Chapter 18: The Secret of the Great Lake
Long Qiupeng knew that Dahu was a mentally sensitive person, so his attitude towards him was relatively gentle. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info But this time Long Qiupeng's tone made Dahu feel afraid, and he whispered to Dahu in an irresistible tone: "Say, what's going on with Tao Mu?" ”
Dahu was in the moonlight, and he couldn't see Long Qiupeng's expression clearly, and he couldn't say a word for a long time.
But Long Qiupeng didn't speak, didn't urge, didn't blame, just sat motionless in front of him, this sense of divine deterrence made Dahu feel a huge pressure, and after hesitating for a long time, he finally spoke.
Tao Mu, who was originally the younger sister of the former head of the Tao Department, is also the sweetheart of Dahu since he was a childhood sweetheart, and Dahu, who likes to think about life, has also become the first person in the Tao Department to have a view of love.
However, before Dahu decided to propose to Tao Mu, the leader of the Tao tribe wanted to sacrifice his sister to the Lu tribe in order to curry favor with the Lu tribe.
After Dahu found out, he wanted to elope with Tao Mu, but the night before he planned to elope, Dahu's house suddenly caught fire, Dahu's family was burned to death, and Dahu was also in a coma for many days.
When he woke up, he learned that Tao Mu had been sent to the Furnace tribe, and that he had been punished by the fire god for attempting to defile the sacrifice to the god of fire.
Many years have passed, and this incident is still deeply imprinted in Dahu's heart, and he often dreams of the fire, and often dreams of Tao Mu. The reason why he was afraid of the Lu clan and believed in the god of fire and didn't want to come here was because of this incident.
And now, Tao Mu appeared in front of him again, which reminded him of that night many years ago, the night when the fire was blazing, the night when everything was suddenly collapsed.
"You're still not a man!" After listening to Dahu's words, Long Qiupeng gave him a drink stick on the spot, "You don't even have the courage to go to her, what do you love or not, I think you just want to say it." ”
Dahu was already very interested in Tao Mu, and he took advantage of the strength of the wine, and even said: "I'm afraid that the fire god will punish her!" ”
When Long Qiupeng saw that the big lake was hooked, he said, "Pull! The god of fire doesn't want her anymore! Look at how miserable she's doing now. Ah, I see, you're disgusted with her now! ”
"I didn't!" Dahu shouted, no less than at the feast.
Long Qiupeng didn't say anything else, just pointed to the door and said firmly: "Then go find her!" ”
Against the moonlight, some drunk Dahu felt that he had seen a miracle, he was silent for a while, and pushed the door out of the place pointed by Long Qiupeng.
Looking at the figure of Dahu, it was not night, Long Qiupeng turned around and said softly to the deer who had been preparing to stop for a long time: "You go too, be careful in everything." ”
"Yes......" the deer whispered, and went out from the other side of the house.
Long Qiupeng sat alone in the dark, without saying a word, and the cards on the table had been distributed, just waiting for the last two cards to solve the final mystery.
Suddenly, there were all kinds of commotions outside the window, and Long Qiupeng stood up in an instant, and he stood up without saying a word. Walking out of the door, when he stepped out of the house, he and several other clansmen who were casual with him were about to enter the door to call him, and then the deer was not there, and Long Qiupeng didn't have the heart to distinguish what they said.
Just snatched the torches from their hands, and walked in the direction of the commotion, the center of the crowd on the runway that he had no distractions, and when he saw that the middle was surrounded by the great lake and the pottery wood, his hanging new talent settled down.
He let out a long sigh of relief, and the first card was revealed, and the odds were not good, but it was exactly what he was expecting. Taking advantage of the fact that others had not yet seen that it was him, he preemptively struck and rushed into the crowd and kicked the lake, which was not heavy, but caused the lake to sit on the ground. He was still frightened just now, but at this time, his brain was completely short-circuited, and he sat there and stared at Long Qiupeng, at a loss.
Yan Yan didn't appear, but they didn't dare to offend Long Qiupeng no matter how much they looked down on him, Qingmang muttered something to him, but there was no deer present, and he only understood a few words, it should be basically how Dahu is, and then what will be punished.
But Yan Yan never appeared, Long Qiupeng negotiated with Qingmang casually, and Qingmang didn't understand what Long Qiupeng said. Qingmang wanted to leave, but was stopped by Long Qiupeng several times. In this way, the chicken and the duck talked for a while. Suddenly, someone quietly came up behind Long Qiupeng and said, "It's become a ......."
The second card also showed the bottom, Long Qiupeng smiled, he had won half of this gamble, and the last one looked at the last hole card in the opponent's hand.
"If you continue to make trouble like this, what should you do if you make a noise to Lord Yanyan!" Lu conveyed Qingmang's words to Long Qiupeng, looking at the other party with a tired face, and it seemed that he didn't want to be entangled like this anymore.
Seeing that the other party was not in a hurry to make a judgment, Long Qiupeng softened his attitude and said, "I want to talk to the leader of Yanyan in person tomorrow, and then I will do it!" ”
Qingmang saw the deer coming, and said angrily: "Why did you come, it's been a fuss for half the night, and if you continue to make trouble, it will anger Lord Yanyan, and none of you will have good fruit to eat!" ”
The deer was not Long Qiupeng, he apologized again and again, and made a gesture of persuading Long Qiupeng, and quietly reported the surrounding situation to Long Qiupeng.
Long Qiupeng pretended to listen to Lu's persuasion, and said to Qingmang: "I was offended just now, but Dahu didn't mean to offend, you take it away first, but tomorrow morning, after I meet with the head of your family, I will talk about the matter." ”
Before leaving, Long Qiupeng patted Dahu on the shoulder and said, "I won't let you have an accident!" Feel relieved! ”
The people of the Lu tribe were scattered, and the Great Lake and Tao Mu were also taken away. Long Qiupeng knew that without Yan Yan's order, Qingmang did not dare to trespass. But just in case, he still sent an entourage to quietly follow Dahu and them, in case someone wants to execute Dahu in private, or this is planned by Yan Yan, he also has a chance to turn around.
And he took the deer back to his resting place.
"How?" As soon as the door closed, Long Qiupeng didn't say a word and went straight to the point.
The deer nodded and said, "Actually, I was almost discovered, but fortunately, the big lake caused a commotion, and those guards ran to see the situation." ”
Long Qiupeng sighed and said, "The sin of the Great Lake was not in vain. ”
Next, Lu depicted in detail the part of the terrain that Long Qiupeng had not visited. Yan Yan was very smart and knew the power of the fire, so he built the food warehouse near the lake away from the source of the fire. The food warehouse is not small, and it is heavily guarded.
But as Long Qiupeng guessed, because of the poor harvest of the Tao Department, the food reserve of the Lu clan has been hit hard, and the real food and material reserve is slightly empty at present. However, there are still a large number of processed fishing and hunting products as a food reserve for the winter.
Near the granary there are two thatched livestock sheds for pigs and cattle. The deer said that although a small amount of stale grain had been found in the troughs of the animals, they were now fed with ordinary forage, and the cows and pigs were a little emaciated. It can be inferred from this that the cattle were originally fed grain for a time so that they could pull copper ore. Now that there is less food, they have to go back to the days when they only ate forage to survive.
Although these reserves are not small, they are still a little reluctant to survive the winter.
And the deer occasionally found that the things left over from their dinner party were distributed as prizes to the people who were on duty that night.
Although the Lu tribe has the germ of slavery, it is still a primitive tribe in essence, and it is still a public ownership society with shared resources. There is only one reason to distribute the rest of the food to the clansmen, the food of the Furnace tribe is already in short supply to the extent that it cannot be wasted, and the food for the dinner party is also very precious to the usual Furnace tribe. In order to facilitate management, Yanyan concentrated all this food around the grain depot near the lake.
Long Qiupeng smiled, the opponent's last hole card was revealed, and Long Qiupeng won this big gamble.
The technologically advanced Furnace tribe is also an unshakable existence in the primitive society, but at this moment, food has become the Achilles heel of this tribe, negotiating, saving the Great Lake and Taomu, and defeating the Furnace tribe, the breakthrough is here.
It turned out that Long Qiupeng had already seen from Yan Yan's actions that there was a problem with the grain storage of the Lu tribe, but in the face of the cunning Yan Yan, he couldn't be sure of his inference.
So the plan was for the deer to explore the location of the Furnace tribe's grain depot and count their grain reserves as much as possible.
Of course, Long Qiupeng knew that it was very dangerous to do this, but he had no choice but to let Lu do his best, not reluctantly. It's best to get information, but if you can't get it, you have to close your eyes and gamble with all your might. The Long tribe is still in a state of poverty and weakness, and any big gamble without the certainty of victory may send the fate of the tribe into the abyss. When it is the Haikou that he boasted to his people, it will never be realized. Such a thing will never be allowed to happen to Long Qiupeng.
Therefore, when he heard about the old story of Dahu, he did not even hesitate in the slightest, and immediately thought of using Dahu's timidity and loss of control to create a riot and cover the deer's reconnaissance.
Although it is not a glorious thing to go to someone else's tribe to elope with a woman, but at the end of the patrilineal clan society and the early stage of the budding slavery system, an alien woman like Tao Mu is almost no different from a commodity, as long as Long Qiupeng is willing to pay a high price, she can settle it.
Relatively speaking, the nature of what the deer did was different, and if it was him and not the Great Lake who was found, then tonight, I am afraid that none of them would want to leave the walls of the Furnace tribe alive.
The use of Dahu is forced by the general trend, but after all, he himself does not know, so Long Qiupeng still feels tormented this night, for fear that Yan Yan or Qingmang will rebel and execute Dahu and Tao Mu privately, in that way, he will feel guilty for the rest of his life.