Chapter 975: 974. The Little Mouse Catcher (8/10)

Chapter 975: 974. The Little Mousecatcher (810)

Following the excited hunters, Li Du ran to a meadow that looked like a small drumstick.

This kind of weed looks very strange, a bit like the stick grass in his hometown, but the sticks on it are shorter and more drummed, so they look more like drumsticks.

The grass was soft and had multiple openings. The hunters squatted down and dug up the grass with bows and arrows.

The hunters were very fast, expanding the opening of the hole, and soon some soil was piled up outside, and then a mouse with grayish-yellow short hair came out.

Li Du looked depressed and said, "A mouse again?"

Cheeks smiled reassuringly, and said, "It's good to meet prairie rats. Sometimes we can only catch a few birds in a whole day and go back to eat the stock."

Prairie rats enjoy life very much. The burrows are wide and deep, and there is a lot of space inside. Compared to their size, they can live comfortably.

If the prairie rats flee without being frightened, it will be difficult for the hunters to get them, and they will have to dig to the bottom of the burrow.

Li Du looked at the size of the cave, and drove the crispy noodles into it, letting it catch voles.

As Ali grows up, Ganchamian is the smallest in size. It is only about half a meter long. Ah Miao has grown into a big one, more than one meter long, and cannot get in.

It was more than enough to deal with the prairie rat simply. It got in and quickly withdrew, holding the mouse's tail in its paws, and dragged the prairie rat out after being beaten dizzily.

Seeing this, the hunters cheered: "Later!"

Li Du reckoned that the meaning of these words was similar to 'long live' and 'great', but every time he heard them, he always felt that these people were saying: so spicy.

In this way, the hunters are looking for the prairie rat's cave, and Ah Ao and A Miao help dig the hole, and they simply go in and drag the prairie rat out. Ali waits at the entrance of the cave. If the prairie rat is not unconscious, it will go up and punch it twice to knock it unconscious. .

The four little ones started to cooperate on the assembly line again, and the mice were dug out one after another, and the hunters kept cheering, almost treating them like gods.

Seeing that the hunters could easily find the rat holes, Li Du was quite curious and asked, "How did they find them?"

The prairie rats were very cunning. They set the openings of the rat holes in the weeds, and Li Du had to dig through the grass to find them, but the hunters seemed to be able to tell if there were any rat holes by just looking at the ground.

Cheeks pointed to the ground and said: "Observe carefully, there will be some traces of fresh soil around the mouse hole. This is because the vole keeps coming in and out of the hole, and will bring out the fresh soil from the depths of the hole."

The traces outside the rat hole were very vague, and Li Du had to look carefully to find out, but the hunters could make a judgment with just a glance.

The hunting trip of the Hadzais is very boring. They have been digging rat holes here, and they didn't stop until they couldn't find the rats. It was already afternoon.

Next came the lunch environment, where they ate not according to a fixed time, but according to harvest and hunger.

"If the harvest is good, everyone will eat when they are hungry." Cheeks introduced, "If the harvest is not good, everyone will often go back to eat dinner together at night when they are hungry."

Li Du looked at the thin hunters one by one, and felt that their body shape might not be the result of a lot of exercise, but the reason of frequent hunger.

Someone started a bonfire. They collected dry shrubs and dead grass on the road, sprinkled some gasoline on it, and moved the lighter up, and the fire started.

The hunters nodded to the fire and talked about something. Li Du thought it was a ceremony, but Cheeks told him that it was everyone's admiration, praising the power of gasoline.

The eating style of the Hadzais is called a rough one. Wild birds are plucked, wild mice are skinned, and the internal organs are removed without even washing, and they are directly roasted on the bonfire.

Cheeks said helplessly: "I don't think this is good. I have corrected their habits. This is already the result of my hard work. Before, they didn't even throw away the internal organs and ate them together."

The hunters chatted casually together, people took turns to bake food, and others rested to accumulate energy for the next hunting trip.

One characteristic of the Hadzai people is that they do not stockpile food and prefer to eat fresh food.

That is to say, the day they get more food, the day they celebrate the festival, everyone eats more. One day you will get less food, you can't do anything, just go hungry.

What if food is unavailable for an extended period of time? The Hadzais are not afraid. The African savannah is too lush to prevent them from being unable to find food for a long time.

Looking at those bloody birds and mice, Li Du couldn't stop talking. Godzilla carried a lot of food with him, and he took out a few canned meat from it to share. They ate this.

Cheeks eschews canned meat, saying: "I'm used to eating freshly baked food, which may not be as tasty, but it's healthier."

Li Du said: "There are too many bacteria, isn't it healthy?"

Cheeks shook his head and said: "When I first returned to the tribe, I collected the feces of the tribe and did a bacterial test. The intestinal environment of the tribe is very good. No matter what age group, the colonies of beneficial bacteria are very active. I think this has nothing to do with diet. environment."

He collected some data and said that he would give it to Sophie after returning home, so that Sophie could study it and see if it could be published, which could help people with gastrointestinal problems in the city.

Li Du asked: "Have you ever thought about teaching your people how to farm or breed? Now that people are doing more and more damage to the environment by wandering and hunting like this, I'm afraid the prey will continue to decrease?"

Cheeks said helplessly: "You are right, Li, our prey is getting less and less, and the places where we can hunt are also getting less and less, but my people can't learn farming."

"At first, I saw that there was a market for honey among the tribes, so I taught them to raise bees to collect honey, and guess what?"

Li Du guessed, "Did they eat it themselves?"

Cheeks laughed and said: "No, they don't know how to take care of the beehives, and they don't have that kind of thought. For my people, it is the joy of life to encounter honey on the way of hunting and enjoy the gift of heaven full of surprises. .”

When the birds and voles were half- or half-cooked, the hunters cheered and shared the food.

Hadzais share food fairly. No matter how much food there is, they start with one piece. Someone takes a bite of a bird and passes it to the next person. In this way, everyone takes turns eating one bite at a time before starting to eat the next one. food.

Looking at the smiles on their faces, Sophie said thoughtfully: "Maybe we judge others by ourselves, Li, we have substituted our own concept of poverty into the Hadzais. In fact, they live a very good life."

Da Ao nodded and said: "I agree, lady boss, you are right, the African grasslands will not starve to death, the complete food chain is enough to meet their basic needs of life. Then, they have a lot of leisure time to spend with their families and rest , always laughing constantly, which is much better than the people in the city.”