Chapter 28 Switching Concepts
Why is it said that the main purpose of this trip is to pick wild fruit?
Wang Yang made an analysis and judgment, now the main problem is facing the food shortage situation after winter.
In this case, how to save food is the key.
But Wang Yang alone could hardly store enough food and needed certain supplementary conditions.
For example, switch the concept of storage.
It is well known that meat can be preserved for a long time after being dried, and fruits can also be preserved for a long time after being dried. However, these methods are quite troublesome, first you have to obtain them, then you have to ensure that everyone doesn't eat them away...
The simplest way is to get nuts.
Nuts include chestnuts and walnuts, which are a type of hard-shelled kernel that can be stored for a very long time without going bad.
Wang Yang's idea is to preserve as much of this type of food as possible.
So he wanted to adopt more fruits, let everyone go eat fruits, and then he secretly hid the nuts, waiting for the food shortage to come out.
The workload is huge, one person saves food for thirty people, it's crazy just thinking about it.
It can't be helped, he just has to realize this point.
The outskirts of the forest are impossible for him to go to. The food there is limited after all, and even if it's harvested and stored well, it can only support a population of twenty or so people.
One must go deeper into the forest to find more food.
Suddenly, Wang Yang realized a very serious problem.
Apart from postmodern humans with developed desires, in this era, whether it is apes or other animals, the range of their territory is determined by the abundance of food.
It's just like a tiger, it needs a mountain to guarantee its food source.
The saber-toothed tiger needs to defend its own territory so that it can obtain sufficient food.
The apes were no exception. In the past, they often died from hypothermia in winter, failed to heal wounds in time, and had poor equipment.
So the population has always been around twenty people.
The food on the outskirts of the forest was just enough for them to take in, so they didn't need to venture out and expand their territory.
To make them expand their territory and enter the depths of the forest, it is not necessary to let them hear their own voices, but only to make them realize that there is not enough food within their territory.
"This is much simpler than a miracle!" Wang Yang patted his own forehead and chuckled.
As long as they can get through this winter, there is no need for them to explain themselves, and they will expand their territory into the deeper forest.
Thinking of this, Wang Yang felt great and walked into the depths of the forest.
He was familiar with this road and soon passed by.
He came to the fruit tree with "one" carved on it, picked up many fruits from the ground, roughly estimated to be twenty or so, and filled his waist bag to the brim.
There were still dozens of fruits on the tree, so Wang Yang put the wooden bucket on the ground and climbed up the tree. He picked the fruits one by one and threw them down, harvesting half a tree's worth of fruit, which filled a wooden bucket and several bags.
Don't look at these dozens of fruits as a lot, they're actually just enough for thirty people's one meal, and maybe even not enough.
Wang Yang picked up the wooden bucket and carried it back with difficulty.
Fortunately, he didn't see that saber-toothed tiger this time, and he was gone in just two hours.
Back in the cave, the little buddies swarmed around, wanting to eat.
Wang Yang calculated the time and found it was not yet noon. He patted away their small hands one by one, placing them on the stone pedestal inside.
He pulled Zhang San over, pointed at the food, pointed at his mouth, shook his head, then pointed at his eyes and pointed at the little friends around.
In short, it means: "These foods can't be eaten, you have to control them."
Zhang San stared blankly at him, then looked at the bright red fruit, picked one up, took a bite, and the fragrance rolled on his tongue, like wave after wave, stimulating Zhang San's taste buds.
He smiled happily and said it was delicious.
Wang Yang silently patted his forehead: "Forget it, I won't bother with you guys."
He poured all the fruits on the stone platform, personally patted away the hands that reached out one by one, and then constantly pointed at Zhang San's fruit, shaking his head.
Repeating over and over again, one after another.
Then his sister stretched out her hand and Wang Yang stopped clapping, looking at Zhang San.
Zhang San was stunned for a moment, then walked forward and patted away Wang Yingying's hand.
Wang Yang was overjoyed, but Zhang San himself picked up another fruit and started eating it.
"What the...! As a supervisor, how can you be corrupt and take bribes?!"
Wang Yang was speechless and gave up, considering it as paying him his salary.
Then he picked up his wooden bucket and waist pack and went back into the depths of the forest.
Unfortunately, I met that saber-toothed tiger this time.
But it seemed to know that Wang Yang was a hard bone and not easy to bite, so it just let out a symbolic roar and left.
"Listen up, kid! Don't let me see you around here again!"
Wang Yang didn't even throw stones at it, fearing that it would provoke it and waste a few more days.
He picked fruit by himself and returned to the cave after he finished.
It was already noon by then, and some of the adults had returned. They also picked a lot of fruit, especially nuts, which were abundant in autumn.
The little buddies were slapped by Zhang San, the big general manager, with an iron-blooded and ruthless hand for a whole morning. They stared blankly at him as he ate so deliciously, having been hungry for a long time.
Seeing a large pile of nuts, they rushed up and scrambled for them without saying a word.
Wang Yang even took a step ahead, bringing all the food bags over and then pouring out the fruits from the bags.
All the nuts were packed into several bags and hung on his waist, no matter how much his little friends wanted them, he wouldn't give them any.
His idea was to eat perishable foods like fruit first and then eat food that keeps longer.
The adults didn't object either. They had eaten these things too many times and were no longer impressed. Meat was still delicious, so they simply let Wang Yang take them away.
This time Wang Yang didn't know who to hand the nuts over to.
They don't understand their own ideas, Zhang San can help himself stare at others, but he eats too much and is unreliable.
He thought, if there was a safe, it would be great. He couldn't carry a large pile of nuts around everywhere.
He thought for thousands of times but still couldn't figure it out.
In the afternoon, he didn't go to pick fruit either. The fruit tree had been picked clean by him and needed to find another one to pick.
He supervised Zhang San's training in the cave and watched him make wooden barrels, instructing him.
Suddenly, Wang Yang's eyes lit up and he began carving a piece of wood non-stop.
This piece of wood is quite large, with a diameter of fifty centimeters. He plans to cut off a two-centimeter flat surface from it.
Then he kept chopping and digging.
In this era, cutting down trees was a troublesome matter, after all, there were no axes, and the grinding and manufacturing of stone tools were still in their infancy, with few handy tools.
It's basically using a stone knife to chop, with one side sharp and the other side thick. The thick side is held in hand, while the sharp end is used for chopping.
Wang Yang would never do such a thing, it's too much trouble.
He held the stone knife in one hand and a round big stone in the other, striking it down bit by bit, just like nailing, using the simplest percussion method to improve efficiency.
Even so, he spent a whole day cutting down the 2 cm thick and 50 cm in diameter wooden board, exhausted.
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