Chapter 9 The Bear Without Wounds
The old priest and the hunting captain did not care about Pingjun's sarcasm.
"Even a baby understands this... It seems that it's really hard for us to get through this winter." The elderly Wu Xing murmured, his voice older than ever, full of sadness.
Yonggang was silent for a moment and said, "Let me take the remaining men out again. If you have good luck, you might get a lot of prey."
Wu Xing smiled bitterly and shook his head to deny his thoughts: "This season, there are only ferocious wolves and violently maned bears in the mountains, and no matter how many people go, it is useless. Moreover, there is no food in the village to ensure that you are hunting and going out."
Men who go out to hunt must be full. If they don’t have the strength, they naturally cannot be called hunting. In fact, it is far more expensive than villagers who live in the village and rely on broth.
Tianhao did not participate in the conversation between the old priest and the hunting captain. He kept silently watching the bound women.
"Leave this matter to me!" His voice was a little low, but he felt unquestionable determination: "I can get enough food to let the people in the village spend this winter."
This sentence was completely unexpected, so that Wu Xing and Yonggang suddenly stopped the conversation, raised their heads and looked at him in disbelief.
Ping Jun suddenly raised his head, and his hunched waist was stimulated and straightened a little. After a brief surprise, his eyes gradually showed unbelievable gazes mixed with sarcasm.
"I won't say such things for no reason. I can prove it to you." Tianhao looked at the opposite side calmly. When the eyes of both parties were in contact, he added: "Give me a day, don't sell these women before I come back."
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The hazy sky shrouded the mountains, and as the sun gradually fell from above, twilight and darkness were about to rule the entire earth.
"You shouldn't let them go. There are only two people, and you can enter the mountain at this time...ah..."
In the leader's wooden house, the old priest, the witch walker and the hunting captain Yonggang sat in a daze. Opposite was Fusong, the leader of the village, who was very angry.
"We didn't expect Ahao and Akuang to leave the village. The elders and I thought Ahao were just talking, and only then did we know that they had actually left after the people who were watching in front of the village came from news."
Yonggang had a faint regret and astringent feeling in his eyes: "We must find them back, I'll go now."
"It's too late!"
The old priest Witch Walker seemed older and weaker than usual. He smiled bitterly and shook his head: "It's almost dark. Now that I'm leaving the village, there are all beasts outside, so I can only die in vain... Let's wait until dawn tomorrow, and I'll go with you."
The leader Fusong sighed: "I always thought Ahao was a useless lazy person. Now it seems that he should spend all his time studying medical science...one doctor, another doctor!"
The value of a doctor is self-evident.
No one spoke in the room anymore, and the room was filled with regret and dull atmosphere. The flames devoured the firewood and made a "beeping" sound.
Suddenly, a few shouts of intense excitement came from outside the room.
The leader Fusong stood up in confusion, walked to the door, and pulled it away. He saw the sentry waiting on the lookout platform of the village gate running from a distance.
"Head, leader...cough...cough...cough..."
Perhaps because he ran too fast, the sentry who rushed to the front coughed for a while. After he recovered, he couldn't help but shouted: "Bear, bear... Ahao, and Akuang... They... Huhu... They hunted a bear and a whole violently maned bear!"
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It was already dark, and torches were lit on the open space at the entrance of the village gate, and they were surrounded by dozens of villagers who rushed over after hearing the news. A sliding pry made of birch wood in the center was tied with flexible rattan to tightly tie a bear with tight eyes. Judging from the bear tongue that was drooping and half stretched out from its mouth, it was obvious that it had been dead for a long time. However, through the hard and hard bear fur, you could still feel a trace of the remaining heat that had not yet completely disappeared from the dead beast.
The old priest had a unique vision, and directly glanced over the huge bear corpse above the load, and looked at the birch trees pressing down on the ground with unexpected and surprising eyes.
He didn't know that this thing was called "sliding", but he just thought it was magical: a few wood that seemed to be nailed randomly could be pulled by two young people?
Tianhao squatted in front of the slid. He and his second brother Tian Kuang greeted the villagers watching next to him and dragged the huge dead bear into the open space in the village. The bright eyebrows of the horns set against the bronze skin made this young man, who was just in his early 16, look a bit calm and calm that his peers could not match.
When the others in the village arrived, the violent mane bear had been lifted off the sled and was lying on the ground with his back to the sky. Several male villagers were skillfully peeling off the thick bear skin with their two brothers.
Looking at each other, from each other's eyes, the old priest, leader and hunting captain saw the shock and joy contained in each other's hearts.
An adult bear weighs more than half a ton. If it is mixed with a certain amount of grass stems and tree bark, it will be enough for the whole tribe to eat for a few days. For the current situation of extremely shortage of food in Panshi Village, it is undoubtedly great news.
But how did Tianhao hunt this bear?
The violent maned bear is one of the most ferocious and cruel beasts in the mountains and forests. It is not only powerful, but also quick to move and sharp minions. When you meet by chance, even a hunting team with more than 20 people in the tribe will not avoid it. What's more, they are two weak young people?
Fusong noticed that there was no broken wound on the bear's body. Even the bear's mouth and even the anus at the back remained intact.
In other words, Ah Hao did not rely on hand to fight to kill the bear. There was something else.
"Chief!"
The sudden sound suddenly woke Fusong up, who was in deep thought. When he looked up, he saw Tianhao standing in front of him and respectfully handing over a sharp and exquisite bone-clearing knife.
According to the rules in the village, the leader must hold a knife to the division of meat. Only in this way can all prey be distributed to everyone fairly. In this cruel world, one cannot survive alone. Relying on collective strength to obtain food together is the only law of survival.
The leader does not have to break down all prey one by one, but just cuts the throat of each prey. On the one hand, it is to ensure that the prey is intact, and more importantly, it is to demonstrate his identity and power.
Fusong did not take the knife as usual. He solemnly reached out to pick up Wufeng's back of the knife, returned the handle of the bone-cutting knife and handed it to Tianhao, with a gentle smile on his face: "Today's flesh, you can share it!"
Everyone was extremely surprised. Although Panshi Village was a "lower village" among the tribe, Fusong was also a low-level leader without a surname. However, Fusong rarely used the matter of "dividing meat". In my memory, the old priest helped him twice, and Yonggang, the hunting captain of "100 people", also once.
It was the first time in the village that he handed the knife directly to a young man. Tianhao felt a little surprised. He searched for the memory fragments of the host and knew that the division of meat seemed simple, but actually represented a ritual process.
It would be fine if it was an ordinary prey, but this was a violently maned bear, which was located at the high end of the food chain on the cold continent.
Tianhao hesitated for a long time with the knife in his hand. He noticed that the old priest and the hunting captain also released their consent eyes. Then he slowly took money and used the blade to cut the fur of the giant bear's throat and gently cut the thick yellow bear fat.
Split meat, in units of "household".
He divided it carefully and meticulously. The best fat and internal organs in dozens of equal amounts of meat were all distributed to families with men and children. As for himself, he only took a piece of scattered meat mixed with a large amount of bones.
No one expressed any objection. Nothing was more fairer than this. Even Fu Songcheng, the leader, couldn't help but smile and secretly looked at him.
There is not much food in the clan. For several days, Panshi Village has been half hungry and half full. So much fresh bear meat is undoubtedly a sumptuous meal for people. At that moment, they were happy to pick up pieces of meat from the ground and returned to their respective sheds. Soon, a mouth-watering smell of meat was faintly floating in the wind and snow above the village.
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It was already late at night, and the fire in the leader's wooden house was still burning very strong.
"You all saw it, Ah Hao didn't lie. He and Tian Kuang did hunt a bear."
Fusong sniffed the fragrance wafting out of the soup pot with his strength, and even his voice changed slightly. He could hear that he was very excited and very happy.
Yonggang tied his hair with a rattan rope and frowned. He stared at the leaping flames in the fire pit and said low and slowly: "...I didn't see any wounds."
This mountain range outside Panshi Village is called Youmang.
The violent mane bear is one of the most feared beasts in the Youmeng Mountains. Its outer skin is very hard, and even the most powerful spearhead is difficult to penetrate it. The only weakness is the white hair in the shape of a "v" on the chest, which is also the weakest defense on the whole body.
If you want to hunt the violent maned bear without injury, you can only force your throat to break. Yonggang is recognized as the strongest man in Panshi Village, but even he is difficult to do this. What's more, Tianhao and Tiankuang brought back a male bear, which is much stronger than the ordinary violent maned bear. Especially in winter, in a state of lack of food, this type of beast is more aggressive than usual.
Yonggang didn't understand what method Tianhao used to hunt this violent maned bear?
This is also the question that the leader of the village, Fusong, and the old priest Wuxing, are thinking about.
Chapter completed!