The annual gathering of the Lion Wolf tribe is actually equivalent to a grand blind date meeting. Young orcs without a partner will gather next to the big fire in the tribe square every night at the beginning of the meeting, having a barbecue dinner and taking the opportunity to find with his other half.
In order not to make himself look different, Chen Qi changed into an animal fur coat before setting off, but he was really not used to wearing an animal skin skirt, so he made a pair of wide pants that looked like a skirt from a distance and changed into it.
Ale has been running away since he settled down, and the other two females also took their things to other places early in the morning to look for supplies that need to be exchanged. Chen Qike didn't intend to go to the big fire to join in the fun. He built a small fire in the resting place of the few people. While helping to roast half a warthog, he cut a milk fruit and put it on the fire to make broth.
When Ah Zhang came back, he seemed very preoccupied. He took off the backpack on his back and put it on the ground. He sat by the fire and tore a piece of warty pork and took a big bite. Flint is gone."
Ever since that inexplicable man left, Aze kept his head down and didn't speak, nor did he look at Chen Qi. Chen Qi actually didn't care much about what happened between them, but he was also afraid that Aze would keep his mind in his heart and something would happen. The problem is, in order to divert Aze's attention, Chen Qizheng sent Aze to organize the animal skins that need to be exchanged into small pieces, planning to find someone to exchange salt stones after dinner. Hearing A Zhang's words, Chen Qi raised his head in astonishment, "Why?"
"Just now I went to look for people from the Yanshan tribe, but I couldn't find them. I heard from others that the people from the Yanshan tribe haven't come yet."
"Yanshan tribe? Are they the only ones who have flint?"
Azhang nodded, "They are the only tribes around here who have flint, and now people from other tribes are waiting for the Yanshan tribe." The Yanshan tribe has a relatively small number of people, and they will rush back to the tribe the day after tomorrow at the latest Continuing to be busy with storing food, there is no time to spend here waiting for the arrival of the Yanshan tribe.
Chen Qi was about to say something, but was interrupted by a distant scream.
"I found you." Ah Shu ran towards Chen Qi excitedly with the newly acquired animal skin backpack on his back. As soon as he came to the front, he couldn't wait to take out three fist-sized salt stones from his backpack, and handed them to Chen Qi, "Here you are."
Chen Qi was stunned, and looked at the big boy whose face was flushed because he ran too fast, a little strangely, "Why did you give it to me?"
"Your backpack is very useful, this is the salt stone to exchange backpacks with you."
"Do you want to exchange another backpack?" Chen Qi was puzzled.
"No, no." Ah Shu quickly waved his hand and explained: "The half octopus you exchanged with me before was too small. This is to make up for the exchange amount. I can't take advantage of you."
Chen Qi looked at the other party amusedly. If it was in modern times, he would have hid back home and laughed. Who would be so eager to think that the other party has suffered a loss and wants to make up for it. "No, it's enough for me to exchange half of your octopus for a backpack, and you also gave me some beautiful shells."
"How can this work?" Seeing Chen Qi rejecting Ah Shu, he was a little anxious. If Bai took Xiongzi's backpack back, he would be beaten to death by his brother. "We brought a lot of salt stones here. We originally planned to exchange them for flint stones, but this year Yan People from the hill tribes can't come, anyway, they want to exchange animal skins, and I give them according to the amount I exchanged with other people."
"People from the Yanshan tribe can't come? Why?" Azhang asked beside him.
"Don't you know? Today my brother went hunting with the hunting team of the Lion Wolf tribe. I heard that the people of the Yanshan tribe were attacked by hyena dragons on the way here, and winter is coming soon. They won't be able to make it this year. We plan to replace all the salt stones and return to the tribe, and if we hurry up, we can return to the tribe before winter."
"Winter hasn't arrived yet, how could there be hyena dragons on the plain?" Azhang's face darkened, hearing news about hyena dragons at this time is not a good thing.
Ah Shu stuffed the salt stone into Chen Qi's arms, shrugged at A Zhang's question, "I don't know either."
Chen Qizheng wanted to refuse, but when he saw that A Shu was about to turn around and leave, he thought for a while and asked quickly, "Are you going to replace all the salt stones with animal skins? We have a lot of animal skins, and we also have animal skin backpacks. If you can You can exchange it with us."
Ah Shu stopped, "Really? My brother is so envious of the backpack I bought, I'll tell them, I'll exchange salt stones with you now." Said, hurriedly walked towards the other side of the square while running.
Chen Qi looked helplessly at the back of Ah Shu going away, returned to the fire and filled a small half bowl of milk and fruit broth with the only pottery bowl he brought, and went to A Ze who had finished tidying up the animal skin and was sitting on the side in a daze , and handed the pottery bowl to the other party, "You must be exhausted after driving all day with so many things on your back today. Drink some broth first to cushion your stomach."
A Ze came back to his senses, looked at Chen Qi fixedly, but did not take the pottery bowl handed over, Chen Qi patiently held up the pottery bowl and waited for the other party's response. After a long time, Aze looked away slightly and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."
Chen Qi sighed, stuffed the pottery bowl into the other party's hand, knelt down in front of the other party, looked straight into A Ze's eyes, and said seriously: "A Ze, I don't know how important pregnancy marks are to you, I just Knowing that without you I would have died on the plains where the first snow had just begun, that without you I would have no place to live, no food, no house to build, and I would not be standing here now without you. And these It has nothing to do with whether you have stretch marks or not, for me, Aze is Aze, and if you don't have stretch marks, you are still the Aze I know."
Aze's ears moved, and he turned his head slightly to avoid the sight of Chen Qichi, "But I was abandoned by the beast god. My father died not long after I was born, and the tribe was also destroyed by the hyena dragon. Ah My father took me to a new tribe, and he took me to live in a new partner's house. When Carlo was born, his father almost didn't survive. It never happened that a female son would be in danger during childbirth. The thing must have happened because I came, and not long after my father left, Carlo's father also left, and then the tribe disappeared." He had never told Chen Qi about these things, and he had always been afraid that if If he told Chen Qi about himself, Chen Qi would leave him, but now he just wanted to tell him all about it, and he didn't want Chen Qi to know these things from others in the future.
"Do you think that you brought disaster to the tribe, so you choose to live alone in the wilderness in order not to hurt the tribe?"
Aze pursed his thin lips and did not speak.
Chen Qi turned around and asked Azhang who was sitting by the fire happily tearing up wart pork and eating, "Azhang, did hyena dragon attacks happen in the tribe before Azhe came?"
Azhang looked over suspiciously. He had been busy eating just now and didn't pay attention to what the two were saying, "The hyena dragon attacked? Yes, Ali's foot was bitten by the hyena dragon." As if thinking of something, the tough facial features softened, "I was almost eaten by a hyena because of that incident."
Almost being eaten and still showing such a happy expression? Chen Qi was a bit dark, but he didn't have time to explore Azhang's weird emotions now, so he faced Aze again, "Did you hear that? Even without you, hyena dragons would still come when they came to attack the tribe .”
Aze's lips moved, and he was about to refute, but was interrupted by Chen Qi raising his hand: "Aze, what are you afraid of? Why do you want me to live with you?"
afraid of what? Aze stared blankly at Chen Qi, whose eyes were full of worry, yes, what was he afraid of? Afraid that going back to the tribe will bring disaster to the tribe? Afraid that if you live with Carlo, Carlo will leave first like your father? But why did he want Chen Qi to stay by his side? If it's for the good of the other party, shouldn't he just throw him into the tribe and turn around and leave? Why are you so active in helping the other party build a house? Is it because Chen Qi is the first male who is willing to approach him even though he knows he has no stretch marks
"Here, it's here." Ah Shu left quickly and came back quickly, seeing Chen Qi hurriedly waved and said hello, "I brought the salt stone."
Chen Qi patted Aze on the shoulder comfortingly, walked to the side and picked up two bags containing animal skin backpacks and animal skins to meet him.
Along with Ah Shu was a tall female son, half a head taller than A Ze, with slightly fluffy short brown-black hair, and rare azure blue eyes, carrying a huge bulging animal skin behind her. pack.
Only then did Ah Shu remember that he hadn't asked Chen Qi's name, and quickly pulled the arm of the tall man beside him, "My name is Ah Shu, and this is my brother A Xu. We are both from the Luoshui tribe. I don't know yet." What's your name?" After finishing speaking, he turned his head in embarrassment.
Chen Qi smiled, "My name is Chen Qi, and I'm from the Yanshan tribe."
A Xu nodded to Chen Qi, and then greeted A Zhang who was not far away. He knew A Zhang, and every year A Zhang would bring animal skin clothes and clay pots to exchange salt stones with the people of his tribe. A Xu put the animal skin package like a hill behind him on the ground, his voice was low and magnetic, "Here are all the salt stones I brought over, see if there is enough for your animal skins."
Chen Qi took a look, there might be more than a hundred salt stones in it, if he exchanged all of them, it would save him from going to other people to exchange them, turned around and waved to Aze, motioning for Aze to bring them over. Bring all the skins.
Ah Shu also put the animal skin package on his back in front of Chen Qi. His package was smaller, but there were dozens of salt stones by visual inspection, "I also have some salt stones here, let's exchange them with you."