People went to the woods on the shore downstream to look and found some fruit trees, but there were not many fruits on the trees, and only about 200 were picked in total. There are many bird nests found in the bamboo forest, but most of the bird nests are on the tip of the bamboo, and the bamboo is small and people can't climb up, so it is not easy to dig out the eggs. Xiao Ye thought of a way, he asked everyone to use a stone knife and stone axe to cut the bamboo and take out the birds' eggs, although this method damaged some birds' eggs, but the harvest was considerable, and a total of more than 100 birds' eggs were found.

Uncle Gao Shan looked at the sky and said, "It's not too early, let's go back and come back tomorrow." Everyone was about to go home when they heard Xiao Mu shouting, "There's a big snake here, devouring mountain rats." ”

The three brothers Xiaoshan Xiaoshu and Xiaoye immediately rushed to see a fist-sized snake devouring a big mountain mouse, Xiaoshan said: "We have eaten snake meat before, it is delicious, get out of the way, I will kill it." ”

Xiao Mu and the others immediately got out of the way and stood aside, Xiaoshan seemed to be very experienced in fighting snakes, he held a wooden stick in his hand, and hit the snake on the seven inches of the snake, the snake lost the power to bite, and then Xiaoshan raised the stone axe and cut it, and the head of the snake was cut off with an axe, and the snake swung a few times and died. The hill quickly stripped the snakeskin off. He said happily: "This snake has a lot of meat, equivalent to the meat of three hares. ”

Uncle Gao Shan was very satisfied and said: "This snake meat is delicious, let's go home soon, it's almost dark, and the children are still hungry waiting for us to take the food back to eat." So, everyone took the harvest food and hurried back. The children were particularly fond of snake meat and bird eggs, and the adults ate only a little bit of food.

The next day, Uncle Gao Shan led everyone to the downstream again, and he told everyone: "Today we will go a little farther and pick more fruits and eggs. Pheasants and ducks are not easy to catch, so it is good to pick up eggs and duck eggs. The snake is also good, the snake meat I took back yesterday is very beautiful, and the children especially like to eat it, but when you fight the snake, you should pay attention to it, don't let the snake bite, okay, let's act. "Everyone began to act separately under the command of Uncle Takayama.

Uncle Gao Shan led a team of people to dig out the birds' eggs, and all the trees and bamboos with bird's nests, no matter how bad, must do everything possible to dig out the birds' eggs.

Xiaoye led a team of people to pick fruits, as long as they saw larger fruits on the trees, whether they were ripe or not, whether they were sour or sweet, they would pick what they could eat.

Xiaoshan led a team of people to look for small animals and snakes, but it was hard, and there were no small animals everywhere......

Through the joint efforts of most of the day, the harvest is considerable, a total of more than 200 fruits, more than 100 bird eggs, more than 30 pheasant and duck eggs, killed two small snakes, and accidentally caught a wild duck that was laying eggs. Everyone happily went home, and Uncle Gao Shan arranged to leave some more for the children, and the rest was evenly distributed for everyone to eat.

The next day, Uncle Gao Shan still led everyone to the same place again, continued to pick fruits, dig birds' eggs, beat snakes, the harvest was not as good as the first day, so in the woods and bamboo forests on the shore of the downstream, for 6 consecutive days, the harvest became less and less, and finally there was no harvest. What if people's lives are more difficult?

That night, the people were asleep, and the mountain master couldn't sleep late at night, he thought: In the past, there were big forests, animals, and fruits, and they could survive all day, but now where is the road of the mountain tribe? The fruit trees were burned to death, and I wonder where the wild things fled again? What do dozens of people eat? Aunt Gao Shan can't fall asleep this night, since she escaped, she has eaten a full meal, and she has not slept well one night, he saw that her husband has worked hard for the food and drink of the tribe during this time, and people have lost a lot of weight, she said distressedly: "Lord Gaoshan, go to sleep, you can't eat enough every day, and you can't sleep well, you will drag down your body, all of them are counting on you!" ”

Uncle Gao Shan said: "Dozens of people have to eat every day, the forest is still burning, and the wild things don't know where to flee, I am worried about going there to find food to eat, our tribe finally escaped from death, and now we must not starve to death!" ”

Aunt Gao said: "In the past few days, I have arranged to save food, storing more than 50 bird eggs, chicken and duck eggs for 11 children, and more than 30 fruits, saving enough for the children to eat for a few days, and the adults can live for a few days as long as they have water to drink." I thought that if I couldn't find food, I would better find a way to do more in the river, as long as I had a small "water meat" to eat every day, I could save my life. ”

Uncle Gao Shan thought for a moment and said: "Okay, tomorrow we will go to the river to find a way, try our best to catch the "water meat", how much can be caught, we can only live one day at a time." After he had made up his mind, he fell asleep in a daze.

When a new day came, Uncle Gao Shan led everyone to the river again, and saw that there were only very small "water meat" swimming around in the river, and everyone went down the river with great strength to catch more than 10 two-finger "water meat". Seeing that everyone was tired and sweating, Uncle Gao Shan said with concern: "Everyone is tired, drink some water, go to the shore and rest before continuing to catch." ”

Everyone drank some water and rested on the shore. Xiao Ye said: "It's really difficult to catch these little "water meat", and you can't use sticks. To be honest, it's a bit of a pity to catch and eat such a small one. Uncle Gao Shan said: "This is to save your life, so let's catch it for a while and go home, and find another way tomorrow." ”

Everyone went into the water to catch "water meat" again, but they were tired and only caught more than 20 small "water meat" all day, and after taking it home, all the parts were given to the children to eat, and even the children could not eat enough, crying and shouting to eat, when the mother's gloom shed tears, they were also the same as other men, they could only drink water to satisfy their hunger......

On this day, Uncle Gao Shan led everyone, hungry again to the river, sat on the shore, sad face to think of a way, then found in the water and on the beach, there is an eight-legged "monster", the eyes are protruding, the whole body is hard, crawling horizontally, it looks very scary, no one dares to move it. (The crab we now call it) really has no food to eat, and everyone is hungry, and their survival is greatly threatened.

At this time, Uncle Gao Shan was also in a hurry, he thought of the "monster" crawling sideways in the river and on the river beach, can this "monster" be eaten? No one has tasted it, and no one knows if they can eat it, and if they can eat it, they can temporarily satisfy their hunger and save their lives. Thinking of this, he asked: "Who dares to catch the eight-legged "monster" that crawls sideways in the river and tastes it to see if it can be eaten."

At this time, people look at me, I look at you, and no one dares to taste such a terrifying "monster". Someone is saying: "It's scary to see these eight-legged "monsters", it's too late to hide from it, who dares to taste it." ”

Yes, whoever sees this monster is terrified, and who dares to eat it. Just when no one dared to taste this "monster", Brave Xiaoshan thought: If there is nothing to eat, people will starve to death, in order to survive, why not try this monster, if you can eat enough, you can save your life. Thinking of this, he stepped forward and said, "Let me taste this monster." Everyone looked at the hill with amazement to see how he ate this terrible "monster".

Xiaoshan came to the river beach, stretched out his hand in the water to catch a palm-sized "monster", frightened his hand kept squeezing, he looked and looked, he couldn't eat, was thinking about how to eat this terrible "monster", he was not careful, was caught by the big claw of this "monster" middle finger, he screamed in pain. Everyone gathered around when they heard the sound, but they were in a hurry and helpless.

At this time, Xiao Ye said: Quickly break the big claws of the "monster". According to Xiaoye's method, Xiaoshan folded slightly, and the big claw of the "monster" was broken, and the big claw holding Xiaoshan was also released. Xiaoshan hurriedly put the big claw in his mouth and ate it, the hard shell was bitten and crushed, and he tasted the salty taste of the meat inside, but it was delicious, and Xiaoshan cried out again: "It's delicious, it's so delicious." He spat out the hard shell and ate the meat. After eating it, Xiaoshan shouted loudly: "Everyone catch this monster and eat it, spit out the hard shell, and eat only the meat inside, it is really delicious." Due to hunger, in order to survive, Xiaoshan became the first person in the world to eat "monsters".

Everyone saw that Xiaoshan was eating with relish, and they also plucked up the courage, and they caught the "monster" one after another, and ate according to the method that Xiaoshan said, and shouted delicious while eating. They continued to improve the way they ate it, and later everyone removed the whole hard shell of this "monster", and the meat could be eaten in its entirety. Although the "monster" meat is very delicious, it is still not possible to rely on the "monster" to fill the stomach, because the "monster" is not big and the meat is very small, but it is much better than catching small "water meat". Uncle Gao Shan arranged for everyone to try their best to catch monsters, and after catching them, they tied them up with a small Qingteng, caught them for a day, caught more than 200 monsters in total, and each person was assigned 3 after bringing them home, and everyone said that it was delicious, and the rest were all left to the children.

Another day began, everyone continued to catch "monsters", this day through everyone's efforts, the harvest is not small, caught 190 "monsters", although less meat can not fill the stomach, but it is better than just drinking water.

After a few days, there were few monsters. Uncle Gao Shan arranged again: divide into two teams, send 10 people to continue to catch "water meat" and "monsters" in the river, and the rest of the people will personally lead the team back to the primeval forest to see if they can find food.

Xiao Zhuang led the monster catcher, drank some river water to boost his spirits, and went down to the river to catch monsters. Because there are too few monsters in the river, after working hard for most of the day, only 30 small monsters were caught, and everyone was reluctant to eat one, so they all took home for the children to eat.

Uncle Gao Shan led a team of people, armed with wooden sticks and stone axes and stone knives, and walked slowly towards the primeval forest with weak energy, tired after walking for a while, and then walked forward after a while, and suddenly found a big bison burned by fire, lying on the side of the road and dying, everyone was very happy. When Uncle Gao Shan saw that everyone was hungry, he said, "Quickly kill the bison and skin them, and everyone will eat a piece of beef before moving forward." The spirit of the people came, and soon they killed the bison, skinned it, and cut the beef into pieces, one for each person, and the hungry people took the beef and ate it in large gulps.

After eating the beef and resting for a while, Uncle Gao Shan sent four people to send the beef back for the family to eat. The rest of the people continued to walk, not far from the burning forest, and found a burned wild sheep dead on the side of the road, and the people were very happy, and Uncle Gao arranged for two more to bring the dead sheep home.

Uncle Gao Shan led everyone to continue to rush forward, searching as they went, how much everyone hoped to find one or two more sheep that were burned or burned to death by the fire, but soon came to the primeval forest, everyone was disappointed, and did not find any more burned cattle and sheep. But I found that the forest was about to burn out, and there were still scattered trees burning at the edge of the forest, and no one knew how long these trees would burn......