Traveling through the primitive world: I was a priest in the tribe

Ji Lang smiled and patted the empty space in his arms, "Stop working and lie down for a while."

Xiaoman took off her shoes and crawled over to lie down obediently. She looked into the distance with round eyes and found Qingjiu and Guoqi carrying hoes into the inner courtyard. Then she mustered up the courage to complain, "Lang, after you fell asleep last night, Qing wouldn't let me sleep next to you!"

Ji Lang pretended to be surprised, "There is such a thing?"

Usually, Ji Lang, Qing Jiu and Xiao Man sleep in the middle, Xiao Man sleeps inside and Qing Jiu sleeps on the outside.

Last night Qingjiu put Ji Lang in the inner position, and he slept soundly. Qingjiu didn't want to make trouble, so he slept in the middle and let Xiaoman sleep on the outermost side.

Xiaoman thought about it and said angrily, "Qing said that I would wake you if I slept in the middle, and then he fell asleep by himself and hugged you. He is so tall and strong, and his arms are so heavy, and he put them on you, but he actually said that I would wake you. I was obviously very well behaved." The little guy was very angry, and he still remembered it so clearly. Ji Lang was almost laughing to death in his heart.

Of course, she didn't dare to show it on her face, but she also said indignantly, "He is so domineering! You just sleep in my arms tonight, and let him sleep on his own."

"Yeah, let him sleep by himself!" The child nodded quickly.

After nodding, he looked towards the path leading to the inner courtyard with a guilty conscience. Qing Jiu had already gone in. "Lang! This is our little secret, okay? Don't tell Qing."

Ji Lang smiled in his heart. This little guy has a lot of secrets. "Okay, let's make a pinky promise."

There was a big puzzlement on the little face, "What is a pinky promise?"

Ji Lang took his little hand and fiddled with it, hooking his pinky finger together and pressing his thumbs against each other. "This is a pinky promise. Pinky promise to hang yourself. For a hundred years, you are not allowed to change. Anyone who changes is a bastard."

Xiaoman was still confused, but Ji Lang was amused by his childish behavior. He was laughing happily there. Xiaoman next to him asked, "Lang, what is a bastard?"

Ji Lang: “…” Help, this question is too difficult and I can’t do it. How can I explain what a bastard is to a child who is less than five years old?

In short, under Jilang's theory of deception, Xiaoman understood that this was an insult, which probably meant that if you don't keep your word, it will turn into something bad.

When Feng and Ye came back, each of them carried a basket full of dried meat.

Ji Lang, who had already climbed up and was wandering around the yard, suddenly had his eyes light up when he saw the browned strips of dried meat.

The bear meat is brushed with a layer of honey, which makes it sweet and has a strong burnt aroma. The meat itself is fattier, and after being roasted, it has a light oily aroma, which becomes more delicious the more you chew it.

Ji Lang originally took one and shared it with Xiaoman. Although Xiaoman's teeth were not very straight, he had no problem chewing the dried meat. While chewing, he talked to Ji Lang, "It's amazing, Lang! This meat is sweet and delicious." As expected, every child cannot resist sweet food, including sweet meat. When I go back, I can talk to Ye about making some sweet and sour pork.

He and Xiaoman would probably finish this one in a while, so he went to get another one and found a plastic bag to hang it in the tent. He would give it to Qingjiu to try after he was done, and leave the rest for him to chew when he was hungry.

The other dried meats were the same as the previous batch. Except for the ones given to everyone to taste, the rest were put into jars for preservation.

After eating one, Sashi still felt hungry, so Xishi gave her his own. She didn't refuse and ate it happily. After finishing, she looked very satisfied. She touched her round belly and muttered, "Why do I eat more and more recently? My belly is getting bigger."

He does not mean that.

Li leaned over to ask her, "Has your period come recently?"

When Ji Lang heard this, he didn't react at first what this moon water was.

Sa Shi shook his head, "It's not very regular lately. It didn't come last full moon."

Li asked Sa a dozen questions quietly, and Sa answered them all in a carefree manner.

Li, who was not very sure at first, now had a worried look on his face.

Ji Lang now realized what menstrual fluid was, and guessed that Sa Shi was probably pregnant, but shouldn't they be happy about having a child? Why were they all so sad?

"What's going on?" Ji Lang asked.

Li sighed, "Sa seems to be pregnant."

Xi Shi, who heard this nearby, smiled at first, then began to look sad as if he had thought of something.

Ji Lang was even more confused, "What's wrong with carrying a baby? Isn't that a good thing?"

Li wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and said, "But this child was born in the cold season. He won't survive."

"How could it not survive?" Ji Lang was puzzled. He had never heard of anything happening to a baby born in winter.

"The cold season is too tiring. We don't eat enough, and no matter how thickly we wrap ourselves in fur, we can still feel the cold air seeping into our bodies. A newborn baby can't survive it." Lan also wiped her eyes. She and Guo Qi's first daughter was born in the cold season and she didn't even survive three days.

Ji Lang stood up and said, "If we don't have enough food, we can start storing it now. There are so many fruit trees on the mountain. Even if we don't have enough meat, we can still survive with the fruit. Don't worry about keeping warm. I'll find a way."

Then he went back to the tent and got a quilt and down jacket. "The reason I chose to dig a cave is because I wanted to build a kang in it, which is what you have seen in the hut. We can burn firewood underneath and sleep on it to keep warm. As long as we have enough firewood, we won't be afraid of freezing. And here are the quilt and down jacket. The quilt is a little thin, so Aunt Li and Sister Lan need to make it thicker. The down jackets also need to be modified according to your sizes."

Li took the quilt and down jacket from Ji Lang, touched them several times, and even put them on to try them out. "Lang, how many of these do you have? These are all good stuff."

Ji Lang paused for a moment, thinking that even if he didn't tell them, they would find out sooner or later, so he just told them now. "These... I can have as many as I want, but I can only give you a little every day."

Lan also looked over the quilt and down jacket that Li handed to her several times. "This is really a gift from the mountain god. Am and I can use the fur to make a layer of cover on the outside, which can prevent it from getting dirty and keep warmer and windproof. This down...down jacket is really magical, light and warm. I can feel my legs warm after putting it on my legs for a while."

Ji Lang was a little impressed by her. She actually thought of making a quilt cover immediately. This could be considered a collision of two civilizations in time and space.

He took out the cotton boots that were pressed at the bottom of the backpack, cut a little bit and put them back to refresh.

This time, Li and Lan accepted it very quickly, but Feng couldn't let it go and kept touching it for a long time. "This thing is so warm! Every time I go out in the cold season, my legs and feet are so cold that I can't feel them, and my reaction is so slow that I always let my prey escape."

The harvest season is usually only twelve or thirteen, but people go out hunting in the cold season.

Ji Lang felt a little sorry for him, but since he was here and had the golden finger, he would do his best to improve their lives.

Not sure if Qingjiu had been going out to suffer this kind of suffering since he was a teenager. Ji Lang looked at Qingjiu who came out of the inner courtyard and was standing aside. Qingjiu also looked at him intently, and they smiled at each other.

Qing Jiu really likes the way Ji Lang looks at this time, full of energy and hope for the future.

Perhaps it was because of their trust in Ji Lang, or perhaps it was because what Ji Lang brought out was convincing, the mood of the few people who were originally frowning suddenly brightened up.

At this time, Xi Shi started talking to Ji Lang about digging a cave again, "Xiao Lang, the yard is almost dry, how do you plan to dig this cave?"

Ji Lang knew that they had dug caves in the tribe before, and asked what they looked like, so he said, "It's similar to what you dug in the tribe before, but you don't need to dig too deep, and there shouldn't be any corners..."

The inner courtyard they have dug out now is a rectangle surrounded by walls on all four sides and is more than ten meters deep. The outer courtyard is surrounded by walls on three sides and faces the cliff on one side.

There is a thick earthen wall about five or six meters wide between the inner courtyard and the outer courtyard. At the westernmost side of the wall, a passage more than three meters high is dug. Ji Lang plans to install a large wooden door in this passage after the inner courtyard is completely cleaned up.

Ji Lang also told everyone about his distribution of the inner courtyard. Three caves were dug on the west side, for the kitchen and the woodshed, and one for living. The north side was spacious and could accommodate five caves, but there had to be a distance of three to five meters between each cave to avoid problems such as cave collapse. Three caves were also dug on the east side for storage or to raise animals in the future.

In addition to the entrance and exit passage, a pottery kiln was dug in the middle of the earth wall. This was the first cave to be dug. Their pottery jars were used to store oil and meat strips. Now there are only a few small ones left. If they don't fire pottery, there will not be enough pottery jars later.

They also had to dig a toilet next to the pottery kiln, so that they could collect the "organic fertilizer" later and it would be safer because they didn't have to go far to go to the toilet.

Ji Lang expressed all these thoughts in one breath. His mouth was dry and his throat was sore. He wanted to drink some water, but the person next to him handed him his thermos cup.

It’s Qingjiu, I don’t know when he went to get it.

Ji Lang took two sips of hot water, then continued, "My original plan was to dig two large caves for everyone to live in first, and then slowly dig the others. But in that case, the yard would be full of dirt every day, and it would be inconvenient to live in. So later I thought about digging first and then living in it. But that would make everyone work harder. The more caves we dig, the more tired we will be."

Guo Qi clapped his hands nonchalantly, "Don't worry about that. We have plenty of strength and are not afraid of getting tired. Besides, when we were in the tribe before, we didn't have such convenient tools. We could only use bone knives and pottery shards, and we dug a lot. Don't worry."

Sa Shi scratched his head and said, "Why do you have to dig so much? Don't you guys live together anymore?"

Before Ji Lang could say anything, Li suddenly nudged her daughter lightly with her arm. She didn't dare to use force, but she really couldn't stand this silly guy, "Are you stupid? If you live together forever, how can you have a baby?" It's because it's easier to do things when living in a tent. According to the time, she got pregnant just a few days after arriving here.

Sa Shi realized it belatedly and said “Ah”, feeling a little embarrassed, “It’s all Xi Shi’s fault.”

Xi Shi, "Yes, it was me who made the trouble."

The brisk few days passed quickly and everyone was busy again.

Someone would go into the courtyard to dig at dawn every day, and come out to eat when the meal was ready. The boys in the family, as well as Li and Uncle Lin, would always help carry the excavated soil out in baskets when they had nothing to do. Ji Lang decided to make two handcarts, which he had seen in the village when he was a child, to transport the soil.

In addition to brushing clothes and quilts every day recently, Jilang has also brushed a lot of bicycles. Now they are placed in a row against the wall, catching up with the previous shared bicycle parking area.

The main reason is that Jilang's frame is a hollow carbon fiber frame. He remembered that carbon fiber is not easily oxidized, so he wanted to paint it more and find time to try to connect a water pipe with these carbon fiber tubes. It may not be realistic to draw water from the lake, but he can try to draw water from the stream.

The frame of the cart was easy to make. Jilang had a lot of wooden boards left over from hooping the wooden barrel, so he nailed them together to make a sturdy cart frame and nailed wooden boards on all four sides.

Make two recessed grooves under the hood and nail them on.

For the chassis, Jilang used two bicycle wheels, connecting them with a sturdy log fixed on the middle axle.

After finishing, Ji Lang called Lan and Ye who were sitting nearby sewing clothes, "Sister-in-law Lan, Ye, both of you come and help me."