Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

The orcs looked at each other and shook their heads blankly.

Chen Qi didn't explain, but looked at A Zhu who was sitting next to him and asked, "You have been listening to A Jing tell stories every day recently. Do you know why he can tell so many stories?"

A Zhu, who was suddenly asked the question, was a little terrified. He turned his head and looked at the old woman sitting next to him. The old woman nodded encouragingly to him, and then A Zhu turned his eyes back to Chen Qi, "Yes. Because of those words?"

Chen Qi nodded in praise. He took out Ajing's pile of gum leaves full of stories, put them on the wooden table, and waved to Carlo, who was in the crowd and pretended to be a good student listening to the lecture. When he came over, he continued: "The three of you should have seen these gum leaves with characters written on them quite a few times in the past few days, and the stories written on them are the stories that A Jing told you."

Chen Qi asked Carlo to pick up a gum leaf at will, "Do you think Carlo can retell these stories word for word?"

Except for the youngest A Jing, the construction orcs in the tribe all worked together. When the three little females were working, they would always share the new stories they heard today with other people in the tribe, sometimes describing The people who forgot that the other two would also add it, so everyone knew that they were learning things from A Jing.

As Chen Qi's words fell, everyone's eyes moved to Carlo. This feeling of being the focus made Carlo a little nervous. He covered his lips with his fists, coughed lightly, and got Chen Qi's signal before starting. Read the words above, word by word.

The use of fairy tales is not difficult, and Chen Qi also intends to use the stories they are most interested in to guide them in learning. In just one winter, Chen Qi almost briefly explained all the Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales and the four famous works. Unfortunately, he I don't have the ability to remember it, or I will directly move One Thousand and One Nights out, I'm afraid I can tell these beasts who love to listen to stories for a long time without repeating the same.

Later, in order to let them learn the words actively, Chen Qi switched to writing instead of speaking, and they were not allowed to tell each other in private. The next piece of gum leaf full of words, want to know the follow-up? Okay, see for yourself. Therefore, even Carlo, who is the least fond of learning among them, is not difficult to understand the words in his hand after being abused for a winter.

Although Carlo's narration tone is very flat, it can't hold back the freshness of the stories of the orcs. Even if he has heard it once, he still enjoys it again.

Although the memory of the orcs is very good, not everyone can remember it, at least Carlo can't do it, he asked Carlo to repeat the story again without reading the text, this time it is not like before It's smooth, especially when it comes to the characters' dialogue, he occasionally misses a few sentences and is corrected by A Zhu and a few girls, causing Carlo to roll his eyes at Chen Qi resentfully.

Chen Qi ignored Carlo's mournful gaze, and asked him to read the words on the gum leaves after he finished speaking. After that, he looked around at the crowd and asked, "Do you know what the words are now?"

After such an operation, even if the orcs didn't quite understand Chen Qi's purpose, they still vaguely felt that this text could help them remember something.

"Chen Qi, can it help us remember?" Ale and Chen Qi are familiar with each other, and now they directly raise their questions aloud.

Chen Qi nodded, "Writing can not only help you record some memories." Chen Qi took the palm-sized wooden board made by Aze, dipped the prepared black fruit dye with a brush, and brushed it on the Write a big music word on it, blow it a little, and hand it to Ale when the writing is a little dry.

"For example, this word, which is a 'happy' word, is also your name. If you keep this wooden board with your name on it, then your future partner, your child, your grandson, Or the descendants who still have your blood in their bodies hundreds of years later, as long as they see this wooden board, they know that their ancestor is a female named Ale. Even if you have something to tell future children and grandchildren , as long as you write it down, even if you can't meet, even if you are separated by thousands of miles, he can know what you want to say to him." Of course, the premise is that the board will not be lost or broken.

After listening to Chen Qi's explanation, not only Ale, but also the other orcs present gasped. For beastmen like them who can only transmit information by word of mouth, they can remember Daddy. The father's name is already very good, and it is almost impossible to remember the name of the father's father. After all, the environment here simply cannot allow the orcs to live to natural death.

But now Chen Qi told him that this kind of thing called words could make people know their existence all the time, and even speak to future generations who could not meet in the future. This incident simply overwhelmed the cognition of the orcs.

The scene fell into silence, and Chen Qi was not in a hurry to continue flickering, but patiently waited for them to digest the information.

It is not so easy to accept a new knowledge. Chen Qi now has to teach more than half of the old females, and their average age is almost over 150 years old. Let them learn cooking or sewing. Such manual work may be okay, but if they take the initiative to learn writing, which seems to be unusable and inedible, there is no way they can do it. Maybe they will learn in the face of the patriarch, but this passive Naturally, learning can't be compared to active learning. Chen Qi also thought about it for a long time, and then he came up with a reason why they should be very interested.

After all, no one does not want to leave a trace, and hope that future generations can remember themselves, even a little bit.

After a long time, the old woman sitting next to Azhu raised her head and looked at Chen Qi with slightly cloudy eyes, "My name is Acheng, can you write my name for me?"

The old female named Acheng is over 200 years old this year. She is the oldest female in the tribe and the one who brought Azhu back home and raised him. Don't look at his gray hair and wrinkled face, but he has a good body and a lot of strength. Two days ago, Chen Qi also saw the other party easily move a slate that he couldn't lift at all.

Chen Qi smiled and handed the written wooden board to the other party. The old woman gently stroked the strokes on it with dry fingers full of wrinkles, "Is my name like this?"

"Yes, no matter who it is in the future, as long as you see this word, you will know it. This word is read as 'city'."

"Then, how can I learn to write my own name?" The old woman raised her head and looked at Chen Qi hopefully.

"Go to the school next door tomorrow, and I'll teach you how to write." It's not suitable for one-on-one teaching because of the crowd. Anyway, the school's room has been built, so it's better to open it in advance.

At this time, the others couldn't sit still, and they all gathered around, hoping that Chen Qi could help write down his name.

Chen Qi smiled gently and responded to everyone's request one by one. He didn't plan to teach them anything profound on the first day, and he fooled them into learning. And Carlo read them a few stories before disbanding.

"What's wrong?" After sending the clansmen away, Aze helped to clean up the things in the yard, and Ajing also brought the little wolf cubs and moved the piled up animal skin blankets back into the house.

Chen Qi frowned, and only recovered after hearing A Ze's question, and shook his head, "I just didn't expect so many of them to have night blindness."

Chen Qi didn't discover it at first. After all, according to his original understanding, as long as people get older, their physical strength and vision will decline, but although these orcs are old, they do things during the day, but they are not inferior to this young man. A section of the road, or a road that has been repaired, actually needs someone to help him back, and his eyesight is obviously more than a little bit lower than during the day.

A Ze was stunned for a while, and just as he was about to ask, Chen Qi took his hand, "Don't worry, it's not a big deal, next time we'll find some food to improve everyone's diet."

"Ok."

As long as the orcs have what they want to do, they are amazing. They arrived in the classroom early the next morning to gather, and Chen Qi, who came on time, wondered if he was late. Chen Qi fixed the morning class. After all, the memory is good in the morning, and the learning efficiency will be improved a lot.

Chen Qi distributed a brush and a few wooden boards to each of them, and then worked with A Jing to teach them the posture of holding the pen and the stroke order of their names one by one. There was no way, everyone was very interested in how to write their names. Even if it is not easy to write which character has more strokes, it can only be taught like this first.

The effect of practicing calligraphy with wooden boards is naturally not as good as gum leaves, but the gum leaves in summer are green, and it is not obvious to use for writing. live. Chen Qi recalled the paper making process in his mind while correcting the mistakes of the orcs.

The funnel that Chen Qin used to time was also moved to the classroom by him. He also didn't want the orcs to get bored with learning. After one hour of learning, they were dismissed. Those who want to continue to practice calligraphy can stay. Continue to practice, if you don't want to practice, you can leave to work on your own.

But the tribe is in the construction stage now, and even the orcs who want to continue to practice can't stay. After asking Chen Qineng to bring home the brush and fruit dye, they havetily packed up and invested in the construction of the tribe.

The two brick-burning earthen kilns have been burning a batch of materials day and night. Seeing that they are almost ready, A-Zhang leads people to dig the foundation of the city wall along the location discussed with Chen Qi before.

The city wall does not only open two front and rear doors like the previous fence, because the area is large enough, so each of the front, back, left, and right walls has a door, but the other three doors are twice as small as the main door. It is used as an escape from the danger of attacking, and the main entrance is large enough to take into account the volume of the prey in the forest.