The autumn grass is very suitable for travel, there are not so many mosquitoes in the summer, the cow pulling the cart can save the strength to flick the tail, the coachman only occasionally flicks the whip, the old cow knows that the coachman is reluctant to beat himself, and he refuses to speed up the pace at all. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

On a small road on the south bank of the grass river, a caravan from Xia Cheng headed for the Acropolis with goods, six ox carts, twenty donkeys carrying goods, and a dozen men and women.

This is the second batch of caravans from Xia Cheng to the Acropolis, and it is estimated that they will arrive at the Acropolis before the Beginning of the Winter Festival, the last time the caravan exchanged back thirty slaves, and this time the purpose was also to exchange some of the goods that the Acropolis urgently needed for this kind of tool that could speak.

Along the way, the men were talking about being too busy this fall to have a sports day like last year's.

The coachman and the people around him muttered: "Ji Xia originally said that there was a driver this time, and the reward last time was a comb and a pig's tooth pendant, but now the city has everything, and this time the reward will definitely be better." ”

"Even if you don't have those rewards, whoever runs the fastest and shoots the most accurately, but the whole city knows it, otherwise there are thousands of people in the city now, and it is not easy for everyone to recognize it. You don't have to worry, didn't Ji Xia say that there will be no autumn in the future, it will be in May and June. ”

The coachman sighed and said, "I also know, but I just want to let the people of Echeng and the Acropolis participate together, and there will be more people." ”

"What are you afraid of? How many of them can drive in the two cities? It's tanuki and wolf skins that only those who can run fast and shoot accurately should be worried. ”

When the coachman thought about it, he couldn't help laughing, hummed a few songs that were circulating in the summer city, pulled out the wooden cork on the gourd, drank a sip of corn wine, and whipped the whip with a strong wrist.

The few women sitting in the car didn't care much about this, but curiously surrounded Hongyu, the leader of the caravan, and asked some women about eternal topics.

Hongyu subconsciously touched his lower abdomen, listened to the curious question of the woman next to him, and naturally smiled: "How do I know whose problem it is?" I haven't slept with anyone else, and he probably hasn't slept with anyone else, has he? Who knows because of whom there are no children......"

An older woman whispered a few words in her ear, or her voice was a little louder, causing the women around her to laugh.

While laughing, someone in front of him walked to the car and asked Hongyu: "There are still four or five miles ahead of the house built by the last caravan, will you stay there today?" ”

"Then let's rest there for the night, according to the rules, how much firewood and grass we use should be prepared and put in the house before leaving."

"Okay."

The reason why I asked Hongyu was because of respect, and the reason for respect was not because of Jian Chen, but because she stood up and completed the task of building the stable when no one else dared to take over.

Today's Xia Cheng is like this, whoever can stand out and do something that the clan will remember will win the respect of others.

Redfish enjoyed this respect, from being a priest of a rival tribe to a bystander from a city out of nothing, and now a participant himself.

I don't know when, the last time Chen Jian went to conquer the northern tribes, it was the news that Hongyu arranged the city, and the clansmen were not only surprised, but also felt that this woman was very ruthless, because during the time when Jian Chen left, her former clansmen were arranged by her to go to Luo Island for a whole month and were not allowed to leave.

Such words sometimes reach her ears, and she should not hear them.

In the first place, this decision was made precisely because she was still thinking about the previous clansmen, and she was worried that the clansmen would make any resistance or something like when Jian Chen left, which was meaningless, and Jian Chen had promised to give the clansmen freedom and a little land in five years. She was a very pragmatic person, and understood that this was the only way to get the people out of slavery, and the rest of the roads could not succeed, so she threw both the people and the slaves on Luo Island, for fear that something would happen.

It was all she could do for her people, and since she didn't want to be a windmill that swung with the wind, she naturally wouldn't say something pleading when the two of them were together—in that case, she would always feel like a cargo on an ox cart, exchanging her body for what she wanted, something she couldn't and didn't want to accept.

From burning mountains, painting, supervising the city, to the stables, everything is done by one's own mind, so when you eat the corn flour that rewards you, you feel at ease, and you never feel that it is a charity.

From the beginning, it was just to be fed, but gradually he gained respect and recognition in the city, and he began to identify with the city.

The city already has its own traces, and even though the words on the walls have been washed away by the rain, they will remain in the minds of the people in the city forever.

This time he led the caravan to the Acropolis, and the people in the city did not have any objections, and before leaving, Jian Chen told her a lot, and it was not a simple exchange.

According to the caravan that went to the Acropolis for the first time, the Acropolis was about three hundred miles away from the Grass River, and because no one had ever walked it, there was no road at all.

Chen Jian sent people to clear a simple road along the route taken by the caravan for the first time, and built several huts dozens of miles apart to provide a place for future caravans to stay.

The house is not big, and there are some firewood piled up outside, all of which are dried in the sun, and some trees must be cut down and stacked after the caravan is used, and when the next caravan comes, the firewood will be dry.

The lonely house in the field was not guarded at all, but when Hongyu saw the hut, he found several people squatting in the open space next to the hut to make a fire, obviously there was a lot of dry wood piled up next to the house, and there were also large clay pots in it to boil water, but these people used the branches they picked to roast food there.

Redfish recognized one of them as Wei Xi, who had been to Xia City, where he was burning a rabbit at this time, and shouted from afar, "You are a caravan from Xia City?" ”

"yes, it's cold outside, why don't you go inside?"

"This is your house, and we can't go in. We shall not burn your wood, and if your master is not there, and go into another man's house, that is against the laws of the city, and shall be punished. ”

"Now that the master has arrived, can I invite you in to warm up?"

Wei Xi smiled and nodded in thanks, and after entering the house, he put the wild things on the ground with some embarrassment and said, "Your food in Xia Cheng is delicious, help us make some for us." ”

The red fish asked the tribesmen to clean up the wild things by the way, and Wei Xi warmed up by the fire for a while, and sighed: "Your place is very good, the cows and donkeys have fodder to eat when they come here, and the firewood is also dry." What goods did you bring with you this time? ”

"It's all commonly used. Are you here to hunt? ”

"Yes, it will be winter in two days, my brother will sacrifice to the heavens to celebrate this year's good harvest, and I will chase a deer for my brother. If you walk with me, you will be able to see the beginning of the winter festival where we sacrifice to the heavens. Are you the leader of this caravan? ”

"Hmm."

"The women of your summer city are very powerful, and the women of our Acropolis are rarely so powerful."

After Wei Xi finished speaking, he probably felt that the woman who was afraid of being misunderstood by the red fish in his city was stupid, and hurriedly explained: "They have to take care of the children or do other things on weekdays, and they don't have time. ”

"Babysitting all day?"

"We're not like you, we're fighting with Xijon all day long, and we're going to kill a lot of people. Sometimes the captured slave girls also have to give birth to our children, but the children born are not raised by the slave girls, but are divided into each family to be raised and become new people, and the women of our own tribe have to take care of many children. ”

Redfish was slightly stunned, he had never thought that the Acropolis would be so weird, and he was a little curious in his heart, wouldn't those children worry about their mothers when they grew up? But in the end, I didn't ask much.

Wei Xi rubbed his hands and said, "My brother does not allow our people to be merchants, he says that farming and fighting are the most important things. The children of our cities have to learn archery and the like from a very young age, and the best can go to war, and if they don't fight, they can't get slaves, and they can't get a lot of food in normal times. ”

"You are always at war, where do you get your food?"

"Slaves plant, nearby tribes also plant, they can't beat us, and they have to hand over half of the grain every year."

Redfish smiled, "It turns out that there are so many differences between the Acropolis and the Summer City? ”

"Yes, when I came out and took a look, I didn't think there would be such a strange city as you before I went to Xia City. I thought all the cities were the same as the Acropolis, but they were different. ”

There are many different places, and the red fish are asking about these strange things along the way.

Prior to this, in addition to knowing that the leader of the Acropolis was named Wei He, her understanding of the Acropolis was Xia Cheng with a different name.

When I arrived at the Acropolis, there was still one day before the Beginning of the Winter Festival.

The people next to Redfish pointed to the city in the distance, and asked with some disbelieving, "Is that the Acropolis?" ”

They knew that there were a lot of sheep on the Acropolis, there were a lot of people, and there were a lot of slaves.

So I didn't expect the Acropolis to be like this, the city walls are low, and the whole city is not a regular shape, and the naked eye can feel the distortion of the city wall, which is too far from the almost perfect rectangle of the summer city.

Perhaps the people of the Acropolis did not pay attention to these things, or perhaps they thought that the strong people were the best walls.

In the open space outside the city, a group of twelve or thirteen-year-old children were practicing archery and wrestling, and now it was a little cold, but the children were naked, and although their bodies were not enough, their flesh had broken some lines.

One of the children just glanced curiously at the group of redfish, and was immediately whipped by an adult, and the child kept his mouth shut and said nothing, probably because he would be beaten more if he made a sound.

What he heard from Wei Xi was a little different from what he saw with his own eyes, and Hongyu was also stunned for a long time, before he shook his head and smiled: "This is really a strange city. That's how Wei Xi felt when he first saw our city, right? (To be continued.) )