Traveling through the primitive world: I was a priest in the tribe

The yard has been dug out. It is more than twice as long as the one where Ji Lang and his friends live. However, because of the hill over there, it is not as spacious as the yard here. It is estimated that only one or two caves can be dug on both sides. But if it is long enough, more than a dozen caves can be dug in a short time. On average, four or five people can live in one cave, which is basically enough.

Although the two courtyards are not connected, they are very close to each other, so if something happens, they can take care of each other.

And as their numbers gradually increase, some groups of wild animals will avoid this place, and then it will be relatively safer.

Ji Lang still had the same plan as at the beginning. As the population increases in the future, their planting and breeding will have to be popularized so that everyone can develop the awareness of relying on breeding and planting.

This drought taught Jilang a great lesson: everything must be planned in advance. If you wait until the day there is no food before starting to plant, then you are really finished.

He felt that he was not reliable, but now he was a priest of the Taotie tribe. Since he had this title, he had to bear the corresponding responsibilities.

In the afternoon, the wind gradually grew stronger, making the dried wild vegetables hanging outside the kitchen rustle. Three cave dwellings had been dug in the yard over there. Although the kang had not been built yet, Dashu and the people of the tribe had already moved there. Ji Lang looked at the increasingly gloomy sky, but his heart became happier and happier. It looked like it was going to rain heavily.

Everyone was shouting excitedly and quickly took back the tools and food that were drying in the yard.

As everyone was looking forward to it, the heavy rain came, from the afternoon to the evening, crackling, and the raindrops hit the tarpaulin in the yard, making a bang bang sound. At first, Jilang was very happy. It finally rained. The warm season had been here for more than six months, and it had been quite a while since the last afternoon.

The rain was getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping. Gradually, after the excitement in Ji Lang's heart passed, he became numb. At night, Ji Lang began to worry again, hoping that the potatoes and pumpkins in the field would be soaked and spoiled.

Qing Jiu came back from outside wearing a raincoat and saw Ji Lang sitting on a wooden block in a daze. "What's wrong? What are you thinking about?"

The dazed man came back to his senses, resting his hands on his chin on the low table, "I'm a little worried about the potatoes in the field. I hope they don't get soaked. I don't know when the rain will stop."

"It's okay. Xishi and Brother Guo went to dig a canal in the afternoon and will divert the water out." Qingjiu put the bamboo basket containing the white root on the ground and took out the stone mortar at the bottom. Usually, he would grind the white root powder for a while when he had nothing to do at night. It rained today, so he took these things back into the house.

Ji Lang's face lit up with joy, and he understood after a moment of thinking. Xi Shi would look at the weather and was also concerned about the food grown in the fields. He thought that when he saw the rain clouds, he knew that the rainfall would be high this time. In the afternoon, he confirmed that the rain clouds would be blown over by the wind, so he and Guo Qi went to dig a canal in the field.

Xiaoman went to the next room to do homework with Wu and the others. Jilang would come to pick him up later. Now he started grinding white root powder with Qingjiu.

The sound of rain outside mixed with the sound of raindrops hitting the tarpaulin was quite noisy.

While hitting the white roots in the mortar with a small hammer, Qing Jiu suddenly seemed to hear a shout.

I pricked up my ears and listened for a while, but there was only the sound of rain.

Just as he was about to continue working, Liefeng and the puppies in the doorway suddenly started barking one after another.

"Did you hear any noise?" Ji Lang asked. How come he heard someone shouting amid the crackling sound of the rain?

"I'll go take a look. Maybe something happened to Dashu and the others." Qing Jiu said as he put on his raincoat.

After leaving the yard, Xishi in the next room was also dressed in the same way.

The rain was so heavy that Qingjiu couldn't see his expression clearly, otherwise he would have seen a hint of joy on Xishi's face.

The two of them walked out of the outer courtyard one after the other and opened the door.

Xiaoying and Ye, who were tanned by the sun, stood by the door with their white teeth bared.

"Brother Qing! Brother Xi! We are back!" Xiaoying shouted happily. Her neck-length hair was wet by the rain and stuck to her head. Her clothes were also wet and stuck to her skin. There were holes all over them. There were also spots of mud on her clothes, and her trouser legs had turned a yellowish brown.

"It's really you!" Xishi's voice was filled with joy. When he first heard the voice inside, he thought it was a bit like Ye's voice, so he rushed out happily. He didn't expect it was really them!

Ye was much thinner than before, and his originally small face now had no flesh at all, but he looked very energetic.

Qing Jiu asked them to come in quickly, "Why are you still on the road in the rain? Where's Zhou?"

Several people walked quickly into the doorway, where washed clothes that were not completely dry were hanging. Qing Jiu handed them to them directly and asked them to wipe the water off their bodies first.

Ye wiped the water dripping from his hair and said, "A Zhou was with the others behind. Someone slipped down the mountain and couldn't walk after being rescued, so they found a cave to hide from the rain. Xiaoying and I couldn't wait any longer so we ran back."

Ji Lang was in the house listening to the intermittent voices coming from outside, and he felt that it sounded a bit like Ye's voice. He lifted the door curtain to cover his eyes and looked over. Although the flashlight in the doorway was on, it was too dark to see the specific appearance, but the figure was really similar to Ye's.

Ji Lang didn't even bother to bring his raincoat, he ran to the doorway in a few steps, "Oh my god! Ye, Xiaoying! You really are back!"

Ji Lang’s shout was quite loud, and soon everyone came out except Uncle Lin who lived the farthest away.

The big guys didn't care that the two were still wet, and hugged them one by one, rubbing their wet clothes dry.

Although they looked energetic, the two men, who were not very strong to begin with, were now skin and bones, and it was obvious that they had suffered a lot along the way.

Ye went to visit his father carrying a basket of herbs, and Xiaoying stayed to tell everyone about their journey.

It was a close call but nothing serious happened. Although the journey to the Snow Mountain Tribe was not peaceful, there was no shortage of food and drink, and the bushes and weeds were thick. Although there were potential dangers, they could block some of them.

But when I came back, things were a bit bad, even though it was only less than a month.

When Xiaoying and Zhou returned to the tribe, the people of the Snow Mountain Tribe had moved out of the cave where they originally lived. Originally, the cave was not a very safe place, but because there were many people in the tribe and there were many powerful hunters, they were able to ensure everyone's safety. However, after the massacre by Dayu and his men, most of the people left in the tribe were the old, the weak and the disabled. Usually the hunting team had to go out, so they moved to the cave on the mountainside. The two of them took Ye to search for two days before they found a new place for the Snow Mountain Tribe to stay.

When the three of them were almost at the cave entrance, they were surrounded by the old and weak who rushed out with some sharpened wooden sticks.

What followed was the touching family recognition scene.

The people in the Baiyun tribe thought that A Zhou and Xiao Ying had died long ago. After listening to their stories about how they chased Dayu to the Taotie tribe and how they dealt with Dayu and others, and finally after they had spent an extremely comfortable winter season, everyone in the cave was stunned.

Sleep on a warm kang in the cold season?

Still have unfinished food?

Without even having to go out hunting?

It’s simply unthinkable, it’s a scenario I wouldn’t even dare to dream of.

But when all the people who went out hunting came back, after celebrating the fact that A Zhou and Xiao Ying were still alive, they could not accept A Zhou's proposal to leave the Snow Mountain Tribe and go to the Taotie Tribe.

For the elders of the tribe, they were born in the snow mountains and will die in the snow mountains, otherwise they will be punished by the mountain god.

Ah Zhou and Xiao Ying talked until their mouths were dry but they still couldn't persuade them. After all, if these old people didn't leave, the hunters and other people in the tribe would not abandon them and leave.

However, although they were reluctant to leave, they quickly agreed to Ye's request to find the magic herb. However, the magic herb was very rare. The old lady in the Snow Mountain Tribe who knew about herbs told Ye that in her life, she had only seen the magic herb twice. Once was when it was mixed in the wild vegetables collected by Am when she was a child, and later it was exchanged for fur by the chief. The other time was the one that Xiaoying and the others knew about. However, the effect of the magic herb was not as magical as everyone thought. For symptoms like Uncle Lin's, it can only relieve them, not cure them.

Even so, Ye is willing to go find it.

The old lady took him and followed the hunting team, searching the snowy mountains for half a month but they didn't see any trace of the magic herb.

Frustrated, Ye finally gave up.

Because the people of the Snow Mountain Tribe changed their minds, a drought came, the snow on the top of the snow mountain melted, and they had no water left.

I can't survive if I don't leave here.

Ye had been following Ji Lang for a while and his mind had become more flexible, so he took this opportunity to tell them that perhaps this was the guidance of the mountain god. He knew that they were unwilling to leave, so he told them in this way that they could go and that the mountain god would not blame them for leaving.

Coupled with Xiaoying and Zhou's deception, everyone believed that Ji Lang, the priest of the Taotie tribe, was the most beloved child of the mountain god, and now he needed help, so the mountain god gave them guidance and asked them to help Ji Lang.

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In short, after staying in the Snow Mountain Tribe for a month, they finally decided to leave the Snow Mountain and come here.

What was even more coincidental was that on the first night after they left the tribe, because it was hot and there was no rain, they camped in the open air on the mountain. They had a large group of people, more than half of whom were hunters, so there was no need to worry about safety.

Ye and Zhou started a fire. When they were sitting by the fire and looking around bored, they saw something flashing on the opposite mountain. At first, he thought it was the eyes of a beast, but after watching for a long time, he found that the thing was still flashing and motionless. Then he pulled Zhou who was sitting next to him and asked, "What is that?"

Ah Zhou looked in the direction he pointed, and at a glance he recognized that it was a magical herb.

The next day, at dawn, several people headed towards the direction of the magical herb.

Ye picked five magical herbs there.

This magical herb looks very much like water grass, with a fingernail-sized light green fruit in the middle. This fruit will glow at night, but it has no other function except guiding people to discover the magical herb. It is the roots and leaves of the magical herb that can cure diseases.

The roots are boiled into water to relieve coughs, and the juice squeezed out from the crushed leaves can be used to treat diseases.

When Ye and Zhou went out, they brought water cups with them, fearing that the magical herbs would dry up on the way back. So they simply picked them and smashed the leaves with stones when they rested that night, squeezing out half a cup of juice.

It was green and smelled unpleasant.

Along the way, Mr. Ye was worried whether the juice would stink. Fortunately, although the taste was indeed unpleasant, it was not bad.

The roots of the magical grass are very easy to preserve. After drying, they can be placed in a basket and carried on the back.

On the way back, because there were so many people, including several elderly people and children who had sequelae from previous injuries, the overall speed was much slower than before, but the further we walked, the more frightened everyone became.

When Zhou and Xiaoying came, they made marks on the tree trunks along the way. There were different marks for places with water, resting places, and places with abundant food. But several times, they did not find water sources in the marked places, and they all dried up.

The originally lush bushes had become much drier. A group of people walking on the mountain could not hide their whereabouts at all. As long as you stood on a high place, you could see clearly how many people there were.

The large-scale withering of plants caused many small animals to migrate or starve to death, and large wild beasts could not find food. In addition, the extremely hot weather made these big guys a little irritable and aggressive. A group of people who were carelessly walking through the mountains and fields became living targets for these large animals.

There was a small attack every three days and a big attack every five days. Fortunately, they brought some weapons when they left. If it weren't for these sharp objects, who knows how many people would have died in the mouths of wild beasts along the way. But even so, two old men still lost their lives on the road.

Due to their age, the long journey was too physically demanding for them, but these people had been strong all their lives and did not want to slow down the team's progress, so they put all their efforts into following the team. As they walked, they fell ill and never got up again.

Zhou and the others had thought about such a thing, but when it really happened, they felt uncontrollable guilt in their hearts.

Dozens of people finally entered the territory, but they still had half a day to go before they had to turn back because it started to rain.

They had witnessed the drought along the way with their own eyes, but as soon as they arrived at the territory of the Taotie tribe, there was a heavy rain. The few people who had originally been a little skeptical immediately became Ji Lang's most loyal believers.

Without Ji Lang knowing, he had inexplicably become the faith of this group of people.

The rain was heavy, and Zhou wanted to take everyone to find a place to wait. However, everyone was anxious to see what the "mountain god's favorite child" looked like, so they couldn't stop him and had to continue walking.

Not long after they started walking, three people accidentally fell down the hillside. Two of them were only scratched, and one broke his leg. There was nothing they could do but to set up camp and wait for the rain to stop, otherwise someone would get hurt again.

But Ye and Xiaoying couldn't wait any longer, so they came back in the rain with their weapons.