Chapter 31: Carnival
The burning clouds on the horizon continued, layers of red clouds rolled, the last rays of light dissipated, and the surroundings were pitch black, except for the campfires in the valleys.
When night falls, the tribes all sing and dance around the bonfire, and the primordial songs and cheers that echo in the valley seem to be a call from ancient times, mysterious and spectacular.
Qin Yue followed the people of the Black Rock tribe around the roaring bonfire, and when she saw them jumping around with stone spears raised, there were thousands of people in the valley like this, looking like a group of demons dancing wildly, and she felt a new feeling in her heart.
When she looked back at Liang Jian, he also followed the crowd with a blank face, and the two looked at each other and smiled, showing a helpless smile.
Under the hazy moonlight, the primitive singing and dancing carnival ended, and Qin Yue noticed that people from different tribes would go to tribes with women, and even take women to remote places.
She wondered, could this be a fraternity meeting between the tribes?
Yanu sat in front of the bonfire, rough laughter rang out, and he explained: "Which tribe did you belong to before, didn't you have this ceremony? Before the exchange meeting, the tribes that came to the valley first will have such a ceremony in front of the campfire, and the different tribes can change marriages, and those who do not want to change marriages will go back to their tribes for the night. ”
Qin Yue was stunned, not only friendship but also one-night stand! But she was not surprised, primitive people have no concept of chastity, today and this and tomorrow and that, it is not uncommon, there is also monogamy, but it only exists in families with children.
Fortunately, there were not many women here, otherwise this valley would have become a large field battlefield.
was in a daze, but saw a majestic and powerful primitive man walking straight towards her and inviting her.
Qin Yue subconsciously peeked at Liang Jian, and when he saw that his smiling gaze instantly cooled, he hurriedly turned around and shook his head at the man, "I have a partner." ”
Unexpectedly, the man didn't care much, his eyes were staring at her tightly, and he said with an arrogant smile: "It doesn't matter if you have a partner, you don't want to go to our tribe, you can go back to your tribe tomorrow." ”
Primitive people don't care if you have a partner or not, they don't have the concept of marriage contract, and it is very common to ask for pleasure when they see it, so Qin Yue's refusal is very weak.
She frowned, and was about to say something, when her shoulders tightened, Liang Jian stood next to her, her slightly cold eyes swept towards the person, and said coldly: "She has already rejected you, you can go!"
The man's face changed, and seeing that Qin Yue really didn't mean that, he didn't force it.
A few more people came over from behind, and they were sent away by Liang Jian one by one.
His face became colder and colder every time, his body was covered with a layer of ice, and the air pressure around his body continued to decrease.
Qin Yue thought of something, leaned into his ear, and whispered, "Are you jealous?"
Liang Jian raised her eyebrows and glanced at her, "Very proud?"
"No, no, I don't look down on savage primitives. She curled her eyebrows and curled her eyes.
The corners of his mouth seemed to be drawn into a shallow arc, and he lazily sat in the corner, most of his body blocked her, and no one stepped forward behind him.
The temperature dropped by more than ten degrees at night, and even though it was covered with thick animal skins, it was still shivering with cold in the open valley.
Qin Yue got into Liang Jian's warm arms, found a comfortable position and rubbed it, and the two of them covered two layers of animal skins together before falling asleep.
Liang Jian looked at her sleeping face with a smile on the corner of her mouth, but she never fell asleep, always staring at the nearby sounds, and the bow and arrow were placed at her side for a moment.
In the next two days, other tribes came one after another, and finally on a sunny day, the exchange meeting began. The Yanu put out animal meat, hides, wild fruits and nuts, etc., but the location was really remote, and few people came to exchange them except for a few nearby tribes.
Yanu led the people to take two animal skin bags and animal meat, and went to the Xiong tribe, which occupied the largest position in the center, to exchange salt with them.
Qin Yue came over with her, and finally saw the salt she was thinking about. The table salt is also contained in animal skin bags, and it is coarse and yellow, which is far from the modern white and snow-like edible salt.
But her eyes lit up and she wondered how she could get it. Yanu exchanged two large bags of animal skins for a small half bag of salt, which has not been purified, which shows the preciousness of salt here.
In the reckless jungle, in the grass more than one person high, several thin figures emerged, one of them had gloomy eyes, and two deep and long blood marks on his cheeks.
They nimbly weave through the jungle, carefully avoiding the poisonous snakes that entrench in the trees and the beasts that lurk in the forest.
The clouds were like a thick fog, shrouded in a crescent moon in the night, and the moonlight was bleak. Towering trees obscure the sky, and the forest is as dark as ink, as if in the darkest corners, there is no light in sight.
The figure flickered, leaving only a slight sound that startled the birds in the trees to flutter their wings.
The shadows soon came to the bottom of the giant tree, sat in a group, took out the bloody raw flesh from the animal skin bag and gnawed it, and the corners of their mouths were dripping with blood.
"Chief, where are we going next?" said a man in a trembling whisper, as if afraid of alarming something.
"Chief, we can't go any further into the forest. Another person looked at the thin figure, looked in the direction of the depths of the jungle, and the thin body shrank slightly.
The thin figure grinned fiercely, "If we don't go there, where else can we go?"
"Chief, but there's a ...... there"
"The forest is where we should be, haven't you eaten enough of this lesson?" the man thought of something, said viciously, and then pulled the wound on his face, and "snorted".
He glanced at them with a fierce gaze, and then slowly spoke: "That man's weapon is too strong, we can only flee now when we encounter him, and no one can help us if we flee to the forest." ”
"Chief, have you forgotten? If you go further into the forest, we will be punished by the gods, and there are already many tribes punished, and we will not be able to avoid it. ”
His voice trembled in fear, and he even fell to his knees begging the leader to change his mind.
But he insisted on going his own way and smiled sarcastically, "Heavenly God, our wandering tribe was originally a tribe expelled by the Heavenly God, will we be afraid of the Heavenly God's punishment?"
The others looked at each other, their bodies falling back, as if the leader had made some terrible decision.
They didn't dare to disobey the leader's decision, and their trembling lips wanted to say something, but they were frightened back by the leader's gloomy eyes.
The figures vanished beneath the giant trees, and they made their way to the deeper, darker hinterland of the forest, moving swiftly and quickly among the tangled trunks and vines, leaving only a fleeting figure.
I don't know how many days later, a sound pierced the sky and struck them, and the screams that resounded through the sky alarmed the beasts lurking in the jungle.
A few beasts of prey, avoiding the cover of the dense branches, rushed to see a corpse lying in a pool of blood, emitting an enticing smell of blood, and they came forward to eat it.