The Rise of Primitive Tribes Farming

Chapter 20 Fishing and Hunting

Three days later, the ice and snow had almost melted, and the Mang tribe's hunting team set off on time.

This was the first time the Mang tribe's hunting team went hunting, Chen Bei was worried, so he went with them.

Before setting off, witches should draw totem patterns for important members of the hunting team. It is said that in this way, they can get the protection of the totem god during the hunt.

Qing Zhu held a wooden bowl of paint in his left hand, and an animal brush in his right, drawing totem patterns on Chen Bei's face.

While she was drawing, she was chanting an obscure incantation, which seemed to be some ancient blessing spell.

Her hands are very steady, there is almost no pause, and she does it in one go.

After finishing the painting, Qingzhu hesitated for a while, and said in a low voice: "I made a divination last night, you may encounter danger when you go hunting this time, so be careful."

"Don't worry, I'll be careful."

Qing Zhu nodded slightly, turned around and began to draw totem patterns for the clouds. She had already told Chen Bei the result of the divination, and there was only so much she could do.

The rest of the hunting team are not qualified to let Wu draw the totem pattern by himself, and the elders of the family usually draw it for them in advance.

After Qing Zhu finished drawing the totem on Yun's face, he said, "May the God of Totem bless you and return with a fruitful harvest."

Chen Bei picked up the hunting equipment he had prepared, and said loudly: "Let's go!"

The ten members of the hunting team put their belongings on their backs, turned around and walked into the forest. They were nervous and excited, but they were not afraid.

Because they believed that with the blessing of the witch, they would return safely.

This is the power of faith.

Since the hunting team were all totem warriors, they traveled very fast, and disappeared into the vast forest in the blink of an eye.

Qingzhu put down the wooden bowl, and took out a piece of broken animal bone from the animal skin bag that he carried, with traces of flames on it.

This animal bone is used for divination, which is a very ancient method of divination. During divination, one silently recites a mantra, burns the animal bone with flames, and obtains the result by observing the shape of the cracks that appear after the animal bone is burned.

"Whether this disaster can be avoided or not depends on how the leader chooses."

Qingzhu sighed slightly, put away the tortoise shell, picked up the wooden bowl, turned and walked back.

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On the other side, Lie led the fishing team to the river with a large number of fishing tools.

Together with them is the elder Mu, because there are many unknown dangers hidden in the river, so Chen Bei asked the elders to come over and watch over them, so as not to let them do anything dangerous.

"Elder, please sit down."

Lie found a relatively flat piece of wood by the river beach and asked the elders to sit and watch them fish.

After all, the elder is old and has no totem power, so his legs and feet can't bear it after standing for a long time.

The elder sat down and said to Lie: "The leader said that before we are familiar with this river, no one is allowed to enter the water, and we can only use tools to fish on the shore."

"The reason why I let my old bones stare at you is because I am afraid that the newly awakened totem warrior will use his totem power to do reckless things and cause danger."

Strongly vowed: "Elder, don't worry, if anyone dares to act recklessly, I will definitely beat him hard, and then starve him for a few meals until he has a long memory."

The elder nodded in satisfaction, and said, "Go and do your work, this is the first time fishing this year, and there are new totem warriors, keep an eye on it."

"it is good."

Lie began to direct the fishing team to work. Since they couldn't go into the water, they could only dig some earthworms, catch some insects as bait, fish, put the fish baskets, and cast nets. They haven't learned yet, so they can only find a Try a few more places.

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Besides, the hunting team, after entering the forest, the newly awakened totem warriors were especially excited, wishing to shout excitedly while running.

It wasn't until Yun glared at them fiercely for a few times that they restrained themselves a little and followed the old soldier obediently.

This time Chenbei came out not only to take them hunting, but more importantly, the salt in the tribe was almost gone, so he had to go to the salt flats to fill the salt soil and bring it back to cook the salt.

Therefore, Chen Bei took them all the way forward, only hunting a few small prey along the way, and they continued on their way when they were full.

This made the new totem warriors a little uncomfortable. They clearly saw their prey several times, but they couldn't fight and kept on their way.

"Captain, where are we going? Why don't we hunt?"

A new totem warrior couldn't help but ask Yun.

Yun was actually quite puzzled, but since Chen Bei didn't say anything, he didn't dare to ask, so he had to follow Chen Bei on the way.

"Shut up, we will go wherever the leader is going, and if you ask nonsense again, I won't take you out next time."

After a few words from Yunji, the new totem warrior shrank his neck, a little aggrieved, but he didn't dare to ask any more.

I kept on driving like this, from morning to evening, and finally arrived at the salt flat.

Seeing that piece of white salt soil again, Chen Bei was still very excited, it was all salt!
There are several stone mountains next to the salt soil. There is not much vegetation on the mountains, but many sunken stone caves are formed at the foot of the mountains.

"We'll camp here tonight, Yun. Two of us will collect dry firewood, and the others will hunt some prey with me for dinner."

"Yes."

Yun ordered two new totem warriors to collect dry firewood, but the two were not happy about it. After a day of driving, they finally had a chance to hunt, so they went to collect firewood again.

However, even if they are dissatisfied, they can only endure it. Who told them not to be the captain.

The vegetation near the saline soil is sparse, and there is not much prey, unless it happens to encounter a mammal that supplements the salt.

Chen Bei led the totem warriors to a place with dense vegetation, and then fanned out to look for prey.

"Step lightly, breathe lightly, pay attention to observation, use your ears to listen to the movement around you, the prey will often make some unusual sounds..."

As Yun walked, he taught the new totem warriors in a low voice.

"Squat down."

Chen Bei stopped walking suddenly, waved his hands to the back, and asked everyone to squat down.

Yun and the others looked intently, only to see a mammal grazing in front of them.

It has brown-red fur all over its body, a pair of short horns on its head, and four small hooves. It looks a bit like a deer, but it is obviously different from a deer.

"This is barking deer, we have dinner tonight."

Yun licked his lips and pulled out the short spear behind him.

Chen Bei said: "Surround it quietly, be careful, don't let it run away."

With a wave of Chen Bei's hand, the totem warriors who had already been trained quietly dispersed and surrounded the red deer in a fan shape.

After everyone was seated, Chen Bei stood up and took the lead in throwing the stone spear in his hand.

"Whoosh!"

The stone spear flew towards the red deer with a whistling sound, the red deer was startled, jumped up suddenly, a few feet above the ground, unexpectedly avoided the stone spear.

But at this time, before it landed, several stone spears had already flown towards it, and it couldn't dodge at all...

After a while, Yun dragged the red deer weighing about [-] to [-] kilograms to the campsite. Those totem warriors were very excited, after all, they participated in the hunting for the first time, even though it was only a small prey.

In the cave, a fire was already lit. Yun skillfully peeled off the bark deer's skin, and then removed its internal organs. The edible heart, liver, kidney, etc. were skewered and roasted with wooden sticks that had been scraped off the skin.

Then the whole barking deer is also threaded with a big wooden stick and roasted on the fire.

After a short time, the aroma of the meat permeated the air, and everyone was hungry, swallowing their saliva while waiting for the meat to be cooked.

"Leader, you eat first."

Yun respectfully handed the roasted heart, liver, and kidney to Chen Bei, which is also the prerogative of the leader.

The offal contains rich nutrition, and it is usually given to the highest ranking person in the hunting team to eat.

Chen Bei was not polite either, and bit it immediately after receiving it.

"Disadvantage of salt."

Maybe it's because I'm used to eating salt in winter, and I'm not used to eating food without salt.

Although there is salt soil next to it, Chen Bei didn't dare to sprinkle it directly on the meat, so he had to endure it.Go back to the tribe and eat better.

(End of this chapter)