The three of them walked to the edge of the hillside in front of the gate of Yanbu Village, and suddenly heard a cow roaring behind them. They turned around and saw a black shadow floating in the broad stream, causing the surrounding waves to rise and fall.
"This is..." Gongliang said doubtfully.
"Big fish." Xiao Shi said with a gloomy look, "Your mother was dragged away by the big fish."
Gongliang had never seen his parents in this life, so he naturally had no feelings, so he didn't feel much sadness. However, when he saw the black shadow in the stream, he looked confused. What kind of big fish was this? It was clearly a giant turtle, right?
Okay. He has seen giant turtles in his previous life, but most of them were around two meters. The giant turtle in this stream is clearly four or five meters big, and if you include the neck, it is even bigger. He has never seen such a big one.
Could it be that the giant turtle is not the same species as the one I saw in my previous life?
"It's really big." Gongliang sighed.
"This is not that big, some are bigger than this." Xiaoshi explained honestly.
"Uh..." Gongliang glanced at him seriously and said, "Then...will it climb up?"
"Yes, sometimes they climb up there. Last time one climbed up and was killed by Uncle Tao."
Uncle Tao was the middle-aged man who greeted them at the village gate just now. He had one of his legs bitten off by a ferocious beast while hunting in his early years and had to stay in the village. Because he was very familiar with Gongliang's father, he always took good care of him. In fact, in
This is like a tribe in primitive society. Everyone has a good relationship. There is no intrigue or interest disputes. They are as innocent as a newborn baby.
The giant turtle in the stream roared loudly and then sank into the stream. Gongliang and others watched and went home.
There is a clear spring on the mountain wall next to Yanbu, and the water used by the tribe is taken from there.
Xiaoshi didn't go home after entering the village gate. He took Gongliang and his younger brother to the spring, took out the dug wild vegetables and washed them, and then went back after everything was washed.
After returning home, Xiaoshi Amu started cooking meat, while Gongliang returned to the house carrying the wild peppers he had picked.
He carefully took out a wild pepper from the dry bark wrapped in it, filled a bowl of water with a stone bowl at home, took two small pieces of animal skin and wrapped it around his hand, then slowly crushed the wild pepper and put it in
In the stone bowl filled with water. The wild wild peppers here are quite evil. Just one of them made the whole bowl of water turn reddish, and a pungent and pungent smell wafted out. It seemed to be better than the entire packet he had come into contact with before.
Wild mountain pepper powder is also used.
I don't know how spicy it is.
He found a branch and ordered the wild pepper water in the stone bowl, wanting to try it. Feeling that it was too much, he picked a grass root. But he felt that the wild pepper water was too strong, so he took another stone bowl.
He filled it with water and poured some wild pepper water into it to dilute it. He felt that the mixed wild pepper water was not so pungent and pungent, so he felt relieved and touched it with a grass root and put it on the tip of his tongue.
Suddenly, a spicy taste passed into the mouth from the tip of the tongue, and his whole face turned red instantly.
Why is it so hot? For a moment, he felt like he could breathe fire.
Hahaha...
Unable to bear it anymore, he quickly picked up the water bag hanging on the wall and drank it vigorously. Still not satisfied with the spicy taste, he quickly buried his whole head in the stone water tank at home, and kept gulping down the spring water. The tank was full.
The cool spring water finally alleviated the spiciness of wild sansho pepper.
After a while, he felt almost better. Then he raised his head from the water tank and smacked his lips. His whole mouth felt so spicy that he could no longer feel anything.
Huh, isn’t this wild sansho pepper too spicy?
Xiaoshi came over to ask him to eat. When he saw his face turned red, he immediately thought of the poisonous fruit he brought back. He quickly turned around and ran home, shouting in a fuss: "Ah, Ah, Ah, Ah Liang has been poisoned again."
Gongliang couldn't help but smile bitterly when he heard his words. Was he that bad? He was poisoned every day.
Afraid that his mother would be anxious, Gongliang hurried over to explain. After talking for a long time, Xiaoshi’s mother saw that he was indeed fine, and then she felt relieved. However, at noon, he asked Gongliang to eat meat. Here, eating meat can cure all diseases.
Injuries and illnesses.
In the rest of the days, when Gongliang had free time, he wandered around the Yanbu Grottoes to familiarize himself with the terrain as quickly as possible. He was a child anyway, so people wouldn't say anything after seeing him.
During this visit, he really discovered a lot of things.
In the grotto at the corner of the boulder, there is a lame old man named Lao Wu who can make stone tools. This old man is very good at making stone bowls, jars, stone axes, and stone knives. There is also a stone tool under the mountain wall far away from his grotto.
Inside the blacksmith shop, there was a sturdy man named Yehan who was blacksmithing. Gongliang did not expect that there were iron tools here. He thought that this was a wild primitive world, and everything should be in a primitive state, and the materials used should be bones and stones.
, items made of wood, etc., but I didn’t expect that there are also iron tools. It’s really incredible.
To this end, he spent a few days at the place where strong men were forging iron, and sometimes helped with some tasks.
No matter what they are doing, children who can help with things are always lovable. So, when Gongliang left a few days later, Yehan gave him a big iron hook and a knife. The big iron hook is used to hang things, and the tribe
Many people use them, not to mention pocket knives.
From this, Gong Liang finally had a weapon for self-defense.
There are several hundred people in the Yan tribe. Excluding the old, weak, sick, disabled and pregnant women, there are about two hundred people who can go out to hunt. However, these people cannot all go out, and some have to stay behind in the tribe, so those who go out to hunt are divided into two groups and take turns.
Hunting means that those who hunt come back and stay behind to rest, and those who stay behind turn to hunting. Each time, about a hundred people divide into two groups to hunt to obtain the meat needed by the tribe. Generally, after going out for a few days, the meat they get is enough for the tribe to eat.
For a while.
This time it was Dashi's turn to go hunting. When he came back, the gate of Yanbu Village opened, and everyone came out to welcome the hunting warrior back.
Gongliang was among them, and he saw giant men wearing animal skins walking in from outside. Some were carrying a beast, some were carried by two people, and some were carried by three or four people. Each beast was extremely huge. Even in the previous life,
, Gongliang has never seen such a big beast.
The beasts in the forest are divided into several types by the Yan tribe people: one is ordinary beasts, and the other is ferocious beasts.
Ordinary beasts are worthless except for eating meat to fill their stomachs, while ferocious beasts are more nutritious than ferocious beasts because the meat of ferocious beasts also contains an inexplicable power that can fill people's blood and increase their strength. Last time
The soup Gongliang drank when he was lying in bed after being poisoned was the ferocious beast soup, so he had a deep understanding of it. The ferocious beast soup has such an effect, but what about the ferocious beast meat? It's a pity that he has never eaten ferocious beast meat until now, because
Uncle Dashi said that children should not eat it as it is not good for their health.
In addition to ordinary beasts and ferocious beasts, I heard that there is also a king of beasts, which is the king of ferocious beasts. Even the strongest Yanbu people do not want to encounter it, because encountering it means death.
It is said that there is another beast that is more powerful than the Beast King, called the Desolate Beast, but no one has ever seen it, because the tribes that have been seen no longer exist. People in the Yan tribe do not dare to mention it easily. This name seems to have
There is a certain taboo that people dare not speak out about.