In the thirty-third year of Qin Shi Huang, in the month of Meng Chun, Xianyang in the north was still warm and cold, and the snow had not yet melted, and the land of Xiou thousands of miles away in the south was still full of green.

The mountains here are not high but there are many mountains, towering between rivers and lakes, surrounded by dense forests, there is the territory of birds and animals, and it is also the hunting ground of the Ouyue people.

Although the status of Ouyue women is high, hunting is still exclusive to men. On the edge of the forest, hundreds of short, bare-topped Ouyue men gathered, carrying bows and arrows, bamboo spears, or leading earth dogs.

In the middle of them is a bare-chested hunter with a vertebral hair, who is slaughtering a piglet with his own hands, which is a sacrifice to the ancestral spirits to bless them from hunting for a good harvest.

With short hair and a short stature, Adagu held his bow and looked adoringly at his "Tebo", that is, his father, who was the ruler of the Ouyue tribes.

However, when not fighting with outsiders, the village and tribe were taken care of by the elderly "Du Lao", and as the ruler, the Song was only responsible for taking men to hunt and collect meat, as well as to defend the village.

The monarch has been passed down from generation to generation, and the translator calls for Song to grow old one day, and Adaghu will also grow up and take over the bow in his hand!

But at least not now.

The Vietnamese ballad that sounded sticky in words sounded from the mouth of Yi Yu Song.

"Beat the meat into the mountains, and light the torch first. The fire is not extinguished all the way, and everyone has a divine eye; Shoot the footprints of the prey, and find them when you enter the mountains. Old footprints, new footprints, you can tell at a glance. You can see it in the grass, over the stone slabs, on the trees, and over the water. Let him fly, he will not escape my eyes. ”

"Tracking is fast, it's like wings. The guard shot accurately, and the gods came to draw the arrows. In the hair, the arrow pierces. Cook water at home, etc., and do not empty that meal. Those who pass by will have a share, and everyone will feel at ease. ”

"Those who pass by will have a share, and everyone will be at ease!"

Hundreds of people repeated this sentence loudly, sharing, this is one of the reasons why Ouyue is respected by all the Yue tribes and likes to find their leader to preside over disputes. Unlike the South Vietnamese who like to sacrifice blood to the gods with headhunters, and even eat human flesh, the gods of Ouyue are much gentler.

"Adaghu."

Before entering the forest, Yihu Song's son called over and handed him a young man with broken hair pursed his mouth.

"You take Amo with you."

A Mo Zai is also a Yue person, but not Ou Yue, he is from the north of the "Gui State", under the terrible "Qin" oppression, the tribe became fragmented, the monarch also died in battle, the old people had no choice but to give up the ancestral land, with the remnants, to take refuge in Ouyue.

The elders of Ouyue believe that these panicked neighbors should not be accepted, and they will consume Ouyue's food and hunting grounds. The wizard also felt that these people would bring disaster to Ou Yue through the chicken divination.

But the translator called Song, but he tried to repel public opinion.

"Gui is also a descendant of Bu Luotuo, is one of the twelve countries, many years ago, Ou Yue was hit by a disaster, it was Gui Guo who helped us, a few years ago, but also made a blood oath to help each other. Now that Gui is in trouble, how can Ou Yue not care? ”

The "country" here is not a country, but it is a synonym for clans and tribes in the Yue language, but in any case, the power of the monarch at a critical time is very great, and Ouyue finally accepted the remnants of Guiguo.

Yihu Song hoped that Ouyue could treat the people of Guiguo as clansmen, and especially asked his son to take care of Amo Zai, who had lost his father and home.

But Adagu was a little unhappy, this Amo boy had a pair of thin arms, I was afraid that he would not be able to pull the bow, and he could not become his good assistant, but since Tebo had an order, he could only agree.

Before entering the forest, Adagu also repeatedly told Amozai: "Be careful when walking, don't step on frogs!" ”

Seeing that Amozai's face was full of doubts, Adagu explained that he could not step on the frog, because the frog was the god of Ouyue.

"The elders and wizards of Gui Kingdom have never told you about "Braltar"?"

Ah Mozai was a little embarrassed: "I have talked about it, but I didn't listen to it well, I only remembered the affairs of Guiguo, and I didn't know about other tribes." ”

Adagu felt even more superiority in his heart, and he was far away from the hunting ground in the deep forest, so he told Amozai about the "Twelve Kingdoms" of the Yue people.

"Bu Luo Tuo" is the epic of the Lingnan Yue people, "Bu" is the honorific title of the old man with great prestige, "Luo" is the meaning of knowing and knowing, and "Tuo" is the meaning of many and creating. "Buluotuo" is the "ancestor Gong", and he is also the earliest ancestor of the Yue people.

Legend has it that after the opening of the world, the universe was divided into three realms: upper, middle and lower, with the Thunder King in charge of the upper realm, the Bulota in charge of the middle realm, and the Jiaolong (crocodile) in charge of the lower realm. Later, when all things on the earth were magnificent and mankind was prosperous, Bulota consulted with the Thunder King and divided the heavens and the earth into 12 kingdoms.

"A country's Jiao becomes a cow, a country's hornet's pattern, a country's voice is like a frog, a country's sound is like a sheep, and a country's fish becomes a Jiao'......"

Adagu still remembers Du Lao's words, this country that "sounds like a frog" is Ouyue.

It is said that the frog is the son of the god of thunder, and was sent to the world to jump among the wild grasses, so that Ouyue followed it to find rice that could be planted, and the frog helped the Ouyue people to drive away pests, so that their rice fields were harvested, and the population was increasing.

So Ouyue worships frogs, casting large bronze drums, and the drum surface is decorated with three-dimensional frog images, so to speak, frogs are their totems......

"I see."

After finishing speaking, looking at Ah Mozai, who was slightly younger than himself, looking at him with a look of adoration, Adaghu was even more proud.

"Ouyue people not only know how to hunt, but also very good at planting rice, my name is Dagu, which means rice, and your name is Mo Zai, what does it mean?"

Ah, it is the title of a young man, as long as he is not an adult, he must add a name before the title. There are also many different slang and colloquialisms between the different tribes of the Yue people, so not all words are compatible.

Amozai explained that his name, Moz, means scalper.

"The god of Gui is a scalper, so it is also called a scalper."

Ah Mozai's voice gradually lowered, just like the Ouyue people can't step on frogs, the cattle can't be killed in their tribe, but when they fled in a hurry, they could only release the old ox back into the mountains, I don't know if it can escape, whether it can survive.

But compared to those clansmen who were deceived by merchants or taken captive by the Qin army, even if the scalper was buried in the wolf's mouth, it would be considered a happy death.

"Scalpers."

Adagu nodded, as far as he knew, in the twelve countries, there was also a buffalo department, in the south of Ouyue, although it was still an independent tribe, but they were willing to listen to Ouyue in everything, because Ouyue could help them resist Luo Yue and Nanyue.

Lingnan Baiyue, in the past, was the bird clan that called itself the "eldest son of Thor", that is, Luo Yue was the strongest. The second is the South Vietnamese who worship "Jiao" and like to tattoo dragon scales all over their bodies.

But now, Luo Yue has decayed and divided into an "elephant department", and the buffalo department and fish department that once surrendered have also betrayed them. South Vietnam is currently divided, with internal settlements hunting and vendetta against each other.

But with the frog as the totem, Ou Yue, who mainly grows rice, is the most powerful.

Therefore, Adagu also dared to pat his chest and boast to Amozai, saying that the scalpers had defected to Ouyue, and his own Tebo would definitely be able to keep them safe.

But instead of making Ah Mo Zai happy, this sentence showed a worried face, as if he recalled what he had experienced before and after the escape.

"But as I said, all the mountains, all the forests, and all the Yue tribes in all settlements are not as strong as Qin!"

……

The whistling gradually fell silent, the birds fell back into the forest again, the hunt ended smoothly, perhaps thanks to the blessing of the Song Song's hunting songs, the Ouyue hunters returned with a full load, several large wild boars were carried on the bamboo poles, making the hunters laugh from ear to ear.

Adaghu is not bad, although he is young, but his strength is great, he shot two civets, and what surprised him even more was that Amozai, although he was not good at archery, but he was good at blowing arrows, but he could only blow ten steps, and he had to ensure that he approached quietly.

"It's still not accurate."

After using this technique to kill a few birds and three rabbits, Ah Mozai was not half happy, and muttered: "The arrows I blew out can't penetrate the scales of the Qin people at all." ”

"Dragon-like scales", this is Amozai's name for the armor of the Qin people, because the Yue people do not wear armor, even when fighting, they are also ** upper body.

In Lingnan, bronze ware is very expensive, either used to cast copper drums to worship ancestors, or it has to be used by the best warriors in the tribe.

After two days of hunting, the two teenagers have become familiar with each other, but the experience told by Amozai shocked Adagu.

Ah Mozai said that their tribe, near the border of the Qin people, those tall buildings made of earth and stone.

In the beginning, only occasionally Qin merchants came to trade, bringing goods from the Central Plains and exchanging local specialties, and the two sides were quite harmonious.

Gradually, however, the merchants were no longer interested in general goods, and they began to encourage the Gui Kingdom to help plunder the people of the neighboring tribes, which the merchants could buy at a high price.

The monarch and the elders of the Gui Kingdom did not agree, but in the settlements below, there were little monarchs who coveted the goods of the Qin people and were quietly doing this.

"I know."

Adagu nodded, it should have been two or three years ago, and several settlements in the Gui Kingdom had gone too far and swept over Ouyue's head. After receiving the report from the surrounding small settlements, Yi Hu Song personally brought thousands of warriors over and repelled the attackers.

And with the monarch and the elder of Gui, they met at the river at the junction of the two departments, made a blood oath, became brothers, and never killed each other again, one side was in trouble, and the other party should also help.

But after that, the oppression of the Yue people by the Qin people became more and more frequent, and the merchants no longer entered the country in a few numbers, but brought dozens or hundreds of soldiers armed to the teeth, and they marched along the river, exploring the southern mountains of Changsha County, attacking the tribes who were unwilling to pay tribute to the Qin, or designing traps, or hijacking them by force, and in case of resistance, they were slaughtered.

In the past few years, the Yue tribes in the plains of Changsha County have either been taken captive and plundered, or fled into the mountains and forests, or come to Ouyue and South Vietnam.

After the Yue people in Changsha County were not easy to capture, the Qin people once again turned their attention to Gui and sent envoys to force Gui to submit to Qin like the small Yue tribes further north.

Gui Guo agreed, bowed down to be a minister, and sent Amobi's brother (eldest brother) to the border as a hostage, and offered chicken feathers, big bamboos and other things to the Qin people every year, which was not too heavy.

But later, the Qin officials intensified and began to ask Gui Guo for people to serve, but the people who went in the first year never returned......

"Qin people are not very much, what else do you want people to do?"

Adagu still couldn't understand, according to what Amobi said, just a small border city, there were more Qin people in it than the entire Gui tribe.

"Be a slave."

Ah Mo Zai said: "Some people who fled to take refuge said that after the Qin people captured the Yue people, they went to the mainland and planted black sweet bamboo. Those sweet bamboos grow everywhere, and they will produce red roots, sweeter than honey, and the Qin merchants used this red sweet root to trick the greedy people into going to the city, and then turning them into slaves! ”

"Sweet bamboo? Red roots? ”

Adagu couldn't imagine what it was.

"The elders said that it was watered with human blood, which is why it is so red."

Ah Mozai gestured at Adagu's big toe with a bamboo spear again: "In order to prevent the Yue people from escaping, the Qin people also cut off their left toes, which does not affect their work, but they can no longer run fast." ”

In just a few years, in the entire south, Changsha, Yuzhang, Huiji, and the Yue slaves captured by the Qin people from all over the country, there were tens of thousands, or even 100,000!

Fearing that all the tribes would become slaves if he agreed to the Qin people's request, Ah Mozai's father, the ruler of Gui, refused the request and drove the Qin people out.

I thought that their settlement was deep in the mountains, blocked by a large water, and it was very safe. But what followed was the invasion of the Qin army, saying that the Gui State was "rebellious", and under the leadership of several Qin monarchs, they directly killed their main settlement.

When talking about these things, Ah Mozai's teeth were rattling, and the battle was fierce, but the Yue people's bows and arrows could not penetrate the thick scales on the Qin people's bodies, and the Qin people's weapons were as sharp as the sharp teeth of the dragon, easily tearing apart the bodies of the Yue warriors.

Eventually, the fire spread through the settlement, and after Amozai's father left behind, Du Lao took the remnants of his tribe into the mountains and migrated south......

This is the story of the fall of Katsurabe.

Adagu was stunned, and at this moment, the people who walked out of the forest heard the deep sound of copper drums!

Ouyue, or Xiou, is actually just a tribal alliance, and all the tribes established by the descendants of the frog god call themselves Ou and are scattered for hundreds of miles. They have no cities, only settlements, and the largest settlement, which is also a place to worship ancestral spirits and frog gods, is this place called "Bandagu".

Dagu is a vast settlement of thousands of people, sheltered by mountains and dense forests on the outside, and around it, it has been carved out into vast rice fields, where women work and men hunt.

After hearing the sound of the copper drum, everyone stopped what they were doing, looking at the direction of the settlement wooden village, the copper drum is an artifact, every time it is beaten, it is either a sacrifice, or it is always necessary to hold a meeting to discuss important matters.

Yi Hu Song also immediately called Adagu and the others, and asked him, who was fast, to trot back to the tribe to see what was going on.

Adagu was barefoot, but he walked like a fly on the path of the rice field, and Amozai followed closely behind, and the crickets in the grass were startled by them.

When the two approached the door of the settlement, they saw a shocking scene.

The horses responsible for guarding the village have been dispatched with hundreds of people, armed with wooden spears, bows and arrows, aimed at a group of uninvited guests.

It should be a Qin caravan, but unlike before, this time, there were many more soldiers in armor in the caravan, and the leader was an official wearing black clothes with long sleeves and constantly wiping sweat on his forehead.

When Qin officials glanced at the naked Yue people, there was no lack of contempt in their eyes, and they were still speaking loudly in Qin.

Every time he said a word, the Yue people who seemed to be translators on the side translated it: "The Great Qin Changsha Shoutu Jun sent this official to see Xi Oujun!" ”

"It's the messenger of the Qin people!"

Only then did he see those people, and the footsteps of Amozai behind him stopped, and Adagu could hear his anger mixed with the sound of fear, as if he was a deer who had just escaped, and saw a vicious wolf in the forest chasing after him!

"The Qin people are coming to arrest us!"