"Brother Dafu, I'm going to help them clean the game." Lai San felt restless just sitting in the cave. He figured it was better to do something to pass the time and keep his mind from wandering.
"They should be back soon, right?" Lai Dafu glanced at the sky. Only the last vestiges of the sunset glow remained. In this situation, everyone would usually hurry back to the cave before it got dark.
"You'd better not run back and forth. You might miss them and make the trip for nothing."
Only then did Lai San squat down beside him to tend the fire. Although they had managed to hunt some game that day, most of the meat was used to trade with the villagers below for supplies. They rarely got to eat it themselves.
Today, for instance, their meal was just some wild mountain greens and dried vegetables mixed with coarse grains.
He stoked the fire and asked curiously, "Brother Dafu, if you could go back to living in a village, would you?"
