When the children lined up, Zhi, Mu, and Xin had already walked over, and they did not step forward, but stood on the side to watch the scene in front of them.

The wooden ruler stood upright, and the children stepped forward one by one.

"Just met the standard, congratulations on coming of age."

"Oh, it's still a little bit close, it's just such a little distance, it's not going to work this year, and you can only be considered an adult next year."

"No, the gap is a bit big, try again next year."

This is Satsuki's cheerful voice, in the hearts of the children, Satsuki is their warm-hearted big sister, and the girls are very relaxed when they check their height.

It's not the same with the boys.

"Pass, next."

"Unqualified, next."

This is Su Yan's voice, monotonous but with a hint of majesty, the boys came to the king tremblingly to be examined, their hearts were so nervous, they were not relieved until the end of the inspection.

It's just that after breathing a sigh of relief, those boys whose height is not up to the standard have a bitter face, they come to check their height with great expectations, dreaming that they will be adults and see the outside world with their own eyes, who knows that their height is still a little short of the adult standard, and they will have to wait another year.

Many of the friends who play together have reached the adult standard, but they are still almost, depressed, very depressed.

Boys who have reached the standard of adulthood are not patronizing and happy, and they will also turn around to comfort these little friends who are not yet adults.

One by one, the boys and girls were tested, either up to standard or not up to standard, and soon all the children were checked, leaving the children who were much worse off than the adult standard.

Satsuki handed the wooden ruler to a girl not far away who was not yet an adult, and said to her, "Come, measure the height of the children." ”

"Oh, okay, sister, I know." The girl didn't expect Satsuki to talk to her, so she hurriedly replied.

Su Yan did the same, handing the wooden ruler to a boy.

"Brother, there are a lot of adult clansmen this year, and I have forty-eight girls who have reached the adult standard." Xiao Yue came to Su Yan's side and said to Su Yan.

"There are exactly fifty adult boys on my side, and there are indeed many adult clansmen this year, and there will be more and more in the future."

Su Yan understands the situation of the Dragon Tribe very well, even if there are no outsiders in the Dragon Tribe to join the Dragon Tribe in the future, there will be more and more adult members of the Dragon Tribe every year.

The number of people of each age of the dragon tribe is arranged from bottom to top in the natural order of age, and the length of the horizontal bar represents the population, and finally forms a population pyramid of the dragon tribe.

It can be seen that the bottom of the population pyramid of the dragon tribe is the widest, the top layer is the narrowest, almost diagonally upward, as a newborn baby is the largest age component of the dragon tribe, but the old people who are dying are very few.

The Dragon Tribe's population of the Golden Tower is growing and has a very large population potential.

Every year there are more babies born than the previous year, and every year there are more adult clansmen than the previous year, and for a long time in the future, the development of the Dragon Tribe will be like this, of course, there may be accidents, such as epidemics that Su Yan can't control and treat, and natural disasters such as floods and droughts, etc., will affect the population of the Dragon Tribe.

This year's adult clansmen have been selected, but there are still two things that have not been done, one thing is that Su Yan has added the symbol of adulthood to the pottery tablets of these newly adult clansmen, and the second thing is tomorrow's coming-of-age ceremony, only by participating in the coming-of-age ceremony under the witness of all the clansmen, they can be regarded as truly adults.

"All the people who have reached the adult standard come with their pottery shard ID cards." Su Yan shouted loudly.

The children did not go far, they knew that there was still this step, and they came to gather with their pottery ID cards, Su Yan, Xiaohua, and Xiaoyue each held a rough copper casting knife to carve a "one" on their pottery ID cards.

The word "individual" is a symbol that represents their adulthood, and it looks like a spear, the spear is a weapon, and adults need to hold a spear to defend their homeland.

The children happily took the pottery card with the added sign of adulthood, as long as the coming-of-age ceremony passed tomorrow, they would be adults in the dragon tribe.

Rite of passage is a very important day for all children, they will clean themselves up, change into clean clothes, and finally come up with all kinds of accessories that they think are beautiful.

On the third day, there were many roaring bonfires in the open space in front of the temple, all the totem poles were at the forefront, and the witches no longer drew various stripes on their bodies, no longer shouted nonsense in words they did not understand, and no longer danced those strange and very funny looking dances.

Instead, it becomes a prayer in the dragon language, praying to the dragon god to bless the dragon tribe.

After the sacrifice to the dragon god was over, it was the children's coming-of-age ceremony, under the gaze of all the clansmen, Su Yan personally gave them weapons, and then they took up weapons to attack the animals that were still alive in front of them, and finally these animals were so badly dead that they became the dinner of the clansmen.

In the temple, Su Yan and the six patriarchs stood around a circular table with a map of animal skins on the table.

Su Yan pointed to several locations on the map and said to everyone: "The target of this year's tribe is these three tribes, Zhi, Biao, Yang, and Song, the four of you will lead the team, select one hundred and twenty male clansmen and eighty female clansmen, if possible, invite them to join our tribe as much as possible, if not, directly conquer them by force and minimize the battle." ”

"No!" The four voices rang out almost in unison.

Su Yan: "You have to solve these three tribes as soon as possible, our tribe still has a lot to do this year, the total population of the tribe has exceeded 3,000, and it already feels crowded, this time I plan to expand my residence to build a city, I need to mobilize a lot of labor, and the copper mine will continue to mine, as well as grow crops, and there are still too few people in our tribe." ”

The patriarchs listened carefully, but Su Yan's last exclamation made the patriarchs speechless, the population of the Dragon Tribe was already three thousand, in their opinion, it was already a very large number, and when their six tribes first joined the Dragon Tribe, each tribe had a population, anyway, it was impossible to find a tribe in the surrounding area of the Dragon Tribe that could compare with the Dragon Tribe, and even a tribe with a population of more than five hundred people was difficult to find.

In less than half an hour, the meeting ended, and Su Yan arranged various tasks to the six patriarchs, and the patriarchs accepted the tasks and began to prepare.