From Chief to Ball

Shujiu bit his finger hard, and finally moved his eyes away from those pottery plates in severe pain, trying not to think about the magic inside.

Number and shape, to her, are like a fish to those cats near the tribal granary. She is unwilling to give up like this, but she will not give up the interests of the clan for her own preference.

She is the priest of the tribe first, and then the number nine who likes numbers and shapes.

In the age of copper and stone, there is mathematics, and the level will not be too low.The Mayans didn’t even know how to play with bronze, so they could still calculate astronomical numbers; Dayu’s water control could not be done without knowing the height of the mountains and the width of the river, so he closed his eyes to dredge; It can't be a coincidence of not knowing math.

So Chen Jian was not surprised that the other party would be interested in these weird numbers. After all, the other party's tribe knew how to count the seasons and distinguish the four seasons by observing the shadow of the sun.

Seeing her refusal, Chen Jian said: "This is not just a plaything. You can stand on the edge of the field and use a wooden stick to measure the size of the land, the width of the river, and the height of the river."

Shujiu's eyes lit up, if this is the case, it is indeed worth exchanging.

After the tribe migrated here, the newly burnt land was distributed to each family, not a small family, but a large family with a dozen or twenty people, how much food each family collected for public use, how much public land was left, etc. Wait for these to be carefully calculated.

The previous method of measurement was too tiring, and it took her several months to lead someone to measure it with a rope. If it is really possible, it is indeed an acceptable exchange method.

It's just that she was a little puzzled. Chen Jian should be anxious to talk about the bean seeds with him now, so why did he suddenly think of exchanging them?

If you don't understand it, you can't understand it, but when Chen Jian started to use numbers and shapes to draw those simple tricks, Shujiu still couldn't help listening to it attentively, and stopped thinking about what she thought was not right.

During the explanation, Chen Jian found that her foundation in counting to nine was quite good. She could easily calculate the addition, subtraction, multiplication and division of small numbers. For slightly larger numbers, she would use a weird counting chip, which was about Skills necessary for priests in charge of divination and calendar.

He didn't talk about anything too difficult, just some skill algorithms and a little bit of similar triangles in some later elementary schools. These things took three days.

Shujiu suddenly found that Chen Jian knew far more than himself, and he could even calculate some numbers larger than one thousand easily, and even just draw a few weird runes with charcoal, and he could calculate them. But you need to use calculations.

Originally, she really believed what Chen Jian said, her own advantage lies in numbers, and the other party's advantages lie in form, but after these two days of explanation, she suddenly realized that even Chen Jian might be better than herself in numbers, but how could he see Can't see what is contained in the Nine Numbers Map?

These doubts only existed for a moment, and then she was attracted by other things Chen Jian said. Many of them were questions that she had thought about before but had no answers. Chen Jian's words were like lightning in the night, suddenly shining It illuminates everything, so that the previously incomprehensible questions have been answered.

The initial question was very simple, and it seemed that there was no connection, but on the third day, she suddenly found that the things she said a few days ago could be connected together, so she said "If...then it must... ..." Such things push two originally irrelevant numbers into another problem.

The time of counting to nine became longer and longer, and the excited expression became more and more obvious after each meditation. Chen Jian quietly observed her expression, and finally when he started to talk about similar triangles and the Pythagorean theorem to calculate the land area and the width of the river, It came to an abrupt end.

Yu Qian'er pushed the door open and came in, whispered something in Chen Jian's ear, and Chen Jian's face became serious.

Counting to nine is like an addict who suddenly cuts off the source of the drug, anxiously pointing to a few pottery squares and asking, "What's going on? Why don't you say anything?"

"I'm leaving for a while. There are some things in the tribe that I need to deal with."

Counting to nine didn't stop her, but reminisced about what Chen Jian said before, and immersed herself in it. It wasn't until lunch that she realized that it was a little strange. Why hasn't Chen Jian come back yet?

Leaving the hall, I found a lot of people gathered on the pier of the city, carrying bags of hemp rope bags and various jars to the ship. Someone accidentally broke the jar, and fell out of the white paper inside. Salt, attracted a leader's scolding.

Counting carefully, there are at least fifty bark boats, which are full of various goods, and even have two pairs of wheels.

She felt a little uneasy, and hurriedly found her clansman to inquire. In the past few days, she has been pondering those numbers and shapes in the hall during the day, hardly going out, and even thinking about those problems at night, without noticing what happened in the city at all. .

The clansmen who followed her only said that there seemed to be a boat returning from the south bank of the Caohe River in the morning. Today these people started to get busy, and there were a few people wearing strange clothes and speaking strange words living in the houses in the city, but Can't understand.

"Any other tribes?"

An ominous feeling suddenly surged in Shuji's mind.

She and her tribe migrated from the lower reaches of the big river. She met many tribes along the way. Some tribes carried the old people to the mountains to fend for themselves, and some tribes shared a few women between brothers and sisters. Of course, she would not think that the whole world There are only two tribes.

Following the instructions of her clansmen, she quietly looked at a room in the distance, and after waiting for a long time, she finally saw a woman coming out of it.

Just taking a look, she felt that she had guessed right, there really were other tribes, because the woman's dress was very weird, and she definitely couldn't have made it out to deceive herself.

The woman is not very old, her hair is not combed, but cut very short, draped over her shoulders, with a boat-like hat on her head, the material is linen, slanted to one side, she can Never seen such hair and hat.

He was wearing a non-cross-collared jacket with a row of snail-shaped buttons. The sleeves of the clothes were also very narrow and wrapped tightly around the body, and there was a collar near the neck.

Below is a pair of leather pants, I don't know whether they are sewn with thread or glued with feet. They are very thin and stretched on the legs.Below the knees are high shoes, also made of leather. The uppers of the shoes cover the calf to the knees. There are also two bronze thorns on the heels of the shoes, which are probably used to make the mount sting and run faster when riding a horned deer or cow.

If Chen Jian were to describe this woman as wearing a ship-shaped combat cap, a simple linen shirt, a pair of leather pants, an armored belt, and long riding boots with spikes... the reason why he knew it so clearly was because it was planned by him. , and the clansmen spent four days rushing to work, and the role was played by Red Fish.

With his lack of imagination, it is impossible to come up with a completely different clothing style. He can only make one from the memory of his previous life according to the shape of the bear female soldier. By the way, he can also enrich his nightlife in the future and add some emotion.

Clothes and hair, it can be seen that they come from different tribes, especially this one seems weird, but it is not awkward when you look closely. On the contrary, it has a heroic feeling. Uniforms not only seduce men, but women also think it is very good. Nine is more certain that other tribes have appeared.

After a few glances, the woman was talking to the people in the room, using a language she had never heard before, but she spoke very fluently, and could vaguely hear a few repeated words, it was not nonsense.

I hurriedly found my clansman, and I felt very uneasy. The exchange of my own clan must be completed. Now only my own clan can exchange. Once there are other clans, it is impossible to exchange so many things, especially the woman's clothes. Behavior, no barbaric tribe, barbarian tribes are not capable of making such clothes, although weird.

After thinking for a moment, she came up with a bold idea.

"Kill those people."

The clansman was taken aback, and asked back: "We will die, but we can't beat them because they are large. This will trigger a war between the Jian tribe and us, and Eyue didn't say we would fight."

"No. If you kill those people, Jian can only exchange with us, and he will become enemies with that tribe. After all, if a person dies here, he can only be tied to us. As long as you don't hurt Jian's tribe. He is very Cunning, if he kills those people, not only will he not kill us, but he will also make an exchange with us, even make an oath."

The clansmen were a little puzzled, but they knew that counting to nine was seldom wrong, so they took out sharp stone daggers and left the hall, but soon came back with a sad face.

"No, there are more than 40 people guarding there, all with copper soldiers in their hands. They have been prepared for a long time, and the girl named Yuqianer also went to that room."

Shu Jiu clenched his fists and gritted his teeth. After a moment of silence, he had no choice but to open the door and go out.

I found the person in charge of communication, found Chen Jian, and asked, "What are you doing here?"

Chen Jian apologized: "I'm going to the south bank of the Cao River, and it may take [-] days to come back. For the time being, my sister will take care of the tribal affairs. You can talk to her."

While talking, he asked the tribe to load some salt pots and baskets into the boat, and there was some white powder in it that Shujiu had never seen before. Someone accidentally spilled a basket of white powder into the puddle by the river, and the water The water in the pit immediately boiled.

"It's not food, it's not pottery, but salt and this strange white powder... That tribe has no shortage of food or pottery, and he wants to change seeds!"

Thinking of this, she tried her best to calm her panicked mood, and said with a smile, "Twenty days? It's too late to plant beans after twenty days. Today is No. 13 days after Lixia, and there are still 20 days at most. , if you don’t plant it, it won’t mature.”

The people in charge of communication could only transliterate the word Lixia. Chen Jian didn't understand what it meant, but he could guess that it was a day in the calendar.

He spread his hands and said: "It's not a bean, it's a kind of tuber that can be grown. That tribe eats it, but the taste is not very good and it's a bit bitter. That can't be helped. We won't change the wheels. In a month, we can grow wheat and peas again."

Shujiu made a few nonsense words, but what he said made Shujiu believe it even more.

Turning around, pretending to ask the clansmen, "Where is Yuqian? Let her count nine with you."

Chapter 74 Chiefs and bureaucrats

The tribe called Yuqianer, and Yuqianer ran barefoot and shouted from a distance: "Brother, I'm just looking for you."

"what happened?"

"Try this, it's really bitter."

He took out a black pancake from his pocket and gave it to Chen Jian. She really got into the drama.