Chapter 5: Unexpected Joy
In the blink of an eye, it was another two years, and Wang Yang was five years old.
At the age of five, he has grown into seven or eight years old, and he does not know how tall he is, but it is recorded in the book that apes in this period are generally 1.4 to 1.6 meters.
According to Wang Yang's appearance of reaching his father's shoulder, it should be one meter one.
This meant that in another year, he would be in the reckless forest outside the canyon.
In this regard, he has long been ready for battle and is not afraid.
As a result of his long-term and unremitting training, his agility has reached an unprecedented state, his body is more lean, and his muscles are bulging, which is extremely explosive......
Of course, there are more and more training programs.
For two years, he practiced sprinting so that he could increase his speed in a short period of time, and he practiced long-distance running to increase his physical strength in pursuit.
For the "Xiao Li Flying Knife", he also practiced to the fullest, just give him a stone, as long as he weighed the weight in his hand, he knew how much strength to make and hit the red heart.
The ancients said that if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools!
Thinking that he was about to enter the forest, he could find rattan, make nets, improve the success rate of everyone's hunting, and reduce unnecessary casualties, and he was excited.
In the past two years, with the fire heating in winter, there has been no fever, and the number of people in the tribe has reached a historic number of thirty.
Wang Yang also has a little sister, because he can't speak, he chose a name in his heart, Wang Yingying, without any meaning and exquisiteness, purely simple and catchy.
With the emergence of a large number of new lives in the tribe, the burden on the shoulders of the adults has become heavier, and the burden on Wang Yang's body is equally heavy.
The increase in population means an increase in the demand for food, especially in the labor force, or these dozen adults, the food they can get every day is the same as usual, and they can still have food and clothing on weekdays.
It's just that meat is divided equally again, and it is far from enough to rely on the nutrition of fruits.
Looking at their busy faces every day, but they have been emaciated, Wang Yang's heart is like a knife.
He almost couldn't resist wanting to go into the forest, find the rattan, and make better props.
But he understands that he can't be in a hurry, he must wait another year, he will develop better, and his strength and speed will be stronger, so that he can have the capital to save his life.
But the weather is not beautiful, which leads to all this, in advance in winter.
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As winter drew to a passing and spring was approaching, an accident occurred.
The ice and snow had just melted, and after only a few days of warming, it had fallen again, and the world that had just recovered a little entered the white world of death again.
The stored meat has already been eaten, and there are only a few dozen fruits left, which will last for a few days at most.
I thought that this year's spring would come like the previous year, but I didn't expect it to be postponed.
Moreover, because of the increase in population, the food is eaten at the tail end of winter.
Wang Yang didn't need to judge much at all, he knew that it was the embarrassment caused by the cold air moving south.
He understands very well that in this day and age, forests only appear in tropical and subtropical places, and in the north, it is absolutely icy and snowy.
Even here, there is no real summer, and the hottest time is only 16 or 7 degrees.
It wasn't until tens of thousands of BC that it warmed up and formed a modern climate.
Until then, the Earth was cold.
The adults were anxious, and they planned to take torches and go to the dry forest in search of food.
Wang Yang wanted to go, but was stopped.
For several days, the adults found very little food, and it was rare to bring back a rabbit, dig some roots, and pick up some completely frozen fruit.
This food is enough for nearly thirty people.
Today, there are already a few adults hungry.
The source of food was already imminent, Wang Yang couldn't wait, regardless of the dissuasion of adults, he joined the food search team, after all, one more person, one more strength, the chance of finding food is also greater.
He was loaded with a dozen small stones, with bone spurs, and covered with layers of animal skins, ready to go.
There was only a bunch of children left in the cave, and there was no one to take care of them, and there was no way to take care of them, so that the fire could be burned so that the wild beasts would not dare to come near.
As soon as I got outside, the north wind suddenly blew in my face, and the biting cold wind came in through a few small cracks, and the "cough" blew all over the body.
Wang Yang shuddered, his whole body trembled, he had no intention of appreciating the beautiful scenery of white ice and snow, stepped into the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, and followed the adults forward.
In this era, there were no shoes, so Wang Yang and others grabbed the rabbit, opened a small opening on its body just enough to accommodate the ankles, hollowed out the internal organs, dried them, and put them on their feet.
As they walked, they walked into the woods in front of the canyon.
This forest is located at the foot of two green hills and is covered by tall unknown trees.
There are some trees that Wang Yang is still familiar with, relatively easy to recognize conifers, and there are some other trees in the cold zone.
But since there is no human logging, it is a paradise for plants, and the competition is fierce.
In order to be exposed to the sun, each tree grows up and grows taller like crazy, and some trees can only be hugged by four or five people, which shows that it is thick.
Wang Yang followed the adults to the edge of the forest, squinting his eyes and looking carefully.
The depths of the forest are so dark that the sun is not strong enough to reach them, and the visibility in the depths is very low as in the evening.
The ground is covered with a thick layer of snow, and under the trees, there is rarely some uncovered ground, and the color is mostly pitch black soil, with small stones and trees mixed in.
After walking for a while, he didn't see any animals, and there was no danger, and unfortunately, Wang Yang didn't see any rattan, which made him very disappointed.
Suddenly, the adults' movements slowed down, and they whined twice, and everyone entered a state of alert, tightened their weapons one by one, and slowly walked inside.
Wang Yang's mood couldn't help but get nervous.
In his previous life, he had never even killed chickens, and during this time, he had only killed a few fish, and he had never experienced real hunting, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he thought that he was about to face an extremely ferocious beast of ancient times.
There weren't too many weeds and thorns at the edge of the forest, and there was an apparently artificially carved path that everyone was leading to.
After walking cautiously for a while, and encountering no danger, the adults breathed a sigh of relief, waved their hands, and motioned for everyone to look for food nearby.
Wang Yang followed his parents, and his father, holding a flat stone tool, walked under a big tree, dug up the snow on the ground, and dug down a few centimeters, his eyes lit up, and he dug up a pile of chestnuts.
These chestnuts fall to the ground in autumn, and because of their shells, the fruits inside are not easy to spoil, and after a long winter, they are completely frozen, and they are one of the main foods against the long winter.
He grunted and screamed with joy, saying that he had found dozens of them, probably the nest of some mouse, and that the mouse had not returned, most likely had been killed by something else.
The mother used the rabbit's fur as a pocket and put it in.
Wang Yang looked around cautiously, paying attention to the beasts that might appear at any time under his dim gaze.
He didn't see any wild beasts, but he did see a few trees of great size and small under which the soil had been dug up, revealing the roots inside, and he wondered what good it was to dig in this way.
But it didn't take long for him to understand what was good.
His father dug underneath one of the plants, and soon dug up to the roots, only to see that there were soybean-sized fruits at the roots.
Wang Yang took one, took a bite, and found that the meat inside was pure white, the taste was light, and it was sour, and almost immediately, he almost screamed excitedly!
He recognized the plant, named the Thistle! The roots will bear fruit, hardy, everywhere and most importantly, this plant is medicine!
It has the effect of hemostasis and anti-inflammatory, that is, if the wound is accidentally broken in the future, you can not be infected!
Wang Yang was extremely excited, he looked around, and saw that there were more than thirty plants everywhere.
He was so happy that he didn't recognize it at first, because he had only seen it in textbooks, not really seen it, and its branches and leaves resembled conifers, and at first glance, he thought it was a small conifer.
Unexpectedly, this is a treasure!
When his parents saw him so happy, they thought he liked to eat this fruit, and gave him all ten of them.
He carefully put it up, not gluttonous, and at the same time filled it back with dirt and covered the roots of the thistle.
His parents didn't understand his thankless behavior, they had to know what time it was, and it was a waste of energy to cover the soil back with this broken plant.
Wang Yang doesn't care, this is the only medicine he has found so far, it is equivalent to a life-saving straw, how can it be wasted, he buried it one by one, and it will be of great use in the future.
After doing this, Wang Yangcai and his parents hit the road again.
They are in the outer area of the forest, which has been swept some time ago, so it is difficult to find food.
So everyone gathered together and decided to go deep into the forest.
The deeper the forest, the darker the light, the denser the trees grow, blocking a lot of the snow, and the black soil on the ground can be seen, so it is not so difficult to walk.
But the pace of the crowd was even slower, staring closely around.
I have to say that in this era, there is no need to read books all day long, there is no radiation from computers and mobile phones, and the eyesight is very good.
Everything is clearly visible, Wang Yang likes this feeling of having everything in his eyes, but now is not the time to be happy.
The crowd came to a halt among the trees.
After a few shouts to each other, the group decided to collect any food they could find.
Wang Yang didn't dare to walk alone in the dark and dense forest, and still stayed with his parents.
Suddenly, the team of more than two dozen people dispersed.
Wang Yang dug everywhere and found that he couldn't dig anything, knowing that he had no skills, he simply watched his parents dig.
The parents were very experienced, and first looked at the nearby ground to see if there were any signs of fruit rotting, and if not, it meant that it had been eaten or hidden by rats and the like.
At this time, my father saw a shallow trace, it was a small footprint, not any kind of large animal, some like a rabbit or a mouse.
Following the trail, they found a thin layer of snow, pushed the snow away, and found a hole.
The hole is twenty centimeters wide, the hole is very deep, and it is not known what is inside.
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