[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

The wild horse dodging left and right from the rope circle, suddenly accelerated, rushed out from a gap in the crowd, and met Yi Nan and his tour group head-on.

The bullock cart directly blocked the way of the strong horse.The horse was galloping, but suddenly it stopped suddenly, and with a long hiss, the man stood up.

However, the movement of the ox cart was extremely slow, and the long body was lying sideways, directly blocking the way of the strong horse.

Violent wild horse: "咴咴咴——"

The old cow pulling the cart: "Moo—"

The cow is not in a hurry, and the horse can't help it.

After such a short delay, the crowd immediately gathered around and blocked the horse's path again—by ​​the way, they also surrounded Yi Nan and the others into the crowd.

"It was the stranger who helped us block this wild horse!"

The horse trainer with the rope in his hand thanked the tour group loudly, "People who have come from afar, thank you, can you hold us back for a while?"

Yi Nan and the others are of course fine.

Someone also noticed the ox cart: "Your ox is also quite strange. Why is the load behind you instead of on your back? Then... what is that?"

But at this time, the battle between wild horses and humans was staged again.This time the noose was around the horse's neck, and one trainer held the noose tightly while the other jumped onto the horse's back.

This bay red horse has a violent temperament. Once it senses that its neck is bound and there is someone on its back, it will kick and jump wildly, sometimes stand upright, and sometimes kick its hind legs fiercely.Before the man on the horse sat down, he was already thrown off the horse and thrown to the ground, "Ai yo" again and again.The person who was pulling the rope circle also took off his hand, hugged his palm tightly, and made a "hissing" sound from his mouth. It should be that the palm of his hand was scratched, and the injury was not serious.

Amidst the chorus of curses from all the people, the bay red horse even had a rope around its neck, but it was neighing triumphantly, as if to say: Who can do anything to win me!

"The priests are here!"

I don't know who said it, and the crowd automatically made a gap.A group of people in blue robes appeared in front of the tour group, just opposite them, with the bay horse in the middle.

Yi Nan's eyes were sharp, and he saw Gu Da standing in the back row all at once.Obviously, Guda also saw them, quickly lowered his head, and shrank behind the people around him——Yinan discussed with him when he let Guda go, and when they met in public in Uruk, Don't recognize each other yet.

The group of priests in front of them can see the difference in status from the robes they wear.

The priest standing in the back row like Guda wore a royal blue robe dyed with lapis lazuli dye.As for the two standing at the front, their robes were blue to purple in color.The faces of the two were solemn, without any expression.

Yinan thought: These two are probably the real "high-ranking" priests.

"The Horse Trainer—"

"The bay red horse that you promised to dedicate to the goddess is still here. When will I see it appear in the goddess' stable?"

"Also, what is this...?"

When the high-ranking priest saw the bullock cart, he immediately felt novelty.

Yi Nan saw Gu Da rushing forward from a distance, and whispered something in the high priest's ear.

The eyes of the two high-ranking priests looking at the tour group suddenly became playful.They even temporarily let go of the unfavorable horseman.

A high-ranking priest took a step forward, with a serious expression, and asked the little Hamti standing at the front: "Outsiders, have you obtained permission in advance to enter Uruk?"

Hearing this, the horse trainer was less surprised than Bu Yinan and the others: When did you need permission to enter Uruk?

Little Hamti opened his mouth wide and froze in place. Then he remembered that their visit to Uruk was a bit special: in the past, when the villagers came to Uruk, they were led by the priests of Uruk, and they came directly to participate in the New Year celebration.Has anyone heard of such a thing as a "permit to enter Uruk"?

Seeing these "outsiders" being questioned, the leading high priest showed a slight smile and seemed a little proud.

"However, for the sake of your coming from afar, if you can make a commendable contribution to the goddess of Uruk, I will allow you to enter the Uruk area."

As for what merit it is... The high-ranking priest glanced at the claret horse that had just calmed down.

The bay red horse still had a rope around its neck, but now it relaxed and lowered its head, and found a weed that looked delicious at its feet.

The horse trainers who suffered a big loss at the bay red horse just now, seeing the priest's eyes, all quietly stepped back half a step, giving up their seats to the tour group from afar.

"Well, if you can tame this healthy horse for the goddess and tie it properly to the goddess' stable, then I welcome you into Uruk."

"Young people, can you do it?" the real high priest asked aloud.

Young men and women in the tour group, you look at me, I look at you: who knows how to train a horse?

Besides, the horse's performance just now was really "impressive", and it "brought down" all the experienced horse trainers.Young people, even if they can rely on their vigor and blood, they can't do anything about this fierce horse that is going crazy.

Little Hamti turned his head to look at Yi Nan behind him, with a self-knowledge of embarrassment on his face.

Yinan also shook his head at them, saying that this matter can be discussed in the long term, and there is no need to worry now.

Anyway, she holds the jade dagger that Guda gave her, and it should be a piece of cake to exchange this favor for the opportunity to enter Uruk.

It's just that the priest on the opposite side seemed to see their retreat, and put on a teasing smile: "Since you don't even have this sincerity, and you don't have the slightest courage...do you still want to enter Uruk?"

"Young man, if I were you, I would have already gone home."

Those words made the faces of the young people who came out of the small place change.Who could bear such an insult?

But Yinan shook his head to them again, and emphasized in a low voice: "Without any protective gear, it is very dangerous for you to train horses like this. The future will last, and we have plenty of solutions."

But the young people are still hesitant: obviously they came to Uruk to earn face, not to lose face.

At this time, a timid voice sounded: "Excuse me—"

The one who spoke was Dumuzi.

Yi Nan really wanted to stop him.

"Excuse me, can I use any method? As long as the horse is tamed?"

His humble attitude, the old clothes on his body, and the occasional "baa-baa" in the distance, quickly made people recognize his identity——

"Feelings are like shepherds!"

People laughed and said, "That's right, maybe the shepherd will have some ingenious way to tame the sheep, maybe he can also tame the horse."

"Yes!" When the high-ranking priest spoke, he didn't even move any muscles on his face.

"As long as you can tame this good horse, no matter what method you use—of course I don't care what price you paid."

"That's good, that's good!" Du Muzi stood up nodding and bowed, with a cautious look, slowly approaching the bay red horse.

The bay red horse raised its head, saw Dumuzi approaching, and snorted suddenly.Dumuzi's expression changed in fright, and he took several steps back, making the people around him burst into laughter.

The boys and girls in the tour group couldn't help but sweat for Du Muzi.

Yi Nan knew that Dumuzi was not a reckless man, but she still felt that it was not worth it for Dumuzi to take the risk.

But who would have thought that Dumuzi reached into a pocket on his linen robe, took out something, held it in his palm, handed it out, and slowly approached the bay red horse.

The bay red horse suddenly turned its ears twice.

Dumuzi's traveling companions immediately recognized it: "It's maltose!"

Yinan: ...?

She forgot, it seems that there is such a saying, maltose is a kind of food that horses like very much.

She turned her head and winked, and immediately someone tacitly went to the bullock cart to bring another bag of maltose—Yinan stretched out his hand, intending to hand it all to Dumuzi.

Unexpectedly, Dumuzi didn't answer.

He had already handed this small, milky white malt candy to the bay red horse.The horse seemed to be unable to resist the temptation of sweets, so it stuck out its long tongue and "swiped" Dumuzi's palm.

The candy in Dumuzi's hand was gone.

But Dumuzi still held out his left hand, as if he welcomed the claret horse to taste at any time.On the other side of his body, he had turned to the horse's neck.

He gently and gently stroked the bay red horse's neck.

The horse didn't seem to be wary at all, on the contrary, he was still interested. From time to time, he stuck out his tongue and "sucked" it in Dumuzi's palm, very happy.

"what--"

"So that's okay too!"

The horse trainers who had been ruthlessly tricked by the fiery bay red horse looked at each other in blank dismay, as if they had been deceived by the gluttonous horse.

Some people think that Du Muzi is too cowardly: "You don't even have the guts to mount a horse, what kind of horse training?"

It was too late to say it, but Du Muzi suddenly hugged the chestnut horse's neck and jumped onto the horse's back.

This jump was so sudden that not only the people around were not expecting it, but even the horse didn't react. After being stunned for a moment, it jumped into a rage and jumped again, trying to throw the person on its back off.

- This is the real test.

I saw Du Muzi clenched his teeth, tightly grasping the bay red horse's mane with his hands and ten fingers, his knees clasped on both sides of the horse's back, his body heaving and falling with the violent ups and downs of the horse.

The bay red horse jumped wildly for a while, then gradually softened, drooping its head, as if it had finally surrendered.The boys and girls in the tour group cheered in unison, as if their qualification to enter Uruk was within their grasp.

Unexpectedly, this bay red horse is quite cunning, and it relaxes slowly to make the people on its back think that they have been tamed and distracted.It had just rested for 2 minutes, when suddenly there was a long hiss, the man stood up, and Dumuzi's body on his back quickly slid down.

Fortunately, Dumuzi was well prepared. At this time, he had already grasped the rope loop around the horse's neck with one hand, and the mane with the other hand. As the horse stood upright, he was still tightly attached to the horse's back. superior.

At this time, someone in the crowd of onlookers was startled, and made a gap in front of the crazy wild horse.

The bay red horse rushed out at once, carrying Dumuzi on its back.Amidst the exclamation of the crowd, this person galloped on the field road in the outskirts of Uruk, and the pedestrians on the road dodged one after another.

The bay red horse ran fast, as if he felt that as long as he was fast enough, he could throw Dumuzi off his back.

This horse was indeed, as the high priest said, a very spiritual steed. It ran fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye, leaving a group of onlookers looking at each other, all worried about Dumuzi.

At that time, a horse trainer spread his hands and said, "This is good. Your companion escaped with the horse and left you here. Where can we go to find this horse?"

The teenagers in the tour group shared the same hatred and retorted: "Who said Dumuzi ran away, and he will come back when he tames the horse."

"Then do you dare to promise that if he doesn't come back, you will all stay and work as coolies in Uruk?" A high-ranking priest said coldly.

"This..." The young people looked at me and I looked at you, but no one dared to nod.

But when you think about it, Dumuzi is usually an insignificant figure in the village, and he has no prominent family to support him.Daily operations such as admitting counsel, hiding, and hiding are all operations that are easy to be ignored or looked down upon.

Yi Nan's expression was calm, Shi Shiran sat down, and extended his hand to greet everyone: "Don't stand there, sit down and wait!"

"Whether you want to be a coolie or not can be negotiated later, but even if it's for your own teammates, you have to wait for the results here, right?"

Hearing what Yinan said, the tour group had no choice but to sit down one after another.

The embarrassment immediately turned into the priests on the opposite side.The high-level priests felt offended by the connotation of Yi Nan's "bargaining", and the other middle-level priests were inexplicably depressed: Why do they have to spend so much time here all of a sudden?

But a group of young people in front of them all sat down and waited, talking and laughing, and even the horse trainers expressed that they would wait for the result.The priests had talked too much before, so it didn't seem right to just leave now.

But if they were to sit on the ground as soon as they lifted their robes like the person opposite, the priests would not be able to lose face.

The three groups of people worked together like this, with the old cow "mooing" and the sheep "baaaa" among them.

After an unknown amount of time, the high-ranking priest finally became impatient, flicked the corner of his robe, turned around smartly, and planned to hand over the matter to his subordinates.

"Don't let these strangers into Uruk if they don't bring back the good horse dedicated to the goddess."

"Who says you can't get back—"

A hoarse voice sounded in the distance.

Yi Nan turned over and jumped up.She saw Dumuzi sitting on the back of the bay horse, slowly coming towards this side.One person and one horse seemed to be fished out of the water.

At this time, the bay red horse had long lost the violence just now, but now it seemed that its hooves were weak, and it wobbled back with three steps.Dumuzi sat on the horse's back, and occasionally reached out to pat the horse's neck, encouraging the horse to move forward.

"Ahhhhh-"

"Success!"

The young people from Bad Tibera cheered together, as if welcoming their hero.

Yi Nan stood aside, watching Du Muzi approaching, couldn't hide a smile on his face, but secretly made a glance.

Dumuzi understood, jumped off his horse when he was still a dozen steps away from the crowd, led the rope around the bay red horse's neck, came to the priests, put his right hand on his heart, bowed and said: "I, Ba Dumuzi, the shepherd of Germany, dedicated this fine horse to the holy goddess Inanna."

Sometimes, cowardice still has to be admitted.

Hearing this sentence, reserved smiles appeared on the faces of the priests—although the tour group came from afar to show off in front of the world today, in the end, the tour group still gave this honor to Goddess Inanna, also It was given to them.

A horse trainer stepped forward and was about to take the rope from Dumuzi when the bay red horse snorted impatiently and stamped its hooves.

It seems that this bay red horse was surrendered by Dumuzi, and it only obeyed Dumuzi.

"Okay, since you have paid respects to the goddess, Uruk welcomes you. Guda, entertain them later and find a place for these people to settle in the city."

Hearing this, Guda hurriedly took a step forward, bowed and said yes, and looked at Dumuzi with admiration.

"Since we've arrived in Uruk, there must be a chance to meet again in the future." One of the high-ranking priests said before leaving.His eyes lingered on Yi Nan's face for quite a while before leaving thoughtfully.

All of a sudden the priests turned and left. Dumuzi looked back at the horse he had just subdued, and suddenly found Yi Nan standing beside the horse.

Dumuzi was startled, and when he collected himself, he realized that Yi Nan was also holding a piece of malt candy in her hand, and the claret horse's long tongue rolled over her palm, tickling it and making Yi Nan laugh.The sweet maltose really calmed the tired and nervous horse.Yi Nan stretched out his hand and stroked the mane on the back of the bay red horse. The horse seemed to have been wronged by the sky, and it leaned over to rub against Yi Nan——The horse's appearance of lying low and low surprised everyone. Horse trainer.

"Can't I just follow suit?" Yinan said to Dumuzi with a smile.

The young shepherd finally felt relieved, stretched out his hand to scratch his forehead, and smiled silly.

"However, thanks to your bravery today, you saved everyone a lot of trouble."

Yinan was really impressed by Dumuzi's performance today.But Dumuzi was stunned in front of Yi Nan, unable to utter a word, as if he had been praised as "brave" for the first time in his life.

"That's true." At this time, Gu Da, who was wearing a mid-level priest's robe, leaned in front of everyone at this moment, "You all performed really well today."

He seemed really a little bit worried, for fear that everyone would not be able to enter Uruk.

"Everyone, come with me! I'll arrange for you to live in the place where the guests who watched the ceremony stayed."

A group of people followed Guda into Uruk.

Along the way, Guda, as a serious "citizen", introduced the situation of Uruk to the juniors around him.

As you can see, Uruk has no walls and is itself composed of loose areas.

The core area is naturally the property of the Inanna Temple and the area where the priests live. Outside of that, it is roughly divided according to the function/occupation of the residents.

For example, there is an area closest to the pastures of Uruk—the most sheepfolds in Uruk have been built there, and the sheep dedicated to the goddess Inanna from all over the place are raised there.

There are also many milkers living there, who will squeeze out the excess goat milk from the ewes, and either supply it to the rich people in the city, or make goat milk cheese and hand it over to traders between Uruk and various places.

Similarly, Uruk also has a huge warehouse for storing wheat, and there are unique bakeries and pastry workshops near the warehouse.

In addition, there are special linen and wool warehouses, spinning and weaving workshops, and large pottery kilns for making pottery bricks and various pottery.

After arriving at the small hotel recommended by Guda as a temporary resident, Dumuzi paid the hotel owner five sheep on the spot, paying all the hotel expenses including board and lodging at once.

The rest of the sheep are all stored in the sheepfold under the name of the hotel, and the milk produced by the ewes is owned by the milker.During this period, if the ewes give birth, the lambs are also considered as belonging to the hotel.When Dumuzi left in the future, he would get the sheep back. If his sheep failed to give birth to lambs, he would have to keep a sheep as a "custodial fee".The same is true for the cattle that pull the cart, and they are sent to the cattle pen for foster care.

The rules of Uruk are rather trivial but clear.

Little Hamti and Little Ake were among the top "rich second generations" in the village since they were young. When they came to Uruk, they were also shocked by such an expensive "price".

And they were so ashamed that they asked the shepherd in the village to help them pay for the hotel.

Both of them patted their chests and promised Dumuzi: "Big brother, when you get back to the village, I will definitely ask my father to find you two or a few of the best lambs from far and near for you to raise."

Dumuzi only cared about himself and waved his hands flatteringly: "It's okay, I'm already very satisfied to be able to come to Uruk this time."

This journey is really an unprecedented experience - he looked at Yinan.

Yi Nan didn't care about Du Muzi.She was very curious about everything in Uruk, especially after entering the hotel.

At this moment, she was looking at the furnishings in the store with curiosity—after all, even at the archaeological site, what archaeologists unearthed was probably only the overall structure of the house, the wall base made of clay bricks, and the paved floor. The pottery plate, and the sheep skull decoration hanging on the wall may also be unearthed, so it can be concluded that this place is actually a sheep pen.

What she sees in front of her eyes is so vivid, so vivid, full of the fireworks of the market.

This small hotel is a small courtyard made of clay bricks, with rooms on all sides and an open atrium in the middle.There is a well in the middle of the atrium.Both drinking and washing water are drawn from here.In the corner of the atrium, there is a kitchen with an oven for guests to use - it is very similar to a modern youth hostel, where people living in the hotel do their own work and have ample food and clothing.

The only fly in the ointment is that the fuel used in the hotel is a large amount of by-products produced by Uruk sheep pens - dried sheep manure, which always smells strange when starting a fire.

Yi Nan admired the entire small hotel one by one, saw the pots of flowers hanging on the wall, the pottery vases with bright patterns, and even saw the "boomerang" flower pots hanging on the wall.

Finally, she turned to the counter of the innkeeper, and saw seven or eight complete shells on the counter.

She picked one up curiously.

The shop owner said, "Don't move, that's all, it's already going to be exchanged for a sheep... Oh, such a beautiful girl, just look at it, whatever you want!"