Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

Azer came back when the three had just returned to Carlo's house. From a distance, he saw an adult male wildebeest on his shoulders and an impala tied with ropes on his back. His steps were steady. When he saw the three people standing at the door, he obviously quickened his pace.

Chen Qi hurried up to meet him, originally wanting to take a hand to remove the prey from Aze, but looking at the size of the wildebeest, and looking at his arms with no muscles at all, he was more than enough.

The wildebeest was put on the ground by A Ze, and when it touched the ground, it splashed a layer of dust. Chen Qi looked at A Ze's dusty appearance, and didn't know how fast the other party ran back, "You are back, Is there any danger on the way?"

"The road went well." A Ze smiled at Chen Qi, and then handed the impala behind him to A Ke, "This is for you, I met Uncle A Zhang on the road with someone patrolling nearby. , I heard that the trace of the letter eagle was found, you are all right."

Ake picked up the impala, "Probably the letter eagle that got lost here, there is no problem for the time being."

"That's good."

"Brother, there are letter eagles passing by nearby. It's too dangerous for you and Chen Qi to live outside. It's better to move back to the tribe. The house can also be rebuilt in the tribe." Carlo suggested a little worriedly.

A Ze hesitated a little, then turned to look at Chen Qi. He didn't have any good memories of this place, but if it would endanger Chen Qi, he didn't know if it would be better to move back.

Seeing Azer looking over, Chen Qi didn't speak, he went back to the house and took out his backpack, and said to Azer, "Let's go home."

A Ze was stunned, and then he smiled, "Okay."

Chen Qi said to Carlo: "Don't worry, we can live well outside. Your brother has lived outside for so many years, and I haven't seen anything happen to him."

Carlo sighed. He naturally knew that it was impossible for him to move back to the tribe with his brother's stubbornness. He thought he would change his mind considering Chen Qi, but he didn't expect even Chen Qi to stay in the tribe. "Then be careful when you go back. We'll go over and build a house for you tomorrow."

"Well, good." The two responded, and Aze picked up the wildebeest on the ground and left together with Chen Qi.

"If you want to live with Azer, we can move next to them." Ake said, looking at Carlo, who was a little lost.

Carlo's eyes lit up, then shook his head again, and reached out to touch Ake's firm and flat abdomen, "Let's wait until this child is born, winter is coming, and it's too dangerous to move outside the tribe now."

Ake took Carlo's hand and said nothing.

A Ze gave the wildebeest to Ali. This is the cloth from before, and it was a thank-you gift for bothering him to come to accompany Chen Qi during this period of time. Of course, only one wildebeest is not enough. If there is enough time, he will also I want to help Ali hunt as much food as possible. Now Chen Qi still has a lot of things to do, almost occupying the time for the two of them, and can only go into the Luoya Forest to hunt a little dragon after the early winter.

The pottery bowls and cups I made yesterday have already been burned. Although a few were burnt out, the rest were burnt very well. Although the reddish-brown appearance is not very good-looking, Chen Qi's current requirement is that it can be used.

Ali took out two more pottery bowls from another animal skin. These two were not reddish-brown, but blue, a very deep indigo blue. Ali took two blue pottery bowls. The bowl was handed to Chen Qi, "Yesterday I found that there were two blue dyed fruits at home, so I colored these two pottery bowls."

Chen Qi took the two blue pottery bowls in surprise. He thought that the pottery-making technology here was more primitive, but he didn't expect to use color to color the pottery. I have also seen white pottery, but at that time I thought it was because of natural discoloration after being used for too long.

After all, it was already evening, and the sun was going to go down in a short while, and the few people didn't say anything. Chen Qi chose five pottery bowls and two pottery cups and stuffed them into his backpack before leaving the tribe with Aze.

In the evening wilderness, there was no human voice, no car sound, and no traces of civilization that Chen Qi was familiar with. All he could see was the boundless yellow weeds and scattered towering trees. Aze's speed was not fast, and the wind was blowing. It's very comfortable when you blow it on. Chen Qi was lying on Aze's back, so comfortable that there was a hope that this road would never end.

"Aze, is there any black dyed fruit?"

"some."

Chen Qi raised his head slightly, just to see A Ze's well-defined profile, "Then next time you see it, please pick it up for me."

"good."

Before the two of them got home, they smelled an unpleasant stench in the air. Chen Qi sniffed, "Aze, do you smell anything?"

A Ze nodded, "Well, it smells a bit like a skunk." A Ze was surprised that he didn't have this smell when he took the Locust Dragon's eyes back first.

"Skunk?" Why is there a skunk here? Chen Qi was puzzled, and suddenly remembered the pile of traps laid out before he left yesterday, and asked a little uncertainly, "Isn't it caught by those traps?"

"I don't know, let's go take a look."

"Ok."

The stench was getting stronger and stronger as he got closer to home. Later, Chen Qi had to let A Ze put himself down, take off his coat and cover his nose and mouth tightly, and then he felt that he had regained a little breath. He also handed the cloth that he was going to use to make clothes in his backpack to Azer, and asked him to cover his mouth and nose like himself.

A Ze saw that Chen Qi didn't want to take another half step forward, "You wait here for a while, I'll deal with it first." After that, he walked to the place with the strongest smell.

Before Chen Qi could stop it, just as he was about to speak, a stench rushed into his mouth, almost causing him to spit it out on the spot, and quickly closed his mouth to wrap his coat more tightly. The skunks here are also too strong. Is this a hundred skunks on the earth releasing stench at the same time?

Azer's speed is very fast. When the skunk encounters an enemy attack, he will spray a poisonous liquid. Azer directly shakes the cloth in his hand. When he sees the gray-white struggling figure in the grass, he Immediately, he immediately covered it with a piece of cloth, and tightly wrapped the opponent. The nails quickly turned into beasts and became longer, and with one finger, he took the throat straight, and the gray-white cloth was instantly dyed red.

Azer gently cut the rope that bound the skunk, lifted the skunk and ran away from the house, and dug a hole to bury it. Of course, the cloth is to be taken back, but Azer frowned at the cloth that smelled almost as bad as a skunk. After thinking about it, put the cloth in the grass next to it, or wait for the odor to dissipate before recycling it. .

When Azer came back, Chen Qi already felt that the stench in the surrounding air had subsided, but when Azer got close, he couldn't help but take a few steps back, and Azer even got the smell on his body.

Seeing Chen Qi's performance, Aze stopped, raised his arm and sniffed, his face quickly darkened, damn, he even forgot that skunks would stain the enemy's body.

Chen Qi waved his hand a little embarrassedly and suggested, "Why don't you take a fig and take a bath first."

"Yeah." A Ze replied dully, and went back to the house to get water with a dark face. It's almost night, Aze himself can't leave Chen Qi alone and run into the Chishui River to wash himself. Fortunately, there was still a large pot of water left yesterday, and Aze directly carried the pot to the door. I picked a bunch of figs out into the tall grass.

Chen Qi also didn't want to stay in this stinking place. He remembered that there were still dozens of traps, and planned to recover the traps. As a result, he couldn't help but be startled. There were almost one-third of the forty or fifty traps. As soon as it was touched, the ropes of several traps were bitten off, but how many animals were there in the vicinity in just two days?

After a circle, Chen Qi didn't find the skunk again, but he harvested three hares and two big-eared foxes. After tying up the prey, Chen Qi thought for a while, avoiding the usual route of several people going in and out, and continuing to arrange traps around the house. Even if he didn't hunt the prey, he could give him an extra layer of security.

After finishing everything, the sun also went down. After Chen Qi returned to the house, he used a wooden stick to raise the door curtain. After two days, the house was full of the smell of cured meat. He lit the fire in the middle of the house, and then hung the door. move the cured meat back to the corner. Aze hasn't come back yet, and he doesn't know if the smell on his body can be washed off.

The water in the last clay pot had been taken away by Aze. Chen Qi could only pull out two succulents, cut a hole in the succulents with a sword-horn knife, poured the juice into the pottery plate, and cut them up. Several strips of cured meat and a handful of dried golden needles were put in and boiled slowly. Because there was no water to clean, Chen Qi only handled a rabbit outside the door. After peeling the skin and removing the internal organs, it was directly skewered on a wooden stick and roasted on a fire. Anyway, the fire can burn most of the dirty things. Chen Qi also There is no serious cleanliness, so I can only eat like this. Other prey are tied with tough ropes and placed in corners.

When A Ze came back, he was a little hesitant to stand at the door, and he didn't dare to approach Chen Qi. His bare arms were rubbed red, and he lowered his head and said at a loss, "That smell can't be washed away."

Chen Qi's head was full of black lines, and he beckoned to the big man at the door, Aze hesitated before leaning over. Without getting close to the other party, Chen Qi could smell the skunk smell and sighed silently in his heart. Fortunately, the smell was much lighter after cleaning. Now it is just within the range that he can accept, and he won't hold back like he did just now. Mouth and nose almost thought that he would be stinked to death just like that.

Seeing A Ze's sullen look, Chen Qi used a bamboo tube to fill a large bamboo tube with boiled meat slices with water and milk fruit for the other party, comforting: "Don't worry, the taste will probably be gone tomorrow, just endure it for a night. Go to bed early after eating, and you won't be able to smell it when you fall asleep."