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Liu Zhibang and the others walked into the village through the five-meter-high city gate, Liu Zhibang nodded with satisfaction, the base of the city wall is more than twenty meters, and the aisles on the top of the city wall are three or four meters wide, but the inner wall and the top of the wall have not yet been paved with red bricks. In the area of a few hundred meters between the outer city wall and the original inner city wall, buildings have been erected neatly, most of which have already been built.

Lu Er looked at the three-story brick houses, his jaw was about to fall in shock, and he asked Liu Zhibang, "Patriarch, is this your design?" ”

Liu Zhibang nodded and said, "I didn't expect the clansmen to be so capable, to be able to build such a good house with such rough drawings, and the progress is too fast, it's really amazing......"

"Patriarch ......"

"The patriarch is back......"

"Hello everyone, everyone's hard work!"

Liu Zhibang kept waving to the surrounding clansmen, and Aya and the elders walked over not far away.

"Patriarch, you're finally back, everyone is worried about you these days, it's great that you're back......"

Liu Zhibang shook hands with the elders, and suddenly his eyes stayed on an unfamiliar face at the back of the crowd, the middle-aged man began to dodge a little, but when he saw Liu Zhibang looking at him, he smiled at Liu Zhibang awkwardly, stretched out his hand, and said to Liu Zhibang: "Patriarch Liu, hello, I am Shi Jian, the patriarch of the Lingshi Clan, ......."

Liu Zhibang said enthusiastically when he heard this: "Ah...... Patriarch Shi, you're finally here! ”

Shi Jian squeezed out a bitter smile and said, "It's been more than twenty days since we came, unfortunately you went to Xia Yuan City, and the elders said that they could arrange our affairs only when you came back, and finally waited until you came back......"

Liu Zhibang looked at the people around him and said loudly: "Inform all the elders to convene an elder meeting immediately, Patriarch Shi, you also come to participate, please ......"

Liu Zhibang sat in this newly built conference hall, this hall is rebuilt on the basis of the original hall, more than doubled in size, more than 200 square meters of the hall can stand hundreds of people, and the office area behind the hall is also built, all of which are designed by Liu Zhibang. The height of the council hall is more than five meters, and the windows have been changed several times larger, making them extremely bright.

Liu Zhibang touched a bear skin on the patriarch's chair, and glanced at Aya, Aya smiled at him, Liu Zhibang was very satisfied, with such a capable deputy, it was worry-free and comfortable.

"It's all here, then the first thing to discuss today is the return of the Spirit Stone Tribe, and everyone will express their opinions!"

After saying that, Liu Zhibang said to Shi Jian again: "Patriarch Shi, tell me about the situation in your clan, how many people there are, and what things you have brought!" ”

Shi Jian stood up, bowed deeply to Liu Zhibang, and said, "Patriarch Liu, since the last time I received your letter, I have brought all the clansmen, the Lingshi clan has a total population of 536 people, 218 heads of various livestock, and a number of tools and grain......

After Shi Jian finished speaking, Liu Zhibang said again: "Patriarch Shi, you come to our Han nationality, I welcome you on behalf of the whole clan, but the Han nationality has many rules, I don't know if Patriarch Shi is willing to abide by it?" ”

Shi Jian bowed and said, "We accept them all!" ”

Liu Zhibang nodded and said, "Okay, First Elder Aya, what is your opinion on Patriarch Shi's willingness to lead all the clansmen to join the Han people?" ”

Liu Zhibang turned his gaze to Aya, Aya looked at Ah Meng, and then looked at Liu Zhibang and said: "Patriarch, I agree with your decision, just out of personal feelings, I ...... in my heart"

Liu Zhibang stood up after hearing this, and said to everyone: "Elders, our Han nationality is a big family, before the combination, we were all working separately, due to various reasons, we all have some grievances with each other, now I only ask you, are you willing to go back to the past, for a little mountain forest and fight each other for generations, or like now, everyone develops together?" ”

Everyone, look at me, I look at you, your face is not very good, Ah Meng suddenly raised his hand.

Nodding to Ah Meng, Liu Zhibang said, "Okay, Ah Meng, tell me your opinion!" ”

Ah Meng stood up and bowed to Liu Zhibang, and said: "Patriarch, speaking of which, all of us here have had hatred in the past, the Lingshi Clan and the Black Mountain Clan have killed many of our Fire Dance Clan, and we have also killed many of them, if it weren't for the patriarch to fuse everyone together, I think we would have killed each other like this for generations, in fact, everyone is fighting for the mountains and forests, now we don't have to fight anymore, and we won't be hungry anymore under the leadership of the patriarch, how good is this, revenge will not resurrect the dead...... I am willing to forgive the Lingshi tribe and agree to let them join the Han people! ”

Liu Zhibang nodded to Ah Meng and said, "Now vote, those who agree with the Lingshi tribe to join the Han people raise their hands, and those who disagree can not raise their hands!" ”

In the hall, except for Long Qing and Hong Tai, Hong Feng, and Aya, everyone else raised their hands, Liu Zhibang's eyes swept over everyone's faces, and then said: "The results are out, more than half of the people who agree to join the Lingshi clan to join the Han nationality, now I announce that I officially accept the Lingshi tribe, and at the same time, Shi Jian can directly become an elder of the Han nationality and enjoy the same treatment as you." ”

As soon as Liu Zhibang's voice fell, applause rang out in the hall, everyone stepped forward to shake hands with Shi Jian to congratulate, Aya also symbolically shook Shi Jian's hand to congratulate, Shi Jian kept bowing to Aya and Ameng, and said a lot of apologies, thanks and the like, shaking hands with Hei Qi and Hei Panther was not so enthusiastic.

After a while, Shi Jian said to Liu Zhibang: "Patriarch, I heard that you are collecting all kinds of strange stones everywhere, and our Spirit Stone Department ...... There is a strange stone in our village, black, very hard, our clan has always used this stone to make fire or make tools, very useful, I wonder if it is useful to the patriarch? ”

As soon as Liu Zhibang heard that there was something good, he immediately came to his senses and asked, "What kind of stone?" ”

Shi Jian took out a shiny stone from his arms and handed it to Liu Zhibang and said, "This is the kind of stone!"

Liu Zhibang took the black stone, looked at it carefully, and suddenly asked in surprise: "How many of these stones did you bring?" ”

Shi Jian didn't expect Liu Zhibang to have such a big reaction, and continued: "In addition to the tools made, I only brought a little bit, not much, this stone is too heavy to carry." ”

Liu Zhibang said a little impatiently: "Take me to see where the stone was found!" ”

Shi Jian looked at Liu Zhibang in surprise and said, "Patriarch, you just came back, it's not too late to go when you are rested." ”

Liu Zhibang said to Amu: "Elder Heimu, you go and prepare more tools for quarrying stones, bring grain and horses, and tomorrow we will dig stones with Elder Shi......

Everyone stared at the black stone in Liu Zhibang's hand, and a big question mark appeared in their hearts: "What treasure did the patriarch find?" ”

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