On the seventh day of the seventh month of the new calendar, on the south bank of the Grass River, Heyin City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

A month ago, the tribe introduced a new calendar, the eight-solar term calendar that can distinguish spring, summer, autumn and winter, learned from the Eyue tribe, abandoning the method of counting the day with the full moon as the first day of the new month, and changing to the same algorithm as most of the tribes in the east as the first day of the new month and the full moon as the fifteenth month.

The seventh day of the seventh month is a special day among the tribes in the east, there is no myth, but it is simply the day when E'e's mother weaves the first silk out of tussah silk, and since then this day has become a festival for women, who look forward to having hands as skillful as E's mother.

With the exchange between Xia Cheng and Echeng, this day also spread to the ears of Xia Cheng women with silk, women look forward to having a pair of skillful hands, men prefer women who can do work with skillful hands in this era, and beauty has not yet been alienated into simple facial features.

The women of Hein City were busy rolling their skins, and they had been thinking about it since the last time they ate the food called dumplings at the Tanuki and Bluegrass ceremony.

Today was a good day, as Xia Cheng sent a boat to bring two bags of flour sifted with bran sifted to the people stationed in Heyin City, as well as some sugar packets made by some women out of flour wrapped in maple syrup and honey. Each one is very small, and it is said that the best one will get a hand as skillful as that of a mother.

Wolf Skin and a few people squatted under the gourd stand outside the city and looked at the Milky Way in the sky, and looked at it for a long time and said stupidly: "Jian said that I can see the men and women kissing in the sky when I squat under the gourd stand tonight, why can't I see it?" ”

The necks of several people were sore, and their eyes were dry and a little astringent, until clouds rose in the sky to cover the galaxy, and then they tilted their necks to rest.

Suddenly, the two wolf cubs at the gate of the city whined, and several people immediately picked up their weapons and rushed out, and the wolf skin said excitedly: "Kill two more deer today, and tomorrow I will go to Yuqian'er sister's to exchange corn wine and drink."

There are only 600 acres of public land near Heyin City that are planted with beans, and they are there to take care of these fields, and they divide two wolf cubs, which will howl when the deer come close several times. After completing the tasks of the tribal division during the day, you can hunt freely or continue to cultivate, and the extra part can be exchanged for a lot of goodies from the market.

Several people thought of the taste of corn wine exchanged from Echeng, and they were also very interested, if it was fast, they could take a boat back to change it in a while, drinking corn wine and eating dumplings, it was really a pleasure.

Rushed out of the trench and untied the rope around the wolf cub's neck, but instead of running in the direction of the bean field, the wolf cub rushed to the south.

In the night, a few staggering black shadows staggered towards this direction, and when they heard the cry of the wolf cub, they screamed and scurried in a panic, and another person squatted on the ground with his head in his hands, tightly guarding his throat.

The wolf skin was also taken aback, no one had come on the south bank of the grass river except for the people in the city, and seeing that there were not many people on the other side, he whistled, and several clansmen who were usually scouts with him immediately divided into groups of two or three and outflanked him.

The wolf cubs knew that they would have meat to eat at this time, so they rushed over and pounced on one person, but they didn't keep their mouths, after all, this was not a deer, waiting for the master's order.

Seeing that they couldn't run, they had to squat on the ground, shouting something vigorously.

Wolf Skin felt familiar when he heard it, it seemed to be the language of the Eyue tribe, he could understand a little bit, and it seemed that he shouted not to kill them or something.

There were nine people in total, and one person had blood on his leg, and the smell of sour sweat went straight to his nose after approaching. Some people were wearing silk silks, some people were wearing tree bark, their hair was scattered, their clothes were torn, and they didn't know how long they had been running, and when they squatted, they couldn't get up, and they fell to the ground with their hearts covered, and they were already dead.

"Bring it back, send a boat to inform Ken, and then let Matsuya follow, he can understand the words of the Eyue tribe."

The two people carried the exhausted one, and the rest of the people drove the eight people back to Heyin City, just as the dumplings came out of the pot, and the eight people stared at the dumplings in the pottery bowl, and kept swallowing their saliva.

The man in the silk silk was ruthless, took out a piece of white jade from his arms, handed it to the wolf skin, and signaled that he wanted to change it for some food.

The wolf skin snatched the jade jue, looked at it carefully, and wondered where did these people come from? If it were someone from the Eyue tribe, it would be okay to give them something to eat.

Accepted Yujue and sent some food, and those people devoured it, ignoring nothing.

When Chen Jian, Song and the others arrived, one of these eight people died, perhaps because they had been hungry for a long time and ate so much at once.

Wolf Skin took the jade jue in his hand to Jian Chen, and whispered, "That person's is used to exchange for food." ”

Chen Jian looked at the jade jue, the workmanship was exquisite, the jade quality was basically the same as the one that E Yue gave him as a token, and it looked like it should have been collected in the same place.

Several tribes in the east have been divided into families, and judging from the clothing of these people, it is clear that there are rich and poor.

The status of the person who owns the jade jue in the clan should not be low, and it may even be the ruling class with strong roots, how can it fall to such a state?

The seven people who were alive hid in the corner, their heads bowed and did not dare to raise their heads, and when the wolf cubs outside barked, they would shrink and tremble, and the arms of the two people were full of pus and blood, as if they had been bitten.

Although these people were weak, they could see that they were all strong, and they were definitely not attacked by wolves.

Song whispered: "I have never seen this person in Echeng, I have seen several people around Eyue, without him." Only a few people have this kind of jade, and I heard that they brought it from Huacheng before they migrated, and there is no such jade nearby. ”

Jian Chen walked up to the man in silk clothes with Yujue, and asked Rang Song, "This is yours?" ”

The man nodded, then shook his head again.

"He said that he had changed the food, which used to be his, and now it is ours."

"Ask him if he has heard of these people? Is it from Echeng? ”

When the man heard the names of E Yue and Shu Jiu, he didn't wait for Song to convey it, his eyes showed a look, and he muttered a bunch of things.

He said...... He recognized E Yue and Shu Jiu, as if they had grown up together in Huacheng, and after Hua died, these people left with the tribe and never saw each other again. He begged us to send him to find Eyu. ”

Chen Jianleng froze for a moment, the person in front of him was not from the Eyue tribe, but from another tribe.

Looking at the age of about thirty, could it be said that this tribe was exterminated by the barbarians? Only these few people escaped?

He asked a few more questions, but the man stopped talking, but kept begging Chen Jian to send him to the tribe of Eyue, and took out a wrench with a groove engraved on the front and a pattern on the front, and kept repeating these words, without answering Jian Chen's questions.

Jian Chen accepted the wrench, looked at it for a while, and felt more and more strange about this person.

Since this person appears here, it is closely related to his own tribe, in case there are really barbarians in the south, it will be a little troublesome, but looking at this person's attitude does not seem to be like it, if he was really exterminated by the barbarians, he would have already told about his tribe, how to say that Chen Jian also tied his hair, and this sense of identity is still there.

"Find them a room, let them sleep, watch them at night, and don't let them run away."

"Send them to E-Yue?"

"Say it again."

The wolf skin took these people away, and Jian Chen sat in the courtyard and pondered for a while, then turned around and said, "Go back to the city individually, tomorrow all ethnic groups will not take a boat to cross the river to Heyin to reclaim the land." Let Bai Ma bring ten squads of soldiers over overnight, let Yu Qian'er prepare a boatload of feather arrows and send them overnight, and then let her prepare some things for the expedition overnight. ”

He took out a bronze talisman and handed it to the man, just to pass the word, he knew that it was impossible for his sister to give anything to anyone, either go by himself or have her own copper talisman.

After arranging those people, Wolf Skin came and asked, "Could it be Xirong who said the number nine?" Dongyi Nanban is too far away from us, and that's what they call Xirong. ”

"Not really. It's like ......"

He thought about it for a moment, and felt that he didn't know how to explain to Wolfskin what the term "loser of the power struggle" was, the pyramid power system of the clan had just been established, and these people had not yet experienced the bloodshed. They didn't even understand what they said about Hua poisoning, assassination, and co-opting after his death.

He felt that this was an opportunity, if it was really as he thought, there was a civil strife in that tribe, if the distance was within five days, he could seize the opportunity to expand his strength, at least he could catch a lot of slaves.

After pondering for a while, he decided to continue interrogating the man the next day, always knowing what had happened.

However, the next day, the man still didn't say what had happened, but begged Jian Chen Jian to take him to Eyue's city.

Just as they were about to change their strategy and knock on the side, there was a sharp whistle outside, and there was a burst of wolf cub howls, and those people seemed to have heard something terrible, and they were so frightened that they didn't dare to say a word.

Climbing up the low city wall, about forty or fifty people ran in the distance, leading a few wolves, and their hair was tied up like themselves, but it was not the thunder scarf of the Eyue tribe, but only tied together with silk strips.

The men, who were a hundred paces away from the city, stopped going forward, and one of them laid down his weapon and came to the city empty-handed.

The person who came was not very old, he looked to be sixteen or seventeen years old, tall and long-armed, extremely strong, and he also had a jade jue hanging from his waist.

He shouted a few words under the city, and said, "He asked, are we relatives in Huacheng back then?" ”

Jian Chen cheekily said, "You just say yes." ”

The man below asked excitedly, "Have you seen a few people fleeing?" If you see it, please hand it over, and our tribe is willing to exchange fifty sheep for it. ”

Jian Chen didn't answer directly, but asked, "What are the origins of those people?" ”

"Just a few miners who are mining."

"How is a mine slave worth fifty sheep? Fifty sheep can be exchanged for twenty slaves. ”

The man below paused for a moment, lowered his head as if recalling something, and said firmly: "My brother said that it is not those mine slaves who are worth fifty sheep, but the law of the tribe." If he runs away and goes unpunished, the rest of the tribe will follow suit, and the tribe will be thrown into chaos, and the testimonies will not be called testimonies. ”

"Fifty sheep in exchange for the strictness of the tribal law as a warning to those who seek to transgress it is not something that a few sheep can measure."