Chapter 456: The Importance of Fertility
Tu Laosan was holding a lighter and matches, very excited, with an exaggerated expression on his face, his lips trembling, and his hands trembling.
"That's too ...... It's amazing! Sure enough, it's the messenger of the god of fire......"
I know that I can't explain it clearly to Tu Laosan in a few words, and I don't bother to bother.
Thinking that primitive people first tried to use natural fire - maybe after a fire caused by a thunderbolt, they found that the meat of the burned animal carcasses was particularly delicious, so in the next fire, the bold primitive people used wooden sticks to make fire, and after many attempts, hid the "tinder" in a cave or horn ragari.
After many attempts, I gradually mastered the methods of preserving "fire", such as: fire is afraid of water, fire is afraid of wind, and a large amount of dry firewood must be prepared......
In their eyes and hearts, fire is a gift from God, a treasure that God has given them to separate from other animals.
They thought that there must be a god in charge of the fire, and they took so much effort to save the "fire", and with a light stroke, there was fire, so it was natural to think of me as the "messenger of the god of fire".
Thinking about this, I couldn't help but laugh dumbly.
Thinking that the matches and lighters were running out, he simply taught Tu Laosan and a few other villagers who looked smarter how to use dry wood to make fire, and how to use some kind of spark rubbed by stone to make fire.
After the incident, I was a little worried.
Originally, the evolution of human beings and the evolution of all things in nature are a slow and long-term process, and I wonder if my intervention will affect the course of human history.
After thinking about it, I thought of the old glasses' sentence - history is predestined, just like the rolling Yellow River, although there are few twists and turns, but no one and nothing can change its trajectory.
While speaking, half a day has passed.
In the past half day, I have noticed that several villagers have reported that their bodies have stiffened in the past few days, and even when their limbs and necks are twisted, they will feel a little pain.
In addition to the owner of the village and the third child, there is another person in the village whose identity is more special, that is, the doctor in the village.
They called her "Ula", an old lady with white hair, and the only old lady in the stockade.
I didn't ask if "Ula" was her name or if it was the Dongyi people's name for doctors.
Ula usually does not go out, but lives in a small black house on the side of the village, and when he is sick, he will come to see a doctor.
I have seen Ula's way of seeing a doctor - a pure Chinese medicine method, first looking, then asking, then taking the pulse, and finally taking out a dozen fine needles made of animal bones from a small box, and then pricking several people a few times.
She was very skilled in the whole process, always keeping her head down and not saying a word.
How can joints harden at a young age!
I couldn't help but wonder.
Suddenly, I thought of the legend about the Dongyi tribe.
Legend has it that the Dongyi tribe originally had two leaders, one was Chi You, and the other was his twin brother, but later there was a terrible plague in the entire Dongyi tribe, and many people got a strange disease, and their bodies gradually became ossified, and finally became like zombies.
There was no way, at that time, Chiyou's twin brother stood up and chose to treat himself as a sacrifice, exchanging his soul with the mysterious Taishan Mansion Jun, and returning the clan to peace.
Could it be that the performance of these stiff people is the legendary plague?
If so...... Then it is not long before Chiyou's twin brother sacrifices his soul. When I think about it, I feel happy in my heart. In the past half a day, I also noticed another thing, that is, many people were holding very fine bronze utensils and weapons, which obviously did not match the level of development of this era.
I whispered to Tu Laosan, "Where did these bronzes come from?" "Zero-One Reading Network
"Bronze?" Tu Laosan didn't seem to understand me.
I pointed to a bronze dagger in the owner's hand: "This is what it is." ”
"Oh! These are all found in the caves on the side of the Yellow River, there are a lot of them! ”
Tu Laosan replied disappreciatively.
I was shocked: sure enough! Similar to what Mr. Wu analyzed, the Dongyi people suddenly rose when they discovered the remains of a more advanced prehistoric civilization.
I felt that the time was almost right before I spoke: "Your leader, the Dragon, is also nearby?" ”
Tu Laosan first looked me up and down before replying: "Yes! The leader of the dragon lives in Sanliwa, not far from our village - why do you keep asking the leader of the dragon? ”
"Nothing! I think when I come to a place, I should visit the local chief, it's etiquette, isn't it? ”
Tu Laosan still didn't seem to understand my words very well, and after being stunned for a moment, he still nodded.
"If I have the chance, I'd like to meet your dragon leader!"
Tu Laosan hesitated: "This-it's okay!" According to custom, the day after tomorrow we will send someone to pay tribute to the chief, and you can go with you when the time comes! ”
One day in my spare time, I taught them how to grow wheat and how to build stones into stronger houses.
What embarrassed and tangled me was the two nights.
On the first night, shortly after I lay down, I heard the door creak open again, and it was two more curvaceous girls. This time, I saw very clearly, although the two of them had slightly dark skin, they looked good and had better figures.
I know what's going to happen next, but I'm confused!
Especially when I thought of Wu Jinghan, a sense of self-blame suddenly welled up in my heart.
But in the end, reason is defeated by the instinct of the male animal.
The next day, I also asked Tu Laosan, and he told me a very shocking thing.
In all the villages of their Dongyi tribe, there is such a rule.
All women must have children before the age of sixteen, and their status in the village is directly proportional to the number of children born, that is, the more children they have, the more they will be respected by the people in the village, and even special care will be given in terms of clothing, food, housing and transportation.
Once they lose their fertility, they are abandoned by the tribe and driven out of the village to die.
In addition, it is a matter of giving birth to children.
If a child is born to the owner of the village or a nobleman, the identity and status of the mother will also be improved.
At first, I really couldn't understand how there could be such a thunderous rule in the world, it was unheard of, but when I thought that this was a primitive tribe period where population was the most expensive, and having more children was the most important thing, I probably understood.
Tu Laosan also explained why being the owner of the village is related to fertility.
There is an even stranger rule in the Dongyi village: whoever can get more women pregnant and get women pregnant faster will be elected as the head of the village.
Twenty years ago, Tu Laosan was not yet forty years old, and he once set a feat of making three women pregnant at the same time in one night, in the words of the time, it was to contribute to the continuation of the population of the village, so he was elected as the owner of the village.