Listening to what his younger brothers and sisters said, Fang felt better than ever.
"Tomorrow, our carpentry team will not go out hunting, but will prepare to do carpentry work," he said.
They had heard that the pottery, livestock, and carpentry teams were the best, offering high pay and no danger. So, even though they felt they wouldn't be accepted without connections and no connections, the three siblings still signed up, holding onto a glimmer of hope, after building their own house with mud bricks.
Fang signed up for the carpentry team, Shi signed up for the breeding team, and Xiaoyuan signed up for the pottery team.
They'd considered that hunting and gathering teams had no limit on the number of members. Even if the three teams they'd signed up for didn't want them, they could still go hunting or gathering, right? There was nothing to lose, so why not give it a try?
As a result, except for Xiaoyuan who was eliminated because she was too young to do pottery work, Fang and Shi were both hired.
Although Team Six has been out hunting and not doing carpentry work since Fang signed up for the carpentry team, Fang is still very proud of joining the team.
Shi was even more impressed. Although the work in the breeding team was tiring, and since he was new, he was assigned to clean up after the livestock, which was quite smelly, he was delighted to see the tribe raising so many wild animals. He heard from the breeding team that most of them belonged to the team themselves. If the tribe wanted to kill the animals for meat and distribute a large amount of dried meat to them, he felt incredibly wealthy. He and his three siblings would surely be able to eat as much meat as they wanted, and never again would they have to suffer from hunger or cold.
That’s why I said what I just said.
"Really? That's great." Shi was very happy for his brother.
"I must study hard and become the best carpenter in the team. That way I can earn more money." Fang said again.
Shi was happy for his brother, but Xiaoyuan's joy suddenly turned to depression: "You all joined the carpentry team and the breeding team, and I am the only one in the gathering team. I can't earn much meat."
"With my elder brother and younger brother, you don't have to earn too much, you can still have meat to eat." Shi patted his thin chest and said.
Xiao Yuan pouted: "But I want to earn more meat myself. I don't want to eat yours."
Fang quickly comforted his sister: "Didn't Xiaoxi from the pottery team say that? You're still young. When you're older, go sign up again. Maybe they'll accept you. Besides, the wild vegetables you picked in the gathering team are delicious. Cooking them into soup with meat will also taste great."
Speaking of this, Xiaoyuan's tone became cheerful again: "Yes. We never thought that those wild vegetables could be eaten and are good for the body."
In the past, they gathered in the Shanyin tribe, but because there were not many fruits in the spring, they did not get much. They had never thought that the grass-like things growing on the ground could be eaten, and that they tasted good when cooked in broth and were good for the body.
"I heard from Chun that Yu wants to plant these wild vegetables in the planting area. Maybe they can form a planting team to grow these wild vegetables." Xiaoyuan said, "If a planting team is formed, I would like to sign up. I prefer planting to making pottery."
"So maybe not joining the pottery team is a good thing." Fang said quickly.
Of the three siblings, Shi's mind was the most jumpy. Seeing that his sister's mood had improved, he suddenly changed the subject: "Do we really want to use our father's name as our surname?"
"What else is there to say?" Fang asked curiously.
When the team leader said this tonight, he suggested using his father's name as the surname. Shi and Xiaoyuan didn't say anything, so Fang thought they agreed.
After all, they had never met their grandfather and had no feelings for him. Shi and Xiaoyuan had even forgotten their grandfather's name. Using their father's name as their surname was perfect.
Xiao Yuan said weakly, "But...but we want to use brother's name as our surname."
Shi immediately agreed, "That's right. Brother, you use your father's name, and Xiaoyuan and I will use your brother's name as our last name."
"But, but how can this be done? The captain said that we should use the elders'." Fang was shocked and began to stutter.
He was proud, touched and excited that his younger brother and sister wanted to use his name as their surname, and he secretly hoped that his name would really become his surname.
But he felt unworthy. He was not the elder, and the fact that he was raising his siblings was simply because he was older than them, which was nothing special.
"The captain said we can use the name of the person we respect the most and who has the most potential," Shi retorted. "Anyway, Xiao Yuan and I both want to use my brother's name. It's settled."
He'll never forget how, when his father passed away and his mother remarried, it was his brother who shouldered the heavy burden on his tender shoulders, raising him and Xiaoyuan. It was his brother's decision to bring them out with Ming that gave them their current good life. When the team leader mentioned this today, he discussed with his sister the idea of using his brother's name as their surname.
"Shi, Xiaoyuan..." Fang choked up.
He swallowed hard, swallowing the lump in his throat before saying, "But then we won't have the same surname anymore."
"What does it matter? Even if we don't have the same surname, we're still a family." Shi said nonchalantly, "If my son knew I used your name as my surname, he would only be closer to him."
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Fang was too lazy to pay attention to them and shouted, "Go to sleep."
Shi was about to close his eyes when he heard Xiaoyuan timidly say, "Brother, I want to go to the bathroom."
Fang was silent for a moment, and finally felt that having his own name as a surname was a heavy burden that his thin shoulders could not bear.
He slowly sat up and stepped off the kang: "Let's go."
Just as Xiaoyuan was about to get off the kang, Shi turned over and sat up: "I'm going too."
He muttered again, "I think everything about the Dragon Tribe is good, except that you have to run so far just to pee. It's so inconvenient."
Fang lit the lights in the house.
The oil in the small ceramic bowl was left over after they fried the meat in the ceramic bowl for a while before cooking the broth. This was a method invented by Yu - put the oil in a small ceramic bowl, put a long woven wick in it, and light it to make an oil lamp.
Because of its convenience, the tinderbox became popular in the tribe. Everyone would light the tinderbox after dinner and light a lamp when they needed it at night so they could use it to go to the toilet.
Hearing Shi's grumbling, before he could scold her, Xiaoyuan said unhappily, "I like the Dragon Tribe so much. It's so clean. Back in the Shanyin Tribe, I always stepped in shit and urine. It was not only filthy, but also stinky everywhere. It was so uncomfortable."
"That's right. Don't blame the team leader for punishing you. Who told you to urinate and defecate anywhere?" Fang also echoed.
Shi pursed his lips and said nothing.
This is his dark history. He has never been so embarrassed in his life.
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