Chapter 3: What a Fool
The forest trail and the colored feather have not yet walked outside the cave. Lin Ji was holding the colorful feathers and babbling something.
The ceremony was interrupted, but the four children were only saved temporarily, and to save the four children, Daji had to be convinced. Lin Ji estimated that his appearance would not have any good effect, and many words could only be expressed through Caiyu's mouth.
Limited to the problem of concept, Cai Yu didn't understand the meaning of saving the four children, so he accepted the reason for Lin Ji a little reluctantly, and he learned slowly. Just for the sake of the shoes that didn't stick her feet, she tried to remember.
This made Lin Ji sigh a little. If everyone thinks like this, what role can he make by working alone?
Before the two of them could finish speaking, Bear Paw came out.
"How dare you come here? It's not a small amount of courage. Bear Paw sneered, and reached out and grabbed Lin Ji's ear.
Don't look at the old paws of the bear, and the body is also thin, but the movements are flexible and the strength is not small. It is not easy for people to survive to adulthood in this world. Those who can live to be as old as Bear Claw are even more ruthless.
Lin Ji wanted to dodge but didn't dodge, his ears were pulled as if they were caught by iron tongs, and blood dripped from Lin Ji's ears with a single movement.
"They bite their ears at the mouth of the hole. I got caught. The bear paw pulled the forest trace into the hole, and also pushed the color feather in, and said to Daji as if to invite merit.
Without saying a word, Da Ji pulled the colored feather, pressed her waist, and lifted her grass skirt. Realizing what was happening, Lin Ji closed his eyes. Bear Paw laughed so loudly that people listened to it with a secret hatred.
Da Ji put down the grass skirt of Cai Yu, his face softened a little, and he still asked sharply, "What's the matter with you?" ”
Caiyu blushed and didn't know how to speak.
Lin Ji figured out why they had caught him, and he couldn't help but be angry, and he kicked Bear Paw's crotch with a painful kick, and finally let Bear Paw go, but his ear was already torn off, and blood was running down his cheek.
Lin Xi was indignant in his heart, covered his ears and said directly: "I just can't get used to seeing your own incompetence to anger children, and you can't even support a few children, what's wrong?" ”
"Look for death!" Bear Paw was almost kicked by Lin Ji, and when he heard Lin Ji scolding again, he immediately pounced again.
Lin Ji was on guard this time, dodged a few steps and hid on the other side of Cai Yu, and continued to say loudly: "What do you say about squirrels and not enough food for winter, what Ji Zu blames, what do you say about a girl raising six boys, that's all an excuse." You are here to cover up your incompetence, to cover up your laziness! There are so many squirrels, can't we find a way to catch them? The hairy chestnuts are gone before they hit the ground, can't we go up the tree and pick them back and peel them slowly? If you know that there is no food in winter, why don't you go out every day as long as you can eat enough? Don't you stock up on more food on weekdays? Even if the snow is frozen, I know that I can break the ice and fish, so why is there no way? You don't think about anything, you just want to kill the child to make it easy...... A slacker like Bear Claw, you clearly have a lot of strength, but you hide in the tribe and are lazy to eat. You can't run, you always go out and set a trap, right? Traps won't go down, and you'll still have a lot of energy...... Even if we raise too many men, then we won't find a way to marry some women from somewhere else? What's wrong? Don't let me say...... Whining...... I'm going to say...... I'll leave it here, you can't kill these four children. You can't raise it, I'll raise it, I'll raise it alone! Since they are still feeding, I can even raise their mothers, and I can get fish, a lot of fish...... Woo......"
The people scattered outside the cave gradually gathered back with the scolding of the forest traces, and they heard something new.
The language of this time was very different from that of later generations. Some words are not, and some meanings can be expressed in more flexible metaphors. Lin Ji scolded happily, some words didn't have time to use the language of this era, so they directly used the words of later generations, but in connection with the context, they can probably still understand the meaning.
Because of the existence of these new words, his scolding was quite exciting, and many children were stunned.
Lin Ji scolded reasonably. In fact, the life of people in this era is extremely leisurely.
Because of the good ecology and the wide range of recipes, in fact, the tribe does not have to worry about going hungry for most of the year. The tribe had several temporary settlements like this. There is a cave in this settlement, also near the chestnut forest, which was prepared for winter.
At other times, everyone will take turns to live in several settlements around them, eat nearby, find what to eat, wild vegetables, wild fruits, stems, tubers, flower branches, insects, snakes, rats, ants, etc., just like the gorillas in later generations.
Basically, when you are hungry and when you look for food. When you run out of food at one settlement, you change to another.
Except for the autumn to stock up on food and avoid wild beasts, everyone will have nothing to do on weekdays, adults take care of making villains, and children run around all day long.
Under this attitude to life, everyone is very lazy. Lin Ji said something that had a big impact on them. It's just that they also laugh at Lin Ji's ignorance.
Catching squirrels? The squirrel is small and flexible, even the bow and arrow can't shoot a few, how to catch it?
Stock up on food on weekdays? How to store the food stored on weekdays if it goes bad after a few days?
Can you fish in winter? After a few snowfalls, there is ice everywhere, and the ice is harder than stones, how do you break the ice? Even if it's broken, how can you catch fish? Will the fish jump out on its own?
The most ridiculous thing is that he has a child and says that he can feed four nursing women? Is...... I don't know the thorns of the hairy chestnuts.
The scolding in the cave gradually stopped, and Lin Ji scolded to the end, and was finally caught, and then dragged out by the bear's claws with his hands covering his mouth. After that, he was dragged under a tree in the distance, and hung the forest trail with his hands, so that the forest trail could only step on the ground on its toes.
In the crowd, a young woman was stunned, probably recognizing who this person was, and then threw herself into the cave crying and pleading for mercy.
This is the mother of the body of Lin Ji. She's a little silly and innocent. She had heard the sound in the cave familiarly, but she didn't remember who it was. I never thought it was my own child. It's just that how can your own children scold those things?
In the cave, Daji's face turned blue and white. She has always been known for her ability, and for the first time in her life she was scolded for being lazy and incompetent. This is going to eat up the food for the winter, and the sky is reversed.
As soon as Lin Ji's mother asked for intercession, she glared at her: "It's not your turn!" Lin Ji's mother stopped abruptly and stayed aside.
Da Ji turned his head to look at Cai Yu and asked, "What's the matter?" ”
Caiyu was frightened, and his mouth was unfavorable.
After tying up the person's bear paw, he came in and said, "This kid just wants to die." Let's hang him. ”
"Don't ...... Don't hang him. Cai Yu opened his mouth in a panic, "He, he just told me that he wanted to save these men, tell me, tell me...... By the way, he said that even if these men grow up, there will be other women in the tribe in the future, and it will not be one woman who will raise six men. The girl baby has been born less this year, and she will be born next year or when. And you can find a way to marry ...... outside."
Caiyu was quite nervous, and at first he almost forgot what Lin Ji told him, and only remembered something after he was determined. But when it comes to marrying, she is stuck again, she doesn't understand the concept of marrying.
After thinking about it again, she remembered something else: "He said that he can fish, and he can teach everyone how to fish, and there are many ways to do it...... Well, there's fishing, there's netting, what's the end...... It is to drain the water. He said that there is also winter fishing, which is to find a lake and break the ice, and he said that because the fish are afraid of itching, they will jump out on their own......"
This is what Lin Ji told Caiyu in order to show that the tribe is not short of food, and it is also one of the reasons used to convince Daihime.
In this era of basic ecological balance, although the fish in the river are not as dense as the koi in the park, you can still occasionally see the picture of fish head porridge. However, the Himebayashi tribe is located in a mountainous and forested area, and there are not many rivers and lakes, so the people of this tribe have not learned advanced fishing skills. They would only fish in shallow water with rattan baskets, spearfish with sticks or shoot with bows and arrows, and the forest traces suspected that they had arrived at a false prehistory.
These days, the forest trails are fished only with earthworms and crooked thorns, and many of them are caught. Lin Ji felt that he wanted to expand the source of food, and the disaster of the small river in front of him alone was estimated to be enough for everyone to survive the winter.
Lin Ji told Caiyu that the various methods are new technologies and new terms. Caiyu didn't understand, and some places were wrong, and Daji and the people outside the cave heard it in a fog.
When he heard that some fish were afraid of itching, the people outside the cave immediately burst into laughter.
Caiyu was afraid of doing something bad to himself, so he was so anxious that he stomped his feet, and then he had a flash of inspiration and said: "He fell a few days ago, and when he got up, he became smart." He figured it all out. He now takes the other children to fish with earthworms and spines, and he has made a hay pole called a buoy, which is tied to a line and you can see the fish eating the earthworms, and then it is very convenient to catch the fish. Now many of the older children in the tribe basically follow him to eat fish, and they don't need to eat what we pick. ”
"Can the buoy see the fish eating the earthworm? Are there really that many fish? Da Ji felt a little confused. Some of the tribe's men would tie ropes to earthworm fishing, but that one was a test of eyesight, endurance and skill. You have to keep the rope at the water's edge, and you have to stay motionless so as not to scare the fish away, and you have to lift the rope up the moment the fish bites the line.
Because of the difficulty of promoting such technology, the fish in the river never became the main food of the tribe.
"What is this? Take a look. Daiki commanded.
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In the distance, under the trees, the forest trails stood with difficulty, and their ears were hot and painful. I never thought to come to prehistory, I haven't seen any beasts, and my ears have almost been ripped off by my own people.
The man next to him with a leg cushion turned around and showed a weird smile at Lin Ji: "You are so stupid, really. I've been in Jilin for five winters, and I've never seen a kid like you. The last one who dared to talk to Daji like this is said to have been gnawed by a bear in the end, and there are no bones left. ......"
The people of this era have a better sense of hearing and smell than later generations. Although this man was hanging, he must have heard exactly what was going on in the cave.
The man had been hung for two days, his lips were chapped and his throat was as dry as broken wood rubbing. He's glad he's not alone.