(Sheepskin Fragment Story 4)

I was born into a tribe that, according to legend, our ancestor was the Suiren Tizi clan, and today we are just one of the many tribes of the Lieshan clan!

The Lieshan clan is also known as the Shennong clan, and the great leaders of the tribe for generations have been honored as Emperor Yan, and Emperor Yan is the chief of thousands of tribes in our west.

My mother passed away when I was born, and when our Lieshan clan was going to attack the fierce Jiuli barbarians in the southeast, my father fostered me to a wizard of our tribe before he set out on the expedition!

The wizard who adopted me was named Lett, a young wizard in the tribe who was not known for himself, and I became his only apprentice!

My name is Zhu and I am 10 years old this year, and I have been living with Master Li for the past five years since my father left!

Master is good at witchcraft, but hexagram often fails, so we are often discriminated against by our clansmen. That's why I have no friends, and the children of my clan are far away from me, like hiding from the plague god!

My master was so obsessed with learning witchcraft that he would often sit alone on the floor and recite incantations I didn't understand for hours!

Sometimes he doesn't care about me when I'm hungry, and when I'm so hungry that I can't help it, I have to go out and find food by myself.

Our tribe lives on a hillside, and there are only about sixty people in the whole tribe, which is the weakest group of the entire Lieshan clan.

When I was hungry, I often went out of the hillside to the forest to pick vegetables and wild fruits to eat, so that at least I could temporarily solve the problem of hunger.

But once I made a mistake and accidentally ate poisonous wild fruits, which frightened my master to collect medicine all over the mountains to expel the poison for me!

Our descendants of the Shennong clan have two major specialties, that is, they are good at gathering herbs and using fire, so I quickly recovered my health. From then on, Master would always prepare food for me to prevent me from running out to eat indiscriminately when I was hungry!

Master has always been very kind to me, as if I was his own son, and has never beaten or scolded me!

But I was stupid, I couldn't learn how to use fire and distinguish herbs that Master taught me, and I still don't know how to make fire.

Once, when I was very serious about learning how to drill wood to make a fire, I accidentally got my palm pierced by a stick, and the blood flowed for a long time! Seeing this, Master immediately picked me up and coaxed me to treat my wounds, and since then Master has never let me make a fire by myself.

Master has always spoiled me so much, he can't bear to hurt me a little!

However, the living conditions of our tribe are very poor, and if we can't learn a little skill, then we will face a huge problem in surviving in the future!

Master lives by witchcraft, He doesn't hunt or farm at all, and all our food is given to us every day by kind people!

One morning, Master took me out for the first time to treat the wounds of my clansmen, and He wanted me to learn the art of healing!

Compared to Master's witchcraft, his ability to collect herbs to cure all kinds of diseases is much more powerful, and people in the tribe like to ask him to treat them.

The wounded was an elderly uncle, who was bitten by a poisonous snake while hunting in the mountains, and one leg was swollen like a winter melon, and the wound was black.

The Master used a stone knife to cut open the wound for him to release black blood, cleaned the wound with water, put the herbs he had picked in his mouth and chewed them constantly, and then demonstrated me to apply the chewed medicine residue evenly on the wound!

When we left their house, my aunt gave us a hen as a token of gratitude, and let me carry it with us.

Since then, we have had a big hen in our house, and she clucks every day, and Master and I laugh every day!

This hen is very well-behaved, she began to lay eggs within a few days of coming to our house, in order to make it easier for her to lay eggs, I specially made a chicken nest for her with branches and hay!

Later, the rooster next door often came to play with our hens, so Master taught me to collect the eggs and hatch them for the hens together!

I've never seen such a miracle, cute little yellow chickens actually came out of the eggs and soon turned into a flock of chicks!

I went out to pick vegetables and fruits for them every day, and the chickens began to grow day by day, making the house very lively!

But this happy life did not last long, and before the chickens were fully grown, Master sold them all and exchanged them for some food and clothing.

Hearing that our tribal army of the Lieshan clan had suffered heavy losses in the east, the big leader urgently recruited wizards from the major tribes to treat and treat the wounded, so the master took me out of our tribe and set off for the tribe base camp where the big leader was!

The outside world is really big, and after following Master to the northeast for a month, I finally came to a big river with rough waves.

It was the first time I had seen such a majestic river, the wide surface of the river was full of rolling yellow water, and I don't know where so much water came from, the roar of the river could be heard for miles away, and the mist stirred up filled the surface of the river, it was a thrilling spectacle.

The Master wiped the sweat from his forehead and taught me, "This is ginger water, which flows eastward into the big river, and it is nothing compared to the big river. ”

I was dizzy when I heard it, is there a river more powerful than this big river? What would that look like?

Master ignored me and continued to lead me eastward along Weishui, where I soon came to a huge tribe.

This tribe is located next to a huge valley next to Weishui, and judging from the grass huts they built, the population of this large tribe is at least 3,000 people! The entire valley and the surrounding ridges are full of grass huts! We have met many other tribes along the way, but this is the first time we have seen a huge tribe with so many people, how much food is needed to feed so many people, and I don't know where their food comes from!

Soon Master led me over a ridge, and a vast field of cultivated land appeared at the bottom of the mountain, where countless crops such as hemp, millet and wheat were grown, and suddenly I understood where their food came from.

It seems that their big tribe is really different from our small tribe, unlike us who mainly hunt and hunt fish, and farming and breeding are only supplements.

After walking into their tribe, I found that almost every family of their tribe here has chickens and pigs, and their thatched houses are mainly made of wooden planks, which are tall and spacious, which is very magnificent.

Master took me to a large grass hall of their tribe, and the ground was full of injured tribesmen, and the sound of painful wails filled the whole grass hall!

For the next three months, Master continued to treat the wounded from the war, and every few days more wounded were sent to the cottage.

I haven't seen a big leader appear since I came here, and I've heard that in the war in the east, our Lieshan clan has always been at a disadvantage, and we have lost many battles so badly that we have caused so many heavy casualties.

Due to the large number of injured clansmen, the wizards of our tribal alliance are seriously understaffed, and even the Xuanyuan clan, which is hundreds of miles away to the east, has sent wizards to help!

The Xuanyuan Clan, like our Lieshan Clan, is also a big tribal alliance, I heard that their tribe and number are much more numerous than our Lieshan Clan, and their big leader, the Yellow Emperor, is even more powerful and wise than our Yan Emperor!

Of course, I don't have any concept of these, but I just listen to others like legends, Emperor Yan and Emperor Huangdi are like gods in the heavens to us, that is, mysterious and majestic, which is not something that a small clan like us can understand and understand!

After coming here, I met a girl named Ji, who was only a year younger than me, very beautiful, and often came to talk to me. We basically use the names of animals and plants, because we can't think of any good words!

Ji is the daughter of an ordinary farmer in the Lieshan clan, her parents have a piece of farmland next to the river valley, and the whole family lives on the crops produced in the farmland, and the family is also a wealthy family in the tribe.

Ji has no siblings, she is the only child of her parents, so usually her parents are very fond of her, and they are relatively strict! Ji's father doesn't like me very much, and usually doesn't allow Ji to stay with me, but Ji's mother is more kind and doesn't reject me very much. So when her father was busy working in the field, Ji often secretly came to the cottage to see me!

Master has been so busy grinding herbs that he doesn't even bother with me, leaving me wandering around!

Occasionally, I would run out of the tribe with the grass and play in the nearby mountains and forests, we were not very old and didn't know a lot of things!

Pulling a girl into the woods is the most taboo thing in our tribe, but I don't know what it means, in short, I often pull the grass into the forest to play, I don't think it's a habit for a long time!

We had a very pure friendship, and I never had any evil thoughts about Ji, and soon I was living in this tribe for more than four years.

Ji and I grew up quickly, and it stands to reason that fourteen-year-old tribal men can already go out to fight with their leaders, but I still nest in the tribe and drag Ji to the woods all day to play, I think I am probably the most unproductive tribal man.

I don't know who secretly told her father about me pulling Ji Ji to play in the woods, but one night Ji's father rushed into the big grass hall with a few middle-aged tribal men, grabbed me from the grass hall and beat me out of the door!

Seeing this, the master was shocked and hurriedly ran out to stop me, but Ji's father ignored it at all and continued to yell at them to continue beating me!

I didn't know what I had done wrong, so I begged bitterly, "Uncle, stop fighting, what did I do wrong to make you so angry!"

Ji's father gritted his teeth angrily, and tried to say something several times, but in the end he held back and kicked me desperately.

Soon the Master called out a few other clansmen from the cottage, and they pushed away the people who had beaten me and lifted me up.

In the end, Ji's father had no choice but to yell at me: "Hub, you listen to me, you are not allowed to stay with our family Ji from now on, otherwise I will beat you once you see me!"

After saying that, Ji's father left the cottage with those people angrily, making me look at the master very aggrieved.

Master shook his head and sighed, took me back to the cottage, and comforted me very patiently and said, "Forget it, we are just a small tribe from the west, and it's normal for them to look down on us! Don't worry, Master, in the future, Master will find you a better girl, forget about that Ji, don't play with her! You are not young anymore, it is time to do something serious, and tomorrow Master will give you an important task!"

Originally, I just thought that the master would talk casually, but I didn't expect that the next day he would really give me a difficult task, asking me to go to the tribal territory of the Xuanyuan clan to collect some ginseng and come back, saying that it was used to regulate the body of the wounded.

I didn't know anything about it, but I didn't want to upset Master, so I had to carry some food and water and go on the road immediately.