There was a bull man named Zhou Gongdan in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and the etiquette and social system were all set by this big man. Among them, the idea of blood inheritance is particularly subtle, and it is also the main body of building and ruling society. The sub-feudal system of the Zhou Dynasty was to integrate the inheritance of land and surnames. Both the powerful and the common people are accustomed to and respect this kind of cognition. Therefore, more than 100 vassal states were derived, and they basically came from the royal family Ji clan and the division of meritorious clans in the early days of the founding of the country. Therefore, there are very few surnames at this time, and most people only care about the glory of the family, not their own fame. The core of Zhou rites and Confucianism is to rely on ideology to educate the people and strengthen their rule, and the similarity between the two is that they are used to govern the world rather than troubled times.

"Is your real name Aji? I've never heard of a surname like Ah. ”

"The slave and the maid don't know. I only remember that when I was very young, my sisters in the family called slaves and maids like this. ”

"yes... You said that you have three sisters, I guess it is called so according to the order of uncle, middle, uncle, and Ji. ”

"Perhaps. The slave and maid are the daughters of the family. Hmm..."

"Why does Aji always wear half a mask?"

"The slave and maid are ugly, for fear of frightening the young king..."

The night in Yunmengshan is very cold, even by the campfire, the back seems to be attached to the ice. The breathability of the robe made of linen is not generally good. It is suspected that such a fabric material is only suitable for sacks in later generations. The work in his hand did not stop, but his body trembled slightly. He dismantled a piece of leather armor and wrapped the leaves in animal skins and linen cloth and sewed them together. At this time, the armor was mostly made of leather, and because the handicraft industry was not yet developed, the leather armor produced was relatively rough, and it was basically made of sixteen pieces of leather, which was not as delicate and beautiful as fish scale armor. Such a ruined behavior, as a slave, Aji would not dare to blame. It was just a curious look, the little girl opened her round eyes, looked at his face for a while, and looked at the things he made in his hands for a while. I think it's incredible, how can the young master be a female celebrity? The sewing skills displayed by those dexterous hands seem to be more skilled than Aunt Li under the mountain. Finally finished, Wang Xu straightened up and patted off the threads and rags stained on his body, and stretched his waist towards the east. The hour is about to pass, and the sun is about to come out.

"Come on! Get your feet wet. ”

"It's... For slaves? Are you sure? ”

After staying up all night, a pair of short leather boots was born. The sole is made of the disassembled leather armor leaves, and the hardness and toughness are just right. Lined with soft rabbit skin, it looks modern. The shoes of the Zhou Dynasty are like a system, a regular cuboid, beautiful and smooth on the outside, but they do not fit on the inside. The little girl had surprise written on her face, and she took the shoes and held them in the palm of her hand. Wang Xu, who watched it, was a little sentimental, wondering what kind of character this child's previous owner was? can abuse an innocent little girl like this. At this time, people had not yet been eroded by deep-rooted religious ideas, and women's status in society was relatively independent. There is only a strict hierarchy, and people value identity and status more. The girl did not shy away from taking off her tattered shoes, her feet were full of scars and scratches, and there was not a piece of good meat.

"Aji! Can you promise me one thing? ”

"The young gentleman commands, and the slaves and maids should obey it."

"Stop calling yourself a slave, and stop calling me a young gentleman... All right? ”

Seeing that the little girl was a little flustered, she seemed to be mistaken, she hurriedly took off her leather boots and returned them to Wang Xu, standing barefoot in place. The anxiety and anxiety left the girl at a loss.

"Don't get me wrong. In this big mountain, just the two of us, we always call it like this, and it seems strange, and it seems a little different. ”

"But the young monarch is the lord, and Aji is the slave, and it has always been called so."

"If Aji doesn't mind, just call me... Brother, right. In the future, we will be commensurate with brother and sister. ”

"Brother... Brother..."

felt that as soon as such a title came out, I instantly disgusted myself. A 32-year-old uncle asked a little girl to call her brother, which is really too shameless. Then the little sister was dressed up like a girl by the brother she had just recognized. Strip the bloated fur and change into clean new clothes, and comb the pigtails, and the ugly duckling immediately becomes a white swan. She likes Wang Xu's changed appearance very much, and she always doubts this real feeling, and sometimes suffers from anxiety about gains and losses. The master-servant relationship between the two is changing subtly. It's a lie for girls not to love beauty, and I vaguely remember that when the old lady was alive, she also doted on her like this. Never favored one over the other because of the identity of Adinu's maid. On the contrary, the young master was jealous of all kinds and sent his temper to the girl. She knew that the young master was not really bad, but she was in a hurry to prove herself to her mother. The expectations of the young master are too great, and the demands on him are too high. often followed quietly, and saw him alone in a daze or crying. When Madame died, not a single tear was shed. Maybe it's because he has endured too much, and it's an acute child, so he will fight and get injured after breaking off. Ajibi understood why he was so perverse. I remember that when I was first taken in by my wife, the young master was very good to me, and I really regarded her as a sister at that time. It's just that his behavior of repaying his wife made the young master, who was also a child, have a sense of crisis, and he was bullied and abused by the young master, and the relationship between the two gradually drifted apart. Remembering that everything that happened was actually my own fault. At this time, Aji did not feel a trace of grievance, but more of an apology to the lady and the young master.

"You little girl is really tall, I'm a brother, I'm half a head shorter than you. You can't go any longer. ”

"Hmmm! Aji must not be long. ”

"Hey! I'm kidding. You don't really take it seriously, do you? ”

The girl was only in her early teens, at least 1.7 meters tall. When they first met, Wang Xu mistakenly thought it was a brown bear standing on its head. At that time, Aji was still lying in thick fur, and now he stood straight in front of him, and the man's self-esteem was suddenly hit. In Wang Xu's impression, ancient people should have been very short, it was not easy to eat salt, and they were malnourished for a long time. A little girl was so tall that it was rare to see in later generations, and she would sit in the last row when she went to school. Wang Xu nodded on his toes, and it was really difficult to help his sister tidy up the folded clothes on her shoulders.

"Brother... Elder brother... Aji taught you the method of tuna, but stick to it. ”

Aji seemed to be a little uncomfortable with this title. From Wang Xu's breathing, the girl sensed that he had not insisted on practicing.

"It's hard to breathe with your belly, take your time... There is no hurry. ”

"No! At your current age, it is not easy to practice martial arts. If you can't persevere, wait until the viscera is formed. No matter how much you practice, it's useless. ”

"Okay, listen to you."

The obedient Wang Xu began to breathe through his abdomen, and his breath became long. Aji didn't teach him kung fu, only told him about the importance of tuna. In addition to strengthening the internal organs through abdominal breathing, he also consulted the records carved on tortoise shells and cow bones collected in caves. It is said that a cow man discovered that the life span of a turtle is extremely long, so he invented abdominal breathing, and then found that people with long-term abdominal breathing will be much stronger than ordinary people. As a scientific basis, Wang Xu seems to be just the speed of oxidation. For example, the number of breaths a person can take in a lifetime is limited, and one more breath will accelerate the oxidation of the body, and the person will be a little older. Abdominal breathing makes the breath long, and two or three snorts at a time, so aging is slow, which is a good way to maintain health. It is more in line with the Taoist set. Ah Ji has practiced to the point where his body is used to abdominal breathing, even when he is sleeping. And Wang Xu is just learning to play as a new skill to show off. If he had seen the other party's martial arts, he would have regretted his thoughts at this time. The girl killed five people in a row to save him with one enemy and ten, hum... Not your average master. His practice of fishing for three days and drying nets for two days was not felt on the surface, but in fact, there had been more or less changes on the inside. At least people's spirits are different.

As time went by, Wang Xu slowly fell in love with this era. It's rustic, tranquil and grateful. Everything made him fall in love, he was not a scholar with excellent character and learning, but his curiosity here was unusually strong. It is rare to be immersive, modern people archaeology study the ancients, and he archaeology studies the origin of ancient humans. At first, it was whimsical, wanting to crush the ancients with the intelligence of modern people, and to dominate the world here. At the moment, he is obsessed with the study of various ancient characters, fiddling with those cow bones or turtle shells all day long. At once he felt that he was literate, and the old pedants of later generations were weak. His family's collection of books can be measured in tonnage, and he likes to read ancient history and mythological stories the most. It's just that the records of the upper three ancients seem to be suddenly faulty and cannot be traced, but there are many stories circulating in the middle and lower three ancient times. Even the mother of the earth, Nuwa Niangniang, is real, and she is actually the female chief of the matriarchal society, the Suiren clan surnamed Feng. In the end, there was the surname Nuwa's Feng, which is really weird. Nuwa's husband Fu Xi is her own brother. ended his wife's rule and became the first person in a patriarchal society. Wang Xu guessed that Nuwa Niangniang was also a girl in the rebellious period, otherwise how could she change the surname Feng to Feng. It's strange not to follow the surnames of my parents and brother. The more I look at it, the more fascinated I become, and even the groundbreaking Pangu has been recorded, and he guesses that it is a mythical story added by later generations, because Pangu is the earliest origin of the surname Dugu, which is real. He tried to find the origin of the surname Wang, but could not find it. I feel that the name given by my parents is even more sloppy than Aji's. Then I went to check the legendary Jiang Ziya, wanting to see the powerful characters in the god list. As a result, the plot reversal is not generally outrageous. Unexpectedly, when the famous Jiang Taigong was young, he was forced by life to be a door-to-door son-in-law, and finally he couldn't stand his ugly wife and ran away from home and engaged in all walks of life. A wisher took the bait, and he was still the first master of playing public opinion in history, and finally caught Xibohou Jichang, which only then did he soar. However, before entering the earth, he was restless and became a political enemy of Zhou Gong. Zhou Gong was not cheated by him, and praised him. In the end, the two were divided into Qilu, and it seems that the descendants of later generations will also be in an endless rhythm. Wang Xu sighed for a while. In this way, I have fun mentally and I don't feel that my days are boring.

When I woke up one morning, the charcoal fire in the cave had been extinguished. Aji lay on the floor beside him, curled up in a ball, looking very cold. Wang Xu decided to make a fire, and he was afraid of waking his sister, so he made a fuss outside the cave. I found a small stick on a piece of dry wood and began to drill wood to make a fire. After rubbing for a long time, I didn't see a trace of sparks, and the dry firewood was drilled into a small hole.

"Uh... Something went wrong, right? ”

After thinking about it for a long time, I realized that I should put something flammable. So he crushed the dry thatch and put it in the small hole, and continued to rub the stick in his hand. After a long time, the palms of my hands rubbed painfully, but not a single wisp of smoke came out.

"What are you kidding..."

Maybe it's because it's not fast enough, Wang Xu thought. But if he continued to rub like this, he suspected that the blisters in his palms might not be able to raise the fire. In order to avoid the pain of peeling, it was decided to use a relatively safe stone to make a fire. Bells, bells, black swords and stones burst out of sparks. Wang Xu danced excitedly, but the sword body was too long to control the spark to accurately fall on the thatch, which was not an easy task.

"Brother, are you polishing the blade of your sword?"

I was so engrossed that I didn't notice anyone approaching at all. Wang Xu was taken aback, and as an improvisable profiteer, he decisively took the stone and sharpened the blade of the sword. The flowing movements did not reveal the slightest unnaturalness.

"Hmm... The blade of the sword is a little sluggish, so I sharpen it for my brother. ”

Then Aji squatted down beside him, and took out a small bronze object in his hand, which looked like a wine glass with a pointed bottom, which was very delicate. The girl placed a ball of velvet in a bronze wine glass, tilting it slightly towards the east.

"What is this?"

"Jiansui! Didn't my brother like to use it for fire the most before? ”

A wisp of green smoke came out of the cup, when had he ever seen such a black technology? snatched what the girl called Jiansui from her hand. Finding that the inner wall of the cup was polished extremely bright, he adjusted the angle according to Aji's appearance, and the light miraculously converged at the bottom. The fluffy hay emitted white smoke, like the principle that a concave and convex mirror can concentrate light.

"It's... This... Did you do it? ”

"My brother laughed, how could Aji make such a delicate thing? This is made by Qicheng craftsmen. The people all use this to make fire, so there is a saying that the fire is taken from the sun, and the Fang Zhu is exposed to the moon. ”

was speechless for a moment, feeling that Aji was from the modern era, and he was more like an ancient person. Then he pestered the girl and asked what Fang Zhu was. The bronze casting of the Zhou Dynasty had reached incredible heights, and he was amazed by the wisdom of the ancients. Fang Zhu is a tool for collecting dew, and the upper end is a bronze cast disc, which uses the temperature difference between day and night to condense water vapor on the surface of the metal, and then converge into the lower cup. Wang Xu doesn't believe that people like this will make the people of Da Zhou unable to fill their stomachs? Who will believe it? He wanted to get out of the mountains and see the outside world. Since the previous owner of this body almost died, the girl seems to have palpitations, and deliberately protects him, restricting his freedom and not wanting him to have too much contact with the outside world.

"Aji, can you take me with you when you go hunting today? If you stay in a cave all the time, your body will become moldy. ”

"Good! I just took my brother to get acquainted with the back mountain. ”

"Really? What time do we leave? Do you need to prepare beforehand? Should I bring a bow and arrows? How many arrows is enough? ”

Wang Xu couldn't stop asking, he had seen Aji's ability to kill a wolf with an arrow. I thought it would be fun to hunt together, so I was fully armed and looked like I was going on a campaign.

"Why does my brother wear armor?"

"Could it be... Don't need it? Can you protect yourself when fighting wild boars or bears? Fast... Let's go! Let's go! ”

Without waiting for Ah Ji to dissuade him, Wang Xu urged the other party to go out. The girl carried only a longbow and no more than five feathered arrows in her quiver. A few bamboo tubes and a bamboo basket are very simple. The two came to the back mountain, and Ah Ji first took him to look around and inspect the trap laid yesterday. Bad luck and no prey.

"Aji! Are we going bear hunting today? Or fight tigers? ”

"Dig out the eggs."

Hearing such an answer, Wang Xu felt that the whole person was not good. I spent a lot of time dressing up for a long time, fantasizing about the scene of fighting with wild beasts, is digging birds' eggs considered hunting? He said with a smile on his face:

"What's there to dig out of a bird's egg? It's fun to fight tigers. ”

"In the mountains... There are no tigers. ”

"How is that possible? Isn't the blanket I wear when I sleep like a tiger skin? ”

"That's why Aji said, there are no tigers."

It seems that tigers don't live in groups. After a long time, the tigers in Yunmeng Mountain were all killed by the girl, and Wang Xu was disappointed.

"Wild boar is not bad, barbecue is the best. Let's fight wild boars, right? ”

"No, the wild boar in autumn has just given birth, so it can't be killed. After the spring of the next year, the piglets will grow up. ”

"Don't you see, Xiao Aji still understands the truth of sustainable development?"

The little girl puffed her face into a bun, not knowing what Wang Xu was talking about. After some explanation, Wang Xu dispelled the idea of hunting. Yunmengshan taught the little girl a lot of things, knowing that the birds lay eggs at this time. Due to the lack of food in the mountains, it is difficult for the birds to survive the winter, even if they hatch. Therefore, when digging birds' eggs, there will always be two left, Wang Xu admires the ideas of the ancients, knows how to cherish the gifts of nature, unlike their modern people who will only take endlessly.

"You dig out the eggs, I'll pick up some firewood. It's out anyway, so you can't go home empty-handed, right? Be careful when climbing trees. ”

Aji nodded at him, and then disappeared from view in a puff of smoke. Wang Xu suspected that the monkey was not so flexible, and looked at the location of the bird's nest and was a little worried about Aji's comfort, the trunk was not strong. I thought about making dozens of wooden bird's nests and hanging them on trees. Picking up the eggs is safe and fast, and it's all about the birds paying some rent. When I think about it, I just feel ridiculous, am I hungry and stupid? Where are the eggs delicious? Why not get chickens? He laughed to himself and began to wander around, discovering that the dead branches scattered on the ground were too small to collect. So he took his sword and cut down the crooked branches. Suddenly, a peeling dry bark caught his attention. The tree seemed to have been hacked by man, it must have been a long time, and the wound had apparently healed. However, the oozing slime soaked the bark and made it look as if it had been blistered. He dipped his fingers in the crystalline liquid, rubbed it back and forth, and immediately frowned. Isn't this resin, something that can be used as lamp oil? But the slime has long since dried and turned into hard crystals, like amber. He drew his sword and peeled off the self-healing bark of the tree, revealing that it was full of white, sticky wood chips. Isn't that weird, shouldn't it be a bare tree trunk? He peeled back the bark of several trees in quick succession, and found that only this injured tree had white sawdust. After carefully studying it for a long time, I guessed that the injured tree must have secreted resin to protect itself, and the resin would not secrete too much like running water, but slowly seeped out, so it formed white moist sawdust. He licked his lips, feeling that it made too much sense. Then he took two bamboo tubes from Aji, carefully scraped off the sawdust and collected them. He could feel that there was grease in that thing, and if he evaporated the water, he would be able to obtain a resin that could burn, and he couldn't help but smile happily. When Ah Ji finished digging out the bird's eggs and filled the bamboo tube, Wang Xu asked suspiciously.

"Why are you digging so many eggs today? Enough to eat for a long time. ”

"Winter is coming, prepare some food in advance, and you don't have to be afraid when the snow covers the mountains."

"Oh! I see... Have you ever thought about raising poultry or livestock? ”

"Aji can't raise it, it's hard to learn."

The girl's answer made Wang Xu not know how to answer for a while, because he didn't know how to raise it. At this time, the people would raise some chickens, ducks and geese, but there were not many livestock. Only large families raised it, after all, in an era when human life was inferior to livestock. Pig raising is considered a high-end industry, if the cattle are raised well, not to mention the indirect liberation of labor, but also the cultivation of more public land to deduct taxes. If you can breed horses, it will be even more amazing. The ancestor of the Great Qin Empire surnamed Ying was awarded the land of Qin after raising horses for Zhou Tianzi. People who can raise horses are high-end technical talents, and they eat and drink spicy food everywhere. It's not as unbearable as later generations imagined. The Great Zhou measured the military strength of the vassal states by the number of horses and chariots. In other words, horse breeding is not animal husbandry, but a military industry, and the chariots of the Zhou Dynasty can be equated with the tanks of later generations. Wanting to integrate into a new world is not something that can be done in a short period of time. This thirteen-year-old body gave him the capital to squander his time and adapt slowly.