Chapter 4: A Different Rite of Passage

Lin Tian had been in the Li tribe for several days, and gradually accepted the existing facts, and his grandfather told him to live first no matter what, after all, there are infinite possibilities when he is alive.

In the past few days, Tiewa has often come to Lin Tian to play, and Gesang has been embarrassed last time, and has been precipitated for 2 days and occasionally comes over a few times. Lin Tian had a preliminary understanding of the situation of the Li clan from them, so as to avoid arousing suspicion, Lin Tian basically inquired about the upright Tiewa. The Li people are a tribe in the north, and there are several other tribes in the vicinity of the Li people, and there are also a few people who are not on the same scale as the Li people.

The size of the tribe is basically determined by the population, such as the Li nationality with a population of nearly 100, which can only be regarded as a relatively small tribe. The closer to the south, the warmer the climate, the larger the size of the tribe, and the abundant resources, in the south I heard that there is still a kingdom, most of which are said by Tiewa to the clan elders, and I heard that the clan elders had traveled to the south when they were young.

Today, the girl Gesang and the little fat man Tiewa invited Lin Tian to participate in tomorrow's coming-of-age competition, in the Li tribe, the man is 16 years old, and the woman is 14 years old. After participating in the ancestral worship activities, the highlight of the coming-of-age ceremony is to enter the mountains and forests and catch at least one prey for each person, which marks the completion of the coming-of-age ceremony. Lin Tian wanted to follow the local customs, so he gladly accepted their invitation.

The next day, as soon as it was dawn, Lin Tian was called up by Tiewa to go to the ceremony. Wearing animal skin clothes, Lin Tian was very unaccustomed at the beginning, as a modern person, he felt like he had become a wild man in the primitive era, which made Lin Tian uncomfortable. But there are no other clothes here, so you can't go bare-bottomed, so you have no choice but to settle for a while.

Arriving at the ceremony site, most of the Li tribesmen were already present, except for the people who made breakfast and were busy in the camp to make food for them. When Gesang saw Lin Tian, he happily ran over and shouted "Brother Lin Tian" cordially, pulled the latter down where he was standing just now, and waited for the ceremony to begin. ”

After waiting for a while, the patriarch and a burly middle-aged uncle arrived at the altar and began to announce the beginning of the coming-of-age ceremony and various matters.

Gesang stood next to Lin Tian and said happily: "That's my father, the pride of our Li people, and the bravest man of our Li people." Lin Tian only knew at this moment that Gesang was the daughter of the patriarch, and she was actually the little princess of the Li clan.

From Gesang's mouth, she learned that her father, who was the patriarch of the Li tribe, was originally named Basang. This will make Lin Tian puzzled, why is it not a surname, isn't it biological? Lin Tian later learned from Tiewa that most of the Yi people (what southerners call northerners) do not have special surnames, even if they are surnames, they are also names, and the names they were born with are their names.

After the patriarch uncle announced the play, the patriarch prayed for the blessings of this group of adult children, praying that they would successfully complete the ceremony and return safely. There are few adult children in their batch, and Lin Tian counted them and added himself to 8 people, including 5 teenagers and 3 girls.

After the clan elders sprinkled the so-called "holy water" on them with their feathers, the whole blessing ceremony was completed. After the ceremony, the meal was served, and after everyone had finished their meal, they began to receive the day's dry food, because the hunting was from morning to evening.

The patriarch uncle took 3 bags of dry food and walked over and handed them to Lin Tian, Gesang and Tiewa respectively, and asked the next two to help Lin Tian more, Lin Tian expressed his gratitude to the patriarch and told the other party that he could do it. In Lin Tian's consciousness, the set of lies he made up must not be flawed, after all, he is also a child of this tribe in the story, how can he not hunt?

Hunting is the basic survival skill of the tribesmen, and if they don't, their identity will be immediately recognized. After picking up the crude bows and arrows and other hunting equipment to bid farewell to the Li people, on the way to the deep mountains, everyone was talking, laughing, and giggling.

Tiewa opened the dry food bag on the road, saw millet patties and a few pieces of air-dried meat inside, and laughed: "There is actually something delicious, today is really a good day." When everyone opened their belts of dry food and saw the bags of food, their little faces bloomed with innocent smiles.

Lin Tian opened his bag a little curiously, and saw that the millet meat cake that Tiewa was talking about was nothing more than a yellow-brown dough cake with a little meat foam. This should be made by crushing millet (a kind of yellow rice that is resistant to high cold), and Lin Tian drank porridge made of millet when he was nourishing his body last time, and it was very rough and extremely difficult to swallow. But what can Lin Tian do, in addition to this kind of yellow rice, it is meat, some people must say how comfortable it is to eat meat every day, but in this ghost place, you can't stand eating meat every day, not to mention that it is meat sprinkled with salt, it has no taste, and this air-dried meat strip is no different from chewing wood.

After walking for about a day, I finally came to the hunting area of the Li people. The hunting regulations of the coming-of-age ceremony must be completed independently by each person, everyone has not seen Lin Tian's hunting skills, most of them are suspicious, coupled with the patriarch's instructions before leaving, everyone will bring the outermost land to Lin Tian. Because the deeper you go into the mountains and forests, the more animals there are, the more frequent the wild beasts are, and they are also the most dangerous. From here, it can be seen that the friends of the Li clan still take good care of Lin Tian, a newcomer, Lin Tian gladly accepted the kindness of all the friends, and made up his mind in his heart to give everyone a surprise.

After saying goodbye to his little friend, Lin Tian took off the equipment on his body, and looked at the indecent bow and arrow Lin Tian shook his head. "Even if I was given a super compound bow, I wouldn't use it," Lin Tian muttered to himself in a depressed voice. So Lin Tian gave up the plan to hunt with a bow and prepared to use smart means to complete this hunt.

Lin Tian walked around the surrounding mountains and forests for a long time with the small dagger that accompanied him, and Lin Tian finally found the tools for this hunt. Yes, it was a bunch of vines in front of him, and Lin Tian planned to use these tiny vines to make some covers to catch animals. After Lin Tian put the finished set in this forest, he found a place to eat and rest.

While Lin Tian was sleeping, Gesang was hiding on a tree at this moment and aimed at a gray rabbit below with a bow and arrow, the rabbit was grazing, raising his head from time to time to look around. Gesang had spent a lot of time waiting for it to come out by the rabbit's nest, and at this moment Gesang held his breath and pulled his bow. It must be hit in one move, and it must not be allowed to escape back into the nest, Gesang thought.

His eyes were more focused, as if he was about to shoot out. At this moment, the ears of the grazing rabbit twitched, as if the "squeak" of the bow had alarmed the rabbit. Gesang saw that the rabbit was turning around and preparing to return to the rabbit's nest, and thought to himself that he couldn't wait at this moment. Gesang let go of his right hand, and with a "poof" sound, he saw that the rabbit was still twitching when it rolled on the ground, the head of the arrow had pierced into the dirt, and the tail was still trembling.

In a bush deep in the jungle, a chubby young man was lined up in the dirt, with a headdress woven of flowers and branches on his head, and branches and leaves tied on his body, and two robes foraging for food as far as his eyes could see.

Tiewa said anxiously at the moment: Get closer, it's almost ... It's almost ... Come closer. Seeing that it was almost in range, Tiewa slowly set up her bow and arrows to aim at her prey. Looking at the 2 robes, Tiewa was in trouble. Tiewa muttered in her heart: The male with long horns should be male, and the female with a larger belly and short horns is female, it seems that the female is still pregnant with cubs, forget it or leave the female, who makes the male more meaty.

The iron baby who made the choice aimed the bow at the male robe, as long as it waited for it to enter the range and sent an arrow, too close and afraid that the robe would find out, the iron baby could not outrun the robe, so it could only attack as soon as possible. Tiewa estimated the distance in her heart, and after the robe entered the attack distance, Tiewa released her right hand without hesitation, and the arrow flew out and shot at the abdomen of the robe .

The male roe deer screamed in pain after being hit by an arrow, and ran away, bleeding from his abdomen as he ran. Obviously, Tiewa's arrow didn't hit the vital point and killed her in one hit, so a chase was staged in the jungle.