Crossing to Live in the Wilderness Plains

The annual meeting of the Lion and Wolf Tribe is actually equivalent to a grand blind date meeting. Every night when the meeting starts, young orcs without a partner will gather next to the fire in the Tribal Square to hold a barbecue dinner, while taking the opportunity to find out. with his other half.

In order not to make himself look different, Chen Qi changed into an animal skin coat before departure, but he was really not used to wearing an animal skin skirt, so he made a pair of wide pants that looked like a skirt from a distance and put them on.

Ale ran out of sight since he settled down, and the other two females also took things to other places in the morning to look for supplies to be exchanged. Chen Qike didn't plan to go to the big fire to join in the fun. He built a small fire in the place where several people were resting. While helping to roast half a warthog, he cut a water and milk fruit and put it on the fire to make broth.

When A-Zhang came back, he seemed very worried. He unloaded the backpack on his back and put it on the ground. He sat by the fire and tore a piece of wart pork and took a big bite. Then he said to Chen Qi with a sad face, "Maybe it will be changed this year. No more flint."

Since the inexplicable man left, Aze kept his head down and didn't speak, and didn't look at Chen Qi. Chen Qi actually didn't care much about what happened between them, but he was also afraid that Azer would keep his thoughts in his heart and what would happen. The problem came, in order to distract Azer's attention, Chen Qizheng sent Azer to organize the animal skins that needed to be exchanged into small portions, and planned to go to someone to exchange salt stones after dinner. Hearing Ah Zhang's words, Chen Qi raised his head in amazement, "Why?"

"I went looking for the people from the Yanshan tribe just now and couldn't find them. I heard from others that the people from the Yanshan tribe haven't come yet."

"The Yanshan tribe? Are they the only ones with flint?"

A Zhang nodded, "Only the tribes around here will have flint, and now people from other tribes are waiting for the Yanshan tribe." The Yanshan tribe has a relatively small number of people, and A Zhang and the others will rush back to the tribe at the latest the day after tomorrow. Continuing to keep busy with food storage, there is no time to spend here waiting for the arrival of the Yanshan tribe.

Chen Qizheng wanted to say something, but was interrupted by a distant scream.

"I found you." Ah Shu was carrying the newly acquired animal skin backpack and ran towards Chen Qi excitedly. As soon as he walked to the front, he couldn't wait to pull out three fist-sized salt stones from his backpack and hand them to Chen Qi, "Here you are."

Chen Qi was stunned for a while, and looked a little strangely at the big boy whose face was flushed because he ran too fast, "Why give it to me?"

"Your backpack is very useful. This is the salt stone for exchanging backpacks with you."

"Do you want to exchange another backpack?" Chen Qi wondered.

"No, no." Ashu quickly waved his hand and explained: "The number of half octopuses you exchanged with me before was too small. This is to make up for the exchange number. I can't take advantage of you."

Chen Qi looked at the other party with a funny look. If this is not the case in modern times, I'm afraid that I hadn't gone home and snickered, and who would have felt so badly that the other party was at a disadvantage and had to make up for it. "No, a backpack is enough for your half octopus, and you gave me some pretty shells."

"How can this be done?" Seeing Chen Qi rejecting Ah Shu was a little anxious, if Bai took Xiongzi's backpack back, he would be beaten to death by his brother, "We brought a lot of salt stones here, we originally planned to replace them with flint stones, but this year the The people from the mountain tribe can't come, anyway, they have to exchange animal skins, and I gave them according to the amount exchanged with other people."

"Can't the people from the Yanshan tribe come? Why?" A Zhang, who was beside him, interjected and asked.

"Don't you know? Today, my brother went out hunting with the hunting team of the Lion and Wolf Tribe. I heard that the Yanshan Tribe were attacked by the Hyena Dragon on their way, and winter is coming soon, so they couldn't make it in time this year. We plan to replace all the salt stones and go back to the tribe, and if we hurry up, we can return to the tribe before winter."

"Winter hasn't come yet, how could there be Hyena Dragons on the plains?" A Zhang's face turned gloomy, it was not a good thing to hear the news of Hyena Dragons at this time.

A Shu stuffed the salt stone into Chen Qi's arms and shrugged at A Zhang's question, "I don't know either."

Chen Qizheng wanted to refuse, but when he saw that Ah Shu was going to turn around and leave, he thought about it and quickly asked, "Are you going to replace all the salt stones with animal skins? We have a lot of animal skins and animal skin backpacks, if you can You can exchange it with us."

Ah Shu stopped and said, "Really? My brother is so jealous of the backpack I got. I'll tell them that I'll bring the salt stone to exchange with you now." run away.

Chen Qi reluctantly looked at Ah Shu's retreating back. He returned to the fire and filled a small bowl of water, milk and fruit broth in the only pottery bowl he brought, and approached Ah Ze who had finished sorting out the animal skins and sat beside him in a daze. , handed the pottery bowl to the other party, "You must be exhausted after rushing all day with so many things on your back today, drink some broth first to cushion your stomach."

A Ze came back to his senses, looked at Chen Qi steadily, and did not take the pottery bowl that was handed over. Chen Qi patiently held the pottery bowl and waited for the other party's response. After a long time, Azer slightly looked away and said in a low voice, "I'm sorry."

Chen Qi sighed, shoved the pottery bowl into the opponent's hand, squatted down in front of the opponent, looked directly at A Ze's eyes, and said seriously, "A Ze, I don't know how important pregnancy stretch marks are to you, I only Knowing that without you I would die on the plains where the first snow began, that without you I would have no place to live, no food, no house, and I wouldn't be standing here now without you. And these Whether you have stretch marks or not has nothing to do with me, for me, A Ze is A Ze, without stretch marks, you are still A Ze I know."

A Ze's ears moved, and he turned his head slightly to avoid Chen Qichi's gaze, "But I was abandoned by the beast god, my father died not long after I was born, and the tribe was also destroyed by the Hyena Dragon. My father took me to the new tribe. He took me to live with my new partner. When Carlo was born, his father almost didn't survive. This has never happened before that a female and a child will be in danger during childbirth. It must be because I came here, and not long after my father left, Carlo's father also left, and then the tribe was gone." He never told Chen Qi about this, he used to be afraid if If he told Chen Qi about his own affairs, Chen Qi would leave him, but now he just wants to say it all, and he doesn't want Chen Qi to know these things from other people's mouths in the future.

"Do you think that you brought disaster to the tribe, so you chose to live alone in the wilderness in order not to harm the tribe?"

Aze pursed his thin lips and did not speak.

Chen Qi turned to A Zhang who was sitting by the fire happily tearing wart pork and asked loudly, "A Zhang, did the Hyena Dragon attack happen in the tribe before Aze came?"

A Zhang looked at him suspiciously. He had been busy eating just now and didn't pay attention to what the two were saying, "The Hyena Dragon attacked? Yes, A Li's foot was bitten by the Hyena Dragon." A Zhang seems to be because of this The question seemed to remember something, and the tough face became softer, "I was almost eaten by a hyena dragon because of that incident."

Almost being eaten and showing such a happy expression? Chen Qi was a bit dark, but he didn't have time to explore A-Zhang's weird emotions now, so he faced A-Ze again, "Did you hear that? Even without you, the Hyena Dragons will still come when they come to attack the tribe. ."

A Ze's lips moved, just as he was about to refute, he was interrupted by Chen Qi raising his hand: "A Ze, what are you afraid of? Why do you want me to live with you?"

afraid of what? A Ze stared blankly at Chen Qi, whose eyes were full of worry, yes, what is he afraid of? Afraid that going back to live in the tribe will bring disaster to the tribe? Afraid to live with Carlo, Carlo will leave first like Dad and Dad? But why does he want Chen Qi to stay by his side? If it's for the other party's good, shouldn't he just throw him into the tribe and turn around and leave? Why are you so active in helping each other build a house? Is it because Chen Qi is the first male who is willing to approach him even if he knows he has no stretch marks?

"It's here, it's here." Ah Shu left quickly and came back quickly, seeing Chen Qi hurriedly waving to say hello, "I brought salt stones here."

Chen Qi patted Aze on the shoulder comfortingly, and went to the side to pick up two bags containing animal skin backpacks and animal skins to meet him.

There was also a tall female who followed Ashu, half a head taller than Aze, with slightly fluffy short brown-black hair, a rare blue eye, and a huge bulging animal skin behind him. pack.

Ashu then remembered that he hadn't asked Chen Qi's name yet, and quickly pulled the arm of the tall man beside him, "My name is Ashu, this is my brother Axu, we are all from the Luoshui tribe, I don't know yet. Where's your name?" After saying that, he turned around in embarrassment.

Chen Qi smiled, "My name is Chen Qi, and I belong to the Yanshan tribe."

A Xu nodded to Chen Qi, and then greeted A Zhang who was not far away. He knew A Zhang, and every year A Zhang would bring animal skins and clay pots to exchange salt stones with people from their tribe. A Xu put the animal skin wrapped like a hill behind him on the ground, and his voice was low and magnetic, "This is all the salt stones I brought here, you can see if it is enough to exchange your animal skins."

Chen Qi took a look. There are probably more than a hundred salt stones in it. If they were all exchanged, it would save him having to go to other people to exchange them. He turned around and waved to A Ze, indicating that A Ze would bring the beasts they brought over. Get all the skins.

Ah Shu also put the animal skin package he was carrying on his back in front of Chen Qi. His package was smaller, but there were dozens of salt stones, "I also have some salt stones here, so let's exchange them with you."