It's dawn.

Although Tianhao said not to worry about Tianfeng's situation, Tianmad still did not rest. He sat next to his sleeping elder brother and kept adding wood to the fire.

Tianhao noticed yesterday that the grain of this firewood is very dense, much harder than the trees he was familiar with in the era of civilization. It is also a carbon substance, but it is more resistant to burning.

"Third child, you're doing a good job." Heavenly madness is a straightforward person, like an iron giant, he can't see the contempt for his lazy brother in his eyes at the moment, only infinite appreciation and fanaticism, and affirmation.

Tianshuang rubbed her eyes and crawled out of the pile of animal hides, and when her gaze made contact with Tianhao, she had a happy expression on her face, and her eyes were mixed with undisguised adoration.

Leaving Tianshuang to take care of Tianfeng, the two brothers pushed open the door and walked out of their wooden house.

Tianhao still remembers what the leader and the old priest had said to him last night.

"With you as a healer, there will be no need to invite a great wizard in the village in the future."

This is an affirmation of him. It's just that Tianhao knows very well that he is not a doctor in the real sense, and understands that there is still a gap between theory and practice.

The old priest knew some rudimentary medical skills, but he was absolutely helpless against "surgery". Large, densely populated tribes are home to great shamans, who are said to have a special ability to communicate with the gods, awakening the dead and asking the spirits to spare the souls of the seriously injured and heal.

In a wooden bowl at the door of the hut, there was a piece of meat. The color is very red, and it should be fresh from the distribution this morning. Judging by the shape, the texture of the bones and flesh, it should have come from a part of the front leg of the wild roe deer. The meat is thick, with very few bones and a yellowish layer of fat. Usually only the strongest male laborers in the stockade are eligible for it.

In the season when food is scarce and special items must be used as food, animal meat is precious.

This is a reward for themselves, and it also means that the people of Panshizhai regard themselves as prime-aged laborers.

Tianhao doesn't think healer is. Although Tianfeng's arm had been reset, no one dared to guarantee that it would be restored to its original state. Fortunately, the weather is cold now, and the chance of wound inflammation is much lower than in summer.

Thinking of this, he walked briskly towards the large wooden house in the distance with the heavenly madness.

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The council hall is the tallest building in the rock village. Heavy logs line the walls and roof, and large unpolished stones are piled up on the foundation, without delicate carvings, but full of shocking and fearsome roughness.

The large house was extremely spacious, large enough to accommodate more than five hundred people. Perhaps, when it was first built, the population of Panshi Village did need a building of this scale. However, since Tianhao can remember, there have been fewer and fewer people in the village. At present, all the sick and weak children and the elderly are combined, and half of the wooden benches in the council hall cannot be filled.

Passing by, there is a large cauldron on the earthen stove next to the high platform, and in it is boiling snow water.

The deceased was supposed to be Xuping.

His injuries were severe, and when the hunting party returned yesterday, Asahipei was already in a dying state.

Along the way, everyone was smiling and greeting Tianhao———— and what happened yesterday in the wooden house spread quickly. As long as it is because of Ayan, the special drivers of women's gossip are not much different from those of civilized times. It was known that there was an extra healer in the village. Although Tianfeng's injuries have not yet healed, many people have already seen it: the arm that was originally dislocated and bent backwards has been restored to a normal angle, and the originally cracked chest has also been restored to its integrity under needle and suture. If it had been changed before, it would have been an unimaginable miracle.

Several young girls kept looking at Tianhao, and their smiles were very bright. Not only the rock village, but also the barbarian people usually have a very open view of things between men and women, and the objects of women's favor are all strong or powerful men. What's more, the sixteen-year-old Tianhao has already reached adulthood.

It's amazing to know how to heal. Maybe the young Tianhao will be favored by the big clan leaders at some point in the future and given a surname, just like the old priest Wu Xing.

In this era, people with surnames are aristocrats.

Ignoring these girls, Tianhao and Tianmad sped up in the direction of the council hall. From afar, Tianhao saw that the old priest Wu Xing and the hunting captain Yonggang were standing in front of the hall discussing something. Next to them, there stood a dozen village women whose hands were tied with ropes, looking numb, surrounded by several men armed with spears.

Tianhao's eyebrows furrowed slightly. He knew what was going to happen next.

These women were apparently selected from the families of the village, the young, beautiful, and robust kind. Human trafficking between tribes was commonplace, and a few years ago, when Panshi Village had plenty of food, it used the bighorn deer, yellow roe deer, and fang-toothed pigs hunted in the mountains to buy women from other villages.

If it had been before, Tianhao would not have asked about this kind of thing at all.

However, he saw Ah Mei in the team.

Ah Mei was a trophy that was snatched from other stockades six years ago. In her thirties, she is very able to endure hardships, and has the patience and robustness that are characteristic of women of this age. Perhaps because her husband had been killed, she willingly became the chief's wife. The children in the rock village love Ah Mei, she often brings back sweet and sour fruits from the mountains, she is very kind, no matter to anyone, with a smile on her face.

Several times, Tianhao saw Ah Mei secretly put a few bones with meat in the wooden bowl he placed in front of the door through the crack in the door. Many people say that this woman has a good heart and does things fairly. According to the normal generation, she should be regarded as Tianhao's "aunt", but Tianhao always can't reconcile the identity relationship with Ah Mei. He felt that this woman was sometimes like his sister, sometimes an aunt, and sometimes even an aunt...... How so? In those cold and lonely nights after the death of his parents, Tianhao will always have this woman's warm figure in his heart.

Without hesitation, Tianhao strode up to the old priest and saluted respectfully.

"You're here. Hehe! Ah Yan has just come, and she said that your eldest brother's arm can already move a little. You...... Well done. ”

The old priest smiled, and this enthusiastic attitude even infected Yonggang who was standing next to him. The burly and strong hunting captain was unusually tall, full of terrifying explosive muscles all over his body, and his hard face, which seemed to be frozen in ice and snow forever, even had a slight smile.

On the way back to Panshi Village, he checked Tianfeng's injuries more than once. With Yonggang's experience, Tianfeng's arm was actually useless. However, only one night later, the reality he saw completely subverted his previous habitual thinking.

Even if the elders and leaders don't say it, Yonggang will propose to treat Tianhao as the most important man in the Rock Village and distribute the food fairly.

Having a healer means that you can survive an injury.

Although the status of the healer is not as good as that of the great witch, in many cases, the healer is indeed more practical than the great witch. Communication with the gods has a strong mystical overtone, and in contrast, healers are easier to communicate with ordinary people and are more acceptable.

Tianhao didn't waste time, he brewed his emotions for a while, raised his hand and pointed at the women who were tied up, and said to Wu Xing bluntly: "Elder, can you not sell them?" ”

The old priest and Yonggang glanced at each other, seeing that each other's faces showed expressions of surprise, and then gradually changed to helplessness.

"There is not much food in the stockade anymore. The next snow is likely to block the mountain road. We can't feed so many people, we don't have food, and it won't be long before we have to draw lots. Instead of using these women as food, send them to the stockade in the south. There's a little richer than us, and they're not going to die, if things are good next year...... It can be redeemed again. ”

As he gets older, Wu Xing speaks very slowly and explains patiently. After yesterday's incident, he obviously regarded Tianhao as a middle-aged man with status in the stockade.

"We haven't been to the South for almost a year. No one knows what's going on there. Maybe they suffered more from the snow than we did? They may also have failed this year's crops, or they may be at war with a certain stockade. The snow on the road was so deep that without food, the woman couldn't go that far. You also know that you don't get much out of trading in this season. ”

Tianhao's voice was flat, he didn't deliberately accentuate his tone, he just stated the facts that were clear to everyone. Every time he said one more word, Wu Xing and Yonggang's faces became a little darker.

Pingjun walked over from the side and saluted Wu Xing and Yonggang. His face was gloomy, and he sneered at Tianhao in an unkind tone: "According to what you say, you should leave the woman behind, and then watch everyone starve to death?" ”

He did his best to suppress his anger and resentment.

Pyeongjoon had no idea that the situation would turn around overnight. He had calculated that, based on previous experience, it would take at least a week for the hunting party to return, and as long as there was no food, Tianhao and Tianshuang would starve to death in the next few days. Although the leader Fu Song did things fairly, the distribution of food was handed over to the "Ten Leaders" below. Everyone in the village knew Tianhao's lazy nature, and it was no problem to use this as an excuse to refuse to distribute food.

He would go to the cabin in the middle of the night every day to see the two siblings. If you find the corpse as soon as you find it, you can take the initiative and hide them secretly.

Pingjun himself was not sure that he would survive this long winter. He knew that there was not much food in the stockade, and he was not optimistic that the hunting party would be able to bring back enough prey. He didn't want to die, and after thinking about it, only Tianhao and Tianshuang were the most suitable to start in the village.