Building a Civilization and Raising Cubs in the Beast World – Chapter 13

Chapter 13

All the new backpacks of all sizes in the tribe were piled in the corner of the cave. There were at least fifty or sixty of them. Most of them were woven recently, and some tribesmen were still weaving them. The tribe has to bring not only food but also tools when going to the market. Carrying hundreds of kilograms of meat on their backs, one of the tools will basically break every one or two days. It is too troublesome to make a new one on the way, so they have to prepare it before setting off. Back baskets that are stacked together are also sturdier.

After exchanging the salt, these backpacks will not be kept. Some will be exchanged with the meat to the tribes on the coast, and the rest will be exchanged for animal skins and other supplies with some tribes that cannot make backpacks.

Because we need to weave a lot of backpacks recently, many vines and bamboos are piled in the cave.

It was Bai Tu who came up with the idea of ​​weaving with bamboo. It would be too wasteful to rely solely on vines, and the vines are too soft, so the woven backpack would easily deform. There would be no such concern if the bamboo was split and weaved. The most important thing is that bamboo grows faster than most trees. It only takes a few years to plant a bamboo forest, while the same amount of wood would take decades.

Bai Tu: “Cai, let me get some bamboos.” The supplies in the big cave are usually distributed by Tu Cai.

Tu Cai waved her hand: “Take it.”

Bai Tu picked up a few intact bamboos and some split ones, put them together in a backpack, and took them to the cave where the prey were kept. These bamboos were cut by the hunting team and the picking team after they came back. When the tools are not sharp, strength is crucial. At least he couldn’t cut the bamboo with a stone knife.

As soon as it got dark, the chickens in the cave became quiet. Bai Tu first went to see the three hens that were hatching eggs – yesterday the hunting team caught another hen that was sitting on eggs and put it together with the previous two.

He planned to get a cage, which would not only make feeding easier but also save space.

This cave is not small and seems empty now, but if a small pond is dug here, other prey will not be able to run around. After all, places with water are dangerous. Even if the water is not too deep, Bai Tu does not want to do such a dangerous thing.

As for why the fish are raised in the cave, it is also because of the weather here. The summer is like a scorching fire, and the winter is covered with snow. There are no natural deep pools here. If a small pond is dug outdoors, the fish will probably be dried and frozen on the spot. No matter how you think about it, it is safer in the cave where the temperature change is not so obvious.

In order to make room for raising fish, other animals have to be arranged in an orderly manner. And the current situation does not look right, with all the animals on the ground.

Bai Tu has never made a cage himself, but he knows how to do simple splicing. At worst, he can fix it later. After some banging and hammering in the cave, a large chicken cage with legs appears. It is a bit difficult to raise more than a dozen large chickens, but four or five is no problem. After making three chicken coops in a row, Bai Tu began to distribute the chicken coops.

There are more hens than roosters in the cave, after all, the latter can only eat and cannot lay eggs. There are thirteen hens. After removing the three brooding hens, they are divided into two cages, and a rooster is placed in each cage.

As for the remaining three roosters, Bai Tu didn’t care whether they would fight or not. He put them all in the last cage and would eventually eat them or take them away to exchange for supplies.

The piglets were raised in a corner. Bai Tu did not make new cages, but instead fenced off the area as a temporary breeding area. After all, a pig is an animal that weighs several hundred kilograms when it grows up and has a strong smell, so it is not suitable to be kept in this cave all the time. To be more precise, Bai Tu felt that pigs were not suitable to be raised in caves.

The place where pigs are raised needs to be flushed frequently. At least in his impression, the pigpen will get dirty if it is not cleaned frequently. It is okay to get some river water, but it is too wasteful to try to get water to flush the cave. The lowest cave in the tribe is some distance away from the foot of the mountain, and it is very tiring to carry the bucket up and down. It is not realistic to let them roam free during the day and drive them back at night like cows. The piglets are small and you can carry them up and down now, but when they grow up you won’t be able to drive them up and down every day. The cows are obedient, but when they grow up and have nose rings, the pigs are not suitable for free-range farming. He suspects that they will all run away if he is not careful.

The most suitable way is to raise the pigs at the foot of the mountain and build a pigpen at the foot of the mountain after the rainy season is over. However, Bai Tu thought that it is not possible now because the rainy season will last for more than a month. Without cement and other building materials, no matter how well the soil is covered, it will collapse after being soaked in rain for dozens of days.

After tidying up the cave, there was indeed more free space. Bai Tu carried the bucket to the place where he planned to dig a fish pond. Looking at the fish jumping around in the water, he calculated in his mind that if he caught so many every day, he could make fish soup for everyone every few days. He could fry the fish less often and keep the caught fish to make soup in winter, which would be warm and nutritious.

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Early the next morning, when Bai Tu walked to the river, several children had already arrived and were digging earthworms everywhere. In summer, especially after working for a few months, digging earthworms was a little difficult. Fortunately, the thing that children had the most was time. They dug a shovel here and poke there, and they actually dug out quite a few.

I don’t know when they came. Bai Tu took a look at the number of earthworms. It was enough for today. A lot of fish were caught, but not many of them ate the earthworms. Most of them got in by accident and couldn’t get out. The advantage of high fish density in the water is that you don’t have to worry about catching all the fish. The reason why he brought back two fish baskets is for this reason. If he doesn’t catch them now, they will all run away.

Several children had no experience in taking out the fish basket by themselves, so Bai Tu taught them how to pour the fish out safely without damaging the fish basket.

“Oh.” Bai Tu didn’t expect that there would be a little surprise today. There was a big-bellied fish in the largest fish basket.

“This kind of fish should be kept separately!” Bai Tu told the children, “This is a fish that will soon lay eggs, and then hatch into small fish.”

Children always have endless questions and will not change their minds just because their original form is a rabbit. Especially when Bai Tu talks about many things that are unfamiliar to everyone, their curiosity becomes even stronger.

“Is it the same as a hen hatching chicks?”

“How do fish hatch eggs? By sitting on the eggs?”

“Should we build a nest for it? Like a chicken coop?”

Bai Tu patiently answered several children’s questions, and then used facts to tell everyone that there is no need to build a nest for fish, but you need to dig a fish pond.

Although raising fish is important, the more important thing is to make dried meat. Bai Tu did not trouble the hunting team and picking team who have been very busy recently, nor did he plan to ask Tu Cai and other orcs in charge of logistics who were already working overtime to help.

Children’s nails are very fragile, and even though Bai Tu has a talent for digging holes, he doesn’t dare let them dig the fish pond, so he plans to do it himself first.

He had never dug before, but he had seen hunting teams digging traps. Bai Tu didn’t want others to find out that he was unfamiliar with the animal shapes, so he didn’t call anyone else. He walked to the cave when Bai Dong and a few others took the cows and piglets out to cut grass.

The first step is to transform into an animal form. I have already learned this from several children. All I need to do is concentrate and think about it.

This is not difficult. Bai Tu followed what they said and concentrated on thinking about the beast shape.

The thought of changing into a beast form just came to his mind in the previous second, and the next second everything in front of him went dark, and at the same time he felt an unbearable weight on his body.

Everything in his vision was pitch black, and Bai Tu had a bad feeling in his heart. Could it be that he had failed to transform?

According to Tu You, none of the children over the age of three in the tribe had failed. Bai Tu, who thought he was infallible, naturally did not ask what the consequences of failure would be.

Is he not even as good as a three-year-old child? Bai Tu couldn’t help but fall into deep thought.

But after all I’ve been through so much, I can accept time travel. Is there anything worse than time travel?

Bai Tu quickly calmed down. First of all, although his body felt quite heavy, he didn’t feel anything other than the heaviness, so he could still bear it for the time being.

Secondly, he chose a cave for raising animals. Now the children were busy outside taking care of the pigs and cows and would not be back until at least noon, so they would not be seen by others. That was good and they would not be embarrassed.

Finally, everyone just said that children under three years old might fail, but they didn’t shy away from talking about it, indicating that even if they fail, it’s not necessarily dangerous.

After figuring this out, Bai Tu breathed a sigh of relief, and then he felt the thing pressing on him move.

Bai Tu was stunned, then he tentatively moved his hands and feet and touched his face with his hand.

Furry touch.

Huh?

Bai Tu, who was originally a little worried, slowly relaxed. He must have succeeded.

That thing on his body… Bai Tu suddenly remembered the scene when he first taught everyone how to dig traps.

The members of the hunting team turned into living rabbits one by one, and the animal skins on their bodies fell everywhere. Chief Bai An, who was standing nearby, seemed to have anticipated this scene and picked up the animal skins and piled them aside.

If he hadn’t failed, then the heavy thing on his body now should be… animal skin?

It’s just that when others transformed into beasts, the animal skins were piled at their feet, but when he transformed into a beast, his skins covered his head, which made him think something was wrong.

After feeling completely relieved, Bai Tu patted the object that covered him. Yes, it was the touch of animal skin. Unknown things are the most terrifying. Once he understood what it was, the fear in his heart disappeared without a trace in an instant.

Why didn’t I realize that this piece of animal skin was so big before? Bai Tu took a lot of effort to get out of the animal skin.

After his vision cleared, Bai Tu was stunned and realized something more serious than before.

When Bai An picked him up, the animal skin he was wearing was already torn beyond recognition and could only be used as a rag, so the animal skin he had been wearing recently was from the tribe, sewn by Tu Cai and others. They used large bone needles to drill holes in it and then tied it with long strips of animal skin. The advantage is that it is easy to make, but the disadvantage is that it is very loose when worn on the body, and is always on the verge of falling off.

After he got it, he modified it and made a few buttons out of wood and tied them to one end.

Button fingernail size.

Now, however, the furry paws were a size smaller than the buttons.

May I ask, how big is he now?