Chapter 77 After a moment's thought, Cang Li...
After a moment's thought, Cang Li decided to proceed. She didn't know much about the male-female relationships among humans, but she was well aware that if these children didn't know who their parents were when they grew up, it could easily lead to inbreeding, resulting in deformed children and genetic diseases.
She doesn't believe that cultivating immortality can avoid this problem. No matter how much one cultivates immortality, the body is still a carbon-based organism and follows the laws of heredity.
A-Yue and Da-Gang gave her a reason.
After saying goodbye to the two, Cang Li hurriedly returned to the cave to devise a preliminary plan.
Xuan Du was practicing swordsmanship with Ji, Jie, Zhong, and Yu. When they saw Cang Li return, they all stopped to greet him.
Cang Li nodded casually, sat down on the steps, took out a large wooden board, and began to draw with a charcoal pencil.
First of all, it is not necessary to force everyone to marry a man and a woman.
Secondly, adhering to the principle of voluntariness, those who do not get along well can separate, while those who wish to form a marital relationship can become husband and wife under the witness of heaven and earth and live together.
Finally, and most importantly, it is essential to know who the child's father is. The child lives with the mother, and the father has an obligation to share a part of the child's life.
The key point of these three points is that once a woman becomes pregnant, she must clearly tell the child who the father is. This is to prevent half-siblings from marrying without their knowledge, which would be against human ethics.
Therefore, in summary, clarifying kinship is the most important factor.
Since there are no kinship or blood ties between people of the same generation, marriage between cousins can be ruled out.
The second generation also needs to find a way to clarify various kinship relationships, and children born to sisters cannot live together.
Cang Li was a bit bald, so he simply drew a kinship chart, marking the relationships of address, intending to educate his clansmen.
So, during everyone's free time, after dinner, while it was still light, Cang Li summoned the leaders of various tribes to attend a class.
The tribal leaders were still somewhat confused, not knowing what Cangli was up to.
When Cang Li saw that everyone had arrived, and more and more clansmen were following behind to join in the fun, he cleared his throat and used his amplification technique to ensure that his voice could reach everyone's ears.
"Everyone, I'm here today because there's something important I need to tell you."
“There are many more children in our clan now. Although they are still young, they will be adults in about fifteen years. Then we must prevent blood relatives from getting married.”
"It means that children who are related by blood, sharing the same mother or the same father, cannot have children together!"
"Children of the same mother cannot have children together!"
Cang Li spoke simply and clearly, emphasizing that blood relatives cannot be together. Everyone who came to listen understood, but some had some doubts.
"Great Chief, why?"
Cang Li scratched his head: "This is against human ethics. Besides, children born to blood relatives cannot survive. They will be crippled or missing limbs. In short, they cannot be together!"
"Then, Great Chief, how do we know who is related to whom by blood?"
Cang Li became serious and pushed up his non-existent glasses: "That's a very good question! So, I'm going to explain the following things."
"First of all, there is no doubt that children stay with their mothers after birth. Mothers carry their babies for ten months and go through the hardship of giving birth to their children. It would be unreasonable to separate mothers from their children."
Everyone agrees with this point; nowadays, human children all stay with their mothers, and who the father is is not important.
Cang Li continued:
"Secondly, find out who the child's father is. I know that a large portion of you have a stable partner. People with stable partners can be sure that the child's parents are themselves, so there's no need to worry about that."
"The people who need to be worried are those without a steady partner. I'm not asking you to have a steady partner, but rather to let you know who your child's father is. Once the child is old enough to remember, tell them who their father is to avoid confusion about who the father is, which could lead to issues of blood relations."
Four-Leaf scratched her head and said:
"But sometimes we can't figure out who the father of the child is either."
Cang Li is stuck, which is indeed a problem. Is there any way to calculate the date of pregnancy now? Everyone only finds out they are pregnant when their belly gets big.
After hesitating for a moment, Cang Li finally said:
"Then count all those who have been married as fathers of the children!"
We'll start with a simple and straightforward classification. As the second generation of humans grows up, these common-sense rules will gradually be memorized by the human race.
Nini and Amu immediately nodded: "Okay! Chief, don't worry, we'll go back and explain everything to our people. What you said will definitely not happen."
Yotsuba then said, "Big Boss, don't people with steady partners need to remember these things?"
Cang Li thought for a moment and said, "If people with a fixed partner are sure that they want to be with the person next to them for life, they can be married under the witness of heaven and earth, and I will preside over the ceremony. In this way, their relationship will be stable and reliable, and they can support each other, live together and raise children. If they have conflicts in the future and do not want to be together anymore, they can be separated by everyone's witness and should not disturb each other."
The word "couple" intrigues everyone. Does a man and a woman coming together constitute a couple?
Cang Li said: "The word 'husband and wife' specifically refers to a monogamous relationship where the couple has a deep affection for each other and decides to stay together. They will never have children with other people. If they become husband and wife, then the man and woman must respect and love each other, never deceive each other, and they cannot have relationships or have children with people other than their spouse. It is an absolutely loyal relationship."
"Therefore, if you want to get married, you must think it over carefully and not treat marriage as a game. I strongly oppose either party having an intimate relationship with someone outside the marriage while the marriage is still in effect."
Cang Li spoke these words with a serious tone, and everyone fell into deep thought.
It was A-Yue and Da-Gang who were the first to stand up hand in hand and say:
"Great Chief, we've made up our minds. We want to be together forever. We want to get married!"
Cang Li laughed and nodded, saying:
"Alright, if you've made your decision and have no intention of changing it in the near future, tomorrow I will announce it to heaven and earth, and let you become husband and wife in the presence of everyone!"
A-Yue and Da-Gang smiled at each other. They didn't understand marriage or love, but they knew that they would be happy when they were together and miss each other when they were apart. They hoped to be together every moment and have many children!
The simple generation believes that the proof of love is the willingness to have many children with each other and raise them together.
Xuandu watched the whole thing, but as a young cultivator devoted to the Dao, he didn't really understand these things.
After the meeting, Cang Li pondered what should be used as a witness to their marriage.
Cang Li quickly thought of the red embroidered ball in her mother's hand. It was a divine artifact that had witnessed the first marriage in the prehistoric world. She wondered if her mother would give it to her if she asked for it.
The next day, Cang Li set up an altar, laid out fruits, and wrote a marriage certificate from memory to announce to heaven and earth, and held a wedding for A Yue and Da Gang.
As the wedding was nearing completion, a red light flew swiftly from the horizon, hovering above the altar. A red thread was drawn from it and tied to the wrists of A-Yue and Da-Gang, thus concluding the first wedding of the human race.
Cang Li was stunned for a moment, then reached out and took the red embroidered ball in his hand. Nuwa's voice came from the red embroidered ball.
"I suddenly have a feeling that this red embroidered ball is a magic treasure for marriage, bestowed upon the human race to bring you together in a blessed union."
Cang Li laughed and said loudly, "Thank you, Mom!"
The human race also heard Nuwa's voice and exclaimed loudly, "Thank you, Mother Goddess!"
The humans sang and danced, celebrating the joyous occasion with lights illuminating the night.
After attending this ordinary yet lively wedding, Xuan Du prepared to return home, but before heading back to Kunlun Mountain, he still wanted to resolve the confusion in his heart.
So Xuandu found the newlywed couple, A Yue and Da Gang.
Why did you decide to get married?
Xuandu stated his purpose directly: he wanted to understand this issue and believed that it was also a form of cultivation.
A-Yue and Da-Gang looked at each other, and A-Yue smiled and said:
"Master Xuandu, why are you asking this?"
Xuan Du smiled sheepishly: "I'm just curious about this."
A-Yue said, "We can't really explain it, but we both feel very sad if we are separated. I don't want to be with other people, and Da-Gang doesn't want to leave me either. We work together every day, raise children together, and sleep together. Once we are separated, we will miss each other."
"This longing is like an illness, it's so painful. We wish we could be together all the time, so when the chief mentioned it, we decided to get married. Maybe this is what the chief was talking about as love? Anyway, we don't really understand it, we just want to be together and have children together!"
Xuan Du nodded absentmindedly and slowly walked back, thinking as he went.
So what exactly is going on between his master and the Great Chief? It's hard to say whether the two want to be together all the time, since the Great Chief is in the human race and his master is in Kunlun, which are thousands of miles apart.
If we're talking about not wanting to be together all the time, then his master did indeed act strangely after returning from the human realm. This strangeness disappeared after seeing the gift from the Great Chief, and then the Great Chief personally went to Kunlun Mountain, and his master returned to normal.
Xuandu would never believe there was nothing wrong here, so is it really a relationship like that of a married couple?
Xuan Du scratched his head, utterly perplexed. He was at his wit's end but dared not ask the person involved. He could only sigh and bid farewell to Cang Li before returning to Kunlun Mountain.
Cang Li found it strange that Xuan Du seemed so preoccupied. Could it be that he was worried about not having anyone to do things for the Daoist after being away for a few days?
Who cares? Cang Li dismissed the chaotic thoughts. She was busy and didn't have time to think about so much.
Summer has just ended, and it's still very hot. Cang Li instructed the people of each tribe to work in the morning and evening, and to hide in the shade when the sun is too strong at noon to avoid getting heatstroke.
Many children were playing in the shallows of the river. Cang Li instructed the adults to watch the children and prevent them from drowning. He also fenced off a fairly large area in the shallows for the children to play in.
At this moment, Nini found Cangli and asked:
"Great Chief, what should we do with those people that Master Xuandu sent back before?" Jin Yi and his group had been back for half a year, and Cang Li had not mentioned any arrangements for them. Nini finally couldn't help but ask.
Jin and the others are easy to deal with; they're all human, so they can just go back to their original tribes.
The children were a different story. Although they looked similar, once they were cleaned, it became clear that they were distinctly different from humans. Human children didn't play with them much, so Nini didn't know what to do and had to ask Cangli for help.
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