Chapter 9 Autumn is a season for storing food.



“%#”

Wu pointed at himself and then said to Han Cheng.

Although Han Cheng couldn't speak, Wu could see from his eyes that Han Cheng was indeed studying what he taught seriously.

This made the elderly witch very happy.

It is precisely because of this that he is so patient in teaching Han Cheng.

“%#”

He pointed at himself and said it again.

“%#”

Han Cheng blinked. Could this be what he meant by 'I'?

The witch, who loved to teach others, taught Han Cheng for a while and then stopped talking. He then picked up his stone pen and carved on the stone slab what he had not yet finished recording.

After about an hour, some people who had gone out came back.

The leader was Junior Brother Sha, who brought two men and five women with him. Each of them was holding or carrying a package of animal skins filled with fruits of various sizes.

They poured the fruits back to where they had been placed before, and then went out again.

Thinking of the colorful scene he saw on the way back to the cave the day before yesterday, Han Cheng understood their current actions.

Autumn is here, a season of harvest, but also a season when we need to work hard to store food.

Based on what he had seen and heard over the past two days, Han Cheng had learned that this unknown tribe was still at the hunting and gathering stage, and was still a long way from slash-and-burn agriculture.

Under such circumstances, collecting wild fruits became their most important means of storage.

After all, the fruit has a long shelf life and is durable to storage.

As for the meat, it tastes good, but without even salt, the time it can be stored is really...

This is also the reason why all the laborers in the tribe went out to pick wild fruits today after they got enough meat yesterday to feed the tribe for two days.

It can be seen that there should be a lot of fruits outside. Basically every hour, about half of the people will come back with fruits in their hands...

The days passed peacefully. Han Cheng's life was to stand here like a sculpture, watching the activities of the people in the tribe and eating the special meat soup made by the witch for two meals a day.

Mostly it's pounded roast meat and liver that easily gets made into a mush.

However, one time it was a lamb kidney.

After eating the lamb kidney, Han Cheng felt very sad.

It wasn’t that the kidneys tasted bad, but after he ate a whole wild sheep kidney, he still didn’t feel anything at all…

Damn it, this time it’s really ruined, the source of happiness is gone...

Of course, after putting this worry aside, Han Cheng is still quite satisfied with his current life.

After dinner every day, I would learn some of their language from the witch, and spend the rest of the time just daydreaming.

The work of storing food is still going on, and the women in the tribe are the main people picking fruits.

If the prey caught is enough to meet the needs of the tribe for two days or longer, the eldest brother will bring the men to join in picking fruits.

As they worked hard, more and more fruits were stored in the cave, and a large pile of fruits had formed where the fruits were originally stored.

Looking at the ever-growing pile of fruit, everyone, including Han Cheng, felt at ease.

If you have food in your hands, you will not be worried. This has always been a true saying until the problem of hunger and fullness is solved.

Han Cheng's body was itchy. The itching started a few days ago, but it was never as severe as today.

He wanted to scratch it, but the result was of course devastating. He couldn't move or speak, and could only endure this heart-wrenching torture in silence.

However, when he found that he could control one hand to move slightly, the itch was immediately forgotten in his ecstasy.

I was even secretly encouraging myself to make the itch more intense.

Yesterday, the eldest brother brought the hunting team and returned with a full load. The prey they caught was enough to feed the entire tribe for three days!

So today after breakfast, he took the hunting members and the women of the tribe to pick fruits.

As for Han Cheng, he was ecstatically trying to control every part of his body to see which parts could move.

After trying for a long time, a pain with a tearing sensation came from Han Cheng's face. After this feeling, Han Cheng was surprised to find that his mouth could open wider and could also be closed!

After making sure that he would not become a sculptor in the future, Han Cheng suppressed the urge to open his mouth wide to get complete relief.

According to past experience, he is still injured and if he forces his mouth to tear off the burnt shell on his face, he will definitely have a scar on his face.

He doesn't care much about his appearance, but he doesn't want to get a scar on it either. After all, it's something he's going to use to meet people.

His mouth could open and close a little, but he still couldn't make any sound. Han Cheng always felt like something was stuck in his throat.

As he was feeling the changes in his body with joy and curiosity, the people who went out to pick fruit came back.

They have come back twice today, so this is not an uncommon sight.

However, when Han Cheng found out that everyone had returned, he was a little confused.

It is still early now, just after noon at most. Logically, not all the people who went out to pick fruits would come back at this time.

The situation is a little complicated.

It wasn't just because the eldest brother and his companions all came back early, but also because those who came back didn't bring large and small bags of fruits like they did in the past.

Not only that, six people, including the eldest brother, the second brother, and the junior brother Sha, had injuries of varying degrees.

Especially the second brother with a big belly, there were several purple marks on his belly.

But fortunately, the number of people who went out was not small, and they all came back safely, and there was no reduction in staff.

The atmosphere of the entire team seemed very low and depressing. The little primitive people who had originally cheered and ran out to greet them, after seeing this scene and feeling this atmosphere, also became quiet, looking at their parents and brothers somewhat at a loss.

The witch, who also discovered something strange, walked out from the depths of the cave and asked questions by speaking and gesturing.

The eldest brother lowered his head in shame and did not say anything for a while.

The witch was indeed a wise man. Seeing this, he did not ask any more questions. He asked everyone to go back to the cave and had someone move several heavy stone slabs at the entrance of the cave to prepare to seal it.

The eldest brother, who was limping, shook his head and pointed outside the cave, stopping the witch's order and indicating that there was no need to do so, as things had not yet come to that point.

Wu agreed. He didn't say anything else, but began to examine the injured people.


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