Molly and Han Jian glanced at each other, they didn't expect things to go so smoothly, Lana and Nonna next to them both showed ecstatic looks on their faces, Maugham jumped up and shouted, "Patriarch, how can you let Nonna leave?" This is against the rules of the clan! ”

"Maugham, you are too presumptuous, do you think that I, the patriarch, have handled things unfairly? Or do you want to make the decision for me? The patriarch lowered his face and scolded Maugham majestically, so frightened that Maugham hurriedly bent down and said "Don't dare".

After the patriarch trained Maugham, he turned his head and smiled and motioned to Molly for them to eat dried meat and drink tea, this face-changing skill is really strong, "Are the guests surprised that I agreed to let Nonna leave?" ”

Molly nodded, she was indeed surprised, looking at Maugham's reaction just now, this decision should have been made suddenly, it was probably when Nonna's mother spoke to the patriarch just now, but I don't know what Nonna's mother said?

"It's almost lunchtime, let's eat first, and we'll talk about it in detail after we have a good meal." The patriarch sold Guan Zi and smiled like an old fox, Molly was so anxious that she wanted to ask, but was stopped by Han Jian, "Don't worry, they will definitely come out with conditions, we can't be led by their noses, they can't help it, they will naturally bring it up." ”

Molly nodded obediently, Han Jian was right, she was too anxious just now, but she only remembered it now, it seems that the leaders in this village are all women, and there is not a single man in the room at all, is this a matriarchal society?

Molly asked Nonna in a whisper, and received an affirmative answer, but Nonna didn't know what the maternal line was. She just said that the patriarchs, elders, and witch doctors in the village have been held by women for generations, and women are also in charge of family affairs, and the children born are also with the woman's surname, and men are responsible for farming, hunting, and work.

It seems that the men in this village have no status at all, fortunately Lana did not stay, if he stayed, it would be worse than a slave, doing small jobs during the day, and being a husband at night, tsk, even the strongest man can't afford this kind of toss!

Soon there were several women on the table covered with food. Steaming. The dishes are hearty, mostly meat and vegetables, and the taste is not good or bad, but it is not too unpleasant anyway. The main reason is that the seasoning is only salt. But it's better to have fresh dishes. Molly was fine eating. The staple food is tortillas, which are real tortillas, not the kind of tortillas mixed with flour. And the corn flour is probably hand-ground, and there are many large particles mixed in it, which are coarse, and Molly's throat hurts when she eats it, so she immediately gives up eating the cake and just eats it with vegetables.

The three women who accompanied the guests were the patriarch and Maugham and Acha, and the three women in the village were the most authoritative, and looking at the appearance of the patriarch and Maugham, they were obviously very satisfied with today's dishes, and they ate the tortillas and vegetables in a big gulp, and they didn't care about the roughness of the cakes at all.

Nonna whispered, "Today's meal is even better than our usual holiday dishes, I have never eaten so many delicious dishes, the patriarch is good to you!" ”

Molly couldn't help but feel sympathy for the Jiang people in front of her, and she didn't know why they came to this valley, just to escape from the enemy or to escape the war, so many people stayed in this deep mountain, they couldn't get in touch with the outside world, and they didn't know what the situation was like outside, living in such a harsh environment, not enough to eat, not warmly dressed, so poorly housed, sick and untreated, and their children could not be educated, just like a group of people forgotten by God.

Molly took out the last snacks from her bag, of course she secretly added some from the space, otherwise she would have eaten them a long time ago, she put them on the table and said, "Patriarch, thank you very much for your hospitality, these are the food we have there, you can taste it too." With that, Molly handed over some snacks such as sausages, beef jerky, and chicken thighs.

The patriarch was obviously seeing these things for the first time, and his face was surprised, can these colorful things be eaten? Molly smiled and tore the plastic packaging of a chicken leg for her, looking at the way the patriarch ate the meat just now, the teeth should be okay, Molly handed the chicken leg to the patriarch, the patriarch took the chicken leg and took a small bite tentatively, and then ate it in a big gulp, it tasted really good, she motioned to Acha and Maugham to eat it too, and said that the things outside were really delicious.

Molly unpacked them in the same way, Maugham couldn't stop eating as soon as he ate them, gobbling them up, and Acha was quite reserved, these things had been eaten by Lana when she first came, and it was precisely because she saw the magic and extraordinariness of the things that Lana brought that she felt more and more that her idea was correct.

After everyone had eaten, the patriarch asked people to remove the food from the table, and as soon as the leftovers were taken out, they were snatched up by several women outside, all with joy on their faces, and the patriarch saw Molly looking outside, a little arrogant, "The food in our village is very precious, and it can't be wasted, otherwise it will be punished by the gods." ”

Molly nodded in agreement, wasting food is indeed very shameful, after eating this meal, the atmosphere between everyone is much more harmonious, even that Maugham doesn't look so fierce, probably because of eating Molly's two big chicken legs, eating people is soft!

"Patriarch, let's get straight to the point, if you have any conditions, please feel free to put it forward, if we can do it, we will definitely do our best." Han Jian spoke.

The patriarch pondered for a while, and said: "The guests came in just now and probably saw the situation in our village, although life here is very stable, but it is too difficult, every year there will be people who die from the attack of fierce beasts and poisonous snakes, and many people die because of illness, the population in the village is getting smaller and smaller, now there are only less than four hundred people, once the population in our village was thousands of people at the most. ”

The patriarch said that there was some sadness, she was too useless, the foundation created by her ancestors was getting more and more meager in her hands, and now it was even a matter of life and death, the number of newborns in the village in recent years has become less and less, and the number of children dying is also increasing, if you don't find a way, I'm afraid their Jiang clan will not exist, right?

Molly didn't expect that this inconspicuous little village would have such a glorious time, what is the concept of thousands of people? It's just why there are so few people now? After hearing this, Han Jian said: "Patriarch, with all due respect, if you don't get out of this mountain, I'm afraid your population will become smaller and smaller, even if there are children born, not many of them will survive, and if this continues, within a hundred years, your Jiang clan will probably become extinct!" ”

Maugham was so angry that he wanted to jump up again, but was stopped by the patriarch's glare, she and Acha glanced at each other, with a look of surprise in their eyes, could it be that these guests were really sent by the gods to save their Jiang clan?

It turned out that the reason why Rana was able to escape from the village so easily last time was because Acha deliberately released water, Acha is the witch doctor in the clan, the population in the village has become smaller and smaller over the years, she is the most anxious as a witch doctor, but she has thought of many ways to solve this matter, the patriarch is also very anxious about this matter, Maugham has always been brave and unscrupulous, she will not care about this kind of thing at all, only she and the patriarch in the village often discuss how to solve the biggest crisis of the Jiang clan, and they must not let the Jiang clan perish in their hands.

Acha often took out the medical records of the village for decades to study, hoping to find out the reason, and finally she found a pattern, those children born with foreign men are very healthy, and there are few cases of premature death, such as she and Nonna's father gave birth to five children, all of them are healthy and beautiful, and Maugham's man is from the village, is the son of Maugham's sister, Maugham gave birth to six children, but in the end there was only one little daughter who survived, and the other five children were born and died after only a few months.

The same is true of the other people in the village, so Acha has a bold speculation that their Jiang clan should intermarry with people outside, so as to give birth to healthy and beautiful offspring, and to make the Jiang clan continue, she told the patriarch about this discovery, thinking that the patriarch would reprimand her, but the patriarch was not surprised at all, but agreed.

The patriarch said that she had the same dream for more than ten days in a row, in which her great-grandmother kept telling her, "Go out, the angels are coming." She didn't understand what her great-grandmother meant, but now she understood when she heard Acha say this, her great-grandmother told them to leave the valley and move outside, but what did her great-grandmother mean when she said that the angel was coming?

Acha couldn't figure out what it meant, but she and the patriarch reached a consensus, that is, to find a chance to leave here, so that their Jiang clan had hope of survival, but the clansmen had lived here all their lives, how could it be so simple to move out? (To be continued......)