celestial system of the solar system

Chapter 275 Caravan

If a language with more than 200 speakers is defined as a mainstream language, then there are at least [-] mainstream languages ​​in the Yakutia Wasteland.And due to the limited communication channels between various settlements in the last days, after more than [-] years, there is still no unified language on the Yakutia Wasteland.

After encountering wilderness people with different languages ​​in the wilderness, the only common way to communicate is to use drum language - the wasteland people do not carry drums with them when they go out, but the way of clapping their hands does not affect the drum language communication.

Generally speaking, the sound of drums in the evening is mainly used to pass messages between different villages in this area.In the last days, men could only encounter villagers from other villages when hunting, while women would never leave the village for the rest of their lives.Therefore, more than [-]% of the villagers in this area communicate with the outside world through drum language.

In the middle of the night, generally no one beats drums, because it is when people are fast asleep.

During the day, the sound of a drum usually signals an emergency.

When the old man was guarding on the guard post, if he found an emergency, he would first beat a rapid drumbeat to attract people's attention, and then use the drum language as concisely as possible to tell the villagers what happened.Because of the better vision, the old man can see more clearly and more intuitively than the men on the perimeter at the guard post.

On this day, the rapid drumbeat representing "attention is required" sounded again, but to people's surprise, what followed was not information about the type, quantity, and location of the beast.

Any normal person in this area, sooner or later, will be able to master the drum language as easily as his mother tongue.However, very few children under the age of eight can master drum language as proficiently as their mother tongue.Therefore, when the children in the village found that the drumbeat was different this time, they gathered around the old man who was telling them a story, asking what happened.

The old man told them slowly.

"Go to the wall passage and see for yourself. A caravan is coming."

The so-called "wall way" is a kind of wooden building on the inside of the barrier. During the battle, villagers can stand on it and use the cover of the barrier to launch attacks from a condescending height.Children under the age of eight are usually prohibited from leaving the barrier, so the "wall passage" becomes the main place for them to learn about the outside world.After listening to the old man's words, the children climbed up the wall and looked into the distance.

At the end of the line of sight, there is a faint caravan—it should be imagined that the caravan in the last days is actually an armed caravan in essence.The most obvious difference between caravans and horse bandits is that there will be many trucks in caravans, while horse bandits will not.Of course, if the conditions are right, the caravan can also temporarily act as a horse thief.

The caravan is getting closer, and people with good eyesight can even see the appearance of each member of the caravan.The caravans, all armed, guarded the horses and wagons carrying bags, parcels and barrels.Walking in the front is a tall and strong banner bearer.Usually, the banner bearer is also in charge of foreign negotiations.

From the flag held by the flag bearer, it can be seen that this is a caravan that Jiutou Niao Village is very familiar with.This caravan named "Dust Footboard" will go to the Nine-headed Bird Village once a year to conduct a transaction, providing items that the village needs very much: salt, cotton, cloth, agricultural tools and weapons.

In the last days, commodity trading is extremely limited.Money circulates only in cities.In the villages on the wasteland, most of the commercial activities are in the primitive stage of bartering.In order to buy goods, villagers will exchange animal fur, bones, tendons, horns, etc. with the caravan.If the previous year's hunt was good enough, the women would usually also buy needles and thread, and the men would additionally buy some tobacco.

The children usually do not get direct material benefits from the arrival of the caravan, unless they were lucky enough to get the "beast core" during the hunting last year.The so-called beast core is a hard substance similar to the bezoar dog treasure in the body of the beast.The price charged by the caravan for the beast cores was quite high, but the villagers of Nine-headed Bird Village did not go out of their way to collect the beast cores.According to the experience of the villagers, only the most ferocious and strongest beasts will have beast cores in their bodies, and enough human lives must be paid to kill them.

The problem is, after paying enough human lives, there is no guarantee that the beast core will be obtained.If you are lucky, you may be able to obtain the beast core by killing a particularly strong and ferocious beast, but if you are unlucky, you may not be able to see the shadow of the beast core if you kill ten beasts in a row—what's more troublesome is that the beast is not With a dead brain that never retreats, once it finds that it cannot win, the beast will often choose to run away.In other words, the price to pay for hunting wild beasts is too high, but the harvest is extremely unstable.Therefore, "luxury goods" such as fruit candy in the caravan can rarely be sold in Nine-headed Bird Village.

Although ignored most of the time, the children always cheered for the arrival of the caravan.Because even if you can't taste the fruit candy, you can at least hear many strange stories from the well-informed caravan members.

Although they were already familiar with the villagers of Nine-Headed Bird Village, when they were about two kilometers away from the wall, the "Dust Footboard" caravan stopped in accordance with the traditional etiquette on the wasteland.At this time, the flag bearers of the caravan came out and headed towards the village chief.After many transactions, both parties have come to know the basics.Just as the people in the caravan knew who the village chief was in Nine-headed Bird Village, the villagers in Nine-headed Bird Village also knew clearly who the leader of the "Dusty Foot" caravan was.

After a brief conversation, the banner bearer returned to the caravan, while the village chief shouted loudly and announced that work would end early in the morning, and the villagers could spend the rest of the day to buy goods freely.

After a round of cheers, the villagers began to return to the village, while the caravan formed a circle connecting the carriages end to end, and built a temporary camp on this basis.Temporary camps can not only allow caravan members to get a short rest, but also serve as a place for trading.After the caravan built the temporary camp, the leader of the caravan, the bannerman and another person rode towards the gate.

This is a rule.

In the last days, the traditional morality of human society has been seriously damaged.All human settlements in the last days will be surrounded by walls - if conditions cannot be used to build a wall with stones, then at least a fence will be built with sharpened branches.

When the caravan trades in the village, sometimes because the defense of the village is not strong, it turns out to be a cameo robber and ransacks the village; The villagers burst out with the urge to violently rob.

(End of this chapter)