Chapter 4: Rafting

Fifth Brother Zhang was tied to a piece of driftwood, drifting along the icy and turbulent river, his eyelashes were covered with frost, and his eyes occasionally rolled, proving that he had not frozen to death.

"Blackstone Wuge, there are bad people in the tribe who want to kill you, and the farther we escape, the safer we are. If you go by land, I can't walk fast with you on my back, and the bad guys will follow the footprints on the snow to catch up with us. You hold on a little longer, and when it gets dark, we can go ashore and rest. ”

Mei was soaked all over, her hair was stuck to her body in locks, and she held the driftwood with both hands, adjusting the direction of the driftwood from time to time.

Mei is very clear about her sister Nari's character and methods, as long as her sister doesn't die, she won't let go of Blackstone Wuge, maybe now the pursuers have been dispatched and are searching behind with hounds, but fortunately, the Blackstone tribe has no tradition of domesticating falcons and can't do a large-scale search.

Mei is an excellent huntress with a wealth of tracking experience, and naturally knows how to hide her tracks. She and Fifth Brother Zhang had been drifting in the river for almost a day, and with her experience, even if there were really pursuers behind her, it would be difficult to catch up again.

The icy water of the river rushes through the canyon, and the banks are covered with snow and no people.

Fifth Brother Zhang's eyes were hollow, his hands and feet were numb from the cold, and only his chest was still warm. He wished he was dreaming, but unfortunately that was wrong. He bit his tongue so hard that he could clearly feel a sharp pain in his brain. According to Wang Daxian in the village, there are eighteen layers of hell in the underworld, one of which is the Ice Hell, where the little ghost will throw the sinful bad people into the ice water to freeze and never be reborn.

Fifth Brother Zhang looked around and felt that he was in an ice hell. He worked hard to reflect, except for being naughty when he was a child, he has always been his duty when he grew up, and he has never done anything bad, nor has he bullied anyone. In Heishi Village, everyone knows that Fifth Brother Zhang is a good guy who is willing to help.

"God, why did you send me to this hellish place and make me suffer such a great sin. If I can't go back, who will give my parents a pension? The second brother-in-law has a bad temper, if he gets drunk and beats the second sister, who will support the second sister? ”

Fifth Brother Zhang's heart was full of despair and longing for his relatives, and lines of tears rolled out of his eyes.

Mei heard the cry, turned her head to look, and couldn't help but be stunned, she never thought that the brave and domineering young leader would cry like a child, and his expression was still so helpless.

"He didn't have parents since he was a child, and his previous strength was forced to pretend to be a last resort."

Mei lovingly wiped away the tears from the corners of Fifth Brother Zhang's eyes, and said softly like a big sister coaxing a little brother: "If you are unhappy in your heart, cry out loud." ”

When Fifth Brother Zhang heard this, he cried bitterly. He had mixed feelings about Mei, since he came to this ghost place, the first person he saw was Mei, it was Mei who rescued him from the stone pile, and it was Mei who carried him to the river, and then tied him up and threw him into the icy river.

"Is this the eighteenth layer of hell?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked with a sob.

Mei didn't understand Fifth Brother Zhang's words, so she touched Fifth Brother Zhang's forehead with her hand, it was cold, and there was no fever. "Maybe after being blessed by the totem fire, his consciousness is still a little unconscious."

Every time the wizard of the Blackstone tribe prayed to the totem, his limbs twitched, the corners of his mouth drooled, and he said something that no one could understand, which was very similar to Fifth Brother Zhang's current state.

"Are you a human or a ghost?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked again.

"Black Stone Wuge, I'm Mei, of course I'm not a ghost." Mei replied very seriously.

"You're lying to me, aren't you?" Fifth Brother Zhang's tears flowed again, he had never seen a girl dressed strangely like Mei, and he was also sure that Mei was not from Blackstone Village or the surrounding villages.

"How do you know I'm from Blackstone Village? I also know that my name is Fifth Brother. ”

There is a tradition in Zhang Wuge's hometown that after the birth of a newborn, the father of the child will name the newborn with the first word he hears.

On the day Fifth Brother Zhang was born, his father Zhang Biandan walked out of the door, and happened to meet two croppers walking and chatting, and one of them said: "Fifth brother, it's time to send manure to the field." So, Fifth Brother Zhang's name was born, but he should feel lucky, if his father went out a few seconds late, maybe his name would be related to dung.

"You're a Blackstone Wuge, I've known it since I was a child." Mei said with a smile.

"It's the fifth brother, not the Wuge." Fifth Brother Zhang saw that Mei's exhaled breath condensed into a white mist, and he believed in his heart that Mei was not a female ghost. The ghost wasn't breathing, he was sure of that.

When it was almost dark, Mei took Fifth Brother Zhang ashore on a shoal, laid him flat in a leeward place, and then found some dead branches, struck sparks with flints, and made a fire.

"It's so warm!" Fifth Brother Zhang was greedily roasting the fire, and if his limbs were dexterous, he would like to hold the fire in his arms.

Mei looked around and made sure there was no danger before returning. When she saw Fifth Brother Zhang wriggling around the fire like a caterpillar, she couldn't help but smile, then untied her bow and arrows and dagger, and took off her wet clothes, revealing a fair-skinned and tall keto body.

The moonlight was cold, the firelight was swaying, and Fifth Brother Zhang could see it clearly at once, and then in his shocked gaze, Mei also took off the clothes on his body, and put the wet clothes of the two people on the fire to bake.

Fifth Brother Zhang's mind was blank, and the education he had received since he was a child made him unable to understand what was happening in front of him. "Am I being taken advantage of by my sister, or am I taking advantage of my sister?"

After a long while, Fifth Brother Zhang came back to his senses, he hurriedly closed his eyes, didn't dare to look at anything, felt that his mouth was dry, and his heart was beating like a drum.

For a barbarian woman, it doesn't seem to be a shame to be naked in front of a man. According to the barbarian tradition, in the summer men and women can bathe together in the pond, and when they go out hunting, if they accidentally get wet in the rain, it is normal for the opposite sex partner to take off their clothes and bake the fire while talking generously. Barbarians are not hypocritical Phusars, they are clean in heart, so that there are no useless rituals.

The first time she was alone with her sweetheart, Mei's heart was actually a little nervous, and she couldn't help but relax when she saw Fifth Brother Zhang's shy appearance. She threw some dead branches into the fire again, and the fire suddenly burned brightly, and the floating sparks circled around her and Fifth Brother Zhang.

Fifth Brother Zhang bent his body, his hands covered the bottom, his chest and abdomen were on fire, but his spine was cold, he wanted to turn over and roast his back, but he was worried about exposing his ass to Mei's sight, and when he was hesitating, Mei held his naked body in his arms. "Remove the fire for a while, spread branches on the hot ground, and sleep on it so that it will not be cold."

Fifth Brother Zhang didn't hear anything, only felt a piece of warm fragrant nephrite, he didn't know where he was, he forgot the cold, forgot the pain in his limbs, and fell asleep in a daze.

At dawn, Fifth Brother Zhang found himself wearing a dry robe, lying in a pile of branches that still had residual heat.

Rose walked through the snow from a distance, holding a bow and arrow in one hand and a hare in the other.

"Are you awake?" Mei shook the falling snow on her body and asked with a smile.

Fifth Brother Zhang was a little embarrassed, if according to the rules of Heishi Village, once an unmarried man and woman sleep together, they must get married, otherwise they will be playing hooligan, but he feels that his situation is very special, he seems to have slept with his sister, what should I do in such a situation? Do you want to ask the girl for a bride price, and then enter the woman's house upside down? Fifth Brother Zhang is the only seedling in the family, and he doesn't have to think about it, his father will never agree, but how to do it, Fifth Brother Zhang is very confused.

Mei neatly peeled off the skin of the hare, took out the internal organs and threw it into the river, cut off a piece of bloody meat with a dagger, and handed it to Fifth Brother Zhang's mouth.

In the eyes of the barbarians, when they go out hunting, small prey such as hare grouse is not worth the trouble of roasting and eating, and the easiest way is to cut it into pieces and eat it raw.

Fifth Brother Zhang had never eaten raw meat, so he instinctively wanted to refuse, but the fresh flesh and blood were so tempting that he seemed to be hungry and uncontrolled by his thoughts, and chewed in his mouth.

Fifth Brother Zhang felt that the raw rabbit meat was unusually sweet, and after eating a piece, he couldn't stop. He swallowed it heavily, and his stomach seemed to be a bottomless pit.

After a while, the hare meat was eaten by Fifth Brother Zhang, and he was still a little unsatisfied. "I'm really sorry, I was made to eat all the meat."

"Have you eaten enough?" Mei saw that Fifth Brother Zhang liked the food he hunted, and she was very happy in her heart.

"Full!" Fifth Brother Zhang is not very good at lying, and said with a red face.

Mei motioned to Fifth Brother Zhang to lie down, touched the wound on his body with her hand, frowned and said, "The bone in your right leg has not grown well, if you don't break it and re-graft it, you will be lame in the future." ”

Fifth Brother Zhang asked, "Will you be bone-grafted?" ”

Mei said: "I took the bones for the dogs, but not for them. ”

After hearing this, Fifth Brother Zhang didn't think it was wrong, the barefoot doctor in their village was a veterinarian before, and he treated livestock and people, so it was almost the same.

"Then interrupt and reconnect." Fifth Brother Zhang closed his eyes and said firmly.

Mei picked up a pebble and smashed it Zhang Wuge's right leg.

With a snort, Fifth Brother Zhang sat up in pain, he actually wanted to emulate Guan Erye when he scraped his bones to heal his wounds, but unfortunately the hero is not so easy to be, it really hurts.

"Is it broken?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked.

"No, it was smashed just now." Mei gave people bone grafting for the first time, but the technique was still not very skilled.

Fifth Brother Zhang was panting in pain, and when he saw that Mei's face was ashamed, he comforted: "I'm not afraid of pain, you let go of your guts, and you keep smashing it once, just try it a few more times." ”

Mei was originally a little apprehensive in her heart, but after listening to Fifth Brother Zhang's encouragement, she gradually calmed down. "Blackstone Wuge, you put your right foot on my lap, so it's hanging in the air, it's easy to break."

Fifth Brother Zhang was embarrassed, but seeing Mei's generous appearance, he didn't look like a man anymore, so he gritted his teeth and put his right leg on Mei's thigh.

Mei replaced it with a larger pebble and took a closer look before smashing it down, this time with a good effect, breaking the already long fracture in one fell swoop.

Fifth Brother Zhang screamed again, and his head was covered with cold sweat the size of beans.

Mei reconnected the bones, fixed the broken bones with a wooden stick, and said: "Heishi Wuge, you are much stronger than Huang Huang, when I gave Huang Huang a bone, its body moved around not honest at all. ”

"Who is Huang Huang?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked.

"Huang Huang is a dog with a smart nose." Mei replied.