012, the story of chickens and eggs (II)
This question stopped the pothos, and the little girl was also thinking seriously, and after a while, she frowned as if talking to herself: "I heard my father say that the tiger baby is the only orphan of the Qingshui clan, and that group of chickens was originally from the Qingshui clan." Now the tiger baby has become our Lu clan, and the chicken is also from Lu Village. Whether to give it to your village or not, of course the patriarch has to ask the tiger baby. ”
The monkey looked aware, and Pothos walked away with her hands behind her back, ignoring the man. Li Qingshui was secretly worried, he hoped that his worries were unnecessary, even if the monkey knew about it, this clansman from Huahai Village probably wouldn't have much chance to spread the news to Chiwangqiu. Although Li Qingshui knew that the tiger baby was not an orphan of the Qingshui clan, he didn't want him to be in danger.
I think that when Ruoshan brought the tiger baby back, he also solemnly instructed the clansmen not to tell the origin of the tiger baby outside the village, and from then on he would be regarded as a child of Lu Village! Of course, this patriarch is not as simple-minded as other clansmen, and he thinks about things more thoroughly. The powerful enemy outside the mountain who didn't know the origin of the Qing Shui clan wiped out the Qing Shui clan, and the scene was that the chickens and dogs were not left, and the tiger baby just escaped by luck.
Ruoshan didn't know what kind of grudge there was in it, but the purpose of looking at those people was to kill them all. If the murderer knows that the Qing Shui clan still has blood orphans left, maybe he will also chase and kill him, which may bring unpredictable danger to the tiger baby and the road village that took him in. But when he found out that he was a tiger baby, it was accompanied by strange things, which made Ruoshan believe that it was the will of heaven to let Lu Village take in and raise this child, of course he believed in ghosts and gods, so he would definitely do so, and at the same time try to avoid future troubles.
Of course, the Lu people will strictly follow Ruoshan's orders, and they will not even talk about it in private. After all these years, many clansmen have gradually forgotten the past, and completely regard Huwa as a Lucun person. If it hadn't been for the monkey who had asked about it today, the pothos probably wouldn't have remembered this stubble.
Luluo's father was one of the clansmen who followed Ruoshan into the Qingshui clan's walled city, and he later mentioned it to Luthos's mother, and Luluo also heard it next to him. At that time, the pothos was still very young, and it was precisely when she began to remember, and such an unheard of event also brought great shock to her young heart, so she was very impressed.
The little girl also remembered the patriarch's order not to say it outside the village, but she was in the village at this time, and she didn't think of it so much. Not to mention that the monkey accidentally learned the origin of the tiger baby, and the atmosphere of the two clans eating meat together was extremely warm, Ruoshan took the opportunity to propose one thing to negotiate with Gu Xin - Lu Village and Huahai Village formed an alliance, and when dealing with other clans, they agreed on the same idea and acted together.
Before the patriarch Gu Xin could answer, the other Huahai Village people present applauded and agreed loudly, feeling that they should form an alliance with the people of Lu Village, and Gu Xin nodded happily. After eating, the two patriarchs each led their clansmen to preside over a ceremony in front of the altar to announce the alliance, and offered sacrifices and prays to the mountain gods to ask for the gods' witness and protection.
Of course, there must be sacrifices during the ceremony, and the remaining two muntjac are placed on the altar to be sacrificed to the mountain god, and at this time the two intact muntjac skins have been peeled off and placed separately from the meat. This ceremony took a bit of a long time, and in addition to announcing the alliance, I repeatedly prayed to the mountain god, which took more than an hour.
The mountain god "appeared", and after the ceremony, the two muntjac skins had been refined by mysterious force, becoming clean, soft, smooth and tough, and they were the best leather that the people had ever seen, and they could not be processed at all. Ruoshan kept one of the muntjac skins for himself, and gave the other to Gu Xin as a testimony to the alliance.
When Gu Xin took this muntjac skin, his eyes were full of surprise, but he didn't say anything. After the ceremony, it was not too early, and Gu Xin instructed the clansmen to escort the monkeys back first, and wait until tomorrow to deal with them in public according to the clan rules. But Gu Xin himself did not immediately follow the clansmen to leave, he came to the stone house of Ruoshan again, and asked in private: "Master Shan, these two muntjac skins, are these two muntjac skins refined by the mountain god for you, or are you casting spells to dispose of them yourself?"
Ruoshan smiled bitterly: "What do you think? In the past five years, have you ever heard the voice of the mountain god?"
Gu Xin sighed, shook his head, and said, "I've never heard it again!" It's a pity that my cultivation is only three realms and three turns, and I can't call the mountain god, so I can only wait for the mountain god to take the initiative to speak to me. And with your ability, you should be able to call the mountain god, can't you get a response?"
Ruoshan nodded and said, "Yes, I have led my clan to hold sacrifice ceremonies many times, secretly calling the mountain gods, but I have not received any response. Our mountain god is probably gone, and I have not told my people about it. ”
Gu Xin said, "Neither do I. Then the two patriarchs fell silent and sat there until dusk in the mountains came again.
The next day, the chief of the Ruoshan clan ordered to gather the sturdy men of the clan and personally lead the team to cast a spell, cut down two towering giant trees in the mountain, remove the branches, and transport the long trunk to the edge of the cliff. Yesterday, the trunks of the trees that the people of Huahai Village built the bridge were as thick as two adults side by side, and the two tree trunks that the people of Lucun carried down from the mountain today are as thick as three people side by side.
They sandwiched the middle trunk between the two trunks on the left and the right, and flattened the upper surface of the middle trunk, and a stable and safe "bridge" appeared on the cliff. In the days that followed, Wakayama often walked back and forth on the wooden bridge with a bone staff in his hand, in fact, he was secretly casting a spell to refine the three trunks, so that they would be as strong and immortal as possible, and become a passage between the two villages for a long time.
The reason why Wakayama did this is, of course, because the latest situation among the various tribes in the wilderness in this area has been quietly undergoing disturbing changes in recent years. He had already had this idea, and today he just chose the most appropriate time at the most appropriate occasion, and Gu Xin was simply equivalent to bringing the people of Huahai Village to the door by himself.
In the past, although the various tribes in the wilderness in this area had occasional disputes, they had basically been at peace for a hundred years, not only because of the existence of a common mountain god, but also because of the powerful Qingshui clan in the middle. No other clan here can compete with the Shimizu clan, and the walled city of the Shimizu clan is also a center for the various tribes to exchange various items and exchange various information.
Even if there is no alliance of various tribes, the Qingshui clan is virtually the leader of each tribe, and with it, this wilderness is generally peaceful and stable. However, the Qingshui clan suddenly collapsed, and the mountain god also disappeared from then on, which brought a great impact on the living environment of various tribes, and changes were inevitable.
The tribes in the wilderness believe in ghosts and gods, and the ruins of the Qingshui clan's walled city, where the tragedy occurred, are also considered to be an ominous place, and in the first two years, almost no one dared to enter alone. However, there have long been exchanges and exchanges between the various tribes, and it is impossible not to have contact, and the open valley in the middle of the wilderness is the best place for communication between the various tribes, and it is also the best place to build a walled city and reclaim the fields.
When people gradually stop being too afraid, it is natural that there will be tribes who want to occupy this treasure land. The ruins of the Qingshui clan's walled city still remained, but the useful things in it had long been searched by the tribes, and in another open space next to the ruins, a bazaar for the exchange of goods between the tribes was spontaneously formed, and gradually people built houses and fenced fields.
In the beginning, everyone did their own thing, and the place was big anyway, but recently, conflicts and disputes have begun to occur. After the Qingshui clan ceased to exist, there were several more powerful tribes in the deep mountains in this area, the most powerful of which were the fish clan and the Lu clan, and there were also Huahai Village and several demon clan villages in the deep mountains that rarely dealt with outsiders.
Compared to the central valley where the Qingshui clan was located, Lu Village was higher up on the mountain, and it took a whole day to walk towards the city. Although Youyu Village is also in the high mountains, it is located below the location of the Qingshui Clan's Walled City, and it takes about half a day to walk down the mountain, and it is located next to the only way for outsiders to enter and exit the Qingshui Clan's Walled City.
The road village on the mountain and the fish village at the bottom of the mountain have been unprecedentedly prosperous in recent years. Lu Village is because there are two masters, Ruoshan and Ruoshui, and more importantly, it has more abundant products than before, which can ensure the survival and reproduction of the people. Because of its location, Youyu Village is located on the trade road that connects the wilderness to the outside of the mountains, and the road passing through their village is also winding and rugged, but it is much easier to walk than other mountain roads in the wilderness.
There is a large lake called Huahai near Huahai Village, and there is also a large lake in the deep mountains near Yuhai Village, which is called Yuhai. The area of the sea of fish is several times that of the sea of flowers, and the lake surface is several miles wide and narrow, and some places in the lake are bottomless, and it seems to be connected with the underground river. There are fish in the fish sea, and there are many of them, hence the name, and the tribes living on the fish sea also call themselves fish people.
Their ancestors are said to be the servants of the ancestors of the Shimizu tribe and settled on the shore of the fish, and their descendants took the fish as their surname, but they did not have a name. What distinguishes them from other villages is that they can fish, and like many tribes living in Ba Yuan, they claim to be descendants of Emperor Taihao.
Legend has it that when Emperor Taihao was the emperor, he made nets by himself and taught people to fish on the shores of the East China Sea, and Tong Mang, who helped Emperor Taihao govern his subjects, taught people how to make Luo with reference to the appearance of nets. Luo is a kind of open net used on the ground, which can be used to screen things and catch birds and animals.
There are fish people who remember this ancient legend that they would weave fishing nets, and they would also make boats to travel through the sea of fish to catch fish. After the fall of the Shimizu clan, the patriarch of Youyu Village and the important people in the clan gradually developed ambitions, wanting to take the status of the Shimizu clan back then and replace him, and one day he could be called the "Yuyu clan".
**PS: I'm sorry, I was woken up by the phone twice early this morning, and then I went to sleep, and I woke up at one o'clock at noon, so I couldn't update it at noon, I'm really sorry. This chapter will be released first, and there will be another chapter update later this evening!