original chef king

Chapter 5
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The old man ignored Li Qi's inquiry at all, and dragged him to follow the others into the cave.

As soon as he entered the cave, Li Qi immediately felt a bit of coolness. Unlike what he imagined, there was no strong smell in the cave. In fact, when he came in just now, he deliberately held his breath because he felt that the savage lived in In the cave, if there is no smell, there will be ghosts. However, the smell is there, but it is not as scary as he imagined, and the cave is much bigger than he imagined, enough to accommodate dozens of people. Of course , which is calculated according to the straw mat inside.

At this time, the old woman and four older women were sitting on a natural stone slump, and the rest of the women were also sitting on their straw mats. Only the men were standing, but not casually. It was a protective formation, with weapons in their hands, which showed that they were still on guard against Li Qi.

The old woman suddenly said to Li Qi: "After our discussion, we are willing to keep you."

Li Qi was overjoyed when he heard that, and said excitedly, "This, this, thank you so much! Not only did you save my life, but you are also willing to take me in. I am so touched!"

The old woman didn't seem to like Li Qi's tricks. If he had no ability, she wouldn't keep him, and said majesticly: "But you must abide by the rules of our Black Stone Valley, and you must not do anything that breaks the rules. , Otherwise, I will drive you out of here, or even execute you to death."

"Understood! Understood!" Li Qi nodded and agreed without thinking, "I have no other advantages, but I just like to follow the rules. I don't know. What are the rules here?" But he thought in his heart that the rules are for breaking , If I don't destroy it, why am I here?

The old woman said: "I will tell you later, you follow him first."

Li Qi glanced at Rong Rong, then nodded and smiled, "Understood, I understand."

He thought that although this Rong had a terrifying body and strength, his appearance was relatively simple and honest, much better than that boy.

The old woman nodded towards the woman next to her, and saw that the woman handed the old man a thick rope with a cub's little finger. The rope was not made of hemp or silk, but twisted with vine silk.

The old man took the rope and immediately climbed up the one-meter-high natural stone steps behind the old woman.

Li Qi looked up and found that there was a huge net hanging on the stone wall on the stone steps, but it didn't look like a fishing net. Some of the net knots were painted with various colors, but it wasn't colorful. , in short, not very good looking.

I also saw the old man tie the rope to the far right of the net and tie a small knot.

The old woman immediately said: "Okay! Now you are from our Black Stone Valley."

"Huh? Oh oh..."

Li Qi didn't seem to be able to react, thinking, could it be the green card awarding ceremony just now?He looked at the net again, did I miss some detail?Suddenly my heart moved, could it be that this is the so-called Knotting Notes?Yes!Yes!It must be!This is the most primitive contract of mankind.

Wonderful!Wonderful!
Li Qi actually doesn't know much about knotting and keeping records. He just knows that in the age without writing, primitive people used this method to record some deeds and conclude contracts. The size and color of the knots All represent different meanings.

From a vague concept to the reality in front of him, this makes him feel very amazing.

However, that was all there was to the whole ceremony, and then the old woman sent everyone to work outside.

Everyone came out of the cave one after another, no one took the initiative to communicate with Li Qi, they all just glanced at Li Qi briefly.

This made Li Qi a little surprised. He thought that everyone would be very enthusiastic about him. After all, he can cook, but then he realized that this is actually human nature, especially these days. Humans still maintain the nature of animals. The legal system and morality, and human beings are not very powerful, so they must be more wary of strangers. In fact, human beings in the future will be the same, but the people here don't know how to cover up.

Li Qi even flirted with those girls. He originally hoped to win the other party's favor by relying on his handsome appearance. There are two things that he is most proud of in his life. The first is his appearance.The second is cooking.The so-called culinary skills conquer one's stomach, and appearance conquers one's heart, it has been tried and tested repeatedly.

It's a pity that those girls all stayed away, and no one was even a little bit tempted, which hurt Li Qi very much.

Could it be that my delicate and handsome appearance doesn't belong to the popular type here?Only those like Rong are popular?Uh, actually, that's fine too, if they all fall in love with me, wouldn't I be tortured by them day and night, just thinking about them like that is scary!

When Li Qi gave full play to the spirit of Ah Q, Na Rong suddenly came to Li Qi's side and said very stiffly: "Go out."

"Oh."

Li Qi also nodded dully, just as he turned around, he suddenly found many strange paintings on the stone wall on the right. He couldn't help but walked over and looked up at the densely packed murals. There were at least hundreds of images of people and animals. , looks like it was painted with charcoal ash.

But one word can describe it, it is vulgar.

It was drawn by a three-year-old child.

At this time, the old man also came over, glanced at the painting on the stone wall, and smiled.

"Taba!"

Suddenly I heard a childish cry, and saw a small figure flying over, grabbing the old man's beard with his small hand, using his strength to swing, turned over and rode on the old man's shoulders, it was a white fat man, with his hands Grabbing the old man's hair, tearing it, shouting, "Taba, tell a story, Taba, tell a story."

Li Qi was stunned, not to mention the old man, even if he was so young, if he was grabbed by the beard and swung around by this little fat man, not to mention the pain, he would have to fall down, but the old man was fine. , calmly, as if he was used to it, let the little fat man pull his hair at him, and pat the little fat man's buttocks, and said with a smile: "I'll talk about it at night, I'll talk about it at night."

Yes!I can lay my hands on these little brats.Li Qi suddenly approached the little fat boy and said, "Which of these did you draw?"

The little fat boy immediately put his hands around the old man's neck, hid his little face in his dry, fluffy white hair, only half of his face was exposed, and looked at Li Qi timidly. Qi still had the slightest bit of fear.

"I drew it, I painted it."

The old man said excitedly.

"Huh? You drew it."

Li Qi was astonished, and looked carefully at the painting on it again. This style of brushwork does not look like it was drawn by an adult at all!But he said against his will: "Wow! This painting is really wonderful! Amazing! Amazing."

The old man smiled complacently, as if to say, everyone thinks so.He had no idea how hypocritical Li Qi was.

You are so funny too!Li Qi looked up at the murals again, and suddenly frowned, inexplicably having a feeling of déjà vu, secretly thinking, strange!I feel like I've seen this painting before, it's impossible, it's the first time I've seen such an ugly painting.Suddenly, he opened his eyes and stared again, with shock in his eyes. Could it be... Could this be the predecessor of our Chinese characters?

After having this concept, those patterns gradually evolved into Chinese characters in Li Qi's mind.

"Wonderful! Wonderful! This is really wonderful!" Li Qi shook his head and praised. Compared with the hypocritical praise in the first sentence, this sentence is obviously from the heart.

The old man smiled stupidly, looking even more proud.

Knotting notes.pictograph.matrilineal society.collective system.All of these are clearly the characteristics of the primitive era, but why their power has surpassed my understanding of human beings?

Li Qi suddenly felt as if he was in a fog, and there were too many doubts bothering him.

After a while, he went out of the cave together with the old man Rong He, and when he arrived at the entrance of the cave, he saw a colorful butterfly flying past his eyes.

"Wow! Is this a butterfly?" Li Qi couldn't help being startled, because the butterfly was almost as big as a cattail fan, flying in the air, it was extremely beautiful.

Snapped!
A stone flew from nowhere and shot down the butterfly.

Damn it, who is so immoral!Li Qi couldn't help frowning.

"Hit it! I hit it!"

"kill!"

In an instant, the killing sound shook the sky.

I also saw a group of little kids with all kinds of wood and stones rushing towards them with hideous faces, behind them was thick dust billowing.

They rushed forward directly, hitting the butterfly with stones and logs.

After a while, the butterfly had been beaten to pieces by them, beyond recognition.

Li Qi took a sharp breath and thought, why are these children so cruel? If I resign now, I don't know if it will be too late.

I also saw an older kid holding butterfly fragments and distributing them to his little friends, saying: "When we grow up and have great power, we will be able to hunt and kill bigger beasts."

It turned out that they were playing a game of hunting. A group of little kids took the spoils and chased them away.

You can't mess with these little kids in the future, it will be life-threatening.Li Qi wiped off his cold sweat, and glanced away, and saw that the adults turned a blind eye to this, everyone was busy with their own work, women were sewing animal skins with bone needles, or making bone ornaments, men Almost all of them are polishing stone tools.

Li Qi looked at the old man again, and said, "Old man, do you dare to ask your name?"

Hearing this, the old man couldn't help but looked at him suspiciously.

Li Qi hurriedly said, "What's your name?"

"Taba." The old man said hehe, "You can just call me Taba."

"his dad?"

Li Qi blinked, feeling that the name was really disgusting, especially since he was still a man, it was really hard to pronounce it, he habitually cupped his hands, and said vaguely: "So it's old Mr. Taba, disrespect, disrespect .”

Taba seemed to be full of confusion about Li Qi's words and deeds, and continued: "Taba, you can just call me Taba."

"Yes, yes." Li Qi nodded.

He also found that there seems to be no respectful title these days, they are all called by name directly, which is a bit too much for equality.

"Taba! Taba!"

Suddenly, a woman shouted towards them.

Taba responded and immediately walked over.

Li Qi looked at the dull Rong again, and asked, "Where do I sleep?"

Rong hand pointed upwards.

Li Qi looked up, pointed at the small stone cave that was many feet high above, and said, "You mean that cave?"

Rong nodded.

Li Qi shook his head and looked left and right. There were no steps on both sides, not even a wooden ladder. He couldn't help wondering: "How do you get up here?"

In just the blink of an eye, Rong was already standing at the top of the hole, and he couldn't even be said to be climbing up. He jumped up in place, tapped his toes lightly on the stone wall, and jumped up.

Li Qi blinked, feeling aggrieved in his heart, everyone is human, why is there such a big difference?Is it a matter of gravity?

He tried to jump, and found that the gravity was no problem at all, and his bounce was still so embarrassing.

There is no way, he can only use crawling.

Rong squatted on it, staring dumbfounded, as if he couldn't understand.

Fortunately, Li Qi was thick-skinned and didn't care at all. When he came to the entrance of the cave, he looked inside. Although it was not small, it could accommodate about ten people, but it was very messy, with dead grass and vines spread together. Relatively speaking, it is far less comfortable and tidy than the big hole below.

God!Am I going to live here from now on?What is the difference between this and an animal!Li Qi didn't even have the intention to go in, but he also saw some ways. The big hole below should be used by women and children, and the men lived in the three small holes above.

Li Qi really didn't want to go in, so he just sat down at the entrance of the cave, and suddenly asked Rong with a curious face: "Rong, who did you learn your ability to make fire from?"

He understands "lightness skills". After all, after a long period of training, human beings may barely be able to be similar to him, such as those parkourers, but it is absolutely impossible for human beings to make fire by drilling wood.

Rong said: "I didn't learn it from anyone, I figured it out myself."

Li Qi asked in surprise, "You came up with it?"

Rong nodded.

Li Qi asked again: "The rest of you don't know?"

Rong looked proudly: "They don't have such a powerful force."

After all, he couldn't help raising his steel-like arms, which was really a symbol of strength, but he quickly put them down, with a hint of sadness in his eyes.

Fortunately, he is the only one who can make fire by drilling wood like that. If everyone can do it, then I still have the courage to live.Li Qi nodded slightly, thinking to himself, could it be that human beings have just evolved from apes, so they still maintain the strength and speed of animals, while Rong just happens to be a genius among geniuses, well, it seems that's the only way to understand it.By the way, isn't the method of drilling wood to make fire an invention of Suirenshi?Li Qi tentatively asked, "Have you heard of the Suiren family?"

Rong shook his head.

After all, it is a myth and legend, and it cannot be verified.Li Qi immediately looked at Rong with a look of admiration. If drilling wood to make fire was invented by him, then he is the ancestor of human fire. But seeing Rong looking lonely, he immediately realized that he was the only one who knew before. What an honor, now that Li Qi, who can also make a fire, is here, I must feel a little uncomfortable.

Li Qi felt that this topic should not be talked about, and asked again: "By the way! Rong, what rules do we have in Black Stone Valley?"

"not many."

Rong immediately said: "You can't leave the valley at will, you can't go hunting without permission, you can't leave our territory of Heishi Valley, you can't hide food privately, you can't."

I don't know how long ago.

Li Qi was drowsy when he heard it, and only felt his eyelids drooping. It can be seen that Rong was still chanting expressionlessly, tears were about to come out, thinking, you almost said a hundred thousand times that you can't, That's not too much, is it?

In fact, there are not many rules, but they are too detailed, and many rules can be summarized together, and can be finished in one sentence.

After a long while, Rong suddenly frowned, and said while thinking, "It seems that there are so many!"

Li Qi lifted his spirits, and said, "Have you finally finished speaking? No, it's just a little bit!"

Rong nodded, then suddenly shook his head and said, "There is more, there is more."

Can I take back what I just said.Li Qi wanted to cry but said without tears: "What else?"

Rong suddenly pointed to the peak upstream of the creek, and said, "You can't go to that peak."

Li Qi raised his eyes and saw the peak looming in the clouds and mists. He asked curiously, "Why?"

Rong said: "This is the rule."

".!"

Rong asked again: "Do you remember?"

If this old man can remember it, then there is a ghost!Li Qi rolled his eyes and said with a smile: "Otherwise, I've asked you before everything, so that I won't make mistakes."

Rong thought about it, and thoughtfully said, "That's fine."

Li Qi hehe said: "That's it."

Rong suddenly glanced at Li Qi, hesitantly said: "You you..."

Li Qi came here alone, seeing Rong's expression, he immediately knew what he wanted to ask, and said with a smile, "You want me to teach you how to make a fire and cook, right?"

Rong nodded.

"Of course." Li Qi agreed very readily.

Rong was pleasantly surprised: "Really?"

"Of course!" Li Qi nodded, thinking, without the help of a younger brother, it would be difficult to be a chef!

PS: There is a chapter of nearly [-] words, Xiaoxi's character is still outstanding, and I hope everyone can support it, because there will be no recommendations in the past few days, and it depends entirely on the new book list.

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