Xiao Yiran clung to the high tree on the top of the mountain and cried for a long time, until An returned to call her, then wiped away his tears and slipped under the tree.

"Why is my sister sad?"

Xiao Yiran's red and swollen eyes naturally couldn't hide it.

"Sister just remembered her dead mother. Are Ann's grandpa and mother okay? ”

"Grandpa is still alive, but his leg is broken, my mother is fine, and my younger brothers and sisters are fine."

When the two came to the station, they no longer cared about the aftermath of the war between the Eagle and Snake clans, and devoted themselves wholeheartedly to their lives. Take care of the crops, dry the salt, and eat the small fish and shrimp, so you should catch some more reserves.

Staying in the attic at night, Ann said:

"Although I was abandoned by the gods, my mother and younger siblings still think about me. My mother said that in a few years, maybe I would be able to return to the community. ”

"You talked to your mother?"

"Yes, I was standing at the edge of the woods of Mount Kinabalu, and my mother came and spoke to me."

Although I can't see the expression on Ann's face, I can hear the happiness in peace of mind from the tone. It's good to have relatives, Xiao Yiran thought so, and his eyes turned red again. An didn't notice the change in Xiao Yiran's mood in silence, and continued to babble a lot of things, most of which were with her mother's younger siblings before. Xiao Yiran fell asleep in An's chatter.

Late at night, Xiao Yiran was awakened by the sudden thunder. When I opened my eyes, I saw that Ann had already woken up and was kneeling at the exit of the attic, looking outward. Hearing the movement of Xiao Yiran getting up behind him, he didn't look back, still staring outside, and said with a little panic:

"Sister, there seems to be a fire in the east."

Hearing An say this, Xiao Yiran was shocked, she naturally knew that if it was just thunder and not rain, it would easily cause a forest fire. And such a primeval forest, once it catches fire, the consequences will be unimaginable. Hurriedly crawled to the exit and looked out. Sure enough, there was a red fire in the east, and the location seemed to be the battlefield where the two clans fought during the day.

"Ann, hurry up and get out, we have to prepare."

An jumped down in a panic with Xiao Yiran, not knowing how to prepare, just looking at Xiao Yiran blankly. Before Xiao Yiran was reborn, he also learned some wild survival and self-rescue, including how to survive a wildfire while camping. Hurriedly picked up a stone knife and a stone shovel, and handed the stone shovel to Ann.

"Ann come with me."

Coming to the edge of the grass at the station, close to the mountain forest, Xiao Yiran began to cut the grass with a stone knife, and asked An to dig a trench in the place behind him where he had finished mowing. The ditch should not be too wide, but the grass should be cut a large area. The wider the place where there is no grass, the less easily the fire will cross. If there is no wind, it is about two meters away to cut off the fire, and if there is wind, it takes three to five meters. That night, the sky was very cloudy and the wind was not strong, but Xiao Yiran was not at ease, in case the wind started again after a while, it would be late, so he still tried to cut the grass area by three meters.

After cutting for a while, both of them were already exhausted and out of breath, and they only cleared the distance of less than two hundred meters. Seeing that the fire was getting closer and closer to them, they couldn't stop to rest, so they had to grit their teeth and persevere. After cutting more than a hundred meters, Xiao Yiran really couldn't hold on, looking up at the sky, the east was already red, and he could even hear the crackling sound of the trees burning. Xiao Yiran thought to himself, didn't he be sacrificed, but he was going to be buried in the forest fire? Suddenly, Xiao Yiran remembered something and shouted:

"Ann, drill wood to make a fire."

Although An didn't understand why Xiao Yiran wanted to make a fire at this time, An, who had always regarded Xiao Yiran as a god, still did it, but in a few minutes, An took out the fire and handed it to Xiao Yiran. Xiao Yiran took the tinder and said to Ann:

"I'm less in front, and you are blocking in the back so that the fire doesn't burn in the direction of our dwellings, and you are allowed to burn in the direction of the mountains and forests, remember?"

After burning for more than ten meters, An understood why Xiao Yiran did this. The open space that has been burned by fire is the same as the open space after mowing the law, and it can play a role in cutting off the fire. When the mountain fire burned, Xiao Yiran and An had just cleaned up the east, south and north sides of the station. At this time, the sky began to rain, but it was not big enough to extinguish the fire on the ground, and the two of them could not stop, and they had to continue to clear the weeds in the west.

Before the two of them could finish clearing the weeds to the west, the fire followed. In desperation, Xiao Yiran could only give up.

"Ann, go and dig a big pit in the middle of the meadow, and we need to bury the grain and food."

Xiao Yiran understood that if the residence was burned, it could be rebuilt, and if the seeds and food were burned, he would starve, or even starve to death. The two worked together and hurriedly dug a one-meter-square soil pit, ignoring the rice and soybeans in the field, but only burying the grain that had been harvested, as well as pork. The wild boar, which was already more than 100 catties and had always brought Xiao Yiran a beautiful vision, was also held by Xiao Yiran, and he was really reluctant to be burned to death.

The rain fell as the dead grass outside their attic was burned. The pouring rain fell on the fierce mountain fire on the ground, and thick smoke suddenly rose from the ashes. Xiao Yiran no longer spared the silk cloth woven from oak silk in An's arms, grabbed it and tore it in half, moistened it with the water in the small wooden barrel, handed it to An, and picked up a piece to cover his mouth and nose. An Youran did the same, and sure enough, the smoke that surrounded them was no longer so choking, and her breathing became smoother.

Fortunately, the rain was very heavy, and the smoke only lasted less than five minutes before disappearing in the rain. Although he was poured on his head and face by the torrential rain, Xiao Yiran was still very fortunate that he finally escaped and was not burned to death by the sudden wildfire, nor was he suffocated in the smoke. Remembering that when the school taught them to survive in the wild and save themselves, Xiao Yiran smiled self-deprecatingly, and muttered:

"I didn't think these things I learned would be really useful."

"Sister, what is useful?"

"Huh? Oh. So, are the methods we used to prevent wildfires useful? ”

"Yes, I've never seen a clansman do that."

There is no need to look at An's eyes at this time, Xiao Yiran knows that An's eyes must be the kind of eyes when facing the great gods, full of worship and awe.

"Ann, when we have our own clansmen in the future, Ann will be the great wizard of the clan and be responsible for passing on these skills, okay?"

"Skills, what are skills?"

"Skills are these ways to survive. Would Ann want to be a great wizard in the future? ”

"Yes. It's just ,......"

"Just what?"

"If you become a great wizard, you can't have children."

Listening to An's tone, it seems that he has a sweetheart, is it true that between men and women in this era, there is also talk about free marriage, rather than random choice at night?

"Ann has a man you like?"

"Well, he's from the Tiger Clan, and his name is Lin."

"How did you meet?"

Xiao Yiran's modern gossip consciousness immediately prevailed, and he couldn't help but ask.

"It was also a war, a war between the Eagle Clan and the Turtle Clan, Lin rescued the injured Grandpa and sent Grandpa back to the tribe."

"How old is Lin? Is it handsome? ”

"Lin was fifteen years old and I was ten years old."

An obviously didn't understand what Xiao Yi's "handsome" in the second half of the sentence meant, but only answered the first half of the sentence.

"Ten years old, ten years old you ......, sneezee, sneeze,......"

The continuous sneezing made Xiao Yiran unable to gossip anymore. In the first half of the night, the two of them were mowing the grass, burning the grass, and making fire belts, and they were all sweating, and then they were stirred by the pouring rain, and it was inevitable to catch a cold. The cold is not a great disease in modern times, but at that time, it had a terrible name "typhoid fever", which was almost equivalent to the current incurable disease.