Chapter 099: The Captive Who Came Home
Before the asphalt had boiled, the women and children of the village returned on a bamboo raft from the mountains on the other side of the river. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
From afar, Wang Erniu, who was holding a stupid chicken, saw Wang Hao in the crowd.
With her mouth open, Wang Erniu threw away the stupid chicken in her hand, and cried and fell into Wang Hao's arms: "Woo woo woo, brother, why did you come back, yesterday there was a big wild boar outside the village, Xiao Jiuniang died, Aunt Wu also died, and several stupid chickens were also scared to death. ”
Wang Hao patted Wang Erniu's head and said comfortingly: "Erniu is not afraid, isn't Brother coming back." Two days later, Brother will take someone to kill the wild boar and avenge Xiao Jiuniang and them! ”
"Woo woo woo, the second girl doesn't want Brother Ah to take revenge, the wild boar is too big, what if Brother goes in case of danger." Wang Erniu raised her head, her face full of tears. The children in the wilderness mature early. A child as old as Wang Erniu should still be in elementary school on the earth, but Wang Erniu has built a simple stupid chicken breeding base. This kind of thing, if it is placed on the earth, even an adult in his twenties and thirties may not be able to do it well.
Only when she cried so much that Wang Hao could see from her face that her sister was still a young girl.
"It's okay, the giant that Wang Da said was actually picked up by the second brother, you see, the elder brother asked him to pull out the tree, and he went to pull the tree. He is much more powerful than the big boar, and if the big boar dares to come to the village and bully us again, I will definitely kill him for us to eat." Wang Hao said.
Wang Erniu was held by Wang Hao and looked out of the hole that arched out of the wild boar's fangs. Sure enough, I found a giant pulling trees one after another on the edge of the Black Forest outside the village.
Listening to Wang Erniu's exclamation, the rest of the people also put their heads up and took turns to look out through the holes or gaps in the wooden wall.
"Brother, you brought this giant back, so it must be good, right?" Wang Erniu turned around and asked Wang Hao.
The quality of the giant still needs time to verify, and Wang Hao can't give Erniu an answer now. If one day, the giant goes crazy in the village and hurts people, then Wang Hao, who brought the giant back, will definitely lose his reputation.
However, as long as he thought of the giant's strong body and the role it could play in the future, Wang Hao felt that these risks could still be taken.
After watching the giant, the women and children went to cook with a shocked face. Compared with women, men are naturally clumsy, and women are busy with the delicate work of cooking.
After praying for the deceased clansmen, Shi Li and Gu Mu followed Wang Erniu to build a chicken coop. The clansmen who died tragically under the fangs of wild boars this time were from two stone villages, two from Wang Village and one from Gu Village.
For the people of the Great Wilderness, parting from life and death is too common, so the deceased clan is not as troublesome to deal with as on Earth.
After setting up a pyre and burning their bodies, the ashes were scattered on the ground beneath their feet. It means that the souls of the dead are still guarding themselves.
The ashes of the captives of Liu Village were packed in a small jar and handed to Liu Xiong, who wanted to bring the ashes back to his village and needed to sprinkle them on the land of Liu Village.
The captives used their blood to win the trust of the people of Wang Village, and during lunch, Wang Hao specially announced that the rule that the captives could only call each other by number was eliminated, and that they were allowed to call each other by their names.
Liu Xiong didn't have time to eat, because the sky was already dark, and the heavy rain seemed to be likely to fall at any time. During the summer flood, once it rains, it will definitely not stop for a day or two. At that time, the road was not easy to walk.
Food, clay pots, clay bowls and salt condiments were loaded onto a wheelbarrow by Liu Xiong. And Wang Hao was commanding on the side.
Seventeen of the twenty wheelbarrows were loaded with food. This time, a quarter of the food stored in Wang Village was taken away.
The people of Wang Village really couldn't figure out what Wang Hao did, you know, they were the enemies who came to attack their village, but they were captured by themselves later. Although they have been doing well recently, they should not be let go.
The captives, who seemed useless in their eyes, have now become a very important presence in the village. Whatever is dirty, tiring, or dangerous, it only needs to be left to the captives to do. As for himself, he only needs to command and watch the excitement on the sidelines.
Several of Wang Hao's uncles in the village were really reluctant to let these captives go, and wanted to find Wang Hao to theorize, but remembered that at the beginning Wang Hao said that he wanted to keep the prisoners, he was the most cheerful against them, and now he really has no face to go to Wang Hao again.
Besides, just let them go, why send them so much food. It is impossible to teach the secret of fishing to the captives, so these dried fish that are easy to store are all caught by the clansmen themselves with a little hard work, and seeing Wang Hao give it to the captives, the clansmen's distressed hearts are broken.
Liu Xiong set off with twenty captives and twenty chariots, and when he left, Wang Hao gave him an iron sword and two bows.
"Do you know why you went back this time?" Wang Hao asked.
"Yes." Liu Xiong replied. Although his life in Wang Village is much more comfortable than in his own village, he only needs to work every day, and he doesn't need to worry about what to eat tomorrow, but his wife and children are all in the village.
The last attack on Wang Village was unsuccessful, but it lost so many warriors, and the hunting and defense of the village must have been affected. It is foreseeable that Liu Village must be in a very difficult situation now, and the women and children who do not have much combat effectiveness must be starving.
"Very well, you have brought so much food back to the village this time, plus you can hunt by yourself with bows and arrows, I believe that your village will not be short of food in a short time. After these twenty truckloads of supplies are transported back, I need you to bring back twenty truckloads of copper mines for me before the summer flood is over. If I can't, I don't mind taking my bow and arrows and fetching them myself. Wang Hao said with a cold face. Sometimes, it is still necessary to beat properly, so that Liu Xiong can also have a sense of urgency.
"Twenty truckloads of copper mines, it must be delivered on time." Liu Xiong assured. In his opinion, it was really cost-effective to exchange the stones that could be found everywhere on the stone mountain where they lived for survival materials. It's just that he is curious about why Wang Hao has to call this beautiful stone copper mine.
After sending Liu Xiong away, the clansmen also had lunch, and the dark clouds in the sky were getting lower and lower, and heavy rain could come at any time. The excavation of the foundation was temporarily suspended, and most of the people were busy building thatched huts that could be used for human habitation.
Wang Lung led a dozen people from other villages to dig a huge water storage tank in the middle of the village, and the summer flood every year lasted for about ten days and as long as one or two months. At that time, the water in the river is as muddy as muddy soup, and it is really not suitable for drinking. If there is a water storage tank in the village, at least the drinking water of the people can be guaranteed.
Wang Hao arranged for a few captives to fish out the hemp from the pond when he was leaving, and then took some people to dig a drainage ditch in the village.
It's not like there's nothing to do when it's raining. After the hemp is done, it needs to be cleaned and dried, and when this is done, it needs to be made into fishing nets.
During the summer flood, it is the time when the fish spawn, and it is the most active time of the year. It's still the fattest time of the year.
Wang Hao: They need to catch enough fish with fishing nets during the summer flood. Now that the weather has begun to heat up, the temperature of salted fish should not be too high, but the fish can be stored for a long time after slicing and drying.
And Wang Hao's favorite roe, after drying and canning, as long as it is not damp, it is basically difficult to break. Not to mention, it can also be salted into caviar.
The giant who had eaten lunch was satisfied and ran to pull the tree again, and since he met Wang Hao, he simply lived the happiest life. Not only did someone dare to talk to him to relieve his loneliness, but he didn't have to worry about starving at all.
Therefore, for the task assigned by Wang Hao, he completed it meticulously and conscientiously, for fear that if he didn't do anything well, Wang Hao would be driven out of the village and continue to live the previous days of being in the wilderness and only eating a meal in a month.
After drawing the route of the ditch with lime powder, Gu Mu came over with a dejected look and a pottery bowl of black things. From afar, Wang Hao could ask a pungent smell.
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