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Section 8 About Exchange

It's dawn.

Although Tianhao said that he didn't have to worry about the situation in Tianfeng, Tiankuang still had no rest. He sat next to his sleepy elder brother and kept adding firewood to the fire pit.

Tianhao noticed yesterday that the texture of this kind of firewood is very dense and much harder than the trees he was familiar with in the civilization era. They are also carbon substances, but they are more resistant to burning.

"Last brother, you did a good job." Tian Kuang is a straightforward person. He was like a giant steel. At this moment, he could not see any contempt for his lazy brother in his eyes. He only had infinite appreciation, fanaticism, and affirmation.

Tianshuang rubbed her eyes and crawled out of the pile of animal skins. When her eyes were in contact with Tianhao, she showed a happy expression on her face, and her eyes were filled with unconcealed admiration.

Leaving Tianshuang to take care of Tianfeng, the two brothers pushed open the door and walked out of their wooden house.

Tianhao still remembers what the leader and the old priest said to him last night.

"With you, the doctor, you will never have to hire a great wizard in the back village."

This is an affirmation of him. But Tianhao is very clear that he is not a doctor in the true sense and understands that there is still a gap between theory and practice.

The old priest knew some superficial medical skills, but he was absolutely helpless in "surgery". Only large tribes with dense populations have great wizards. It is said that they have special ability to communicate with gods, and can awaken the dead and ask gods to let go of the souls of seriously injured people and let them heal.

In the wooden bowl at the door of the cottage, there was a piece of meat. The color was very red, and it should be the fresh goods just distributed this morning. Judging from the appearance, bones and texture of the meat, it should come from a part of the front leg of the wild roe. The meat is very thick, the bones are very few, and it has a layer of light yellow oil. Usually only the strongest male laborers in the village are qualified to enjoy it.

In a season when food shortage must be used as food with special items, animal meat is very precious.

This is a reward for oneself, and it also means that the people in Panshi Village regard themselves as middle-aged laborers.

Tianhao does not think he is a doctor. Although Tianfeng's arm has been reset, no one can guarantee that he will recover as before. Fortunately, the weather is cold now, and the chance of wound inflammation is much lower than in summer.

Thinking of this, he and Tian Kuang walked quickly towards the large wooden house in the distance.

...

The Seminar Hall is the tallest building in Panshi Village. Heavy logs line up into walls and roofs, and large unmatched stones piled into foundations. They are not delicately carved and portrayed, but full of shocking and fearful roughness.

This big house is extremely spacious enough to accommodate more than 500 people. Perhaps, when it was first built, the population of Panshi Village did require such a large scale. However, since the time when Tianhao remembered, fewer and fewer people in the village were now. Now, including the sick children and the elderly, it is impossible to fill half of the wooden benches in the meeting hall.

Passing by, there was a large pot of boiled snow water on the earthen stove next to the high platform.

The deceased should be Xuping.

His injuries were very serious. When the hunting team returned yesterday, Xu Ping was already in dying state.

Along the way, everyone was smiling and greeting Tianhao. What happened in the wooden house yesterday spread very quickly. As long as it was because of Ayan, the special driving factors of women in gossip were not much different from those in the civilized era. People all know that there was an extra doctor in the village. Although Tianfeng's injuries had not yet been healed, many people have already seen it: the arm that was originally dislocated and bent backward has recovered to a normal angle, and the originally cracked chest has also been restored to complete under the sewing of needles and threads. If it were replaced, it would be an unimaginable miracle.

Several young girls kept staring at Tianhao with bright smiles. Not only Panshi Village, but also the barbarians and barbarians usually have a very open view of things between men and women. Women's favor are strong or powerful men. Moreover, the sixteen-year-old Tianhao has already grown up.

It is amazing to understand medical skills. Maybe the young Tianhao will be regarded by the leader of the tribe at some point in the future and will be given a surname, just like the old priest Witch Walk.

In this era, people with surnames were all nobles.

Without even caring about these girls, Tianhao and Tiankuang accelerated their pace towards the meeting hall. From afar, Tianhao saw: the old priest Wuxing and the hunting captain Yonggang were standing in front of the hall discussing something. Next to them, there were more than a dozen village women with their hands tied up by ropes, with a numb expression, and surrounded by several men holding spears.

Tianhao's eyebrows frowned slightly. He knew what would happen next.

These women were obviously selected from the villages, young, beautiful and strong. The population transactions between tribes are common. A few years ago, when Panshi Village was full of food, they also bought women from other villages with giant horned deer, yellow deer and fanged pig hunted from the mountains.

If it were the case before, Tianhao would not have asked about such a thing at all.

However, he saw Amei in the team.

Amei was a spoiled from other villages six years ago. She was in her thirties and was very hard-working, with the patience and strength unique to a woman of this age. Perhaps because her husband was killed, she was willing to become the leader's wife. The children in Panshi Village all like Amei, and she often brought sweet and sour fruits back from the mountain, very kind, with a smile on her face no matter who she is.

On several occasions, Tianhao saw Amei putting herself in the wooden bowl in front of the house through the crack of the door, secretly putting a few bones with flesh on her. Many people say that this woman is kind-hearted and fair in doing things. According to normal generation, she should be Tianhao's "aunt", but Tianhao always can't adjust the identity relationship with Amei. He thinks that this woman sometimes looks like her sister, sometimes an aunt, and sometimes even an aunt... How to say it? On those cold and lonely nights after her parents' death, Tianhao always has a warm figure in his heart.

Without hesitation, Tianhao strode to the old priest and saluted respectfully.

"You are here. Haha! Ayan has just arrived, and she said that your elder brother's arm can be moved slightly. You... are doing very well."

The old priest smiled, and this enthusiastic attitude even infected Yonggang standing beside him. The burly and strong hunting captain was extremely tall, full of fearsome explosive muscles. His hard face, which seemed to be frozen forever by ice and snow, also had a slight smile.

On the way back to Panshi Village, he had checked Tianfeng's injuries more than once. With Yonggang's experience, Tianfeng's arm was actually destroyed. However, after only one night, the reality seen by his eyes completely overturned his previous inertial thinking.

Even if the elders and the leader don’t talk about it, Yonggang will propose to treat Tianhao as the most important man in Panshi Village and distribute food fairly.

Having a doctor means you can survive after being injured.

Although the doctor's status is not as good as that of the great witch, in many cases, the doctor is indeed more practical than the great witch. Communication with gods is strongly mysterious. In comparison, the doctor is easier to communicate with ordinary people and is more likely to be accepted.

Tianhao didn't waste time. He brewed his emotions, raised his hand and pointed at the women tied up, and said to Wu Xing directly: "Elder, can you not sell them?"

The old priest and Yonggang looked at each other, and saw that they showed a surprised expression on each other's faces, and then gradually changed to helplessness.

"There is not much food in the village. The next snow will probably block the mountain road. We can't support so many people, and we don't have food, so we will have to draw lots soon. Instead of letting these women use it as food, it's better to send them to the village in the south. It's richer than us, and they won't die. If the situation is better next year... we can redeem it."

As he got older, Wu Xing spoke very slowly and explained patiently. After yesterday's incident, he obviously regarded Tianhao as a middle-aged man with status in the village.

"We haven't been to the south for almost a year. No one knows what happened there. Maybe the snow disaster they suffered is worse than ours? Their crops this year may also be poor, or they may be fighting a village. The snow on the road is very deep, without food, and women can't go that far. You also know: In this season, there will be basically no harvest."

Tianhao's voice was very plain. He did not deliberately emphasize his tone, but just explained the facts that everyone knew. Every time he said one more sentence, Wu Xing and Yonggang's faces became a little darker.

Pingjun walked over from the side and saluted Wu Xing and Yonggang. He looked gloomy and sarcastically said to Tianhao in an unkind tone: "According to what you say, you should leave the woman behind and watch everyone starve to death?"

He tried his best to suppress his anger and dissatisfaction.

Pingjun didn't expect the situation to reverse overnight. He originally calculated that according to his past experience, the hunting team should have at least more than a week before they can come back. As long as there is no food, Tianhao and Tianshuang will starve to death in the next few days. Although the leader Fusong is fair in his work, the distribution of food is left to the "Ten Heads" below. Everyone in the village knows Tianhao's lazy nature, and there is no problem using this as an excuse to refuse to distribute food.

Every night, he would go to the wooden house to see the two siblings. When he found the body at the first time, he could take the initiative and hide them secretly.
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