In the past three years, Huahai Village and Lu Village have had frequent interactions, and even the daughter of the patriarch Gu Xin has married Shu Zhuang of Lu Village. On this day, Gu Xin went to Lu Village to see his daughter, and by the way, he sent some things, including swan eggs and swan meat for the tiger baby, and he also specially brought a lot of clansmen with him. Some of these clansmen are also in-laws with Lu Village, and some are sturdy young people, and they go to find opportunities to get acquainted with the unmarried girls of Lu Village.

The tribesmen were accustomed to going out in groups, they went early in the morning and returned in the afternoon. As soon as Gu Xin led everyone across the bridge, they heard movement from the mountains and forests, and when they got in, they found such a shocking and incomprehensible situation.

Seeing that Gu Xin and the people from Huahai Village were coming, Huwa replied unhurriedly: "Uncle Gu Xin, I want to go to Huahai to play today, and I saw a pheasant flying into the forest halfway through, so I chased after ......"

Huwa only said what he saw and what happened on the spot, and he didn't say much about the things that were only guessed by the monkey stealing the bow and arrow from the clan. Gu Xin's face became more and more gloomy the more he listened, and someone shouted: "Monkey, I didn't send you to hunt today, why did you take out the bow and arrows in the treasury without permission?

Gu Xin asked in a deep voice, "Monkey, what's going on?"

The monkey didn't dare to scream for a long time, so he held back the pain and broke out in a cold sweat and defended loudly: "Patriarch, don't just listen to this kid's nonsense. This morning I went out to dig the ground, and when I heard pheasants crowing in the woods, I wanted to hunt some pheasants and bring them back to my people. When I got back to the village, there was no one in the storehouse, and you weren't there, so I took out my bow and arrows......"

Compared with other simple-minded clansmen, he was very cunning and clever, and when he saw that he couldn't hide the matter, he changed his rhetoric, claiming that he just wanted to hunt a few pheasants for his clansmen, so that even if he took a bow and arrow, it was not a big mistake. As for the lost arrow, it was smashed away by the tiger baby with a stone, and how could he have expected that a child would run out and throw stones?

As the monkey spoke, Gu Xin had already checked the pheasant and various traces nearby, and slowly spoke, "Obviously, Huwa is not lying. The chicken was indeed hit by a stone, and happened to have its wings broken and the roots fell, and your arrow grazed the stone. ”

The monkey explained, "Yes, it was just an accident, and I couldn't have imagined it! But the boy stoned me, and I was accidentally injured by him!"

Gu Xin didn't speak quickly, and there was no angry expression on his face, but it inexplicably made people feel a little depressed, and the clansmen who were familiar with him knew that this patriarch was already angry at the moment. I heard him ask slowly: "Let's not talk about the matter of you taking the bow and arrow privately, and it doesn't matter who hit the pheasant." I would like to ask, since the first arrow is gone, how can there be an arrow on the ground? The pheasant has landed, and who is your arrow?"

As Tiger Wa had just said, when he turned to leave, the monkey suddenly shot an arrow at his back, and he turned around and threw another stone. Seeing that the patriarch wanted to investigate, the monkey quickly shook his head and said, "I didn't shoot him, but I was annoyed because I lost a stainless steel arrow, and I wanted to scare him." ”

Gu Xin: "Then how did this arrow fly out of the city?"

Monkey: "I happened to be hit by a stone in the shoulder, and as soon as I let go of my hand, the arrow flew." ”

Patriarch: "If you are hit in the shoulder, the arrow will not shoot out of the bow on its own, unless you have already opened the bow at the time." Can you, a strong adult, face a child and point an arrow at his back and pull the bow away?"

The monkey realized that something was wrong and exclaimed, "I'm just making a gesture and making a show, not really trying to ......"

Gu Xin interrupted him sharply and said, "Compare? No one in the mountains and forests, if you meet another person who compares to you like this, what do you think it means? If you compare to me like this, what do you guess I will do? There is no need to say anything more, you must accept the most severe punishment of the clan rules!"

There are no strangers in the mountains and dense forests, and a sturdy adult with a stiff bow and a cluster of steel arrows in a short distance of three zhang means that a sturdy adult stretches out his bow and arrows and points an arrow at a child's back.

Gu Xin wanted to use the strictest clan rules to deal with it, and everyone else was shocked, which meant that the monkey would die on the spot! After all, they were partners who had grown up together since childhood, and someone hurriedly whispered beside him: "Patriarch, is this too strict? In any case, the tiger baby is unharmed!"

The monkey was also frightened, knelt there with one hand on the ground and said, "Patriarch, please spare me, I don't dare anymore!"

Gu Xin sighed and said in a low tone: "Monkey, you made mistakes back then, but after being taught a lesson, you didn't learn to truly repent, but made mistakes again and again. Today, the first arrow is not a big deal, but you should never shoot the second arrow. The arrow is off the string, and there is no turning back.

I'm ten years older than you, and I've watched you grow up, and most of the people here are friends who grew up with you, and they're pleading for you. I really can't bear to kill you with my own hands, so I will expel you according to the rules of the clan. Don't take anything with you except the clothes you're wearing, and never approach Huahai Village again!"

There are two strictest clan rules in Huahai Village, the first of course is execution. But for primitive tribes, every member of the clan is precious, and survival in a difficult environment must rely on the strength of collective cooperation, unless it is a grave crime that cannot be reversed, this clan rule is rarely enforced. Then the other harshest family rule is expulsion.

In the wilderness and deep mountains, it is impossible to survive alone, and expulsion is similar to killing this person, except that you don't have to do it yourself. Although the monkey has murderous intentions and evil deeds, the tiger baby is safe and sound after all, so there will be clansmen who intercede for him. Gu Xin really couldn't bear to execute the clansmen with his own hands, so he decided to expel him on the spot, and he didn't even have to wait until he returned to the village to carry it out.

The monkey was already paralyzed on the ground when he heard this, and he couldn't stop pleading with tears. Someone couldn't help but whisper again: "Patriarch, is such a punishment too severe?

Gu Xin shook his head and said, "If we don't punish us like this, do you think the people of Lu Village will agree? If it is a foreigner who treats our children like this, will we Huahai Village agree? And with the relationship between the tiger baby and Huahai Village, what the monkey did is even more unforgivable!"

Occasionally, different tribes compete for prey, but only for the prey. Shooting a non-threatening child is a different story entirely. Needless to say, if you don't shoot, it's enough to start a battle between the two clans. And now that Lu Village and Huahai Village are on good terms, they should be dealt with severely, because this arrow is equivalent to shooting at the children of their own family.

Everyone knew that they could no longer beg for mercy for the direct monkey, so someone asked the tiger baby: "Child, what do you think, can you not be so harsh?"

The tiger baby blinked and didn't answer, Gu Xin touched his head and said, "Child, you are still too young to answer such a question." Then he said to the clansman: "Shouldn't you ask the tiger baby that, and want the ignorant child to open his mouth to forgive the monkey, and then find an excuse for us to spare the monkey? No matter who the arrow shoots, the thing is the same, and it doesn't change because it's the tiger baby or someone else." Then you don't ask the tiger baby, and you shouldn't induce a child!"

The tiger baby saw that the monkey's fate was too miserable, and when he heard such a question, he didn't know what to do, but Gu Xin's words solved the problem for him. He seemed to suddenly understand something, nodded and said, "Uncle Gu Xin, I know the truth, this is your business." ”

At this time, Gu Xin had already taken the bow and arrow, and pointed the bow and arrow at the monkey and said, "If you were expelled from the village in the past, you would definitely not live long." But now that the situation in the mountains has changed, you may still have a chance to live, and I hope you can truly repent this time. Let's go now, never get close to Huahai Village and Lu Village within ten miles!"

The monkey finally got up and left the forest with one arm. Huwa suddenly shouted: "I just said, if you want that chicken, I'll give it to you, now you can take it if you want to." ”

The monkey did not dare to look back, but gritted his teeth and carried the pheasant away. He was wounded in his right arm at the moment, and he had no weapon on him, and the pheasant was probably enough food for him to live for several days. Gu Xin touched the tiger baby's head and said, "You are such a smart and good boy, and you can throw stones accurately!"

Huwa replied: "This is what I have loved to play since I was a child. He was telling the truth, the Lu people all knew that the tiger baby loved to pick stones and play with stones since she was a child, and later even many people in Huahai Village knew the way.

The tiger baby hit the pheasant with a stone first, and then dislocated the monkey's shoulder, Gu Xin and the others were very surprised, but they didn't think of anything else, they just sighed that this child has not played in vain since he was a child, and today he is really lucky, and the stone is too accurate!

An eight-year-old can smash an egg-sized stone with a force, and if the speed and force are just right, he can break a pheasant's wings if he is lucky. The monkey was pulling the bow with all his might, but he was suddenly hit in the shoulder by a stone, which may also lead to dislocation.

So everyone thinks that the tiger baby is very lucky, and of course, there can be no other explanation, who would have thought that this eight-year-old child had entered the second realm without anyone knowing?

This crisis event was dealt with with with the expulsion of the monkeys. Gu Xin's decisive handling can be regarded as resolving a conflict crisis that may arise between Huahai Village and Lu Village, which have just formed an alliance. At that time, no one from Lu Village was present, and the mountain master and Granny Shui were also relayed afterwards.