Chapter 36: Tribal Fair (1)
It's been a few days since the last attack, and it's been a quiet few days, and nothing has happened again.
Ye Xiao's life returned to calm again, Lan Xue went back once and came back again two days later, but this time she came to bring them two news.
One is that since the last attack, the Heiya tribe has been much quieter recently. According to the observation of the Kunshan tribe, not only did the Heiya tribe go out less, but when the clansmen of the two tribes met, the people of the Heiya tribe were unusually polite to the people of the Kunshan tribe, and the conflict between the two tribes was greatly reduced.
The second is that there has been a large tribal fair here recently. The initiator of the fair is the tribe called Salt Lake, and the tribal fair held by them every year is the largest event in a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles, and dozens of tribes of all sizes will participate. Originally, this fair was held regularly once a year, but because of the last beast tide, each tribe was affected to varying degrees, so this fair was brought forward.
Lan Xue's main purpose in coming this time was to ask Ye Xiao if he wanted to participate in this tribal fair.
Ye Xiao thought for a while and agreed, after coming here for so long, he still only had the most dealings with the Kunshan tribe, and of course, the Heiya tribe last time was barely one.
He had long wanted to go to a wider area outside, and this time he could take this opportunity to appreciate the customs of different tribes.
After everyone discussed, Ye Xiao took Pan Zi, the ghost doctor and the big Liu to follow Lan Xue to the Kunshan tribe, and since the fair started in three days, they first rested in the Kunshan tribe for one night.
The next day, Ye Xiao and the others set off together with the trading team sent by the Kunshan tribe, the leader of the Kunshan tribe was Wudan, accompanied by the three Ulu brothers, and four warriors from the Kunshan tribe. Except for Lan Xue and Wu Dan, the other people were carrying big packages, because the outermost ones were wrapped in animal skins, Ye Xiao and the others didn't see what was inside, but they thought it was roughly some animal skins and so on.
This time, Ye Xiao and the others also brought some things, a few pairs of mammoth tusks, seven or eight golden feather eagle feathers, and some saber-toothed tiger giant wolf fur.
There are not many things, only two big bags, carried by the big Liu and Pan Zi respectively, they are not to trade anything, but mainly to see and open their eyes.
However, for this trade fair, what interests Ye Xiao the most is the so-called "Salt Lake Tribe".
It would have been a miracle that a salt lake that has mastered the most precious salt lake that can be rich in salt, and that this kind of tribe can attack each other and human beings drink blood.
Ye Xiao didn't know what means this salt lake tribe had to make other tribes jealous, it was better to fight the idea of salt lake, this unknown thing was what interested him the most.
Because the Salt Lake tribe was far away from the Kunshan tribe, and they had large bags of things, they did not travel very fast, and spent the night in a cave in the evening, and it was not until noon the next day that everyone reached the location of the Salt Lake tribe.
The Salt Lake tribe was not built on a hill or in a valley like other tribes, but on a plain.
The salt lake tribe is surrounded by a river on one side and a lake on the other, and this lake is a salt lake rich in salt.
The surface of the river is more than 30 meters wide, the water surface is sparkling, the water surface is steaming with curling water vapor, in this environment, the river surface is not frozen from time to time, I have to say that it is a miracle, the river surface from time to time there are fish jumping up, as if to welcome their arrival.
If you look at it from above, you can find the course of the river, where it forms a zigzag shape similar to the Yellow River, and between the salt lake and the river, there is a large plain, where the salt lake tribe is located.
There is a stone bridge made of huge stones on the river, which is said to be a stone bridge, but in fact, it is a huge stone that is used as a bridge pier, and wood is laid on top of it to serve as a bridge deck.
When they arrived, the other side of the river was already full of people, and on this side of the river, because people from other tribes were arriving one after another, and the bridge deck was relatively narrow, so there was a long queue of people waiting to cross the river.
Because they came late, so the position of the platoon was late, in order to pass the time, Udan told them about the origin of the Salt Lake tribe, which is said to have a history of more than 100 years, and in the beginning, this tribe was not here, and the name of the tribe was not called this.
More than a hundred years ago, the tribe members discovered this place, and the tribal patriarch at that time found the favorable conditions here, so he decided to relocate the tribe.
But the process of migration was difficult, first of all, the river stopped them, because the water of the river was warm and did not freeze all year round, and the fish living in the river were not ordinary fish, but piranhas.
The ferocity of piranhas, as long as anyone who has seen them, is all talking about it.
Later, the wise patriarch saw the rocks exposed in the river and thought of a way, so he ordered the people to carry huge stones from a distance and throw them into the river, so it took them nearly half a year to build the bridge.
During this period, many clansmen lost their lives because they fell into the water, but it did not stop them.
And as it turned out, they made the right choice, and with this easy and difficult terrain to defend and attack, as well as the precious salt lake, this small tribe quickly grew and quickly became a large tribe with a reputation for thousands of miles, and has stood for a hundred years until now.
It's not that no other tribe has beaten their idea, but after a tribe with the top ten in strength within a radius of thousands of miles has returned, other tribes will not dare to fight their idea easily.
Fortunately, this Salt Lake tribe is not very aggressive, and it is said that the clan rules were set by the patriarch who decided to relocate, so the other tribes had to let them go.
After a hundred years of development, the Salt Lake tribe has gradually become the center of this thousands of miles, and the tribal fair was first initiated by them.
Because of its good reputation and fair trading mechanism, its reputation has spread thousands of miles away.
After waiting for almost an hour, it was their turn to cross the river, and the bridge deck was made of several thick trees side by side, without guardrails, and there was nothing to tie the trees in between.
It's a bit like crossing a single-plank bridge, but it's slightly better than a single-plank bridge.
Ye Xiao had observed around before going to the bridge, the previous beast tide had not affected him too much, which was not difficult to explain, with the wide river and the natural barrier of piranhas, Ye Xiao couldn't think of any other animals on the ground that dared to attack the opposite side.
The huge skeleton of some kind of animal faintly exposed in the river is the best illustration, and the first place to go on the bridge, the two bridge decks also have traces of passing, obviously when the beast tide was over, the people of the salt lake tribe removed the wood.
In this way, as long as they guard the other side of the bridge, even if an animal can jump on the boulder pier, they can be driven down, and the only trouble is an attack from the sky. But the Salt Lake tribes have been able to stand here for so many years, and they must have their own way of coping.
A few people crossed the stone bridge and came to a clearing on the other side of the river, where people from the Salt Lake tribe were checked, saying that they were checking, but in fact, it was for the convenience of guidance.
After Udan's token proving that he came from the Kunshan tribe, a man from the Salt Lake tribe led them to another clearing, where several specially built huts were set up for them to rest.
Not far away, there are also many built shacks, each tribe has its own exclusive resting place, Ye Xiao had to sigh that the people of the Salt Lake tribe were thoughtful.
He looked around, and judging by the way the people were dressed, they belonged to different tribes, and the people of each tribe gathered together and didn't talk too much with the people of the other tribes.
And those tribes that talk to each other should also have a better relationship with each other.
The real trade will start tomorrow, of course, there are some tribes who are trading privately now, but these Salt Lake tribes don't care, as long as they don't make trouble, everything is easy to say.
There are also many tribes because of the long way and are on the way to come, so tomorrow's trade fair is the most lively time, and at that time, the tribes are no longer hiding.
After they put what they had brought into the largest hut, they gathered together, made a fire, and roasted the meat to eat.
I don't know if it's because of Ye Xiao's unusual appearance, or because of the aroma of barbecue, many people from various tribes around them look here from time to time, and some even point and talk to each other.
For all this, Ye Xiao and the others turned a blind eye, eating barbecue while listening to Wu Dan talk about all kinds of interesting things.