The morning wind was blowing, bringing with it a bit of coolness, making people unable to help but tighten their clothes.
The green bird flag was gently dancing in the air, driven by the wind, making some noise.
Han Cheng, who was wearing a backpack and leggings, turned his head and looked back.
In front of the tall wall of the Qingque tribe stood many people bidding farewell.
Among them, Xiao herself Xing'er and Little Wandou, who were standing next to Sister Bai Xue, were still waving their hands at.
Han Cheng waved at them vigorously, turned around, and continued walking forward with everyone.
The lucky general, who looked a little old, followed Han Cheng and walked in sync with him.
Having bred a large number of offspring, it has now become quiet and not as lively as before. Even when it is in the tribe, it no longer practices sparing with Uncle Deer when it has nothing to do as it used to.
Compared to the last trip, this time the team was much larger.
In addition to forty adult citizens, Han Cheng also brought sixty adult slaves.
Among these slaves, twenty were old slaves in the tribe, and the remaining forty were new slaves from the Blackrock Alliance who had joined the tribe a few months ago.
In addition, there were also twenty minors aged approximately eight years or above.
These minors can also do a lot of things.
For example, using fish cages to catch fish and shrimp, and using bamboo traps to catch loaches in swamps to help people get food.
No matter how Han Cheng promotes education in the tribe, one thing cannot be denied, that is, the current production level of the tribe is simply not able to support all minors to attend full-time classes.
While going to school, these children have to participate in labor. While mastering basic life skills, they also have to learn some techniques and delve as deeply as possible.
Except for a small number of people who can go further on the road of learning, more people will officially engage in various production and life activities of the tribe after finishing the fifth grade of elementary school.
Having been influenced and enlightened by Chinese and mathematics, they are more likely to achieve results in various production and life activities than the original people.
Learning is never the goal. The real purpose of learning is to master and understand something through learning and apply it to life, making life better and work more outstanding.
What you learn through learning can be some knowledge or some spirit.
That is why Han Cheng brought these twenty minors on this trip.
Of course, their studies will not be delayed. After arriving at the place, they will be taught personally by him, the principal of Qingque Primary School, which has just set up the framework and has been closed before the official school opening.
Compared with before, the composition of the citizens who came this time is also different.
Mao, the living map, and Junior Brother Sha, the archer, both followed him and went south with him again.
Maoer and two other people from the carpentry room were also in the team heading south, each carrying their tools.
In addition to them, there are several people who are good at making pottery and firing tiles, as well as two stonemasons who learned from the stonemason Mu Tou.
Compared with the last time, there are more technicians this time.
Of course, due to the limited number of people and the fact that many things cannot be professionalized, the Qingque tribe is still taking the path of universal military service.
These technicians also participate in training, but not as frequently.
Even so, when faced with a crisis, these people are still able to pick up their weapons and rush forward.
In addition, forty-eight donkeys and deer, the two main animals used for transportation, were also brought.
At the same time, they also brought 150 living sheep and some chickens with clipped wings from the tribe.
The chickens were going to be raised in Jinguan City.
As for this flock of sheep, Han Cheng also planned to raise them there.
Of course, bringing so many sheep at one time, besides keeping them alive, also has another use, which is to slaughter some of them for emergency use when food is insufficient.
Because of the dogs, deer, donkeys and a large flock of sheep, Han Cheng and his group looked a bit like the migration of a nomadic tribe.
Amid the bleating of lambs and the barking of dogs running around, Han Cheng and his group headed south.
The tall tribal wall behind them and the people standing in front of the wall were gradually left behind.
As the crowd walked, the sun gradually rose, the thin morning mist dissipated, and the fields on both sides of the road and the crops in the fields gradually disappeared, replaced by weeds and bushes...
The people who had been standing in front of the tribe's gate to see them off gradually dispersed, picked up their sickles, set up their donkey or deer carts, and carried wooden pitchforks to go to the fields to harvest and pull the crops.
Among them, the largest number of people were loading the harvested millet into neatly piles onto trucks and transporting it to the threshing grounds.
This is because there is moisture in the morning, which not only makes it easier to load the truck, but also prevents the grains from falling off.
Therefore, the millet that was harvested yesterday was not transported to the threshing floor.
In the threshing ground, some people pushed down the piles of millet with wooden forks, or pulled them down with rakes.
Then use wooden forks to push, spread small piles all over the place, and then shake them out.
These grains were piled together and fermented. When they were spread out, they were exposed to the sun and the wind, and they were easily "burned". When a donkey or a deer pulled a stone roller to roll them back and forth, many grains would fall off...
When Han Cheng and his companions left the tribe and headed south towards the second branch tribe, Jinguan City, while the people of the Qingque main tribe and the Tongshan residential area were working hard for the autumn harvest, in a place in the south, a group of people carrying animal skins and simple weapons left their cave halfway up the mountain and walked towards a place under the leadership of an older female primitive.
"#￥5RT..."
While walking, this older female primitive turned around and said something to the people in the tribe with a sense of excitement.
After she said this, many people in the team seemed excited. They also started talking in a loud voice. Some even stretched out their hands, opened their arms and tried to gesture out a large object.
Inspired by their actions, some people who seemed reluctant and worried about leaving the tribal cave gradually became happy.
In the cave behind them, people were coming in and out one after another, all dressed in the same way.
Most of them carried packages, or some fruits in fish cages, into the cave...
Mao, wearing rattan armor and holding a bronze short spear, was identifying the path there.
“Go from here!”
He greeted the people.
The path they were walking on now was no longer the same path they had taken when they first set out, but the corrected path they took when they returned.
After two or three months of growth, some grass had grown on the path they had opened up when they returned, and the path was blocked by some new branches.
However, the previous traces are still there, and it is relatively easy to identify unless there are sparse vegetation.
When passing by here, many people waved their sickles and hatchets to remove the branches and twigs that were blocking the road.
That's why the passage became wider after they passed through.
It becomes more conspicuous and also easier for people to pass through.
This is already the sixth day since Han Cheng and his companions left the tribe. They tried to walk as straight a line as possible heading south, and yesterday they had already left the Qingque Alliance's sphere of influence.
After walking for a few days, the minors in the team, who originally seemed cheerful and curious, were no longer as cheerful and curious as before, but instead seemed a little worried.
However, after seeing the flying blue bird flag and the Son of God walking in the team, their worries and fears about heading into an unknown territory also dissipated.
The Son of God and the Green Bird Flag are with us all. What is there to be afraid of?
Not to mention, the Son of God and his companions had already built some preliminary houses there, and also discovered delicious rice and sweet millet.
This time, I and others are going there to build it up together with the Son of God.
Not only do they need to build walls and houses, but they also need to open up fields there and plant delicious rice and sweet millet that can be used to make sugar around the tribe.
When the time comes, all you can see at a glance are edible rice and sweet millet stalks, just like the main tribe today, where you can see millet, soybeans and other crops everywhere.
After such thoughts and beautiful scenes emerged in their minds, these minors no longer felt uneasy. On the contrary, they couldn't wait to come to Jinguan City as soon as possible and devote themselves to the construction of the sub-tribe. They wanted to build the sub-tribe as soon as possible, just like when the Son of God and the chieftain built the main tribe in the beginning...
Going forward a little further in time, we arrive at Jinguan City where there is only one house left.
With the departure of Han Cheng and others, the place regained its former tranquility and peace, a peace that carried with it a sense of primitive vastness.
Various kinds of water birds are active in this swamp.
Some stood there motionless like old monks in meditation, some walked gracefully with their long legs, and some were singing loudly.
One or two of them supported themselves with one leg on the ground and stretched the other leg backward with all their strength. At the same time, the wings on that side also spread out, making them look like they were stretching.
"￥%6@3!"
It was in this atmosphere that shouting was heard from afar.
Some people appeared among the wild grass that was almost as high as their chests.
These people were wrapped in animal skins, holding some crude weapons and other miscellaneous items in their hands. They were the group of older female primitive people who had set out from the tribe a few days ago and were heading here.
At this time, the older female primitive who was walking in the front stood on tiptoe and stretched out her arms, pointing at the slave yard on the high ground in the distance, and shouted excitedly, with a bit of showing off in her excitement.
After all, this magical cave was discovered by her and her team, and they also explored its true function.
If it weren't for her, how could their tribe have gotten such a good cave to live in?
The rest of the people who followed also looked in the direction pointed by the older female primitive and saw the strange cave located on the high ground.
They had already received some information about the cave from the older female primitive people, and they looked at the strange cave from afar with curiosity and excitement.
Just as the older female primitives had said, this strange-looking cave belonged to their tribe.
For them, owning such a cave is undoubtedly a very happy thing.
Then, the next moment, there was a burst of excited shouts here.
Then these people waded through the weeds and waited for these things, running there in a hopping manner.
Such noise soon alarmed the birds that were quietly nesting here.
Soon, the sound of flapping wings was heard here, and large flocks of birds flew up from above the vast water area, like fast-moving clouds.
A few primitive men looked at the flock of birds flying overhead and couldn't help shouting loudly, and threw the sticks or stones in their hands with all their might.
However, such an action was obviously futile. He didn't even touch a bird feather, and the thing he threw in his hand fell weakly to the ground.
These people could only watch the birds swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva, mumble a few words, find the weapons that had just been thrown, and then continue along the shore and go downstream.
After arriving at the place where they had gone to the other side, they carefully went into the water, stepping on the mud and some plants growing on it, and headed towards the other side.
They couldn't wait to get into the strange-looking cave and take a closer look at the new cave belonging to their tribe.
Such a desire was so urgent that they didn't even notice the delicious little fruits growing in the water.
After a seemingly difficult journey, these people with mud on their legs arrived at the other side of the water.
After rubbing their muddy feet vigorously on the grass on the shore to remove most of the mud on their soles, these people, led by the older female primitive people, went directly to the strange-looking cave.
"#￥5@#D!"
After a while, these people with mud on their legs and animal skins wrapped around their bodies arrived in front of the slave yard of Jinguan City.
The closer you get, the more you can feel the size of this strange thing.
The cave where they lived before was halfway up the mountain, integrated into the mountain peak, and was actually larger than this slave compound.
But because it is connected to the mountain, it seems inconspicuous after comparison.
Now this house stands alone in a place where there is not much else. Without any mountains to set it off, it naturally looks tall.
This is actually the same as Mount Tai, the first of the Five Great Mountains. In terms of height and majesty, Mount Tai, which is on the third tier, cannot compare with many mountains on the first and second tiers, but with the surrounding flat terrain as a backdrop, it suddenly appears exceptionally tall.
Amid the astonishment of the crowd, the older female primitive walked forward.
Above the door knocker, the vines that were wrapped around it when they left last time were still wrapped around it as before, with no signs of having been touched, which made the older female primitive feel more reassured.
It seems that what she thought before was correct, this cave was abandoned.
Otherwise, why has so much time passed and no one from this tribe has returned?
She used her hands to untie the vines that were wrapped around it, then reached out and pushed the door open.
This makes the house look as terrifying as a giant beast with its mouth open.
Some people who came here for the first time and saw this scene couldn't help but clench their weapons tightly, with looks of fear on their faces, and were even ready to turn around and run away at any time.
But the older female primitive walked straight in, turned around, waved at them with a smile on her face, and asked them to come into this strange cave.
Seeing this scene, those who came here for the first time were all amazed and felt great respect for the courage of the older female primitive people.
However, what they didn't know was that the older female primitive who had her back to them also twisted her stomach hard with her hands without leaving any trace, then pushed open the door and walked in as if nothing had happened.
Led by the older female primitive people and led by others who had been here and entered this house before, these people entered one after another into this cave which looked extremely strange to them.
All kinds of new things followed, especially the monkeys from Mount Huaguo who had just entered the Water Curtain Cave.
Those who had been here before began to tell these people about their previous experiences, both verbally and with gestures. The man with the fish cage on his head even took many people to the room where the fish cage was found, and told everyone about the discovery of that magical, beautiful and useful thing.
After a lot of excitement, these people finally quieted down.
They placed the things they brought with them in places that looked good in this strange cave according to their own tastes, then took out the fruits and other things they brought and started eating.
After eating for a while and resting in the house for a while, these people, led by the older female primitive, walked out of the house, closed the door, and went towards the place they had walked before.
After wading through the mud and walking a distance along the road I had just walked, a field of grass with its head drooping appeared in front of me.
This grass is covered with small, tiny fruits.
So, at the call of the older female primitive, these people went down into the muddy water again and came to the edge of the water plants full of small fruits.
Some people spread out the animal skins they were holding, and pulled them with both hands, or with two people pulling them together, and caught them under the water plants.
Others hold the grass ears with both hands and pick off the small fruits on them or rub them off.
As their hands continued to move, the small fruits with shells fell down one after another.
Most of it fell on the stretched animal skin below, and a small part fell into the mud and water below.
Although these small fruits are ripe, some of them are still relatively firm. After they do this, most of them will fall off, but there will be a few left on the surface.
These people were obviously not doing these things for the first time, and their movements seemed very skilled, especially the older female primitives.
As they continued to move, the rice grains on the large field of rice were gradually removed and collected.
After they passed by, the place became a mess. There were no rice grains on the rice, and many rice stalks were trampled down and fell into the mud. The ones that stood there also looked rather crooked...
"#45@#!"
After filling up all the animal skins they brought with them, the older female primitive began to give orders again.
Under her command, these people carefully pulled up the animal skins, carefully wrapped up the rice stored on them, and then carried them downstream, crossing the water from their original place and coming to the slave courtyard in front of Jinguan City.
Following the instructions of the older female primitive people, some people began to pull out the weeds vigorously, cleared out a piece of open space in front of the house, and compacted it with their feet.
After finishing all this, the older female primitive took the lead in spreading out the animal-skin package she had brought over, and then pulled the edge of the animal-skin package upwards, and the rice that they had just taken from the rice stalks poured onto the ground.
Seeing this, the others followed the example of the older female primitive people and spread out the animal skin packages and poured the rice wrapped in them onto the open space they had just cleared.
After everyone did this, the older female primitives knelt on the ground and crawled on the ground.
As he crawled, he stretched out a hand and spread out small piles of rice.
"@34￥%!"
She did not finish this. After spreading out about half of the millet, she spoke and pointed at a primitive woman and the remaining rice.
So the female primitive imitated what she had done just now, and somewhat unskillfully spread out the remaining piles of millet with her hands, trying to spread them as evenly as possible.
After doing this for a while, the older female primitive people led these people out again, wading through the water from their original location, and after finding the aquatic plants, they continued to use the previous method to pick these small fruits.
By the evening, these people made two more trips back.
A lot of rice was piled up in front of the slave yard in Jinguan City.
"Chichi~Chichi~"
As the sky gradually darkened, some people began to squat there and drill wood to make fire.
While he was drilling wood to make fire, the older female primitive brought some people to gather the rice that was drying outside, covered it with animal skins, and pressed stones on top of the skins.
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