Chen Chao asked while drinking the fish soup, "What's wrong?"
The little old man with the horns on his head sighed, "The river...is gone...the fish...is gone..."
"Missing?"
Chen Chao was full of doubts. How could the river disappear...how could the fish in the river disappear? This side is not facing the sea. Could it be that the fish in this small river have migratory behavior
Looking at Yuan beside him, he didn't look very interested, as if he was also very worried about this matter.
Then I heard the little old man say again, "The fish...we're done."
Although I know that there is already an endless amount of food in the cave, hoarding food is engraved in the human genes, and since the tribe people know that the fish in the river can be eaten, they have a very strong attitude towards the fish in the river. rely.
As a tribal witch, he has lived here for decades, of course he knows that the small river will disappear in winter. But because there was no need for fishing in the past, they were relatively satisfied after sealing it up, because it would be much more convenient to go directly to the other side.
But this year is different. He knows that there is an inexhaustible source of food in the river, and he also knows that the river will disappear in winter, so he asked his old followers to use rattan baskets to net many baskets of fish in advance. Eat it all winter.
But the fish can't be kept for long under their current cognition, so they have to eat the caught fish before they go bad, but they are gone after eating, so they have to eat the food stored in the tribe.
Although we know that there is a lot of food in storage, there is no need for hunting teams to go hunting in winter. But Wu Yi wanted to start moving those mountains, so he couldn't help but feel a little lost and sad. Even today's matter of counting skins didn't make him happy.
Chen Chao originally wanted to go and see it later. Could it be that there was some mysterious event that he didn't know about? What a river, how could it disappear? Is the source cut off
Seeing that something was wrong with Wu and Yuan, he drank his bowl of fish soup in two gulps, put on his animal skin clothes and came to the small river.
Behind him was Yuan who hurriedly chased him out. Wu was getting old and his pace was a bit slow, so he fell behind Yuan.
"Where are you going?" The leader Yuan asked Chen Chao in a low voice.
"I'll go to the river to have a look." Super Chen replied.
Mawozi straw sandals step on the snow, because they do not have wooden soles, they are quickly infected by the coolness, but compared with directly touching the snow with bare feet, there is still an extra layer of protection.
The snow fluttered all over the sky, and the visibility was less than one meter. Chen Chao came to the small river with snowflakes on his back, huh? Isn't Xiaohe right here
How do they say the creek is gone
Could it be that for them, when it freezes, it disappears
At this moment, Wu Ye came up wearing his alpaca coat. Seeing him stepping hard on the frozen river with one foot, he said dejectedly and sadly, "Super Chen, the river... is gone."
Chen Chao had a helpless face. He was scared enough to hear the little old man say that the river was gone. They thought there was some strange event, but the river was frozen, they couldn't see the flowing water, and they could walk on it, so they felt that the river disappeared and became the earth.
It's not easy to explain, so Chen Chao asked Yuan Hui to bring out a spear and a rattan basket, and then called Da Zhuang out, and asked him to bring his two favorite slings by the way.
And Super Chen squatted down to look at the situation on the river. The snow should have fallen from last night to this morning, and there is no intention of stopping now, and I don't know how thick the ice in the river is, whether it can be smashed directly with stones.
Although the little old man next to him was very depressed, he didn't feel cold. One is that he is wearing really thick clothes, and it is not cold when it snows, and it is the coldest time when the snow melts.
He watched Super Chen knocking beside him, and on the one hand, he had great expectations in his heart, hoping that this deputy leader who had brought countless hopes and surprises to the tribe could turn Xiaohe back again, so that they would have more A food source, so that there is no anxiety about sitting and eating.
On the one hand, he kept comforting himself, the deputy leader is a man but not a god, how could he turn a disappearing river back. And even if there is no fish to eat, it doesn't matter, the tribe can't eat all the things in one winter!
It's one thing to know in your heart, but another to actually do it. The long-term hunger has brought an almost morbid psychology to the people of the whole tribe. I can eat more than I can, but I must have a lot of food that I can see.
Not long after, Yuan came back with Da Zhuang. The two stepped on the snow with one foot deep and the other shallow. Da Zhuang had a sling hanging on each of Da Zhuang's left and right shoulders, and took two more in his hands.
True · Prince Throwing · Da Zhuang.
Many people in the tribe followed behind, because everyone was very excited when they heard that they could start catching fish again. They grew up here, and of course they knew that the small river would disappear in winter.
Watching the fish caught in the tribe being eaten little by little every day, basically many people consciously reduce their meals, but no matter how much they eat, the fish is finally eaten. Although they didn't say anything, they all saw it in their eyes and kept it in their hearts, and they were all worried about losing their food source of fish.
Especially many members of the hunting team brought their own weapons. But because they were all in a hurry to come out, they only wrapped the two sleeping animal skins around their bodies, and didn't wear hemp wool on their feet.
As soon as Chen Chao saw them stepping barefoot on the snow, he sent them all back. Don't catch a few fish one by one, and your feet will be frostbitten, that will be really troublesome.
The 9 little kids were wrapped in animal skins and looked at the adults around them timidly. They were actually wearing hempen jackets, because before they started a day of study and had time to play, they were all enjoying themselves in the snow. noisy.
The little stone who joined at the end, although still a little timid, under the leadership of Huang Yan, the child king, has also integrated well into the group of children of Tianyuan tribe.
Chen Chao took the sling from Da Zhuang's hand, but it still felt a little small. But considering that the river was only frozen overnight, the ice should not be that thick yet. If two people smashed four stones together, there should be no problem breaking it open.
Thinking of this, he asked Wu and Yuan to retreat a little, and then he and Da Zhuang also retreated a certain distance.
The small river has just been frozen overnight, and it might be a bit uncomfortable for people to leave, let alone standing on the ice and smashing it. When the hole is smashed open, I guess I and Da Zhuang will have to fall into the river.
The surface of the river was still covered with a thin layer of snowflakes. Super Chen drew a range with his spear, indicating that Da Zhuang would follow him and smash it in.
Super Chen and Da Zhuang waved the sling in their hands, and slammed it towards the ice.
When it was smashed down for the first time, the ice did not move at all, and Super Chen smashed it hard for the second time, and the third time, until he heard the sound of cracking the ice, Super Chen took Da Zhuang back a little Then smash it.
By the fifth or sixth time, a small hole could already be seen being smashed into the ice. Da Zhuang found that the river was not missing, but was hidden underneath. Surprisingly, he swung his manual sling harder and threw it towards the ice hole.
Because there is still a certain distance from the river, and because Chen Chao asked him to retreat again and again, there is no need to worry about falling. Not long after, the original small hole was smashed into a big hole by the stone-throwing prince Da Zhuang by himself.
Wu next to him shouted in surprise, "Fish!"
I saw several fish with long mouths breathing oxygen protruding from the ice hole, and they must have been suffocating under the ice. After breathing for a while, he stopped moving. Super Chen thought he was dead, so he poked with the spear in his hand, but the fish sank, and several fish were like this.
Um? ? ? Is it too cold? Frozen to death as soon as it came up
But it didn't take long for the fish to float up again, lying flat like a dead fish. Super Chen fiddled with the spear back and forth several times, and the three people beside him were stunned.
Yuan next to him couldn't wait to set foot on the ice, and used rattan baskets to net all these fish that looked easy to catch as before. The face of the little old man with the ram's horn turned cloudy all of a sudden, and he also came to help cheerfully.
In the end, they were grabbed by Chen Chao one by one, and now they are going to fish on the ice surface just smashed, are they going to die