The Tupo tribe was a day's journey from the grassland tribe, they stayed in the grassland tribe for one night, and Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang sent Tupo Chang and Tupo sister back to the Tupo tribe. The Tupo tribe is a very beautiful small grassland, next to the grassland is a big soil slope, there are many trees growing on the soil slope, there are many soil holes under the soil slope, the tribe also has more than 50 people, some live in the soil holes, some live in the nests of big trees, they are under the leadership of the soil slope chief, hunting small animals and picking fruits for a living.

Everyone was very happy to see the soil slope chief come back with tinder. The head of the soil slope asked everyone to quickly get hay and dry firewood, and Xiaoye Xiaozhuang and the others also used the same method, and quickly used cigarette butt fire to help the Tupo tribe light the fire, and the people continued to add dry firewood, and the fire burned bigger and bigger.

The people of the Tupo tribe shouted and jumped excitedly. They were very grateful to Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang for their great help, and they all competed to give them the best hare meat barbecue. He also took two peculiar round cylinders filled with water for the two of them to drink, and Xiao Ye drank the water while taking a closer look at the thing containing water.

The Tupo tribal chief understood Xiao Ye's thoughts, so he smiled and said to Xiao Ye: "This is a bamboo tube, which is made of a kind of bamboo that we grow here, and it is specially used to hold water and drink." I see that your mountain tribes do not have this kind of bamboo, and it is more difficult to drink water, but it is convenient to drink water with this bamboo tube, and there is a very long bamboo tube, which opens up the knots inside and uses it to fill water from the river home, and it has to hold a lot of water. ”

Seeing that the water had been drunk by the leaf, the head of the soil slope brought a long bamboo tube and poured water for the leaf. Xiaoye thought at this time, it is really convenient to drink water with this bamboo tube, if we have this kind of bamboo tube to hold water to drink, and no longer use the leaves of plants to hold water, how good it would be.

Tupo Chang looked at Xiao Ye's thoughts again, and said: "You two stay here for a few more days, look around, when I go back, the gift I will give you is a bamboo tube, how many you want."

Xiao Ye said happily: "We are short of things that hold water, it is usually difficult to drink water, it is much more convenient to have a bamboo tube, we also have bamboo there, but small bamboo, not a big bamboo like you, thank you first, I am not welcome when I go, I can ask for more bamboo, get back to the tribe at least one short bamboo tube per person." ”

Tupo Chang smiled and said: "You can give as much as you want, you must be satisfied, we have big bamboos all over the mountains here."

At this time, Tupo Chang said to the people: "The mountain tribe has done us a great favor this time, helping us to retrieve the fire, so that we can live a good life with fire." It also rained heavily, and all four fires were extinguished, but each of them learned to smoke, and kept the fire with a small smoke. We have to be like the mountain tribes, everyone has to learn to roll cigarettes, smoke, and keep the fire, so that we can live a good life with fire forever. I know that dozens of miles away from us, there are two small tribes, one is the bamboo forest tribe, all of them have only more than 30 people, and the other tribe is the beach tribe, this tribe has only more than 30 people, some time ago, they have come to our tribe several times to get fire, because everyone has no good way, the fire has failed, so there is no fire so far. We need to help them light their fires with cigarette butts, as the mountain tribes have helped us, and we want to let them live a good life with fire. From today onwards, everyone must seriously learn to roll cigarettes and smoke, and keep the fire, so that we can no longer lose the fire, which is the most important thing." After listening to this, the people kept nodding their heads, understanding the leader's speech, and all said that they should seriously learn to smoke cigarettes.

Immediately afterwards, the head of the soil slope said loudly: "There are many good ways for the mountain tribes, and they have a lot of experience, they hunted and caught a lot of lambs, piglets, and calves alive, and they did not kill them to eat, but built stone fences, put these little guys in the fences, and cut grass with bone knives to feed, and soon grew up, and sometimes they could kill a big one to eat if they didn't have anything to eat, and they also burned a small fire outside the stone fence, and the wolves were afraid of fire, so they didn't dare to come to eat the lambs." They have a lot of experience, and we can only learn slowly. Everyone listened with relish, smiling and nodding in agreement from time to time.

That night, in order to celebrate the success of the fire, they were also like the grassland tribe, everyone held hands, around the fire, sang songs, and danced happily in the garden, especially the big girls and young men, the more they danced, the more lively until late at night, and then they fell asleep around the fire......

The next day, Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang taught the people of the Tupo tribe very seriously how to collect tobacco leaves, how to roll cigarettes, and how to smoke. In the process of collecting tobacco leaves, it was also found that the leaves of a plant were long and wide, yellowish in color, and used to roll cigarettes after drying, and the fragrance was better than that of the tobacco leaves of the mountain tribes. After trying to take two puffs, Tupo said happily: "This cigarette is really fragrant, and I will smoke this cigarette from now on."

All the people who fell were very serious in their studies, and soon learned to collect tobacco leaves, roll cigarettes, and smoke. The two wanted to say goodbye to the Tupo tribesman and prepare to go back, but the Tupo chief repeatedly said: "Tomorrow I will accompany you to look around, play for a day, and send you away the day after tomorrow." Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang saw that the master was enthusiastic to stay, and they couldn't refuse, so they had to stay.

On this day, Tupo Chang took Xiao Ye Xiaozhuang to play everywhere, the three of them were smoking, Tu Po Chang introduced Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang while walking: "You see that there are a lot of bamboos on the small hillside, there are many bird nests on the big bamboo, there are many bird eggs, children like to eat the most, and they have to pay a lot every day." We have no shortage of food here, and there are many pheasants, wild ducks, and hares. You see that the forest next to the bamboo forest is our original home, in order to prevent the invasion of wild beasts, but also built a nest to live, since there is a fire we live by the fire is very safe, wild animals are afraid of fire and dare not invade us. ”

Immediately afterwards, the chief of the soil slope said: "Look at the bamboo forest behind the forest, and next to the bamboo forest is a small river, and the river water can be clear!" It's delicious, what you drank yesterday is the river water, and we send someone every day to store it with a long bamboo tube, so we don't lack water to drink. The spring water of your alpine tribe is more delicious, but it is very inconvenient to drink water, this time you bring back the bamboo tube, the long bamboo tube can be used to transport water and reserve water, and the short bamboo tube can be used to drink water, so it will be convenient for you to drink water in the future, and you will not have to worry about drinking water."

Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang listened to Tu Po Chang's introduction all the way, and gained a lot of knowledge, especially when they thought that they could solve the problem of draught difficulty quickly, they were very happy. At this time, the eldest sister of Tupo came and told Tupo that there were two guests in the Tupo chief's house, and they were from the beach tribe and the bamboo forest tribe. Tupo Chang said: "Let's go back and have a look after the guests, they must have some urgency to come to us." Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang also said that they should go back immediately. So, the four of them hurried back.

The four of them quickly returned to the Tupo tribe together, and it turned out that the guest was the head of the beach tribe, Brother Sha, who was in his 30s, tall, with a long face, natural black hair, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and infinite strength. Led a beach tribe of only thirty-six people, living in a nest in a tree. He and Tupo Chang have hunted together many times and are good friends.

The other is the head of the bamboo forest tribe called Brother Ma, this person is 40 years old, with black hair, big eyes, is also tall, shrewd and capable, and the bamboo forest tribe he led is only more than 30 people, living in the nest on the big tree. These two tribes are more than 50 miles away from the Tupo tribe, and they all make a living by hunting small animals, picking fruits, and digging birds' eggs.

The two leaders said that they had come to the Tupo tribe to get fire. In the past, when there was a fire in the Tupo tribe, these two tribes had been to the Tupo tribe to get fire, because there was no good way, the two times to get the fire failed, so there is no fire so far, can only eat bloody raw meat, life safety has been threatened by wild beasts for a long time. This time, I heard that the Tupo tribe used a good way to get the fire back, so I came to take a look and wanted to use a good way to get the seed back.

Tupo Chang said to the two: "This time the fire was a great help from the mountain tribes, they invented smoking, and used this small smoke to help us retrieve the fire from the mountain tribes of more than 200 miles, if they didn't help us, we still wouldn't have a fire." If you don't come this time, I will go to your place to help you light the fire, and in order to keep the fire, I will also teach you to smoke cigarettes. "Tupo Chang introduced Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang to the two leaders. And said: "They were the ones who helped us get the fire and return to the plow, and they also learned that we collected tobacco leaves, cigarettes, and smoked." Tomorrow they will go to the Meadow tribe and teach them about smoking. I'll go back with you tomorrow and I'll help you light the fire. I also want you to collect tobacco leaves, cigarettes, and smoke, and there will be a fire for a long time in the future." The two leaders were very happy to hear this, and they both expressed their gratitude to the soil slope chief.

Xiao Ye thought for a moment and said: "We won't go to the grassland tribe tomorrow, let's go to the bamboo forest tribe and the beach tribe together, first state them to light the fire, learn them to collect tobacco leaves, smoke cigarettes, and then we will go to the grassland tribe, this is better." ”

Tupo Chang was very happy and said, "Xiao Ye, you personally send the fire, that's even better, and I can learn again." ”

When the two leaders heard that Xiao Ye and the others were going to send the fire in person, they were very happy, and they both said that after going to them, they must invite guests to eat big bird eggs and eat the best bird meat.

The head of the soil slope arranged for everyone to sit down around the fire, and people brought barbecued meat, and brought water with bamboo tubes, and everyone ate meat, drank water, and talked and laughed. The leaders want Xiao Ye to tell Xiao Ye about the origin of the mountain tribe, Xiao Ye while eating barbecue, while talking about how the mountain tribe fled when the forest fire was burning, and boldly ate "water meat" and "monsters" when they were about to starve to death, how to find the beast meat burned by the fire is fragrant and beautiful, how to light the fire and barbecue meat to eat, how to lose the fire due to heavy rain, and how to find the fire, and invented the smoke to make the fire successfully......

The leaders listened attentively, and they all praised Yang and said that the mountain tribe was really amazing and had made great contributions to the people. When they were full, they were tired and slept comfortably around the fire.