From Chief to Ball

After wandering around, pointing to the cowhide, he said, "I'll take this job, what are your requirements?"

"Yes, I'll tell you the length, thickness, and thickness. It's not hard to find this thing. There are plenty of them in the oak forest over there, just find some crooked tree forks. By the way, if you're going to chop trees, there are other things along the way. , For example, get some thick wood suitable for making wheels, as long as you transport it back, you can change it all."

Mu Ma frowned and said, "How can I get such thick wood back by myself?"

"You can form a group of several people. You can find wolf skins to borrow horses. As long as the horses are not injured, you can return them. War horses and slave horses have been separated, so you can tell others."

Mu Ma wondered: "Aren't these jobs done by slaves before? Where are the slaves?"

"Throw it away in the mine, and cut wood over there, pile it up to the river and wait for it to be released along the river after the spring thaws. They can't let them eat and work for nothing."

Seeing that there was really nothing to do, he had no choice but to accept the job of cutting the cowhide angrily, regretting that he hadn't walked outside in the morning.

Before leaving, Chen Jian shouted from behind: "From now on, I will pick up work at the entrance of the conference hall every morning."

In the wind and snow, Mu Ma listened to the general idea, found those few partners, and squatted together in the corner to discuss.

"As for the fifteen of us, mining stones is not a good job. Two slaves died last month. It's too dangerous. I think some of us are going to cut down trees. I've seen ox traps, and it's easy to do."

"Easy? How do you get through the hole? No carpenter's tools are borrowed, each of them is like a baby, we want to learn but don't teach. I heard that those carpenters make several shells a day, but it's a pity that our surname is not Ji."

Mu Ma patted the man and said, "What are you talking about? If you have a stutter, you give it to your brother, why don't you tell people from other tribes? If it weren't for Jixia, we would still be living in caves. It's easy to talk about piercing, you Do you still remember how Jixia dug the hole when he was doing orange water fetching in Yangguan last time? Wouldn’t it be better if you watch more and learn more?”

When he said this, those people excitedly said: "You mean...burn it with fire?"

"That's right, without borrowing a tool, I burned the tip of the spear red-hot. Once pierced, wouldn't there be a hole if I messed with the wood? I reckon we can cut down the wood and make dozens of them in one night. Don’t talk about the method. Jixia said that the cow jacket doesn’t need much. Let’s get more. Years ago, each of us had a big shell. Luckily, I caught a few badgers in the woods and got a black bear. , nothing?"

When several people summed it up, they all felt that it was indeed a good idea. If this was the case, it would not be impossible to build a house in the spring.

"Muma, then we will all listen to you. If anyone speaks out... we will beat him up."

"Yes! The method of wearing wood is simple, and if others know about it, we won't be able to change so much."

Mu Ma swore an alliance with them, stood up and went to the wolf fur place vigorously, a dozen people gathered three big shells together, rented two sets of horse sledges, took a few days of horse food, took an ax, and brought a pair of belongings. The yearning for my own house, I headed towards the mountains and forests in the wind and snow.

Chapter 65 Spring Breeze ([-])

Winter is here, and spring is not far away.

For most people in Xiacheng, winter is hard, except for the green pines that cannot be seen, and the eyes are full of wind and snow.

As far as Muma is concerned, he is looking forward to a longer winter, at least before spring plowing, he can realize his dream.

Starting from cutting cattle sets, he accumulated coins one by one, hoping that one day he would change from the Muma of the Mu clan to the Muma of the Muma family, and maybe have one more woman and two children , preferably a man and a woman.

According to the moral system of the tribe in the past, Mu Ma is not a moral person. He betrayed his own tribe and wanted to go out and live alone.

But as the times change, the old moral system is also disintegrating, and the private system will gradually replace the public system that has lasted for hundreds of thousands of years, thus bringing about a new moral system and code of conduct.People who hold the morality of the old age cannot become a model of the new age, nor can they have more wealth than others in the new age.

Good and bad are closely related to the times. For the same thing, different times have different interpretations. Chen Jian did not use morality to rely on the behavior of the people in the city: because the era is about to undergo great changes, morality can distinguish good from bad, but clan public ownership Morality?Or the morality of family private ownership?In the chaos, it is impossible to distinguish.

Mu Ma readily accepted the advice of the clansmen, and three of the fifteen people who vowed to go out alone with the alliance could not bear the advice and alienation of the crowd, and returned to the clan.

The remaining twelve people have persisted since that day, and everyone has tried their best to seize every opportunity to exchange shells.

They were even reluctant to eat the welfare provided by the city during the Chinese New Year, and took it to the market to exchange for it. They even thought that the manure could be used to fertilize the field. They lit a fire in the winter and dug out their own toilets, so that the fertilizer water would not flow into other people's fields.

Someone from the clan taunted them, saying that Muma would have to chew his own shit all over again, but Muma told everyone frankly: "If he can leave his quota of food in that way, he will really do that."

When the end of the new year was approaching, Mu Ma led a dozen people to make [-] pairs of cow jackets, all of which were qualified, and the holes drilled could completely pass through enough thick and thin hemp ropes.In addition to these holsters, several people caught two sleeping bears and many wild animals in the cold wind.In addition to the due rewards, Chen Jian also rewarded them with some money.

At the coldest time of the new year, Chen Jian led his tribe to dig a small lake on the south bank of the Caohe River, and started winter hunting, which is called labor.

But after completing the number of cities, Mu Ma led some people to follow Chen Jian's method to continue fishing.Fish can’t be exchanged for anything in Xiacheng. The fish caught in winter in the city several times is enough to eat until the ice melts and snow melts. Change it to Qianbei in the wine shop, or buy some goods that are not under the jurisdiction of the city and bring them back to Xiacheng to earn profits that Weibo doesn't care about.However, some commonly used items such as wine, pottery, and salt are monopolized by the city, and there are not many things that can be exchanged for wood.

In this way, Mu Ma has more and more money shells, from the original three big shells to five, and then to two copper coins plus two big shells.

During the Chinese New Year, Mu Ma made an exception and did not replace the wine allocated to him. Twelve people bought a sheep and several jars of wine, and got very drunk.

The sound of popping poplar crackling echoed in the ears, and the children picked mustard greens that were hollowed out one by one, and a small beeswax candle was pressed in the hole sheltered from the wind. New Year's Eve brought a glimmer of light to the city.

Candied gourds, vegetable lanterns, and red cheeks are all missing, holding incense in one hand and covering ears with the other to watch firecrackers, but since none of the people in the clan have ever seen it, there are no regrets and it is perfect.

Mu Ma's face was blushing. In addition to the light wine that was handed out, he also bought some highly concentrated steamed wine. He knelt on the hot kang, picked up a piece of fish with chopsticks, and put two copper coins and a pile of Xiaobei lined up on the kang.

"You all take it out and see how many we have in total. Yesterday I asked Yu Qian'er, and she said that if we build a house, we will share a wall, but it will save a lot of bricks and mud. Look. , if there are three people, only four east and west walls are needed, and twelve people only need thirteen east and west walls, but if we build separately, we need 24 east and west walls, which can save a lot.”

Those few people also drank a little too much, opened the pockets they carried with them clatteringly, poured copper coins and Taobei on the kang, covering a whole floor, although there was no glitter of gold, it still made people intoxicated.

"Except for Fangshi and Jixia's public warehouses, people in Xiacheng probably won't see so many Qian Bei. Hahaha."

Several people laughed, listening to the sound of copper coins colliding with each other, intoxicated, and struggling to calculate how much it would cost to build a house with Xunxiu.

There were also people who were frowning, drank the wine for the first time in their lives, and muttered: "The tribe doesn't talk to me very much anymore. They all said that I wanted to run away when I was young, and I wanted to leave the elderly and children alone. To be honest, if it wasn't When Ji Xia said that day, I never thought of it, not that I didn't care, but I didn't think that there were these things in it."

"Yes, it's a bit unacceptable for me to say that. I just want to have a house of my own."

Mu Ma patted the two of them, and shouted: "What are you talking about? Indeed, I only thought about us being strong, and it would be good to live alone. I really didn't think about the matter of support. But, you said that the clan will still be in the future. Can it be the same as before? It can't be the same, and when everyone learns from us, who will say anything?"

"Jixia does things, you also know that there are so many pottery boards that write what can't be done, but they don't write that they are not allowed to separate out and order, and there are things about civet cats and orchids. Jixia has nothing forbidden, but it can be done. .It doesn’t mean that only the things that Ji Xia is allowed to do can be done, and the rest are not allowed. There is a difference between the two.”

Mu Ma said confidently: "Look, what has Ji Xia said since that day? We asked Yu Qian'er and Hong Yu how much they had to do about building the house. Did Ji Xia know? He didn't." Never mind, what are you afraid of?"

The people next to him were still pondering the difference between permission if no prohibition and prohibition if no permission, but Mu Ma jumped out of this question and said excitedly: "When we have a house, we are also working, and we are no worse than others, woman Who will you choose? I want to live in our house, okay, I’m not allowed to sleep with others in the future, this thing is just like a market, it’s a business. In the past, women gathered and men hunted, but now men farm, women don’t need to farm. Men Now that you can afford to support a woman, since it is support, you have to make it clear that you can’t sleep with others. If you want to be free and simple, you can build a house by yourself to earn food and drink, and no one can restrain you, don’t you think? Bluegrass and civet cats have rituals and oaths, so we can have them too, and it’s more useful than oaths, restraint with food and drink is more useful than any oath.”

With a big wave of his hand, he subconsciously imitated Chen Jian's movements and encouraged everyone: "I asked someone to calculate it. This house is easy to build, and it's not as troublesome as we thought. I've already asked Ji Xia, and I'll measure it for us." I will hand over the land and money for you first, and we will calculate it together when the house is built. There is plenty of wood. Before spring comes, we cut enough wood and we will transport it back to peel the bark as soon as spring begins. The bark is not easy to pull out in winter, so go to Fangshi I bought hay for thatch to feed horses. I asked about wolf skins. They can’t eat it all when the grass is green in spring, but they can also be bought. People, when looking for a few days off, buy a few sheep and get a few jars of wine. How long will it take to cover it?"

At this time, he has become the backbone of these people, someone asked: "How much does the brick cost?"

"Let's use bricks for the wall facing the sun, and bricks for the side walls connecting the twelve houses together, and use bricks for the two side walls. We will surround the back with a wooden fence and leave only the front door. It won't take much."

"Drawing mud can be done by just a few of us, but it's a bit tiring. In March and April, when the weather gets warmer, we will start to work. I guess before the wheat harvest, our house can be built. Look, this is me looking for Ji Xia. The house I drew for us..."

He turned around and looked for the bark painting that Zhenzhi had collected again, and said, "Ji Xia said, as long as we don't delay the work in the city, we can do whatever we want. He also said that if we don't delay the city He and the clan's farm work have finished building the house, and he will also come to sit and sit when it is finished."

Neither support nor objection, but these words are enough for these people to take a reassurance.

Mu Ma found the piece of birch bark from a pile of wheat straw. On it were simple lines drawn by Chen Jian with charcoal. The background was the city wall of Xiacheng. The sun, there is a smiling face on the sun.

Under the sun, there is a house, a very simple thatched house, with a fence behind and a yard in front.

In the yard, there are dodo birds pecking at the wheat grains on the ground, geese and geese singing with their heads up, and there seem to be some clothes drawn on a clothesline. Under the clothes are some children with braids, pushing The little windmill seems to be running.

There are no women, no men, but this simple charcoal drawing still makes the twelve men stunned.

Without women, how can there be children?

When drawing a running child, they feel that it is their own blood, and they can call their father's own child just like Echeng.