After lunch, everyone couldn't find a way to get through the creek, so they could only go a little farther and bypass the creek.
After bypassing the creek, Chen Chao climbed halfway up the mountain with excitement, and finally came to the first stop of the trip, the brown tribe.
Of course, the name Brown Tribe was also given to them by Chen Chao. As for their own tribe, they haven't thought about the name of their tribe. If they need to communicate what tribe they are from, they usually tell the other party where their tribe is probably with their fingers.
Chen Chao chose this tribe as his first site because he noticed that there were some sparse palm trees in the woods around this tribe.
Although not much, it does use it.
And this palm tree is a good thing.
Its skin (brown leather fiber/sheath fiber has strong tensile strength, abrasion resistance and corrosion resistance), which can be used as rope (old leaf), weaving clothes, brown stretch, carpet, making brushes, etc.;
The young leaves can be bleached to make fans and straw hats. Of course, there are no bleaching conditions now, but it is probably not a problem to make a straw hat without bleaching.
The unopened buds of palm trees are also called "brown fish". They can still be eaten. It's just that Chen Chao hasn't eaten them. He doesn't know the specific taste, whether it tastes good or not.
Even the brown bark and petiole (brown board) calcined charcoal have hemostatic effect as medicine. Fruits, leaves, flowers, roots, etc. are also used as medicine.
In general, the palm tree is nothing short of precious.
And it can be made into the two things that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs needs the most at this stage, that is, the clothes and the straw hat!
Chen Chao searched around the Tianyuan tribe, but did not find any suitable materials for making raincoats. Not having a raincoat is troublesome when going out. So before it rains or snows, this thing quickly finds ways to equip it.
Moreover, whether it is animal skins or straw sandals and other items on the wheelbarrow, another layer of protection needs to be added, and then a layer of palm tree bark must be spread on it.
Therefore, this simple version of the raincoat, the princess, is essential.
As for the straw hat, the straw rope produced in the tribe can also be woven, but it will be softer and the rainproof effect is not as good. The main point is the special waste grass rope. Weaving a straw hat can almost make two pairs of straw sandals.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs basically lacks everything, it lacks rain protection. Therefore, Chen Chao chose the brown tribe at the first stop.
At least we must make up for our shortcomings.
Otherwise, whether it is raining or snowing, the things on the car may be a bit troublesome.
Moreover, the brown tribe is only a medium-sized tribe with more than a hundred people. Whether the other party is worried about this batch of goods or food in our hands, he has to weigh us here with a total of ten powerful weapons and equipment.
Of course, at this time, animal skin clothes, stone axes, short spears, Mawozi straw sandals and other equipment, as well as the goods on the wind wheelbarrow pushed by oneself, are indeed the well-equipped wealthy and handsome among the primitive people.
When the sun was about to set near the brown tribe, Chen Chao didn't rush to scare people at night.
Going at this time will not only make people feel that you are not good, but it will also not be easy to start the things behind.
It's getting dark in the winter. If a dozen strong men suddenly appear outside the tribe, who would not think about it?
When the time comes, the other party will come to a group of people for defense. It's hard to say whether it is an open grab or a deal. After all, this place is someone else's site.
So just visit the brown tribe early tomorrow morning, so that the other party has a psychological preparation and can decide things more rationally.
After deciding to visit the brown tribe in broad daylight tomorrow, everything else remains the same.
First find a suitable cave as a place to rest at night. After arranging their own affairs, Chen Chao took Severed Finger Linon and the grass armor from the Assassin Group of five and went to the Brown Tribe to investigate the situation first.
The three men came to the woods not far from the brown tribe. The brown tribe's residence is also in a large cave, surrounded by a not dense forest.
Chen Chao took a closer look, and found no small river water source similar to the Tianyuan tribe near the Brown Tribe.
At least within the sight of the three of them, no similar water source was found, but it is not ruled out whether it was frozen. After all, there is still snow everywhere, and there is no way to tell whether it is land or river under the snow.
As the sun sets, there is no movement at the entrance of the brown tribe’s cave. The distance is too far, and there is no sound coming from it.
The three people squatted in the bushes for half an hour before they saw a few people hushing out from inside.
All of them were surrounded by simple animal skins, but they weren't like them. The distance was a bit far away, and the light was not very good. Chen Chao couldn't tell what the material they were wearing was.
I saw that the few people at the entrance of the cave shuddered at the same time after solving them, and then they went back to the cave together.
The three waited for a while, and they didn't wait for the second wave to come out before it was getting dark. Chen Chao had no choice but to give up, and took the other two people back. On the way, the three of them picked up the wood full of arms.
After returning to the cave, the bonfire has risen. The pottery pot on the simple stove also boiled with snow water.
Chen Chao hurriedly asked the little old man to fill a few bowls of hot water. In this winter, he spent an hour in the snow. It was a real suffering. His hands and feet were almost frozen and numb.
With a bowl of hot water, Chen Chao felt a little relieved. The little old man put dried meat and chestnuts in the pot, while instructing the other people to pay attention to the wild rat meat in the pot.
The wild mice were caught in the forest by two people who didn't have a cart today, and they directly brought two litters of big mice. All of them have fat heads and big ears, and they don't eat less in winter.
Later, under Chen Chao's guidance, he took out a lot of nuts from the mouse's den.
It just so happened that the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave a two-day chestnut stew broth.
So today’s dinner at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs was exceptionally rich. In addition to the several broths that I used to eat, there were also rat broth and roast rat meat. On average, each person can get a big rat and a dozen nuts .
After eating today's dinner, Chen Chao and the little old man briefly exchanged the specific situation that he had just seen, and then proceeded to use charcoal on the wooden board to continue his map plan.
After Chen Chao used the charcoal to determine the approximate position on the wooden board, the old man took the wooden board and started to dig out the pits little by little with sharp stones by the light of the fire.
Today’s night watch changed a batch, yesterday’s midnight watch was the first batch today, and the others were rotated in turn.
No words for a night.
The people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs still got up early the next day. After having a hasty breakfast, Chen Chao first took the Severed Finger, Li Nong and the Assassin Group, Cao Jia to look around the entrance of the brown tribe’s cave and confirmed the surroundings. Someone had been active before they came back and called the large group to push the wind trolley together.
When Chen Chao and others showed up at the entrance of the brown tribe mountain with six wheelbarrows, the first thing they got was not a warm welcome, but a circle of thirty men holding wooden sticks and stones.
At this time, Chen Chao could see exactly what they were wearing. What these men are draped in is the bark of palm trees.
It seems that the people of the brown tribe have learned to peel off the palm bark and put them on their bodies.
When there is no animal skin to keep out the cold, the bark of a palm tree may not be good enough to keep out the cold, but it can still keep out some wind. In general, it is better than nothing.
While they made threatening shouts, they waved wooden sticks or stones in their hands, or made some creaking sounds in their mouths. It was probably the native dialect of their tribe.
In fact, it was not these brawny men who first discovered Chen Chao and others, but the women who came out to gather snow with a stone basin.
When a few women saw so many strange men coming at the entrance of the cave, they were so scared that they didn't even want the stone basin, the heirloom in the tribe, and ran back into the cave.
Not long after, a few men holding wooden sticks ran out. Most of them ran out with bare hands, and the stones in their hands were picked up temporarily on the ground.
