From Chief to Ball

"Take it away, go show it to those tribes, so that they don't have to be afraid of someone telling the truth, let those tribes bring people here, and conquer the Meteor tribe together, and they will be very happy if they don't have to pay tribute to the Meteor tribe. .”

"You don't have as many people as the meteor tribe, you can't beat them."

The leader looked at the hundreds of people in panic. Although their weapons were not stones and seemed to be as sharp as those of the Meteor tribe, there were too few of them.

Chen Jian said with a smile: "Including those tribes who once combed their hair, the number is enough. I will wait here for them to come, until there are enough people!"

Several people escorted the leader away, Chen Jian looked at the man who had talked to him before and said, "Do you know where the Meteorite tribe is?"

"know."

"Go and tell Luo Xing to bring his clansmen here and put down their weapons. I don't have to kill them. Otherwise, when all those clans come, I will kill them all."

After speaking, he took out a banner and handed it to him, "Bring this to Luo Xing, let him comb his hair and come here with this."

Worried that this man would be eaten by wild animals, he asked three more men to go with them.

After they left, they tied the men and women with ropes and escorted them towards the grass river.

Song glanced at Chen Jian, and couldn't help asking, "Do you really want Luo Xing and the others to live?"

"Of course not, they won't lay down their weapons. Wolfpi, go and bring the leader of that tribe back, and don't send it to other tribes."

"What?"

"We don't need those tribes. They were frightened by the Meteorite tribe, and they will only add to the chaos when they come. Find fifty auxiliary soldiers and escort these people back to the city. You take the scouts to watch the movement of the Meteorite tribe. , If they come with someone, come back and tell me."

"Fight them here?"

"No, when they come here, let's go down the river, surround their villages, and ask their clansmen to report. Let's ambush them on the way back, just like we did with those five people last time."

"But what if they don't come?"

"Then arrest people one by one, until the Meteorite tribe can't hold on. They don't raise pigs and sheep, and they don't grow wheat beans. Without the tribute from these tribes, they can't support the entire tribe. So they can only Come and fight us, otherwise other tribes won’t listen to them, because if he doesn’t come, it will prove that we are better than him, and the legend of them descending from the sky will also be shattered.”

"Why don't you go directly to other tribes to arrest people?"

"It's not enough time to catch them all, and we have to go back to harvest the wheat, and...we can't support so many slaves now."

Wolfpi seemed to understand, and left with the scouts.

Chen Jian calculated on the beach that it would take three days at the fastest for the Meteorite tribe to arrive, and he had prepared enough boats, and it would take one and a half days to go down the river.

With this time difference, they can arrive at their village in advance. It is estimated that the village is full of daughters and children.

This is a dead end.

If you don't come, the tribe will collapse within half a year.

Their productivity is too low, and they have no right to choose, because people have to eat, and their population has exceeded the limit of the gathering tribe.

Chapter 47 Stars

The Meteor Clan did not come from the stars, nor were they descended from the stars.

But it doesn't matter whether others believe it or not, it is enough for them to believe it themselves.

Because of their belief, they built a high platform called stargazing with wood on the top of the mountain, which is the closest place to the stars in the whole village.

A carved stone statue is placed on the observatory. The stone statue is as tall as a person, with its head up. The only difference from normal people is that it has a pair of eyes protruding forward half a foot long. They hope that this stone statue can see the starry sky clearly with their eyes. The longer you can see the farther.

They hate the moon. When the moon is full, they will build a bonfire, sing and dance to drive the moon away.

They think that it is the moon that eats the light of the stars, otherwise why can't many stars be seen when the moon is full?Those stars are very bright when the moon is crooked, and when the moon eats those stars, they will become fat.

Every priest would stand on the observatory and look up at the stars, because they wanted to know where they came from and where they were going.Why are there stars?Why is there a moon?What is the relationship between your own tribe and the stars?

They divide the sky into north, south, east, and west. It's not the sound, but the meaning.

The clansmen who observed the starry sky for 20 years imagined the stars as various animals. They found that whenever the peaches began to ripen, meteor showers would fall near the stars known as "pheasants" in the west, and it would happen every year for 20 years. .

Carefully, they found that the meteor shower would fall once every 330 days and last for more than 20 days. They called this cycle a star, which means year.

Meteor showers come and go every year, but no more meteorites fall around their tribe.But they believed that was where their ancestors were, so they drew those stars on the stone wall, hoping that one day their ancestors would fly from the sky to take them away.

The one who drew those stars was the priest of the tribe, the mother of the leader Luo Xing.

Looking up at the starry sky all the year round, her neck has been thrown back, a little deformed.For the convenience of raising the head, there are several iron rings around the neck, which is not only a decoration, but also a symbol of the priest.

Luo Xing climbed up to the observatory piously from below, and stood beside her mother, waiting for her to look away from the night sky.

It took a long time for the woman to realize that her son was coming. Because it was inconvenient to lower her head, she bent down directly, making her look even older.

"What happened?"

"Mom, here comes the tribe with the combed hair."

Luo Xing told his mother what he had seen and heard about those people.

"Please ask Xing Xing, where did that tribe come from?"

The woman nodded, and carefully picked up a stone plate from the foot of the long-eyed stone statue. There were many stars engraved on it, and they were drawn together with simple branch lines to form various shapes. This was painted by the tribe for 20 years. out.

Luo Xing knelt beside the stone statue, raised some small stones with both hands and handed them to her mother. These small stones were carefully selected for divination.

The woman raised her head, looked at the starry sky, and said her prayers.

"In the beginning, there was no day, only the stars."

"The brightest star swallowed up the rest of the darkness, became the sun, and divided day and night."

"When the moon becomes the sun, the stars die, and there is only day and no night. The streams dry up, the grass withers, and the end is near."

"... Stars, please tell us these children of the stars, what should we do..."

He grabbed a handful of stones and threw them into the stone plate, making a clanging sound.

Luo Xing stared at the stones that fell on the stone plate, not knowing whether it was bad luck or good luck, and took out the black and white flag.

The woman looked at the banner, a little annoyed.

In her eyes, the black and white flags are not black and white bears or yin and yang fish, but the sun and the moon.

"They believe in the sun and the moon, and are enemies of the stars."

"What should we do?"

The woman bent down to look at the stones in the stone plate, and sighed, "This is the end."