Chapter 12: The Night
In the evening, when Rhett finally returned home after everything was done, Mary offered him all the wine and the long knife of meteoric iron that she had bought, and then told him about the day at the fair.
Red is naturally fond of the Meteorite Long Knife, and the Witch Doctor's black dagger has been his favorite for a long time, and everyone in the tribe knows that the Witch Doctor's black dagger is much sharper than all stone knives.
Now that I have got a long knife of the same material, but much longer, how can I not be excited, the soldier's favorite is the weapon in hand!
While playing with the Meteorite Knife, Mary tells the story of the caravan leader Lancer who used a crystal ball to test his son's superpowers.
Like Mary, Red didn't see anything wrong with it, and had never heard of anything bad done by the caravan.
What superpowers does his son have, which is different, this is also expected, the gift of the god of the forest is not something that ordinary people can get.
Think of the strange celestial phenomena that Blue was born with, and if Blue didn't have any unusual abilities, Red would have thought it strange!
However, Red didn't think much about it, he raised his son to eat and drink well, and in the future, like himself, he could become the patriarch of the Wolf tribe.
For this, Rhett has a strong self-confidence, and the Rhett family can become the head of the family for three generations, so naturally there are some special education methods of their own.
How Rhett's father educated and trained Rhett in the first place, and how Rhett will train his son in the future, has been proven to be effective, and the three generations of patriarchs are the best proof of this.
The people of the tribe have no greater ambitions, and it is the greatest wish of the patriarch to be able to keep the people of the tribe fed and clothed, to ensure that the tribe wins all foreign wars, and not to be bullied by others.
When he is old, when the new patriarch can take over, he can take a back seat, and when he becomes an elder, the affairs of the tribe will be like this, and it will not change for thousands of years!
The tribesmen did not know the exact date, they had no concept of calendar and year, they only knew that the light half year plus the dark half year was a whole year.
On the day when light and darkness meet, there will be a strange celestial phenomenon, and the sun in the sky will gradually lose its light, but its position will always change, but it will gradually dim.
And when the sun fades from the eastern sky, the world will gradually become dark.
When all the light disappears completely, a hazy full moon will appear in the western sky, and as time passes, this full moon will gradually brighten, and many twinkling stars will gradually appear around it.
And the bright moon will hang in the western sky forever, until the dark half year has passed, and the bright year has come again.
On this day when light and night alternate, it is the New Year of the Terrans, and it is also the most important festival of the Terrans, and the whole tribe will party all night.
Of course, it's an all-night party, but I don't know when a new day will begin.
Only the Witch Doctor can calculate the beginning and end of the day, so the Witch Doctor's room wall will be painted black, and then the Witch Doctor will draw a mark on it every day with a white stone to represent the passing of the day.
One hundred and eighty nights have passed, and one hundred and eighty days have come, and the cycle continues.
And before the New Year, the caravan will pack up everything and leave the Wolf clan to continue their wandering journey on the mainland.
Some people will be annoyed that they didn't get what they want, and some people will rejoice in what they have gained.
But in the end, everyone will happily attend the tribe's New Year's party, and everyone will attend, because when night comes, everyone should return to the tribe.
In the dark of half a year, men don't need to go out hunting, it's like a long vacation, and in addition to eating and drinking, they do what they love every day.
Reproduction is just as important a man's duty as hunting and warfare.
Soon after dinner, the sound of ambiguous moans would sound in the camp one after another, and the old people gathered together would let out a good-natured laugh.
They have passed this absurd, bold and unscrupulous age, and they can only sit together, drink bad wine, and reminisce about their beautiful youth.
But this time, in the dark of half a year, all the warriors in the tribe had one more activity.
In addition to the necessary daily homework in bed, Red would bring them together to hone their fighting skills and sense of coordination.
Red still remembers the Panser tribe, the hatred that Shet brought him, and the hatred of killing his mother.
And the disgrace suffered by the patriarch is the disgrace of the entire clan, and all the warriors of the Wolf tribe are obliged to follow their patriarch to take revenge and bring the war of punishment to the Panser tribe.
A true warrior will not attack the old and weak, women and children, this is the iron law of this society, and war exists only between warriors and warriors.
Even if the tribe is defeated, they only have to pay the corresponding price, often women and food, and the world has not yet been wiped out.
The elders had promised to allow them to punish the Panther tribe when the new Age of Light arrived.
There was no doubt that they would win, and the Panser clan had lost ten tribal wars in a row, and their warriors were getting fewer and fewer, and the women of the tribe were getting fewer.
Perhaps, in the end, they will have to beg the big tribes to take them in, otherwise they will not be able to survive on this steppe.
There were many torches lit in the main square, and there were enough three hundred tribal warriors fighting each other, and many even fought each other with wooden sticks.
Red's tall figure stood out in the center of the field, patiently instructing some new fighters and fighting techniques.
There were more than a dozen new warriors who had only come of age in the last bright age, and only three of them had captured steppe wolves and domesticated them into their own war pets.
They have not participated in the bitter tribal wars, have not experienced any baptism of blood, and the most exciting activities they have participated in are the capture of their war pets on the steppe and the collective hunting of the tribes.
Since most of the new fighters are losers, it is enough to show how weak they are, and Red can only train them brutally, close to actual combat training.
Rhett firmly believes in the experience passed down from his ancestors, sweating more in peacetime and bleeding less in wartime, and more blood in peacetime and saving life in wartime.
Green also led dozens of tribal warriors to practice archery on one side of the square.
This time the tribe had exchanged ten strongbows from the Lancer caravan, and Green was to pick out the remaining nine strongest archers from among these warriors and pick them up with him.
With these ten strong bows, Grimm and Red, as well as the elders, were convinced that the Wolf tribe's combat power could increase by a large margin.
Elder Thor, who was in charge of crafting weapons in the tribe, had been leading his apprentices to be busy crafting suitable arrows for these ten strongbows for the past few days, and ordinary wooden arrows simply could not withstand the tremendous pull of these strongbows.
Fortunately, the tribe's storehouse was stocked with some oak from the depths of the forest, which they could not cut with stone knives and axes, but some branches that had been cut by the thunder and lightning in the sky, and collected little by little.