After the old village chief finished dividing the wolf's meat, he found Surdak, who had treated the wolf's head with quicklime and was about to sit down and rest for a while.

He took out a oily rag and wiped his hands, the sticky wolf blood was difficult to wipe clean, so he simply threw the rag aside, sat down opposite Surdak and said: "You are really generous, you took the wolf tooth dagger as a gift, and actually gave each of these children who participated in the coming-of-age ceremony a handful of ......."

Surdak was sitting in the shade of a chestnut tree at the edge of the grain field, and the two older children carried a wooden basin full of water, and ran over attentively, and he also unceremoniously put his hand into the basin, and washed his face happily, and when he heard the old village chief's complaint beside him, he looked up and smiled, and waved his hand to the two older children standing aside, and the older child seemed to have done something terrible, cheered, poured the red blood in the basin into the drainage ditch at the edge of the grain field, and happily carried the wooden basin away.

The corner of the old village chief's eyes twitched, thinking that his prestige in Vol Village was so high, and there were people who could take the initiative to fetch water to wash their hands, and the charm of a wolf tooth bone dagger was really big enough.

Surdak smiled beside him and said to the old village chief, "I just want them to have a better way to protect themselves, these children don't know how dangerous it is outside, and they should try to arm themselves before being beaten in the cruel environment outside." ”

The old village chief pointed to a group of girls surrounded by a group of village women, stared at Surdak with some seriousness and asked, "What do those girls say, they don't need to serve in the military and go to war, why did you give them the wolf's tooth dagger?" ”

Seeing that the old village chief's tone had a questioning taste, Surdak was a little confused, usually the old village chief was not such a harsh person, and said to the old village chief according to what he thought in his heart: "This kind of thing as giving gifts, everyone must be equal, and there can be no gender discrimination, anyway, I don't plan to sell these wolf teeth, you see that if these extra wolf teeth are left, you can also ask someone to make a wolf tooth dagger, and next year it can also be used as a gift and distributed to those children who participate in the coming-of-age ceremony!" ”

After saying that, Surdak took out a cloth bag from his bosom and handed it to the old village chief.

After the old village chief opened it, he found that there were dozens of sand wolf teeth inside, he glanced at the village women gathered in the grain field, patted Surdak on the shoulder with his hand, and said to him: "But the families of those girls think that you must have taken a fancy to their daughter, think that you are giving out a dowry, and think that you will probably take the initiative to marry their daughter after the coming-of-age ceremony......"

Surdak was just about to take a sip of water, when he heard the old village chief say this, and he was so frightened that he even fell to the ground with a wooden water cup.

"How is that possible? These children are only sixteen years old, and they are still not adults, let alone ...... I still have a wife! Are you ...... Think there's something wrong with my aesthetic? Surdak hurriedly argued.

He didn't expect that the gift he gave would be misunderstood, and this matter really needs to be clarified. It's no wonder that after he sent so many wolf tooth daggers, the eyes looking at him around him were a little strange, it turned out that the biggest reason was here.

"Really no idea?" The old village chief looked into Surdak's eyes and confirmed again.

"It's true!" Surdak felt that if he didn't explain it clearly, he would probably be swept away by old Sheila at night.

Seeing that Surdak was so eager to defend himself, the old village chief decided that what Surdak said should be the truth, nodded with satisfaction, and comforted the frightened Surdak: "Okay, I will help you explain this matter." ”

He stood up and took two steps out, then stopped again and turned to Surdak and said:

"But this time you must remember, some gifts have completely different meanings in the eyes of men and women, you can give a dagger to a boy without a problem, what boy doesn't like a dagger?"

His gaze swept to the outside of the barn, the boys who were sharpening the handle of the dagger under the oak tree, with a kind look in their eyes, watching them grow up day by day, these big children are the hope for the future of Wall Village.

Then the old village chief said to Surdak very sincerely: "But if you give daggers to girls, they will mistakenly think that you are asking them to marry them, and that you are giving them daggers to defend their chastity before marriage." ”

Surdak coughed: "Ahem......"

He thought to himself: I'm afraid that in the future, I must ask the old village chief or old Sheila more about giving away things!

Surdak secretly looked at the strange eyes around him, and felt that there were a group of people around him who wanted to see the excitement and were not afraid of big things, and they couldn't continue to stay in the grain field, so they were ready to pat their butts and leave for a while, waiting for the old village chief to help them explain clearly, and everyone would not look at themselves with this kind of gaze.

Thinking of this, he touched his forehead with a little headache, and then looked at the sun that was almost setting, thinking that after running back and forth for so many days, the smell of sour rot all over his body was really unbearable, so he wanted to take time to go home and take a bath.

The old village chief gave Surdak most of the valuable things he hunted for sand wolves, and only some sand wolf meat was distributed in the village, and now Surdak took out all the wolf teeth and asked the old village chief to make them into bone daggers and give them to the young people in the village who participated in the coming-of-age ceremony, and the remaining wolf teeth can be kept until next year.

Watching Surdak's tall figure leave the barn, the village chief straightened his waist, stood on the high platform, and shouted at the village women who had gathered together: "Listen to me, these wolf-toothed daggers are issued by the village to the children who participate in the coming-of-age ceremony, regardless of gender, each person has a ......."

The words of the old village chief are almost equivalent to a decree in the village of Wall, the villagers of the village are accustomed to the old chief's loud voice over the years, and when they hear the old village chief's explanation, the sturdy village women will shake their buttocks and disperse, and the girls who have obtained the wolf's teeth and are surrounded by the village women in the center are considered to be able to escape, and they are very happy to run to the tree where the boys stay, ask them for help, and also put a comfortable grip on their wolf teeth.

The smell of meat in the big pot has wafted out, and there are some oil splashes wafting in the tumbling soup pot.

The day before yesterday, the leader of the caravan arrived as promised, and the old village chief sold half a bag of sulfur ore to the caravan, and all the proceeds from the sale of sulfur ore were exchanged for wheat flour, salt, salted fish, ham, and some spices that only people in the city would use, and the caravan leader also suggested that the old village chief buy some fruit tree saplings next spring and plant them on both sides of the ravine of Vol Village.

The old village chief asked Selena to go to the warehouse to fetch a bag of wheat flour and bake some wheat cakes, so that the minced wolf meat could be sandwiched in the scones.

Selena stood beside the big boiling pot with a long spatula in her hand, looking at Surdak's back through the swirling heat, and the old village chief called her several times before she responded: "...... Okay, I'll go! ”