Chapter 10: Water-scarce tribes

"It's time to dig. Ye Xi announced.

Before Ye Xi could stand up, Cone Xian couldn't wait to rush up, pouting his ass and digging wildly.

Ye Xi was dumbfounded.

The cone speed is extremely fast, and a sweet potato is shoeed out in three or two strokes.

The red sweet potato is fat, honest and cute, the sweet potato that has just been baked is still very hot, and the cone is hotted in the hand and hisses, but he is still reluctant to let go, and keeps throwing it upward, like juggling.

"Hey, this thing tastes good raw, but you said it tastes better when it's cooked, so I'll try it. ”

As he spoke, he took a big bite without peeling off his skin, regardless of the burning mouth.

"Hiss, hiss, hot, hot, delicious!" said the cone in his mouth.

“......”

"It's cooked, it's easy to peel. Ye Xi kindly reminded.

"Oh, oh," the cone replied indistinctly, and took another big bite.

Ye Xi covered his forehead, okay, primitive people are not so particular, he should get used to it.

Ye Xi beckoned to the other people who didn't move, "You guys eat too." ”

Because this is Ye Xi's sweet potato, the others are embarrassed to move without a cone and thick skin, and when they heard Ye Xi greet, a child couldn't help it first, and rushed up to start digging.

"It's okay, you can eat. "Ye Xi also ate a piece of meat just now, it is impossible to be so stingy.

When the others heard this, they stopped being hypocritical, and went up to pick sweet potatoes with all their hands and feet.

This sweet potato is not big, but the fat bunch has many roots, and everyone has a share.

"Well, it's delicious, it's so sweet. ”

I was very satisfied with all the food I ate for a while.

Ye Xi also took a sweet potato, peeled it and began to eat it.

Because there was already a wild boar to fill his belly, Ye Xi was not so eager for sweet potatoes, and slowly bit one bite at a time. At this moment, he caught a glimpse of two women watching him from a short distance.

He knew these two women, the Wolftooth tribesmen who had been captured here with him, one was called Pheasant and the other was Biting Juan. Although I didn't help Songcao in my memory, I didn't bully him either.

The two of them looked at Ye Xi, hesitating and not daring to come over.

Ye Xi stuffed the remaining sweet potato into his mouth and ate it, stood up and walked to them, and asked directly, "Are you looking for me?"

The pheasant kicked the soil with his foot, and Ai Ai said, "Songcao, why did you become a disciple of Wu?" ”

In her memory, Songcao was a kid who died and his parents were bullied, and he became a witch disciple all of a sudden.

Biting Juan hurriedly slapped the pheasant's arm and whispered: "How do you call it Songcao, he is now called Ye Xi." ”

Ye Xi smiled embarrassedly: "It was the witch master who changed it for me." ”

Now he didn't have to worry about the name, he just had to blame the apocryphal witch.

The pheasant and the biting cuckoo suddenly realized, no wonder, it turned out to be his witch teacher who changed the name.

Biting Juan is a neat person, not as shy as the pheasant: "We came to thank you, thanks to you we don't have to be slaves, otherwise we will be eaten one day." ”

The slaves in the tribe are the reserve grain, which they roast and eat when they are hungry, and roast and eat when they are hungry, in short, they are not individuals, but livestock raised like pigs and sheep.

Women are slightly better and will be kept for the birth of children, but if the tribe is really short of food, they may also be killed.

Ye Xi shook his head and signaled that this was nothing.

The pheasant said sadly: "Now there are only three of us left in the Wolf Tooth Tribe, and we have to live well." ”

Ye Xi was silent, not knowing what kind of tragic situation the people who fell into the Kurosawa tribe were.

After chatting a few more words, the three of them looked at each other speechlessly, the pheasant and the biting cuckoo said goodbye, and Ye Xi returned to the crowd.

The tribesmen by the fire eat sweetly, and the atmosphere is very pleasant.

While eating, the two women said excitedly: "I heard that this sweet potato is very easy to dig, so tomorrow we will dig more." ”

"Uh-huh. The woman next to her echoed while eating, just have something to fill her stomach!

"Cough, cough, cough" A child was choked on eating too quickly, coughing so much that his face was red, and a woman next to him kept patting him on the back, but the child still coughed very badly and was almost out of breath.

"Just give him some water. Ye Xi said to the child's mother.

Sweet potatoes should not be eaten too quickly, and they should be drunk with water to avoid choking, which is common knowledge that modern people know.

Unexpectedly, the people of the tribe didn't know that they didn't care, and second, they were too hungry and eager, and Ye Xi forgot to remind them.

The woman looked anxious and shook her head at him.

Yong explained: "If you don't waste water, you can use blood." ”

Then a man brought in an animal that resembled both a hare and a mouse, and the animal was still alive, and it was carried in his hand and kept neighing and struggling.

Most of the blood is easy to coagulate once it is separated from the body, so the tribe generally kills and drinks it to avoid waste.

The man slashed the animal's neck with a stone knife in his hand, bringing the wound close to the child's mouth.

The child held the small animal and drank the blood greedily, gurgling, and finally stopped coughing after a few mouthfuls of hot blood.

Ye Xi asked Yong: "Is drinking water a waste?" Ye Xi's memory was not complete, and many common sense things were missing.

Yong glanced at Ye Xi in surprise, and felt that it was strange for Ye Xi to ask this question, but he still explained:

"It's too dangerous to get water, there are too many terrifying water beasts in the lake, in order to reduce casualties, we naturally drink blood if we can. ”

Yong did not question why Ye Xi asked such a common-sense question. For the tribesmen, once they accepted Ye Xi as a member of their tribe, they would never doubt him again, and situations like pinching their necks would no longer occur.

"There's a lake near the tribe?"

"Well, but what's the use of that lake being close, it's too dangerous. ”

Ye Xi frowned and pondered, if he didn't dare to take water because of the water beasts in the lake, was there a way to solve it?

After dinner, night falls.

It was dark in the cave.

The chief walked in front with a torch, and Ye Xi followed behind the chief with the food that belonged to him.

Ye Xi turned into a disciple of Wu, and the sleeping place was also rearranged, so that he no longer had to sleep at the entrance of the cave.

Many people in the cave had already made their beds and were lying in rows, ready to sleep.

At first glance, the whole cave looks like a chase shop.

The chief walked steadily, holding a torch in front of him, leading Ye Xi through them and walking forward.

The torch flame jumped, and by the light, Ye Xi carefully avoided a person lying on the ground.

When there was no longer anyone sleeping on the ground, the chief did not stop and led him deeper into the cave.

The depths of the cave were so winding that no light could shine in, and if there were no torches, it would be so dark that you couldn't even see your fingers.

Ye Xi was a little surprised, he saw that this mountain was not small, and he expected that this cave might be deep, but he didn't expect it to be so deep. There are many warriors in the Tushan tribe, but it is necessary to dig such a large cave...... The project is still unimaginable.

After walking through a narrow road, the inside suddenly opens up.

Ahead was a large circular space, and in the light of the torches, he could see five dark holes in the rock wall of this space.

The chief led him into one of the holes.

The entrance to the cave is not big, only allowing one person to pass through, but there is a cave inside.

Chief: "The warriors above the second level in the tribe have their own separate caves, you are a disciple of Wu, you have a special identity, and you will also have your own cave, and this place will belong to you in the future." ”

Ye Xi didn't speak, standing in the stone cave and looking around.

This cave is spacious, with an estimated area of 10 square meters and a height of 2.5 meters.

Ye Xisi lined, the reason why the roof of the cave was dug so high may be due to the perverted height of the warriors, like Yong's height is up to two meters, if the height of the cave is not enough, the soldiers must be awkward to live.

"Thank you, it's nice to be here. ”

Originally, he thought that he would be assigned a place inside, but he didn't expect to be assigned a separate cave, which was really a surprise.

"Wait a minute, I'll go get you some skins. ”

Ye Xi nodded. As soon as the chief walked away with his torch, the brightness of the flames disappeared instantly, and the cave was plunged into darkness.

Ye Xi groped the dark and put the food he was holding in the corner.

After a while, the chief returned with two hides.

"This is the skin of the great hyena, which is for you to put underneath, and this is the skin of the staghorn rabbit, which is softer, and covers you so that you don't catch a cold. ”

Ye Xi took the animal skin.

The hides are heavy and soft, smelling of sunshine and can be seen to be well treated.

Ye Xi spread out the skin of the big hyena and spread it on the ground.

After spreading it out, it was found that the animal skin was very large, with a length and width of two meters. Ye Xi couldn't help but smack his tongue, this is a complete animal skin, how big an animal does it take to peel off a piece of such a animal skin! At least the tiger brown bear in his impression is definitely not good.

The skin of the other piece of staghorn rabbit is white and unusually smooth to the touch, even comparable to the fur that has been processed through a series of elaborate processes in modern times. The hide was a little smaller, but it certainly had no problem covering his entire body.

Prehistoric rabbits grew so big......

"Thank you, Chief. ”

Seeing that Ye Xi was satisfied with the animal skin, the chief nodded, "Then I'll go first, if you need anything, call me." ”

"Okay. ”

After the chief left, the cave fell into darkness again.

Ye Xi lay on the animal skin in the dark.

The animal skin was soft and comfortable, and Ye Xi was stuck in it.

He opened his eyes and looked at the top of the cave, and after a long time, his eyes had completely adjusted to the darkness, but it was still pitch black in front of him, and he could not see anything.

This cave is where he will live in this prehistoric jungle in the future...... Ye Xi thought.

It must be dangerous outside the cave at this time, but he is safe now.

Although it was unusually simple, for the first time since he crossed into this murderous world, he felt a sense of security.