The next day, Ah Hui invited the tribesmen to collect bamboo.

The two of them went to observe the large pit where the flax was soaked.

Get to the big pit and take a closer look.

Sure enough, there was a salt-alkali phenomenon in the pit, because although the pit was at a low place for the main cave, it was on a small hillside and leaned against the mountain wall. There was a protruding rock on the mountain wall.

, such as the eaves blocking this big pit. For this reason, only heavy rainstorms for several days can fill the pit with water. If the rain is lighter, it cannot fall here, and heavy rains are almost a specialty of summer. Therefore,

Gradually, this became a small salt pond.

"No wonder there are no mosquitoes here." Ah Hui said.

"Well, those twine are very clean and strong, maybe because they were soaked in salt water. We can try processing fur."

Grandma was impressed and brought a piece of rabbit skin for experiment.

Rabbit skin is relatively soft. When handling rabbit skin, you must remove the fat on it.

Fu Xi took the rabbit skin and washed the grease on it by a pool of water.

There is a cleaning agent that can be used for this kind of cleaning, and that is soap locust.

However, it was the ape-man who liked to apply plant juices and easily discovered the grease-removing effect of honey locust.

It is also clear that such washing can kill the bugs in the fur and prevent the fur from being damaged.

However, if the tool is not very handy, such processing will still leave a lot of fat under the leather.

Ah Hui was very dissatisfied, but Fu Xi thought this was great.

The two scraped off a lot of white salt frost on the edge of the salt pond to use it as salt, and then put the fur into the salt pond to soak.

However, when I tried to use those salt creams, the alkaline smell made the little girl vomit.

There is no doubt that it is salt-alkali, not salt.

"It seems to taste a bit like honey locust." Ah Hui said.

Fu Xi tasted it, and indeed, both had an alkaline taste.

"It should also be able to clean grease and leather." Fu Xi said.

"Yeah, yeah, maybe the leather in the pool can be as clean as linen." Aye was happy and discovered another interesting new material.

Sure enough, a few days later, after the two made some bamboo tools, when they looked at the leather, they found that the leather had become very clean and tough, and the fat had been completely melted by the salt-alkali water.

Ah Hui took out the leather and dried it.

The leather after drying was very hard, but this only made the two of them surprised and happy.

The leather is strong and sturdy, which is exactly what the two wanted.

Fuxi rolled it with pebbles to make the leather softer again.

So, within a few months, the Silk tribe updated their equipment again, replacing them with powerful bamboo shields, and equipped with sharp bamboo javelins, bamboo spears, bamboo daggers, stone knives, leather scabbards, and leather clothes.

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But this time, the Silk Tribe people would no longer easily tell the apes how to make these equipment.

If they want to learn, they should slowly experiment and figure it out on their own. They may be able to figure out some things.

As for the use of fire, the Silk tribe is the only ape tribe in the world that uses fire. Those apes don't want to use fire.

Fire is very dangerous to them, and they are only afraid of fire.

If it were further south, there would be no fires, because it is very hot there and there is no need for this.

Even the ancient people further south can only be said to be savages, and they did not have the conditions to produce ape-men, let alone fires.

Because the tropics and even subtropics are not cold enough, savages do not need to hide in caves.

The fact that savages can walk upright is proof that they live together in the wilderness and use the upright form to guard against wild beasts. Only then did they evolve the upright form over countless millions of years.

Yes, it is evolution, not evolution. In fact, everything can only evolve, and it can never be said to be evolution.

This is just like monkeys, they will not live in caves, they would rather gather in trees, because if it were not cold, caves would always be only the choice of the strong. For the weak, it is just a dead end. All the weak will evolve.

It is the ability to escape. Therefore, monkeys have become very dexterous in climbing trees, but this is obviously not evolution. They are not stronger than apes.

The theory of evolution has always been a devilish evil. The existence of this devil is not only to deny the long history of human civilization, but also the basis of the theory of bacterial evolution.

It can also be seen from this that savages who do not even have caves do not have the conditions to use fires.

The use of fire must have occurred in temperate regions.

Only temperate rainforest areas have all the conditions for fire use.

Even fire is still very dangerous to the Silk people.

In the process of using fire to make equipment, the Silk people discovered that charcoal buried in fire ashes can burn slowly for a long time, but the danger of charcoal poison is not so easy to discover.

For this reason, after using the fire for several months, this problem was still not found.

Then the characteristics of fire are not fully understood.

After that, the Silk people became even busier. They raised small animals in captivity, picked seeds to grind biscuits, dried brine, made salt, cured meat, and made bamboo products. They were prosperous.

However, the terrifying nature of the mountain was still deeply imprinted in Zhang Jingtao's mind.

As the Silk people are busy, summer turns to autumn, the weather is already very cold, and winter is about to come.

As a result, the Silk tribe ushered in the last tribal gathering before winter.

And for this kind of gathering, most clan members will go to it.

Being like this is a necessity for survival. In fact, it is to show that one's tribe is strong and to make others less interested in one's own ideas.

At the same time, it is also to prevent any accidents from happening in the tribal gathering. For this reason, the elders of the tribe will go. If something happens, they will try their best to protect the young people and sacrifice themselves. It is very tragic, but it can only be like this for the survival of future generations of the tribe.

It's just that each tribe originally had some old people left who were too old to walk. However, such old people often couldn't withstand the cold in winter and were frozen to death, or were killed in previous ape-man wars.

There are very few people who live to the point of being unable to walk, and the same goes for the old people of the Silk tribe. In the past trials and battles, no such old people have survived. Therefore, only children are left in the family to rest in this cave.

Apart from this, there were only ten strong men guarding the nearby high place to guard against wild beasts.

Ah Hui put a few sheep whose wool had just been cut by her into the main cave to prevent them from freezing. She and Fu Xi hugged the wool and slept comfortably in the fire cave. The entrance to the cave was blocked.

The fence was also tied with spearweed.

In doing so, although it blocks a lot of cold, it also reduces the entry of vitality.

This was the first time that people lived in a fire cave after the weather became cold. Ah Hui also followed the method of using fire that he had learned over the past few months and put the black charcoal that was put out and then dried before it was burned into the fire.

After burning, put it aside in the ashes. After such charcoal is buried in the ashes, it can burn for a long time to prevent the fire from going out after one night.

Then she went to sleep.

The fire is getting darker and darker.

The charcoal poison was like the breath of death, slowly infecting the entire cave.
Chapter completed!