There were no calluses on the hands, but when the blood bubbles broke, there were calluses, and the grass was cut for several days, and a thick layer of calluses was ground out in the palms of everyone's hands.

When the blood blisters were finally stopped, the grass was also cut. Jian Chen looked at the grass lying on the ground, and estimated that it would be dried and burned in a few days.

Some good ones were left to store and feed the sheep in the winter, and the hunters had already brought back several live sheep.

If the sheep eats cheap grass, if you give it a bunch of grass, it may not eat it, but will gnaw on the roots of the grass that are difficult to gnaw, or trample the hay to rot, so be more prepared.

Looking down at the grass, he let go of his arm and said, "Someone is coming." ”

Raising his head, a few people came out of the grass in the distance, obviously not his own people.

But the tribesmen were only curious, and not nervous or alert, because these people in the distance were wearing their hair in the same bun as them, and although they were scattered, they could still see the rudimentary form.

"It's from another tribe."

"yes, it looks like we're going to have our first guests."

"Guest?"

The clansmen understood the word more or less, but they had rarely interacted with each other, and it could almost be said that no guests came.

"Go ahead, go meet them, I'll go back and get ready."

Song led a few people to greet him, making a gesture of goodwill, and sure enough, there was a whining cry from the other side.

Chen Jian returned to the village first, where several women were cooking, and Yu Qian'er was sharing the fish that the two tribes had caught together.

A few people also noticed the few people at the bottom of the mountain, and the clansmen all looked at them curiously, except when they went to the top of the mountain in the spring, when they rarely saw people from other tribes, and they were all very excited.

"What about the old grandmother? What about Aunt Stone? ”

"Washing vegetables by the water, brother, those people are the ones you said came to exchange things?"

"Well, let's go, go with me to the old grandmother."

When the two of them arrived at the stream, they talked about the situation, and Chen Jian said: "There will definitely be a lot of people coming, arrange for them to stay at night, our tribe will vacate two rooms, and you will also vacate one over there." Grandmother, this is a big deal, you go and arrange it, prepare some food. ”

The old grandmother also thought that this was an unusual thing, because she had never encountered such a situation before, and occasionally encountered them in the wasteland when she was hunting, and they would talk to each other and go back to their respective homes.

The two patriarchs put down the things in their hands and went to get busy, Chen Jian and Yu Qian'er said: "You see how many things we can exchange, take the bark and follow me to remember it, when you change it, you must distinguish whether it is ours or the Shi clan, don't make a mistake." ”

Hearing her brother say it so solemnly for the first time, Yu Qian'er nodded and said with a smile: "It's not wrong, they don't have many things to change, I will tell Aunt Shi every time I divide things." ”

"That's good."

This was the first transaction, and Jian Chen didn't want to make any mistakes, so he told a few more things and hurried to the front.

The people carrying the wicker baskets were tired and sweaty, and they should have rested when they put down the wicker baskets, but their eyes were staring at the village, and they were reluctant to blink.

Whether it is the dried fish and bacon hanging on the wall, or the straight vegetable bed, or the clay pots that the women put on the ground, these are treasures in their eyes, and they can't stop making exclamations.

Among the first people to come was an acquaintance, the one who had tried to throw a rope with a wolf's skin last time, and Jian Chen remembered that his name was Hua, because the malachite made him very impressed.

The birch tribe is in the west, the upper reaches of the grass river, probably because of the reason for walking along the river, there is no need to cut through thorns and thorns, so they came earlier than other tribes.

After the last time he tried at the top of the mountain, he didn't use the slings much, but he also learned to bend the bow and arrow himself, but unfortunately he couldn't shoot accurately.

Along the way, he imagined life here as much as he could, and only after seeing it with his own eyes did he realize that his imagination was so lacking.

The neat rows of houses alone made him feel that his eyes were not enough, let alone the people who came and went with all kinds of utensils.

He swallowed and asked, "What's this......?" Did you build these houses yourself? ”

"Of course, this is what Ken built with us."

Hua couldn't believe that it was made by people, and he even wondered if the heavens had given them such a house by the river, and they had found out.

Song said proudly, "When Ken brought us here, there was nothing by the river. He said we could live in a house, and we lived in a house. When we first came, the apricots were still green. Now the apricots have fallen, and it has been more than a month. ”

Speaking of Jian Chen, Song opened the conversation. In the past, it was a family of clansmen, and everyone saw it with their own eyes, and he didn't have a chance to say it at all, just like telling others that the sun was round, it was nonsense.

Now that there is finally an outsider, not only Song, but the rest of the clansmen are also chattering about all kinds of changes, and Hua is a little stunned and a little timid when he hears it, and there are many things that he can't understand at all. What is Month? What is Web?

He had heard the story of the black and white bear ancestor's guidance, and saw all this with his own eyes, and he was even more convinced that this tribe must have been protected by the ancestor, and the person named Jian made him dare not imagine.

I recalled that when I was at the top of the mountain, I had seen Jian, but it was no different from myself, with two eyes and one hand.

But such a man, during the time when the apricots were ripe, made such a place was even more terrible than the thunder on a rainy day--the thunder only broke the trees, and this group of people even changed the appearance of the earth!

Asked about the clay pot, because of Jian; Asked about fishing nets, because of Jian; When I asked about the house, it was because of Jian. He felt a little scary, so he asked tremblingly, "Is there anything that has nothing to do with him?" ”

The wolf skin had been waiting for this opportunity, and at this time, Yan Nengneng let it go, rushed to the birch, and shouted: "Arrow, arrow!" The arrows I came up with, really, I didn't blow them, you can ask someone. ”

Yu Qian'er also shouted in the distance: "Twenty-nine days a month is also what I discovered." ”

The people laughed, but after laughing, they also remembered what they had discovered, and were surprised to find that they did not seem to be useless.

For example, some people find that the boiled skin is very sticky, like pine resin, which can stick to things; Some people find that it saves effort to use the waist and not the arms when mowing the grass; Others have found that the belt will heat up if the potter's wheel is turned for too long, and then it will become loose, and you need to change it to wait for it to cool......

Just as Yu Qian'er asked why it turned when she first saw the potter's wheel, the tribesmen also learned another kind of thinking, consciously or unconsciously: from experience to why, and then from why to think of undiscovered but possible experiences - for example, boiling pigskin can stick things, so can boiling sheepskin also do it? For example, if the moon turns round in 29 days, how many days will the sun rise again in the same place?

Originally, it was just a simple question, but after laughing, there was silence, and Jian Chen brought them more than a new life. After eating enough, they had time to think about why, and many times it seemed that Jian Chen knew it, but he only said a little, causing them to think for themselves.

Hua didn't expect that one of his questions would cause such a long silence, and it wasn't until Jian Chen hurried over with a few pieces of charcoal that the dullness was broken.

He stretched out his hand and accommodated the birch as a gesture of friendship, and asked for a jar of boiled apricots.

Hospitality is a virtue, and guests should have had good wine when they came, but unfortunately they drank it before, so they had to make up the number with fruit.

Almonds, honey, apricots, lotus roots, reed tips...... When a few cold foods were served, the people of Huahe were a little embarrassed, but they couldn't help but eat them.

Jian Chen smiled and stared at the contents of the basket behind him, malachite was impressive, it seemed that there must be a copper mine near the tribe of Hua.

These people devoured their food, and the tribesmen persuaded one after another: "Eat less, you will have to eat after the sun goes down." ”

Hua pointed to the lotus roots and apricots in surprise and asked, "Isn't this rice?" ”

"Of course not."

The clansmen sniffed vigorously, and the aroma of fried green onion leaves in lard had already wafted over. Hua had never smelled such a fragrant smell, and resisted the desire to be full, swallowed his saliva and said, "Then let's change the clay pot first." ”

People gathered around and watched curiously at the first transaction. Chen Jian led people to bring a few leftover pieces of mud and build them into a small table, and asked Yu Qian'er to spread the bark on it and prepare for the record.

Hua took out a piece of malachite the size of a gourd from the basket and said, "This one is beautiful, green, and the same as the feathers of the water duck, I want to change two." ”

"Yes."

Chen Jian took the malachite, and Yu Qian'er drew a symbol on the bark of the tree, and wrote a second on the back.

All sorts of quirky stones were brought out, granite, limestone, talc...... There were also some stones that Jian Chen didn't even recognize.

In fact, he didn't know most of the stones, and the ones he knew were all distinctive.

Count all these stones, and you can exchange more than 30 clay pots and bowls. After Hua and the people struggled to confirm the number, Chen Jian asked people to take a few four pottery rings from the acorns and hand them to Hua.

Hua asked strangely, "Wouldn't it be okay to just change the clay pot?" ”

"Our things can only be exchanged for pottery rings."

Hua took the pottery ring with some puzzlement, and then handed it over and said, "Then I want to change the clay pot now." ”

"Yes."

Soon, the tribesmen used wicker baskets to bring dozens of clay pots and bowls, plus the pottery rings given to them last time, and the number of these clay pots and bowls was basically enough for the tribesmen.

Hua felt that this was redundant, so why did he have to replace it with a pottery ring?

He thought for a moment, and opened a few more baskets, in which were two little lambs, and a roe deer cub, a few sheepskins, and a dozen deer shoulder blades.

"I don't want to change these clay pots, can I change them for dried fish, apricots or something?"

"Absolutely. But first change to a pottery ring, with which you can exchange anything you want, as long as we have it. ”

Birch pointed to the longbow wrapped in the snakeskin in the wolfskin's hand and asked, "Is that okay?" ”

As soon as Wolf Skin was about to refuse, he heard Jian Chen say, "Okay! But it can only be exchanged with a pottery ring. ”

He was about to shake his head, but when he heard Jian Chen say this, he subconsciously agreed, and then echoed: "Okay." ”

Hua looked at the clay pots stacked on the ground, and felt that he might not be able to take them all back this time, and it would be good if he replaced them with pottery rings, and he would change them when he wanted to use them in the future.

He stared at the bow, thought of what the clan had discussed before leaving, and asked a little embarrassedly, "Can we stay here for a few days?" We also have the strength to hunt and eat the food we have caught. ”

He thought that this group of people would refuse, but this group of people directly agreed, and said: "You don't have to hunt by yourself, as long as you work with us, you can live as long as you want." ”

The civet cat subconsciously touched the cocoon in his palm, looked at the cut grass in the distance, and said, "Stay!" You can live as long as you want, as long as you work, you don't have to hunt, you can eat as much as you want! ”

Hua didn't expect the other party to agree so happily, and looked at the clansmen with joy, and said that he must see how they lived.

The clansmen looked at the birch with joy on their faces, thinking about the fatigue of mowing the grass a few days ago, and their hearts seemed to suddenly understand. Approximately, that's the deal.