Chapter 185 Hei Dad and Fruit Dad Part 1
Chapter 185 Hei Dad and Fruit Dad Part 1
Long, long ago, a little boy was born in the hunting tribe.
It stands to reason that the children of the tribe wear as many necklaces as the big witch requires, and they don't have a name until they can officially participate in hunting or gathering.But this child is so special, whoever sees him for the first time, that word comes to mind, so, when he was very young, he already had a name - Hei.
Liehei's memories of his childhood are already very vague, he remembers that he is not the only child of Abba and Aniang.He should have an older sister and older brother, but they are a little older than him, and they left home before Lie Hei could carry a small straw basket and stagger along with A Niang to collect. .
Lie Hei used to wonder why other people's children would keep in touch with their families after they left home.He was very envious of the occasional scene where the family sat around the firepit and ate barbecue lively.He also asked his father and mother, and his father would only touch his head and smile honestly, while his mother would secretly wipe his tears.
It wasn't until Lie Hei grew up that he realized that his home didn't have that kind of situation, it's just that he arrived too late.Late Dad and Auntie are both old, Dad is gradually unable to keep up with the hunting team, and Auntie can't carry too many things on her back.Even though Liehei is very sensible, he will do his best to help his father and mother with work, eat food when given, and will not cry when he is hungry.
His older brothers and sisters didn't come back because his father and mother drove them away. Other people in the tribe saw the deliveries, and the leader would ask them for more food.In fact, in private, when Lie Hei didn't know, they helped their parents a lot.
Dad and Mom are getting older, but all they can do is tell Liehei what they know about hunting and gathering before they are driven away.
Suddenly one day, Liehei found that there was a lot more food.
"Father, Auntie, why are there so many things to eat?"
"The harvest in the tribe has been very good these days, so we have also got a lot of food, let's eat quickly."
Children are easy to deceive. Although Liehei felt that something was wrong, he didn't think much about it, and started to eat with food.Although they were all fruits and wild vegetables, my stomach would feel uncomfortable after eating them, but I felt full for the first time that day when I hunted black.And another day after that, another day, another day...
No, there is no other day, autumn is here, the tribe will move to the cave, and the old man will be abandoned.
Many old people were abandoned that year, including the black hunter's father and mother. They shed tears, but not because of death, but because of their reluctance for their youngest son.
"Live, live..." That was the last words A Niang said to him before leaving.
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After the old men left, the tribe was about to set off.Originally, Liehei still had a small basket with a few pieces of tattered animal skins inside, and two handfuls of dried wild vegetables were hidden under the animal skins.But when he was looking at the back of his father and mother, he was bumped a few times, and when he realized it, the small basket was gone.
Lie Hei was alone, stumbling in the team.The people around looked at him with either pity or indifference, and some even swallowed their saliva.
Lie Hei held his breath and followed the team closely. Occasionally, when he couldn't move anymore, an adult would secretly push him twice.When sleeping at night, someone would squeeze him in the middle.
Leaving the settlements and the grass houses, people on this road are all under the roof. The weakest and the oldest (the oldest ones have been driven away) sleep on the outermost side. When he got up, he couldn't get up again. Lie Hei, without the protection of his parents, should have slept outside.
When he grew up, he realized that it should be the family of his brothers and sisters. They couldn't help him too much. After all, they also had their own children at that time, and it was not so easy to afford to adopt another one.The care and protection they can give Lie Hei is limited, but because of this limited help, Lie Hei survived.It's just that when hunting black could repay, his elder brothers had already died in hunting, and his elder sister had already disappeared into the tribe without knowing when.
For the hunting tribe, death has always been a very common thing.
In the cave, each person can only receive one meal a day from the leader.Strong fighters have more food, and weak ones have less food, such as black hunters, who only have one bite.It might be the smelly meat, or the rotten fruit.
But Lie Hei still swallowed the food as soon as he got it, and there was nothing left.Fortunately, Liehei has never been sick.Today the leader's woman gave birth to a boy, the leader was very happy, and Lie Hei got a larger piece of intact jerky, which tasted a little salty.
This good thing made Lie Hei distressed, the piece of meat was too big, and he didn't have much strength, so he hadn't chewed one-third of it off after chewing for a long time.I can only cover my mouth with my hands and continue to work hard.
"Hei boy! Spit it out!" An adult appeared in front of him, his eyes gleaming with hunger.
Lie Hei looked at him blankly, just chewing.
The man's hand was grabbed, Lie Hei lowered his head, and ran under his arm.But he was too small and too weak. Although the man's condition was not good, he still caught him.The man bent down, grabbed his neck, and raised his hand to pick his mouth.The man's eyes shone with joy, and it wasn't that no one around saw it, but no one came out to take care of it.
Most of the people's expressions are still numb. Some people are cheering up but they want to watch a good show, and some people's eyes still have the regret of being a step too late.
Lie Hei's teeth hurt from being scratched, and the man who grabbed him suddenly screamed and turned his head.Another little boy who was about the same age as Lie Hei, grabbed a sharp bloody gravel, and came out from behind him to the depths.The gravel cut the man's waist, and the man cursed, but instead of grabbing him, he continued...
"Ah—!" The second scream came from the same person, but it was much louder than the first.
Lie Hei's hands were pulled out from the man's eye sockets, red, red and white things flowed out from the man's eye sockets following Lie Hei's movements.
Abba taught Hunter Hei not to compare speed with a fast beast, and not to compare strength with a strong beast.When encountering a tall and big beast, if you want to live, you must attack the opponent's weakness.Be calm, be patient, sometimes even if you give something, it is always better to live than to die.
The man covered his eyes and screamed, Liehei grabbed a stone on the ground, threw himself on it again, and smashed the man's temple with the stone.He was angry, the departure of his father and mother, the fear and hesitation of being alone, hunger, cold, loneliness... There were too many backlogs in his still weak chest, and at this moment, all these negative things burst out came out and became his strength.
The scream was cut off, and the man fell to the ground with a muffled grunt, and the blood in his eye sockets flowed into a small puddle on the ground.
Lie Hei panted twice, and walked towards the corner of the cave where he stayed every day.This time people moved out of the way, and some looked at him with even a little respect.
If you can't protect your softie, you should die.It is admirable to protect your own orphans.That day, the rest of the hunting tribe realized for the first time that this child might be able to survive.
In fact, Liehei was injured, his neck hurts, he lost two teeth, and without animal skins to keep him warm, he began to feel dizzy.In confusion, he was picked up by a pair of old arms, and when he woke up, he found himself lying beside a war beast.The big witch is cooking something with that utensil called a pot.After he woke up, the big witch gave him a bowl.
Regardless of the heat, Lie Hei drank the bowl of soup.A hot stream flowed from the throat to the stomach, and then spread to the whole body, and the boy who didn't cry anyway shed tears.
"Live on." The big witch touched the top of Lie Hei's hair.
Lie Hei knelt down and kowtowed to the great witch, then left.
When that winter passed, Lie Hei was as thin as a living skeleton.And in this winter when he had to take care of himself, he saw many things that he hadn't noticed in the past.
Children get their own share of food, but if it is a parent with two or three children, they will take all the children's food, the strongest get the most, the middle gets little, the weakest almost No, so parents can also get more rations from their children.The weakest children were unable to survive, fell ill or died of starvation, and were thrown out of the cave.
What these parents do is no different from what the chiefs do.Lie Hei was walking in the team, looking like he would fall to the ground if the wind blows, he looked in the direction of the leader from time to time.In fact, he couldn't see anything, because the strongest fighters were around the leader's family, surrounding them tightly.But the appearance of the leader's son always flashed before Lie Hei's eyes.
The white and chubby baby boy had five soft pits sticking out of his small hands, and his voice was loud and sonorous when he cried. The leader was very proud of it.
Only then did Liehei know that the child looked like that, not shriveled, shriveled and emaciated.
——Three newborns were born in the cave, but only the leader's son survived. The other two children became cold and were thrown out of the cave three days after birth.In fact, it's not just the winter of this year, the hunting tribe's winter, the mother lacks food and milk.Newborns lack nutrition in the mother's womb. After coming into this world, they have no breast milk to drink and their constitution is weaker.The cry of a hungry baby can be heard far away, attracting wild beasts.Newborns in winter are either starved to death or thrown out by their parents.
Only the children of the leader broke the "iron law" that newborns in winter cannot survive.
Others in the tribe said it was a good omen that they would have more food this spring and summer.But Lie Hei felt a surge of madness in his bones. He didn't understand it at the time, it was called "the valley of killing"...
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