[Infrastructure] After being mistaken for a god

The arrival of Dumuzi and the teenagers finally saved a boring trip.

Yi Nan was no longer silent, and started talking and laughing.Gradually, Gu Da became less frightened and frightened. Apart from hanging out with a few young people, he occasionally dared to call Yinan by his name—"Nan".

But the conditions of travel have become increasingly difficult.

As they gradually moved away from Uruk, the villages began to become sparse, and the number of families capable of entertaining them gradually decreased.

Finally, the tour group needs to sleep out at night-the "survival challenge" skills honed by the young people before come in handy again.

Guda was no good at it at all, and was as bad at lighting fire with flint as Inan was.Yinan asked about his previous experience of going to Eridu, and Guda blushed and said, "Actually, the farthest I have come is to come here. I met a few merchants in Eridu, and they helped me in everything..."

Ashamed and ashamed, he apologized to Yinan: "Miss Nan, I have caused you trouble."

Yi Nan raised his head boldly: "It's okay!"

"Welcome to join our adventure tour group, everyone has never been to Eridu, it's even, let's go to see something new together!"

Only then did Gu Da quietly put down a hanging heart.

The tour group goes all the way, and gradually everything needs to be done by yourself.In addition to the dried meat and bread they carry, young people will also collect some wild vegetables, stew them with barley grains and cook them into vegetable porridge for consumption.

The young people soon discovered that there were more and more wild vegetables and weeds that they didn't know - it seemed that the closer they were to Eridu, the types of plants changed a lot.

Yinan took the initiative to undertake the work of "Shen Nong Tasting Herbs" - she has participated in field survival training and knows a lot of edible wild plants; in addition, she has "immortal" golden fingers, which is invulnerable to all poisons and fearless.

Therefore, everyone’s barley porridge will have seasonings such as wild garlic and onion from time to time, and occasionally sage and rosemary. In addition, Yinan “tested” that the villain would not be seen after eating mushrooms. Finally, Sprinkle with a little salt, even a bowl of barley porridge can make young people drink it with gusto.

Gradually, more and more complex waterways appeared on both sides of the road.Fortunately, the road was solid, and even though it was as heavy as a bullock cart, it did not sink into the road.

Yinan and the others knew it well: Eridu was very close.Eridu, is a city built by the water.

Finally, a river lay in front of him, blocking the road.

Dumuzi and the others looked at each other - the river didn't look deep, if there were only a few of them, they should be able to jump into the water and wade across with each other's support.The river is also no problem for Claret Horse and Xiao Hei.

But the problem is, they still have the divine ox pulling the cart and a whole ox cart beside them.

The sun was shining brightly at the moment, and the river was sparkling.Yi Nan stood on the edge of the river, building a pergola with his hands, looking at the opposite bank - there seemed to be a thick rope on the river, extending from the opposite side, tied to a wooden stake on the bank here.

"Come and help!" Yi Nan said.

Dumuzi and several others ran over together. Under Yinan's command, everyone pulled the thick rope tied to the pile by the river.

Soon, a flat raft made of logs on the opposite side was pulled over from the opposite bank with the pull of the rope.

This is a self-help river crossing system.

The young people were overjoyed, and measured the length of the raft, which was just enough to fit their ox carts.

So everyone worked together to unload the docile and obedient white ox from the cart.Dumuzi and Hamti boarded the raft first, and Guda and Ake pushed the ox cart behind them, carefully pushing the ox cart onto the raft.

The people on the raft and the people on the shore pulled the thick rope together and pulled the raft to the opposite bank.Dumuzi and Hamti pushed the ox cart to the shore, and everyone led the raft to this side together, and let the remaining three people board the raft with the white bull, and came to the other side in the same way.

The bay red horse and Xiao Hei jumped into the water a long time ago, and came to the opposite bank happily, one horse and one barking, shaking the water spots on their bodies at the same time, so that everyone's bodies were covered with water stains.

After Yinan landed, he looked back at the road, and immediately directed everyone to return the raft used when they came, and the ropes used to pull them in an orderly manner, and put them back where they should be.

"We put the raft in place now, and the next person to cross the river can easily pull the raft across the river." Yinan explained to the people around him.

"So that's how it is." Dumuzi fully understood, "As long as everyone consciously abides by it, everyone can have the convenience of crossing the river."

"Yes!"

Yinan has not even seen a single person from Eridu now, but he has an initial impression of the Eridu people—these people are definitely not barbarians, but a group of people who have established public order and know "everyone for themselves rational inhabitants for all.

Yi Nan even believed that they could not abandon shell coins at will and let their credit be trampled.

There must be something wrong.

That night, Yinan and the tour group found a small fishing village for lodging.

This is obviously a small village that lives by fishing.There is a fishing net made of hemp thread at the entrance of the village, and a cormorant with a considerable wingspan is squatting beside the fishing net.

When the cormorant saw the little black dog, it immediately quaked twice and flapped its wings—immediately scared the fearless little black dog back several steps, and one bird and one dog faced each other on the spot, and no one would Dare to move.

Someone from the village came out and greeted Yi Nan warmly: "Guests who came from afar... Oh, so they are beautiful girls and handsome boys. Is this the first time you have come to Eridu?"

Yinan had no trouble listening to this, but Dumuzi and the others seemed to need to adapt to the accent here in Eridu, and they had to recognize it before they could understand.

Yinan nodded, looked at the people around him, and nodded to the villagers who came to greet them: "Yes, we are from Bad Tibila, and it is indeed the first time we have come to Eridu."

The visitor didn't seem to know exactly what "Bad Tibera" was, but he still gave a warm welcome: "It's getting dark, just stay with us for a night."

"Young men, what did you come to Eli for?"

"We have some produce there, and I want to exchange some edible sea salt in Eridu, and I also want to exchange some durable and easy-to-preserve dried fish and sea vegetables." Yinan replied.

"We have dried fish and sea vegetables in our village, but there are no salt pans nearby. The salt pans are on the other side of Eridu."

"Young man, I can save some of the dried fish in the village for you. Why don't you go to Eridu tomorrow, where you can exchange for sea salt, and come back from us?"

"Okay!" Yi Nan said cheerfully, "But what do you need here? I'll reserve some for you separately, so we won't have to exchange everything in Eridu."

The two sides immediately checked the "goods" that Yi Nan and the others had brought from Uruk.

Dumuzi was very thoughtful when he came here, and he brought a lot of Uruk’s “specialties” with the ox cart, such as bottles and cans produced by pottery workshops, bags of barley and wheat, maltose that bay red horses are most reluctant to part with, and dried Feta cheese wrapped in leaves, honey in jars, various herbs and spices...

The local villagers rubbed their hands and said: There are so many things that are so good, they want everything very much.

At this moment, Yinan deliberately asked: "I heard that Eli has a very beautiful shell. Our things can be exchanged for shells first, and then the few of us can easily take the shells to the salt field, and then exchange the shells." Just turn it into salt."

As soon as Yinan mentioned "shell coins", the villagers here quickly shook their hands: "No, no... shells can no longer be used. It was possible before, but..."

Yi Nan: Sure enough——

She guessed again, the failure of shell coins was not limited to Uruk.Here in Eridu the shell coins have apparently been abolished as well.But what is the reason behind this.

"Later the god Enki told us that it was impossible!"

"Enki said?"

Yi Nan opened his eyes wide and looked very curious: "Have you ever met Enki, the main god of Eridu?"

When asked about this, the villagers also cheered up: "I have seen it."

"The old man Enkita lived in the temple of Eridu. I saw him with my own eyes, and I heard him tell everyone with my own ears that we can no longer use shells. We always listen to the words of the gods."

Inan was quite shocked by this.She herself is nothing more than a "misrecognized" god. Who knew that Eridu had a "peer"?

Could it be that there is another "retrospective civilization plan"? ——Yinan quickly shook his head, this idea is too wild and impossible.

But it sounds like it was Enki of Eridu who announced the local invalidation of the shell coins, not Uruk.She silently put down the doubt in her heart, and chatted with the villagers instead.

During the chat, she seemed to ask casually: "We passed Uruk when we came, and it is also a big city."

The villagers nodded together: "That is, Uruk is incomparable to a small fishing village like ours."

"Beautiful girl, but you must not underestimate our Eridu. The city of the god Enki is different from others, and it will definitely not be worse than Uruk."

"Besides, when we Eridu people began to dry sea salt, Uruk people were still following goats to find salty stones everywhere!"

Yinan tried his best to hold back his embarrassed smile: after all, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, relying on the sea to eat the sea.With the tribe's activity radius more than 1000 years ago, the people of Uruk would never know about Eridu, and the people of Eridu would never know that there was Uruk upstream.

When the radius of activities of the two parties expands and they know each other, most of them have "preconceived" ideas and think that they are the first to develop.

The so-called "lord god dispute" is mostly because of this-everyone thinks that the god they believe in is the origin and the creation of the world.

In fact, everyone is adapting to local conditions and developing independently.

Thinking of this, Yinan asked cautiously, "What do you think of the Uruk people? Have you ever exchanged anything with their caravan?"

"Why haven't they been changed?" The villagers here replied in unison.

"Uruk produces wheat and barley, which can make delicious bread. We only have fish here, big fish, small fish, and dried fish. If we want to fill our stomachs, we have to exchange more wheat with Uruk. return."

"There's nothing to say about the caravan in Uruk, but the goddess in Uruk is... tsk tsk tsk!"

The villagers shook their heads together, expressing their dissatisfaction with Goddess Inanna.

He only heard Guda let out a "hey" breath, and then he was probably held down by Dumuzi, and he couldn't refute immediately.

"What's wrong with Inanna? I heard she is a very naughty god?" Inan smiled and talked to the villagers.

"Haha, if Goddess Inanna looks as beautiful as you, she won't be described as 'naughty', but 'cute'!"

Inan accepted the compliments from the villagers in front of him with a smile, pretended to be curious, and asked, "Let me hear how naughty Inanna is?"

"It's like this. There are no tall trees in our area. If you need to use thick wood, you have to go to those villages in the upper reaches of the Euphrates River, ask them to bring our people to cut wood, and then put the felled wood in Euphrates In the river, drifting along the river, and finally reached Eridu."

Upon hearing this, Yinan turned to look at his companions.

Dumuzi nodded, and Hamza also said "Oops", indicating that he remembered.

When the villagers of Tibera were trying to make wheels, they discussed this issue, and they also wanted to send people to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River to find some tall and strong logs.

It can be seen that this problem exists for both cities at the same time-but Uruk is upstream from Eridu, which means...

Yi Nan patted her forehead lightly with her hand, she knew how the bridge between the two cities was formed.

——It turned out to be "Jie Hu"!

"The god Enki once needed a tall log from the upper reaches, and sent people thousands of miles to go there. Finally, the log went down the river, but was snatched by the Uruk halfway, and said that it was the oracle of the goddess Inanna— —these timbers were meant to be used to build temples to the goddess."

So, the companions around Inan, from ancient times to Dumuzi, and then to Little Ak... Everyone knows where the towering pillars in front of the Inanna Temple came from.

This matter is indeed Uruk's fault, which is irrefutable.

In order to change the subject and avoid embarrassment, Yinan could only continue to pretend to be curious, and asked, "God Enki, is it also necessary to build a temple because we need so many tall logs?"

The local villagers looked at each other, shook their heads, and said, "We don't understand this. Ordinary people have no way of knowing what the gods are thinking."

Yi Nan nodded, indicating that she understood.

In the final analysis, the so-called "strife of the main gods" can still be attributed to a conflict of interests.

Uruk is upstream of Eridu, and supplies transported to Eridu by water may be intercepted by Uruk.But at the same time, Uruk and Eridu each have materials and commodities that each other needs. The two cities have a basis for symbiosis, but they also have reasons for confrontation.

Under such a premise, understanding the attitude of the other party's "main god" towards Uruk is probably the most important task today.

In a small fishing village by the big river, the land outside the village is too humid, and it is no longer suitable for the members of the tour group to lie down on the spot and sleep outside.The kind villagers vacated two houses for the tour group to stay.

Yinan's house was right next door to Dumuzi's and the others, with only a thin layer of siding on both sides.If there is anything, as long as Yinan says hello, Dumuzi and the others will come.

In the same way, Inan could clearly hear Little Hamti and the others snoring one after another.

Yi Nan couldn't help laughing as he listened to it—isn't it pretty good to live a life without heart and lungs like Hamti!

Unexpectedly, at this moment, there were two light pecks on the door, and Dumuzi's low voice sounded: "Nan, is it convenient for me to come in?"

Yi Nan hadn't fallen asleep in the first place, so he went to open the door.

As soon as the door was opened, Dumuzi put his finger on his lips lightly, making a "quiet" movement, and at the same time pointed to the next door, meaning not to wake up the people next door.

Yinan: ...?

Dumuzi didn't say a word, but tiptoed to the room where Yi Nan was, groping around on the wall, and soon he found a door, and opened it to reveal the night sky outside.

Yi Nan couldn't help but let out a soft "ah", and a strange scene suddenly appeared in front of her.

The moonlight was just right, and a curved reflection was reflected on the water.And the water was so close to her, almost at her feet.

It turned out that the huts in this fishing village were built by the water.As soon as the innermost door of the house is opened, you can see the water surface. Now it is the time of high tide at midnight, and the villager's raft is tied to the door. At this moment, it is gently shaking and rising at Yinan's feet with the water waves.

What unfolded in front of Yi Nan was a beautiful picture scroll.

The soothing starlight is not only reflected in the sky, but also reflected in the water.When the wind blows, the reflection of the bright moon is broken into pieces, but the starlight is still little by little on the water.

Like the hut in the fishing village where Yinan lives, the small house built in the water continues to extend into the distance in such a beautiful night, gradually extending into a city.The narrow waterways are like rice paddies in the fields, and the lights of the city at night are like stars falling into the world.

This is simply like the water city of Venice in West Asia——

As soon as Yi Nan had this thought, he immediately felt something was wrong.At this point in time, Venice is still a few unknown islands in the lagoon at the end of the Adriatic Sea.

The difference between Eridu and Venice in front of me lies in the means of transportation they use.

The Venetians have gondolas and all kinds of boats, but inside and outside the fishing village, until the distant city built on the peninsula and by the water, all Inan sees are rafts.

Inan already vaguely understood why the Lord God Enki sent people to go to the upper reaches of the Euphrates River to harvest wood.

By now, she already had a general expectation for the outcome of the trip.Yi Nan felt a burst of relief, and a smile floated on her cheeks.She simply sat by the door, stretched out her feet towards the water, and actually touched the water.

The cool water of the Euphrates River washed her feet, making her feel extra real.

Who would have thought that she, who came from modern society, was placed between two cities at the beginning of civilization, and she was very close to settling the dispute by herself?

Yinan smiled alone, and was stunned for a while, then suddenly realized that Dumuzi was still by his side, silent all the time, even his posture never changed.

Startled, she turned her head and glanced at the young shepherd.

Like her, Dumuzi was completely immersed in the beautiful scenery in front of him.He was raising his head, looking at the strange city in front of him——his eyes changed from surprise to admiration, and then to comprehension.Facing a completely unfamiliar city, Dumuzi showed openness and confidence, and he was not afraid of any difficulties in front of him.

When Yinan first met him, Dumuzi was just an ordinary shepherd in a small village. Although he was smart, his knowledge was limited.

Yinan invited him to Uruk, which directly opened his horizons, inspired his rational thinking, and helped him find his long-lost relatives, filling the deepest regret in his heart.

At this moment, Dumuzi is completely different from the young shepherd in the past, completely reborn.

Yi Nan couldn't help being complacent, she lowered her head, and lightly hit the water surface with her feet, causing a little splash.

Dumuzi was startled, and then remembered that Yi Nan was still by his side, and saw that Yi Nan was looking up at him with a smile on his face.Du Muzi would have misunderstood it, feeling that he had received an invitation, he quickly sat down beside Yi Nan, and stretched his feet to the water like her.

The hut's opening to the water was narrow, just wide enough for two people to sit side by side, so close together that they breathed each other.

Yi Nan was a little surprised, she had never sat face to face with a man of her age so closely.

Dumuzi was also embarrassed immediately. If he wanted to get up, his feet were on the surface of the water, so there was no place to rely on; if he wanted to retreat, he bumped into the door frame behind him as soon as he moved, and he propped his hands on the opposite door frame Up——I was able to hold Yi Nan in his arms almost immediately, but he froze completely, not daring to move.

But seeing Yinan's beautiful eyes staring at him blankly, although Dumuzi was embarrassed, he was attracted by these beautiful eyes and this stunningly beautiful face, and couldn't look away anymore.

"What's wrong?" Dumuzi asked in a trembling voice after a long time.

"It's nothing, I think you're pretty!" Yi Nan hurriedly turned his head away, trying to cover it up casually.

For some reason, Yi Nan faced Dumuzi at close range again, and that familiar feeling came to his heart again.

At this moment, she couldn't help but think of the boy Dan who had been with her all the time in those distant years, and even the scientific research madman who always sat in the laboratory and checked the data silently.Obviously there are not many similarities, but there always seems to be something in common in terms of temperament.

But these things she would never tell Dumuzi directly—this is a shepherd who has just built up her self-confidence, and she tells him that every time she sees him, she always thinks of others?

Inan would never do such a thing.

But turning her head away, Yi Nan felt that she had said something wrong—she actually praised a young man for being good-looking just now, ah...

Although Dumuzi is indeed, very good-looking.

"Ah, no, I didn't mean you are good-looking!"

— It seems that I made a mistake again!

"Ah, I mean, you're not just good looking..."

The more exaggerated, the more outrageous, and the darker the description.

Yi Nan simply turned into a quail, bowed his head and shrugged his shoulders, and never dared to say a word—the more he said, the more wrong he was, it would be better to shut up.

After she shut up quietly, the man beside her didn't respond.Yi Nan could always hear the sound of his breathing beside her, and could vaguely feel the temperature transmitted from the man's arm.

After a long time, she heard the man beside her whisper: "Thank you!"

Thank you for showing me such a big world——

Thank you for making me who I am today.

With Dumuzi's sincere thanks, the embarrassment gradually receded from Yinan, just like the river under her feet was also ebbing.The sky is getting brighter, and Yi Nan's heart is filled with pride whenever he thinks about the prospect of this trip.

So, Yi Nan looked at the sky that was gradually becoming brighter in front of him and said:

"Very well, today, let's go to the city together to meet Enki!"