Chapter 131: A New Route
When Shao Xuan was not out hunting, he would go up the mountain every few days and hand in the animal skin scrolls that Wu asked him to draw.
Shao Xuan's painting this time was not a witch scroll, but an ordinary animal skin scroll.
Wu wants everyone to know that the ancestors also used hunting dogs, and stimulate everyone's enthusiasm for raising and training young beasts, but there are some contents that cannot be revealed, so they can only selectively disclose them. And the content is well chosen, so that Shao Xuan, who is stronger than most people, paints it, and the annotations will also excerpt some parts of the original version, but not all of them.
Compared to the witch scroll, which must use the power of inheritance, the ordinary picture scroll is much simpler and easier.
One hundred picture scrolls, with annotations, were all completed by Shao Xuan in less than ten days.
On this day, Shao Xuan took the last ten animal skin rolls up the mountain and handed them to Wu.
For Shao Xuan often running to Wu, the people of the tribe have long been surprised, even the people guarding the door of Wu are not stopped, Wu said that Shao Xuan came and let him in directly.
"This is the last ten. Shao Xuan placed the ten animal skin rolls on the stone table in front of Wu and asked Wu to check them to make sure that there was nothing beyond the plan.
Wu quickly opened it and glanced at it, then put the animal skin roll aside, and did not leave immediately as it had done the previous times.
∫As soon as Shao Xuan saw Wu like this, he knew that the old man still had something to say, and it was not a matter of one or two sentences, so he sat down and waited for Wu's next words.
Seeing Shao Xuan's reaction, Wu Xian smiled, then his smile faded, and said, "Do you know what I, the leader, and a few old people of the tribe are discussing?"
Shao Xuan shook his head. He knew that during this time, the leader, the two big leaders, and several old warriors who had a relatively large voice in the tribe often came to Wu, and they were all together. Seeing such a formation, he knew that it was not a trivial matter, so Shao Xuan would not stay for long every time he came over. What should let him know, Wu will say sooner or later, and Shao Xuan is not curious. But now, Wu doesn't seem to plan to hide it, at least not from Shao Xuan.
Wu took out a relatively large scroll of animal skin. Spread it out on the stone table, "Do you know what this painting is?"
Shao Xuan leaned forward and glanced at the painting on the animal skin scroll.
Although the drawing is relatively rough, it can still be seen, "This is the tribe, and the hunting route." ”
The animal skin scroll on the stone table is equivalent to a simple map, which only shows the location of the tribe. as well as several hunting routes.
Most of the animal skin scrolls are painted with black paint, including tribes and several hunting routes, but one of them is painted with red paint, and the red one is not any hunting route that Shao Xuan knows.
Wu raised his finger. Placed there on the red route and dotted. This is what we have discussed. ”
Shao Xuan stared at the line and thought for a while, his eyebrows moved, and he looked at Wu, "The tribe is planning to open up a new hunting route?!"
Wu didn't expect Shao Xuan to guess so quickly, after all. For the vast majority of the tribe, they have never thought of opening up new routes, and even if they see the map, they may not think in that direction.
However, Wu Ye was only stunned for a short time, and then smiled: "That's true. ”
The number of people in the tribe is increasing, but the number of people who go out hunting at a time is limited. Although the fighters with special circumstances in the family or injured were excluded from the hunting party list, it was inevitable that some healthy people would be left behind.
What a waste.
But if you increase the number of people in each hunting party, it is not necessary, and it may be worse. When going out hunting, the more people the better, and the records left by the ancestors also said that there are too many people.
In the past few years, Wu has been thinking about opening up new routes, and Caesar's change has strengthened Wu's determination.
If the cubs of the tribe grow up in a batch, after the successful engraving, it will inevitably become a greater help, which is a force that should not be underestimated.
In this way, it is very necessary to open up new routes.
Therefore, Wu found the leader, the two big leaders, and several old warriors of the tribe who had more power to speak, and discussed together.
If Wu didn't mention the matter of opening up a new route, others wouldn't insist on it, but since Wu mentioned it, the old soldiers were very excited, and for them, this was an epoch-making thing.
They respect and revere their ancestors, but they also listen to the words of witches. In this matter, the people who were called over were basically supportive.
Opening up a new route does not happen overnight, and the preliminary preparations must also be prepared, and most importantly, the selection of personnel.
After discussion, it was finally decided to launch the project within three years. If it is smoother, it may start in a year, and if some unpredictable changes occur in it, it will be delayed. If it is not possible to implement it within three years, the Witch Society will cancel the plan.
As for the number of personnel who opened the new route, it was tentatively proposed to be thirty. The most important thing is that there is not much refinement, and this "refinement" may not be high in strength, but in all aspects.
After the preliminary decision, the two big leaders and the old soldiers, after returning home, secretly informed their children and grandchildren of this matter, hoping that their children and grandchildren would be better in the next one to two years, and then they would be more likely to be selected into the list of thirty people.
They didn't have any fear of opening up a new route, and almost everyone who heard the news was extremely excited, especially those young warriors, who were now in very good physical condition, and every time they went out hunting, they were more eye-catching, and they naturally had to do their best to grab the quota of thirty people.
How can they not be thrilled to open up new hunting routes like their ancestors, an honor that will go down in the annals of tribal history?
It's no wonder that some people have been training like crazy at the training site lately.
After Wu finished speaking, he looked at Shao Xuan, who was sitting opposite the stone table.
Shao Xuan's reaction was different from the others. As far as Wu knew, everyone who knew about this matter was very excited, and a few of them were even excited for several days, even the leader. To open up a new route, the leader and the two big bosses naturally have to participate.
But why is Shao Xuan so calm? Isn't he optimistic about the opening up of a new route?
Wu looked at Shao Xuan, who was thinking with his eyelids hanging on the other side, he was very curious about what Shao Xuan was thinking.
Shao Xuan was silent for a while, looked up at Wu, and didn't say anything about the opening of the new route, but asked, "Haven't you thought about contacting other tribes?"
In Shao Xuan's words, the "other tribes" mentioned are not at all uncertain, Wu can hear that Shao Xuan is very sure that there are other tribes!
Wu, who was still thinking about the opening of a new route, had a sharp eye at the moment, and there was no smile on his face, which was completely different from the usual peaceful momentum. At this moment, Wu is like a war knife, and the blade of this war knife is facing Shao Xuan.
At that moment, Shao Xuan almost jumped out of the way, but he still held back, sat in place, and still maintained Fang Cai's expression on his face, looking at Wu.
The atmosphere was stalemate for a long time, and Wu Cai gradually reined in his momentum, which at first glance looked the same as usual, but the stiffness and strictness on his face were extremely rare.
I didn't have the heart to talk about the opening of a new route, Wu took a deep breath and stared at Shao Xuan's eyes, "How do you know?"
Is there anyone else outside the tribe? The people of the tribe have discussed it privately when they are bored. I heard that there are, but only the zài is rumored, many people think that there is only one tribe of them in this world, but there are also some people who believe that there will be other tribes that exist zài, but the world is too big for them to go out.
And those who know the exact answer can be counted on about five fingers in the tribe. Wu is undoubtedly the clearest of them all. After all, he can read the witch scrolls that have been passed down and know more things that others don't know. However, Wu remembered that he didn't show Shao Xuan any witch scrolls about other tribes!
"I came out of a cave near the foot of the mountain, and in that cave there was a stone chamber with paintings on the walls. Shao Xuan said.
Wu felt his heart pound. Whether there were paintings in the cave, he did not know, someone had been to the cave to see it, except for some very old and broken stone tools, there was nothing else.
"The painting is obscured. Shao Xuan told how he discovered the painting in the first place, "But after I woke up, I repainted it with stone powder when I left the cave. Until now, no one else has seen it but me. ”
Wu Hang's heart was relieved a lot, but he was also curious about what kind of paintings were in the cave at the bottom of the mountain, and he didn't remember any records about it.
"What's on the picture?" Wu asked.
"There's hounds, there's farmland, there's ...... Beautifully presented jar ......"
"What else?" Wu asked.
Shao Xuan paused and said, "One day, we will return to our hometown." The glory remains, and the flame of the horn will never be extinguished. ”
From the moment Shao Xuan said the first word of this sentence, Wu's hand began to tremble, which was a manifestation that he could not control.
“...... Support. Wu's voice was a little hoarse, and among the characters recorded in the ancient scrolls, in the list of people about the ancestors, the third name was "Zan". And the sentence that Shao Xuan just said was also recorded in the ancient scrolls.
There was no longer the excitement of opening up a new route, and Wu was bitter, "If you can go out...... Why bother opening up a new route!"
Shao Xuan looked at Wu, Wu's eyes were already red, and he was almost in tears, looking at it like that, his feelings would not calm down for a while.
After thinking about it, Shao Xuan still didn't say what he recorded in his notebook.
When Shao Xuan walked out of the stone house, Wu was still in a low mood. Originally, Shao Xuan didn't plan to tell the story of the murals in the cave so soon, but he didn't expect to encounter a new route opening plan, and after thinking about it, he said that the murals were tentative.
It seems that Wu doesn't want to go out, and many of the ancestors in front of him probably tried it, but they still didn't succeed.
Alas, there is still a long way to go.
As he was walking, Shao Xuan suddenly heard a "whooping" sound from above the road, and when he looked up, Shao Xuan couldn't wait to throw a spear over.
Chirp was now clutching a young beast, and the young beast was obviously trained by someone in the tribe, and was screaming in fright.
"Chirp, get out of here!!" (To be continued......)
ps: It's a little cold, it's going to be a change tonight, and I'll make it up tomorrow.