Chapter 3 The Big Fish and the Giant Turtle
The three of them walked to the edge of the hillside in front of the gate of Yanbu Village, and suddenly heard a cow mooing behind them, turned their heads to look, and saw a black shadow floating in the wide stream in the distance, stirring up the surrounding waves. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
"This isβ" Gongliang wondered.
"Big fish. Xiao Shi's face was gloomy, "Your Eminem was dragged away by this big fish." β
Gongliang has never seen his parents in this life, so he naturally has no feelings, so he doesn't feel much sadness, but after seeing the black shadow in the stream, he has a puzzled face. What kind of big fish is this, it's clearly a giant turtle or not. He had seen giant turtles before, but most of them were around two meters. And the giant turtle in this stream is clearly four or five meters large, if you count it together with the neck, it is even more incredible. He had never seen such a large giant turtle before, could it be that it was not the same species as the one he had seen before?
"It's huge. Gongliang sighed.
"It's not that big, some are bigger than that. Xiao Shi explained very honestly.
"Uhh Will it climb up?"
"Yes, sometimes I will climb on it, and last time one of them climbed up and was killed by Uncle Tao. β
Uncle Tao is the middle-aged man who guarded the gate of the village just now, and in his early years, he had to stay in the village because he was bitten off by a fierce beast because of hunting. Because he is very familiar with Gongliang Abba, he has always taken care of him a lot. In fact, in this tribe like a primitive society, everyone has a good relationship, there is no deceit, there is no conflict of interests, and the innocence is like a newborn baby.
The giant turtle in the stream roared and sank into the stream, and Gongliang and the others went home after seeing it.
There is a clear spring on the mountain wall next to Yanbe, and the water used by the tribe to eat is taken from there.
Xiao Shi didn't go home when he entered the walled gate, so he took Gongliang and his younger brother to the spring, took out the newly dug wild vegetables and washed them, and waited until everything was washed before going back.
After returning home, Xiaoshi Eminem began to cook the meat, and Gongliang returned to the house with the wild pepper he had picked. He carefully took out a wild pepper from the dry bark wrapped in wild pepper, filled a bowl of water with a stone bowl at home, took two small pieces of animal skin to wrap his hand, and then slowly crushed the wild pepper and put it into the stone bowl filled with water. The wild pepper in this place is also evil, just one makes the whole bowl of water reddish, and wafts out a spicy and choking smell, which seems to be more flushing than the whole bag of wild pepper powder he has touched before.
I don't know how spicy it is.
So he found a branch and lit the wild pepper water in the stone bowl, wanting to try it. I felt too much, so I went to pick a grass root. But he felt that the wild pepper water was too strong, so he took a stone bowl with water, poured a little wild pepper water into it to dilute it lightly, and felt that the wild pepper water he had mixed was not so spicy and choking, so he safely clicked it with the grass root and put it on the tip of his tongue.
Suddenly, a spicy taste came from the tip of the tongue to the mouth, and the whole face turned red in an instant.
Why is it so spicy? For a moment, he felt like he could breathe fire.
Ha... Ha... Ha...
He couldn't stand it, so he hurriedly picked up the water bladder hanging on the wall and poured it violently, and quickly buried his whole head in the stone water tank at home that filled the water, and kept pouring spring water. A full tank of cool spring water finally relieved the spiciness of wild peppers.
After a while, feeling almost better, he lifted his head from the water tank and smacked his lips, feeling that the whole mouth was so hot that he didn't feel it.
Wow, this wild pepper is too spicy, isn't it?
Xiao Shi came over to ask him to eat, and when he saw that his face was flushed, he instantly thought of the poisonous fruit he brought back, and hurriedly turned around and ran home, shouting in a fuss: "Amu Amu, Aliang has been poisoned again." β
Later, Gongliang smiled bitterly when he heard his words, is he so decrepit, he is poisoned every day.
Afraid that he would be in a hurry, Gongliang hurriedly went over to explain. After talking for a long time, Xiao Shi Eminem saw that he was really fine, and then he put his mind at ease. However, at noon, he let Gongliang eat meat, where eating meat can cure all the pain and suffering.
The rest of the days, when he was free, Gongliang walked around the Yanbe Grottoes, trying to be familiar with the terrain, anyway, he was a child, and people wouldn't say anything when they saw it.
This visit really made him discover a lot of things.
In the grotto at the bottom of the boulder, there is a lame old man named Lao Wu who makes stone tools. This old man has very good craftsmanship, and he can make any stone bowl, stone jar, stone axe, and stone knife. And there is an iron-striking shop under the mountain wall far away from his grotto, in which there is a strong man named Yehan who is striking iron. Gongliang didn't expect that there were still iron tools here. He thought that this was a reckless primitive world, and everything should be in a primitive state, and it should be made of bones, stones, wood, etc., but he didn't expect that there were iron tools, which was really incredible.
For this reason, he also spent a few days in the place where the strong man struck iron, and sometimes helped to do something.
No matter what they do, a child who can help with things is always a likable. So, when Gongliang left a few days later, Yehan gave him a big iron hook and a small knife. The big iron hook is used to hang things, and many people in the tribe use it, not to mention the knife.
As a result, Gongliang finally had a little weapon for self-defense.
There are hundreds of people in Yanbu, excluding the old, weak, sick and pregnant, and the people who can go out hunting are about two hundred, but these people can't all go out, and some have to stay in the tribe, so the people who go out to hunt are divided into two parts to take turns to hunt. That is, the one who hunts comes back and turns to rest on duty, and the one who is on duty turns to hunting. At a time, hundreds of people divided into two groups to hunt for the meat needed by the tribe. Generally, after going out for a few days, the meat obtained can be eaten by the tribe for a while.
This time, it was Dashi's turn to go out hunting, and when he came back a few days later, the gate of Yanbu Zhai was opened, and everyone in the tribe came out to welcome the return of the hunting warriors.
Gongliang was also among them, and saw a giant man dressed in animal skins walking in from the outside, some carrying beasts, some carrying two people, and some three or four people, one by one, the beasts were extremely huge. Even in his previous life, Gongliang had never seen such a big beast.
The beasts in the forest are divided into several types by the Yanbe people: one is an ordinary beast and the other is a fierce beast.
Ordinary beasts are worthless except to eat meat to fill their stomachs, while fierce beasts are more nutritious than beasts, because the meat of fierce beasts also contains an inexplicable power that can fill people's qi and blood and increase their strength. The soup that Gongliang drank in bed last time when he was poisoned was the beast soup, so he has a deep understanding of this. Beast soup has such an effect, but what about beast meat? It's a pity that he hasn't eaten beast meat until now, because Uncle Dashi said that children can't eat it, and eating it is not good for the body.
In addition to ordinary beasts and fierce beasts, I heard that there is also a kind of beast king, which is the king of fierce beasts, and even the strongest Yanbe people do not want to touch it, because touching it means death.
It is said that there is also a beast that is more powerful than the beastmaster, called the wild beast, but no one has ever seen it, because the tribe that has seen it does not exist anymore. The people of Yanbu don't dare to mention it easily, and this name seems to carry some kind of taboo, which makes people dare not make noise.