Chapter 49 Dare to kill my meat? (Spring Festival update 55)
Winter is a season for weight loss. Animals will feed themselves fat in the autumn, and when it snows, they will shrink into their nests and sleep for a whole winter, which is called hibernation.
There is another type of animal that cannot eat themselves fat in one season, so they can only store more food and eat it slowly in winter. They will not hibernate, but move around in a small area near their nests, such as squirrels, such as the Han tribe.
However, not all tribes can store enough food to survive the winter like the Han tribe, such as the Black Rat Tribe to the east of the Han tribe.
The Black Rat Tribe is a medium-sized tribe with a population of more than 150, slightly less than the current population of the Han tribe. There is a big difference between their tribe and the Han tribe, that is, faith.
The Black Rat Tribe has its own gods and witches who are responsible for communicating with gods. There is no position of elders in their tribe, so the work of passing on knowledge is also completed by witches.
I don't know how many generations ago, the Black Rat Tribe had less than 50 people, and they lived as hard as the Han Tribe did. One long winter, they encountered a food shortage crisis, and the tribe's hunting team had to go out to find food in the cold winter.
But they were also lucky. Just when they were about to give up, the Black Rat elder at that time accidentally discovered a black-haired rat. The elder followed it all the way and finally found the black rat's cave. The
hungry and cold elder had no ability to catch the black rat, so he could only dig open its nest. The black rat had already escaped, but it left a hole full of food. It was a nut with a thin skin, which was very delicious. The Black Rat Tribe also escaped.
The Black Rat elder believed that the black rat was a god. It was the god who knew the crisis of the tribe and came to guide the elders to rescue them. From then on, there was the Black Rat Tribe that believed in black rats, and their elders became witches because of the guidance of the gods.
This belief system is very similar to Shamanism. They eat whatever they come across and believe in whatever they eat. However, it is slightly different from Shamanism. According to the standards of Shamanism, they should believe in nuts.
This winter, the nth generation of Black Rat Shaman claimed to have received guidance from the gods, saying that this winter would be longer than in previous years. He was very worried that the stored food would not be enough to support the next spring, so he asked the leader to lead the hunting team to find food.
So, the leader of the Black Rat Tribe, "Rat Da", went out hunting with 19 brothers. At first, the group of 20 people only hunted near the Black Rat Tribe, but they got very little. They still liked to dig for food in the rat holes, which they were very good at.
But soon they discovered a strange phenomenon. At the end of the jungle west of their tribe, thick black smoke often came out, and it would come out all day. And it was very regular, one day every three days. This strange phenomenon soon attracted their attention.
You know, it's winter now. If it's summer and it's dry, it's understandable to start a fire, but now there's snow all over the ground, and the fire is so regular, it must be deliberately set by humans.
But when did people appear in the west?
A long time ago, they walked to the edge of the jungle in the west, but there was a river eight or nine meters wide there, and they didn't have the ability to cross it, so they didn't walk that far later. Now looking at the location of the smoke, it's clearly near the river.
Rat Da immediately told the black rat witch about this situation, but the witch was not so surprised. There are people, right? Their tribe is not small, so there is no need to be afraid of others. The witch didn't care about this at all, but was very interested in these people making fire.
In the rat witch's understanding, fire is used to burn food. If they often burn fire, do they have a lot of food? Otherwise, why do they burn fire? If it's for warmth, why don't they keep burning it?
The Rat Witch was very confused, so he asked Rat Da to take people to see who the other party was, what they were doing, whether they were cooking food, and if possible, they could have some contact with them and maybe learn something.
Rat Da thought about it and decided that since they were neighbors, he should get to know them better. So he led the team to complete this diplomatic action.
On the Han tribe side, Luo Chong was taking Chinese and math exams in the cave. In front of him were two jars of freshly fried sugar-roasted chestnuts, and next to him was a large bowl with about twenty chestnuts in the bowl. In front of him stood a candidate with a sad face, watching Luo Chong take another chestnut from the bowl.
The content of the exam was the more than 500 commonly used characters written on the rock wall, which were all available to everyone at this stage. In fact, there are only more than 3,000 commonly used characters in Chinese, and the remaining tens of thousands are rare characters, some of which you will never see in your life.
The candidate brought a ceramic bowl to Luo Chong, who first gave him a bowl of sugar-roasted chestnuts, with about 80 chestnuts in the bowl. Then he randomly pointed out 80 words on the wall and asked the candidate to read them out. If he read one wrong, one chestnut would be deducted. If there were any chestnuts left at the end, the candidate would be asked to count the number of chestnuts left in the bowl. If he counted wrong, all the chestnuts would be confiscated and his dinner would be halved.
The students were very scared of this kind of "exam". It was too difficult. The leader was simply trying to save food in various ways.
Luo Chong didn't think so. It had been almost two months since they started learning. It was just 500 characters. They didn't ask you to write them, but just to recognize them.
Also, is it difficult to count from 1 to 80? You haven't been asked to do addition and subtraction yet. It's just counting numbers. How can you eat if you can't count them?
The whole tribe was crying and envious of Liuzhi and Mutong who were firing bricks outside. These two people were special cases. Liuzhi was the kind that Luo Chong gave up because of his inborn intellectual disability caused by inbreeding. You can't blame him for this.
Mutong was too smart. Although he hadn't recognized all the characters yet, he could already count several hundred. Luo Chong only taught them to count to 100, but this guy could draw inferences by himself and think of the next two hundred and three hundred. Therefore, this guy was also a special case.
Now Mu Tong and Liu Zhi are leisurely eating sugar-roasted chestnuts. When they have nothing to do, they look at the fire in the kiln and throw a handful of firewood into it after a while.
This job is not tiring, but it is rather boring, and it is not cold. Although it is winter, they are still sweating from the heat while guarding the kiln. Considering their situation, Luo Chong also gave them some pine nuts and chestnuts as snacks, which is a benefit of work.
The two have been burning from last night to this afternoon. The temperature in the kiln is already very high. From the observation port, the brick embryo has been burned to a dazzling red level. It is time to fill the kiln with water and seal it. Mu Tong patted Liu Zhi and asked him to go back to the cave to call people to work. He will still watch here.
Liu Zhi nodded, climbed up the slope to the ground, and went to the cave without looking back, leaving Mu Tong alone at the fire mouth underground.
"Oh, oh"
Just when Mu Tong was left alone, there was a sudden roar from Rou Rou next to the kiln roof, followed by the sound of Rou Rou running, and then there were human shouts. Mu Tong didn't know what was going on, so he climbed out of the underground fire hole.
As soon as he showed his head, he saw more than a dozen spears whizzing towards Rou Rou, which scared Rou Rou so much that he ran away, shouting "oh oh" while rushing towards the cave.
Luo Chong also received Liu Zhi's report and was about to take people to fill the brick kiln with water. As a result, as soon as he came out of the cave, he saw Rou Rou being chased by someone.
"Fuck, who the hell dares to kill my Rou Rou, grab your weapons."
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