Chapter 13: Forerunners and Hope
Whoa—
The turbulent water gave way in fear in front of the footsteps of a big man, even the big river that was rampant in the mountains and seas did not dare to cut off the big man's pace of chasing the light.
The big man is no longer in the prime of life, his forehead is very high, his face is as if he has been sharpened by a knife, sharp edges and corners, resolute and solid, and his two eyes are calm like a deep abyss, and the breath contained in it is enough to make the mountains shake and collapse.
No wild beast dared to come near him, no great fish dared to haunt his eyes.
Two or three of his beards were gray.
The hair that was tucked back behind his head and had tricolored feathers inserted was no longer pure black.
People have twilight years, like the sun setting, but although the twilight years of the Han Dynasty are approaching, they have not yet fully arrived.
His qi and blood are still vigorous, and he is still one of the few "human males" in this world.
When the Han crossed the river, ordinary people could see the towering Xunshan Mountains in the distance, but what he could see was a ray of light farther and farther away.
The big man looked at Xun Mountain, did not let the great witch in Xun Mountain notice his arrival, he carried a Tong bow, and carried the arrow of Su Yu on his waist, and after a few steps, the river had been left behind him.
This is not the first time he has stepped on this great river.
But it certainly won't be the last.
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Yu Zai returned to the tribe, and at this time the clansmen already knew about Yu Shu, and the young people seemed very silent, and their previous joy disappeared.
The clansmen shed a lot of tears, during the battle with the Long Di clan, when the clansmen forcibly crossed the river, and even this time in the matter of Yanze.
But Yu Zai can see that many of them are forbearing, and more of them are already like a withered tree and are no longer sad.
When they saw Yu Zai bring back those broken weapons, they lowered their heads, respecting, mourning, but also afraid to look at them.
A new life is about to begin, but no one thought that something would happen at this time.
This is the cruel rule of the mountains and seas, the way of heaven is like this, if you don't fight hard, in the end, you will be crushed by the mountains and will be submerged by the sea.
"Woo....."
Some people couldn't hold it back, their lips pursed, after all, it was a group of children.
Yu Zai put those weapons on the ground, the old patriarch came over, and Yu Zai said to him: "Let the clansmen all pick up shovels, come on, we have to do something." ”
The old patriarch nodded, asked the clansmen to pick up the shovels, and asked, "Wu, what are you going to do?"
Yu Zai said: "We have to tidy up a piece of land, this land is in our settlement, it should be in the central circle, and then surrounded by wood and stones, to make a square pillar, it is not a Huan table, it is called a tablet." ”
"Erect the monument. ”
Yu Zai pointed to the weapons: "No one will forget them." ”
He and the old patriarch came to a newly opened land, Yu Zai looked at the surrounding geology, as well as the direction of the wind, and then beckoned, and the young people hulala surrounded and began to level the place.
"Don't throw away the soil you dig up, we have to build it up!"
Yu Zai spoke to a few fighters, and Yu Yi was in it, and waved her fist firmly.
"Wu, don't worry!
He was full of energy, and seemed to vaguely know Wu's thoughts, is this going to be a new clan hill (cemetery)?
The old patriarch looked at it, and his heart was also the same idea as Yu Yu, and at this time, Yu Zai opened his mouth and asked him: "Patriarch, how did the clansmen die in the past, or have corpses or no corpses, how were they buried?"
The old patriarch did not hesitate: "If you die, if there is a corpse or a corpse, you will take it back, and you will cover it with a salary, and put it in the earth; if the corpse or corpse cannot be recovered, you will abandon it in the wilderness, and there will be wild beasts to eat." ”
"If it is a noble, such as a witch, then there are wooden rafts on both sides. ”
"Dying in the Great Wilderness is also one of our fates. ”
After the old patriarch finished speaking, he suddenly smiled: "I know, Wu, are you going to make a new clan hill?"
In ancient times, there was no coffin, the better, the high-status one, died with a salary, and ordinary people were scattered directly in the wilderness and eaten by wild beasts, and only the princes could be buried in the mound and put into the soil for peace, this is the mausoleum.
In the case of no coffin, when Emperor Shun arrived, there would be a tile coffin, that is, a coffin made of pottery, and at the same time, more exquisite burial goods appeared.
Yu Zai looked solemn and agreed: "Yes, this is a funeral, but soon, the dead will be forgotten, we keep talking about the ancestors, is it only the people who founded the tribe are the ancestors?"
The old patriarch didn't speak, waiting for the next step.
Yu Zai pointed to a piece of land pioneered by the teenagers in front of him: "We want to erect a mausoleum here, not for a certain big person, but for our own ancestors, all the war dead, all the pioneers, all the ........"
Yu Zai's hand stretched out to the sky, standing on tiptoe, high, the old patriarch raised his head with his arm, what he saw in his eyes, what he saw in his eyes, it was Yu Zai, holding the sun in his hand.
Will that hill be comparable to the sky?
Will that hill be as bright as the sun?
Yu Zai's fingers seemed to touch the sky: "Since the Jinyun Dividing the Red Side, all the pioneers who have passed on the torch for the continuation of the tribe and let the tribe survive in the heavens, earth, mountains and seas are immortal here!"
The voice was so loud that all the young people heard it, and some of them did not understand the meaning, but the elderly, like a concubine, had tears rolling in the frame, and then smiled, and the shovel in his hand was wielded even harder.
But the younger teenagers, when they saw the older teenagers, their smiles, their sweat, they also laughed.
Yes, the decision made by the witch, it must be good, it is the right one!
It must be of the tribe of Leigh!
In the era of ancient mountains and seas, when the five emperors were found, it was not said that the mausoleum belonged exclusively to the emperor, the big tomb and the small tomb, the big hill and the small hill, the so-called various in ancient times such as Kunwu Hill, Xuanyuan Hill, Chiwang Hill, Sanwei Hill, Shenmin Hill.... These are actually large tombs, because the scale is too large, and they are unified in the hills, so they have been deified.
The funeral rites began to be strengthened, starting from the Xia Dynasty, gradually perfected to the Shang Dynasty, and finally to the Zhou Dynasty, which was the most stringent, and all kinds of etiquette could not be transgressed.
Yu Zai raised his hand: "I hope that in the future, that mound will be very big and very high, so this is not in a hurry! But we must not forget that when we are prosperous, we must finish this matter, we must sort out the land, pile up the soil, stones, and mud that have been cleared here, this is a simple mausoleum, they will come back, come back here, and then watch us." ”
"And we, under their watchful eyes, will bring the tribe into the era of abundance and grain!"
"We will hold up the mountains and seas and face the blue sky high! We will work hard to outline the golden field under the light of the sun! We will move forward, the ancestors will help us in the back, behind us is the history of struggle, and in front of us is the bright future!"
Yu Zai inspired all the clansmen, and all the clansmen also waved the shovel in their hands!
"Strange beasts can't defeat us, the enemy all over the mountains will be the best opponent to hone us! We are strong when we are strong, we grow and thrive here, and one day, the fire will be ignited, the trees will reach the sky, and the mountains will be broken by us!"
"Heaven is healthy, people are constantly striving for self-improvement!"