I'm involved in poverty alleviation in a primitive tribe.

It was already late spring, and the weather was getting hotter every day. Jiang Ning changed into a light animal skin coat, hugged the cliff vine, and walked out of the cave.

The main stem that broke off earlier is now slowly withering and hardening.

The once plump and elastic main stem has now become shriveled and fragile. Its skin has begun to lose its luster and its color has become darker.

After more than ten days of not seeing each other, a new leaf actually sprouted from the side of the cliff vine. Although the new leaf was still very small and its color was still very immature, its appearance surprised Jiang Ning.

The appearance of this new leaf seemed to be the cliff vine telling her that even after experiencing such a desperate situation, it could still be reborn.

She was always worried that the cliff vines were too badly damaged to be saved, but now she can finally rest assured.

After returning home last night, she continued to use her magical power to nourish the cliff vine after meditating. It seemed to sense this, as the new leaves trembled slightly, as if responding to her.

Jiang Ning led a few soldiers to go outside and cut some ironwood to make rabbit cages.

She researched rabbit farming techniques and found that this method was more suitable for the current Sirius tribe. Not only did she not have to worry about them escaping, but feeding them was also convenient, and the small space they needed allowed them to gain more weight.

Ironwood is an extremely hard tree, renowned for its hardness and toughness; ordinary stone knives can only leave a shallow mark on it. Only warriors who channel their inner power can cut through it.

Jiang Ning had already tried it yesterday. Although the silly rabbit had sharp teeth, they were powerless against the hard ironwood.

Jiang Ning circulated the energy within his body, raised the deer antler knife, and forcefully chopped down on an iron tree about the thickness of a finger. This was for making a cage; there was no need to chop down a thick one, as it would require more effort to split open.

Have the soldiers remember this thickness and look for similar ironwood trees. If they can't find any, it's okay. Ironwood branches grow very straight, so cutting off branches will also work. The main thing is that the lengths should be about the same.

They also cut down some ironwood trees about ten centimeters thick to use as keel support pillars.

They spent a whole day cutting down a lot of ironwood trees to bring back to the tribe.

How to fix them together was another tricky problem. Jiang Ning thought of the mortise and tenon structure, an ancient and ingenious architectural structure that allows two pieces of wood to be tightly joined together to achieve a stable effect.

She tried using ordinary wood to create mortise and tenon joints, but unfortunately, while she could see how it worked, she couldn't do it herself. The cage she managed to make following the tutorial could stand upright, but it would fall apart with the slightest force.

Finally, some improvements were made. First, a clearing was made, and then thicker ironwood was driven deep into the ground as the backbone.

Take some more ironwood of the same thickness to make crossbeams. The lower crossbeam is fixed to the post outside the cage with tough vines 30 centimeters above the ground. The same applies to the upper crossbeam, which is fixed 30 centimeters away from the upper break.

Then, use the same method to fix the thinner ironwood trees to the beams and pillars. The ironwood trees around the perimeter should be denser to prevent the silly rabbit from squeezing out from the gaps, while the ironwood trees at the top and bottom should be sparser.

Once everything is secured, it becomes a square ironwood rabbit cage. Place a stone slab at the bottom of the cage. When cleaning the droppings, you can simply lift the stone slab and let the droppings fall through the cage. There is also a 30-centimeter space underneath, which makes it easy to collect the droppings for composting.

The 30-centimeter-long ironwood protruding from the top can not only fix the crossbeam, but also be used to fix some large leaves to make a canopy to shade and protect the rabbit cage from the sun and rain.

There's also a door on the front, which slides out from the side, so you don't have to worry about the silly rabbit chewing through it and escaping.

The space inside wasn't very big. The system said that rabbits would fight if kept together, so in order to ensure that the rabbits could be raised smoothly, Jiang Ning planned to raise them separately, with two rabbits in each cage.

However, this would require making many cages, and to ensure they are well-fed, it would be necessary to raise some large herbivores.

Everything is ready, except for the silly rabbit. The silly rabbit I caught last time I went to get salt has already been eaten, otherwise there would be nowhere to put it.

Jiang Ning has only made one rabbit cage so far. She plans to catch two rabbits to see how it goes and whether there are any areas for improvement.

Without further ado, a soldier told Jiang Ning that these silly rabbits could be seen everywhere along the grass near the Tianlang River.

Jiang Ning called Bai Ya, who ran out of the tribe and caught two rabbits in the nearby bushes, putting them into a rabbit cage.

This rabbit cage is very well designed, equipped with a water trough and a food trough, so that the rabbits can drink and eat at any time, and also to avoid being soiled by their excrement as much as possible.

To ensure that the two rabbits could adapt to their new environment, Jiang Ning specially cut some fresh grass from where she caught the rabbits and put it in the feeding trough.

Watching the rabbits leap around in their cage, unable to escape, the ironwood cage proved incredibly sturdy; even their attempts to gnaw on it couldn't budge it an inch. Jiang Ning finally felt relieved and went back to sleep.

The next morning, Jiang Ning eagerly cut some fresh hay to feed the rabbits.

However, when she got to the rabbit cage, she found the rabbit lying motionless inside.

Jiang Ning's heart tightened immediately, and she quickly opened the door to check the situation inside the cage.

The scene before her surprised her, yet it was also somewhat expected.

The two rabbits showed no signs of life; they lay quietly in the cage, both with obvious signs of impact to their heads.

Clearly, after entering the cage, they were unable to adapt to the cramped space and were afraid of the unfamiliar environment, so they started to bump around and try to escape.

In the end, they failed to escape and instead lost their lives due to the constant impacts.

These two hares originally lived freely in the vast wilderness, enjoying the bounty of nature. They had not been domesticated in any way and maintained their wild lifestyle.

Jiang Ning has a long way to go before she can domesticate wild rabbits to provide more food for the tribe.

I picked up the two rabbits and walked to the square, handing them to the cooks so they could roast them together.

Jiang Ning sat on a nearby rock watching them work, thinking about how to successfully tame the animals. It wasn't just rabbits; she figured other animals wouldn't be easy to raise either.

The system reassured her, "Wild rabbits are inherently difficult to raise. You can start by letting them roam freely. If you're worried about them running away, you can start by raising baby rabbits and domesticating them generation by generation. Rabbits have a very high reproductive rate and can give birth several times a year."

Jiang Ning sighed, "I know, but although there have been some obstacles in what I've been doing lately, I've managed to get everything done smoothly in the end, which gives me the illusion that I can do anything."

This illusion made her feel a little smug, which wouldn't do. Having this kind of mentality while hunting would lead to disaster.

She quickly composed herself, stood up, dusted herself off, and walked into the crowd.

Just leave a sentence.

"Take it slow, this is just the beginning."