Chapter 006: Mother
Lu Qingqing's body was almost stiff and didn't know how to react, and the woman holding her cried bitterly in her ear: "It's all useless for me, I'm ...... when they pull you out"
A memory unfolded in Lu Qingqing's mind, when the original body was tied up and put on the fire with people from Haruka, almost everyone in the tribe watched coldly, and a few people who couldn't bear it didn't come out to speak, because Haruka said that the sacrifice could allow them to get food. Even the original father had a tacit attitude, because he was the chief of this tribe, and he carried the lives of the entire tribe on his back.
Only the original mother, Sanzhi, was crying hoarsely and kneeling at Haruka's feet to stop her.
However, she is not only the original mother, she also has two other daughters, so when Haruka whispered to threaten the lives of her other two daughters, Sanzhi compromised and gave up, and she could only hug her two daughters and cry to see her eldest daughter burned to death.
The original body would die, apart from physical weakness and hunger and high fear and nervousness, but also because of despair, despair at the fact that everyone had given up on her, despair at the acquiescence of her parents and family, and the little girl died in endless disappointment and desolation.
Thinking of this, Lu Qingqing's confusion because of the identity of "mother" suddenly alleviated a lot.
Objectively speaking, Sanzhi did give up the original body, which accelerated the death of the original body to a certain extent, so what position does she, as an outsider, have to be moved by Sanzhi's love?
It's just that Sanzhi is the mother of the original body after all, and although the original body was desperate when he died, he also worried about his family, so Lu Qing will take the parents and sisters of the original body as his own responsibility, and the rest will not be discussed.
Lu gently patted Sanzhi's back: "I'm fine." She looked at the two younger sisters who were crying quietly beside Sanzhi, and her eyes were swollen like big blisters, and touched their dry hair: "Wait a little longer and there will be something to eat, don't cry." ”
Sanzhi gently checked Lu up and down: "Are you really not burned?
Lu nodded lightly: "Yes, mother, so you can help me, there are still many things to do in a while." ”
Sanzhi showed a smiling face at this time, his face was full of messy tears, and he looked particularly vicissitudes on his thin black and red face: "Good!"
Lu sighed softly, and looked at her pitiful clothes, the animal skins on her body were very old, very old, and there were many holes, which were stuffed with hay to keep out the cold, and she must have given better materials to her three children. Her hands and feet were rotten with chilblains and blood. Such a person, even if she has nothing to do with herself, she will be sympathetic when she sees it.
She brought Sanzhi and the two little girls to the stone pot: "You can help me watch this." "Staying by the fire can also warm up, this damn weather is really cold, the mouth of the cave is wide open, the cold wind keeps blowing from the outside in, Lu gently feels that she is going to be frozen and stiff, her fingers are about to fall, but too many people are paying attention to her, she can only stiffen for the sake of her image.
At this time, Haruka finally got the slate back.
There are a lot of stone slabs in the cave, which are used by the tribesmen to handle food, but Lu lightly thinks that those are too dirty or too easy to break into small stones, and the three stone slabs that Yao got back from the outside are not bad, which are rough and not easy to break.
She had the slate put on the stone pot that the other three had cleaned, and someone else had brought back the processed konjac.
Lu lightly saw that the large konjac was shaved beyond recognition, but after washing and peeling it, it revealed the white, tender and slightly purple flesh inside, and he wanted to eat it when he looked at it.
"Are you still shaving?" she asked.
The man nodded, and couldn't help rubbing his hands: "Deer, I ......"
Lu looked up lightly and raised his eyebrows: "Grass?"
The thin boy named grass stood in front of her with his waist slumped and muttered, "I'm sorry, I wanted to save you, but I didn't use it." ”
Lu smiled lightly: "It's okay, are you still shaving?" This person and the original body can be said to have grown up together, and they are very good friends, but they have a timid personality and are a little cowardly, and the original body has no expectations for him, so Lu gently treats this person with a very peaceful mentality, not as complicated as Sanzhi.
Cao clenched his fists, his face was depressed and sad, and he muffled and said, "It's still cutting, do you have to finish cutting it all?"
Lu lightly estimated the number of people in the tribe, only one hundred and fifteen to two hundred, no way, the concept of the original number is not strong, and this approximate data is also estimated by Lu lightly now: "Let's cut thirty first." ”
The konjac is big, and it's almost enough to make tofu for five people.
"......" Cao looked at him blankly, yes, this can't be counted, Lu lightly went to count the konjac to him again, and looked at the person's hand again, a little red: "It's itchy and hot, isn't it? Wipe it with snow, it will be fine after a while, don't worry too much, you will change people to cut it, and then wrap your hands with hay, it is best not to touch the konjac directly." ”
When handling konjac, you should bring a pair of gloves to avoid being burned by the alkaloids in konjac, but there are no gloves here, and there is no good way to deal with burns, so you can only soak in snow water.
The grass suddenly became happy, the deer cared about him, did this mean that he forgave him? He really wanted to rush up and save the deer at that time, but he knew that he couldn't do it, but not being able to do it was not a reason not to do it, after all, he was too timid, and he hated himself like this.
The expression on the grass face changed for a while, and finally ran out in a hurry, Lu Qing only glanced at it and then withdrew her gaze, she had no intention of exploring the thoughts of others.
She summoned a few tall and strong women who were usually very neat and diligent in their work, and sat down in front of the stone slab with a peeled konjac to demonstrate.
So he took the konjac and rubbed it vigorously on the stone slab, and rubbed it into a pulp. She rubbed this konjac on the slate like a shredded radish, and after a few demonstrations, she asked them to get started, and she pointed out on the side, which was not technical, and they would do it immediately, thinking that this was food, and the action was quite vigorous, and the sound was tearing and tearing, one after another.
At this time, the alkaline water should be better, Lu lightly dipped it and tasted it, the taste was a little strange, it was about the grass ash was not pure enough, but it was estimated that it was about the same, so she asked people to remove the fire and wait for the alkaline water to settle slowly. There is no way to filter it here, so you have to wait for the plant ash to settle, and then take the relatively clear alkaline water from the upper layer to use it.
Lu gently asked Sanzhi to wash a stone bowl, and after waiting for a while, he began to collect alkaline water.