Chapter 6: It's a time of great harvest

The rain is still falling, and there is no sign of stopping.

The canyon under the cave was turbid, and the torrent formed half a day ago intensified and rumbled from below the cave.

The torrent carried a large number of boulders, trees, and even some wild beasts, and the boulders rolling in the torrent, some even the size of houses, were so loud that they hit the bend in the valley, and the whole mountain seemed to be shaking.

Yun Chuan sat in his mother's arms and looked at the torrential rain outside the cave and fell into deep thought, he knew that the natural environment in the barbarian era was very harsh, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.

No wonder in ancient mythology, there is always a legend that the Tianhe is leaking, such a heavy rain, it is said that the Tianhe is leaking, there is no exaggeration.

It is impossible for Nuwa Niangniang to make up for the sky.

Yun Chuan looked at his mother's worried appearance, and suddenly felt that at this moment, there should be Nuwa Niangniang in his mother's heart.

The flash flood in the mountains should be a dynamic existence that can change the landform, and Yunchuan doesn't know what the place he will come to become when he grows up.

As far as the eye can see, there are countless waterfalls hanging down, and the top of the cave is no exception.

The patriarch ordered the cave to be covered with a thick straw curtain to prevent the invasion of moisture.

Yunchuan's act of setting fire to the cave a few days ago has become a good thing at this time, the fire has dried up the moisture in the cave, otherwise, the cave at this time must be a wet place.

Good places naturally have invaders.

Especially when it rains heavily, the animals that have lost their hiding place are the first to discover this dry cave.

The first to appear are a large number of snakes, spiders, scorpions, centipedes and other reptiles.

Fortunately, there is also a group of hungry people in the cave, and these reptiles have become food for people without exception.

Moreover, the way they get food is very simple, just remove the straw curtain and replace it with a new one, and they can happily catch the reptiles attached to the curtain.

They are very skillful in their movements, and it seems that both adults and half-grown children move very quickly.

Whatever they caught, they threw it into the fire behind them, and then someone in charge of roasting it pulled the roasted reptiles out of the ashes.

Naturally, the snake is a large food that does not dispose of it in this way, but unscrews off its head, removes the venom glands and hangs it above the fire to bake, hanging down one by one like drying beans, and they don't go to things like internal organs, after all, that's also food.

Yun Chuan didn't touch these things, this thing was actually very dangerous, he had seen people who were bitten by poisonous snakes, scorpions, centipedes, and even his mother was bitten by a finger-long scorpion, and it was on her ankle.

The ankle was swollen at a visible rate, and the mother didn't care at all, she cared more about catching more scorpions.

Not only that, but she also brought Yun Chuan as a helper, because Yun Chuan inadvertently revealed that he would use chopsticks to pick scorpions.

Between being bitten by a scorpion and catching a scorpion, Yun Chuan chose to catch a scorpion, and soon, he found that as long as a person reaches a desperate situation, he can burst out with great life potential.

After catching eight scorpions in one breath and throwing them into the fire accurately, Yun Chuan thought that if he couldn't use chopsticks to catch the flies in the future, he would be sorry for the suffering he was suffering now.

There are also advantages to doing these things, that is, there are countless proteins to eat, and Yun Chuan is used to eating roasted centipedes and roasted scorpions.

Driven by sufficient protein and breast milk, in less than five days, Yun Chuan's body was bigger again.

Yun Chuan himself knows this.

No one in the tribe noticed, not even his mother was surprised, Yun Chuan was now twice as big as the children he was in the past.

Yun Chuan is catching scorpions, catching centipedes, catching all kinds of reptiles, those children who are feeding are also catching, Yun Chuan watched a young child catch a centipede, and then smiled and sent the writhing centipede into his mouth, he wanted to use chopsticks to clip it, after all, it was a step too late.

When it got dark, the child died.

One man grabbed the dead child and threw the child's little body into the rain like a stone, while the rest of the people were still busy catching reptiles.

Yun Chuan originally thought that when the heavy rain was pouring down, it was the time when this tribe, which used hunting as its main means of livelihood, was hungry, but he did not expect that this heavy rain could bring them extremely rich food.

Yun Chuan originally thought that the purpose of hunting was those wild beasts, wild cattle, wild sheep, wild deer, hares, pheasants, fish and the like, but he didn't expect that their main hunting target was all kinds of insects.

"Whew", a long beast howl came into Yun Chuan's ears.

Yun Chuan didn't move, but his gaze fell on the patriarch.

The patriarch was very calm, and after hearing the voice, he led a group of men out of the cave with bamboo spears, wooden thorns, and stone axes.

The people in the cave didn't pay much attention to the terrible howl, and a group of men and women were still busy harvesting the various reptiles that crept in.

"Whew-"

The voices outside were louder and closer, and the voices were full of threat.

He wanted to open the curtain to see the battle outside, but the curtain was crawling with all kinds of poisonous insects, which made him give up this idea.

Eleven people went out, Yun Chuan counted them, and he kept an eye on the curtain while holding the poisonous insects with his chopsticks.

I don't know how long it has been, but eleven people who went out came back, and the patriarch and his party were wet, and two of them were injured and very serious, and they fell to the ground and fell asleep after they came back.

Listening to the sound, Yun Chuan felt that the beast roaring outside should be a tiger, which should be a very large tiger.

The patriarch threw a puppy into the food pile.

Wet, as if dead.

Yun Chuan pulled this dog-like thing, this thing suddenly raised its head and bit his finger fiercely, and was taken aback and wanted to pull it back, but found that this bite was not powerful, it was a puppy that only had baby teeth.

He withdrew his fat hand and approached the patriarch with the wet thing, not much bigger than a kitten.

The patriarch is painting with stones on the black rock wall.

The picture shows a big stickman with ten small stickmen fighting a wild beast.

The beast on the screen is very large and very vicious.

The patriarch used a lot of ink on this beast, so much so that Yun Chuan not only recognized it as a tiger, but also a saber-toothed tiger that had long been said to have been extinct long ago.

The main thing is that the patriarch depicts the tiger's two teeth as too large, and these two teeth poke out of the tiger's mouth, each of which is a foot long according to the scale.

It's not that Yun Chuan hasn't seen a tiger, the mouth of the tiger is well closed, and only when he opens his mouth can he see two big teeth one inch long, unlike this guy, who can't hide his big teeth at all.

Thinking that there was such a beast outside the cave, Yun Chuan very much hoped that this painting was an exaggerated artistic creation of the patriarch, rather than a realistic ......

"Wolves!"

The patriarch looked at the things in Yun Chuan's arms and finally spoke.

Yun Chuan hugged the wolf cub tightly and learned the patriarch's pronunciation: "Wolf!"

The patriarch snatched Yunchuan's wolf cub and threw it into a shallow puddle, not only that, but he also rubbed the wolf cub vigorously with grass and wood ash.

It took three times to clean it like this before throwing it to Yun Chuan, and at this time, the wolf cub was already shivering from the cold, rolling his eyes and looking at it as if he was about to die.

Yun Chuan carried the wolf cub to the edge of the fire to bake this thing.

Mother and they are still busy, not only to be busy with the front cave door, but also to send a group of people to the back cave door, although it is said to be a cliff, for centipedes, snakes and other reptiles are not much different from flat ground, it is nothing more than a little more time.

After the wolf cub's fur was dried, it looked much more pleasing to the eye, but its coat color was blue-gray, and it was supposed to be a big bad wolf cub.

The patriarch didn't kill this wolf, it seems that it was handed over to Yunchuan to raise, and now, whether this guy can live or not depends on whether he can eat these insects.

Fortunately, this guy is very tough, not only eating centipedes, but also eating scorpions, even if it is a snake, he dares to go up and challenge it.

And compared to cooked food, it seems to prefer to eat raw, which makes Yun Chuan constantly sigh that none of the things that can survive on this land are simple.

Regarding the choice of life, they all chose to live without hesitation, although Yun Chuan has not yet found a reason to live from their lives, but they have to admit that they really want to live.

To be honest, their life is nothing more than eating, drinking, lazing and mating, and even if it is such a low-level life, they are still at the most basic level.

It is not the same as the life in Yunchuan's heart, and the quality of life of these people may not be able to surpass the pigs in the pigsty in later generations.

Since they can all do their best to live, Yun Chuan feels that he should have a stronger and more sufficient reason to live, and he must live better than others.

When spiders, centipedes, scorpions, and all kinds of insects gradually decrease, it is a sign that the rainstorm is about to pass.

It rained for seven days and seven nights.

When the rain stopped, Yun Chuan ran out to take a look, and then came back.

Because he can't see anything.

Outside the cave, there was a thick, almost solid mist.

According to the common sense of Yunchuan's life, there will be no fog after heavy rain, but the fog here just appears, and it is so thick that it can hardly be dissolved.

Sometimes the wind will blow the fog away to reveal a line of sky, and then you can see the deep blue sky, and you can also see the sun hanging in the sky.

A thick, almost cloud-like fog lay low overhead, and sometimes fell to the ground when blown by the wind.

There is always thunder in the sky, and Yun Chuan sees a bright spot appear in the clouds with his own eyes, and then it will explode violently.

The sound is deafening, and there will soon be a spectacle that Yunchuan has never seen before - dwarf rain.

The reason why it is called dwarf rain is that the distance from the clouds to the ground is no more than 10 meters.

Once the drought thunder blows, the dense fog will rain, and after the dense fog rains, it will become light, and then the sun will continue to evaporate the water on the ground, and once again form a dense fog, without stopping.

People who don't die when it rains die when the fog rises.

This year is not good, the babies have died except for Yunchuan.

Two of the little ones who barely survived their infancy died, as did the two men who had been injured by the saber-toothed tiger.

Their wounds were suppurated, and one of the man's wounds was on the belly, and after the suppuration, his internal organs were exposed to the air, and Yun Chuan even saw his wriggling intestines.

The patriarch was a very decisive man, and he killed the two people who had not yet died with his own hands, and they were stoned to death.

After stoning them to death, he left the cave alone dragging the two corpses and returned a long time later.