At this moment, Tinch and the others were riding on horseback, galloping wildly. Changes in the means of transportation have greatly accelerated their progress.

One person, one horse, golden eagle and lynx, are running at the front of the team, heroic and cool. There were a total of thirty-six people before and after, including Kura and Xiong and three squads of elite warriors, all of which were under Xiong's jurisdiction.

Each of them had a horse worthy of a saddle stirrup, with bronze objects, which looked very beautiful. Under the skillful hands of the leathermen led by Niu Er of the tribe, all kinds of accessories on the horses are very exquisite, and even the matching of the bridles, horse chews, and horse reins are very simple and beautiful.

For example, the horse neck that is used on horses and donkeys in the tribe was made after Ding Qi told Niu Er to prevent the neck of the horse or donkey from being worn out. In some places, it is called a horse and a donkey, as if it is called a yoke in a book, that is, a curved wood resting on the neck of a cow or horse when driving. It's just that cows can use yokes made of this kind of bent wood, but horses and donkeys can't, and the skin and flesh will wear out over time. It can only be made of leather or coarse cloth, canvas, etc., and is filled with straw, weeds, or straw, which can be regarded as a cushion. This kind of necklace or neck tie was very popular in the countryside before the 90s, as long as there were horses, mules, and donkeys at home.

Although the accessories on Niu Ma are all Ding Qi guiding Niu Er and them to do, the work they do is full of praise. They also made a kind of leather whip, which was woven little by little, with three pins in the front, which snapped in the air. If it is drawn on a person, make sure that a blood mark is drawn, and even the most abused person will not dare to be whipped on the body by this kind of whip.

For the animals cannot stand it, let alone the people. However, since Niu Er made this kind of whip, Feng got the news to customize a leather whip. Every day, I will practice in the yard for a while, crackling, and practicing in the name of beauty, and at this time I will run out to hide. Why? Because it really hurts to accidentally pump on yourself, if you come at yourself, it must be skin and flesh. However, Ding Qi appreciates this kind of behavior very much, Feng is creating his own martial arts!

A generation of whip gods was born!

With saddles and pedals, everyone can control the horses more freely and easily, and slowly release people's hands. You can do some actions on the horse, such as archery, sprinting, chopping, etc., without worrying about being thrown off the horse.

Since having these accessories, it is now easier and easier for everyone to travel long distances. Things like weapons, quivers, solo tents, backpacks, ropes, etc., are placed on horseback, like western cowboys. It's a pity that a cowboy hat and a revolver are missing.

Ding Qi and the others rested in Lu Village for a night, and inspected the houses and facilities of the entire Lu Village up and down, especially to usher in winter, their heating materials must be prepared. As for meat, it is all a standing stock. As for the dry goods in Ningcheng, they are also indispensable here in Lucun, they are all ready to use, without restrictions, and of course, they will not waste it.

For example, the dandelion tea in front of Ding Qi now, everyone likes it very much, and every day after a meal, they will brew a bowl to clear the stomach and relieve oiliness. Now dandelion tea is very popular in all tribes, and Ding Qi also told the tribes how to prepare these dandelion teas, which became the fifth most popular material in the exchange meeting in addition to pottery, coarse salt, bronze, and animal skins, and it was a material that made the method of making it public.

At present, the Ding tribe has told the tribes about the production methods of pottery, dandelion tea and animal skin clothing, and a lot of various types of pottery have been made, and even tribes have produced painted pottery, which was developed by Bai Ze's tribe. The production method of animal skin clothing was announced, and the sales of bronze needles and bronze scissors of the Ding tribe increased greatly, and there were more and more styles of animal skin clothing, but their clothing styles were still full of rough and original flavor.

There is a first quarter moon hanging in the sky, and there will be a full moon in seven or eight days, estimated

It is the fifteenth day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar. Ding Qi has arranged for the witch rhinoceros to carry out rigorous calculations and paintings, drawing the position and shape of the moon on papyrus each day, recording the changes in the lunar time. The determination of the time of the Mid-Autumn Festival can basically determine the day of the Chinese New Year's Eve and the first day of the Spring Festival.

Before coming, the rhinoceros had already told himself that the sundial recorded every day had the same time of day as night, and that it must have passed the day of the autumnal equinox.

According to Ding Qi's speculation, the hunting day activities organized by the five major tribes were probably held around the Mid-Autumn Festival. They do not have a unified concept of time, as long as the people are together, they will be convened immediately to avoid delaying their return time. And after the event, each tribe will have the opportunity to go back and prepare more food and fuel to ensure that their tribe can survive in the cruel nature.

Ding Qi once asked Ben and Cang if there were any rewards for the hunting day activities organized by the five tribes. They said they didn't know, they just heard about it, and those who didn't meet the requirements of the large tribes were not eligible to participate, so they could only know about it at the Hunt Day venue.

The next day, Ding Qi and the others took a part of the coarse salt from Lucun, each carrying twenty catties of salt, and set off for Tongcun.

After arriving in Tongcun, Ding Qi and a group of Tongcun people had a party, encouraging and praising Baiya, Fox and others, and said that the next step would be to double the scale of Tongcun and replenish more people, especially women. This made the old men of Tongcun howl for a long time, and frightened the dogs to shrink into their dens and suspect that the dogs were wolves, whether they were wolves or that group of humans were wolves?

Now the population of Tongcun is less than one hundred and twenty people, there are two platoons with a total of sixty-eight soldiers, and there are more than twenty craftsmen from Ningcheng, and the rest are all people from the Yuanqing tribe, young and old, and they are not suitable to be warriors. In addition, there are more than 30 slaves from the Ugin tribe in the copper village. Therefore, the overall scale of Tong Village is larger than that of Lu Village, after all, this is the foundation of the entire tribe! Defense and secrecy work is very important.

Ding Qi met with Nu Ugin from the Ugin tribe, and had already recognized the reality and the powerful Ugin of the Ding tribe, and told Ding Qi everything he knew about the Ugin tribe. In particular, the question about the number of Ugin knives and tribal Ugin was answered in great detail. This made Ding Qi a little embarrassed, whether to kill him or keep him.

The original intention was to follow the principle of keeping secrets, and all the people of the Baiding tribe who knew the actual meaning of the existence of Tong Village would be killed, so as to ensure that the secret would not be known by others. But this Ugin was quite cowardly, kowtowing vigorously and begging for mercy, just to prevent Ding Qi from killing him.

Ding Qi, who hesitated for a while, decided to save his life for the time being, maybe when he could use it. Just told White Fang and Fox to take strict care of these people.

By the light of the torches, Ding Qi checked the material reserves of Tongcun again, and told the two that as long as the supplies were not enough, they would immediately send people to Ningcheng or Lucun to collect them, so as to ensure that people's food and accommodation must be safe.

When Ding Qi saw the neatly stacked kudzu fibers in a brick house, his heart was even happier. Some time ago, they had already brought back a batch of kudzu fibers from the tribe, and if they brought these back, they really had nothing else to do all winter, just spinning and weaving.

Ding Qi specially explained to Lao Hei and Ma Zhu'er, asking them to prepare for the first heavy snow to dig the kudzu, and then he would send someone to transport the kudzu back to Ningcheng together. Lao Hei said that now the people in Tongcun are mainly used for mining, charcoal and copper smelting, and the production of kudzu fiber is only done by a dozen of their old guys. If we can give them some more manpower, the size of the kudzu fiber will be doubled, so there are too many kudzu around here.

Dingch agreed to their request.

Early the next morning, after leaving half of the coarse salt for Tong Village, Ding Qi set off for the Blackwater Tribe again. Just passing by the original ash

When the Stone tribe was in place, there were no traces of the original for a long time, and even the caves where they lived before were occupied by some wild beasts, and they were deserted. Only the occasional human bones and stone tools seen in the deep grass tell others that there was once a tribe here. After a while, I am afraid that there will not be a trace left.

This is the cruelty of history!

No matter how great you are, you can't escape the fate of becoming a piece of loess in the end!

Hurrying up, Ding Qi finally reached the outskirts of the Blackwater Tribe three days later. If the speed was at the previous rate, it would take at least seven or eight days to reach the Blackwater Tribe from the Greystone Tribe.

Coming here, the most obvious thing is that there are all kinds of rivers, and they all run in one direction, that is, Kuromizuzawa. There are many water systems around Heishuize and rich resources, and Ding Qi will even see some withered yellow wild rice standing on the shore. As for the ruined lotus leaves and the lotus canopy on them, they are occasionally visible, one by one, and the area is not large.

Some wild ducks and geese that returned to the south early are foraging in the water, as well as swans and various cranes. The red-crowned crane didn't see it, which made Ding Qi a little regretful. On the edge of the South Lake on the side of the Ding tribe, Ding Qi has never seen a red-crowned crane stop there, presumably this and the South Lake are not their migration routes!

I had an agreement with the Baishui tribe before, and when Ding Qi came around, he must go to the Baishui tribe as a guest first. Therefore, Ding Qi led everyone to the White Water Tribe.

As for the direction of the White Water Tribe, they had already learned the location of the White Water Tribe from a small tribe passing by, and the price was just a pottery bowl.

The current Baishui tribe lives a very prosperous life. Since their association with the Ding tribe, they have acquired many tools and what they call artifacts, such as fishing nets, axes, kitchen knives, multi-strand harpoons, and pottery. Moreover, they also learned how to preserve more meat and fish, and to cook meat and fish in pottery to keep more of the elderly or young alive.

The generous Ding tribe even told themselves and Bai Ze how to make and weave pottery and fishing nets, which eventually caused the two tribes to become the richest tribes in the surrounding area except for the Heishui tribe. In this case, there are small or micro tribes that choose to join both tribes just so that their people can survive.

In addition, it is claimed that the two tribes of Baishui and Bai Ze have formed an alliance with the Ding tribe, so no tribe dares to fight the idea of their own tribe anymore, especially the Heishui tribe, and even faintly wants to win over their own tribe, and sometimes they have to look at their own tribe's face to act. Because after the Blackwater tribe's fishing net is broken, it can only be repaired or exchanged by its own tribe nearby.

Since the Blackwater Tribe and the Snake Tribe fought each other, many small and medium-sized tribes around have had to choose sides. Only the tribes of Bai Ze and Bai Shui and Red Lake were not affected by the war between the two tribes and lived as usual without being attacked by the two tribes.

Therefore, the gratitude of the leader of the Baishui tribe, Yuan, and the doctor witch Baishui, to the Ding tribe can no longer be expressed in words. Gen once made a joke with the leader of the Shirasawa tribe that if he was a woman, then in order to thank Aragami for his gifts, he would choose to become Ding Qi's slave girl.

At this time, Genzheng led a dozen tribesmen to fish in a pond. The nets they use are improved and weaved, with smaller meshes, about the size of pheasant eggs, to catch more fish without worrying about the small ones escaping. This is a skill that I sent someone to the deer village of the Ding tribe to learn, and at present, only myself and Bai Ze can weave for the time being, and it is limited to my own tribe.

As for the intention of exchanging, there is no such thing as an exchange for the time being. Leader Ding said:

"You must keep what is beneficial to your tribe in your own hands, and for new things, you must try to maximize the exchange value before it spreads."