There is a giant tripod in Chao Village, with three legs and two ears, which is said to be a sacrifice spirit that the clan has worshiped for generations.

How exactly the tripod came to be, and when it began to be enshrined, no one knows.

Unlike other villages, the outside villages worship all kinds of sacrifices, and they always need to be worshiped with blood food, and Juding never eats the tributes on the altar. But the patriarch still insisted on going up to the mountains to hunt and then offering blood food.

In this ancient mountain village, no one knows that in fact, Ding is regarded as a symbol of national power, country and power

At the head of Chao Village lives the old patriarch of Chao Village, to the south, and his house has a tall courtyard wall surrounded by boulders. In the center of the courtyard wall is the quaint giant tripod, and a huge red rock is placed under the tripod.

Next to the stove in the courtyard, a small black clay pot is boiling with white juice and the smell of milk is overflowing, while another large red clay pot has pale yellow liquid boiling, and from time to time a few herbs float up, and the fragrance of medicine is fragrant.

After cooking for a while, the old man shouted, "Children, come and drink bone broth." ”

The old patriarch is one of the few pharmacists in the village, who knows how to develop the children's physical potential, and this bone broth is made from the essence of several herbs and beasts, and drinking it can strengthen the body.

After a while, the children who had finished the morning exercise ran over after each of them, and each of them filled a large bowl of medicinal soup and drank it.

"Grandpa, bitter, bitter, so bitter, I don't want to drink. The little fat man complained to his grandfather in a milky voice, not to mention how honest he was when he was one and a half years old.

"Okay, well, drink a bowl of medicinal soup and a bowl of goat's milk, that's okay. The old patriarch looked helpless and said, "It's so old, and you still drink milk, are you ashamed?" After that, he pinched the little fat man's white and tender little face with pity.

It is no wonder that he feels sorry for the little fat man, the little fat man's father died at the feet of the wild beast before he was born, and his mother died in childbirth when he gave birth to him, he was born an orphan, and he grew up eating animal milk and drinking goat's milk. Because of this, the milk that usually the child is weaned from a few months, he still drinks sweetly.

"Not ashamed, babbling, sweet, delicious. The little fat man's big black eyes narrowed into a crescent moon, and he picked up the clay bowl with both hands and gulped down. After drinking, he touched his round little belly with satisfaction, and happily chased after the little colorful finch with bright feathers yesterday.

The other children also went home for breakfast after taking a big gulp of the medicinal soup, and the patriarch's door was quiet again.

The little fat man always spends his day chasing and fighting, and the whole village loves him. The first is because he is polite and will greet anyone he meets politely. The second reason is that although he is small, he is extremely clever and almost never makes adults angry.

Every night, the old patriarch would always put a pot of medicinal soup under the giant tripod and give the little fat man a bath. At this time, Juding will always emit a leisurely soft light, according to the old patriarch, it is this copper tripod and the little fat man has a fate, Ding Ling is willing to get close to the little fat man, and the little fat man is of great benefit.

Every time after soaking in the medicinal bath, the little fat man always feels hot all over his body, has endless strength, and what is even more amazing is that even his body has become more white and tender.

Not only here, but every family in the village, where there are children, the old patriarch will distribute medicinal baths to lay the foundation for the children's bodies. For example, Da Zhuang, who has just passed the age of ten, can already lift a boulder of 200 catties, and a talented child can easily lift 3 or 400 catties.

It's a pity that this herb has to be collected from the deep mountains, and it is also accompanied by the essence of the fierce beast, which is really not easy to come by, and many times it is exchanged for the blood of adults, but everything is for the sake of children, for future generations to be able to better survive in the mountains, everything is worth it.

The moon enters the bronze mirror, and the stars twinkle in the sky. In the courtyard, the old patriarch looked at the little fat man, chewing a herb with the effect of cleansing teeth in his mouth, chewing slowly, savoring the sweetness in the bitterness, slowly, grinning his lips, he was alone with wrinkles on his face, and laughed alone.

......

Brother Shi, get up and practice!" Xiao Qianfan shouted cheerfully and cordially.

The stone on the bed just opened his mouth and said, "Well, okay, I'm up." But the body did not move.

"Stone, you can't get up yet, do you want Lao Tzu to beat you?" Shishi's father scolded. "Xiao Qianfan knows how to exercise his body, and you kid still dare to sleep. ”

"Oh...... Their arms still hurt!" Stone looked like he was about to cry with two faces.

Stone's father was as strong as a brown bear, full of bronze muscles, and seemed to be about to pull out his big hand as he spoke.

But Shi knew that his father's hand, in addition to twisting his ears and spanking him, would also pinch it to give the mountain fruit to eat, although he still wanted to be a little coquettish in his mouth, saying that his arm hurt, he still got up lazily, and yawned with his black hair.

"Quick, quick, let's get better!"

"Brother Shi, hurry up!" Xiao Qianfan urged.

"Oh......"

His father is also Xiao Qianfan's uncle, Chao Wuyang, who is the captain of the hunting team in the village, and is sitting on the stone bench in the house at the moment to polish the tip of the arrow. There was no window in the house, it was too dark, and he had to rely on the light of the sky that leaked in through the broken walls.

"Don't you see that the third uncle's kid didn't get up before dawn to practice his body!" Chao Wuyang said with a glare, Xiao Qianfan has been waiting for you for a while.

"My arm is still—" Stone complained

"If your arm hurts, you won't go to morning exercise!" his father said angrily.

Stone rubbed his eyes with his hands, turned his waist and shoulders, and took a pair of straw sandals from the stone wall and sat on his father's left. Qianfanzi is to his father's right.

"Let's go, let's go, little fat man, hey, my life is miserable. As he spoke, he was led by Xiao Qianfan and went out.

Time always passes quietly without people knowing, and two and a half years have passed, and the little fat man is already four years old, unlike him who is one and a half years old, he is not stumbling behind the big children, but wandering around with the big children.

Now he has his own name, Chao Qianfan. It may really be a giant ding, and now Qianfan can already lift a boulder of five hundred catties, which really scared those simple villagers, but these patriarchs accepted it calmly, after all, he has also spent a lot of treasured herbs and fierce beast essence on him over the years.

Four-year-old Qianfan is inevitably a little naughty, this is not yesterday to climb a tree with a stone competition. Xiao Qianfan moved very quickly, and soon reached the top of the tree, while the slightly larger stone was unfortunately fell from the tree, but after many years of exercise, the body is also strong, and there is no major problem, but the pain in the arm is inevitable.

Poor Stone didn't know that Qianfan tricked him into climbing the tree for the sake of those eggs. Qianfan has been noisy since he was weaned, and the patriarch had no choice but to come up with a way to feed Qianfan's eggs.

Unexpectedly, this was out of control, Qianfan was obsessed with delicious bird eggs, and thought of ways to dig bird eggs all day long. Everyone gave him a new nickname - Dandan.

After breakfast, several very old people in the village came to the courtyard south of the patriarch's nest. Although his hair and beard are white, his body is still strong and full of energy.

"It's not normal lately, there are always things passing by in the middle of the night, the movement is too big, something must have happened to these 100,000 mountains. ”

"Yes, I woke up several times in the night a few days ago, and my whole body was not comfortable, there must be a giant beast passing by here. ”

Several old people gathered around to discuss the strange things that had happened in the recent night, talking about some dangerous symptoms, and felt that something terrible must have happened.

"I think there's something terrible going on in the depths of this mountain range, attracting these primeval xenomorphs and desolate beasts to fight for it. An old man said after thinking for a long time.

"Well, it's possible, but I think this time is a bit similar to four years ago, so it shouldn't be another disaster!"

"This shouldn't be, four years ago, those primeval giant beasts walked out of the mountain, it should have sensed the omen of the disaster, and now most of the wild beasts are coming from other places, it should be some treasure on the mountain. Chao Xiangnan thought for a long time and then expressed his opinion.

"Shanbao!" the other old men were shocked, their eyes full of fiery emotion, but then they dissipated again.

Don't say that you can't get these things, even if you get them, they will also cause great disasters!

"But there is not much food in the village. "The tiger in the nest carried a black giant sword of hundreds of catties behind him, like a fierce tiger, with a strong and sturdy body, and bulging muscles all over his body.

"Children are growing up, they can't go hungry, they have to find a way. An old man said.

"At this time, although there are many fierce beasts at night, there is still no great danger during the day, and the fierce beasts are easy to kill each other, so you can still pick up a lot of leaks if you are careful. I'll bring some people, be careful, and it will be fine. Hunting captain Chao Wuyang said.

In the end, dozens of the strongest people in the village gathered in the courtyard of the patriarch's house, and the men, women and children of the whole village came to see each other, and a group of people surrounded the giant tripod with solemn expressions.

The patriarch Chao prayed sincerely in front of the tripod to the south, "the ancestor artifact is on the ......" followed by a series of singing praises, strangely, it is not the sacrifice spirit of the giant tripod, but the ancestor of the nest family.

"Ancestor, please bless your people, let the warriors hunt for the rich food and return safely. Future generations will always worship you with the most devout hearts. “