In the evening, Acorn took the captives and the rest of his people to the river.

For the first time, the eyes of the six people tied to the tree showed a look of surprise, they knew that those who were tied to the ropes were captives, and this tribe had captured so many people at once?

After simply setting up the camp, Jian Chen tied the six captives aside, not allowing them to see their own people eating acorns, nor how much food their people still had.

The soldiers were on standby, the wolf skin led the people to fish with nets on the river, and Chen Jian was anxiously waiting for the scouts to return.

Before the sun went down, the scouts finally returned.

"Jian, there are a lot of people, just down the river, men about the same as us."

"What about women and children?"

"In the back. They leaned against the river, also had flags, and were also in line. ”

"Flags?"

"Yes, it has a moth on it, and it is softer than our flag, and it flutters in the wind."

"Moths? Not a bird? ”

"No, it's a moth, the flag flies in the wind, just like a moth also flies, the bird has no whiskers, I have eaten a lot before, I will not admit it. By the way, they had sheep, and an animal they had never seen before, with horns on their heads, and fur the color of knives and fire, but they walked very slowly, and carried a lot of things on them. There is also an animal that resembles a scalp tribe, but it is much smaller and has long ears. ”

"You didn't meet their scouts?"

"We met, but they didn't do anything, so we didn't do anything, we shot two arrows at each other and left."

Jian Chen nodded and said, "Let's rest." ”

Obviously, the other party also discovered Chen Jian and these people, and now they are afraid of beating wolves with hemp sticks.

Chen Jian was carrying prisoners here, with limited mobility and little food.

The other party migrated with the entire tribe and had to take care of the elderly and children, and no one wanted to do it first, but everyone thought that the other party might do it, so they could only be cautious, and if they were not careful, they would be attacked by the other party.

As for the moth as a flag, one may be abstract, and the other may be realistic.

The abstract meaning may be that this tribe thinks that moths are extremely powerful in fighting fires, and tribes that worship the light may use moths as banners, just as many ancient jade bi in ancient times were in the shape of moths.

In practical significance, perhaps it is this tribe that has mastered the technology of weaving silk, so it uses silkworm moths as its banner. There are no mulberry trees here, but there are many types of silk threads, and it doesn't have to be silkworms.

Oak trees, oak trees, these can raise silkworms, the types of silkworms are completely different, Chen Jian has seen winter silkworm cocoons in the acorn forest, maybe they breed silkworms, silk threads are much worse than mulberry silkworms, the bedding in the previous life often used 100% silk as a gimmick, but what silkworms never made clear.

The beast that the scout spoke of as if it was on fire was a cow. Those with long ears and smaller than horses should be donkeys. Whether it is a donkey, a cow or a horse, most of them are eaten as meat in this era, and since the other party is at most a technical level of copper and stone, there should be no regular wheels, and the stone cannot carve a module that can be compared.

Chen Jian wanted to communicate with those captives, and found that many words were completely different, and the gap was more than just dialects.

For example, things like pottery, bows and arrows, and fishing nets are necessarily different from the names of that tribe, because the names of these things are all self-made pronunciations. As for those abstract words, the pronunciation of beauty, good, happiness, numbers, etc., is completely intangible.

Throughout the night, Jian Chen did not sleep soundly, the bonfire outside the camp did not stop, and the number of people on duty at night was twice as large as before.

Early the next morning, when Jian Chen was about to send out scouts again, the two of them came to their camp a few hundred paces away and shouted a few words.

Someone had spotted them, and the scout had crept around behind them.

The two men hung their bows on their bodies, made a gesture of non-hostility, and slowly walked to the front of the camp.

a man and a woman, the woman's body is wrapped in silkworm silk cloth, and her hair is adorned with shells; The man was dressed like the six people, and he also had a piece of jade hanging around his neck, which seemed to have a high status.

When the six people who were arrested yesterday saw them, they immediately muttered something.

Several people escorted Chen Jian to their side, presumably they wanted to exchange for their own clansmen. Chen Jian didn't want to make a feud for the time being, even if he wanted to fight, he would have to wait until he had stabilized the harvest, but it was a little troublesome to communicate.

He was about to make a gesture when the woman with the shell on her head crouched down and drew a picture on the ground with a stick.

The picture is a person with thick lines, and two more villains come out from under the human body, and then the woman points to herself and points to one of the villains. He pointed to the person with the pendant around his neck who was caught yesterday, and tapped at the other villain.

Jian Chen understood that these two people should be twin brothers and sisters, and it seemed that the other party really wanted to exchange these people back.

He also squatted on the ground and drew a line on the ground. A moth was drawn on the east side of the line, a yin and yang fish of his tribe was drawn on the west side, and then a person tied by a rope was drawn on his side, and after gently erasing it, he drew the villain to the other side of the line.

The woman nodded and made a pleading gesture.

Jian Chen thought for a while, found a small wooden stick and made a simple small scale, and after balancing, he attached a stone to one end, which immediately sank, signaling that something had to be exchanged.

The woman glanced at the man who came with her, and the man took out a small silk bag, poured out some golden millet from it, handed it to Jian Chen, and measured it, meaning that it could be exchanged for millet.

Chen Jian touched these millets, knowing that this was a tribe that already had agriculture, although the clansmen didn't know what it was, but they knew that this thing could be eaten, and immediately someone said change it, and was stepped on by Chen Jian, and the person immediately stopped talking.

The food tribe must be lacking, but the other party must not let it know, otherwise, after changing back, the other party will follow behind him, and he will not have to fight to drag the clansmen down.

So he asked the wolfskin to bring a big fish, threw it aside and patted his belly, indicating that the tribe was not short of food, and did not want to change it.

He drew a simple cow on the ground and hung it on the drawn scale, on the other end of which was a man.

The cow is very rudimentary, but the horns and trapezoidal head are still very recognizable. After finishing the painting, the other side immediately shook his head, and muttered for a long time, Chen Jian understood a few words, but the meaning of the words could not be connected.

So he drew a group of people on his side, and one person stood in front of the group; A group of people is also drawn on the opposite side, and a person stands in front of that group.

He pointed to the man standing in front of the crowd on his side, and then to himself, and gestured that he was the leader, and let your leader talk to me.

The two men looked at each other and nodded.

Chen Jian stood on that line, let the wolf skin pick up the bow and arrow and shoot an arrow to the west, pointed at the group of villains below, and pointed to the place where the arrow fell; Then he sent the wolfskin an arrow to the west, and pointed it at them.

Finally, he pointed at himself, and then at the other party's leader, the villain, and stepped on the line with his foot.

The two of them understood, and when they got up to leave, in order to prove that they had enough food, Jian Chen also gave them a fish and half a gourd to drink the rest of the wine.

In order to let the other party not have other ideas, he also showed the two of them the terrible power of the bronze axe to split wood, and let all the soldiers with bronze weapons give the two of them a ride.

The two men didn't look much shocked when they saw the terrifying power of the bronze axe splitting wood, but they were only in awe after seeing more than two hundred soldiers with bronze weapons in their hands.

Before leaving, he bent slightly at Jian Chen, which seemed to be a kind of etiquette, and Jian Chen also learned from them to bend down, and after these two people left, Jian Chen rubbed his hands, and said in his heart that he should be able to scare him, right?

Several clansmen asked, "Jian, we should change our food, and go back to planting." ”

"Change for food? If you change food, you won't get anything! ”

Chen Jian roared a few times, wishing that there would be a handful of wheat grains on the faces of the two envoys now, and the tribe that developed agriculture knew that their tribe was also farming when they saw the wheat grains, and it was not the kind of gathering tribe that could not support a population of two hundred, but unfortunately there was not.

He told the men to retreat a stone's throw away, and the captives were all taken behind, and the soldiers stood in a line to give themselves a boost.

In order to act in place, he deliberately let the clansmen get a lot of fish, put them into a fishing net, and then trawl the net after the other party arrives.

The clansmen were busy, preparing their expressions for the upcoming chieftain negotiations. The soldiers polished their swords and spears with gravel to make them brighter, and put on simple armor woven from deerskin and wicker.

When the sun was shining overhead, there was a sound of horns in the east, which seemed to have the rhythm of drums, and the sound of mooing could be heard.

The soldiers were ready, and the boats for the show on the water were ready to trawl.

"Beat the drums! Pipe! ”

The drummers beat the huge war drums, trying to overpower the sound of the other party, and the clansmen roared what Jian Chen said when he played the bone flute before, about the partners who went out at the same time, we must be together in life and death, holding your hand until the old ...... The rhyme used in this era was changed to a short four-character poem.

The flutists played the war song that they learned to be called "The Hand of the Ruler and the Son Growing Together", but in fact the tune was a simplified version of the "March of the Grenadiers", and the melodious and cheerful melody and the sound of the war drums were particularly in tune, breaking the suffocation of the battle.

Although they had done their best, they had not left anything behind, and the sword and shield men had already hidden in the woods on the left flank of the group, and some of them were ready to surprise along the river at any time.

Soon, the sword and shield soldiers reluctantly returned, and found the other party's people in the woods, and the two sides were facing each other. Jian Chen also smiled helplessly, it would be a fool not to prepare at this time.

In the sound of war drums, the opposing party appeared in a military formation, on the right was a group of riders riding oxen, with spears like a forest in the middle, and a flag fluttering in the wind in the center of the team, and huge moths seemed to come to life.

When the team reached the vicinity of the feathered arrow, a man in the crowd held an emerald jade axe and swung it, and the crowd immediately let out a shout.

Not to be outdone, Jian Chen waved the bladeless, the clansmen roared in unison, and the drums beat like a torrential rain.

The other party put down the jade axe, and Jian Chen also fell without a blade, each handed over his weapon to the people around him, stepped forward, and stood on the line drawn in the middle, which happened to be where the feather arrows of both sides could not shoot.