Chapter 11 The king called me to patrol the mountains
In one year, a seed can grow into a sapling, ten years into a small tree, a hundred years, a thousand years, not all trees can live that long, some trees may have died, and new seeds can grow into big trees.
People live for a lifetime, the grass and trees are spring, Luo Yi doesn't know how long these plants and trees have grown, giving people the feeling that they are tall, the mountains and rivers have not changed much, and the changes that can affect the changes in the mountain appearance are, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and flash floods, but fortunately, these have not happened in Vimo.
Luo Yi originally planned to start from Baimian Mountain, that is, Shuanglong Town in the later generations, and go to Liulang Cave, which is the closest to here, and there will be a highway connection in the future, at most forty kilometers, even according to the current conversion, it is only seventy or eighty miles, but now there is no road to go in the future generations.
If it weren't for the compass used to pretend to be a ghost, it would be really possible to get lost in the jungle, but after walking for two days, Luo Yi would be depressed, if it wasn't for the right direction of the compass, to the top of the mountain peak where grass and trees could not grow, and he saw the mountains that he was somewhat familiar with, and Luo Yi doubted that he could go to Liulang Cave.
After climbing over a large mountain, I finally saw traces of human activity, there was a small mountain area, and the tartary buckwheat in the field had just grown, apparently just planted.
Seeing that someone was planting tartary buckwheat here, Luo Yi was not happy in his heart, but faintly felt bad, and sure enough, Huang Ling's words were confirmed.
"Young Commander, this seems to be the closest place to our eighteen villages, and when you enter from this path in the valley, it is a village of the Bunu tribe, Panteng Village."
The Panteng Village of the Bunu Ethnic Forces, Luo knows that the iron ore here may have been occupied and mined by the Bunu people, even if the Eighteen Villages are not mined, it is impossible to mine on other people's territory, so dig it out, I don't know whose family it is.
"If we knew that the young patriarch and the golden qi we were looking for was here, we didn't have to shuttle from the mountains and forests, and there was a path leading directly to this place in the west of the white-faced mountain."
Luo Yi complained that he was not in the mood, this time he was looking for iron ore, it was the road he led, how did he know where the road was going now, he could only look at the familiar mountains, or he used to often look at the map of Qiucheng County, the most important thing is that he has been to these places with iron mines.
I knew that Liulangdong was the power of the Bunu tribe, and a fool would walk through the mountains and forests for two days in vain, and now Luo Yi only hopes that the Bunu people have not discovered iron ore, and there will be a chance to mine it in the future, but this possibility is too low.
The old hunter Meng Lu looked at Luo Yi and frowned all the time, thinking that he was worried that the Bunu clan would be unfavorable to everyone, so he said loudly: "Young commander, don't worry, our eighteen villages and the Bunu clan have no grudges, on the contrary, there are often some transactions. ”
"Hmmm! And deals, what do we trade with them? ”
Luo Yike knew that there were no good things in the Eighteen Villages, and as for what the Bunu tribe had, he didn't know.
Huang Ling said: "The young commander doesn't know! We have the most eighteen villages, and our ancestors are all moved from Liuzhou, Chizhou and other places in the Great Song Dynasty.
Of course, the other forces also grow rice, but it is not as good as us, and the Bunu are famous, and Vimo is the worst in iron striking, and the iron ore bought by Jiaohe and Luo Jiu at a high price every year will be scrapped, and then they will be exchanged for some goods that they do not have.
It may be that they bought it, they are all some impurities and a lot of ore, they can't forge it, and our eighteen villages also traded some with rice, but the amount is too small, and the arrows are built, and they are used up. ”
Luo Yi smiled bitterly in his heart, scrap iron, too many impurities, this is also believed, looking at Huang Ling, Meng Lu and their appearance, it seems that the eighteen villages really believe it, I don't know if Bunu has traded iron with other forces, but 100% of the iron ore has been mined by the Bunu people.
It's not a matter here, it's better to start towards the next goal, it's practical, "Let's go, the iron here is also a master's thing, let's find another one!" ”
Huang Ling said: "Young Commander, you are saying that the Bunu tribe has iron ore, it is impossible, if there are them, they will not go to the outside departments to trade." ”
"How many years has the Eighteen Zhai Alliance been established, how many years has the Bunu people been here, and the Eighteen Villages have been able to forge usable iron from iron ore with more impurities, you say?"
Luo Yi didn't know how the Bunu tribe made a deal with the Eighteen Villages, and he could still make the people of the Eighteen Villages believe it, but he had wasted two days, and he couldn't go on like this, and the next target was his hometown.
I don't believe that hundreds of miles away, where there will be people living in this era, where is a rare copper-iron mixed vein, otherwise it will not be called Liudu Copper Factory, but the reserves of copper are not much, and the reserves of iron are a lot
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After walking for two days and not finding anything, no one will be in a good mood, Huang Ling feels that he is really stupid, his heart is more tired than his body, the recruits and teenagers, although they are all born in Orion, the mountains and forests are not less drilled.
But this time, unlike before, they had a lot of burdens, food, tools, and weapons, each of them carried at least thirty pounds, and they were all twelve or thirteen-year-old teenagers, so they were naturally exhausted.
Luo Yi was also too tired, although he was carrying a snakeskin backpack on his body, and the bag was only filled with some seasonings and a compass, and Daddy took the horn scimitar for self-defense, and Meng Lu helped to hold it, but this small body was still a little unbearable.
Twenty miles away from the Bunu forces, Luo Yi decisively asked to stop camping and rest for half a day.
Three days later, he finally came to Liudu Mountain, Luo Yi stood on the top of the mountain and stared blankly at the location of the town in the future, the town in the future is now just a barren basin, and the basin is lined with trees, this is his hometown.
Looking at the former hometown, into the current state, it is inevitable to be lost, it will take thousands of years here to be the afterlife, it feels ridiculous to think about it, once was the future, it is so ridiculous.
Looking at the mountains and running dead horses, not only the Loess Plateau, but also the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is similar, the difference is that there are horses here that can't run, two hours ago at the top of the mountain, two hours later, still not to the mountainside.
"The king called me to patrol the mountains, I turned the world around, beat my drums, beat my gongs, and life was full of rhythm.
The king asked me to come to patrol the mountains, catch a monk to make dinner, the water of the mountain stream, incomparably sweet, do not envy the mandarin ducks and immortals.
The king asked me to patrol the mountains,..............."
Huang Ling frowned and looked at these recruit teenagers, since Luo Yi hummed this unknown tune, now as long as someone starts with a sentence, the Chinese language is not good for a group of teenagers, so they hum along, and this one who takes the lead in singing is often Luo Yi.
Although he is not proficient in music, this song, the tune is high and cheerful, the lyrics and songs are easy to understand, Huang Ling also thinks that it is very suitable for singing in this wilderness and mountain forest, but this monk is called dinner, looking at the world, it is estimated that only Luo Yi dares to sing like this.
It's just that if this song reaches the ears of Dali's envoys, it will be a bad thing, Dali except for the southwest departments, most of them believe in Buddhism, and the emperor's Zen position is also a lot of monks, Huang Ling feels that he should remind the young commander, this song is fine to sing in the mountains, and it can't be sung anymore when I go back.
After walking a few steps, Huang Ling caught up with Luo Yi and said: "Young commander, this song, go back to the eighteen villages, but"
Before Huang Ling finished speaking, he stopped, the teenagers' singing stopped abruptly, Meng Lu hurriedly blocked Luo Yi behind him, although the teenagers are not yet in the army, but they have followed their clansmen up the mountains to hunt since they were children, and their agility when encountering the enemy is still there, at this time they all pull their bows and wind their bows, ready for battle.
Luo Yi didn't expect that the monk hadn't met, fuck, this is meeting a monster, what does it mean to be unclothed, these savages, both men and women, are only slightly used, animal skins, and weeds cover their private parts.
No matter how you sing a song, you can be surrounded by savages, although their arrows are made of some bamboo, animal teeth, and stones, Luo Yi has no doubt that these arrows can penetrate his small body.
Seeing that the savages were slowly surrounding, and the battle might happen soon, Luo Yi hurriedly said, "Communicate with them and see if you can meet their patriarch." ”
There are more than forty savages, and they will definitely not be able to win, and there are only twenty-three people on their side, as well as two oil bottles for themselves and Huang Ling, the biggest main force Meng Lu, the teenagers are also good, and the least archery people know.
But the best result is to see if you can communicate, not to fight the best, the patriarch of the general tribe, are the most intelligent in a clan, the iron ore is at the bottom of the mountain, the eighteen villages want to mine, but also have to communicate with the savages here, I don't know, where do these savages come from.
Meng Lu shouted a few times towards the savage who was almost thirty meters away, but the savage didn't seem to understand the language, Bunu, and Huang Ling shouted directly at the savage in Chinese, but it still didn't work.
Luo Yi was so anxious that he hurriedly said: "Whoever knows the language of other clans, tell them to see if they can understand it." ”
The teenagers are not stupid, they usually hunt with a few people around the prey, and now they have become the prey of the savages, and it is best not to fight, but they also know a little bit of other languages, and say it again.
Speaking here, the savage also stopped, but he didn't seem to understand, the wolf's tooth arrow was still aimed at everyone, not only Luo Yi was anxious, everyone was very nervous, there was only one life, who was not afraid of death, Luo Yi was about to despair, and at this time, the savage on the other side was chattering and couldn't understand the language.
Luo Yi looked at Huang Ling and Meng Lu, both of them signaled, they didn't understand, Luo Yi was depressed! Could it be that Lao Tzu crossed over and was killed by the savages like this, at this time a recruit boy said: "Young commander, what they say is that Puyue is still a language that few people in the Puyue tribe can speak now." ”
Luo Yi was excited and tears were about to flow out, and hurriedly said: "Mengyu, do you know what he said? ”
"They said, 'Why are we, to trespass into their territory?'
"Tell them that we didn't mean to, and by the way, ask if we can meet their patriarch."
Meng Yu said to the savage, relayed Luo Yi's words, Luo Yi didn't understand that these Puyue people came, fortunately this time they brought Meng Yu, the Puyue people in the eighteen villages, it seems that there is only one Meng Yu, at the beginning, Meng Yu was clever and could also order Chinese, but I didn't expect it to come in handy now.
Meng Yu and the wild man talked for a long time, it seems that this kind of Puyue language, Meng Yu is not too good.
Meng Yu turned around and said, "Young Commander, they said it was okay to see the patriarch, but they asked us to lay down our arms."
As soon as Luo Yi heard that there was a door, he hurriedly told everyone to put down their weapons, but everyone, they were a little afraid to do this, but the arrow on the opposite side was always aimed here, Meng Lu said: "Young commander, this is not appropriate, or we will protect you and kill it, our weapons are better than theirs." ”
Luo Yi thinks that if you really do this, you will die, what if other people's weapons are not as good as you, don't you see that there are many people's families? Isn't it possible to run away by killing a few, don't you see the "iron sand feet" of the savages? didn't wear shoes, stepped on thorns, nothing, the weapons were all bows and arrows, not pistols, Luo Yi hurriedly rejected Meng Lu's proposal.
Luo Yi looked at the people who didn't want to put down their weapons and said: "Put them all down, since they didn't start at the beginning, it means that they don't want to kill us, and now there is still the possibility of easing, so put away the weapons." ”
Finally, under the help and persuasion of Huang Ling, everyone put down their weapons, and in times of crisis, they always feel that if they hold something, their hearts will be stable, although they know that even if they hold weapons, they will not be able to beat so many wild people, and everyone still doesn't want to put them down.
Luo Yi felt that it was more reliable to deal with himself and Huang Ling at this time, so he called Meng Yu, and the three of them walked to the front, with a smile on their faces, and a smile is always the best international language.
Under Luo Yi's signal, Meng Yu took the leftover buckwheat cake that he had eaten on the top of the mountain in the morning, and walked towards the person who looked like he might be the boss of the savage, and the atmosphere was much better, but the people on the other side, the arrows were still on the string.
Meng Yu put the buckwheat cake in front of the wild man, and motioned for the wild man to eat it, but when he saw that the wild man did not eat it, Meng Yu was clever enough to pick up a small piece of it and eat it, and when the wild man saw Meng Yu eating it, he also picked up a piece and ate it.
This savage also took better care of his younger brother, and took the buckwheat cake to a savage, and distributed it to many savages to eat, the buckwheat cake was originally made by Luo Yi and everyone for fear of trouble, and kept it for dinner at night, how can so many savages eat it now, Luo Yi asked someone to send the remaining fried rice over.
The atmosphere eased, and the arrows of the savages were not facing everyone all the time, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Meng Yu was muttering something with the savages, and while talking, he also looked at where Luo Yi was, and seeing that things had improved, Luo Yi felt that as the head of this team, he should go to the front.
With Meng Lu and Huang Ling, the three of them walked over, Luo Yi tried his best to put on his face what he thought was the best smile, came to Ye Sanbu and stood still and said: "There is a lot of disturbance, we didn't mean to enter your territory, and now I hope to meet your patriarch, we have no malicious intent." ”
The wild man looked at Meng Yu, obviously he also knew that it was Luo Yi who was in charge, and it was Meng Yu who could communicate with them.
Meng Yu grunted and talked to the wild, the wild man smiled and nodded, and under the leadership of the wild man, everyone started again, a new round of mountain patrol.
But now no one is singing, "The king called me to patrol the mountain", Luo Yi also felt that he would sing less in the wild in the future, although the sound could scare the beasts away a lot, but it would also attract some wild people who didn't know where they came, bad luck!.