Ruoshui can cure diseases, and anyone in the village, old and young, who is sick, will seek help from Ruoshui, and the process of her treatment is often very mysterious, like an ancient ritual. If in the eyes of those great clans in Ba Yuan who have already established the city and the country, Ruoshan and Ruoshui are of course the priests and witches in this village, but there is no such title here, they are the mountain lord and the water mother-in-law.

The baby boy who was picked up by Ruoshan from the ruins of the Shimizu clan's walled city lived in Lu Village. When people found him, there happened to be a rouge tiger who seemed to be feeding him, so everyone called him Tiger Baby, and this name was also in the hope that he would grow up as strong and healthy as a tiger.

In this kind of tribal village, it is not only the parents who take care of the children, but also the whole tribe to raise and care for them. The food they gathered and hunted was often shared, with little private property, and the precious artifacts were owned by the entire tribe.

In the treacherous wilderness, they need collective action and cooperation to survive for a long time. During the day, when the adults go outside the village to gather or hunt, there are often only a bunch of old and weak women and children left in the village, and the old people sit at the door doing all kinds of work, and at the same time take care of the children running around in the village, and the tiger baby is also among them.

When the tiger baby first arrived in Lu Village, he might not know which house he lived in, and whoever was convenient to take care of the baby would take him over. When he was more than three years old and able to run around the ground, he also built a warm and sturdy hut beside the stone house of the Wakayama patriarch, with a stone wall and a thick roof of soft grass, and a vine nest full of soft animal skins in his sleep. Of course, he also has a share of the food and clothing of the children in the clan, and over the years, the people who have taken care of him the most are the mountain master and the water mother-in-law.

The tiger baby has a tiger head and a strong head, but it is not the same as most of the children here with rough skin and thick flesh, the fine skin and tender flesh appear very white, and there is always a rattan ring on the ankle. The adults here like to hug him and touch him twice and pat him twice.

The tribe did not hunt every day, and the hunting was often only a matter for men, and it was very solemn and serious. First of all, the Wakayama patriarch decides when and in which direction to go, and also worships the mountain god to ask for protection, and only after making all preparations can he set off en masse, and sometimes it takes several days to return.

In the past few years after Huwa came to Lu Village, the number of people in Lu Village going out for long-distance hunting has decreased significantly, and the appearance of the village has also changed a lot.

The walled city was surrounded by a wall made of solid stones, which used to have only one entrance and exit on the front, and a hidden canal under the side wall led the mountain spring into the village into two pools, one for drinking water and the other for washing.

Now there is also an entrance and exit on the wall at the back, just behind the stone house where Granny Shui lives, leading to the mountains and forests at a high place. On the hillside near the walled city, there are patches of green oak and old elm trees, which can be ground and eaten to satisfy hunger in the season when there is a lack of prey, and the village organizes tribesmen to collect and preserve them every year.

Today, in the bushes between the oaks and the old elms, patches of soybeans are sown. Soybean beans grow well, and vines are wrapped around the bushes everywhere. The beans can be eaten when they are very green in color, they are fragrant and tender, and when they dry and yellow, they can be stored for a long time and eaten until the next year.

If you look closely, the extensive cultivation is regular, with beans scattered in the bushes, and beyond the green oak and old elm forests, the weeds and trees have been cleared and surrounded by a barrier of hemp forests. There is a path in the hemp forest that leads to the back door of the walled city below.

Not only do people love to eat beans, but also many birds and beasts in the mountains, for example, apes often come to pick beans, and if they run into the village, they may hurt children. Hemp not only has few insects, its green stems and leaves are covered with fluffy white thorns, and emits a special smell, if it is scratched, it will feel hot and uncomfortable, so many wild beasts will not burrow into the dense growth of hemp forests, which is also a kind of natural protection.

In front of the houses and behind the houses in the walled city, the tribesmen will also plant a few hemp or bean beans, and insert bamboo poles or branches to make the bean vines grow around, which are basically picked and eaten on a daily basis, and the woodland outside the village is a large-scale gathering place. The houses in the village are basically centripetal, with their backs to the walled gate facing the open flat land in the middle of the village.

A large open space in the middle of the village is a place for the tribesmen to gather for meetings, and it is also a place for children to play.

The season is late spring and early summer, the beans are still green and hemp are not ripe, but the round elm pods have turned white and dried, and when the wind is strong, they will flutter and sprinkle like falling snow, and it is time to harvest again. On this day, under the leadership of the patriarch, most of the clansmen went to the mountain forest surrounded by hemp at the back of the village, some people used long poles to pluck and beat elm branches, and some people spread straw mats on the top of the shrubs under the trees to collect elm pods, and then placed them in bamboo baskets.

Only a few old people and a few young people remained in the village, watching the children playing. The older children all ran out into the mountains and forests to help pick elm pods to see the excitement, and there were small dots running all over the place. The walled city is relatively safe on weekdays and does not require too special protection, but children who are too young should also be kept an eye on, such as not letting them near the pond and not picking and eating the beans planted in front of and behind the house.

The pods are plump, and when peeled off, the juicy green beans are crisp and tender, but they have eaten to death. When the village just planted soybean beans, some people picked green soybean beans for raw food, and it looked okay at the time, but when they returned home, they vomited and sweated profusely, and found that it was not good to find Granny Shui, but Granny Shui shook her head and said: "It's too late!"

Later, the patriarch Ruoshan remembered an ancient saying: "Qingshu should not be eaten raw, or it may be poisonous." "It is said that it was left by Emperor Shennong a long time ago. But the Lu people didn't know this, because they had never seen green beans before, and the patriarch had heard about them occasionally outside the mountains, and he didn't pay much attention to them, so it happened not long after the beans were planted in the village.

Strangely, many people in the village ate the green beans raw, and only one sturdy man was poisoned and died, while the others were fine. Is there also a bean god in the world who is in charge of the life and death of the bean-eater, and the beans and beans must be sacrificed to him? In any case, it is always right to be careful, the clansmen will no longer eat green beans raw, and they will watch those ignorant children not eat by mistake.

It was warm but not too hot, and the children were running around in the clearing, including a flower-tailed dog jumping around. The dog was following the tiger baby, who was chasing a flock of chickens with her little feet. The chickens were scattered in front of the house and behind the house, and the tiger baby could not catch it, and then he found that he couldn't catch it at all, so he set his eyes on a hen.

Adults have long been accustomed to this kind of scene of chickens flying and dogs jumping, just doing their own work, or rubbing hemp silk or mending utensils. The children of the tribe do not know what it means to read and write, let alone have any lofty ambitions for what they want to do when they grow up, they exercise their bodies in chasing and playing when they are young, and when they are older, they have to learn all kinds of survival skills and help adults do all kinds of work.

The tiger baby finally managed to keep an eye on the chicken and chase it out of the flock, running all the way along the stone wall behind the house, reaching out his little hand several times and almost catching it, while the dog wagged its tail as if to cheer the tiger baby. With the speed of a dog, it was easy to catch up with the chicken, but the dog had a strange appearance, it straightened up like a human and trotted all the way with its two hind legs, a pair of front paws on its chest.

Seeing that the chicken had been driven to the root of the bent wall, the tiger baby opened her hands and tried her best to pounce forward, but she almost failed to catch it, but fell and gnawed on the mud. The flower-tailed dog was upset and barked at the chicken on all fours. The chicken was frightened, flapped its wings and flew over the wall.

The ability of trained poultry to fly has deteriorated, but in an emergency, chickens can flapp their wings and fly some distances. When the tiger baby saw that the chicken had run outside the wall, she felt that she was in trouble, and shouted in a milky voice: "Pan Gu, hurry up and catch it back!"

Pan Gu is the name of the flower-tailed dog, and it jumped hard, kicked its hind hooves against the stone wall, and jumped out of the rock. The tiger baby learned to jump under the wall twice, and found that she could not cross the high wall, so she quickly ran out of the front door of the walled city to chase chickens and dogs.

Outside the front gate of the walled city is an open field, where thorns and gravel have been cleared, only low weeds grow, and there is a place where the naturally raised rocks have been flattened, which is also where the tribesmen dry all kinds of things, and beyond that is a cliff and ravine, like a deep crack split in the plateau.

The pan ran very fast when it landed on all four hooves, and the chicken was in a hurry, and jumped all the way and flapped its wings and glided, and went directly to the side of the cliff. The tiger baby shouted from behind: "Don't fall!"

Seeing that he was on the edge of the cliff, Pan Gu took off into the air and did not pounce on the chicken, the chicken flew up again, and Pan Gu barked again. The bark was different from usual, it was very deafening, and it was heard far away in the mountains. The chicken seemed to be so frightened that it flapped its wings and flew to the other side of the cliff. Sometimes it's hard to imagine the potential of a person in a crisis, and the same goes for chickens, which rarely see a chicken fly so far.

The opposite side of the cliff is still a mountain, and the cliff tops on both sides are about seven zhang away from the narrowest point, and you can't see the bottom when you look down. The chicken flew over, but the dog couldn't jump over, and the pan gourd barked unwillingly at the opposite side, and the tiger baby ran over panting and said, "It's broken, it's going to be spanked!"

Originally, there were no chickens in Lu Village, and the Lu people did not raise chickens, and this group of chickens was first brought from the walled city of the Qingshui clan. On that day, the group of murderers outside the mountain did not leave a single living hole in the walled city, whether it was a human or a chicken or a dog, all living creatures that could breathe were slaughtered. The Shimizu clan raised chickens, but all the chickens died and their corpses were reduced to ashes.

The chicken shed in the walled city was not burned, and there was still a nest of eggs in the chicken coop on the ground, covered with hay, which was not easy to find in the dark night, and the murderers were probably not so bored as to kill the eggs. When the murderers left, the nest of eggs hatched for some reason, and a nest of chicks chirped in the haystack, which was discovered by the Lutribe who arrived later.

This nest of chickens was carefully brought back by the Lu people, and they didn't know how to raise them, but fortunately, there were well-informed mountain masters and water mothers in the village, who guided the people to build chicken sheds and try to feed the chickens. A few chickens grew up and began to lay eggs and hatch chicks, and the Lu people gradually learned to raise chickens.

In fact, this is almost free-range, chickens are eaten by insects, the climate is relatively humid and warm in the mountains and wilderness with all kinds of insects breeding, including the stone houses where families live There are insects. The people of Lucun are very fond of this group of chickens, and they drive the chickens to their stone houses to peck around and clean up the annoying little insects, including centipedes and other poisonous insects that may sting people.

It took a long time for the people of Lucun to really learn to raise chickens, and some of the eggs laid by chickens can hatch chicks, and some cannot, and later found that the eggs laid by hens and roosters can hatch offspring. But with or without a rooster, hens will lay eggs, and the best hens will sometimes lay eggs in a day or two, so such chickens should pay attention to breeding and then hatching chicks.

These chickens are the treasures of the people, they can drive into the house to peck at poisonous insects, the chicken tastes so delicious, and they will lay eggs in a steady stream. Although the chicken is delicious but can not be eaten casually, try to keep the eggs, only those old hens that have stopped laying eggs or the number of young roosters do not need too much, will be killed regularly to eat meat, every time to kill the chicken is the festival in the village.

The chicken that was kicked out of the city by the tiger baby and Pan Gu today, and flew over the cliff and disappeared, is a hen that lays a lot of eggs, this is really a big disaster!

Before Huwa and Pangyu could go back, the patriarch Ruoshan led the clansmen to run out of the city with weapons. The roar behind the pan was so loud that even the people who were collecting elm pods on the back hill were alarmed. Everyone thought something had happened, so they hurried back to the village and rushed out of the front door with sticks, but it turned out to be such a laughable thing.

The tiger baby and the flower-tailed dog were "escorted" back by the clansmen, and next to the stone platform in the center of the city where the mountain god is usually worshipped, the patriarch Ruoshan held a rattan and said: "Tiger baby, why did you drive the chicken over the cliff? Aren't you usually not allowed to go there without permission? Now it's okay, the whole village loses at least ten eggs a month, do you think you should be spanked?"

Three or four-year-old children, the language logic is always different from adults, the tiger baby showed a very scared look, and asked crisply: "Do you wear clothes to fight?"

Many people didn't react, and Granny Shui, who was standing next to Ruoshan, smiled: "This time I will dress and fight, and I will take off my clothes and beat next time!"

Huwa asked curiously, "What about next time?"

Wakayama, who was holding a rattan stick, was almost amused, and shouted with a straight face as much as possible: "There can't be a next time, otherwise the ass will open the flower!"

Hearing this, the tiger baby quickly ran back to her hut, took a thick, soft animal skin, wrapped it around her waist, and wrapped it around her little buttocks. "Clothes" are worn on the upper body, and "clothes" are clothes that wrap the lower body, so the tiger baby will ask if it is wearing clothes to beat? In fact, the three or four-year-old children in the tribe pay attention to what clothes, the tiger baby is just tied a belly pocket on weekdays, and his appearance at this moment makes everyone laugh.

The tiger baby wrapped her leather robe with a pair of small hands, and honestly pouted her ass and lay on the stone platform. In the laughter of the onlookers, Ruoshan waved the rattan and pumped it, the sound was very loud but not too painful, and then the patriarch said: "You are not allowed to eat eggs for a month!"

No matter where the chickens in the city lay their eggs, the tribesmen would pick them into a designated bamboo basket and distribute them uniformly. People who are sick, before going out hunting, or who need to do heavy work, tend to share a little more, and it is the children who eat the most eggs on weekdays. You are not allowed to eat eggs for a month, and it is a "heavy punishment" for greedy children.

After punishing the tiger baby, Ruoshan shouted to the flower-tailed dog hiding in the crowd: "Pan Gu, come here!"

Pan Gu bent a pair of front hooves in front of his chest, straightened up two hind legs and took small steps, drooped his head and walked to the edge of the stone platform, and lay on it like a tiger baby, hanging his tail and pouting the dog's buttocks. Ruoshan said with a straight face: "Why are you not screaming so loudly, do you have a loud voice? Your voice not only frightened the chickens away, but also frightened the people in the back mountain! Nanhua's hibiscus fell from the tree, and if I hadn't picked it up quickly, he might have fallen and injured himself." Don't scream if you don't have anything to do in the future!"

Pan Gu lay there and didn't speak, of course it couldn't speak, and its expression looked very aggrieved. Wakayama swung the rattan and "snapped" it on its ass. Pan Gu was beaten and shuddered, and a whining sound came out of his throat, which was obviously painful.

The clansmen dispersed in a burst of laughter, and Pan Gu was still lying there looking at the tiger baby beside him with tears in his eyes, as if to say: "Why can you be beaten in a leather dress, while I am being pumped with my bare ass?"

People walked out of the back door of the walled city to the mountain to continue collecting elm pods, and the mountain master smiled as he walked: "Tiger baby, this child usually looks stupid, but at a young age, he has learned to be cunning, and he actually asked me if I can dress and beat?

Granny Shui also smiled: "This is really not cunning, it is the most simple childlike innocence! He is growing up, learning things in the world, understanding the simplest truth, he already knows what clothes are, and he also knows that wearing clothes and beating is not as painful as a bare ass, it's that simple." This kid is very interesting and I like it very much. ”

Shan Ye said thoughtfully: "It's true, we all came from children, and we all want to think about what this world is like, what secrets there are, what will happen, and want to understand the truth of all kinds of things." The tiger baby is a child, in fact, a tribe like Lucun is also equivalent to a child, and it is also slowly growing up. ”

Granny Shui: "The origin of that dog is also very peculiar, I look at its appearance, maybe it may become a psychic beast, you and I both know that there is such a thing in the world." ”

Ruoshan: "That dog is very smart, but I'm afraid it's too exaggerated to say that it can become a psychic beast, **psychic is comparable to a human entering the realm, how can it be so easy! ”

Granny Shui smiled again, nodded slightly, and said, "That's the same, otherwise why would it walk like that?"

Like the chickens, Pan Gu was also found by the Lu people in the ruins of the Qing Shui clan's walled city. They searched the ruins for the remnants of the artifacts and found a puppy coiled in a scoop. At the beginning, Bai Sha's order was not to leave chickens and dogs, but he left both chickens and dogs, and even the baby Tiger Baby.

It was a scoop made from a wild gourd shell cut in the middle, and the two scoops were buckled together just like a complete gourd, and the dog was born not long ago, and its body was curled up only the size of a palm, and it was buckled in the scoop so that it was not discovered, so it was lucky to escape. It was picked up by the people of Lu Village, and its name was Pan Gu.

The people of Lu Village have never raised a dog, let alone know how to raise a dog, but this little thing has a very tenacious vitality, and it grows quickly under simple feeding, and it will soon be able to spread joy everywhere. It may have been in contact with the tiger baby in the Qingshui clan's walled city, and his scent remains in the memory of its young age, so it is very close to the tiger baby.

There are a lot of chickens in the village, but only this one dog. Pan Gu has never seen other dogs since he was a child, and he comes into contact with people, and everything he does is imitating the appearance of people, and he may subconsciously regard himself as a human being. It usually likes to walk on its two hind legs, and only lands on all fours when it needs to run quickly.

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The roar emitted by the pan gourd not only alarmed the people of the entire tribe, but also alarmed Li Qingshui on the Shude Hill in the distance. From the position where Li Qingshui was sitting, he couldn't directly see Lu Village's side, but he could see it very clearly in the Yuan Shen, and his petrified face also showed a slight discoloration, and he didn't know whether he was surprised or delighted.

Li Qingshui, who couldn't move or speak, had been sitting there for the past few years, as if he was going to sit like this forever, and finally completely merged with this mountain. But he has also been paying attention to all kinds of movements within a radius of nearly two hundred miles, looking forward to a glimmer of hope that even he can't tell, and hearing this roar today is the first time Li Qingshui has been moved.

Ruoshan and Ruoshui also heard the words, the so-called "** psychic is comparable to human entering the realm", it is just a metaphor, in fact, it is not so exaggerated. The priests and witches in the deep mountain tribe don't fully know what is going on in the transformation realm, but Li Qingshui does. It is rumored that the path to heaven is eight layers, nine turns, and seventy-two steps, and the transformation realm is the last layer, and he has cultivated the ninth turn of the transformation realm four years ago, and he is only half a step away from verifying immortality.

Among the people of the world, there are very few people who are fortunate enough to step into the initial realm and be able to cultivate, and they have stepped through the various realms in turn until the final transformation realm. And there are very few people who are fortunate enough to open their spiritual wisdom and can enter the initial realm to cultivate.

The First Realm is the first level on the path to heaven, and the Transformation Realm is the last layer, no matter for any living being. **Non-human, they need to open their minds to enter the initial realm, and the probability of dying for various reasons in the process is very high. And today's roar made Li Qingshui hear a hint of unusual meaning.