Chapter 145 Where did they go? (Please vote and subscribe)

The pregnant women holding their children in the cave had just walked out of the cave, and the dozens of women at the bottom of the mountain also ran up, followed by a group of Han tribe warriors.

"Sisters, we can go, we can leave the Fire Tribe. The boys who were captured before have brought other tribes to rescue us." A woman who just ran up said.

"Really? Did those boys bring people? Which tribe did they call people from? What is that tribe like? Will they treat us the same as the Fire Tribe?" The pregnant woman holding her child in the cave asked.

"They said that the Fire Chief took them to fight a tribe called 'Han' a few days ago, and that the Han tribe defeated them. They also said that the Fire Chief had been killed by the Han tribe, and the dozens of men at the bottom of the mountain were just killed by them. Now there are no men in the Fire Tribe, we don't have to stay in the cave anymore, we can join the Han tribe." The woman who just ran up continued.

While the two were talking, Shu Da also came up with the group of warriors holding spears, including dozens of young men from the Fire Tribe.

Shu Da said to the boy who had begged Luo Chong to save his sister: "Tell these women that we can take them to our Han tribe. Our Han tribe will not lock them up, and there is food for them to eat. They can work and live like the women in our tribe. We will not kill children. Let them follow us tomorrow."

"Yes, captain, I know, I will definitely let them follow us." The boy nodded and promised, and then began to call his sister in the crowd.

Other boys also looked for their captured relatives in the crowd. After finding them, they cried to each other again, and then those boys promoted them in the crowd to join the Han tribe. The

women also asked about the situation of the Han tribe, how many men there were in the Han tribe, how much food there was, whether it was enough for so many people, what work the Han tribe did every day, whether they would bully women, etc.

When they learned from the boys that the Han tribe could make many containers for holding water, there was endless white salt, they could also raise animals, and even wild beasts to help with work, and women did not have to be locked up to give birth to children. Everyone had their own things to do, they immediately agreed to join the Han tribe.

Even though they knew that the Han tribe was seven days away from here, they still gritted their teeth and nodded in agreement. They had to go no matter how far it was. The women made up their minds.

Seeing the women nodding and agreeing to go together, Shouya walked to the side of Shuda.

"Captain, what are our plans next? It's not easy to take so many people with you."

Shuda looked at the pregnant women and more than 700 young children, and was in a dilemma. How could they take them with them?

"Well, I think we should clean up and see if there is anything we can take away. Search the Fire Tribe for any animal skins and food. Also, see if there are any baskets or other things that can be used to carry things. If it doesn't work, we can carry a basket to help them take care of the children. Oh, it would be great if there were a few ox carts. Ox carts can hold more things." Shuda said worriedly.

"Okay, let's go search for things first." Shouya could only nod in response. He didn't have any good ideas.

The warriors of the Han tribe, together with some working women of the Fire tribe, turned their settlement upside down. All the usable animal skins, some dried meat, and even the fire rats in the ponds of the Fire tribe were burned to death and became their dry food on the road.

The next morning, Shu Da and his men cremated the two dead boys in the dismantled thatched house, and then returned home with more than 1,200 women and children. Among

these 1,200 people, more than 470 were adult women, of which nearly 300 were pregnant, and the rest were children.

Many people wrapped their children in animal skins and tied them to their bodies with ropes and vines. Some people carried their children directly. The warriors of the Han tribe also helped to carry some children on their backs. Each person carried one or two children, and that was enough. It was impossible to expect these two or three-year-old children to walk for seven days by themselves.

The large baskets they found were placed on the backs of the horned deer. The dried meat and animal skins were all carried by ten horned deer. Shu Da and his men also carried their children on their backs and walked. With these horned deer, they had somewhat reduced their burden.

A long line of people began to return to the Han tribe. The residence of the Fire Tribe behind them had turned into a sea of ​​fire, completely annihilated in the flames they worshipped.

At the same time, in the Han tribe, as soon as it was dawn, Da Shu set off with 20 people arranged by Luo Chong. Ten of them rowed the small wooden boat upstream, and Da Shu took the remaining ten people riding on horned deer, leading cattle, and driving ox carts directly across the bridge to take the land route.

The ox carts were also loaded with mining tools, empty pottery mills for road construction, and several wooden barrels for water.

The newly built three-meter-wide small bridge was very solid. Two oxen pulled the oxcart with so many things on it without any problem.

Dashu would lead the team to find a relatively flat and wide "road", and mark the road. Then, every time they passed by, they would let the oxen pull the pottery roller to press it several times. If there were potholes, they would dig some stones and soil from the side to pad them, and then press it again next time.

In fact, the best material for road construction is the slag left after smelting metals. Unfortunately, the metal output of the Han tribe is too low, and there is not so much slag to use for road construction. They can only use this "natural" dirt road, but such a dirt road is not easy to maintain. Even if it is pressed several times, it will probably turn into mud after a heavy rain.

Dashu and his team went north along the river bank on the east bank of the stream, and did not continue to go east to the Black Rat Tribe, which was completely abandoned.

However, just because Dashu and his team did not go, it did not mean that others would not go. The Li tribe, the former neighbor of the Black Rat Tribe, wanted to find the Black Rat Tribe today.

Last winter, the Li tribe traded a few pottery pots with the Black Rat tribe and learned how to cook. They soon fell in love with this way of eating, which was much better than eating dry barbecue all day long. However, they only exchanged a few pottery pots. The total population of the Li tribe was over 200. How could such a few pottery pots be enough? So the Li tribe decided to exchange some more.

At dawn, Mao Li, the leader of the Li tribe, led the hunting team and a few young girls to the Black Rat tribe's residence. They needed to walk a whole day and estimated that they would be there before sunset in the evening.

But when they finally arrived at the Black Rat tribe's residence, they found that everything had changed and it was a mess.

It was not quite right to say that the house was empty. The tents of the Black Rat tribe had long been dismantled and used as firewood to burn corpses. There was only a piece of black charcoal and some burnt human bones left on the open space of the residence.

Mao Li held a human bone and looked around blankly. This was burned a long time ago, so where did the Black Rat Tribe go? Even if they were attacked by the enemy, they must not have all died, otherwise no one would help them burn the bodies. So there is only one possibility, the Black Rat Tribe was attacked by the enemy and then moved.

Where did they go?

(End of this chapter)