The next morning, the people of the Shiyan tribe happily surrounded the fire again, eating fragrant barbecue meat, at this time Uncle Shi said to everyone: "We Shiyan tribe has a big fire, this is the mountain uncle and Xiaoye from a far away place, climbing the mountain and crossing the mountain, hard work for eleven days, before the fire was sent to us, lit the fire, so that we live a good life with fire, every day can eat fragrant and beautiful barbecue meat, we should thank the mountain uncle them." If we want to keep the fire from being extinguished and live a good life with fire for a long time, then we must learn to roll cigarettes, smoke, and store a lot of dry firewood in the cave for later use, if that day, our fire is extinguished by heavy rain, we can relight the fire with cigarette butts. Therefore, from today onwards, everyone should pick up hay and dry firewood, put it in the big cave on the left that no one lives, and fill the big cave for future use. Men have to learn to roll cigarettes and smoke, develop the habit of smoking every day, so that they can keep the fire, I have to check often, and find out who does not want to learn to smoke, can only give him bloody raw meat. ”

After Uncle Shi finished speaking, there were many people's voices: "We want to smoke!" We're going to smoke! We want to eat barbecue, not bloody raw meat!"

Immediately afterwards, Uncle Gao Shan said: "I want to thank Uncle Shi's family for saving my son Xiaoye from the river and allowing him to escape from death." I heard that there are two tribes not far from you, they have no fire, they still eat bloody raw meat, tomorrow we will send them fire, and let them live a good life with fire. Ask Uncle Shi to send someone to bring their leaders over to discuss the fire. ”

Uncle Shi immediately agreed: "It's a big deal to get the fire, and you should invite them to discuss it together." And immediately sent his sons Shi Da and Shi Er to invite the leader of the grassland tribe, Brother Grassland, and the eldest sister of the Caoping tribe to discuss with him. So, Shi Da and Shi Er immediately set off and hurried to invite the two leaders.

The grassland tribe is only a few miles away from the Shiyan tribe, the leader is the grassland brother, only more than 30 years old, this person is strong, a black hair shoulder-length, square face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, smart and capable, very courageous, leading more than 60 people of the grassland tribe, they wear animal skins, live in a cave by the nameless lake, live by hunting small wild animals for a living, because there are many small animals on the grassland, life is not a problem.

The Caoping tribe is only a few miles away from the Shiyan tribe, and the original leader is the eldest brother of Caoping, who was accidentally injured in the head by the horns of the bison and died five years ago while hunting bison. His wife, Sister Caoping, served as the leader, she was 45 years old, medium stature, with a big face and big eyes, waist-length black hair, able to speak, capable, fair, and prestigious, leading more than 50 people from the Caoping tribe, wearing animal skins, and living in a cave by the nameless lake, they no longer hunted bison, and hunted small wild animals for a living.

After a while, Shi Da and the two Shi brothers invited Brother Grassland and Sister Caoping, and after Uncle Shi introduced Uncle Gaoshan to a few people, he asked the two guests to sit down, and handed the two leaders barbecue meat, and the two were very happy after eating.

Brother Prairie said excitedly: "This barbecue meat is fresh and fragrant, it's really delicious, I have never eaten such delicious meat before." And he ate it in large gulps.

Sister Caoping also said happily: "On the way here, the Shi brothers told us about the fire to roast meat, I haven't even seen fire, and I am very suspicious, I tasted the meat barbecued with fire just now, it is really delicious." ”

Uncle Shi smiled and said: "Today, I invite you to taste the taste of roasted meat, and more importantly, Uncle Gao Shan wants to send you fire, light a big fire for you, and let you live a good life with fire." ”

The two leaders were very happy when they heard this, and Sister Cao Ping said, "That's just great, I thank Uncle Gao Shan first." ”

Brother Caoyuan said: "I also thank Uncle Gao Shan in advance, and welcome Uncle Gao Shan to stay with us for a few more days." ”

Uncle Gao Shan smiled and said, "I think it's arranged this way, today the two leaders of you will go back to prepare, first of all, prepare more hay and dry firewood." The more the better, as long as the fire is lit, a lot of dry firewood will be used, so a few people should be sent to pick up the firewood. Today we will help the Shiyan tribe to do some things, and tomorrow morning we will go to the Caoping tribe, not only to help you light the fire, but also to help you roll cigarettes, smoke, and keep the fire. Let me also know how you make torches, use torches, and hunt great beasts, and your days will be better for the future. ”

After hearing this, the two leaders said happily: "Then we will go back, and first prepare and wait for the arrival of Uncle Gao Shan." ”

At this time, Uncle Shi took a few pieces of roasted beef and gave them to the two leaders and said, "Take them back and let's taste the roasted meat." The two leaders took the barbecue meat, thanked Uncle Shi, and went back happily.

Uncle Gao Shan said to Uncle Shi: "Uncle Shi, I heard that your three tribes used to be afraid of people being hurt and did not want to hunt big wild things, I think as long as you use torches and traps to hunt, you can hunt big wild things, and the harvest is big and safe." ”

Uncle Shi said: "Xiao Ye helped us dig a trap on the way to the wild food and killed two bison and a wild horse. After that, there were no wild animals to draught, a few small traps dug were okay, and there were some catches every day. ”

Uncle Gao Shan said, "Let's go, let's take a look." "Uncle Gao Shan, Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang, accompanied by Uncle Shi, after looking at the original trap, they also looked at the places where bison, wild horses, and sheep moved.

Uncle Gao Shan said: "Uncle Shi, you see here and over there, if you dig six traps one after another, you will hunt a lot of wild things, and you will have endless meat." ”

Uncle Shi said happily: "Okay, let's start digging tomorrow, and we will dig in one day." Therefore, he made meticulous arrangements and preparations for the personnel and tools used to dig the trap.

The next morning, under the guidance of Uncle Gao Shan, they did their best, and it only took half a day to complete all six traps, just waiting for the harvest......

On this morning, Uncle Gao Shan, Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang and other four people, smoking cigarettes, led the way by Shi Da and soon arrived at the Caoping tribe. Sister Caoping led all the people to greet her, and Uncle Gao Shan said, "Sister Caoping, let's light the fire first and then do other things." ”

Sister Caoping said happily: "I listen to Uncle Gaoshan's arrangement." She took Uncle Gao Shan and the others to the place where hay and firewood were piled up, and Uncle Gao Shan took a look, it was a big wall, and there were stones around the firewood pile, which could sit on people. Uncle Gao Shan said to Sister Yang Caoping: "You think so thoughtfully, even the stool is settled." Xiaoye, hurry up and light the fire. ”

Xiao Ye and Xiao Zhuang quickly lit the fire with cigarette butts, and after adding firewood, the fire became bigger and bigger, Xiao Ye asked everyone to bring meat and teach them to use branches to put on meat for barbecue, and everyone would learn it. It's lively now, and they all say that the barbecue meat is too delicious, and they are vying to give the roasted meat to the guests. The children were noisy, eating piece after piece, and the stomachs were full of garden, and they were clamoring to eat, and the happy scene was indescribable. Everyone thanked Uncle Gao Shan and others for sending precious fire.

At this time, Uncle Gao Shan said to Sister Caoping: "You don't have to thank you, you should help you, there are three things to teach you today, the first is to find tobacco, cigarettes, learn to smoke, keep the fire; The second is to make torches from dry branches; The third thing is to dig traps and use torches to hunt large wild animals with traps. Sister Caoping said happily: "Thank you so much, Uncle Gaoshan, you have helped a lot." ”

Uncle Gao Shan and others, with the people of the Caoping tribe, quickly found a lot of tobacco on the grassland, some dry and some green, put the green ones next to the fire to roast, and taught everyone to roll cigarettes with dry tobacco leaves, Sister Caoping took the lead in learning cigarettes, smoking, everyone learned very seriously, and soon learned, Sister Caoping asked the men to smoke every day. Immediately after that, he taught everyone to make torches, and there were many people with great strength, and a lot of torches were made in a while. Uncle Gao Shan took everyone to choose a place and dig traps, and there were many people with great strength, and by the evening of the same day, five traps were dug in the place where bison and wild horses often moved. Uncle Gao Shan told everyone: "As long as you hear the bison screaming, it must be that the bison has fallen into the trap, and everyone must hurry to the trap to kill the cattle......"

That night, the people of the Caoping tribe, after happily eating fragrant and beautiful barbecue meat, smoked their own cigarettes, except for a few people who went back to the cave, most of them slept around the fire.

Sister Caoping accompanied Uncle Gao Shan to set up a family routine, Uncle Gao Shan smoked a cigarette, and talked about how the mountain tribe found fire, used fire to barbecue meat to eat, hunting, heating, lighting, people lived a happy life, and later due to heavy rain, the rising flood washed away the fire, and after losing the fire, people fell ill, died, and their own wives and young sons also died of the disease. He also talked about the hardships of finding fire and the tortuous process of inventing smoke and fire.

Sister Caoping listened very seriously, smiled and nodded from time to time, she convinced Uncle Gao Shan from the heart, especially Uncle Gao Shan's spirit of not being afraid of hardships and selflessly helping others, which moved her even more. She said with emotion: "It's really not easy for your mountain tribe, so many people have died of disease, in order to find fire, invented smoking to make fire, lit a big fire, and experienced so many emotions, especially Uncle Gaoshan is so old, and he also climbed the mountain and crossed the mountain, sent the fire to us from a long distance, and sincerely helped us, I don't know how to thank you." ”

Immediately afterwards, Sister Cao Ping said: "There are more than 50 people in our tribe, and we have hunted bison before, but it is not easy to succeed, five years ago when hunting bison, three people were injured by bison horns, and my husband died of a head injury. From then on, for the safety of life, we no longer hunt big bison, only hunt small wild animals for a living, in the future we can hunt and kill the big bison better, kill a bison, enough for us to eat for several days. ”

Uncle Gao Shan said: "You will definitely be able to kill the bison, you will have endless meat, and life will get better and better." The two leaders did not have a trace of sleep, and the more they talked, the more speculative they became, and there was always something to say, and before they knew it, it was dawn.