The tribe still looks the same as before, but if you look closely, it is not difficult to notice that there are many changes going on quietly, and then when everyone gets together to discuss, you find that there are so many different situations that have happened.

For example, by the big river in front of the tribe, you can always see a few old figures, walking around there. Not only them, but even the chiefs often went to the river, which made the people living near the foot of the mountain very curious, and even if they didn't catch fish, they ran to the river from time to time.

So, gradually, I also formed a habit of going to the river when I had nothing to do, maybe I could meet a senior leader of a tribe and talk about life?

And the people on the mountain also found that those old men who were not good-tempered treated Shao Xuan with a pleasant face! This made them unbelievable!

Later, even the eyes of the two big leaders looking at Shao Xuan were full of weirdness.

There is another thing that makes everyone very puzzled, during the rainy season, several heavyweights on the mountain actually braved the rain and ran to the river every day, which has never happened before. The words passed down from generation to generation have made the warriors of the tribe always full of fear of this big river, and fishing has only been slightly better in recent years, but it will not make those people in the mountains run over to see, right?

Those who doubt continue to doubt, and those who are looking forward continue to look forward to it.

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It's the rainy season again.

When Shao Xuan's body was sixteen years old, after the end of the sacrificial ceremony, several important people on the mountain began to lose sleep every day, nervous and excited, and gathered together all day to discuss whether the plan needed other changes.

Find wood, build boats, make sails. and so on, you can't hide too many people. At the time of the sacrifice in this year, Wu told Shao Xuan about traveling by boat. This news has made the entire tribe hotly discuss for a long time. Until the rainy season, Shao Xuan was often blocked by people and asked all kinds of questions about travel.

Everyone in the tribe has a strong sense of expectation, and although they don't understand a lot of what Wu says, it doesn't mean that they don't look forward to it.

In the rainy season, torrential rains fall, and the overlords of the river roar and go downstream in droves with no end in sight. The wood-eating bugs are also gradually leaving. Most of the creatures in the river follow the behemoths downstream, and they will only return from the sea when the full moon and the moon reunite. Others, like those frogs, appear for a while, then go to other places that people don't know about, and disappear.

And this time, Shao Xuan will take advantage of the period between the end of the rainy season and the bimonthly reunion to travel by boat.

On the day when the rainy season ends. In the tribe, everyone, from the top of the mountain to the bottom of the mountain. From the old man to the little one, everyone put down the rest of the matter at hand and gathered beside the path of glory.

"Let's move out. Wu stood on the top of the mountain and said.

Ao and the two big leaders, as well as a few soldiers in their prime, carefully moved out the canoe placed in the wooden shed.

This canoe is nearly three meters wide at its widest point and ten meters long, fusiform. The reason why it is so big. It's just to chirp and rest inside, if only Shao Xuan. There is no need for such a large canoe.

The variety of trees that make canoes is a variety of samples that hunting parties went out to look for. Take it back and let Shao Xuan choose, and after choosing, Ao will lead people to cut down the best and most satisfactory tree and bring it back.

The making of the canoe was done by Shao Xuan and several of the top stonemen in the tribe, including Lao Ke. The middle of the cut tree was hollowed out to create a canoe that was both wide and dexterous.

The canoe is relatively simple, and it is not prone to water leakage, so there is no risk of falling apart.

The design drawings were also drawn by Shao Xuan himself, and when he drew them, he also consulted other veterans in the tribe, maybe they didn't know how to make a canoe, but they could know some skills that might be useful, and Shao Xuan would revise them according to these suggestions.

After the design of the drawing, several stonemen also deliberately cut a lot of wood to practice at home before starting, after all, there is still a big difference between wood and stone, they dare not mess around, and when they are sure and have the trick, they will come over to solve the canoe together.

This canoe is not too heavy for many totem warriors in the tribe, and they have no problem resisting stones on weekdays, so why is it difficult to resist wood?

But at this moment, it is carried by several high-level totem warriors in person, and they will be carried down the mountain later, which is a kind of attention and a solemn etiquette.

Shao Xuan sat cross-legged on the ground, and Wu was drawing patterns on his face, just like a warrior who went out hunting, it was a kind of blessing, which meant that the tribe attached great importance to it. Even the feet of the chirp were tattooed on them by the totem of the tribe painted by the witch, imitating the giant eagle in Eagle Mountain.

After finishing the painting, Shao Xuan saluted the fire pit, then walked to the canoe and walked down the road of glory with the other people carrying the canoe. The chirp flew straight up and flew through the air.

Behind the canoe, Wu and several other old men of the tribe followed, the expressions on their faces, some excited, some worried, and some seemed calm, but the twitching of muscles showed that this was not the case in his heart. At this time, many people are also prone to think too much in their hearts, and suffer from gains and losses. This is a matter of ancestral wishes, how can it be calm?

Next to the Glory Trail, the crowd also moved with the canoes, adults with children, and the physically disabled, on crutches or supported by people, followed closely.

Everyone sang "Hunting Song" and "Blessing Song" together, at first it was only some people on the mountain, and soon some people at the bottom of the mountain also sang along, and the whole tribe sang the same song in the same rhythm and pace in a young voice, or old, or sharp, or rough. For them, singing represents all their moods at the moment.

Most of the people of the tribe are not good at expressing their feelings and thoughts, and singing is a form of expression.

This is the first time that when they sang "Hunting Song", they did not have the impatient murderous aura before the previous hunting, but with fearlessness, fearlessness, and hope.

The people of the entire tribe, on this day, collectively saw off Shao Xuan.

They don't know, and they never want to explore, in the eyes of many people, Shao Xuan's behavior is worthy of admiration, but they don't think that Shao Xuan can pass safely, this big river is really too dangerous. What a warrior!

After the canoe was carried down the mountain, Ao and several others carefully pushed it into the river.

The canoe that came out of the zuò belongs to the side frame boat canoe.

The so-called "sideframe boat canoe" is to install boat-shaped floating wood in the same direction as the canoe on one or both sides of the canoe. Shao Xuan's design belongs to a unilateral canoe, because of this, he once played it during a trip abroad.

The side-frame boat canoe overcomes the instability of the canoe that is easy to sway laterally and overturn in the wind and waves, but it has the advantages of lightness and structural integrity, and is also an ocean-going navigation tool for the indigenous people in those places.

The sail is also the most important sailing facility, and today it is set up on a sail made of leaves and vines. The vine is a thin but very strong vine found in the hunting grounds, and the inverted triangular sails are woven by the best women in the tribe.

In the opinion of Wu and the others, this kind of thing that I don't know if it will work is better to prepare more, but because the vines are really difficult to find, the materials finally found are only woven into two pieces, one is installed, and the other piece is used as a backup. It's just a spare piece, I don't know if it's enough.

When Shao Xuan was studying with those indigenous people, he once learned that such a side-frame boat canoe could travel more than 200 kilometers a day, but here, Shao Xuan was not very sure.

After connecting the crossbar of the side frame boat with the body of the canoe and checking the various places and the things that need to be bringed, Shao Xuancai stood in the canoe and looked at the dense crowd of people on the shore.

Caesar carried Lao Ke and also stood on the shore, looking at Shao Xuan in the boat and the chirp that landed inside, humming and chirping, it also wanted to follow, but Shao Xuan couldn't take it with him anymore. If there is danger and other crisis situations on the river, Shao Xuan can let Chirp take it, but Caesar can't, and Chirp can't afford it.

If the chirp is about the same size as the giant eagles in Eagle Mountain, it can still bring a lot of people, but it's a pity that the chirp is still small now.

"Goodbye. I'm leaving. Shao Xuan saluted the people on the shore.

All the people who stood on the shore to see him off, under the leadership of Wu He, also returned a salute to Shao Xuan, which had never happened for thousands of years.

For the people of the tribe, Shao Xuan is their hope to go out, if Shao Xuan can't succeed, then, how long will it take to go out again, everyone doesn't know, maybe another thousand years, it will still stay in place.

As soon as the sail is pulled, the canoe sails away with the help of the wind.

The sails are very large, if it weren't for the fact that the totem warriors all have very great strength, Shao Xuan might not be able to operate it.

The big guy was standing in the canoe and looking at both sides curiously, it was a very novel experience for him, he was able to stand on the river!

It's just that such a big ship, for Chirp, is still small, and it can't move, so after standing for a while, it flew into the sky and flew in the direction that Shao Xuan pointed out. It's better to be free in the sky, and when it's tired of flying, it will go back to the boat to rest.

The "Blessing Song" sounded on the shore, and the collective chorus was sung.

Shao Xuan looked back over there, the people on the bank were getting smaller and smaller, the houses on the mountain gradually became only a vague point, and the mountain that had lived for nearly eight years gradually disappeared into the place where the water and the sky meet, just like the river shoreline.

There was no other sound in my ears except the whistle of the wind.

Looking at the direction of the sun in the sky and feeling the slight change in the direction of the wind, Shao Xuan adjusted the sails and looked at the unknown ahead. (To be continued)