Aunt He sent her second son to ask someone to make a fire, it has been a few days, and there is no news, she wonders and worries in her heart, is there no one invited, or is there something wrong? In the past two days, from morning to night, I have looked at the road, how much I hope that my son will return soon. On this day, the sky was already dark, Aunt He suddenly found two lights in the distance of the road, walking towards home, she was very happy, she thought, it must be Heer back, she shouted loudly: "Everyone come quickly, Heer is back!" "People came from the caves, and they saw the strange torches getting closer and closer, and soon they came home.

He Er introduced: "This is my mother, Aunt He, this is the leader of the Gaoshan tribe, Uncle Gaoshan, he is the son of Uncle Gaoshan, Xiaoye, and that is Caosan, they helped us send the fire." ”

Aunt He said happily: "Thank you, Uncle Gaoshan, you have worked so hard to bring us fire from far away."

Uncle Gao Shan said: "Aunt He doesn't have to be polite, it is right to help each other." I wonder if you have prepared dry firewood? ”

Mrs. He said: "We heard that we need a lot of hay and dry firewood, and we have prepared several large piles in the past few days, and there is a big cave that has been full of dry firewood. ”

Uncle Gao Shan said, "Great, let's light the fire at once, and take us to the place where the dry wood is piled up." Aunt He was very happy to take Uncle Gao Shan to the lawn where dry firewood was piled up.

Xiaoye and Grass tied the horses to a place with green grass for the horses to graze, and then followed the river lady to the lawn where the firewood was piled up, and saw that there were three piles of dry firewood on the lawn. Uncle Gao Shan said: "Just light a big fire, dozens of people are enough, Xiao Ye quickly ignite the first pile of dry firewood." ”

According to the arrangement of Uncle Gao Shan, Xiaoye and Cao San quickly lit the fire with torches. Kawaji shouted, "Everyone, bring the meat to the barbecue and eat it." ”

Xiao Ye said: "Don't be busy, everyone can't see the sky, I have the bark for lighting here, and I will follow the road after lighting it." Xiaoye told Heer to give out a bark to each family, and the oily bark was very bright when it was lit, and people happily took the bright bark and ran back to the cave to get mutton, rabbit meat, pheasant, and duck meat. Around the fire, learn the small leaves, grass three rivers two, with branches to put on the meat barbecue, this night, the riverside tribe is not lively, men, women and children all came, when people taste the barbecue meat, very happy, are full of praise and say: "This barbecue meat is really delicious, it is simply delicious......

Aunt He was even happier, she accompanied Uncle Gao Shan, sitting by the fire and eating delicious barbecue, she thanked Uncle Gao Shan from the bottom of her heart. At this time, Uncle Gao Shan took the barbecued beef, cut it into slices with a bone knife, handed it to the river lady to eat, and said: "This wild meat is very delicious, the meat is many and fragrant, and the pheasant is very fragrant but has many bones." ”

Aunt He ate the beef and said: "This beef is really delicious, we haven't eaten beef for a long time, we have a lot of bison here, but we don't dare to hunt lightly, not long ago we caught two fallen off the little bison, and now they are raised, and they will be killed when they grow up." ”

Uncle Gao Shan said: "I have a way to let you have bison meat to eat every day, and tomorrow you can hunt bison during the day, without effort and safety." ”

After hearing this, Aunt He said happily: "Then I will thank Uncle Gao Shan first." At this time, Ha Er shouted loudly: "Everyone sings and dances when they are full, our beautiful sister He, Sister He, takes the lead in singing and dancing." ”

These two sisters are the most beautiful women in the whole country, Sister He is 17 years old, medium height, long hair, waist-length ruddy garden face, a pair of big watery eyes, cheerful personality, talking like a bell, talking and laughing, it is really loved by everyone. Sister River is 16 years old, a little more beautiful than Sister He, with black hair and a shawl, a pair of beautiful phoenix eyes on her melon seed face, innocent and lively, she can sing and dance, and there are many young men who pursue these two sisters every day. After being reminded by Heer, the two sisters who can sing and dance sang beautiful and moving songs, and walked to Xiaoye Caosan, took their hands, and invited the two guests to dance, the two were happy to accept the invitation of the beauty, Xiaoye Tonghe sister, Caosan danced with the river sister, and other girls and boys also joined in the dancing routine. The brothers and sisters-in-law, who were infected, also danced, and everyone danced more and more, and the happy and enthusiastic carnival scene was indescribable.

People were partying, but the weather was not beautiful, and it was raining, and it was getting heavier and heavier. Uncle Gao Shan shouted: "Xiaoye and Caosan, quickly smoke and save the fire." ”

Then Aunt He shouted: "Everyone go back to the cave to sleep, and get up early tomorrow." Aunt He said to Uncle Gaoshan, "Go, stay in my cave." At this time, more than a dozen girls competed to accompany Xiaoye and Caosan, and they all refused to let each other go.

At this time, Aunt He spoke: "Don't fight, Sister He, Sister He will accompany the two guests, and hurry back to the cave when the rain is heavy." ”

Xiaoye told everyone to quickly take the bark and set it back to the cave. People lit the bark and went back to their caves. At this time, Sister He pulled Xiaoye, Sister He pulled Caosan, returned to the cave where they lived, hugged each other, kissed, and couldn't wait to make out on the stone bed......

Uncle Gao Shan lit the bark, followed the river lady to the cave, borrowed the light to see the river lady cave, the layout is still neat, there is a stone bed, the bed is cushioned with hay sheepskin, there is a very unsquare stone table, there are three stones around the stone table for stools. The two sat on the stone bench, and Uncle Gao Shan put the burning bark between two small stones on the stone table, and he smoked a cigarette and asked, "Aunt He, why haven't you seen your husband today?"

Mrs. He replied: "There are seven tribes in our country where women are in charge, and the practice is the "walking marriage" passed down from the ancestors, women have no fixed husbands, and the children only know their mothers, but not their fathers, and when the children reach the age of 15, they must leave their mothers. The daughter lives alone in a cave, and the son lives in a big cave with other single men, and every morning the man proposes to the woman, that is, he puts his own sheepskin and the sheepskin he covers into a burden, and puts it at the mouth of the cave where the woman you like, and the cave where the beautiful woman lives, and every morning puts a lot of men's burdens, and the woman takes a fancy to the man, so she takes the man's burden into the cave, and the man is the woman's husband. After a few days or a period of time, the woman thinks that the man's personality is not suitable for her, or that she is lazy, etc., so the woman puts the man's baggage in the cave and puts it at the entrance of the cave, and so the divorce is given. The man could not make a noise, so he had to take his own baggage and go to the mouth of the cave where the other women lived, put down the burden and propose, and if the proposal failed, he temporarily lived in the big cave where the single men lived, and waited for the next day to propose. I can't remember how many husbands I've had in my life. I have had five sons and four daughters, and all four sons and four daughters are chiefs of the tribes, except for Heji. ”

Uncle Gao Shan smoked a cigarette and listened carefully to Aunt He's "walking marriage", he had heard of this interesting way of marriage before, but now he let himself run into it......

The rain became heavier and heavier, Uncle Gao put on a cigarette and smoked, the bark of the lighting was almost burned, Uncle Gao Shan replaced a long bark and lit it, or used two small stones to put the bark between the trees and put them on the stone table, and the whole cave was very bright. Uncle Gao Shan said: "This heavy rain will definitely extinguish the fire, and tonight in order to keep the fire, I dare not sleep." ”

He took a puff of his cigarette, slowly exhaled it, and said, "We have come this time to help you do four things, the first is to help you light the fire so that you can eat barbecue meat; The second thing is to help you learn to smoke cigarettes and keep fires, and to have fires for a long time. The third thing is to help you learn to dig traps and torches, and hunt big bison and wild horses. The fourth thing is to teach you to fish for "water meat" and add a delicious food; I think that in order for all 32 tribes to learn these four things very quickly, tomorrow if it does not rain, you will send men to mount horses, and invite the leaders of each tribe to come to the riverside tribes and study together, so that everyone will be taught quickly. Aunt He, tell me, is this okay? If there is anything else you need our help with, just tell me, and we will do our best to help you. ”

Aunt He said movingly: "Uncle Gao Shan has thought very well for us, and tomorrow I will send someone to invite the leaders of each tribe, so that it will be faster to learn." We still need help, which is that we have a lot of wolves here, and they often steal and eat the sheep we raise, and we really can't help it. ”

Uncle Gao Shan said: "Okay, we will have a way to get rid of these wolves, and we will find a way after dawn." ”

Uncle Gao Shan took a cigarette and smoked it, and then lit it with a piece of bark, and then talked about the mountain tribe in the past, the use of fire, the current development, and the situation after helping dozens of tribes to use fire, Aunt River listened very carefully, she admired from the bottom of her heart, and thanked the mountain uncle for selfless help. The two of them talked very speculatively, and before they knew it, it was dawn, and the rain stopped at some point......

Uncle Gao Shan smoked a cigarette, and Aunt Tonghe came to the fire, seeing that the fire had been extinguished by the heavy rain, Xiaoye smoked a cigarette and came to the fire with Sister He, and then Cao San and Sister He also came. Uncle Gao Shan said: "There is no rain today, the sun is coming, quickly get the hay and firewood in the cave, light the fire first, and there is still a lot to do after eating the barbecue." ”

He Aunt arranged 6 people, the hay and firewood from the cave to get and pile on the lawn, Xiaoye and Cao San quickly lit the fire, people came to the fire, River Aunt arranged 8 men, kill two big fat sheep raised in a circle, everyone around the fire to eat barbecue meat, River Lady sent two people with Xiao Ye and Cao San, riding horses to invite the leaders of each tribe to come to the river tribe to taste barbecue meat, discuss the fire.

After everyone had eaten fragrant roast mutton around the fire, Xiao Ye and Cao San and other four people rode two horses and went to invite the leaders.

Uncle Gao Shan, accompanied by the river lady, observed the surrounding environment, the right side of the riverside tribe is the nameless river, the river is wide, the "water meat" in the river, swimming around, not afraid of people. There are many trees and bamboo forests growing on the riverside. On the left is a hilly forest with many large trees and bamboo forests. In the middle is the grassland of dozens of miles of Fangyuan, because of the rain, the grass grows very luxuriantly, see a lot of bison and wild horses eating grass freely, sheep and rabbits can be seen everywhere, Uncle Gao Shan said with emotion: "This is really a good place to live!" ”

Uncle Gao Shan walked while watching, picked two tobacco leaves on the grass casually, handed them to Mrs. He and said: "Mrs. He, this is the tobacco leaves, you can send a few people to pick more, after drying it can be turned into smoke, and the future to retain the fire will rely on this smoke, last night it rained heavily and the fire was poured on the fire, and the fire was lit with a cigarette butt this morning, if it were not for this cigarette butt fire, the fire would have been lost." Therefore, everyone must learn to smoke in order to preserve the fire. ”

Aunt He said: "We have a lot of rain here, it will rain in a few days, Uncle Gao Shan is right, only smoking can keep the fire, this is really a big problem, I immediately arranged five people to collect this kind of tobacco leaves." ”