Chapter 10 Farewell without saying goodbye

The next morning, the warm sun continued to patronize the peaceful and happy land of Nanku Village. Nan Yongle came to the hut next to the council hall with the question as usual, the door of the hut was closed, Nan Yongle stretched out his right hand ......and knocked on the door: "Uncle Qiyuan, are you up?"

Yongle thought that the voice was too small to hear, so he slapped the door with his palm and shouted: "Uncle Qiyuan, get up!" There was still no reaction in the house, Nan Yongle pushed open the door with both hands, and the quilt on the bed was neat, but there was no trace of his uncle. The little monkey jumped and said, "Qiyuan is gone......" said and jumped on the bed, lying on the quilt and turning left and right.

Yongle looked at the window and said to the question: "Ten million, half of the meat that Uncle Qiyuan brought back last night is still hanging by the window, and half of it?"

"Eat...... Ate ...... Hey, hey, hey, ......" scratched his head, sat on the quilt and looked out the window.

Nan Yongle looked like a teacher teaching a student, and said: "Question million, how can you have this IQ! You know how to eat in one day! Can he eat half of more than ten catties of meat in one night? Besides, he had already eaten at our house last night!" The little monkey was confused by what he said, and stretched out his hand to scratch his head.

"Where has Uncle Qiyuan gone?" Nan Yongle frowned and looked out the window suspiciously. "Hey, ask Grandma!" he said, running to the council hall. Question Wan also jumped out of bed and followed Nan Yongle, took a few steps, he ran back again, he grabbed the corner of the door with his right hand and walked out, and Question Wan closed the door. Nan Yongle laughed in the distance: "Question million, good job! This is like my little follower!"

The question jumped forward: "No! No...... , I'm Di Na's little follower!" Nan Yongle shook his hand and walked forward after hearing this, scolding and scolding: "Hmph! It's not good for you! Find a better little follower than you in the future!"

"Grandma, grandma......" Nan Yongle shouted as soon as he entered the hall.

"Lele!what's the matter, yelling!" Nanlan asked as she came out of the back room. Nanlan wears a loose light gray casual clothes, when she is not hunting, she looks like a girl in such clothes, wearing animal skin armor and looking like a tomboy.

Nan Yongle gasped: "Sister-in-law...... Isn't Uncle Kaiyuan here?"

"No!" Nanlan replied without thinking.

Question: Scratching his ears and cheeks, he jumped on the ground and said: "Qiyuan is missing! Qiyuan is missing......

"Missing, how could it be!" Nanlan asked rhetorically.

Lele was anxious: "It's true, we are here to ask him to eat, there is nothing in the house except for half a piece of meat!"

"Could it be that he has already gone to your house, you just missed it!" Nanlan raised his right hand, his index finger bent on the tip of his nose.

Nan Yongle opened his mouth wide and looked at Nan Lan suspiciously: "Probably not!"

"Let's go, let's take a look!" said he pulled Nan Yongle and walked out, turned around and said loudly to the inner room: "Mother, I'll go to Lele's house to have a look!"

Nanlan's mother's words came from the back room: "Go ahead!"

Lele's mother and Tiena were packing up the clothes that Qiyuan and He Ku had changed out of yesterday, preparing to go to the river to wash after eating. Seeing Lele coming back with Nanlan, Lele's mother put down the clothes in her hand and stepped forward to greet Nanlan.

"Sister-in-law, you're busy with you, don't worry about me, isn't Qiyuan here?" Nanlan looked at the courtyard and said.

Lele's mother looked at Nanlan and said, "No, isn't Lele going to call him?"

"He's not here, only half of the meat that's been given to him hangs by the window!" Nanlan replied.

"This ...... Where can he go?" Lele's mother frowned and asked with a questioning face: "He won't be leaving Nanku Village!"

Nanlan looked at Di Na and said thoughtfully: "You didn't embarrass him, did you, for example, something to stimulate him......

Di Na on the side was a little unhappy: "Sister Nanlan, this is wrong for you, Lele's mother and I are entertaining them with delicious food and drink!" Di Na said, her eyes widened and she raised her right hand, and said thoughtfully: "Oh no......"

"What's wrong?" Nanlan asked.

Di Na turned to look at Lele's mother and said, "This Qiyuan, he won't be looking for salt!"

"Looking for salt?" Nanlan frowned and asked suspiciously.

Lele's mother shook her hand and said, "Oh! He won't be so stupid! That's just talking, how can he do it!" Then, Lele's mother recounted their conversation the night before to Nanlan in detail.

Yes, we really have to go looking for salt, and after listening to what Lele's mother said last night, I couldn't sleep when I returned to the residence. He Ku was not asleep either, he came to discuss with me and asked me if there was anything I could do to solve the salt problem of the villagers. After repeated analysis, the only way is to kill the dragon to get salt. But here's the problem, if we discuss it with Nanlan, they will definitely not let us go alone, and if we divide a wave of people, the villagers will have problems hunting. In the end, He Ku and I decided that the two of us would go alone to meet this dragon for a while, and then leave Nanku Village to find a way. Nanlan is so smart, she should have thought of where we went.

So we prepared some water, took two long knives in the small square, and took half of the falcon tooth meat that Lele's mother had pickled last night and set off at dawn.

The entrance to the cave out of the village is a large stone gate, and under the door is a slide, which requires two people to push hard. Every time they enter the village, the villagers have to push the stone gate up, firstly, to prevent the falcon from finding this place, and secondly, to prevent other criminals from discovering this place and coming to cause trouble.

The sun had just risen, and we arrived at the place where the falcon fangs had been hunted, a place they called "jaws". Flocks of crows forage on the ground, pecking at the rotting bones of their falcon fangs with occasional "thumpping ......", puddles of blood on the ground clotting the red earth into clumps and clattering on them, and wild wolves can still be seen on the hills, perhaps waiting for the next abandoned falcon fang. Seeing us pass, the wolves hid in the rocks, and behind us we could still feel their eyes staring at us, and a breeze blew, and the whole back shuddered. These traces show that there are other people hunting here besides the villagers of Nanku.

Turning over the jaws, you can see about green plants in the distance, the mountains are slightly gentle, and occasionally a few rivers cross the earthy red surface. At noon, He Ku and I found a big tree and rested under it. The thick foliage could not block the dazzling and relentless sun, and our clothes were soaked, so we simply hung our clothes on the branches next to us to dry. After eating some falcon tooth meat, I was tired, probably because I got up too early in the morning, and walked so far, so I simply lay down on the turf and fell asleep.

I don't know how long I slept, but the scream of a fanged wolf-pig woke me from my dream, and there was a noise and noise in the distance. I woke up He Ku, put on my clothes and looked over to the place where the sound was made. I saw a big man in the shape of a big man, holding a big knife, the tip of the knife was submerged in the red soil, and there was a fanged wolf pig lying on the ground, which had been split in two by the blade, and the green blood flowed on the ground, and part of it was stuck to the big man's leather boots. Look at this big man who is about 1.8 meters tall, his face is full of meat, and he has a handful of hair on his head and a pigtail. Two metal bracers on the left and right hands, leather armor with falcon teeth on the shoulders, and tattoos on the arms. At first glance, it's not a good kind. There were five or six little Rolls next to him, hippie smiling, nodding and muttering.

Too far away to hear what was being said, He Ku and I crept closer and crouched behind the bushes. A group of people who were intercepted by the big man, one of the leading elders was estimated to be their leader, and there was a girl standing next to her, in her early twenties, handsomely dressed, but looking at her clothes were torn in a few places, and there were blood stains, it was estimated that she had just fought not long ago. At the young man's feet were two stretchers made of wood, and a bloodstained white cloth was placed on them, slightly like a person.

Next to him, a little Luo Luo with a sharp beak and cheeks crossed his waist and pointed to the fanged wolfpig on the ground that was divided in two, and said, "If you want to pass safely from here today, you must leave half of the salt!" Otherwise, ...... Just like this pig!"