From Chief to Ball
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Whether it is a better life or a higher family status, it is created by hands.The fingers of these women will be covered with traces of being strangled by the twine in the future, and perhaps even the fingernails will leave traces of being cut by the twine.But the bumps and wounds on these fingers will also be a glory of a woman, no less than the cocoon in the palm of a man.
At this time, the woman didn't know the pain she would experience in the future, so she laughed and brought a bundle of nettles with their leaves removed, and watched curiously as these hard-cut nettles were thrown into the retting pool.
The man jumped into the chest-deep water and held down the bales with stones so that the water would drown them.
All that is left to do is to wait, if the hemp is not retting, the dry skin on the top will stick to the fiber and cannot be torn off at all, and the twine is easy to break.
Retting hemp was not too difficult, and the clansmen finished it happily. Chen Jian looked at the pile of hemp submerged in water, but felt fear.
After more than ten days of decomposition, the water in these pools will smell worse than the smell of the old latrines. To describe it as disgusting is an insult to the retting pool. At that time, people like myself will have to jump down to clean the retting pool. Fish it up.
If you want to enjoy life, you have to endure some suffering. It is still possible to do these things in the early stages of struggle. Once the people of the clan have the concept of property and the differentiation between rich and poor, it will not be so easy for some people to jump into the retting pond .
At this time, men and women are laughing and laughing, which really has the meaning of the love song Chen Fengzhong in the Book of Songs: The pond at the east gate can be used for hemp.Bimei Shuji, you can meet and sing... Couples of men and women work together, sing love songs to each other during the break, and chat with each other. This is the basis of the relationship between ordinary men and women for a long time to come. Peer-to-peer dialogue on common topics and labor foundations.
In the twilight, Chen Jian was sitting by the river, watching men and women of two races with different surnames splashing water and fighting together. He didn't know when the jealousy and jealousy he was looking forward to between men and women would happen, so that he could do something in the future. a role model.
He said in his heart that he had prepared both the gourd and the wine, but he didn't know when the clansmen would be able to drink the first cup of Hebei wine. It would be more than ten years from now...
"Jian, come down and play!"
Several women from the tribe surnamed Shi shouted loudly and waved at him. Chen Jian shouted, "I don't want to move."
"Then you can play the flute, just play the one that goes back to the big river in our village."
Looking at the crowd, Chen Jian thought that it would be a pity to treat this song as a love song, so he sang a few times indiscriminately at the top of his voice.
"Little girl, you look so pretty. The tips of your fingers are like grass buds, your skin is as white as suet, your neck is as long as the horns of a beetle, and your teeth are like gourd seeds. Eyebrows like caterpillars, lotus flowers Pond-like eyes...the retting pond by the side of our village has rotted nettles and rotted stone mud, but when will I be able to rot your heart..."
The women below had never heard such a compliment. All the members of the tribe surnamed Shi blushed and looked straight at him.The elder sisters of their own family looked at the men of other families, and also hoped that they would sing such songs.Chen Jian didn't even have a tune, he just sang a few lines indiscriminately.
The later generations of the Book of Songs Fu Bixing, now let’s make a Bixing, and the people of the clan will sing more, and it will naturally be nice.Most of the Book of Songs are love songs and labor songs, which do not require professional poets, but are sung by people's feelings. These ordinary mountain people are the creators of culture.
The clansmen playing below imitated the pattern sung by Chen Jian, and started their own howls, mixed with various strange metaphors, or added a lot of foreshadowing before singing the theme.
The rudiment has a bit, that is, this metaphor makes Chen Jian's face red, and words such as mushrooms, pottery bowls and clams emerge in endlessly. It is such a phrase.
Amidst the laughter, Chen Jian half-lyed on the stone slab by the river, listening to the clansmen singing these melodious tunes, he felt that it was time for him to think about finding a woman.
In the Grass River, a birch bark boat was paddling down from the upper reaches. The civet cat sitting in the boat listened to the singing sound floating in the distance, and accelerated the paddling speed.
There were four of them, but he saw something upstream that he had never seen before. He was a little uneasy at this moment and wanted to tell Chen Jian quickly.
Chapter 5 Technical Communication
In the front yard of the house, the moxa smoke is thick, because it is approaching the beginning of the month, the moon is half round, and everyone's face can be seen clearly without a too high flame.
Of the four people who came back from the upper reaches of the Grass River, only three are sitting here.
After Hua discovered the tribe, she did act impulsively, so she was hit on the head with a stick by the raccoon cat, and now her head still hurts, so she was carried into the house by the tribe to sleep.
The clansmen gathered around and asked everything they wanted to know, all kinds of questions were messy, it sounded like a wolf cub ran into the nest of geese and geese again.
The old grandmother picked up the drumstick and knocked on the pottery drum and said, "Don't ask nonsense, let Jian ask."
Only then did the clansmen calm down, the civet cat was devouring the hot food, and when it heard the crowd quiet down, it swallowed hard.
"How many people are there in that tribe?"
The civet cat took out three small wooden sticks and said: "At least there are so many. We walked up the river and saw them on the bank of the grass river. They also live by the river."
"In the cave?"
"No, the houses they made of birch bark and wooden vines are a bit like an upside-down bowl. They are very small, and each house can only sleep one or two people, and it's not too high."
Speaking of this, the civet cat said with some fear: "Some of them look the same as us, but some of them seem to have four legs and are very tall. I can't see them clearly from a distance..."
When the originally quiet tribe heard this, they suddenly became confused. They couldn't figure out why there were four-legged people?
"Could you be mistaken? Is it some kind of beast?"
"No, although it is far away, I saw those four-legged people holding sticks in their hands. How can any beast hold a stick?"
During the chaotic debate, Chen Jian was also wondering what it meant.It is absolutely impossible to have four legs. So far, there is no sign of getting closer to the magical world. After thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly understood.
"Civet cat, did you see any strange big beasts there?"
"Yes, they keep those beasts like we raise sheep. The beasts are tall, as high as my shoulders, and wide, a lot."
Except for some older clansmen, few people have seen such a big beast, and asked one after another, "Do those beasts eat people?"
The civet cat shook its head and said, "Eating grass, I saw them eating grass."
Chen Jian frowned, wondering if it was a horse?If so, that would be great, it just saves the time of domestication, and these people who have just learned to ride and walk may not use horses to fight, at most they are used as a means of transportation.
There are only three to four hundred people in that tribe, and these horses are probably also eaten as meat.Before the appearance of stirrups, high bridge saddles and the like, with the current level of off-the-job training, it is impossible to have strong cavalry.It is a good thing that I have been looking for large animals!
But then what the civet cat said made Chen Jian confused again.
"Those beasts have horns on their heads."
He spread his fingers and said, "A horn like a finger is like a branch."
When Chen Jian heard that there were horns, he thought it was a cow, but when he looked at his fingers, he knew that it couldn't be a cow. He had never heard that a cow could grow such horns.
The clansmen imagined this beast taller than a child, imagining the branch-like horns.
It's still weird, but not as scary as before.According to their experience, any animal with horns must not eat meat, and meat eaters are too lazy to grow horns.
The civet cat tried to describe the appearance of this beast, but after talking for a long time, the people of the Tian clan were still confused, and they couldn't figure it out without seeing it with their own eyes.
"By the way, the people of that tribe are still drinking milk under those beasts just like little lambs."
Chen Jian hurriedly asked: "Do those female animals that can drink milk have horns on their heads?"
"No horns. Smaller than those that have horns."
The clansmen all looked at Chen Jian, hoping that Chen Jian would give an answer, but Chen Jian couldn't give an answer either.
There are many strange animals in this era. With human activities, many large animals became extinct.The ancient Indians killed all the horses in North America to eat meat, and the horse actually originated in North America, and it was not until thousands of years after the extinction that it returned to its hometown by boat; the Maori ate up the moa, which Even though a bird that is nearly two meters tall is terrifying and violent, it is still no match for a person who can use his brain.Celtic savages ate up the great-horned moose, only to recreate the horned creature in elf tales.
Now he is not sure what that tribe raised. He thought it was reindeer. Perhaps there may be a subspecies suitable for temperate regions in this era. This is the easiest deer to be domesticated. Both the Ewenki and the Laplanders in the previous life domesticated this kind of deer. species of deer.
If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, it's better not to draw conclusions, so you also shook your head.The matter of drinking milk is easy to explain. That tribe must not know how to milk cows, but they know that milk can be drunk through observation.
Chen Jian wanted to know more, so he asked, "Apart from these, is there anything strange about it?"
Tanuki looked around and made sure that Hua's younger brother was taking care of Hua who had a headache.
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