I am from Blackstone Village, the second production brigade of Blackstone Village, my name is Fifth Brother Zhang, Zhang with a bow and arrow, Fifth from Five, Six, Seven, and Eight, and Brother Goldbach.

I'm now on the continent of Os, and the girl I'm traveling with is called Mei. I suspected that Mei liked me, but I didn't know why she liked me. Is it because my surname is Zhang? People in the village say that it is good to marry the surname Zhang, and I don't know why.

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Fifth Brother Zhang walked lightly and strongly, carrying a white bear skin and dozens of catties of bear meat on his back, and strode in the snow.

Mei behind her was holding a bow and arrow in her hand, her forehead was already sweating, and she couldn't keep up with Fifth Brother Zhang's pace, but she was a stubborn girl, and she wouldn't complain easily, just gritted her teeth and persevered.

Fifth Brother Zhang looked back at Mei and asked, "Are you tired, do you want to rest for a while?" ”

Mei's chest rose and fell, wiped the sweat from her forehead, and said, "I'm not tired, I used to chase wild donkeys in the wasteland, and I could catch up all day in one go." ”

Fifth Brother Zhang is simple-minded, and he doesn't understand that his daughter's family likes duplicity, so he believes it. After he recovered, he felt that his physical strength had increased greatly, and he had endless energy every day, and he gradually figured out that he might never be able to go back to his hometown, so he simply came and was at ease.

"Mei, it's not interesting to go like this, how about we change our singing?" When Fifth Brother Zhang used to work in the production team, sometimes everyone sang a song for you and I sang a song, and I forgot about fatigue when I listened to it.

Mei's throat was dry and thirsty, as if on fire, and she said, "I can't sing, you can sing first." ”

Fifth Brother Zhang thought about it, grinned and sang loudly: "The matchmaker in the first month of the year will be set in February." The dowry will be handed over in March, and the wedding will be welcomed in April. My sister saw my brother, and I couldn't stop talking. The two of us are alive and dead, and we are long together. ”

Fifth Brother Zhang's voice was like a broken gong, which shook the echoes of the four fields, and he sang a love song with generosity and heroism.

Mei probably understood the meaning of the lyrics and asked, "Since the two people like each other, why can't they be together immediately?" Why is it so troublesome, and you have to talk about the matchmaker's dowry? ”

Fifth Brother Zhang scratched his head, he didn't know why, so he had to bite the bullet and say, "This ...... This is the rule, everyone has to follow the rules. ”

Mei said: "I don't think this kind of rule is good, if you don't follow the rules, then the two people can't be together?" ”

Fifth Brother Zhang was asked a lot of meat and vegetables, and he didn't know how to answer. He suddenly thought of his fourth sister, who obviously liked the heroic militia company commander, but because he was married to his neighbors first, he could only cry secretly under the quilt at night.

"Maybe these rules are bad, but what can be done?" Fifth Brother Zhang muttered.

"If the rules are not good, kill the rules!" Mei said categorically.

Fifth Brother Zhang thought about it, nodded and said, "Yes! If the rules are not good, then kill the fucking rules! ”

The two of you look at me, I look at you, and suddenly they both laughed out loud.

After another two miles, there was an open valley in front of me, and the stream at the bottom of the valley meandered, and the white mist floated on the water, and the water rattled.

Fifth Brother Zhang looked from afar and found that the stream was flickering, shining with golden light.

Mei happily ran towards the stream, picked up a handful of water and tasted it, only to feel that it was sweet and delicious, and the water was actually warm, not cold at all.

Mei drank to her heart's content, filled her leather bag with water, shook her arm and shouted, "Fifth brother, this water is warm, come and take a look." ”

Fifth Brother Zhang walked to the stream, washed the sweat on his face with the stream water, and said, "This water may come out of the hot spring, let's follow the stream for a while and walk to the source to have a look." ”

Mei nodded, and suddenly saw several forest frogs in the stream, and quickly pulled out a bone arrow, which stabbed a forest frog at once.

"There are a lot of forest frogs, come and catch them!" Mei shouted, and stabbed several larger, fatter frogs with bone arrows.

When Fifth Brother Zhang heard Mei's shout, he was about to catch the forest frog together, but he was attracted by a golden thing on the riverbed, picked it up and looked at it, put it in his mouth and bit it, and was immediately overjoyed. "Gold, it's gold!"

Mei was only concerned about catching forest frogs, and when she heard Fifth Brother Zhang's shouting, she didn't raise her head.

Fifth Brother Zhang put away the thumb-sized gold, and turned over the stones on the riverbed to find gold, and after a while, he actually picked up more than a dozen pieces of gold, large or small, one of which was a natural dog's head gold weighing half a catty.

"If this is exchanged for money, can we buy a tractor for the production team?" Fifth Brother Zhang's heart was excited.

Mei strung all the forest frogs she caught on the bone arrows, saw Fifth Brother Zhang holding a pile of gold, and said, "I have seen it a long time ago, what is the use of gold?" It is soft, and it can neither be made into a weapon, nor can it be eaten as food. ”

Fifth Brother Zhang was stunned and asked unwillingly, "Gold is of no use here?" ”

Mei thought about it carefully and said, "It's useless at all!" However, I have heard that the Sulu tribe likes to put gold collars on their slaves to distinguish them. ”

"Slaves wear gold collars?" Fifth Brother Zhang's values were shattered, and he asked again: "Don't the girls in the tribe like jewelry made of gold?" ”

"I don't like it!" Mei replied in the affirmative, and took out the pendant she was wearing from her neck, which was a black metal the size of a peanut tied to a leather rope.

"This is meteoric iron, a piece of iron that fell from the sky, I picked it up in the wild, we barbarians like hard things, and are not interested in soft gold."

Fifth Brother Zhang stepped forward, stretched out his hand and touched Mei's meteorite pendant, and looked at it carefully, there seemed to be some red rust on it, he felt that this meteorite was not much different from the iron lump of the production team's horseshoe, why did it become so precious here?

"Then why don't you use meteorite as a weapon?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked.

Mei said: "Meteorite is too scarce, and the meteorite of the entire Blackstone tribe has been collected, and it is not enough to make a war knife. I heard from the elders of the clan that only the king of the barbarians was qualified to use weapons made of meteoric iron, and if others used meteoric iron weapons without permission, it would be a capital offense of great disrespect. ”

Fifth Brother Zhang was speechless, the whole tribe was so poor that he didn't even have a metal kitchen knife, but he regarded gold as dung, what happened to this world? Am I crazy, or is the world crazy?

Fifth Brother Zhang sighed, threw all the pieces of gold in his arms into the stream, and said, "Let's follow the stream to the source and have a look." ”

There was no snow or ice on both sides of the creek, and grass grew on the bare ground, like a green carpet.

Zhang Wuge and Mei traced the stream, walked through several valleys, and found that on a flat land, there were countless large and small geothermal springs, which gathered together to become a small stream.

Mei walked near a spring, and hot water gushed out, and the stones around her were a little hot to the touch. Mei put the forest frogs dressed in a string into the hot spring eye, and after only a while, these forest frogs were all cooked, Mei took down a forest frog and handed it to Zhang Wuge, and said: "These forest frogs eat fat and big in summer, and in winter they don't eat anymore, their stomachs are clean, and they are boiled and eaten like this, and they taste the best." ”

Fifth Brother Zhang took the forest frog and looked left and right, and he didn't know how to eat. When he was in Blackstone Village, he also ate frogs, but they were washed and peeled, cut into small pieces, and fried with hot oil and chili peppers. This is the first time he has tried such a whole-cooked and original way of eating.

Mei smiled slightly and said, "Fifth brother, a big hero like you, you are used to eating large pieces of venison and bear meat, and you have never eaten something like a forest frog, right?" In fact, the meat of the forest frog is tender and fragrant, you can know it when you taste it. ”

After Mei finished speaking, she picked up a boiled forest frog and swallowed it whole.

Fifth Brother Zhang swallowed his saliva, and was extremely amazed in his heart, a little girl like Mei has such a strong ability to swallow and vomit, as a man, of course, he can't be left behind, so he painted a scoop according to the gourd, picked up the forest frog in his hand, and ate it in his mouth, and immediately felt soft and tender, and this forest frog has a bag of oil in his stomach, which melts in his mouth and is fragrant.

"Delicious!" Fifth Brother Zhang seemed to have discovered a new continent, his eyes were shining, and he swallowed a few forest frogs in a row.

"Fifth brother, I'll be full for a while, let's find a hot spring with a non-hot water and wash together." Mei looked at Fifth Brother Zhang and said very naturally.

Fifth Brother Zhang was eating hard, and after hearing this, he was so shocked that he almost bit off his tongue. "This ...... I don't really want to take a bath, you can wash yourself. ”

Mei also thought that Fifth Brother Zhang was used to being served and would not take a bath by himself, so she hesitated for a moment and said, "Fifth Brother, I can smell the smell of you, let's wash it, I can help you rub your back." ”

Fifth Brother Zhang's face was as red as a monkey's buttocks, and he waved his hand again and again to refuse, and said: "I really don't need to, I don't like to take a bath, sometimes I only take a bath once a few months." ”

Mei's face turned cold, and she said, "Fifth brother, do you look down on me?" ”

Fifth Brother Zhang hurriedly distinguished: "How can you be, you have saved my life twice, you are my benefactor, how can I look down on you?" ”

"Then why don't you take a bath with me?" Mei was very puzzled, for barbarians, it was common for men and women to bathe in one place.

Fifth Brother Zhang seemed to be forced to the edge of the cliff, there was no way to retreat, his heart was crossed, his teeth were gritted, and he said: "My body is too dirty, I'm afraid you will dislike it, or wash it together." ”

Mei laughed and said, "So that's the case, I was wrong, I thought you looked down on me." After a pause, Mei said again: "Fifth brother, are you really unwilling to return to the Blackstone Tribe?" There are a dozen or so wives of yours there, who will serve you very comfortably, unlike me, who only hunt and do not take care of people at all. ”

Fifth Brother Zhang asked, "I have more than a dozen wives in the tribe?" When he saw Mei nodding affirmatively, he asked again, "Is it an arranged marriage?" ”

Mei was puzzled and asked, "What is an arranged marriage?" ”

"It's that husband and wife have no feelings and are reluctant to be together." In Fifth Brother Zhang's impression, only bullies and villains will have many wives, and most of these wives are not sincere, but because they are forced to be helpless.

Mei thought for a while and said, "Your wives were all snatched by you, so it can be regarded as an arranged marriage." ”

"I used to be a big badass?" Fifth Brother Zhang asked.

"Pretty much." Mei replied.