From Chief to Ball

E Yue felt relieved, if his wife hadn't noticed that she used the square as a plaything when returning the gift, the young man would have secretly laughed at the ignorance of his tribe.

When you step into civilization, you will know the honor, and you will have the heart to strive for strength. It is not only whose weapon is sharp, but also whose house is built gorgeously, who knows more about stars and divination numbers. The competition of civilizations is not only war.

"This gift, what are you going to return?"

The woman thought for a while, and then turned out a square clay board. The three vertical and horizontal lines on the clay board turned into nine grids.

The top is [-], the middle is [-], and the bottom is [-]. It is not a number, but a sunken point is used as a count.

E Yue was surprised: "Need to use this?"

Although he didn't quite understand what it was, he knew how terrible it was. Back then, his wife's mother dedicated this thing to Hua, and that tribe had also changed from an unknown tribe to an official in charge of the calendar.

Since it is something that Huadu valued, it must be an extremely important thing in E Yue's view, perhaps it contains the principle of the movement of the sun and the moon, otherwise, why would the wife's mother know which day is as long as night?And how do you know which day has the longest day and the shortest night?

He didn't understand, he was just guessing, but he knew that the square was far heavier than he thought.

The woman looked at the pottery board and said, "Other than that, it can't compare with this square."

"Can he see what this is?"

"The number will not change. One may not be read in their tribe, but one is still one. This thing will make the smartest people in their tribe think about it for several years."

The woman sighed deeply: "Since he told us that he can melt copper soldiers and build square cities, it is impossible for us to capture them as slaves like those barbarian tribes. We can only use weapons and axes. When two tigers fight, anyone will bleed."

When E Yue heard this metaphor, he didn't refute it. When he first saw the group of soldiers, he knew that if his tribe was a tiger, that tribe would at least be a wolf.

But now it seems that these things that his wife is embarrassing are tantamount to making the wolf grow colorful patterns and become a tiger that can really talk to his tribe on an equal footing.

Just as Eyue was about to look at the third gift, his younger brother, the person in charge of building the house in the tribe, took the square again and stroked the straight planks that could not be cut with an axe. It was unbelievable. shook his head.

E Yue's heart skipped a beat, and she thought, is there something else in it?

"Yes, and something else, they have a tool that cuts wood smoothly, not with an axe, nor with a brass sword. You feel it, it's not smooth, it's rough , the ax can't cut so straight, and the sword can't cut so rough."

E Yue didn't doubt his younger brother's eyes. Every family member standing here is the most venomous-eyed clansman in a certain line.

E Yue's younger brother said slowly: "We don't have this thing, they have it. I can't imagine what it would be like."

Putting the square aside solemnly, the people in the room looked at the pile of presents solemnly, no longer as relaxed as before.

This is only the second gift...

Chapter 64 Reciprocate

There are not many gifts, and they will always be read one by one.

The people in the room understood a lot, so they fell into silence. The only thing they didn't understand was the steelyard.

E Yue put the scale aside, because his wife told him that she had already thought of the corresponding return gift for the scale.

In addition to saying, the rest of the gifts let these people know what Chen Jian wanted to tell them.

A can of wheat beans and a pot of spirits are not for them to eat, but to let them know that their tribe is also planted and settled, and there is surplus food for wine making.

Wine is not only an intoxicating mellow aroma, but also a proof of sufficient food for the tribe.Sufficient food is not the kind of tribe that collapses after one defeat.

The white flute and the black xun are not for them to play, but to let them know that their tribe has the strength to think about things other than survival.

Music is to express inner emotions under the condition of insufficient emotional vocabulary after eating and drinking.

Happiness, pain, love, hate... They are not pigs, sheep, plants, and have no substance. They cannot be described in an era where vocabulary is not rich, and there is no conventional meaning. Either use the taste on the tip of the tongue to describe the heart; or use melodious Passionate tunes to describe the heart.

There are flutes for long lengths, xuns for sounds of nature, drums for clangs, and whistles for worries. If you are still struggling to survive, how can you have other emotions except hunger and pain?

The cyan bronze mirror and the gray kitchen knife are not for them to decal yellow on the mirror and kill fish in front of the stove, but to let them know that copper can be cast into a mirror and can also be used as a spear.

A mirror can illuminate a person, if the two races do not move their swords, the mirror will become a pair; if they use their swords, the woman in the mirror will only have tears and no beauty.

E Yue might not have thought so much, but he knew that the tribe was definitely not the kind that he could easily eliminate.

Chen Jian believes that Eyue and the tribe can know the strength of their tribe from the wheat bean wine copper.

These things can only exert their expected effects in civilized races, and for those barbaric races, these things are far less enjoyable than a human head and a handful of blood.

Barbaric tribes can't understand it, and they may even smile a little, thinking it's meaningless, and they don't need to read it.

The people around E Yue could understand, so the silence in the room lasted for a long time.

Taking out the picture painted by Chen Jian on silk, E Yue looked at it for a long time, and roughly understood what it meant, and smiled unconsciously when he saw the ox at the end of the picture scroll.

"What do you think?"

"Some Dongyi tribes have moved to the north, and they will come close to us one day. There are healthy tribes in the west, so we have to fight them if we want to go there. But they are not easy to fight. If we want to fight, we will die too. A lot of people."

"Yeah, don't you find it strange? Where did this tribe come from? Their language is somewhat similar to ours, but not the same. Did other tribes migrate westward 20 years ago?"

"No, but we also migrated to the banks of the river from other places a long time ago, maybe they migrated a long time ago."

E Yue recalled the tribes that moved away after the civil strife 20 years ago, and was sure that none of them moved here, so she couldn't help being a little puzzled.

After pondering for a while, he said: "Their tribe has things that we don't have, and we have things they don't. They can be exchanged."

The woman beside her nodded and said: "It can be exchanged, but the silk moth cannot be exchanged, unless they exchange it with copper smelting, but they will definitely not exchange it. Other than that, they can be exchanged. We have a lot of corn and beans, and we have a lot of corn and beans. Divination later, the nail pattern is smooth, this year must be a good harvest year."

The family members agree with the woman's point of view that some things cannot be changed.

E Yue smiled and said: "Since you want to change, what do you want to change?"

Since the leader said so, the clansmen spoke freely, indeed, there were too many things they wanted to change.

Women want bronze mirrors, those who build houses want tools that can cut boards, children want sweet candies, those who blow horns want some flutes, and those who are in charge of calendars want more wheat. Time to plant and plant...

Just like the birds chirping in the morning, there is no dullness in the room just now. They are not prepared to fight healthy tribes, and of course they are not afraid of healthy tribes coming to beat them. They are similar to each other. No one is absolutely sure. This is the true meaning of peace reason.

E Yue waved his hand to signal the clansmen to be quiet first, raised the silk in his hand and said, "That kid named Jian wants to build a city on the border between the two clans. I think some people will come out after we planted the corn. Let’s build one here, or build the two clans together. One is to see how well they built the city, and the other is the distance is far away. If you want to exchange, that’s the right place.”

The younger brother who was in charge of building the house nodded and said, "After the corn is planted, I will take people there."

E Yue nodded, and turned his head to his second wife, who was in charge of the tribe's corn goods.

"You have to prepare a lot and think about what you want to change."

The woman thought for a while, then frowned and said, "There are a lot of things to change. Our salt is running out, and their salt is not bitter, so this needs to be changed. The two jars of seeds also need to be changed. They chose to fight at this time. The two things must not be planted together with the corn, otherwise how would there be time? Stagger the time, in case of disasters and floods, we will not be able to harvest the corn and these things.”

The third wife who is proficient in witch doctor also said: "There are also their herbs. Four of the more than 20 people who were seriously injured survived, and those who were slightly injured basically did not die. This is already terrible. I secretly saw those people , they have herbs, but I don't know them."

"Well, think about this slowly, and come up with a gift to give back as soon as possible."