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The three hyenas were expelled by the stones and left screaming. After they dispersed from the gathering place, the corpse of a saber-toothed tiger appeared. Its abdomen was bitten open and its internal organs were exposed.Zhu Mao squatted down, turned the saber-toothed tiger over, examined it carefully, and saw that there was a blood hole in its abdomen and throat, and he recognized that it was the injury caused by the spear.

"Someone hunted it down." Zhu Mao poked his finger into the bloody hole and took it out again. There was no blood on his finger, and the blood in the wound had dried up."It didn't happen this morning, it happened yesterday evening," he said.

Clawmark lay on the ground and checked the traces. He recognized two sets of footprints, one of which was deep and shallow, resembling a cripple, and there were drips of blood on the ground.The claw marks followed the blood and walked a few steps. He said, "There are two people, one of whom has a foot injury, and both of them have gone north."

"Are you from the Star Cave?" Mo looked at the woodland to the north, and clenched the spear in his hand.

Yesterday evening, Zhuohen found the hunting team in the tribe and told them that Yi stole the Zhumao from Zhumaoya and went out hunting alone. Zhu Maoxiang and Mo from the hunting team accompanied Zhuaohen to look for it.

"It's not all people from the star cave." Zhu Mao twisted the thing in his finger, twisted out some red powder, and licked it with his tongue.He clapped his hands, stood up, and said, "Claw mark, Big Tooth Tiger was killed by Zhu Mao."

"It's Yi! He killed the big-toothed tiger!" Mo was very excited, his head still hadn't realized the seriousness of the matter.

Claw Hen and Zhu Mao were silent for a while, they knew how difficult it is to kill a saber-toothed tiger, Yi must have been injured, and the other person present was not theirs.That person can only be an enemy, and Yi may have been captured.

Zhu Mao hugged his chest, looked at the endless forest land, and further ahead was the territory of the Xingdong people, and asked Claw Hen: "Do you still want to chase?"

"The witch asked me to take him back." Without finding out clearly, the claw mark wouldn't just go back.

Zhu Maoxiang pulled out a bone knife, walked towards the sabre-toothed tiger's corpse, and said, "Let's rest first." Not only were they tired, they were also hungry.

As winter approaches, the dead animals don't decay so quickly and can still be eaten.

The three of them built a fire on the spot, filled their stomachs, and replenished their energy so that they could continue their pursuit.

Chen put one end of the tree trunk on fire and rubbed it on the ground to extinguish the flame.He chipped the burnt end of the trunk with a stone, sharpened the trunk, and made a crude spear.

He took this wooden spear and went outside the cave. In the sunset forest, there is an animal that can be hunted better than the spotted deer-ostrich.

If the foot is not injured, an ostrich can be killed with a wooden stick.

Chen walked out of the cave and returned with an ostrich not long after.Holding the ostrich by its long neck, he limped to the fire.Chen cast a glance at the man in the corner, he was still sleeping, his snoring was soothing, and he seemed to be sleeping comfortably.

The ostrich was singed, its stomach was disemboweled with stone flakes, and it was set on fire and roasted slowly.

Chen took out the freshly picked herb leaves and changed the dressing for his injured leg. The bleeding from the wound had stopped, but the pain was still so painful.

The ostrich on the wooden rack is roasting oil, sizzling and fragrant.Smelling the aroma, Yi woke up, sat up on the ground, his eyes lit up.The ostrich on the shelf, its body is propped up by bamboo strips, and a wooden stick runs through it, and it has been thoroughly roasted.Chen grabbed one end of the stick and took the ostrich off the stick.

Yi swallowed, waking up hungry, he clutched his injured chest, and moved closer to Chen.His bright eyes stared at the roasted ostrich in Chen's hand, and he salivated: "It smells so good."

Seeing his slanderous appearance, Chen also knew that he was hungry and felt uncomfortable being watched, so Chen pulled off an ostrich leg and handed it to him.Yi hurriedly grabbed it, gnawed on it, his mouth was full of greasy food, and said vaguely: "When I'm done, I'll give you the first big deer."

"..." Chen lowered his head and ate the meat without saying anything.

After eating an ostrich thigh, Yi still couldn't get enough of it, so he went to look at Chen again, and he licked his lips.Tatsumoto didn't want to pay attention, but still tore off a wing and handed it to Yi.

Chen not only ate the thighs and wings, but in the end two-thirds of the roasted ostrich meat went into Yi's belly.Seeing his belly distended after eating, lying on one side comfortably warming himself by the fire, Chen wanted to hit him a little bit.

Yi ate and drank enough, leaned against the cave wall and was drowsy. He still looked at Chen from time to time. Chen carried his bow on his back and held on to the wooden spear, obviously planning to leave.The morning sun shone into the cave, and Chen's figure standing at the entrance was shining brightly.Yi suddenly felt a little bit reluctant to let go of this person who stayed with him all night, gave him medicine, and shared his food. He called him: "Chen."

Chen turned his head, his expression indifferent.

Yi asked, "Are you leaving?"

Chen nodded.

I thought Yi was going to say something more, but I saw him looking down at a large handful of fresh herbs beside him. The leaves of the herbs were closer to the fire, and some of them had already withered.

Chen Yishi didn't know what he was thinking, he said: "You go back and don't go near the stream, there are people there." People from his tribe can fish in the stream.

"I'll go another way." Yi Xing raised his head and smiled, revealing his pair of small canine teeth.

Chen turned and left, and gradually, his figure disappeared into the woods outside the cave.

"Alas..." Yi looked at the entrance of the cave and sighed.After he sighed, he crawled back to his sleeping place and lay down, and fell asleep not long after.

At noon, Yi woke up, the fire had been extinguished, but fortunately there were still sparks.Yi went outside the cave to pick up dead branches and fallen leaves. He squatted down slowly, picked them up with one hand, and stood up slowly. "No wild beasts can come into the cave at night..." Yi said to himself, even a hyena couldn't beat him in his current condition.

Put a handful of grass wadding into the fire pit, blow sparks easily, ignite the fire, and then sprinkle dead leaves and branches.He sat by the fire, bare chested to expose the scratches on his chest, he stuffed herb leaves into his mouth, and bulged.He chewed carefully and spit it out, covering the scratch on his chest and the stab wound on his arm.

After applying the herbal medicine, Yi lay flat on the ground, with his head facing the entrance of the cave, looking at the bright sunshine outside the cave.An antelope grazed nearby, its fat ass facing Yi.Yi watched it and stared at it until the antelope jumped up the hillside and disappeared without a trace.

"If I hadn't been injured..." Yi Po resented.

It has been roasted on the fire, golden all over, crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, exuding a tempting aroma.

Yi felt that he was hungry, so he got up, took the broken spear, and planned to hunt something casually, and he didn't know where Chen hunted the ostrich.He walked out of the cave and slowly climbed up a small hill outside the cave. He was vigilant about his surroundings for fear of bumping into people in the star cave.

Yi looked around for traces of ostriches. Suddenly, there was the sound of Baobao's footsteps in the forest. Hearing the sound, there was more than one person.Yi was horrified, and quickly lay down in a remote and lush grass.The footsteps were getting closer and closer, Yi heard one of the voices, and recognized Zhu Maoxiang, he said: "Crossing the stream will be discovered by people from the star cave, so you can't go in now."

Yi's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, and he was overjoyed, and got out of the grass.At this time, he had already heard other people's voices, and recognized Zhu Maoxiang as well as Claw Hen and Mo.

Clawmark said: "I'll go find out if he's dead or alive, you go back and tell Wu first."

Zhu Maoxiang's words were flat. "Wait, let's go visit together at dusk."

Mo sounded sad: "If Yi is captured by the Xingdong people, will he still be alive?"

"Mo, here I am! I'm still alive!"

Yi suddenly jumped out from behind the tree, waving a hand and smiling.He was a little proud of the astonished expressions of the previous three.

After being surprised, Zhu Maoxiang went up and slapped Yi on the head aggressively, knocking Yi to the ground with one palm.Because of the injury, Yi sat on the ground like a weak chicken, grinning his teeth in pain, and asked aggrievedly: "Why did you hit me, it hurts so much, ah, it's bleeding..."

The wound on Yi's chest was bleeding, dyeing the leather apron red, and his face was pale from the pain.Mo hurriedly helped him hold the wound, and Claw Hen took off a small skin pouch from Zhu Mao, and poured out a handful of medicinal powder from the pouch.He sprinkled the medicine powder on Yi's wound, and asked as he sprinkled it, "Why are you here alone, and you haven't been captured by the people from Xingdong?"

"I'm hiding in the cave above, they can't catch me... ah..." Yi pointed forward, frowning, "Take it easy."

"It's your fate." Zhu Mao stood with his arms crossed, and seeing Yi frowned in pain, he yelled softly, "It was scratched by a bear, let's see if you dare to run wild next time. "

Yi stared round his eyes, daring to be angry but not speaking.

The stream is murmuring, and three or four women are catching fish. They catch fresh fish, carry bamboo baskets full of fish, and walk along the direction leading to the star cave.Through streams, forests, and winding mountain roads, they returned to the star cave where they lived.

They passed by the lower level of the star cave and saw Chen lying in a crevice of the rocks. One of them said, "Dirty hair is not dead, why are you back?" A hunchbacked old man standing in the middle level of the star cave said, "He is dying!" , even leopards don't eat him, they think he's sour!"

Among the women who caught the fish, someone said: "My son said that Zun Mao was caught by the people in the West Mountain Cave. How did he escape?"

They talked to themselves, walking from the lower stone steps to the middle, and finally their voices disappeared together with their figures.

Chen lay on his bed, turning a deaf ear to other people's comments.

Soon after the fishing women came back, the hunting team returned, and people gathered around the fire pit lively, there were four or fifty people.Sharing barbecue meat, drinking fish soup, talking and laughing, no one thought of the injured Dirty Mao lying in the crevice of the stone.

Chen pulled a shaved bearskin from the inside of his body to wrap himself, he was hurt and tired.

After they were full, they scattered around the cave, some rested, some gossiped, and some were busy with their work.A girl came down from the upper level of the star cave holding a bowl of soup in a stoneware bowl.She came to the lower level of the star cave and walked to Chen's side. She shook Chen's shoulder and said, "Chen, I'll eat for you."

Chen turned to look at her, took the fish soup she handed him, sat up and drank it slowly.

Xi squatted aside, inspecting Chen's injured leg, she asked with concern: "Chen, is it really necessary to seek treatment from a witch (wizard)?"

"It's okay, just apply herbal medicine and it will heal." Chen felt that the injury was not serious, and there was no need to go to the upper floor to seek treatment from Xingdongzhi.

Xi said, "Then I'll pick some herbs."

At this time, a group of children happened to pass by the entrance of the cave, and one of the boys shouted to the west: "Xi, let's go pick the fruit!" Beside him were five or six children of the same age, both male and female.

"Wait for me." Xi ran out of the hole and followed the friends.

Watching Songxi leave with the children, his figure disappearing into the woods, Chen lowered his head to eat the food that was still warm in his hand.

West was his sister, though not his own, and they had grown up on the same breast milk.

The author has something to say: Ostrich: What kind of hatred and what kind of resentment.

Yi: Teach you to bully me, Chen, I want to love him and love him.