Chapter 40: Tribal Rite of Passage
After the wheat is harvested, all kinds of beans, sorghum, millet, and rice will also ripen one after another. Originally, Tang Ge planned to let the slaves do this kind of rough work, but now, the slaves are no longer able to interfere, or they are not qualified to do it.
The tribesmen took matters into their own hands, carefully harvesting those ripe crops, eagerly looking at those who were not yet ripe, looking forward to them as if they were their own children, hoping that he would grow up quickly, but also worried that he would encounter calamity.
Tang Ge did not suffer as much as his clansmen, because he understood that as long as there were no major accidents, this year's grain harvest would be certain. Although these grains are not yet allowed to be eaten by the tribesmen with their bellies open, when these seeds take root again next year, the Banpo dolphins will no longer have to worry about filling their bellies, and even more so, how to deal with the rich grain is a problem they will have to consider in the future.
Therefore, when everyone was celebrating for the harvest, Shaowu Tang Ge's attention was all on Honggu's belly.
Honggu's belly is already very big, Tang Ge counted it with his fingers, and the day of labor should come, but the fact is that Honggu eats and drinks well every day, but her stomach does not move at all. So Tang Ge could only be more nervous than Ah Kang, twenty-four hours a day, staring at Honggu every step of the way, eagerly looking forward to that magical moment.
In the days when Honggu was about to give birth, the tribe ushered in another happy event: a group of children in the tribe were about to hold a coming-of-age ceremony.
It stands to reason that the coming-of-age ceremony for these children should have been held a long time ago, because they had to return to the flame, and then there were a lot of big and small things, and it was delayed until now.
In previous years, the coming-of-age ceremony was very simple, after the boy's voice change period or the girl's menarche, the adults in the family took to learn some hunting skills, precautions in the wild, and then scattered the child to shoot a rabbit or a chicken, or even catch a fish, and bring the prey back to the tribe, the fat witch prayed, the tribe shared the food, and then the clan celebrated and it was over. Of course, other tribes will not be so hasty, and people even have to hunt specific beasts to count, but who makes the population of Banpo dolphin small, and every child is the most valuable human resource.
This year is different.
Today's Heyang tribe has grown up like a balloon with all kinds of treasures, and then returned to the holy fire, extinguishing Heyang's majesty, and now the crops are also harvested, which can be described as a happy event one after another, and the coming-of-age ceremony will naturally have to be a special event.
Early in the morning, several young boys and girls wore helmets and armor, and wore equipment that was almost armed to the teeth, and set off towards the wasteland under the eager gaze of the clansmen. As soon as they had walked on their front feet, the tribe had already begun to prepare for the evening feast.
It is said that there have been too many happy events and too many banquets recently, and even Tang Ge, who has always been extravagant, feels a bit extravagant and wasteful.
The boys and girls did not fail to live up to the expectations of their tribesmen, and all returned on the same day, and none of them made up the numbers with small prey that were readily available, and most of the catches were deer and sheep, and even one little guy dragged back a crocodile.
Boys and girls who had finished the hunt were treated like heroes, their prey was cooked and then eaten among all their tribesmen, and the iconic bones or teeth of the prey were kept by them to make a tooth necklace, which they were now eligible to wear.
At the dinner, Tang Ge sat sour on the side, and when he saw the clansmen taking turns to step forward and press their heads to give them their blessings, Tang Ge touched his slippery neck and said stupidly, "What's so rare."
After the dinner, something happened that made Tang Ge dumbfounded.
In the middle of the moon, when the clansmen began to return from the table one after another, the fat witch actually led the boy who had hunted a crocodile and walked to his house. The young man, on the other hand, had a red face with excitement and was floating when he walked.
"What does that mean?" Tang Ge turned his head and asked at the big stone beside him.
Da Shi smiled and said nothing, and Lao Jiu on the other side said with envy: "What else can it mean, this kid is lucky!" ”
"What's the luck?" Tang Ge looked confused.
"I said that you little kid can't understand, of course it's the luck that adults want to go!" After speaking, Lao Jiu laughed lewdly.
Tang Ge was dumbfounded, imagining that the fat witch was like a hill, under the layers of pork belly, a teenager who had just reached the stage of voice change was ravaged, and he felt goosebumps all over his body, and his stomach twitched. If you think about your coming-of-age ceremony in the future, you might ......
"Duh!"
Tang Ge slashed the black crocodile knife on the dining table, his face was blue, and he gritted his teeth and said, "Don't even think about it...... Dare to touch Lao Tzu! Lao Tzu chopped you! ”
Tang Ge was surprised and disgusted that the fat witch actually had the legendary "right to the first night", and what was even more disgusting was that he might also encounter this in the future, making him so uncomfortable that he almost vomited on the spot. And what shocked him even more was that Lao Jiu and most of the men present were envious of the tragic experience of that young man! What the hell is there to envy about this!
Tang Ge swore that if he encountered such a situation at his coming-of-age ceremony, he would definitely fight with his life and resist death!
It took two days for Tang Ge to drive the shadow of this matter out of his mind, and then waited intently for Honggu to give birth.
One afternoon three days later, in the Doll Cave, when Tang Ge and Akang were making a love fruit bowl for Honggu, Honggu's exclamation startled the two of them. Turning his head, he found Honggu standing there stunned, looking at her legs.
It was the height of summer, and Honggu was not heat-resistant, so she was wearing a fat and thin pants, and at this moment, the pants were slowly soaked, sticking to her legs little by little.
"The amniotic water is broken!" Tang Ge threw the fruit plate in his hand with a "bang", and hurriedly went up to hold Honggu.
"Are you going to give birth? Isn't it? Isn't it? Honggu was very arrogant on the surface, but in fact, she was very concerned about her pregnancy, and now that the matter was coming, her nervous face turned pale and trembled.
"Beware! Watch out! Go and call the Fat Witch!! Akon was also in a hurry and panicked.
Tang Ge spread his legs and ran out, shouting at his throat as he ran: "Fat witch! Fat Witch! I'm going to give birth! Fat Witch is coming! I'm going to give birth! ”
When Tang Ge anxiously dragged the fat witch to the "sterile operating room" that had been prepared a long time ago, Honggu was already lying on the "operating table" with the support of Akang, and the nervous hands of the two people didn't know where to put them.
"Get out!" Fat Wu unceremoniously ordered Tang Ge and Ah Kang.
"But ......"
"Get out!"
Tang Ge still wanted to tell the difference, but was interrupted viciously by the fat witch. Seeing this, Ah Kang hurriedly pulled Tang Ge to the door. Then, like thieves, the two men put their ears up to the door and listened to the movement inside.
"Does your stomach hurt?" Fat Witch's voice.
"It doesn't hurt......" Honggu's voice trembled a little.
"Is there a formation? Do you feel anything? Fat Witch asked again.
"No...... Right? I don't feel anything......" Honggu replied hesitantly.
There was a sound of soot in the room, and before long, the door opened, and the fat witch walked out.
"What's going on?" Tang Ge and Ah Kang were dumbfounded when they saw the fat witch walking out casually.
"It's okay, it's not time to give birth, just take her back and change her pants." The fat witch took a towel and said casually while wiping his hands.
"Not there yet?" Ah Kang only felt that his brain was buzzing, and he was confused.
"Why didn't it arrive? The amniotic water is broken! Tang Ge was furious, he felt that Fat Wu was killing people.
"Do you know or do I understand?" The fat witch squinted his eyes and asked coldly.
"Of course it's ......" When it came to the general word, Tang Ge couldn't go on, he really didn't understand obstetrics......
"Are you really okay?" Akang asked in a daze.
"It's really okay, send the people back." After saying this, the fat witch moved his mountain-like body and walked away without looking back.
At this time, Honggu lowered her head, walked out with a twist, and said shyly: "I seem to ...... It's not about giving birth to ......."
"I'm a god!" Tang Ge hugged his head and wailed, almost collapsing.