Ancient Eden Chapter 12:
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Mu Qing put his hands on his eyelids and took a moment to adjust to the light. After a moment of confusion, his mind immediately recalled what happened last night. He hurriedly looked sideways and saw that the place around him was empty.
Li Mang usually gets up earlier than her. This morning was no exception.
Mu Qing sat up, grabbed some clothes and put them on. She didn't want to think too much about what happened last night. The only feeling now is that it is very sticky and uncomfortable.
She stood up and pulled out a bunch of leaves from the crack in the shed wall. The leaves were not very hard to the touch and had good toughness. She saw that Naduo used them as toilet paper, which was much better than the temporary leaves she had to find when she first wanted to use it. She thought it was good, so she picked some, washed them and dried them in the sun. Set aside.
Mu Qing took one and wiped it gently. The area where it touched the skin was still slightly swollen and stinging. She frowned while cleaning it carefully. Suddenly he stopped moving.
She remembered that these days were her fertile period.
When she had a boyfriend in the past, she always ordered him to use a condom, so she never thought about it. Later, I found out that the man had cheated on her and broke up with her. She was disheartened about the relationship. She had been idle for more than a year and had never considered such a thing. The first time last night, she only regarded herself as a sacrifice on the altar; that time in the second half of the night, she was half asleep and half awake, exhausted, and in her heart she just hated him for tossing and tossing, hoping to get it over with, and fell asleep afterward. I didn't think about it. At this moment, I suddenly thought of it, and I counted the days again in my mind, and some sweat broke out on my back.
Mu Qing flew to the ditch with almost a white face, trying hard to expel what he had left in his body last night. She herself knew that such an action would not be very useful even if it was done immediately after it happened, let alone that nearly a night had passed? But she couldn't help but do it anyway.
She nervously felt that she had to do something, and there was no other remedy.
When Mu Qing walked all the way back, she was a little stunned. She didn’t even hear Youyou call her. It was she who stepped forward and held Mu Qing’s hand, and then she realized what she was doing. She forced a smile at her and said: " I'm not hungry."
She asked her to have breakfast for no reason, and responded to her in the dialect she had just learned.
She hasn't eaten at all at the moment**.
Youyou shook her head with a smile, and took her to her shack. Mu Qing followed her and bent down to enter. Only then did he see Na Duo sitting cross-legged on the ground, slowly rubbing something on her hand with a very smooth pebble.
It's the snake skin hanging in Limang's shack. She was rubbing the inner surface with the stone at the moment.
When Naduo saw her coming, she smiled on her face, beckoned her to come to her, and then moved the snakeskin on her hand that had been rubbed very soft by her to her waist.
Mu Qing somewhat understood. Judging from this meaning, Limang should have given this thing to Naduo this morning and asked her to make a snakeskin waistband for him?
She waved her hands hurriedly and took a step back.
She had never washed her jeans a while ago, fearing that they would not dry overnight and she would have no pants to wear the next day. In addition to the hot weather, she did think about getting a pair and go with the women here. Wear it as a short skirt with the same waistline, so it can be easily interchanged with the pants on your body. But although she saw this snake skin and hung it there every day, she never thought twice about it. The little chubby girl’s eyes flashed when she saw this thing for the first time, and she remembered it very clearly.
Nado forcefully pulled her back and measured her body. Seeing that she still refused, he pointed to Youyou with a smile, stretched out his hand and touched her lower abdomen lightly a few times, and then said a word, which Mu Qing probably meant to be a child.
After a long time, Mu Qing learned that snakes are a symbol of reproduction in this tribe's settlement. When women hope to have children, they will beg their men to hunt for a female snake skin and make it into an apron to wrap around themselves, believing that this will enable them to have the same ability to reproduce as snakes. And this kind of snake skin is what they dream of. It is difficult to see them on weekdays. The way to catch them is to light a fire where they are likely to be. When the female snake feels the light of the fire, out of its natural fear of fire, it will swim towards the fire and secrete a layer of mucus on its body to extinguish the fire. heap. This is the only time to catch a good opportunity, but there are not many opportunities to catch it by chance, so every snake skin like this is precious.
Mu Qing naturally didn't know much about the meaning of this snake skin at this time. He only felt that it should be regarded as a luxury item. But she vaguely guessed something about Naduo's behavior. Naduo was obviously talking about her pregnancy.
After spending so many days together, she guessed that Naduo must be Sister Limang or someone else who is very close to her by blood, so they are usually so close. But this does not mean that she can accept Naduo's kindness. When she thought about what that man had done to her last night, and how early this morning he couldn't wait to pick up the snake skin and tell Naduo, and then asked her to get herself a snake skin apron, she felt flushed and felt a sense of being betrayed. Feeling insulted. She felt that this snake skin was very much like a reward for trading skin and flesh, or a reward from a benefactor.
Mu Qing doesn’t want to show up in front of Naduo and Youyou. She just smiled and took the snake skin and bone needle from Naduo's hand and made a sewing motion. Seeing that she wanted to do it by herself, Naduo didn't insist anymore and just touched her belly again, as if there was already a little life there.
Mu Qing returned to the shack, still feeling slightly angry. My eyes were staring at the snake skin, and the more I looked at it, the more dazzling it became.
There was a sound of the door curtain being lifted behind me. Mu Qing thought it was Youyou who was following him, but turned around to look, only to find that it was the leader's daughter, Little Fat Girl. She now knew that she had a name with a very cute pronunciation: "Yao Yao".
Mu Qing was a little surprised.
Every shack here has no door, but on weekdays, people here generally do not enter other people's shacks unless they are the owner. On weekdays, Yaoyao does not have to do all kinds of labor every day like other women in this tribe's settlement. Mu Qing would sometimes encounter her wandering around or playing, but she obviously didn't like him very much, so she just stayed away from him.
Ya Yao stood there, staring at the piece of snake skin in Mu Qing's hand.
Mu Qing stood up from the ground, nodded towards her and smiled.
Yao Yao ignored her, just stepped forward, pointed at the snake skin in Mu Qing's hand, kept shouting something, her eyes were full of anger, and took the snake skin away with her hands. Tear hard. The snakeskin was very flexible and she couldn't tear it open, so she threw it to the ground and trampled on it with her feet.
Mu Qing looked at her, remembering the first time he saw her when she looked at the snake skin on Limang's neck with her eager eyes, and was slightly moved, but did not stop it, not to mention that she had no idea about this thing at all. Good impression.
Yao Yao stopped stamping, suddenly turned around and quickly opened the door curtain and went out. Mu Qing thought she had left, so he stared at the snake skin on the ground for a while, sighed, and was about to bend down to pick it up and hang it back when Yao Yao came in with another gust of wind, this time with an extra bone grinder in his hand. Make a knife. She pushed Mu Qing away and slashed the snake skin with her knife several times. While doing so, she looked up at Mu Qing with a hint of ridicule in the corner of her mouth.
Na Duo must have noticed the abnormality here and followed her. When she saw this scene, her face looked shocked and angry. She yelled and flew forward to **** the bone knife from Yao Yao's hand. She scratched her finger with her fingernails. It’s on the back of Yaoyao’s hand. Yao Yao shouted angrily. Na Duo hesitated for a moment, and Yao Yao used force again to draw a long cut on the snake skin, extending from beginning to end. Then she threw away the knife, looked at Mu Qing and Na Duo with some pride, and walked away with her head held high.
As soon as Yaoyao left, Naduo knelt down on the ground and picked up several pieces of snake skin that had been broken into pieces, her lips trembling slightly.
Mu Qing really didn't like that piece of snake skin, and being cut by Yao Yao had no effect on her. He just couldn't bear to see her looking so sad, so he squatted in front of her and wanted to comfort her with a few words. When he opened his mouth, he found that he couldn't say anything, so he could only pat her rough hands gently.
Naduo looked up at her, held her hand, and kept talking, seeming to comfort her.
Mu Qing was a little moved, smiled at her and said, "I'm fine."
This is a saying she has learned recently.
Nado suddenly picked up the snake skin fragments and bone needles from the ground, hung them on her hands, said something to Mu Qingfei, and then turned around and left the shack.
Mu Qing quickly forgot about this matter. Yaoyao's hostility towards her really made her feel helpless. But it wasn't this that gave her a headache now, it was the trouble she had just realized this morning. When she thought that she might be pregnant because of what happened last night, her heart felt like lead, so heavy that she could hardly breathe.
The door curtain was opened again this time. Mu Qing looked up and saw Xiao Xiao Youyou standing on the side of the door curtain looking at him, her big eyes full of worry and timidity.
The large area of crops planted outside the forest in the settlement began to produce seeds a few days ago, attracting a large number of birds of all kinds to come and peck at them. The women are busy with their own affairs, so the task of chasing birds falls on the children. Na Duo no longer let Mu Qing go out to work with her, and only let her and You You guard the crops. When you come here, you should go with her.
Mu Qing knew that Youyou was still worried about what happened just now, so he stood up, touched her head, held her hand and went out together.
In the crop fields outside the forest, the younger children were all naked and holding branches in their hands. When they saw a bird stopping, they laughed and swarmed over to chase it away. Mu Qing was sitting under the shade of a big tree nearby and saw Yuyu among them. She ran away behind the others, but she looked very happy and couldn't help laughing.
Mu Qing felt that his mood was getting better due to the unbridled laughter.
After chasing for a while, the children seemed to lose interest. Whenever a bird came over, they would throw stones in that direction. In the afternoon, the people gradually dispersed, leaving only Youyou and a few other younger children. Keep it.
The increasingly plump millet seeds attract more birds than in the past few days, and they always fall one after another. But every millet seed produced is very precious to the people here. Mu Qing and the remaining children drove for a long time, and at noon they only ate a few wild fruits found nearby. After the sun went down and the birds returned to the forest, they were already a little exhausted. As Heyou washed away the day's sweat in several streams, she was thinking about whether to make some scarecrows tomorrow. She had seen scarecrows in the rural fields when she was a child. Birds here must have never seen anything like this before. I wonder if I can scare the birds, so that I and Youyou can save some effort.
The men came back a little early today. When Mu Qing returned to the settlement, the sky had just darkened, but Limang was already sitting in front of the fire with Youyou's father, eating tonight's dinner. Mu Qing took his own bowl and sat far away with Youyou and his younger siblings. She guessed that Naduo didn't tell Li Mang what happened today. The two men were talking, and Li Mang seemed to be in a good mood, bursting into laughter from time to time, but his eyes would glance at her across the fire from time to time.
The feeling of heaviness that she had temporarily forgotten during the day came back to her, especially when he was looking at her like this. This inevitably led her to think about what was to come next in the evening. It took her a day to finally convince herself that she would be fine last night. She won't be so unlucky. So tonight and the next few nights, she must not let the same thing happen again.