Wu tribe village and its memories

"Finally everything is almost done, just one more tray and it's done"

The table where Aunt Huang made the bread was empty of bread dough, and the remaining Shan Yu who had just put in the last tray and waited while writing a book on the chair next to the cabinet array where the bread was stored.

Aunt Huang suddenly appeared from the side door that led directly to the kitchen of the house.

"Shan Yu, auntie will leave first, after you finish everything, you can bring the 9 loafs, thank you for your help today"

"Yes aunt, be careful, thank you for the bread too"

"Keep the last loaf perfect"

Aunt Huang said these words while giving a thumbs up lightly, turned around and left their conversation, Shan Yu gave a glimpse of her aunt's departing shadow then continued to write a random story in her book.

The fragrant smell of warm wheat bread that had been finished filled the room, Shan Yu immediately got up from her chair and harvested the bread that had just been cooked, transferring them one by one to a new basket and putting them in the storage cabinet.

Finished with that she then packed up the dirty trays and piled them together, then she wiped down the table where Aunt Huang used to process the bread dough, then swept the entire floor to make it clean from the scattered flour.

Not far from this building, behind it only a few tens of steps away was a peak waterfall stream that flowed lightly and plunged freely downward before finally forming a mass of clouds at dawn that filled the path down the Wu Tribe village, this stream met all the water needs of the Wu village, after the last dozen buns were finished Shan Yu went to the edge of this stream and brought the trays and bread making tools and washed them all using tree bark fibers that formed a rough but strong fur that was not easy to break or break.

The clear stream reflecting the silhouette of this sweet girl and filled with the melody of the rippling water as it washed the trays accompanied Shan Yu who was pensive and thinking about tomorrow as well as the few notes she had made later today, obviously of all the branches of the Wu family, Wu Ming Qi's two grandchildren were the most fond of writing than the other branches of the family.

"Time flies, tomorrow will be a busy day, as a gift should I give my book?, oh yes clothes! I must prepare clothes for grandfather and Wu Liang, ah my poor brother huhh"

While exhaling heavily thinking about what could happen if her brother's injury was worse than this.

After everything was cleaned up, Shan Yu went back to the house to make bread and put everything back in its place, then closed the door and went home carrying a wooden embroidered basket containing six loaves of bread.

A young girl, twenty-one years old, a face like a well-smoothed jade, hair that was well-groomed like raindrops falling and swaying gently and light blue headband around her head and footwear made of wood shaped to protect the soles of the feet and crossed straps made of tree fibers that were threaded, preserved, and processed in such a way as to be comfortable when worn.

This is the village of the Wu tribe, a small village filled with a few old peoples, and a few other small families, Less than fifty people live here with their respective roles and activities, such as making bread, caring for and harvesting honey, protecting the forest from beasts, raising cows and sheep, farming wheat, teaching children to learn, caring for people's health, making clothes for certain events, and others.

A village filled with simple houses with sloping roofs facing both sides, front and back, with behind their village is just a mountain with a caves that has been used for hundreds of years by the ancestors and is still used by the Wu tribe today, with a branching path that leads to each house and leads to other production buildings, this path also leads to a winding sloping path that goes down and through the meadow that goes into the border forest, the edge of the Wu village ravine is installed with wooden fence pegs, protecting people from falling silly.

A peaceful village, a harmonious village, a village that was both the birthplace and the final resting place for some of the Wu people who made their home here, a tidy village, and bustling in the mornings and evenings, sometimes during certain moments all the villagers would gather while strengthening the bonds of kinship between each other, because of this sometimes Aunt Huang and Shan Yu needed to work extra to make bread for all those who attended to enjoy this moment.

Today, the main road near the Wu village square is decorated with tree fiber hangers that are connected between houses and simple hangers made of wood that are processed in such a way as to form natural figures, while in the village square, tables and chairs are prepared as well as musical instruments such as a simple drum and 2 simple guitars that only have 4 strings.

These preparations were to welcome Wu Jin Fei, making his name mentioned everywhere at this time, everyone expected that there would be interesting items brought home, or a new type of book or even a new model of food, which was natural, because in Wu's village it was rare that anyone could make food other than bread, wheat porridge, and the like.

This afternoon is not as hot as it looks because the village is on a plateau which means that the wind is always passing by and the humid air from the wind that carries the moisture of the border forest rises to the top, the village of the Wu tribe is on the flatter fault of the flatter side of the mountain called Mount Wu, this mountain is actually a mountain range with a higher mountain peak and penetrates the clouds, which is behind Mount Wu.

At the end of the year, Mount Wu will drop snowflakes and require all branches of the family to prepare thick clothing and a large supply of food, this is when all branches of the family work together to help each other stay awake and healthy during this cold period, during the spring and summer period, the fog tends to rise higher but does not last long because the hot temperatures evaporate the cold fog in the morning. In the fall, the fog becomes thicker, colder and lasts longer, as the cold air makes the fog last longer.

Wu tribal legend has it that the first ancestral expedition group settled here on the instructions of a dream of the youngest man in the group that they happened to enter the border forest, with no other options available everyone followed the dream of this youngest man, his dream directed him to the side of the mountain and made him find the flat plain of this mountain above the surrounding grasslands, the youngest man then became the representative of the group and in a few years later replaced the role of managing the group, that man was Wu Jian.

Wu Shan Yu walked lightly past the other branch houses of the Wu family, although in fact the Wu family is not all pure Wu blood, for example like Huang aunt earlier, Huang Gu's uncle met Huang Xie aunt while outside the village with Ming Qi's grandfather, Huang Gu's uncle took the aunt and married and added the name Huang as a sign of Huang uncle's wife, his son Huang Tian studied the medical science section of Huang aunt and several collections of books brought by Huang aunt to the village.

Another example is, Ao Mei's aunt is the wife of Ao Qi's uncle, Ao Nan's father, uncle met aunt when rescuing him who was lost at the border of the second layer forest, Ao Mei's aunt was found unconscious and had a high fever and was treated in the village of the Wu tribe, then after recovering uncle Ao Qi led Ao Mei's aunt home but a blessing came for uncle Ao Qi, Ao Mei's aunt wanted to live with uncle Ao Qi in return for her life.

Another example of an insider who left and never returned is Wu Zhou Rui, he went out on his ambition to become the richest man in the Wu tribe, until now his whereabouts and news are unknown, there are only prayers and hopes for him that remain among the prayers and hopes for the ancestors in the Sacred Cave temple of respect.

Shan Yu saw another branch of the family together, mother, and sons, together they seemed to be chatting while decorating their house, Shan Yu walked slowly, his little mind nostalgic towards when he was a child, he remembered his mother again.

Shang Ci died while giving birth to Wu Ming Duan due to extreme bleeding, Wu Ming Qi was devastated by this and secluded himself in the forest, the rest of the family was worried and took over the foster position to take care of little Wu Ming Duan. A sense of sadness, anger, resentment, and helplessness filled and pervaded Ming Qi's soul for almost a month, under the dense shadow of the border pine tree forest Wu Ming Qi searched for a solution to his suffering, seeking a solution to the feelings that eroded his heart, seeking a solution to remove the poison that poisoned his soul.

After almost a month, Wu Ming Qi was able to control his emotions and banish all the negative images that were looming over him, and then live with his wife's departure with a full heart, before the same thing happened to his son Wu Ming Duan and his wife during the birth of Wu Liang.

Shan Yu remembers this clearly, when she accidentally heard her mother's screams of pain during the delivery of Wu Liang, screams, moans, mixed with hysterical cries during the process, little Shan Yu who was curious about what bad things happened was about to enter her mother's room but was intercepted by aunt Huang Xie, Shan Yu panicked about what happened to her mother to react like that, but aunt Huang Xie knew what to do, she calmed Shan Yu and said.

"Everything will be fine, the other aunts are helping him, don't worry son, because we are family"