Chapter 7 What's the Matter?
Because of the knife, the beast was dismembered quickly, but the process was also quite violent, and the cuckoo first cut off four thighs, and there was no concept of cleaning at all, and it was directly handed over to the women to roast on the fire, and the children also got up, and somewhere did they take the firewood.
At this time, the cuckoo cut the belly of the beast again, and pulled out the internal organs indiscriminately and still went to the side, depending on the situation, he didn't plan to ask for it, Zhang Heng shouted that it was a pity, the internal organs were a good thing, the old people in the village liked to eat very much, saying that they ate the internal organs of the animals, and their eyes were bright, and they would not get presbyopia when they were old, and their grandmothers also loved to eat internal organs, and they could still thread needles by themselves at the age of ninety.
However, Zhang Heng immediately thought that the internal organs could not be roasted and eaten at all, and it was difficult to clean, and it was not easy for him to express his opinions as an outsider now, the key was that there was no way to communicate!
I thought that the cuckoo would continue to be cut, but I didn't expect to lift the beast meat aside like this, depending on the situation, I don't plan to eat it today, Zhang Heng looked at it and understood a little, it is estimated that it is reserved to eat slowly, this kind of environment life is hard.
Taking advantage of the women and children's barbecue, Cuckoo and a few men also gathered around, and handed Zhang Heng a big fruit, but this time it was cyan, that is, the kind of fruit that Zhang Heng began to see the women picking, and he was not hypocritical, so he took a bite, good guy, this time the fruit was actually super delicious, countless times better than any fruit Zhang Heng had eaten before, there was no way to be easy at all, because the taste was too good, and he ate it all in a few clicks.
Originally, I wanted a few to eat, but when I saw that the men didn't move after eating one, I had to hold back, but I was very annoyed in my heart, how could I start to pick some of these green fruits without my hands, there are a lot of fruits on the tree, at least I can pick a few large baskets.
After a while, the cuckoo howled a few times, and he didn't know what he was calling, but he saw that the cuckoo took out a jar from the corner, which surprised Zhang Heng, because this jar was actually pottery, although it was burned quite ordinarily, it was also very ugly, and it was more appropriate to call it burning clay embryos, but it was indeed a jar.
Bugu hugged it cautiously, and shouted: "Rice for the Kui tribe, the Kui tribe!" ”
Zhang Heng relied on this sentence: "Rice to the Kui tribe" to communicate with the women, and now I hear Cuckoo say the same, I am really puzzled, what does this mean?
But he immediately understood, because he saw coarse salt in this jar, because there were salt mines near his hometown town before, and he had seen this kind of coarse salt, that is, pure salt mines, but people could not eat it directly, and there was a slight poison in it.
The book says that people are originally "high-level animals", and this instinct to eat salt is innate, Zhang Heng estimates that this small tribe in the cave is either to take things to the "Kui tribe" in exchange for salt, if not this cave is called "Kui tribe", this salt is discovered by themselves, and when they have saved enough, they will take it out and exchange items with other tribes, but the former caste may be larger, no, it is expressed from the cuckoo's careful and distressed eyes.
At this time, the cuckoo grabbed a small pinch of salt, and regardless of the fact that the thigh meat was already roasted, he directly smeared the salt grains on the thigh meat with his hands.
Zhang Heng couldn't help but make a sound, pointing to the jar and shouting: "Salt, salt!" ”
"Salt!" When Cuckoo heard this, he also pointed to the jar, but his eyes were very puzzled.
Zhang Heng nodded, and simply tried to put his hand into the jar, there was not much salt in it, only about two or three catties, and when he picked up a handful, seeing that everyone did not have any overreaction, he put his fingers into his mouth with confidence, and in an instant a saltpeter smell filled the entire mouth, but there was indeed a strong salt smell in it, but how could he be used to eating as an "outside" person, he immediately wanted to vomit, but when he thought that this vomit was very likely to destroy the good atmosphere now, he had to swallow it alive.
In an instant, the tears were almost salty, and he hurriedly said: "Cuckoo, you wait, I'll go and get you some salt." ”
The salt "outside" is quite cheap, and you can buy it everywhere for a dollar, and since this group of primitive people regard salt as so important, why don't he buy some salt and "come in" to trade, and he still has a few hundred yuan on him, and he can buy hundreds of bags of salt.
"Salt!" Cuckoo's eyes were still full of doubt.
Zhang Heng couldn't explain it at all, so he simply didn't say much, turned around and hugged his baby animal skin, and then stared at the ring, sure enough, there was no accident, the eyelids began to fight again, but he fell asleep in a few seconds, and when he opened his eyes the next moment, he returned to the bed, and the animal skin was also hugged out, and the clothes on his body were also worn as before.
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"King, king, woo~~~" Cuckoo suddenly roared, the king in front of him was "gone", and the animal skin was also gone, the king just said that the nitrate from the Kui tribe's rice was "salt", and then he picked up the animal skin and disappeared.
"King!" Mei also ran over and stood in the position where Zhang Heng disappeared.
But soon there was a commotion in the cave, and I saw eight men, eight women, and seven children all worshipping at the place where Zhang Heng disappeared, and some strange syllables came out of their mouths, desolate and quaint!
It was said to have fallen, and it was said to have come out, and it had fallen, and it had been said that five suns had passed, and the "king" did not appear, and the sixth sun said that in the early morning, the cuckoo tightened his hand, which must have been an artifact given to them by the god king, and he wanted to use this artifact to hunt more food, and to save enough "skin", because the king likes skin, and when he has skin, the king will definitely come.
"Roar!" The cuckoo flapped his chest, let out a roar more terrible than a wild beast, and with a wave of his machete, he set off again with seven men, who were going out to hunt meat.
"Guoguo......" Mei also set off with the women, they want to go out to pick fruits, but Mei still wants to go to the place where the "king" appeared to see...... She's missing the king a little!
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Zhang Heng was in a daze at this time, waiting for him to put the animal skin away, ready to study it carefully after dawn, then he had to hurry up and go to the kitchen to get salt, and they were still waiting for the cuckoo in the cave.
But when he got up, he suddenly found a problem, because the wound on his body that he had just cut out in the "forest" was gone, and there was no trace at all, what was the situation, could it be that what happened in the "primitive society" just now was fake? But the animal skin and the branch in the room were real things, which could be seen and touched.
Shaking his head, he found something strange again, he looked at his watch while lying on the bed, it was exactly eight o'clock, but now the watch on the table showed that it would be just past eight twenty o'clock, what was the situation? He had been cutting trees in the forest and in the cave for at least half a day, and had begun to go in and out many times, and had gone to the tool room to find a machete, and it had taken him almost twenty minutes "outside", could it be that the time "inside" was static, or could the time inside be paused?
Zhang Heng's heart was a little confused, this thought, the time came back to his senses and it was 8:35, the time passed too fast, the time in the "outside" was really useless!
Thinking that the cuckoo in the cave was still waiting, he hurriedly sneaked into the kitchen to get a bag of salt, came back and looked at his watch, the time was 8:40, not delayed, and quickly stared at the ring for a few seconds before "falling asleep" again, and the next moment he appeared in the cave, which was where he stood when he "came back" just now.
But what he saw in front of him made him dumbfounded, the time and place seemed to be right, he was still standing in the position "just now", judging from the light, it would also be afternoon, but the situation inside the cave made him tremble.
The fire was still there, and so were the seven children, but as soon as he appeared, the children knelt down and worshipped him, and their mouths made strange syllables, but the men and women who were supposed to be "roasting" meat were gone.
Zhang Heng saw the gnawed bones from the bone pile in the corner, and from the traces, it was the bones of the beast that had been cut by the knife, but from the appearance, it looked like it had been gnawed a few days ago, and in the other corner, he saw the internal organs of the beast that had rotted.
"What's the matter?" He just "went out" to get a bag of salt, although he was in a daze and delayed for a while, but it was only more than twenty minutes before and after, why did it seem that several days had passed in this cave?
"King!" "King!" The seven children were still kneeling and shouting at him!
Zhang Heng came back to his senses, but he was even more confused, what is the time contrast between "outside" and "inside"?
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