Chapter 161: Celebrating the Harvest
Although the dark clouds were also very interested in this glazed bowl with a very smooth surface, they surprisingly did not question the wolf.
After playing carefully, the dark cloud showed an expression of victory, and just when the wolf thought that the matter was over like this, who would have thought that the dark cloud's face suddenly changed, and the bowl in his hand was slammed to the ground by him.
"Bang!"
This moody move frightened Wolf Chi and everyone in the wolf tribe knelt directly on the ground, and they didn't dare to gasp.
After the bowl was dropped, the dark cloud's face suddenly turned clear.
"Haha, Wolf Blazing Leader, get up!"
"I'm going to have to lead the way!"
"Yes~"
Seeing that the dark cloud was still the one he was familiar with, the wolf trembled and crawled up.
In the face of the dark clouds, Wolf Chi had no choice but to cheer up his spirit, and he also knew that the consequences of provoking the dark clouds were definitely not something that the wolf tribe could bear.
"Wolf blazing, tell me about the surrounding situation!"
"There are a total of eleven tribes around the dark cloud leader before, namely the wolf tribe, the bear tribe, and the kite tribe......"
Before Wolf Chi could finish his introduction, the dark clouds directly interrupted him:
"Where's the snake?"
"Teng Snake is in the west of the wolf tribe, and it is about five days away by boat~"
"Hehe~"
Wolf Chi was also confused by this hehe, and didn't understand what the dark clouds meant.
"Go on!"
Then, Wolf Chi introduced the situation of each tribe to Wuyun in detail, especially the disappearance of the Blackwater Tribe, of course, the disappearance of the Blackwater Tribe was naturally not taken to heart by the Dark Clouds, after all, in his opinion, this tribe of only fifty or sixty people did not need to be paid attention to.
However, Wolf Chi didn't tell it all, he never told the Wuyu tribe about the news of the sheep tribe, and this time even in front of the dark clouds, he still concealed it.
Of course, I didn't say it before because Wolf Chi had other thoughts, Wuyu is located in the north, there are thousands of people in the clan, and he has long held scarce resources such as salt mines, so that the wolf tribe can make some profits from it even as a second-tier dealer.
But most of the proceeds were handed over to the Black Feather Tribe, and the life of the Wolf Tribe was far from being as easy as other tribes imagined.
According to the number of exchanges of everyone, in fact, the wolf tribe can live on this, but the reality is that the tribe still needs to hunt like other tribes to meet daily needs, after all, seven catties of ten catties of salt have been taken away by the Wuyu tribe, and the rest is barely mixed with errand money.
Although the Black Feather Tribe does not have the strength in the south on the surface, it still controls everyone's lifeblood through the wolf tribe.
After a long time, Wolf Chi had the idea of wanting to get rid of the Black Feather Tribe, of course, if you want to get rid of it, your own tribe must first have enough strength.
"Wolf Chi, I heard that there is a lot of salt changed this year, what's going on?"
Seeing that he still couldn't escape after all, Wolf Chi could only say the set of reasons he had prepared.
It's nothing more than that there has been too much rain in the past two years, which has caused a lot of losses to all the tribes downstream, and everyone has fewer people, so the demand for salt is naturally less, and it just so happens that the Blackwater tribe is used to corroborate, but it reluctantly let him be confused.
Wuyun didn't take it to heart, after all, this was only one of the many events that the king of Wuyun told him when he set off, although Wuyun was not the kind of person with strong limbs and a developed mind, but in his opinion, these dozen or so tribes would not live long, and there was no great need for Wolf Chi to ask these questions now.
After explaining to Wuyun for a long time, Wolf Chi was also dry, but Wuyun didn't speak, he didn't even dare to drink more water, so he could only swallow the saliva that he didn't have anymore and continued.
Although the dark clouds did not take these ten tribes into account, they still listened to the explanation of Wolf Chi with relish, especially the number and development of each tribe.
After all, after a hundred battles, although the enemy is weak, the dark clouds also know that the tiger will also use all his strength to catch the rabbit.
"Wolf Blazing, which tribe do you think we started with?"
Hearing Wuyun's inquiry, Wolf Chi knelt down in fright, although he had roughly understood the purpose of Wuyun's coming this time, but let him choose the primary object, for Wolf Chi, the pressure in his heart was also very great.
Even if the wolf tribe has mastered resources such as salt, and it requires a high price, but after so many years of getting along, there is still a relationship between everyone, and the wolf has long had additional ideas about the surrounding tribes, but the development speed of the wolf tribe is a little slower, but in his plan, he is going to carry out operations in the past few years, but the appearance of the Teng snake has disrupted.
Especially when the Teng Snake was also able to exchange things with the surrounding tribes in Yanba, Wolf Chi regarded the Teng Snake as his biggest enemy, especially seeing that the strength of the Teng Snake was getting bigger and bigger.
But no matter how you look at it, this is an internal matter of more than a dozen tribes, and after planning for so many years, it is to be picked by the Wuyu tribe, and for a while, it is naturally a little uncomfortable.
I thought a lot in my head, but it was only a matter of a moment, and seeing that the dark clouds were a little impatient, Wolf Chi hurriedly said:
"Otherwise, let's start with the Teng Snake Tribe!"
He still has some feelings for other tribes, but he doesn't have this kind of emotion for Teng Snake Wolf Chi at all, so when Wuyun asked him, although he knew that this was not the best plan, the first thing he said was still the Teng Snake tribe.
"Hahahahaha......"
After listening to Wolf Chi's choice, Wuyun laughed maniacally, as if this decision was very funny.
"Good! Good! Good! ”
Hearing the shouts of the dark clouds, Wolf Chi thought that the dark clouds agreed to his suggestion, and he was about to rejoice in his heart, but he didn't expect the dark clouds to suddenly say:
"Okay, then let's start with the Kite Tribe!"
Although he was carried away by the way the clouds spoke, but thinking about it, this was also in line with the situation of the Black Feather Tribe's trip, after all, among the surrounding tribes, the Kite Tribe was the one with the largest number of people.
In the eyes of the dark clouds, it is even more so, what can be placed in his eyes are the three tribes, that is, the kite tribe, the bear tribe and the Teng snake tribe, although the bear tribe is strong, but the dark clouds are also very confident in the warriors of their tribe.
And the most important thing is that the population of the bear tribe is not large, and it has not been able to break 100 until now, so no matter how strong it is, it will not be much stronger.
Although the Teng Snake Tribe has a lot of people, judging from the current situation, it is the appearance of more than a hundred people, and this is still counting the captives who were caught by Teng Snake before.
From the dark clouds' point of view, these more than 20 captives, the moment they saw them coming, would definitely make a decision, and it was very likely that they would even defect on the spot, and the Teng Snake Tribe would not be afraid at that time.
On the contrary, the kite tribe with the largest number of people is more challenging, one hundred and sixty or seventy people is not a small tribe in this era, in the eyes of the dark clouds, since they have come, then start with the most powerful tribe, and then sweep the southern tribes like an autumn wind sweeping leaves, and finally return triumphantly.
After all, bringing three hundred warriors, it is not difficult to accomplish such a goal.
And this also has the wolf tribe as a guide, whether it is to go to various tribes or to recruit them, it has become a lot easier, and these hundred or so people have already been regarded by him as things in his pocket when the dark clouds come, and they are the best meat shields.
After determining the direction of each tribe with Wolf Chi, he began to formulate a specific plan, although it had been discussed in the tribe for a long time.
But after all, there is no map in this era, and most of the news is also summarized from the wolf's words, so naturally it is not as detailed as the face-to-face detailed inquiry now.
Knowing that the dark clouds would not listen to their own suggestions, so the wolf Chi fully played the role of a tool man, there was a sentence to answer, absolutely not much, and soon the specific conquest plan was released, starting with the kite tribe, followed by the bear tribe, and then around to the Teng snake, as soon as the three major tribes were removed, the other tribes would not be worried.
However, the biggest problem is that the people of the various tribes are basically still taking advantage of the last period of time, trying to get enough food, and they will not all be in the tribe, and the dark clouds are exhausted, so they naturally want to kill once and for all, and kill them if they can, and the rest will be brought back to the Wuyu tribe and become prisoners.
After thinking for a while, the dark cloud put his eyes on Wolf Chi, and a cold air suddenly surged up directly from the heart of Wolf Chi's feet.
"Wolf Blazing Leader, I have to ...... this time"
………………
Now the snake is covered with rice, and there is not even a place to pass, so everyone can only go around the edge of the woods.
This year, it seems that the preparation is not particularly sufficient, although I have taken the time to level the open space around it, but the area is still too small, and once the number comes up, it will be a little insufficient.
But fortunately, the weather is strong, the sun is a little thicker, and the newcomers are spread thinner, and they can barely accommodate it.
Looking at the remaining paddy fields, only ten pieces have not been harvested, and everyone has also accelerated the speed in their hands, although the harvest has not yet been completed, but the first two batches of rice have been transported back to the granary, directly filling a whole grain cellar.
Not much, that is, three thousand catties.
Song Xuan still made some mistakes in estimating the capacity of the grain cellar, now it seems that nine grain cellars are really too much, according to each three thousand catties, at least more than twenty-five thousand catties, and the tribe is at most fifteen or six thousand catties this year, so it is estimated that a whole room of grain cellars will not be useful.
But fortunately, most of the grain cellars are made out of time, and it does not waste everyone's time for hunting and gathering, and if you don't need it this year, you will do less next year, and the scale of next year will definitely be much worse than this year, even if you have prepared in advance.
Most of the people were still responsible for harvesting the rice, but considering the psychological state of Shi San and the others, Song Xuan still asked everyone to take turns to choose from the twenty or so people who stood up on the first day.
At that time, the situation was unknown, and there were not many people who were willing to be responsible for threshing, and Song Xuan was also very active in writing them down one by one, although it may not be very complete, but until the rice harvest is completed, it should not be a problem.
The next ten acres of land, if you come on, you will be able to harvest it all tomorrow, of course, the threshing is not completed so quickly, and it is only half of it now, so after the busy, everyone is joined in it.
Although there was no threshing house, Song Xuan also figured out that the center of the clearing directly opposite the tribe was an excellent place, although the area was not large, it was also dozens of meters wide.
Beat in the center, no matter what, the rice is still with a piece, and it will not splash too far, and now if you want to build a house, it will be too late to wait for it to dry out, but it is better to come here more quickly.
As Song Xuan expected, all the rice had been harvested smoothly the next day, looking at the rice fields that were still golden nine days ago, they were already bare at this time, and a sense of accomplishment inevitably rose in the hearts of the Teng Snake people.
Even most of the captives are like this, these rice, from planting to harvesting, they can be regarded as participating in the whole process, and they are still the most dry.
The most important thing is that after the rice is harvested, it will definitely enter their stomachs, and it is much safer to go out to work anyway.
Whether it is a dangerous place for hunting or gathering, it is these captives who rush to the front, and the first choice is naturally those who are not very obedient, after all, now that more than half of them have joined the Teng Snake, they are still much better than the diehards.
But no matter how you go to the wild, there must still be risks, even if you climb the tree to pick fruit, there is also the risk of losing the most, and many people have fallen enough because of this.
As for the fall to death, of course, it has not happened in Teng Snake in the past two years, but injuries are still inevitable, let alone going out to hunt, not to mention the best weapon in hand, and you still need to run on the front line against wild beasts, the risk can be imagined, and even in Teng Snake, some people have died because of it.
Compared with these things, although planting and harvesting rice will be tiring, basically there is no need to consider safety, and even when you are tired, you can take time to drink saliva and be lazy.
This is naturally not allowed when hunting, although the most running and the most tiring work, but the hunting team does not take into account the rest at all, Shi Meng They usually arrange according to their own situation, and do not take into account Fulumen's thoughts at all.
In the eyes of the captives, it was much easier to work in the tribe, and the most important thing was that it was only twice a year, and all of them added up to a few months.
After all, it has been more than a year since he came to Teng Snake, and Song Xuan did not hide it from them about rice, and most of the captives learned the news and catapulted people, after all, the specific planting was only mastered by a small number of people.
Most people are just involved in the process of reclamation, planting and harvesting, as for the regulation of the amount of water in the rice field, as well as the grasp of the solar terms, they don't know in particular detail, but as the area gets bigger and bigger, some people in the tribe will definitely gradually increase, and everyone will know more details when the time comes, Song Xuan can't worry about everything like this forever, and it is not difficult to plant rice, at least it is not difficult to let them survive.
After the rice harvest, everyone hurriedly joined the threshing team, this time there is finally no need to laugh, it is the turn of the two people in charge of threshing, busy after a day, basically there is not much difference, all of them are discouraged, the dust on the entire open space, even for a long time can not be completely cleaned.
Of course, although the work is a little dirty and tiring, the effect is very obvious, and the task that originally took seven or eight days to complete has been solved in one day with the help of dozens of people.
The vacant land that dried at once was a little insufficient, and Song Xuan could only let everyone see a suitable place to pave it conveniently, and even the tribe was covered with rice.
Just when everyone was busy, a light rain suddenly fell in the sky, but fortunately it came and went quickly, but it stopped after a while, and even the ground was not wet.
Of course, the rice outside is still slightly more applicable, but fortunately, it is not serious, and it will come back after one more day, which also strengthens Song Xuan's idea that he must clean up enough vacant land next year.
There is a vacant space around the tribe, but except for the two pieces in front of it, the other two directions are not needed for the time being, although the trees above are cut and burned for the safety of the tribe, but the roots of the trees are not removed, and they are still standing out there.
After all, the purpose at that time was to leave enough vision, but if you want to dry the grain well, these roots must be completely removed for the time being, but since Teng said that there is such a need, it is good to deal with it in a targeted manner.
Although it is more troublesome, these 100 acres of rice fields have been cleaned up, and a few vacant fields are not difficult for Teng Snake, and there is a long grass in the south of the tribe, and it is also a very good drying place when it is cleaned up.
After another busy day, everyone finally finished processing all the rice, and all the straw was scattered in the rice field across the river opposite, and when it was completely dried, it could be stacked up, and then it could be burned as much as they wanted.
Although the rice has not yet been completely dried, most of the tasks have been completed, and then as long as God helps, it will take four or five days to transport all the rice into the granary.
Next, I am naturally not so tired, at most, I will take a bone shovel and turn over these rice every day, so that they can dry more evenly, dry and then shovel it into the basket little by little, and transport it back to the tribe in a unified manner.
This little work is nothing to the people who have been busy for more than ten days, so Song Xuan did not wait for it to be completely completed, but led everyone into the carnival today.
Although there was no hunting for more than ten days, Song Xuan was very arrogant and let Shi Meng slaughter five sheep, although it was not much, but it was barely enough for everyone to use, and before sunset, all the rice was threshed, and Song Xuan also asked Shi Hua and them to rush out some rice.
Coupled with rabbits and messy things, this can be said to be the most sumptuous meal in recent times, of course, everyone has eaten well in the past ten days, after all, the hard-working author Song Xuan also let Shi Yan have enough meat.
Rare relaxation time, after more than ten days of busy work, everyone was finally able to release it, although the body was very tired, but everyone still gathered around the bonfire and sang the most rugged ballad, Song Xuan also blended in, singing and dancing with everyone.
Although he came to the primitive society, Song Xuan had already accepted the reality, even if he didn't have all the convenient technologies before, but this was not a bad thing, everyone treated themselves better than before in the company, and they just wanted to face the savior again.
The most important thing is that there is no intrigue here, you can fully release your heart, although they are five big and three thick, and they look very sloppy, but they have never had any bad intentions, in Song Xuan's opinion, this is precisely the best side of everyone, they are all so cute.
"Woo woo woo~"
Just when everyone stretched their bodies recklessly, Shi Jiu and Shui Wu also brought accompaniment in a timely manner, although they are both bone flutes, but Teng Snake's is obviously more slender, and the tone of the blow is naturally different, both of them are clan witches, although Shi Jiu is a little immature, but there are still many places to communicate.
Especially the water witch has also reached the age, although the life in Teng Snake is not worse than before, but it can be seen from the full head of white hair and rickety body that it is almost at the end of its life, so for Shi Jiu, who is still relatively modest, the water witch has always known everything.
Give Shi Jiu what he has inherited as much as possible, after all, it is impossible for Teng Snake to maintain the witch of so many different tribes all the time, and the people of Heishui are also very clear that although Teng Snake has retained their faith to a certain extent, it is only an expedient measure.
As they lived in Teng Snake for longer and longer, they would definitely have to fully integrate into it, even the faith, and of course Song Xuan had assured them that there would always be their totems in the tribe.
But no matter what, according to Teng Snake and the current scale, it is definitely impossible to exist more than one witch at the same time, and the existing two are already the limit.
After all, as a witch, there is no need to participate in daily production, and Shi Jiu is not familiar with this, and he was exchanged as a prisoner, so he has no idea about this.
Although the water witch knew, after all, he joined later, and eating white food was obviously not in line with the situation, so although he was not young, he was still doing something that could help as much as possible.
Fortunately, there is also Shi Yan in the tribe, although he is younger than Shui Wu, but he is also the oldest person on Teng Snake's side, and the two have formed a pair very smoothly, and the usual work will not be too heavy.
When the water witch was in the Blackwater Tribe, he had already designated the person to take over, just like Shi Jiu before, before he came, he got the news that there was no witch on Teng Snake's side, so he still had a trace of other thoughts in his heart, but after knowing Shi Jiu, he didn't even say anything about it.
Just by glancing at Shui Yun, the two of them already knew what to do next, so in order to ensure that the inheritance of Heishui still existed, Shui Wu could only spare no effort to hand over everything to Shi Jiu.
But fortunately, there is no difference between treating them here as imagined, it is completely the same as his own people, Song Xuan is also very open-minded about different beliefs, which makes Shui Wu feel a lot more relieved, although he has completely joined the Teng Snake, but for the totem that he has believed in for a lifetime, he will still be a little reluctant in his heart.