Chapter 350: Small Village 2



Lord Shu stood on Chu Tian's shoulder, blinking at this guy, his eyes full of contempt - your head is broken and you have forgotten everything. If you say this to others, I'm afraid even ghosts won't be able to fool you!

Crab claws obviously believed Chu Tian's words without reservation. He looked at Chu Tian with pity and sighed heavily: "Broken head? This is a big problem. I don't know when I can remember the past... In our village, there were a few people with broken heads before. They all encountered big guys while hunting, and they jumped from high places to escape, which broke their heads."

But soon, Crab Claw started laughing. He patted Chu Tian's shoulder vigorously and said with a smile: "But it doesn't matter if your head is broken. If you forget which village you are from, you are from our village now!"

Chu Tian grinned. He suddenly liked Crab Claw's straightforward temper.

Bending down, he grabbed a piece of animal skin and wrapped it around his waist. Chu Tian casually twisted a straw rope to tie the animal skin tightly and sighed helplessly. The bracelet could not be used, and the clothes he had prepared could not be taken out, so he could only use the animal skin to cover his body temporarily.

"Crab Claw, lend me a piece of animal skin first. I will return it to you when I catch the prey." Chu Tian was not polite either.

"Well, it's a small matter!" Crab Claw looked out the window, and suddenly called out to the two strong women beside the fire: "Women, get up, get ready, and go to the elders to eat fresh soup."

After taking a deep sip of saliva, the crab claw blinked and smiled, "Hey, brother, we brought back so many prey yesterday. We need to dry the meat and bones and eat them slowly. But this fish is also good stuff. Once it's cleaned up, it's delicious!"

Rubbing his belly vigorously, Crab Claw murmured, "I have been hunting outside for so many days and haven't had a single sip of hot soup. I must eat a full meal today!"

The two strong women got up and were busy packing up two pottery jars and taking a few pottery bowls. Crab Claw cheered and led the way out of the thatched hut and walked towards the large house in the center of the village which covered a huge area and could probably accommodate hundreds of people for gatherings.

"Brothers, we are all young and strong men, we can go to the elders to eat fresh soup. Women, old people and children can drink the fresh soup and bring it back. Hey, the elders have plenty of salt, which will make you energetic after eating it!" Crab Claws strode quickly, and at the same time kept greeting the big men coming out of the houses on both sides of the road.

A violent storm was howling, but the small village suddenly came alive.

The villagers walked towards the largest house in the wind and rain with smiles on their faces and great interest. The strong men as strong as crab claws walked directly into the house with their heads held high and chests puffed out, and each found a place to sit down.

The women, the elderly and the weak stood quietly under the thatched eaves nearby, waiting.

More than a dozen huge fire pits were dug in the spacious house, and many women were busy around the fire pits. From time to time, a woman would come in with large wooden basins carrying basins of cleaned animal entrails, put them into huge pottery pots, and cook them on the fire pit.

The air was filled with a strong and pungent smell of blood, and there was also an inexplicable fishy smell that hit me in the face.

There was a lack of sufficient ingredients and the cooking technique was also a little lacking. The smell of the beast offal cooked in the clay pot was quite unpleasant, but the men like Crab Claw were sitting around the fire with great interest, breathing deeply with great enjoyment and laughing loudly.

Their topics were also simple, just some daily trivial matters.

Who was chopping wood with clumsy hands and feet, and almost broke his own leg with an axe? Who was not careful when hunting, and was bitten on the butt by a poisonous snake, and cried to his companions to help suck out the venom? Who was not in a clear mind, fell into a trap he dug, and was pierced by the sharp wooden stakes inside...

Very rough and wild, but full of wild vitality.

Chu Tian sat quietly beside Crab Claw, watching Crab Claw and his companions talking and laughing loudly. He also looked back from time to time at the women, children, the elderly and the young who were quietly waiting outside the door.

The wind and rain were howling, and the temperature was not very high, even a little chilly.

Many of the old, weak, women and children who were huddled under the eaves were shivering in the strong wind, but all of them looked quietly at the big house where Chu Tian was with expectant smiles, and at the young and strong men who were chatting and laughing beside the fire in the house.

The room suddenly became quiet.

A dozen strong women came out carefully holding several huge pottery jars, and placed these jars, which could hold at least three to five hundred kilograms of water, steadily on the ground.

The strong men in the room began to rub their noses desperately, looking at the pottery jars with green eyes.

"Wine, wine! There is so much wine this year! I can drink to my heart's content!" Crab Claw was so excited that his body was shaking. He laughed softly and said, "Brother, this is only the third time I've drunk wine since I was a child. This treasure is precious!"

Chu Tian looked at the crab claws. He was not young at all.

This is only the third time I've drunk alcohol in my life? This wine is obviously an extremely precious thing in this village.

"Wine, is it rare?" Chu Tian looked at those pottery jars and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"It's hard to find. One pound of wine requires one hundred pounds of animal meat. Sometimes, you can't even get it." Crab Claw murmured, "Within thousands of miles of our village, there is only one village that can make wine. That's a craft passed down by the god of wine."

Rubbing his palms vigorously, Crab Claw whispered, "This time the elders have exchanged so much wine! I was wondering why Uncle Dog Claw and his men sneaked out when we set out hunting last time. It turns out they went to exchange wine."

Tilting his head, Crab Claw frowned, "But, that's strange, does our village have so much meat to exchange for wine? The elders are usually the most careful in calculating. How much meat can we get for so much wine?"

Another seven or eight large ceramic jars of wine were brought up, and the cheers of the strong men rose to a higher level.

Amid the cheers of hundreds of strong men, several elders wearing animal skins and animal tooth chains around their necks walked out slowly and sat on a pile of animal skin mats in the middle of the room.

The elder who took Chu Tian in yesterday glanced at Chu Tian and then raised his hands high.

The cheers of the big men gradually died down. After three or five breaths, except for a few stupid idiots who were still shouting for enough drinks, everyone else shut up.

A few confused idiots blinked their eyes and finally quieted down. Everyone looked at the elder.

"Descendants of the God of Fire, the ancestor god has blessed our village so that it can safely pass the rainy season this year. Enough meat, enough bread, enough wine, and even enough salt!" The elder's face flushed slightly, and he said loudly: "The rainy season has begun, the swamp has become dangerous, and we cannot go out for four months."

"This year is a good year. Our village has sufficient supplies." The elder laughed loudly, "So, you guys, work hard for four months! After four months, all the women in the village will have big bellies. Can you do it?"

Hundreds of strong men jumped up at the same time, howling like a group of male bears in heat.


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