The sun was setting, and people who had worked all day were going back. Those who had slaves and partners had already prepared dinner for their families to eat. Su Yao and Zhong Li happened to meet the patriarch and Aunt Nan along the way.

Patriarch Zhong Ta nodded to Su Yao: "My lord envoy, have you eaten yet?"

"I've eaten." Su Yao's slightly narrowed peach blossom eyes looked very approachable: "Before it is dark, we are going to sit with the priest."

Aunt Nan responded with a smile: "We're going on the same road, and it happens to be stewed meat tonight, so why don't you come to my house and try Hualian's cooking."

"Since Aunt Nan invited me, then I'm not polite." Su Yao showed great face to the patriarch, which made both Aunt Nan and Aunt Nan very useful.

Taking the opportunity, Su Yao and the patriarch discussed the planning of house construction in the tribe. The patriarch knew a lot about this aspect and gave Su Yao a lot of good suggestions.

Walking around the corner, I saw the priest and five or six people standing in front of the patriarch's cave, vaguely discussing something.

As soon as the patriarch's face changed, he immediately ran forward regardless of Su Yao and Zhong Li who were beside him, and then Aunt Nan seemed to react and hurriedly chased after him.

Su Yao raised his eyebrows, a look of surprise flashed in his eyes, it seemed that Hua Lian had done something, he thought that with Hua Lian's temperament, he should be able to tolerate it for a few more days before erupting.

The two walked to the back of the crowd, and the sharp-eyed Ah Huo immediately stepped forward to salute: "I have seen you, Lord God Envoy."

His voice was so loud that everyone turned around and saluted after hearing it.

"What happened? What are you doing here?" Su Yao asked pretending not to know.

The priest sighed: "The envoy doesn't know, but the cry of Boy Hua was heard in the cave just now. It's very miserable. Let's come and have a look."

Now Su Yao really felt strange: "What about now? How is Hualian?"

The priest pointed to the tightly covered curtain and said, "We just discussed going in to have a look, and the patriarch and his wife came. It's not that they just went in, and there was no noise."

The cave in Zhongta’s house is narrower and deeper than normal caves. In the cold winter, the family of four lives in the innermost part to keep warm. If you don’t shout loudly, you can’t hear clearly outside.

Just as he was talking, two sharp shouts came from inside, and Su Yao's face changed: "Let's go in first."

Zhong Li was the first to rush in, and then the others also rushed in.

After entering the cave, Hua Lian clutched his stomach and fell to the ground, blood flowed from his fingers, while Aunt Nan was frantically looking for medicine.

The patriarch was pulling Zhong Kuo desperately, and the latter was holding a bloody bone knife in his hand, the situation was clear at a glance.

Ah Huo and others immediately went up to restrain Zhong Zhongkuo. Su Yao and the priest checked Hua Lian's wound. Fortunately, he was wearing thick clothes these days, and the bone knife only cut a hole without hurting the internal organs.

"Fortunately, fortunately." The priest wiped the cold sweat from his forehead, for fear that Hua Lian would just leave.

Su Yao calmly analyzed: "The wound is too long and it is easy to get infected. In the next ten days or so, he needs to rest well to recover from the wound, otherwise he will die easily."

Hearing Su Yao's words, Zhong Kuo dropped the bone knife in his hand as if afraid, and struggled to walk towards Hua Lian. However, Hua Lian trembled when he saw him approaching, and even struggled despite the pain in his body. He stepped back, looking extremely frightened.

As he struggled, his sleeves were pulled up a bit, and there were large bruises on his exposed arms.

This scene, which was not described in any words, became the most powerful evidence to tell the truth. The priest immediately turned black: "Boy, are you doing this?"

Zhong Kuo said nothing, in fact he was already frightened by the battle just now, he didn't know why Hua Lian, who had been cowardly and reticent recently, suddenly provoked him with words like crazy, and even compared him with Su Yaozhong. compare with.

God knows that the people he hates the most in this life are Su Yao and Zhong Li. Zhong Li has robbed Uncle Zhong Yun of his love since he was a child. He is clearly Zhong Yun's nephew by blood, but Zhong Yun gives all his endless love to him. Let go of Zhongli, the bastard who killed his parents.

Su Yao is even more hateful. Not only did he take away his young patriarch's position in a short period of time, but even his father's patriarch's position has become a show in name only, how could he not hate it.

Now that Hua Lian used these two people to anger him, he was so angry that he lost his mind for a moment, saw the bone knife beside him and somehow moved his hand.

Zhong Kuo didn't want to agree, but facing the priest who had been afraid since childhood, he had to tell the story. He wanted to defend himself twice, but when everyone heard that the matter was related to the envoy and Zhongli, they completely lost their sense of hearing. The desire/desire he explained made him angry with Zhong Kuo instead.

The envoy of God is a figure like a god, how can he be compared with him?He is not worthy to carry shoes for Lord God Envoy and Lord Zhongli.

Now no one is willing to listen to Zhong Kuo's words, not even his parents dare to intercede for him, murdering one's own clan for no reason is a felony in the tribe, not to mention that this person is his partner, it is even more sinful wait.

"Send Hua to the priest first, and I will trouble the priest to take care of it these days." Su Yao directly gave the order: "Tie up Zhong Kuo first, and the rest will be handled by the patriarch. I am an outsider. It’s good to intervene in the family affairs of the patriarch.”

Zhongta opened his mouth and wanted to refuse, but he was afraid that he really didn't care if Zhong Kuo would fall into the hands of the priest and Su Yao in the future, and Zhong Kuo would definitely not fall well with their two tempers.

That's all, the patriarch nodded silently. Anyway, the position of the patriarch will be given up sooner or later, so it's better to use this name to protect his son one last time.

The sound of the wild cowhide drum sounded in the big hall, and three rapid and powerful beeps called for everyone to gather.

Zhong Kuo was pressed on the stone platform. At this time, he lost the arrogance of the past, and after a few months of aggrieved days without going out, he looked a little pitiful.

Zhong Kuo looked up at his solemn father and his mother with tears in his eyes. Although he was arrogant and domineering, he now knew that he was about to implicate his parents.

Su Yao, Zhong Li and the priest sat on both sides, and the Patriarch Bell Tower sat in the middle.

Ah Huo, who was a bystander, gave a general account of what happened on behalf of the priest, and everyone was in an uproar. In the past, they only knew that Zhong Kuo was a bastard, but they didn't expect him to dare to hurt his partner now.

The Huangping tribe has a small population, and women tend to have a higher death rate because they are weaker and have to give birth to offspring. Therefore, people in the Huangping tribe cherish their partners very much, and they have never hurt their partners.

Since Zhong Kuo did not deny what Ah Huo said, the next step is to wait for the verdict.

Everyone's eyes fell on Zhongta, and he stood up slowly, his body seemed to be covered with the twilight of sunset: "Zhong Kuo violated the rules of the tribe, so he should be expelled from the tribe and become a ronin."

"I just ask everyone to read it for the sake of my work for the tribe for many years, and leave him to work in the tribe to make atonement." Seeing the dissatisfaction of the crowd, Zhongta continued:

"It is also my fault that I am not strict in teaching my son. From today onwards, I will step down from the position of patriarch and take strict care of Zhong Kuo to give everyone an explanation. In the next three years, I will release half of the harvested food to the tribe. I hope everyone can understand .”

The patriarch folded his hands in front of his chest and bowed deeply to everyone. Aunt Nan's eyes were swollen from crying at this time, so she followed suit.

Everyone was silent, this practice of the bell tower had actually placed itself in a position that was only slightly higher than the slaves in the tribe, what else could they say?

Looking at the scene in front of him, Su Yao had no choice but to applaud the clock tower. As expected of a man who has been the patriarch for many years, he is very good at understanding the psychology of everyone in the tribe.

This incident came to an end in this way, Zhongta removed the position of patriarch and became an ordinary resident in the tribe, Zhong Kuo also had to work with everyone, although he had to accept the strange eyes and comments from everyone, but compared to being exiled and becoming a ronin It turned out pretty well.

The new brick kiln was completed while everyone was in a hurry. Unlike the one-time brick kiln, the new kiln was designed with complex water channels, chimneys and heat transfer layouts, which reduced the consumption of wood while ensuring the temperature. .

"Bricks up!" Daxiong shouted, and the air-dried adobes were stacked one after another in the big brick kiln, leaving a gap of about two inches between the bricks and lining them up layer by layer. One kiln can burn nearly 3 yuan of bricks. .

Firewood was added to the cave, and two people were left to watch, while the others continued to break bricks.

They are now familiar with the various processes of burning bricks. The only shortcoming is that the water source is a bit far away. More than 20 strong young men carry wooden barrels back and forth to barely supply water for living.

Carrying water all the time is not enough. Su Yao remembers that there is a stream on the mountain not far from the brick kiln. The water output is more than enough for the brick kiln to draw water.

It's not too difficult to find a way to bring the stream here, but the bamboo in the tribe is about to be dredged up again.

Su Yao brought a few stones to the bamboo forest, and the bamboo with the thick mouth of the bowl broke through the middle bamboo joints to become a natural water pipeline. It only needs to connect these pipelines to transport the stream water from the mountainside.

After chopping dozens of bamboos in a row, it was estimated that they were hundreds of meters long before Su Yao asked them to stop. In order to facilitate the connection between the bamboo tubes, a 'Y'-shaped branch is essential.

A group of people carried bamboo tubes to the mountain, and placed the bamboo tubes from high to low according to the most suitable route planned by Su Yao. In the holes of some bamboo tubes.

Then, the bamboo tubes are supported by tree forks, and they are set up to the foot of the mountain like steps, and the stream on the mountain is successfully drawn down.

When taking out the bamboo joints, except that the first bamboo tube was completely opened, Su Yao deliberately asked people to leave the bamboo joints at one end of the bamboo tube to prevent the water in the bamboo tube from flowing out from the other side.

In this way, a total of 54 bamboo poles more than six meters long were erected, and the water source was led to a place about ten steps away from the brick kiln.There are five large wooden barrels at the end of the bamboo tube to store water, so as to ensure that there will be no problem of insufficient water supply during use.

Everyone has been busy for a whole day, and seeing the water that can be reached with their hands, they just feel that God made him smart, and they can't admire it.

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