The two of them didn't leave the cave very far. The child seemed to be trying to determine where there was food in the soil. It took about ten minutes for him to choose a place to dig the soil with a random stone.
Lin Xiao followed the same example and started digging. After a while, he dug out a white lump that looked like a rhizome. After the child dug out one from the ground, he broke open the white rhizome with his dirty hands and dug hard with his hands. Squeeze and the slurry will burst out.
Lin Xiao followed suit, imitating the child's movements, and squeezed it with his hands, and the juice fell into his mouth.
It's sweet, like sweet sauce.
Lin Xiao was so sweet that he was so sweet that the child smiled when he saw his frown.
Although the juice of this rhizome is too sweet to eat directly, it should taste good as long as you add some water. Lin Xiao was about to dig out more 'sweet berries', but the child suddenly stopped.
Probably people who live in the jungle have a wild intuition. Although it is only a very subtle sound, the child quickly discovered the footsteps.
Lin Xiao tried his best not to make a sound, and carefully followed the child's movement, following the direction the child was looking.
Lin Xiao saw two children who were also wearing animal skins, but the animal skins on these two people were cleaner than those on the children, and the two children were also stronger.
When the child saw the two people, he immediately grabbed Lin Xiao and walked quietly in one direction. He walked without making any sound, just like a clever hunter. The child chose a hidden place to hide the berries in his hand. Then he quietly hid on the slope of the hillside with the stone.
"Ge, are you sure there are berries here?" One of the children looked at the barren land and asked with some disbelief.
The child named Doge nodded and affirmed, "I met the child in the cave here the day before yesterday. He was holding a few freshly dug berries in his hand. The ones I saw with my own eyes should be nearby here."
The two children got closer and closer, and Lin Xiao noticed that the child showed an angry expression after hearing what the two said.
As the two people walked in, the child who had been holding his breath suddenly threw a stone and hit one of the children, startling the two people. Then the child rushed up and hit the injured Ge fiercely. A punch hit Ge's face.
Although this child was thin, he had a strong force when he beat people. He used all his strength to hit people. The person who was beaten was hit in the face with a fist and screamed in pain.
After the child was defeated, he turned around and started fighting with another child. He was as fierce as a little wolf. The other child was obviously taller and stronger than the child, but he was no match for the child. He was directly pushed to the ground and beaten.
Lin Xiao was shocked when he saw the child's ferocious look. What kind of grudge was there?
Primitive man is really fierce!
In fact, with the physique of a child, they are definitely no match for the two of them, but because they were caught off guard, the two of them suffered a defeat.
At this time, Ge, who had been beaten hard, came back to his senses, opened his mouth and shouted something. Lin Xiao estimated that he was calling for help.
After the child heard this, he reached out and grabbed Lin Xiao and ran away. It seemed that the child could not defeat the other's helper.
Lin Xiao quickly held the hidden berries in his arms and ran with the child.
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Lin Xiao cleaned the berry rhizomes he brought back and handed one to the child. Then, under the child's gaze, he wrapped the other one in leaves and kept it in a cool place, leaving it for the child's brother.
When Lin Xiao turned around, he saw the child smiling sweetly at him in the sunshine, then lowering his head to eat the berries in his hand.
The child sat on the ground with his feet spread wide. Lin Xiao then noticed that the sole of the child's foot had just been punctured during the fight, and blood was oozing out from the sole. He turned to look at the hay in the cave, and Lin Xiao walked in. He took some hay out of it and sat side by side with the child by the entrance of the cave.
Lin Xiao tried hard to think about how to weave straw sandals for a long time, but obviously he didn't know, so he had to slowly explore.
The child sitting aside looked curiously at the hay held in Lin Xiao's hand. He had no idea what Lin Xiao wanted to do. He was a little curious at first, but after Lin Xiao failed several times, the child lost his patience and saw that Lin Xiao was still there. It would be more interesting to wait for my brother to come home.
The sun was shining brightly outside, and they were sitting at the door of the cave. When the wind blew, the sunshine hit their faces, which made people feel sleepy, and the children fell asleep after a while.
After unremitting efforts, Lin Xiao finally knitted a pair of straw sandals. Although the straw sandals looked ugly, they were still practical.
Lin Xiao patted the child. The child opened his eyes and rubbed his eyes. He found something made of hay in his arms.
Child:?
Lin Xiao gestured with the child, told him these were shoes and let him wear them.
The child who put on the shoes kept walking around in the cave as if he had discovered a new world. The child grinned, then he rushed inside and took out a large pile of hay and placed it in front of Lin Xiao, staring at Lin Xiao eagerly. Look at the sky.
No need for the child to say anything, Lin Xiao knew what he meant.
With the experience of the first pair of straw sandals, it will be much easier to make a second pair of straw sandals for the child's brother.
The child hugged the second pair of straw sandals tightly, as if he was afraid of being snatched away by someone. He kept holding the straw sandals until the young primitive man came back. The child jumped up and ran towards the young primitive man, and stuffed the straw sandals in his hand into his brother's. in hand.
"What's this?"
The child heard his brother's question and didn't know how to answer. He pointed to the sneakers on Lin Xiao's feet and imitated Lin Xiao's pronunciation and said to his brother: "Shoes."
"It's for wearing! Like me!" The child raised his shoed feet and said to the young primitive man.
Lin Xiao originally thought that the young primitive man must be more mature and stable than the child, but he didn't expect that after putting on the shoes, the two of them jumped up and down in the hole exactly the same.
At night, Lin Xiao sat in the cave. The other two people in the cave didn't sleep either. They were still happy about having a pair of straw sandals, while Lin Xiao was staring at the fire in front of him in a daze.
On the first day he came here, life was extremely difficult. If it weren't for the two brothers in front of him, he would have died long ago.
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In the forest, a man with an animal skin wrapped around his waist skillfully threw a berry from the soil. Unknowingly, it had been half a month since Lin Xiao arrived here.
Taking off the clothes and pants of modern society and putting on animal skins, Lin Xiao is also working hard to survive in a different world today.
In fact, the language structure of this world is very simple. After half a month of exploration, Lin Xiao can basically communicate with people. However, occasionally he doesn't know how to express some words and needs to ask the two brothers who saved him.
The elder brother of these two brothers is called "Lei" and the younger brother is called "Lie". The two brothers did not ask Lin Xiao to leave, so Lin Xiao, a modern weakling, continues to live in the cave shamelessly. If he leaves these two brothers, he may become cold the next second. cold.
Today he was responsible for finding fruit to eat. Just like the day they rescued him, the two brothers planned to try their luck on a farther grassland to see if they could follow the Bahrain totem warriors and pick up some unwanted meat.
Lin Xiao is not optimistic about this. Even if there is meat...the ordinary people in the Bahrain tribe have already picked it up, and it is not their turn to pick it up.
Although the two brothers who rescued Lin Xiao were dressed in animal skins and used stone tools, they were not tribesmen, but wanderers with no fixed abode.
A ronin is a person without a tribe.
There are many reasons for becoming a ronin. Most of them became ronin because their tribe was destroyed by other tribes. There are also a few who made unforgivable mistakes and were expelled from the tribe and became a member of the ronin.
Lei Helie had become a ronin as early as his parents' generation, or even earlier.
The life goals of these two brothers are very simple - to light the totem, gain the power of the totem, join a new tribe and become tribesmen.
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Why haven't they come back yet?
After waiting for a while, Lin Xiao took a look at the position of the sun. Normally, people should come back at this time, no matter whether there is harvest or not.
Just as he was thinking about it, Lin Xiao heard footsteps outside and hurried out, only to see Lei and Lie both in a very embarrassed state.There were injuries on Lei's face. This injury was obviously not caused by a beast, but by a human being.
"What's going on?" Lin Xiao asked urgently, and he hurriedly helped the two brothers clean their wounds.
Lie stretched out his bare feet to show Lin Xiao, and complained angrily to Lin Xiao like a child who was angry outside: "Axiao, we didn't pick up any meat today, but we were beaten up by those Bahrain kids. , and they also stole our shoes."
Lin Xiao knew that the Bahrain children Lie was talking about were the children in the Bahrain tribe who had no parents.
These children are raised by the tribe, but the tribe does not provide much food, so these children will secretly follow the totem warriors to pick up food like other ronin.
When it comes to picking up meat, the Bahraini children are more justified in picking up meat than they are. Once a conflict breaks out between the two sides, the Bahraini soldiers will not hesitate to side with the Bahraini children.
Apparently today, when Lei Helie was following the Bahraini totem warriors to pick up leaks, they met a Bahraini child who also came to pick up leaks. Not only was he beaten up, but his shoes were also taken away.
"It's okay, I'll knit a better pair of shoes for you." Lin Xiao comforted, and noticing Lei looking at him eagerly, Lin Xiao added, "I'll knit a pair for each of you."
"Eat something first to replenish your strength." Lin Xiao handed the washed sweet berries to the hands of the two of them, then wrapped a lot of hay from the cave, sat in the cave and started knitting straw sandals.
the next day.
The sun outside had just slanted into the cave, and Lin Xiao heard the sound of someone speaking outside.
Zhan was wearing straw sandals, which were obviously Lie's shoes. He kicked a stone away from his feet and said to Ge behind him: "Did you really snatch this thing from a ronin?"
Zhan is a child of the Bahrain tribe, but unlike these children without parents, he has a father who is a low-level totem warrior, so most of the children in the tribe are afraid of him, not to mention the wild children in the tribe who have no parents, so together they , naturally he has the final say.
Ge and the others had just avenged the last time they were beaten violently yesterday. When they snatched two pairs of straw sandals and returned to the tribe, they met Zhan, the son of the totem warrior, and then the few of them who robbed were robbed by Zhan.
Hearing Zhan's question, Gewei nodded, "It's true, it was taken from the two ronin boys living in the cave! Yesterday they robbed us of meat! We gave them a hard lesson! This thing It was ripped from their feet!"