After eating, I lay back on the plank bed and hummed a song with Jiro's legs crossed.

Carl has been released, and the time for me to leave is almost up, and this guy will definitely come to my rescue.

Didn't get a good night's sleep yesterday and decided to get another little sleep.

In the confusion, there was another sound of footsteps, it was the guards who pulled Xiao Man back, Xiao Man lowered his head, let out a low roar in his mouth, and held a bloody chicken in both hands, and the corners of his mouth were also covered with blood.

I looked at it with a wave of disgust, "Although this monkey has no hair on its body, it still can't change its nature of drinking blood." ”

The guards pulled Xiao Man into the cell and opened the lock of the cell door, one of the guards pulled Xiao Man to the prison door, but Xiao Man grabbed the chain and refused to enter the prison door, and the other guard raised his leg and kicked it, "Bastard, are you sick, why don't you listen to the call today." I don't turn over my head, I don't drill the fire ring, I just know how to hold the chicken and eat. ”

In the end, Xiaoman was driven into the cell by the guards, and the big lock was re-locked before the chain was unfastened. The guards cursed a few more times before staggering away.

I already knew that the guards had taken Xiaoman away in the morning to put on a show for the prince Hamid.

Xiao Man hugged the dead chicken and was still gnawing there.

I lay on the plank bed and looked at this ghostly ape, "Hehe, buddy, is it really that delicious?" Unfortunately, there is no fire here, if there is a fire and I will help you cook that chicken, you will know what it means to be delicious. ”

Xiao Man hugged the chicken, was stunned for a moment, then lowered his head and ate it.

I saw that Xiaoman's eyes seemed to have tears in his eyes, but he still refused to stop, could it be that my words hurt his self-esteem?

Anyway, it's okay to be idle, so I continue to nag with Xiaoman there.

"By the way, you must have eaten cooked food before you were caught, there will be wildfires in Australia from time to time, wildfires will burn some birds and beasts, but those meats are not cooked at all, there is neither salt, nor condiments, and it is half-cooked, it tastes no different from raw meat, I once ran to the woodland burned by the wildfire to find a burnt roe deer, tasted a few bites and couldn't swallow it, and because of this incident my father beat me, he was not worried that I would eat raw food, but worried that I was burned to death by the wildfire, Or like the chicken in your hand, it was captured and eaten raw by the natives. ”

"Haha, but how did he know, I had been in contact with the natives a long time ago, not once, not twice, but countless times, I can't remember. These Aborigines don't eat raw food at all, and the food they make is no worse than any hotel restaurant in Australia, only better. They would pluck the wild beasts and birds they hunted, remove their feathers, and then hollow out the internal organs, fill them with condiments and roast them, to tell you the truth, my barbecue skills are learned from those natives, their barbecue meat is delicious, and then I went to roast meat according to their method, but added more condiments, so that the meat tasted better, and my current barbecue skills also frightened Wood, the Governor, Hamid, and these people. Interesting, don't you say? ”

At this time, Xiaoman suddenly stopped his mouth and looked at me, his throat rolled, and he muttered a sound of "Gu Rui - Gu Rui -", I shook my head: "I don't understand what you said." Hey, if only you could speak English, Chinese can too, we may talk, I can also teach you some barbecue skills, so you don't have to eat birds again. My mother, Anne, a doctor, once told me that there are many bacteria and viruses in the meat of birds and beasts, and they cannot be eaten raw, and if you eat them raw, people will get sick, and you are the same, you are a primate, and it is better to eat less of this raw meat, which will affect your lifespan. ”

"Just now, I ate the same chicken as you, but the cooked chicken thighs sent by Dolly, which are delicious. When I go out later, I'll make you some cooked food and let you taste it too. Hey, it's a pity that I didn't study biology well when I was in school, and the teacher told us about Darwin's theory of evolution, and if I see the biology teacher again, I have to ask him if there is a chance for a giant ape like you, who can walk upright, to evolve into a human. ”

Xiao Man hugged the chicken and stopped nibbling, as if he was listening carefully to my teachings. Lying on my stomach for a long time made me a little tired, so I simply turned over, lay on the bed, and then held a piece of grass in my mouth, looked at the roof, and continued to teach Xiaoman.

"However, it is very difficult for you to evolve into a human being, I heard the teacher say that it is very difficult for apes to evolve into humans, first they must be able to walk upright, and then they must get used to cooked food, the premise is naturally to master the artificial use of fire, of course, you can't just eat meat, but also eat grain and vegetables, as well as eggs and milk, so that the nutrition will be balanced. The most important thing is to be able to make tools, farm tools, hunting tools, cooking utensils, and learn to write, communicate with the same kind of people, so that you can live like a person. This process may take thousands of years, or tens of thousands of years. ”

Xiao Man was a brute after all, and gradually became impatient, and he didn't know what to do on the bed opposite, making the bed squeak.

"Xiaoman, you have to be a little patient, okay, when we humans go to class, we all have straight waists, hands behind our backs, and listen carefully for 45 minutes, otherwise the teacher will reprimand, of course, you have to leave homework after class, and you can only play after you finish your homework. Adults don't have to study, but they have to work, you know what work is, it's not easy to explain to you, it's that you have to work, you have to work every day, just like you go hunting wild beasts every day, you have to go rain or rain. If you have a job, you will have a salary, and by the way, you don't have the concept of salary, salary is money, money is a good thing, it can buy anything, you can buy rice, you can buy noodles, you can buy meat, if you have money, you can buy a female monkey. ”

"Hey, in fact, sometimes I think it's quite tiring to be a person, but that's just the lower class people, some people are different, just the kind of people in the upper class, just like the king in your race, they drink tea every day, read the newspaper, and have nothing to do with the people below, so they earn money, and they earn the most, yes, the governor, the mayor, and the sheriff are such people, they don't have to hunt and farm or anything, these jobs are done by us lower-class people, such as yesterday, Nemo and I brought cows and sheep for them to eat, but we didn't even have a bone to eat, and if it hadn't been for Dolly's food, I'd still be hungry. So if one day, you also evolve into a human being, you must be a superior person, that is, a high-level person, so that it will not be very hard, if you can only be the lowest person, I guess it is better not to evolve into a human. ”

"I also have to remind you, when you become a man one day, you also have to understand the truth of being happy, one of my neighbors is very good-looking, seeing people live in villas, he borrowed money from the bank to buy a house, although the beautiful house is lived, but unfortunately, he has to repay the bank money every year, the family has to be careful with money, cut down on food and clothing, and go outside to work hard, desperately earn money, don't say like a grandson, if I want to say that even you monkeys are not as good."

"But then again, people have to have their own dreams, and you monkeys must also have monkey dreams, so if you want me to say that you should first think that becoming the first goal of being a human being. Although it is difficult to evolve into an adult, how can dreams be so easy to achieve, work hard, and the monkey will do it! Even if you don't become an adult, don't be discouraged, that Zeng Zicheng didn't also say that he didn't care about the harvest, but asked for hard work. ”

I thought about it, it is estimated that such a profound knowledge, Xiaoman does not understand, teach him to be in simple terms, "Don't say these big truths, don't be discouraged, you can already walk upright, although this is a small step, but it is a big step for you from a monkey to a human, in the future, I will teach you to eat cooked food, collect fruits, learn to barbecue, it is estimated that these three courses are enough for you to learn for a lifetime, and then you have a son, I will teach him to make artificial fire, make tools, and when you have a grandson, I will teach your grandson to learn to speak human words, memorize ancient poems, pick up girls or something." As long as you monkeys show the spirit of moving mountains, children will give birth to grandchildren, grandchildren will give birth to children, and work hard from generation to generation, you will definitely succeed in becoming human. Do you understand? ”

I searched my stomach and intestines, and I had already explained the problem very simply, I don't know if Xiaoman can understand, here, there is a sentence from the other side: "Sick!" ”

I couldn't help but be furious, jumped in front of the cell door and scolded, "You're sick." Your whole family is sick! ”

The vibration of the cell door caused a cloud of dust to fall from the roof, and it fell on my head, and I waved my hand to disperse the smoke, but I still choked and coughed a few times, and then I was stunned, and Xiaoman could speak? I looked at it stunned, "Hey, Xiaoman, are you talking?" ”

Xiaoman had no words there. I ran to the bars and looked out, but there was no one around.

I scratched my scalp and couldn't help but be a little skeptical, "Did I hear me wrong?" ”

But I immediately denied my own idea, I heard it right, the other party said a clear sentence, although it was only two words, but I could understand it.

I went to the cell door again and looked at the cell opposite, "Xiaoman, are you talking?" If you can speak, it means that you are a man, not an ape, and not a beast, let's talk, how did you get in? How long have you been locked in? I asked a series of questions, but there was still no sound on the other side.

Xiao Man remained silent. I watched as he held the chicken and stared at me blankly, without any expression on his face.

I feel like my head is a little messy, what's going on? Xiao Man can speak, which proves that he is not a beast, but everyone here does not treat Xiao Man as a human being, including that little maid Dolly? Why did the governor lock him up, feed him raw food every day, and keep him like a wild beast? Why does Xiaoman ignore me all the time, is he a savage, and he can't speak, he has only said two words to me since yesterday, one is "Gu Rui", and the other is that I just said that I am sick, of course, this is a curse.

I slapped my thigh violently, and the Guremo in Xiaoman's mouth was not the Gurui tribe, the indigenous people of Australia? Someone once counted that there are more than 200 indigenous tribes in Australia, although they have lived in the Australian continent for a long time, but they have their own language, and they do not understand each other's language, but many sign languages are similar or similar, so the indigenous people of different tribes in the local area often communicate with each other.

Nemo and I have been to the Bama tribe, know the patriarch there Bama, because their tribe is closer to the east coast, they also came into contact with modern society earlier, the old Bama can understand some English, Nemo and I once took refuge, ran to the Bama tribe, the old Maba was very enthusiastic to help us, as a reward, we gave a big kangaroo hunted to the old Bama, the Bama people were very happy, slaughtered and roasted kangaroos, from there, I often ran to the old Bama, if there are enough prey, I left half of them, and gradually I and Lao Bama became good friends and forgot the old friends. Old Bama told me about other tribes around me, including the Nuga tribe, the Pallava tribe, and one of them, there is a Gurui tribe, thinking of the Gurui tribe, I suddenly realized that this little barbarian is not a beast at all, but also a beast in the mouth of the guards, but an Australian aborigine, yes, a member of the Australian Gurui tribe.

I rushed to the cell door, shook it violently, and shouted, "Little man, little man!" ”

Xiao Man just glanced at me, and then he was about to bow his head and eat the dead chicken, his eyes were dull and his expression was sluggish.

I said to him, "Gurry, Gurry! ”

Xiaoman's eyes lit up, looking at me, and his mouth also made a sound of "Gurui, Gurui".

I was overjoyed and gestured to him, but I had learned a lot of sign language from old Bama, and I pointed to my heart and put my hands on my face with a smile on my face. This sign language is to tell Xiaoman that I am his friend and have no ill will towards him.

Xiaoman pointed at me and then outside, which was asking me, "Who are you and where are you from?" ”

I thought about it for a moment, and then told him in sign language, "I was arrested by those men." ”

Xiao Man spread his hands together and put his thumbs together, which was telling me, "He was also arrested, and we are a pair of difficult brothers." ”

I asked him in sign language, "Can you speak, I just heard you talk." ”

Xiaoman shook his head, but I was very happy, because in the language of the aborigines, shaking the head means "yes", and nodding is the meaning of "no", which is the opposite of ours. Xiaoman told me, "He only knows a little bit, and he learns it all from the people here." ”

I asked Xiao Man how he was captured, and Xiao Man told me, "Two years ago, the place where the Gurui tribe was located was occupied by a group of strangers, and they were going to dig stones there, which is the homeland where the Gurui tribe has lived for generations. The Gurui lost the battle, and the elder Gurui had no choice but to lead his people to migrate to more wastelands. Xiao Man himself was wounded in the battle and was caught by those men, who healed his gunshot wound, but instead of letting him go, they sent him to this place. The people here are very fierce, they will beat him every day, and often take him outside to perform for many people, let him prey on raw chickens, at first, he didn't want to eat, the Gurui people have long known how to bake cooked food, but the people here don't know, seeing that he doesn't eat, they locked him up here, and didn't give him any food, the longest one starved him for ten days, he was so hungry that he could only catch the raw chickens thrown by those people to eat. ”

In the end, Xiao Man burst into tears, and he moved his mouth and cooperated with gestures to tell me that he wanted to go home.

I looked at Xiaoman in a daze, my nose was sore, and tears fell, Xiaoman, a living person, was kept as an animal by these white people in Australia and became a tool for their fun. In their eyes, Xiaoman is not a human at all, no different from a pig and dog, not even a pig or a dog, for example, the Governor's wife has a dog, which is a dog called Labrador, I have seen Dolly deliver fresh and delicious cooked food to this dog, but Xiaoman can only hunt and eat raw chickens because of hunger.

I patted my chest and told Xiao Man loudly, "Xiao Man, don't worry, I will take you out and send you back to the Gurui Clan." ”

Xiao Man looked at me with tears in his eyes, but his face was full of joy, and his mouth also shouted "Waga, Waga!" "Meaning great! ”