Village mapping

Ao Nan then left there and went to a special wooden box that was only a few dozen steps away from the flowing water of the Wu tribe river, Wu Liang then took off his clothes and entered the riverbank carefully, careful not to wash the bandage on his head, there were several uncles who greeted Wu Liang and asked about his condition and Wu Liang replied well, Ming Qi's grandfather also came here, the other uncles who saw him immediately cupped his hands towards Ming Qi's grandfather and bowed their bodies, but Ming Qi's grandfather replied to them with a casual wave, because Ming Qi's grandfather's status was as an elder of the Meeting Hall, this position could only be achieved when he was old and considered a lot of experience.

After everything was done, Wu Liang returned before his grandfather and used the clothes changing box and waited for his grandfather to finish, as well as Ming Qi's grandfather who immediately finished and used the clothes changing box, then the two of them returned to his house.

"Grandpa know anything about what's going to happen in the village center field?"

"Hmm I don't know, but from what Grandpa heard earlier, they are who from the hunting lodge managed to catch bears, maybe tonight we will eat bear meat hohoho"

"I've never eaten bear meat before, is it really that good, how does it compare to fish meat?"

"Hemm, how do I say..., grandpa ate it once, but it was a long time ago, as I remember, the taste is a bit coarser than fish meat, the taste is a bit similar to beef"

After saying that, Wu Liang thought and fantasized about the texture of bear meat as described by his grandpa, but the description given by his grandpa was not entirely correct.

"Are you curious? Hohoho definitely curious, since it's your first time tasting this rare meat"

Wu Liang looked at his grandfather with a beaming expression, it was clear that he was very curious about this bear meat.

"Let's hurry back, otherwise we might not get any parts of it"

The two of them walked without speaking again with a little added speed, when they arrived at the house, they saw Shan Yu who had arrived first and obviously she had also finished bathing.

"You guys took so long, I'll go first, the other aunts have already started the meat cutting part, you guys just go to the field, I'll go to Aunt Huang's house first."

Without another word, Shan Yu left the house and ran a little to Huang aunt's house which was on the other side of Wu village from where Shan Yu's side of the house was.

"Come on, we also have to gather, it's not good to keep the others waiting"

After saying that, his grandfather left his used clothes to Wu Liang and Wu Liang put his clothes as well as his grandfather's clothes into a wooden basket in the back corner which was connected to the living room but separated by a partition made of pine wood array.

Wu Ming Qi's grandfather finished putting on his headband and so did Wu Liang, the two of them went to the village center square, only need to go out of the front door then turn left from here and walk straight, then you can see a dirt field and there is a large family gathering in the middle of which there is a large bonfire, this field is connected with 5 roads, namely the road to the southwest that connects directly to Wu Ming Qi's small family house, and not far away is the house of Ge Wuan uncle who lives alone.

To the west of the field, it connects directly to a winding downhill road that leads to the border forest. Just a few hundred steps from the field and you've reached the end of this road, along this road are the branch families.

As in the first row on the right, is the house of the Wu Shang branch of the family, this house is only occupied by Shang Wei's aunt and her youngest child Shang Luo, her husband Shang Bo died of an illness, her husband's body shivered and then convulsed and finally died, believed by the herbalist Huang as the rest of the icy flu night, so now there are more bonfires near the water's edge and boxes for changing clothes so that people immediately change their clothes and do not need to return home while cold, This is different from her ancestors in the past, it is believed that the ancestors in the past lived with more fat and fur but unlike the recent generations, they have changed somewhat away from their ancestors, then while her own son died from being pounced on by wild wolves, while grouping with hunting groups, Shang Wei's grandmother was obviously angry about this but this reality also made her unable to do anything.

Then there is Wu Lin Wen as the husband of Lin Yiu's aunt, he plays a role in the Wu family as a wheat farmer, the wheat field is located to the right of the Wu tribe's livestock enclosure and slightly inclined to the forest bordering the first layer, his background is not much different from Ge Wuan's uncle, they are both orphans because their parents died, if a branch family dies, then if the remaining person is an unmarried person then he must join another branch or not join forever, and because of this they are also more free to leave the village.

The third house from the right row closest to the field, this is the home of the Wu Hei branch family, this house is filled by Wu Hei Xing and Wu Hei Tai, they are brothers whose parents died, their skin is slightly darker than the other families, Wu Hei Xing sometimes plays the role of a furniture maker and also sometimes helps find herbs or expand the house, Wu Hei Tai himself is a bit like his brother Wu Hei Xing, except that he prefers to help on the farm or hunting lodge, also today's bear is partly the result of him helping his big body, bigger than his brother.

Next to his house again, in the last house, namely the fourth house, this house is filled by the Wu Su branch family, including Wu Su Yan and father Wu Su Meng and his brother Wu Su Chang, his father plays a role in the hunting lodge as a scouting and navigation expert, then Wu Su Chang is also a scouting expert but more inclined towards helping to find herbs for use in the health center, to the right of their house not far from the winding downhill road.

On the left side of the main road, east of the village's central square, there were only three branch houses: Wu Zhou Hua's house, which consisted of only an old grandfather, and Wu Bei's branch family, which had two sets of twins who were only seven years old, or eight tens according to Wu's time reckoning, Zhou Hua's grandfather often played at Wu Bei's house because obviously he was alone now that his son Wu Zhou Rui had left and never returned, then there was the Wu Jin branch family, which was filled with Wu Jin Hao's uncle, Jin Yue's aunt, Wu Jin Fei's big brother, and Wu Jin Qing's younger brother who was the same age as Shan Yu but he was rarely seen because he was busy at the tailor's house.

The arrangement of the houses on the left and right sides of the main road is a bit far from the main road, this is so that not too many plants are trimmed just because they need a road, while those who fill the village are only less than fifty people, each house on the side of the main road has a small yard but can still be planted with plants.

Then north of the village center court, there is a road leading to the Wu tribe mountain stream, if one walks on without following the small branch road until reaching the bank of this river, then one can see, to the right which takes a few tens of steps to reach, this is the middle of the Wu tribe mountain stream which is occupied by bathing, the bathing schedule itself is different for men and women, women in the Wu tribe will bathe early when the sun is still visible because obviously men at this time are still busy in their respective parts, Then for men in the Wu tribe they are accustomed to bathing when there is almost little sunlight or bathing when it is dark, of course the water flow will feel a little cooler than the state of the water during the time that women use for bathing, then on the right again, it is where Shan Yu and the Huang family used to wash bread making utensils, do not worry about dirty water will be mixed with these tableware, for Wu tribe families who want to do defecation, they are required to go to the very end of the bank of the stream and must be on the other side of the river.

Then a road to the east of the Wu tribe that leads directly to the mountain, if you go forward a few tens of steps, there will be a branch of two roads, one road to the right goes directly to the meeting hall, which is a special place for Wu tribal elders to hold meetings, a square building made of pine wood, similar to a tent but this is made entirely of wood, Then the road to the left is the road to the Wu sacred cave, a place to honor and remember ancestors and displayed on each side of the walls of this fairly large cave with wooden slips carved the names of important ancestors of the Wu tribe, for example the name Wu Jian, which is right in the middle of all the wooden slips marking the names of ancestors of the Wu tribe.

Then the last road, a smaller road than the previous four roads, this road is between the road to the Wu tribe's sacred place and the road to Wu Liang's house, this road is slightly uphill because this road leads again to a higher area on the other side of the Wu tribe mountain, a cold and suitable place to store milk, and get cold milk products, near the beginning of the left side of this road appears a house, not much different from Uncle Ge Wuan's house, The house is occupied by a couple who are older but younger than the four elders of the meeting hall, Uncle Wu Bing Ning and his wife Wu Bing Lan, Uncle Wu Bing Ning is from a branch family that has been in charge of the ice and refrigeration department of the Wu clan for generations, while his wife, who is a few years younger or a few tens of full moons according to Wu clan calculations, is Aunt Wu Bing Lan, she is Wu Su Chang's senior when it comes to foragin for herbs in the forest.

And there were several other branch family houses located behind the house on the side of the main road, which were connected by a small road between the houses or through another small connecting road.