From Chief to Ball

"I knew it as soon as you spoke. Your Xia Cheng's tone of voice is a bit weird, just like that person last time."

After the girl finished speaking, she approached the white horse led by Chen Jian, as if she really wanted to reach out to touch it, but Chen Jian hurriedly stopped her and said, "Be careful, it will kick people."

It can be seen from the clothes that this girl must be a dignitary in the city, he doesn't want to have any accidents, it would be very bad if she was kicked.

The girl might be a little afraid of the kicking horse, she withdrew her hand as if touching a thorn, raised her head and asked: "People from Xiacheng, can you give me another one? I have a lot of good things, let's You can change it. Last time, the guy named Ji Song refused to change it, he said that the change must be approved by your leader Ji Xia. You have to ask the leader about such a trivial matter, so your leader is not good."

Chen Jian shook his head and smiled, "How do you say that?"

"My father said that a good leader cannot be in charge of everything in the city. Otherwise, if the leader is absent or sick, the whole city will be in chaos. A good leader must only take care of big things and ignore small things. of."

"Your Xiacheng is different. When Ji Song came last time, my father asked about your Xiacheng. As a result, everything has to be tied to your leader named Jixia, as if you Even how to dress and eat is controlled by the leader. I heard that he is not very old? But it sounds like my old grandmother who likes to chatter and cares about everything."

After these words, all the clansmen accompanying Chen Jian laughed. Chen Jian was quite helpless, and whispered: "I am Ji Xia. Didn't your father say that you are not allowed to say bad things about others behind their backs?"

The girl froze there, with her mouth slightly open, her face full of surprise and embarrassment, her eyes rolled for a long time and she said, "You are the leader of Xia City?"

"Correct."

"Then don't be angry. My father said that a good leader cannot be angry when others say him, otherwise he will never know what he did wrong."

She recalled what her father had said to herself, and added a few more words, but she was thinking in her heart: "Don't be angry, or you won't trade the horses for me..."

Chen Jian didn't know what the girl was thinking. After hearing these words, he felt a little admiration for the girl's father. Obviously, the girl should be the daughter of the chief of the city, so he asked, "It seems that your father, as the leader, must be very popular among the clansmen. Love it?"

"Of course, the people of the tribe all support my father as the leader. Don't worry, just ask my father how to be a leader. Maybe you will be loved by the tribe in a few years."

Chen Jian smiled and agreed: "Yes, I will ask your father more. I just happen to be going to your city and bring some gifts from Xiacheng. Will you go back together?"

When the girl heard Xia Cheng's gift, her spirits immediately brightened, and she remembered that when the man named Ji Song came here last time, he used a bronze mirror to exchange a lot of food.

It was not the clearest mirror the girl had ever seen, because the mirror she used in the past was the ripples in the pottery mirror. Although it was clear, it was far less convenient than the bronze mirror that could be hung on the wall and held in hand.

That time she heard a lot of interesting things about Xia City, such as the windmills that she really wanted to know but couldn’t imagine what they looked like, those white horned deer with big horns that could pull sleds in the snow, the kind that could pull a lot of windmills. A car that a person walks on flat ground...

From that time on, even though they had never seen Xiacheng and only heard about it, Xiacheng has become an unforgettable city in the hearts of playful girls who have not yet grown up.

Looking at the bulging bag of the person accompanying Chen Jianjian, the girl looked forward to it, but finally shook her head.

"No, I want to gather medicine here."

"Picking medicine? Is anyone sick?"

"My father. But it will be healed soon. If I hadn't been in the mood to talk to you a few days ago. The priest told me after divination that a medicinal herb would appear in this valley. As long as my father ate it, he would be cured. Is the divination right? It will be deceiving, I have seen auspicious omens. The priest said that the herb will bloom today, once it sees the moonlight, it will be reduced to ashes, and it will only be useful if it is picked by the hands of relatives, so I will wait here on."

Chen Jian naturally didn't believe in these divination nonsense, but it didn't break the girl's fantasy. Many cities are very fancy about divination, especially the clan with the surname of Yue this month observes the moon's waxing and waning. Maybe this city People in Yi believe more in ghosts, gods, heaven and earth.

However, from the girl's words, Chen Jian also got a piece of news, that is, the leader of this city is ill, maybe it's just a cold if he is lucky, but he can send some herbal medicine in case he survives, but it will be worse than any expensive gift. good.

Thinking beautifully, I bid farewell to the girl. When I got on the horse and was about to leave, a pungent smell of smoke wafted from a distance, and a moment later, a raging fire ignited in the yellow and dry distance...

Qiu Qing, no thunder.But there is fire.

Chapter 2 cold blood

In spring and autumn, when the vegetation is withered, it is the most terrible time for wildfires.Knowing the horror of fire, clans in this world have the custom of banning fire for one day on March [-]rd.

When the flame burned, it was mixed with thick smoke, and the tall grass that had lost its moisture rose into the sky with smoke and dust. At this time, there was no thunder, and the fire burned strangely.

Chen Jian glanced around, flames were burning from all directions, the autumn wind was strong, and the fire had already dyed the gray smoke in the sky red with the help of the wind.

A few people from the Yue clan turned around and were about to run away. The girl stomped her feet angrily before she ran away. After this fire, the medicine might not be available.

The people around Chen Jianjian were still staring at Chen Jian's order, and they didn't panic too much. However, the fire was a bit weird, and there was thick smoke in all directions. They were looking for a place where the smoke was sparse.

"Stop them and catch them back."

Chen Jian yelled, and the people around him immediately ran over and stopped in front of those people. They couldn't go around, so they turned around and shouted: "What are you going to do? Run quickly!"

"Run? Can you run through a wildfire? You can only be burned to death if you run around. Stay here. If you want to survive, just listen to me."

The girl hurriedly said: "Maybe you can get out if you run, but you will die if you stay here!"

"I said if you can't die, you can't die."

Either she lost her mind in the panic, or she also knew the fact that she couldn't run away from the wildfire, so she finally stopped trying to get around those horses.

Now that she has decided to stay, she is also a decisive person, without any nonsense, she shouted: "Then let's listen to this Xiacheng man. He definitely doesn't want to die, maybe there is a way."

Chen Jian jumped off the horse, judged the situation around him, spit out and tested the wind direction on his fingers, judged the speed of the fire spreading, pointed to the downwind direction and said: "Light the fire over there, hurry up, the more it burns, the faster it will burn." The wider the better."

This order is extremely strange, and the clansmen are quite puzzled. This is not trying to escape in the fire, but it is clearly disgusting that he died too slowly.

But those people in Xiacheng are used to obeying Chen Jian's orders, and their inherent thinking that is always correct makes these people stop thinking about it. A few people took out flints and burnt sackcloth from the package, wiped out sparks, and blew hard. Take a few bites.

Someone had already cut a pile of hay with a copper sword, turned it into small torches, lit them, and distributed them. Everything was in order.

When they were assigned to the members of the Yue clan, they looked at the girl suspiciously, and the girl gritted her teeth and said, "Listen to him, you can't run away now."

Dozens of people lined up and threw the torches on the grass at the same time. In a moment, the raging flames formed a line and spread rapidly.

When these people still didn't understand what was going on, Chen Jian jumped off his horse and shouted: "Follow me to the back, light the back too, stay here if you don't have a horse."

After running for a hundred steps, the air was already hot, Chen Jian threw down the torches, just like in the army, these people threw away the torches in unison, turned around thoughtfully and returned to the place that was only three or four hundred steps wide. Burning grass.

The fires on both sides were ignited, but a strange scene appeared, the flames on both sides seemed to be pushed by someone, instead of burning towards the place where they were standing, they rushed towards the already burning mountain fire in the distance. It was like a pair of wild geese who had been separated for a long time found each other and quickly hugged each other.

The temperature has not yet reached an unbearable level, and the space of three or four hundred steps plus the burned open space is enough to isolate the scorching heat so far.

Surrounded by scorched black land, only the place where these people stood was still yellow, as if the fire was afraid of the people here, the grass here was not green, and there was no water, but those terrible flames did not move toward them. Burn here.

The girl was stunned, and the people around her were also stunned. They thought it was a way to kill themselves, but it seemed that such a large open space appeared like a miracle.

The reason is actually very simple. The place where the flame is burning vigorously has high temperature and low pressure, and the air will blow there, igniting the flame around it, and the fire will automatically go to the place where the fire is vigorous, so as to burn the grass around it and leave enough space Living space.

But at this moment, in the eyes of the Yue clan, who believe in divination and sacrifice, it has a different meaning. Everyone's eyes are full of curiosity, and there is a bit of surprise that they escaped from death.

However, Chen Jian didn't take these surprises and curiosity into consideration. He tore off his clothes, took out his dagger, dug some moist soil on the ground, sandwiched it between two layers of cloth, covered his mouth and nose and shouted: "It's all like this. Get on the ground. Put the horse on the ground!"

The people of Xiacheng are naturally very obedient, but the people of the Yue clan do not hesitate to learn and behave. After passing through the two layers of fabric, the choking smell around them is really relieved a lot, and the choking people half-closed their eyes and burst into tears. With a rushing sound, several horses were frightened and rushed straight into the sea of ​​flames. The owner jumped up distressedly and wanted to chase these closest companions, but was caught by Chen Jian.

I don't know how long it took, the surrounding air is no longer as hot as before, and the choking smoke gradually dissipates. Everyone has a layer of dust on their bodies, and their faces are also dark. Only the places where the tears were choked remain There are two snow whites.

Chen Jian, who had been bored for a long time, threw down the cloth wrapped in wet soil, sat on the ground and panted heavily, and after recovering his breath, he shook his head and smiled wryly, "The clothes are broken, what should I do?"

Not only him, everyone's clothes were torn, and everyone was ashamed.Originally wanted to go to Moon City in an angry manner in Xianyi, but ended up like this.

The girl wiped the plaster on her face and said, "It's good if you survive, what are your clothes? Could it be that our Moon City can't even take out a single piece of clothes?"