In the middle of February of the 58th year of Taijia, Dashishan, Lengshui Town, Jiangxia County, Jingzhou Province, Kyushu Kingdom, was cold in spring.

On weekdays, even ghosts are rare to see on Dashishan, but today more than 300 people gathered at the foot of the mountain, which is particularly lively. Although this group of people was ragged and unkempt, they could still be seen to be completely different from the attire of the ordinary people in Jingzhou Province, all of them were herdsmen with leather clothes, leather pants and leather felt hats.

Although the people of the Xiong clan had made sufficient mental preparations, when they actually stood in front of this gray-yellow Xiaotou Mountain, which was only twenty stories high, ten miles long and wide, and gray-yellow, they were still shocked by this bare and barren land.

This big stone mountain is not so much a stone mountain, but a mud and stone mixed earth mountain, gray is limestone of different sizes, yellow is mixed with limestone, experienced old farmers know that this yellow clay is the most barren, except for thorns and ferns can live more moist, even woody plants can not grow, let alone crops with high soil fertilizer requirements.

At the front of the crowd, two officials from Lengshui Town and several people from the southeast line stood in a line, looking at the big stone mountain in front of them. In the middle of the group was Tu Gubo, who was missing an arm, and his expression was indifferent and his brows were slightly frowned; Standing on his right was Xiong Kun, who had white eyebrows and white beards, and the old man sighed softly and shook his head bitterly; Standing behind the two of them, Xiong Hai, who was as strong as a cow, blushed and scolded loudly: "This mountain where birds don't is worth 100,000 gold coins? Why don't you guys rob it in Coldwater? Don't bring such a bully! Let's go, we don't buy it, go somewhere else! Walk! ”

"Haizi, shut up for me!" Xiong Kun turned his head sideways and scolded, and Xiong Hai muttered a few words, not daring to say more, and shut up stupidly.

"Humph!" The middle-aged fat official standing on the left side of Tugubo heard Xiong Hai's complaints clearly, he glanced sideways at Youxiong Hai, and snorted coldly: "What? Too expensive? Let's say it's okay, whether this deal is successful or not, the deposit of 1,000 gold coins is ironclad and will not be refunded! If it weren't for the fact that Mayor Lu and the lady named Youxiong still had a little bit of incense, or for the sake of your relatives who are Mrs. Xiong, our Mayor Lu would not have agreed to accept you outcasts! 100,000 gold coins, including this ten-mile radius of the mountain, as well as the nearly 300 acres of woodland at the foot of the west mountain, and the raccoon creek that flows through here, there are mountains, rivers and woodlands, and we Jiangxia County can no longer find such an ownerless feng shui treasure land! ”

The fat official became more and more excited, and then said: "When we go back, our town civil affairs office has to register the land deeds and the household records of hundreds of people for you, do you know how much work there is?" You guys really picked up a big bargain, do you know? I'll tell you the truth, the Honolulu County next door just makes a register for the homeless households, and you will collect fifty gold coins per head, and you should calculate this account yourself! ”

Speaking of the later, the fat official was obviously out of anger, and he turned his head sideways to Tu Gu and said: "Mr. Tu Gu, although I am working under Mayor Lu, I am also a person with a principled bottom line, and I don't have so much spare time to bargain with you foreigners!" Buy it or not, you are the one who speaks, you can give me an open word, and I will go back to give Mayor Lu an explanation! ”

Tu Gubo listened really well, he nodded to the fat official to show his understanding, after a little thought, he glanced sideways at Youxiong Kun, and the old man said in a low voice: "It's better to be a homeless person who has no roots than to be a homeless person without roots!" Besides, this time I have Xiong Tianyin's relationship, she should not deceive us, I agreed, buy! ”

Tu Gu Bo nodded to indicate that he had received it, then turned to the fat official and said, "We decided to buy it!" Can I go through the procedure immediately? ”

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After paying the money and getting the receipt, the Youxiong clan finally bid farewell to the days of exile, and immediately set up camp in Dashishan to discuss the construction of the village.

Early the next morning, the clansmen acted separately according to the division of labor discussed the night before, Tugubo and others went to the town to continue to go through the formalities such as land deeds, and the women were led by Xiong Yunyi and other concubines to buy food and daily necessities in the nearby market, and the male strong laborers were led by Xiong Kun, who was responsible for surveying the terrain and landform, planning the direction and layout of the new village buildings.

A few days later, after the formalities were completed, the tribesmen named the new village "Dashishan Village", deliberately avoiding the word "bear"; The planning and layout of Dashishan Village maintains the original appearance of Youxiong Village in Xushan to the greatest extent, but a new sacrificial mourning hall is built next to the central square of the village, which is specially used to store the urns of the people who died on the way to escape from the southeast line and express the sorrow of relatives.

The preparatory work continued until early March, when the building materials such as bricks, sand, cement, lime, timber and thatch were ready, and the civil works of the village were fully rolled out and lasted until the end of June.

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In July, the frogs are singing in the grass, and the cicadas are crying Yangpu.

In the midsummer Banna rainforest, the grass and trees are verdant, the shade covers the sun, the strange pools are steep, and the streams and waterfalls are vertical and horizontal. On a towering tree not far from the south bank of the small rock pool, Tu Gu is hidden in the lush foliage, staring intently at a tidal flat on the southeast bank of the small stone pool, where the terrain is open and flat, and it is a favorite drinking place for the large beasts in the forest.

At noon, the scorching sun hangs in the sky, which is the hottest scene of the day in the Banna rainforest, and all kinds of rare birds and beasts continue to pour out from the forest to drink, play, and enjoy the coolness, just like a natural and harmonious landscape picture.

"Knock-knock-", a small, rhythmic, eerie sound came from deep in the forest.

"It's coming!" Tu Gu glanced at the five six-meter steel spears neatly nailed to the thick trunk of a tree, which he had paid for twenty wild boars from the blacksmith of Coldwater Town. Since Tu Guhun stepped into the "latent realm" in Dashishan Village a month ago, his hearing has become extremely sensitive, and he can detect very subtle sounds in the forest, so that when he hears the strange sound of dong dong, the animals and animals on the edge of the pond are not even aware of it.

"Boom-crackle-", until the sound of the grass and trees in the forest being rubbed, trampled, and broken by some kind of creature came from a distance, and the large and small animals on the edge of the pond heard the sound and scattered in a hurry.

"Knock-knock-", the strange sound got closer and closer, and the earth seemed to tremble with it, and even ordinary people could conclude that it was the heavy footsteps of some kind of large animal.

"Moo roar roar—", a huge roar resounded through the forest, this was the voice of the king, and all beasts avoided it when they heard it.

"Boom-crackle-", I saw a large area of dense trees on the southeast bank of the small stone pond lodging, and then a six-meter-high, long-haired long-toothed mammoth emerged from the forest, and the giant tusks four or five meters long showed that it was the leader of the elephant herd.

"Moo!"

The leader mammoth looked left and right for a while, and seemed to feel that there was no danger around the small stone pool, so he turned back to call the herd, and heard a loud and tumbling sound, and a herd of twelve tusked mammoth members finally appeared.

"I'm waiting for you!" Holding his breath, Tugu Hun gently pulled a steel spear out of the trunk of the tree and held it tightly in his hand, patiently waiting for the best time to strike.

It is said that this tusked mammoth was originally an ancient animal, which was originally extinct, but was later resurrected by humans through genetic technology in the zoo as an ornamental animal. When the war broke out in the first year of Taijia, the tusked mammoth took the opportunity to escape from its cage and escape into the Banna rainforest, becoming one of the top three animal overlords in the Banna rainforest, second only to the Tyrannosaurus rex and the pterodactyl. Among them, the tusked mammoth is also known for its large population, large quantity, and great harm to humans and agriculture around the forest, and the total bounty of the tusked mammoth is even higher than that of the pterodactyl in the official bounty document of Jingzhou.