[Crossing the Farm] The witch doctor rises up

It has been three days since Wu Di and the others left, and this is the afternoon of the fourth day.

The monkey teased Yuanzai, who was sleeping on the stone, with a golden thing with a long point, while looking at the isolated island in the distance from time to time: "It's been so long, why are brothers Wu Di and the others still Didn't come back?"

Yuan Zai patted away the thing that disturbed his lucid dream with his thick and fleshy palm, turned around and pointed his butt with a short tail at the monkey.

"Wow, Yuanzi, don't you worry about Brother Wu Di and Gong? Be careful they don't want you~" Not knowing that he was despised, the monkey took the yellow grass in his hand and put it under Yuanzi's nose scratch.

The sharpness on the yellow grass does not make people feel soft and itchy, but it has a prickly feeling, which makes people extremely uncomfortable.And Yuan Zai's nose is an extremely sensitive part, now being poked by that thorn, it made the little thing who was raised by Wu Di and Gong Jiao angry since childhood, the whole body is like a small black and white cannonball, It jumped onto the monkey's head all of a sudden, and hit him hard on the forehead with its short, fleshy and elastic legs!

"Aww!" the monkey cried out in pain - although the round boy's flesh is soft and warm, it is very cute and comfortable to touch, but this little guy is still a bit heavy.So, the monkey was hurt when it was hit - no matter how strong it is, it will hurt when it hits the fragile bridge of the nose, right?Therefore, if the monkey doesn't mind being hit by Yuan Zai and sits on the ground, it's fine.

"...It hurts so much, Yuanzi, you are too fat..." The monkey muttered and rubbed his forehead, and when he let go of his hand, he was pleasantly surprised again—because he saw the sea surface that he had looked at many times finally appeared A few small black dots appeared: "Brother Wu Di! Gong! Xiao Hei! Big head! Ah Bao! Gray! Open!"

The monkey ran towards the beach while shouting.

Kai muttered while paddling: "Why is the monkey the last one to call me? I'm so nice to him..."

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Wu Di and the others did not bring many things back this time, but everything was enough for the people in the tribe to eat for a long time.

After telling the location of the taro and the eggs, Wu Di gave the monkeys some of the waterfowls he caught—this kind of seabirds have a flat beak, the feathers on the top of the head are gray, and the feathers on the back of the neck are dark brown. .Except for the head and neck, the wings and tail feathers of this water bird are dark brown, but the feathers on the belly are pure white.Apart from the numerous but unobtrusive feather colors, the appearance of this water bird is eight or nine points similar to the duck in Wu Di's impression... except that this sea bird stretches its neck and lies flat, with a body nearly one meter long ——Come to feed: "Monkey, I will leave this kind of sea duck to you. When you are free, you can feed them small fish, and grass seeds are also available."

When Wu Di and Gong Xiaoshi discovered and caught them, they were catching small fish in groups to eat.Anyway, the most indispensable thing in the sea is fish, so there is no need to worry about their food.

In fact, Wu Di didn't know that this kind of sea duck bird is really a sea duck—the sea duck that once appeared in Gorky's "Petrel", and it also has a scientific name called "loon".Of course, this kind of seabird is the "ancestor" in the primitive society, and has not yet evolved into the kind that Wu Di is familiar with, so it is normal that Wu Di cannot recognize it.

"Are you playing?" The monkey looked excitedly at the sea duck that was flapping its wings and screaming desperately.Low oil, although this sea duck is not as round and cute as Yuan Zai, it is not bad~

"No, it's raised. You can lay eggs at that time, and you can eat meat when you can't keep any more." Wu Di mercilessly broke the monkey's fantasy, and at the same time stretched out his hand to pluck the feathers on the sea duck's wing tips, " You and the children find a place where you can surround these sea ducks, so that they don't swim away."

Anyway, he saw that the children didn’t have much to do during this time. Instead of being so bored, they could only go to the beach to pick up kelp and seaweed every day—now the dried kelp and seaweed in the tribe are enough to eat until next spring—— Might as well add an extra activity to them.You can play and do things, kill two birds with one stone.

Sure enough, after hearing Wu Di's words, although I feel that it's a pity that I can't play with these sea ducks as toys, but thinking that they can raise sea ducks themselves, these sea ducks can lay delicious eggs in the future, and they can eat their meat in the future , The monkeys and their saliva are about to flow out.So the monkey and the others nodded hurriedly, wishing they could find a place to enclose the sea ducks now, and then urge them to lay eggs.

Thinking of this, the monkey raised the yellow grass in his hand and handed it to a sea duck's beak in a fawning manner: "Eat quickly, eat quickly, and lay eggs quickly."

"Monkey, don't say it is too scared to eat anything now, it just can eat..." It is also a male duck that cannot lay eggs... There is no chance to say this sentence again, because Wu Di's attention is all on On the yellow grass that the monkey used to "please" the male sea duck: "Monkey! This thing!"

"Scared! Ah... what's the matter, Brother Wu Di?" Startled by Wu Di who suddenly bent over and approached, the yellow grass in the monkey's hand landed on the beach with a "click".

Wu Di picked up the yellow grass with distress, looked at it over and over again, and broke off a fruit with not short thorns with his hands, rubbed off the outer "clothes" with his fingers, and pretended to stuff it into his mouth .

"Woo Di! What are you eating?" Gong, who was dividing the eggs for the women to fry and cook, watched Wu Di from the corner of his eyes as he was about to stuff unknown things into his mouth, and his heart suddenly rose. It's - what if something bad happens?

"It's okay, it's okay, Gong, this one is not poisonous," Wu Di knew what Gong was worried about, and when Gong called out, Wu Di also realized that his actions just now were a little reckless and inappropriate, so he punched him in embarrassment. Haha, "Look, this white one doesn't look like it's poisonous either..."

"The taro is still raw, don't you tell us not to eat it raw?" Gong disagreed with Wu Di's statement.To be honest, he can understand the idea that when Wu Di found something edible, he was overjoyed and couldn't wait to verify it.However, this does not mean that Wu Di should develop the habit of trying everything by himself.

Wu Di once told Gong the story of "Shen Nong tasted all kinds of herbs" as a joke (of course, some things in it were replaced), and the result made Gong start to worry—although Shen Nong's spirit is admirable, But this does not mean that he is willing to make Wu Di the second Shen Nong.

"Uh..." Wu Di rubbed his nose, his little suffering was really getting worse, "I promise this one is not poisonous, I know this one, really!" The sweet Wu Di is much less delighted to find something like yellow grass.

"What is this?" Gong came over and looked at the thing in Wu Di's hand, "It looks like dried grass, what can I eat? Uh..."

While speaking, Wu Di stuffed the grass seed in his hand into his mouth, then took another crushed shell and fed it to Gong's mouth.But because the grass seeds were too small, Wu Di's fingers directly "ate" a handful of "tofu" on Gong's lips.

"Pink powder... um, it's a little sweet..." Seeing that Wu Di had also eaten, Gong also chewed the food, which was not enough to fit between his teeth, "But this food looks so small, how much can you eat?"

Before Wu Di answered, he was holding a sea duck by the side, and pinching the mouth of the sea duck to prevent it from screaming "quack quack", the monkey said: "This is a lot! There is a sea duck over there." It's a big movie!" While talking, the monkey stretched out his hand and gestured in a big circle, but because of his movement, the sea ducks that were imprisoned in his arms broke free and fled to the sea ducks with a "quack quack". Duck in the middle.For a while, the sea ducks' "quack quack" sounded together.

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The discovery of yellow grass represents the appearance of wheat.It's just that this kind of wheat is salt-grown barley. Although it can grow by the sea, the specific quantity is not very large. If it is really to be eaten by all the people who fall there, it will probably be a meal-it is still the very rare kind. Spread cakes.

So, the joy of discovering a new food is quickly tempered by its scarcity.Even if the small yellow grass--salted rice was found in the water near the yellow grass...the salt-grown barley, it didn't make Wu Di very happy.Because the amount of salted rice is only one-third of that of salted barley!And they were all kind of skinny and shriveled.

However, in order to convince the tribesmen that these things are edible, and willing to plant and take care of these wheat and rice after the spring, Wu Di finally gritted his teeth and grabbed a handful of barley and rice to remove the husks and mixed a lot of water Cooked a pot of clear porridge that couldn't be thinner.

Although the amount of barley and rice is not enough, the taste is really original and powerful.Almost after smelling the aroma of this kind of food, everyone said that they must eat more of this kind of food.

Well, foodies are always easy to solve.

Therefore, Wu Di packed the remaining rice and barley in clay pots, sealed them with straw plugs, and put them together with the sorghum seeds before in a cool, ventilated and dry place—anyway, it’s only a few pots if it’s full. No need to build a barn or anything.

Temporarily solved (?) the problem of the staple food, tasted the "sweetness" of taro, and the men in the tribe were divided into two parts.Some of them are divided into several teams to go to the isolated island to dig taro, pick up bird eggs, and catch sea ducks—of course, for the sake of sustainable development, they will not implement the "three light policy"—while the other part goes to the forest to hunt various animals. species of prey.To survive the winter in winter, a lot of meat and warm fur are naturally indispensable.

Wu Di doesn't belong to either of these two types-who told him to be an envoy of God, and who told him to also work part-time as a witch doctor?Although there is no need to sit in the tribe all the time, if someone in the tribe has a problem, it will be quite troublesome if he is not there.Therefore, Wu Di was forced to become a "Picasso".

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The author has something to say: Picasso = closed home lock, poof

It's been raining for a week now, it's freezing to death...

What about my fall?I am sunny, the sky is high, the clouds are light, and the fallen leaves are full of autumn.

Why did Mao jump to winter all of a sudden...