Su Yue did not ask Jian Chen to give an answer immediately, and very elegantly gave him a night of time to think about it, the small cities along the Grass River were too far away from Su Yue, and he was powerless. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he believed that Chen Jian would accept these conditions, although he did not understand what Chen Jian's real purpose in Onozawa was, but Chen Jian was able to go to Onozawa without even participating in the tribal gathering and discussion, which shows the importance of this matter.

Since Jian Chen had a big eye on Nozawa, Su Yue believed that Jian Chen would definitely marry him, and before Jian Chen left, he made a promise to Jian Chen: he would hand over the jade of Xia Cheng to him in a few days' oath in full view of everyone.

After leaving Su Yue's house, the people of the distant clan were already waiting, and it was Lu Yuan, who had proposed to restrict the rights of the leader in the first place, and there were several clan leaders around him.

The group of people didn't go around in circles, and asked directly, "Does Ji Xia really believe that the death of that relative is related to us?" ”

"The people of Xia Cheng only look at the results and don't ask their hearts. I did not believe, nor did I disbelieve. ”

A few people were happy, and this kind of ambiguous words would always hear what they wanted to hear. Under the graciously invitation of several people, Jian Chen followed them to the residence, where many clan leaders had gathered, and they all said hello after seeing Jian Chen.

It was hot around the brazier, and the leaders formed a circle, squeezing each other to make way for Chen Jian, and there was a clay pot warm in the brazier, in which was wine, and there were several cut gourds next to it, and the warm aroma of wine overflowed, but no one had the heart to take a sip.

"Ji Xia, the leader of Suyue has gone a little too far. Originally, he led a few clans to defeat Dongyi, and his prestige was high, and there was nothing wrong with us respecting him as the leader, even the most stupid people knew that the sheep needed a goat. ”

"Aside from the fact that he slandered us in connection with the death of the chief, is it acceptable to us the conditions he proposed? Since he is not sincere, we follow his thoughts, that is, it is a big deal to go back and never communicate again in the future. ”

"Xia Cheng is thousands of miles away, the soldiers are brave, and the clansmen are of the same heart, is it possible that you are still afraid of Sucheng?"

Lu Yuan directly questioned Jian Chen, and his words resonated with everyone, and several people shouted: "That's it, Su Yue is too selfish to become the leader." ”

"What did the leaders that everyone respected a few decades ago do? And how did he do it? The leader is what he says, who does he think he is? When he was the leader of Huawei, what did he still need to discuss with everyone, and he thought that his reputation was higher than that of the old leader? ”

"We're brothers, according to him, where are brothers? It's clearly a mother and a child! ”

"Those clans close to the river need Sucheng's help, and those clans close to Dongyi need Sucheng's soldiers, we don't need them, why listen to him?"

The gossip discussion became more intense and direct, and the reasons that should have been covered up were now clearly stated, and the discussion finally stopped after Lu Yuan's cough.

Jian Chen bowed his head and was silent, picked up the gourd, scooped a sip of wine, drank a few sips, and was silent, he knew that it was not enough to just share the same hatred, there would definitely be someone who would give him something he wanted, and he needed to weigh and make a choice.

Lu Yuan also accompanied Chen Jian to take a sip, and said solemnly: "Ji Xia, these clans have already discussed, and it will definitely not work if it goes on like this." He did it as if he had to plant in the winter and wear a fur coat in the summer, and he would eventually be defeated. ”

"The leaders of more than 20 cities and dozens of small clans have already discussed, and everyone is not against the oath, but against the oath that is not a brotherhood, what is he going to do? Is it to be a brother? Or being a parent? If you are a parent, I'm afraid it's not enough! ”

"Now that the winter is about to pass, everyone will go back first, and they will not interact with Su Yue in the future, just ignore what he said a few days ago if he was drunk. If he insists on speaking of our faults, or even uses them as an excuse to crusade against us, then everyone will swear to be hostile to them. Brother bleed, we naturally don't want to see it, but is it possible that the brother stuck the axe on your neck and washed the neck and waited for him to cut it off? ”

"Now that Sucheng is strong, the land here is fertile, and there are nearby salt pans and copper mines, but we don't need to be afraid!"

He glanced at Jian Chen, before Jian Chen's performance seemed to be a person who believed in the relationship between his ancestors and relatives, Lu Yuan was afraid that some of his words would cause Chen Jian's dissatisfaction, and added: "If Sucheng and Dongyi are at war, we will definitely not attack Sucheng behind our backs, this is a battle between relatives and outsiders." When necessary, if he fails and Dongyi comes to the big river, we can even forget his badness and send troops to attack Dongyi, and we can't let the land where our ancestors are buried fall into the hands of barbarians! This Ji Xia rest assured! ”

"Now these cities have consulted, and have chosen me and the three chiefs to be the heads of the alliance, and to consult with each other. At that time, Ji Xia was far away in Onozawa and didn't know it, but even if Ji Xia was not there, someone still thought of Ji Xia and proposed to also elect Ji Xia, a total of four people. As soon as this proposal came out, everyone agreed to it and there was no objection, and I even thought that if no one thought of Ji Xia, it would be strange. ”

"Ohnoze is barren, if Ji Xia wants to exchange goods to build a new city, we also have some places with wide rivers, so we can let Ji Xia build a city there, and if it is a slack time, you can also recruit clan slaves to help Ji Xia."

Jian Chen raised his head and looked at the leaders around him, there were quite a few of them, and they were actually more than the cities on the other side of Suyue.

It's just that these cities are scattered all around, and they are only united out of fear of the Aushiro Alliance.

For example, Xia Cheng is in the northwest, Luyuan's city is in the north, and there are several cities on the south bank of the river, which are separated from each other and are not connected together, and even some cities can be counted as enclaves, fragmented.

Although these cities are scattered, they have a huge advantage and are not close to Dongyi, and the Sucheng Alliance will first face the threat of Dongyi.

These people say good words, what they definitely won't stab in the back when Dongyi and Sucheng are fighting, Chen Jian doesn't believe these words just in the left ear and out of the right ear.

It can be said that these two groups of people have their own advantages, if there is no variable of their own, and even these people have an advantage, the labor expedition is not realistic in this era, the clansmen who are fighting in the city within a hundred miles are all potential soldiers, and a city seven or eight hundred miles away can only exert one-tenth of its strength, and even less if it is farther.

Compared to Zunsu City, the condition of this group of people is that Chen Jian is one of the leaders of this small alliance, and they are generally independent of each other, and only select a few of the most powerful cities as the watchmen of the oath to prevent betrayal, so it can be said that Chen Jian's starting point here is much higher than that over there.

On the balance that was originally roughly balanced, the three-city alliance of Caohe was the biggest variable, which was also what Ewei and the others hoped for.

Looking at everyone's expectant eyes, Jian Chen thought quickly in his heart.

At this time, Jian Chen's choice was no longer a charcoal in the snow and the icing on the cake, but to participate in it as a force to be reckoned with, and the weakening of the split made Xia Cheng, which could only be used as an additive, relatively important.

Su Yue would not be unaware that he was going to face the threat of the Dongyi people, and from beginning to end, this alliance was led by Su Yue, whether it was a peace in the early stage or a break in the later stage, it was under Su Yue's control.

Even if there is a variable in Xia Cheng, Chen Jian believes that Su Yue will definitely take it into account, and Su Yue is not demented at this time, Chen Jian knows very well, then it is obvious that Su Yue has enough reason and confidence to do this, the result of the split is obvious, and the hostility is also inevitable.

There must be a reason why you know that such a result is still going to do it.

The people in this room are only temporarily united in the face of threat, how far can such an alliance go? Even if you come to the end and the result is still split, do you have to go through a similar process again?

Thinking only lasted for half a moment, Chen Jian put down the gourd that had been cut in half, got up and said, "Your words make me feel at ease, and I also believe that you are not the kind of people who kill their relatives. ”

"You also know that I went to Onozawa a few days ago, why didn't I stay in Aushiro for such a big event? Because in the dream the ancestor kept showing me a lake, it was so clear in the dream. My ancestors left the river, and perhaps they wished their children and grandchildren would be able to live on that land again. ”

"That day I saw Onozawa, I saw the ripples of the lake that I couldn't forget, and I saw the waves of the rushing river, which were exactly the same as what I saw in my dreams, and I knew that this was the place where my ancestors hoped that the people of Natsushiro would live in the future."

"I don't dare to change the guidance of my ancestors, I can only choose to build a castle in Onozawa."

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became solemn, and Jian Chen refilled the wine with the gourd, raised it and said to everyone: "This gourd is separated, and the other half is unknown to whom, but these two halves originate from the same vine, which no one can change." Please, everybody. ”

When he said that, he had already given the answer that these people refused, took the gourd and drank the faint sweet wine in a big gulp, bowed to everyone and left, leaving a room of people stunned at the split gourd, and sighed for a long time.

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Two days later, there was no snow and it was sunny.

However, the haze shrouded in Sucheng was even heavier, and all the leaders knew the news that Chen Jian and the Three-City Alliance along the Grass River chose to stand on Suyue's side, giving up the invitation of the four-member alliance given by the other side, and was willing to follow Sucheng.

I don't know why, the clan leaders who opposed Su Yue did not leave, and they were not afraid of what despicable means Su Yue would use, because the morality of this era did not allow it, and if Su Yue did this, he would also be betrayed by the clan. This is a time when morality demands leadership.

If they didn't leave, Su Yue naturally wouldn't drive them away, but instead invited them to worship their ancestors together to inform them of the return of the surnames of Xia Cheng.

Su Yue knew that the news of Jian Chen's choice had spread, and he hoped that those leaders would not come to participate, so that Jian Chen would be even more alienated from them.

However, it did not work out, and on that day the leaders of the rest of the clans came, and this was perhaps the strangest sacrifice these leaders had ever attended, and everything came according to the process, without any outrageous expenses, solemn and solemn, but the atmosphere was by no means warm.

After some prayers, several of the longest-lived elders took out the jade with the elder's cane.

Just as Jian Chen was about to accept it, Lu Yuan suddenly spoke.

"Ji Xia, you once said that the ancestors wanted you to teach you to your relatives, and I believe you. But you built the castle in Onozawa, and even if you agree, how can we exchange it? For example, if you say that you don't kill people, but you set fire to the house and burn the people in the house to death, and after you burn to death, you say that you just lit the wood and grass and didn't kill anyone, what is the difference between what you do and what you do? ”

He stared at Jian Chen, turned around and asked Su Yue: "Su Yue, the clan cities around Onozawa are all headed by Su Cheng, I just ask, if we come to Ohnozawa to exchange, can you really let us pass?" ”

Su Yue said solemnly: "Naturally! As long as you don't do anything against your kin, why should I care? Could it be that what I discussed with you a few days ago could be changed? But now that the bones of my old friend are not cold, and my soul is restless, I will always find out who did it! If some clan did it, in order to oppose my Su Yue, they would slaughter their relatives, and such a brother would cut an axe on the top of my head, should I still stretch out my neck? ”

"Those things in Ji Xia are for relatives, not for enemies."

Lu Yuan laughed and said, "Whether it's a relative or not, who decides?" If you make a mistake or not, can you make a decision? When Hua was dealing with clan disputes, he still felt that it was difficult to make a decision, what are you? Do you think you are wiser than Hua? He who swears to you is right; He who does not swear to you is wrong? ”

After he yelled, he stared into Jian Chen's eyes and asked, "Ji Xia, you once said that there is an oath between brothers that does not need words, and when I heard these words from others, I really praised you. After hearing the story of your dispatch to rescue the Acropolis, I drank with my fellow tribesmen all night, and the wine with this story was even more delicious than the sashimi in the sauce. ”

"Even if you don't have this jade, just by virtue of your words, we will also regard Xia Cheng as a brother and relative."

"Now that you have jade and an oath of words, what you have to do is better than when there is no jade. I talk about brothers, ancestors, kinship, and so on every day, and now I ask you again, brother, is it from blood? Or is it from that ridiculous oath? ”

This time, he didn't wait for Jian Chen to answer, and directly took out a jade horned deer from his bosom that had been granted to their clan back then, and its lifelike emerald color was exceptionally bright in winter.

"If the brother is related by blood, then what is the use of this jade head? If a brother is born from an oath, but the oath can be violated! If the brother comes from this jade, the jade will be broken! ”

He laughed a few times, as if questioning the heavens, and then lifted the jade high and slammed it down on the stone of the altar.

Bite......

The most beautiful sound is like broken jade. The most poignant sound is as broken as jade.

Countless emeralds splattered from the snow, and then the leaders who opposed Su Yue took out the jade head of their clan, and smashed it like Lu Yuan.

In the wind and snow, Chen Jian stood in front of the sacrificial hall, the jade he wanted was in front of him, but he did not wait for the blessing of his brothers and relatives.

The jade of the year, broken.

Swore that year, broken.

But the blood of that year is still flowing in each other's bodies...... (To be continued.) )