famine queen

Chapter 30

Jin Mang originally thought that even if there were other chestnut trees on the mountain, the number would not be too many, a dozen or so would be good.

Unexpectedly, so many of them stayed here for two days before digging out the chestnuts in Banmianshan.

It was also at this moment that they realized belatedly that the trees on this mountain... seem to be all chestnut trees?

Looking at the chestnuts that were almost full of grain carts, everyone looked at each other, hesitant.

By the way...should they also dig up the chestnuts on the other side of the mountain?

"But the grain truck can't hold so much..." one of Jin Mang's uncles said.

"What's the point?" Qing Feng said without even thinking about it: "It's better to carry it if you can't fit it, than to go hungry."

Everyone thought it was true.

"I don't know if the cannibal tribe has left." The one who muttered this was Lan Ying, who was Qingyan's eldest daughter and Qingkui's mother.

"Whether they have left or not, we are still afraid that they will fail?" Qingkui's father Chi Yun pouted and said.

Lan Ying is 28 years old this year, but she only gave birth to Qing Kui, who is the same age as Jin Mang.Because Chi Yun is 6 years younger than her, she will not have children until he grows up and can help Lan Ying raise his children.

In terms of childbirth, Anze's human beings... or all creatures are very strange, because of the existence of the split season, they are used to giving birth after the split season, so the age difference between brothers and sisters is 3 multiple.

Therefore, Jin Mang felt that a family composed of brothers and sisters like Anze was really troublesome. Not only was it impossible for everyone to have the same number of sons and daughters, but the age difference was also a very troublesome problem.A six-year age difference between Lan Ying and Chi Yun is already considered good, not to mention others, but Lan Duo, Lan Yu and their elder brother.

The pair of sisters Hua is 6 years old this year, while their elder brother Lancao is only 18 years old this year.Modern people pay attention to the best age for childbearing, but even so, older women can still be seen everywhere, and Anze is even less particular about it.

Grandma was almost fifty when she gave birth to her last child. My aunt's youngest child was born when she was 31 years old, but that was because her two children died in infancy, and her body was injured later, so she didn't have another child. give birth.And the second aunt is now 39 years old, according to Qingsui, she will continue to have children.

In other words, if Landuo Lanyu forms a family with Lancao, they must stop having children at least around the age of 38, because Lancao is already 50 years old at that time, and his strength will start to decline.Even prudently, they should stop having children before the age of 30, taking into account the period when their children are growing up.

Because of this, Qingsui privately speculated that Landuo Lanyu might not choose to form a family with Lancao in the future.After all, although Lancao's strength is good, it's not particularly strong, at least not enough to become the main force of the tribe, and his younger brothers seem to be no worse than him.

When the British tribe moved to the other side of the mountain, they found that the cannibal tribe had left, and there were still extinguished fires and bones at the foot of the mountain.

Lan He stepped forward to fiddle with it, and calculated: "They should have captured four orphans, two of them were eight or nine years old, and two were three or four years old. They ate all the meat in one meal, and there was nothing left. "

Jin Mang recalled the scene he saw at the beginning, frowned and said: "There are quite a few people in that tribe, there should be no less than 15."

"15 people?" Blue River sneered.

Jin Mang blinked, what's the problem?

Qingyan asked her: "Are there many children?"

child?

Jin Mang thought for a while, then hesitated and said, "It seems that there are no children?"

Blue River's complexion suddenly turned ugly.

Qingyan sighed and said, "It's probably not a normal tribe, but a temporary tribe composed of bachelors."

Jin Mang was at a loss.

It was Qingsui who explained to Jin Mang in private: "Generally speaking, when the number of tribes reaches a certain size, or the direct elders above die, they will often face the situation of branching. We have the British tribe, which is also based on my father and I. A branch that was created after Grandpa and Grandma passed away."

After a pause, "Generally speaking, the tribe is composed like our Youying tribe is now. Everyone is the descendant of your grandma and grandpa. If your grandma passes away in the future, then our Youying tribe will also split. Not Unexpectedly, at that time, it will split into three tribes, with your aunt and second uncle, second aunt and third uncle, and me and your uncle as the leaders."

Jin Mang understood a little, "You mean, Uncle and the others will become people without tribes?"

"Not all of them are like this." Qingsui said: "As long as we are willing, we can make your uncle a member of the tribe at that time. However, not everyone will be willing. In five years, the strength will begin to decline. Although members of different families of the tribe will only meet in the split season, and the food of each family is not shared, but for a childless person like your uncle, family members will inevitably help share the burden. One or two, we brothers and sisters are okay, and when it comes to the next generation and the next generation, more people are reluctant."

"The cannibal tribe you saw was probably weak, and was finally abandoned after the tribe split."

Jin Mang suddenly understood.

She knew that Qingsui's words were reserved, and from her tone, it seemed that their brothers and sisters would be willing to accept other brothers born in the future, but this was not necessarily the case.

Jin Mang could even hear the unobvious prayer in the other party's words - she hoped that she would agree to take in those single uncles in the future.

She thought that the few bachelors who could be taken in by their brothers and sisters would be the minority. Most of them would be abandoned, and even if a few were taken in at that time, when the brothers and sisters were old and the next generation began to become the main force of the tribe, There is no escape from being abandoned.

How pitiful, how sad.

At this moment, Jin Mang truly sympathized with those single uncles.

These days, those uncles who have fasted have given them the hard-earned food, but in the future, when they are old and have no fighting power, these nephews, nieces, and even nephews and grandnieces will not be willing to support them.

This is even a very normal thing. After all, like Jin Mang, the people who raised them are mainly their parents. How can they expect them to treat other elders as their parents?

Even those elders have helped to take care of them, but... in modern society, how many people will give old age to their neighbors, relatives and elders who have helped them?
It's not even the indifference of those younger generations. People in modern society mainly rely on economic ability to survive. In this regard, the gap between people will be very large. Some people earn money in a month and others can't earn in their entire lives. Send kindness.

But not in Anze, they rely on hunting ability to survive, even if there are a small number of people with outstanding strength, but they have to raise their children and parents, and one more old man may overwhelm them.

(End of this chapter)