Almost all of the Tungu people were soldiers, and while the men went out to fight, the women left the village with their children and took refuge in the mountains and forests.

Of course, Ji Ran, Sen Feng and others also hid in the mountains and forests.

It turned out that they did this mainly to prevent other villages or tribes with feuds from taking advantage of the opportunity to seek revenge.

When there are no men guarding the village, women and children are basically unable to protect themselves, and in order to ensure the safety of women and children to the greatest extent, they can only hide in the mountains and forests.

Fortunately, the mountains and forests in the north of the village are very dense, and it is not easy to be spotted when hiding inside.

When Ji Ran was dodging, he saw a little boy with my bow in his hand, the bow was almost as tall as the little boy's height, and the little boy was holding the bow with both hands, which looked a little funny.

"Little brother, how old are you? Do you also shoot arrows? Ji Ran looked at the little boy and asked, and Rocky randomly translated it into a language that the little boy could understand.

The little boy nodded earnestly.

"Hehe, really? So what would you on? Kitten Bunny? Ji Ran asked curiously.

"I'll shoot birds flying in the sky." The little boy pointed to the birds flying in the sky and replied.

Ji Ran looked up at the sky, although the birds in the sky were small, they flew very fast, and because the target was small, it was not easy to shoot small birds, let alone children, and adults might not be able to hit every shot.

After the little boy finished speaking, he came to the open field, raised the bow with his left hand, pulled an arrow from his waist with his right hand, and then fixed the tail of the arrow with the index finger and middle finger of his right hand to the bowstring, and the thumb of his right hand bent it, tightly clasped the bowstring, and then pulled it back hard, and a bow was actually pulled by him into a full moon.

The little boy's eyes narrowed slightly, and after aiming at a flying bird, he decisively let go, only to listen to "Bang!" ~" The sound of a bowstring, the arrow feathers flew away, but it was impartial, and it hit the bird's body.

The arrow immediately dropped the bird from the sky.

The little boy ran over and retrieved the arrow, which had a poor little bird stuck in it.

"Wow, that's amazing, little brother, what's your name?" Ji Ran really admired this little boy, when he was so young with him, he was afraid that he couldn't even pull the bowstring, right?

"My name is Agu, and I am the son of Helibo." The little boy said.

Hearing the little boy's self-introduction, Ji Ran suddenly realized, it turned out that he was the son of Helibo, the patriarch of the Tonggu clan, and the tiger father had no dogs, no wonder he was so powerful at such a young age.

Towards noon, only three whistles were heard in the sky, and all the women and children of the Tonggu tribe hiding in the mountains and forests walked out of the mountain col one after another.

It turns out that this is the way the Tonggu people communicate, they have a special arrow, a whistle is tied to the lower part of the arrow, when the arrow shoots out, the wind rushes into the whistle, it will make a sharp whistle.

The Tonggu people judge whether it is safe or dangerous based on the whistle.

A whistle blows to indicate that there is a situation.

Two whistles sound, indicating that the situation is urgent and needs to be assembled immediately.

The three whistles sound to represent the removal of danger and the declaration of safety.

The three whistles sounded just now, which means that the danger has been lifted, so the Tonggu people have left the mountains and forests one after another and returned to the village.

Ji Ran also followed them back to the village.

When everyone returned, there were several more wagons and ox carts in the village, and when Ji Ran saw these carts and ox carts, he immediately recognized them as the convoy of the warm-hearted bearded merchant they had met in the inn in the small town of Romanty.

It turned out that the bearded merchant was spotted by the Tungu patrol when he was passing through this woodland, so he gathered men and brought the merchant's convoy back to the village.

The bearded merchant knew that these Tonggu people were very strong, and he did not dare to offend, so he had to drive the convoy to the village.

As soon as the convoy stopped, the Tonggu people immediately began to look for what they needed in the car, but whatever could be used, they would unceremoniously take it directly, and as for paying, there was no such concept.

Strictly speaking, the Tonggu people have no concept of money at all, and they are still in the primitive state of barter.

Seeing his goods being snatched away by these barbarians, the bearded merchant also dared to be angry but did not dare to speak, and could only consider himself unlucky.

This kind of thing, in fact, is not uncommon on the mainland, almost every mountain has this kind of brutal bandits, whenever you pass through these bandit territory, if you are lucky, pay some tolls and let you pass, if you are unlucky, I am afraid that all things will be lost, and you may even lose your life.

Of course, some people say, are these businessmen stupid?

Won't you take the big road? Take the official road?

In fact, it's really not that these businessmen are stupid, if you take the official road, it is true that there are no robbers, but those lords and nobles are more ruthless than robbers, and all kinds of trade taxes, road maintenance fees, personal income tax and other miscellaneous taxes add up, which can simply make people pick up three layers of skin, and they can't make much money at all.

If you are unfortunate enough to meet a lord who gets married and has children, you will have to give a valuable gift at that time, knowing that it is more terrible to annoy the lord than to offend the barbarian.

Therefore, it is precisely because of these considerations that the merchants would rather take some risks and pass through the territory of the barbarians than take the official road seriously.

Helibo was a man of paramount importance, and he knew that his people had taken a lot of goods, so he ordered them to slaughter two sheep and treat the bearded merchant with great hospitality.

The whole sheep banquet is the highest standard of Tonggu hospitality.

When he had eaten and drunk, Helippo had his people fetch some jerky, fur and some very brightly colored birds, and loaded them into the bearded merchant's chariot as a kind of thank-you to the bearded merchant.

The bearded merchant made a rough calculation, although the Tunguska people did not pull out a dime, but the things given seemed to far exceed the value of the things taken, especially these brightly colored birds, which can only be found in such barren mountains and mountains, and if they were taken to the big city and sold to the nobles, they would definitely sell for a good price.

The bearded merchant was very happy and thanked Helibo.

Helipo was also very enthusiastic, and personally sent the bearded merchant out of his domain.

Before parting, Helibo grabbed the bearded merchant's hand and whispered a few words in his ear.

"Sir, if you pass by here next time, can you bring some iron with you? I will definitely prepare double the gift as a reward. Helibo consulted with the bearded merchant.

"Yes, no problem, patriarch, you are so kind to me, and you also kill sheep to entertain me, I am really very moved, the next time you pass by here, you must bring some iron tools, you can rest assured." The bearded merchant agreed.

(End of chapter)