Chapter 5 The Old Man - Yi
Today, the appearance of the bow has added a lot of vitality to the tribe, and even the howl of the beast in the distance has become less terrifying. By the light www.biquge.info of the fire, the men held their weapons and performed in front of women and children.
In the end, Luo Chuan had to assume the identity of his tribal leader, and the crowd dispersed and returned to the simple haystack.
Luo Chuan was in a good mood and ate two more fish. "It seems that we have to find a way to get a pot, and I don't know if there is salt on this planet, so it's time to do something serious." Even Luo Chuan himself didn't realize that he had been substituted with this tribe, which may be the instinct of a social animal like humans.
On the flat ground outside Luo Chuan's cave stood a rickety body, this is an old man of the tribe, seeing Luo Chuan, he quickly took out a simple bow, there are many wood burrs at the end of the bow, and the bowstring is even more unsightly, there are four knots on the short bowstring, obviously his bowstring materials are leftovers used by the men in the prime of life before.
Seeing the old man's fiery gaze, Luo Chuan said perfunctorily, "Not bad." He strode into the cave.
The fire in the cave had long been extinguished, and Luo Chuan had not prepared a torch, because when he was in retreat a few days ago, he found that the little grass that made him gnash his teeth would glow.
Luo Chuan ran to the grass and said, "Huh", I haven't seen this grass for a day, it has risen to a height of more than 3 inches, and it has broken away from the form of grass, which looks like the soybean seedlings I saw when I was a child.
"That bean seedling, oh uncivilized tree! I'll discuss something with you. Luo Chuan squatted in front of the bean seedlings and said with a flattering expression.
"I refuse to answer any questions that don't make sense." The mechanical sound still sounded from Luo Chuan's head, but if Luo Chuan didn't say it, Dou Miao would never make a sound, Luo Chuan knew that he had offended this guy a few days ago.
"No, it makes sense, it definitely makes sense! You see that they are willing to lead the tribe to exterminate the red-haired people, how can they still ask meaningless questions. ”
"Please tell us your problem!" Mechanical sound or no emotion.
"Look, aren't you able to transform your body! I found out that there are a few good seedlings in the tribe, can you..."Before he could finish speaking, he was interrupted again. "Meaningless request, refuse to reply!"
Luo Chuan's face changed slightly, of course, he was working against this grass, and he was definitely the one who suffered. Soon reverted to a flattering expression. "Well, didn't we all make bows and arrows today? We don't even have an iron knife now, can we get two pieces of iron for us to shoot arrows? ”
This time, the mechanical voice did not directly refuse, but a slightly human disdain: "Will you strike iron?" ”
"I'm x, you broken bean seedlings, hurt Lao Tzu to this place where birds don't, let you do a favor This is not good, that is not possible..."
After Luo Chuan fell asleep, he didn't see the starlight under the leaves of the bean seedlings, as if a fruit was about to bear.
It is better to ask for others than for yourself, and what you are asking for is not people, Luo Chuan gathered everyone in the tribe the next day. Let women and children polish stone arrowheads in the tribe.
And the task of finding food was fulfilled by the men, and today Luo Chuan wants to lead the men to hunt.
When Luo Chuan was about to lead the team to set off, he found that there were two alternatives in the team. One is naturally Adong, and now this little guy has developed to the point where in addition to sleeping, even if he, he has to follow Luo Chuan. This little fellow has always been very clever and pleasant, and the chief loves to take him with him, and with the guidance of yesterday on the bow, the men no longer regard him as a child.
And the other person, Luo Chuan never expected. It turned out to be the old man I saw last night! The bow in the old man's hand looked so unusual, and the men laughed. Naturally, there was no such thing as contempt in the tribe, but when he heard everyone's laughter, the old man still looked a little depressed. "If only I were younger!"
The so-called old people in the tribe are nothing more than the result of long-term malnutrition and overuse of the body. In modern society, this is not a problem, after a period of recuperation, the same is alive and well.
Luo Chuan understood the old man's unwilling thoughts, but now he had no way to take a person with limited mobility to hunt, the primeval forest was not a home, and there might be danger everywhere.
Luo Chuan tried his best to make his expression kinder. "Don't go, don't worry, as long as we can hunt a bite of food, we won't miss you!"
Luo Chuan obviously didn't understand the old man's thoughts, yes, if the tribe encountered a crisis, the first person to be abandoned must be the old man. But this kind of crisis must be big enough, big enough to wipe out the race, even if these old people don't say anything, they will stand up and sacrifice willingly.
But as long as the tribe can survive, no matter how difficult it is, it will not easily abandon the old man. They are backward, they are primitive, but they are human beings, and people should never abandon those who have made contributions.
The big fish tribe is not strong, not to mention full, and many times you can't even see the shadow of food. But whenever the tribe gets food, the first to get food are the 'children, the pregnant women, the elderly', and the young men and women often feed themselves on the river.
In the eyes of the old man, boys can grow up to be young warriors, and girls can grow up to be the wives of warriors; Pregnant women can inject new blood into the tribe, and these old people can only gradually die in the twilight. can no longer contribute to the tribe, this is the pain of the old man, this pain Luo Chuan does not understand.
"Why don't you help me see the cave! By the way, this cave is very important, I don't worry about others, you can help me take care of it. Remember, no one but you can go half a step into the cave. Luo Chuan used the Dafa of fooling, but he didn't expect it to work, and the old man immediately changed from decadence to spirit. Take his wooden bow and run to the mouth of the cave and stand up.
While the women were in full swing polishing the stone arrows, Luo Chuan set off with more than forty men from the tribe. Today, Luo Chuan wants to test the power of the bow and arrow.
The old man at the entrance of the tribal cave stood solemnly at the mouth of the cave. Like a guard, "The leader said that no one else is at ease, only me, it seems that I am still useful to the tribe!" But why didn't the chief ask my name? If I really want the leader to ask me my name, I will tell him out loud, my name is Yi! ”
The old man didn't know what was happening to a bean seedling in the cave behind him, and for a long time, a bright red fruit hung on the branch of the bean seedling, and the branch hung down.
A strong summoning sound made Yi couldn't help but walk into the cave. After struggling inwardly for a long time, he thought about what Luo Chuan said: "No one can enter the cave except me, it seems that I can go in." I'll just take a look, maybe there's a worm in the cave! It would be bad if it bit the leader. ”
Yi hurriedly ran into the cave, and the first thing he saw was the red fruit that the bean sprouts bore. Yi walked up and sniffed at the red fruit, but the red fruit immediately turned into a red mist and turned into his nose.
Yi panicked, with puzzlement, hurriedly ran out of the cave, panting heavily. "I've lost the chief's fruit! What to do? I'm really useless. How do you explain it to the chief? ”
Yi's head was very messy, and he didn't see a faint red shadow behind him, he held a longbow, bent his bow and set up an arrow, and an arrow shot through the sky.