Chapter 21: Perverse (3)
After a while, a young man walked in, one of Xia Qi's guards, sitting beside Xia Qi with a beaming face.
Xia Qi introduced to Zhai Yunxiao and the others: This is my son Xia Jie, I have an appointment with three outsiders today, and I also let my son open his eyes and have a long insight, I hope the three of them will not be surprised!
Zhai Yunxiao cares about what kind of precious treasure this guy asks his wife to take? After a while, the wife returned, holding a delicate box in both hands, and placed it on the table with great respect, and took out a black glass bottle from it, and prepared a goblet for everyone except Stark.
Zhai Yunxiao suddenly realized: This must be a red wine that has been treasured for hundreds of years! Even in Shengtian City, I drank 2982 Lafite, and this bottle may be 1982 Lafite, right?
Stark's Brain: In a moment, you two will have to pass on the feeling of drinking this wine to me, so that I can enjoy it too.
The wife lifted the closed cork with her tools, and heard a muffled sound of touching, and the room was filled with an intoxicating scent.
Wait, no, Zhai Yunxiao raised his nose and sniffed, which is this Lafite? This taste is definitely not.
The wife got a little bit of black liquid in all the goblets, the liquid seemed slightly viscous, Zhai Yunxiao sniffed it closer, and licked it with the tip of his tongue, soy sauce, what else could this be soy sauce?
Xia Qi and his son Xia Jie couldn't wait, grabbed the mutton and dipped it in a little soy sauce and put it in their mouths, chewing it carefully, and swallowed it with a grunt in their throats, revealing an intoxicated expression, which didn't look like they were eating mutton, but like an addict sucking white powder.
Zhai Yunxiao and Liang Yimeng stared at each other, thinking that my saliva was flowing out, so you would give me this?
Xia Qi felt out of shape, motioned to Zhai Liang and the two to taste, and said: Since my ancestors lived in this building, we have collected a lot of items left by the ancients in the world for hundreds of years, this extremely fresh soy sauce is our favorite condiment, at that time a total of five boxes were found, hundreds of years of ancestors have been carefully kept, no major celebration is never dare to enjoy it, until now there are only five bottles left, thinking that my descendants may not be able to enjoy such a delicious heart.
Zhai Yunxiao picked up the Gaoqiao Cup and gave his soy sauce to Xia Jie and said: We don't lack this Dongdong there, let's give it to your son.
Xia Jie couldn't say it happily, and said in a muttered voice: Thank you, uncle, for cleaning up the unclean soy sauce in Zhai Yunxiao's cup.
Don't call uncle.
Xia Qi angrily reprimanded: Don't be rude, and then look at Liang Yimeng again.
Liang Yimeng handed the goblet to Xia Qi in an interesting way, and said in his head: These people are really useless.
Xia Qi took a look, hesitated, and finally handed the goblet to a wife behind him and said: You can use it. The three wives cheered.
Zhai Yunxiao asked: Then you usually eat like this!
Well, it's just a little salt in the soup where the meat is boiled, and then borrow some wild vegetables.
Zhai Yunxiao's heart suddenly rose with pity, and said: Although I don't know how to make soy sauce, I know that as long as there are soybeans as raw materials, soy sauce can be brewed through simple technology, and I don't need to look at a bottle of soy sauce as a treasure. He took a bite of mutton, the smell was really speechless, but it was really not salty, it didn't matter if he ate it once or twice, but if he ate it for a lifetime, it was really unbearable.
Xia Qi lowered his head: What Mr. Zhai said is very true, I also have a method for brewing soy sauce, it is in the computers left by the ancients, and even I have saved many production methods and methods in the world, but I just can't do it.
Oh? Zhai Yunxiao wondered: As the head of the tribe, you don't even have this power?
No. Xia Qi replied helplessly and affirmatively: Since my ancestors lived here, they made a rule that no clan members were allowed to live outside this building, even if they went out for activities, it was a time limit, although this was a residence, it was better to say that it was a prison.
Zhai Yunxiao said: I can see this
Xia Qi said: Since there are restrictions on going out, where is the time to plant crops outside? And the large area of cultivation activities was easy for Noah to discover. We only allow the chiefs to lead their tribesmen to hunt on a regular basis or a small number of herdsmen to graze their cattle for these things that are not easy to be discovered, and it is not allowed to grow crops on a large scale with us.
Zhai Yunxiao said angrily: That was the rule of your ancestors hundreds of years ago, it is easy to change times for hundreds of years, and you should make some changes according to the actual situation, even if your ancestor is angry and kills him, he will not admit it or kill him again. You're the leader, and you don't have any power?
Xia Qi smiled bitterly: Mr. Zhai only knows one and does not know the other, after my ancestors lived here, they did not establish themselves as kings but implemented a democratic decision-making system for the tribe, and the tribe set up ten elders in teaching, medical care, housing, family planning, security, food, civil affairs, health, justice and archaeology, and elected a leader from it every 20 years.
Zhai Yunxiao interjected: The leader of twenty years? That's almost the head of a lifetime! Besides, it always feels nondescript that your small tribe has played with a democratic system when the productive forces are so backward!
Xia Qi said: You say that I am a tribe, but our ancestors came from a democratic society, but they couldn't see the dictatorship of the Gordon family to flee from Noah's country, and their ambition is also to establish a democratic society. He pointed to the books and hard drives in the cabinets: And our history and materials record the superiority of democratic society, which is why democracy is consistently enforced.
Stark suddenly asked: Your ancestors were the leaders of the tribe, and you are also the leader of the tribe, I guess that for hundreds of years, the leaders and elders of this tribe have been nothing more than passing back and forth between several powerful families at that time, right? The dealer changes every 20 years, but this player is indeed fixed. You say that this is a democratic society, but it is no different from the ancient scholar society, and it is not a democratic society to say that you have been the leader for 20 years.
Stark asked, and Zhai Yunxiao also felt that the clouds had cleared the day, and he seemed to have seen the key to the problem at a glance from the fog.
Xia Qi hesitated, and finally had to admit: Mr. Stark is right, I haven't noticed these things before, but our democracy is like this, at least we have a democratic presbyterian council, and we have always decided big and small matters through voting.
Stark was silent, his expressionless glass face making it impossible to tell what he was thinking.