Chapter 413: Full Harvest
When Leng Huo commanded, Tie Feng, Shi Ban and other five old men watched from the side, smiling and not interfering.
It's an opportunity for kids to work as a team, almost every day.
It is through these simple activities that children understand the importance of discipline, so that they can quickly integrate into the hunting team in the future. Otherwise, facing the beast head-on, they will inevitably be harmed.
In a few moments, more than 40 children were lined up. Although the team was loose, Leng Huo had done his best, and he stood at the front, leading the way towards the center of the stream without hesitation.
The stream was seven or eight meters wide and more than a meter deep, enough to cover their heads. Aren't these kids crazy?
The answer, of course, is no.
After a few steps into the stream, the stream soaked the trouser legs of the people in front of them. And the cold fire at the front, the stream has reached its knees. Cold Fire paused, then took a cautious step forward. Suddenly, his height suddenly increased by half a foot, which was amazing.
But the expressions of the audience were taken for granted. In a moment, the height of all the children skyrocketed a lot. Children don't grow up in an instant, why?
The reason for this could not be simpler: a row of stone piles of varying heights has been erected in the middle of the stream. Along these stone piles, both the elderly and children can enter the valley smoothly. But the beasts without wisdom are afraid of water, and even the fiercest saber-toothed tigers cannot enter in the same way.
This is the wisdom of survival.
A stream, a wall, constitutes the home of a cold fire.
The cold fire took the lead and waded across the stream along the buried stone piles. At this time, what appeared in front of Leng Huo and the others was a row of wooden buildings. These houses were all built against the stream, without exception.
These wooden houses were built with practicality in mind, and superfluous ornaments were almost non-existent. In this age when hunger threatens everyone, elegance has nothing to do with people.
The four corners are supported by large round logs, the walls are laid in layers of shoddy planks, the roof is first made of arm-thick branches, then filled with twine and vines, finally covered with sun-dried weeds, and finally the roof is pasted with river sand mixed with grass stems and mud. Naturally, such a building is not good-looking, and it is impossible to unify the style.
Therefore, the first impression of the buildings in this valley is that it is chaotic. But such a house has the advantage that it is warm in winter and cool in summer, and it is very easy to maintain.
Originally, such a house was most afraid of continuous rain, because the muddy roof is prone to mold and rot. However, the climate of the light rain forest is dry and rainless, so there is no need to worry about this disadvantage.
The stacking of the house is messy, but every child never forgets where their home is. More than forty people left with a shout of joy, and soon disappeared into the complex streets, like clear water merging into a stream.
Leng Huo saw a person standing in front of his house from a distance, his heart was hot, and he rushed forward. At this time, he was carrying a basket of pine nuts on his back, but he felt as light as nothing, so he just shouted: "Grandma, I'm back!"
Grandma Leng Huo is different from Tie Feng, she already looks very old. Her hair was much grayer, and her body was a little rickety. At this time, she leaned against the door frame, facing the sunset. The orange-red light reflected on the face of Grandma Lenghuo, making her look more and more old.
But in the eyes of Leng Huo, grandma is the kindest grandma in the world.
"Good grandson Yan'er, come and show grandma. Grandma Lenghuo first took Leng Huo's hand and checked it up and down, then took out a piece of cooked meat wrapped in dead leaves from her arms and skillfully stuffed it into Leng Huo's mouth.
This is the ration that Grandma Cold Fire saved.
For the Gaoling people, the rations at home must first meet the combat effectiveness of adults, then the turn of children, and finally the elderly. In other words, Grandma Lenghuo is the one with the least rations at home. This piece of cooked meat, which is not too big, is almost half of the ration of Grandma Lenghuo. It is precisely because she can't eat enough every day that Grandma Lenghuo looks so old.
And Leng Huo didn't know anything about all this, and he gobbled down the piece of cooked meat, and his hungry rumbling stomach relieved some of the pain.
Leng Huo helped Grandma into the wooden house, a smell of meat came from the pot, although it was just a simple boiled meat cube in clear water, but the fragrance immediately made Leng Huo's stomach growl, the meat cube saved by Grandma was too small, completely unable to satisfy Leng Huo's big belly. He swallowed, then turned and walked to a corner of the room, and poured a bowl of cold water with a scoop.
After a while, Tie Feng also returned home, although he still had a bronze spear in his hand, the rattan armor had already been handed over to the ancestral hall. The hunting party has not yet returned, and Leng Huo is restless at home. Tie Feng laughed and cursed, and then drove him out to welcome the hunters back.
The cold fire cheered and ran away.
The sun has set below the horizon, and the western sky is full of brilliant rainbows. Patches of colorful clouds, some bright as blood, some orange as orange, and some as purple as mountain grapes are intoxicating.
But no one appreciates the magnificent sunset, and the people of the valley gather at the entrance of the stream, waiting for the return of the hunting army.
People waited anxiously. From time to time, groups of gatherers returned to the valley, but there was no movement of the hunters. There was some commotion among the people, and each other's faces were full of melancholy.
Could it be that there were many casualties in this hunt?
People can't help but think about it. Know that hunting is never an easy thing to do. If the hunting team encounters a saber-toothed tiger, it will inevitably suffer casualties, and if it happens to encounter a tyrannosaurus, it will inevitably suffer heavy casualties.
Just when people were nervous, finally, a noisy sound was heard in the distance. Heavy footsteps and joyful laughter converged into a magnificent movement.
At this moment, both the old man and the child breathed a heavy sigh of relief and laughed. In a few moments, the vanguard of the return journey had already crossed the gap in the stone wall.
The results of this hunt were extremely rich. There are a lot of big animals, a total of seven mountain boars, two flying deer, and a wild rhinoceros.
It's okay to be a boar.
This stupid creature was all black, with a big, small head, and a pair of slightly curled fangs, which looked quite scary.
But in fact, this guy is not fast, and he has no other ability than to rampage when encountering enemies.
Therefore, the staple food of the tribes of the Longji Mountains is the mountain boar.
It is a pity that the head of the boar occupies half of the body, the amount of meat is not much, and the meat quality is also hard, the entrance is sour, and it is not very delicious.
If it weren't for the extremely good reproductive ability of the wild boar, these guys would have been eaten extinct.