Chapter 244: Rice Feast
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Wang Chuan told the old man that the new school year would start after the big celebration, and if there were any children to be sent, it was best before the snow fell, and Winter Bear hurriedly arranged for someone to redeem the children of the Yan family.
The behavior of the ransom salt clan could not hide from the leaders and leaders of the other tribes, and soon someone came forward to inquire. Winter Bear couldn't wipe his face, and secretly told the good tribal leader, and after the tribal leader who learned the news, pondered for a while, he quickly found the nest man or the West Cow and went to explore the mouth of the river tribe. After receiving the confirmed news, he also arranged for people to hurry back to the tribe. These behaviors once again aroused the curiosity and inquiring of others.
As a result, the camp fell into a strange atmosphere. News of River Tribe school admissions became an open secret. Everybody knows it, but everybody doesn't talk about it openly. After confirming with the River Tribe, let people go back to the tribe to choose people.
In their minds, the more people who know, the less opportunities or things they can learn from their tribe.
This enrollment is still for children over the age of 10. Wang Chuan put forward a premise and two plans.
The premise is that the children who come can only be admitted to school after the assessment, and those who are too stupid and thin do not want to.
The two options are: one is no tuition, and if the child is willing to return to the original tribe after ten years of enrollment, he can go back by himself, and if he is not willing to return to the original tribe, the original tribe cannot force it. Another option is to charge tuition. For a child, an adult man is accepted as tuition. After five years of schooling, children can go back to their original tribe. But men who are tuition fees cannot be returned.
Wang Chuan's reason for proposing these two plans is that you can't teach these children in vain, right? If you teach for ten years, you will study in the first few years, and you will pay tuition in the next few years. If the adult man is used as tuition, then he should earn meat and tuition for his children.
The old man of the Ransom Salt clan was tempted because Wang Chuan said that speed and how salt came from would be taught in class. He lived his whole life and knew how important these things were to the tribe. He wondered how much the River Tribe knew. So he did not hesitate to choose the second option.
Other tribes are tempted and have this mentality. The River Tribe is now invincible, but it produces more and more good things. Before I reached the River Tribe, the feeling was not so strong. After arriving at the River Tribe, the feeling of invincibility was even stronger when I saw the two high-walled stockades and such a hollowed-out piece of land. The River Tribe has even cut down so many trees, what's so hard about killing people? And even if you want to attack, it's hard to climb over that kind of high wall.
It is almost human nature to submit to the strong and learn from him when there is no way to defeat him.
The other is the herd mentality. Everyone else has sent people to learn, but we don't send people, what if we don't know what we say?
In this way, Wang Chuan was worried that the enrollment that would not have any repercussions received a great response in this quiet atmosphere. The big tribes all took action, and many smaller tribes also took action. Only some of the small tribes who really didn't know what was going on looked confused. Naturally, no one of these tribes woke them up, because they were the ones who shielded this open secret.
And Wang Chuan thinks that the second plan that is obviously more disadvantageous for fewer people is more chosen, but more people choose it. The people of these tribes were anxious to know the many secrets of the River tribe, and naturally they didn't care about paying an extra sturdy man. There are more and more good things in the River tribe now, maybe they will exchange people at any time, what is a man?
According to a rough count, there are more than 60 people who have preliminarily registered. And more than 50 people reported the second option. When Wang Chuan heard the news, he smiled like a fox who had stolen a chicken. They want to take advantage of the river tribe, but they don't know that what they have swallowed is a poison that pierces the intestines.
These people who have studied for five years will naturally not be some marginal people of their tribe, they must be the descendants of some leaders. Five years later, when they took their children back, they found that these obedient children had become followers of Wang Chuan, and I wonder if they would collapse?
Wang Chuan is looking forward to it.
The Xiniu tribe and the nest people learned of the news of this enrollment, and they were not exempt, and sent people back to prepare.
This time, Shi Jiao brought his son, the future successor of the Xiniu tribe, over. The Broad Eyes of the Nest people and their old leader also came. Wang Chuan invited them and the accompanying leaders to the old village when the sky was about to darken. He was accompanied by many of the leaders of the River Tribe, and received them in the council chamber.
Shijiao's son is called Tsubaki, and he is also stout and strong, but his eyes are very smart. Let people know at a glance that he is a brave and resourceful person.
The old leader of the Nest People is called Zhen. He looks older than Shi Jiao, with gray hair and a rickety body, if he doesn't still have a momentum, he is afraid that he will be an ordinary person outside.
Wang Chuan has the heart to promote rice, so the staple food of this meal is rice, and the dishes are all kinds of meat. In addition, Wang Chuan also opened a few jars of plum wine to help the fun.
Wang Chuan knew that people in this era had little resistance to wine, so he deliberately put the wine in the back, so that everyone could talk first while they were sober.
The stir-fry dishes of the river tribe in the bazaar have already amazed the people of the two tribes, and now these delicate meals have amazed the people of the two tribes even more.
Shi Jiao picked up the white rice and looked at it carefully for a long time, but he didn't dare to put it in his mouth, and asked, "What is this?" ”
Wang Chuan smiled: "It's just a kind of grass seed that grows outside." ”
Shi Jiao said: "What grass seeds will grow like this?" ”
Wang Chuan said: "We call this grass seed rice, and there are also it on the edge of the Taijiang River. When the grass seeds are ripe, they are beaten and dried, and when they are eaten, they are ground with stones to remove the shells, washed and then cooked. There are more and more people in the River Tribe, and they are usually busy with various constructions in the tribe, and they don't have much time to go out hunting in the future. So I got some seeds and prepared to plant this in large quantities. In the future, when everyone comes here, they can only receive this thing. How about you taste it? ”
He had obviously seen and eaten rice, and after eating a few bites, he said, "I can't imagine that this thing can be eaten like this." It's just that there are not many of these things, and it takes a day to get half of it, and it is only available in autumn, which is not as convenient as hunting and fishing, how should this be? ”
Wang Chuan said: "There is a saying called planting. It is to remove all the other plants and trees in the field and plant only this one. In this way, the number of grass seeds in it will increase. This thing is indeed only available in autumn, but as long as you plant more, the harvest will naturally increase, and you can store it and eat it slowly when you have more harvest. And it can be stored as long as it is dried in the sun and not in the rain. It's a little more convenient than storing meat. ”
When the people heard that the grass and trees were cleared, they figured out what the open space outside was for.
Tsubaki heard that this thing could be dried in the sun, and asked, "Don't use salt to save this?" ”