There were a few ducks in the yard, which seemed to be much more lively.

I could hear quarrels all day long.

A group of children gathered outside the duck house to watch, pulled some grass or bugs from outside and threw them in and fed them.

Adults will gather to watch as long as they have free time. Women will feed some fresh wild vegetables. Men will throw some fish gills and stomachs into them when they come back from fishing.

Xu Chen routinely patrolled the farmland every day, and continued to take Gu Heju to the Wild Wolf Valley to go down fish cages, and drove fish on the river beach. He took some of the harvested fish and shrimps to feed the ducks, and others were kept in the river in fish baskets, and then took the vine basket to find a place to set up traps to continue to expand his poultry domestication plan.

But it may be that the wild ducks were frightened, and the number of wild ducks living in the valley seemed to have been much smaller overnight. They went to several places to get down the net, but the harvest was very small in three days. Only two wild ducks were caught in total.

There was a time when a wild goose had already covered it, but unfortunately the vine net was too small. Before he could rush up, the wild goose had already overturned the vine net and escaped. The consequence was that a group of wild goose living in the valley quickly left.

After two consecutive days of finding nothing, he had to temporarily terminate the bird hunt.

However, what made him feel relieved was that the seven wild ducks that were captured successively finally started laying eggs under the careful care and feeding of the entire tribe, and one of them was laid in each of the two nests.

This surprised everyone and excited.

However, these eggs cannot be eaten yet, so you have to stay to hatch the ducklings.

Under the magnificent blueprint of his duck laying eggs, hating ducks, and endless descendants, the whole tribe became even more excited and happy. He drooled in his collective saliva and imagined that there would be countless ducks in the future and there would be endless duck eggs every day. So he worked harder to feed these wild ducks. After a few days, several eggs had already appeared in each of the two nests.

Duck raising is almost smooth, but the well digging project is very difficult.

After suspending the bird hunting plan, Xu Chen focused on digging the well.

Although the clan members did not understand Xu Chen's whimsical behavior, they did not stop him. Instead, they were in a state of being a bystander who was open to God's eyes. However, after a few days of digging, Xu Chen was very angry.

The tools are too poor. Whether it is a wooden hoe or a stone hoe, they are only suitable for simple shallow operations, and are not suitable for narrow terrain mixed with a large amount of sand and gravel.

Therefore, the well digging project lasted for seven or eight days. Six or seven hoes were broken and only about two meters deep. Further down there were thick mud and sand and stones. Not only was it difficult to dig, but no drop of water was seen.

The well understood by the tribe is completely different from the well planned by Xu Chen.

According to Xu Chen's geological perspective, if you find a place at the foot of the mountain and dig deep, there will definitely be water, because there is a river a hundred meters away, and the riverbed is covered with silt and sand layers formed by impacts of billions of years.

This structure has abundant groundwater on the shallow surface. You only need to dig to the level of the riverbed, and water will definitely come out of the well.

The terrain of the courtyard is about three meters higher than the river beach.

In other words, as long as you dig about one meter, there should be water.

But unfortunately, there are all stones of big and small below. Small basketballs and volleyballs are big, and the big ones are bigger than millstones. One piece is dozens or hundreds of pounds. Sometimes you compete with a stone for an hour or two.

After the three of them finally got it out, a few hoes below were digging out to make bigger stones.

So after a few days, the progress was very small, which made Xu Chen want to give up.

Seeing that he and Gu Heju were tired every day, but there was no sign of water. Not only did Mo Ba persuade him to give up, but almost all adults began to be dissatisfied with his magical project, and kindly reminded him not to put in effort. It would be better to follow Feng and wait for a group of people to go to the big river mouth outside the valley to catch birds.

Because the wild ducks have been very successful these days, they have almost laid ten eggs, and one of them has already started holding their nests.

According to one guy, it is: "The eggs turn into ducks, and there is no water well!"

Xu Chen was so popular that these primitive savages were attracted.

The stubborn temper came up and continued to dig a well when he became ruthless. He decided not to give up until he dug out the water.

Seeing that the persuasion was ineffective, the tribesmen began to pity him, their eyes were filled with strangeness and pity every day, as if his magical aura was rapidly fading away.

However, Xu Chen would not care about the eyes of these uncivilized savages. He must slap these savages in the face with actual results.

Let them know that their magical light will never disappear.

What's more, his plan was to dig an ordinary well, which is a common deep well in rural areas, such as using bamboo poles or rumbling water, rather than a spring well that the tribesmen imagined was completely different from the naturally flowing spring water on the mountainside.

This well is enough as long as there is water inside.

So he decided to do a great job of miracles and must make the well sunrise.

In order to speed up the excavation of the well, he asked someone to carry seven or eight pieces of wood and build a tripod on both sides of the pit, with a beam across it, and then tied a cross wrench at both ends with wooden sticks as thick as arms and ropes, just like a flip-floping barbecue wooden rack, forming a simple lifting device.

In the middle, a rope was used to hoist the rattan basket to transport stones and mud.

This magical and simple structure once again caused a sensation in the entire tribe and also made a large group of men interested in participating. They would be very happy to help dig in their spare time. Although the sand and gravel underground are still difficult to dig, and the wooden hoe and stone hoe are still greatly damaged, the progress has accelerated a lot.

In mid-February, the Wu people came again.

Only more than ten people came this time, and a few of them were hired last time.

The main purpose of their visit this time was to inform the Ba people to participate in the Old Mother Festival sacrificial activities held next month.

At the same time, some animal skins, feathers, animal horns and a lot of ores, as well as a small amount of amber and gold, with the purpose of exchanging linen.

These things are not essential for the Ba people at present. Apart from the copper ore inside, Xu Chen is not very interested.

But things like wealth are gradually accumulating.

Only through exchange can the connection between tribes be made closer.

Therefore, the exchange went smoothly. Whether it was useful or not, Xu Chen accepted it all and exchanged it for dozens of linens of Wu tribe.

Nearly five months have passed since the Witch Lord Conference last fall.

The changes in the Ba tribe over the past five months can be described as earth-shaking.

After moving from the mountain to living at the foot of the mountain, the entire tribe seemed to have moved from the primitive era to the rural living conditions of later generations. Both the living environment and the quality of life are incomparable.

Many people occasionally miss the time they lived in the cave.

Muba and others would go up the mountain to see the situation of the cave every few days.

But with the arrival of spring, the road up the mountain soon began to become deserted. The cave where we lived in the past was already covered with weeds because no one was taking care of or visiting it. A large number of birds, snakes, rats and animals have used the cave as a place for shelter from the wind and rain, and have begun to settle down in it.

Every time I saw it from the mountain, everyone looked lost.

That narrow, crowded, dark and cold cave carries the memories and experiences of the entire tribe's reproduction.

The walls, fire pits, stoves, grain cellars, wells and toilets that Xu Chen spent a lot of effort to build have now been abandoned.

The large amount of handwriting and patterns left on the stone wall are still clear, but there is no longer a lively scene where a group of children learn to recognize words.

Everything seemed to be frozen in yesterday, and the blink of an eye turned into sighs of sadness and memory.

Muba used to be sad because the cave was too small to accommodate more tribe members, and he was always helpless and confused about the inability to attract more strong men to join the tribe on the Mother's Day.

Although she missed every tree and grass in the cave, she was reluctant to give up this habitat that her mother had found after working hard and paying a huge price.

But she also knew that everything Xu Chen did brought completely different development opportunities for the Ba people.

With this spacious, comfortable and safe house, with pottery and linen, this year's Old Mother's Day, she needs to recruit several strong men for the tribe to come back.

Compared with gatherings like the Witch Lord Conference, which are purely men's activities.

Therefore, Mother's Day is not only more sacred, but also more exciting.

Because this is a marriage activity between tribes, it is related to the survival and development of all tribes. Only by attracting enough strong men to join their tribe can the tribe grow and grow.

Therefore, after the Wu people left, Muba and a group of older women began to prepare for the Old Mother's Day.

They want to dress the young women of the tribe more beautifully, sew the best clothes for them with linen, and teach them how to attract men.

However, facing this group of aunts who have long been married and mother, Xu Chen said he was not optimistic.

It would be better to just spend money if you let these aunts come forward.

Take out a large amount of pottery and linen cloth and tell the other tribe directly that we have a crush on your youngest and strongest man. Yes, it is the one with the largest and largest chest muscles. If you can change five clay pots, add another bowl... What, if you want twenty pieces of cloth, how can you do it? Let's talk about it in another tribe... Just ten pieces of cloth, it's almost the same...

It is said that money can make the devil push the mill.

Xu Chen believes that as long as the Ba tribe takes out enough wealth, it will definitely make other tribes jealous to the point of selling people.

Of course, doing so will attract more hatred.

However, for tribes like the Wu tribe with great families and great business, this method happens to be the most acceptable to them.

After all, they have nothing but people, and they are poor and eat dirt.

Last time, a group of workers were arranged to come to eat the big family Ao Chun. If Gu Heju hadn't been unconscious after being snake venomous, that would have been difficult to solve.

Although no one from the other smaller tribes came to join in the fun, they probably didn't have a good life.

These stubborn savages do not understand the world at all, nor do they know what kind of lies are. Their simple way of thinking makes Xu Chen have the urge to self-harm three times at any time.

This is true for the Wu people and the Ba people. Even if Xu Chen guided and educated them every day, the results would be minimal.

Therefore, Xu Chen's plan to replace people with wealth is definitely not possible.
Chapter completed!