Chapter 1: Lei Yin (Part 1)

Thousands of kilometers of cliffs, dotted with dwarf trees, swaying stubbornly in the wind, the top of the cliff is flat and open, this is an artificially built platform, a small figure is lazy in the afterglow of the setting sun Sitting on the edge of the cliff, his legs dared boldly on the edge of the cliff, shaking unconsciously, seemingly lonely.
This is a sixteen or seventeen-year-old young man with lightly wide eyebrows and a pair of slender eyes. He seems to habitually squint. He always gives a feeling of not waking up, and the outline of his face is very clear, like a knife. The axe chopped in a general way, revealing a strong taste, because there is no adult, a little bit green, but when you carefully observe his eyes, you will notice a trace of vicissitudes in his eyes.
"This world is so perverted! Even the time is different. I don't know how long it has been ... three years? Or four years? There are only two seasons in this place, the warm season ... the cold season ... Alas ... can't go back ... "
The young man sighed heavily, hitting the ground with a hard hammer, looking at a punch on the cyan rock, he smiled again, and he had little satisfaction in the world, except for strength, this bird place, there is no entertainment, In addition to eating or eating every day, looking for everything that can fill your stomach is the meaning of living in this world.
A sharp whistle sounded, and the boy jumped violently, and ran along the top of the cliff. The speed was extremely fast. He came to the corner of the cliff, and there was a stone castle, which protruded from the cliff. At the seven or eight meter stone fort, two big men stood in the small stone fort.
This stone fort is small, long and narrow, protruding from the cliff wall, and the upper part is the fortress made of logs. There is a big hole three meters long and two meters wide on the ground. You can clearly see the bottom of the cliff wall, and a metal shelf is placed at the entrance of the cave. , A giant wheel was installed on it.
A bearded man saw the boy coming in and said, "A Feng, the hunting team is back. Your eyes are good, see if there is any situation."
The teenager nodded. He stretched his hand to hold the wheel, leaned over and looked down. I saw a few small black dots below. His eyes flickered abruptly, and a faint silver awn appeared. The boy said with joy: "It's Uncle Ke. They are back. ... Quickly drop the gondola! "
Bearded reached out to catch an iron ring and pulled hard, a huge hanging basket was loosened and appeared in the hole below. The two big men began to roll and put the hanging basket down.
The gondola is three meters long, two meters wide, and one meter five meters deep. It is a rectangular basket dedicated to picking up people and supplies. It is one of the entrances and exits of Huyabao. There are two roads leading to the outside. , One is here, and the other is the tunnel of Houbao, but that road is more difficult to walk, so the people in the fort are all in and out of the basket.
Soon the gondola was lifted up. There were two big men sitting in the gondola, and a lot of prey. The teenager glanced and said, "How are they all small prey, Uncle Ke, don't you have a big guy?"
Most of the hanging baskets are hares, pheasants, wild ducks, and a few rare sheep.
The so-called rare sheep is a specialty here. It is a very small wild sheep. It likes all kinds of spirit grass. Its meat is delicious. It is one of the best delicacy here, but this thing is too small, there is not much meat. Only a sheep, at most twenty pounds of meat, which is a little more meat than pheasant hare.
Uncle Ke smiled and said: "A Feng, not much was hunted this time, hehe, but ... we killed a wild boar with a few hundred pounds, and the harvest was pretty good, A Feng, go back to my house Carrying a pig leg, hehe. "
A Feng nodded and smiled, "Okay, I will take Uncle home."
Most of the people living in Tiger Cliff Castle are hunters. Family members generally plant some grains and potato chips in the valley. Generally, men do n’t farm. Men have to go hunting. The population of Tiger Cliff Castle is very small. There are only more than 1,000 people, nearly two. Among the hundreds of households, the young Afeng is also one of them. There is also a grandfather and a young girl in the family. The parents left before he occupied the body of the teenager, and they did not know where to go.
These years have been very difficult. When I woke up, the little girl was only three years old and was completely raised by the young Afeng. The grandfather was too old to be able to hunt. At the beginning, Afeng collected wild fruits and added some The hunters were really sad to see the grandfather and his family. They sent some prey from time to time and lived arduously to this day. The people here are very simple. The neighbors help each other. If they ca n’t help each other, it will be very difficult to survive.
However, by the warm season of this year, the young Afeng must prepare the food for the cold season himself. This is a difficult task for him. He must not only feed himself, but also feed his grandfather and little sister.
Uncle Ke went down again. This time, he carried a wild boar with more than 500 jins in the hanging basket. The meat of this wild boar is not delicious, the meat is rough, and there is no certain cooking method. This meat is not good. Eating, of course, the young Afeng did n’t care, and it was good when he ate. Since arriving here, he rarely felt that he was full, and the large amount of food made him extremely helpless. He could n’t figure out why he was. So edible?
Several hunters and A Feng smiled and carried their prey down the road towards the inner castle.
The tiger cliff fort is steep, surrounded by cliffs and cliffs. The depression in the middle is two kilometers round, so there is a piece of land that can be planted. The people of Tiger cliff fort live in the caves under the inner cliffs, and each household occupies it. A rock cave, with natural and artificially excavated caves, is extended with logs to build an extended hut. During the warm season, you can live in a wooden house. Once in the cold season, you must enter the cave for winter.
The terrain of the entire Tiger Cliff Castle is like a flat bowl. The residents live in the bowl. The outer wall of the bowl is the cliff. This is a large natural defense fortress.
So everyone came down from the cliff and soon came to the residential area.
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A Feng carried a wild boar front leg in one hand and two pheasants in one hand, and quickly walked towards his home.
Soon came to a house with a wooden fence, this is a small yard with a small size, a hut on the edge of a cliff, a little girl saw A Feng came back, and said with joy: "Brother, brother ... "Screamed and ran over."
The weather was starting to get a little bit cold. The little girl put on her short fur coat. The long hair danced with the run, like a little hair ball rolling over. A Feng laughed: "Don't run ... slow down, Slow down ... "As he crouched down, he couldn't hold because he was carrying something in both hands.
The little girl rushed into A Feng's arms and reached out to hug his neck. When A Feng stood up, the little girl hung on him and grinned: "Brother, who took the meat ..."
A Feng gently touched the little girl's forehead with his forehead and spoiled: "It's uncle Ke's prey, grandpa is all right?"
The little girl smiled and said: "Grandpa just went back to salt and just came back."
There is a special property in Tiger Cliff Castle, which is salt. There is an underground brine brine mine, which can extract brine from the ground. After cooking, the salt is boiled. The amount is not much, but it is enough for the residents of Tiger Cliff Castle. It is a big reason why people in Huyabao can live in the mountains and own salt brine mines.
Most of the salt boiling is done by the elderly or women. Basically, it is enough to eat. It is difficult to communicate with the outside world. It is a self-sufficient model. Everything is done by yourself. This makes A Feng very uncomfortable. Fortunately, after several years of suffering, he has gradually integrated into it.
The little girl was hanging on Afeng's neck, and the two walked into the hut with a smile. Afeng shouted: "Grandpa, I'm back. Look! This is the front leg of a buck wild boar from Uncle Ke Ten kilograms is enough for us to eat for a few days. "
This is an old man with a broken candle, sitting on a small wooden pier, with a leather pocket in his hand. He saw the two people coming in, and there was a beam of joy in his eyes. He coughed and said: "Okay, A Fengxie For a while, get tired. "
The little girl slipped from A Feng, ran to the old man, squatted down holding the old man's arm, and said with joy: "Grandpa, Aunt Qing sent a barbarian cowhide, I received the cave, so big, brother The armor is almost a piece of skin. In a few days, the leather armor can be completed. Hee hee, Grandpa, I can do it! "She quickly praised my expression, which caused A Feng to bear it. Suddenly laughed.
"Oh, the little girl is really capable!"
A Feng praised first.
The old man gently touched the little girl's head and nodded, "Yes, our Yaoyao is the most capable!"
The little girl suddenly smiled.
The so-called leather armor means that every hunter needs protective armour. The leather armor here has a special shape and is completely made by hand from various animal skins. The lined hard leather armor is made of wild cowhide produced locally.
The handcraft of leather armor is extremely complicated. There are dozens of procedures. As early as two years ago, my grandfather started to make it. A large part of them were the handwriting of the little girl. It's just about to be completed, because there has always been a lack of a hard cow's hard skin, so it has not been completed.
This set of leather armor is specially prepared for A Feng to go hunting. The hunter of Tiger Cliff Castle, everyone must make a set of leather armor from home before going out hunting. This is the custom of this place. Armor put on the body, which means that A Feng can officially go hunting.
A total of three kinds of leather are used for the leather armor. The innermost layer is a special soft leather. There are countless soy-sized bubbles inside the leather. It is not only soft and abnormal, but also has excellent cold protection. The middle layer is The hard skin of a barbarian cow, and the outer layer is a fierce animal skin called Nagano Nagano. Nagano Nagata has a length of more than one foot. After tanning, it has extremely strong toughness. When making leather armor , Weave the long hair on the leather to form a pattern, and then use a kind of animal fat to paint and shape, which not only keeps warm, but also has good protection.