Chapter 22: The Spirit of the Lake
In the evening, Zhang Jingtao and Ah He didn't wait for the sun to go down, and began to look for a place to stay.
After searching for a long time, the two found a small cliff on the side of a mountain stream in a bamboo forest.
The two of them used hemp rope to tie the bamboo around the cliff for three weeks, so that they could form a barrier.
Then, on both sides of the mountain road on the cliff, a bamboo fork like a hedgehog or a bamboo spear is inserted in the way of piling, and it is stuck on the way up the cliff, and then the bamboo trunk with a rope is connected between the bamboo spears and used as an orchid.
He also nailed bamboo sticks to bamboo boats and bamboo shields to fix them, and then used hemp rope to pull them to strengthen the fence and block the mountain wind.
Seven domestic beasts were placed behind the fence to guard them.
At night, the dogs barked loudly in the mountains and forests, and in the distant mountains, there were faint pairs of terrible bright spots, which were when the heads of the wild dogs were slightly turned to the sky, and the concentrated light reflected the light of the moon, making the black shadows like evil ghosts crawling out of hell.
The Haswolves cried.
Soon, a few wild dogs tentatively approached the small camp and immediately launched a collision.
But they found that they could not break through the bamboo spear that was deep in the soil, and a wild dog went to bite the bamboo fork, and when he tried to drag the bamboo away, he was hit by the stone of the silk tribe.
A few rounds later, a dog was hit in the head by Zhang Jingtao and died on the spot, but the rest of the dogs were still unable to enter the camp of the Silk Clan.
After another wild dog was hit by a few stones, the wild dogs fled with their legs crossed.
Then, although no wild dogs stormed the camp again, there were always some ghostly lights in the distance in the dark night.
The two of the Silk Clan did not dare to go to bed early.
On this night, when the bright moon was in the sky, Zhang Jingtao and Ah He sat on the stone, looking out at the south.
After watching for a while, Zhang Jingtao saw Ah He silently shed crystal tears.
Indeed, there are clansmen there, there are Aunties and Fathers buried there, and all the pet beasts.
Zhang Jingtao was also sad, but he didn't know how to comfort her.
Because of these experiences, it was only in his own mind that he switched to Mandarin, and he became richer.
It's not that these apes can really say a lot of complicated things, but in fact, even Ah, who is very intelligent and has created a lot of sounds, when he wants to express something meaningful, he has to express it with analogies.
Zhang Jingtao could only hold Ah He's little hand and silently accompany her to look at the starry sky in the south.
At night, Ah He curled up in Zhang Jingtao's arms, used an untied shield to block the wind, and covered with a linen blanket to sleep.
There was a warning from the house beast, and the two believed that if there was danger, they would wake up in time.
Zhang Jingtao hugged Ah He, felt the young and beautiful body of the little girl, and fell asleep under fatigue.
In the middle of the night, the house beasts did not warn.
After that, those wild dogs continued to appear, and after being repelled by the two of them for a few waves, they disappeared after about the territory of other beasts.
As you can imagine, along the way, the two of them stopped and walked, always had to deal with wild beasts, but also had to find new paths, and had to rush in the direction identified by Ah Ah, which was very difficult.
And it's slow, because in the afternoon, when they find a good place to stay, they stop and rest early.
So as not to be attacked by wild beasts at night.
Fortunately, on this land, although rivers only appear when flash floods come, they can sometimes encounter pools and swamps created by flash torrents.
Most of the water in those pools is still quite clear, so with so many pools, Gen Ben doesn't have to worry about large beasts coming with the water source, basically, as long as there are no beasts nearby, then there are none.
For this reason, after eating dog meat for a few days, and finally running out of food, even when Zhang Jingtao thought that he was going to gnaw the turf, he was pleasantly surprised to see the firewood ring jump into the pool, and within a few clicks, he took a fat fish and threw it in front of him, and then, showing the innocent and happy smile of the Shiba Inu.
"It seems that you are the spirit of the lake, and the pronunciation is the same as that of the fox, so you changed your name and called it dog, right?" Zhang Jingtao was very surprised, and found out for the first time that the dog was the expert at fishing, not a cat, not a dog, and not a fox.
For this, dogs and dogs, are different.
Before, he, like everyone else, couldn't figure out why there was a dog, and he still had the name dog.
Only then did I realize that this is the difference between them.
Then, no matter how profound and difficult the dog word is, it should have the meaning of a living creature by the lake that depends on the water to draught.
Of course, the civilized use of characters is indeed not as simple as simple pictographs, and Chinese has never been a simple pictograph, but a kind of morphographic script.
However, if someone teaches the inheritance of civilization, then the text must be very clear and clear.
Moreover, when you learn a word, you can learn civilization knowledge at the same time.
It's like a wolf, it's like a dog.
And when the fish was caught in the firewood circle, Ah Ah was at the water's edge, washing and eating a few mint leaves, so he said 'Huh', but because of the food in his mouth, this 'Huh' became 'fish', so the food caught was called fish.
Of course, this just means that Ah He gave the fish a compound Chinese sound, not that there is no beast sound of fish in the beast language.
The wild people on the southern coast still have the name of beast because they occasionally pick up sea fish on the beach.
It's just that after the wild tribe spread to Chu and developed into ape-people, the apes rarely used this beast sound, and many apes forgot about it.
Because the ape-man, who can only use a stick as a weapon, is not capable of catching fish.
But most ape-people, when they encounter difficult affairs, naturally give up, they will change the food, which is no different from the habits of monkeys.
Monkeys are very skilled, they can use stones to smash fruit shells.
However, if it were to hit the fish with a stick or a rock, it would be weird.
Therefore, it is never only human beings who can use tools, but simply using simple tools does not actually lead to the development of civilization.
Civilization has its contingencies.
is the only one.
In fact, according to the oral tradition of the ape-man here, it is said that human beings have existed since the flood and have existed for an unknown number of billions of years, but it is only because of the appearance of Ah He that a composite language and truly creative daily necessities have been developed.
"There are a lot of better walking pools around this waterhole, and there are all large shrubs around it, which stop animals from coming here, and no animals will come to a waterhole to excrete, and the water will be very clean, and this fish should be very clean, and it will definitely be able to eat." The little girl's eyes lit up.
She said this because apes always eat raw meat, and it is very clear that some animals will have parasites, and there are often apes who eat bad meat and have stomach aches after a short time.
This is also the reason why apes do not eat animals such as mice.