From Chief to Ball

Tell everyone to pull the boat to the shore and fix it.Several aunts immediately dug a hole to boil water, and added some salt to the water according to Chen Jian's instructions.

Song came over and said, "Jian, why do you have to drink hot water? Why do you need to add salt?"

Chen Jian was very happy to be asked why, so he stretched his arm to Song's mouth and said, "Lick."

Song licked it strangely, and said, "Salty."

Then it suddenly dawned on me, looking at the salt water in the jar, I seemed to understand something.

He used to hunt with his clansmen in hot weather, and some people often fainted in the sun.The sun was also very hot these two days, but no one fainted. He thought it must be related to drinking salt water.

So this question was kept in his mind, and he had memorized a lot of things along the way. Chen Jian gave him his cloth bag, which contained a lot of grass leaves, and told him one by one what these grasses were used for.

Song Fan looked at the various grass leaves, chewed them one by one, and wrote down the taste.The clansmen sat around, talking and laughing about what they had seen and heard along the way under the shade of the tree, but the wolf skin seemed not to be afraid of the heat at all, and took a stone ax to chop down a few trees that were as thick as an arm, and trimmed the branches there.

"I want to make a bow that can shoot the grass river while sitting in the cave."

Pointing to the straight tree trunk, he uttered his rhetoric, which attracted everyone's laughter.

He found that the wider the wood, the farther and harder the arrow was shot.

And if you use your thumb to draw the string, the arrow will be shot on the side of the hand that draws the string, but it will miss when it is placed on the side of the hand that holds the bow; Notches are carved into the tail.

Amid the laughter of the crowd, he shouted: "Don't laugh, one day my name will be remembered by the descendants, just wait."

Regardless of everyone's good-natured laughter, he dragged a few logs and threw them on the boat, deciding to make more after returning.

Chen Jian looked at the wolf skin with a smile, drank two sips of salt water, got up with the clansmen, and continued on the way home.

Some people want to go home, and there are naturally people in the family who want to leave home.

Yu Qian'er was sitting by the river, holding a little wolf cub in her arms, waiting for her brother to come back.

The old grandmother said that her brother would come back when the moon was full, so Yuqian'er always slept late these days.

Use the [-] that his brother taught him to draw on the stone wall, and behind [-], draw the shape of the moon every night.

The moon on the first day was like the boat on which my brother left, but yesterday's moon seemed to be a fruit with more than half of it bitten.

The hateful thing is that the gap on the fruit does not know when it will be smoothed out. She wonders if the moon has been eaten by some beast?What beast could fly into the sky and eat the moon?

She has a lot of new things to tell her brother, for example, the pottery bowls made by cousin Acorn are getting rounder, for example, one of the little wolf cubs died without eating, for example, she squeezed some lambs and deer with mud For the younger brothers and sisters to play...

"That's right, there are also the little birds caught yesterday. They don't eat bugs or fish."

Pulling his braids, pouted his mouth thinking about the problem, subconsciously bit the end of the braids with his mouth, and stroked the little wolf cub with one hand.

Although the elder brother is not around, his shadow is everywhere in the lives of the clansmen.

She thought of her brother when she saw her aunts fishing; she thought of her brother when she saw her mother boil the fish into soup;

The clansmen often wondered when her brother would come back, and she even measured the gap on the moon with her hands every night, hoping that the beast would spit out the moon tomorrow.

With his elbows resting on his knees, he sighed faintly.The little wolf cub was in her arms, biting her finger lightly, was hit by her, and squeaked.

Seeing that the sun was about to set, I had to get up and prepare to catch bugs.

A few figures flashed in the bushes in the distance, Yu Qian'er rubbed her eyes, saw clearly the person walking in the front, and ran forward shouting happily.

As more people appeared, Yu Qian'er didn't know her, so she was inevitably a little scared.But in the end, he threw himself into his brother's arms, chattering about what he wanted to say, one after another.

Chen Jian stroked Yu Qian'er's hair with a smile and told her to go back and tell her family that she was back.

Yu Qian'er looked at the more than 30 people she didn't know, and ran away full of doubts.

"Brother is back!"

The crisp cry like a yellow oriole echoed in the mountains.The old grandmother came out with the people who were weaving, the acorns stopped and the pottery wheel passed by, and the people who were digging fern roots and wild vegetables in the mountains also surrounded them.

The natural emotions that are connected by blood are always parting. This is the first time the clansmen have separated. Now that they hear the news of their return, the little anxiety in their hearts has finally dissipated.

All the people in the clan gathered by the river, watching this scene, Song was inexplicably moved, touched the remains of his mother hanging around his neck, and sighed.

"Grandmother, this is Song, and this will be our clansman from now on."

Chen Jian let Song go in front of him, and the family members looked at these outsiders curiously.

Song put away his mother's bone pendant, walked up to the old grandmother, and called out in a low voice: "Old grandmother."

"Hey! Good boy, we will be a family from now on. Bluegrass, bluegrass! Take someone home to cook, do you still have maple syrup? Get some for the children! Go!"

The clansmen got busy immediately, the men moved out all the pots on the boat, and the women each held a piglet, or expressed their feelings in the most primitive way - handing the newcomers some hanging pigs Small pottery pendants or toys around.

The women teased the new kid, chirping this and that.

Song felt very relaxed. Looking at the hair combed by the clansmen, he felt that he should be the same as them, but he didn't know why their hair was not so greasy.

Back in the cave, the bonfire has already been lit, and several large pots of pottery that have been newly fired are also half buried in the fire.Or baked or boiled, filled with different aromas.

Chen Jian showed the jar of salt to the clansmen. The clansmen liked this snowflake-like thing very much. They put a little bit of it in their mouths with their fingers and whimpered happily.

Yu Qian'er took her elder brother to look at the moon she drew, but the old grandmother opened her hand, ran away laughing, and carried a few birds to Chen Jian...

Wolf Pi was telling what he had seen and heard along the way, while Song was telling what had happened in the past. The clansmen were shocked that there was still a tribe forcing others to send prey?This seemed unimaginable to them.

The new women quickly mixed with the clansmen, and the stove was always the easiest place for women to communicate.

So the dinner was very rich, and when the salted soup came out, the people of the tribe were full of praise.

The grilled mutton is torn apart and sprinkled with a little salt noodles, which is even more memorable.

The tastes of today, finally have the most important taste, and they are completely different immediately.

Chen Jian looked at the smiling faces of the clansmen, got up and said, "I think we're going to migrate to the lower reaches of the river."

This time, no one objected. Since the rules had already been broken once, it wouldn't hurt to break them again.

The salt that Chen Jian brought back, the pigs he brought back, the honey he brought back... all these are the reasons for the trust of the tribe.

"Grandma, how much food is left?"

"Dried fish and tuber fern roots are enough for six or seven days."

"Well, tomorrow everyone is going to chop trees, strip the bark, and cut the resin."

"Are we all going to take a boat?" Several people who have been eager to try asked excitedly.

"Yes, we're all going to take a boat."