Chen Chao asked while drinking fish soup, "What's wrong?" ”

The little old man with the horns sighed, "The river... It's gone... Fish... It's gone..."

"Gone?"

Chen Chao was full of doubts, how could the river not be seen... How could the fish in the river not be seen? This side is not near the sea, so will the fish in this small river migrate?

Looking at the Yuan next to him, his interest was not very high, and he seemed to be very worried about this matter.

Then I heard the little old man say, "Fish... Finished eating. ”

Although they know that there is endless food in the cave, hoarding food is engraved in people's genes, and the people of the tribe have a very strong dependence on the fish in the river since they knew that the fish in the river could be eaten.

As a tribal witch who has lived here for decades, he certainly knows that the creek will disappear in winter. But in the past, because there was no need for fishing, they were still relatively satisfied after the closure, because they could go directly to the other side, which would be much more convenient.

But this year was different, he knew that there was an inexhaustible source of food in the river, and he also knew that the river would disappear in winter, so he asked his old followers to use rattan baskets to net many baskets of fish in advance, wanting to eat them for a winter.

But the fish really don't last long under their current knowledge, so they have to eat the fish before they spoil, but when they are gone, they have to eat the food stored in the tribe.

Although it is known that there is a lot of grain in stock, there is no need for hunting parties to go out to hunt in the winter. But Wu Yi wanted to start moving those mountains, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost and sad in his heart, and even the matter of counting skins today made him unhappy.

Chen Chao originally wanted to go and see it, could it be that there was some mysterious event that he didn't know about? It's a good river, how can it not be seen? Could it be that the water is cut off at the source?

But looking at Wu and Yuan, the two people were really wrong, he drank his bowl of fish soup in two sips, put on his own set of animal skin clothes and came to the river.

Behind him was Yuan who was hurriedly chasing, Wu's age was a little slow, and he fell behind Yuan.

"You, where are you?" Leader Yuan asked Chen Chao in a low voice.

"I'll go to the river." Chen Chao replied.

Ma Wozi straw sandals stepped on the snow, because they were not made of wooden soles, they were quickly infected by the cold, but compared with direct bare feet touching the snow, there was still an extra layer of protection.

Snowflakes flutter in the sky, and visibility is less than a meter. Chen Chao came to the river with snowflakes, huh? Isn't the river just here?

How do they say the creek is gone?

Could it be that for them, if it freezes, it is gone?

Just then, Wu also walked up wearing his alpaca coat. I saw him stepping on the frozen river with one foot, and said frustrated and sad, "Chen Chao, the river... It's gone. ”

Chen Chao looked helpless, he heard the little old man say that the river was gone, and he scared himself enough. I thought it was some strange event, but it turned out that the river was frozen, and they couldn't see the flowing water, and they could walk on it, so they felt that the river was gone, and it became the earth.

It's not easy to explain, Chen Chao asked Yuan to go back to the tribe to get a spear and a rattan basket out, and then called Da Zhuang out, and by the way, let him bring the two slings he loved the most.

Chen Chao, on the other hand, squatted down and looked at the situation on the river. The snow must have fallen from last night to this morning, and now there is no intention of stopping, and I don't know how thick the ice in the river is.

Although the little old man next to him was very depressed, he did not feel cold. One is that he is really thickly dressed, and it is not cold when it snows, and it is the coldest time when the snow melts.

He looked at Chen Chao knocking and touching beside him, on the one hand, with great expectations in his heart, hoping that this deputy leader, who had brought countless hopes and surprises to the tribe, would be able to turn the river back again, so that they would have one more source of food, and they would not have the anxiety of sitting and eating.

On the one hand, he kept comforting himself, the deputy leader was a human and not a god, how could he turn a disappearing river back. And it doesn't matter if there is no fish to eat, the things in the tribe can't be eaten in one winter!

It's one thing to know in your heart, but it's another thing to actually do it. The long-term hunger has brought an almost pathological psychology to the whole tribe, and I can eat it all, but I must have a lot of food that I can see.

Not long after, Yuan came back with Da Zhuang, the two of them stepped on the snow with one foot deep and one foot shallow, Da Zhuang hung a slinging on each of his shoulders on the left and right, and took two in his hands.

True Stone Throwing Prince.

There were many people from the tribe behind him, and when they heard that they could start catching fish again, they were in high spirits, and they grew up here, and of course they knew that when winter came, the river would disappear.

Every day, watching the fish caught in the tribe be eaten little by little, basically many people consciously reduce their meals, but no matter how much they eat, the fish is finally eaten. Although they didn't say anything, they all saw it in their eyes and remembered it in their hearts, and they were all worried about the loss of fish, a food source.

In particular, many people in the hunting team brought their own weapons. However, because they were in a hurry to come out, they only wrapped the two animal skins they were sleeping on, and they did not wear hemp nests on their feet.

As soon as Chen Chao saw them stepping barefoot in the snow, he was all blasted back. Don't catch a few fish one by one, and your feet are all frostbitten, that's really troublesome.

The 9 little children were wrapped in animal skins and looked timidly at the adults around them, they were wearing hemp nests, because they were all making noise in the snow before they started a day of study and had time to play.

The little stones that joined at the end, although they were still a little timid, but under the leadership of Huang Yan, the child king, they were also well integrated into the children of the Tianyuan tribe.

Chen Chao took the slingling in Da Zhuang's hand, feeling that it was still a little small. But considering that the river has only been frozen overnight, the ice should not be that thick. Two people smashed four stones together, and there should be no problem in breaking it.

Thinking of this, he asked Wu and Yuan to retreat a little, and then he and Da Zhuang also withdrew a certain distance.

This small river has just been frozen overnight, and people may be a little choked when they leave, let alone stand directly on the ice and smash it, and then the hole will be smashed open, and it is estimated that he and Da Zhuang will have to fall into the river.

The surface of the river was also covered with a thin layer of snowflakes, and Chen Chao used his spear to outline an area, signaling Da Zhuang and the others to follow him and smash it in.

Chen Chao and Da Zhuang waved the slings in their hands and smashed them towards the ice.

When he smashed it down for the first time, the ice surface didn't move at all, Chen Chao smashed it hard for the second time, and the third time, until he heard the sound of "click" ice cracking, Chen Chao took Da Zhuang back a little before continuing to smash.

By the time I hit it the fifth or sixth time, I could already see a small hole in the ice. Da Zhuang found that the river was not missing, but was hidden underneath, and in surprise, he waved his manual slinging rope and smashed it towards the ice hole.

Because there is still a distance from the river, and Chen Chao asked him to retreat again and again, so there is no need to worry about falling at all. It didn't take long for the original small hole to be smashed into a big hole by the Stone Throwing Prince, Da Zhuang, with his own strength.

The witch next to him shouted in surprise, "Fish! ”

I saw several fish with long mouths breathing oxygen poking out of the ice cave, and it is estimated that they have been holding under the ice. After breathing for a while, he didn't move, Chen Chao thought he was dead, so he used the spear in his hand to flick it, and the fish sank, and several fish were like this.

Well??? Is it too cold? Frozen to death as soon as you came up?

But it didn't take long for the fish to float again, lying flat like a dead fish, Chen Chao used his spear back and forth several times to figure it out, and the three people next to him were stunned.

Yuan next to him couldn't wait to step on the ice and use a rattan basket to net all these fish that looked good to catch as before. The face of the little old man with the horns on his head also turned cloudy and sunny all of a sudden, and he was happy to come to help.

As a result, Chen Chao pulled it back one by one, and now he is fishing on the ice that has just been smashed, don't you want to die?