From Chief to Ball

Just looking at this village, the image of Chen Jian's tribe is in Jiu's heart, from the impassable big river in his hometown to a small river branch that can be jumped across with all his strength.

She didn't ask much, and even suspected that the circles and angles on the ruler were not imagined by Jian as she thought, but drawn by accident?

After looking at the village, she continued to move forward. She felt that Jian's tribe might also be a larger village like this.

There are still a lot of burned land near these villages, some of which are still being reclaimed with stone plows, and no bronze farm tools have been seen. Some bone plows were punched, and some were directly tied with ropes.

"My tribe hasn't seen a bone plow hoe tied with a rope without punching holes for many years."

She thought with some pride, although the other party had bronze weapons, if that was the case, there was really nothing to be afraid of.

The only thing she was curious about were the furrows. She had never seen anyone plant them like this, so she didn't know what they were for.

What's even more weird is that nothing is planted on these lands, they are empty, and there is no planted land near the entire village.

Now that the weather is getting hotter, it will be too late to plant. Doesn’t this tribe have wheat and peas?Aren't those grown?But collected?

Riding on the back of the bull, Jiu fell into deep thought.

Seeing is believing, but everything she saw told her that that tribe was by no means as powerful as she imagined, and she even thought it might just be a lucky gathering tribe.But the gifts I saw in the tribe could never be what a gathering tribe could have. What's going on?

While she was meditating, she suddenly felt that the clansman touched her with a hand, felt that the cow seemed to have stopped, raised her head from her meditation, and asked, "What's wrong?"

Looking back, the clansmen sat on the back of the bull as if they were stupid, looking at the front in a daze, as if seeing the sun falling from the sky.

Jiu turned his head and was also stunned.

A girl with a pair of braids, cute and petite.Smiling towards the sun, revealing a pair of white rabbit teeth, eyes squinted like the moon, waving a beautiful whip in his hand, his legs are dangling, without shoes.The ten toes are covered with the juice of flower petals, and a multicolored rope is tied to the ankle with several emerald stones on it.

Of course, this is not the reason for Jiu Leng, she was so beautiful more than ten years ago.

What made her stunned was the bullock cart under the girl's seat.

Two wide, round wheels made a creaking sound, and they were turning towards this side. The wide car deck could hold things that could be carried by ten oxen.

Just for a moment, all the doubts, all the disdain, all the pride, and all the guesses in Jiu's mind were all run over by the rolling wheels, leaving only a rut that will never be forgotten in her memory - a cow, Can it still be used like this?

"Then... what is that?"

Without bothering to hide her surprise, she pointed to the ox cart and asked the people riding the horned deer around her in the language she had learned.

But those people were the same as her, froze there, shaking their heads, Jiuzhi heard a familiar name from the mutterings of those people, that young man's name, that name she had heard many times.

Chapter 71 Plain Language and Black Language

Today is the third day of the wheat month in the family calendar, and there are still 20 days before the wheat harvest.The following major events took place in the tribe today.

The priestess of the Eyue tribe, Shujiu, launched a friendly visit to Chen Jian's tribe. Chen Jian, the leader of the tribal council, the military leader, and the owner of the city scepter, went to greet him outside the city, accompanied by his grandmother. Waiting for fourteen members of the Chief Council.

The waves of wheat are floating, and Xuan Yan is chirping. In the rhythm of the passionate military song "Holding the Son", the ox cart that counts nine comes slowly.

After getting off the bullock cart, Shujiu and Chen Jian jointly inspected fifty soldiers. The soldiers held spears and wore deerskin armor, standing still in the hot sun.

According to the etiquette of the city, the children of the tribe presented a linen shawl to Shujiu, brought fish and salt, and presented a bouquet of spring flowers, wishing her eternal youth.

Shujiu caressed the children affectionately, gave them some beef jerky that they carried with them, and wished them to grow up soon and contribute their strength to the city and tribe earlier.

Accompanied by Chen Jian, Shujiu watched the drills and marching of the soldiers, and was full of praise for the army formation.

She said: The two tribes are on the north bank of the Caohe River, with similar populations and similar military formations. The soldiers are no longer the kind of barbarians who can only charge. The two tribes should get along with each other in friendship and not use war Solve the problem.

On behalf of the tribe and E Yue, she expressed her appreciation to the army commanded by Chen Jian.I hope that the next meeting between Chen Jian and E Yue will be at a banquet, not in the military formation.

Chen Jian agreed with this, and conveyed the greetings of himself and his tribe to Eyue and the tribe through her.

Subsequently, the banquet was grandly held in the conference hall.

Chen Jian was accompanied by [-] members of the tribal council, as well as Yu Qian'er, who was in charge of Fangshi, and the heads of masons, carpenters, and charcoal smiths.

The banquet was held in a cheerful and warm atmosphere. The Shujiujiao tribe presented gifts other than the Jiushutu and Guibiao, and they were full of praise for the gifts presented by Chen Jian.

She said: It can be seen from the gift that Jian's tribe is a progressive tribe with heritage, a tribe as vibrant as grass sprouts in spring.In particular, the ruler in the gift is closely related to the walls and ditches of the city, and it will help the tribe build the city in the future.

Chen Jian also praised the other party's exquisite jade carving technology and koji fermentation technology, as well as the exquisite silk fabric, expressing his extreme praise.

The entourage who counted nine played Ben Lie's "Hua Song" with the ox horn and the soft "Autumn Water" with the silk string instrument.Chen Jian asked someone to play "A Big River" and "Shepherd's Song" on the bone flute.

With the melodious sound of the flute, Chen Jian picked up the seashells and conchs in the gift, and asked Number Nine about the origin of these seashells.

Shujiu said that these seashells were brought from the east and exchanged with the Dongyi tribe with corn, and some were the dowry of E Yue's third wife, but she had never seen the sea, but she knew the sea existed and did not It tells the story of the Chinese Millet people back then.Finally, tell Chen Jian to put the conch on his ear so that he can hear the sound of the sea.

In order to show politeness, Chen Jian expressed his surprise appropriately. After listening to it, he distributed the sea shells and conch to the leaders. The leaders listened to the sound of the sea and were full of thoughts.

After the steamed peas were served, Shujiu asked about the wheat fields outside the city many times, and expressed great concern about why the wheat grown in furrows grew taller than the burned wasteland. He asked Chen Jian several times about the yield of wheat and peas, And whether this furrow planting method is suitable for planting millet?

Chen Jian said that there is no harvest yet, and the output should not be low, but his tribe does not have corn, so it is not clear whether it is suitable for planting millet.

He inquired about the millet planting of the Shujiu clan, wishing their tribe a good harvest this year, and Shujiu expressed his gratitude.

During the meeting, Shu Jiu put forward the proposal of exchanging corn and bean seeds for bronze smelting technology, and Chen Jian had reservations about this proposal.

The two sides had a frank exchange of views on this issue, and although no consensus was reached, understanding between the two tribes was enhanced.

Chen Jian said: It is conceivable to exchange corn and beans with wheat and peas, but it is impossible to exchange them with bronze smelting technology.

Shujiu said that the corn and beans of his tribe are enough to eat. Wheat and peas are like charcoal fires in hot weather, which can be had or not; but the bronze smelting technology is like a warm sun after snow to his tribe, it is very important , and expressed regret that Chen Jian could not exchange the bronze technology.

Considering that this was the first exchange between the two tribes, and she had sworn not to go to war, she decided to exchange some of the salt with corn and bean seeds.

After Yuqianer demonstrated what a catty is, she said that she could exchange three thousand catties of corn and five hundred catties of bean for three hundred catties of white salt and five ox carts, and gave high affirmation and praise to the scale. Praise, praise that it can rival the clepsydra timer of your own tribe.

Chen Jian did not comment on the exchange proposal, but asked Yu Qian'er to demonstrate the principle of the scale for the number nine, and used the scale to weigh out the cooked mutton and distribute it equally to everyone present.

When counting nine pairs of scales and couldn't put it down, Chen Jian asked about the composition of the clepsydra timer, hoping to exchange ten steelyard scales for a clepsydra timer.

Shujiu said: There are not many tribes of clepsydra timers, only three, which were brought from the far east and cannot be exchanged.

Vaguely explained the principle of the clepsydra timer: put a wooden board in the pot with an arrow stuck on it, and use the water drops from the clepsydra above to continuously raise the wooden board and arrow in the pot to indicate the time.

It is not accurate to use the dripping method directly. As the water in the pot decreases, the flow speed slows down, so the pot arrow was invented.There are also several buckets on it, and the bucket responsible for dripping water above the pot arrow is always full to ensure that the speed of the water droplets is equal.Because there are twelve full moons in a year, the day is divided into twelve parts.

Chen Jian paid high tribute to the inventor, toasted from a distance, and praised the wisdom of his ancestors.

After Shujiu refused to exchange, he proposed to exchange it with an ox cart. Shujiu hoped to have ten more steelyards besides this oxcart. Chen Jian agreed to the exchange.

Both parties are very satisfied with the first transaction reached.

Chen Jian said: This is a good start. The communication between the two ethnic groups takes time. This exchange fully reflects the necessity of the exchange between the two ethnic groups. In the long run, this exchange is beneficial to the people of the two ethnic groups. of.