【Quick Wear】My Years as a Mother-in-law

Chapter 292: Primitive Tribe Chieftain Mother-in-law 12

When Yun Xi led the men to start building the house, Tao took the lead and went out hunting with Xing, He and Miao, with Lian assisting them. It was time to test the results of their winter efforts.

Grandma was building a house, and my eldest sister was pregnant. Tao grew up quickly, and her originally hot temper became much more restrained.

Unfortunately, there are many taboos when hunting in spring, and you have to choose non-pregnant animals to hunt.

She gave the instructions and didn't pay too much attention to it. The focus was on the house. The house was not built in front of the original cave. Building the house at the foot of the mountain would be very difficult to deal with if a mudslide occurred. The house was built on the west side, in an open area with no mountains around. Originally, they wanted to build it one family at a time, but later they found that it was not suitable for the situation of the primitive tribe. Finally, they decided to build it in rows and surround it with a wall.

It is tentatively planned to build two rows of twelve houses, each about 40 square meters, and each house will have a kang.

There is a room for himself, a room for Yuxue, a room for his eldest daughter and her family of three, a room for Taoxing, a room for He Miao, a room for Lianhua and her mother, a room for Xingyue, a room for Yawei, a room for Shuheguo, a storage room, a woodshed, and a kitchen.

In order to speed up the construction period, Yun Xi pushed for a tight deadline. Since the people in the tribe didn't know how to build a house, she watched videos to learn first and then taught everyone. She also took out a lot of house-building tools, and gradually they got the hang of it.

The four-person hunting team could bring back some small prey every day, and their traps also yielded some rewards. Yuxue and Hua focused on picking wild vegetables and mushrooms, which was barely enough for their daily food.

At the end of February, Yun Xi stopped working and took everyone to plant some pumpkins around the cave. They should be able to harvest a lot of big pumpkins in winter and autumn.

On this day, someone from the northern tribe came again. It was the same woman. Yun Xi learned this time that her name was Wu, and her tribe was called the Yuncai Tribe. She came this time to reproduce.

"There are three tribes near the Yuncai tribe, and with yours, there are four in total. Those three tribes are closely connected with our Yuncai tribe. They gather together every spring to reproduce. What is the name of your tribe? Do you want to join us? You know, long-term intra-tribe reproduction will lead to tribal extinction." Wu stood on the mountain and looked to the north, pointing to the location of other tribes to her.

"That's exactly what I'm worried about, but I prefer the bond method, where one female pairs with one male. I don't like that kind of random thing." Yun Xi said, "If you come across a homeless male, you can introduce him to our Beiyang tribe."

"Beian?" Wu lowered his head and thought for a long time, then looked up excitedly, "I remember that Yang was a hero. He led us to fight against monsters many years ago. So you are the Beiyang tribe. How come there are only so few people left?"

"There are various reasons, but don't worry about monsters. There won't be any monsters in the future. If you don't have enough food, you can migrate south." Yun Xi looked at her, "I don't want our tribes to have any unpleasant things because of food. You know, there are no cowards among the descendants of Yang."

That's right. Yun Xi just remembered that the tribe's name was Yang, the Yang of the sun. It's just that the tribe rarely talked about their past glory. The tribe was almost wiped out, so why would they still talk about it? It was so embarrassing.

"Are you not satisfied with what I brought last time?" Wu was puzzled. She brought five or six men last time, but this man only picked one.

"Yes, I'm not very satisfied. At least he should be 1.7 meters tall and look decent. The most important thing is to be down-to-earth. The two you brought have crooked eyes, and buying them will cause trouble." Yun Xi explained.

Wu understood.

"I see. Don't think I stole those men. They refused to leave our tribe's territory, so I came up with this idea. I didn't expect to actually get the dried meat." Wu Ye quickly explained, "You know the rules of the tribe. You either surrender or exchange things. No one will stay in our territory."

"So that's how it is. Look at this, do you want to change it? It's very convenient for holding water." Yun Xi took out a ceramic jar, which was quite large.

Wu took it and looked at it in amazement, unable to let it go. "Pottery from the Tao Tribe? You can make it too? It's actually much better than the ones from the Tao Tribe."

"Tao Tribe? Where is it from?" Yun Xi thought that the Yang Tribe was still in the Stone Age. Is the outside world so developed?

"I don't know. Every summer they take pottery to various tribes to trade for things." Wu explained, "How many of these do you have? I want them."

"It's not much. What do you have in exchange?"

"Do you want this mushroom? Our tribe has many forests and mushrooms."

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The two quickly reached a deal. Wu took away five large clay pots and left about 20 kilograms of dried mushrooms. He also promised to send them to him if he found a male of good quality.

"Yuxue, you two should put these mushrooms away and eat them later."

"Dried mushrooms, Chief, can we dry the mushrooms we picked and keep them?" Yu asked happily while touching the dried mushrooms.

Yun Xi nodded, "Of course you can. Just pick them and put them in the sun to dry. Eat these dried mushrooms first and keep the ones you dried. By the way, don't pick any poisonous mushrooms. If you are not sure, ask me."

There is a lot of rain in spring, one every seven or eight days. Mushrooms pop up after the rain, and everyone is getting tired of drinking mushroom soup lately.

As soon as the rain stopped, they built houses and went hunting as quickly as possible. There was no rest, but no one complained. The patriarch's decision was always the most important.

As a green brick and tile house was completed, everyone seemed to feel the benefits of the house and was full of enthusiasm.

In May, during the hot summer, the house was finally built. Yun Xi prepared to go to the beach. If she was any later, it would be typhoon season, and she couldn't go to the beach at that time.

"I'm taking Lian and Shu to the beach. While I'm away, Ying will make arrangements and Tao will assist. Build the wall before I come back. Use the hemp I soaked to weave a net and store some mushrooms, wild vegetables and dried meat. I may bring back sea salt and sea fish." Yun Xi gave Lian and Shu a bag of dried meat and a crossbow arrow each for self-defense.

One morning, we set out eastward on the road to the seaside. The road was not easy to walk on, and the untouched primeval forest was full of hidden dangers, but we had to persevere on this trip.

The Tao tribe makes a living from pottery, is well-known, and even provides door-to-door service. Our tribe has too few people and cannot compete.

After hearing Wu say that they still lived a life of eating raw meat and drinking blood to obtain salt, Yun Xi decided to make sea salt and exchange it with others. She was already very skilled in making sea salt. She had done it before during a mission. Summer was the best time to make salt. The temperature was not right at other times and the sea breeze was strong.

After a few years of stability relying on sea salt, she should be able to reclaim some fertile land and grow food. Of course, she must expand the tribe, otherwise it will be difficult to preserve the fruits of her labor.