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Chapter 157 The Journey Without Return Date

The three babies survived the harsh cold weather, and what awaited them was the first-year ceremony, at which they would be formally entered into the family tree and become members of the tribe.

When the ice and snow were about to melt, the women collected the remaining snow in the forest with animal skin bags, and the three mothers boiled the snow and then let it cool.

In addition to preparing rich food, the most important thing for a baby's birthday ceremony is cleaning.

The clansmen do not have the habit of taking a bath, and the cleaning at the birthday ceremony is probably the only meticulous and comprehensive "big cleaning" in their life.

In the eyes of the tribe, people come to this world with filth all over their bodies. Influenced by the salt tribe, they believe that snow is the most pure and pure thing in the world, and only the water turned from snow can be washed. The inherent filth of a pure person can make the baby grow up healthily and live a long life.

Ordinary snow is not enough, it must be the last snow to melt, the later it melts, the stronger the spiritual power of the snow and the better the decontamination effect.

Of course, snow water does not have supernatural effects, but usefulness has never been the only criterion for judging the value of things.

Zhang Tian didn't interfere with the ceremony, and Lin Yu couldn't do it. This is part of the local ethnic culture, and she was too busy observing and recording it before it was too late!

The mothers carefully clean their babies.

Baby boys focus on cleaning their limbs. May the pure and pure snow bring them a strong body and make them grow into excellent hunters. Baby girls focus on cleaning their reproductive organs and breastfeeding organs. The strong vitality enables them to breed excellent offspring.

Lanhua suddenly asked Lin: "Will there be a birthday ceremony for the baby in Taoyuan?"

"A lot of food will be prepared, but the body will not be washed with snow water."

"I think so too..."

Lan Hua glanced at Lin Yu's chest, and said tactfully, "If you haven't washed your body with snow water, the girl's development will be slower."

"..."

"It's still too late to clean, there is still snow water left, enough to clean key parts."

Lin Yu was very depressed, and subconsciously wanted to refuse, but when the words came to his lips, he changed his mind and agreed.

She was planning to take a bath, so why not use water?Orchid is also a good intention, there is no need to refuse.

After cleaning, Lanhua solemnly tied three knots on the family tree.

When the warm weather comes, not only is the baby one year old, everyone’s age will increase by one year, and a knot must be tied on the year rope, and underage children will have to bend an extra finger. Of course, it is not necessary now , children have learned to remember age by memorizing numbers.

Zhang Tian, ​​Lin Yu, Xiao and Yuanwei, the four of them entered the world of adults on this day. Lanhua gave each of them a year-old rope and asked the children to keep it safe. Every time a cold day passed, they had to tie a rope Knot.

Xiao really wanted to say that he no longer needed to count the number by knotting a rope, but after all he accepted the year-old rope honestly and did not disobey his mother's will.

Numbers have just come out, and there is still a long way to go before they are popularized. At least until the children who know numbers grow up, new ideas will completely replace old ones.

The spring is getting stronger and the temperature is getting warmer and warmer. Change the thick and bulky leather jackets and put on light and convenient leather jackets.

The number of birds and beasts in the mountains and forests increased day by day, and the hunters who exchanged shotguns for guns returned with full loads every day. People finally ate fresh food and feasted on it, while the dry food left over from the cold weather was reserved for food on the road.

Of the five pregnant women, one of them has given birth, and the mother and daughter are safe.

Seeing that the day of migration was approaching day by day, Zhang Tian took Xiao Xiao, Hutou, Huzhuo and others with them, and brought their equipment, crossed mountains and ridges, waded across rivers, and arrived at the Big Tree Tribe.

During the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, Zhang Tian had made an agreement with Song Guo that he would make salt again when the weather got warmer.

Song Guo warmly received the guests, and when they learned that Grandma had returned to the embrace of the sky, everyone was so shocked that they could not speak.

"Grandma's body will remain in this land that raised her forever, but her spirit will always watch us in heaven, no matter where we go."

As Zhang Tian said this, he found that the old people of the Dashu tribe were no longer there. It seemed that for the survival of the tribe and not to drag the children down, the old people with limited mobility had made the same choice.Presumably the same is true of other tribes.

He sent two replaced horn bows as a gift.

Pine Cone was overwhelmed with surprises, and the most excited one was Pine Needle. As a skilled archer, he dreamed of a powerful bow. He hugged the horned bow in his dream and couldn't put it down.

When I came to the exposed salt mine again, I could still see the traces of the previous sacrificial offerings.

Dig!
The tiger head with an engineering shovel is the main force, and the men are waving bones to assist. Last time, they were exhausted and couldn't dig three feet. This time, they were replaced with modern tools and coupled with the brute force of the tiger head.

As the pit got deeper and deeper, the salt content of the excavated soil became higher and higher. At the end of the digging, as Zhang Tian expected, there were indeed natural crystallized salt hidden underground!

The men grabbed a handful of yellowish-white salt soil, licked it with their tongues, and exclaimed: "Salt has grown in the soil! This must be a gift from the sky!"

Zhang Tian also felt very lucky. There are not many shallow salt mines, let alone such rich salt mines?I don't know what kind of geological movement it took to squeeze the salt mine that was supposed to be buried under [-] meters to the surface.

However, no matter how high the salt content is, there are still a lot of heavy metal impurities in it, which must be further processed.

For the next month, Zhang Tian led the men to make salt day and night, and white and pure salt was produced continuously, and the clay pots were filled one by one.

The hosts were surprised and delighted when they discovered that the guests had dug up almost endless salt from the ground. They felt like they were sitting on a golden mountain. When they thought about leaving this golden mountain, they couldn’t help sighing, regretting that they hadn’t had time to fully enjoy it. .

The pregnant women of the Dashu tribe gave birth one after another. When the baby’s condition was stable and the vitality of the pregnant women recovered, Song Guo led the tribe reluctantly bid farewell to this cave that carried their countless memories and stories. Go to the River Tribe.

The Yougu tribe had already arrived before them.

Because of being rejected by other tribes, the Yougu tribe had to restart the blood marriage system. The pregnant women in the tribe had all given birth early in the cold weather, so they were the first to set off and had the most peace of mind.

The news of Grandma's departure also shocked them a lot. Thinking that the elders in their tribe had made the same choice, this shock turned into deep sadness.

As soon as he arrived in the Dahe Tribe, Miao immediately joined the fishing team. He not only fished by himself, but also strongly recommended the tribe to try this hunting activity that is not tiring, not panting, and good for physical and mental health.

However, the young hunters headed by Gu prefer to run with the wind in the mountains and forests, chasing live animals.

Following Zhang Tian's instructions before leaving, Wolf Claw gave Gu the remaining horn bow.

Gu was so happy that with a bow behind his back, he could feel the wind when he walked.

After Kui returned to the tribe, she led the tribe to look up at the sky, and then fired pottery according to the method Zhang Tian taught her. With the blessing of the power of the sky, the pottery produced was really useful and beautiful!

All the pottery was left in the cave, and they had to travel as lightly as possible.

Only He quietly brought two small pottery ornaments, one she kept for herself, and the other she wanted to give to Xiao.

But she searched all over the cave, but couldn't find Xiao. After asking Lin, she found out that he had gone to the Big Tree Tribe.

"Wow!"

With a loud cry, Qionghua, the last pregnant woman, also successfully gave birth.

"It's a beautiful girl!"

Lin Yu carried the baby girl to the new mother. After two childbearing seasons, she is now an experienced midwife.

Qionghua hugged her daughter, shook her arms slightly, and hummed the little song the wizard taught her, as if feeling the reassuring and gentle maternal love, the baby gradually stopped crying.

Qionghua doesn't feel like she just gave birth.

She was already young, and her physique was as strong as a man's. She hadn't exerted much force yet, and the baby slid out in a hurry. It is no problem to bend the bow and shoot the big eagle.

When everyone from the Big Tree Tribe arrived, unprecedented noise reverberated in the forest.

too many people!

Nearly [-] people from the three tribes gathered here, and the cave of the Dahe Tribe immediately became overcrowded. Fortunately, the weather has warmed up, and the open space outside the cave has been cleaned up, and a fire is lit for guests to sit and lie down, which makes it look much more spacious.

The men brought back a large amount of salt, and the women put the salt in clay pots into animal skin bags and bamboo tubes, and then put them into bamboo baskets, and put them together with other bags, and set off early tomorrow morning.

He saw Xiao Xiao at a glance.

She took out the two ornaments from the folds of her coat, held them tightly in her hands, and ran towards Xiao excitedly.

"Pine nuts, let me teach you how to knead pottery blanks!"

Xiao naturally grabbed the hand of the girl named Songzi and walked to the pottery area of ​​the tribe. Although he had to leave tomorrow, this did not prevent him from seizing the last opportunity to show his talent.

Songzi is from the Dashu tribe. She just arrived here and is full of curiosity about everything here. Xiaoxiao just met her needs and introduced everything to her enthusiastically and patiently. She couldn't help but feel happy.

The two walked through the noisy crowd talking and laughing, completely unaware that in the noisy crowd, a quiet girl silently withdrew her tightly clenched hands, turned around and left silently.

"Teacher Tony, get a haircut!"

Zhang Tian brought his own scissors and found Lin Yu, the only stylist in the tribe.

"What's the matter, cut your hair?"

Lin Yu took the scissors and walked around behind Zhang Tian.

The level is not enough, and the posture is coming together. She patted him on the shoulder and said in a tone: "Tell me what you need!"

"Speak as if you can meet my needs..." Zhang Tian complained, "You can do whatever you want, just cut it short."

After I cut my hair and took a shower, I felt comfortable.

Tonight is bound to be a sleepless night.

From the moment they learned that they were going to migrate, the people of the tribe fell into complex emotions of tension, excitement and anticipation, but when this day came, all emotions turned into full of nostalgia and reluctance. Can't help sobbing lowly.

The adults wandered around the cave, stroking the cave wall with their hands, as if they wanted to remember every inch of it firmly.

Lin Yu suggested: "Let's leave our handprints!"

After she finished speaking, she first smeared the palm of her hand with ochre, and then pressed it hard against the cave wall, leaving a ochre-red palm print.

The clansmen followed suit, and not long after, all of them left their own palm prints on the cave wall, and as the palm prints fell, their uneasy hearts became more at ease.

The sun will not slow down the pace of rising east because of people's nostalgia, and finally it is time to wave goodbye.

The tribesmen carried their bags on their backs, water bags, food, salt, tools, weapons...there were countless miscellaneous things, but they were much lighter than the load when they returned from winter hunting.

The older children also need to help share some of the burden, the younger children only need to keep up with the adults, and the younger children who cannot walk easily can only be taken care of by the adults.

Mothers carry their babies in pouches close to their bodies for breastfeeding.

While waiting to leave, Qionghua felt a little hot and humid on her body, and immediately picked up the naked baby like a chicken, and held it in front of her until the baby finished urinating.

During cave settlement, mothers usually wrap their babies in long strips of soft hide, lined with precious wool, bird breast down feathers, or fine hairs of fibrous plants, to absorb the moisture of the baby's pee and the soft, milky discharge thing.

But when migrating, it will be easier to take the baby naked on the body, so that the baby can directly poop and defecate on the ground without delaying the journey.

"Catwoman, Black Tail, Xiaohu, follow us for a while, don't run around, understand?"

Lin Yu repeatedly instructed her cat children, and suddenly a large number of strange Twolegs flooded in, making the three little lynxes feel uneasy, but at this time Lin Yu was even more nervous than the little lynxes.

She has been training them all the time in cold weather, so that they can go on the road obediently with the large army before leaving.

The mountains are high and the rivers are long, and the distance is far away. She can't keep an eye on them all the time. It all depends on the feelings cultivated during this period and the big cat's self-consciousness.

As soon as she thought of this, she lost her confidence even more.

"A cat who knows how to repay kindness is a good cat. I have spent so much energy and invested so much emotion in raising you up with shit and urine, and you can't put oil on your feet because of emotion and reason. ,clear?"

The so-called raising soldiers for a thousand days and using them for a short time, now, it's time to test the results.

The guests are all ready to go, Lanhua leads the tribe to clean up the cave, and then... Let's go!
The migratory army is on the road in mighty strength.

Lin Yu turned his head in three steps and saw the little lynx following behind him step by step. He couldn't help but heaved a sigh of relief. He squatted down and stroked their furry heads, and fed them a few small pieces of dried meat to show his praise.

The members of the Dahe Tribe also looked back frequently, looking at the cave hidden in the shade of the trees, looking at the homes they had lived in for generations, until the trees covered their sight, and everything in the past disappeared behind them, never to be seen again.

So they no longer looked back, and embarked on a journey with no return date with more determined steps towards the unknown distance.

(End of this chapter)