Muba still led a group of women to collect food every morning and return home at night. During her rest, she would collect flax, wash flax, spin and weave.
After soaking the hemp bark on the river beach, it is washed into burlap and carried back to the yard to dry. There are wooden racks for drying burlap everywhere inside and outside the compound. The gray-white color floating in the wind makes it look spectacular.
In the open space in the middle of the yard, oats, wild beans and various wild fruit seeds collected are dried every day.
Ye replaced Xu Chen and was responsible for weighing and recording the grain that went into the warehouse every day.
A group of children became the main caregivers for several infants and young children.
With a cradle and a stroller, they are very happy to complete this interesting task.
Therefore, almost from morning to night, you can see a group of children, big and small, pushing three strollers back and forth in the courtyard, chasing and laughing.
In the whole compound, the most boring and lonely one is undoubtedly the little witch.
No one arranged work for her, and no one communicated with her, and she didn't know what to do. Apart from eating, drinking and sleeping, she could only sit at the door of her room like a puppet every day, looking at her with envy.
The Zhuba people are busy.
Although she was in trouble, she had no regrets.
Because this is a hundred times easier than when she was in the Uzbek tribe, spending all day in the cave with her sister and accompanying the great witch.
The Ba people and the Uu people are completely different.
There are not only spacious and comfortable houses and yards here, but also magical kilns.
Women have magical skills and can spin ordinary tree bark into thread and weave cloth.
The men were all in high spirits, and they laughed and had a close relationship all day long.
The children were obedient and well-behaved. Not only did they help take care of the babies, but they also helped dry the harvested plant food.
And the girl named Ye actually learned magical counting and could calculate very complex numbers.
They had seen these strange numerical symbols on the cave walls on the mountainside when they came with the great witch last time, but the great witch couldn't understand them.
After visiting the Ba people and returning home, the great witch seemed to have completely changed. He sat in the cave every day, staring at the cave wall in a daze. Sometimes he sat there for a whole day.
In this kind of sitting and contemplation, the great witch became more and more depressed, and even began to refuse to talk to other people.
The two sisters knew that the changes in the great witch had a lot to do with Xu Chen.
The prosperous, close and harmonious tribal relations of the Ba people also have a lot to do with Xu Chen.
Although the little witch felt lonely and helpless, she was no longer frightened and even began to like everything about the Ba people.
When Xu Chen came here last time, Xu Chen raised a few wild ducks, but now the two nests of ducklings have grown up, and now the number of wild ducks has increased to more than 20, which is already a huge group.
This time, Xu Chen raised two more wild birds called chickens.
Although the feathers looked messy, Xu Chen told her that they were two very beautiful birds, and their feathers were as beautiful as rainbows and clouds.
Of course, what surprised the little witch the most was the baby carriage with a complicated structure.
This is a completely incomprehensible creation of the mind.
Although they are all composed of common things.
But the complex structure was beyond her imagination.
Therefore, when she came to the Ba tribe that day and entered the compound and saw the stroller pushed by the children for the first time, her soul was completely blank.
Later, Xu Chen took her to look at the stroller carefully and taught her to push it in person. Only then did she finally realize that she and her sister had definitely done nothing wrong.
Chen is the witch guided by the gods. He will become a real great witch in the future, unmatched by anyone.
Because such magical things cannot be imagined and made by humans.
You must know that a year ago, even simple rattan baskets and straw sandals could not be made by magicians, let alone them.
Xu Chen's creativity becomes more and more powerful, and the things he creates become more and more magical and complex.
Although the Uzbek people are powerful, they still can't even make linen and pottery.
If we compare the two tribes, the Ba tribe and the Wu tribe are like two completely different worlds.
The Ba tribe, a tribe cared for by the gods, is developing rapidly under the guidance of Chen.
If this continues, no one can imagine what the Ba people will look like in a few years.
And she knew that the Uzbek people would remain the same for decades.
From the time she can remember, there has never been any change in the Uzbek people, year after year, day after day.
Wearing a simple rough sarong, the little witch slowly stood up from the threshold. She first went to see a few pregnant women who were sorting and drying burlap. However, these pregnant women did not talk to her and just seemed to avoid her.
leave.
She went to see some children pushing strollers. When a group of children saw her coming, they all broke up and pushed the strollers away.
Two tool men were sitting in the open space, making jingling stone knives and axes. When they saw the little witch coming over, they smiled at her and nodded, but did not speak to her and continued to work hard.
There were several monkeys squatting on the chicken coop. When they saw her coming, they turned around and jumped to the roof with a squeaking sound. There was also a naughty monkey who threw a milk nut shell at her.
This is a group of monkeys who are good at changing the situation.
They could clearly feel the Ba woman's neglect towards this strange girl.
The two chickens had their wings clipped and their tail feathers plucked out. They looked a little miserable. They were in the cage pecking at the seeds on the grass that the children had pulled back.
A group of ducks swam back and forth in the small pond without flying away.
The little witch didn't dare to go to the gate, let alone walk out of the courtyard gate alone, because there were two wolves guarding it.
Xu Chen said that big wolves will not bite people.
But she was still afraid.
She was more than ten years older, and it was the first time she saw wolves being raised like this and living together with humans.
She once tried to get close, but the two wolves immediately bared their teeth and let out ferocious whimpering. She was so frightened that she even fell when she ran away, causing a group of children to laugh wildly.
It was Ye who ran over to help her up and beat Lang Da and Lang Er with a stick.
But that's all. Ye was also very cold towards her and almost didn't talk to her.
She actually envied Ye because she could freely enter Chen's bedroom, study with him in classes, write on a clay tablet, and make very complex calculations.
Although Ye and Chen are brother and sister, she feels that their relationship is a bit strange, and everyone in the Ba tribe has a very strange attitude towards them.
She didn't think about the marriage between adult men and women, she just envied their love for each other. Because this kind of brother-sister relationship was something she and her sister had never had since they were children.
The little witch looked at the chickens and ducks by the chicken coop and pond for a long time, and then slowly walked into the food storage room.
Ye Zheng sat alone inside, holding a ceramic tablet in his hand and writing and drawing to practice calculations.
Xu Chen gave her such an important task, and she didn't dare to make a mistake. Therefore, every number had to be calculated over and over again, and she even had to recall it in her mind when she went to bed at night. If she felt something was wrong, Tianyi When the light comes on, you have to get up and recalculate.
Under this kind of self-tension and oppression, her mathematical calculations have made rapid progress in recent days.
The door was slightly dark, and some of the light was blocked.
Ye looked up at the little witch standing at the door and asked in a very calm tone: "Gaha?"
"Let me... take a look..." The little witch suddenly became nervous and prepared to leave.
"Wait!" Ye stood up and walked to the door.
The little witch became even more nervous, holding on to the hem of her skirt with both hands, lowering her head and not daring to look at Ye.
Although the two are similar in age, and she was once a descendant of a great witch respected by her tribe, but now she is just a wanderer who defected from the tribe and lost her inheritance status.
At this moment, she felt a little ashamed of herself.
Ye looked at the little witch up and down, looking at her rough and dirty clothes and hair. His eyebrows wrinkled slightly and he gestured: "Chen Ga... likes to be clean. You have to wash your clothes and take a shower..."
The little witch roughly understood it, and became even more ashamed. She lowered her head and said softly: "I... Moyiga!"
"I have it, come with me!"
Ye put down the pottery board and walked out of the warehouse. The little witch quickly followed behind, and the two of them entered Ye's room one after the other.
The room is very simple, similar to other people's rooms. There is only a bed, a table made of stone and clay bricks, and then there are cups for drinking water, clay lamps for lighting, clay basins for bathing, and wooden boards for hanging things. Racks and some rattan baskets for clothes and sundries, etc.
There are also some dried flowers, hair ribbons, small rattan flower baskets, twine, animal skins and other decorative and daily items hanging on the walls.
In addition, there are some strange small animals and human-shaped pottery figurines placed beside the bed, as well as some small toys made of thin vines and reeds.
Although the layout is simple, it is clean and tidy.
Especially the many decorations add a lot of childlike interest and joy to the simple room.
Ye has become accustomed to his own room.
But as soon as the little witch came in, she was completely shocked.
It felt like I had entered a strange world I had never seen before.
Every decoration in the room made her feel extremely novel and even a little dizzying.
Is this a place to sleep?
This was a scene she could never imagine in her dreams.
Compared with Ye's bedroom, there is no bed in her room. There is a straw mat on the floor, and then there is a pottery board with writing on the wall, as well as a cup and a pottery basin for drinking water. Other than that, Apart from that, there is nothing.
It's not that Xu Chen doesn't want to give it to her, but everyone is the same. Apart from beds, many men's rooms don't have ceramic cups or basins, because they don't care much if they have them. They usually drink water, wash their faces and take showers on the well platform. A can of water on the side is all it takes.