Chapter 6 Integration into the Primitive (Please collect and recommend)
Understand the importance of fish, and take a look at the countless fish in the river competing for bait. The two children may not know what this means, but the woman's eyes lit up instantly. This is a new source of food, and there is a lot of food. It is not as dangerous as hunting in the jungle. Maybe it will become the staple food source of the tribe in the future. The woman
babbled and gestured, asking Luo Chong to teach her how to catch fish, but Luo Chong didn't let her do this. He rearranged the tasks for the three people. One child was responsible for smashing the internal organs, the woman was responsible for slaughtering the fish, and the other child went to the small trees by the river to collect branches and sticks, and then used grass to pierce the gills of the fish to hang the fish.
The three people had a clear division of labor. Luo Chong continued to catch fish. This time he really caught a lot. When a handful of bait was thrown down, the fish gathered together. The basket was pushed down by the fish and couldn't be put down. Luo Chong simply squatted on the shore and scooped with a basket. Every time he put down a basket, he would get a harvest, at least not less than two.
The four people worked like this for the whole afternoon. When they felt that there were fewer fish, they changed places. In the end, they caught too many fish, so Luo Chong also planned to call it a day. He and the child who smashed the bait helped the woman to kill the fish. In the end, they counted more than 200 fish. The largest one was estimated to be about ten pounds, and the smallest one was the size of a palm. The three of them couldn't take them back.
Luo Chong sent a child to call the older children to help. The woman held the basin, and the two children carried a wooden stick full of fish. Luo Chong himself took a wooden stick and used it as a shoulder pole to carry two baskets full of fish. The group returned to the cave in a mighty manner, facing the sunset.
The fruit-gathering and hunting teams had all returned. They couldn't stay in the jungle at night. It was very dangerous. They had to return to the cave before the sun went down. Now they were still watching the skeleton of the terror bird and the corpse of the leader, listening to the woman who stayed behind telling them what happened today.
At this time, the children came back carrying fish, and they shouted and showed off to the adults. They also had a lot of harvest today, not less than those adults. Because they had no tools, the adults hunted small animals such as rabbits, marmots, snakes, bird eggs, and pheasants, and there were not many of them.
Originally, the adults were a little upset about the death of the leader, not because they loved him so much, but because the tribe lost another adult laborer who could hunt. However, when they saw Luo Chong's harvest today, they instantly became happy again, and the tragedy of the leader was immediately forgotten.
After cleaning up today's harvest, all the tribesmen went outside the cave. A large pile of firewood was piled up on the open space in front of the cave entrance. The body of the leader was placed on it. An old man with two goat horns on his head lit the pile of firewood, and the blazing fire soon engulfed the body of the leader.
The firelight reflected on everyone's face. The children were drooling at the smell of roasted meat. They did not feel sad at all, and the adults were calm because they had a new source of food.
Luo Chong also took the opportunity to observe the tribe carefully.
The tribe currently has a total population of 52, not including the leader who is lying on the fire. There are 8 adult men, 15 adult women, and 14 children over the age of six, including 6 boys, 8 girls, and 15 children under the age of six. There
are very few adult men, and in Luo Chong's opinion, they are all ugly. The one who just lit the fire is the elder of the tribe. Because he is the oldest, he is recognized as the smartest person in the tribe. However, he may be the second oldest now because Luo Chong is replacing him in everyone's mind.
The elder has horns on his head and a goatee. His features are very obvious. His status in the tribe is almost the same as that of the leader.
There is also a man with six fingers on his hand. His favorite weapon is a wooden stick. He is a little stupid, which can be seen from his dull eyes. It is probably the product of inbreeding.
Next to Six Fingers is a guy with a feather necklace hanging around his neck. Luo Chong named him Feather. Feather is very smart and likes to use a wooden stick like Six Fingers.
Behind the feathers is Shitou wearing a bone necklace. He has no weapon in his hand because he usually uses stones the most, so his name is Shitou.
A little far from them is a 15-year-old boy, but he is considered an adult here. This guy impressed Luo Chong the most because he only has one right ear and four scars on his left face. It is said that they were left when he hunted a mountain cat alone. The mountain cat tore off his left ear with one claw and scratched his face, but he also killed the mountain cat. The weapon used by Du'er is a pipe fork, which is made of a straight thigh bone. It is hollow in the middle and the oblique stubble at the front is very sharp.
Next to Du'er is 17-year-old Beast Tooth. The animal tooth necklace on his neck is said to be passed down to him by his father. His father was the leader of the previous generation. The weapon in his hand is two saber-toothed tiger teeth that are more than one foot long. There is
also Dali, the tallest man in the tribe. Dali is nearly 1.9 meters tall, which is considered very abnormal among primitive people. He is strong and powerful, and his weapon is simple and crude, just a thigh bone. I don’t know what animal it is from, anyway, the bone is quite long.
The last one is the cripple with a wooden stick. He is a middle-aged man with a disabled right leg, which was injured when he was hunting when he was young. He can walk but cannot run. Now he follows the gathering team to find fruits every day, and is responsible for clearing the way and guarding. He also likes to grind stone tools. Although he is disabled, he is determined. The cripple's biggest dream is to grind a stone basin in his lifetime.
Du'er, Shouya and Dali, these three should be considered the top fighting force in the tribe, of course, without Luo Chong.
The leader's body turned to ashes in the fire. These things will be collected tomorrow. There is a pile of fire at the entrance of the cave to prevent wild animals from approaching.
After burning the leader, the sky was dark, and Luo Chong's face was also dark. It was not because of anything else, but because he saw two moons in the sky, one big and one small. The big one moved from east to west, and the small one moved from north to south.
This is fucking, it's okay to travel through time, but it's not the earth in the end. I don't know if the things I learned before are still useful in this place.
Everyone returned to the cave to prepare dinner. The entrance of the cave has been blocked with boulders. Today's staple food is fruit and fish. Fruit is not easy to store, so it is eaten first. What's left are nuts. Luo Chong saw chestnuts in the harvest of the collection team. The recognition rate of this thing is quite high.
In the past, the leader distributed the food. Today, Luo Chong made an exception and distributed it. The main reason is that everyone has never eaten fish, so they don't know how to eat it.
Luo Chong inserted a wooden stick into the mouth of the fish and gave each adult a fish, asking them to grill it themselves. He also repeatedly warned them that there were fish bones in it, and took a fish that had been grilled in advance to show them how to eat it and how to pick out the bones. Everyone followed suit and ate with relish.
A dozen children ate a big fish. The bigger the fish, the bigger the bones. Big bones are easier to pick out and not easy to get stuck. For 29 children, it was enough to grill two big fish weighing more than ten pounds. Each person ate a fruit, and they were all very happy.
Luo Chong picked out the bones from the grilled fish and distributed them piece by piece to the three or four-year-old children. The children were very honest when eating, holding the fruit in their hands, licking the corners of their mouths with their little tongues, looking at the grilled fish with bright eyes, waiting for Luo Chong to give them the meat.
There is a natural upward crack in the deepest part of the cave. That place can be ventilated, and the smoke in the cave will float away from there.
I have to say that this place is well chosen. It is hidden, safe, and ventilated. In this era of rampant beasts and crises, it is really a rare safe haven.
The fire in the middle of the cave shines on everyone, leaving many human figures swaying on the rock wall. Simple murals tell the rise and fall and history of this tribe. The elder with sheep horns holding a burnt carbon stick painted a mural of Luo Chong fishing by the river on the rock wall. The children licked their hands unsatisfied after eating the fish.
The autumn wind outside the cave drifted around with the faint roar of beasts. In the warm cave, women hummed soft tunes to coax their children to sleep. The lame man was still struggling with his stone basin. Several little girls picked fish bones, not knowing how to make them into jewelry to dress themselves up. One-eared sharpened his pipe fork, and Luo Chong continued to weave his rattan basket.
The warm scene made Luo Chong suddenly feel at home. His strong adaptability unconsciously made him integrate into this group.
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