Pushing away the big rocks blocking the entrance of the cave, one by one the sloppy adult members of the Tiger Tribe came out of the cave happily, they were happy because of the passing of the cold winter, but at the same time, they kept holding their weapons tightly, carefully guarding against the situation around the tribe's residence, fearing that there would be wild beasts or enemies coming.

This tribe with the tiger as its totem is just a small tribe with a population of just over a hundred in the northern jungle of the Yellow River, and this tribe does not build houses, but can only live in caves.

However, living in a cave is a good way to withstand the cold of winter, the cave is relatively closed, the cold wind does not blow in, as long as the ground is covered with thick hay, plus animal skins, even if there is no fire to keep warm, most people can withstand this cold winter.

In the past winter, only four members of the Tiger tribe were frozen to death, compared with the tribes in the Yellow River Valley, the number of people in the Tiger tribe who froze to death is very small.

The winter season that lasts longer and becomes colder brings great trouble to the Tiger Tribe, and living in a cave can ward off the cold, but the Tiger Tribe is a tribe that mainly obtains food by hunting, and the winter food prepared in the autumn is eaten only two-thirds of the way through the winter, and this is still the case when the Tiger Tribe is thrifty.

There is no way, the tiger leader can only go out hunting with the hunting team, how dangerous it is to go out hunting in the cold winter, fortunately the tiger tribe has enough food, unfortunately the tiger tribe has three adult tribesmen who died in the hunting, and the death of the three adult tribesmen can still let the tiger tribe bear it, and will not die out because of this.

Extreme climate change for several years in a row has made the Wu of the Tiger Tribe feel that something is wrong, the cold winter for three consecutive years is too much, how can this cold winter last for five or six years, in the winter of the past few years, the tribe has people who have been frozen to death, the winter is not over, the food is about to be eaten, and they can only brave the cold and danger to go out hunting.

Wu didn't know if the Tiger Tribe would be able to stay lucky, and after thinking about it for a long time, Wu finally made a decision, since the winter in this area is very cold, then our Tiger Tribe will move to a warm place.

Wu is the highest status person in the Tiger Tribe, and the status of the leader is a little worse than that of Wu, if Wu makes a decision, no one else will object, but Wu still tells the leader about the tribe's move first.

"Chief, our tribe has to move, the winters here are cold, we have to move to a warmer place."

"Moving to a warmer place? Wu, where is the warm place? The chief asked.

"I don't know, but we can ask God."

The leader went out hunting with the hunting party, and after preparing the "hearty" food, the tiger tribe held a "grand" sacrifice for the gods, for the arrival of the new year, for the coming-of-age ceremony of several tribesmen, and to ask the gods where the warm place was.

Of course, the gods can't speak, but Wu has a way of getting the gods to show the way.

A small firewood pile was piled up in front of the totem pole, and a wooden pole with a wrist thickness of more than one zhang was vertically added to the firewood pile, and when the firewood was lit, the tiger tribe except for the tiger witch around the firewood pile and the totem pole was dancing strangely while whispering and saying unintelligible words, and the other tribesmen all knelt down to the totem pole, and they didn't even dare to raise their heads.

Soon, the flames of the firewood pile burned to the wooden poles that were erected, and then the wooden poles that burned at the bottom fell.

Seeing this scene, Wu shouted happily: "God has shown the way, God has shown the way, God wants our tribe to move over there, it must be warmer there, and there is endless food." ”

Wu pointed to the direction of the pole in the opposite direction - a few angles to the west of north, and almost pointed to the totem pole in the direction of due north.

"Move! Uproot! ”

The people of the Tiger Tribe cheered with joy that the gods were guided by the Tiger Tribe, and the Tiger Tribe would soon move to a warm place with endless food.

It's just that most of the people in the Tiger Tribe know that moving is not a trivial matter, the most important point is to prepare sufficient food, and in the next half a month, the leader of the Tiger Tribe took the leader to go out early and return late, hunting wild beasts frantically, and after preparing some food, the Tiger Tribe embarked on a migration journey.

The people of the Tiger Tribe still don't know that the gods they believe in have pointed them out a wrong path, and the farther they go north, the colder the climate will become, and they don't know if the Tiger Tribe will still exist at this time next year.

The Tiger Tribe is not the only tribe to move, because of the impact of extreme climate change, hundreds of tribes have embarked on a migration journey, some tribes have taken the same path as the Tiger tribe, and some tribes have found the right direction, but the journey is too far away, and it is almost impossible to get to a place with a truly warm climate.

The tribes that embarked on the migration journey were almost all small tribes, with a population of more than 500, and only small tribes whose main way of obtaining food was hunting could make up their minds to give up their long-term homes, while those tribes who mainly used agriculture to obtain food were difficult to make up their minds, and they would not easily give up their long-term homes when they could still hold on in the cold winter.

Yellow river

"This damn winter is finally over, hang the flag." White flags fluttered on the banks of the Yellow River, waiting for the arrival of the Xia fleet.

The cold winter has finally passed, and most of these tribes who have been in frequent contact with the Xia Kingdom have frozen to death, and some tribes have eaten up their food before the cold winter is over.

It turns out that the cold winter is so terrible, the high-level leaders of these tribes with white flags have woken up, they know that their tribe cannot withstand this cold winter, and only by joining the Xia Kingdom can they reach the cold winter, and there will be no more clansmen who will freeze to death, and no more clansmen will be starved to death.

If this continues without change, sooner or later the tribe will die out, it is better to join the Xia Kingdom, as long as the clansmen are alive, the blood of the tribe will be passed on forever.

Of course, the words about the bloodline inheritance are still coming from the Xia Kingdom, and now the tribes that want to join the Xia Kingdom can only use this kind of words to comfort themselves, well, there is nothing wrong with this, it is the case.

There are many tribes who are in a hurry to join the Xia Kingdom, and most of the tribes still do not have the idea of joining the Xia Kingdom, and more than half of the tribes have clansmen who have frozen to death this winter.

They regard joining the Xia Kingdom as a last resort, and plan to continue to prepare for this year, repairing houses, increasing animal skins and hay, and preparing more winter food, it is better to persist or persist on their own, and if they join the Xia Kingdom, their lives will be controlled by the Xia Kingdom, which is something that many people are unwilling to do.