Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Slaves' Little Secret
Looking through the cracks in the fence at the red and black mess outside the cave, Dan Dan swallowed a few mouthfuls of saliva, I knew that this scene might be bloody and disgusting to me, but for him, it was undoubtedly a good appetizer, after all, this native did not resist raw meat, and moreover, was born to yearn for it.
Hey, it's a pity, my ancestors didn't pass on this skill to me, otherwise, we might have rushed out now to take advantage of the evil spirits' "birds and horses" to rush out and bring a few big crows back to the stove to roast and eat, but, think about it or give up, but the evil fish ball on the stone bed is so evil that it doesn't have a edge in case it wakes up when we two give the crows bald hair, hey, it hurts my scalp to think about.
However, now is the "spring solstice" in the solar terms left by our ancestors, I pinched my fingers and pretended to meditate and calculated, the spring solstice is almost in February and March of the solar calendar, right? It is the season when the days increase the years and the people increase the flesh, and the spring is full of meat, Lao Tan is on the top and the thick soil is on the bottom, but the points can let me survive this hurdle, I am willing to use my ten catties of meat on my body to exchange this isolated island for ten years of wind and rain and peaceful times.
The charcoal fire in the fireplace behind me burst out of a spark at an inopportune time, accompanied by a crisp sound of "pop", which also made my thoughts return to reality, I still have to go out, although reluctantly, but Huya needs to change the dressing, we need to fill our stomachs, even if the fresh water in the earthen jar can only last us for another day, I began to regret why I didn't move to the few earthen houses I built to live, and this evil spirit incident also reminded me of the awakening, that is, In the future, when building a house, you must leave a back door for yourself to run away if necessary.
However, it gives me a headache to think about the dozen or so black beasts at the door who are still waiting for the corpses and refuse to leave.
Obviously, this is a group of intelligent things, they just look like crows, but they are by no means comparable to crows, they used the tactic of cutting off the enemy's return route last night, and now, they are more like besieging the enemy in the cave and not attacking the enemy in the cave to give the head of the automated?
I patted Dandan's shoulder and stood up myself, twisting the painful ass and moving to the side of the stone bed, the tiger girl closed her eyes tightly and didn't react at all, in fact, I really hope that she can get better soon and help me, in terms of the current situation, ten Dandans can't compare to one tiger girl, isn't it? Even if she hummed twice now, it would make me feel more at ease.
I gently wiped the oil stains in the barrel of the gun with the last "handcuff" that I treasured in the wooden box, and then used the fiber rope to put the gunpowder into it little by little, and finally, filled a little bit of lead bullet, for me now, lead bullet is precious, score and use, I even thought that in the future, if the prey is shot down, it is best to be able to take out the lead bullet from the prey, wash it and reuse it, I did try it once, but it turns out that the lead bullet that was shot out has been deformed, The mentality of a little daughter-in-law who lives frugally will not work at all.
I can't have no one to take care of in the cave, but I seem to need a helper more, but the big living person is only one Dandan, after thinking about it, I still took him with me, after all, the two in the cave are dead or alive is not as important as their own lives, yes, I am so selfish, Lao Tzu is not a savior or Shakyamuni, where did he get so much kindness.
The trip was much easier than I had imagined, or rather, I didn't have to bring a gun, because the group of evil crows at the door saw the fence door open, and they only screamed a few times, but they didn't seem to be interested in me, a limping living person, which made me and the trembling balls behind me instantly feel like they had regained their daylight and hurriedly ran down the gentle slope, and on the way I didn't forget to pick up the bird in the tree wall.
Tiger Ya and Yuwan originally lived in the three earthen houses, don't forget, except for some things, such as the manufacture and preservation of meat oil, such as the firing of earthen pots, etc., I never hide these two women, okay, okay, one of them is still a child, not a woman.
But in addition, such as grain, such as earthen pots, as long as they ask me, I will give them some rations, but the jars are not more than three, and the rice is only a handful, in fact, I don't know what they want my grain to be used for, but due to the language barrier, I never ask.
It is precisely because of this that I have today's convenience, instead of running to the evil spirit crow flock to get the grain in the barn, and I don't have to carry a heavy jar to the pool to fetch water, so, the top priority, obviously, is to get those tender grass that I can't name and don't know that it doesn't work, so I can chew it up and give the tiger a "anti-inflammatory", to be honest, I really don't know if this thing works, but it's like a kind of spiritual sustenance for me, like as long as I do this, it proves that I am really anxious about this matter, I tried everything I could, just like I could comfort myself when the tiger girl burped and said: "Old Wu, don't be sad, you have done your best", but even the ghost knows that this is purely fooling himself, because those broken grasses were picked up by me on this mountain more than four years ago, and now I just grab the medicine according to the prescription, and there may be a few edible wild vegetables mixed in it!
I also thought that it was still early, go to the paradise to collect some wild fruits back, after all, that thing contains a lot of vitamins, this is the most needed thing for Huya now, I am not afraid of the hardships of the road, now for me, the most troublesome thing is time, that is obviously not a day to catch back.
At first, I thought he was afraid that the evil crows would do something to him when he was alone, until the master stammered and shyly replied to me with a picture explaining that the last time he went to the "paradise", he had brought back a lot of green oranges and hidden them in his own tree house.
But it was this incident that led me to a very important decision that affected not only the ideology of a few of us, but even many of us for many years to come.
I snarled at Dan Dan a few times, and told him clearly, "Of the four of us, what each of us earns belongs to the four of us, and only I have the right to distribute it", although I know that he doesn't understand this very well, but he knows that I am angry, and he knows what I will do to him in anger, and that is enough.
Of course, this is still the tip of the iceberg of the secret of my discovery of the balls, because, when we were cleaning the fish ball earthen house, we also found a few turtle eggs, which were very large, two of them were enough to fill a person's stomach, and I looked at the balls coldly, and he could only keep his head down in silence, and even finally knelt down and put his head on my toes to beg for my forgiveness.
But how can I be angry? Whether it's this green orange or this turtle egg, it's what I need the most now, and I even think that the grandson under my feet is a genius, and he has prepared all this in advance.
But, everything is good and bad, although I accidentally found Dandan's private collection, but I couldn't find a grain of rice in the earthen house of the fish ball, and I didn't see any traces of fire inside and outside her house, I didn't care about these, it was given to her, she was free to use it, as long as she didn't affect a few of us, it didn't matter.
But the accident was unexpected, just when I wanted to pick up a jar in the house to fetch water and bring it back to the cave, I suddenly heard a special noise from the jar, the sound was very soft, but very harsh, as if something was scratching and scratching in the jar, the creaking sound seemed to be as uncomfortable as someone scratching the glass with a fingernail, in this quiet environment, I was busy looking into the jar.