survival in the wilderness

Chapter 178 Mining Plan

As soon as Lin Yan finished speaking, Shi Zhi and the others immediately walked over and picked up the stones to observe.

Shui Sheng's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked the savages about the source of those stones, and wanted them to take a look.

In order to show his friendliness, he took out the hemp rope and steamed buns he had prepared before he came out. After vigorously promoting them, the other party agreed to take them to the stone mining place for a tour.

Walking through a place where the savages lived, the aborigines looked at them with curiosity and panic in their eyes.

Lin Yan said: "This area is where they live. There are three to four hundred people. They all live in caves. Why don't they just call them cave dwellers."

Huang Ying laughed and said, "You can choose your name freely. At that time, Li Shu and the others lived in tree houses and they called them Tree House Tribes. Now that these people live in caves, do they really want to be called cave people?"

"I can't come up with a good name, you can give me a name." Lin Yan thinks it doesn't matter what the name is, it's just a code to distinguish it.

Huang Ying said, "That's still called a caveman."

After climbing over a low hill and walking for nearly half an hour, we arrived at our destination.

This is a barren land with sparse vegetation, which is in stark contrast to the dense vegetation before. There are limestones everywhere. Lin Yan was amazed: "This large area is all limestone, and it looks like it has a lot of reserves."

Shi Zhi immediately picked up a piece and looked carefully, "It is indeed the same as the previous stones. If this piece is full, it will be enough for us to mine for many years."

Everyone else had smiles on their faces. Huang Ying said, "We were very lucky. We met cavemen and discovered limestone after only a few days out."

Shui Sheng squatted on the ground and checked carefully, then stood up and said, "It's really good luck. We still need to walk around more often."

Yun Qing walked to Lin Yan's side. Although she had heard them talk about the uses of limestone just now, she had never taken a class, so she couldn't imagine the great uses of these stones.She asked: "Are these stones really useful? Do you want to take them back?"

"This is not an ordinary stone. This is limestone, which can be processed into various chemical substances. It is something we urgently need. Captain Yunqing, the space on the ship is limited, and we can't carry too many things. We only keep a little, and wait until we return from this long trip. Make plans later."

After listening to Lin Yan's words, and seeing her seriousness, Yun Qing knew that these stones were unusual, nodded and said, "Just do as you say."

Looking at the dozen or so cavemen leading the way, Yun Qing asked, "How do these people deal with it?"

They are aborigines, so they shouldn't just watch their own people dig out the stones and transport them away.

Lin Yan thought for a while and said, "Leave them here first, and rely on them to mine limestone in the future."

A group of people took a sack of limestone and left. The caveman stood by the river and watched the boat go far but couldn't figure it out.They initially wanted to keep the ship for themselves.

Living by the river all year round, the cave people not only have fire, they also made a raft, but how can a raft be compared with a boat, the first time I saw it, I was moved force.

After seeing the food and utensils of the people in Sun City, the eyes of the cavemen were shining, and they talked a lot with Shui Sheng, wanting their good things, and wanting to go to Sun City to broaden their horizons.

Shuisheng has already negotiated with them, and promised to bring them good things in the future, and also take them to visit Sun City, but the time is still uncertain.

On the boat, there were no cave dwellers to be seen, and Lin Yan and the others surrounded Shuisheng.

Huang Ying: "Tell me quickly, how did you learn how to speak from cave people?"

Lin Yan: "How do you understand a completely unfamiliar language?"

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Shuisheng smiled shyly: "I caught those two people last night, but I couldn't communicate with them. I was thinking how to communicate with them. I stayed with them all night, starting from the simplest things to make gestures, and I learned Their pronunciation. They are not proficient now, and they need to practice more in the future."

Lin Yan gave a thumbs up, "It's amazing, you are very gifted in languages. From now on, you will be responsible for teaching the cave people to speak our language, and try to make them all speak the language of Sun City."

Lan Yue said directly: "Shuisheng is very talented. Let him communicate with other tribes in the future, and strive to popularize the language of Sun City. There will be no language barriers wherever he goes."

Shui Sheng smiled wryly, "You think highly of me too much."

"You can do it. We all believe in you." Feng Wenwen interjected a rare sentence.

Lin Yan said seriously: "Shuisheng, you can really do it. We will go out often in the future. The cave people we met today are just a small group. We may meet more people in the future, even a tribe bigger than the Sun Tribe. Communication is important, and you take that on your shoulders."

After a moment of silence, Shuisheng nodded, "I understand."

After a pause, he continued: "About the cavemen, what do you think? There are three to four hundred of them. Although they are curious about Sun City, they are unwilling to move to Sun City. Those limestones are inevitable for us to get around. Cave people."

Seeing Shuisheng's serious expression, he was obviously very serious about this matter, Lin Yan said seriously: "If you don't want to move, you can stay, and we can't force them to leave home. You can also ask them for help in mining limestone. If you ask that, you already have idea?"

Shuisheng nodded, "It's not easy for the cave people. It's their home and they don't want to leave. We are intruders, so it's best to live in peace with them."

"I think so too. Not everyone has to move to Sun City, it depends on their own wishes."

Lin Yan looked up and looked around, "It happens that everyone is idle, why not think about how to mine limestone. You also know that limestone will form quicklime after high-temperature calcination, and quicklime will turn into mature lime when it meets water. We can't mine limestone. It’s too heavy to take out and transport back.”

Shui Sheng immediately said: "It can be like a mine, build a factory, send people to station, and just ship the burnt quicklime back."

"Yes, this is the easiest way." Huang Ying agreed, "Although the cavemen have caves and fires, they are quite different from us in other aspects. We can provide food or tools in exchange for them to mine limestone, and each can get what they need."

Lan Yue: "Yes, mutual benefit is the best."

A few people were talking, Yun Qing walked in, "You are right, we will arrange people to go there when we go back."

In the next few days, the boat went down the river very fast and smoothly, but never met anyone else.

Along the way, I saw many herds of animals drinking water on both sides of the Yang River, mostly cattle, sheep, ducks and geese.

At noon on May [-]th, Huang Ying standing on the bow of the boat suddenly shouted: "Come and see, it's very flat over there, isn't there a lot of houses?"

With this shout, everyone couldn't sit still. Since they discovered the caveman, they have never met a stranger again.

If there is a house, it should be a big tribe.

(End of this chapter)