Hua went back and refilled the fire pit with firewood. After thinking about it, she felt relieved. She picked up the net placed in the corner and went to the bamboo shed.
"Xiaoqing," Hua looked at the bamboo door, "Xiaoqing, are you going to catch fish?"
Yao Xiaoqing opened her eyes, listened to the petty voices outside, and thought to herself: Yao Xiaoqing, you are a tomboy, not a delicate young lady.
This is not your first time killing someone. Do you want to sit back and wait for death or let that bad person bully you?
"Go." She got out of the sleeping bag, opened the door and looked at Hua, who was smiling softly at her, "Wait while I pick up a bucket."
The two of them went to the yard to say hello to Shan'am, then carried buckets to the pond.
After filling half a bucket of water and putting it aside, Yao Xiaoqing took the fishing net, spotted a big fish, and lowered the net. The fish arched its body and bounced out of the net pocket.
She spotted another one, went for the fish head, and caught a stupid fish in one go.
The stupid fish kept bouncing in the net bag. She grabbed the handle and swung it to the shore. A four or five kilogram white fish with thin scales and a slightly pointed mouth kept jumping in the grass.
Hua rushed over and caught it in the bucket, looking at her with a smile, "Xiao Qing, the fish in the pond are much bigger than those in the ravine."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and nodded, "The fish in the river must be bigger. When I weave a big fishing net, we can go to the river to catch fish."
While he was talking, he fished one out with quick eyes and hands.
Hua caught the fish into the bucket, shook her head and said, "I don't dare to go, I'm afraid of water."
Yao Xiaoqing glanced at her greasy hair and said, "Hua, do you want to wash your hair and take a bath?"
Hua glanced at Yao Xiaoqing, who was clean and tidy, and blushed, "It's not hot yet. When it gets hot, go wash in the ravine."
Yao Xiaoqing looked at her and said with a smile: "If you want to wash your hair, ask me for lice killer medicine. I have it over there."
"Really?" Hua showed a surprised smile, "I'll wash it when I get back."
Yao Xiaoqing smiled and wanted to take the opportunity to let everyone do a general cleaning.
"Hua, you have to ask everyone to wash it before you can completely eliminate the lice."
Hua shook her head and said, "They won't listen to me. If you let them wash it, they will listen to you."
"I'll talk to my father when he comes back." Yao Xiaoqing looked at the gray sky above his head, "It looks like it's still raining. I wonder if my father and the others are there?"
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Yao took the bull on his back to the shady side of the foot of a mountain. He pointed to the cliff halfway up the mountain and said, "The goat is licking it right there."
Mu Feng put down his backpack and said, "Father, I'll go up and take a look."
"Chief, Mu Feng and I will go up together." Zhi Ye said.
Yao Hu nodded and said: "It's high and steep, so be careful."
Mu Feng and Zhi nodded, stepped on the protruding rocks on the mountain, and slowly climbed to the cliff where the goat was licking. There was a clear difference between the stones in one place on the cliff and the stones in other places. It looked like
bright.
Some of the stones were shiny yellow, some were gray, and some were bright white. The two of them stuck out their tongues and licked the rocks. The light yellow ones had a bitter and salty taste, while the gray ones also had a salty taste and were gray-white.
It has no taste.
Mu Feng looked at Pig, "I think it's the salty one. Let's take it back and show it to Xiaoqing."
"Take two pieces of the gray and white ones back too."
Zhi used a stone ax to knock off a piece of light yellow rock and put it into his backpack, then knocked off a gray and white rock. The two of them each got a dozen pieces and carried them on their backs before climbing down the cliff.
Yaohu and Xiongniu came up to meet him, "Is it salty?"
Mu Feng nodded and said: "Yes, there is a kind of salty taste. Let's get a few pieces back and show them to Xiaoqing."
Both Yaohu and the bull showed happy smiles. Yaohu patted Mufeng and said, "Okay, let's go back now. It looks like it's going to rain again."
Yaohu and the bull picked up the goats on the ground, and the pig picked up a badger pig. Mufeng put several hares and pheasants into his backpack and carried them back, holding a stone ax in his hand and walking back quickly.
When a few people walked to the forest where they killed the black bear, Zhi, who was walking in front, saw three people from the Shenmu tribe walking across from them.
Zhi said to Yaohu: "Chief, look."
The people of the Shenmu tribe also stopped and put down the wild animals they were carrying. Yaohu and Xiongniu put down their goats and walked over.
The people of the Shenmu tribe clenched the stone spears in their hands, and the stone axes looked at them. Yaohu and Xiongniu put down the goats on their shoulders and walked over, staring at each other and entering into a state of eye contact.
Zhi and Mufeng took down their bamboo bows and arrows and prepared to attack.
A tall man from the Shenmu tribe stared at them arrogantly and asked: "Which tribe are you from? Why did you come to our Shenmu tribe to hunt?"
Another tall and thin man looked at the goats on the ground with a greedy expression, "No wonder we haven't been able to catch prey these days. It was you who took our prey away."
The bull looked at him and said confidently: "Your tribe's territory is on the mountain top in the south. We are hunting in the north. It's not your turn to interfere."
The tall man glanced at Yaohu, Xiongniu, and the two people standing far away, and said arrogantly: "So what, this area belongs to our sacred tree tribe." As soon as he finished speaking, the tall man raised his hand.
He lifted up the stone spear and stabbed the bull.
The bull raised his stone spear to block his stone spear, and the two fought together.
The other two raised their weapons and rushed towards Yao Hu. Yao Hu kicked the strong man who was holding a stone ax to chop, and then raised his stone spear and thrust it into the chest of another man.
The strong man got up and raised his stone ax to chop at Yaohu. He was hit by an arrow from Mufeng in the back and stabbed in the chest by Yaohu's stone spear.
The tall man who was fighting with the bull saw that the situation was not going well and turned around to escape, but was hit in the vest by a stone spear thrown by the bull and fell to the ground.
Yao Hu said in a deep voice: "We cannot let the Shenmu tribe find out that they were killed and throw them deeper into the forest."
He took a step forward and pointed forward, "Chief, there is a deep cave there. Let's drag them over and throw them into the cave."
"Okay, move quickly, a beast will smell the blood and come soon."
Yaohu and Xiongniu each dragged the body forward, while Piggyu dragged the tall man. When they arrived at the entrance of the cave, they looked at the dark cave and threw it down without hesitation.
Mu Feng picked up the wooden arrows that had fallen to the ground and chased after them with his backpack on his back. The others ran all the way carrying the prey, and they did not slow down until they came out of the dense forest.
Yao Hu felt a little heavy. He felt that the people of the Shenmu tribe would not let outsiders live in this area. He thought that the tribe was weak and weak. If the Shenmu tribe came in large numbers, they would not be able to live in a low-end area.
Everyone was in a heavy mood and even the footsteps were a lot louder, and they hurried on without saying a word.
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Yao Xiaoqing and Hua caught seven or eight fish by the pond. They used a dagger to scrape off the scales, disembowel the fish and clean it. Looking at the fish fat in their hands, they suddenly remembered that in the era before glue, craftsmen used fish glue to make it.
The glue used to bond wood and stoneware. Thinking of this, she picked up the discarded fish fat again.
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