The next morning, the four of them ate dried beef, and the two sisters went to the woods to look for oily bark and pick dry firewood. Xiao Ye came to Niangniang's cave, Niangniang had just eaten breakfast, and when she saw Xiao Ye coming, she invited Xiao Ye to sit down, and brought roast beef and put it on the stone table, and invited Xiao Ye to eat. Xiao Ye said very politely: "I have already eaten, I came to find Niangniang and have something to say." ”

Niangniang smiled and said, "Xiao Ye, if there is anything wrong, just say it." Xiao Ye told Niangniang about the discussion of the four people last night, and Niangniang thought to herself: Xiao Ye and the four of them are really good, they discussed the affairs of my tribe last night, and they really helped us. He said happily: "I thank you for helping us so sincerely, we will obey your arrangement and do everything according to your arrangement." ”

Xiao Ye said: "One is to arrange 10 women to bring more than 10 children into the woods to pick hay, dry leaves and dry firewood; The second is that these people are also looking for oily bark, which everyone can use to light up; The third is to arrange 30 strong men, prepare stone axes, I will take them to dig traps, hunt wild things, I have seen that you have a lot of bison, wild horses, goats, there will be a big harvest; The fourth is to arrange 10 people, both men and women, to collect tobacco leaves with the grass three, and the rest of the people can hunt and solve the current life. ”

After listening to Xiao Ye's meticulous arrangement, Niangniang said happily: "Okay, I'll arrange it immediately." ”

After a while, the people arranged by the mother moved, and 10 women went into the woods with a group of children to pick up hay, leaves, and firewood. Cao San took 10 people to look for and collect tobacco leaves in the grass and hills. Xiao Ye took 30 men armed with stone axes and began to choose a place to dig traps. Konoha observed the topography, the left is the nameless river, there are trees and bamboo forests on the river, the front and back are grass, and the right is a hilly forest and woods. Xiao Ye chose 10 locations in the grassy place, arranged three people to dig a trap, he ran before and after guiding people, tired and sweaty, the person who dug the trap was also tired and sweaty, and it took most of the day's efforts to dig the trap well, Xiao Ye taught everyone to use branches, and the grass camouflaged the trap before returning to the fire.

At this time, Cao San led the people who collected tobacco leaves, and each of them brought a large pile of tobacco leaves, a few of which were dry, and the green tobacco leaves were placed by the fire to dry. The harvest was the largest, picking 20 large piles of dry firewood, 10 large piles of hay and leaves, and picking more than 200 fruits.

Because the food is not enough, we can only eat together at noon and evening, everyone around the two big fires, Niangniang arranged to distribute food, one fruit per person, a piece of barbecue, everyone is not full, but they are not hungry, Xiaoye four people eat their own dried beef, and the barbecue meat distributed to them is given to Niangniang, and Niangniang has to distribute it to the children.

After people ate barbecue, Niangniang arranged for everyone to take dried tobacco leaves, learn cigarettes and smoke with Xiaoye and Caosan, everyone learned very seriously, and soon learned to roll cigarettes, smoking, Niangniang smoked cigarettes, checked, the people on the two fires except children, men and women smoked. People know that these two fires are lit by cigarette butt fire, and they deeply understand the importance of this cigarette butt fire, and if they lose their cigarette butt fire, they will lose the fire, and if they lose the fire, they can only eat raw meat, and everyone doesn't want to eat raw meat anymore.

Immediately afterwards, according to Xiaoye's opinion, Niangniang arranged for some people to put the hay and dry leaves and firewood into the cave for storage; Arrange for some people to learn how to make torches; He also arranged for some people to continue hunting and picking fruits, and the people all worked hard and conscientiously according to the division of labor of the mother, without complaint, and completed their respective tasks well before dark.

That night, Xiao Ye came to Niangniang's cave again, he knew that Niangniang had given all the dried beef to the people, and sent three pieces of dried beef to Niangniang, and said: "I know that Niangniang didn't eat, we brought a lot of dried beef when we came this time, and then sent five pieces to Niangniang, you eat it, don't be hungry." ”

Niangniang took the dried beef and said happily: "Thank you Xiaoye for your concern, can you eat enough?" ”

Xiao Ye replied: "We are all full, and there is still dried beef, I think Niangniang has to consider the food of more than 100 people, it is hard enough, is there often a lack of food?" Niangniang smiled bitterly and said: "It is very hard to be the head, the population was small before, and the food to eat can be satisfied, but now the population has increased to 160 people, and only small animals can be hunted, that is, sheep are rarely hunted, because sheep run fast, and the food is mainly rabbits, pheasants, ducks, eggs, fruits, and large bison and wild horses can not be hunted, and it is difficult for everyone to eat enough every day, especially on rainy days, they cannot hunt, so they have to starve." ”

After hearing this, Xiao Ye said with emotion: "In the past, there were only more than 60 people in our mountain tribe, and we often starved, but then we gradually got better with fire, and now we have endless food, and our life is much better." I think you start tomorrow, there will be no shortage of food, I took a serious look, there are a lot of bison, wild horses, sheep, rabbits in your meadow grazing, tomorrow morning you arrange 20 people, prepare sticks, stone axes, torches, I and Cao San to lead everyone to hunt, there will be a big harvest. ”

The more Niangniang listened, the happier she became, and listened to Xiao Ye say that there would be no shortage of food from tomorrow, so she said excitedly: "As long as Xiao Ye helps us solve the food, I will be satisfied, I will arrange 20 strong people for you tomorrow, but you can be careful if you want to hunt bison, we have hunted bison, it took a lot of effort, we failed, we failed to eat beef, and a few people were injured." ”

Xiao Ye said with confidence: "Don't worry, Niangniang, we have a good way, there will be no danger in hunting bison, hunting a bison, equivalent to the meat of more than 100 rabbits, the meat of a bison is enough for all of you to eat for two days, the dried beef I gave you is roasted from bison, just wait for our good news tomorrow......"

At dawn, the four of Xiaoye had eaten dried beef, and Sister He and Sister He went to the woods to pick hay, dried leaves, and dry firewood, and stored them in the fork of the cave. Xiaoye and Caosan smoked cigarettes, came to the two fires, and saw that Niangniang was arranging personnel, at this time the sun had risen very high, and the animals had come to the grass to eat grass and move. The 20 people arranged by Niangniang have arrived, some of them are holding wooden sticks, some are holding stone axes, waiting for Xiao Ye's command.

Xiao Ye slowly said to everyone: "Today we began to use torches to cooperate with traps to hunt, don't be afraid, wild things are most afraid of fire, they will desperately run away when they see fire, our left is the Nameless River, the trap we dug is 20 steps away from the Nameless River, we hold torches, wooden sticks and stone axes, and drive the wild things in the direction of the trap, as long as the wild things fall into the trap, it will be successful." Everyone nodded their heads in understanding.

Xiao Ye asked everyone to light the torches, and he took everyone quietly to the place where the bison and wild horses were grazing. "Rushing to the bison and wild horses that were grazing, the bison and wild horses heard the shouting, looked up and saw the people rushing with terrible torches, so they fled for their lives in the direction of no one, and fell into the trap.

Xiao Ye told everyone to stop chasing, and went to the trap to count, there were 6 bison, 3 wild horses, 6 sheep, 11 rabbits in 10 traps, two cows in some traps, and three sheep in some traps. Now the people were so happy that they all cheered, everyone smiled and ran to tell each other, and all the people who fell came to see the harvest......

Niangniang came to the trap and smiled from ear to ear, she patted Xiao Ye's shoulder and said, "Xiao Ye, you are amazing, you are our great benefactor!" ”

Xiao Ye smiled and said, "This is everyone's credit. Niangniang, I think kill a bison first, let everyone eat, the 6 sheep do not kill, make a pen with a tree, put 6 sheep into the pen, send someone to cut the grass and feed it every day, let them give birth to lambs, these six sheep will become more than 10 sheep next year, as long as the calf, pony, and lamb are all captive in the future, there is no prey on a rainy day, and the captive cattle will be killed, and the sheep will eat. ”

After hearing this, the mother applauded again and again. Immediately arranged for a few people to kill bison, arranged for Sandongzi, who had seen the fence, to take 10 people to cut down trees to make a fence, and arranged for three women to be responsible for cutting the grass and feeding the sheep.

The people in charge of killing the cattle quickly cut down the cows and skinned them, and each person was given a piece of meat, and the people who had not eaten breakfast were already hungry, and they all came to roast the beef around the fire to eat, and everyone talked and laughed and laughed. Niangniang spoke: "Today Xiao Ye helped us catch so many wild things, we have been eating for more than 20 days, everyone has to eat, and we will kill the remaining cattle and horses after we are full." ”

The people were very happy, especially the children, holding the roast beef, screaming, running, jumping, and eating in a big gulp, it was so lively, people ate piece after piece, and ate so much that they had to eat half of the meat of a cow.

In the afternoon, Xiao Ye smoked a cigarette and said to Niangniang: "Niangniang, I think this day is too hot, if you kill the cattle and horses, the meat that can't be eaten will stink, it will be rotten, you can't eat it, if you lose the meat and it's a pity, such a hot day is not suitable for dry beef, I see that there is still half of the beef left, enough to eat today, kill a cow tomorrow morning, and then kill it again after eating, anyway, the bison, wild horses, and rabbits in the trap can't run, cut the grass every day to give them to eat, and they can't die, they can kill it at any time to eat, and we can dig traps in other places." and continue to catch wild animals. ”

After hearing this, Niangniang was very happy and said: "Or Xiao Ye is smart, I have thought of such a good way, I have been thinking, I used to be very worried about the food not enough to eat, and now I can't eat enough meat and worry about the smell, I haven't thought of a good way, your method will make me feel at ease, just do it, this afternoon I will do three things, do a good job of the fence, cut the grass and raise the sheep; Then arrange for people to cut the grass and raise the bison, wild horses, and rabbits in the trap so that they can live for a few more days; Arrange for strong people to find a place to dig traps. ”

Xiao Ye smiled and said, "Niangniang is very thoughtful, I'll take 30 people to dig traps." ”

Niangniang said: "Xiao Ye, you are too hard, you can instruct them to do it, I will arrange someone to ...... it soon."

After a while, the three things arranged by the mother were carried out, through everyone's hard work, before dark, Xiaoye and Caosan led 30 people, and dug 10 traps on the grass more than a mile away from the current trap; Sandongzi took 10 people, cut down trees to make a solid fence, put six sheep into the fence, the mower put the grass in the fence, everyone watched the sheep obediently eat grass, and they all smiled happily; Another group of men cut the grass and put it into a trap, and the wild cattle and wild horses were tired of roaring, and when they saw that there was grass, they stopped roaring, and ate the grass with great gulps.

That night, people gathered around the fire, happily eating fragrant roast beef, and smoking fragrant and refreshing cigarettes. Xiao Ye and the four people were also by the fire, smoking after eating roast beef, at this time, Niang Niang smoked a cigarette and spoke loudly: "Today, is the happiest and happiest day of our Nanhe tribe, yesterday we were still short of food, no one was full, Xiao Ye said to me, tomorrow there will be endless meat, I couldn't believe it at the time, sure enough, today, Xiao Ye helped us catch so many wild things, even the wild cattle that we didn't dare to mess with before caught 6, caught 3 horses, 6 sheep, 11 rabbits, This is a big harvest that has not been seen in decades, and it has truly realized that there is endless meat, and we want to thank the four people of Xiaoye, they are our great benefactors. ”

Immediately afterwards, Sandongzi told the story of the four people of Xiaoye and the fall in the east of the river, and after listening to it, people admired the four of Xiaoye from the bottom of their hearts and thanked the four of them for the happiness they brought to everyone. Later, people gave Xiaoye four people big red fruits, white rabbit skins, fragrant and beautiful garlands, and at the same time, people applauded like thunder......

Five aunts and six aunts sang, the two sisters' beautiful singing, led a group of young boys and girls, they sang and danced to congratulate the harvest, they invited Xiaoye four people, to join them hand in hand garden circle dance, sister river sister and invited Niangniang to participate in the dance, Niangniang was very happy, as if 20 years younger, danced with young people, sang and danced to a high tide, drove the eldest brother and sister-in-law, uncle and aunt all danced, this time the children were happy, followed by the adults to jump up, everyone carnival until late at night to sleep......