[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

Early the next morning, Du got up and opened the sheepfold.The goats came out of the livestock pen with bleating bleats, followed by a brisk bark of "Wow, woof". A black shepherd dog jumped out of the sheep pen very easily, and rushed towards Du affectionately. go up.

"Xiao Hei, don't move!" Seeing Yi Nan beside him, Du hurriedly shouted to stop his little black dog.

Unexpectedly, it was too late, Xiao Hei found Yi Nan as a "stranger", and immediately lowered his head, showing a look of guard, with a low snoring sound from his throat, and his tail drooped.

Du knew how powerful the little black dog was when dealing with strangers: "Nan, don't move!"

Before he could recover, he saw Xiao Hei squatting in front of Yi Nan with his head raised and his eyes squinted.Yi Nan was stretching out his hand, gently scratching Xiao Hei's chin and ears.Xiao Hei grinned, with a look of contentment and enjoyment.

The young shepherd immediately became angry: This spineless little Wang!

Yinan imitated Du's tone: "Let's go, Xiao Hei, let's go."

She stood up, and Xiao Hei immediately followed Yi Nan, occasionally jumping out to drive the scattered domestic goats together.

Du: ...Whose family's Wang is this? !

Yi Nan is very satisfied: I really want all the cats and dogs in the world to belong to my family.

It's a bit chilly in the morning.When Du went out, he put on an extra pullover made of wool. A gust of cool wind blew by. Without further ado, Du took off the sweater and stuffed it to Yi Nan beside him. Maintain body temperature through exercise.

Yi Nan is also cold, but she is not afraid.It's just that the young shepherd's kindness was hard to resist, and Yinan finally took it and put it on.

Only then did she notice that there was a small pendant hanging around Du's neck. The pendant was polished from hardwood, shaped like a boomerang, with a small hole drilled in the middle, and tied with a rope.

"What is this?" Inan asked.

She brought boomerangs to this civilization that didn't belong here, but I don't know if this kind of thing has survived with civilization to this day.

"I heard it was also passed down by Wizard Dan." Du replied without hesitation.

"It's used to pray for blessings or to thank Goddess Inanna. Look at the small flower pots in the shape of hanging on the door of those brick houses, with flowers in them—that's it."

Yinan: ...The emotional boomerang has become an ornament and amulet.

More than 1000 years later, the boomerang has become an ordinary object with only a decorative function-Daniel's prophecy has come true.

"As for mine, my father polished it out of hardwood himself, made a pair, and gave it to me and my sister."

Yi Nan: "Do you have a sister?"

Du continued: "It's a pity that my sister got lost when she was young. Not two years after she got lost, my parents also passed away one after another. This is the only thing they left me."

Yi Nan's heart sank: She always unconsciously compared Du and Dan last night, and felt that Du was far less confident than Dan, but she never thought that the two people had different backgrounds and could not be compared at all.It is not easy for Du to live alone and still maintain his softness and enthusiasm in his heart.

The topic was too serious, and both of them were silent for a while.Du shook his head vigorously, and put on his smile again: "Miss Nan, why are you going to meet the high-ranking priests?"

Yinan smiled, he was really embarrassed to tell the other party directly that he was going to mess things up.

"When I was at your house last night, I heard those people mention that the priests said they were going to recruit candidates for the Holy Wedding Ceremony. I was curious about this."

"Why did the villagers in your village all go as soon as they heard the priest's call?"

Du Dengshi shrugged and said: "The priests said that young men and women who can enter the ceremony site will be blessed by the goddess Inanna. If they are selected to be Inanna's sacred bridegroom, it will be a supreme honor... As for being chosen as a saint, it is something you can meet but not ask for."

"After all, he is the god of abundance. If we want a good harvest, we naturally want to seek the blessing of the goddess." Du concluded.

Yinan secretly sighed in his heart: This is the impact of god worship on the development of civilization.

When the harvest is bad, people immediately think of asking God—this is the only choice that people can make when they cannot control various natural conditions.

——But how can climbing the technology tree be reliable in praying to God?

Just as he was thinking, Du pointed to the front and said, "Here we are, the village of Tibila is in front of us."

What appeared in front of the two of them was a village that also used clay bricks as building materials, which was slightly larger than Du's village, Bud.

Thanks to Xiao Hei running back and forth, Du drove his flock all the way, and the formation did not disperse, and not a single sheep got separated.

Unexpectedly, a middle-aged fat man in a linen robe hurried over at this time, saw Du and Yi Nan, stared at Yi Nan's face in shock for a few seconds, and immediately remembered the business, and turned to Du:

"Thank God, it's very kind of you to bring the sheep here. They will be of great use today." The fat man ran away after saying that.

Du let out an "hey" and turned to Yi Nan curiously, "What can the sheep be used for?"

Inan smiled without saying a word.

"Well then, I'll drive the sheep to the nearby mountains to graze first, so that these bleating guys won't interfere with the gentlemen's meeting with the high priest. I'll come to the village to find you later." Du called Xiao Hei Wang loudly and let him Drive the flock up the mountain together.

Yi Nan lowered his head and followed the middle-aged fat man from a distance into Tibila.The middle-aged fat man made several turns and turns, and finally came under a brick wall.Several people were waiting in front of him.

Yi Nan looked at the route, took a small path, went directly behind the brick wall, and found a place under the window to listen quietly.After a while, Du found her and sat beside her.

In the room behind, a cold voice sounded: "Master Hamti, you also know the situation this year. The harvests in various places are not bad, so the competition is relatively fierce. There must be no less than one sheep."

"A sheep..." The middle-aged fat man's voice sounded, and there was hesitation in his voice.

"There are still a lot of people waiting outside—"

"Okay! A sheep is a sheep!"

"Okay, Master Hamti, when I mention the candidates for the ceremony, you must raise your hands high in the crowd, with empty fists in your hands."

Du turned his eyes and understood "what can sheep be used for?" He stretched out his hand to pick up a branch, drew a stroke on the ground, and then drew a circle beside it.

Seeing Yi Nan staring at the mark on the ground, he leaned closer to Yi Nan's ear, "Master Hamti is fat, you can tell it's him when you see it."

Yi Nan thought about it, and felt that it was indeed very vivid.

But wait, is this, the earliest, hieroglyphic writing?

Before she could react, another deal was negotiated on the other side of the brick wall: "Okay, one sheep is one sheep!"

Du continued to draw a line on the ground, and then drew a "V" shape on the other side. At the same time, he also whispered to Yi Nan: "There is a sheep's head hanging outside this master's house."

Yinan: Understood!

Negotiations continue on the other side of the brick wall.Du had twenty pairs of sheep in total, and Yinan saw that soon the ground in front of him was covered with one row after another, and it would soon be forty.

"Master Ake, if I remember correctly, your son will be celebrating his new year soon, right? Next year he will not be eligible to enter Uruk and become the bridegroom of the goddess."

Immediately, Yinan held out three fingers to Du.

"At least three sheep!" It was the priest who spoke, and the asking price was firm, and there was no room for bargaining.

Du looked at Yi Nan with the eyes of "Why are you so powerful", and then stretched out his hand and drew four lines on the ground: "Master Ake is tall and thin, and he looks exactly like a silver willow branch."

Master Ake on the other side of the brick wall resolutely agreed: "Three is three! I just heard that the shepherd in our village brought all the sheep here today, and I will bring them to you later."

Here Du immediately bounced up, stretched out his hand and tapped his mark on the ground, quickly memorized it in his heart, then stretched out his foot to erase all the marks on the ground, turned around and whispered to Yi Nan: "I'll go and put all the sheep on the ground. Give it to those gentlemen! They will give me some grain later.”

He ran back immediately and told Yi Nan: "Don't run away, don't let the priest see you." Then he really went.

Yi Nan was dumbfounded looking at the hastily erased symbols on the ground. The young shepherd has such a good memory?Don't need text assistance at all? ——The memory is too good to bother to invent words?

She felt sorry for the erased symbols on the ground, but after thinking about it, she felt that there was nothing to regret: what was erased was only symbols, and it was far from the level of "words".

——But with Du's understanding, can she consider using this young shepherd to inspire the birth of words?

Unexpectedly, Du Gang ran away, and the bargaining behind him was not over yet. Someone slapped something on the ground: "My son is going to be the goddess's husband this year. With these, is it enough?"

The voice of the priest was a little excited: "This kind of lapis lazuli②—I can't guarantee it in Uruk, but today, your son is in Tibera, and he can definitely stand out."

Yi Nan rubbed his forehead: finally there was a "father" who made the final decision.

Lapis she knew: an important mineral, used primarily as an ornament and a dye in the early days of civilization.The Mesopotamian Plain does not produce this mineral, and the Sumerians in the Mesopotamia had to import lapis lazuli from the mountains far away in Afghanistan.In this era, it is difficult to obtain a piece of lapis lazuli.

This guy obviously spent a lot of money, but he is really a "trench" dad.

After this round of "Father Fighting" activities for the Holy Wedding Ceremony ended, Du hurried back to Yinan, holding Xiao Hei in his arms: "The little black dog is feeling confused about the dog's life, and I don't know why the master doesn't let him continue to look after it on the mountain." flock.

"Nan," Du said quite excitedly, "you really brought me right! The high-ranking priest hasn't seen it yet, and the sheep at home have been sent out first. The sheep are all handed over to the priest, so Xiao Hei is not very happy .”

The young shepherd reached out and rubbed Xiao Hei's head.

In an open space outside the village, a crowd has already gathered.Du greeted Yinan: "Let's go together, by the way, what do you want to see the priest for?"

Yi Nan smiled at him: "I probably want to... make Xiao Hei happy!"

The author has something to say: ①According to the definition of modern linguistics, pictograms and ideograms are not considered written language, mainly because there is not a one-to-one correspondence between the image and the meaning behind it.For example, the combination of "1" and "〇" in Du's painting does not represent a complete sentence like "Master Fat wants a sheep", but can also be understood as "Master Thin picks up a peach". Yi Nan can't pass the test here.

But we should be able to figure out the origin of words in this era.

② Lapis lazuli is a kind of ore that has been used by human beings for a long time——Lapis lazuli is very popular in ancient Egypt and Sumer. Many amulets, cylindrical seals, and gemstones engraved with scarabs in ancient Egypt are all used. Lapis lazuli, which was ground up by the Sumerians as a dye.Our country also has a history of using lapis lazuli powder as a paint.

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