Chapter 4: Lighting the First Fire
The people of the mountain tribe, according to the arrangement of the mountain master, pick wild fruits as usual, and can pick more than 200 wild fruits every day, and everyone can eat a few. People who hunt wild animals have gradually mastered the time, place, and other rules of wild animal activities, and can hunt some sheep and rabbits every day, and sometimes they can hunt a bison. After eating bloody raw meat, stomach discomfort and diarrhea began to occur.
The clever Xiao Ye thought, the meat that has been grilled by the fire is very fragrant, very delicious, and it doesn't have diarrhea after eating, isn't the forest still burning now, why don't you take the raw meat and eat it after it's cooked? He told Xiaoshu his thoughts, and asked Xiaoshu to wear the meat on the tree skills, and ran to the scattered trees that were burning at the edge of the forest to try to barbecue, after repeated barbecue, the smell of meat appeared, the brothers tasted it, Xiaoye shouted: "It's delicious, fragrant, hot, and fresh, take it back to your parents to taste." Xiaoshu agreed: "Yes, let's go back and let our parents taste the hot barbecue." ”
The brothers excitedly ran home to give the barbecue to their parents, and the two old men tasted the roasted meat, and were very happy, and they both said that it was delicious. So he asked the brothers how they got this barbecue? Xiao Ye told the story, and Uncle Gao Shan applauded again and again, and asked everyone to learn Xiao Ye's method, take the meat to the burning tree and barbecue it before eating. Everyone was very happy, and they could eat fragrant and hot cooked meat again.
So, people learn the method of the two Xiaoye brothers every day, put the beef on the branches and take it to the burning tree to barbecue and eat, everyone is so happy, they all say that the fresh meat of the barbecue is more fragrant and delicious. People with upset stomachs and diarrhea are also getting better. In the future, whenever they hunted wild animals, everyone adopted this method, and took the meat to be grilled before eating.
A few days have passed, although everyone can eat delicious barbecue meat every day, but always feel very difficult, because taking the beast meat to barbecue, the distance back and forth is too far, very inconvenient, every day everyone runs back and forth like this, and tired and affects the time of picking wild fruits and hunting.
Xiao Ye thought again, everyone can run a long way to eat barbecue, it is really inconvenient, if we can lead the fire to the lawn outside our house, and light a big fire on the lawn, how convenient it would be, everyone does not use to run back and forth every day, you can eat barbecue at any time, and besides, the beast is afraid of fire, and it does not dare to invade us. The more he thought about it, the more excited he became, he told his father his thoughts, and Uncle Gao Shan nodded and said, "This method is very good!" We can try it, if we can really move the fire back and light a big fire, we don't need to run back every day to eat barbecue, but how to move the fire back, everyone can discuss a good way. ”
After thinking for a moment, Uncle Gao Shan said, "I think, before there is a good way, I will try it with a small branch, if it is better to use a dry branch to move the fire back, if not, then I will think of another way." Sleep well tonight. Tomorrow we're going to move the fire. Xiao Ye's suggestion was supported by his father, and he was very happy in his heart, and he quickly fell asleep that night.
At dawn, Uncle Gao Shan told everyone to hurry up and eat breakfast, he also ate a little roast beef, and led Xiaoshu, Xiaoye and other 10 people, and soon came to the scattered trees that were still burning, Xiaoye lit with small branches, ran not far, and the fire was extinguished. Xiaoye tied a few dry tree skills into a torch, lit it and ran back, but it didn't go far and went out again.
Xiao Ye and everyone tried several times, although they ran farther and farther each time, they still failed, and everyone couldn't think of a good way for a while. Uncle Gao Shan thought for a while and said, "It seems that it is not possible to take away the fire today, let's go back and come back tomorrow to take the fire." "Everyone had to go home.
That night, Uncle Gao Shan thought about moving the fire during the day, and he couldn't sleep late at night, and always thought of a better way to come, and then he made up his mind to use the long and dry branches to make a torch tomorrow, and try again, and then he fell asleep in a daze......
The next morning, Uncle Gao Shan still led the original team, and soon came to the burning tree, and he arranged for Xiaoye to use a torch made of long and dry branches, and ran back immediately after lighting it, but after running not far, the torch was still extinguished. He lit the torch again and ran back, but after not running far, the torch went out again. The torches were lit many times, and the torches were extinguished after running a short distance many times, and again and again failed, and people were a little discouraged.
Uncle Gao Shan thought for a moment and said: "It's really not easy to get the fire, everyone should think about what good way to take the fire home after they go back, and then come to make the fire after they have a good way." So the people went home depressed.
After two failed attempts to get the tinder, no one thought of a way to get the tinder, so they had to take the meat to the edge of the forest and eat it after it was grilled on the burning trees.
For a few days, Xiaoye couldn't sleep, for the matter of taking fire, he thought for a long time, for a long time, he thought: or only use a torch to make a fire, if the torch is lit, run back, run to the time when the torch is about to be extinguished, and then light the hay, dry leaves, small dry firewood pile prepared first, and when this small dry firewood pile is burning, light the second torch, and then run back, and in the place where the second torch will be extinguished, then light the second small hay prepared, dry firewood, and then light the torch after the fire is burning and continue to run back, Prepare a few more torches and set up a few small fires, so that you can carry the fire home? He was excited, and told his father about the idea, and after hearing this, Uncle Gao Shan thought for a moment, and then said happily: "This method is good, and we will be able to move the fire back, and we will do it tomorrow." Uncle Gao Shan was still not at ease, so he called Xiaoshan and Xiaoshu Lei, and after discussing many details with Xiaoye, he went to sleep with confidence.
As soon as the morning dawned, Uncle Gao Shan gathered everyone on the lawn, and he said: "Today, except for 10 people picking wild fruits, the rest of the people will go with me to make a fire and move the fire." There is a big fire in this lawn area, and the hill will lead two people to pick up dry firewood, dry grass, and dry leaves, and when they come back from the fire, they will light it, and the others will follow me." As they went, they picked up dry firewood, hay, and leaves, and estimated that nine piles of hay and dry wood were piled up along the road, and they made many torches out of dry branches for use in the fire.
Everyone came to the burning tree, and Xiao Ye said, "Let me light the torch first." He lit the torch on the burning tree and ran back, and before he could reach the place where the firewood was stacked, the torch went out, and Xiao Ye took a look, although the open flame was extinguished and there were still sparks, he quickly ran to the place where the dry wood was piled up, and used the sparks to light the hay, and then ignited the dry wood, and the first small fire was burning. After the small fire was burning, Xiao Ye immediately lit the prepared torch, continued to run back, lit the second small fire, and lit the small fire one after another, one after another, after nine small fires, ten torches, and finally moved the fire to the lawn. When the fire was lit, the whole mountain tribe cheered, and the people were simply overjoyed. Xiaohua sang and danced happily: "We have fire, we have fire". Everyone shouted along, we're on fire! We had a fire and we could easily eat barbecue meat! (This was the first great fire that mankind lit with wisdom, and laid the foundation for the use of fire in the future.) )
At this time, it was almost dark, everyone was barbecuing meat around the fire, happily eating fragrant barbecue, Xiaohua took the boys and girls to sing and dance, and the eldest brothers and sisters-in-law couldn't help but dance along to celebrate the success of moving the fire and lighting the fire.
After everyone sang and danced for a while, Uncle Gao Shan said happily: "Our mountain tribe has a big fire, and we can barbecue meat at any time, and we don't need to run a long distance to barbecue meat." From now on, all the work must be done seriously, Xiaoshu is responsible for leading two people, picking dry firewood every day, storing dry firewood, protecting the fire, not letting the fire go out, so that everyone can eat beautiful barbecue meat every day, this is the biggest problem, and must not be careless. Those who pick wild fruits must work hard, strive to pick more fruits every day, and let everyone have a few fruits to eat every day; The people who hunt remain the same, and Xiaoshan is responsible for it, so we must think of more ways to hunt wild animals, and ensure that everyone has meat to eat every day. It is necessary to raise the young animals that are captured alive, and the boys and girls are led by the grass and flowers, and build a few more stone pens with stones, and put the lambs, calves and other small animals in the pens to raise, and cut the grass every day to feed them, so that they grow faster, as long as everyone works diligently, our days will be better and better, and tomorrow we will all split up." Everyone said that Uncle Gao Shan arranged it well, so he did it.
People have eaten fragrant barbecue, and continue to sing and dance, lively until late at night, then happily go back to the nest shed to sleep, in addition to the people who take care of the fire, a few old people are reluctant to leave the fire, but also sit by the fire to play home......
In the past ten days, people have done everything in full accordance with Uncle Gaoshan's arrangement, and all work has made great progress and has made great gains. The people who pick wild fruits run all over the forest, work hard every day, and pick a lot of wild fruits, and each person can eat 2 to 3 sweet and sour fruits every day. The people who hunt have a harvest every day, sometimes hunt a sheep, sometimes hunt a cow, people have a beautiful barbecue to eat every day, and what is more gratifying is to catch a few lambs alive, the grass and flowers are very happy, the calves and sheep in the pen are more, they are busy, cut back the grass with a bone knife, carefully raise these lovely calves and sheep, so that they are full every day.
Every night, after a day of tiredness, people rest and plow, around the fire, happily eat fragrant barbecue and sweet and sour fruits, enjoy the fruits of labor, after being satisfied, especially young people, and around the fire happily sing beautiful songs, dance cheerfully, until late at night, many people do not want to go back to their nests, so they sleep comfortably around the fire.