Chapter 58: Chasing the Sun
The way back was very slow, and he could only walk less than thirty miles a day, and there were the sounds of children crying along the way.
When the sun is still high, you have to stop and let your people go fishing, otherwise you won't be able to go back with food. The purpose of the death march is to slaughter, and if Jian Chen wants these tools to live, of course he has to give them food.
Beside the bonfire, Wolf Skin handed Chen Jian a cooked fish and asked, "Jian, you and that moth tribe said that our two tribes don't fight, will they abide by it?" ”
Jian Chen shook his head and smiled: "There is a wolf who said that he would not eat you, do you choose to believe it?" Or do you choose to grind out the hilt stone axe quickly? Whether or not to fight a war does not depend on whether or not to keep promises. ”
"I think too, that tribe is too cunning, and the bulls for us are all cut eggs, how did they cut them? The last time you cut the piglets, they all died, what's the use of cutting? ”
"It's very useful. Whoever cuts a pig will not be ashamed to eat it; If you cut the cow, you don't fight, you don't talk about it, and you won't lie down when you want to give birth to a calf, you have to know that this thing can lie on your mother, and it doesn't know about the same clan not marrying. ”
Chen Jian remembered the eunuch in his previous life, smiled and shook his head, this is a technical job, that is, the experience accumulated from plowing pigs and geldings. After the Taiping army fought the corruption of Tianjing, they cut so much, and the craftsmanship was too trendy, and only a few survived.
In any case, the eunuch of a unified country is inevitable, this is a means of struggle between the imperial power and the civil class, and the prince who is longer than the hands of a woman can only be trusted by a eunuch, even if it is a concubine, because the concubine still has a father and mother. A court lady may be pregnant with someone else's child, and even if the emperor thinks his own, it may not be credible. Get a sheep intestine from the outside, fill it with some kind of liquid from someone else, hold it in your mouth and hide it, so that the female relatives who visit it can visit the concubine who has just been fortunate by the emperor, and it may not be impossible to hide it from the world.
Around the seat of the future, there will be many behaviors and ways that break through the lower limit, and that is where the ugliest drama in the world takes place.
Seeing Chen Jian's strange smile, Wolf Skin said strangely: "Brother, what are you laughing at?" ”
"It's okay, I'm wondering how far the moth's tribe has grown. We have to hurry up when we go back, and we can't pin our hopes on the wolf keeping its promises. ”
"Hmm. I want to go back soon, because the beans are almost ripe now, right? But we can go so fast. How many days are there enough acorns to eat? ”
"If you count the fish, you can eat it for four days. If the tanuki hasn't brought food for four days, we'll have to catch fish by the river for a day, and we'll walk even slower. ”
Wolfskin sighed, four days...... The tanuki had only been gone for two and a half days, but when he came, he had been walking for nearly ten days, and he was afraid that he would really stop fishing after four days.
"Where did you say the tanuki is now?"
"Half of the run at most, right?"
In fact, Jian Chen guessed wrong, and the tanuki was far faster than he guessed.
When the tanuki left with a few people, his mind was the bluegrass and the people in the city, because he saw the courage of the Falling Star tribe, he knew very well that what Jian Chen said was right, the people who stayed at home to guard the wheat fields were not the opponents of the falling stars at all.
Because he had slaughtered the old man with Jian Chen and seen the tragic situation of the women on the mountain, he didn't want the clansmen and women he cared about to fall into that situation.
After running for a long time, several people around me couldn't run anymore. The tanuki also sat breathlessly by the river, shook his head and said, "This is not good, you have to run faster, there are only old people and children at home, what if they go out to pick leaves and are seen by the Falling Star Clan?" ”
The few swallowed bitter saliva, endured the sore toothache and said, "Slow down and run, I really can't run." ”
The two men were lying on the stones, not wanting to stand up at all.
Holding on to his sore legs, the tanuki walked up to the men, grabbed a bag with acorn noodles and a handful of salt, and said, "You guys run slowly, I have to run back first." Bluegrass is still in the village, and I want to have a child. ”
He threw away all the things on his body, leaving only a bag of dry food and a short sword, tied straw sandals, looked at the sun that was about to set, and suddenly thought of the story that Jian Chen had said, a man chasing the sun.
So he got up and ran towards the sunset, for tonight was the end of the month, and the moon would make a way for him.
Thorns cut his calves, mosquitoes bited his cheeks, and he didn't care about anything, just stuck to the riverbank, and ran with all his strength.
When you are hungry, you grab a handful of acorn noodles and put it in your mouth; When he was thirsty, he lay down by the river and drank it; If you are sleepy, climb up a tree and rest for a while.
He had never tried such a violent run, and he had never run so far before when he was hunting. He felt that the blood in his leg was like melted copper juice, and it was gradually cooling, so cold that his leg lost sensation, and only soreness remained.
With blisters on his feet, he took off his shoes and punctured them with thorns, and continued to run forward.
However, people have limits after all, and when the sun is about to set again, the tanuki knows that he is in trouble.
Maybe it was because he drank too much river water, or maybe the water was not clean, he felt that his stomach hurt, and after squatting for a while, his legs were even more sore, but after standing up for a while, his stomach would start to hurt again, and he had to squat down quickly to put the grass.
After standing up for the third time, he roared, simply took off all the clothes on his body, hung the clothes around his neck, and said that if it hurts again, I will solve it while running, I won't go to squat, there is no time! It's a big deal to go to the river and wash when you get to the village!
Standing up with his weakened body, as he thought, even if he felt it again, he would never crouch down, let the things that he himself felt disgusting run on his legs, and all he wanted was to get to the city as soon as possible.
He didn't remember how many times his stomach hurt again, and he even forgot about it, he only felt that his body was getting softer and softer, but he still moved his legs that he couldn't hold and ran forward.
When he can't hold on, he will silently hang the pig's tooth around his neck and tell himself that he is the fastest man in the tribe.
Every day the sun rises behind you and sets before your eyes.
It seems that he is the one who chases the sun in the Ken story.
When he saw the sunset for the third time, he also saw the village of the wild people.
So he laughed, his lips were already chapped, and when he laughed, they burst and were covered with blood.
He didn't catch up with the sun.
Because he doesn't want to chase the sun.
It's just that the place where the sun sets happens to be where his own people are. There's a mother there, there's bluegrass.
Jumping into the cold river with a weak and cold body, washing the filth on his body, and getting dressed, he didn't want Lancao to see him like this.
In less than three days, the people ran and traveled for ten days.
He didn't know how long he had been running, and he only thought that if he didn't die, one day he would have to measure how many steps he had run with his steps.
He wants to tell his children that he once used three days to run the road that others would have to walk for ten days!
When the wild people who had been on patrol saw him, the tanuki trembled, struggled out of the river, lay down on the horned deer, and said in a daze, "Take me to the city, and if I am still asleep when I arrive, wake me up with coals!" ”
Almost as soon as he had said these words, he fainted on the back of the horned deer, and the wild people did not dare to slack off, and hurried him back to the city.
The people in the city don't know what happened, but they won? Or defeated? Why did the tanuki come back on its own? What about the rest?
The wild man who had sent him said: "He said that if he was still asleep, he would wake him up with coals of fire." ”
The clansmen looked at the blue grass one after another, and the blue grass looked at the already weak and unshapedly raccoon cat, and felt distressed, but they still gritted their teeth, pulled out the hairpin, and gently stuck it on the lover's tiger mouth.
But the first time it was too light, and the tanuki slept very deadly, she was ruthless, stabbed hard, and then pulled it out and held the tanuki's hand.
The tanuki woke up, with red eyes, looking at the stunned and anxious clansmen, and shouted in a hoarse voice: "Win, let's win!" ”
The last trace of uneasiness dissipated from the hearts of the clansmen, and the whole city echoed with excited shouts, and the tanuki grabbed Yu Qian'er next to him and said, "Your brother asked me to tell you, prepare 1,200 people to eat food for ten days and send it along the river." Some of the enemies have fled, and everyone must come and stay in the city, and not be allowed to go out. Not enough to eat and drink milk......"
Before he finished speaking, the tanuki felt that his mouth seemed to be still moving, and it didn't seem to move anymore, and his eyes were a little dark, as if he heard the worried cries of the clansmen, and seemed to see the sunset that he had been chasing for the past two days.
With the last of his strength, he opened his mouth, thinking that he was finished, but in fact he just opened and closed his mouth, and finally there was no sound, and he passed out.
Yu Qian'er looked at the somewhat flustered crowd and said, "Don't mess up, my brother said, let us not go out, no one will be able to attack the city." Go to a few people, and inform the savage villages, and let them come to the city with food and women. Half of the women are assigned to breastfeeding the children, and the remaining women give the children to them, and we will prepare the food. A few people took care of the tanuki and let Lancao go back to the house, she was still pregnant with the baby. ”
She recalled her courage when she built the house in the first place, and knew in her heart that the more she was at this time, the more she couldn't mess up, and since her brother made her responsible, she couldn't spoil her brother's business.
Habitually tugging at his braids, thinking about what else to pay attention to, what else did his brother teach him?
"By the way, ask someone to boil water, put salt in it, and give it to the tanuki to drink. The elder brother said that he wanted to drink salt water when he fainted, and he added honey to the salt and fed him it. ”
"He's so cold."
"Grab a female slave and let her warm the tanuki's body, Sister Lancao is still pregnant with a child and can't get cold."
Several women went to prepare as she said, and some of them looked at the wheat fields that had turned slightly yellow outside, and sighed: "Now the wild deer and sheep like wheat beans the most, and many people have to drive them away every day, and they all withdraw to the city, and when we go out again, I'm afraid ...... I'm afraid there's not much left. ”
It wasn't just that one person who sighed like this, most of the clansmen understood what it would be like if no one drove the deer, and their hearts were twisted like knives when they looked at the wheat fields.
The sooner you mature, the more heart-wrenching it will be. Wild deer love this sweet grass and prefer those dense peas, which are unguarded and can be eaten in a matter of days.
Yu Qian'er looked at her favorite and neat wheat field, gritted her teeth and said, "If the wheat field is gone, you can plant it again, and if you don't have people, you won't have anything." My brother said that he wanted to protect the clansmen, but he didn't say that I should protect the wheat! I only listen to him. ”
Just as Yu Qian'er finished saying this, a somewhat faint woman's voice came.
"I have a way to protect the wheat and keep those people from approaching."