Ancient Eden Chapter 39:
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As far as she knew, the only animals with horns on their backs were dinosaurs. But that kind of thing became extinct in the middle and late Cretaceous period 60 to 70 million years ago. There's no way Blackie is a dinosaur. Not to mention where could there be a sphinx-like dinosaur?
Not long after this problem troubled Mu Qing, her attention was attracted by the monkeys again.
In order to prevent the monkeys from causing trouble in the past two days, she simply caught fish at the entrance of the cave where she lived, so that she could keep an eye on her at any time. It turned out that a lot of firewood she had collected was spread out in the open space where the fish was dried. Now that the weather is getting colder, there are withered and yellowing branches and leaves everywhere at the bottom of the valley, and it is easy to get a lot of them. She thought that the monkeys would not even steal firewood, so she went back without worries. Unexpectedly, the rogue monkeys took out firewood to vent their anger. When Mu Qing wanted to turn the firewood over to dry it, he saw that the firewood that had been neatly spread out was scattered all over the floor, and some monkeys even peed on it. When he saw her coming, instead of running away, he picked up firewood and threw it at her, making a threatening sound from his mouth.
Mu Qing felt that he was really angry. She never told Li Mang that the monkey was causing trouble. She didn't think it was a big deal and she didn't want to distract him. At worst, she would just make more trips to drive him away. It's just that from the looks of things, these monkeys are paying less and less attention to her and are acting unscrupulously. If you don't teach them a lesson, if they discover the cave hiding food in a few days, they will probably come and rob it. I'm afraid she won't be able to resist it by herself.
Mu Qing did not dare to throw stones at the monkeys for fear that they would throw them back and hit him, so he just picked up a big piece of firewood to drive them away. Then she suddenly heard a roar behind her.
Although this roar is low, it is long-lasting and full of majesty and anger. Mu Qing was startled and looked back, only to realize that it was Xiao Hei who rushed over after hearing the sound.
Xiao Hei's front paws and shoulders were slightly bent, and his eyes were fixed on the monkey, looking ready to go.
Xiao Hei actually roared like this, which surprised Mu Qing again. She was used to it purring in its throat when it usually followed her, and it felt like it was acting coquettishly all the time.
The monkeys were obviously shocked by the sound just like Mu Qing. Soon, I don’t know which one took the lead. All the monkeys screamed and ran away towards the big trees where they usually live. In a blink of an eye, they were up in the tree, jumping up and down on the branches, looking a little uneasy.
Mu Qing was surprised and happy. He didn't expect these monkeys to be afraid of Xiao Hei's anger. I turned around and wanted to reward it. It usually liked to rub itself into her arms and let her stroke its fur.
I don’t know if it was because she was wrongly accused and taught a lesson last time, so I was worried about letting the monkeys take the blame. Xiao Hei roared again and flew to the foot of the tree. Waiting for Mu Qing to react, Seeing that it had climbed up the tree, I jumped up, but a little monkey that couldn't escape had already been bitten on the neck by it.
Xiao Hei got off the tree, threw the monkey in his mouth to her feet and held it down with his paws. Then he looked up at her and let out his usual whine, which sounded a bit flattering. There were several deep tooth marks on the little monkey's neck, and blood was pouring out. Perhaps out of fright, Xiao Hei let go of it and didn't try to escape. He just shivered and shrank.
Mu Qing squatted down, raised his little black paws and looked at them, and saw that the sharp claws in the thick fleshy pads on the soles of his feet, which were usually hidden, were now stretched out, as if they were equipped with iron hooks. He must have just clawed his way up the tree trunk. She touched it and immediately retracted her claws.
Mu Qing rubbed the blackhead. Xiao Hei looked extremely excited, lowering his head as if he wanted to bite off the little monkey's neck.
After the monkeys on the tree were frightened, they screamed and screamed, but they didn't dare to come down. The female monkey suddenly became restless, jumped down from a high branch, fell to the ground and rolled a few times. She didn't even care about the pain, and immediately rushed to a stop five or six meters away from Mu Qing, staring at it. The little monkey landed on the ground, squeaking anxiously.
Xiao Hei was interrupted and looked very unhappy. He looked up at the female monkey and made a low whirring sound in his throat, full of threats.
The female monkey looked a little frightened, but instead of leaving, she slowly came closer, her eyes looking at Mu Qing from time to time, as if she was begging for mercy.
Mu Qing had an epiphany. The little monkey caught by Xiao Hei must be the mother monkey's child, so the mother monkey jumped down desperately to save it.
Seeing that the female monkey not only did not leave, but instead got closer and closer, Xiao Hei roared again, opened his sharp claws, exposed his strong white teeth, and tried to pounce on the female monkey's head and face.
Mu Qing hurriedly hugged Xiao Hei from behind. It was much stronger than she imagined, and she almost let go. After hurriedly shouting, Xiao Hei stopped and turned to look at her with some grievance.
The mother monkey woke up from a dream, pulled one of the baby monkey's legs in front of Xiao Hei, and almost half dragged and half hugged it to the tree. With a sharp roar, the monkeys disappeared into the trees as if they were invisible.
The trouble is solved for now. The monkeys have suffered such a loss just now, and it is expected that they will restrain themselves in the short term. Mu Qing didn't expect that the usually playful little black boy could be so intimidating when he got angry. He couldn't help but rub the fur on his body again, thinking about whether he should train him to be less naughty and do more things in the future.
When Li Mang came back in the evening, Mu Qing told him what happened during the day, and pointed to the white spots on Xiao Hei's back and front spine, looking at him curiously.
They found that daily communication was basically smooth. Although they sometimes made mistakes, it was not a big problem.
She thought that she didn't know what kind of species Xiao Hei was, but he, a grown-up in the jungle, should know. Unexpectedly, when Li Mang reached out and touched Xiao Hei's back, he looked puzzled. Apparently he had never seen such a beast.
Mu Qing was a little disappointed. But I was very surprised. No matter what Xiao Hei is, it will definitely be very powerful in the future, and the important thing is that it only listens to her words, and that is enough.
Li Mang couldn't help but press and pinch Xiao Hei's back, studying non-stop. Xiao Hei probably didn't like this kind of rough treatment from the male master, so he let out a whimper and shook it off, ran to Mu Qing's side and lay down, tilting his head and closing his eyes to rest.
Since the last incident, the monkey group has become much more honest in the past few days. Occasionally, a few of them will come down to cause trouble, but they will be stopped by the female monkey. Mu Qing breathed a sigh of relief. It seems that the monkey really knows the current affairs. One morning a few days later, when she sent Li Mang out for hunting and came back, she found a pile of nuts at the entrance of the cave. I was stunned for a while, wondering how these things could appear out of thin air. When they saw a bunch of messy monkey paws and footprints being trampled near the entrance of the cave, they suddenly realized that it was the group of monkeys that sent them here from time to time.
Female monkeys know how to be grateful. This made Mu Qing a little touched. After all, the original reason for this conflict was that he and Li Mang broke into their habitat first. She thought for a moment, took a bag of dried fish and dried meat and placed it under the big tree where they usually hang out, and then left.
There is only so much she can do.
She passed by there the next day and found that the package was missing, but the monkeys on the trees also disappeared, and she didn't know where they went.
Mu Qing looked around for several days and saw no monkeys.
Maybe for them, now that the only food sources left here are bark and leaves, they have found another good place, so they quietly migrate there to spend the winter?
Mu Qing actually felt a little sad and could only comfort herself like this.
The bag of nuts the monkeys brought over was all raw. Mu Qing cracked the shell with stones and carefully peeled out the meat inside. Place it on the stone slab and bake it until the aroma comes out, and you can eat it as a snack.
After Mu Qing finished peeling an oval nut shell, she felt her fingers were a little slippery, so she went to the stream to wash her hands. With water on her hands, she rubbed them casually a few times, and a miracle happened.
There was foam on her hands, like soap foam. Although it was small and small, it really looked like it.
Mu Qing was excited and rubbed it again, and some foam started to form again. When she rinsed the foam off her hands, she felt extremely clean.
Mu Qing hurriedly returned to the entrance of the cave, picked out the oval nut meat that had just been peeled off, put it in his still wet hands and rubbed it. The foam came out again, and it smelled a little sweet.
She was so happy.
This can be used as soap, and the foam is so fine and smooth that you can wash your hair or take a bath.
She hurriedly wanted to find another one, but was disappointed to find that there was none. Just one.
Perhaps the monkeys accidentally mixed this fruit in when they were collecting nuts. But they were careless, which made Mu Qing very grateful.
They helped her a lot.
She decided to name it soap fruit.
Li Mang soon found a large bag of the same things for her.
For the first time in a long time, she felt that her body was finally clean, and she could smell the long-lost fragrance in her hair. She felt very satisfied. Then she asked Limang to use this soap nut to wash her hair. Li Mang was reluctant at first, but when he saw her taking out scissors and threatening to cut off his hair, he immediately compromised.
Mu Qing wet his hair by the stream, smeared it with soap nuts, slowly rubbed it into a lot of foam, then scooped up water from coconut shells and poured it down, and gently rinsed it off for him, and then carefully washed it behind his ears. The ground was scrubbed one by one.
He was like a child. If she didn't clean him up, he would never think of cleaning behind his ears. Every time she reminded her, he always nodded, but when she checked later, she would find that he was stubborn and didn't listen at all.
After washing his hair, Li Mang stood in the stream and took a bath.
It was early winter, but he was not afraid of the cold, so he took a bath in the cold stream as if nothing had happened. But she could only use a big turtle shell he picked up outside to boil water for bathing.
The turtle shell is so big that it is almost as big as a round table. It's great for boiling water or serving as a bathtub, but if you want to cook food and soup for two people, it's too big to use. It's also very thick and difficult to heat.
She increasingly felt that the container was inconvenient enough. And the important thing is that she can't let herself and Li Mang eat food baked on the fire all the time. In addition to the taste, it is also harmful to their health.
She needs pots to cook food, dishes, and water jars.
These have been seen in previous settlements. They probably fired the pottery themselves.
Mu Qing only knows that pottery can be fired from clay, but other than that, he has no experience at all. He only hopes that Li Mang knows how to make it.
She tried to talk to Li Mang a few days ago. He didn't say anything at the time, but for several nights in a row, he leaned against a depression in the cliff and piled earth up, and finally something that looked like a kiln came out, and she realized that he had made a stove and asked for the furnace. Fire pottery.
She was a little embarrassed. At first she thought she would just burn the pottery embryos on an open fire.
When she saw the stove, she realized that the burning temperature of the open-air firewood pile was definitely not as high as that in the stove, and the things burned should not be as strong as those in the stove.
Of course, she would not let Li Mang know about her hindsight, lest he laugh.
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