Chapter 9 I want to eat rice and white noodles
Hot blood is easily cooled by cold winds. When winter came again, the two brothers had already led the seven hairs to stock up on all kinds of mountain fruits, the bacon was piled up in several mud pots, and the various wild vegetables and medicinal herbs picked in the spring were also dried and stored in the cave. What surprised the two was to see their favorite wild berries in their previous life - Tiantian, the scientific name of this thing is nightshade, the ripe fruit is black and purple, the size of a mung bean, growing on a small branch, sweet and sour, very delicious, I didn't eat it less when I was a child. It is said that this thing also has a benefit, the leaves can be boiled and mashed to detoxify snake venom, and there are no highly venomous snakes in the mountains where they are located, so there is definitely no problem with the bite of a pheasant on the neck.
There was also a lot of dry firewood, and this year, with helpers, the two of them made a wooden raft: first tied a wooden raft with two ends of the wooden stick, and then made a few pieces of mesh with hemp rope, and put the pocket around the wolf's neck, like an Eskimo dog sled, let the wolf pull the wooden raft to walk, and a large bundle could be pulled back at one time. The fire at the back of the cave continues to remain unextinguished, but in fact, it is not afraid to extinguish, and there are always horseshoe fungi that preserve the fire in the deerskin bag on the back of the body. Knock open a hole in the skin of the horseshoe fungus, and then throw a little charcoal fire into it, the velvet inside is lit, the mouth is sealed, and it becomes a fire, which can be kept for many days. The two of them put two mud pots three or five meters away from the entrance of the cave, and lit a fire inside, all of which were large pieces of wood, mainly to prevent the sneak attack of wild beasts.
I haven't encountered danger for more than a year, I can only say that the brothers are lucky, they rarely walked out of the cave before, and even if they left, they would be very careful and never go far. But this does not mean that it will always be good in the future, now that there are little wolves, often frolicking at the entrance of the cave, the beasts with hearts should have paid attention to it a long time ago, probably because there was plenty of food in this era, so they didn't come to their trouble. It's hard to talk about winter, when the snow covers the mountains, food is hard to find, and tigers, leopards, and other wolves will take risks because of the lack of food. Two pots of charcoal fire are placed at the entrance of the cave, which does not delay the entry and exit of the mother and the little wolf, but can block the footsteps of the beasts that try to rush into the cave.
Mom and the little wolf have adapted to the fire, but they don't dare to approach. But when they smell the smell of barbecue, Da Mao and Er Mao sometimes dare to stretch out their claws to grab the grill on the fire, and a lot of wolf hair on their legs is burned off by the fire. These two guys are about to become sperm, but fortunately, they still listen to their orders. Every time they start a meal, they must first learn a wolf howl to form a habit, and when they hear this wolf howl in the future, no matter where the seven hairs are, they will appear in time, which is very important. If you want to be a big brother in the rivers and lakes, is it okay if you don't have the ability to respond to this call?
The sun is always after the wind and rain, this is the song sung by Liang Jingru, and now Miss Liang is still in an atomic state, and she doesn't know which planet she exists on. However, Han Bing and his brothers really felt the sunshine after the wind and rain. After the last autumn rain, many weeds withered and fell, and a few slender tall plants stood alone by the river in the distance, and when they saw the top of the red fire, the two stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at each other, and they both saw surprise in their eyes, "Damn, big sorghum!" "Yes, this is the most primitive sorghum stalk, and after seeing that the surrounding area is safe, the two of them summoned seven hairs and ran towards the river.
The sorghum of this era was not high, it was only one meter and two three, and it was usually not found in front of the tall thatch and reeds. The sorghum ears on the top are not that large and do not bear many fruits. The two of them overwhelmed one tree, broke off the sorghum ears, picked off the shelled fruit, put it in the palm of their hands, and rubbed it vigorously, and after a while, the shell was rubbed off, revealing the whitish sorghum rice with brown and black spots inside. The grains are not large, and they are not as beautiful as the sorghum rice and ballast that they eat for breakfast in later generations, which has also made the two overjoyed. Finally a staple food!
He broke off all the sorghum ears around him, tied them up and put them on the wolf's back, and cut off the overwhelmed sorghum stalks with stone knives and stone axes, and tied them up, so that the wolves could drag them back to the cave. When I was a child, I peeled off the skin of this thing and divided it into several slender sections, which could be woven into a gnather cage. It's that the edge of the skin is very sharp, and it is easy to cut the hand. The two of them didn't make a cage when they got the sorghum stalks back, the cave had no door, and the wind resistance in winter was against the slope of the stone platform, and there were mattresses and straw curtains. Now you can use these sorghum stalks to make a mountain gate, which is still very effective to block the wind and rain. In addition, the dozen or so pheasants hatched by the rabbits have grown up in the hole, and are often driven around by the seven hairs, and there is nothing to cover them, and the little wolves have been taking these pheasants as prey, and have eaten three of them. The use of sorghum stalks to make a wall can effectively separate the world of wolves and pheasants, and at least allow pheasants to have a stable place to live and complete the business of laying and hatching eggs.
The rabbit also had to be encircled, and the cave was full of stones, but he was not afraid of the rabbit burrowing out. What's more, the rabbits have been discounted on their hind legs, and if they want to escape, they must have that good leg and foot. The main thing is to guard against those naughty bags. Some of the sorghum stalks dragged back were left to dry at the mouth of the hole, and when they were dry, they were used to make walls for pheasants and rabbits. The others do not need to be dried, directly remove the leaves, arrange them in a row on the ground, and then tie them on both sides with hemp rope snake shape, first to ensure that they will not fall apart. Then divide it into three sections, tie two sorghum stalks horizontally and backward to each other, and tie three groups of six in total, so that the sorghum stalk door will not be bent and deformed. Tie one diagonally between the two crossbars, so that the tied door will be completely stable and will not be deformed again, and a simple hole door will be ready. Lift it up and stand on the outside of the cave entrance, so that you can block most of the wind and snow. That's it for now, a child under the age of two can't make a rotating door hinge.
The sorghum stalks outside dried up after a few days of drying, and they were taken into the cave and selected a block near the stone wall behind the fire as an affordable housing plot in the "Phoenix Community". First, draw a frame with a wooden stick, calculate the length of the side, weave a slightly longer curtain with sorghum stalks, and then erect it, enclose it on three sides, and lean against the stone wall on the side. Underground with stones, clamping sorghum stalks, a simple community is completed. A few sheaves of ula grass were sprinkled inside, and when one wanted to enter, he opened the opening in the edge of the stone wall. Pheasants are plucked out of their feathers and thrown into the community. I'm sorry, I don't want to be so barbaric, I don't have scissors, so I have to do it by hand. Anyway, the featherless chicken can also tell who is male and which is female.
The rabbit also did the same, and built a slightly smaller "Guanghan community", and the lame rabbit can finally retire in it with peace of mind. Both communities are hung on the courtyard wall at the entrance with a stone slab, on which is the name given by Shi Zhan, with a hand in regular script and a brush dipped in charcoal black water. Where did the brush come from? There are so many brothers around us, naturally there is no shortage of resources. Like Aunt Baiyun, the two of them picked up wolf fur when they were idle, made a few authentic wolf hairs, and tied them to wooden sticks. If someone goes up the mountain and sees the two little hairy children in the cave splashing ink at this time, they will definitely be shocked by the immortals.
The picked ears of sorghum can only be rubbed by hand, and half of the sorghum grains are left to make seeds, and the rest is used to cook porridge. After eating meat for more than a year, the two of them were already tired of eating, but there was no way, and they didn't see other crops around. Since the beginning of the Northeast, there have been no grain crops such as rice, wheat, and soybeans, all of which were introduced later. Millet should have it, at this time it is also wild like dogtail grass, the brothers don't have the energy to distinguish, so they have to give up, wait to grow up and go out of the mountains, go to the Central Plains, and retrieve the seeds, then they will be able to feed more people and really form their own tribes and even countries. Now I can only eat sorghum rice porridge, this thing nourishes the stomach and is a good thing, but under the current conditions of these two goods, sorghum rice can't be cooked very badly, and the hard ones can't be eaten for a few days, and they pull their throats. I really miss the days of eating rice and white noodles!