From Chief to Ball

"If I learn this, can more clansmen survive?"

"Yes. I know very little, but I can try slowly. One day, we will prevent these diseases from taking the lives of our people."

Song turned around to look at the injured clansman, the clansman who had a fever during the day survived, his eyes shone with hope, he could feel the joy and longing inside.

He thought of the clansmen who died before, because of injury or illness, the desperate eyes before death, the thin and weak body, the bleeding and pus... The pain of seeing a relative die with his own eyes but being powerless made his heart ache. for a moment.

Within a few days of the migration, he had already lost too many relatives.

So he clenched his fists and said solemnly: "Jian, I want to prevent the tribe and relatives from leaving us because of illness or injury."

"But the ancestor's guidance is not clear. Some grasses may be poisonous, which may kill those who try it. Aren't you afraid?"

"I am not afraid. I will write down every grass used, try new grasses, see with my eyes, taste with my tongue. I don't want to let my loved ones go again. Your loved ones, my loved ones, our people. There will always be One day, under the guidance of our ancestors, we will make sickness and injury no longer be able to take our people away from us!"

He turned his head once again, glanced at the few relatives who should have left him, and his heart was as firm as a pebble by the river.

Chapter 18 Suspenders

"Song, if you do this, your name will be remembered forever by the tribe."

"Remember forever? Even if I die?" Song's eyes showed brilliance.

"Yes. Like the sun, we can't live without it. And long after, those who are sick will think that they can't live without someone who finds grass to cure their diseases."

Chen Jian patted Song Song's shoulder, picked up a clay pot, and shouted to all the clansmen: "Everyone who makes the clansmen live better, we will squeeze out his pottery statue, and paint what he did Everything! As long as our blood continues, every such person will be remembered by our descendants forever. Wood can rot and stone can be turned into dust, but the name will be passed down forever just like the sun.”

"Roar……"

The clansmen cheered loudly, imagining that their names would be remembered by their descendants.

Sitting by the fire, Wolf Pi smiled and showed his teeth.According to Jian, everyone who sees the feather arrow will think of him in the future, just like a cold person will think of the sun... The arrow is the way he came up with.

"Perhaps, I can make the bow and arrow shoot farther and more accurately."

The wolf skin caresses his favorite bow, imagining that one day he can stand in front of his tribe with a bow and arrow, and shoot prey far away as long as he sits at home...

Chen Jian looked at the expectant expressions of the clansmen, and made up his mind that the primitive god-making movement should proceed like this.

The saints enshrined in China in the previous life were never sacrificed because of their religious devotion.

Whether it is Xuanyuan who created the rules of dress, Shennong who tasted herbs, Yu who cured the floods of the great river, Leizu who raised silkworms and reeled silk, and even the stories of Cheng Erlang in Dujiangyan who became holy, all are the beliefs that man can conquer nature.

If the sun is vicious, you will bend your bow to shoot at the sun; if the water is flooding, you will build dikes and dams; spare.

He wants future generations to remember that the ancestors used their hands and brains to become the spirits of all things in the wilderness, and remember that the ancestors would not bow to disasters and surrender to injuries.

Since we have this life, why seek the afterlife?With hands and brains, why fear disaster?

He stared at the fire with burning eyes, imagining all kinds of possibilities in the future.

"Jian, what are you thinking?"

Wolfpi leaned over and asked.

Chen Jian shook his head and said, "It's nothing, let's go home tomorrow."

"Aren't you going down?"

"No, we only need two days to go to a place that is big enough. No matter how big the place is, it's not ours."

Chen Jian is very satisfied with everything he has discovered so far. This is the limit that the tribe can reach within three years.

Wolf Pi was a little resentful, and muttered: "We should go to the distance to see that tribe from the stars."

"Don't worry. I will give an explanation to the new tribe."

When the rest of the tribe heard the news that they were going home tomorrow, they were also full of anticipation. They wanted to see the place that Jiankou mentioned where they could eat their stomachs every day, and how those tribesmen who didn't have to worry about being hungry lived.

Early the next morning, Chen Jian was woken up by the wolf skin, and then heard a humming sound.

The clansmen stood ready and looked into the distance.

A big boar with two sows and a group of cubs is eating the saline-alkali soil on the ground.It was far away from the clansmen, but there was a sound of demonstration, as if an emperor declared his territory.

The half-foot-long fangs are extremely sharp, and its weight is estimated to be four to five hundred kilograms. The thick skin covered with turpentine and mud is its presumptuous capital.

The clansmen rarely provoke such large animals, unless they are hungry to the limit, because some people will be injured if they are not careful.

Being bumped by a big boar is no small matter.

The distance between the two sides is about 200 meters. Obviously, this pig family came here from the south of the canyon.

As long as you don't provoke them, both parties will be fine.The big boar snorted a few times, piled the dung on the ground, and kicked the dung with its thick hind legs, signaling to stay away from it.

However, Chen Jian took a fancy to the dozen or so little piglets following behind, thinking about how to get them away.

There are not many animals that humans can domesticate. In addition to being obedient, domestication must also ensure their ability to reproduce.

Some animals can be domesticated, such as elephants, but elephants cannot mate in front of people and are very shy, so they cannot be domesticated.There are also some birds that are similar to chickens. Unfortunately, the courtship ceremony is too complicated. It spreads its feathers, makes a nest and sings.

Pigs do not have these disadvantages at all. A litter of less than eight sows is too embarrassed to greet their fellow pigs, and boars always come directly without appointment.

Looking at the dozen or so little piglets, Chen Jian giggled.Wolfpi looked at the tusks of the big boar, and said: "There are other wild animals that can be caught, don't provoke it."

Chen Jian pointed to the piglet behind and said, "See? That's our food from now on."

"You want to raise them?"

"Yes. Don't disturb them, let's clean up and leave now."

After putting away all kinds of clay pots, the aunts carefully held the jars filled with salt, which they spent all afternoon cooking, and the family members will definitely like it.

They can even think of the taste of adding salt to the delicious mutton soup and fish soup.

After carrying the wounded, Chen Jian led his tribe and slowly out of the wild boar's sight.Seeing the people walking away, the big boar flamboyantly spread the feces under his feet all over the ground to show his strength.

Out of the first line of sky, Chen Jian took out the rope he was carrying, and weaved some more with vines on the stone wall.I found six or seven people to pull together, and tried the degree of tenacity.

Twist a few ropes into a slipknot, dig a few small pits ten centimeters deep on the ground with a bone plow, cover the top with a layer of grass leaves and twigs, and place the slipknot in the pit.

This is the place where the canyon exits, and there are many trees beside it. I found a few that were as thick as arms, and cut off the branches on them.

More than a dozen men worked hard together, pulling the tree into a bow shape, and stuck it on the crack of the rock wall.

The tree made a scary rattling sound, but it didn't break. People walked around carefully, and Chen Jian was also very careful.

Once the tree bounces back, not to mention people, even stones can be broken.