Chapter Twenty-Three: The Grassland Tribes Ignite the Fire
As soon as the morning dawned, Brother Cao, the leader of the grassland tribe, came to the Caoping tribe, and he came to pick up the mountain uncle. After Sister Caoping sat down the guests, she began to eat barbecue meat, and Brother Caoyuan ate it unceremoniously, and said happily while eating: "This barbecue meat is really delicious, how good it would be if you could eat it like this every day."
Sister Caoping said with a smile: "Brother Cao, as long as Uncle Gao Shan lights a big fire for you, everything will be done according to Uncle Gaoshan's arrangement, and you will have barbecue meat to eat every day, and there will be endless meat." ”
At this time, the barking of a bison was suddenly heard. The old and experienced Takayama said, "Listen, there is a bison that has fallen into the trap, and several bison are barking around the trap. Sister Caoping, gather everyone here, I have my own way. ”
Sister Caoping quickly gathered the men around the fire, and Uncle Gao Shan told everyone: "Our five traps are in the south, and more than 20 of us men are holding wooden sticks and lighted torches, outflanking the past from the east, west, and north, and driving the bison to the direction of the trap, everyone should not be afraid, the bison are most afraid of fire, and if they see someone in the east, west, and north directions, they must flee to the south, so they will fall into the trap, everyone quickly light the torch, and follow me and Xiaoye, Xiaozhuang, and Xiaomu together."
Everyone listened to Uncle Gaoshan's arrangement, quickly lit the torch, and followed Uncle Gaoshan to outflank the bison, and everyone shouted in unison: "Kill!" Rushing towards the bison, the bison suddenly saw people rushing with sticks and terrible torches, and was so frightened that they fled to the south, where there was no one and no fire, and ran wildly, and then three more bison fell into the trap, and the mountain master shouted loudly: "You don't have to chase the escaped bison, first dispose of the bison that fell into the trap." ”
The people gathered around the trap and cheered when they found four bison in five traps. Uncle Gao Shan told everyone to surround the traps, arrange a few people in each trap, and use wooden sticks to hit the head of the cow, the bison could not escape in the trap, and was quickly killed and divided by the people. This is a big harvest that the Caoping tribe has never had! The people were so happy that they said, "We couldn't have imagined that we could have killed four bison so easily." Brother Prairie also said excitedly when he saw it: "This method is really good, it didn't take much effort, and it took such a big harvest in a short period of time......
Uncle Gao Shan said to Sister Caoping: "There are too many wild meats, they will spoil if you can't eat them, you can cut them into small pieces and dry them, or you can put them next to the fire to dry and store them, and then take them to eat when you are short of food in the future."
Sister Caoping said happily: "This method is really good, I will arrange it immediately, and store the excess meat dry, so that I will not starve in the future."
Uncle Gao Shan said: "You guys are busy, we are going to the grassland tribe with Brother Grassland today, help them light the fire, and we will come back in a few days." Sister Caoping nodded yes.
Brother Gao Shan led his entourage, and soon reached the grassland tribe, the people of the grassland tribe warmly welcomed the guests, Uncle Gao Shan arranged Xiao Ye Xiaozhuang, and quickly lit the fire with cigarette butts, and everyone cheered: "We have fire, we have barbecue to eat!" The fire is getting bigger and bigger, Brother Prairie brought stones around the fire, let Uncle Gao Shan sit a few guests, happily bring the meat, and give it to the guests to eat after roasting, all the people who fell down brought the meat, learned to barbecue and eat, the scene was so lively!
After everyone was satisfied, Uncle Gao Shan said: "Brother Prairie quickly take 20 people and dig traps with me, and there will be a big harvest after digging." Brother Prairie took 20 people, holding wooden sticks, stone axes and stone knives, and followed Uncle Gao Shan to the place where the sheep often moved, and according to Uncle Gao Shan's instructions, everyone worked together to use stone knives and stone axes to quickly dig six traps, and at the same time camouflage the traps, and then returned to the fire for dinner. At this time, a young man began to sing, and the tenor love song was very beautiful, and the girls did not show weakness and should sing. Immediately after that, everyone danced merrily and continued to be lively until late at night before going to bed, and in this way they celebrated the good days with fire.
The next morning, everyone was eating barbecue around the fire when they suddenly heard the sound of sheep screaming from the trap. Uncle Gao Shan said decisively: "The sheep have fallen into the trap, Brother Prairie, quickly gather the people, light the torches, take the sticks, and drive the sheep in the direction of the trap."
Brother Prairie quickly gathered the people, held torches and sticks in hand, and shouted in unison: "Kill!" Surrounded the sheep, and when the sheep saw the people rushing towards them with wood and torches, they all fled for their lives in a hurry and fell into the trap one after another. The sheep that did not fall into the trap fled. This harvest was really big, six traps fell into the sheep, some traps had three sheep, some had two, a total of sixteen sheep were caught, including nine big sheep and seven small sheep.
Everyone cheered, and the whole tribe was in a sensation! Women and children come to see the harvest, and people have never been so happy, because the grassland tribes have never had such a big harvest!
Uncle Gao Shan said to Brother Prairie: "Catch so many sheep. You can't kill them all, just kill a few big sheep enough to eat, and the rest of the sheep can be raised. You have a lot of stones here, you can use stones to build a fence, put the sheep in the pen to feed, the development of sheep is very fast, or it will not be long before it will develop into dozens of sheep, if there is no food that day, you can kill a big sheep, everyone will not starve. ”
Brother Prairie thought that Gao Shanye's method was very good, and immediately arranged for people to build stone fences, and under the guidance of Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang, the fences were built in half a day. Brother Prairie arranged to kill four big sheep, and the remaining twelve were all raised in a stone pen, and arranged for someone to cut the grass and feed the sheep.
People are eating fragrant barbecue meat around the fire, and their hearts are so happy! At this time, Uncle Gao Shan told Brother Prairie: "After eating barbecue, I will teach everyone to collect tobacco, cigarettes, and smoking, and you must keep the fire, what if it rains heavily one day and the fire is extinguished?" As long as everyone learns to smoke cigarettes, they can keep the fire, they can relight the fire, and they will have barbecue meat for a long time. ”
Brother Grassland said: "Okay, Uncle Gao Shan is right, today we must learn to smoke cigarettes and keep the fire, thank you Uncle Gao Shan." ”
Brother Prairie led everyone to follow Uncle Gao Shan and began to look for tobacco leaves, there were too many tobacco leaves on the grassland, and after a while, a few large ones were picked, only a few were dry, and most of them were green. Uncle Gao Shan asked everyone to put the green tobacco leaves around the fire to roast, and asked people to take a piece of dried tobacco leaves and follow Xiaoye to learn cigarettes, and everyone quickly learned, and then everyone smoked, and everyone quickly learned, all happily, smoking with relish.
At this time, the barking of the bison was heard again. Uncle Gao Shan said: "Everyone, listen to the wild bull's screams, the wild bull must have fallen into the trap, everyone hurry up and kill the cow." ”
The people happily took the wooden sticks and the stone knives and ran to the trap with the steppe brother, and found that there were bison in two traps. Uncle Gao Shan said: "These are two big bison, they cannot be raised, they can only be killed, in addition to eating, the rest can be cut into small pieces and roasted, and stored for later eating slowly." Brother Prairie nodded in agreement.
The steppe tribes were in another sensation, and women and children rushed to see the bison killed. In the past, people didn't dare to motivate the bison, but now, they can easily kill two bison, how can it not be exciting? In particular, Brother Grassland couldn't sleep happily, he thought: It's great to have the help of Uncle Gaoshan, in just two or three days, the grassland tribe has undergone tremendous changes, we can live such a good life, we must not forget the great benefactor Uncle Gaoshan......
Early the next morning, everyone gathered around the fire, ate barbecue, Uncle Gao Shan said goodbye to Brother Grassland, and prepared to return to the Shiyan tribe. Before leaving, Uncle Gao Shan said to Brother Grassland: "I'll tell you three things, one is that everyone must learn to smoke, insist on smoking, and keeping the fire is the most important thing; The second is to use torches, cooperate with traps to catch beasts, you can also dig a few more traps, and the more beasts you kill, your life is better; The third is to arrange a special person to mow the grass and raise the sheep, in addition to raising in the stone pen, you can also use the Teng strip to tie it, and lead it to the place where there is more grass to eat grass, the sheep will grow faster, and the development is also very fast. ”
After listening carefully, Brother Grassland nodded again and again to indicate that he would act immediately, do what Uncle Gao Shan said, and after thanking him repeatedly, he sent Uncle Gao Shan and the others to leave the grassland tribe......
On the way back to the Shiyan tribe, Uncle Gao said to Xiao Ye, Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Mu: "Let's go back to the Shiyan tribe and see if their few traps work, but help them again, this time the Caoping tribe and the grassland tribe used torches and traps to catch a lot of wild things, and they will use them in the future." Only the Stone Rock Tribe hasn't used it yet, as long as they help them use it once or twice, they have all learned. ”
Xiao Ye said: "Uncle Shi is very capable, he will soon be able to learn to use torches and traps to catch wild things."
Uncle Gao Shan and the others had just returned to the Shiyan tribe, and Uncle Shi happily told the good news: "Yesterday, we caught two big bison in a newly dug trap, Uncle Gao Shan, you should sit down and eat barbecue." ”
Everyone sat down around the fire, Uncle Shi handed the guests a large piece of barbecue beef, Uncle Gao Shan said with a smile while eating: "After we are full, we can take a big action this afternoon, gather all the men to rake, light the torches, and cooperate with the trap to hunt the bison. Xiao Ye replied: "I'll go right away, and if I find a herd, I'll go back quickly." ”
Xiao Ye ate roast beef, and took Shi Dayi to check the bison's line. Uncle Shi asked worriedly, "Uncle Gaoshan, let's go hunting bison herds, it's very dangerous?" Will it hurt people. ”
Uncle Gao Shan replied: "Don't be afraid, the bison are the most afraid of fire, we took an action in the grassland tribe once, captured 16 large and small sheep, and in the Caoping tribe once, we killed four bison." Today's operation will be successful, and you will be hunting wild animals in the future. Uncle Shi nodded in approval.