deep, but the surface was steady, and the setting sun was slanting across the water, with the occasional leaping fish breaking the reflection, and occasionally a osprey or two flying by.

The twilight was getting darker, and the moisture on the water was getting heavier.

"Ken, will you make a fire on the shore?"

Jian Chen shook his head, standing on the bow of the boat and trying his best to look into the distance, there seemed to be an island in the middle of the river in the distance.

Sailing at night is dangerous, and camping in unfamiliar places is not a wise choice.

"Go there!"

Pointing to the island in the middle of the river, three boats flowed down the water to the beach, the fine sand was soft to step on, there were some snails rushing up on the shore, and a few water birds were pecking.

He took out a piece of charcoal and drew the flow of the river on a piece of birch bark. The small river that came down from the cave was named Tao River to commemorate his first pottery making by the river.

The Tao River flows through about seventy or eighty miles, and gathers with this big river, and more than ten miles down is this island in the middle of the river.

The water of the river is as green as emerald, but unfortunately the people have never seen jade now, so they named it Grass River, which means that the color is like grass. The snails on the beach on the island became the name of the island, Luo Island.

In the middle of Luo Island is a very high stone mountain, and there are not many trees, because there is a flood season every year, and the trees in the low places cannot grow at all.

There are many birds on the rocky mountain, and at night it is white, and no one disturbs it, and there are no wild animals on the island.

Both wolves and tigers can swim, but they generally don't bother to run so far for a snack. The most threatening tanuki are afraid of water, so this is a paradise for all kinds of birds.

The wolfskin took the bow and arrows and shouted, "Go and eat!" ”

Everyone laughed, and Jian Chen asked Wolfskin and another cousin to shoot birds, and he picked up some dead branches that had washed down from upstream on the beach, and pulled the sticks with ropes.

After a while, the wolfskin came back with several birds, and screamed with joy. The birds here are stupid and not afraid of people, and they are easy to shoot.

Chen Jian looked at these birds and was also very happy.

It wasn't because of the food, it didn't seem to him that any bird that could not be domesticated was meaningless, but so many birds must have one thing - guano!

The women were burning birds there, and Jian Chen called the wolf skin and went to the side of the mountain to have a look.

This island is not wide, but it is extremely long and narrow, and the Luoshan Mountain is about 200 meters high, and there is still the light of the setting sun on the top of the mountain, and it is already dark under the mountain.

When we got close to the side of the mountain, there was a thick pile of guano on the ground, which congealed with the soil and formed some hard lumps.

Birds generally have a short digestive tract, and the nutrients in their food are accumulated in feces, which accumulate over thousands of years to form stones.

These are all good natural fertilizers, looking at the thickness of struvite, it is enough.

A piece of stone was knocked off and put into a fiber cloth bag, but the wolf skin did not understand the use of this thing.

Look up at the steep Luo Mountain, which stretches down for two or three miles, from where the Grass River separates and goes downstream before rejoining.

Picking up a piece of gravel from the ground and slamming it down the steep stone wall, the loud echo startled countless hidden birds and chirped all over the world.

"Let's go."

After confirming this, Jian Chen returned to the river with great satisfaction, put the stone in his pocket, and nodded with satisfaction.

After dinner, the wolf skin stared at Jian Chen and asked, "Jian, what are you looking for?" Is it just to find stones? ”

Jian Chen closed his eyes and said slowly: "Find a kind of grass that can bear fruit, as long as this island is so big, it is enough for the clansmen to eat for a year." ”

Wolf Skin shook his head in disbelief, how could he not have imagined that any grass could produce so much fruit?

The clansmen gathered around to ask, and they heard a fantastic future from Jian Chen.

You don't need to live in a cave, you will live by a river, surrounded by the kind of plants that can fill the stomachs of the people, and flocks of flightless and obese birds squeak and lay eggs in a fixed place every day......

Everyone stared at the fire, imagining this kind of life that they had never thought of, their faces were a little red from excitement, and they were all a little drunk by what they said.

"Is it really possible to live like that?"

This is a question shared by nine people, looking forward to the next day.

At night, they took turns keeping vigils, moving the bonfires and spreading them with a layer of animal skins with the help of hot sand, which was not cold.

With his hands on his pillows, he looked at the unfamiliar stars in the sky, what kind of crops would this strange but almost familiar world bring to the clansmen?

Early the next morning, Chen Jian led his people to carry a birch bark boat to the lower reaches of Hexin Island, because the river was narrow and the water was turbulent, and he didn't want any accidents.

Descending the river, by noon the terrain was getting flatter, and the muddy ground was covered with all kinds of grass.

The wolfskin, who was paddling, suddenly pointed to a mountain in the distance and said, "I've been there!" That's where spring and other tribes gather! ”

Following the wolfskin's fingers, there is a very high mountain, halfway up the mountain, which is full of trees, but at the top of the mountain is a huge stone wall, and the pine trees grow tenaciously on the top of the mountain, which is very eye-catching.

No wonder the wolf skin is instantly recognizable, this mountain is indeed different.

"Dock! The old grandmother said there was a salty stone that could be licked? Isn't it there? ”

"Yes, just across the hill. Last year, I was ...... under a pine tree on the top of the mountain with women from other tribes."

Wolfskin reminisced about the events of the previous year as he rowed the birch bark boat to the shore.

Looking at the mountain and running a dead horse, the mountain looks extremely high, and if you really want to walk over it, I am afraid that it will take a whole day.

Raising his eyes and looking at the grass around him, Jian Chen took out the bones and dug a few times on the shore.

The bottom is all silt, and it seems that the shore is often flooded. It is surrounded by plains, which is not the same as the homeland hundreds of miles away, and it seems that the place where his tribe is located is the remnant of a certain mountain, and this is the plain from the beginning.

He knelt down by the river and prayed to the mountain, "I hope I can find a plant to grow." Ancestors bless ......"

There is no god in this world, and he doesn't believe in God, and his yellow-skinned and black-eyed appearance makes it natural for him to pray to his ancestors, whether it is in this life or the previous life.

Standing up, the boat was towed to the shore and set up, two men carrying pots of maple syrup and mutton fat and a large bag of dried fish, carrying bone rakes and stone spears, and ten men walked forward along the chest-high grass.

There are many animals here, but tribes do not live in meadows. For tribes who don't know how to build houses, it's too unsafe to be empty.

The truly wild, unconquered land is at the foot, and the tall grass shows the fertility of this ancient land.

I picked a few slices of mint and mugwort and applied them to my body, but the hateful and horrible mosquitoes did not like the smell and had to flee away.

Use a stone spear to carefully pluck the grass from the ground, startling away the snakes that are basking in the sun, and occasionally shooting a few birds in the grass.

The rolling hills gradually began to appear in front of me, and after a few digging with a bone rake, the soil here was no longer silt, and even the occasional river flooded here, and several small streams one person wide meandered around the hills.

A few tall plants grow on the hills in the distance, with slender bodies and striped leaves.

There were no gorgeous petals, and there was no honey fragrance, but Jian Chen threw away the stone spear and ran towards those plants.

This is the end of spring and the beginning of summer, the plant is growing vigorously, and it has not yet borne fruit, so Chen Jian still recognizes this plant at a glance.

I broke one off and put it in my mouth and took a few bites, and the sweet stalk was slightly immature. I dug a few times with my hands, revealing the dense roots underneath, and it was very bitter to fold a section.

"Sorghum, this should be sorghum!"

Jian Chen spat out the roots in his mouth, glanced at the stems and leaves and the spikelets that stretched out, and was sure that he was not mistaken.

At this time, it has not yet been domesticated, and it grows extremely tall and clustered together.

The dense roots firmly grasp the earth, showing indomitability; The straight and straight body gives people confidence and strength.

It is only when they bear fruit that they bow their proud heads and show their blush shyness.

If you look closely, there are a lot of wild sorghum here, not one or two. Because it grows tall and has extremely deep roots, it firmly occupies the initiative and presses those weeds under it.

The wolf skin who followed him looked at this unsightly grass, and his heart was full of questions.

"This thing will make the people not need to hunt?"

Jian Chen raised his head and was about to explain, when he heard someone shouting loudly.

"Smoke! Smoke! ”

The two turned back at the same time, looking in amazement at miles away.

A straight smoke, rising in the sky, stood out on the empty grass.

"Someone! There are others! ”