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Chapter 34
"God, are you still telling stories about your ancestors tonight?"

"Of course!"

"Tell a story! Tell a story!"

Bai tapped the bowl with a bamboo stick, applauding excitedly.

People looking up at the sky returned to the cave, sat down by the blazing bonfire, and couldn't wait to hear Zhang Tian tell today's story.

This is one of the few entertainment activities in the tribe, and Zhang Tian turned it into the most anticipated project of the tribe, because the stories he told were novel and interesting enough.

Following his narration, the clansmen can't help imagining the world in the story, and feel that their lives are no longer limited to this small cave, and their thinking and vision have quietly improved in the process.

Zhang Tian looked at his clansmen, and before starting today's narration, he asked the men a question: "Have you finished pounding the swim bladder?"

The men suddenly complained about the change of color of the swim bladder, and complained endlessly. Seeing that the women didn't understand why, they gave them the swim bladder to pound.

After trying for a while, the women realized that it was not a good job.

Zhang Tian laughed and asked, "It's not easy to smash the swim bladder, isn't it?"

"Not only is it not easy, it's much harder than hunting!"

"How does that compare to removing a mountain? Is it harder to smash a fish maw, or is it harder to move a mountain?"

"Of course it is more difficult to move mountains!" Everyone said without thinking, "At least fish maw can be smashed, how can mountains be moved?"

"Mountains can be moved of course!" Zhang Tian vowed, "What I want to tell today is the story of our ancestors moving mountains..."

Lin Yu sat in an inconspicuous corner, watching a group of strange faces chattering in an unfamiliar language. Although it was very noisy, she felt that the voice was so far away, so far away that it was unreal, as if it came from another world.

Loneliness hit her unexpectedly and engulfed her.

Wandering alone in the mountains and forests for several days, she didn't feel lonely, but at this moment, she suddenly felt that everything was boring.

Her language will never be understood, her story will never be told, her thoughts will never be understood, and her secrets will only rot in her stomach forever.

Perhaps tens of thousands of years later, when she is dug out, her peers will point to her pelvis and say lightly, "Oh, this is a woman."

The only solace these days is witnessing the prehistoric giants.

Mammoth, mammoth...

Sensing her depression, Lan Hua asked with concern: "Are you okay?"

Lin Yu shook his head, cheering up a little.

Either way, she still has to live.

It's bad, but it's not the worst, at least I don't have amnesia... she thought optimistically.

She gradually calmed down, her brain was running fast, and she used the knowledge she had learned to analyze the situation.

Mammoths, woolly rhinos, saber-toothed cats and other giants lived in the Pleistocene, starting from the period of active glaciers 260 million years ago and ending with the Younger Dryas event 12000 years ago. This group of people, with round heads, high foreheads, and flat cheeks, is undoubtedly the ancestor of modern humans, Homo sapiens.

Homo sapiens...

10 years ago, the overlords of Europe were the Neanderthals, while the Denisovans dominated Asia for a long time, and it was difficult to find an opponent. At that time, Homo sapiens was still practicing in retreat in a corner of Africa.

Until 7 years ago, intelligent people who practiced peerless miraculous skills poured out of Africa like a tide. It took tens of thousands of years to drive the European overlords to a dead end and drive the Asian kings out of the earth. The terrifying upright ape that terrorizes creatures around the world.

Being able to see Homo sapiens in temperate hilly areas shows that the age we are in today will not be earlier than this time.

Fortunately, the appearance of ancient Homo sapiens and modern Homo sapiens is not much different. If the person who caught her was a Neanderthal or a Denisovan, she would probably be killed as a strange species.

If the date is determined to be between 1 and 7 years before history, then three things do not make sense.

First, where did the modern knives of this group of primitive people come from?

She asked her grandma, and grandma still pushed everything to the sky in such a clever way, as if the sky could drop a knife.

Second, why do Chinese words appear in their language?

Thirdly, why is that boy named Tian telling the story of "The Foolish Old Man Moved the Mountain" to the tribe? !
"...A long time ago, our ancestors didn't live here, but lived in the upper reaches of the river."

"I know! Grandma told that story!"

Bai joined in as always, she was sitting next to Zhang Tian today, her hair was black and shiny after washing, and Zhang Tian didn't need to catch fleas for her.

Zhang Tian pinched her chubby face and said, "The story I told was even earlier. Grandma said that in the upper reaches of the river, there are no mountains, only a boundless prairie, and the grassland is full of food. Beast of the Grass."

Everyone nodded secretly. Grandma just told the story of the ancestors' migration and mentioned this point in the story.

Zhang Tian deliberately borrowed the background of Grandma's story, which would make his story more believable.

He changed the topic and said: "But in fact, a long time ago, there was a big mountain there, and our ancestor Yugong lived on the opposite side of that mountain, and he had to climb over that mountain every day when he went hunting on the grassland. Very hard."

"One day, Yu Gong gathered his people and decided to level the mountain and move it away so that the road would lead to the grassland, so hunting would no longer have to cross mountains and ridges."

After thinking for a while, Xiao Xiao couldn't help but said: "But with human strength, you can dig up to ten baskets of soil every day. The mountain is so big, even if you dig for a lifetime, it is impossible to remove it!"

Everyone agreed one after another, deeply agreeing.

Zhang Tian said with a smile: "At that time, some people questioned Yu Gong with the same words. Guess how Yu Gong answered?"

The clansmen looked at each other in blank dismay, but no one could answer.

Only Bai Bai said while counting with his fingers: "If you can't finish digging in one lifetime, dig in two lives, if you can't finish digging in two lives, dig in three lives... one day you can finish digging!"

The clansmen laughed loudly, Fengye pinched her daughter's face and said, "A person can only live for one life, so how can there be two or three lives?"

The child's childish words are innocent, and everyone laughed it off, but didn't take it to heart.

Only Xiao lowered his head, showing a thoughtful look, and after a while, he raised his head, and there was no more confusion in his eyes.

Zhang Tian said: "It seems Xiao Xiao has thought of the answer."

Everyone cast suspicious glances at Xiao Xiao.

Xiao Zhengse said: "It is true that a person can only live for one life, but when a person dies, there are still sons, and sons have sons, which are passed down from generation to generation, endlessly, but the mountains will not grow higher and bigger. Are you afraid that the digging will not be level?"

"That's right, that's what Yugong answered!" Zhang Tian clapped his palms and smiled, "Yugong said that mountains will not grow bigger and bigger. As long as people are not afraid of hard work and hardships, they persist in digging mountains every day, even if they are as high as the sky. There will always be a day when the mountain is dug up!"

Everyone was shocked, shocked by the determination contained in these words. They seemed to be able to see an old man with a determined expression struggling to dig up the mountains and soil, day after day, tirelessly, and never giving up.

The men suddenly felt ashamed. What the ancestors were facing was a mountain as high as the sky, and they only had a swim bladder for a while, and then they whimpered. They wanted to retreat despite the difficulties, and they were really ashamed of their ancestors.

"Then did he succeed?" Bai asked everyone's thoughts.

"Of course!"

Zhang Tian said: "There is nothing difficult in the world, as long as there is a heart. Since then, Yugong led the people to dig mountains every day, and they moved the dug rocks to the lower reaches of the river. After Yugong died, his son continued to lead The clansman moved the mountain, and when the son died, it was the turn of the son's son..."

"After many, many generations, finally, our ancestors moved the mountain in front of the cave to the downstream of the river, and there is no high mountain blocking the way to the grassland ever since."

"And the mountain that was removed by the ancestors slowly grew trees and grass, formed caves, and finally became the forest we live in!"

Everyone suddenly realized.

At the end of the story, they realized that their ancestors were so close to them. The cave where they lived and the stone they stepped on were probably moved by Yugong little by little a long time ago. It seems that I can still feel the persistence of my ancestors.

Thinking of this, the men no longer complained of suffering and tiredness, and silently picked up the bowl to pound the fish maw.

(End of this chapter)