Every year when winter approaches, the tribe will go out to hunt more frequently, and if it were not for the limited manpower and the inability to bring more things, they would definitely hunt for a longer time.

Because every year when winter approached, the tribe would prepare the hides and let people take them to the slave owners to sell, and then buy some other things. As soon as the weather is cold, the demand for animal skins will increase for the slave owners who live far away from the mountains and forests, and the slaves under their command alone cannot prepare many good goods, so they still have to get them from the tribesmen.

Especially those with good coat color and good leather, they sell for more than double the price of other times.

Grain, copperware, and other things that the tribe cannot produce by themselves will be exchanged in this way. If there is a condition, they will buy some rare things from the slave owners and bring them back.

All of this needs prey to support it.

Before going to bed yesterday, Shao Xuan heard many people in the team discussing what to exchange for fur, and they also asked Shao Xuan, Shao Xuan had never been to the slave owner's territory here, and he couldn't say why, so he could only take a look at it when the time came.

On the second day of the hunt, before the sun was fully revealed, the various squads had already set off.

Following Tao Zheng's team, Shao Xuan walked quickly through the mountains and forests, and sometimes after a short pause, Tao Zheng would introduce some of the surrounding landforms to Shao Xuan. This is the route that their team often hunts, and Shao Xuan remembers all the dangerous places around, what fierce beasts, and what dangerous or medicinal plants.

When passing a dry river, Shao Xuan's footsteps jerked and looked over there.

Seeing Shao Xuan stop, everyone else also stopped. After yesterday's hunting, the people in the team will not underestimate Shao Xuan, comparing strength. Even the stubborn ones have to admit that Shao Xuan is a little stronger than them.

"What's wrong?" Tao Zheng asked. Looking at the dry riverbed over there, they didn't find anything strange, they had walked here many times, and they were very familiar with it.

Shao Xuan stared over there, "You guys are waiting here." I'll go take a look. With that, he walked briskly over there.

There were no dangerous beasts around, so Tao Zheng simply walked over and asked, "What did you find?"

Shao Xuan was silent, and he was not sure.

The riverbed here is twenty or thirty meters wide, and the distant ones seem to be wider, but not too deep.

"During the rainy season, the river rises up, but at the end of the year, it drops and dries out. Tao Zheng introduced to Shao Xuan. "There's water here most of the year, and it dries out at the end of the year. But when there's water, we don't come near here. Because there are some more dangerous fish here. ”

Shao Xuan walked to the side and didn't go down, watching the riverbed dry up and cracking, but if he stepped on it, he would sink directly, and there was soft mud below. Only the mud on it was dried and cracked, and a lot of weeds grew out of the cracks in the cracked mud. The growth is not bad.

However, Shao Xuan was not interested in any of this, and his target was the stones that emerged from the riverbed.

"Do you have a spear? Shao Xuan turned around and asked someone to borrow tools.

"Use mine!" Dori hurriedly handed over the spear he had with him.

"Thank you. ”

Shao Xuan took the spear and picked up the nearest stone on the riverbed.

The stones that exposed the riverbed were raised high by the spearhead of the spear and flew towards Shao Xuan. Catch the stone. Shao Xuan wiped some of the dry mud on the surface of the stone, looked at the stone carefully, rubbed his fingers on the stone, and felt.

"Is there any difference between these stones?" asked Tao Zheng. In his opinion, these stones are no different from other stones. It's not big, even if it's a stone tool.

Shao Xuan shook his head: "It's just a guess." ”

Picking up two more stones, Shao Xuan put the three fist-sized stones in his hand into the animal skin bag, and then looked along the riverbed into the distance.

"Is the terrifying fish you are talking about a fish with hard scales, a large mouth and fangs, four claws and a long tail, and can swim in the water and walk on the shore?" asked Shao Xuan.

Before Tao Zheng could answer, Duoli and the others nodded again and again: "Yes, that's it, you've seen Shao Xuan?"

At first they wanted to hunt some of those fish, but then they found that they were too dangerous and there were many of them, so when the weather was warm and the water was rising in the river, they would go around the area and wait until the end of the year when the river dried up and the fish left.

Touching the animal skin bag containing the stones, Shao Xuan asked again: "Where does this river lead all the way?"

This question, others don't know, but Tao Zheng knows a little, he heard the old hunter who walked here before.

"It is said that there is a wider river ahead, and if you follow the river, you may see the sea. But it's too far away, and no one in the tribe has seen it, but I've heard from some tribesmen who came from there. ”

Into the Haihe River? Shao Xuan lowered his head and pondered.

The reason why Shao Xuan stopped was because he felt that the stones on the bed were very familiar, and when he took the stones in his hand, the texture was also familiar. Back then, when he crossed the river with the tribe and left the tribe, a crocodile gave him a stone, and it is said that the water moon stone of the tribe came out of that kind of stone.

The Sar tribe has never been here, so it can't have anything to do with it, but the crocodiles are different, maybe the crocodiles of the Sara tribe will not come here, but what about the other crocodiles? Are there still some crocodiles like the crocodiles of the Sara tribe, who will also pick up stones from the sea and spit stones into the river?

I can't say for sure.

"Let's go. Shao Xuan said. The team must continue to hunt, and he cannot be delayed because of this.

Dori looked at the departing procession, and at the rocks that had emerged from the riverbed, and ran over to pick up a stone with his spear and bring it with him. Since seeing Shao Xuan single-handedly take on the bone stone beast, Dori admires this young elder who is not much older than himself, and also believes in Shao Xuan's strength, since Shao Xuan thinks that those stones are strange, he also brings a research study himself, maybe he can find something?

When the others saw Dori's behavior, they actually thought about whether to bring a piece of it themselves, but the team had already left, and it was difficult to go back. Forget it, come back next time. Anyway, there is another hunt before winter.

Except for the fact that Shao Xuan's way of hunting bone stone beasts on the first day was somewhat special, in the next few days, he resumed his previous hunting methods. Yanjiao people advocate individual ability, but also value teamwork. Shao Xuan, together with Tao Zheng and others, hunted a lot of good prey. In addition to this, Shao Xuan also used vines to weave a net. Netted a few tapirs.

The tapir caught is a relatively small species of tapir, and it belongs to an ordinary beast that can be eaten. They are very timid, and at the slightest movement, they will run away, hiding in a hidden spot with dense branches and grass, and wait until the crisis has passed. They also have some patterns of different colors on their skin, which look like they are wearing a camouflage suit while hiding in the bushes. It's hard to spot just by looking at it.

The young of this tapir are less daring, so they are not as curious as the cubs of other beasts, but will always follow the mother beast and will not leave alone. This way of survival has allowed this seemingly non-aggressive population to continue to survive to this day.

Tao Zheng and they didn't look down on such prey, but Shao Xuan caught it, it was a female tapir with a litter of cubs. When they were found, they were being hunted by predators. directly bumped into Shao Xuan's net, and was littered by Shao Xuan.

Shao Xuan doesn't eat much of this kind of ordinary beast himself, and catching them is a gift.

The hunting time has passed, and the prey of each squad is almost over, and it is time to return to the tribe.

The people gathered together in the resting place. Pack up your team's prey and carry it back.

One of the routes from the resting place to the tribe coincides with the route of the Tay tribes. Although the territory of the two tribes is different, and the hunting area is also different, this section of the road is shared. Because it's flat enough to walk. Suitable for teams with prey.

The road was walked out, and the two tribes, the hunting team often stepped on it, and the trees and weeds that stood in the way had long been cut down.

Probably because of the harvest and the smooth hunting, Duokang was in a good mood and opened his voice to roar. The others sang along.

Many people sang together, and the momentum that erupted would also have a certain deterrent effect on the nearby fierce beasts, and no fierce beasts would approach. They don't be so arrogant when they go out, because they don't want to chase away their prey, but when they come back, they don't have to worry and vent to their heart's content.

At the "Y" shaped intersection, the people of the Taihe tribe were carrying the hunting prey on the shared road, and when they heard the sound of singing on the Yanjiao side, the leader of the team was overwhelmed, "Why did you run into them again?!"

The good mood is ruined!

"Boss...... Flame Horn they ......"

"Don't worry!" the leader grimaced, "Keep walking, when they don't exist!"

However, the presence of people in Yanjiao is too strong to be ignored.

Waiting for the people of Yanjiao to walk up the common aisle from another fork in the road, the two teams also met.

Dokang glanced at the prey carried by the Tay team, and let out two strange "hehe" laughs.

The leader of Taihe immediately felt cold on his face: "What, look down on it?"

"Hey, hey, what's the matter, I didn't look down on it, I really didn't. Duokang said, turning his head and scolding at the back: "Dori, hurry up with your prey!

The people behind did not squeak, and it seemed that a tacit understanding had been formed. After Duo Kang said this, Shao Xuan found that the people in the team were shocked, and then he saw Duo Li and the others carrying the bone stone beast, walking forward quickly, and walking to the front of the team.

Seeing the huge bone stone beast, the people on the other side of the Tai River were also dumb, and the leader's face twitched twice, and his face turned green.

Shao Xuan was also happy when he saw this, and chased after him quickly with his prey.

Over there, the leader of the hunting party of the Tai tribe was about to stab back a few words, when he suddenly heard an "ah" behind him, so that he forgot what he wanted to say.

"Ahh

Ignoring the leader's ugly face, a young warrior jumped out and pointed at Shao Xuan: "Boss! It's him!" (To be continued......

PS: The "holiday gift" chapter sent yesterday, although it shows only forty words, but the content has changed, there are more than 3,000 words, and mobile app users can delete the downloaded ones if they can't display them, and then download them again.