From Chief to Ball

Finally, a seal was made with turpentine. The seal was in the shape of an ear of wheat. After printing, it was dried, and the silk was placed in a leather bucket rolled out of birch bark to prevent it from being wet by the rain.

Thirteen riders took the jade Jue given to Chen Jian by the Yue Yue as a token, and set off along the river bank with the gifts they had prepared.

There are not many gifts, but they are all unique.

A bronze moth cast by the lost-wax method, ugly but somewhat recognizable when squinting.

A silkworm made of bronze, this one is simpler and more similar in shape, and they are made into a pair.

There was also a pseudo-amber cocoon of turpentine, the size of a fist, wrapped in several leaves.

In addition, there are two smooth polished bronze mirrors, two bone flutes, a pair of pottery xun, two gourd wine, two gourd fruit vinegar, two packets of maple syrup, deer milk, almond hazelnut candy, and an iron A kitchen knife, a square, two packets of white salt, two bars of soap, two beeswax candles, a jar of wheat, a jar of peas, and a steelyard.

Now that the tribe has stepped into civilization, the chief will understand what squares and scales mean.

Chapter 62 Similarities and Differences

On the banks of the Caohe River more than 300 miles downstream from the city, the smell of fireworks is everywhere.

The tribe of Eyue is setting fire to the mountain to plant millet. This is the top priority of the tribe after learning millet planting from the Suzu tribe. Plant the first seed.

It has been more than a month since I met Chen Jian's tribe last time, and Eyue's village has taken shape.

The land here is fertile, with fine yellow loam soil, and if you are lucky, you will not need to migrate for decades.

Everyone in the village was busy outside, and there were only a few wounded in the village who were recuperating here.

In the village, the weak Song looked up at the wild geese flying in the sky, staring at their spread wings, with a smile on the corner of his mouth.

He thought of the rows of gray, mud-built bird's nests on his tribe's house, and thought of the black birds.

"Should they be back?"

"Who?" A clansman who stayed here to take care of the wounded asked with a smile, and sighed secretly as he looked at the left and right sides that were loose and incomplete with only two fingers left.

"swallow."

Smiling loosely, his eyes were fixed on those two-winged elves that symbolized the warmth of spring, the blossoming of flowers and the vitality of all things. He didn't care about his fingers. If he survived, he would have to thank his ancestors for his protection.

Of the more than 20 people left here to recuperate, only four survived. Many of them had wounds that did not fester, but convulsions all over their bodies. Before they died, they bit their tongues, and their bodies shrank into a ball.At least, Song survived, much luckier than those who died, he is very content.

His body was already emaciated, the blood vessels on his arms that had been swollen were all shriveled, and he could no longer wield a short sword without moving his bones. However, he was not afraid, because there were clansmen behind him who he could rely on.

During these days here, he observed the people and things of this tribe with his eyes, and learned their language, which is very easy to learn.

Because before Chen Jian left, he told the clansmen who stayed here to take care of them to see with their eyes and listen with their ears, to see the difference between this clan and his own.

I saw a lot and heard a lot in one month, at least the language I heard was very comfortable.

The pronunciation of some vocabulary is similar to that of my own tribe, and the rest are not the same, but it is easy to learn.

Song doesn't understand the logic and grammar in the language, but he can feel the similarities between the two languages.

Unlike Red Fish's people, their language is much more strange.

Song once heard about Yu Qian'er.For example, rams, ewes, male deer, female deer, etc., the people of the tribe are both male and female plus animals, while the ruby ​​tribe uses separate words to describe them respectively; the speaking habits are even more different. The tribe said that the white one with long horns Deer, the habit of the Redfish tribe is to say deer first, then white and horned...

In contrast, the language of the Eyue tribe sounds very comfortable.The pronunciation of sheep and deer is similar. The red-haired and long-horned animal they call cattle is also divided into bulls and cows like their own tribe, rather than having a separate vocabulary.

Counting is also done at decimal places, but the pronunciation is different, but there is not much difference in the way of speaking.

Where there are similarities, there will naturally be completely different places.

Song found that the pottery they used was dark gray, some were very thin, and they were burnt beautifully, with some strange patterns printed on them, some of them looked like the sun. At least the pottery was better than the pottery made by his own tribe. A few months ago, my tribe didn't even have pottery. It won't be long before Acorn and Ken will burn better pottery.

They have Tao and of course cook rice.

However, the clay pots used for cooking are not the same as those of our own tribe. People in this tribe call them Li.

Li is also a pottery pot, but it has three legs underneath, and a fire can be lit directly underneath.The clay pots of our own tribe have no legs and are heated on stoves made of mud bricks.

They don't use chopsticks when eating, but use wooden spoons or pottery spoons, and some people also use jade spoons carved from a green stone called jade.

When they eat, they don't eat together as a whole tribe, but a dozen people eat alone together.The meals of each small group are different, some have meat, some are just millet and wild vegetables.

The dozen or so people were male and female, and they lived in a mixed environment. Obviously, the male and female were not of the same race, because Song saw a male and a female playing outside with a few children.

The [-] female slaves left behind were also distributed to these people. The number distributed to each small family was different, some were more or less, and some were not.

They live in a house made of earth and wood, and the way to level it is not hanging wires, but filling a long pottery tank with water, placing it on the wall, and relying on the level of the water and eyes to find out whether it is straight.

Song had to admit that the speed at which these people built houses was similar to that of his own people, and the houses looked similar to those of his own people. The only difference was that they had special rooms for storing corn and beans.

There are no wolf cubs in E Yue's tribe, but there are little civet cats. These little civet cats are not very afraid of people. Every day, they wander around in the sun near the house where the corn and beans are kept, and from time to time they want to steal one or two of the corn and beans. Rats growling and roaring.

Whenever they caught a mouse, someone would throw some food over.There are also some women and children who will hold one or two small civet cats in their hands and stroke them gently. These little civet cats will snore and make purring noises as if people are asleep.

The women wore different clothes, some silk, some animal skins, and some bark woven together, but even the women who wore bark seemed to have learned to groom.

They will look at their hair in front of a black clay pot filled with water, which is called Jian.Their shadows can be reflected on the calm water, and Song knows that they must be full, and if they are not full, they will not care to see whether they are beautiful or not.

Song can still understand these differences from his own tribe.

What Song couldn't understand the most was that these people erected a wooden stick on the flat ground, and a woman with shells on her hair was always staring at the shadow of the stick, as if she was looking at something, until the shadow pointed to something. At one point, a woman asked her tribe to start planting millet.

Before burning wasteland and planting corn, these people will also sacrifice. Their sacrifices are a cow, a sheep, and a donkey. The leader is responsible for the sacrifice, and the congratulatory speeches are made by women with shells on their hair.

After the sacrifice, Eyue asked people to bring some meals to Song and others, as well as some red dried fruits called "jujubes", wishing them an early recovery.

Song and the others have always eaten the dried fish and cured meat left by Chen Jian, and this time it is rare to change their taste.

The meal is a jar of boiled corn, with a layer of slightly burnt crispy rice under it, which tastes fragrant.

The rice was served with a fermented meat and bean, which they called 醢, and a large clay pot of corn wine.

Song took a sip of the 醢 and found that the taste was very delicious, fresher than the taste of meat. It was very strange why the beans had such a taste.

The corn wine was cloudy and very weak, not as spicy as the wine steamed by my own tribe.

In Song's view, the method of brewing wine is completely different from that of the tribe, but it is somewhat familiar.

These people do not use germinated wheat to make wine, but directly add some moldy powder to the steamed corn, which they call koji.

Song remembered that when Chen Jian was making wine, he was also very excited at the pile of germinated and moldy wheat grains, and told them that they would not need to let the wheat germinate first when making wine. The method is the same as theirs.

The kind of minced meat and steamed beans is made of the same method, and the moldy koji is poured into the nuts and beans. What is brewed is not wine, but it can make people have endless aftertaste. It whets the appetite and is an excellent accompaniment to rice.

All kinds of differences are seen by Song's eyes, and there are many places he can't see, which he guesses are completely different.