Chapter 759 The Qingque Tribe Whose Number Is About to Exceed 0 (2 in 1)

Er Chong's mother reached out and touched Er Chong's bare head.

Without the messy hair of Erchong, it looks a bit uncomfortable, but such a head is very comfortable to touch, and Erchong's mother can't put it down.

Looking around, it turned out that there was a tribe, and the men's messy hair had been cut off by that sharp knife. The short hair seemed to be an urge to reach out and touch.

In fact, not only those men and male children, but also these female primitive people such as the mother of the second worm are very different from before.

Some of their messy hair was cut off, and the rest of the hair was rubbed with warm water after smearing it with something that looked delicious and called 'soap'.

After being covered with white foam like clouds in the sky, the messy hair in the past has become fragrant. After braiding into a big braid and tied with a rope, it looks very neat.

This method of treating hair, which has never been seen before, made Er Chong's mother and other female primitive people in the original Bannong tribe fall in love with it immediately.

On the hair, women are always willing to work hard, and Er Chong's mother is the same.

Wash the hair, then comb the hair with something called a 'comb' made of bamboo, braid it, and tie it with a rope. This kind of troublesome thing for men seems to be troublesome, but it is difficult for them to do it. Is never tired of it.

This kind of troublesome change in the hair is what Er Chong's mothers are happy to see, because in this way, they not only look better, but also have such an obvious difference that they don't need to run as before. Go to the person and see if the chest is tall to identify whether it is a man or a woman.

Moreover, after washing their hair, they were still taught by the people of this tribe to comb their hair over and over again with something that looks like a comb, but needs to be finer and finer.

In the past, those little bugs that were hidden in the hair and could not be caught no matter how hard they were caught, were extremely distressing, and they were quickly combed out in this way.

Squeeze these little bugs with your fingernails and make a crackling sound, which makes you feel happy. Er Chong's mother likes to do these things the most.

Not only that, they were also ordered to take a bath in such a season, and they had to scrub off all the ashes on their bodies. If anyone dared to perfunctory, someone in the tribe would press them in a hot water tank and carry them with them. With one of those big brushes made of boar hair,

Scrub back and forth.

The feeling of being scrubbed with a brush made of hard wild boar hair is not at all pleasant. After three or four people were treated roughly like this in a row, listening to their howls, the rest of the people dared not neglected.

When taking a bath, Er Chong's mother, like many people in the tribe, felt a little bit of resentment about these trivial things. After all, they basically never took a bath in the past, and they lived well. Why? After arriving in this tribe, there are so many more rules?

But now, Er Chong's mother no longer complained about it, and even liked taking a bath a little bit.

Because after taking a bath, my body was naked and warm, and my whole body suddenly became much lighter.

Looking at the hand that could see the true color of the skin, Er Chong's mother let go of the hand holding the braid, and held the animal skin wrapped around her body.

These animal skins were very soft. Although they were still the original animal skins, they became soft after being thrown into a burning vat by the people of this tribe and boiled vigorously and dried.

Not only that, the little bugs that burrowed around in the animal skin were boiled to death, and now it is warm and soft when worn on the body, and it will no longer make people feel itchy...

These rather troublesome things caused Er Chong's mothers a lot of headaches when they first did them, but after doing a lot of them, after experiencing the benefits in them, they gradually didn't feel uncomfortable, and on the contrary, they liked them.

Er Chong's mother and the others compared it with the original tribe more than once. The priestess who looked very intelligent to them, now looks not very intelligent.

Because these uncomplicated but comfortable things, the priestess of his own tribe doesn't know.

Moreover, the pottery made by the female priests is simply incomparable with the current tribe.

The bowls they eat with today are better than the best pottery that the priestesses have made before.

Like many people in the tribe, Erchong's mother felt uneasy when she learned that the priestess abandoned them, but after living in this tribe for a period of time, Erchong's mother didn't feel this way at all. There are even many times when they feel that it is a good thing for the female priests to abandon them.

Because after the priestess abandoned them, they had wiser and younger god sons.

Of course, what makes people like Er Chong's mother find it troublesome at first and then fall in love with it does not include the dizzying chopsticks and the tongue-twisting language that makes people want to bite their tongues.

But there is no way, they have to learn these two things, because if they don't eat with those two small wooden sticks called 'chopsticks', they can't eat food.

The same is true of this awkward language. Everyone must learn five of them every day. If one cannot learn it, they will have to eat less food.

Under the protest of their stomachs and the temptation of food, they can only do their best to learn this painfully awkward language.

This language, called Mandarin, is really daunting to learn.

This is not the most uncomfortable thing, the most uncomfortable thing is the pattern called Chinese characters.

These patterns look square and square. To Erchong's mother and most of the Bannong tribe, these patterns are the same, but the people who teach them in the tribe can point out their differences. different.

In the past, Er Chong's mother only admired the strong male primitive man who could bring back a lot of food, but now, Er Chong's mother has changed her mind.

Become more admirable for those who can 'draw' these patterns and recognize them one by one.

Because in her opinion, this is more difficult than hunting. Fortunately, the people of this tribe did not force them to learn this...

Han Cheng, who had been tortured enough by English, could understand the feelings of these people. Seeing how they were tortured while learning Chinese, Han Cheng felt very happy in his heart.

This kind of enjoyment is only a little bit worse than seeing those foreign friends scratching their ears and roaring to the sky while learning Chinese.

Of course, Han Cheng's carefreeness was only for this moment. When his eyes moved away from the hair-loss slaves of the semi-farmer tribe who were tortured by the Chinese language, and fell on the food that was decreasing at a speed visible to the naked eye, this kind of The joy was immediately replaced by a kind of melancholy with pain in the flesh.

According to his previous idea, when the people in the tribe were digging the soil to build houses, a cylindrical grain cellar with a depth of more than four meters and a diameter of more than ten meters had already been formed, and the grass shed for shelter from the wind and rain had been built on it. It only needs a little tidying up, and the food can be loaded inside.

But now, the grain cellar that has been built is still empty.

There is no other reason, because there are more than 200 more mouths in the tribe that need to eat.

Fighting has always been about more than just force. Food and grass are very important things.

This can be seen from the Qingque tribe's campaign against the Bannong tribe.

The long-distance march, plus the more than two hundred people of the Qingque Allied Forces, consumed an astonishing amount of food.

This time they plundered a lot of food from the Bannong tribe, but their food was far from the high quality of the Qingque tribe's food, and they could barely make up for the food consumption of this expedition.

However, it was made up for, but from now on, the more than two hundred mouths to eat can only be fed by the Qingque tribe.

These open mouths are bottomless pits that absorb food one by one, but there is no way, they have to be kept.

If it weren't for the bronze plow, which would increase the efficiency of farming in the tribe, expand the area of ​​cultivated land, and greatly increase the total grain output. Even Han Cheng would be extremely sad when the tribe suddenly added so many mouths.

After these years of development, the population of the Qingque Tribe has grown extremely rapidly.

After successively absorbing the pig tribe, bone tribe, green tribe, donkey tribe, yellow fruit tribe and the remaining sheep tribe, coupled with the improvement of the living conditions of the Qingque tribe and the improvement of medical and health conditions, the number of babies born in these years has also increased. The survival rate has been greatly improved.

So now, the total population of the Qingque tribe's citizens has reached 513!

Among them, there are 204 adults in total, 71 are males, and the remaining 133 are adult females.

There are 309 minors, and 12 of them are about to enter adulthood.

Now, after Han Cheng's arrival, the earliest batch of children who were born were already eight years old.

Primitive people matured early, and in the next five or six years, when these children grow up, there is no need to absorb foreign populations, only the number of adults in their own tribe can reach 20 or more every year!

And this is only counting the number of citizens in the tribe, not counting the slaves in the tribe.

In the past few years, after taking down the two big tribes of the Tengshe tribe and the Bannong tribe, the number of slaves in the Qingque tribe has also increased rapidly!

It turned out that there were 178 slaves obtained from the Tengshe tribe.

In the past few years, counting those who were promoted as citizens of the Qingque Tribe because of their outstanding performance, as well as the two or three people who died for various reasons, and counting the newborn babies, the number of slaves in the Tengshe Tribe was maintained at the original number. Under the circumstances, a few more have been added.

Now, with the addition of more than 200 slaves from the Bannong tribe, as well as several members of the sheep tribe with tattooed faces, the total number of slaves in the Qingque tribe has reached 426.

Among them, there were 64 male adult slaves, 153 female adult slaves, and a total of 217 adult slaves.

There were fifteen slaves who were about to become adults, and the rest were relatively younger slaves. There were two hundred and nine slaves in total.

Adding up the citizens of the Qingque tribe and the slaves of the Qingque tribe, the total population of the Qingque tribe has reached 939, a number that amazes many tribes in this era!

Compared with when Han Cheng first came to the Qingque tribe, the population of the tribe has increased by nearly twenty times!

If the next spring begins, the men and women in the tribe will work harder, and by the end of the ten years of Qingque, maybe the people in the tribe will be able to break through the 1,000-person mark!

With such a population, even in later generations, if it is not compared with those big villages in the plains, it can be called a big village!

Such a large population is a valuable asset for the Qingque Tribe, but at the same time, when it is not well utilized, it is also a big burden for the helm of the tribe. This burden only needs to look at the daily consumption You can know how big the dropped food is.

Hurry up to spring, after the spring, the tribe can continue to reclaim the land to grow food.

At the same time, you can also get some other food to supplement, so you don't have to stick to the stored food.

As long as there is a little income, the food stored in the tribe will not be consumed so quickly.

Now, under the pressure of such a large population and food, even Han Cheng couldn't help looking forward to the arrival of the girl named Chun.

After looking at the granary for a while, and staring at the book recording the population for a while, Han Cheng's brows gradually frowned.

His frown wasn't because of the daily food consumption rate.

Although the consumption of food is huge now, judging from the food storage of the Qingque tribe, the food supply of the tribe is only slightly tight, and food shortages will not happen.

What made him frown was the number between the citizens of the Qingque tribe and the slaves.

Judging from the total number of people, there are only 87 more citizens of Qingque Tribe than slaves.

If we only compare the number of adults, after the Bannong tribe joined, there were thirteen more adult slaves in the tribe than there were adult citizens in the Qingque tribe!

Such a thing is not very good news for the tribe.

According to Han Cheng's previous idea, the ratio between citizens and slaves is two to one, which is considered a relatively safe line.

But now, the population of adult slaves directly exceeds that of citizens, which is undoubtedly a very dangerous thing.

Han Cheng didn't notice this before, but now that he did, he woke up immediately.

It is time to quickly find a way to restore the balance broken by the influx of a large number of semi-agricultural slaves.

To a certain extent, this matter is even more urgent than reclaiming land.