Gu, who was guarding the safety rope, laughed excitedly, quickly poured all the vine fruits in the net bag into the cane basket, and slowly walked into the canopy holding the net bag and wooden pole.
After a while, there was another sound of thumping and banging, and many wild fruits fell down the cliff. A few minutes later, the lift returned again, and the net bag was once again filled with fruits.
"Yo ho..."
"Yo ho ho ho ho..."
At this time, both adults and children under the tree were all excited.
This kind of wild fruit is very delicious, and no one climbed up to pick it before. However, after one person fell, this dangerous activity came to an end.
Literally no bones were found.
Because going down is the steep slope where the milk fruit grows. It was so bare that it was impossible to stop it, and then it rolled directly down the hillside into the canyon.
Inside the canyon is a group of wild wolves' lair. With the abilities of a group of primitive people, they dare not go in and confront the wolves head-on.
Therefore, all the tribesmen were later warned that no one was allowed to climb this tree.
As a result, this tree has almost become a restricted area, and the fruits on it are naturally inaccessible.
However, Xu Chen's invention of the rope and the wooden pole of the net reduced the risk of picking to almost negligible.
For such a big tree, even if there is no safety rope, it is not a big problem. It is just a precaution.
The net bags and wooden poles extend a person's arms by several meters, which is enough to offset more dangers.
Of course, it seems a bit pity that at least half of the fruits were knocked down and fell under the cliff.
"Mother Baba Gaga..."
A young woman pointed to the bottom of the cliff and excitedly reminded her mother.
The mother came to understand, nodded with a smile and gave a few instructions. Immediately, several women returned to the cave and carried baskets on their backs and went down the mountain.
A few days ago, Xu Chen and three people went to the valley and killed a wild wolf and captured two wolf cubs. A group of men felt that something was serious, so early the next morning, Feng led the hunting team straight to the canyon and carefully searched the inside.
After searching several times and making sure that there was no trace of wild wolves inside, everyone felt completely relieved.
Without the wild wolves in the canyon, there is actually no danger.
Because the canyon has always been a den of wild wolves, there can be no other wild beasts. Apart from plants and rabbits, there is not a single rabbit in the canyon.
In fact, after Xu Chen and the others killed the wild wolf, there were almost no ferocious beasts that could threaten human survival in the valley where the entire tribe lived.
Now it is autumn again, and insects and snakes are slowly disappearing.
So this area is very safe now.
There is no danger in a group of women going down to pick vine fruits.
It was lifted back and forth on the tree more than ten times. The rattan frame was quickly filled with vine fruits. The two men hung the rattan basket with a rope and slowly lowered it. The two men who usually stayed in the cave specializing in repairing and making tools followed suit.
Go up and down the crooked tree trunk.
When they saw a large basket of golden, red and purple wild fruits placed on the ground, a group of people burst into cheers again, especially a group of children, who jumped and screamed around the rattan basket, and the laughter resounded throughout the whole place.
forest.
"Come on, try them all!"
Xu Chen didn't wait for his mother to say anything, and directly gave one to each person, and he also took one and started to eat it.
Most of these wild fruits are golden-red, but there are also a few that are slightly greenish-gold, and very few are completely ripe and purple-red.
Xu Chen has already eaten the cyan and purple ones.
The green one is very crisp, full of moisture, and slightly green, but after eating it, you will have a sweet taste, a bit like cucumber.
The purple-red ones are completely ripe, sweet and juicy, and have a faint smell of wine.
It begins to mature when it turns red, and is completely mature when it turns golden red. It tastes soft, glutinous, and extremely sweet.
A group of people were eating happily under the tree. Gu and Ju were also sitting on the branch of the tree, resting and eating.
After eating one pill, he was not satisfied, so Xu Chen ate three more before giving up. The others were not as casual as Xu Chen, but they all ate two pills, so half of the basket of wild fruits was lost in an instant.
The mother bus arranged for the remaining half to be loaded into backpacks and carried back to the cave. The rattan baskets were tied with ropes again and hung up on the big tree.
Gu and Ju took turns to work this time. Ju was responsible for taking care of the safety rope, while Gu took the wooden pole and fishing net to pick wild fruits.
For half a day, almost all the people gathered in front of the crooked neck tree.
Gu Heju kept taking turns working on it, and basket after basket of fruits was being delivered down.
When the sun begins to set, almost all the wild fruits that can be picked on the trees have been picked, and the remaining ones are hanging on the thinnest branches or simply hanging along the hanging vines for more than ten meters below the big tree.
It was impossible to pick at the top of the cliff, so the two had to hang a safety rope to get down from the tree.
At this point, this delicious wild fruit, which was regarded as a forbidden area by the tribesmen and could only be looked at and drooled every day, finally became the meal of a group of primitive people.
When a group of people packed up their tools and happily returned to the cave carrying the last two baskets of wild fruits, the open space in front of the cave was already filled with more than ten baskets of vine fruits, adding up to hundreds of kilograms.
This is another unprecedented bumper harvest of wild fruits in the cave after milk berries.
However, although this kind of wild fruit is delicious, it cannot be stored well. Therefore, faced with a sudden huge harvest, Muba and a group of adult women were filled with regret and embarrassment.
It’s definitely okay to eat them all. If you eat a few hundred kilograms with your belly open, you’ll finish them in two or three days.
But for them who are used to storing it for future troubles, eating it all would be too wasteful.
Not long after, several young women who went to the valley to pick wild fruits came back with several large baskets, weighing hundreds of kilograms in total. It was said that many of them had fallen on the hillside of the milk fruit. They planned to pick them up again tomorrow.
A few baskets came back.
Since then, Muba has become even more uncomfortable and depressed.
Men never care about storing food.
After a group of men who went hunting in the evening and burned kilns and built houses at the foot of the mountain came back, they naturally had a hearty meal and didn't stop until they couldn't hold it any longer.
Even a group of children who usually could drool all day long standing under the big tree with their crooked necks opened their bellies to eat today with the tacit consent of their mother. After fulfilling their long-cherished wish from spring to autumn, they finally couldn't eat anymore.
Their bellies were so bulging that they couldn't fit another mouthful into them.
The same is true for leaves.
Sitting next to Xu Chen, who kept burping sweetly, he held a half-eaten vine fruit in his hand, with an inseparable expression.
"Chen Ga, Ah Qi... no less..."
Ye Tu's speech was mixed with poor Mandarin, and he was a little ashamed and didn't know where to put half of the wild fruit.
"Hiccup~~"
Xu Chen let out another long burp, took half of the wild fruit with a wry smile, rubbed his belly and walked to the wall of the cave where he usually wrote.
Inside the low vine frame, two dying wolves were curled up inside. There was no movement except for the slight rise and fall of their abdomens.
Xu Chen pulled it out with his hand, but there was no response from the two wolves. One of them reluctantly opened his eyes, looked at the wild fruit handed to his mouth, bared his teeth slightly and let out a weak hum before closing his eyes again.
The dog won't eat anything. How could he want to commit suicide on hunger strike?
Xu Chen helplessly threw half of the wild fruit into the woods, rolled his eyes helplessly and sighed.
It's been five days, five whole days, and these two wolf cubs haven't eaten anything.
No matter it is cooked meat, rice or chewed meat bones, I will not lick a single bite.
He didn't expect these two little wolves to be so stubborn.
I would rather starve to death than eat a bite of cooked food.
But he has also had a stubborn temper since he was a child, and he will not compromise easily once he decides on something.
Therefore, seeing that the wolves do not want to eat cooked food, naturally they are not willing to give in easily and feed them raw meat and blood food.
In order to tame the wild nature of wolves, he felt that we must first start with diet.
Dogs can eat cooked food, why can’t wolves?
If you don't eat, you will starve to death.
However, he didn't eat anything every day, and when he was really about to starve to death, he couldn't bear it anymore.
"Chen Ga, give me some meat!"
Ye Tingtong saw the two little wolves not eating or drinking every day, and their breathing was getting weaker and weaker day by day. He was also a little distressed and anxious. He persuaded Xu Chen several times to give them raw meat, but Xu Chen was unwilling.
At this time, I saw that the two little wolves were really starving to death. I couldn't help but squatted beside them with red eyes and started to persuade them again.
"No!" Xu Chen shook his head and refused.
In his opinion, these two wolf cubs were just one month old and had not even weaned off their milk. They should have never eaten raw meat. Although their wild nature prevented them from eating cooked food, they were just like human cubs.
A blank slate is the best time to develop and correct habits.
If we feed them flesh and blood now, once they take one bite, the wild nature of flesh and blood in their bones will be fully activated, and it is highly likely that they will be impossible to correct.
What's more, even if the two wolves are fed flesh and blood to survive, they will never be able to raise a family in the future, and there is no possibility of taming them.
Living with wolves is like living with tiger fur.
If the wild nature does not change and is raised, it will still be a huge hidden danger, and it will still be dead when the time comes.
So in Xu Chen's opinion, he could either die of stubbornness and starve to death, or he could succumb to hunger.
As long as they take a bite of cooked food, this wildness may be reversed and then slowly eliminated.
But it's a pity that I have been hungry for five days now. Although the wild wolf is better able to bear the hunger, it is too young after all. It seems that it will not be able to overcome this obstacle. It is estimated that it does not even have the strength to eat.
It seems that this dog training plan was a complete failure.
Xu Chen picked up the rattan basket and walked out.
"Chen Ga..."
Ye seemed to understand what Xu Chen wanted to do, and quickly grabbed his arm, with a look of pleading on his face, and tears welling up in his eyes.
"If you don't eat, you won't survive!" Xu Chen shook his head.
"Ruga!"
"No!"
"Woo, you... are bad..."
Seeing Xu Chen's stubborn expression, Ye burst into tears and slowly let go and squatted on the ground to wipe his tears.
Xu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he had to put down the rattan basket and rub her dirty hair.
"It's not that I don't feed them, wolves eat meat and will bite people when they grow up!"
"Woo, bad..."
Ye is not very good at complex languages and can only express his feelings with the simplest and simplest words.
Xu Chen looked up to the sky and sighed.
How come dogs are so stubborn? I always thought I was stubborn, but I never thought that primitive wolf cubs and humans are all so stubborn.
It was impossible to feed the little wolf raw meat, it was simply not an option for him.
But seeing Ye crying so sadly, if she really lost the two little wolves who were about to starve to death, I'm afraid it would leave a serious wound in her heart and destroy her good image of being omnipotent.
He said that he would also have an emotional rift with this little female savage cousin, and the relationship would never be so good again.