Chapter 4: Ancient Hooligans
Wu Dongfang sat on the edge of the woods by the river, all he could do now was sit quietly, any movement could cause the broken bones to be misaligned again.
At about nine o'clock in the morning, the woman who was fishing in the river went ashore and left, and today she did not catch a fish, but took a few frogs with her.
Wu Dongfang has been staying by the river for three days, to be precise, he has been waiting for three days, from the first day he knew that the person he was waiting for would not appear, and what he was waiting for was not the result, but in the process of waiting, he gradually accepted the cruel reality, this cruel reality is that he has completely disconnected from the previous world, and is currently in another world, a world that he is completely unfamiliar with, if you want to live here, you must be familiar with and adapt here.
If you want to live, you have to eat, Wu Dongfang is hungry without eating for three days, he has rich experience in survival in the wild, although it is not difficult to hunt with a lame leg, if you can't catch the fast runner, you can catch the slow runner, there are snakes here, it is a poisonous snake, but the head is cut off and the tail is removed, and the blood can also be eaten.
He didn't make a fire, he ate it raw, he was not familiar with his surroundings, he would have smoke if he lit a fire, and if there was smoke, he would expose himself, and he could not be sure what the consequences would be of revealing where he was.
In the past few days, the woman has come to fish every day, but her fishing skills are really not flattering, and the tools are crude, saying that she is fishing, and most of the time she only catches a few frogs and toads back.
The other party didn't take the initiative to talk to him, and Wu Dongfang didn't please the other party, he didn't know who this woman was, and he didn't know if she had a companion.
Just as Wu Dongfang was biting the snake meat, a scream came from not far from the south, Wu Dongfang turned his head when he heard the sound, and saw that the woman was running towards him with a frightened face.
Wu Dongfang thought that some wild beast was chasing the woman, and just as he was vigilantly searching the surrounding situation, the woman rushed forward and snatched the snake meat he was holding in his hand.
"Hey, hey, what are you doing?" Wu Dongfang tried to recapture the snake meat.
The woman threw away the snake meat with her backhand, and eagerly repeated a native phrase, pronounced like "Mushu" and "Muxiu".
Although Wu Dongfang couldn't understand the other party's words, he guessed that the other party was preventing him from eating snake meat. Due to the language barrier, he couldn't thank the other party, but could only smile and nod at her.
The woman said something quickly, while taking out a toad from her waist that was not yet dead and stuffed it into Wu Dongfang's hand, turned around and ran away quickly with her stick.
"This thing has parasites. Wu Dongfang couldn't cry or laugh as he lifted the toad that was still kicking his legs.
Seeing the woman run into the woods, Wu Dongfang threw away the toad and picked up the snake meat, this poisonous snake can indeed bite people, but the snake meat is not poisonous, the woman probably doesn't know this.
Before the snake meat was finished, the woman came back, holding a handful of plant leaves in her hand, and saw Wu Dongfang eating snake meat again, with an angry expression on her face, but this time she didn't step forward to snatch it again, threw down the leaves and turned around.
"Even though you don't understand what I'm saying, I still want to thank you. Wu Dongfang said.
The woman didn't look back, and walked quickly into the jungle.
Wu Dongfang was naturally not poisoned, and due to proper treatment, there were already signs of swelling at the fracture site, and there was no fever.
The woman didn't reappear for the rest of the day, the valley was very secretive, and he didn't notice anyone else in the vicinity except for the woman who had appeared earlier.
It had been half a month since she saw that woman again, and when she saw that Wu Dongfang was still alive, she seemed to feel very surprised, and ran over to look up and down, looking back and forth.
Wu Dongfang was most concerned about what era he was in at this time, and asked by comparison, but the other party didn't understand what he meant at all, so he could only give up in the end.
The woman went to the river to fish as usual, Wu Dongfang sat on the shore and worried alone, his current area is located in the southwest border, far away from the Central Plains, in ancient times has been a desolate and remote area, maybe even the indigenous people here do not know what age it is.
The last few days may be the time for fish to spawn, and the woman's harvest today is particularly large, she has caught four or five in less than half an hour, and her method of catching fish is very simple, that is, to poke with a sharp wooden stick, and poke away much more than poke to death.
Just as she was about to leave with her prey, several men who were running quickly downstream stopped her way.
The woman seemed terrified of the men, screaming and trying to run away, but three men, all in the prime of life, quickly caught up with her, and one of them picked up the stick in his hand and threw her to the ground, rolled over, rode her and tore at her little clothing.
The woman screamed loudly and struggled to resist, don't look at her as strong as the other party, even hit and kicked, grabbed and bitten, the man has not been able to succeed. The other two laughed and stepped forward to help, trying to hold her hands and kicks.
As early as when the woman was knocked down, Wu Dongfang had already quietly gotten up and moved here, he was injured and wanted to sneak attack secretly, but he didn't expect the other party to take off his pants so quickly, and after waiting for a few seconds, the other party was afraid that he would succeed, so he could only shout loudly to attract the attention of the other party.
Hearing Wu Dongfang's shouting, two helpers grabbed wooden sticks and rushed towards him, while the other one was still pressed on the woman, stretching the woman's legs apart with his legs.
Wu Dongfang was unable to move, but he didn't take these two opponents in his eyes, if he had enough time, he might consider subduing the other party, but the current situation was extremely critical, he could only ask for speed, flashed the wooden stick that one of them hurriedly swung over, and the dagger quickly stabbed into the opponent's heart. He pulled out a dagger with his backhand and slashed the throat artery of the other person, and before he fell to the ground, he threw the dagger and stuck it in the head of the last person.
Wu Dongfang fell to the ground from an angle where he could observe some details, and seeing that the other party was still outside the door, he breathed a sigh of relief, and secretly said that it was dangerous.
The woman was terrified, screaming and pushing away the body that was pressed against her, and got up and fled into the woods.
"Your fish. Wu Dongfang shouted at the woman.
The woman turned around when she heard this, and Wu Dongfang pointed to the fish left on the riverbank.
The woman looked at the fish, then at the three corpses, and finally at Wu Dongfang, and hesitated for a long time before turning around and walking back, picking up the torn clothes and trying to hide her shame.
"There's nothing I haven't seen about you. Wu Dongfang peeled off a piece of clothing from the corpse and threw it to the woman.
After stripping off his clothes, he was surprised to find a strange tattoo on the man's chest, the size of a palm, in the shape of a flame.
Looking at the other two, they also have exactly the same tattoo on their chests, this tattoo may be the totem of the nation they belong to, or it may be the logo of a certain sect, if there is a sect now.
When Wu Dongfang took a closer look at the tattoos of one of the corpses, the woman had already dragged the other two corpses into the water, and the corpses did not sink into the water, but floated away with the water.
Aside from the wooden sticks and sackcloth they were carrying, these people did not carry any other items, and the clues were very limited, and they were still not enough to determine which dynasty it was at present.
After the woman dragged the last body into the water, Wu Dongfang asked, "Why did they beat you?"
The woman guessed what Wu Dongfang was asking, and after a comparison, Wu Dongfang vaguely guessed that these three men belonged to two different nationalities with this woman, and this river was the area of the three men's ethnic group, and she came here to fish secretly.
"You've been a thief for a long time. Wu Dongfang said with a smile.
The woman naturally couldn't understand what Wu Dongfang was saying, and it was a comparison between the east and the west, the north and the south, which meant that they had killed someone, and they couldn't stay here anymore, so they had to leave as soon as possible.
The conversation between the two was useless, what was useful was gestures, Wu Dongfang motioned for her to go first, but after hesitation, the other party held the fish in one hand and dragged him towards the woods with the other.
"Where are you taking me?" Wu Dongfang asked.
The woman didn't speak, just walked forward with her head down.
Wu Dongfang didn't ask again, and followed behind with a branch, in fact, he already had an answer in his heart, if this woman lived alone, he would take him to her hiding place. If the woman is in groups, take him to her village.
The woman was wearing straw sandals and walked quickly, Wu Dongfang secretly looked at her from behind when she was in a hurry, this woman should be about twenty-five or sixteen years old, with a round face and a square face, and her height should be around one meter six, very thin, probably caused by malnutrition. In addition, the woman is likely to have given birth because her crotch is on the wide side.
Although the woman stopped to wait for him from time to time, Wu Dongfang still worked very hard to follow, and it was hard for anyone to climb the mountain on one leg.
Finally climbed to the top of the mountain, Wu Dongfang was already sweating profusely, and just wanted to sit down and take a breath, but found that there was an area in the northern col where no grass and trees grew, and a large amount of soil and rocks were exposed, and many shirtless men were digging there.
"Where is your village?" Wu Dongfang asked, pointing to the north.
The woman shook her head, pointed to the northwest direction and said something, and then urged Wu Dongfang not to rub it off and hurry as soon as possible.
The change in position is not shown from the positioning device, which still shows the position he was at when he last landed, and its only function is the clock function.
At half past twelve, the woman took Wu Dongfang to a village, seeing this village, Wu Dongfang was a lot more relieved, although the house was simple and dilapidated, it was much more advanced than the shack he imagined, and he could be sure that he was by no means in a primitive society now.
The woman's house was located on the southeastern edge of the village, and two children of six or seven years old greeted her with a shout of "Ahma" when they saw her return.
The woman handed over the fish she had brought back to the two children and dragged them back to the house, and walked towards the village with Wu Dong.
Since the men were all working in the mountains, and the village was mostly filled with women and children, Wu Dongfang's arrival made them very surprised, and they looked Wu Dongfang up and down while talking loudly with the woman.
Wu Dongfang was also looking at them, although these women were also wearing sackcloth, they were neater than the woman next to them, and the house they lived in was much stronger than this woman's house, and it was not difficult to see through this that this woman's status in the village should be relatively low.
The village covers a large area, but the houses are relatively sparse, and the distance between the houses is more than 10 meters, perhaps to prevent snakes and insects, the houses are not built on flat ground, but are supported by multiple wooden pillars for about a meter.
The woman led Wu Dongfang to a stop in front of a house in the middle of the village, and turned to talk to a middle-aged man sitting in front of the house, who was missing both arms and was rolling the medicine mill with his feet, crushing the herbs inside.
Seeing the medicine mill, Wu Dongfang's heart brightened a little more, the medicine mill is a metal artifact, and according to the color, it should be a bronze artifact. In addition to the medicine grinding, the tattoo on the chest of the middle-aged man also aroused his interest, the tattoo of this person is in the shape of an irregular cross, and under closer inspection, it is a small sword with the hilt on top and the blade facing down.
The middle-aged man who was missing his arms didn't seem to be the owner of the house, and after listening to the woman's narration, he turned his head to look at Wu Dongfang again, and then stood up and opened the door with his feet and walked in.
The woman stared intently at the door, looking very nervous. Wu Dongfang on the side was very relaxed, this woman obviously came to ask the person in charge of the village to take him in, if the other party was willing to keep him, then he would stay here for a while. If he refuses to stay, he just leaves......
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