In the largest cave on the mountainside, Wu, supported by two girls, stood waiting at the entrance of the cave with a wooden staff longer than his body.
After a winter, the witch seems to have become older.
Her rickety body could hardly be straightened. Although it was already March and the climate was already relatively hot, she was still covered with the animal skin that mopped the floor. There was an ancient and aged air on her withered face, as if
Life can disappear at any time.
Hearing the voices of people talking on the mountain road, Wu's face felt a little more relaxed. When she saw Mu Ba and a group of Ba people, especially Xu Chen who was among the crowd talking and laughing with Long and others.
At that time, my sunken and cloudy eyes suddenly became much brighter.
In the past six months, the Uu tribe has almost remained the same, but according to the news brought back by the tribesmen who went to exchange goods and work as hired workers, the Ba tribe has undergone rapid changes, which can only be described as earth-shaking.
Especially the kind of big house that the tribesmen described that can accommodate many people.
What are wall bases, mud bricks, walls, beams, doors, windows, roofs, beds, and yards are all new words that cannot be understood by a group of people just by simple gestures.
However, although she listened in a daze and could not imagine what the house looked like, it did not prevent him from knowing through the expressions of excitement and admiration of the tribesmen and the excitement of each Chenga that he knew that all the changes in the Ba tribe were still the same as this one.
Related to the boy named Chen.
No one has ever thought about moving from the mountains to the mountains, because it is a huge challenge for the survival and safety of the ethnic group.
Human beings have lived in caves for generations.
However, as the Uzbek tribe becomes more and more powerful and the population increases, there are no longer enough caves in this valley to accommodate all the tribesmen. Opening up new territories is a very urgent issue at the moment.
The so-called survival territory, for primitive people, is not food, but a place of residence.
Compared with starving due to lack of food, the residential security of the ethnic group is more important.
Only when there is a safe enough residence and habitat can we talk about reproduction and development. Otherwise, we can only lead our people to wander in the wild to survive.
The price of wandering is death.
It is said that the ancestors of the Wu tribe wandered from a distant place. The tribe almost died before they finally found this valley full of caves as their habitat. After countless years of reproduction, they finally established a firm foothold and slowly grew stronger.
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The reason why the ancestors of the Wu people left their habitat to survive in the cave is very unclear. According to the patterns left by the ancestors in the cave, it seems that it was because they angered the gods and sent down their wrath. The earth shook and the mountains shook, and fire descended on the world. The whole earth was plunged into a sea of fire.
, burned down the home where they had lived for generations, and they were forced to wander.
Nowadays, the Wu tribe has grown strong enough, but the valley chosen by their ancestors has also reached the point of being overwhelmed, and all the caves are crowded with people.
This forces the Uzbek people to expand their living space to the surrounding areas and find more safe habitats.
This is also the reason why many Uzbek people want to annex the Ba people.
Otherwise, there will be more and more conflicts within the Uzbek people, and they will become bigger and bigger.
This is an extremely real problem, and the Great Witch naturally knows it very well, but she is also worried that once the Uzbek tribe annexes the Ba tribe, and several other small tribes break away from the tribal alliance in fear, then the Uzbek tribe will be even more vulnerable to threats from the downstream.
A single tree cannot support itself.
Therefore, after she heard that the Ba people built a large courtyard at the foot of the mountain and dozens of people moved to live at the foot of the mountain, Dawu felt that the problem she was most worried about suddenly had a different solution.
If the Uzbek people can build a large number of houses like the Ba people at the foot of the mountain, then the core problem of the Uzbek people's survival will be completely solved.
As for food, as long as men and women work harder, this valley and the river beach outside are enough to feed everyone.
Especially now that we have clay pots and we have learned how to weave nets for fishing from the Ba people.
It can be said that food, second only to the problem of housing, has also been greatly improved.
She has also eaten fish balls and sashimi, which are indeed soft, tender and smooth.
Although the method does not seem complicated, in the eyes of the great wizard, if he did not have strong wisdom, he would never have imagined that fish could be eaten like this.
Although she has never tasted the sashimi marinated in fruit wine, which a group of Ba people who came back from working as hired workers talked eloquently about how delicious it was.
But he believed that everyone was not lying.
The magic of morning was far beyond her understanding and imagination.
Because of this, after the people of the Ba tribe finished talking about the house of the Ba tribe, the great witch immediately summoned the heads of the U tribe and the leaders of each tribe to discuss and start building a house at the foot of the mountain.
Although most of the tribal leaders still have various doubts, including the fact that the clan leader is not in favor of living under the mountain, they can only express their support at the insistence of the great witch. Each cave arranges for a few young and strong men to participate in this historical event of the Uzbek people.
The largest construction project since then, under the leadership of a group of half-hearted hired workers who had returned from the Ba ethnic group, began to burn wasteland at the foot of the mountain, dig trenches, build walls, cut trees, and lay bricks...
Everything seemed to go well in the beginning.
However, troubles ensued.
The stone walls they built collapsed for no apparent reason.
The mud bricks had not yet dried, and after a few spring rains they turned into mud again.
Trenching damaged a large number of wooden hoe and stone hoe.
Countless stone knives and axes were damaged by logging.
A tribesman was bitten by a poisonous snake while cutting down a tree.
A tribesman was crushed while building a wall.
In short, due to all kinds of endless troubles, this huge project was seriously interfered with. Some people in the tribe began to spread that the house was cursed by the gods and was not suitable for living. If the Uu people continued like this, they would definitely be punished by the gods, so the tribe
Panic began to set in, and many people were unwilling to participate in house repairs anymore.
After nearly a month of procrastination, the housing construction at the foot of the mountain has completely turned into an unfinished project.
Although a group of hired workers who had returned from learning skills from the Ba people still refused to give up, due to various factors such as having no building plan, no identification of materials, and missing the brick-laying season, they completely lost the opportunity to build their houses.
The ability to cultivate.
When the Ba people build their house, everything seems to be in order under Xu Chen's arrangement, including picking up stones, laying out bricks, digging ditches, building walls, felling wood, burning lime, collecting thatch, making various supporting tools and wooden ladders, wooden frames, cranes, etc.
Be fully prepared and don't panic.
But among the Uzbek people, all steps and processes are chaotic and chaotic.
This group of hired workers does not have Xu Chen's co-ordination ability, nor does it have the popularity and prestige of Xu Chen among the Ba people.
Not only do they quarrel among themselves because of different ideas, but a large group of tribesmen who are arranged to come to help are also being called back and forth at a loss every day. After being called back and forth several times without any clue, conflicts will inevitably occur.
Ever since building a house, there have been fights on the construction site almost every day.
Although the great witch was full of hope for the house, seeing the extremely chaotic situation and endless accidents, as well as the fear caused by the curse of the gods that began to spread among the tribe, he finally had to temporarily suspend the project.
But even so, she still saw a more powerful side of Xu Chen through the grand scale and complicated processes of building a house.
Although the house was not repaired, she saw no signs of the so-called gods being angry or angry.
The reason for their failure was the same as they didn't understand how to twist ropes, make straw sandals and make baskets, and they lacked Xu Chen's careful guidance.
In fact, through her inquiries and observations, she has understood the secret of the house. It is still made of the simplest stones, mud, wood, thatch, etc. It is similar to a tent, but the structure is more complex and the scale is larger, so it is more troublesome to manufacture.
As long as Xu Chen can personally guide.
She believes that the Uzbek tribe can also build houses, and then the tribe will no longer be divided due to crowded living conditions, nor will they fight with other tribes over territory.
Seeing Xu Chen at this moment, the great witch felt a sense of excitement that he had never experienced since he became a witch. He walked up to him with a long crutch, and the two girls who were supporting him almost didn't react.
"Wuga~"
Not only were the Ba people shocked when they saw the great shaman change his usual calmness and come out of the cave to greet him, but even Mu Ba, Xu Chen and others who were still poaching felt a little flattered.
The last time I came here, the great witch looked like he was about to die.
After not seeing each other for several months, the great witch seemed to be getting older.
Under the setting sun, he was hunched and frail, covered with animal skins that mopped the floor, his hair was white and dry and disheveled, and he was shivering all the time when he walked. His skin was as dark as tree bark and had ravines, but his eyes held an inexplicable excitement and joy.
It seems to have taken on a new vitality.
"witch!"
Mother Ba quickly ran up and held the big witch tightly with both hands, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
In terms of blood relationship, the great witch is her aunt.
Although there are two tribes now, in the eyes of the great witch, the Ba tribe is still part of the Wu tribe, but she knows that the Ba tribe does not belong to the Wu tribe. His mother told her before she died that she should never
Returning to the Wu tribe, only the great shaman still regards the Ba tribe as his closest relatives, and his purpose is just to protect the Ba tribe.
Perhaps the great witch still felt guilty about what happened back then.
But death is everywhere, so how can you blame any one person?
Especially a fair and just old man like Da Wu.
Even though her mother was unwilling to forgive the great witch until her death, Mother Ba still knew very well that the incident was just an accident and could not be blamed on the great witch.
The older she gets and the longer she has led the tribe to survive, the more she is able to understand and appreciate the difficulties of the great witch.
Although she has always followed her mother's words and never returned to the Uzbek ethnic group, she is full of gratitude to this old man.
If it weren't for the great witch, the Ba tribe's territory might have been occupied by the Wu tribe long ago.
The Ba people who have lost their habitat may only end up being exterminated.
Now that she saw him coming, the great witch was still so enthusiastic and excited to greet him, which showed that her care and love for him had never weakened.
Mother cried with joy, but she never thought that the great witch's aunt seemed to ignore her as a niece. She walked over with a long crutch and walked straight into the crowd, holding her old and withered hands tightly.