"That's it, I'll send someone to inform Eyue first, after all, Xia Cheng and Echeng are sworn to be brothers' cities, and the two surnames of Wei E are also real relatives, let's see what he says first." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Jian Chen rubbed his head, did not directly answer everyone's questions, and decided to drag it out first. If the Xijon people fight in Xia City, maybe everyone in the city will rise up and fight, but if they want to fight for other cities, I am afraid they will not be so interested.

There was no better way for everyone for a while, so they had to send riders first, and find a few of those people in the Acropolis to go to Echeng together.

In the evening all the people in the council were called together, and instead of discussing the matter again, they distributed the harvest of this year's winter wheat.

A few days later, Eyue sent someone to reply to the message: "Echeng and Xia Cheng are brothers' cities, if Xia Cheng goes on an expedition, he will personally take someone to go on the expedition with Ji Xia." ”

This sentence is equivalent to not saying it, and kicked the ball to Chen Jian again, letting Chen Jian make a decision.

It can also be seen from Eyue's message that he is not worried about the number of those Xirong people, the two cities jointly send troops, plus the people of the acropolis, victory can still be guaranteed.

If you win, you will have benefits, and the Acropolis will bow between the two cities in the future.

But no one can guarantee victory in a war, and as a leader, he has to consider the possibility of defeat. Besides, the Acropolis is too far away after all, and the threat of Xirong will not affect Echeng for the time being, and there is Xia Cheng in front of it.

Chen Jian sent someone to bring a message to Eyue again, this time he did not directly say about the expedition, but said: "Echeng is planting corn, and it is not the time to harvest at this time, but the wheat in Xiacheng is already yellow." Can you send some slaves to help Xia Cheng harvest wheat, for each slave, Xia Cheng will give Echeng a certain amount of wheat or bronze farm tools, and even exchange them for carts, ploughshares, etc. ”

After getting the message, E Yue felt that Chen Jian should not want to send troops, so he didn't say it directly, but this message couldn't be more obvious.

He had never seen this form of employment before, and sometimes the slaves would be idle when there was no farm work, and this year Echeng was just preparing to plant wheat, and there were not many of them, and a large number of slaves were indeed idle at this time.

Hearing that some new tools in Xia Cheng could be exchanged, the people of Echeng were very happy, and they sent their own slaves one after another, and Eyue also allocated a batch of slaves from the public property, a total of more than 1,500 people.

Of course, the slaves' meals were provided by Xia Cheng, and Chen Jian also sent people to pick them up along the way, and walked for more than 300 miles for eight days, and after the points were clear, they were assigned to the fields and began to rush to harvest.

The busy Xia Cheng seemed to have forgotten about Wei Xi and the others, except for the food and herbs that were brought every day, Wei Xi was still faintly unconscious, and those who were traveling with him were at a loss.

When I asked to see Chen Jian, I couldn't find anyone, either in the new army barracks, or in the council hall to discuss important matters. The people who went to Echeng also brought back the news that it was up to Jian Chen whether Eyue would send troops or not.

"It seems that Ji Xia is not ready to send troops, let's go back! My parents, wife, and children are still in the city, and I will die with them even if I want to die. ”

"It's better than being here and watching them get killed!"

"Let's go, I'll go back tomorrow!"

Yuan looked at the impatient crowd and snorted, "What's the use of going back?" Nothing more than death. Men are going to die, and they are going to die in great things. ”

"You know what is a big deal as a cowherder? I didn't know what you said to Wei Xi at the beginning, he could agree to let you come along, you don't even have a surname, what are you? ”

"That's it, I think you're afraid of death in the city, so you found an excuse to escape. You are not a relative surnamed Wei, what can you do? ”

"If you want me to say let's wait, wait for Xia Cheng to finish harvesting the wheat, and then see what Ji Xia is going to do, didn't he say that after harvesting the wheat, give us an answer?"

Yuan listened to these insulting words, and his heart was dark, he really didn't have the surname Wei, but what did you relatives surnamed Wei come up with? When Ji Xia asked that day, they all knew that they were impatiently begging Ji Xia to send troops, if it weren't for me, Ji Xia would be able to know the situation inside and outside the city so quickly?

Yuan said that men want to die, and they also have to die in major matters, originally he wanted to take these people to force Chen Jian, but it was a big deal to use blood to splash five steps to force Chen Jian to swear to send troops.

If Jian Chen felt that he had been insulted, he could have apologized with death, but he was guilty of insulting the leader, and he had to abide by the oath.

Compared with going back to the city to die in vain, this is the place to die, and this is the big thing.

However, before he could finish speaking, he was ridiculed like this, and he felt a sense of arrogance in his heart for no reason.

This method will be used by you, I Yuan, you have to rely only on yourself to let Ji Xia send troops, and even if you are the leader of Weihe at that time, you have to thank me! You are relatives surnamed Wei, what's the big deal?

The group continued to discuss what seemed ridiculous to Yuan, and he walked out of the room himself, clenching his fists.

A few days later, after returning to the city after a busy day, the people of Xia Cheng saw Yuan sitting alone at the gate of the city, knocking on the stones and singing to the beat, and the singing was very good, so many people who were busy were attracted to listen to him singing with a smile.

"The grasshoppers chirp and sing, and men and women gather to harvest wheat. The wheat stacks were tall and golden, and everyone was laughing and happy. It's a good year, so why not be happy? ”

"Grasshoppers are bouncing and the barns are piled up. Everyone sang and danced, and I was sad alone. I didn't see the person I missed, how did I get happy? ”

"The grains of wheat are golden and plump, just like my women. The heart is haunted, and the depressed thoughts are difficult to dissipate. I didn't see the person I missed, how did I get happy? ”

"In the wilderness on the outskirts of the Acropolis, the big fox is staggered. Xijon was besieged by thousands, but his wife and children were still in the city. That's the person I miss, how can I be happy? ”

"When we first saw each other before, the millet seedlings were green and green in early summer, and men and women hugged each other in the field, frolicking and laughing. That's the person I miss, and I can't forget it. ”

"Now that the Acropolis is besieged, it is the beginning of green summer, and the female guards and men are missing in summer, and they are worried for hundreds of miles. I want to go back to the Acropolis and die with her. ”

"Xijon is brutal and terrible, am I not afraid? It's not that I'm not afraid, but I have an oath with her that I will be together even if I die, how can I forget it? ”

The desolate singing accompanied by the stones in Yuan's hand, the rhythm is clear, and it is done in one go, from the irrelevant grasshopper to the wheat to the unhappy thoughts, which is very in line with the form of the Xiacheng folk song.

At first, everyone who listened to it was still laughing and groaning, but when they heard Yuan's hoarse voice at the end, many people were also depressed, and from Yuan's point of view, they thought that if they encountered something like that, maybe it would be the same as his choice, right?

Xia Cheng has never had a poignant love, and when the people of Xia Cheng heard the poignancy for the first time, some women couldn't help but feel sad.

"You must like her very much, that's why you swear to her ancestors that you will die together."

People praised such stories, but Yuan smiled bitterly: "She and I didn't swear an oath to our ancestors with blood, but must the oath be spoken?" Isn't it an oath if you don't say it? Just like your parents, you don't swear an oath to your ancestors, but you still have to honor them and provide for them, which is also a kind of oath. ”

"Xia Cheng and Acropolis did not swear to their ancestors with blood, but we spoke the same words, used the same chopsticks, and sang the same songs. If someone who is not of my race kills us, of course we must kill them back; The younger brother was insulted and scolded by outsiders, shouldn't the elder brother be beaten back? Do you still have to swear an oath between brother and brother? This is the same as providing for one's parents, the life and death of men and women, it is an oath that does not need to be spoken. ”

The clansmen were not aware of the previous foreshadowing, but because of the previous foreshadowing, this sound a little reasonable, and it seems that it is really like that.

Some people have seen the grassland tribes, think about them, and then think about the people in the Acropolis and Echeng, and Yidi has an intuitive impression of the distance between them and the clan.

More people just sang poignant stories from Poor Yuan, but they also wondered if it was a steppe tribesman who sang about it, would they be uncomfortable with it? After thinking about it for a while, I don't think it will be, at least I don't understand it, just like killing a pig and killing a cow, if the pig and cow can speak Xia Cheng, I'm afraid it will be difficult to start.

As for supporting their parents and the like, the clansmen also thought about it, and it seems that they really did not swear that their mother raised them; I have to support my mother. It's true that this doesn't require an oath, but everyone does, so does what Yuan said really make sense?

Perhaps, Xia Cheng is really an elder brother, and he should really help the people of the Acropolis? The women thought so.

To fight, you have to listen to Ji Xia, Ji Xia said to fight, then fight, fight back and forth anyway, Xia Cheng is getting better and better, but Ji Xia wants to say that he won't fight, whoever takes us to fight us won't go, that's going to die. The men thought so.

After thinking about it, I listened to Yuan tell some stories, either with tears or with emotion, and the clansmen who lacked entertainment went back to sleep with various thoughts.

Jian Chen soon knew what Yuan was doing, and secretly admired it in his heart, because the next day Yuan continued to sing other songs, which were deeply sympathetic, starting from the good, and shattering the beauty into tragedy little by little, instead of crying from the beginning.

The song is not good, it is just a slang minor, and all kinds of metaphors are also confused, but the clansmen like to listen to Yuan sing a paragraph when they come to rest in the evening.

Gradually, women came to ask, can they help the Acropolis? Doesn't it mean that we are all one ancestor? You see the strange and pitiful, his women are still in the Acropolis, I heard that the people of Xijon are going to take all the women and lock them up in the house to give birth......

Chen Jianxin said pull it down, that is obviously a way to increase the population of the Acropolis, it is really art that comes from its own life, and it is really the same as the soldiers of a certain romantic country in the previous life according to the experience of their own nation.

Although I was slandered in my heart, I saw that the winter wheat was about to be harvested, and it was time to come forward to meet these people.

As soon as he appeared, Yuan rushed over and shouted, "Ji Xia is willing to send troops?" ”

"I'm still thinking about it."

"I have a few words that I can help Ji Xia think about."

"Tell me about it."

"The people of Sijon are like wolves, they want to open the sheepfold and eat the sheep, not that they only want to eat the sheep, they are insatiable and will not be satisfied. When the sheep in the Acropolis are gone, they will eat the summer city. With the Acropolis blocking Xirong, Xia Cheng doesn't have to worry. ”

"If you don't send troops at this time, the people of Xia Cheng will certainly not be killed or injured, but this is like eating poisonous mushroom soup for dinner. The poisonous mushroom soup is delicious, and you will be full for dinner, but you will die after a few days. If you don't send troops, there will be no dead and wounded now, but there will be more in the future. It's like if you have a fur hat and the fur hat is burned in the summer, you don't feel sorry for the fact that you don't need it at the time, but your ears will be cold in the winter. ”

"As a man in silk, you can't just look at what is in front of you." (To be continued.) )