From Chief to Ball

"It's a blue sky falling to the ground."

"Is there an end to the sea? Is the home of the sun on the sea?"

"endless."

"Is there anyone at the beach?"

"Yes. The world...is not the only grass river. The city...is not the only Xia city."

The third volume of Fang Guobo

Chapter 1 Procedure

On the seventh day of the seventh month of the new calendar, on the south bank of the Cao River, Heyin City.

A month ago, the tribe started a new calendar. The eight-solar calendar learned from the Eyue tribe can distinguish between spring, summer, autumn and winter. It abandoned the way of counting days with the full moon as the first day of the month, and changed it to the same as most tribes in the east. The algorithm that the moon is the first day of the new year and the full moon is the fifteenth day.

July [-]th is a special day among those tribes in the east. There is no myth, it is simply the day when E Yue’s mother wove the first silk with tussah silk. Since then, this day has become a festival for women. Looking forward to having hands as ingenious as Emu.

With the exchanges between Xiacheng and Echeng, this day also spread to the ears of women in Xiacheng along with the silk. Women look forward to having a pair of skillful hands. Men in this era prefer women who are dexterous and able to do things. It has not been alienated into a pure facial features.

The women in Heyin City are busy rolling the skins, and they have been obsessed with the food called dumplings since the last time they ate the food called dumplings at the civet cat and blue grass's evening ceremony.

Today is considered a good day. Xiacheng sent ships to the people stationed in Heyin City to bring two bags of flour sifted out of the bran, and some women kneaded out of flour, wrapped in maple syrup and honey Bag.Each pinch is very small, and it is said that the best pinch will get a hand as delicate as the mother's.

Wolf Pi and a few others squatted under the gourd stand outside the city and looked at the Milky Way in the sky. After watching it for a long time, he said bitterly: "Jian said that tonight, he could see men and women kissing in the sky when he squatted under the gourd stand, why can't I see it? "

The necks of several people were sore, and their eyes were dry and a little bit astringent. They didn't rest with their necks tilted until clouds surged in the sky and covered the Milky Way.

All of a sudden, the two wolf cubs at the gate of the city started whining, and several of them immediately took up their weapons and rushed out. The wolf skin said excitedly: "Today, I will kill two more deer, and tomorrow I will go to Yuqianermeizi's for corn wine." .

There are only [-] acres of public land near Heyin City planted with beans. They have two wolf cubs just to take care of these fields. They will howl several times when the deer approach.After completing the tasks assigned by the tribe during the day, they can freely hunt or continue to cultivate, and the extra part can be exchanged for a lot of good things from the market.

Several people were also very excited when they thought of the taste of the corn wine exchanged from Echeng. If they were quick, they would be able to go back by boat to change it in a while. Drinking corn wine and eating dumplings was really a pleasure.

He rushed out of the ditch and untied the rope around the wolf cub's neck, but the wolf cub didn't run towards the bean field, but rushed to the south.

Under the night, a few staggering black shadows ran towards this side. After hearing the cry of the wolf cub, they screamed and ran around in a panic. There was also a man squatting on the ground with his hands in his arms. head, covering his throat tightly.

Wolf Pi was also taken aback. No one had come to the south bank of the Cao River except the people from the city. Seeing that there were not many people on the other side, he blew his whistle, and the clansmen who usually served as scouts with him immediately divided into groups of two or three. , outflanked the past.

The wolf cubs knew that at this time, if they worked hard for a while, there would be meat to eat. They rushed over and threw one person down, but they didn't say anything. After all, this was not a deer, and they were waiting for their master's order.

Seeing that they couldn't run, those people had to squat on the ground, shouting something.

The wolf skin sounded familiar at first, it seemed to be the language of the Eyue tribe, he could understand it a little bit, and it seemed that he was yelling not to kill them or something.

There were nine people in total, one had blood on his leg, and a smell of sour sweat rushed straight to his nose.Some were wearing silk, some were wearing bark, their hair was disheveled, and their clothes were torn. After running for an unknown amount of time, one of them squatted down and couldn't get up. He fell to the ground clutching his heart, dead.

"Take it back, send a boat to inform Jian, and ask Songya to follow. He can understand the words of the Eyue tribe."

Two people carried the exhausted one, and the remaining people drove the eight people back to Heyin City. Just as the dumplings were out of the pot, the eight people stared at the dumplings in the pottery bowl, swallowing their saliva non-stop.

The man in silk was ruthless, took out a piece of pure white jade from his bosom, handed it to the wolf fur, and signaled that he wanted to exchange for something to eat.

The wolf skin snatched Yu Jue, looked carefully, and wondered where did these people come from?If it's a member of the Eyue tribe, it's okay to give them something to eat.

After accepting Yu Jue and sending them some food, those people ate hungrily without caring about anything.

When Chen Jian, Song and others arrived, one of the eight people died, perhaps because they were hungry for a long time and ate so much to death.

Langpi gave Chen Jian the jade in his hand, and whispered, "That man's, it's for food."

Chen Jian looked at the jade jue, which was exquisite in workmanship. The quality of the jade was basically the same as the one that E Yue gave him as a token, and it seemed that it should have been collected at the same place.

Several tribes in the east have been disintegrated into families from the rich and the poor. Judging from the clothes of these people, it is obvious that there are rich and poor.

The status of the person who owns Yu Jue should not be low in the tribe, and may even be the ruling class with roots. How could it be reduced to such a point?

The seven living people hid in the corner, lowering their heads and not daring to raise their heads. When the wolf cubs outside screamed, they would shiver and tremble. The arms of the two people were covered with pus and blood, as if they had been bitten.

Although these people are weak, they can see that they are all strong, and they must not have been attacked by wolves.

Song whispered: "I have never seen this person in E City. I have seen several people around E Yue, without him. There are only a few people who have this kind of jade. It is said that they brought it from Huacheng before they migrated. Come, there is no such jade nearby."

Chen Jian took the jade and walked up to the man in silk clothes, and Rang Song asked, "Is this yours?"

The man nodded, then shook his head again.

"He said that the food has been changed. It used to be his, but now it is ours."

"Ask him if he has heard of people like E Yue and Shu Jiu? Are they from E City?"

Hearing the names of E Yue and Shu Jiu, that person didn't wait to convey them, his eyes lit up, and he muttered a lot.

"He said... he recognized E Yue and Shujiu, as if they grew up together in Huacheng. After Hua's death, these people left with the tribe and never saw each other again. He begged us to send him to find E Yue .”

Chen Jian was stunned for a moment, the person in front of him was not from the Eyue tribe, but from another tribe.

Judging from the age of about 30 years old, could it be said that this tribe was wiped out by the barbarians?Only these few people escaped?

He asked a few more questions, but the man stopped talking, but kept begging Chen Jian to send him to the tribe of Eyue, and took out another finger wrench with string grooves and patterns on the front, He kept repeating these words without answering Chen Jian's question.

Chen Jian accepted the finger puller, and after looking at it for a while, he felt more and more weird about this person.

Since this person appears here, he is closely related to his own tribe. If there are barbarians in the south, it will be a little troublesome, but this person's attitude does not seem to be the same. If he was really wiped out by the barbarians, he would have already told It's about his own tribe, no matter what, Chen Jian also has his hair tied up, so he still has a sense of identity.

"Find them a room, let them sleep, watch them at night, don't let them run away."

"Send them to E Yue?"

"Say more."

The wolf skin took these people away. Chen Jian sat in the yard and pondered for a while, then turned around and said, "Go back to the city alone. Tomorrow, all ethnic groups should not cross the river by boat to reclaim land in Heyin. Let the white horse lead ten teams The warriors came over overnight, and asked Yuqian'er to prepare a ship of feather arrows and deliver them overnight, and then asked her to prepare for the expedition overnight."

He took out a copper talisman and handed it to that person, just to spread the word, he knew that his sister could not give anything to anyone, he had to go there by himself or have his own copper talisman.

After arranging those people, Langpi ran over and asked, "Could it be the Xirong mentioned by Shujiu? The Dongyi and Nanman are too far away from us, so that's what they call Xirong."

"It's not. It's more like..."

He thought for a while, and felt that he didn't know how to explain the term "loser in the power struggle" to Wolfpi. The tribal pyramid power system had just been established, and these people hadn't experienced bloody storms yet.They didn't even understand Shujiu's talk about Hua's poisoning, assassination, and wooing after death.

He thinks this is an opportunity. If there is civil strife in that tribe as he thought, if the distance is within five days, he can seize the opportunity to expand his strength, at least he can capture a lot of slaves .

After pondering for a while, I decided to continue interrogating that person the next day, always knowing what happened.

But the next day the man still didn't say what happened, but begged Chen Jian to send him to the city of Eyue.