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

Chapter 284: Primitive Tribe Chieftain Mother-in-law 4

Yun Xi directed them to climb trees in the other three corners first. She also climbed up a sturdy tree and leaned on a three-meter-high branch to observe silently.

After making sure the other three had climbed up the tree, she aimed her crossbow at the motionless wild boar's eyes and shot.

One end.

Both ends.

When the two big fat pigs fell down, the wild boars became restless and turned around restlessly. Yun Xi knew that she didn't have much time left. Once the prey moved, her accuracy would be gone. She kept shooting arrows at a fast speed until the wild boars started to flee in all directions.

There were only four wild boars on the ground, two of them were dead, and two were still struggling. They looked to weigh over two hundred pounds, and the largest one weighed at least three hundred pounds. But people are greedy. Ying and the other two waved sticks to prevent the wild boars from escaping, while Yun Xi continued to aim and shoot!

An hour later, all four of them were exhausted. There was nothing they could do; they had eaten too little in the morning and had consumed a lot of energy.

He propped himself up and ran back to the tribe to bring the three wolves and the three old men. Xing and Miao stayed in the tribe with the children. Yun Xi collected her crossbow arrows and put them away, and led the tribesmen to dismantle the six wild boars on the spot, otherwise they would not be able to carry them at all.

"The stone knife is not sharp enough, use this!" Yun Xi asked them to each hold a crossbow arrow.

Shu, the most thoughtful old man in the tribe, looked at the crossbow arrow from side to side, wondering what it was made of.

"Hurry up, it will be bad if the wild boar comes back later."

Yun Xi interrupted his thoughts, took a crossbow and cut the wild boar in half. After taking out the internal organs, the meat was divided into pieces. The three wolves took turns to transport the meat to a clean pond nearby. After washing the meat, two of them cut it into strips with a crossbow, and one put the strips on the racks around the fire to dry.

In the cave, Xing and Miao were also busy. They used bone needles to sew animal hide bags. There was no special skill required. They just stood up a whole piece of animal hide and threaded a hemp rope through the mouth. Once they were done, they were sent over.

The six wild boars worked until almost dark, and even with five fires at the same time, they only managed to smoke out four-sixths of the meat.

"Take the rest back and continue smoking. You can't stay here after dark, or wild animals will attack."

Yun Xi led everyone to clean the meat and take it back. At the entrance of the cave, Xing and Miao sensibly picked up a lot of firewood and made a fire to prevent wild beasts.

"Good, you did a great job. Eat dried meat when you are hungry. We worked hard all night." Yun Xi, the clan leader, was not stingy. He let everyone eat as much dried meat as they wanted. After saying that, he carried the crying Bing to feed her.

"Yeah! Ooooooooooooooo!"

The tribesmen worked harder.

Yun Xi took the lead and instructed them to keep the internal organs. After eating them in the next two days, the bones could be smoked and dried and stored to make bone soup in the winter. The pig skin could be processed to make foot-covering shoes, and the pig fat could be boiled into lard for storage.

I was so busy that I was exhausted. By the next morning, I had finally finished everything. I asked everyone to take a nap until the evening and they finally recovered.

"We still have half a month left, and we still have a lot to do. We need to divert water, make pottery jars, and build wooden doors. Xing, take Xing and Shu to cut down some trees. We'll need to build a sturdy wooden door to block the cold wind. Wolf, the three of you will divert the water, and I'll take the others to find mud suitable for making pottery."

After thinking about it, she decided to stay and give some guidance. She really wanted to take out everything in the space and use it. It would be simple and convenient.

"Xing, this axe is very precious. Let me teach you how to use it." Yun Xi looked at a tree as thick as a bucket and pointed at it. "This tree is good." Then she started chopping.

The axe was sharp, and soon the tree fell, shocking the tribesmen.

"Bravo!"

“Sharp!”

"This is good stuff!"

……

Xing tried the axe and found it quite handy. It took him just over ten minutes to chop down a tree. Yue and Shu dragged the tree to the entrance of the cave. The three wolves expanded the cave and helped drag the tree.

The cave is now five meters deep and only one and a half meters high. If it were any deeper, there would be a risk of collapse. As Yun Xi said, the cave entrance is not big. A wooden door of one and a half meters is enough to block it.

"Fifty big trees are almost enough. They are also enough firewood for making fire in the cold season." Yun Xi stopped Xing and let the trees dry in the sun first. When they were free, they would be chopped up and piled into pieces in the cave.

Xing was still not satisfied, "I haven't had enough yet." Yue, who had been unable to contain herself any longer, took the axe and tried it, dancing with great vigor.

Primitive people faced a harsh living environment, and those who remained were those with strong physiques, such as Xingyue who was very strong, and Shu who ran very fast. Of course, when encountering extremely harsh conditions, it was necessary to worry about rain and snow. The first to be abandoned were the elderly, and then the children.

"How can that be fun? There are no big trees in this area. We can dig out the stumps next year, clean them up, and build a house." Yun Xi pointed out Jiangshan, "Build a high wall around the house to keep out wild animals."

The tribesmen looked confused and didn't understand what the chief was saying.

Yun Xi shut up and started the second task. She led everyone to climb up Beishan Mountain to find the river and dug a small ditch from the river to divert water.

The river water actually flows downwards, but it only flows a little to the east. It is a bit far from the cave, so it is inconvenient to get water. This time, it is convenient to divert the water to the west side of the cave. A simple water reservoir is also dug at the foot of the mountain. The second task is completed without any difficulty.

The third item is not easy. It requires clay. The clay used to make pottery pots comes in green and red colors. Clay is very useful. In addition to firing pottery, it can also be used to fire bricks and tiles.

To fire pottery, the simplest coiling method is used. This method does not require high fire temperature. The clay needs to be kneaded and degased to form strips, which are then made into the shape of a pottery jar using the coiling method and fired in a kiln.

Since there are only a few people, there is no need to make a large vat. You can just dig a smaller kiln, provided you can find clay.

I didn't go out of my way to look for clay. I was mainly collecting wild fruits and vegetables, and looking for clay at the same time.

It was about five days before the temperature dropped. Wild fruits were piled up in the cave like mountains, and there were also many wild vegetables. The only regret was that no clay was found.

"Wow!!!"

Ying frowned, "Why is Bing crying?"

It was her first time being a mother, and she encountered a natural disaster, so she really had no experience at all.

The wolf returned to the cave, picked up the child, sniffed hard, and shouted, "There is a strange smell."

Yun Xi was chopping wood. Upon hearing this, she ran back to the cave, "Stranger?"

"It should be! I can't be wrong." The wolf said firmly, holding the child tightly, and walked out following the smell. Yun Xi followed with an axe, until they walked into the dense forest, and the smell disappeared.

Not far away, a little savage less than one meter tall was hiding nervously, holding two red fruits in his hands, not daring to move.

Yun Xi saw the child through the system monitoring. She didn't say anything. She sighed and said to Wolf, "If there are only a few people, it's fine. The tribe is short of people, so we can absorb them. But if there are too many people, it won't work."