89. Chapter 89
The wind and sand filled the entire sky, and the wind and dust carried the whistling sound of the wind and swept through the ears of people.
"No one." The man shook his head helplessly, sighed, the tribe in front of him was empty, only a place of white bones, a winter passed, all the meat that could be eaten had been eaten by the surrounding giant beasts, and the ground was infected with black ashes, leaving only a barren and collapsed stone wall, ruins and broken walls.
The remnants of the white bones were attached to a faint gray, and several figures slowly walked along the road, holding long bows and arrows in their hands and wearing long swords at their waists, and one of the warriors who walked in the front held a long wooden branch in his hand to swing the things on the ground, and after surveying, after confirming that there was no one in this tribe, he rode on his horse in disappointment.
Passing through the gate of this tribe, a huge round roof made of thatched piles, the door was reserved for ashes, three warriors mounted on tall horses, the sound of clattering horses' hooves came, and a dozen figures standing in the distance were waiting quietly.
The giant bird spread its wings, and a gust of wind swept up the broken weeds.
"Report to the chief, no one."
Yuan Meng shook his head and said.
Along the way, following the map, every village marked on the map was destroyed, leaving only a wreckage.
The clothes on Jinghong's body have obviously been changed in size, and they fit very well when they are dressed, and the little face that was pitch black when they first saw it is now much fairer, and it looks like a little adult who died, but compared to the ordinary tribesmen Jinghong is more like Yue Lin, and cares about walking the light, unlike other tribesmen who like to walk birds very much in summer, this child even likes to avoid everyone when he wears clothes, and goes to a hidden corner to put on clothes.
There was also the smell of earth in the air, and a man riding a horse walked through the summer land.
The hare came out of the nest and chewed on the weeds in the haystack in the distance, and the little rabbit's mouth kept biting and grinding.
The roar of horses' hooves pierced the edge of the sky, sweeping through the clouds, and the group galloped on horseback, kicking up dust everywhere.
"Is there a man?"
Yuan Meng squinted his eyes, pointed to the front with a pair of hands, and turned his head to look at Wu Chen and Yue Lin, except for Jing Hong who met on the road, this was the first time that the tribe of Yanbei had met someone else in so long.
"Shall we go over and have a look?" Zang Heng hesitated to glance at the distance and asked.
The man at the head nodded slightly, everyone lifted the reins, and the horse galloped forward under the urging of his master, "Go." ”
A shadow moved in the towering heron grass by the river, a man dressed in a delicate cotton and linen garment on his short body, probably less than a meter, with gray hair, a cripple, and his feet turned inward, strangely twisted.
Zang Heng squinted his eyes, pondered for a moment, and whispered to Yue Lin beside him: "Yue Lin, we should have reached the boundary of the Jiuli tribe." ”
Yue Lin raised his head and looked at Zang Heng suspiciously, "How do you know?" ”
"The people of the Jiuli tribe have a characteristic, many people of the Jiuli tribe are extremely short and weird-looking, and the Jiuli witch of Jiuli is two bodies, two heads, four hands and four feet. They look very weird, so the whole tribe rarely appears in front of others, but the paper made by the Jiuli tribe is indeed a good thing that many cities like. ”
Yuan Meng and several warriors obviously didn't believe Zang Heng's words, two bodies with two heads, and four hands and feet, so were they really still people?
Zang Heng got down from the horse and slowly walked towards the white-haired villain with his back to several people.
"Hello, may I ask if this is the Jiuli tribe?"
The white-haired villain did not respond to the inquiries of several people, and continued to sit by the river, fishing with a bamboo pole in his hand.
Zang Heng frowned slightly, his voice was a little louder, but the white-haired villain didn't notice that there was someone behind him at all, Zang Heng walked around in front of the white-haired villain, this is an extremely distinctive face, his face is as smooth as jade, and his fair skin can be said to be miserable white, not the face that is as old as the bark of a tree as imagined.
This little white-haired man has high eyebrow bones and deep eye sockets, and if you look at the face alone, it is an extremely good-looking face, with a strange combination of deep contours and white hair on his body.
Feeling pushed by someone, the white-haired villain finally opened his sleepy eyes, excitedly pulled up his fishing rod but there was nothing on it, only to see a man standing next to him looking at him.
The white-haired villain screamed twice, and muttered strange things, but it was completely different from what the people near Yanbei said, and the language was different and they couldn't communicate at all, but Yue Lin still saw that the white-haired villain was accusing Zang Heng of waking him up and scaring away his fish, and the two people who didn't talk to the horse's mouth didn't get to the point for a long time.
Zang Heng sighed helplessly, turned his head to look at Wu Chen and his group of soldiers, and said: "He is indeed a member of the Jiuli tribe, the Jiuli tribe has its own language, but most of them can speak our language, but this guy can't ......"
The white-haired villain was not very happy to put away his small bench and his fishing rod and a fish basket woven from bamboo, and made a grimace at Zang Heng dissatisfied, and walked away after packing up his things.
Yue Lin frowned, looked at the white-haired villain from a distance, several people knew each other, and decided to follow the white-haired villain, after all, I haven't met any tribe on the road for too long, and the meaning of business is to barter, but the tribes along the way have been wiped out by the army, and this trade route is almost abandoned, and only by going all the way to the city can you get the opportunity to exchange.
The white-haired villain was obviously not very happy, he knew that the people behind him were following him, he turned his head angrily and glared at a few people, and saw the three wolves on the side take two steps back one after another.
Walking all the way, a girl without legs was sitting in front of the door basking in the sun, looking at the clansmen walking in the distance and giggling, she waved her hand and waved her hands at the white-haired little man who came back from afar to say hello.
The white-haired little man was followed by about twenty men, and the girl didn't care when she saw it, and when she saw outsiders, the girl was used to it and didn't care.
From a distance, Yue Lin thought that the girl was just sitting on the ground, and when she walked in, she found that the girl had no legs at all, her legs began to shrink from the roots of her thighs, and only two small chicken feet flowed out less than a finger under her lower body, and the lower half of her body was wrapped in gray-white cotton linen.
The white-haired little man talked to the girl for a long time, and while talking, he made a gesture, and after saying that, he took the fishing basket and fishing rod and walked to the tribe.
"Hello."
The girl's face is very beautiful, clean and clean like the white-haired villain just now, just looking at the face is handsome men and beautiful women.
The more friendly greeted the girl.
"Hello, foreigners, do you want to exchange the goods you brought in the Jiuli tribe?" The girl crooked her neck and smiled like a flower, this is an ordinary day, and there is no difference from usual, in this village people come and go, many caravans who come here will exchange some things with the Jiuli tribe that can be used.
The turquoise eyes reflected the picture in front of her, and seeing that Zang Heng was looking in the direction of the white-haired villain, the girl explained: "He is deaf and can't hear you, he wasn't deaf before, but later, he gradually couldn't hear people talking, so he can only speak Jiuli and can't speak your words." ”
Looking around carefully, that's right, this tribe is indeed as Zang Heng said, many people are very strange, the white-haired fish is not a person, many people in this tribe have signs of juvenile white, white is not only hair, many people even have white eyebrows, eyelashes are also white.
There are not a few people with disabled limbs like the girl in front of them, although there are also many disabled people in the northern Yanbei tribe, and there are not many people with broken hands and feet, but compared to this tribe, it is very small to find a normal person from this group of people!
Three hands, not too many feet, one body and two heads......
"This ...... I don't want to go in......" Jinghong's eyes moistened, and he shrank behind Yuan Meng in fright, holding on tightly to the man's clothes and refusing to let go, like a frightened rabbit.
The situation of several warriors was not much better, trembling all over, looking at each other, and fine sweat could not help but break out on their foreheads, they had never seen such a terrible tribe, everyone was very strange, it was really difficult to grow one or two normal people in the middle.
Wu Chen stopped hesitantly and didn't get closer, after all, the people of this tribe were really a little scary......
The girl was stunned for a moment, held her mouth and smiled: "It seems that you are the first time to go to business?" Is it the first time to the Jiuli tribe? ”
Zang Heng stood up and scratched his head and explained to the girl: "They are the first time, but I am not, I am the right person to do business with the wind, and I have been here a few times before." ”
The girl nodded, glancing at all the warriors, including Wu Chen and Yue Lin.
"Our Jiuli tribe has always been like this, and we also want to have a healthy body like you, but I don't know why the children of the tribe are born like this, and there are not many people who can act on their own like a fish."
The girl's eyes swept over the long legs of several warriors, and frightened several warriors hurriedly took two steps back, and the girl did not feel angry because of the behavior of several warriors, but explained with a smile: "I'm just joking, there are still some normal men and women in our tribe, I just envy you for having a healthy body." ”
"I can take you in, and my Abba will welcome you! My name is Duo Keer, which means flower in Jiuli language. ”
Duo Keer tilted her head with a smile, and then used her hands to move the ground, her lower body was placed on a wooden plank, under the wooden board was a rolling shaft-like thing, using her hands as pillars, sliding on the ground, Yue Lin followed closely behind Duo Keer, carefully observing the Jiuli tribesmen around her.
The people of the Jiuli tribe had long been accustomed to the caravans coming and going of the tribe, and they didn't care about the twenty big men who suddenly appeared, and continued to do their own things.
In the distance, several women are sitting on the ground, their hands are constantly going back and forth on the machine, white fine cotton and linen come out along the other end of the wooden machine, the white cotton and linen fall on the rectangular wooden barrel placed on the ground, and after weaving the cloth, a few children take it out from the wooden barrel, roll it up with their hands, take out the hemp rope on the side and simply tie a slipknot.
"What's that? It looks like cloth? A few warriors looked at the tribe with a sigh, the cotton linen cloth that had just been made was even softer, and the linen cloth worn by several people was actually not comfortable to wear, and it was a little grinding.
"yes, that linen is so fine, it looks very soft."
Several warriors stopped when they saw the new things, looked at the movements in the hands of the women, and watched obsessively, the women's movements were very fast, and they couldn't see what their hands were doing in this pole, but without exception, there were two people in front of each machine, one without hands and the other without feet, and they matched each other to make this cotton and linen.
Loom?
This Jiuli tribe is simply too strange, there is such a thing as a loom, the loom was invented in the late Song Dynasty and early Yuan Dynasty even in ancient China, and this loom in front of him is simply falling through people's eyes.
The development of this world can't be too long, after all, there are so many tribesmen, Yue Lin stared at the loom for a long time, and the few people who made the things Jiuli people looked at the few people gathered around in surprise, and laughed and said: "It's useless to see, you can't learn it, this is the waist machine handed down by our tribe." ”
"Yes, you people like to peek at us weaving cloth when you come to our tribe, but it's useless to look at it, and only Ah Wu can make zuò out of our tribe."
"If you like it, you can look at it for a while, these cloths will be dyed later, and in a few days the people of Xiangsui City will come to collect the fine cloth, and we will have to process it."
The pot-bellied woman giggled twice, and she stepped on the loom with her feet without any joy, while the other woman threaded the string quickly with her hands.
Duo Keer pouted unhappily, looked at a group of men who were obsessively looking at the loom, and said, "Are you still going to see Ah Wu!" If it weren't for the fact that it was your first time to come to Jiuli, I wouldn't have taken you there! ”
Wu Chen nodded apologetically, and said to a few Yanbei soldiers who were looking at other people's looms like fools: "Keep up, don't look at it." ”
After Yue Lin hurriedly followed Dokeer's wooden cart, the horses were tethered to the side of the path, the three little wolves were happily hunting in the forest, and the two white-tailed eagles were happily in the air.
Suddenly being pulled by someone, the temperature on the man's palm covered the back of his hand, and Yue Lin turned his head to look at Wu Chen, Wu Chen frowned slightly, and said in a low voice: "Don't stay too far away from me." ”
"Hmm." Yue Lin took a step back.
Passing through the flat road, probably because the people of this tribe are more or less disabled, there is no such thing as a ladder on the road of this tribe, all the way is flat, any house is on the same level, there is no difference between high and low, because the Jiuli people are short, and the houses of the Jiuli tribe are relatively much smaller than the houses of other tribes, and occasionally there are one or two larger houses where a few people of normal height live.
This is a room made of stone, the door is made of wood, the wooden door is obviously polished, there is not too much wood chips on it, it will not scratch people's hands, the wooden door has three wooden handles that pull the door from top to bottom, Duo Keer pulled the bottom wooden handle, the door creaked open, and inside was a man.
When they saw the man for the first time, Yue Lin and Wu Chen knew that this was the witch of the Jiuli tribe, the witch of Jiuli!
Because he is the same as Zang Heng described, two heads, two bodies, four hands, and four feet, if you insist on giving a definition, Jiu Li Wu is actually one - conjoined people, and they are twin conjoined people!
The people of this tribe were strangely opened, and their gates were indeed made of stones, not the fences used by ordinary tribes, but the tall walls made of bricks and tiles, and it was no wonder that this tribe could live in harmony with a city dedicated to slaves.
Xiangsui City needs cotton and linen, it needs paper, Jiuli has tall city walls, it is not wise to attack this tribe, and it is useless for this tribe to be caught, but it is a waste of money and time, it is better to use the things made by this tribe, these things are really easy to use.
"Abba, I've brought a guest!" Duo Keer looked at Jiuli Wu happily and said as if to invite merit.
The expression on one of the faces of Jiuli Wu did not change, but the other face said with a smile: "My Duo'er is so obedient. ”
The other face said unhappily: "Duo'er, I've said many times, when there are people, you have to call me Awu, you can't call Abba!" ”
"But you're my Abba, and you're my witch!"
With a kind face, he smiled and persuaded the other person behind him, and said: "Don't be so strict, Ke'er is still young, and there are guests, so don't be angry." ”
Duo Keer laughed, stuck out her tongue at Jiuli Wu, and then slid her small plank out, and winked playfully at Yue Lin and his group before leading away, and whispered: "My Abba is actually very talkative, don't be afraid!" ”
Although I heard Zang Heng say what Jiuli Wu looks like, but the Yanbei warriors who saw it for the first time were numb, isn't this really a monster QAQ
Yue Lin laughed and looked at a few warriors, and then said, "You guys wait outside, and the leader and I will go in and talk to Jiuli Wu about staying here for a while." ”
Zang Heng wanted to speak and stopped, and said after a long time: "I want to go in like Jiuli Wu to inquire about where the Great Wind Tribe is!" ”
"Okay, I also saw that they were scared, so I let them stay outside."
Wu Chen glanced at Yue Lin, and asked in a low voice in Yue Lin's ear: "They are afraid, you are not afraid?" ”
Don't be afraid, this is just a kind of deformity, the embryos accidentally grew together, if it weren't for the conditions, I really wanted to use a scalpel to separate the two twins, the conjoined baby has grown until now, Jiu Li Wu is quite powerful.
And looking at the situation just now, it is obvious that Jiuli Wu should actually be two people and two thoughts, but he has always been regarded as one person by the tribesmen, one has a gentle personality, the other has a violent personality, and most importantly, ...... Who is the father of Duo Keer, Yue Lin said that he couldn't see it.