Chapter 57 Partners
The food that Lin Yuan had predicted, sure enough, arrived on time three days later.
To his surprise, the tribes that came over this time were not only the Bai and Tu tribes.
Early in the morning, the Yan hunters who were on guard in the suburbs reported that there was a team of more than 100 people, coming from the direction of the mountain, and Lin Yuan took Anna and Eggplant, as well as many elite hunters, to wait on the Huadu hills.
These more than 100 people soon came to the vicinity of Huadu, and after they reported their homes, Lin Yuan knew that a total of 4 tribes came this time, but there was no Shennong tribe.
"Chief of the Yan Clan, we meet again!"
The big fat chief of the Tu tribe, touching his belly, stood under the Huadu hills, and said to Lin Yuan with his neck tilted.
Lin Yuan smiled slightly and replied:
"It seems that the Turkish chief can't wait to trade in the valley and personally deliver the gifts...... What do you think? Boiled broth tastes good, right? ”
The fat chief immediately laughed and smashed his mouth, needless to say, he was naturally still reminiscing about the pottery boiled meat he drank that day.
"Oh, in order to make up enough prey for your pottery, our Tu clan has made a lot of money, and the wild boars in the valley are almost caught, so we finally scraped together enough of them, just to drink another bite of broth! Your pottery is ready! ”
Lin Yuan waved his hand, and a few slaves behind him brought over a few clay pots and clay pots and showed them to everyone to see.
"Good, good! Haha, great! The Turkish chief said happily.
"Don't be embarrassed here, haven't you lost enough people in the Shennong clan a few days ago? You went to the old man to borrow a clay pot to cook meat, but you didn't get a wild deer in vain, and you were driven out before you could take a few sips......"
The lean chief of the Bai clan interrupted and said, he glared at the chief of the Tu tribe sharply, and then said to Lin Yuan:
"Chief of the Yan Clan, let's make a long story short, we came here at the risk of ghosts and beasts, and we must go back before dark, so we won't be polite to you! Let me introduce you to you, this is the Youchao clan, this is the Zhu Dan clan, they all heard about the pottery we talked about, and they want to come and open their eyes......"
"Don't say that people have never seen the world! The last time I went to the Shennong tribe to change herbs, I saw that they put several herbs in a pot and boiled them, and I don't know what they were doing, isn't it just a mud jar that is not afraid of fire or water, nothing rare, I just came to accompany the patriarch of Zhu Dan. ”
The one who spoke was the chief of the Youchao clan, who had a curly beard that looked like a bird's nest growing on his chin. He said as he looked at the Zhu Dan patriarch beside him.
Patriarch Zhu Dan surprised Lin Yuan, it was actually a woman, you know, in the Neolithic Age, basically primitive societies had broken away from the matrilineal clan, mainly the patrilineal clan, but there was actually a tribe of female chiefs, which really opened Lin Yuan's eyes.
This Zhu Dan patriarch didn't like to talk much, and her eyes kept staring at the pottery that Lin Yuan sent people to move.
For the two pieces of pottery on display, Lin Yuan is still very confident, this is his product after several improvements, whether it is workmanship or appearance, it is better than the pottery of the previous experiments, presumably these primitive people can also see that these are not ordinary things, but they didn't show it.
"Good! Two chiefs are welcome, and we welcome any friendly tribe willing to exchange supplies! The Bai chiefs don't have to worry too much, if it's late, we just have to invite the chiefs to gather in our Huadu for a night, and we are ready to entertain you! ”
Lin Yuan opened his arms and shouted:
"Yan warriors, open the gate and invite friends to enter Huadu!"
A few Yan hunters pushed open the fence of the camp made of logs and let the four chiefs and a dozen retinues in.
As for the others they brought, Lin Yuan refused on the grounds that the tribal camp was small, and let the rest of them rest on the spot, and dozens of slaves had already prepared tents and drinking water for them to rest in advance.
Seeing Lin Yuan so enthusiastic, and at the same time, the Bai clan and the Tu clan looked very familiar with Lin Yuan, the two new chiefs didn't say anything, and followed into the gate of Huadu.
Before entering Huadu, the chiefs of the Tu and Bai tribes arranged their subordinates, and according to Lin Yuan's request, handed over the prey used to exchange pottery to the Yan hunters one by one, while Anna carefully counted the number on the side.
"I said King Yan! It took a lot of effort for us to catch these wild boars! Look at my arm! This blood mark was received when he caught an old boar, for your pottery, we have made a bloody ......" The Turkish chief half-jokingly raised his arm and showed it to Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan laughed and said:
"Okay, since the king of the Tu clan has this sincerity, I will definitely give you a pottery bowl as compensation later."
The fat chieftain was immediately flattered and hurriedly added:
"Oops, yes, good, good! King Yan, you see how sincere we are, for fear that the wild boar meat we caught earlier stinks, we specially caught some live ones, how about it, not bad? ”
The fat chief pointed to the supplies to be traded behind him, and their Tu people were driving a few live wild boars to hand over to the Yan hunters.
Lin Yuan was overjoyed, it seemed that he could start the pig breeding business again, but he didn't show it on his face, he quietly instructed Ye to say a few words, and asked Ye to quickly arrange someone to make a small fence and raise the wild boar in captivity.
The group, while talking and walking, soon walked to the inside of the Huadu construction site.
When everyone saw the Huadu building that was about to be completed, their eyes widened and they looked incredulous.
"The gods are above! You made it all out of you??!! Such a huge ...... Clay pots?? The chief of the Youchao clan couldn't help but admire.
Eggplant couldn't help but add:
"It's not clay pots, these are called houses! It's the masterpiece of our Flame King! ”
"Oooh...... Smooth? These...... Tree...... Where did you get the wood? There are only weeds in this wilderness, and there are not many trees. The Turkish chief asked curiously, looking at the surrounding buildings.
Lin Yuan smiled slightly, and smiled at the Turkish chief:
"Haha, you forgot, Shennong...... The chief in the straw skirt, isn't there him......"
The Turkish chief was stunned, "What? What do you say? ”
The Bai chieftain standing on the side couldn't help it, coughed dryly, poked the chubby belly of the Tu chieftain with his thin arm, glared at the fat chief with a helpless face, and then turned his head and said to Lin Yuan with a sudden understanding:
"Oh...... I said, that Shennong...... Oh, to the Grass Skirt Chief, haha, I like the name you give him......" The Bai Chieftain coughed dryly, and then said: "What, I just said, when we went to the Shennong Clan to exchange herbs a few days ago, they actually only exchanged a little bit of inventory, I heard that they put a lot of manpower into the valley to cut some wood, I didn't care at the time, I didn't expect it, it was really for you Yan Clan to cut wood......
Lin Yuan smiled slightly, and was about to continue walking, when the chief of the Chao clan suddenly asked a question:
"Strange! Such a thick tree, the hula chieftain you just mentioned...... You're talking about the Shennong tribe, right? We also have some dealings with them, and as far as I know, it takes at least a hundred people to cut down such a thick tree, and it is a waste of bones...... We have tried to cut it before, using sharpened animal bones, to chisel the trunk little by little, and it will take at least several days to chisel a hundred-year-old tree like this......"
The chief of the Bai clan looked at him and said to the chief of the Youchao clan:
"Hmph...... I'm afraid that Brother Chao hasn't been to the Shennong clan as a guest for a long time, the old man of the monkey spirit, since he stole the jade girl of the Xi tribe more than ten years ago, has become a god and a god, always full of secrets, I tell you, this old man, but smart, he didn't use bone tools, but used stone tools, or the black shale gravel on the top of the black head mountain, I don't know where he got the black shale gravel, the pieces are thin and strong, I have seen their people with my own eyes Some people hold black shale gravel tied with wooden sticks as axes, Lighter and more flexible than the average granite stone axe, I'm afraid these trees are seen with black shale axes, huh...... It should be so, Lord Yan, you should have seen some black pieces when you received the goods, right? “
The Bai clan chief turned his head to look at Lin Yuan, as if he wanted to get support from Lin Yuan.
Lin Yuan scratched his head in embarrassment, how could these two barbarian chiefs get involved with their own people, Lin Yuan didn't want to be involved, he hurriedly snorted, and then suddenly stretched out his finger, pointed to a building that he had just walked by, and said:
"Uh...... By the way, let me show you the house that our Yan people have just built, you see, this is what we built in just ten days, how about it? It's not bad, it can not only block the wind and rain, but also keep warm and cold! ”
Lin Yuan successfully changed the topic, and promptly extinguished the argument between the two chieftains of the Bai clan and the Youchao clan, and all the chiefs looked sideways at Lin Yuan, muttering and talking to his subordinates, and between their gestures, they all showed a look of shock and envy.
These are completely in Lin Yuan's expectations, you must know that in the past few days, the construction site of Huadu is about to come to an end, in addition to the huge fire temple in the center of the camp, around the temple, there are smaller houses, those are the places where ordinary Yan people live.
Lin Yuan imitated the model of the Fire God Temple, and designed a small building suitable for ordinary people to live in, and it was also made of log piles to the compacted soil, but there were not so many round wooden piles used to build small houses, most of them were about 4 to 6.
After the stake was laid, Lin Yuan instructed the slaves to wrap around the stake, wrap the fence with hemp rope, and finally, fix the animal skin on the fence, and a wall that could keep out the wind and rain was born.
As for the most important roof, the tenon and mortise were roughly carved out of the ground with stone spears and bone blades in the manner of the fire temple, and they were assembled first, and finally hung up by the slaves on ladders to install them.
When the beams of the house were installed, Lin Yuan asked the slaves to spread the yellow reed grass collected from the swamp on it, and finally covered it with a layer of impermeable animal skins, and the roof of a house was completed.
As for the roof of the Fire Temple, it was a little more complicated, Lin Yuan hoped to create a building that could reflect the strength of the Yan Clan, and use it as a symbol of the Yan Clan's Huadu, so he asked the roof to be on top of the animal skin, plus pieces of pottery pieces that were rushed out, each piece of pottery staggered with each other, forming a shape similar to the tile roof of later generations.
These designs, in the ancient Stone Age, can be called miracles.
Lin Yuan did it, and Lin Yuan led the Yan clan to do it.
In the end, they finally finished it in time yesterday, Lin Yuan originally planned to rest for a few days, but he didn't expect that the next day, he met the chiefs of the four valley tribes and came to exchange pottery in person.
Lin Yuan was naturally happy to bring these guests from afar to visit the masterpiece of his tribe, Huadu.
"These ...... Big pottery, oh no, it's a house, for what you call a house, can it really be inhabited? ”
The chief of the Bai clan rolled his cunning eyes and asked angrily.
Lin Yuan nodded, he took the four tribal chiefs and approached a residential house at random, Lin Yuan reached out and lifted the animal skin that blocked the door, and the furnishings inside were unobstructed.
It was a furnace surrounded by pottery shards, with some freshly burned ashes in it, and around the stove, the ground was covered with warm and soft animal skins, and on the walls around it hung bows and arrows, and on the other side, a wild wolf's head hung fiercely, staring fiercely at the people who walked in.
As soon as the Turkish chief looked up, he saw the fierce god facing his wild wolf head, and was frightened, "Ah! He screamed, and then he realized that it was nothing more than a dead wolf's head, and he couldn't help but let out a sigh of relief, and kept touching his heart.
The two chiefs of the Youchao clan and the Zhu Dan clan were speechless, looking at the surrounding furnishings with stern expressions.
The Bai chieftain opened his eyes and kept touching his nose with his thin right hand, and couldn't help but exclaim:
"This ...... Do you have these furnishings in every house of your Yan people? These things...... This house...... Looks even more comfortable than my chief's tent! ”