In the evening, when Shi Jiayan and Assi walked into the huge ship-shaped chamber, it was almost full of people, and the food had already been arranged, and everyone was talking and laughing, and it was very lively.

Most of the ingredients of the Fiji people are raw and cold fish and shellfish, or air-dried products, a small amount of vegetables and fruits, and there are also sea salt pickles. Edible utensils are mostly made of shells. Because the wood of the sea is too precious to be used as fuel, the fuel used for cooking is almost always fish oil and free-standing stone stoves carved from rock for easy movement. These stone stoves have a groove in the middle of the fish oil and have a variety of shapes, and the edge of the stove is usually carved into a hollow or wavy shape to facilitate ventilation. When steaming, simply rest the pot on the edge of the stove. Due to the undulating waves, stone stoves often also function as a fixed pot.

Shi Jiayan and Assi glanced at each other, and they couldn't help but smile bitterly, as soon as they saw this posture, they knew that they must be planning to hold a big banquet that lasted all night tonight.

A large banquet like this is usually held every six months, but almost always it starts with joy and ends with a happy ending. When it comes to business, the young and the old will always disagree and will not back down from each other. The Fijian people are accustomed to discussing the important affairs of the clan in the middle of the banquet after they have eaten and drunk enough, so the atmosphere is always cheerful at the beginning, and they often leave with their own anger at the end.

Since this chamber doubles as a shelter, there will be no unnecessary obstructions. In addition, the necessities of life at sea were very scarce, so the Fiji people never wasted wood to make chairs, and in the spacious hall, there were only low tables arranged neatly, and people usually sat on the floor.

All the low tables in the hall are usually hidden and fixed to the back of the floor. On the flat floor, there are many invisible mechanisms. When you need to use a low table, just press the mechanism, and the position of the low table on the back of the floor will be loosened, and the loose place will be reversed, and the bottom will be turned up, and you can see the folded low table. Then, simply straighten the folded legs, erect them, and unfold the folded tabletop, and the low table is ready to use. All the legs are fixed to the floor, and the table top also has several grooves that match the dimensions of the tableware and the small stone stove to hold the utensils. This design is very convenient and practical, even on the rough and rough sea, the table will not tip over or run around. When not in use, fold it back and turn the floor under the table back into place, and the hall will quickly return to leveling.

Somewhat reluctantly, Assi followed Shi Jiadi to the place where the elders had gathered, but the impatience in his heart would never be written on that smiling face. The ten elders here are all respected leaders of the previous generation of the Feiqi tribe, but now that they are old, it is not convenient for them to go to sea, and they usually only show their faces when discussing major affairs within the clan.

Shi Jiayan nodded slightly to the elders, and after a brief greeting, she sat down on the floor like everyone else, and Assi also sat down with her. As soon as they were seated, the young people began to sing and dance and have fun.

The beauty of the music of the Fijian people is incomparable to that of the Savoyard and Lepelian. Because, from ancient times to the present, the eyes of the Fiji people are looking at the vast ocean and the vast sky, and their emotions are very delicate, full of brave and romantic fantasies and faint melancholy feelings. Moreover, they are also very good at expressing the rich and contradictory emotions in their hearts through the melody rich in Fijian characteristics, implicitly and appropriately.

The word "combination of rigidity and softness" is the most suitable way to describe the character of the Fiji people. They are brave, resolute, talented, and sentimental. They like to create wealth, but they are not greedy. They love to go on long voyages, but they miss their homeland all the time. The contradictory personality of longing for personal freedom, but also liking emotional bonds, is vividly displayed in the Fiji people.

No matter how difficult the situation is, it can't dampen their romantic nature of beauty. Both males and females like to dress up, and although they don't have many new fabrics, they also decorate half-worn clothes with brightly colored shells. Unlike the nomadic hunter-gatherers of the Savoy, who could sew clothing from animal skins, and unlike the agrarian Lepelian, they had enough plant filaments for weaving and sewing clothing. As a result, the winter coats and shoes of the Fiji people are almost always made of fish skin. The fish skin, which has been carefully tanned by the Fijian people, has the characteristics of waterproof, moisture-resistant, lightweight, and wear-resistant, and is no worse than the animal skin clothing of the Sava people. They adorn the skin with its toughest skins, small colorful shells, and polished bones, making the garment even more beautiful and pleasing to the eye. The Fiji people are so skilled at tanning fish skins that they are the only people in the world who can use fish skins to make clothing.

Not only that, but the accompanying instruments used by the Fiji people, as well as their large and small personal weapons and tools, are mostly made of shells and fish bones. Every Fiji person is a skilled craftsman, and they like to hide all kinds of homemade gadgets on their bodies. Because they are often out and about, it is very necessary to carry a variety of practical tools with them.

The young people sang and danced until midnight, as if they did not know sorrow. Seeing that the elders next to him were about to eat and drink, but Shi Jiayan didn't want to listen to their ramblings tonight, so he opened his mouth first and went straight to the point: "This time, we met the streamers in the Western Continent. ”

As soon as the words fell, there was a "clang-" sound in her ears, and the cup in the hand of the elder sitting next to her, Lianfu, fell on the table in shock.

"What did you say?" asked another elder, named Naruin, in disbelief, and the rest of the group looked surprised.

But Shi Jiayan didn't intend to repeat the answer, just looked at them silently, because she knew that they had all heard clearly, otherwise they wouldn't be so out of shape. Because of these words, the lively banquet hall suddenly fell silent, and everyone looked at Shi Jiayan, waiting for the leader's next words with complicated expressions.

At this moment, only Assi still had an inexplicable smile on his face, but the pair of tear-like red freckles under his blue eyes cast a dangerous hue over his smile. The gaffe reaction of the clan was already expected by him. The reason why they were frightened by the sensitive word "Streamer" was because there was no one here who didn't know that the Gufei people indirectly harmed their own life-saving benefactor, the Streamer people, lost their homeland, and later even they were expelled from their homes, which is probably the so-called karma. Since then, the Fiji people have been describing their actions as an excuse for "helpless actions to protect their people" to soothe their inner turmoil. Although more than a thousand years have passed, the facts are the facts, and they can only feel guilty in the process of escaping, unable to achieve true liberation.

The word "streamer" has always easily aroused the guilt of the Fiji people, and for more than a thousand years, everyone has tacitly kept silent as if they had nothing to do with themselves. Although our ancestors have long since passed away, as long as we pretend to forget everything, can we really erase that period of history? Naturally, we can't, otherwise where can we feel guilty? After all, all the streamers who experienced that historical disaster are still alive and still living in this world that does not belong to them, bearing endless wars and unjust condemnation.

"Streamer...... They ...... "After a long time, Lian Fu finally came back from his astonishment, but after he opened his mouth, he didn't know where to ask.

"Now, there are some streamers who have been displaced in the Western Continent and need our help in building ships, and they want to cross the sea to the Eastern Continent, and I have agreed. Shi Jiayan pointed out his determination bluntly. Tonight, she doesn't intend to give anyone a chance to blur the issue, and the whole clan must take history seriously. This is also the first time in more than 1,000 years that the Fijian people have raised the issue in public without being subtle.

Hearing this, Elder Ming was solemn and worried, and said, "Although you are the leader, you can't make decisions privately regardless of the wishes and lives of the whole clan. ”

"More than 1,000 years ago, in order to save the lives of the whole clan, the ancestors had to take King Guhir to the East China Sea, otherwise we would not be able to exist today. If we let the Lepeilian people in the Eastern Continent know that we are building ships for the Streamers, and send them to the Eastern Continent, then we will have nowhere to escape. Now that the ships of the Eastern Continent have been able to cross the West Sea, I am afraid that they will be able to kill here in the near future and destroy the new city that we have built with great difficulty. The Fiti have already lost a home, and they can't afford to lose it a second time......" Lien Fu dissuaded bitterly, and the other elders echoed with concern.

Ignoring their rebuke and dissuasion, Shi Jiayan calmly asked, "Do you still plan to let more juniors continue to survive in this ocean of scarce materials, unpredictable and no future?"

"We have been living at sea for more than a thousand years, and we have long been adapted, and there is nothing wrong with it, at least not to be threatened by the Savoyard and Lepelian. Elder Ming Yin said conservatively.

"Your thoughts are not as good as those of your ancestors more than a thousand years ago!" Shi Jia stood up suddenly, his eyes swept over the young people in the hall one by one, and then returned to the old men again, and continued, "Why don't you ask them if they want to? By the way, I'm determined to take the land of Honia. In the future, all the people will return to the land!"

Hearing this, the eyes of the young people present suddenly bloomed with excitement. They are young and fearless, and the younger children have never even seen the land, only the food, the flowers, and the dirt brought back from the land...... How they wish they could see a whole dense forest, mountains with overlapping peaks, and colorful birds and animals...... I want to see it with my own eyes and touch things that I can only hear from stories.

"This will never happen! The Savoyard will not let us land. More than a thousand years ago, after the ancestors were expelled from the Eastern Continent, they drifted to the Western Continent without fear of hardships, and were brutally driven away by the Sava people before they could land on the shore. At that time, if the number of the Fiji tribe was larger, they might be able to barely resist it, but ...... "Whenever this matter is mentioned, the old men can't help but start to cry, the Western Continent was obviously discovered by the Fiji people first, but it was occupied by the Sava people first.

"Have you forgotten how your ancestors created wealth? Do you want your descendants to continue to be pirates like us, and barely survive by killing people and making more goods? This has nothing to do with whether the Sava people are willing or not, let's just grab it, let us be the last pirates of the Fiji tribe!" Before the old men could finish speaking, Shi Jiadi directly interrupted those sad memories.

She really didn't want to gamble the future of the Fiji tribe on this resource-scarce and unpredictable sea, and at least give the children the opportunity to run freely on the land once. Whenever she returned from outside, the children would gather under the city gates, looking at her with expectant eyes, and shouting for her to tell stories from the land. No matter how trivial it is, they never get tired of hearing it. Children are always eager to grow up quickly so that they can go to sea with the adults. Even just standing on the boat and looking at the blurred outline of the land from a distance is satisfying.

"However, we only have more than 10,000 people, how can we compete with more than 2 million fierce Savoyards?

"Only by fighting bravely can we have the hope of victory. Although the probability is very small, if we don't go, there will never be any chance! Even if we keep cowering on the sea, one day we will be completely wiped out, and we will not be able to defeat the forces of nature. Even if we are not overwhelmed by the storm, maybe one day in the future, the Lepeilian people in the Eastern Continent suddenly want to occupy the West Sea, and then we will have to fight the same. Shi Jiayan replied uncompromisingly.

"You're gambling with the lives of the whole clan!" Seeing that he couldn't persuade Shi Jiayan, Lianfu turned to Axi on the side and urged, "Axi, can you persuade her too?"

"I fully agree with the leader's decision!" Asi was not moved by the old man's sad words in the slightest, the smile on his face seemed dangerous and contradictory, and his tone was difficult to distinguish between reality and reality, "As long as the leader gives an order, even if it is heaven and earth, I have nothing to fear, not to mention that it is just a battlefield." ”

"I also agree with the chief's decision. ”

"Me too!"

"We want to fight too......"

With Assi's affirmation and support, the young people stood up one after another, and they all expressed their willingness to follow the leader to the Western Continent. Soon, apart from a few old men, there were hardly any opponents. The elders had no choice but to secretly hurt themselves, shook their heads and sighed, and said no more.