The old priest and the hunting captain didn't care about Heijun's cynicism.

"Even a doll understands this...... This winter, it seems that we will really have a hard time getting through it. The old witch muttered, his voice older than ever, full of pathos.

Yonggang was silent for a moment and said, "Let me take the rest of the men out again." If you're lucky, you might be able to get a lot of prey. ”

Wu Xing smiled bitterly and shook his head to deny his thoughts: "This season, the only wild things in the mountains are fierce wolves and storm-maned bears, and it is useless to go to more people. Besides, there is not even any food in the village to ensure that you go out hunting. ”

Men who go out hunting must be well fed. If you don't have the strength, you can't talk about hunting. In fact, it is far more expensive than the villagers who stay in the village and live on broth.

Tianhao did not participate in the discussion between the old priest and the hunting captain. He had been silently watching the bound women.

"Leave this matter to me!" His voice was a little low, but there was an unmistakable determination: "I can get enough food for the people in the village to survive this winter." ”

This sentence was completely unexpected, so much so that Wu Xing and Yonggang abruptly stopped talking, and at the same time raised their heads and looked at him in disbelief.

Pingjun raised his head suddenly, and his rickety waist was stimulated to straighten up a little. After a brief moment of surprise, his eyes gradually revealed disbelief, mixed with sarcasm.

"I'm not going to say that for nothing. I can prove it to you. Tianhao looked at the other side calmly, and when the two sides made eye contact, he added: "Give me a day, and don't sell these women until I come back." ”

……

A canopy of haze shrouded the mountains, and as the sun began to sink overhead, twilight and darkness were about to reign over the land.

"You shouldn't have let them go. There are only two people who go into the mountain at such a time...... Alas......"

In the leader's cabin, the old priest Wu Xing and the hunting captain Yonggang sat with a dull expression. On the other side was Fu Song, the resentful leader of the stockade.

"We didn't expect Hao and Ah Mad to leave the village. The elder and I thought that Ah Hao was just talking, and when the people who were guarding in front of the village came with the news, we knew that they had really left. ”

Yonggang's eyes were faintly regretful and astringent: "You must find them back, I'll go now." ”

"It's too late!"

The old priest Witch looked older and frail than usual. He smiled bitterly and shook his head repeatedly: "It's getting dark, and now when I go out of the village, there are all wild beasts outside, and I can only die in vain...... Wait until tomorrow dawn, and I'll go with you. ”

The leader, Fu Song, sighed: "I always thought that Ah Hao was a useless slacker. Now it seems that he must have spent all his time studying medicine...... A healer, a healer! ”

The preciousness of the healer is self-evident.

No one spoke in the room anymore, and the room was filled with remorse and a dull atmosphere. The flames engulfed the wood and burned, making a "beep-beep" sound.

Suddenly, several shouts with strong excitement came from outside the room.

The leader, Fu Song, stood up in confusion, walked to the door, and pulled away. I saw that the sentry waiting on the lookout of the walled gate was rushing from a distance.

"Head, Chief...... Cough...... Ahem......"

Perhaps because he was running too fast, the sentinel who rushed to the front coughed breathlessly. After relieving his breath, he couldn't hold back the excitement in his heart and shouted: "Bear, bear...... Ah Hao, and Ah Mad ...... They...... Whew...... They hunted a bear, a whole maned bear! ”

……

It was already dark, and torches were lit in the open space at the entrance of the walled gate, and dozens of villagers rushed to hear the news. In the center, a birch sled is tied to a sleek with its eyes closed. Judging from the bear's tongue that was hanging out of its mouth, it was obvious that it had been dead for a long time. However, through the hard and piercing bear hair, you can still faintly feel a trace of the residual warmth in the body of this dead beast that has not completely disappeared.

The old priest had a unique eye, and his gaze directly glanced over the huge bear carcass on the load, and looked at the birch trees pressed down with surprise and amazement.

He didn't know that this thing was called a "skid", but he thought it was amazing: a few pieces of wood that seemed to be nailed up at random could be pulled by two young people?

Tianhao squatted in front of the sled, and together with his second brother Tianfang, he beckoned the villagers who were watching next to him, and dragged the huge dead bear into the open space in the village. The sharp eyebrows and the bronzed skin made this young man who was just in his early sixteenth look a little calm and calm that his peers could not match.

By the time the rest of the stockade arrived, the maned bear had been lifted off the skid, and was lying on its back on the ground. Several male villagers are expertly peeling the thick bear skin with two brothers.

They glanced at each other, and from each other's eyes, the old priest, the leader, and the hunting captain saw the shock and joy contained in each other's hearts at the same time.

An adult violent bear weighs half a ton. If a certain amount of grass stem bark is mixed with it, it is enough for the whole clan to eat for several days. It is undoubtedly a great news for the current situation of extreme food shortage in Panshizhai.

But how did Tianhao hunt this bear?

The maned bear is one of the most ferocious and ferocious beasts in the mountains and forests. Not only is it powerful, but it is also agile and sharp. Usually encountered by chance, even the hunting team of more than 20 people in the clan avoided it. What's more, it's still two young people who are weak and weak?

Fu Song noticed that there was not a single broken wound on the bear's body. Even the anus at the back of the bear's mouth remains intact.

In other words, Hao did not rely on hand-to-hand combat to kill the bear. It's something else.

"Boss!"

The sudden sound suddenly woke up Fu Song, who was deep in thought. When he looked up, he saw Tianhao standing in front of him, respectfully handing over a sharp and delicate boning knife.

According to the rules of the stockade, the chief must carry the knife to divide the meat. Only in this way can all the prey be distributed fairly among everyone. In this cruel world, it is simply impossible to survive alone. Relying on collective strength to obtain food together is the only rule of survival.

The boss doesn't have to break up all the prey one by one, just cut the throat of each prey. On the one hand, it is to ensure the integrity of the prey's fur, and more importantly, to show their identity and power.

Fu Song did not take the knife as usual. He solemnly reached out and picked up the back of the bladeless knife, returned the handle of the boning knife to Tianhao, and showed a gentle smile on his face: "Today's meat, you will divide it!" ”

Everyone was amazed. Although Panshi Village is a "low-class village" among the tribes, Fu Song also belongs to the kind of low-class leaders who do not have a surname. But for such a thing as "dividing meat", Fu Song rarely pretends to others. In my memory, the old priest helped divide it twice, and the hunting captain Yonggang, who was the "head of a hundred people", also shared it once.

Directly handed the knife to a young man, this is the first time in the stockade. Tianhao felt a little surprised, he had searched for the host's memory fragments, and knew that dividing the flesh seemed simple, but it actually represented a ritual process.

If it's ordinary prey, it's fine, but this is a storm-maned bear, an existence at the top of the food chain on the Cold Continent.

Tianhao hesitated for a long time with the knife in his hand, and he noticed that the old priest and the hunting captain also released a look of approval in their eyes, so he slowly took the money, and used the blade to cut the fur of the giant bear's throat, gently cutting through the thick yellow bear fat.

Divide the meat, in the unit of "household".

He was very careful and meticulous. Dozens of identical cuts of meat, the best fat and offal, were distributed among families with men and children. As for himself, he took only a piece of minced meat mixed with a large number of bones.

No objection was expressed. It doesn't get much fairer than that. Even Fu Songcheng, who was the leader, couldn't stop smiling and secretly bowing his head.

There is not much food in the tribe, and for several days, Panshi Village has been half-starved and half-full. With so much fresh bear meat, it is undoubtedly a hearty meal for people. At that moment, they rejoiced, picked up pieces of meat from the ground and returned to their respective huts. Soon, in the wind and snow whistling over the village, there was also a faint smell of mouthwatering meat.

……

It was already the second half of the night, and the fire in the leader's hut was still burning strongly.

"You can all see that Ah Hao is not lying. He and the Celestial Maniac did indeed hunt a bear. ”

Fu Song sniffed the aroma wafting from the soup pot vigorously, and even his voice changed slightly in tone. Hearing it, he was in high spirits and very happy.

Yonggang tied his hair up with a rattan rope, frowning all the time, he stared at the flames jumping in the fire pit, and said in a low and slow voice, "...... I didn't see the wound. ”

The mountain range outside the rock village is called the Vast Expanse.

The Stormmaned Bear is one of the most feared beasts in the Mountains. Its outer skin is so hard that even the most powerful spear throwers can hardly penetrate it. The only weakness is the white hair in the shape of a "V" on the chest, which is also the weakest part of the body's defense.

If you want to hunt a maned bear without harm, you can only force its throat bone to pieces. Yonggang is recognized as the strongest man in Panshizhai, but even he has a hard time doing it. What's more, what Tianhao and Tianmad brought back was a male bear, whose physique was far stronger than that of ordinary tyrannical bears. Especially in winter, when there is a lack of food, these beasts are more aggressive than usual.

Yonggang didn't understand, what method did Tianhao use to hunt this tyrannical bear?

This is also the question that the leader of the stockade, Fu Song, and the old priest Wu Xing are thinking about.

"It wasn't a madman." Yonggang sat cross-legged, broke a brittle branch with force, and stuffed it into the fire, his eyes staring at the flames revealed deep doubts: "If Tianmad really has the ability to kill a storm-maned bear, Tianfeng and Xuping will not be injured when they go out hunting this time." ”