Orcs’ Time Through Time

I originally asked Xin Mu and Aman not to keep prey. Today, the four of us ate the two pheasants and two hares, as well as some sweet potatoes and potatoes, so they ate the prey that Luo Lei brought back today. Up. There are about three kilograms of meat I got today at home. The pheasant left yesterday and the seven or eight kilograms of meat left by Luo Lei are still hanging on the wooden rack on the firepit, and I plan to make sweet potatoes at home tomorrow. Flour and potato flour, the day after tomorrow, to hit the grassland to see if you can get a sheep. However, Xin Mu and Aman insisted that they had eaten our food and must leave it to us. Finally, they fought for a long time to let them leave about six or seven catties of meat. Although they wanted to keep more, Luo Lei told them , We have something to do, so we used his majesty and coercion to shut them up and go back—except for Xin Mu’s ambiguous eyes and Aman’s sudden red ears when he left, I’m pretty satisfied with the result. .

They left, and Luo Lei went out too. I brought the clay pot to the side of the stream and washed it clean, then took another pot of water and put it on the firepit to cook, salted the fresh meat and placed it in a stone basin, and planned to start making sweet potato flour. I made sweet potato flour first, first because I have more sweet potatoes here, and second because I know more about making sweet potato flour. The tub of water that Luo Lei just installed was just for me to wash the sweet potatoes.

Wash the sweet potatoes, cut them into pieces with a bone knife, and place them in a stone basin. I will use a smooth stone to smash the sweet potatoes. In the past, in rural areas, this was done with a planer, and then washed with water after the sweet potato shreds were cut. After washing, the sweet potato shreds were picked up, and the water after washing the sweet potato shreds was deposited in the water. I don't have a planer, so I can only use this method to smash the sweet potato. Of course, it also wastes the material that can be used to make sweet potato shreds. However, this is also something that can't be helped without tools.

I was smashing the sweet potato, and Luo Lei opened the curtain and came in. He saw that I was smashing the sweet potato, but he was taken aback and took the stone from my hand. He is so passionate, of course I am willing to be lazy. So I brought a few thin wooden sticks and planned to make forks. The past few days have basically been walking on familiar roads, and the grass on the mountain is relatively short, and hunters have cleared it up. I was lucky that I didn’t meet snakes or anything, but I can’t relax because of this. If I plan to go a little further. , It’s best to prepare a long fork to explore the way. If you really encounter snakes or something, the long fork can also be useful.

Although there is no iron, there is a kind of wood here, the texture is relatively hard, not easy to break or crack, but it has a certain texture, it is easier to cut along the texture. I finally cut down a small tree of this kind a few days ago (the big one can't be cut). I cut down some small branches of this tree, sharpened and rounded them into dozens of wooden pegs and kept them for later use. Some of the larger branches were also sharpened to make the prongs of the long forks and the trunks. It was split into several pieces. One of them was rounded and used to make the handle of the long fork. In addition, I picked up a soft and well nailed wooden board to make the crossbar of the fork.

The males here may be due to their ability to transform. Generally, they do not make tools other than stone knives, bone knives, stone basins, and stone pots. The females here rarely come from tribes, and there is no need to make such tools. Moreover, it is not easy to live by hunting and picking every day, and they don't have time to think about this kind of things. So when Loray smashed the sweet potato and watched my movements, he asked, "What are you doing?"

I looked back at him and smiled at him: "I'm making a fork."

"Fork?" He didn't understand.

While thinking about how to explain to him, I considered the words and said: "You can fly, and there is that, the claws are very sharp. I can't fly, and I don't have claws. But I want to go out to find food, forks, and probes. Road, if I encounter a small animal, I can use a fork to fork it, and..."

He listened to me quietly, and slowly said, "If you don't want to go out, stay at home and I will bring back food."

Ah hello, I never said from start to finish that I don't want to go out, okay? However, think about what I said that I am very pitiful, and he is the target of my marriage soon, no wonder he said so. So I smiled at him: "I can also hunt. Although it is not a big animal, rabbits can still be caught. I also want to go out looking for fruit, sweet potatoes, potatoes, etc." I will look for them in the future. How can rice find wheat in the tribe like other females? I'm afraid I will mobilize other females to go out with me. A prosperous life also has to work hard by oneself.

He is still very indifferent: "If it is too dangerous, don't go. I will bring back enough food to support you, and in the future..."

Ahhhhhh, can this be considered a prehistoric marriage proposal? I couldn't help but smile in my heart. I don't know why, but I was a little touched. Could it be that I have been infected by the air here? Although I was once an unscrupulous writer, ambiguous and even Dan Meixiang wrote, and even thought that as long as someone loves each other, gender does not matter, whoever loves me is fine. But this shouldn't be love, right? Talking about love with prehistoric people seems a bit beyond my imagination...

With a little thought, I lowered my head and continued to cut the handle, "It's okay, I won't go if it's too dangerous."

Maybe it was because I was a little embarrassed. Luo Lei did not speak any more, but just came over to take the handle and bone knife in my hand. Perhaps for convenience, the fire at night was not enough. He moved the blindfold covering his left face to his forehead, but he never showed me that half of his face. Actually, I don't mind very much. If it weren't for his movement of deliberately covering the left face when he came over, I would not even remember this. He intends to cover up, and I have no intention of exposing others' wounds. As if not seeing him, he handed the bone knife and handle to him, and went behind him in person.

Look at the stone basin next to it, the sweet potato inside has been smashed into pieces, so let him cut the handle for me. I added some cold water to the mashed sweet potato, stirred it with a wooden stick for a while, took a piece of smooth deerskin that had been cleaned with hair and had some small holes in it, and spread it to the only stone basin in the house that was still empty. Up, press the four corners under the stone basin. Here, I used a wooden spoon to scoop the treated sweet potato water onto the animal skin to filter, because there were only about 20 kilograms of sweet potatoes, and it didn't take long. The smashed pieces are relatively broken, and there is not a lot of residue on the deerskin.

I filtered the sweet potato water, wringed the deerskin with the residue, and put the stone basin aside to settle. Lore had already cut a handle over there. Put the water in the clay pot into the half of the fire pool where there was no light to cool, and then leaned to Luo Lei's side to nail the long fork with him. Nail the prongs to the cross plank, and then nail the cross plank to the handle. Because the prongs are already nailed to the cross plank, you must be very careful when you want to nail the last nail.

Because the two people get together, there are many people with mixed hands. When they were not careful, the sharp prongs made a not deep hole in Luo Lei's hand. Although there was some blood, it was okay. Fortunately, the amount of bleeding was not enough. Great, but it also shocked me. I hurriedly thought about getting up, but Luo Lei grabbed me, just licked with his tongue, looked at me and looked at him, and stretched out his hand in front of me. A black line suddenly appeared on my head. Wouldn't he want me to lick him? So I broke away from his hand and got up to make a bowl of warm salt water.

When I passed the salt water, he had assembled the long wooden fork and was making gestures. I washed his wound with salt water, and wrapped his entire palm with a piece of long animal skin, but it was not good enough. The package was a bit like a spindle, and he didn't mind. After cutting a piece of animal skin, he tied the cross plank and handle of the long wooden fork firmly again, and strengthened the cross plank and handle of the wooden fork. I didn't expect so much. Of course, I wouldn't do it. If I were to tie it, I would only tie it into another spindle.

Although simple, a long wooden fork that can be used to open a road is also ready. If it is to deal with small animals, it is estimated that it can be used.

After making gestures for a while, I looked back at him excitedly. Only then did I find that the scar on his left cheek appeared in front of me at a glance, because it was the night fire, which made it even more shocking, showing that he was indeed hurt at the time. It's heavier, and I was so lucky that I didn't hurt my eyes. I thought it was a miracle. Although this scar is a bit horrible, it doesn't make people feel like a ghost or horrible to the point of looking for death, but it makes people feel uncomfortable relative to the other half of his face.

However, it may not matter if you get used to it. It's like the first time Asians saw the red-haired Europeans, also called red-haired ghosts, and later they gradually felt that they were so good-looking. Of course no one thinks the scar is good-looking, but it doesn't make me cry with fright. So when Luo Lei saw me staring at his face for a moment, he immediately covered his left face with his hand, and even wanted to get up and leave. Instead, I dropped the fork and took his hand.

He doesn't need to feel ashamed of this. He is to save other people to become like this. It is really impolite for me to stare at him and make him feel uncomfortable. The scars on the body and the scars on the face should be proud if it is for the people of the tribe. Although the scars on the face destroy the aesthetics, it is his pain, as a person who has been taken care of because of his pain. , Should not deepen his pain.

Perhaps this is also my strange outlook on life. If I have received a little care because of others, even if this care is not obvious, it is not because of the original intention of others, and I cannot step on it when others are in trouble. My eldest brother always said that I was kind enough to live in a fairy tale world.

I held his hands, and he flinched, especially when I stared at his face, he seemed a little embarrassed, but he was afraid that pushing me away would make me fall. He could only struggle slightly, but not seriously. If I struggle, my determination cannot be ignored. I looked at him and asked, "Where am I looking?"

He was a little dazed, and the face that seemed to be buried in his chest turned to look at me.

I smiled at him and asked, "Where do you say I am looking?"

"..." He didn't speak, just stared into my eyes.

His eyes are very beautiful, it should be said that they are very dazzling. In addition to the anxiety and shame at the moment, they usually shine with firmness, tolerance and sharpness that people dare not look directly at. This is probably one of the characteristics of Griffins. Very considerate and powerful. In modern times, a person with such a nature is estimated to be a good man.

He looked at me with some pleading eyes. I can't make him too embarrassed, but I still want to tell him what I think, let go of his hand, and help him comb the left hair behind his ears, and look without flinching. He said: "I am looking at your eyes. Just like you are looking at my eyes, I am looking at your eyes. You can't look at my hair while you are looking at my eyes. I look at your eyes. I only look at your eyes when you are in. So, you don’t need to cover them. I think your eyes look good. Of course, don’t let them reveal such a weak brilliance in the future, unlike you."

He seemed a little stunned, but I turned around to pick up my long fork. I just threw it away and threw it by the fire. If it was burned, it would be too late for me to cry.

"Aren't you afraid?" When his voice sounded hoarsely behind, I was picking up my long fork and looking at it. Grandma, a bear, as expected, the top of a fork was smoked into charcoal! The one next to it also burned off the tip.

I handed the fork to his hand, "What are you afraid of?! Hurry up and help me fix these fork tips!"

Because the two prongs were burnt, we could only cut off four of them. I felt very sad when I looked at it, but Lore said that he would redo it for me another day.

There is a cheap bastard, so I took the opportunity to propose to him to use that kind of wood to make a one-piece fork. After all, I don’t trust this wooden nail, but I believe in his strength and craftsmanship. He glanced at me. , Also agreed.

When he helped me to repair the wooden fork, I also offered a lot of hospitality. I helped him tie the hair that grows to the shoulder blades with a rope of animal skin to the back of his head. Only the hair, especially the left side, was relaxed and made into a flowing sea. Some scars, I also helped him wash the blindfold, and told him that he doesn't need to wear the blindfold here. Anyway, I'll get used to it after a while, but outside, he still chooses himself. After some care, I used my hair to cover most of the scars. From the side, I think this is a person who makes me jealous. Well, this is an inherent problem, I can only envy it.

Things were almost done, he saw that I didn't mean to do anything else, so he got up and put on his blindfold and planned to go home. Except for the torches of the patrol team, there is no light outside, and everyone may be asleep. It's just that I thought that he had eaten that potato-like tuber, but I didn't dare to let him go home like that, so I told him that if he didn't mind, he could sleep here for one night. In fact, I didn't think so much. In my opinion, staying with men is nothing. I used to go to my cousin's house to play in high school, and when it was too late, I squeezed in other people's houses.

Psychologically, I probably haven’t recognized the fact that I’m a female, nor the man in front of me. In a sense, it’s different from the female who thinks I’m a man, and he’s still not long ago. I just told me something similar to a marriage proposal. Just thinking, we all ate that potato. If there is really any adverse reaction then, at least someone must call the priest. If something happens to him alone in his tent, my conscience will never be lost. peaceful. He hesitated for a while, not knowing what he was thinking of, after saying something he went to get his animal skins and walked out.

There is no bed here. Everyone sleeps on the animal skins near the firepit, but I can’t get used to without a bed. Even if it’s a wooden bed, I have to leave the ground to fall asleep. So I found some planks and wooden blocks to build a bed a few days ago. It was about two fists high and a bit hard, but it was better than sleeping on the ground. One was not easy to catch a cold, and the other was because I was afraid of being on the ground. Bugs and snakes.

During the day, the planks and wood blocks are piled in the corners. At night, three pieces of wood that are about the same height are placed next to the firepit. The one on top is about two meters wide and the sides are about a fist high. On the wooden boards of the guardrail, spread the hay collected in an animal skin bag, and then spread the big animal skins that I made up with the only animal skins left in the house. He wiped his face with fawn skin, rinsed his mouth with salt water, and brought a bowl of water to Luo Lei who came in with a lump of animal skins, so that he also learned to rinse his mouth. After washing my hands, I lay down on my bed wrapped in sleeping animal skins.

Originally thought that Luo Lei would spend the night at the fire like everyone else, but not long after he lay down, he realized that there were more people beside him, maybe even because the bed was too narrow, he stretched his hands and feet to wrap me in. I naturally want to resist, but it is a pity that his strength is not the same as mine. Coupled with that kind of warmth, I am really tired again. In the past few days, I have been busy from morning to night every day, especially today. I didn’t sleep well in the morning. Having been busy all day, I really don't have the strength to toss with him. Although it is still late summer, there is still a temperature difference between daytime and night here, and it’s quite warm when two people are close together. I comforted myself so much that I fell asleep soon.