Section 4 Turtle Shell Divination
After countless years of drowsiness, I opened my eyes in a daze and saw the sky.
This time I turned into a human child, sitting at the mouth of the cave and watching a group of strange children play in the mud! My mind went blank, I didn't know what had happened in the past!
I was born in an unknown human community, and lived with my people at the foot of the ancient Kunlun Mountains, hunting and catching fish for a living.
Our Terran community is led by a female leader, who is extremely brave and mighty, and often leads us to hunt and choose caves to live, and under her leadership our Terran community has become very powerful, and more than a dozen nearby mountains are our territory.
The female leader was a very clever leader, and she taught us to drill wood for fire, and she also taught us to use bark to make ropes, with a single strand as a mystery, two strands as a z, and three strands as a rope. Not only that, but she also had trees erected in the clearing, with the sharp teeth of the beast intertwined, and this was the middle of the earth. He also pointed to the Celestial Pole Star in the Heavenly Palace, with the Celestial Pole Star as the middle of the sky. Because of her greatness, later generations have praised her as the Nine Heavens Lady of Tiz.
I was just a few years old, and I didn't know what it meant, so I just sat on the ground in a daze.
Since the female leader established herself in the middle of the ground, we have built houses on the side and settled here ever since.
Later, the female leader received the bird in the shape, hung a huge bird totem in the ground, and gathered the tribesmen to come to worship every night, singing and dancing to celebrate, this is our Tizi tribe.
However, the poor quality of human life and the lack of food have always been our biggest headaches, countless people have starved to death in the wilderness, and countless children have died young. This is true not only of ordinary tribesmen, but also of the female chief's family!
The female leader had three children, the first two of whom died at an early age, and only her youngest daughter survived. The female leader named her after the sound of the totem bird, called Gu, now ten years old, born well-behaved and clever! Because she is the only daughter left by the female leader, she is highly respected by the tribesmen, and she is lively and lovely, so the tribesmen like her very much!
My name is Quack, which my father gave me according to the sound of the frog, and I have just turned twelve! I am very unsociable, I just sit and watch other children play at a very young age, but I never participate in them, and I still do! I am withdrawn and naturally unpleasant, so the tribesmen generally do not like me.
I'm just an ordinary tribal kid, but I have a different way of thinking and always have the courage to try to learn new things.
One day, my father brought two turtles from the river, roasted them, and left the shells of the two turtles aside!
It was so amusing to see the shells dangling on the ground, so I picked them up and cleaned them up and used them as my playthings.
Once, when my father was going out to catch fish, he asked me, "Quack, do you think I can catch a big fish today?"
Every time my father went out looking for food, he would ask me that! On a whim, I pulled out a quick black charcoal from the extinguished fire and scribbled a mark on the shell of the turtle!
Then I pointed to the turtle shell and said, "I'll help you divide, if there is a mark that points to the river, then you can catch a big fish." ”
My father was amazed, and had never seen anything new, so he crouched down to watch me turn the shell.
Unfortunately, when I threw down the shell, it stopped after a few turns, and the mark pointed to the mountain.
My father looked at me with a frown, stunned for a moment, then turned and left.
However, something unexpected happened, and it wasn't long before my father returned, carrying a small boar on his shoulder.
My father thought it was incredible, so he asked me to demonstrate it again. I was also amazed, so I did as my father had told me to turn the tortoise shell again, and again a miraculous thing happened, and my father caught a large fat hare in the direction indicated by the mark.
This is the first time this kind of strange thing has happened in our tribe, you must know that in the era of food shortage, how easy it is to find this food in the wild! How many tribesmen have been in the wild all day and have found nothing, how can they have two big harvests in the morning like my father!
The father was alarmed, and immediately took the hare to the chiefess and told her about it by the way.
Soon the female chief came to our house with Goo, and it was the first time I had seen Goo, and those charming eyes were staring at me.
The female leader took my turtle shell and pondered it carefully, her eyes full of curiosity.
"Quack, you try again, this time I'm going to see it with your father!", the female leader said, reaching out and handing me the turtle shell.
I looked at the female leader, and then at Goo, who was blinking at me, with curiosity on her face.
After taking the turtle shell, I looked very nervous, because this was a turtle shell in front of the female leader, and I couldn't make a fool of myself. As I had done on the previous two occasions, I held the shell in both hands, closed my eyes and muttered a few animal calls, then threw it down.
This time I didn't throw it well, and I directly put the turtle shell into the dust next to it, and the turtle shell fell directly into the dust, so I didn't turn my way at all.
I wanted to do it all over again, but unexpectedly, the female leader immediately got up and said to the coo beside me, "You and Qua stay together and play, wait for me to come back!"
Immediately after saying this, the female leader took my father out of the door, which made me feel uneasy.
"Can you play with your turtle shell?"
The silence was broken by a question, and I didn't say anything, reaching out and handing her the shell.
Goo took the turtle shell and looked inside and out in his hand, stretched out his finger and tapped it, and then smiled happily.
Then we started talking, and that's how I met my first friend of the same age.
It was a long time before the female leader returned with her father, and the two of them were covered in blood, and the blood from the wounds was still gushing outward.
I looked at them in amazement and saw that they were empty-handed, not knowing what was happening.
Unexpectedly, the female leader immediately took me and Goo and took us both to the altar of the tribe, leaving me to stand alone under the totem.
Then I watched to my horror as the tribesmen gathered quickly, cheering as they walked around the altar. I don't know what's going on, why the tribesmen come here to worship in broad daylight.
As several stout tribesmen appeared carrying a huge grizzly bear, I instantly understood what had happened! No wonder the female leader and father were injured, it turned out that they had encountered the prey of the grizzly bear, and it seemed that the turtle shell had once again manifested itself.
The female leader stood under the altar, raising her hands at the grizzly bear, and her mouth was full of Ulala's yelling, and her joy was revealed.
It was rare to catch such a big prey, and the leader gathered all the tribesmen to celebrate together, and immediately let the tribesmen skin and roast the meat to eat.
From then on, all the tribesmen began to respect me, and I somehow became a soothsayer in the tribe.