Chapter 17 Cigarette butts can start a prairie fire
The next morning, everyone gathered around the big fire, after eating barbecue, Xiao Ye, Xiao Zhuang and Tu Po Chang, smoking cigarettes, under the leadership of the two leaders, walked towards the beach tribe, several people walked all the way, while talking and laughing, and doing homely things.
Brother Sha smiled and said: "Although I am in my 30s, but always very stupid, I only became the head man a year ago, it turns out that my mother is the head person, we have been women for generations, my mother has 9 children, I am the eldest brother, the following 8 are all sisters, the first 5 sisters have children, their bodies are not very good, and there are children who drag them down, so they don't want to be the head, and 3 little sisters are still young, and their health is not good, and they are greedy for fun, they think that the head of the people is more affectionate and troublesome, I can't be the leader, my mother is old and sick, and she has more than enough strength to be the leader, so she has to let me be the leader, I can't shirk it, and I have to agree. The first thing I encountered was that I heard that there was a fire in the Tupo tribe, and the meat from the barbecue was delicious. My mother told me to go to the Tupo tribe to get the fire back, our tribe still burned a fire to barbecue meat to eat, but I ran to the Tupo tribe several times, used dry branches to make fire, used a torch made of dry branches to make fire, tried all means, but failed to get the fire back, every time I went to only barbecue a few big birds back, my mother ate and kept calling delicious, after a few days of eating, I asked me to go to the Tupo tribe to barbecue the big birds for her, it was really wasteful. ”
Everyone laughed after hearing this, and Tupo Chang said: "This time I will help you light the fire, and it will be convenient for you to eat barbecue meat in the future, and you will not go dozens of miles to me to barbecue big birds." ”
Xiao Ye asked, "Brother Sha, I only heard you talk about your mother's troubles, is your father okay?" ”
Brother Sha replied, "The people of our tribe only know our mother, but never our father. ”
Xiao Ye took a deep puff of cigarette, felt very strange, and asked again, "Brother Sha, are you married?" Have children? ”
Brother Sha laughed and replied: "How can I have children if I am a man, our tribe has many women and few men, except for six big men, they are all women and children, and there are many women competing with me every afternoon, it is very troublesome, and when you men come to us, there will be many women vying for it." Over the years, I don't know how many women have slept with me, but when I have children, they are theirs, and I don't have any children. ”
Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang both felt novel and interesting after hearing this, and they didn't understand it. Xiao Ye took another deep breath of cigarette, and slowly exhaled again, he thought, their beach tribe is really strange, how can it be such a custom? ……
Several of them had already arrived at the beach tribe in the middle of the conversation, this tribe was located by the river, with a small river to the east, a hill forest to the south, with trees and bamboos growing on the south, woods to the west, a hill forest to the north, and a large meadow in the middle, which was indeed a good place to live.
People heard that the head of the people came back to welcome, Sha Da Ge's mother also came slowly with a wooden stick, Sha Da Ge introduced the guests one by one, and said: "Mother, we didn't take the big bird to the barbecue today, we will have a big fire soon, and we will barbecue the big bird later, and the hot one will be more delicious." ”
The old man understood his son's words and nodded with a smile. It seems that this lady Sha is in her fifties, medium build, gray hair, big eyes, a capable woman, and now she is sick, and her legs and feet are inconvenient and she can only walk with wooden sticks. Several guests greeted Aunt Sha, and the old man also motioned for the guests to sit on the grass, and asked the fifth and sixth daughters to bring fruit and invite the guests to eat.
At this time, Brother Sha shouted loudly: "Everyone go to the forest to pick up dry leaves, dry firewood, the more the better, pick it up and put it in the middle of the grass, seventh sister, eighth sister, ninth sister, you go to pick up dry leaves, dry grass, pick it up and put it all in the middle of the grass, and after the dry firewood and dry leaves are piled up, light the fire, second sister, third sister, fourth sister, it is inconvenient for you to take your children, just move stones nearby and put them next to the grass, and wait for someone to sit later." ”
Brother Sha's younger sisters have two to three children except for the youngest three, and the youngest ninth sister is also 15 years old, and they all went according to the arrangement.
Several guests smoked cigarettes, ate fruits, and chatted with Aunt Sha. After a while, a large pile of dry firewood was piled up in the middle of the grass, and Xiaoye and Xiaozhuang quickly ignited the dried grass and leaves with cigarette butts, and they kept adding dry firewood to the pile to burn bigger and bigger. The people cheered: "The fire is burning, the fire is burning!" ”
Aunt Sha was very happy, she said excitedly: "I have been looking forward to the fire for more than a year, and today it is finally lit!" Let's get the meat and barbecue it. Brother Sha was also very excited, and he shouted loudly: "Everyone quickly bring the rabbit meat and bird meat at home to barbecue!" ”
The beach tribe is still the first time to use the fire, everyone doesn't understand anything, Xiao Ye, Xiao Zhuang and Tu Po Chang, patiently teach them how to barbecue meat to eat, everyone will learn, when they eat barbecue meat, they all shouted happily: "Oh my God! This barbecue meat is so delicious. ”
Brother Sha's sisters, give the roasted rabbit meat and bird meat to the guests, and Brother Sha gives the barbecued bird meat to his mother, and Mrs. Sha said happily: "This barbecue meat is more delicious than cold, and we can eat hot barbecue meat every day." ”
It was so lively, especially the innocent and lively children, who ate one piece after another, and happily ran around the fire, and the beach tribe had never been so lively.
The night was even more lively, the three youngest daughters of Aunt Sha were well-behaved and lively, and could sing and dance, and like the other women, they all vied to invite guests to dance around the fire, and they were sweating profusely and refused to rest, and the night was late, and they were tired of playing, and the men and women went to sleep around the fire.
The next day, after everyone ate barbecue meat around the fire, Xiaoye, Xiaozhuang and Tupo Chang taught everyone to collect tobacco leaves, cigarettes, and smoke. There were a lot of tobacco leaves in the hilly forest area of the beach tribe, and soon a few large pieces were collected, and everyone quickly learned to roll cigarettes and smoke.
In the afternoon, Xiao Ye, Xiao Zhuang and Tupo Chang bid farewell to Aunt Sha and Brother Sha, and under the leadership of Brother Ma, they smoked cigarettes and marched to the Bamboo Forest Tribe, and rushed to the Bamboo Forest Tribe before the black. There is only one forest in the north of the bamboo forest tribe, there is a small grassland outside the forest, and the other east, south and west are large bamboo forests, and Ma Da Ge led all the more than 30 people to live in the nest shed on the tree, digging bird eggs and hunting small animals for a living.
Seeing that it was still early, Brother Ma immediately summoned everyone to bring the dry firewood that had been prepared before, and sent people to quickly pick up the hay and dry leaves. Later, he patiently taught everyone to barbecue meat, roll cigarettes, and smoke, and since then the bamboo forest tribe has also lived a good life with fire.
This morning, after everyone ate barbecue around the fire, Xiaoye, Xiaozhuang and Tupo Chang repeatedly asked Brother Ma to reserve more dry firewood, and everyone must learn to smoke in order to ensure that the fire will never be extinguished, so as to live a good life with fire for a long time. Everyone said goodbye to Brother Ma and soon returned to the Tupo tribe.
Early the next morning, Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang were going to return to the grassland tribe, the soil slope chief had already prepared a bamboo tube, and the two of them took it, Xiao Ye calculated, all of them fell into a short bamboo tube, how much was needed, and finally he estimated that he had selected twenty long bamboo tubes and made them into two. Tupo Chang gave them barbecue meat to eat on the road, and sent two people to help them send the bamboo tube back, Xiao Ye and the two thanked Tupo Chang again and again, and left the Tupo tribe and returned to the grassland tribe.
When Tupo Chang learned from Brother Ma that there were two tribes 30 miles away that were also not on fire, he immediately stated that he should help these two tribes. Brother Ma led the way to the two tribes, helped them light the fire, and spent four days teaching them how to barbecue meat to eat, how to make cigarettes and smoke cigarettes to keep the fire, etc., and also made them live a good life with fire......
Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang lived in the grassland tribe for three days, during these three days, the two patiently taught people how to collect tobacco leaves, how to dry if it is green leaves, and how to roll cigarettes and smoke, people learned very seriously, and soon learned how to collect tobacco leaves, cigarettes, smoking, and keep the fire.
Uncle Meadow was very happy, in order to thank the mountain tribe, he gave the mountain tribe a hook made of the bones of small animals, he said to Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang: "This time you have done us a great favor, in order to thank you, I will give you a needle, you don't underestimate this little hook needle, it can be very useful, the two sheepskins you gave me are clothes sewn with this crochet needle, you see how well I wear it." The skins of the beasts that you are now wearing on your bodies are made of teng, and the intestines of the wild beasts are dried up and made as pure sons, and they are tied to your bodies, and it is very inconvenient to move, and when you hunt wild beasts, you run faster, and the skins that are draped on your bodies will fall off your bodies. If you use this needle hook, a thread made from the intestines of small animals, and sew animal skins into clothes, it will not fall off when worn on the body, and it is very warm to wear on the body in cold weather. ”
Uncle Grass also personally explained the specific sewing methods of the two of them. Xiao Ye took the bone needle very happily, and after thanking the grass uncle repeatedly, he left the grassland tribe.
After the people of the grassland tribe learned to roll cigarettes, they insisted on smoking, and since then they have kept the fire and lived a stable life.
Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang returned home immediately after completing the task assigned by Uncle Gao Shan, and all the people who fell down came to welcome, and after the two reported the completion of the task to Uncle Gao Shan, Uncle Gao Shan was very happy and said: "You have done a good job, we humans should help each other."
Xiao Ye pointed to the bamboo tube and said: "This is the treasure given to us by the soil slope chief, with this bamboo tube, it will be convenient for us to drink water." People looked curiously at the bamboo tubes that they had never seen before, and Xiao Ye asked everyone to take a few more bone knives to divide the long bamboo tubes into many short bamboo tubes, and there were eight long bamboo tubes left in addition to one for each person. Xiao Ye said: "If you open the knots in these eight long bamboo tubes, you can go to ship spring water and store spring water, and it will no longer be difficult to drink water in the future."
Uncle Gao Shan was very happy when he heard this, and immediately arranged eight people to carry the spring water after opening the bamboo joints, and soon the spring water filled with eight long tubes was transported back, and everyone was filled with a short cylinder of spring water, and everyone was very happy, and it was easy to drink the spring water.
At this time, Xiaoye took the treasure given by Uncle Grassland and a bone hook. He exclaimed, "The meadow tribes use this hook to sew clothes to wear, that is, to sew animal skins into clothes and wear them on their bodies, which are strong and warm, and they use the intestines of small animals to dry up and make threads to make clothes. ”
Everyone still doesn't understand what it means. Xiao Ye said: "I brought some thread back from the grassland tribe, and everyone will see how I make clothes." He took two pieces of sheepskin and began to make clothes, and he sewed them according to the method of Uncle Meadow, and soon sewed them into a piece of clothing, and put it on his father, Uncle Gaoshan, which fit very well. Uncle Gao Shan praised and said: "This dress is very comfortable to wear, everyone should wear this kind of clothes." ”
Xiao Ye said: "Wearing this kind of clothes, no matter how fast you run, the clothes will not fall off your body, and it is very warm to wear in winter." Now everyone must first learn to make a hook needle, using the bones of small animals to grind into a hook needle, each family should make one, and it will be faster to sew clothes in the future. ”
After listening to what Xiao Ye said, and seeing the clothes that Uncle Gao Shan was wearing, they all said that they were very good, and it was much better to tie the animal skin on his body.
In a short period of time, the mountain tribes set off a craze for making hooks and sewing clothes, especially the women who love beauty are the most skillful, and the clothes they sew carefully are the best, and each one looks better than the clothes sewn closely, and soon everyone has clothes to wear.
Since then, people have returned from labor every day, around the fire, eating delicious barbecue, drinking spring water, eating sweet and sour fruits, smoking cigarettes, singing and dancing, happy, happy, people's lives have taken another step forward.
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