Through the wild age

When the weather began to warm up, the group of inland people who had been tortured by seafood finally came back to life.There are always a lot of wild vegetables on the mountain in spring, and sometimes mushrooms can be picked up.If you are lucky, you can hunt a few pheasants and hares, and add some wild vegetables to stew a big pot of soup, which is really rare and delicious.

In the past, if the tribe hunted pheasants and hares, they would all be slaughtered on the same day, and if they couldn't finish eating, they would be dried and stored.But now it was not possible, Chen Qiao gave them a suggestion, as long as the prey they caught were not ferocious beasts, and the injuries were not serious enough to feed them, they should be kept in captivity as much as possible.

In winter, they also experienced the benefits of keeping animals in captivity. In the season of food scarcity, they can still eat fresh meat.And looking at the chicks raised by Dilla and Macy, they are also very greedy.

There is no big pot to eat in the tribe. After the house is built, some of them are related, and they are grouped together to form a family.There are also several young people who choose to live in a wooden house alone.There are also some people who are not related, but several older ones live in the same yard, and take in one or two unaccompanied children at the same time.

The few surviving women also found their homes this spring. The tribe needs to reproduce, and choosing a man to start a family is their best choice.

Chen Qiao's family built a small courtyard next to the original simple stone house, with two bedrooms, a woodshed, and a kitchen.Not far from the house, a pig pen and a chicken pen were built.

Although the house is rudimentary, it is finally complete.At the beginning, Baya didn't understand why he spent so much time building such a big house, but later he lived comfortably, and felt that Chen Qiao really knew how to live.

People in this tribe have always been absolutely loyal to their partners.So even if Baya and Chen Qiao didn't have a husband and wife relationship, this man still regarded Chen Qiao as his own responsibility, regardless of whether the other party needed it or not, he had to do it.

He was also very proud to see Chen Qiao being so capable. He didn't believe in the so-called gift from the gods, but he chose to accept it. This was a concession he had to make as the patriarch.He couldn't tell Chen Qiao's origin, he admitted that he didn't know many things very well, but just because he didn't know, he couldn't arbitrarily conclude that things were done by gods, right?

Now he finds that Chen Qiao is far better than he imagined, such a man, he is worthy of the best partner in the world, but it is just such a coincidence that he has become his own.He should be thankful, both for meeting this man and for making a fabulous difference to his tribe.

When it is time to reclaim the land, the tribe distributes hoes according to human hair, allowing them to reclaim the land freely, plant as much as they can, and destroy the surrounding ecological environment at will.

Chen Qiao didn't work in the fields very much. In fact, there was nothing to do in the fields. Besides planting taro, these people were still growing taro, and they didn't know if eating too much taro would cause adverse reactions.

In Chen Qiao's field, it is enough for Baya to be busy alone, and the people in the tribe will not let him go to the field.Chen Qiao's position in the tribe is rather delicate now. People enshrine him like a "mother", but give him the same respect as the patriarch.

When the fields are not busy, Baya will go hunting with bows, arrows, machetes and the strong men of the tribe. Basically, if he wants to eat meat, he can't do without hunting.

The chickens raised in their house have grown up a lot. In winter, the older chickens have been almost eaten up, leaving only two roosters and four hens. Later, when everyone built a house and lived separately , They distributed some chickens to others, and now there are only five chickens in their family.

One morning, before Chen Qiao woke up, she heard Mai Xi babbling to his father.

This kid is now the first one to rush to the chicken coop to get eggs every day. The four hens usually only have three eggs a day, and sometimes they are unlucky and only have two.

Of course, sometimes these hens will perform supernormally and lay four eggs, which is incredible. The children of Macy will be excited for a long time, and then the worms and earthworms will serve those hens.If he saw a rooster coming to snatch food, the bamboo stick would definitely be powerful when waving it. Now those roosters are afraid when they see him.

"Mai Xi, why is it so early today?" Chen Qiao couldn't fall asleep anyway, so he simply got up to tease the child.

"Father, there is a bird coming to lay eggs." Seeing that his father woke up, Mai Xi immediately took the "bird eggs" to show off, leaving the neglected Baya sad.

"Which little bird? It's so obedient." Chen Qiao glanced at it. It's not a bird's egg. It's clear which little hen laid the egg.

"I don't know, Dad, why did the little bird come to our house to lay eggs?"

"Oh, I have to think about this." It was to think about how to make up a story to coax the children.

"?" So Mai Xi looked at his father with eyes full of admiration, his father is really amazing, and he understood everything after thinking about it.

"Yesterday morning, that little bird passed by our house and stopped on that big tree in the yard, no, it was on that big branch, and then we saw our Maixi feeding the chicks."

"Do birds want to eat bugs too?" Macy asked suspiciously.

"No, the little bird can catch it by itself." He was afraid that after he gave an affirmative answer, this kid would go crazy and do stupid things.

"Then why did he come to our house to lay eggs?"

"Because the egg is the baby of the bird, she saw that Mai Xi took care of the chicken so carefully, so she entrusted her baby to you to take care of."

"Hey, why doesn't she want to take care of the baby by herself?" Macy was still puzzled.

"Then I don't know. She probably has very, very important things to do. Will Maisie take good care of the baby bird?"

"Well! Dad, I'm going to catch bugs!" After saying that, he turned around and ran away.

Baya finally saw how Chen Qiao coaxed children.

"If you lie to him like this, how can eggs hatch into birds in the future?"

"Why do you hatch chicks?"

"Otherwise how do you prove that it is a bird's egg?"

"Tell him, because it was hatched by a hen, it's good to look more like a mother hen." As a repeat offender, Chen Qiao threw out the answer without thinking.Then the honest man was left dumbfounded, and went to the well to wash up alone.

When he turned around after washing his face, he saw this man standing behind him a little angrily.

"You're lying to a child."

"good."

"How could you do that?"

"Is there anything wrong?"

"You...then...then it's not good for the child!"

"Why is it not good, because you can't tell the difference between an egg and a bird's egg?"

"..." Baya didn't know whether to affirm or deny.

"He'll know when he grows up."

"But you are dishonest."

"Don't you think, let the child treat it as a bird's egg, and then tell a beautiful story, give him limited imagination space, than tell him dryly: You are wrong, that is an egg. Is it much more wonderful?" Chen Joe was really a little impatient, and he spoke out his thoughts like a cannonball.

"What good does it do him?" Ibaiah's mind never thinks about things in this way.

"It's not good, it will only make him happier." Chen Qiao looked at Baya seriously.Yeah, he just wants to make the kid a little bit happier, even with material scarcity.

Baya finally stopped talking. He looked into Chen Qiao's eyes seriously for a long time, and found that he had never seriously understood this man's heart.