Chapter 259: Free Marriage

In early autumn, the Dragon Tribe's annual blind date arrived, which was still held in the Dragon Tribe's central source city, and the clansmen who participated in the blind date in Akagi came to the source city the evening before, and there were enough empty rooms in the source city for them to live in.

There are more than 200 young clansmen who participated in the blind date this year, and they are those who have just reached adulthood this year.

More than 200 people, the population of many tribes on the north bank of the Great River is not as large as this number, but for the Dragon Tribe, whose population has exceeded 9,000 and is moving towards 10,000, this number is only the number of adult clansmen in a year.

Fortunately, there are three more women than men in this year's blind date, and at least there will be no man who does not have a spouse, while the three men with the highest force have the opportunity to have two spouses.

The blind date will determine the level of men's strength is still fighting, fighting is the most intuitive reflection of men's strength, bows and arrows rise among young people, but bows and arrows reflect more skills.

On the day of the blind date, the clansmen living in Source City gathered and brought their stools to the square in front of the temple, and the area in the middle of the square was vacated as a place for men to fight.

There were also a number of chairs around the venue, Su Yan and the high-ranking members of the Dragon Tribe, who would sit on the north side, and the young women who participated in the blind date would sit on the east and west sides of the venue.

Soon, as the protagonists of the blind date, the young male tribesmen with the upper body of the fruit dew and the young women who dressed themselves up beautifully appeared, and the onlookers cheered for them.

"The blind date is about to begin, the 'beautiful' girls go to sit on both sides, wait for your spouse to carry you home, the boys come to me, draw lots, decide your opponent, if you want to take your favorite girl home, then try to defeat your opponent." Su Yan stood up and said loudly.

It was still Su Yan who personally presided over the blind date, and after hearing the king's words, the girls walked to both sides of the venue, and the boys came to Su Yan, Su Yan put a wooden box in front of him, and the box contained the number plate used for the lottery.

"Number 17"

"Number Five"

"Sixty-One"

The boys line up to draw their number plates from the wooden box, the adjacent odd and even numbers for the first fight, they are all looking for the odd or even numbers adjacent to them, they hope that their first opponent is weaker than themselves, so that they can have a higher ranking, they hope that they can achieve better results in the competition under the attention of their relatives and friends.

Su Yan: "The draw is over, the game is about to start, now, No. 1 and No. 2 will go to venue A, No. 3 and No. 4 will go to venue B, No. 5 and No. 6 will go to venue C, and No. 7 and No. 8 will go to venue D. ”

There are more than 100 contestants in total, and there will be more than 50 rounds of games in the first round of a group of two, if only one game is played at a time, it will be too wasteful of time, so Su Yan directly asked the clansmen to divide the competition venue into four areas of about the same size, and it does not take much space to fight, and one area is enough for two clansmen to fight.

Eight young men walked out of the crowd and walked towards the venue corresponding to their ranking, their faces and expressions were different, some were high-spirited, some were cautious and serious, some were confident, and some were bitter.

They are all people of the same tribe, and they have just been divided into two cities to live, and everyone knows the strength of their peers better, and when they see their opponents, the victory or defeat in their hearts is almost determined, and there may be a possibility that someone may hide their strength, but this may be very small, and primitive people don't have so many hearts.

Seeing the eight people on the field, the people watching the game outside the stadium talked about it.

"It's my boy, he's on the field, and with his strength, he will definitely be able to defeat his opponent."

"My son can be in the top 10 and it won't be difficult for him in the first game."

Su Yan saw that the four groups of contestants were already in place, and shouted loudly: "Okay, the game begins!" ”

Suddenly, all eight contestants moved.

Su Yan watched the game in the field, but in his mind he was thinking about the blind date held by the Dragon Tribe in the future.

This kind of blind date of the dragon tribe will only appear in primitive times, provided that it is a patrilineal clan.

In the patrilineal clan, women are in a subordinate position, which woman does the men fancy and carry it away directly, the woman has no strength to resist the man, so she can only bear it silently, if two or more men take a fancy to a woman, then the men will fight, and the final winner will hold the beauty.

This situation is not much different from the blind date of the dragon tribe, which is in line with the limitations of the primitive era, the strong can have more mates, and the weak can only have one spouse or even no spouse.

With the growth of the dragon tribe, it will become more and more difficult for the dragon tribe to gather young people together to hold a blind date in the future, just like the coming-of-age ceremony of the young clan, probably even if there is a coming-of-age ceremony and a blind date in the future, it will be held separately by their respective cities.

In primitive times, there was very little "love", and the union of man and woman was almost exclusively for the purpose of procreation, but the people of the dragon tribe were slowly changing.

People from other tribes are busy with food every day and don't have time to fall in love, but the dragon tribe is different, the dragon tribe can get enough food, and the people of the dragon tribe are also busy throughout the year, there are many things to do, but there is also time to think about other things, especially minors who work a little less.

Two little guesses, childhood sweethearts, maybe the relationship between the boy and the girl has been born, but the boy needs to use his strength to marry the person he likes home in the future, if the strength is not enough, it will only make the two people hurt.

"It's time to cancel the blind date." Su Yan thought about it for a while, and then communicated with the high-level leaders of the dragon tribe around him.

The witches and patriarchs all looked surprised when they learned that the king wanted to cancel the blind date, which was also a tradition of the dragon tribe.

"Wang, why do you want to cancel the blind date, isn't that great?" Yuan, who was beside Su Yan, asked Su Yan in a low voice.

The question of the edge is also the question of the witch and the patriarch, Su Yan patiently explained it to everyone, and the witch and the patriarch pondered it carefully, and most of them could understand the meaning, and the matter was settled.

The blind date will last for most of the day, all the games are over, the first snake clan Yong, the second mountain clan Hua, the third bear clan Man, all three can hold two "beauty" returns, other young men can only choose one "beauty" as a spouse.

After Su Yan sent his blessings, the meal began, and the young men ate as much food as possible to replenish their strength, and there was still a battle to be fought later, this battle was even more important than the previous battle, and even their own women could not be defeated, it was definitely a shame for them.

The blind date was officially over, Su Yan had been thinking about canceling the blind date, with Xiaohua Xiaoyue sisters as staff officers beside her, it took more than an hour to revise and revise, Su Yan finally determined the blind date and wrote down all the matters on paper.

In the future, the marriage of the male and female tribesmen of the Dragon Tribe will be changed from a victory or defeat by force to a free marriage, as long as the man and the woman look at each other, they can become husband and wife when they become adults.

But this free marriage also did not indulge the young people, in primitive times the population was very important, the young people had to have a spouse in the year they came of age, and at the end of the year no spouse would be distributed by the tribe.

At the same time, Su Yan gave up canceling the blind date, but in the future, the mode of the blind date will change, there will be no more fighting competitions, just a simple blind date day for young clansmen, young clansmen who do not have a spouse can participate, it is best to find their spouses at the blind date, otherwise the one-year period has passed and can only be arranged by the tribe.

That's all for the general matters, this year's blind date meeting has just ended, Su Yan did not rush to issue a notice, and waited until next spring to release it.

In fact, there is one more thing that has not been written down by Su Yan on paper, next year the Dragon Tribe is going to change the marriage pattern of the clansmen, but there is one thing that has not changed.

In the future, the dragon tribe will continue to conquer other primitive tribes, if all the conquered primitive tribes are brought back, it is fine, if only women and children are brought back, then the men of the dragon tribe can choose women as their spouses, and when they encounter two or more male tribesmen who fancy the same woman, they need to fight to determine who belongs to the woman.

The blind date is over, and the next day, most of the young people who participated in the blind date party leave Gencheng and go to Akagi, the girl who originally lived in Gencheng is going to move to Akagi, and the girl who originally lived in Akagi, her spouse wants to visit her parents with her.

This is a relatively time-wasting thing, two days are gone, and only the people of the Dragon Tribe can waste a few days doing something that they don't have to do.

The young clansmen can easily not work for a few days with Su Yan's special approval, and the other adult clansmen have to be busy, harvesting crops, picking fruits, fishing, and accumulating food for domesticated animals, and preparing a large amount of firewood and grass for winter.

In the past, the food harvested by the dragon tribe was stored uniformly, and the tribesmen went to the storage point every day to get food, but now the houses where the tribesmen live have a spare place, mainly the room in the middle of the house, or the lower house built in the courtyard, and the food for the winter is directly distributed to each family.

There is no need to walk half a mile or more to get food in the cold winter.

Firewood and grass can be stacked in the courtyard, and the toilet is replaced by a larger pottery, which can be dumped at regular intervals every day, so that there is no need for the tribe to walk outside when the snow is falling.

As one of the tribes on the south bank of the Great River, the life of the Blood Tiger Tribe is far from being compared with the life of the Dragon Tribe, not to mention that this year's Blood Tiger Tribe was driven to the north bank of the Great River by the Niu Tribe.