Wumu waited on the side, waiting for Song Xu to catch the glowing insects, but after waiting for a long time, he only saw her standing far away, making "wow" sounds from time to time.
Why didn't she catch them again? Didn't she catch several glowing insects and put them in the cave before?
Wumu looked at the fluttering butterflies, then looked at Song Xu, wondering if she couldn't catch these flying insects, so he swam to the center of the butterfly group and reached out to catch several of them.
The caught butterflies struggled in his fingers, and the fluorescent wings fluttered, and the falling fluorescent powder dyed his fingers with dots of blue.
Some of the frightened butterflies flew far away and landed on the tree trunks, while others followed Wumu, the intruder, and circled around his hair, cheeks, and even landed on his tail.
When he grabbed the butterflies and turned around to swim towards Song Xu, the scene was so dreamy, just like the forest princess she had seen when she was a child.
Several unlucky little butterflies were brought to Song Xu, and Wumu motioned for her to catch them.
Song Xu didn't want to ruin the atmosphere, but Wumu took action first. She pinched a butterfly to take a closer look, but unfortunately, the glitter on the butterfly dimmed after a while in her hand, and Song Xu regretfully let it go and let it fly away.
Wumu didn't have any deliberately romantic ideas, he just took Song Xu out to play, just like playing by the water as usual. When Song Xu had enough fun, he took her back.
From time to time, birds chirped overhead. These sounds seemed to be more widespread and penetrating in the forest at night.
Song Xu had just finished watching the butterflies, and her mood was unusually subtle. She walked at a certain distance from Wu Mu, as if she was walking on the street with her male classmates for the first time. However, as various strange sounds appeared around them, she got closer and closer to Wu Mu, and finally grabbed his arm and held it in her arms.
"Is there something moving behind the tree over there?" Song Xu asked.
Wu Mu: "..."
"Is there a figure over there?" Song Xu asked again.
Wu Mu: "..."
"What's that sound? It seems to be very close to us!" Song Xu turned his head alertly and grabbed Wu Mu's arm tightly, "Really, there is a shadow moving over there, and it's making a humming sound!"
Wu Mu pouted expressionlessly and caught the scent of a wild boar.
It was a wild boar turning the soil to find food. He was not very hungry now and did not want to pay attention to it, but Song Xu almost twisted his arm into a ball, so Wu Mu had to respond.
He thought for a while about how to call that thing: "...wild pig...pig."
Song Xu: "Ah, it's a wild boar? Oh!"
Her fear disappeared in a second, and her courage swelled up again. Her tone sounded a little disappointed.
"It seems to be having a midnight snack. What is it eating? Let's go and take a look!"
Song Xu went over. The wild boar, which had just taken two bites of its midnight snack, felt the danger coming, turned around and ran away grunting. Song Xu, who was disturbing people's meal, didn't care about the swearing it made when it ran away. She squatted beside the earth pit that was opened by the wild boar's teeth and unexpectedly found a corner of a plant tuber.
This root was gnawed on a corner, and after Song Xu pulled it up with the soil, several root tubers connected together were found in the pit.
It was food, a new type of food that she hadn't discovered!
Song Xu excitedly dug the soil and dug out all the root tubers of all sizes in the pit. The big ones were as big as her palm, and the small ones were about the size of ping-pong balls. At first I thought the stem looked like a sweet potato, but when I took it in my hand and looked at it carefully, it didn't look like one.
Forget it, as long as it's edible. Unexpectedly, going out for a walk at night would yield an unexpected reward. Song Xu happily returned to the cave with a bunch of food to study how to eat it, and forgot about the butterfly just now.
One is eaten raw, one is boiled, and one is roasted.
Song Xu made a clear arrangement and began to try them one by one, and sincerely invited Sheshe to taste them together.
She made a fire to cook in the middle of the night, and Sheshe was already sleepy, so she woke him up by holding his head.
"It's delicious, try it!"
Wumu had a mouthful of food, and the soft and sweet taste made him feel a little familiar, remembering that he had eaten this kind of food in the tribe.
He was not just a snake that would eat prey raw like other snakes. He also used to eat cooked meat and plant fruits like beastmen. But before Song Xu showed up, he had been maintaining the simplest standard of survival for a long time.
His throat moved, and he swallowed the food in his mouth. Wumu thought about it blankly for a while.
Song Xu held his head and asked, "How is it? Is it delicious? I just tasted one, and there are several more. Let's have half each."
Wumu suddenly said, "Wild... potato."
"Wild potato?" Song Xu repeated it, and suddenly understood, "You mean this is called wild potato? You've eaten it before, right!"
This was the first time Song Xu learned new knowledge from Sheshe. The original body had never eaten this kind of wild potato, so it was not in her knowledge base.
Song Xu thought that since Sheshe knew, there must be a lot of wild potatoes growing here. She should look carefully next time.
The food she usually eats is not easy to store. She always feels uneasy when there is no food stored at home... The fingers that were supporting Wumu's head were suddenly sucked by something slippery. Song Xu retracted her fingers.
Wumu licked the wild potato residue on her hand, pulled her hand away, and lay back.
Song Xu: "..." Look at your fingers, then look at Sheshe's calm expression.
In the middle of the night, Song Xu was so tired from eating that she couldn't sleep. She picked up a branch that had been burned by fire and drew a snake on the stone wall. The crooked tail, the disproportionate upper body, and the face that was a mess.
When she finished the first line, Song Xu held her bulging belly and sighed, this is the precious painting left by the ancient ancestors, simple, rough and natural.
When she painted the whole stone wall with snakes, she suddenly felt that it seemed a bit scary, especially since her grass nest was just under the stone wall. When she looked up, she saw countless twisted black strips jumping in the firelight. She...she silently climbed up and squeezed herself into the ebony straw mat, and then pulled his snake tail to put it on her belly. After staying up
late the day before, Song Xu couldn't get out of bed the next day. In the past, she was full of energy and dragged the big snake out to find food and play. Today, she was paralyzed on the straw mat and refused to get up, and the big snake had already gotten up and was going out.
In a daze, Song Xu felt that she was shaken by a hand once, and then shook again. She opened her eyes a little in a daze and saw Wu Mu's face enlarged in front of her. He opened his mouth and seemed to say two words.
Song Xu perfunctorily said, "Hmm, hmm." The next second, she fell asleep again without any consciousness.
In her dream, she was sitting in a bumpy car. The car finally stopped, but the sunlight became hot and dazzling on her eyelids. There were bugs buzzing on her cheeks and frogs croaking in her ears.
Song Xu scratched her face, suddenly sat up from the grass, and found that she had moved from the cave to a meadow. There was no river around, but there were many small ditches covered with weeds.
She stood up and looked around in confusion.
Where is this? How did I get here? Where is Snake?
After walking a few steps, Song Xu stepped on the tip of a tail, and then she found that Snake was lying not far from her with a big belly, but was covered by lush weeds.
Looking at the big snake's bulging belly, Song Xu realized that he had just finished eating. He has really grown up. In the past, he never called her when he went out to eat, but now he knows to take her with him, and even carries her over when she falls asleep.
Song Xu stretched his waist, looked around this new place he had never been to, and began his own exploration.
She walked to the water hole to drink water. There was thick weeds in the small water hole, which filtered the water to make it clear. After drinking water and washing her face, she skillfully plucked a handful of sawtooth leaves from the waterside and put them into her mouth to chew.
This kind of leaves grows almost everywhere by the water. It has a faint and refreshing lemon fragrance when chewed. She often uses it to clean her teeth and mouth.
The wild land beside the water hole was trampled by large wild animals, and the weeds fell into the mud. Song Xu passed by and suddenly saw a familiar root in the turned-up mud.
Looking closely, the messy footprints in the mud seemed to be left by wild boars. Song Xu picked up the beast tooth knife at his waist and went over to dig. After a while, he heard her shouting in surprise: "Ah! More! So many!"
Holding two big tubers on the left and right, Song Xu ran to Wumu, threw down the tubers, and lifted his snake head: "You suddenly brought me here today. Are you bringing me to dig wild yams?"
Wumu came here by following the traces of wild boars. Wild yams are the favorite food of wild boars here, and usually you can find a lot by following them.
Wumu opened his mouth to hiss, but the excited Song Xu had already kissed him hard on the top of his head, praising him: "You are awesome!"
In the social culture of beastmen, all intimate behaviors are for reproduction, and kissing is not considered as an intimate behavior. They don't even have a definition of kissing, and kissing is rare among beastmen.
Wumu was suddenly kissed, and was stunned for a moment. He spit out his tongue a beat later, and raised his head to watch Song Xu happily run towards the muddy field where wild potatoes grew.
Song Xu had a great harvest today. No matter what time it is, picking and harvesting can bring people the simplest and purest happiness. Even if Song Xu was busy all day, her back ached, and she was sweating, as long as she saw the pile of wild potatoes in the cave, she felt happy from the bottom of her heart and couldn't help humming.
Before going to bed, her excitement subsided a little and she realized that she was sweating.
"Let's go take a bath in the river?"
The river surface is probably the brightest place at night, and the light of the moon is swaying on the river surface.
Song Xu went into the water, and the cool river water wrapped her. The stinging pain from the sun during the day and the heat from the sweat were all dissipated, making her sigh comfortably.
Various animals often come to the river bank to drink water, which makes the water a little turbid. Song Xu wants to swim to the center of the river, but she is a little afraid of what is in the river water at night.
"Wumu, come down and swim." She turned around and called the big snake, but she saw no trace of the big snake on the grass bank behind her.
Suddenly, there was a splash of water, and she felt something under the water tied her ankles. Wumu's head emerged from the water, and he quietly went into the water without knowing when.
Song Xu raised her feet, groped up along the snake's tail, hung on Wumu's waist and back, and put one hand on his shoulder: "Wumu, take me to swim, I want to go to the center of the river."
Wumu sank into the water wetly.
His long tail swayed in the water, as gracefully as a mermaid's... except that the tail was a little longer. The flowing river water splashed over his body. Song Xu was worried that he would be washed away, so he hugged his neck tightly and wrapped his legs around the thick snake tail.
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