Traveling through the primitive world: I was a priest in the tribe

Chapter 152: See you again in the cold season 7

He even tried to snatch someone else's quilt, and of course got punched a few times.

They were honest and dug bamboo shoots. After they had discussed it, they decided to change their quilts quickly. Thinking about how seriously the priest had spoken to them yesterday, they were a little scared, so they called on Dashu to bring them here.

According to the big tree's idea, they should be left to freeze for a few more days until they freeze to death.

Ji Lang looked at the big tree, his eyes almost rolling up to the sky. He held back his laughter and said, "I have to go ask if there are any extra thick quilts." He really didn't know this. The thick quilts were made by Lan and the others, and Li was in charge of replacing them.

He entered the kitchen, where Lan and Li were chatting and laughing while washing bacon. "What's wrong?"

"Do you still have the thick quilt from before? Someone over there come and change it." Ji Lang asked.

Li stood up and wiped his hands. "Yes, they are all in my room. I'll get them."

Ji Lang wanted to just take someone to get it, but then he thought that their room was even more crowded than his own, and he probably wouldn't be able to find it, so he just stood outside the door and waited.

It took a long while for Li to come out holding a big quilt, with sweat on his forehead. It seemed that he had put a lot of effort into finding it.

Ji Lang quickly took it.

When Xiaobei and Xiaohei took the quilt, wrinkles appeared on their faces from smiling. They could finally have a good sleep.

"Thank you, priest. Thank you, priest. We will definitely dig good bamboo shoots tomorrow." Xiaobei said enthusiastically.

Ji Lang waved his hand and said, "Go back and eat quickly. You've been out all day."

"That's right. I'm almost starving to death." Dashu touched his stomach and felt that it was almost deflated.

After seeing these people off, Ji Lang still stood in the doorway, in a daze.

Li came out of the kitchen to feed the dogs some broth. Looking at Ji Lang who had been standing there for a long time, he asked curiously, "What's wrong? Aren't you cold? Why are you standing here without moving?"

"I always feel that there's something wrong with that Xiao Hei." Ji Lang said thoughtfully, "But I can't put my finger on it. I always feel like he's deliberately trying to reduce his presence. When I just changed the quilt, he didn't say a word the whole time and he even kept his head down and didn't look at me."

Li thought about it and seemed to have some impression, but he really hadn't paid much attention to it. "Then let them pay attention to it later." It would be fine if he was really quiet and didn't like to talk, but if he was doing something secretly, that would be a bit disgusting.

This is the only way now, Ji Lang hopes that he is overthinking it.

Sanmao was not at home. Liefeng and Ermao had just been playing wildly in the yard. Now they smelled the meat and came over to drink the soup. The two little pandas came out of the doghouse, circled around the food bowl on the ground, sniffed it, and found that it was not what they liked, so they came over to Jilang, grabbed his trouser legs, and stared at him eagerly.

Ji Lang couldn't stand them anymore, so he took two bamboo shoots from the basket in the corner and gave them to them. However, the two guys took them without even looking at them, put them at their feet, and continued to look at Ji Lang.

……

You guys picked it.

Ji Lang didn't want to spoil them, so he turned around and left. The two dumplings followed him closely. They might not be able to get food from others, but they would definitely get it from this person.

"Oh!" Ji Lang sighed as he stood at the door of the cave. He went into the house resignedly and took a piece of dried jackfruit from the jar on the shelf for each of them.

The two little pandas got what they wanted. They didn't mind the cold and squatted at the doorstep to eat happily.

Ji Lang wanted to roll his eyes when he saw this. He came to him to beg for food every few days, but this was reserved for his good son.

Before going to bed yesterday, Qingjiu told Xishi and Qingjiu about his discoveries during his last outing. At daybreak, the three of them took Sanmao out, and they haven't come back yet. Ji Lang is still a little worried. No matter how strong they are, there are only three of them. Not to mention encountering people from other tribes, it would be difficult for three of them to deal with a larger group of wild animals.

When they came back, it was completely dark. The three of them had their faces turned blue from the cold and their bodies were covered with snow. Ji Lang took a small brush for sweeping the kang and brushed the snow off their bodies.

Sa Shi came out of the cave. The two kids had already fallen asleep. She finally calmed down and asked, "How is it? Did you find anything new?" She didn't use a brush and directly helped Xi Shi brush off the snow on his back.

Xi Shi nodded, and then said, "Yes, it's a pretty big tribe. I found that a large group of people left the tribe these two days, and I don't know where they went." And they took a lot of things. He guessed that they were going to exchange something, but it's winter now. Isn't it a bit too late to go and exchange?

The three of them went out carrying baskets and weapons. The footprints they left behind were not as deep as those left by those people, so it seemed that they were carrying a lot of things.

The three of them discussed it for a long time on the way back, but could not come to a conclusion.

"What else can we do? We can go and exchange things." Sa Shi said, "Didn't Brother Qing say yesterday that they might have more people, so they expanded the territory. Those people might have joined later, so they need more salt and other things. The original salt in the tribe is not enough, so we have to go out to exchange, right?"

Xishi, Guoqi and Qingjiu were all slightly stunned, and suddenly they felt enlightened. Why didn’t they think of such a simple truth!

"Of course you are. You are smart now. You are no longer the brainless bully who would do anything you want when you were a child." Guo Qi said with a smile.

Sa Shiyi looked smug, "You guys, it's that saying, what did Ji Lang say last time, being too clever... being too clever can backfire! You're thinking too complicated."

You know what, what she said really hit the nail on the head. Xishi and the others were thinking that maybe there was a problem within the tribe, such as splitting up, being driven away, or some other complicated reasons. Now that Sashiyi said this, they immediately understood.

"It's terribly cold outside. Come in after you've packed up." Lan lifted the kitchen curtain and said to them. The rice in the pot still needed to be heated up, so they could go to the kitchen to warm up first. It was getting colder day by day. In the first few days of the cold season, even though it was cold, they could still do some work in the doorway. But now, let alone work, their hands were frozen stiff by the time they went to the woodshed to get a handful of firewood.

When Guo Qi saw it was her, he immediately came over and asked, "Why haven't you slept yet? Are you still feeling uncomfortable?"

"I was so anxious when you guys didn't come back. How could I sleep?" Lan said as she pushed Guo Qi into the house.

The people in the doorway looked over, and Ji Lang said, "Are you feeling unwell, Sister Lan? If you are, you should go see Granny Xue."

Lan shook her head. She was like this during the cold season. Her belly was always cold and there was a slight pain. When she gave birth to her first child, it was during the cold season and her body was not well healed. Later, when she gave birth to Chuan, she was in pain for a long time and it took her a lot of effort to give birth to him. She almost lost half her life.

After arriving here, it is much more comfortable to sleep on the kang at night when the weather gets cold.

Ji Lang listened to what she said, helped several people to serve the food, and reminded Lan, "Then you should usually touch less cold things, and boil some hot water for washing clothes. Anyway, the stove is burning every day, so it is convenient to boil water."

He remembered reading on the Internet that girls with stomach discomfort can drink jujube tea or something, but he had never seen jujubes here. "By the way, have you seen a kind of fruit? It's a bit like sour jujube. It's green at first, and turns red when it's ripe, but it's about the same size as a chestnut. The tree that bears it has thorns. After drying, it's dark red and wrinkled. It tastes crisp when it's just picked, and becomes soft after drying, but it's very sweet."

Everyone else shook their heads.

"Why are you asking this?" Qing Jiu pulled him to sit down and gave him half a meat bun.

Ji Lang ate the filling in two bites and handed the skin to Qing Jiu, "That's called jujube. It's said that women who are injured during childbirth can drink tea made from that to nourish their bodies."

"Really?" Lan was a little excited and even stood up. Although she had never mentioned it to Guo Qi, she actually wanted to have a little girl. She always felt that her little girl who only lived for three days would come back, but her body was not up to it.

If...if she can really be healed, then her little girl might really come back.

Now that conditions are better, she doesn't have to worry about not being able to support the baby after giving birth.

Ji Lang nodded and continued, "Why don't you go and see Grandma Xue, maybe she has a solution."

Lan was a little confused. "Is it okay to ask her to see me if I'm not injured or sick?"

She was not the only one in the tribe whose health deteriorated after giving birth. Many originally strong female hunters gradually stopped going out after giving birth and became gatherers. She always thought that this was the case for everyone, so when Ji Lang asked her to go see Grandma Xue, she felt a little strange and puzzled.

"Sure, but I'm not sure if she can see it. You can go and ask her later." Ji Lang said.

Lan originally wanted to go over and ask late at night, but was stopped. It was dark outside at night and it was difficult to walk, and besides, everyone might have gone to bed.

She was really excited because she really liked the little guys and wanted to have one or two more. Especially when she saw Sa Shi chasing after the two little guys and scolding them all day long, she felt a little envious. Chuan was very well-behaved and sensible, and she would give Chuan all the good things she could get. But in her heart, she always felt that she owed the girl who didn't survive. She also wanted her little girl to follow her brother and sister around and make trouble all day long, cry and make a fuss when she was unhappy, and eat, drink and laugh when she was happy, without having to go hungry, suffer from the cold, or worry about danger at any time.

At night, Ji Lang lay on the kang. Xiaoman was tired from playing during the day and had fallen asleep, smacking his lips. I wonder what delicious food he was eating in his dream.

It’s great, there are no worries at all. I feel that the little guy is releasing his "nature" more and more. It’s different when he has someone to support him. He used to be timid and afraid to get along with others. He didn’t dare to express what he wanted to say or want. Now he is better. He often talks nonsense and has a big mouth, saying everything. Sometimes Ji Lang is afraid of his mouth.

Qing Jiu came in from outside, his hair was covered with snowflakes, he took a towel to wipe it, "It's going to snow heavily again, I won't go out tomorrow, I'll grind flour and bean powder at home."

Ji Lang sat up, "Come here, I'll wipe it for you." He took the dry towel from Qing Jiu's hand and helped him sweep the snowflakes on his head and shoulders to the ground, "Why didn't you dry your hair when you just went out? It's frozen." He reached out and broke it apart. It was hard and quite interesting.

He told Qingjiu about Xiaohei again.

"I understand. I'll pay attention to it and tell Dayan and Dashu about it later." Qing Jiu said.

The bed was already warm enough, so the two of them lay down and turned off the lights.

"Do you... want a little cub?" Ji Lang looked at the dark cave and spoke hesitantly.

Qing Jiu leaned close to his ear and asked, "Will you give birth to me?"

……

"Go away, I can't give birth to a shit." If he could give birth to a baby, considering how noisy they are, they would have had two babies in three years.

Qing Jiu, "Why are you asking this? Stop imagining it. I don't like children. If you are really worried that there will be children that no one in the tribe wants to raise, I will adopt one."

It makes sense to think this way. Look at the eldest son you raised. Although they are not related by blood, they are very close to you.

The snow didn't stop all night, and when I got up in the morning, the snow in the corners of the wall had become thicker.

Ji Lang ran around the outer courtyard twice, and a belly full of cold air filled him up, causing him to hiccup. He had no choice but to return to the courtyard in a miserable state.

Qingjiu and Guoqi had been busy since early morning. They took turns grinding the beans for flour, and now they had accumulated half a bag of flour at their feet.

Guo Qi complained to Qing Jiu while piling up the millstones, "I'm so sleepy that I can't even open my eyes. You don't know that Lan would wake me up after a short nap all night and ask me if it was daybreak and when it would be. It was so dark outside that I couldn't tell east, west, south or north, so how would I know when it would be daybreak? She didn't sleep all night and kept me awake all night. This woman is really scary sometimes." After he finished speaking, he yawned loudly, and Ji Lang happened to hear it when he came in.

Ji Lang, "Why are you so sleepy? Why don't you go to sleep for a while?"

Guo Qi grabbed Ji Lang and complained to him again. Lan woke him up at dawn in the morning and asked him to take him to find Grandma Xue. Guo Qi knew this man. He was usually very kind and easy to talk to. He seemed to have no desires, but if he really wanted to do something, he would not give up until he achieved his goal. He could only resign himself to his fate, got up and took people to the next yard.

What's more, Grandma Xue actually gave Lan two packets of herbal medicine and asked her to cook a cup of it after breakfast every day.

It was Grandma Xue’s mother who told her about the efficacy of these two herbs. She also prescribed them to other women in the tribe. The effect was not so obvious, but it did improve the symptoms of always feeling cold and tingling in the abdomen.

Lan took it back and went back into the house and sat by the stove to cook.

Guo Qi stopped and stretched his arms, then said helplessly, "Why do women care so much about little kids?" He is a father now, and he values ​​and loves his own child, but he still has the mentality that it's good to have it, but it's okay if he doesn't. He doesn't understand why Lan is so happy.

Qing Jiu and Ji Lang looked at each other, then looked at Guo Qi with an expression that said, "How do we know this? We are not women."

Guo Qi curled his lips, thinking that it was unnecessary for him to ask this question.

In fact, he felt heartbroken when he thought of the child who died in the cold season, but he knew very clearly that a child is gone and nothing the living can do will help. But seeing that Lan wanted to make up for the debt she had to her first child by passing it on to the other children, he couldn't bear to point it out.

Forget it, as long as she is happy, that's it.