Chapter 495: Rite of Passage 2/2

Time passed day by day, through the coldest period of winter, and through the last period of winter, the spring of the fifth year of the summer calendar is coming.

Winter is about to pass, in this winter that seems to be even colder than last year, the various tribes that are familiar with each other in the Xia country are struggling to resist the cold of winter, and it is better to build a large number of fishing tribes with stove houses, followed by the Japanese tribe, those medium-sized tribes, small tribes and even affiliated tribes of the Japanese tribe have more or less people frozen to death.

The farming tribes are better, they have the grain to be harvested in the autumn, and even if they can't support the harvest until next autumn, there is no problem at all to survive this winter.

Most hunting tribes are not good, and the hunting tribes are desperately hunting, gathering fruits in the winter, and the winter food can be stored to support the longer and longer winters.

The hunting tribes that live in caves can withstand the cold of winter, and those who live in simple houses don't know how many people will freeze to death in a winter.

This winter, which lasts longer and gets colder and colder, is an irresistible natural disaster for the human beings living on the earth, and they can only struggle to survive.

Only the Xia country, in this cold winter, does not worry about food, all the cold is resisted outside the house, is the Xia country of more than 100,000 people, the winter death of the tribe is very few, including the sick and dead, old dead, only a handful of people are frozen to death.

By the way, the former leader of the outgoing fishing tribe died in the coldest period of this winter, and the aging of the body was one of the reasons, and the former leader of the fishing tribe was depressed and sad from loving peace to choosing war on the other hand, and under the action of multiple reasons, the former leader died, and the dark-skinned man has become the new leader of the fishing tribe.

The ice and snow melted, spring came, and the deer witch reported to Su Yan that compared with last year, the time for the ice to melt this year was delayed by four days, and the duration of the entire winter increased by seven days to a total of one hundred and twenty days, exactly four months, but compared with the normal winter, it was extended by about forty days, and you must know that the normal winter duration is only about eighty days, which is too amazing.

And this astonishing change has brought great disasters to the human beings living on the earth, and tens of thousands of people have been frozen to death and starved to death, and how many human beings will be on the planet at this time.

Fortunately, in the face of extreme climate change, Xia Guo can persevere, and hopes to persevere, until the end of extreme climate change.

On the third day of spring, the sixteen cities of the Xia Kingdom held a sacrifice together, sacrificing to the gods enshrined in the temple, sacrificing the heroic souls who died for the Xia Kingdom in the Heroic Soul Hall, and the final rite of worship in the early spring was the coming-of-age ceremony of the citizens who had just come of age.

Last year, 1,301 male citizens and 1,363 female citizens came of age, and this year a total of 1,511 male citizens and 1,569 female citizens have reached adulthood, and they are divided into 16 cities in the Xia Kingdom, and the adult citizens in one city are less than 200, and the number in Zhongjing City, the largest in the Xia Kingdom, will not exceed 400.

At the coming-of-age ceremony, their families would send blessings to their children, and in other castles, the lord and the lord's wife would give weapons to the people who were about to come of age on behalf of the king and queen, respectively, and in Nakajing, the king and queen would personally give weapons to the people who were about to come of age, and the king would give weapons to the adult male citizens, and the queen would give weapons to the adult female citizens.

The moment the weapon is in hand, it means that they are officially adults.

This year's coming-of-age ceremony is even more eye-catching for the people of Xia Kingdom, because this year, the two princes and the ten fiancées of the prince will be adults.

In the past, the second patriarch of the Tiger clan was succeeded by Hu Zhen, the son of the first patriarch Hu Biao, and many other clans in the Xia Kingdom were also like this, but few clansmen thought that the throne would be taken over by the prince, and inadvertently witnessed the still young appearance of the king and queen.

The prince, the prince, because he is the son of the king, has attracted the attention of all the people, and the prince's extraordinary performance inside and outside the school has spread through other students throughout the capital and throughout the Xia Kingdom, the king is not a mortal, and the king's son is not an ordinary person.

Of course, this is inseparable from the teachings of Su Yan, Meihua, and Eyue.

In the central area of Zhongjing City, in front of the temple and the Hall of Heroic Souls, a row of ten male citizens who were about to become adults and a row of ten female citizens who were about to become adults walked in front of Su Yan and Su Yan's three wives together.

Next to Su Yan and Su Yan's three wives, there is a special person holding weapons for the citizens who are about to become adults, most of the weapons are the standard weapons of the warriors of the Xia Kingdom, and they are also ordinary weapons, and a type of weapon almost looks the same.

Spears and broadswords as melee weapons were forged from copper, which was somewhat better than the coarse copper weapons traded to other tribes, and short bows and longbows as ranged weapons were made by ordinary bow makers.

A small number of weapons are non-standard weapons, they are more refined than standard weapons, and are cast or manufactured according to the user's stature and habits, even if they are the same type of weapons, they are different in size and shape, and the spears, broadswords, axes, swords, etc. of melee weapons are all cast in bronze, and the short bows and longbows of long-range weapons are made by the bow master himself.

Especially the sword in the melee weapon, the sword is not a standard weapon, and the sword is basically a reward given by Su Yan to the meritorious person, and all the citizens of the Xia Kingdom dream of getting a bronze sword.

In previous years, bronze swords were not given at the coming-of-age ceremony, but this year's coming-of-age ceremony gave bronze swords for the first time, and the only people who could get the bronze sword were Hei Hean and their fiancée, and their status was their qualification.

Important people always appear at the end, the people who come forward first are ordinary people, this ordinary refers to the ordinary in terms of combat effectiveness, all the citizens who are about to become adults are graduates from the academy, and the students who graduated from the technical college and the management college with slightly worse combat effectiveness are in the front, they don't attach much importance to weapons, and the students who graduated from the war college with high combat effectiveness are behind, and they value weapons the most.

In fact, at the forefront are the outstanding performers in the management and technical colleges, and at the last are the outstanding performers in the war colleges.

Su Yan walked in front of the first person, the first one was a member of the Snake Clan, Mingqing, the person behind Su Yan whispered the name of the person in front of Wang Qi, and prepared the weapon that this person liked to use, although it was only a standard weapon.

"King!" Snake Qing excitedly pressed his right arm to his chest and saluted the king.

Su Yan stretched out his right hand and gently patted Sheqing's shoulder and said, "Sheqing, congratulations on becoming an adult." ”

"Swear to die for the king!" Snake Qing said feverishly.

At the end of the first one, Su Yan came to the second person, and the second person was called Zhao Li.

"King!"

"Zhao Li, congratulations on becoming an adult."

"Swear to die for the king!"