When Chen Jian wanted to destroy a nascent civilization, that nascent civilization was also thinking about this opponent he had never met.

More than 100 miles away from the village, in the upper reaches of the Caohe River, the military leader of that tribe, the badger, was looking at a feathered arrow, and there was a clay pot at his feet, which he had taken from the distant tribe, and more than fifty light and strong captives.

The badger is physically strong and is the best hunter of the tribe, so it is elected by the tribe to become a military leader.

The real leader of the tribe was not him, but a woman named Redfish who sat on a tiger skin, the priest of the entire tribe.

Redfish was not her name, it was used by every woman in the tribe who became a priest. Because a long time ago, there was a legend in the tribe that the people would see a big red fish leaping up by the river, which seemed to be about to jump over a rainbow in the sky. It is said that when you see all this, you can choose to settle there and be blessed by God.

Outside a simple tent made of birch bark, the badgers, including the few who had just joined the tribe, smeared the blood of their original tribe on their faces as a sign of disconnection with the past.

The badger stood up, drew the bow with the newly learned method of drawing the bow, and maintained its position, and the arrow with its feathers flew out, accurately hitting a small tree not far away, and its heart was full of surprise.

This method of drawing the bow is so good that in the past he had to pinch the tail of the arrow with his hand, and only the strongest person could keep it steady, but now even the worst archers can keep it!

With the addition of tail feathers, the arrow can fly farther. You can't tell the difference up close, but a little farther away you can see featherless arrows tumbling and tilting in the air......

He wanted to know all this, but unfortunately he couldn't understand what the captured people were saying.

Pointing at the feathered arrows, these people would mumble a few words; Pointing to the clay pot, it is still the same, but there is a word in these words that is pronounced "jian".

So he went to the priest Redfish, and after begging for guidance from heaven, Redfish told him that it was supposed to be the name of a man who had invented these things.

After hearing this explanation, the badger was a little shocked.

According to the legend of his own tribe, he invented the bow and discovered that the people who domesticated those animals were blessed by the heavens, and they either became priests or became the most powerful military chiefs, and there are still legends of them in the tribe today.

Could it be that this person named Jian is also blessed by God? He couldn't help but be a little scared.

Three days ago, the tribesmen found a corpse by the river, a corpse of their own people, drowned by the river and hung in the reeds.

He suspected that someone had killed him, probably the tribe he had never met, and he panicked a little when he thought of the man named Jian.

This panic was especially acute when they saw the captives who were struggling to smash wood to the ground to build a fence. They all have strange hair combed and are completely different from themselves. Even Redfish can't explain why.

The few who joined the tribe were strong, untied their own hair, and begged to survive with badgers who could not understand the language. Hence the sacrifice, which is a tribal tradition.

While the previous Redfish was still alive, the badger and the current Redfish learned that their tribe had migrated here from where the sun had set.

It is said that their tribe was originally very powerful, and many different tribes lived together, raising sheep and horned deer, burning the nearby woods with fire, throwing seeds, and collecting those seeds for food in the autumn.

There were twenty tribes who lived in the pre-migration area, and they would count, because of ten fingers and ten toes, so they were every twenty decimal places; They lived by the river and made tents sewn out of birch bark to shelter them from the wind and rain; Each of their priests was able to teach them something different, drinking the milk of the horned deer and goats in the spring and summer, eating the seeds in the autumn and winter, and fishing with reed thorns.

Until one year there was a sudden flood and the village was destroyed.

Undeterred, the tribes were ready to rebuild their homes. But the next day a great drought began, and countless grasshoppers flew to their place and ate everything. The winter was so cold that many sheep and deer froze to death, and the situation continued the following year.

The priests said that the gods were angry and needed blood to feed them, so they went to raid the nearby tribes and brought back people to sacrifice to the gods, but there was no relief.

The priest paid for this, and in the wrath of the tribe, he threw her into the fire as a sacrifice. Some people still hold on, others have different ideas.

After secretly discussing with several tribes, they took advantage of the night to snatch the remaining sheep and deer of the rest of the tribes, and left the village with only light and strong, they did not know if those who remained in the village were still alive, but they just wanted to find a land that had not been abandoned by the gods.

They don't know if the floods and droughts of those years have caused other tribes to migrate, and they think that everything in front of them is the whole world.

One night, many meteors fell in the direction of the rising sun, and along with them, two new beings appeared in the tribe, a man and a woman.

The priest prayed for God's guidance and thought of the legend of the village: walk along the river in the direction of the rising sun until you see a red fish leaping up as if to cross a rainbow, and that is the place where the gods protect and where you can settle.

So the two children migrated with the tribe towards the place where the sun rose, and whenever they came to a river, they would burn the trees and throw the seeds.

After a few years, the gods would abandon the land, and the seeds they had thrown would no longer grow luxuriantly, and the water would wash away the dirt on it, and the originally clear stream would become muddy every time it rained, so they would go east again.

The years passed, and the two children grew up.

One is strong and cunning, tough as a badger; The other child was clever and wise, and succeeded the previous priest as Redfish.

It was not until twenty moons before the full moon that the men were migrating eastward along the turquoise river when a heavy rain suddenly fell, and the two horned deer ran away in the thunder.

When the people went to look for the two horned deer after the rain, they were surprised to find a huge red fish jumping out of the river, as if they were about to jump over a rainbow in the distant sky.

At that moment, both the badger and the red fish, and all the people of the tribe fell to their knees, knowing that the gods had once again blessed them, that this would be the land where they could live, and that they could finally end their decades of migration.

So a small village was built, and the last harvest had a lot of seeds, and the land was fertile, and the wind and rain were good, and there were many horned deer, and there were many sheep, and in autumn there were countless oak trees on the mountain, and this year God showed his protection, and the mountain was full of acorns and wild fruits......

Both the red fish and the badger know that whether it is a meteor when they were born or a scene they saw this time, as long as the clan stabilizes, their names will be remembered forever and become legends, just like the ancestors who invented everything.

This year, more seeds were sown and more people needed to harvest, so since they were not migrating, Redfish and the badgers decided to put a wooden fence nearby.

On a hunting trip to a horned deer, the badger and his tribe spotted smoke in the distance, and the tribe was small in number, so they rushed in and killed the old man and the child, and brought back those who could still work.

Anyway, God is blessing, and there are enough acorns and wild fruits for these people to live until next year, so let these people do the work of cutting wood and building fences, and wait until the seeds are ripe before harvesting.

This success has strengthened the badger's position and made the people more convinced that this is a god-given land.

So he drew a red fish on a large stone in the village with ochre and sacrificed the two young women to the gods.

The badger is a good hunter, he knows how to kill his enemies, but he doesn't know how to tame them. So he went to consult Redfish.

Redfish smiled and told the badger, "Just tell the difference between fear and anger." ”

The badger was still puzzled, and the redfish killed a man in front of those who had captured them, separating hatred and fear from his eyes.

The fear-revealing ones were just as she thought, spreading their hair and smearing their blood on themselves.

The women and men were selected for the future heirs of the tribe, and more importantly, to understand what that "Jian" was.

Now the men are learning to glue feathers to their feathered arrows and draw their bows in better ways, while the women pass the snatched clay pots and wonder why they are so round.

Their clay pots are all made by hand, small and ugly, for the people of this era, symmetry is the best beauty, this clay pot gives women infinite reverie. Even the wisest of them all, Redfish, couldn't give an explanation.

Hongyu remembered that last night when the tribesmen boiled seeds in small pottery bowls, the few people who returned to Shun measured a huge meaning with their hands, and mentioned "Jian" again, and Hongyu understood, that tribe has a huge clay pot.

The jars were small, and she had tried to make a larger one, but it didn't work, and it would crack if it was slightly sunned.

She thought of making a ditch in the ground with earth, covering it with dirt, leaving a hole every other pot at a distance. When the fire is lit, the fire goes through the mud flue, and rows of small clay pots pinched out by hand are placed side by side on top of it, which can also save time, but after all, it is not as convenient as large clay pots.

"How the hell did that guy named Ken come up with such a big clay pot?"

She stared at the crooked clay pot of her own people, and then at the round clay pot that she had snatched, and fell into deep thought.

While pondering, the badger did not dare to disturb, and after a long time, the red fish raised his head and said to the tribesmen: "This land is given to us by God, only we should live here, only we should be blessed by God, the man named Jian snatched what should have been ours." ”

She pointed to the stone not far away with the ochre red fish painted on it, and the people of the tribe saw the scene of the fish crossing the rainbow with their own eyes, and never doubted it.

"Do you want a clay pot like this?"

She asked loudly with the clay pot in her hand, and the people shouted in unison.

"Then find them, and plunder the man named Jian, or the one of their tribe who can burn pottery, and there will always be people who will fear death, and their fear will give us back these things that God has given us!"

The badger nodded, he also wanted to know what the man named Ken looked like, but he didn't know where the tribe was.

The red fish smiled again, she knew that she needed water to burn pottery, she knew that it looked good to comb it into braids, and if she wanted to see her beauty, she had to be on the surface of the water.

But she would not tell her people all this, but only the revelation from heaven, and she was sure that they were on the banks of the river.

The badger selected a few people to ride the horned deer and searched for the tribe along the river to see how many people there were in the tribe and what it looked like.

Five of the best hunters set out, armed with bows and arrows, and flints, and rattan tied to antlers for easy riding, and walked down the river.

Redfish was thinking that if it was a small tribe, they would have to be wiped out. Because she felt a little scary, such a tribe was like a little tiger, which would grow up one day, and when she grew up, her tribe might have to migrate again. And she's tired of the life of migration.

Even if she was smart, she would not have known that a natural disaster a few decades ago caused two tribes that had been far apart to start migrating in different ways, until they collided in this otherwise empty place a few decades later.

Unexpectedly, the meteor when she was born also brought changes to another distant tribe.

It's just an accident.