A Little Bonfire Party

The cold night, the wind slowly blew through the forest and mountain, the ripples of pine tree forest leaves crackled and rubbed each other, while the animals in the meadow had slept and the forest ground bees had stopped buzzing since sunset, here in the Wu village area, only the remaining Wu tribe family people were still awake and gathered, they enjoyed a small feast with a bonfire in the center, this feast was based on the abundant catch of game.

"Hahaha look at my big brother, Hei Tai has done a great job getting those two big bears"

Said Wu Hei Xing by praising his brother who was wearing a silver back brown bear skin robe and was bigger than him, while he himself was only shoulder-sized and also wearing a smaller bear skin robe.

"Brother is too much, if only I didn't have the help of other uncles, I'm afraid I would only come back with injuries"

Hei Tai responded to his brother's kind words but his brother hit Hei Tai's back while laughing.

"Hahaha, I know, I was just joking"

Hei Tai said frankly.

"It's okay, it's true, if Hei Tai doesn't take care of the other bear, then that bear will bother us, maybe even lead to death"

Said uncle Feng Ge who was in charge of the hunting lodge, along with uncle Ao Qi and several other uncles.

"N-no uncle, it's all our hard work hehehe"

Hei Tai replied to his uncle in his deep voice.

The Wu family tribe is now gathering although there are some who do not participate, Ao Nan and Wu Liang are listening to them all in one corner of the large circle where the Wu family gathering is using logs as their seats, they are all still joking around even though the air is slowly getting colder, even though it was only a while ago that the sun set.

"How does it feel buddy to be bandaged, even I heard it was said that it needed to be sewn up, wow you really spent the most important material in the health center, sewing thread whatever it is, it can only be obtained if it is outside the village, now you owe the village, hahaha"

"Huh, what else can I do, if I don't get stitched up, healer Huang said, my wound will get worse and dirty, you know that if a fatal wound is dirty, it will easily rot"

"Hmm I know that, but don't you want to leave the village one day, and surely you don't want anything to prevent you from doing so, hahahaha, but now you yourself are creating that thing"

"I know, maybe it's not my destiny to leave the village, even so I still have to work hard and repay my debt to the services the village provided for my recovery"

"Hahaha, look at you, you've started to mature, like me..."

"Stop!, don't say it like you, even though you act like my foster brother, but I learned these words from my grandfather"

Wu Liang immediately refuted.

"Hehe mm yes yes, whatever the relationship is I am still proud of my brother hehehe, because we are family"

The human circle of this Wu clan family filled the center of the field with a large bonfire in the middle, giving warmth to each person, even though each of them was already wearing their blue set of clothes coupled with an extra set of fleece clothes.

Outside of this large family circle, on the porch of Shang Wei's aunt's house that was a few tens of feet away from the central bonfire, sat a Ge Wuan and Su Chang.

"The bear, they got today..., it feels a bit strange"

"Hmm why?"

Ge Wuan asked.

"As I wandered around the boundary of the second and third layers in the border forest, I accidentally heard a commotion, and sure enough I saw the hunting lodge group fighting the bear"

"Ohh? Enlighten me"

"Obviously I feel it, these two bears are like a family, but even so this is not the strange part, if the two of them are a family, it is impossible that one is smaller and the other is bigger, as far as I know from uncle Ao Qi's story, the bear is looking for equality, even so uncle Ao Qi himself never ignored this, my father Su Meng also did not tell anything, I feel at a loss to explain it"

"Indeed, if we use judgment based on ourselves as humans, some people definitely seek equality, but don't some humans also prefer to look for those who are greater than them"

"Ahh, what uncle Ge Wuan said, that enlightened me, for a moment, but if uncle meant to say that the little bear is a woman looking for a bear bigger than her, that's wrong, because after I investigated, both of them are females"

Su Chang's cousin said confidently.

"What? Uncle is afraid that what we actually caught was a nomad group of bears!"

"Nomad?, what is that uncle?"

"I don't know much because the explanation from Huang Gu's grandfather's lesson was not clear, but from what I caught from him, nomadic is an act of activity that likes to move from one place to another place"

"Oh I see, then if it's true, then there should be a male bear, and now he must be looking for his mate, and his mate has been caught now"

"Uncle, you rarely see animals moving around, maybe when Wu Jin Fei returns the day after tomorrow, he will find it difficult"

"Well I hope that my cousin can return home safely, without encountering an angry bear looking for his mate"

The two of them continued to talk about the bear problem and the discovery of new leaves in the second border forest that could potentially be herbs, but a moment later Su Yan came with two large glasses of milk wood mixed with sweet forest soil bee honey.

"Gosh, why did you guys choose the corner here, it's better for you to gather in the center, this is yours, hey Su Chang, you come and gather, and also uncle Ge Wuan, uncle Jin Hao wants to talk to uncle, I'll take my leave first"

This field is now filled with uncles from the hunting lodge, there are livestock uncles and agricultural uncles, there are also uncles who organize ice cold to make cold honey milk if needed, then there are also Ao Nan and Wu Liang playing words, this game is their favorite, There were also the twins Wu Bei Zhang and Wu Bei Zheng, they were the youngest members of the Wu tribe and were still receiving basic lessons from Su Yan, if Su Yan was not busy at the health center then Su Yan would teach them simple things because the twins' mother was busy helping at her tailor aunt Shang Wei's house.

The atmosphere was warm among the Wu tribe's family ties in the midst of the cold early night air conditions, with a rather tight sitting position they warmed each other on the pine logs that had been processed to be comfortable to sit on, soon several aunts and girls including Su Yan came, they brought three medium-sized bear meat pieces, enough to feed five people, and also some large wheat bread and also several large bowls of honey.

Don't ask what the seasoning is, the Wu family is used to eating anything or drinking anything mixed with wild honey, and thanks to this sweet wild honey, they can feel the sweet and sticky and melting sensation in their mouths, sometimes there are also herbs used to add flavor.

"Wow, that's a lot of meat, it would probably be equivalent to the width of my body"

"Hahaha, that's just one piece, look at the other one, ehh wait a minute, how come it's only this much, didn't we all catch two bears?"

Ao Nan said in surprise.

But the uncle from the hunting lodge next to him, uncle Bei Shen replied.

"Yes, we told auntie to use the small one, while the big one will be used during Wu Jin Fei's celebration ceremony"

said uncle Bei Shen clearly.

"Dad, Dad, is that a bear? What is the bear?"

Asked brothers Bei Zhang and Bei Zheng.

"Hahaha, bears are like cows, but their bodies are bigger, and their heads are lower and rounder, their mouths also keep pointed teeth to eat their food"

"Ah dad, are their pointy teeth like ours"

Bei Zheng opened his mouth and pointed to his tiny sharp teeth.

"Hahahaha oh my son, their teeth are definitely sharper than yours, but if the bear was a cub, it would probably have the same teeth as you."

"Ohhh, so do bears have cubs?"

"Obviously, every big one will have a small one"

"Then dad, does our mountain have a small one"

"Hahaha, my son, why are we talking about mountains, but yes, it's possible, but I don't know where the small mountains are."

Uncle Bei Shen then pulled his two sons and held them on his thighs, Ao Nan and Wu Liang smiled at the behavior of these twin brothers.