"Wu, I gave birth to a child a few days ago, it's a boy, and I haven't had time to report to you, so I thought if I could ask you to give him a blessing?" said to Shen Nong with some embarrassment.

"Blessing?" Shen Nong was stunned for a moment holding the anise, and then immediately recalled all the memories related to the blessing from his mind.

It turns out that whenever a new member of the tribe is born, in order to ensure that he can grow up safely and smoothly, and will not die due to illness or distress on the way, the child's parents will ask the witch to pray for their child and give the newborn baby blessings, so that he can grow up without illness and disaster.

This kind of blessing is not the kind of polite words that Shen Nong understands to say during the New Year's holidays, such as 'I wish you happiness such as the East China Sea, XXXX', but a ritual that really has mysterious power, and the witch will borrow power from the ancestral fire and ancestor totem in the tribe, and then bless the newborn little life in his tribe to be blessed by the ancestral fire and the ancestral totem.

This thing sounds very mysterious, and it is a little different from the primitive society that Shen Nong imagined, as a witch, he must do things to help the people bless him, but unfortunately, Shen Nong does not know this, because he has not inherited any knowledge related to witchcraft from his predecessor at all.

"Well, okay, when I'm done with everything at hand, I'll go bless your child. Looking at the woman's expectant eyes, Shen Nong still agreed.

He is now a witch of the Huangqiu tribe, and he can't refuse to bless this kind of thing, because this is a witch must bring benefits to his tribe, otherwise the witch will have no meaning to exist.

"Isn't it just a blessing, when the time comes, I'll just bluff these people with a few pretending to be ghosts, and I shouldn't be seen through. Shen Nong couldn't help muttering in his heart.

After the two women left, Shen Nong first put the leaves in his hands together, made them into the shape of a bag, and then wrapped the star anise firmly in it, and then clamped it under his armpit, after doing all this, he reached out and picked up a wooden bucket placed next to the cistern, pressed it into the cistern to draw water, and after a while, it was full of buckets.

"I think it's ready over there. Shen Nong held the leaf bag under his armpit, held the wooden bucket in both hands, and walked directly to the cave where the Huangqiu tribesmen lived.

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The people of the Huangqiu tribe, young and old, all lived in a cave dug out of the foot of the mountain, and on the wall of this cave, there was a small cave, and between the two caves there was a stone step that was carved out by a living man, so that people could walk. Shen Nong lived in this small cave, while the rest of the clansmen were crowded into the big cave.

There is a meadow of about 50 square meters outside the cave, which is the place where the tribesmen stationed in the tribe usually carry out their activities.

Shen Nong had just approached the grass with the wooden barrel, and saw that a large number of people had gathered in the center of the grass to watch the excitement, and Chi was carrying a square stone with the size of a water tank out of the big cave at this time, which was the stone stove that the Huangqiu tribe used to stew meat.

A few years ago, Xiong Sickle led the team to an area around the Huangqiu tribe that had never been explored, and it happened to encounter a giant beast dragon fighting with two Tyrannosaurus rex, and the ending was naturally needless to say, the giant beast dragon was bitten off its neck and legs by the two Tyrannosaurus rex, and was killed on the spot.

The bear scythe waited not far away, and after the two Tyrannosaurus rex had eaten and left, he brought back the head and leg bones of the giant beast dragon, which were used as bone cauldrons and weapons for the tribesmen.

When Shen Nong walked into the meadow, the surrounding clansmen immediately gave way to him, not daring to block his pace, Shen Nong was able to walk to Chi's side smoothly and watched him put the stone stove on the ground with all his might.

"Wu, Flying Shell has already gone looking for firewood, and they will be back soon. Chi said without even taking a breath, and he couldn't tell that he was a person who had just carried more than 200 pounds of heavy objects.

"Wu, the hunting party hasn't come back yet, are we going to have dinner now?" Peck Bone placed the bone pot on top of the stone stove, just in front of the round hole above the stone stove and embedded it.

"What kind of food to eat, I know that I want to eat in one day, and the sun has not yet risen overhead!" Shen Nong said, pointing to the sky.

"Hey, hey. couldn't help but scratch his head to relieve his embarrassment.

Chi took the wooden bucket from Shen Nong's arms and poured all the water inside directly into the bone pot, while Shen Nong opened the leaf bag and sprinkled all the star anise inside into the water.

At this moment, the flying shell that had gone to collect firewood also rushed back, and I saw him striding over with a bundle full of twigs and some hay in his arms.

Shen Nong looked at the current situation where everything was ready and only the east wind was owed, so he said to Chi Xuan: "Go and invite the ancestral fire." ”

"Yes. Chi nodded, and immediately ran into the big cave.

The so-called ancestral fire is a bonfire that has not been extinguished since the very beginning of the creation stage of a tribe, and this flame can be burned all the time because there are special guards who continue to fill it with combustibles, bringing light and fire to the tribe. Over time, it was regarded by the clansmen as a symbol of ancestral protection.

Shen Nong threw half of the branches collected by the flying shell into the stone stove, and then spread a layer of dry grass on these branches, knowing that although the flame can burn wood, it is not just lit to work, you have to wait for it to burn slowly, blow the wind, and turn from a small fire into a large fire.

Dry hay is undoubtedly the best performer of this process, it is flammable and spreads easily, and it is a good way to transition the flame to the branches and let the branches start to burn.

Shen Nong used to do this work when he was at his grandmother's house in the countryside, but at that time he used napkins to fuel the combustion.

As soon as Shen Nong was ready to start the fire, Chi ran out of the big cave with a burning branch, took the branch from his hand, and Shen Nong gently sent the branch into the stone stove and lit the hay he had just laid inside.

The flames burn and the temperature rises.

It didn't take long for the water in the bone pot to start bubbling up, and there were signs of boiling in the center of the pot, and the star anise floating on the water surface was boiled and quietly changed color, from the original pale cyan to a slight yellow.

Seeing this, Shen Nong hurriedly took a relatively long wooden stick and stirred it in the pot, and after silently reciting 300 numbers in his heart, Shen Nong threw away the wooden stick and shouted: "Get out of the pot and pour the water." ”

The two of them immediately did so, only to see them wrap their palms in animal skins, and then grabbed the bone pot, and took the whole cauldron off the stone stove, and the two of them tilted it so hard that all the boiling water in it flowed out, leaving only the star anise, which had turned yellow.

"Now it's just a good day. Shen Nong looked at the anise in the bone pot and said.