From Chief to Ball

When they left, the wheat seedlings had not turned green, and they looked like grass.

When they came back, the wheat seedlings had already bloomed, and the fragrance of honey echoed in the field, which was slightly intoxicating but made people unable to resist taking a few deep breaths.

The flowering wheat is yellowish in color and grows awns.

They have never seen the sea, and they cannot use the word wheat wave to describe what they see at the moment, they just feel that the stretches of wheat fields are so shocking.

The tenacious wheat seeds have withstood the erosion of autumn rain and the cover of winter snow, and finally covered the ground before the rest of the weeds emerged, greedily absorbing the sunshine.

They stand side by side and hand in hand in the field, like a neat army formation. No matter how fast the wind is, they can only bow their heads, but they cannot bend down, because the peas are still entwined around their bodies.

The wind is a war drum and a pottery xun. Every time it blows, it is the time when the army formation strikes. Starting from the far end, waves are formed, which are endless and never stop.

The clansmen who stood watching from a distance subconsciously clenched the weapons in their hands. It was the first time they saw the shock of the wind and waves, as if the waves were about to drown themselves.

Chen Jian sniffed the fragrance of wheat blossoms, and couldn't help but shouted to the sky. Hundreds of people behind him shouted loudly like him. The life Chen Jian promised a few months ago was about to come true: no more eating acorns, no more eating acorns. There is no need to bend down to pick leaves, just a wheat field as far as the eye can see is enough for the clansmen to eat.

The high-pitched howling sound drew a response from the city. The clansmen who had been hiding in the city for seven or eight days saw the flag and saw the brothers and uncles standing like a pine forest, and their hearts were no longer worried.

As long as the man is still there, the woman's hairpin will never be stained with blood.

They put down the suspension bridge, jumped happily to the side of their relatives, and were shocked when they saw the captured captives.More people were captured than those who went out.

Yu Qian'er ran to Chen Jianjian with a few grown-up cubs, and shouted from a distance: "Brother, am I smart enough to know how to send a little food every day, so you have to carry it on your back if you save money?" walking."

"Very smart. You also thought about setting the fire?"

Yu Qian'er shook her head, but immediately argued: "I didn't think of it, but it was my decision. What's so strange about it? At that time, the family members didn't dare to do it. They all thought that it was customary not to burn the woods. I made this decision." Ideas turned into reality, so I'm still pretty good."

Chen Jian laughed, nodded and said, "Yes, you are too powerful."

Yu Qian'er whistled, and the wolves circled around her, and then dispersed, howling lowly around the group of captured people, frightening them into a ball.

She walked side by side with Chen Jian, helping her brother carry the leather armor and weapons, very happy.

Crossing the suspension bridge, Chen Jian saw the red fish who was waiting because of anticipation, not looking forward to him, but looking forward to the reward.

This was the third time that Chen Jian took a closer look at the red fish. He still looked dirty, wearing thatch woven clothes, but there was some irresistible look on his face.

"You're doing great, what do you want? Freedom?"

"No, I want you to give each of us a spinning wheel after we have spun enough twine in a few dozen months."

Chen Jian joked, "You have two choices. You can be free now, or as you said, you will have a spinning wheel in a few dozen months."

Red Fish shook his head and said, "I think there will be a spinning wheel in dozens of months."

"why?"

"Because... even though I am free now, I still have nothing. If I want to eat, I can only spin the thread with your spinning wheel as you said, and hand in more than half of it. The rest of the thread spun every day is only enough for me to eat for a day. That way until I die, I will always spin the thread, and you will never let me accumulate enough thread to change the spinning wheel, so what is the difference between that and now?"

"Although dozens of months is a long time, since I have my own spinning wheel, I don't need to give you more than half of the thread. It takes dozens of months to exchange for a lifetime of freedom. I know how to choose."

Chen Jian stared into Hongyu's eyes, and found that she was also staring at him. He didn't flinch, and summoned up his courage to pursue his true freedom.

She might die, she might get whipped, but she didn't care, because she knew that everything was won by herself, not dropped from the sky.

If you are afraid of death, then be a slave for the rest of your life.

After a long time, Chen Jian looked away, sighed and said, "You are very smart, but unfortunately you are not from our tribe."

"Yuqianer, give her a spinning wheel and a ball of hemp. Hemp balls and thread balls, three for two. Food and thread balls, exchange normally."

After a while, Chen Jian turned and left, leaving only one sentence.

"Put your hair up..."

Chapter 60 The aftermath of the war

More than ten days after the Battle of the Valley, shouts of excitement echoed in a cave in the mountains downstream of the Grass River.

"Mom! Mom! The Meteorite tribe is over. I went to see it. The village was burned to the ground. A lot of heads were piled up at the foot of the mountain, and a lot of crows were attracted. It stinks to death."

A woman with disheveled hair was looking for worms to eat from rotten wood. Hearing her son's cry, she couldn't contain her inner excitement, and inadvertently crushed the worms she had finally picked out.

"Really? Did you see everything clearly?"

"See it clearly, it can't be wrong. I also asked the tribes by the river. They saw a group of people carrying black and white flags and combing their hair passing by, and arrested many people."

The man said excitedly, the whole cave cheered, many people combed their hair again, no one would force them to disperse, and no one would erase the black and white bear painted on the stone wall!

They have seen the gods come down in winter, let them eat acorns that are not bitter, and saved a few clansmen who were bloated.From then on, they firmly believed that the gods and ancestors would not give up on them, and would definitely lead them out of suffering.

And after waiting for so long, this day has finally arrived, and there is no need to pay tribute to the Meteorite tribe anymore.

A few days ago, Luoxing brought a group of people here, and the leader donated a small amount of food, but this time Luoxing also took more than 20 women from the tribe, and fled to the north, everyone was emaciated Unbearable, many people always look back, as if something is chasing them.

At that time, the leader suspected that something happened to the Meteorite tribe, and sent his son to check it out. He didn't expect this to be the result.

The son let go of his palm, and there was a pile of small grains of sand inside.

He put all the grains of sand on the ground and said, "There are so many heads there! The observatory of the Meteor tribe was also burned, and all the women were taken away. They will never come back."

The leader looked at the gathered sand grains and was terrified.

There are so many heads, more than the men and women of their own tribe combined.

"How many people died in that tribe?"

"I don't know, maybe so many died?"

"Does the tribe by the river know where they went?"

"Yes, they walked along the river. The tribe by the river is going to move away. The fire burned near their cave a few days ago. They want to go along the river to find the tribe protected by their ancestors. Mom, let's move too. ?Although the fire did not reach us, the forests in the distance were all burned, we can go to live in the former village of the Meteor tribe, maybe...we will also be sheltered by the stars?"

The leader shook his head and said: "The protection of the stars? Don't think so, we will be killed if you think so, do you think we are stronger than the Meteor tribe?"

"Then what should we do? Are we going to join their tribes like the tribes on the river bank?"

While talking, there was a whirring sound outside the cave, which was the other tribes showing their goodwill.

A few people hurried out and saw men from several tribes in the north carrying wicker baskets that they learned when it was snowing, and they didn't know what was inside.

These few people combed their hair, although the Meteorite tribe forced them to disperse before they were destroyed.

After a long distance, those people shouted: "Do you know? The Meteor tribe is over."

"Understood, I saw the falling star a few days ago, and took away the women of our tribe."