If Ruoshui can cure diseases, all the men, women, old and children in the village will come to Ruoshui for help if they are sick, and the process of her treatment is often mysterious, like an ancient ritual. If those in Ba Yuan have already established city walls and
In the eyes of the country's wealthy families, Ruoshan and Ruoshui are of course the priests and shamans in this village, but there is no such title here. They are Shan Ye and Shui Po Po.
The baby boy who was brought back by Ruoshan from the ruins of the Qingshui clan lived in Lucun. When people found him, there happened to be a rouge tiger that seemed to be feeding him, so everyone called him Tiger Baby, and this name is also
I hope he can be as strong as a tiger and grow up healthily.
In this kind of tribal village, children are not only taken care of by their own parents, but also by the entire tribe. Food collected and hunted by them is often distributed jointly. There is very little private property, and those precious utensils are all owned by the family.
It is owned by the entire tribe.
In the dangerous wilderness, they need collective action and cooperation to survive for a long time. During the day when it doesn't rain, when the adults go to collect or hunt outside the village, there are often only a bunch of old, weak, women and children left in the village, and the old people sit at the door.
While doing various jobs, he also looked after the children running around in the village, including Huwa.
When the baby Hu first arrived in Lu Village, he might have stayed in a house that was convenient for taking care of the baby. When he was over three years old and could run around, he would be given a ride next to the stone house of the Ruoshan clan leader.
He built a warm and sturdy little house with stone walls and a thick woven soft grass covering the roof. The sleeping cane was filled with soft animal skins. Of course, he also had a share of the food and clothing for the children of the tribe.
Over the years, the people who took care of him the most were Master Shan and Granny Shui.
The tiger baby looks very strong with a tiger head and a tiger head, but it is different from most children here who have rough skin and thick flesh. The thin skin and tender flesh look very white, and there is always a rattan ring around the ankle. The adults here like to put their hands on them when they have nothing to do.
He picked it up, touched it twice, and patted it twice.
The clan members do not hunt every day. Going out to hunt is often only a matter for men, and it is very solemn and solemn. First, the Ruoshan clan leader decides when and which direction to go. He also has to worship the mountain god and ask for protection. After making all preparations, he sets off collectively.
, sometimes it takes a few days to come back.
In the past few years since Huwa came to Lucun, the number of people in Lucun who go out for long-distance hunting has obviously decreased, and the appearance of the village has also undergone great changes.
There is a wall made of solid stones around the walled city. In the past, there was only one entrance and exit on the front, and under the wall on the side there was a hidden water channel that led the mountain spring into the village and into two pools. The water in one pool was for consumption.
The other pool is used for washing things.
Now there is an entrance and exit on the back wall of the wall, just behind the stone house where Granny Shui lives, leading to the mountain forest above. On the hillside near the wall, there are patches of green oak and old elm trees, acorns and elm pods.
They can be ground into powder and eaten to satisfy hunger during seasons when prey is scarce. The village organizes tribesmen to collect and preserve them every year.
Nowadays, patches of beans are sown in the bushes between the green oaks and old elm trees. The beans grow very well, and the vines are entangled in the bushes everywhere. The beans are edible when they are very green in color.
It is fragrant and tender; after it dries and turns yellow, it can be stored for a long time and can be eaten until next year.
If you look closely, this extensive planting is very regular. Beans are sown in the bushes. Surrounding the green oak forest and old elm forest, the weeds and trees have been cleared away and covered with hemp like a barrier.
Surrounded by forests. There is a path in the hemp forest that leads to the back gate of the walled city below.
Not only do people like to eat beans, but also many birds and beasts in the mountains. For example, apes often come to pick beans. If they wander into the village, they may hurt children. Hemp not only rarely breeds insects, but its green stems and leaves are full of insects.
It has fluffy white thorns and exudes a special smell. If it is scratched, it will feel hot and uncomfortable, so many wild animals will not get into the densely growing hemp forest. This is also a natural
protection of.
In front of and behind the houses in the walled city, the tribesmen would also plant a few hemp or bean plants, and insert bamboo poles or branches to let the bean vines grow. These are basically picked and eaten, while the woodlands outside the village
It is a place for large-scale collection. The houses in the village are basically distributed centripetally, with their backs facing the wall gate and towards the open flat land in the center of the village.
The large open space left in the center of the village is where the tribesmen gather for meetings and is usually where children play.
The season is late spring and early summer, when the beans are still green and the hemp is not yet ripe, but the round elm pods on the trees have turned white and dried. When the wind is strong, they will flutter like falling snow. It is time to harvest again.
At that time, under the leadership of the clan leader, most of the clan members went to the mountain forest behind the village surrounded by hemp. Some people used long poles to poke and beat elm branches, and some people spread straw mats on the tops of shrubs under the trees to collect elm pods.
, and then put them uniformly into the bamboo basket.
Only some old people and a few young adults stayed in the village, watching the children playing. The older children went to the mountains and forests to help pick elm pods and watch the fun. There were little ones running around all over the place.
The village is relatively safe on weekdays and does not require any special protection, but children who are too young must be kept under close watch. For example, they should not be allowed near the pool and should not pick the beans planted in front of and behind the house.
The pods were full, and after being peeled, the juicy green beans were crisp and tender, but they were eaten to death. When the beans were first planted in the village, some people picked the green beans and ate them raw. They seemed fine at the time, but when they returned home
However, she was suffering from vomiting and diarrhea and was sweating profusely. When she realized something was wrong and called Granny Shui, Granny Shui shook her head and said, "It's too late!"
Later, the patriarch Ruoshan remembered an old saying: "Green beans cannot be eaten raw, or they may be very poisonous." It is said to have been left by Emperor Shen Nong a long time ago. But the Lu tribe didn't know this because they had never seen green beans before, and the patriarch
I heard about it occasionally outside the mountains and didn't pay much attention to it. As a result, something like this happened soon after the beans were planted in the village.
But the strange thing is that many people in the village ate green beans raw at that time. Only one strong man died from poisoning, but the others were fine. Is there a bean god in the world who is in charge of the life and death of bean eaters?
When you grow beans, do you have to offer sacrifices to him when you eat beans? No matter what, it is always right to be careful. The tribe will never eat green beans raw again, and they will watch those ignorant children not to eat them by mistake.
The weather was warm but not too hot. The children were running happily in the open space, and there was also a flower-tailed dog jumping around. The dog was following the tiger baby, and the tiger baby was chasing a group of people with its little feet.
Chickens. The chickens were scattered around in front of and behind the house, and the tiger boy couldn't catch it. Later, he found that he couldn't catch it after wandering around in circles, so he focused on a hen.
The adults have long been accustomed to this kind of chaotic scene. They are just doing their own work, twisting hemp or repairing utensils. The children in the tribe don't know what reading and writing is, let alone what it means to grow up.
They have great ambitions for what they want to do. They exercised their physical fitness in chasing and playing when they were young. When they get older, they have to learn various survival skills and help adults with various tasks.
Huwa finally succeeded in chasing the chicken out of the flock by staring at it, and ran all the way along the stone wall behind the house. He almost caught it several times by stretching out his little hand, while the dog was wagging its tail.
As if cheering for the tiger baby. With the speed of a dog, it can easily catch up with the chicken, but this dog looks very strange. It straightens up like a human and trots all the way on its two hind legs, holding a pair of front paws on its chest.
Seeing that the chicken had been pushed to the corner of the wall, Huwa opened his hands and pounced forward, but missed by a little bit and failed to catch it. Instead, he fell to the ground and chewed the mud. The flower-tailed dog was unhappy, and his four hooves
He landed on the ground and roared at the chicken. The chicken was frightened, flapped its wings and flew over the wall.
The flight ability of trained poultry has deteriorated, but in an emergency, the chicken can flap its wings and fly a certain distance. Seeing that the chicken actually ran outside the village wall, Huwa felt that he was in trouble and cried out in a sweet voice.
Shouted: "Panhu, catch it back quickly!"
Panhu is the name of this flower-tailed dog. It jumped hard, kicked its hind hooves on the stone wall, and jumped out. The tiger boy followed the example and jumped twice under the wall, but found that he could not pass the height.
He quickly ran out of the wall and ran out of the front door of the wall to chase the chickens and dogs.
Outside the front gate of the walled city is an open area. The thorns and gravel have been cleared away. Only short weeds grow. There is a place where the natural protruding rocks have been flattened. This is also where the tribesmen dry various things.
It is a cliff and ravine, like a deep fissure split in the plateau and mountains.
Panhu ran very fast when he hit the ground with all four hooves, but the chicken was chased so fast that it jumped and flapped its wings and glided directly towards the cliff. Huwa shouted from behind: "Don't fall down."
Got it!"
As soon as they reached the edge of the cliff, Panhu jumped into the air without catching the chicken. The chicken flew up again, and Panhu barked again. This bark was different from usual. It was full of energy and deafening, and it could be heard in the mountains.
Very far away. The chicken seemed to be greatly frightened, and actually flapped its wings and flew to the other side of the cliff. Sometimes it is hard to imagine the potential that humans can unleash in times of crisis, and the same goes for chickens. It is rare to see a chicken fly so far.
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There are still mountains on the opposite side of the cliff. The narrowest point between the tops of the cliffs on both sides is about seven feet away. Looking down, it is bottomless. The chicken flew over, but the dog could not jump over. Panhu barked at the opposite side unwillingly, and the tiger baby
Panting, he ran over and said, "It's bad, I'm going to spank you!"
There were no chickens in Lu Village originally, and the Lu people did not know how to raise chickens. These chickens were first brought from the Qingshui clan's walled city. The thugs from outside the mountains did not leave a single person alive in the walled city that day.
All living creatures, including humans and chickens and dogs, that could breathe were killed. The Qingshui clan raised chickens, but all of them died and their bodies were reduced to ashes.
The chicken shed in the walled city was not burned down. There was still a nest of eggs in the chicken coop on the ground, which was covered with hay. It was difficult to find in the dark. The murderers were probably not bored enough to kill the eggs to silence them. After the murderers left,
, this nest of eggs hatched out for some unknown reason, and a nest of chicks was chirping in the haystack, and was discovered by the Lu clan members who arrived later.
This nest of chicks was carefully brought back by the Lu tribe. They didn't know how to raise them. Fortunately, there were knowledgeable Shan Ye and Granny Shui in the village who guided the tribe to set up a chicken shed and try to raise the chicks.
A few chickens later grew up, and then began to lay eggs and hatch chicks. The Lu people gradually learned to raise chickens.
In fact, this is almost free-range farming. Chickens eat bugs. Various bugs breed in the relatively humid and warm mountainous areas. There are bugs in the walled city, including in the stone houses where each family lives. The people in the village particularly like these chickens. It's okay.
He also drove the chickens into his own stone house and pecked around to get rid of the annoying bugs, including centipedes and other poisonous insects that might sting.
The people of Lucun really learned how to raise chickens after observing for a long time. Some of the eggs laid by chickens can hatch chicks, and some can't. Later they discovered that only eggs laid by hens and roosters can hatch offspring. But regardless of whether there are
Both roosters and hens can lay eggs. The best hens will sometimes lay an egg in one or two days. Such chickens should be bred and then hatched.
These chickens are the treasures of the tribe. They can be driven into the house to peck at poisonous insects, the taste of chicken is so delicious, and they can lay eggs continuously. Although chickens are delicious, they cannot be eaten casually and should be kept as much as possible.
In order to lay eggs, only those old hens that no longer lay eggs or the number of young roosters that do not need too many will be killed regularly for meat. Every time the chickens are killed, it is a festival in the village.
The chicken that was driven out of the walled city by Huwa and Panhu today and disappeared after flying over the cliff was a hen that was laying a lot of eggs. This time it was really a big disaster!
Before Huwa and Panhu could go back, the clan chief Ruoshan led his clan members and ran out of the city with weapons. Panhu's last roar was so loud that even the people collecting elm pods on the back mountain were alarmed.
Everyone thought something had happened, so they hurried back to the village, picked up sticks and rushed out of the front door. What happened was such a ridiculous thing.
Huwa and the flower-tailed dog were "carried" back by the clan members. Next to the stone platform in the center of the city where the mountain god was usually worshiped, the clan leader Ruoshan held a cane and said: "Huwa, how did you drive the chicken over the cliff?"
?Aren’t you usually allowed to go there without permission? Now, everyone in the village loses at least ten eggs every month. Do you think we should be spanked?”
Three or four-year-old children's language and logic are always different from those of adults. Huwa looked very frightened and asked in a crisp voice: "Do you want to be beaten with clothes on?"
Many people didn't react. Granny Shui, who was standing next to Ruoshan, smiled: "This time I will be beaten with my clothes on, and the next time I will take off my clothes and beat you!"
Huwa asked curiously: "What about the next time?"
Ruoshan, who was holding a cane, was almost amused. He tried his best to keep a straight face and shouted: "There can't be another time, otherwise your butt will be exposed!"
After hearing this, Huwa quickly ran back to his hut, took a piece of thick and soft animal skin and wrapped it around his waist to cover his buttocks. "Yi" is worn on the upper body, while "shang" is used to wrap the lower body
Clothes, so Huwa asked if he was wearing clothes for fighting? In fact, three or four-year-old children in the tribe don't pay attention to what kind of clothes. Huwa usually just wears a bellyband, but his appearance at this moment made everyone laugh.
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Huwa wrapped a pair of small hands around the leather garment and lay down on the stone platform with his butt raised up. Amidst the laughter of the onlookers, Ruoshan swung the cane and whipped it. The sound was loud but not too painful, and then
The patriarch then said: "You will be punished by not eating eggs for a month!"
No matter where the chickens in the walled city lay their eggs, the tribesmen will pick them into a designated bamboo basket and distribute them uniformly. People who are sick, before going out to hunt, or those who need to do heavy work will often get a little more.
On weekdays, the children who eat the most eggs are the children who are growing up. They are not allowed to eat such delicious eggs for a month, which is considered a "heavy punishment" for the greedy children.
After punishing Huwa, Ruoshan shouted to the flower-tailed dog hiding in the crowd: "Panhu, come here!"
Panhu bent a pair of front hooves in front of her chest, straightened her two hind legs and took small steps. She also walked to the stone platform with her head drooped, and imitated the tiger baby and lay down on it, lowering her tail and sticking out the dog's butt.
Ruoshan said with a straight face: "Why are you shouting so loudly when you have nothing to do? Do you think you have a loud voice? Your shout not only scared the chickens away, but also frightened everyone in the back mountain! Ah Jin from the Nanhua family came from
It fell from the tree, and if I hadn't caught it quickly, he might have been injured. Don't scream any more!"
Panhu lay there without saying a word. Of course, he couldn't speak human language, and he looked very aggrieved. Ruoshan waved the cane and slapped it on the buttocks. Panhu trembled after being beaten, and whimpered in his throat.
The whining sound was obviously painful.
The tribesmen dispersed amidst bursts of laughter. Panhu was still lying there looking at the tiger baby next to her with tears in her eyes. She seemed to be saying: "Why can you be beaten in leather clothes, but I was spanked with my bare buttocks?"
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People walked out of the back door of the walled city and went to the mountain to continue collecting elm pods. As they walked, the mountain master smiled and said: "This kid Huwa usually looks silly, but he has learned to be cunning at a young age. He actually asked me if I could wear clothes and beat myself."
Run and wrap a bag around your butt!"
Granny Shui also smiled and said: "This is really not cunning, but the simplest childlike innocence! He is growing up, learning things in the world, and understanding the simplest principles. He already knows what clothes are, and he also knows that wearing clothes can't be polished.
It hurts so much in the butt, it’s just that simple. This kid is very interesting, I like it very much.”
Master Shan said thoughtfully: "That's true. We all grew up as children, and we all think about what the world is like, what secrets it has, what will happen, and we want to understand the truth of various things.
Huwa is a child. In fact, a tribe like Lucun is also equivalent to a child, and it is also growing up slowly."
Granny Shui: "The origin of Panhu's dog is also very strange. From the looks of it, it might become a psychic beast. You and I both know that such a thing exists in the world."
Ruoshan: "That dog is quite smart, but it is too exaggerated to say that it can become a psychic beast. **Psychic communication is comparable to a human being entering the realm of transformation. It is not that easy! You think it is special, and the reason is very simple. It is simply
I didn’t know that I was a dog, so I always thought of myself as a human being.”
Granny Shui smiled again, nodded slightly and said, "That's true, otherwise, why would it walk like that?"
Panhu, like the group of chickens, was also found by the Lu tribe in the ruins of the Qingshui clan's city. They searched for remaining artifacts in the ruins and found a puppy coiled in a gourd. Bai Sha's original order was for chickens.
The dogs were not left behind, but both the chickens and the dogs were left behind, and even the baby Tiger Baby was left behind.
It was a gourd made from wild gourd shells cut in the middle. The two gourds clasped together just looked like a complete gourd. The dog had just been born not long ago, and its body was curled up and was only the size of a palm.
It was not discovered in the ladle, so it was lucky to escape. It was picked up by people from Lucun, and its name was Panhu.
The people in Lu Village have never raised a dog, and they don’t know how to raise a dog. However, this little thing is very tenacious and grows very quickly with simple feeding. It will be able to roam around soon. It may be in the Qingshui Clan Walled City.
I have been in contact with Huwa, and his scent remains in my childhood memories, so I am particularly close to Huwa.
There are many chickens in the village, but there is only one dog. Panhu has never seen other dogs since he was a child. All he has come into contact with are people. Everything he does is imitating people, and he may subconsciously regard himself as a human.
It likes to stand and walk on its two hind legs, and only touches the ground on all fours when it needs to run fast.
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The roar Panhu made not only alarmed the entire tribe, but also alarmed Li Qingshui on the tree hill in the distance. From where Li Qingshui was sitting, he could not directly see Lu Village, but in Yuanshen he could
He could see clearly that his petrified face had a slightly strange color, and he didn't know whether it was surprise or joy.
Li Qingshui, who could not move or speak, had been sitting there for the past few years, as if he would sit there forever, and finally completely integrated with the mountain. But he had also been paying attention to various places within a radius of nearly two hundred miles.
There was this kind of movement, looking forward to a glimmer of hope that even he couldn't explain clearly. Hearing this roar today was the first time Li Qingshui moved.
He also heard what Ruoshan and Ruoshui said. The so-called "Human channeling is comparable to a person entering the realm of transformation" is just a metaphor, and it is actually not that exaggerated. The priests and witches in the deep mountain tribe may not fully understand what the realm of transformation is.
The truth is clear to Qingshui. According to legend, there are eight levels, nine turns, and seventy-two steps on the path to heaven. Transformation is the last level, and he had completed the ninth level of transformation four years ago. He is only half a step away from realizing immortality.
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Among the people in the world, there are only a few people who are lucky enough to enter the first realm and practice cultivation, and then step through each level until they reach the final realm. And those of the ** family who are lucky enough to have spiritual wisdom and can enter the first realm and practice cultivation are also very rare.
The first level is the first level on the way to heaven, and the transformation level is the last level. This is true for any living being. Non-human beings, they must open up their spiritual wisdom in order to enter the first level, and in the process, due to
The probability of premature death from various reasons is very high. But Panhu's roar today gave Li Qingshui something unusual.