Chapter 687: White-feathered Goose



"Ding ding dong, ding ding dong..."

In a corner of the courtyard of the Qingque tribe, the stonemason Mu Tou was squatting there, hammering non-stop with a hammer in one hand and a chisel in the other.

In front of him was a stone slab that was nearly two meters long, more than half a meter wide, and more than thirty centimeters thick.

The two sides of the stone slab are relatively flat, and there are some words written on it with a brush.

At this time, the wood is being chiseled slowly along the lines of the words with a chisel.

This job was much more difficult than his previous work of chiseling mortars, because it was a meticulous job that could not be sloppy.

Fortunately, patience was something that Wood had no shortage of. Although his chiseling frequency was not fast, he was able to chisel out quite a few words as he continued to work.

Three days passed with this clanging sound, and the Qingque tribe once again rang the gong to call for people to gather.

Amid the vibration of drums and the explosion of burning firecrackers, the large stone slab, which was finely carved from wood, was carried out of the tribe by several strong laborers and arrived outside the tribal gate.

A platform more than one meter long, more than half a meter wide and half a meter high has been built here using stones and cement.

A 40-centimeter-deep depression was left in the middle of the table.

With everyone's efforts, the lower part of the large stone slab was placed into the depression in the middle of the stone platform.

After the stone slab was straightened, someone immediately stuffed small stones into the gap between the stone slab and the stone platform.

After firmly supporting the stone slab with stones, we began to pour cement into it to firmly build the stone here.

A piece of red linen dyed with red vines is tied on the top of the stone, making the stone look festive and solemn.

Below the red cloth strip, which is the upper part of the large stone slab, three large characters were engraved: "Lian Zuo Fa".

Below are rows of small characters, all of which contain the content of the collective responsibility law.

At the bottom of the collective responsibility law are the big words "Established in August of the eighth year of Qingque".

On the back of the stone slab is engraved the Anti-False Accusation Law.

After the legislation is engraved on stone and placed where everyone can see it, the purpose is to increase the weight of these two things in people's minds.

At the same time, it also reminds everyone not to treat these two things as a joke and never forget them.

In front of everyone, Han Cheng pointed at the words on the stone tablet and read them out to everyone word by word with a serious expression.

"Remember this, if you commit this crime, don't expect me to show mercy!"

After reading it, Han Cheng reiterated to everyone.

None of the slaves said anything, but they all felt heavy in their hearts, as if these two rules, along with the large stone tablet engraved with them, were weighing on their hearts, and no one dared to disrespect them...

Junior Brother Sha brought his men, some newly harvested grain this year, and took the defector Meng back to Tongshan to continue the development of Tongshan.

The two new citizens, Tian and Jiao, stayed in the main tribe.

Firstly, because they already have citizenship, if they go again, the number of citizens in the Tongshan residential area will exceed what Han Cheng had previously imagined.

Secondly, if these two people stayed in the tribe, they would naturally be two excellent examples that could inspire the slaves of the Qingque tribe.

So when Junior Brother Sha left, Han Cheng selected three people from the slaves and asked Junior Brother Sha to take them to the Tongshan residential area. In this way, the fifteen slaves of Tongshan could form three groups.

With the departure of Junior Brother Sha and others, the turmoil caused by the escape of slaves gradually subsided in the Qingque tribe, and the life of the tribe returned to normal.

Autumn is a season of harvest and also a season for storing food.

At this time of year in the past, the people of the Qingque tribe would be concentrating on storing food in preparation for the cold winter.

But since they started farming, they no longer do this, because the largest batch of food had been brought into the tribe not long ago, filling many rooms.

With such a batch of food, everyone felt much more relaxed.

So while many tribes were cheering and gathering food in the autumn fields, a large part of the labor force of the Green Bird Tribe was still here continuing to build the wall.

As for picking fruits, most of the work is done by women who are not very strong, the elderly and minors.

Now it is much more convenient and faster for the people of the Qingque tribe to pick fruits, because the fruit trees planted around the tribe have grown up and many of them are full of fruits.

The original orchard has expanded a lot under Han Cheng's guidance and with Bugs Bunny as the gardener.

Many early planted fruit trees have begun to bear fruit at this time.

After being manually pruned, weeded, fertilized and watered, this old fruit tree gradually produced more and more fruits.

Under the clear sky, sometimes you can see some geese flying in neat formations in the sky.

It flew all the way, leaving behind loud calls along the way.

In the goose pen of the Qingque tribe, after hearing such sounds, one or two such calls would be heard from time to time in response.

Sometimes it is accompanied by some flapping wings.

But this is doomed to be a futile effort, because these guys' wings have been clipped.

By now, there are more than thirty geese in the goose pen of Qingque tribe.

Nearly two years of captive life have brought about some changes in these geese. The biggest change is that the gray feathers on the geese that hatched later are no longer as gray as those on the old geese.

Two of them even had some whiter feathers growing on their bodies.

It doesn't look very white when viewed alone, but it looks quite conspicuous when mixed with gray feathers.

Han Cheng didn't know why such changes occurred in the wild geese.

However, this change is undoubtedly a good one, and it is increasingly tending to transform into a big goose.

Moreover, these wild geese that have been raised in pens since birth are not very afraid of people. Even if they hear the noise made by the geese flying in the sky, they don’t react very strongly...

Huo Er was carrying a basket and picking fruits with the people in the tribe when the fragrance of the fruit trees wafted in the air.

Although Huo Er is old, he is still very strong.

She couldn't climb the tree to pick the fruits, but she could still pick them up with a basket.

Huo Er bent down and picked up a fruit that had been more than half eaten by birds. He wiped the dust off it with his hand, put it into his mouth and chewed it slowly.

The delicious juice in the fruit flowed into his mouth, bringing a smile to Huo Er's wrinkled old face.

She was old and had lived an extremely hard life, so compared to other people in the tribe, she cherished food more.

Even though the tribe no longer has any shortage of food, Huo Er is still reluctant to waste even a single cent.

She chewed the fruit slowly, and her cloudy eyes scanned the surrounding grass. She didn't want to miss a single fruit.

Not long after, Huo Er's eyes stopped at a place. In the grass on the hillside, two fallen fruits were faintly visible.

Huo Er spat out the fruit core in his mouth, put the basket on the ground, and then pulled some wormwood on the slope with his hands, moving up and down the slope tremblingly, slowly approaching the two fruits...


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