From Chief to Ball

Then he lowered his voice and said, "Hua's sister was killed by them, it seems to be a sacrifice... Some of Hua's captured clansmen also smeared blood on themselves, and the rest were tied with vines."

The people of the tribe became commotion again. They experienced a sacrifice, but they never connected the sacrifice and killing.In their view, sacrifice should be happy.Drinking that sweet and sour wine, and comparing who can run faster and who can shoot more accurately, how can they kill people?

"Are all those people going to be killed?"

"No, those caught felling trees seemed to try to fence up the birch bark houses where they lived, and some were killed trying to run away. They also kept some sheep, more than ours, and some There are dozens of them. Near where they live, many edible plants grow together with other grasses."

The stone civet cat tried his best to tell what he saw, and he was not afraid of anything else, the only thing he was worried about was the connection between murder and sacrifice, and those few people who smeared their own blood on their faces.

This matter was completely beyond his understanding. They were his relatives, how could he smear their blood on himself?

Chen Jian listened carefully, and occasionally asked a few questions that were not important to him.

In the end, the civet cat suddenly thought of something, hurriedly took out a small object made of wood and reeds from a jar of lard, and handed it to Chen Jian.

"They use this to catch fish. I snatched one from a man fishing in the distance and threw him into the river. I saw him catch a fish as long as my arm."

Looking at the small thing in his hand, Chen Jian couldn't help but marvel. In order to survive, these people thought of too many incredible things in their labor and life.

It should be said that the thing in my hand is a fishhook, but it is not the kind of fishhook in the previous life, but made of thinly peeled and elastic wood chips and reeds.

The originally straight piece of wood is bent into a U shape, and the U mouth is inserted into a small piece of reed to lock it, and worms are bolted to it.

After the big fish swallows it, because the reed is loosened by swallowing, the U-shaped elastic wood piece will bounce off and become a "one" character, which is stuck in the fish's mouth.

It is very practical, and the operation is very simple, it is worth learning by the clansmen.Fishing in wicker baskets is difficult to catch large fish; this method can catch very large fish.

He passed this thing to a few people next to him, and demonstrated it. After bending it, he gently pinched it with his hand, and the sheet immediately bounced off.

Putting this thing in his mouth and making an analogy, the tribe immediately figured out how this thing catches fish.

Some Inuit living in the polar regions have also been using similar methods. They use elastic whale bones to smear some animal fat, bend them, put them outside to freeze, and throw them into the snow.Those wolves who were starving from the long winter would swallow the whalebone, and the bone would straighten and puncture their stomachs after being heated by their stomachs.

This is all human wisdom, and wisdom can be communicated, so the tribe has a new fishing method.

In contrast, that tribe must have learned to glue feathers to feathered arrows.There is also a new bow drawing method. The original arrow pinching method has no way to aim, it can only rely on feeling, it cannot store energy, and cannot exert the full power of the bow.

This kind of exchange of wisdom and experience is also necessary for the development of human civilization. With the development of productive forces and the increase of the scope of activities in the future, the speed of this exchange will become faster and faster.

A continent without communication would be like Australia, which still uses stone bows and arrows thousands of years later.

This kind of technical exchange is more effective for the more backward tribes. In Chen Jian's view, this inadvertent technical exchange is a loss for his own tribe, because this fishing method is just icing on the cake, while the feather arrow and bow drawing method are just a timely help.

After careful analysis, that tribe should have domesticated some kind of wild beast, knew how to drink animal milk, had simple bows and arrows, and made tents like yurts made of birch bark, and some people should have learned how to ride. This is the only way to explain it. Four-legged people.

The civet cat said that there are many fruit-bearing plants near the place where they live, and they grow together with the rest of the grass. It should not even be achieved by slash-and-burn farming, but just sprinkle seeds all over the sky and grow on their own.

A primitive mixed tribe of fishing, herding, farming and hunting can develop into farming if they occupy a good place in the future. If they don’t occupy a good place, they will be fishing and hunting.Whether the ancestors can occupy a good place directly determines the degree of civilization and the direction of development of future generations.

He stared at the fishhook full of wisdom, knowing that this was an enemy that had to be faced.

With such a close distance, there will be a battle sooner or later, and the sooner the better.

Otherwise, with the start of technology diffusion, the gap between the two sides will become smaller as time goes on, and it is too easy to learn these things by yourself.

There can only be one civilization for a hundred miles along the Caohe River.

That tribe either surrendered, with the same language and homophonic pronunciation; or, let them become a piece of history.

Chapter 6 A long time ago by chance

When Chen Jian wanted to destroy a nascent civilization, that nascent civilization was also thinking about this opponent he had never met.

On the upper reaches of the Caohe River, more than a hundred miles away from the village, Badger, the military leader of that tribe, was looking at a feathered arrow, and there was a clay pot under his feet, which he had snatched from a distant tribe with his men. More than 50 light and strong prisoners.

Badger has a strong body and is the best hunter of the tribe, so he was elected by the tribe to become the military leader.

The real leader of the tribe is not him, but a woman named Red Fish sitting on a tiger skin, who is the priest of the whole tribe.

Red Fish is not her name, every woman who becomes a priest in the tribe will use this name.Because there is a legend in the tribe a long time ago, the tribe will see a big red fish jumping by the river, which looks like it is going to jump over the rainbow in the sky.It is said that when you see all this, you can choose to settle there, and you will be blessed by God.

Outside the simple tent made of birch bark, the members of Badger's tribe gathered here, including those who had just joined the tribe. They smeared the blood of their original tribe on their faces to show that they had severed ties with the past.

Badger stood up and drew the bow with the newly learned bow drawing method. He kept his posture, and the feathered arrow flew out, accurately hitting a small tree not far away, and his heart was full of surprise.

This method of drawing the bow is great. In the past, he needed to pinch the nock of the arrow with his hands. Only the strongest hand could keep it steady, but now even the tribe with the worst archery can keep it!

The arrows with tail feathers can fly farther.You can't see the difference at close range, but you can see the featherless arrows rolling and tilting in the air at a little distance...

He wanted to know all this, but unfortunately he could not understand what the captured man was saying.

Pointing to the feather arrow, these people will mutter a few words; pointing to the clay pot is still the same, but there is a word pronounced "jian" in these words.

So he went to consult the priest Red Fish, and after Red Fish begged for guidance from heaven, he told him that it should be the name of a person who invented these things.

After hearing this explanation, Badger was a little shocked.

In the legend of my own tribe, people who invented the bow and discovered that those who domesticated those animals were blessed by heaven, they either became priests, or became the most powerful military leaders, and their legends still exist in the tribe.

Is this person named Jian also blessed by God?He couldn't help being a little scared.

Three days ago, the clansmen found a corpse by the river, a corpse of one of their own clansmen, drowned and hung it in the reeds by the river.

He suspected that he was killed by someone, probably the tribe he had never met, and when he thought of the man named Jian, he panicked a little.

Especially seeing those captives who were struggling to smash logs to the ground to build a fence, this panic was even more serious.They all wear strange hair, completely different from themselves.Even Redfish couldn't explain why.

The few who joined the tribe were strong, untied their hair, and begged to live in words the Badger could not understand.That's why there was that sacrifice, which is a tribal tradition.

When the previous "Redfish" was still alive, Badger and the current Redfish knew that their tribe had migrated here from where the sun went down.

It is said that their tribe was very powerful in the past, and many different tribes lived together, raised sheep and horned deer, burned the nearby woods with fire and dropped seeds, and picked up those seeds as food in autumn.

There are twenty tribes living in the place before the migration, they can count, because ten fingers and ten toes, so they are every twenty digits; Tents; each of their priests can teach them different things, drink horned deer milk and goat milk in spring and summer, eat seeds in autumn and winter, and use reed thorns to catch fish.

Until one year there was a sudden flood and the village was destroyed.

Those tribes were not discouraged, but prepared to rebuild their homes.But the next day there was a severe drought, and countless grasshoppers flew to the place where they lived and ate up everything.The winter was extremely cold, and many sheep and deer froze to death, and the situation did not ease in the second year.

The priests said that the gods were angry and needed blood to feed them, so they plundered the nearby tribes and brought back people to sacrifice to the gods, but there was still no relief.

The priest paid the price for these words, and in the rage of the tribe threw her into the fire as a sacrifice.Some people still insist on it, while others have different ideas.

After discussing in secret, several tribes snatched the remaining sheep and deer from the rest of the tribe at night, and left the village with only Qingzhuang. Abandoned land.

They don't know whether the floods and droughts of those years also caused other tribes to migrate. They thought that everything in front of them was the whole world.

One night, many meteors fell in the direction of the rising sun. With the meteors, two new lives appeared in the tribe, a man and a woman.