On this day, the sky was overcast, as if it was going to rain again, and people were panicking. It was not yet noon, and the cry of Xiaohua came out of the nest of Uncle Gao Mountain: "Mom, wake up!" Mom, wake up! "Aunt Gao Shan's condition has worsened, and she can't do it anymore. Everyone gathered around Aunt Gao Shan, Aunt Gao Shan opened her eyes, held Uncle Gaoshan's hand with her weak hand, and said in a very weak voice: "Lord Gao Shan, I can't do it anymore, I can't accompany you anymore, you have to live well, for the sake of our tribe, for our descendants, you must find a way to find the fire, find the fire ......." Uncle Gao Shan hurriedly nodded and replied, "Okay, I promise you, we will definitely find a way to find the fire." "Aunt Gao Shan died a painful death. The whole family cried together, and Xiaohua cried even more sadly: "Mom! You shouldn't have left us alone! ”

Xiaocao, who was seriously ill, also closed her eyes painfully when everyone was sad and crying. This is really a disaster! Uncle Gao Shan saw that his wife, who had been with him for 30 years, had left him, and his youngest son had also left, and he was very sad with tears, and he went to the side and cried sadly.

Uncle Gao Shan took his children, carried the remains of his wife and Xiaocao, raked to the side of the lawn, dug two soil pits with pointed sticks and stone axes, and buried the remains of his wife and Xiaocao, Xiaoshan, Xiaoshu, Xiaoye and Xiaohua all knelt in front of the grave and cried bitterly, Uncle Gaoshan whispered: "Rest in peace, wife, I will do everything I can to find the fire, and I will soon light the fire, so that everyone can live a life of fire, and our mountain tribe will survive......"

Just when Uncle Gao Shan took his children to leave the grave of Aunt Gao Mountain, Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Tao burst into tears and carried their mother's body to the lawn. Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Tao knelt in front of the grave and cried bitterly, Uncle Gao Shan and his children also shed tears sadly, and after a while, under the persuasion and guidance of Uncle Gao Shan, everyone left the tomb with grief.

That afternoon, the other nests also cried one after another, and the crying was so sad that people shed tears when they heard it. In 10 days, 15 adults and children died, and the whole tribe cried out in pain.

Uncle Gao Shan gathered everyone together and said: "Don't be too sad, our tribe suffered from a disease, 15 people died, I lost my wife, and my youngest son also died, we must bury the dead well, the living people should not be angry, we must insist on eating, we must live, we will be able to live!" ”

According to Uncle Gao Shan's arrangement, people cried and cried, and sadly buried their dead relatives, but there were still many sick people, and some people's conditions were still getting worse, and people were all worried about whether they could survive......

During this time, Xiao Ye has been thinking about a question, why didn't we get sick when we ate raw meat before, why do we get sick when we eat raw meat now? I can't figure it out. At this time, he thought of his friend Xiao Zhuang, Xiao Zhuang's mother also died of illness, and Xiao Zhuang's sister Xiao Tao was his girlfriend and should be visited and comforted.

Xiao Ye came to Xiao Zhuang's house and saw Xiao Zhuang and Xiao Tao, they were very sad. This little Zhuang, who is strong, strong in hunting, and charging forward, also cried bitterly at this time, and Xiao Tao was even more sad. How can you not be sad, their mother broke her heart for the growth of her children, suffered a lot, and finally raised their brothers and sisters to adulthood, and only after a few days of good life, they left them like this, thinking of this, the more the brothers and sisters cried, the more sad they became.

Xiao Ye Benlei comforted the two Xiao Zhuang brothers and sisters, and at this time he couldn't help but shed tears. After the two brothers and sisters stabilized, Xiao Ye persuaded him: "Your mother is dead, don't be too sad, take care of your body, comfort and take care of your father, what if you are sick again, we who are alive must live well." ”

Immediately afterwards, Xiao Ye said: "Have you ever thought about how your mother died, she died of illness after eating bloody raw meat." In the past, we didn't get sick when we ate raw meat, but now why do we get seriously ill and die, what is the reason for this? Xiao Tao said casually: "In the past, there was clear water to drink and fruit to eat, but now the fruit is gone, and the clear water has become a flood and cannot be eaten." This unintentional word woke up Xiao Ye, yes! In the past, every time I ate raw meat, ate fruits, and drank water, I was just as alive! Didn't our ancestors all come back to life like this, after he comforted the brother and sister and the little Zhuang father again, he returned home with a heavy heart.

After thinking about it repeatedly, Xiao Ye thought: If you want to survive the current difficulties, you must first find water and wild fruits. He told his father his thoughts: "Dad, now we have to look for water, we have to look for wild fruits to pick, everyone has water to drink, and fruits to eat can get through the difficulties." After hearing this, Uncle Gao Shan felt that it was very reasonable, and he quickly arranged for everyone to find clear water and pick fruits, even if they were not fully ripe.

According to Uncle Gaoshan's arrangement, everyone acted quickly, and Xiaoye, Xiaoshan, and Xiaoshu looked for clear water together. They spent several days, looking for a lot of places, and finally in the depression under the hillside two miles away from home, they found that a spring water came out of the ground, and a small ditch flowed out, the three brothers were very happy, and drank a sip of the spring with their hands, and felt that the taste was light and salty, and it was very delicious. Later, the three brothers thought of picking a leaf from a plant and rolling it into a concave shape to hold water, but most of it had been leaked when they returned home, and only a little water remained. After Uncle Gao Shan drank it, he said happily: "This water is very good, and it is salty in the mouth." (Long after, people used this spring water to cook meat and refine salt.) So he immediately arranged for all the people who had fallen to go to the spring to drink the clear spring water.

The people who picked the wild fruits also returned, and searched all over the great forest, but only picked more than 20 fruits that were not very ripe, and the uncle arranged for the fruits to be given to the sick to eat, and at the same time made tools from plant leaves to fill the clear spring for the sick to drink. In the primitive society at that time, no one would have known that fruits and spring water had some medicinal value. After the sick man ate it, he gradually got better, but the seriously ill man ate the fruit and the spring water, but it was still ineffective, and two more died.

In order to take care of most people, Uncle Gao Shan still arranged to hunt every day, pick fruits, drink clear spring water every day, and spend every day in the predicament. Especially after the loss of fire, the difficulty of hunting has increased, and the harvest of many hunts is very small. Once found a few bison grazing on the lawn, the mountain master gathered the men, armed with sticks, stone knives and stone axes, rushed to the bison, the bison ran wildly, because everyone was physically exhausted, after chasing and killing for a while, they could not catch up with the bison, so they had to give up.

Again, found a herd of bison still grazing on the lawn, Uncle Gao made careful arrangements, led everyone to outflank and rush to kill the past, the bison saw that there was no fire, and did not run away, but buried their heads to the people to rush, the bison is infinitely powerful, the momentum is great, the horns are very good to dig people, this hunt not only did not harvest, but five people were injured, some injured their heads, some injured their chests, and some injured their legs and feet. Everyone was very tired and very sad.

At this time, Uncle Gao Shan was also very bitter, seeing that everyone's mood was not good, he was forced to beat the spirit, and it was comfort, and encouragement, he said: "This hunt did not have a harvest, but a loss, everyone should not be anxious, do not be discouraged, we still have some beef to eat, and the injured should be well recuperated." I think that in the future, we should change the way we hunt, for the sake of safety, we should not hunt large bison in herds, but we can hunt individual bison, and we will hunt mainly small animals in the future. Don't be sad, everyone, let's go home and eat beef, tomorrow we have to hunt. ”

Uncle Takayama returned home with the sullen people. At this time, someone reported that Uncle Gao Shan had died another adult and a child. Uncle Takayama was sad when he heard this, but he couldn't stop the disease and death. Although fruits and spring water can solve some minor diseases, people still get sick after eating raw meat, and there are deaths from time to time, and the tribe continues to reduce its population, and there are only 49 people left, and no one knows what will happen in the future......

Why did so many people die in just a short period of time? People don't know. In fact, the real reason is: raw meat is not burned well, and the bacteria in the meat cannot be removed, which is one, and second, because people eat cooked meat for a long time, people's body functions have changed, and then eat bloody raw meat again It is not suitable and loses its ability to resist. So people get sick. But this scientific knowledge was impossible to know in primitive people at that time, and people were emaciated, and their physique was declining day by day. Not to mention hunting big beasts, even small animals are not easy to hunt. For many days, there was no harvest, and he had to kill and eat the livestock raised in the pens and the wild fruits he picked.

In order to make the people of the mountain tribe survive, he thought repeatedly, faced the predicament, made meticulous arrangements, he gathered the people, and said loudly: "In order to survive, we must work together, and in the future, the hunting team will hunt small animals, goats, gophers, pheasants, wild eggs, wild duck eggs, bird eggs, etc., and we must harvest every day." In addition to picking the fruits, the team of picking wild fruits also has to find a way to get the spring water home so that everyone can eat it conveniently. The contingent of livestock should also be strengthened, and the grass should be cut every day to feed the livestock, so that the livestock can continue to multiply and grow, and the livestock should also be guarded to prevent wild animals from stealing and eating the livestock. In the future, when life is difficult, livestock can be killed and eaten to starve. ”

People are conscientiously in accordance with the meticulous arrangement of the mountain master, do their best to do their own good work, in this way, although the mountain tribe is in a very difficult environment, they still tenaciously survive the .......