968. The original guest (2/10)
Next to Li Du and his team were the Hazai tribe. It was said that it was next to him, but there was actually two or three kilometers away. The grassland was flat and the fire was conspicuous at night, so we could see each other.
In the early morning, the sky was just dawn, and the night had not completely receded. The stars in the sky were shining, still emitting the final glow.
But in the east, a rising sun is already brewing, and the position of the eastern horizon is already bright. It is believed that the sun will rise up in the sky in the future.
Li Du was used to getting up early to exercise. When he walked out of the tent, the wolf brother in the tent next to him also got up, got out of the tent and punched a few times, doing boxing moves to relax his muscles and bones.
When Ali saw it, he jumped over and fisted according to his rhythm, looking at it with a stern look, as if that was the case.
Li Du was preparing to run. In the winter of the South African prairie, the morning was still a little cool. When Li Du ran, the cold air came towards him, with the smell of dead grass, which was very fresh.
Some wild birds fly up in the sky, and early birds eat insects, and they are about to start their busy day.
Li Du ran towards the Hazai tribe, and ran for a while and met Chiks.
Chiks was also running, taking some children from the tribe. When he saw Li Du, he waved his hand and said, "What a coincidence, we met so early. Are you interested in being a guest in our tribe?"
Li Du smiled and said, "Can you disturb me?"
Chix said: "It is very welcome. Our tribe members have never met the Chinese. They don't even know that there is a civilized world outside this continent."
Li Du asked Brother Wolf to go back and talk, and he followed Chiks to their tribe camp.
What he saw yesterday was the instant combat power of the Hazai tribe. There were quite a few people in this tribe, with about seventy people.
It is not easy to live by relying solely on wild resources. Although the Hazai people migrate everywhere like homeless people, they cannot live as freely as homeless people.
Because no government will subsidize their lives, their food cannot be found in the garbage dump, but must work hard with both hands.
For Li Du and others, hunting is to aim at prey and pull the trigger, but for the Hazai people who are still in a nearly primitive society, hunting is a difficult task.
In order to survive better, the Hazai people had to get up early and prepare for the day of hunting.
Li Du followed Chiks to their camp, and more than thirty women and elderly people sat around the bonfire, the flames were beating, and they worked while roasting the fire.
They didn't live in the tent, and not far away, some strong laborers were lying next to the bonfire and sleeping, using the sky as the tent and the ground as the bed.
When they saw Li Du, some children showed a surprised expression, either holding their fingers in their mouths, jumping around, and ran to him to look at him carefully.
A child pointed at Li Du and shouted in their words. A woman frowned and scolded her. The child shrank his neck and ran back, and retreated into the woman's arms.
Li Du asked, "What did he say?"
Chicks smiled, "He said your skin is like a lion."
Li Du thought this metaphor was quite good, and he wondered: "Then this should be a good thing, right? Why did his mother scold him?"
"That's not his mother, that's his grandma," Chicks corrected, "She scolded the child and spoke in a low voice, because the hunters in the clan were resting and could not disturb the hunters."
Li Du was surprised. The black woman looked like she was only in her forties, but she was the grandmother of such a big child?
After Chiks came back, someone inserted branches into the fire, and barbecue and chunky rhizomes of some plants hung on the branches.
After a while, the smell of food spread, and the sleeping hunters woke up one after another. They stretched and sat by the campfire after getting the food.
A plump young woman took a branch and handed it to Li Du, and said in awkward English: "Hello, guest, please eat."
Li Du thanked him, and he held the branch and ate the meat, as if he was eating a big skewer of barbecue in college, which was so exciting.
However, the meat is not so good. The meat of the beast has a fishy smell. Because it uses less salt and does not have spices such as cumin and five-spice powder, he is not used to it.
Moreover, the meat was roasted after being dried and had no gravy or fat, and it tasted very hot. Li Du's teeth were sore when chewing, and her cheeks were sore.
Hazai people are very hospitable. Maybe because they always migrate, are curious about the outside world, and hope to make more new friends. Li Du is very popular after coming, and in the early morning, some people come to toast.
Their wine is a fruit wine made by themselves, which looks very cloudy and sour.
Li Du was not pretentious. Since Hazayi would not die after drinking, he naturally had nothing to do with it. After taking it, he saluted them, raised his glass and drank it.
This fruit wine doesn't smell very good, but it tastes good. It's like the juice is mixed with alcohol, which is very strong, but it has a fruity aroma and feels good at the mouth.
Li Du drank a bowl in one gulp, and the hunters laughed and nodded to him.
Chix took an animal's skull and covered it with him. The upper part of the skull was a bit like a human head, but the lower part was wider and had two hideous fangs.
Li Du identified it for a moment, remembered Brother Wolf and asked, "Is this the skull of a baboon?"
Chix nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, our Hazai people have given gifts to the VIPs."
Wearing a baboon skull, Li Du's left hand with a wine bowl and a branch with a barbecue on the right hand, and his whole body was filled with a wilderness.
Hunters eat, the elderly, weak, women and children make tools, organize equipment for them, prepare lunch for outdoor consumption, etc., busy and orderly, and life has a sense of rhythm.
Li Du chewed the barbecue and asked Chiks about their life rules, and said, "How long do you want to stay in this grassland? Where are you going in the future?"
Chix said: "For us Chix people, there is no distinction between four seasons in life, only dry season and rainy season. During the dry season, we migrate to collect food. When the rainy season comes, we move into the holes of the bread trees to avoid the moisture and mud."
"Next, we will live in this grassland for a while, then walk north to find large areas of bread trees and prepare to deal with the rainy season."
Li Du asked: "You have received higher education and understand modern society. Why don't you lead your tribe to reform? For example, build houses in the rainy season to live."
Chiks laughed and shook his head and said, "No, I don't have the power to do that. The Hazai tribe has lived for a long time, so long that I can't find the source of the tribe in the book. The tribe has passed down many traditions. They are not modern enough, but they are the key to maintaining the survival of this tribe."
Chapter completed!