I'm bad and I'm hitting a wall, primitive life requires hard work

"What did the witch say? How is Brother Zeyi?" he asked casually.

"The witch doctor can definitely cure Zeyi!!" Nimei replied cheerfully.

She secretly glanced at Xi Yiqi again and said carefully: "Thank you for helping Ze Yi reduce his fever. I will definitely plead for you in the evening."

Nishi Ichisu stopped what he was doing and turned to look at Nimi.

I didn't do anything wrong, it's just that Zeyi has good physical fitness.

But Nimei repeated that he would help me. What exactly was he going to help me with?

"I'm learning secretly... can you help me... please?" Nishi Ichisu asked vaguely, continuing with what he had been interrupted in the morning.

Nimei immediately clenched his fist and placed it on his left shoulder, just like the two of them did in the morning, and said seriously: "Don't worry, even if you secretly learned the witch's medical skills, and Zeyi was able to survive because of it, I will not let the tribe leader punish you severely no matter what."

"What will the punishment be?" He didn't learn it secretly. It was just an excuse he blurted out in a hurry to save someone, but the tribesmen believed it.

Nimei looked around with a serious look, and said in a low voice: "I don't know much about it, but I heard that someone secretly learned the witch doctor's witchcraft and was driven out of the tribe by the old tribe leader!"

Xi Yiqi tightened his hands on the vines unconsciously, and his palms became slightly wet. He had never expected that the primitive tribe attached so much importance to the inheritance of witch doctors.

Nimei noticed Nishi Ichiki's frown and thought she was very scared. After all, it would be difficult for people who were driven out of the tribe to survive alone in the forest.

“Xiqi… don’t worry too much. Chief Chenqi is different from the old chief.” Ni Mei comforted.

"Oh." He sighed softly.

The words have been said. Although I am innocent, the most important thing right now is to solve the problem. There is no point in dwelling on the past.

If it happened again, she would still try her best to save Zeyi.

I don’t know how Wu Yu cured the disease. Maybe he has exposed my lies.

But thinking again about what Nimei and Xiyi said, perhaps there is still room for improvement.

We can only take one step at a time.

"It took Wu a really long time to go to the Washa tribe to exchange salt this time. It took eight full days..." Xi Yiqi sighed casually while continuing the weaving work in his hands.

It's always a good idea to know more about the situation. You can't always be in the dark, know nothing, and only focus on falling into traps.

Otherwise, I wouldn't have made up such an immature lie.

Speaking of this, Nimei knew a lot of inside information that other tribesmen didn't know. Nia, who was accompanying her this time, was her elder brother. Thinking that Nishi Ichiki had saved her man, she picked out some things to say:

"Since our tribe migrated to this place, we have no shortage of food, but there is no salt mountain in our territory, so we trade food for salt blocks with the Mountain Rock Tribe not far away."

"Just after last winter, when the chief took food to exchange, he was rejected. The Rock Tribe said they would not give us salt blocks in the future."

"Why?" asked Nishi Ichiki.

“I don’t know, because of this matter…” Nimei’s tone became a little depressed when he said this.

Because of his injured foot, Xi Yi did not go out hunting with them. He was sitting in an open space polishing stones, looking up at the two of them from time to time, but Xi Yiqi did not notice his gaze.

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Through Nimei's narration, Nishi Ichiki roughly understood what happened:

The Yanyuan tribe has migrated here for more than ten winters.

No wonder the children in the tribe were all of similar age, mostly around 10 years old. Except for a few children who were as young as the original owner, the rest were born in the first few winters after the migration.

Therefore, I don’t know much about the past.

Nimei is a few years older than Nishi Ichiki and still has some memory of certain things.

Nimei couldn't explain why the tribe migrated. He only said that the tribe used to be very large and had many people. He also said that many people died in the migration.

The old patriarch, the old witch, and many elderly people and children did not survive the difficult migration...

The tribe eventually settled down in this forest. After the old witch passed away, only the young witch - Wu Yu - was left.

Wu Yu was still young at that time and had not received much medical inheritance.

As a result, many members of the tribe died because they could not receive timely and effective treatment for their illnesses.

As winter after winter passed, Wu Yu gradually received more gifts from Mother Nature, and the situation began to improve.

As cubs were born one after another, the forest became rich in food, and the situation of the tribe gradually improved.

More than ten years is just a blink of an eye for the forest; it will not make a tribe suddenly strong.

Now the children of the tribe have not grown up to become warriors - they have to wait until they are sixteen years old.

The boys who were still young a dozen winters ago have now become warriors.

The older generation of warriors who led their tribesmen to migrate have now become old men with gloomy faces.

Compared with the indigenous tribes in this forest, these dozens of people are obviously not enough.

The Yanyuan tribe is simply not strong enough to go head-on with the Shanyan tribe that has been entrenched in this forest for a long time.

When the Rock Tribe learned that a new tribe had migrated into the forest, they were alert for a while.

Later they found out that this was just a super small tribe, with a total population that was not even as large as their hunting team, let alone just a dozen warriors. It was not worth mentioning at all.

Therefore, the Mountain Rock Tribe didn't care at all, and they even found it troublesome to annex it.

There is a huge salt mountain in the territory of the Rock Tribe, and the surrounding small tribes will trade with them to obtain salt blocks.

With the development in recent years, their strength has become increasingly powerful, and they have conquered many surrounding small and medium-sized tribes. Naturally, they look down on the Yanyuan tribe.

When Chen Qi took food to exchange for salt blocks, if the chief of the Mountain Rock Tribe was in a good mood, he could get some salt blocks in return.

And that's how the days passed.

Last winter, for some reason, the Rock Tribe refused the deal, but the tribe leader couldn't do anything about it.

In the face of absolute strength, the Yanyuan tribe had no room for bargaining with the big tribes.

The Rock Tribe didn't take them seriously at all. They just treated them as a small tribe and gave them some food occasionally.

Chen Qi looked at the insufficiently stored salt blocks and felt anxious when he thought of the tribesmen who had become "sick" due to lack of salt in the past.

At this time, Nimei's brother stood up.

Several of them grew up together, experienced the migration, and have been together ever since. He didn't want the clan leader to bear the pressure alone.

For the sake of the tribe, for the sake of his brothers, and for the sake of his people, as a warrior in the tribe, he must stand up!

Nia volunteered to go out and find salt for the tribe.

Everyone was grateful to him for this, as it was undoubtedly a dangerous journey.

The tribe was running low on food, and the day before, after the chief returned with the hunting team, he went out alone again, regardless of the danger, and brought back a few pikas.

Chen Qi silently prepared dried meat for his brother, and Ni Mei, with tears in her eyes, stuffed all the remaining fruits she had into Nia's animal skin bag.

No one knows whether they will see him again.

After all, Hei Yao and Xiqi's father never came back.

Nia is gone.

Before leaving, he stroked Nimei's hair and said with a grin, "This is my own decision, don't be sad. For the sake of the tribe, as long as there is a glimmer of hope, I am willing to die!"

Five days and nights passed, and Nia still hadn't returned. The tribesmen gradually became desperate.

Chen Qi gritted his teeth, carried two days' worth of meat, and walked for a whole day with a few warriors, trying to communicate with the Shanyan Tribe again.

The leader of the Rock Tribe looked down on the food that was barely enough to fill their teeth, but he also gave a second option:.

"It's okay to give you salt blocks, but you have to offer three fertile women to our tribe." Chief Shanyan said in a strong tone.

Shen Qi refused.

He brought a few brave warriors to carry the food back and share it with everyone.

That day, he sat at the entrance of the cave all night.

The turning point came on the sixth day—Nia came back!

In addition to bringing back a small bag of clean and fine salt, he also brought good news: following the stream for about three days, there is a place called Washa tribe.

The valley where they lived had a large lake with a lot of salt, which was whiter than that of the Rock Tribe.

Upon hearing the news, the tribesmen danced with excitement, as if the stone that was pressing down on the tribe had finally been removed. When everyone asked what they wanted to exchange for it.

Nia glanced at the witch doctor Wu Yu who came late, and handed a small bag of salt to the chief.

He said: "The witch doctor of the Wasa tribe died unexpectedly, and the successor was still a five-year-old child and did not receive much blessing from nature."

The patriarch rubbed the salt in his hand and pondered: "So, what do they need?"