Chapter 969 968. Being a Guest (2/10)

Chapter 969

Next to Li Du's camp was the Hadzai tribe. They said it was next to them, but in fact there was a distance of two or three kilometers. It's just that the grasslands are flat and the fires are conspicuous at night, so they can see each other.

In the early morning, the sky has just dawned, and the night has not yet receded completely. The stars in the sky are shining, still exuding their final glow.

But in the east, a rising sun is already brewing, and the position of the eastern horizon is already bright. Presumably, it won't be long before the sun will rise into the sky.

Li Du was used to getting up early to exercise. When he walked out of the tent, brother wolf in the tent next to him also got up. He got out of the tent and punched him a few times to relax his muscles and bones.

Ali saw it, and hurriedly jumped over and punched in his rhythm, with a serious look, as if that was the case.

Li Du was about to run. In the winter of the South African prairie, the morning was still a bit chilly. When Li Du started to run, the cold air came oncoming, with the smell of dead grass, which was very refreshing.

Some wild birds took to the air, and the early birds got the worm, and they were about to start their busy day.

Li Du ran towards the location of the Hazai tribe, and ran into Cheeks after running for a while.

Cheeks was also running, taking some children from the tribe, and when he saw Li Du, he waved and said, "What a coincidence, we met so early, are you interested in being a guest in our tribe? "

Li Du smiled and said, "Will you bother me?"

Cheeks said: "You are very welcome. Our people have never seen Chinese people. They don't even know that there is a civilized world outside this continent."

Li Du asked Brother Wolf to go back and talk about it. He followed Cheeks to their tribal camp.

What he saw yesterday was only the immediate combat power of the Hadzai tribe. This tribe has a large number of people, about 70 people.

It is not easy to live on resources in the wild. Although the Hadzai migrate around like homeless people, they cannot live as they please.

Because no government will subsidize their lives, and their food cannot be found from garbage dumps, but they have to work hard with their hands.

For Li Du and others, hunting means aiming at the prey and pulling the trigger, but for the Hadzais, who are still living in a nearly primitive society, hunting is a very difficult task.

In order to survive better, the Hadzai have to get up early to prepare for a day of hunting.

Li Du followed Cheeks to their camp. More than 30 women and old people sat around the campfire, the flames danced, and they worked while warming the fire.

They didn't live in tents, and not far away, some strong laborers lay and slept beside the campfire, using the sky as their tent and the ground as their bed.

Seeing Li Du, some children showed surprised expressions, or had their fingers in their mouths, or jumped up and down, and ran to him to look him up carefully.

A child pointed at Li Du and shouted something in their own language. A woman frowned and scolded.

Li Du asked, "What did he say?"

Cheeks laughed, "He said you had the skin of a lion."

Li Du thought this metaphor was quite good, and he wondered: "Then it should be a good word, right? Why does his mother still scold him?"

"That's not his mother, that's his grandma," Cheeks corrected, "and she told the boy to keep his voice down, because the hunters in the clan are resting and can't disturb the hunters."

Li Du was surprised, the black woman looked only in her forties, but she was the grandma of such an older child?

When Cheeks returned, someone planted branches into the fire, and from the branches hung roast meat and lumpy roots of some plants.

After a while, the smell of food permeated the air, and the sleepy hunters woke up one after another. They didn't need to wash up, just stretched themselves and sat by the campfire, took the food and started eating.

A plump young woman took a branch and handed it to Li Du, and said in rough English, "Hi, guest, please eat."

Li Du thanked him, he held the branch and took a bite of the meat, just like eating a large skewer of barbecued meat in college, it was exciting.

However, the taste of the meat is not so good. The meat of wild beasts has a fishy smell. Because it uses less salt and no spices such as cumin and five-spice powder, he is not used to it.

Moreover, the meat was baked after drying, without gravy and grease, and it tasted very bad. Li Du's teeth were sour and his cheeks were sore when he chewed.

The Hadzais are very hospitable, probably because they always migrate, are curious about the outside world, and hope to make more new friends. After Li Du came, he was very popular. In the early morning, some people came to toast.

Their wine is homemade fruit wine, which looks cloudy and sour.

Li Du was not pretentious. Since the Hadzais would not die if they drank it, he was naturally fine. He saluted them after taking it, raised his glass and drank it down.

This fruit wine doesn't smell very good, but it tastes good. It's like fruit juice mixed with alcohol. It's very strong, but it has a suppressed fruit aroma, and it feels good in the mouth.

Li Du drank a bowl in one gulp, and the hunters laughed and nodded to him.

Cheeks gave him an animal skull to cover his head. The upper part of the skull resembled a human head, but the lower part was wider and had two ferocious tusks.

Li Du identified it, remembered what Brother Lang said, and asked, "Is this the skull of a baboon?"

Cheeks nodded with a smile and said, "Yes, we Hadzais present a gift to the distinguished guests."

Wearing a baboon skull, Li Du has a wine bowl in his left hand and a barbeque on a branch in his right, giving him a wilderness atmosphere.

The hunters eat, the old and the weak, women and children make tools, arrange equipment for them, prepare lunch for the wild, etc., busy and orderly, with a sense of rhythm in life.

Li Du chewed the barbecue and asked Cheeks about their life patterns, and said, "How long are you going to stay in this grassland? Where are you planning to go in the future?"

Cheeks said: "For us Cheeks, there is no four seasons in the living environment, only the dry season and the rainy season. During the dry season, we migrate and collect food. When the rainy season comes, we move into the tree hole of the bread tree and go to Take shelter from wetness and mud."

"Next, we will live in this grassland for a period of time, and then go north to find a large bread tree forest to prepare for the rainy season."

Li Du asked: "You have received higher education and understand modern society. Why don't you lead your tribe to carry out reforms? For example, build houses to live in during the rainy season."

Cheeks laughed, shook his head and said, "No, I don't have the right to do that. The Hadzai have been around for a long time, so long that I can't find the source of the tribe in the book. The tribe has passed down a lot of traditions, and they are not modern enough. , but it is the key to maintaining the survival of this group.”

He paused, and then said: "I study medicine. I can help the tribe prevent and treat diseases, but I can't deprive them of the right to inherit tradition."