Chapter 7: A New Life
The long cold season has passed, and the arrival of the warm season has melted the snow and ice, and the world of the valley is suddenly filled with water. The people had already prepared and nailed the wooden rafts under the wooden houses. Now all the huts are on the water, and the pigs are housed on empty rafts connected to the houses.
Smart people began to make a living from fishing, salvaging aquatic plants for pig feed. Fish fly in the humid fog of the air, so children often use sticks to hit fish swimming in the air head-on. There are fewer fish, snakes with wings, and dogs with wings. This winged dog is petite, so it can fly with a flap of its wings. These dogs have only been domesticated by the Tokhtun tribe, who depend on dogs for their hunting for a living. Now the survivors have also begun to train the dogs, which provide them with mostly snake meat and rats.
Some people don't like the bumpy water life and start climbing into caves in the mountains, where they grow food and vegetables on the mountains and in sunny places at the mouth of the caves.
A new vision of life was created, in which some people lived in caves and some people lived on water.
The new living environment needs to be adapted, and the men have lost their appetite and are often dizzy, nauseous, and spitting acid. Until one day, they find that their stomachs are bulging, and things are not as simple as they thought. They were all pregnant, both men and women. Uncle Cow Dung said, "It must be that the snow water is mixed with the water of the Daughter Lake." ”
So, in later days, you can often hear the moaning and screaming of the baby, as well as the crying of the baby.
For this reason, Uncle Cow Dung has done a careful study of the water. He found that if the water was boiled and boiled, a person would not get pregnant if he drank it. This discovery was of great significance, and for this reason Uncle Cow Dung was appreciated by the people, and after deliberation, the people elected Uncle Cow Dung as the patriarch of this new world.
During the warm season, the cows returned to Uncle Cow Dung. In fact, Uncle Cow Dung is not interested in the title of patriarch, he still studies flying machines, and often rides cows to fly into the sky, spreading his ideas in the world of cows, according to Uncle Cow Dung, cows can not only communicate with him in language, but also have their own life customs. Uncle Cow Dung said that he would be willing to be a cow if he had a choice.
The bird-people also live in grass huts on the hills, where they don't have to worry about being flooded. After Yi's death, Birdman lost faith in life, and he became lazy and stuck at home all day, wearing dirty clothes. I miss my Yi in my sleep. Increasingly unbearable hunger was the primary problem, and from the first day of eating up his savings, the birdman ate a mouse to satisfy his hunger. The next day, he drank water and filled himself with water. On the fourth day, he ate a pair of bark boots that could no longer be remedied. On the fifth day, he ate cow dung. Until his appetite was too much to bear.
Later, the birdmen began to fish and eat at night and sleep during the day. He believes that such a way of life can make him dream of Adie during the day and see Adie's ghost at night.
Dead bodies drifting on the surface of the water at night are often seen. The bodies were decomposed, and they had been buried to death by avalanches. The birdmen salvaged the carcasses and hid them in caves in the mountains for embalming experiments.
In the dead of night, the birdman also began to put more energy into making up his own stories and comforting himself in his own story world.
But in reality, no one likes to read birdman stories, and children have no interest in stories. They prefer to frolic in the water, slipping like a fish one by one. Naughty they also poop and pee in the water, polluting the water source. Once, when it was very windy, the children squatted side by side on the shore to, and the waves set off slapped the on their heads.
Su Kid became the new leader of the children. Every day, he led the children to take a small boat to swim on the water with great interest. Steal wild bird eggs in the reeds and catch winged snakes. Or pour chili pepper water into the mouth of the winged lizard. Let the winged lizard sneeze and breathe fire without stopping. so that the fire can be cooked.
There is a girl in this group of children, and Su Xiaogui likes her very much. At noon, when it was the hottest time, Su Xiaogui opened his eyes in the green water and saw fish swimming in front of him, and she on the reeds.
She lay on the reeds basking in the sun until a cold water snake swept across her skin and woke her up.
"Little ghost Su, what do you look at. When she found out, she called out to Su Xiaogui. Su Xiaogui will obediently run up and let her bite him. As punishment, she will leave purple tooth marks on Su Xiaoji's body.
At that time, the twilight of the sun sprinkled a large area on the water. People cast nets to catch the silver glittering fish. The dog lies quietly on the wooden raft, waiting for the owner to throw the food that belongs to it.