Near the end of the year, the various tribes are preparing for sacrifices, because there was no calendar before, this is the first New Year in Xia City, so there is no need to go through the winter solstice for the year and then to the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, Chen Jian directly stipulated that the end of the year is the end of December. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The people of Xia City received their own benefits, and Chen Jian took out some goods from the public property, plus the tribute of the wild people, and each tribe issued fifty large pottery shells, which could go to Fang City to buy goods.

In addition to these, the disabled tribesmen also received some bacon and dried fish, and everyone, regardless of size, was given three catties of flour.

The wild villages outside the city also received some pottery, fishing nets, linen and the like, which were nothing compared to what they had to hand in every year, but they were still rejoicing.

At the door of the council hall, two peach talismans were erected, and the wooden boards carved from peach wood were painted with some myths about the ancestors that were circulated in Xia City.

In this era, there is no story of killing Hou Yi with peach wood, so peach wood does not have the reputation of exorcising evil spirits and ghosts, but in the previous calendar of the tribe, peach is the name of the month, and the peach in summer keeps many people in the tribe from starving to death, so the peach wood has another meaning, symbolizing that there will be no hunger next year.

The rest of the tribes also learned the habit of the door of the council, and set up peach charms, and the children took the sugar gourds given by the fang market and bit them in their mouths, and the slaughterhouse was busy killing a batch of rams, and the big clay pot outside was boiling thick soup, and the children looked around the place where the pigs and sheep were slaughtered.

At the end of the year, the beginning of the new year, with the wheat harvest still a few months away, the newly captured slaves being able to do more work, and the recent victory that put the summer city in a state of abundance.

Except that there is no flash and roar of firecrackers, it has a little bit of a year's meaning.

The children heard that candy and pastries would be distributed on the last day of the year, and Sister Yu Qian'er also said that new clothes would be distributed that day, and they were all looking forward to the arrival of the new year.

Adults are not as easily satisfied as children, but because of the contrast between hunger and cold a year ago, they have the illusion of being suddenly separated from the world.

On the warm kang, people smashed walnuts and hazelnuts, ate pine nuts, and chatted casually.

Mu Ma of the Mu clan is talking with a few acquaintances about building a house together next year, and after dividing it out and calculating it alone, he always feels that he can't afford it, but it is indeed a little inconvenient to squeeze into the house.

There were more than a dozen rooms in the whole city for those who wanted to do things for men and women, and now that they were full, there were more people who wanted to do these things, and it was better to say in spring, summer, and autumn, just in the fields, but at this time it was cold and windy, and no one could do those things in the snow.

The last time he talked to the leader about going out alone, he was scared back by Chen Jian with four hundred catties of grain, and after thinking about it carefully, he decided to build a house in the spring with these acquaintances.

Chen Jian also agreed to build a house privately, and divided a piece of land in the west of Xia City, and the person who built the house only needed to go to the council to apply for approval of a piece of land, and someone went back to measure and draw the location, and only needed a pottery shell.

Mu Ma bit a pine nut and said: "If you want me to say that a few of our houses are built with bricks, I went to ask, Ji Xia said that as long as you can afford to produce pottery, the brick kiln can be burned for us." ”

"Isn't it okay? Except for the sacrificial hall and the academy, which are brick, even the council hall is not brick, so let's build a brick house...... It's not good after all. ”

"Oh, Ji Xia agreed, what are you afraid of? We don't have to cook, we still eat in the tribe, we just have a house and women...... Isn't it? You say the same person, a person can only lead a woman to the meadow, I have a house, who do you say a woman chooses? ”

"Have you calculated how many bricks you need?"

"How can I count? If I had built it smaller, including the plasterers in the city, there would have been three shellfish in one room. ”

"That's all the spoils of our last war."

"Hey, having a house is a lifetime thing, and three big shells are worth it. I went out hunting with my brother the day before yesterday, and got back a roe deer and exchanged it for two big shells. Think about it, how nice it is to have a house? I haven't touched a woman in two months. ”

"That's ah, a few days ago, I went to find a tanuki to help our clan pan kang, hey, people's hut is so good, the tanuki spent a big shell to make a cradle for carpenters, the child is in it, tsk, looks really like him, I don't know which tribe my child is in now......"

When a few people talked about their children, they were a little speechless for a while, they only knew who their mother was before, and they didn't know who their father was, which didn't matter.

But when you can be a father, all this seems to become important, you can have no father, but you have children to continue your bloodline.

Nowadays, many people in the tribe have fixed sexual partners, in addition to one-to-one single couples, there are also many three-to-four-to-four couples, because these things have shed blood several times, they all know that Chen Jian's side does not seem to support this form of dual marriage, but it is probably because of the problem of the house and land, it is not expressly prohibited.

When a few people were thinking about how to earn shellfish with sad faces, someone ran in and shouted, "Are you still sitting here?" Let's go and see, there's something going on over there in the council, a good thing, a good thing for a small shell in three days. ”

Mu Ma grabbed a handful of pine nuts and put on a robe of animal skin, and when he went out, he found that the door of the council hall was already crowded with people.

Chen Jian was wearing a ragged sheepskin robe, with a white fox skin around his neck, and was holding a stone and talking loudly to the clansmen.

"What's going on? I heard that you can get a little Taobei in three days? ”

"More than that, did you see the stone that Ji Xia took? Let us all grind, and if we grind out a qualified one, there will be three pieces of pottery, and it should be able to be polished in ten days. If you are patient, you can also carve wood, which will cost you more, but it will take a long time. I pondered grinding two stones a year ago and going to Yu Qian'er for some wine. ”

"How much can you change for carved wood?"

"Eight small shells, but it is not easy to carve wood, you have to be qualified to carve it. Someone specially checked, the unqualified cities are not collected, and the wood carved is not combined, it depends on luck, who knows if there are wooden boils in it? If you find that it is not right in the middle of carving, then it is over, and anyone who wants to carve wood has to follow the carpentry to learn. ”

The people who spoke squeezed into it as they spoke, there were not many stones, and it didn't take much time, and they all thought about changing some shellfish while there was nothing to do in winter.

Mu Ma hurriedly took the pine nuts into his arms, wanting to squeeze the people around him in, but everyone was very strong, and they couldn't squeeze in, so they could only be anxious.

By the time it was easy to squeeze in, the good jobs were gone, and only some strange jobs remained.

"Ji Xia, where are the stones?"

"It's gone, there's no more work to carve wood, and there's nothing left, just a little more trouble."

"To Bey? Give it to the shellfish. ”

Chen Jian smiled and took out a V-shaped wooden fork, the mouth of the bowl is thick, and there are holes on both sides, which is the harness of cattle ploughing.

"Collect the cow trap too, make holes in the wood, peel off the bark, and exchange three for a small shellfish. And you can also exchange hemp rope for shellfish, or go to the stone quarry to collect stones, unlike slaves, you have a bena. ”

Mu Ma listened to these strange work, this is the first paid labor in the city, although a few small shells can't be exchanged for too good things, but the food and goods of the tribe are distributed by the chief, and he can't freeze to death from hunger on weekdays, but it is really difficult to change some food, drink or fun things.

He walked around, pointed to the cow and said, "I'll take this job, but what are the requirements?" ”

"Yes, the length and thickness will be told to you. It's not hard to find, but there's something in the oak forest over there, just find some crooked forks. By the way, if you're going to cut down trees, there's something else to do along the way, like getting some thick wood that's suitable for wheels, and if you bring it back, you can exchange it for shellfish. ”

Mu Ma frowned and said, "How can I get such a thick wood back by myself?" ”

"You can work in groups of several people to find a wolf skin to borrow a horse, as long as the horse is not injured and it can be returned. The war horse and the colt have been separated, and it just so happens that you can tell someone about it. ”

Mu Maqi said: "Aren't these all slave jobs used to be? What about the slaves? ”

"I threw it into the mines, and I cut the wood there, and piled it up by the river until the spring thawed and put it down along the river. They must not be allowed to eat for nothing and not work. ”

Seeing that there was really nothing left to live, he had to accept the job of cutting the cow in a foolish manner, regretting that he had not gone outside in the morning.

Before leaving, Chen Jian shouted from behind: "In the future, I will pick up work at the door of the council hall every morning." ”

In the wind and snow, Mu Ma listened to a rough idea, found a few partners, and squatted together in the corner to discuss.

"There are fifteen of us, it's not good to work in stone mining, and two slaves died last month, it's too dangerous. I think a few of us are going to cut down trees. I've seen the cow set, it's easy to make. ”

"Easy? How do you wear that hole? Carpentry tools are not borrowed, one by one is the same as a baby, we want to learn or teach, I heard that those carpenters are a few shells a day, but unfortunately we are not surnamed Ji. ”

Mu Ma patted the man: "What do you say? If you have a stutter, give it to your brother, why don't you tell it to people from other tribes? If it weren't for Ji Xia, we would still be squatting in the cave now. It's easy to talk about the piercing, do you remember how Ji Xia dug the hole when he was doing orange trees to get water in Yangguan last time? Isn't it enough to look at more eyes and learn more? ”

As soon as he said this, the people excitedly said, "You mean...... Burn with fire? ”

"That's right, if you don't borrow tools, the tip of the spear will be burned red, and when you wear it, won't it come out of the hole if you just mess with the wood? I estimate that we can cut down the wood, and we can make dozens of them in one night, don't talk about this method, Ji Xia said that the cow sleeve doesn't use much, let's get more, how can one person share a big shell a year ago. Lucky enough to catch a few badger robes in the woods and get a black bear, what not? ”

Together, a few people thought it was a good idea, and if that was the case, it would not be impossible to get a house in the spring.

"Muma, then we will all listen to you, who will say it...... Just beat him. ”

"That's right! The way to wear wood is simple, and we can't change it so much if others know it. ”

Mu Ma and they swore an oath, stood up and went to the wolf skin in high spirits, and a dozen people gathered together three big shells, rented two sets of horses to climb the plow, took horse food for a few days, took an axe, and went towards the mountains and forests in the wind and snow with the yearning for their own house. (To be continued.) )