Chapter 6: Father and Son's Morning Talk
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As soon as the sky was a little white, Tang Ge opened his eyes to the noisy chirping of various birds. No wonder the ancients said that the sun rises and the sun sets. In this era of almost no nightlife, Tang Ge also had to follow this law. I lay down when the sun went down last night, and it was probably only early summer at this time, how late could it be dark? I didn't think about it for long, and I fell asleep in a daze, and it was estimated that it would not take more than nine o'clock to fall asleep.
Tang Ge had never slept so early in his previous life. I woke up early, but I was in good spirits. Stretching comfortably, then jumped up, walked to the door to breathe in the fresh air, looking at the hazy world and the mountains, rivers and trees all glowing blue, Tang Ge secretly said to himself: "It's time to start a new life." β
Turning around and returning to the cave, the big stone also woke up, and sat up when he heard Tang Ge's movement, but he still seemed to be a little confused, and his eyes were straight and he didn't know what he was thinking.
Tang Ge shouted at the big stone: "If you don't know how to count, hurry up." β
Da Shi immediately became energetic, and his face was as red as Guan Gong.
Tang Ge said again: "How do you wash your face." β
The big stone shook his head and looked at Tang Ge suspiciously. Tang Ge knew that he was stupid, so he immediately kept silent, thought for a while and walked out.
Out of the hole, turn right, walk up about two or three hundred meters, and then turn right to the west side of the tribe's dirt mountain, not far away, there is a spring. The spring is only one square meter in size, but the water keeps bubbling out. This is where the tribe usually gets water.
There is a small pond more than ten meters downstream of the spring, which is densely covered with aquatic plants and a few lotus leaves. Although the water in the pond is clear, the shore is overgrown with weeds, and there are some snakes, insects, rats, ants, etc., so as long as the people in the tribe can get water from the spring, they will not go to the pond. One is afraid of dirty water, after all, there are many animals in the small pond, and the other is afraid of being bitten by something.
I washed my face in the waterway between the spring and the pond, and the cold water was refreshing. Tang Ge, who felt thirsty, returned to the spring and took a few sips of the spring water, and the water quality was very sweet. "It's definitely nice to use it to make tea." Tang Ge thought. But thinking about his current situation, it is estimated that he has no chance with fragrant tea in this life, so he can only swallow and spit, hold the spring water and continue to fill himself.
After drinking a stomach of water, Tang Ge staggered home. The stomach is clattering, like a big skin. After turning the corner, the sky was already bright, and the people in the tribe also got up one after another, walked through the caves, and listened to the short noise of the parents in the caves, Tang Ge actually had a feeling of returning to the countryside in his previous life. Then I remembered that I was not there, and my family was not sure what to look like when they were sad, and my mood became low again. Although it has been decided to start the current life well and draw an end to the previous life, people are not machines after all, and there is no switch in emotions, not that you can be happy if you want to be happy, and you can forget if you want to forget.
Back at home, the big stone had already lit a fire, and he was wholeheartedly roasting the meat left over from last night. In the tribe, there are two meals a day, usually one in the morning near noon, and one in the evening, and every day each family receives enough food in the tribe for a day, and then goes back to cook it themselves. Those who can't afford to do it, such as widowhood and loneliness, are also gathered and taken care of.
As for what to eat, I am not sure, sometimes it is barbecue, sometimes it is fruit, and the best time is nothing more than barbecue with fruit, depending on the season. Of course, there are vegetables, but they are not delicious when roasted, and they are usually eaten raw. If you eat meat without fruits and vegetables, and if you don't supplement enough vitamins, your body will have all kinds of problems, and your gums will rot. Primitive people may not know the truth of this, but the changes in the body can be felt, so just like in the previous life, it is very difficult for children who are unwilling to eat vegetables but are forced by their parents to eat vegetables on days when there is no fruit.
Maybe it was because Tang Ge hadn't eaten for a few days, and he was tossed yesterday, and the big stone opened fire before he could eat. When the meat came back to heat, he urged Tang Ge to eat it quickly. Tang Ge was not polite, and took it and gnawed it. I don't know what kind of meat it is, I originally looked at the roasted golden brown and oily and thought it must be very good, but I only knew it when I ate it in my mouth, the fragrance was there, but it was fishy and woody, and it was very difficult to bite.
Mountain game is like this, fishy or fat or firewood, and it is not as beautiful as described in ordinary literary works. In fact, Tang Ge was also curious about game in his previous life, until he had the opportunity to eat real wild boars, pheasants, hares and the like, and he knew that the taste was not as good as the hormone meat sold in the vegetable market.
After swallowing a few bites, Tang Ge shook his head to indicate that he was full. Da Shi frowned when he looked at Tang Ge's eating, but he didn't say anything. Take the meat and chew it in a big bite. Tang Ge was sorting out the memories of Xiaoshi on the side, saving him from making the same mistake in the morning. Fat Witch's "Exorcism Ceremony" he didn't want to go through again.
Small stones have many memories, but very few are useful. After all, he is just a child, and the things he cares about are very naΓ―ve, and Xiaoshi doesn't even know many important things. For example, how to hunt in the tribe and how it is distributed, what is the position of the tribe, the daily life of the tribe, the level of technology, and even the name of the tribe is not known. Since it is something that Xiao Shi never understands, Tang Ge can ask Da Shi generously.
There were several catties of a large piece of barbecue, and the big stone almost ate it all, and he didn't even drink saliva in the middle. The remaining piece was also carefully wrapped in leaves. Tang Ge admired this very much. After eating so much meat, I can't support it, and I don't seem to be full, what a lot of food.
Seeing that Dashi was almost busy, Tang Ge felt that he could try to learn about this primitive tribe from his side. So he asked, "Big Stone, what are you doing today?" Da Shi was not wary of his son at all, and replied: "Originally, I was going to go out hunting today, but I didn't worry about you, so I told the fat witch to stay and set off again with the next hunting party." β
Tang Ge knew the distribution of the hunting team, there were a hundred and ten people in the tribe, and there were more men and fewer women. There were forty or fifty men in the prime of life. Generally, a hunting team ranges from ten to fifteen men, and sometimes it is not uncommon for all the strong laborers in the large hunting tribes to be dispatched, and the strong laborers are not only men, but also the physical strength of women. There are no fixed teams in the tribe, usually as few as three, as many as five, or in turn, or two or three outside at the same time, but most of the time some people are left behind to defend themselves in the tribe.
Tang Ge asked again: "Are there many prey in the mountains?" You can hunt a lot every time. β
Dashi said: "There are prey everywhere, but you can only do it if you meet the right one." β
Tang Ge was curious, and then asked, "The right prey?" What's there? β
Dashi said: "I can't say, when there are no animals to migrate, you will hunt whatever you encounter, this season is nothing more than dolphins and deer." There are also sheep and horses and the like. Speaking of this, he seemed to think of something, smacked his lips and said: "Dolphin hunting is very dangerous, Lao Jiu was arched by a big dolphin last time, and it hasn't been well yet." β
A dolphin is a pig. In Xiaoshi's memory, there is no such thing as a domestic pig, so the dolphin here refers to a wild boar.
If you want to talk about hunting, the little stone is not less to listen to the big stone. However, most of the time it is the big stone bragging to the small stone about how to fight the prey, and the details of the hunt are not said. According to the big stone, I'm afraid that half of the prey in the tribe is hunted by the big stone.
Tang Ge pretended to be very curious, and asked Da Shi, "Then how did you hunt?" Do you fence it and cut it? β
Big Stone smiled and said, "How can it be done, the prey has legs, and if it feels dangerous, it will run." If we don't care about anything and just go around and cut it, the prey we can hunt will run away, and the one we can't hunt will be hunted. β
Tang Ge was very excited, seemed to have grasped something, and asked, "Then what do you do when you encounter prey?" β
It was rare for Tang Ge to say a few words to Da Shi, and Da Shi seemed to be excited, feeling that his son was back again, and said to Tang Ge while gesturing: "Let me tell you, there are a lot of tricks here." When you encounter a goat, you have to use different techniques, and when you encounter a goat, you find someone to guard it below, and send someone to go to the top of the cliff to take a stone and throw it down, and that thing always likes to stay on the cliff or the steep slope, thinking that there we can't do anything about it. But when you get to this kind of place, you will die the fastest, and once you are surrounded, you can't run if you want to. If you can't run fast, you will shoot with a bow and arrow, and if you run fast, you have to find another way, the easiest way to deal with this kind of guy is to use a trap, and when you meet the prey in the place where you can go down the trap, you have to scatter the people, and slowly surround them, the beast is not stupid, as long as you get close to them, they will move forward, so that they will be driven to the vicinity of the trap, and then startle them, let them run into the trap, so that you can succeed. When there is no trap, let people lie in ambush at the downwind, and then drive the prey to the ambush place. When you get to the place, you have to see the skills of the ambushers. He straightened his chest and said, "You are the best when you are big." β
Tang Ge never doubted Da Shi's skills, Da Shi was only in his twenties, and in Tang Ge's eyes, he was still a big child, at most he was a young man. Usually there is no entertainment in the tribe, and it is not once or twice that Xiao Shi remembers watching Big Stone wrestle and fight with other hunters in the tribe, and Big Stone's combat power is first-class in all falls. Except for the big stone's hair Xiao Lao Jiu, who relied on the power of the man and the horse to walk with him for a few rounds, the others were not enough to clean up the big stone at all.
Tang Ge didn't answer Da Shi's boasting topic at all, and asked Da Shi again: "How did Jiu Bo get hurt?" Da Shi said: "That time I met a lone male dolphin, Lao Jiu wanted to show his ability (the meaning of being in the limelight), and he rushed up to give it a hard blow, but the male dolphin was not put down, but he was knocked away by the male dolphin, and he fell so hard." In the end, we carried him back. β
Tang Ge was also interested when he heard such a wonderful plot, and asked, "The wild boarγγγγγ Are guinea beasts easy to hunt? Why do you always hunt? Dashi said helplessly: "It's not good to hunt, don't look at the dolphin only has hooves and no claws, except for big teeth and no fangs, when you are alone, this thing is not terrible, but when they are in groups, the beasts have to go around." If you anger them, no one can do anything about them, just hide in the trees and they can knock the tree down for you. It's so hard to bump into people. Those big teeth, where the arch is, it's a hole. Speaking of this, the big stone seemed to remember something, smacked his lips again, and became stunned, and his expression was quite gloomy.