Chapter 24: There are English tribes
Jin Mang felt that life was about to go on.
After the bitter cold winter and the surging rainwater, the high temperature of nearly 50 degrees made all the creatures in Anze hot.
When the rain had just disappeared, Jin Mang was happy for a few days, and the heat and drought that followed made her miserable.
It was only then that she realized that the bottom of her cave was filled with thick bamboo tubes the size of leather balls, and when she didn't know it, they were filled with water.
But according to them, the water was to be kept for food on the migration route.
Therefore, when the drought first appeared and there was only a limited amount of water left in the riverbed, Jin Mang had to follow his parents and start drinking dirty water.
The taste of mud and sand mixed with water entering his throat was indescribable, and Jin Mang was forced to make a simple water purification filter.
Moreover, in order not to get sick, she also asked Qingfeng Qingsui to start drinking boiling water boiled with mussel shells with her.
- At this time, creatures with the plague had already begun to appear, and even, through the message of Blue Cliff, they knew that humans had begun to suffer from the plague.
Jin Mang's limited medical knowledge told her that water was the biggest channel for the spread of infectious diseases.
In recent days, the family's hunt has become more difficult, and it is difficult to hunt a single prey for almost three days, but every day they encounter the carcasses of animals that have died of plague.
According to Jin Mang's thoughts, of course, it is best not to eat these animal corpses, but Qingfeng and Qingsui don't think so.
Jin Mang thought that they did not know that eating these sick and dead animals could be infected, but this was not the case.
Qingsui said while handling these corpses: "The chance of contracting the disease is there, but it is still relatively low. As long as it is not cannibalism, the chance of plague infection is not high. Even if you are really infected, as long as your physique is strong enough, you can survive it. ”
After a pause, "The most important thing is that at this time, we don't have wasted capital. If you don't eat, you can starve to death. Although you may die of illness if you eat it, you can at least live a few more days. ”
"It's all death anyway."
Jin Mang was speechless,
However, Qingfeng added on the side: "You can't eat all the prey that is sick and dead, and eat it with the prey that is okay, so the chance of contracting the disease is small." ”
He glanced at Jin Mang and said, "You're still young, so I won't let you eat it." ”
Jin Mang was not reckless, the child's resistance was weak, and she couldn't make herself sick in order to let her parents eat two more pieces of good meat.
When the waters of the territory were completely devoid of water, and the originally moist riverbed had been replaced by cracked soil, the tribal migration party that the family had been waiting for arrived.
Qingsui told Jin Mang that their clan's name is Youying, and now the oldest elder is her grandmother, and except for Qingfeng and their nine brothers and sisters, the rest are the descendants of Qingsui's three sisters.
Jin Mang once asked curiously, "Have the children of the eldest aunt and eldest uncle grown up?" Otherwise why didn't we see it the last time we went? ”
"No, your aunt's youngest child is only 15 years old, but when the cub is 12 years old, her parents will give them a slightly smaller territory in the spiritual realm and live a semi-independent life. Until the cubs reach adulthood, parents will shelter them when they are threatened by a strong enemy. After a pause, Qingsui looked at her and said, "But you are a girl, you can stay in my and your father's territory for a few more years." ”
Girls are less powerful than boys, and their parents will not kick her out of the house when she is 12 years old, unless she is with a brother who forms a family.
At this time, the scale of the Youying tribe that came to their territory was already very large, and it looked vast from a distance.
However, the first thing Jin Mang noticed was the behemoth surrounded by everyone.
That's a ...... It should be a car.
The huge square rectangle is definitely iron-based wood in terms of color, and the size is ...... Jin Mang estimated that the internal space was 20 cubic meters, and then looked at the wheels below......
Jin Manche was truly stunned!
Unlike any kind of wheel I've ever seen, the wheels of that car are spherical.
What's even more surprising is that the wheels of the car are not made of iron-based wood as I thought, but a material that I have never seen before.
It's a bit of an amber material, I don't know if it's rubber, but you have to touch it with your hands to know.
After observing the car, Jin Mang shifted his gaze and looked at the members of the tribe, except for the eldest uncle and aunt and grandmother, the others were all fresh faces, but their identities could be vaguely judged from their age.
Grandma gave birth to a total of nine sons and three daughters, the eldest aunt gave birth to four sons and three daughters, and the two daughters gave birth to each other, giving birth to a granddaughter and two grandchildren, and the second aunt gave birth to five sons and two daughters.
At this time, a group of blood relatives didn't care about the old days at all, and Qingfeng Qingsui moved all the stored food from the cave and put it into the grain cart one by one.
Looking at the nearly half more food than other families, Blue Cliff couldn't help but be surprised, "How did you store so much food?" ”
The others looked at it with envy.
Jin Mang blinked a little puzzled, and it wasn't long before she realized that although the tribes acted together when they migrated, the stored grain was not mixed together, and it was often their own stored grain.
Of course, at critical moments, if there is spare strength, everyone will not be stingy to help each other.
However, if they are too busy to take care of themselves, even for their loved ones, they will not be overly compassionate.
Qingfeng smiled and touched Jin Mang's head, "It's thanks to Mangmang, she taught us to make potato flour." "Before, they only taught Blue Cliff how to make dried white potatoes and dried yams, so Blue Cliff didn't look for too many potatoes.
Lan Ya didn't ask deeply, stretched out his hand and hugged Jin Mang to the grain cart, and the group began to set off.
In addition to Grandma, there are only seven children sitting in the grain cart with Jin Mang, four of whom look about the same age as Jin Mang, two children about six or seven years old, and one child about ten years old.
- Anze humans are accustomed to reproducing after the split season, which tends to come once every two or three years, and as a result, the age difference between their cubs is almost always about three years.
Jin Mang looked down and saw that there was a thick rope in front of the grain cart, and the adult men of the tribe pulled one by one, pulling the grain cart forward like a slender man, and the women were pushing the grain cart behind, and on either side were five and a half children who were not small, the eldest of them looked seventeen or eighteen years old, and the youngest was only 12 years old.
Grandma took Jin Mang into her arms and said softly: "Obediently, take advantage of the time when you can rest now, save more strength, and ...... in the future Even if you are children, you have to contribute. ”