Back home

In the village of the Wu tribe, a unique thing happened to their genetics, where the process of making poop or feces would occur for a long time and usually happened in a regulated manner, this had been happening for the past few generations, and if they wanted to take a bath, they only needed to go to the stream in the north of the Wu village, while carrying a washcloth, a set of changing clothes, and some herbal leaf concoctions used as hair cleansers taken from the forest.

The border forest was indeed filled with mostly dense pines, but in the first and second layers there were also some small vegetation that had herbal properties, such as foaming leaves, dense root leaves, hollow green plants and others.

"Grandpa Ming Qi, Wu Liang can go home, hey Wu Liang, be careful next time, if it is not treated immediately then your wound will be filled with dirt, it will be difficult to clean it"

Huang's herbalist advised Wu Liang clearly.

"Ahh h-hehehe y-yeah"

"Huhh Wu Liang, be a little serious"

Ming Qi's grandfather reprimanded Wu Liang sternly.

"It's okay, as long as he doesn't do the same thing, I can forgive him"

"Thank you herbalist Huang, here is the bread, thank you very much again"

"Yes, Shan Yu, later Su Yan will deliver the herbs to your house, and also Wu Liang, if you really see a wild deer again and try to catch it, you better practice again to be faster"

"Of course."

"Huhh this kid..."

"If there's nothing else, I'll go home first, then let Su Yan and I take care of the rest"

Today features a little glimpse of sunlight at the end of the eye view from the top of the village, making the sky now a relatively dark orange color, now that Wu Liang has been allowed to go home with the renewed wound cloth he walks behind everyone, Shan Yu who carries a basket of bread and he walks in the middle, while grandpa Ming Qi walks in front and carries the book read by Wu Liang, Wu Liang forgot to bring it from the room and coincidentally grandpa Ming Qi saw it and brought it back.

"Hey, I forgot something, the book!!!"

"This is the book, if you don't look at the book too, it might stay there all night hohoho"

Grandpa Ming Qi lifted the book in his right hand up slightly and showed it to Wu Liang who was at the back, while his left hand crossed behind his body, this displayed a wise old figure dressed in dark blue older than uncle's clothes, with a headband of dark blue color almost black, but behind his appearance, Wu Liang and his brother looked at this grandpa Ming Qi who was serious about trivial things and liked to trivialize serious things.

Wu Liang approached his grandfather and took back his book.

"Thanks Grandpa, I forgot about this because of the delicious wheat porridge mixed with honey."

"Ekhem, o my little brother, is it a compliment or sarcasm?, do you want to add one more wound?"

"J-just kidding sis, just kidding"

"My brother Wu Liang, you are almost 250 full moons old, your broken speech, please change it, it doesn't suit your age"

The moment Wu Liang wanted to speak, Ming Qi's grandfather immediately cut him off.

"Hohoho, it turns out my grandson agrees"

"I'm not defending my grandfather, this is purely from me"

"Yes, grandfather, you were talking about the future, while we were talking about my way of speaking, those are two different things"

"Different? Isn't it the same thing, we talk and plan things that will happen in the future, yesterday has become a lesson, and surely tomorrow is the result of planning, while today we still repeat the same things we do, rarely do we correct mistakes let alone change habits"

"Yes, like grandpa with his habits"

"Hohoho....."

They chatted along the way while heading to his house located on the edge of the Wu tribe village not far from Ge Wuan's uncle's house, the house left by his father Wu Ming Duan and his mother Bai Yan, the house filled with memories of this small family is now only filled by three people who look after each other.

Arriving at the house, they entered while taking off their wooden shoes and placing them on the wooden shelf on the porch.

"It feels strange coming home, even though I was gone for only two days"

Wu Liang muttered under his breath as his brother entered first and placed his bread basket on the living room's center table.

"Did you want to sleep there forever?"

"I'm just kidding grandpa."

"Yes, grandpa knows you are joking, so is grandpa hohoho"

Wu liang responded by pulling his eyebrows up and feeling a little strange.

"Never mind, grandpa here are his clothes and there is also a message from grandma Shang Wei and my brother here are your clothes, don't get them dirty, or... do you want you to keep them?"

"You put it away, my body stinks, even though I have changed my clothes, it still stinks, grandpa I want to take a bath first"

Wu Liang went to his room and took a set of light blue clothes with white embroidery on each sleeve and pant leg hole, he also went with a rather thick but not heavy cloth used to wipe his body, after taking his equipment Wu Liang went out of the house to the water flow of the Wu tribe mountain river in the state of time shows the sun has set leaving only a few lines of light that penetrate the horizon at the end of the view there to the west.

"Yes, go first, grandfather will follow"

"Brother, don't let the water splash your wounds."

"Okay..."

After a while Wu Liang left, Ming Qi's grandfather asked Shan Yu who was preparing his dinner, and also preparing his set of clothes for bathing.

In the river of the Wu tribe, there is no barrier, but on the banks of the river there are several mounds of stones and tall weeds, and there is also a special closed women's bathing area and usually this area is used in the closest place to the fall of the waterfall, different from the men's bathing place, they are somewhat centered towards the end not far from the ravine where the water falls next.

The place near the waterfall, where women bathe here the water is deeper by an inch almost as deep as Shan Yu, but the floor is less rocky than in the middle of the stream and to the end.

"What did that old woman said?"

Ming Qi's grandfather said in a curious tone.

"She said it was to pay grandpa's debt"

"Huhhh, geez, I thought there was something important, I'd better join Wu Liang in the bath"

It was already night, four bonfires were burning on the banks of the Wu tribe river providing light and warmth around but this was useless, they were bathing in the cold water river, and then showed that there were several uncles and there were also Ao Nan bathing in the Wu mountain river, this river was quite wide and deep with a depth in the middle only up to the thigh, this river flow was relatively stable and certainly clear and cold, especially at night, This is what is usually favored by the Wu tribe men, they prefer to bathe when it is almost night, unlike the women here who prefer to bathe when the sun is still there and the men here are few, it is customary for the Wu tribe people to let women finish bathing when the sun is just a little, because this condition is also not allowed for just any man to come to the banks of the river let alone upstream of the stream where women bathe.

After passing through a small branching road and the main village which is a little dusty with several houses of the Wu tribe on the roadside, Wu Liang arrived at this bathing place, from where Wu Liang arrived, it can be seen on his right a little behind there is Huang Gu's grandfather's house, which is lived by Huang Gu's grandfather himself, with his wife grandmother but usually called aunt, namely Huang Xie aunt, with his son Huang Tian who acts as the village doctor.

"Wahh Wu Liang, I thought you were going to stay another day there!, hahaha, you, you came late hey"

Said Ao Nan who had almost finished bathing and was getting ready to go up with her panties covering below the navel to the top of the thigh.

"Yes, it's only recently that I was allowed to go home, hey, don't let the water get on my head wound."

"I know, hurry up and take a shower then gather at the village field, you'll be surprised later"

"Huh?"

"Huh? Don't just huhh, hurry up and take a shower and get ready to gather"