Chapter 6 Death and Stars

Author: Zhuang Shenchen

Chapter 6 Death and Stars

Low-end ingredients often do not need to be cooked, as long as they are cooked.

Roasted bamboo rats, roasted hares, roasted birds, roasted fish, roasted winter bamboo shoots...everything can be roasted. Grandma tore off two rabbit hind legs and gave them to Zhang Tian and Xiao to commend them for their performance today.

Zhang Tian almost fainted from hunger. He wolfed down everything in a few mouthfuls. As for the taste, in this age where people rely on eating hair and drinking blood to replenish salt, what kind of taste is needed? Protein and fat are enough.

But there is a saying that Tiger Tongue controls the heat very accurately. This rabbit leg is roasted tender but not raw, cooked but not old, just right. You will know that you are a master chef as soon as you eat it.

Zhang Tian was given another piece of fish, half a bird and half a winter bamboo shoot. The fish was a bit old, obviously because he didn't often grill fish. Tiger Tongue tasted it himself and felt dissatisfied, so he silently summed up his experience and lessons.

"belch……"

It was a long-awaited meal, but there were still some winter bamboo shoots and plant rhizome pieces left for tomorrow morning.

Rat skins, rabbit skins and even bird skins were peeled off meticulously by tiger claws. Animal skins are more precious resources than stone tools and bone tools, especially in the cold winter. This deerskin dress on Zhang Tian's body is

It is mainly made of deerskin, and then sewn with rat skin, rabbit skin and other leftover materials.

In addition to sewing clothes, animal skins can also be used to make bags.

The water bags in the tribe are all made of animal skins, mostly taken from animals such as otters and beavers. They are suitable in size and have good waterproof fur. Cut the throat and remove the internal organs, meat and bones, and the remaining skin bag

It is a natural water bag. The head is usually not cut off. It is connected to the body by the skin on the back of the neck and serves as the cover of the water bag.

Every time he glanced at the row of animal-head bags leaning against the cave wall, Zhang Tian felt terrified.

After sitting in the cave for a long time, the smoke made my brain hurt. One of the reasons why these primitive people's lifespan was so short was because they inhaled too much carbon monoxide produced by incomplete combustion.

He went outside the cave to take a few breaths of fresh air and look up at the sky. Routine was necessary. If he suddenly stopped doing something he had done every day before, it would arouse suspicion.

The distant mountains shrouded in the night are like ink, and the starlight outlines winding outlines. The cold mountains are so silent that even the chirping of insects is silent. Zhang Tian wanted to say something about how beautiful the moonlight is, but when he reached his mouth, his words turned into: "

So fucking boring!"

The day after I left the Internet, I thought about it.

"sky!"

Xiao Xiao asked Zhang Tianfa for help outside the venue.

After eating and drinking, the men asked about fishing and wanted to join in, but they didn't know how to make a fishing rod, so Xiao naturally didn't know.

In fact, it's not difficult. It's just a matter of cutting off the bamboo branches and putting on a rope. If the fishing rod is brought back, Zhang Tian doesn't even need to explain. Everyone is Homo sapiens and will understand it at a glance.

The grinding of fishhooks requires some skills and more patience, especially the barbs. If there is no file, it may take several days to grind.

After everyone learned how to make it, they were all surprised that a piece of bamboo could catch fish continuously. If they had known this, why would they hunt? There are a lot of bamboos in the mountains. Everyone has one, and they all become fishermen!

Grandma asked: "God, how do you know this?"

These words woke everyone up. Yes, even the grandma didn’t know something. How did a child whose hair hadn’t even grown yet know about it?

Doubtful eyes focused on Zhang Tian.

Zhang Tian has been waiting for his mother to ask this question. His answer will determine the future of the tribe, whether to stay in this cave and wait for death, or to risk everyone's lives in a fight with death.

He thought about it quietly, looked up at the kind parents on the other side of the bonfire, and said seriously: "Mom, before answering this question, can you tell me the story about the stars again?"

"Okay, then I will tell you the story of the stars again tonight."

Grandma's tone became distant as she recalled the past.

"A long, long time ago, when I was still young and just learned to speak. There is something I have to say to you every day -"

"I know!" Bai Qiang, who had also just learned to speak, said, "I must come back before dark."

Grandma smiled, nodded and said, "Yes, you must come back before dark. Only the cave is safe. But I didn't understand at that time. One night, I ran out chasing a firefly.

cave and ran into the forest."

Except for Bai and a few other children, everyone else has heard this story, but no matter how many times they hear it, every time it is told, everyone's hearts are tightened, and Bai even hides in his mother's arms uneasily, clinging tightly to her.

Hold on to mom's fingers.

"I chased and chased, and finally caught the firefly, but I also lost my way home. It was very dark and cold in the forest. I was very scared. I sat on the ground and cried loudly. The firefly sprang from my finger.

It flew away, but two green lights lit up in front of me."

"It's the eyes of a wolf!"

Everyone held their breath. Bai was so frightened that his face turned pale and he hugged his mother's legs. However, she soon lost her fear and said loudly: "My mother is still alive now. She will be fine by then!"

"Yeah, I'm fine, because my mother saved me and fought off the wolf for me. But she was also injured, and her injuries became more serious day by day, and she became weaker and weaker day by day."

"The day she left, I kept holding her and crying, begging her not to die. She smiled and touched my head and told me that she would not die, that she would become a star in the sky and would always look at me in the sky.

, protect me."

Everyone empathized fiercely, with tears in their eyes. No one jumped out of the cracks in the rocks. The relationship between mother and daughter in this era is so close that it is like a piece of flesh that falls off the body is another self.

The women were especially immersed in it. Some of them were already mothers, and some were about to become mothers. They were all sad and moved.

"Look-"

Grandma raised her hand and pointed to the sky outside the cave.

"The star closest to the moon is my mother. Everyone who leaves us will become a star. All the stars in the sky were transformed by our ancestors. As long as we look up, we can see them."

Everyone looked at the sky, looking at the twinkling stars that seemed to be blinking at them, and they couldn't calm down for a long time.

Grandma’s mother was probably the first person in the world to associate death with the stars. Perhaps it was out of love and reluctance for her daughter that she broadened the boundaries of her imagination at the last moment of her life, blurting out

Such romantic and touching words.

"My story is finished. God, it's time to tell your story."

Grandma brought the topic back on track, and everyone's attention returned to Zhang Tian.

Zhang Tian pondered his emotions for a while, and then shared the story he had just made up in a sad tone:

"I have never met my mother. She became a star the day I was born."

"So I often look up at the sky. I know she has been watching me and protecting me. I also want to see her more and stay with her."

"Just yesterday, I heard a gentle voice, and I thought it must be my mother. She taught me how to make fishing rods and hooks, and said I could fish using this method."

"She also said that we should pray to the sky more, the ancestors will guide us, and the sky will guide us."
Chapter completed!