Chapter 035: Cold and Rainy Night
After dinner, the patriarch wore a wolf's skin and reminded everyone in each cave that they should not go out at night, and asked each cave to arrange a night watchman. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
When it rains heavily, there are often some beasts that are forced by the heavy rain to sneak into the village, so they have to be guarded against.
When the patriarch came to Wang Hao's cave, Wang Hao grabbed him and asked, "Uncle, it rains so hard, the cave won't collapse." ”
The patriarch looked at the pillars supporting the cave, nodded and said, "Don't worry, I have lived here for more than thirty years, and it has never collapsed." ”
Wang Hao said again: "But in the past, there were only a few dozen people in the village, only four big holes and six small holes, but now there are more than 100 people in the village, and the big hole alone has increased by six." ”
The patriarch was silent for a while, and then said, "Don't worry, it's okay." He patted Wang Hao on the shoulder and walked towards the next cave.
When it rains, it's always dark early, and the hairball grabbed a wooden stick and rode on the little wolf's body and wanted to come over and play games with Wang Hao, but Wang Hao didn't have the heart to pay attention to it, so he picked up some rain from outside, helped the hairball wash his face and fell asleep.
After falling asleep, Wang Hao had a dream that there was a cave collapse and the whole village, except for him, everyone died. Then, Wang Hao faced the siege of the overwhelming beasts on the Great Wilderness. The beasts fought with him for a day and a night, and at last he had no strength to beat, and then he lay down and waited for death, and just as the beast in his dream was about to bite his neck, he felt a pain in his feet, and then woke up.
Opening his eyes and sitting up from the haystack, Wang Hao found that his back was actually wet. In such a cold weather, it is impossible for me to sweat, even if it is a cold sweat, it is impossible to flow, and it is impossible for water to seep into the hole, so what is going on with my back.
Before he could find out the cause, he saw the culprit who caused his foot pain. It was actually one of the few little wolves he brought back and bit himself.
Seeing that Wang Hao had woken up, the little wolves hurriedly bit Wang Hao's animal skin clothes and dragged them out, while the hairball stood on the wolf's back and said something to Wang Hao.
A bad premonition came to Wang Hao's heart, the instinct that animals can feel natural disasters in advance Wang Hao has long heard that the little wolf and the hairballs are so abnormal today, is there something going to happen.
Touching the hay under him, Wang Hao found that the grass was already soaked. With the light of the fire at the entrance of the cave, Wang Hao saw that water was seeping out of the wall, and the entire ground was already damp.
Seeing that Wang Hao was still in a daze, several little wolves wailed, rushed out of the hole, and ran far away into the cold rain, and a quick cry made Wang Hao panic in his heart.
The person who kept vigil in his cave today was Wang Hao's father, Wang Da, who was startled by the little wolf running by, saw Wang Hao sitting up, smiled and said: "Son, why are you up, if you want to pee, you can pee in the husk, just pour it out tomorrow morning, it's cold outside." ”
Wang Hao didn't answer, but looked at the hairball that was pulling him outward, not knowing what to do.
Maoqiu pulled Wang Hao's beast clothes, and shouted anxiously 'babbling', looking outside the cave for a while, and Wang Hao for a while.
After a while, seeing that Wang Hao was still in a daze, it screamed miserably, and then got into Wang Hao's arms, its whole body shrunk into a ball, hiding in Wang Hao's arms and shivering.
Wang Hao's face turned fierce, he gritted his teeth and kicked Wang Hu, who was sleeping next to him, snoring loudly, and then shouted at his father: "The ancestral god told me that the cave is about to collapse, so hurry up and wake up the clansmen to go out." Don't bring anything but hides, weapons and shovels, it's too late! ”
Wang Dahe and Wang Hu, who had just woken up, listened to Wang Hao's words, and felt that his scalp was numb for a moment. The cave, which has been inhabited for more than ten years or even twenty or thirty years, was actually told by the ancestral god that it was about to collapse, and this kind of thing suddenly put on anyone's head and no one could stand it. If this sentence was not said by Wang Hao, even if it was said by the patriarch, I am afraid that they would scoff at it and then not take it to heart.
However, they also understood that this matter was not trivial, in case what Wang Hao said was true, then staying in the cave would be no different from waiting for death.
Wang Hu absolutely believed Wang Hao's words, even if Wang Hao told him that there would be two suns tomorrow morning, he would be convinced.
Lifting the iron sword, Wang Hu put on a piece of animal skin and rushed outside, Wang Hao walked to the left, and he was going to inform the clansmen on the right.
As soon as he rushed out, Wang Hu ran back again, grabbed his own pottery bowl on the bedside, and rushed into the heavy rain again.
Every time he walked to a cave, Wang Hu relayed Wang Hao's words to the clansmen, and at the end he also told the clansmen that this was the instruction of the ancestral gods.
The tribesmen basically believe unconditionally in the instructions of the ancestral gods. In particular, the patriarch, when he heard Wang Hu's words, immediately jumped up, woke up all the people in his cave, and then put a beast skin on each of their heads, and drove them out of the cave.
The current weather is the time when the temperature difference between cold and warm is the largest. During the day, when the sun is at its peak, people who can get hot while working want to go down to the river to bathe. And at night, if you don't wrap yourself in animal skins, you won't be able to sleep in the cold.
And now, it is the lowest temperature of the day, not to mention, it is still raining outside, and the temperature is even lower. Stirred by the icy rain, several clansmen shivered and tried to retreat to the warm cave, but were whipped back by the patriarch from behind with the scabbard of the Xuanyuan Sword.
People in the wilderness, if they want children, they usually want them when the snow is about to fall. In that case, the child will be born the following year when the weather is neither hot nor cold and there is plenty of food. This is also a choice forced to make under the pressure of a difficult environment.
Seeing that it was about to be the time of the year when it was lukewarm, among the newly joined clansmen in Shicun and Wangcun, those pregnant women were about to give birth.
No matter how strong a woman is, she is very fragile when she is about to give birth. A little typhoid fever may kill both mother and son.
In the dark rain, I really couldn't see my fingers, and even the two people standing opposite each other couldn't see who the other party was.
Under the command of the patriarch, the clansmen snuggled up to each other and moved towards the entrance of the village by virtue of the connection of sounds. More than two dozen pregnant women were protected at the center, followed by the child and the woman.
Each pregnant woman was tightly wrapped in a hide, and on top of their heads, there was a hide held up by the men. Even so, each of them was shivering from the cold.
In the dark, from time to time, someone fell to the ground because of slippery feet, but no one complained of pain, they all quickly got up, and then closely followed the clansmen in front.
When they arrived at the open space in the middle of the village, several men spread the hay that Wang Hao had ordered to bring on the ground, but the hay had been soaked by the heavy rain just now.
With the shouting, the pregnant women were gathered from the crowd onto the haystack, all the animal skins were covered with their soaked bodies, and the rest of the tribesmen were close to them, sitting on the cold and muddy ground, bringing them a trace of warmth with the residual warmth of their bodies.
Everyone shivered in the icy rain. Wang Hao was also trembling, and the five little wolves smelled the smell and found Wang Hao accurately, and were held in Wang Hao's arms, using their bodies to help them block the wind and rain.
Wang Hao's eyes stared at the cave in the distance, looking at the still burning fires, which were the only places he could see.
His mood was mixed right now. He hopes for a landslide in the back mountain, but also fears it.
If there had been no slippage in the place where they lived, his prestige would have plummeted, and the trust of the people in him would have been minimized. Whatever he does in the future, his people will question him, even if it is something he believes is right.
However, once a landslide or mudslide really happens, the cured meat stored in the cave, the dozens of pots of salt that have been extracted with great difficulty, the fruits of the people's hard work during this period will be destroyed, and the tribesmen will also lose their homes. Everything has to start from scratch. No, everything will be more difficult than starting from scratch.
Except for the cries of a few children, no one wanted to talk, and a deep sorrow brewed around the clansmen.
I don't know who took the lead, but the tribesmen sang the song of the great wind. The desolate and simple singing gathered the sorrow of the clansmen, and the momentum even suppressed the thunder in the sky.