It was a clear and crisp autumn day. The clouds covering half the sky were slowly moving away, looking very much like a group of grazing sheep being herded by the Green Bird tribe.
All things have spirits, and these animals also feel in their own way the message that autumn is about to pass and the cold winter is about to come.
So there was no need for anyone to say anything to these sheep. They all lowered their heads and ate the grass diligently, their mouths moving quickly, trying to gain weight in order to prepare for the coming cold winter.
However, the leading sheep was not very quiet. It didn't eat grass properly and always wanted to run south. If someone hadn't held the rope tied to its head tightly, I'm afraid it would have run away and disappeared...
The river bank, which seemed much wider than the small river in front of the Qingque tribe, was overgrown with weeds and dotted with white bones. It no longer looked as glaring as before.
There were many carnivores scattered on this piece of wasteland. In the past, each one was more ferocious than the other, but now they gathered together and seemed unusually quiet. None of them had any intention of provoking any trouble.
These beasts, each keeping a distance from each other, were like experienced hunters, occasionally casting their gazes towards the quiet other side of the river with great patience.
The only thing that made them feel a little uneasy was the group of big monkeys holding weapons, whose number was far greater than before.
These big monkeys did not stay here quietly like them, but kept digging the ground with the tools in their hands, or knocking it with hammers. While making a thudding sound, thick wooden stakes were nailed firmly here.
After the wooden stakes were driven into the ground, someone would immediately pull ropes on them with nimble hands or tie a net made of finger-thick hemp ropes on them.
While most people were busy with these things, there were still some people holding bows and arrows or sharp bronze spears, warily looking at those big guys who would be very difficult to deal with once they got angry.
Although Lao Yang and the other members of the original Sheep Tribe had said more than once that as long as they did not provoke these guys, these beasts would not attack people, but the eldest brother and the others were still worried when they saw this kind of people for the first time. They thought it would be better to arrange some people to be on guard.
Most of those who were on guard felt itchy when they looked at these ferocious beasts.
Look at those two bears over there. They are fat and plump, with shiny fur. They look very beautiful.
It would be so beautiful if we could kill it, peel off its skin, and then saltpeter it before spreading it on the kang for the Son of God.
They thought so, but these people did not take action. One reason was that there were too many ferocious beasts here. If they took action and provoked a group attack, even though their numbers were not small and the weapons they carried were not bad, if such a thing really happened, they would be the ones who would suffer.
Secondly, the Son of God had given instructions when he came, and the only purpose of coming here now was to arrest as many old sheep as they said, because there were too many sheep to catch.
After arriving here with this purpose, the eldest brother, as the leader, reiterated it twice. Most of them were a bit reckless, but they listened very much to the Son of God and were able to prioritize.
However, despite this, those people who were on guard with weapons, or who were setting traps on the river bank according to the instructions of the eldest brother, were still somewhat skeptical about what Lao Yang and the others said.
It’s not that they don’t trust Lao Yang and his friends, it’s just that the scenes they described were too hard to believe.
There were so many sheep that there was no end in sight, and they rushed forward one after another. No matter how many people blocked their way, they kept moving forward...
Before following the Son of God to farm, people in the tribe all knew how to hunt.
However, even after hunting for such a long time, none of them had ever seen the scenes that Lao Yang and the others described.
Moreover, they know a lot about sheep, which are herbivorous animals.
This herbivorous animal is cowardly and does not have sharp teeth and claws. When it encounters danger, its best way to save its life is to turn around and run away.
Now, there are so many predators gathered here and on the other side of the river. Even if there are so many sheep, why would they run here?
“Here it comes!”
Old Sheep and several other people from the Sheep Tribe pointed to the distance on the other side of the river and shouted in surprise.
After hearing his shout, everyone looked in the direction of his finger, towards the other side of the river, and saw a white line in the distance, approaching this side rapidly.
Under the gaze of everyone, the white line gradually stretched and thickened, and finally turned from a line into countless surging sheep!
The predators distributed along the opposite bank could not wait to pounce on the running sheep. Suddenly, one sheep after another was knocked to the ground and their necks were bitten off.
However, the rest of the sheep still ran forward regardless, running towards the beast waiting there, completely changing their cowardly appearance in the past...
The people of the Qingque tribe were seeing this scene for the first time and they were all stunned.
It turns out that there really are so many sheep. It turns out that these running sheep no longer turn around and run away when they see danger as they did in the past, but instead rush forward courageously!
This shock lasted for a while, and when a sheep jumped into the river and swam towards here, it was replaced by deep joy and excitement.
They must catch a lot of sheep this time!
As the first one landed on the river bank on this side, an autumn feast began.
Amid the rumbling of hooves, the autumn wind blew up, bending the wild grass, blowing away the blood, and blowing the motionless clouds in the sky to move southward, in the same direction as the migrating sheep. It looked like the shadows of the sheep, reflected in the blue sky...
The wind stopped, the clouds dispersed, and a seemingly endless flock of sheep passed through this piece of land, rolling forward without stopping.
Among the trampled weeds, there were piles of white bones and some dark red blood.
The predator licked the blood from the corner of its mouth and left leisurely with satisfaction. Scavenger birds descended from the sky, chirping and fighting for the remaining sheep intestines or pecking at the bones.
The eldest brother and others, who were covered in blood and exhausted, looked at the many sheep that were tied up and thrown here, and they couldn't help laughing with their mouths wide open. They were a bunch of complete fools.
With traps and nets, and more people coming, they caught more than 200 sheep this time! That’s more than the tribe’s sheep!
Faced with such a huge harvest, it would be strange if they were not happy!
No wonder the people of the Sheep Tribe have so many sheepskins, and no wonder every autumn the people of the Sheep Tribe can bring so many sheep to their own tribe to exchange for things...
Many people were drooling with joy and enlightenment. Now that they had caught so many sheep at once, life in their tribe would be much better this winter!
Whenever they thought of the thing called hot pot made by the Son of God, everyone started to salivate even more.
Just thinking about the taste of mutton slices cooked in this way makes you want to take a few bites of these raw lamb!
Under the instruction of the eldest brother, everyone built a fire here, roasted a dead sheep, and ate it with millet and dry rice. Then, some people began to carry the bamboo rafts placed aside to the water's edge and put them in the water, and then began to load the sheep onto the rafts.
The first things to be loaded on were the dead sheep.
These sheep are already dead, so it would be best to transport them back for processing.
After the dead sheep are loaded, the live sheep can be loaded.
A dozen bamboo rafts were all full, but not all the sheep were taken away.
There are nearly seventy sheep left, and the eldest brother and others certainly cannot abandon them.
When the bamboo raft moved upstream towards the Qingque tribe, the eldest brother had people untie the ropes on the sheep legs.
Of course they didn't let them go, but tied them up in groups of four, led by one person, and transported the harvest to the tribe by both land and water...
Inside the Qingque tribe, Han Cheng squatted there and continued to use the hard-earned tung oil to brush the rattan armor. After brushing the remaining two pieces, the third coat of oiling for the hundreds of rattan armors in the tribe had been completely completed.
While Han Cheng was doing all this, Bai Xuemei was standing by and watching with her hands on her belly.
Sister Bai Xue's belly is now so big that it's scary. If you lift up her clothes, you can clearly see her blood vessels.
This is much bigger than when I was pregnant with Little Pea.
To the extent that Han Cheng sometimes worried that Bai Xue's belly would be stretched out.
At the same time, I was also wondering if Sister Bai Xue was pregnant with twins.
If it is twins, it is best to have a boy and a girl, so that you can have both a boy and a girl at once and save trouble.
"Brother Cheng, Brother Cheng, let me tell you an interesting story...hahahaha..."
Sister Bai Xue, who was standing there, suddenly seemed to remember something and started shouting loudly.
Han Cheng stopped what he was doing and looked at Bai Xuemei, waiting for this silly woman to tell him something interesting.
However, after waiting for a while, Han Cheng didn't find it very interesting.
这不是因为白雪妹说的事情不好笑,而是她压根就没有说,就开始忍不住的笑了起来,而且还是根本就停不下来的那种。
“哈哈哈哈……”
看着笑的上气不接下气的白雪妹,韩成忍不住的露出无奈的神情,他还没有见过如此厉害的讲笑话的人。
一个字都不曾开口,就先把自己笑的不成了,这也真的达到了一种境界……
韩成现在要收回他刚刚评价白雪妹话。
刚才他已经把白雪妹的境界看的足够高了,但此时看着白雪妹那被水浸湿的裤子,以及顺着裤筒一路流到脚脖处的水,目瞪口呆之余,对自家这个傻媳妇讲笑本事的震惊程度再度提升到了一个新的高度。
讲笑话没有把别人逗笑,自己笑的直不起腰的人韩成后世的时候遇到过,但是一个字未曾出口,却生生把自己笑尿的人,除了自己这个傻媳妇之外,韩成还从来没有遇到过。
这样高山仰止的看了一阵儿之后,韩成察觉到了事情的不对,不仅仅是因为白雪妹笑尿的量有些大,还有一个原因就是,这个笑的刹不住车的傻婆娘笑着笑着就捂着肚子‘哎吆,哎吆’的喊起了疼。
我去,这不是笑尿了,是把羊水笑破了,肚子里的小崽子要出来了!
愣了愣之后反应过来的韩成,把手上的藤甲这些东西直接丢掉了,一把扶住白雪妹,然后大声呼喊让人抬担架过来。
这时候什么藤甲,什么桐油,统统都没有自己家的这个傻婆娘以及将要出世的小崽子重要!
听到消息的人抬着担架匆匆赶来,和韩成一起把已经笑不下去的白雪妹扶到担架上,然后往那一栋用白灰粉刷了内外墙壁的、充当医院住院部的房子匆匆而去。
“准备热水,把刀子这些东西都给弄过来!”
来到一间被打扫的格外干净的房屋之后,韩成一边和别人一起将白雪妹往土炕上放,一边大声的命令着。
部落里这些年来,出生的孩子有很多,众人对这些并不陌生,韩成话刚落音,立刻就有人去准备这些东西了。
后世的那些禁忌在韩成这里根本就不存在,让屋子里的其余男原始人出去,留下两个经常接生的女原始人在这里面,韩成就开始帮助白雪妹脱衣服。
小豌豆出生的时候韩成没有赶上,这一次韩成想要亲自迎接自己的第二个孩子降临到这个世上。
虽然已经不是第一次生孩子了,可是一阵阵的疼痛还是让白雪妹痛苦不已。
韩成一边用有些烫手的柳枝水使劲的搓着自己的双手,一边出声给白雪妹打气。
虽然生孩子的不是他,疼的也不是他,可是他却硬是出了一头的汗。
这样的一幕,看的留在屋子里帮忙的两个女原始人都有些目瞪呆起来。
在她们的记忆里,就算是到了最为艰难危险的时刻,神子也没有这样焦急过,然而现在,却是为了每个女人都要经历的生孩子,而着急紧张成了这样。
“成哥哥,没事……”
躺在炕上苍白着脸的白雪妹反而安慰起了韩成。
韩成拿起一块干净的麻布擦擦头,对着白雪妹笑了笑。
这果然是关心则乱啊。
只是面对这样的事情,他又如何能够心平气和的下来?
“哇~哇~”
婴儿嘹亮的哭声在房间里响起,韩成双手捧着这个浑身滑溜溜的小家伙,激动的手都在微微颤抖。
激动之余,偷偷的往小家伙的腿间瞄了一眼,这是宝贝女儿。
“哈哈哈哈……”
韩成脸上的笑容怎么都抑制不住,最后还是忍不住的笑出声来,不经意之间,自己就已经儿女双全了!
门外等待着的巫,听到婴孩嘹亮的哭声,瞬间就笑容满面,眼都看不见了,脸上的褶子能够夹死蝇子。
每次部落里有新的生命降世的时候,巫都是这样的开心。
韩成自己的状态已经不适合处理接下来的事情了,于是就将减脐带这些事情交给了那两个帮忙的女原始人。
而他,仔细的清洗了双手之后,开始用温水以及细麻布给白雪妹清理身子。
两个女原始人接生的小孩已经非常多了,手法显得很是娴熟的处理着事情,没过多久,刚刚出生的小家伙就就已经被她们用温热的水清洗干净,并用早已经准备好的小襁褓给包裹了起来。
襁褓外面是麻布,里面的内衬是两层不成功的绸布。
之所以往里面垫上一层绸布,是因为细麻布多少还是有些粗糙,容易扎人,婴孩的皮肤太嫩,受不了。
其实最理想的是纯棉布,不仅仅软和,而且透气性和吸汗效果都非常的好,只是这东西部落里根本就没有,也只能是用绸布来代替了。
小闺女看起来和小豌豆刚生下来的时候非常的相似,都是皮肤皱巴巴的,看起来像个没有长开的小猴子。
已经有了做父亲的经验的韩成这次并没有嫌弃,而是抱着小闺女,怎么都看不够。
“成哥哥,我看看……”
面色还有发白的白雪妹,支起半个身子眼巴巴的看着。
韩成赶紧一手扶着让她躺下,而后把被襁褓包裹着的小闺女放到白雪妹的身边。
虽然为了生下这个孩子,白雪妹受了很多的罪,但此刻看到这这在襁褓中安安静静睡着了的小小的人的时候,脸上还是绽放出了笑容,散发出了浓浓的、叫做母爱的光辉出来。
“爸爸?”
小豌豆冲了进来,看着被包在小襁褓里面,躺在白雪妹身边的小小人,过了一阵儿之后,忍不住的抬头看向韩成,目中带着好奇与询问。
“这是妹妹,你的亲妹妹,你是爸爸妈妈的孩子,她也是,她还是你的小妹妹,你是她的大哥哥,以后你要保护小妹妹。”
韩成微笑着轻声对小豌豆轻声的说着,并握着小豌豆的一只小手,轻轻的摸了摸小闺女的脸。
有了两个孩子之后,需要注意的事情就变的多了起来,其中最应该注意的就是大宝的心理感受。
因为老二的出生,必定会分走父母许多的关心与爱护,习惯了独自享受父母的爱的大宝,心里必定会不舒服。
小小人看起来什么都不知道,其实在一些事情上,他们也都有着自己的感受。
在这个过程里,如果引导不好的话,受伤害最大的,其实是大宝。
韩成说的这些话,小豌豆听得似懂非懂,不过却也感受到了一些什么不同来。
被韩成握着小手在闭着眼睛刚出生没多久就睡着的小闺女的脸上摸了摸之后,往日里活泼好动的小豌豆安静了下来,趴在炕沿边上,伸着小脑袋,瞪着乌溜溜的眼睛看着襁褓之后睡睡的小闺女。
部落里的孩子虽然多,小豌豆这时候却也隐约的察觉到了这个小小人跟自己关系,和其余的孩子似乎有些不同出来。
“妹妹。”
小豌豆看了一阵儿之后,看着随着呼吸,头顶之上的呼吸点一动一动的小闺女轻轻的喊叫了一声,喜得韩成把嘴巴都要咧到耳朵后面去了。
安顿好了这母女两人之后,韩成没有让别人动手,自己亲自下厨去跟白雪妹去打鸡蛋荷包了。
随着部落里驯养的鸡子越来越多,积攒下来的鸡蛋也变得多了起来。
部落里的女原始人们,在生产了孩子的之后几天里,每天都能吃上一碗鸡蛋荷包,用来补充营养。
一般人都是一天三个,白雪妹作为韩成的媳妇,韩成自然不能亏待她,直接打了六个到锅里。
作为部落里的神子,这点特权还是有的。
把煮好的荷包蛋盛进碗里,再往里面盛入一些热汤,放入两勺用石臼捣成碎末状的水果糖,用勺子轻轻的一搅拌,一碗美味的鸡蛋荷包就做好了。
唯一令人感到有些遗憾的就是,部落里没有红糖,如果有红糖了,那就更加的完美了。
韩成端着鸡蛋荷包过去的时候,小憩了一会儿的小闺女已经睡醒了,白雪妹正抱着她在那里喂吃的,小豌豆在一旁看着,眼巴巴,很想凑上去也吃两口的样子。
不过刚刚生下孩子的女人大多当时都不会有***的,白雪妹就是这样的人,所以这会儿喂了也是白喂。
喂了一番之后,小闺女和当初的小豌豆一样,不仅仅没有吃到食物,反而还越吃越饿,于是很快就长着小嘴巴哇哇的哭了起来。
韩成就把小闺女从白雪妹的怀里接了过来,嘱咐白雪妹趁热把鸡蛋荷包吃掉之后,就抱着被包的只剩下一个小脸、依旧在哭闹不止的小闺女出了房门,去给小闺女‘讨饭’了。
部落里的食物丰富,居住地也安全,最重要的是女人们也多,所以最不缺的就是正在哺乳期的女人。
韩成如今已经不是当初那个纯清的小青年了,几年的生活让他硬生生的变成了一个皮厚的老司机。
He was no longer shy like when he first begged for food while holding Little Pea. He came up to a few women who were feeding their children and asked the women for food with a smile.
The women naturally would not be annoyed. Breastfeeding is a sacred thing. Someone immediately took Han Cheng's little girl, held her in her arms and started feeding her.
After the baby-soothing artifact entered her mouth, the little girl immediately quieted down and ate very greedily. It was obvious at first glance that she could grow up.
After holding his daughter and asking for food, Han Cheng took her back to the room and placed her next to Bai Xuemei. He stayed there for a while and then went to the kitchen to prepare food for the new mother...