From Chief to Ball

Shi Shi could hear what Jian was chanting in the distance, and it sounded very smooth. He repeated it himself, as smooth as drinking honey, and the final sound was always similar to the previous sentence, which was not a mouthful.

It's probably saying thanks to the ancestors for their guidance, and thanks to the generosity of heaven and earth. Now the clansmen have settled here, and today is another good year, and I hope it will be the same next year.

Not long after, the drum sounded again, and the clansmen stood up one after another.After experiencing the solemnity just now, the whole place is quiet at this time, and everyone is integrated into this emotion.

"Thanks to our ancestors for guiding us to learn bows and arrows. We can capture prey and not be afraid of beasts."

Jian's voice came from a distance, and several people carried a prey made of fiber cloth, filled with grass leaves, as tall as a person, and looked like a wolf, a tiger, or something else.

The body is colorful, dyed with grass leaves and flowers of various colors, casting huge shadows in the sun.A circle was drawn on the forehead of this grass beast, which was dyed red with deer blood, which was even more frightening.

The women retreated to the two sides, and the men picked up their bows and arrows one after another, stood at a very far place, imitated Chen Jian's words, and saluted to the ancestor's flag.

There was a rope there, and people from the two tribes stood behind it. Shito felt that the distance was far away, and his tribe was not good at archery.

The men of the two tribes respectively used two kinds of arrows, one with black feathers and the other with white feathers, and shot towards the beast from both sides.

The women knew that the beast was made of blades of grass, but they still felt a little uncomfortable being oppressed by its huge body. At this time, seeing their brothers and sons drawing arrows to shoot one after another, they couldn't help but let out a burst of applause.

The pounding of the drum became more and more urgent, and the blood of the clansmen was also heated by the sound of the drum, and they shouted loudly, shouting and cheering for their elder brothers and sons or the men they liked.

Feathered arrows were shot on it row by row, and many people were shot away, and even an unlucky bird was shot down by the flying arrows, causing everyone to laugh.

In the end, when everyone had only a few feathered arrows left, the blood ring on the forehead of the grass beast was still not shot. The people shouted louder and louder, and the drums became more and more urgent, until someone shot In the middle, everyone shouted loudly.

The stone roared along with the atmosphere, and the rest of the people rushed into the field, and several of them lifted the wolf skin they had shot high.

The old grandmother called Shishi, and the two solemnly took out a long dagger made from wild boar teeth from a pottery box, which was given to them by Chen Jian. Hanging on the neck of the wolf skin.The dagger is engraved with simple blood patterns, and the tip is ground into a triangular shape. It is short but beautiful.

The clansmen carried the grass beast that was shot "dead", piled it in the bluestone circle that was arranged yesterday, and lit it with fire.

In the distance, another race was starting. Several people held wicker shields and stone axes hundreds of steps away, and with the sound of drums, they rushed towards another grass beast hundreds of steps away.

The clansmen have already gathered around, cheering for their favorite people...

Chapter 37 Communication

What should have been a dull and serious sacrifice was turned into a cheerful sports meeting.

Awe and awe, there is reverence and awe.As the old grandmother said, only the death in front of one's eyes can make a deep impression on people, and this is fear.However, people of the tribe now only respect their ancestors.

Because it is meaningless, it is more alive during the sacrifice. It is impossible to say that you have been living well, but it turned into a crying and howling prayer meeting during the sacrifice.

People who are devout in religion, a few are for heaven, and most are afraid of hell.Chen Jian didn't want to create a hell to frighten his tribe. He just hoped that his tribe would not look forward to the afterlife in this life.

He alone cannot come up with a complete set of laws and regulations, nor can he come up with a complete system.For example, the Mongol Yuan invaded Shenzhou Luchen in the previous life, and Zhu Ming wanted to learn from the Han, Tang and Song Dynasties after his recovery. However, the system was destroyed, and he could only grope between the lines in the classics.

The whole country is outstanding, but it is only a hundred years old to make a four-faced image out of the ruins, and there are still some foundations left before, let alone start from scratch now.

Now the sacrifice is just the beginning. After the land is reclaimed in the future, the most important sacrifice will naturally be before farming, and the various activities of the clansmen during the sacrifice must be preserved.

Turn the future sacrifice into a large-scale event in the cultural circle. When the gathering becomes a town and becomes a country, this kind of event will become a grand sports meeting and become a tradition.

This time the sacrificial activities are not lacking.Running, archery, stick fighting, javelin, tug-of-war, wrestling, etc. These sports people who originated from hunting and production are very skilled, and this is what they depend on for survival.

Women don't need to prepare for war, but they also have their favorite sports.Shuttlecock kicking, tree climbing, weaving wicker baskets, but only women watch when playing these, men prefer those things that are full of blood.

The man's reward is a pig's tooth dagger, and the woman's reward is a wreath and a horn comb.Pig-toothed daggers are okay, put flint on the pottery wheel, and let those who are in poor health or have disabled legs and feet grind slowly.

Horn combs are much more laborious than pig-tooth daggers, and are similar to diamond holes. They are cut with thread and fine sand, tied to wood to form a simple bow, and small teeth are carved on the horns with stone tools. , Two people cooperate with one to pour water and fine sand, and the other pulls back and forth, using the fine sand brought by the string to rub a tooth.

However, the hardness of the goat's horn is not too high. A few tribesmen who are in poor health grind out three handles in one day, and the distance between the teeth of the comb is slightly larger.

When the old grandmother gave the three crude combs to those women, it still attracted a lot of envy, and the women rubbed them in their hands one after another.

Without saying how to use it, the woman learned by herself, untied the braid and combed it smoothly, giggling.

It's just that this comb, like the amulet, is private, not public.The two races have lived together for so long, and the people of the clan have somewhat understood the concepts of private ownership, clan ownership, and common ownership from the race.

A few women were thinking about asking for a ram's horn next time, and asked Chen Jian to polish it himself. This is really a good thing.

And the three women wore flower garlands, and kept showing the combs to the rest of the tribe, or letting them comb their hair, and they would be proud to come back after using them, holding them tightly to prove that they belonged to them. of.

After this nondescript sacrifice was over, the old grandmother and Shi Shi took the knife and divided the food for the sacrifice, and each of them shared a little, which was counted as the blessing of the ancestors.

Chen Jian ate a piece of bacon, looked at the bustling crowd, and thought that he would have to work again tomorrow, so he simply had a good time today.

The best thing to add to the fun is wine. He had already prepared it when picking apricots. It was originally prepared to make vinegar, because one jar of apricot wine was drunk by two or three people, and one jar of vinegar was enough for three taels of food. sky.

He likes this lively feeling, seeing the people in the clan laughing and joking makes him happy too.

There is no need to be so serious, every living person is standing in front of himself, and he has already integrated into this society.

Looking at the changes that the tribesmen have made because of themselves, I feel both proud and gratified.Don't think about everything in the future for the time being, just think that this kind of days without intrigue and bloody fighting can last for a while.

Temporarily putting aside those depressive and heavy thoughts, Chen Jian led someone to carry the clay pot filled with a mixture of apricots and maple syrup, tore off the layer of thatch wrapped on it, and immediately overflowed with a burst of wine aroma.

Seeing the people of the clan being attracted by the taste, Chen Jian was also aroused by the glutton. He dipped a little bit of the wine with his hand. The taste of the wine was very light, sticky and turbid. This kind of undistilled wine can be drunk by the elderly and children.

A total of more than 40 jars were prepared before, and half of them were reserved for vinegar making, and the rest are all here.

For wine made from fruit and vinegar made from wine, what Chen Jian wants most is the yeast in the jar, the kind that ferments the fastest, and the strains in it are also the best.

After taking it out, make koji with tubers, fern root powder, etc., add the juice of these apricot wine, and put it in a dry place to ferment slowly.

In the future, steamed buns will also be useful, and delicious steamed buns have a lot to do with noodles or koji. The rest of the bacteria will produce different tastes and need to be improved from generation to generation.

Leave a piece of dough as a primer every time you leave the dough. If you start from scratch, it may take dozens or even hundreds of times before the steamed buns become soft, sweet and odorless, which proves that the yeast in the dough has formed.

The koji made of tubers and fern roots is already fermenting. I don't know if it can be improved when the peaches are ripe.

Anyway, it seems that the activity of the yeast in these apricot wines is not good, the conversion rate is not high, there are still bubbles inside, and the fermentation is not complete.There are also a few jars that are broken and covered with green mold.

The clansmen were all looking at him, wondering what he had done again.

"This is wine!"

He shouted loudly, the smell of fruit wine permeated the surroundings, and the strange aroma of ethyl fruit acid also echoed in the air.

After more than ten days of fermentation, the golden apricots are full of air bubbles, very cloudy, and some apricot flesh has not been completely decomposed.

It's not the perfect wine, but today is a perfect day.

Wine can be brewed again, but such a good day does not happen every day.

The people of the clan don't care about the impurities in it, this strange smell penetrates into their hearts, God knows why the ancestors take such good care of Jian, and always bring some good things to the people of the clan.

To filter impurities, just use grass blades.Back then, Duke Huan of Qi fought for hegemony and conquered Chu, and the reason he used was that Chu State did not pay tribute to the buds for filtering wine.Now there is no bud grass, and grass leaves can also make do.