From Chief to Ball

"Jian, there are many people, just in the lower reaches of the river, men who are similar to us."

"Where are the women and children?"

"In the back. They are leaning against the river, and they also have flags, and they are also lined up."

"flag?"

"Yes, there is a fluttering moth drawn on it, and it is softer than our flag, and it flutters with the wind."

"Moth? Not a bird?"

"No, it's a moth. When the flag flies with the wind, it's like the moths are flying too. Birds don't have beards. I've eaten a lot before, so I won't admit it wrong. By the way, they have sheep, and there is another kind that I haven't seen yet. There are animals with horns on their heads, curved like knives, and fur of the same color as fire, but they walk very slowly and carry a lot of things on their bodies. There is also an animal like the scalping tribe, but it is much smaller and its ears are very large. long."

"Did you meet any of their scouts?"

"We met, but they didn't do anything, so we didn't do anything. We shot two arrows at each other and left."

Chen Jian nodded and said, "Go and rest."

Obviously, the other party has also discovered people like Chen Jian, and now they are afraid of beating wolves with a stick.

Chen Jian took the prisoners with him, and he had limited mobility and not much food.

The other party brought the whole tribe to migrate, and they had to take care of the elderly and children. No one wanted to do it first, but everyone thought that the other party might do it, so they could only be careful, and the other party would seize the opportunity to attack if they were not careful.

As for using moths as flags, one possibility is an abstract meaning, and the other possibility is a realistic meaning.

The abstract meaning may be that this tribe believes that moths are extremely heroic, and tribes that worship light may use moths as their banners, just like many ancient jade discs in previous lives were shaped like moths.

The practical significance may be that this tribe has mastered the technology of weaving silk, so they use silkworm moths as their banners.There are no mulberry trees found here, but there are many types of silk threads, not necessarily silkworms.

Zhe trees, oak trees, and oak trees can all raise silkworms, and the types of silkworms are completely different. Chen Jian has seen silkworm cocoons in winter in the acorn forest. Maybe they breed tussah silkworms. The silk thread is much worse than that of silkworms. In his previous life 100% silk is often used as a gimmick for quilts, but it is never clear what kind of silkworm it is.

The beast that the scouts mentioned looked like it was on fire, it should be a cow.The one with long ears and smaller than a horse should be a donkey.Whether it’s donkeys, cows or horses, most of them are eaten as meat in this era. Since the opponents are at the technical level of using copper and stone at most, there should be no regular wheels, and there are no modules that can be carved out of stones.

Chen Jian wanted to communicate with those captives, but found that many words were completely different, and the gap was more than dialect.

Things like pottery, bows and arrows, and fishing nets must be different from the names of that tribe, because the names of these things are all pronounced by themselves.As for those abstract words, the pronunciation of beautiful, good, happy, numbers, etc., is completely untouchable.

The whole night, Chen Jian didn't sleep well, the bonfire outside the camp didn't stop, and the manpower on duty at night was doubled than before.

Early the next morning, when Chen Jian was about to send out scouts again, the two came hundreds of steps away from their camp and shouted a few words.

Someone had spotted them a long time ago, and the scouts had already quietly circled behind them.

The two men hung their bows on their bodies, showed no hostility, and walked slowly to the front of the camp.

A man and a woman, the woman's body was wrapped in tussah silk cloth, and her hair was decorated with shells; the man was dressed similarly to those six people, and a piece of jade was hung around his neck, which seemed to be of high status.

When the six people who were arrested yesterday saw them, they immediately muttered something.

Several people protected Chen Jian and walked to them, presumably they wanted to exchange for their clansmen.Chen Jian didn't want to make enemies for the time being, even if he wanted to fight, he would have to wait until the harvest was stable, but it was a bit troublesome to communicate.

When he was about to draw a few words, the woman with shells on her head squatted down and drew a picture on the ground with a wooden stick.

There was a thick-lined person on the screen, and two small figures appeared under the person's body, and then the woman pointed at herself, and clicked on one of the small figures.He pointed to the man with the pendant on his neck that was caught yesterday, and clicked on another villain.

Chen Jian understood that these two people should be twin brothers and sisters, and it seemed that the other party really wanted to exchange these people back.

He also squatted on the ground and drew a line on the ground.On the east side of the line, I drew a moth, on the west side I drew my own tribe's yin and yang fish, and then on my own side I drew a man tied up by a rope. .

The woman nodded, making a pleading gesture.

Chen Jian thought for a while, found a small wooden stick and made a simple small balance. After balancing, he attached a stone to one end, and the end sank immediately, indicating that he must exchange something.

The woman glanced at the man who came with her. The man took out a small silk bag, poured some golden millet out of it, handed it to Chen Jian, and compared it, which meant that the millet could be exchanged.

Chen Jian touched the millet and knew that this was a tribe that already had agriculture. Although the tribesmen didn't know what it was, they knew it was edible, so someone immediately said, let's change it, and Chen Jian slammed it After stepping on it, the man immediately stopped talking.

The tribe must be short of food, but they must not let the other party know, otherwise, after switching back, the other party will follow behind, and the tribe will be dragged down without beating.

So he asked the wolf skin to bring a big fish, threw it aside and patted his belly, indicating that the tribe had no shortage of food and did not want to exchange it for food.

He drew a simple cow on the ground and hung it on a painted scale, with a person at the other end of the scale.

The drawing of the cow is crude, but the horns and the trapezoidal head are still easy to recognize.Immediately after finishing the painting, the opposite person shook his head and murmured for a long time. Chen Jian understood a few words, but couldn't connect the meanings of the words.

So he drew a group of people on his side, one person standing in front of the group of people; on the opposite side he also drew a group of people, and one person stood in front of the group of people.

He pointed to the person standing in front of a group of people on his side, and then pointed to himself, indicating that he was the leader, and asked your leader to talk to me.

The two men looked at each other and nodded.

Standing on that line, Chen Jian asked Langpi to take up a bow and arrow and shoot an arrow towards the west, pointing to the group of villains below, pointing to the place where the arrow fell; pointed at them.

In the end, he pointed at himself, then at the opponent's leader villain, and stepped on the line with his feet.

Those two people understood, and when they got up to leave, Chen Jian gave them a fish and half a gourd to drink the rest of the wine to prove that he had enough food.

In order to prevent the other party from having other thoughts, he also showed the two of them the terrifying power of the bronze ax to split wood, and asked all the soldiers with bronze weapons to give them a ride.

After seeing the terrifying power of the bronze ax to split wood, those two people didn't show much shock. They only felt a little awe after seeing more than 200 soldiers holding bronze weapons.

Before leaving, he bowed slightly to Chen Jian, which seemed to be a kind of etiquette, and Chen Jian also followed their example. After the two left, Chen Jian rubbed his hands, thinking that he should be able to scare him, right?

Several clansmen asked: "Jian, we should change food, maybe go back and grow."

"In exchange for food? In exchange for food, you can't exchange anything!"

Chen Jian yelled a few times, wishing that a handful of grains of wheat would be thrown in the faces of the two envoys right now. The tribe that has developed agriculture will know that their tribe is also farming when they see the grains of wheat, not the kind that can support less than 200 people The collection of tribes, but unfortunately not.

Tell people to retreat an arrow away, all the captives are escorted to the back, and the soldiers stand in a row to increase their momentum.

In order to perform well, the tribe also deliberately asked the tribe to get a lot of fish, put them into a fishing net, and trawl the net after the other party arrived.

The clansmen are busy, preparing their expressions for the upcoming negotiation with the leader.The soldiers wiped their swords and spears with whetstones, trying to make them brighter, and put on simple armor made of deerskin and wicker.

When the sun was shining overhead, there was a sound of horns from the east, and it seemed that there was also the rhythm of drums, and the cry of moo could be heard.

The soldiers are ready, and the boats acting on the water are also ready to trawl.

"Drums! Flute!"

The drummers beat the huge war drums, trying to overwhelm each other's voices. The clansmen roared what Chen Jian said when he played the bone flute before. Your hands are always old... The rhyme pronounced in this era has been changed to a short four-character poem.

The flute players were playing the battle song they learned was said to be called "Hold Your Hand and Grow Old Together", but in fact the tune was a simplified version of "March of the Grenadiers". Get rid of the suffocation of the battle.

Although they made enough appearances, they didn't fall behind as they should be prepared. The sword and shield soldiers had already hidden in the woods on the left flank of the team, and some of them were on the boat ready to go around the river and make a surprise attack at any time.