Chapter 6 It's a time of great harvest
Chapter 6 This is a great harvest moment
The heavy rain was still falling, and there was no sign of stopping.
The turbid waves in the canyon under the cave were surging. The mountain torrents formed half a day ago became more and more intense, rumbling from below the cave.
The mountain torrent contains a large number of huge rocks, trees, and even some wild animals. The huge rocks rolling in the mountain torrents, some even the size of houses, and the sound is amazing wherever they go. When they hit the bend of the valley, the entire mountain seemed to be shaking.
Yunchuan sat in his mother's arms and watched the heavy rain outside the cave and fell into deep thought. He knew that the natural environment in the wilderness era was very harsh, but he didn't expect it to be so harsh.
No wonder there is always a legend in ancient mythology that the Tianhe leaked. Such heavy rains say that the Tianhe leaked is not exaggerated.
It is impossible for Nuwa to repair the sky.
Yunchuan looked at his mother's worried appearance and suddenly felt that at this moment, there should be Nuwa in her mother's heart.
The mountain torrents in the mountains should be a dynamic existence that can change the landform. Yunchuan doesn’t know what the place where he descends will become when he grows up.
Looking around, countless waterfalls hang down from the sight, and above the cave is no exception.
The patriarch ordered the cave to be covered with thick straw curtains to prevent moisture from invading.
Yunchuan's act of setting fire to the cave a few days ago turned out to be a good thing at this time. The fire dried up the moisture in the cave. Otherwise, the cave must be a wet place at this time.
There will naturally be invaders in a good place.
Especially when it was raining heavily, the animals that lost their hiding place discovered this dry cave at the first time.
The first to appear were a large number of reptiles such as snakes, spiders, scorpions, and centipedes.
Fortunately, there was a group of hungry people in the cave, and these reptiles became food for people without exception.
Moreover, their way of getting food is extremely simple. Just take off the straw curtain and replace it with a new straw curtain, and you can happily catch the crawlers attached to the curtain.
Their movements are very skillful, and it seems that both adults and half-aged children move very quickly.
No matter what they caught, they would throw it into the fire behind them, and then someone who was responsible for baking would lift the roasted crawlers out of the ashes.
Naturally, large foods like snakes will not be treated like this. Instead, they twist their heads, remove the poison glands and then hang them on the fire to bake them. They hang down one by one like drying beans. As for things like internal organs, they don’t go to them. After all, that’s also food.
Yunchuan did not touch these things. This matter was actually very dangerous. He saw people bitten by poisonous snakes, stinged by scorpions and centipedes more than once. Even his mother was bitten by a scorpion with a finger, and it was bitten on her ankle.
The ankle swelled at a speed visible to the naked eye. My mother didn't care at all, and she cared more about catching more scorpions.
Not only that, she also brought Yunchuan as her helper, because Yunchuan accidentally revealed that he could pick up scorpions with chopsticks.
Between being bitten by a scorpion and catching a scorpion, Yunchuan chose to catch a scorpion. Soon, he discovered that as long as a person reaches a desperate situation, he can burst out with great potential for life.
After catching eight scorpions in one breath and throwing them into the fire accurately, Yunchuan thought that if he could not hold the flies with chopsticks in the future, he would be sorry for the suffering he suffered now.
There are also benefits to doing these things, that is, there are countless proteins to eat. Yunchuan is used to eating roasted centipedes and roasted scorpions.
With the urging of sufficient protein and breast milk, Yunchuan's body grew bigger in less than five days.
Yunchuan himself knew this.
No one in the tribe noticed it, and even his mother didn't feel surprised. Yunchuan is now twice as big as those children as old as him.
Yunchuan was catching scorpions, centipedes, and all kinds of reptiles. The children who were consuming breasts were also catching them. Yunchuan watched a young child catch a centipede, and then smiled and sent the twisting centipede into his mouth. He wanted to pick it up with chopsticks, but he was one step too late.
When it was dark, the child died.
A man grabbed the dead child and threw the child's body into the rain like a stone. The rest were still busy catching the reptiles.
Yunchuan thought that when it was raining heavily, it was when this tribe, which used hunting as the main means of making a living, was hungry. Unexpectedly, this heavy rain could bring them extremely rich food.
Yunchuan originally thought that the purpose of hunting was to hunt wild animals, wild sheep, wild deer, rabbit, pheasant, fish and other things, but he didn't expect that their main hunting target was various insects.
"Ao", a long howl of wild beasts came into Yunchuan's ears.
Yunchuan did not move, but instead looked at the clan leader.
The patriarch was very calm. After hearing the sound, he took a group of men to pick up bamboo spears, wooden thorns, and stone axes to walk out of the cave.
The people in the cave didn't care much about this shrill howl. A group of men and women were still busy harvesting the various crawlers that were constantly crawling in.
"Ao—"
The sound outside was louder and closer, and the sound was full of threat.
He wanted to open the curtain to see the battle situation outside, but the curtain was covered with various poisonous insects, which made him give up this idea.
After eleven people went out, Yunchuan counted them, and he grabbed the poisonous insects with chopsticks while paying attention to the curtains.
I don’t know how long it took, but eleven people who went out came back. The patriarch and his group were wet, and two of them were seriously injured. They fell to the ground and fell asleep after they came back.
Listening to the sound, Yunchuan felt that the wild beast roaring outside should be a tiger, and this should be a big tiger.
The patriarch threw a puppy into the food pile.
Wet, as if dead.
Yunchuan pulled the dog-like thing, and the thing suddenly raised his head and bit his finger fiercely. He was shocked to take it back, but found that this bite was not powerful. This was a puppy with only baby teeth.
He pulled back his fat hand and hugged this wet thing that was not much bigger than a kitten to the patriarch.
The patriarch was painting on the dark rock wall with stones.
The picture shows a big stickman fighting with ten small stickmans.
The beast in the picture is very big and very ferocious.
The clan leader used a lot of ink on this wild beast, so that Yunchuan not only recognized that it was a tiger, but also a saber-toothed tiger that had long been extinct as the legend.
The main reason is that the patriarch depicted the two teeth of the tiger too big. These two teeth were poked out from the tiger's mouth. According to the proportion, each tooth was one foot long.
Yunchuan has seen a tiger before. The tiger's mouth is closed properly. Only when he opens his mouth can he see two large teeth one inch long. Unlike this guy, he can't hide it at all.
Thinking of such a beast outside the cave, Yunchuan really hoped that this painting was an exaggerated artistic creation of the patriarch, not a realistic one...
"Wolf!"
The patriarch looked at what was in Yunchuan's arms and finally spoke.
Yunchuan hugged the wolf cub tightly, and learned from the patriarch's pronunciation, "Wolf!"
The patriarch snatched Yunchuan's wolf cub and threw it into a shallow puddle. Not only that, he also rubbed the wolf cub with wood ash.
After cleaning this three times, it was thrown to Yunchuan. At this time, the wolf cub was already trembling with cold, rolling his eyes and looking at him to die.
Yunchuan came to the fire with his wolf cub and baked the thing.
My mother and the others were still busy. Not only did they have to be busy with the front door, but they also had to divide a group of people to go to the back door. Although it was a cliff, it was not much different from the flat ground for centipedes and snakes. It was just a little more time.
After the wolf cub's hair was dried, it looked much more pleasing, but its fur was blue-gray, and it should have been a big gray wolf cub.
The patriarch did not kill this wolf, and it seemed that he had left it to Yunchuan for breeding. Now, whether this guy can survive depends on whether he can eat these insects.
Fortunately, this guy is very tough. He not only eats centipedes, but also scorpions. Even if it is a snake, it dares to go up and challenge it.
Moreover, compared with cooked food, it seems to like eating raw food more, which made Yunchuan constantly sigh that none of the things that can survive on this land are simple.
They chose to live without hesitation when asked about multiple-choice questions about life. Although Yunchuan has not found a reason to live in their lives, he has to admit that they really want to live.
To be honest, their lives are nothing more than eating, drinking, defecation and mating. Even in such a low-level life, they are still at the most basic level.
It is incomparable to the life in Yunchuan's heart. The quality of life of these people may not be able to surpass the pigs in the pigpens in later generations.
Since they can all live with all their strength, Yunchuan feels that he should have stronger and more sufficient reasons to live, and must live better than others.
When spiders, centipedes, scorpions and various insects gradually decrease, it indicates that the rainstorm is about to pass.
The heavy rain lasted for seven days and seven nights.
When the rain stopped, Yunchuan ran out to take a look, and then came back.
Because he can't see anything.
Outside the cave, there was thick, almost like a solid mist.
According to Yunchuan's common sense in life, there will be no fog after heavy rain, but the fog here just appears, and the thick ones can hardly melt.
Sometimes the wind blows the thick fog and reveals a thread of the sky. At this time, you can see the deep blue sky and the sun hanging hotly in the sky.
The thick mist, almost like clouds, pressed low on the head, and sometimes it would fall to the ground when blown by the wind.
There are always thunderstorms in the sky. Yunchuan saw a bright spot in the clouds and mist with his own eyes, and then it would explode suddenly.
The sound - deafening, and soon the wonder Yunchuan had never seen before - Xiaoyu.
Why is it called short rain? The reason is that the distance from the clouds to the ground is no more than ten meters.
When the drought thunder explodes once, the thick fog will rain. After the thick fog rains, it will become thinner. Then the sun continues to evaporate the water on the ground, forming thick fog again, without stopping.
No one died when it rained, and they died after the fog started.
This year is not good, all babies die except Yunchuan.
Two children who barely survived their infancy also died, and the two men who were injured by the saber-toothed tiger also died.
Their wounds became purulent, and one of them was on the belly. After they became purulent, his internal organs were exposed to the air, and Yunchuan even saw his wriggling intestines.
The patriarch was a very decisive person. He killed the two tribe members who had not yet died with a stone to kill them.
Chapter completed!