On October 18, after days of cold weather, it finally snowed.
Jiang Xuan stood at the door, watching the snowflakes falling, but there was no tension in his heart like last year.
Because the Vine Tribe has plenty of food this year, there is no need to worry about winter famine.
Tangyuan lay in the bamboo shed, curled up into a big purple ball. When he opened his eyes and saw Jiang Xuan, he stretched his neck and yawned, then hid his head in the feathers and went to sleep.
Raptors also need to hunt in winter, otherwise they will starve to death because they do not hibernate.
For example, Lao Wu's black giant eagle will go out and fly around almost every noon, when the temperature is the highest, to prey on animals that are also not hibernating.
Tangyuan is different. It is too young and has not learned to fly. If it runs with its claws, it will be difficult for it to catch prey in such a cold winter.
So it can only lie in its nest and sleep, and when the black giant eagle comes back from hunting, it can have a meal without feeling embarrassed at all.
Yes, glutinous rice balls have learned to "eat".
After overcoming its initial fear, it seemed to regard the giant black eagle as its "uncle" and often went there to eat.
The strange thing is that the black giant eagle doesn't mind it and has never chased it away. It seems that it really treats it as a junior.
"Bah!"
A sharp cry suddenly came from above the Vine Tribe.
Then, the huge black eagle grabbed a prey and landed on the ground.
Tang Yuan, who was sleeping in the bamboo shed, instantly pulled his head out of his feathers, and the whole bird became energetic.
It immediately stood up, flapped its wings, skillfully pushed open the wood supporting the door, grabbed the crossbar on the door, and opened the courtyard door.
Then, Tang Yuan quickly ran towards the black giant eagle, leaving only a line of deep bird claw marks on the snow on the ground.
"Going to eat meat again?"
Jiang Xuan looked helplessly at the glutinous rice balls going away, feeling that this guy was so shameless.
However, he then thought that Tang Yuan might not understand what "face" is at all, and it just fills his stomach.
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Tangyuan waddled out of the bamboo forest, and then went straight to the place where the black giant eagle lived.
Perhaps with the arrival of winter, the black giant eagle built a large nest using trees, branches, reeds and other materials next to the bamboo house, and slept in the giant eagle's nest at night.
Wild eagles usually build their nests on mountain peaks or cliffs, but this giant black eagle has been accustomed to building its nest on the ground because it has lived with people since it was a child.
What the giant black eagle captured today was a wild boar. It placed the wild boar next to the eagle's nest and kept pecking at it.
Right here, the glutinous rice balls are coming.
"Er, er, err..."
Tangyuan ran to the huge eagle's nest and called twice. The black giant eagle looked at it and then continued to eat meat.
Seeing that the black giant eagle didn't respond, Tang Yuan flapped its wings and climbed up from the edge of the eagle's nest. Then he got close to the wild boar and took a tentative peck.
The giant eagle still didn't object, and immediately started pecking the glutinous rice balls happily, eating the meat very quickly.
When the giant eagle and glutinous rice balls were full, only the remains of an adult wild boar weighing more than 1,000 kilograms were left.
"Snapped!"
The giant eagle picked up the wild boar's bones and threw them outside the eagle's nest. There were many bones like this accumulated next to the eagle's nest.
After eating, Tangyuan was ready to leave. It still wanted to jump down from the edge of the eagle's nest, leaning on the trees extending out, like jumping off steps.
However, when it stood on the edge of the eagle's nest, the black giant eagle suddenly pushed it with its head and pushed it directly outside the eagle's nest.
"Hey..."
Tangyuan was startled, but the bird's instinct made it flap its wings quickly, and it actually flew a short distance before landing on the ground.
Tang Yuan turned around and looked at the black giant eagle at a loss, wondering why he was pushed down.
The giant black eagle stood up from the eagle's nest, then suddenly flapped its wings and swooped towards Tangyuan.
Tangyuan was frightened and turned around to run away.
Then, after running a few steps, it was caught up by the black giant eagle, and a terrifying and huge talon grabbed the glutinous rice ball whole.
"Huhuhu..."
The giant black eagle actually flew into the sky with the glutinous rice balls.
"Er...Er..."
The panicked glutinous rice balls screamed loudly, the sound was very miserable.
"Tangyuan, what happened?"
After Jiang Xuan heard the cry of Tangyuan, he immediately rushed out of the bamboo house, and then saw the black giant eagle flying into the sky grabbing the Tangyuan.
Jiang Xuan's heart tightened, and he hurried towards the old witch.
"Old witch, old witch..."
When Jiang Xuan ran to the bamboo house where the old witch lived, he found the old witch standing at the door, watching the glutinous rice balls being grabbed by the black giant eagle and spiraling up in circles.
"Old witch, why did the giant eagle take away the glutinous rice balls?"
Jiang Xuan ran to the old witch and asked anxiously.
The old witch smiled and said: "Don't worry, the giant eagle will not hurt Tangyuan. Its claws are not strong. Otherwise, do you think Tangyuan can still scream so loudly?"
After the old witch's reminder, the anxious Jiang Xuan immediately reacted.
The giant black eagle's claws can instantly pierce even large beasts, let alone small glutinous rice balls.
"Then why did the giant eagle catch the dumplings in the sky?" Jiang Xuan asked doubtfully.
The old witch smiled and said: "The glutinous rice ball's feathers are full and its wings are strong, but because it has been living on the ground, there is no mother bird to teach it to fly, so it can only walk on the ground."
"Now, the giant eagle has brought it into the sky so that it can learn to fly as soon as possible."
"So that's it."
After listening to the old witch's explanation, Jiang Xuan suddenly realized.
Then, the two looked up at the sky to see how the giant eagle taught Tang Yuan to fly.
Not only them, but other members of the Teng tribe were also attracted by Tangyuan's screams. After learning about the situation, they all looked up at the sky.
In the sky, the giant eagle spiraled up to the sky with the glutinous rice balls. After flying to a certain height, the giant eagle suddenly released its talons, and the glutinous rice balls fell down screaming in the wind and snow.
"Flap, slap, fan..."
Instinct drove Tangyuan to open its wings and flap them desperately to stop the falling trend.
It swayed in the air as if drunk, but its fall slowed down significantly.
"Bah!"
The black giant eagle slightly folded its wings and flew around the glutinous rice balls without leaving too far.
Not long after, the swaying glutinous rice balls finally landed on the ground, but instead of landing on the open space of the Vine Tribe, they landed on the top of a big tree in the nearby forest.
Just when Tangyuan breathed a sigh of relief, the giant eagle swooped past, and its terrifying talons accurately caught it and took it up into the sky.
"Er...Er..."
Tangyuan continued to scream, but it was of no use to the giant eagle. It was still carried high into the sky and continued to be thrown down by the giant eagle.
This time, Tang Yuan had a little more experience. As soon as he was thrown, he spread his wings and flew with all his strength, instead of falling like before.
On the ground, Jiang Xuan watched the glutinous rice balls being thrown over and over by the giant eagle, and sighed: "Learning to fly is not easy."
But the old witch shook his head and said: "Your bird is pretty good. There is a giant eagle to help it. If it were in the wild, those chicks would have to train their wings to be strong enough on the edge of the cliff and learn to fly."
"If they happen to fall from the nest when the mother bird is out foraging and cannot fly back to the nest on their own, they will be eaten by predators."
After listening to the old witch's words, Jiang Xuan suddenly remembered that the dumpling was found at the foot of a steep mountain. Could it be that it was the unlucky guy who fell from the nest?
The more Jiang Xuan thought about it, the more likely it was, but it could not be verified.
Tang Yuan was also lucky to be found by Jiang Xuan first, otherwise, he would probably have been eaten by a predatory beast.
In the sky, Tang Yuan has mastered some flying skills after being thrown several times in a row, but he is still unable to fly independently.
It screamed pitifully from time to time, but it was useless and could only fly as hard as it could.
It wasn't until after flying more than a dozen times that the black giant eagle brought it back to the ground of the Vine Tribe.
As soon as the dumpling hit the ground, it screamed and ran towards Jiang Xuan. After running to Jiang Xuan, its big head rubbed directly against Jiang Xuan. It looked aggrieved, not like a raptor, but like a puppy.
"Okay, okay, stop rubbing your nose. Once you learn to fly, you won't have to rely on your legs to run when hunting for food. Do you understand?"
After Jiang Xuan comforted him for a while, Tangyuan's mood gradually stabilized, but when he looked at the black giant eagle, he was already filled with fear.
Jiang Xuan looked a little funny. How come you don't know how to be afraid when you eat meat?
The black giant eagle returned to the giant nest, lowering its head and combing its feathers.
Jiang Xuan dragged Tang Yuan to the front of the eagle's nest and said seriously to the giant eagle: "Thank you, Uncle Eagle, for teaching Tang Yuan to fly."
The giant eagle seemed to understand Jiang Xuan's words. It chirped at Jiang Xuan in a low voice, and then looked at Tangyuan with disgust.
In the eyes of the giant eagle, Tangyuan is so cowardly, it is simply a shame among birds of prey.
Jiang Xuan thanked the giant eagle, and then returned to his yard with the glutinous rice balls.
Tangyuan ran straight to the bamboo shed and lay down in the bird's nest. It was only then that it felt safe.
Jiang Xuan also returned to the house and continued to work on his own affairs.
He originally thought that after being tortured by the giant eagle, Tangyuan would not dare to go to the giant eagle to eat again.
However, Jiang Xuan underestimated the attraction of food to glutinous rice balls.
He never expected that just two days later, when the chirping of eagles sounded over the Vine Tribe, the glutinous rice balls would run out of the yard again and continue to look for the giant eagles to eat.
“What a foodie!”
Jiang Xuan shook his head and stopped caring about glutinous rice balls, but went about his own business.
In the days that followed, the chirping of eagles and the discordant screams of glutinous rice balls would be heard from time to time over the Vine Tribe.
But as time went by, Tangyuan, which was thrown from high altitude again and again, gradually mastered the skills of flying. The number of its screams gradually became less and less, and it flew farther and farther.
More than a month later, Tangyuan has initially learned to fly. Even when the black giant eagle is not around, it will find a high place to jump down and fly several times at low altitude.
At the end of December, the weather became increasingly cold, and the wind and snow were very heavy. Even the giant eagle did not want to go out to hunt in such weather.
Tang Yuan huddled in his nest all day long, relying on Jiang Xuan to feed him.
The ice on the Feiyu River was also very thick, so the Teng tribe conducted another winter fishing and harvested a large number of fish.
Relying on these fish and a large amount of stored food, the people of the Teng tribe are relatively at ease. They just polish some stone and bone tools around the fire pit every day to prepare for the coming year.
But other tribes are not as good as the Vine tribe.
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In the northern part of the Southern Wasteland, there is the Crow Tribe.
Thick snow covered the entire crow tribe, and even the crows that were usually noisy became quiet.
In the center of the crow tribe, there is a huge tree that requires five people to hug it. At the branch branch of this big tree, there is a huge old crow's nest, occupying almost half of the tree crown.
In this huge old crow's nest lives the totem god of the Crow tribe, an old crow who has lived for an unknown number of years.
Around this big tree, there are also a large number of towering ancient trees. There are countless crows' nests built on these ancient trees, and countless crows live in them.
These crows are very big. The wingspan of each adult crow can reach about two meters. Although they cannot carry people, they are very powerful in combat.
Moreover, these crows obey the command of the totem god of the Crow Tribe and can often play a great role in the event of a battle.
It is precisely because of these crows that the Crow Tribe can live a good life in this area. The population has expanded to more than 3,000, and many small tribes nearby have been wiped out.
However, as the Crow Tribe's population continues to increase, there are fewer and fewer prey nearby.
They didn't know how to plant, and their methods of domesticating wild beasts were crude. Their methods of obtaining food were too single, and a food crisis gradually emerged.
With a population of more than 3,000 people, plus a huge number of crows, the amount of food they need to eat every day is very large.
Once a food crisis occurs, the consequences will be unimaginable.
In the tallest wooden house of the Crow Tribe, the important figures of the Crow Tribe gathered around the fire pit, and the atmosphere was very oppressive.
The leader of the Crow Tribe is a middle-aged man about thirty-five years old. His face is painted with red and black Crow Tribe totem patterns, and there are also four horizontal stripes, which represents that he is a powerful four-color warrior.
The leader of the Crow Tribe said solemnly:
"The nearby tribes have robbed everything they can. There is still not enough food this winter. The tribesmen can only eat one meal a day. If this continues, I am afraid that the tribesmen will all starve to death."
The Crow Tribe Witch is an old woman. She said in a hoarse crow-like voice: "Maybe it's time for the tribe to migrate."
When it comes to migration, many people have a gloomy look on their faces, because leaving a familiar place and going to an unfamiliar place is often scary.
However, if the tribe wants to continue to survive and obtain more food, it must migrate. This is something everyone in the Crow tribe knows.
Only by migrating can they obtain hunting grounds with more abundant prey, and only by migrating can they plunder more tribes.
A hunting team leader asked: "Witch, where should we migrate?"
The shaman of the Crow Tribe stretched out a skinny hand, like a dried orange peel, pointed to the south, and said: "The Crow God has guided us in the direction."
After hearing this, the people in the room did not dare to raise any other opinions.
Because the Crow Tribe has a living totem god!
Its will is the highest will of the entire tribe, and no one is allowed to refute it.
Next, everyone in the Crow Tribe began to discuss migration matters.
For a tribe of more than 3,000 people, it is very troublesome to migrate. There are too many things to bring, and there will be a lot of troubles on the way.
Perhaps it was a coincidence that the direction pointed by the Crow Tribe shaman happened to be the direction of the Vine Tribe.
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