Chapter 981: The Autumn of the Matriarchal Society (8. Desolation in the Rain)
The Autumn of Matriarchal Society (Novella) Zhang Baotong 2018.10.10
He carried the three mice and came to a cave not far away. The cave was so small that it could only hold three or two people, and there was nothing in it except a pile of hay. He gathered some dry wood around the cave, grabbed a handful of dry grass from the hole, and began to light a fire with flint.
The surrounding mountainous area is a karst land, with numerous caves and abundant flints. Flint is a hard, grayish-black rock that can be used to craft stone tools and hunt wild beasts, as well as to produce phosphorescence when hit with stones, and can be used as a tool for making fire.
However, it is very difficult and difficult to get the sparks produced by flint to burn the hay. Therefore, people always keep the fire in their homes and cannot let the fire go out. If the fire is extinguished, you have to borrow it from someone else's house. However, the place where the wolf lives is far away from someone else's house, and when he goes to someone else's house to borrow fire, he must give some gifts. If he had so many gifts, he would have been able to live in someone else's house without having to light a fire at all. But he had nothing but flint for fire.
He kept hitting and rubbing stones and flints against each other, and the sparks flashed and flickered, and then they were extinguished. And he struck and rubbed again, again and again, again and again, until he was exhausted. He rested for a while, and then continued to hit and rub. It took about half a day to finally set the hay on fire. As soon as the hay was laid, the pine leaves were lit, and as soon as the pine leaves were laid, the whole pile of firewood and grass was burned.
He broke a large pile of branches from the tree in front of the cave door for the night. To live here, he had to burn a fire all night, first to keep out wild beasts, and to keep himself from getting sick from the cold. The fire burned in front of the mouth of the cave, and he began to use a branch to pick and roast the rats on the fire. The flames burned the hair on the rat's body, and the skin and flesh of the rat were browned and ripe, giving off a very attractive aroma. So, he began to enjoy the best time of the day. The rat meat was delicious and delicate, and the aftertaste was full, but the meat was so small that he ate it in a few bites. No matter what kind of food it is, the less it is, the more delicious it is, and the more you want to eat it again. However, because there was so little food, I didn't want to eat anymore. He had to pat his stomach and let out a long sigh.
It's starting to get a little dark. When it gets dark, not only can you not see anything, but there will be tigers, leopards and wolves in the dark night, which is very dangerous. He could only sleep well, and then go out hunting tomorrow morning. But he still thought of the young and beautiful woman, and thought of whether she was still sad and crying, whether her mother had forgiven her, and that she was the thing he wanted most than to eat and drink. With her, he will not feel lonely and lonely, he will not feel sad and sad. However, there was only one way he could be with her, and that was if he had to hunt a large antelope or a fox. But he also knew that antelopes and foxes were already very difficult to hit, and that they had to go a long way to reach them. Therefore, he planned to go into the forest before dawn to-morrow, and go hunting on the other side of the cliff, because two days before he had been picking grapes, he had seen some antelopes grazing on the meadows.
Thinking about it, he decided to go to bed early, and he was indeed a little tired and a little sleepy, because he had devoted a large part of his energy to cheating with the girl. He had to go to bed early so he could get up early. So he put some very thick and hard-burning wood on the fire, and then he took off the skins and branches of the tree, threw them on a branch against the wall, and fell naked on the haystack in the hole.
The hole was just big enough for him to lie in, and he put his head in the hole so that the fire wouldn't interfere with his sleep, and it would be safer. There was no door in the cave, but there was a big fire burning at the entrance of the cave, because there was fire, and the animals and beasts knew that there were people here, and they would not come this way. Because of the fire, the smoke blew into the cave vigorously, but when the smoke dissipated, the cave was warm and hot, just enough to avoid the cold of the autumn night.
As soon as he slept for a while, he felt a terrible itch on his body, and he touched it with his hand, and several pimples appeared on his body. He knew it was a flea bite. But he was used to it, so he put his hand in his mouth a little saliva, wiped it on the pimples, and closed his eyes.
In the middle of the night, he felt a chill in his body, and he woke up at once, only to find that the cool breeze was blowing towards the cave, and it was very cold. He looked towards the entrance of the cave and saw that the fire had been extinguished, and he hurried up to light it again, but when he saw that the fire had been extinguished. It turned out that it was raining outside, and it was raining heavily, and the fire had already been extinguished. At this time, it will definitely not be possible to relight the fire, because all the firewood and grass outside the cave are wet with rain, and the wind outside is very strong, and the firewood and grass cannot be lit at all.
In this kind of weather, it is very dangerous to have no fire at night, and there are often some wild beasts that will look for holes everywhere to hide from the rain. If it was a wolf or a fox, he was not afraid, he was afraid that it would be a tiger or a black bear. In that case, his life may be lost. So he sat down in the cave against the wall, and kept the spear by his side, ready to slay the beast that came at the attack.
But he sat and sit, and fell asleep. When he woke up the next day, it was already dawn, and the rain outside was heavier. The man is most afraid of this kind of weather, so he can't go anywhere, so he can only stay in the cave dry. When people have something to do, they will feel very fulfilled in their hearts, and they will also have a certain harvest. However, if one stays idle in this cave, not only will one not be able to accomplish anything, but he may not even have anything to eat. In this kind of weather, he just goes out to let the rain cause a problem, and he may not be able to find something to eat.
There are always gusts of wind and rain in autumn, and after a gust of wind, the temperature begins to cool, and after a gust of rain, it makes people feel that winter is not far away. By noon, the rain had noticeably begun to lighten, and the wolf wanted to trap the mice, but he had no pine nuts as bait, so he had to go to the grass on the back side of the mountain to catch snakes. There were many snakes on the other side of the meadow, but those snakes were all poisonous, and if the snakes bit them, people would die. Therefore, catching snakes is very dangerous. However, he had no other way but to catch snakes.
He carried a spear in his hand, a short arrow on his back, and a bag of animal skins, and braved the autumn rain, and trotted over several hills and slopes to the meadows of the wilderness. This is the meadow where Wu's mother took her son to catch the grasshopper two days ago. The grass on the meadow was half a man's height, and there were no snakes in sight, and the snakes were all in the grass. So the wolf came into a very low bush. Although the grass here can only cover the top of the feet, it is difficult to see the snake. Because snakes are very quiet when they walk, they are difficult to spot. But the wolf is a good hunter after all, and he has a great talent for hunting and catching small animals.
The rain was still falling, but it was much lighter. He stood barefoot in the grass, looking carefully at what was in front of him and around him. If the grass is swaying in the wind, it won't be anything, and if the grass is swaying to the sides and in front of it, it's a snake walking in the grass. After a while, he saw a large snake scurrying away from him, but because it was too late to find it, the snake had already run away. But soon, he noticed a hissing sound coming from the grass in front of him, which was not heard, but felt, and the grass was visibly shaking as the snake moved.
So he ran to the serpent and waited, and when the serpent was almost in front of him, he struck his spear into the grass. As a result, a very long poisonous snake was picked up into the air at once. The snake shook in the air for a moment, then landed on the ground and began to run away in a panic. The wolf picked up the snake again, threw it in the air, and then fell to the ground. After several blows, the snake was bruised, coiled together, and stuck its head high, spitting out its long tongue, revealing its sharp teeth.
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