From Chief to Ball

The priest prayed for the guidance of the gods, and thought of the legend of the village: walk along the river to the direction of the rising sun, until you see a red fish jumping up, as if to cross the rainbow, that is the place protected by the gods, and you can settle down place.

So the two children followed the tribe and migrated towards the place where the sun rose. Every time they reached a river, they would burn the trees and drop the seeds.

After a few years, God will give up this land, and the dropped seeds will no longer grow luxuriantly, and the water will wash away the soil above, and the originally clear stream will become muddy every time it rains, so they head east again.

Time flies, and the two children have grown up.

One is strong and cunning, as tough as a badger; the other is smart and wise, succeeding the previous priest as the Red Fish.

Until twenty full moons ago, when these people were migrating eastward along the emerald river, a heavy rain suddenly fell, and the two horned deer ran away in the thunder.

When the people of the After the Rain tribe went to look for the two horned deer, they were surprised to find a huge red fish jumping out of the river, as if it was about to jump over the rainbow in the distant sky.

At that moment, no matter it was the badger, the red fish, or all the clansmen fell to their knees, they knew that the god had once again protected them, and this would be the land where they could settle down, and they could finally end their decades of migration.

So a small village was built in this way. There were a lot of seeds harvested last time. The land here is fertile and the weather is good. There are more horned deer and sheep, and there are countless oak trees on the mountain in autumn. It is to show his protection, the mountains are full of acorns and wild fruits...

Both Red Fish and Badger knew that whether it was the shooting star when they were born or the scene they saw this time, as long as the clansmen stabilized, their names would be remembered forever by the clansmen just like those ancestors who invented everything. legend.

More seeds were sprinkled this year, and more people are needed to harvest. Since they are not migrating, Red Fish and Badger decided to build a wooden fence nearby after discussing it.

On the way of riding a horned deer to hunt, Badger and his tribe found smoke in the distance. The tribe was small in number, so they rushed in and killed the old people and children, and brought back those who could still work.

Anyway, God is protecting them, and the countless acorns and wild fruits are enough for these people to live until next year. Let these people do the work of cutting wood and erecting fences, and harvest the seeds after they are ripe.

The success this time has stabilized Badger's position and made the tribe more convinced that this is a land bestowed by gods.

So a red fish was drawn with ocher on a large rock in the village, and the two young women were sacrificed to the god.

Badger is a good hunter, he knows how to kill the enemy, but he does not know how to tame the enemy.So he went to ask Red Fish for advice.

Redfish smiled and told Badger: "Just distinguish between fear and anger."

Still puzzled by Badger, Redfish had killed a man in front of his captives, with hatred and fear in his eyes.

As she thought, those people who showed fear spread their hair and smeared the blood of their clansmen on themselves.

The few women and men selected are for the consideration of the future heirs of the tribe, and also to understand what that "jian" is.

Now men are learning to glue feathers to their arrows and learn to draw bows in a better way, while women are passing those snatched clay pots, wondering why they are so round.

Their clay pots are all made by hand, they are very small and ugly. For people of this era, symmetry is the best beauty. This pottery pot gave women infinite reverie.Even the wisest red fish among them could not explain this question.

Red Fish remembered that last night when the clansmen boiled the seeds in small earthenware bowls, those surrendered people compared their hands and made a huge meaning, and mentioned "jian" again. Red Fish understood, that clan has a A huge clay pot.

The jars of the tribe are very small. She tried to make bigger ones, but it didn't work at all, and they would crack after a little exposure.

Small pots have their own way. She thought of building a ditch with soil on the ground, covering it with soil, and leaving a hole every other pot.When making a fire, the fire goes through the mud flue, and rows of small clay pots made by hand are placed side by side on it, which can also save time, but after all, it is not as convenient as the big clay pots.

"How did that man named Jian make such a big clay pot?"

She stared at the crooked pottery pots of her own people, then at the round pottery pot that she snatched, and fell into deep thought.

When he was meditating, Badger didn't dare to disturb him. After a long time, Red Fish raised his head and said to the people, "This land was given to us by God, only we should live here, and only we should be blessed by God. That Someone named Jian took what was supposed to be ours."

She pointed to the stone painted with ocher red fish not far away, and the clansmen saw the scene of the fish jumping over the rainbow with their own eyes, and never doubted it.

"Do you want clay pots like this?"

She held the clay pot and asked loudly, and the clansmen shouted in unison.

"Then find them, plunder the man named Jian, or plunder the pottery-burning people in their tribe, there will always be people who are afraid of death, and their fear will return these things that were originally given to us by God. Give us!"

Badger nodded. He also wanted to know what that man named Jian looked like, but he didn't know where that tribe was.

Red Fish smiled again, she knew that pottery needed water, and that braided hair looked good, but to see her own beauty, she needed water.

But she would not tell all this to her tribe, she only said that it was a revelation from heaven, and she said with certainty that they were on the bank of the river.

Badger selected a few tribesmen to ride horned deer and search for the tribe along the river to see how many people there were and what it looked like.

Five of the best hunters set off, armed with bows and arrows, carrying flints, and fastened to antlers with canes for riding, and set off down the river.

Red Fish was thinking, if it was a small tribe, they would have to be wiped out.Because she felt a little scary, such a tribe was like a little tiger, one day it would grow up, and when it grew up, her tribe might have to migrate again.And she was tired of migratory life.

Even though she was smart, she would not know that a natural disaster decades ago caused two tribes who were originally far apart to start migrating in different ways, until they collided together in this blank place decades later .

Not to mention that the meteor that happened when she was born also brought changes to another distant tribe.

This is just by chance.

Chapter 7 Beekeeping and Thinking

The mighty force of nature independent of human will will inadvertently affect the progress of civilization for a long time.

Maybe a certain warm and humid time will make the originally weak plateau people rise; maybe a certain cold and drought will make an empire fall apart.

The progress of human civilization is to minimize the impact of this accident, and the beginning of progress is thinking.

Chen Jian didn't know that the tribe in the distance had also sent scouts, so he was spending time trying to teach the tribe to think.

On the last ten-week holiday of Taoyue, he led his tribe and carried beehives to catch bees.

Because the nearby wild bees have been basically wiped out by the tribe, they can only go further afield.

Bored on the way, he picked up a wild pea that fell on the ground, pointed at the navel of the pea with a smile, and asked the tribe as a joke: "You said that when we plant this in the future, its belly button will face upwards. Is it? Or down?"

"Of course they are facing upwards. You can see that their leaves are all upwards. You need leaves to grow!"

"Of course they are facing downwards. You can see that their roots are all downwards. They need roots to grow."

The two groups took it for granted that they argued, and they both felt that what they said made sense, and neither could convince the other.

At the end of the debate, the question was kicked back to Chen Jianjian.

"Jian, do you mean up or down?"

Chen Jian spread his hands and said, "I don't know either. How about this, our argument is fruitless, and we will try it later when we plant. What should we do if we lose?"

These people all felt that what they were thinking must be right, and they all shouted: "Whoever loses will help win the land by three hundred steps more."

"Okay then, pick up some seeds and take them home, Yu Qianer, remember who says up and who says down."

"Eh."

Yu Qian'er wrote it down carefully, and quietly ran to Chen Jian's ear and said, "Brother, you must know, don't you?"

Chen Jian smiled and said, "Then you said it is up or down?"