Witchcraft has a rudiment of writing, but it has no connection with the language of daily communication. It belongs to a mysterious inheritance system alone.
These runes are twists and turns or dotted with stars. They are not pictographic, but seem to come from clouds, thunder and lightning, mountains and rivers, stars and the movement trajectories of some objects or the growth patterns of plants.
Gods represent the forces of nature. They have no shape but dominate everything.
Witches pass on the mysterious power through these strange symbols and oral blessings.
The little witch remembers many witch symbols and many blessings, but they are almost memorized by rote, and they don’t know the true meaning of what they represent. Most of the time, they are recorded in the cave through the great witches of the past.
To learn graphics and symbols, the scepter has become the identity and symbol of a witch and does not have real inheritance content.
Xu Chen asked the little witch to use charcoal strips to slowly write these runes on the pottery board.
Half an hour passed quickly, and the little witch filled three clay tablets with words based on her memory.
To Xu Chen, these symbols were no less than a heavenly book. He sat there looking at them in confusion, and could only decide which ones looked better.
Seeing the little witch finally exhaled and carefully put down the charcoal bar after thinking hard, Xu Chen also breathed a sigh of relief.
"Wan Ga?"
"Um!"
Xu Chen naturally stretched out his hand to touch the little witch's head. He rubbed it a few times before feeling something was wrong. He quickly took his hand back with a dry smile and said, "Keep it a secret. Don't tell anyone, okay?"
"I know!"
The little witch nodded slightly and stood up. Her cheeks were a little red and she lowered her head and did not dare to look at Xu Chen.
"You go out first!" Xu Chen nodded with a smile, and the little witch quickly picked up her skirt and went out.
The straw curtain hanging outside the door moved slightly, and a figure quickly escaped in a panic.
Xu Chen curled his lips slightly.
The little female savage is monitoring him again, but after being scolded by her mother several times for being jealous and doing wrong things, she no longer dares to offend her in person.
But after the witchcraft conference and the identity of the little witch is officially revealed, maybe she won't have to worry anymore. Who knows what kind of fear she will have by then.
After all, offending a witch requires more than just having the courage. She may also face punishment from God. It’s scary to think about it. She might suffer from aunt disorder.
In the next few days, Xu Chen concentrated on carving words on the staff.
This is not difficult, but very tedious.
The main reason is that there are no very good carving tools. The wood of this wooden stick is very hard and very elastic. A copper knife that is too soft is basically useless. You can only use animal bones, stone flakes, and animal teeth to slowly compete with each other.
Xu Chen did not engrave all the shamanistic symbols written by the little witch, but chose to engrave some of them. In addition, he also engraved dozens of hieroglyphics he created on them, and finally carved them on the gold at the handshake position.
, use a stone knife and a copper hammer to gently knock out the four words "Tao Fa Zi Zi".
It took five days just to carve the words.
In the end, it took another two days to mix several brightly colored pigments such as cinnabar, carbon black, and malachite powder with rosin and isinglass to make several different colors of paint. All the text symbols on the wooden parts were painted in different colors.
The color is filled in and smoothed, and after drying, it is carefully polished with a sharpening stone to make it smooth.
At this point, the new wizard's scepter, which took half a month to complete, was completed.
At this time, this scepter no longer shows the slightest trace of the original and crude wild wooden stick.
It is inlaid with gold and jade in various colors, covered with colorful symbols and texts. The golden handle at the handshake is shining with golden light, and there are also mysterious words. The dragon head is fierce and domineering with its teeth and claws, and the golden light shines brightly.
On the forehead of the dragon head, there is also a large word "witch" engraved on it, which is filled with cinnabar paint and looks very eye-catching.
Xu Chen called the little witch to his bedroom again and showed her the completed scepter.
"Wow~~"
This time, the little witch didn't have the same fear as last time. When she saw this brand new scepter covered with words, she showed the same excitement and surprise as a little girl for the first time. She covered her mouth and exclaimed with little stars in her eyes.
stand up.
"Is this...Moxi Gaga?"
The little witch took this heavy, bright and mysterious new witch scepter. She carefully turned it over and over and looked at it several times. Finally, she pointed at the word witch on the dragon head and asked curiously.
"Witch!" Xu Chen explained with a smile.
"Wuga!" the little witch suddenly realized.
"From now on, this scepter will be passed down to you!" Xu Chen nodded.
The little witch slowly calmed down. She gently touched the witch character on the dragon's head and wrote it several times with her hands. Then she picked up the charcoal stick and wrote it down on the pottery board.
This is a brand new word created by Xu Chen, which has never appeared before.
"Do you know what witch means?" Xu Chen asked softly.
"Moga!" The little witch shook her head.
“The arc above represents the sky… the horizontal line below represents the earth… the vertical line in the middle represents the connection between heaven and earth… the two people on both sides represent the witches of different tribes… they obtain revelations from the gods of heaven and earth through sacrifices.
and blessings..."
Xu Chen pointed at this witchcraft character with Xiaozhuan style and explained it stroke by stroke.
"I am a witch and you are also a witch!"
The little witch may or may not have understood, but she still looked at Xu Chen with an expression of admiration.
"No, I'm not a witch..."
Xu Chen picked up the charcoal stick and quickly wrote the word "王" on the pottery board.
These two words are similar, but they are similar but not alike. The little witch looked at them for a long time with confusion on her face.
"The arc above represents the sky...the horizontal line below represents the earth...the vertical line in the middle represents the connection between heaven and earth...and the horizontal line in the middle is me..."
Xu Chen pointed at Wang and explained carefully one stroke at a time.
"You... Gaha?" the little witch was even more confused.
"Between heaven and earth, the king is the greatest. He is a person blessed by the gods. He will lead all the tribes to live in big houses, so that everyone will not be hungry, have clothes to wear, and their injuries and illnesses can be treated, so that they no longer have to endure hunger.
!”
The little witch still listened in a daze, but she remembered the word "王" firmly. She wrote the word "王" behind the word "witch" she had just written, one stroke at a time, and then looked at Xu Chen with excitement on her face.
: "You...Witch King Gaga!"
Xu Chen's face instantly turned dark, his face twitching and he didn't know how to explain it.
Fortunately, I didn't become the Lich King.
Therefore, I could only take a long breath and nod seriously: "Yes, I am the Witch King, the King of Witches. From now on, I will be the king, and you will be my witch!"
"Okay!" A happy smile appeared on the little witch's face for the first time.
Outside the door, a girl covered her mouth and ran away crying.
…
The full moon night in September has arrived as scheduled.
The annual witchcraft ceremony will be held again.
I don’t know if the news of the great witch’s death spread to other tribes.
But the Ba people have been preparing for this conference for a long time.
There were a lot more people going this time, not only more than a dozen Ba men and women, but also the little witch and seven or eight defected Uzbek people.
Last time, my mother had brought back news that the Ba people would not pursue the past matters again, so although these people were still a little nervous and nervous, they were not as scared as when they first arrived.
In order to completely resolve the matter, my mother sent word to the Uzbek people that the Ba people were willing to exchange pottery for these people, so they brought a lot of extra pottery this time.
The U ethnic group has now completely integrated with the Ba ethnic group. After more than two months of getting along with each other, the atmosphere is very harmonious. Moreover, after knowing the true identity of the little witch, Mother Ba's attitude towards all U ethnic groups has completely changed.
An eighty-degree turn, the initial indifference quickly turned into equal enthusiasm.
We eat together, work together, and sleep together. There is no longer any slightest feeling of neglect or discrimination.
After more than two months of unified training, more than a dozen Uzbek people, like the Ba people, were divided into two groups: archers and spearmen, respectively under the unified command of two second lieutenants Ju and Mo. In this way, Lieutenant General Feng
His subordinates finally had the size of a platoon.
All the men are now equipped with uniform armor, including officers' vine leather armor, archers' leather armor, and spearmen's vine armor. All weapons are being built one after another. The overall appearance has been greatly improved, and they are full of energy.
You can basically implement prohibitions.
In order to participate in this witchcraft conference, Xu Chen also asked the women to make two other flags.
One side is the flag of the Ba tribe, with a green flying snake painted on it.
On the other side is written a big Chinese character "王".
He was officially promoted from flag bearer to flag officer and was responsible for leading two Ba ethnic minority teenagers to hold the three flags.
Gu Yiran is still the trumpeter, responsible for blowing the trumpet. After returning this time, Xu Chen plans to play a few more trumpets and upgrade him to the commander.
All the women who went to attend the meeting also changed into clean and neat embroidered dresses, and their hair was neatly combed.
The one who has changed the most in the entire team is undoubtedly the little witch.
Under Xu Chen's arrangement, Mu Ba took several ingenious women from the tribe to make a special set of witch dresses for her according to Xu Chen's design.
In order to reflect the mystery and nobility of witchcraft, this suit of clothing is embroidered with various patterns and witchcraft symbols with colorful threads.
And there is a blue-gray robe and cloak outside.
Turn up the cape and cover your head to give it a unique and mysterious look.
The newly made Great Witch Scepter is temporarily placed in a long cloth bag and is not held directly in the hand.
The day before the full moon, all the luggage was ready and a group of people were ready to go.
Twenty men were divided into two teams, carrying baskets on their backs, holding bows and arrows, and lined up to escort them forward and backward, holding three flags.
A group of women were sandwiched in the middle, also carrying baskets on their backs and carrying rattan baskets filled with heavy pottery and linen.
Xu Chen and the little witch were caught in the middle, following the melodious sound of the horn and the sunshine of late autumn and early morning, they walked along the dry river beach towards the mouth of the valley.
"It would be nice if the pony could be ridden, but it's a pity that it's too young!"
As Xu Chen walked, he often looked back at the pony tied on the river beach with regret.
The pony was captured in July and August last year and is only about one and a half years old now. Although I have been training it to carry some things on weekdays, and even occasionally put older children on it to try, it is indeed not strong enough.
If you want to be able to actually ride it, you have to wait at least until next spring.
The so-called Wangshan race to death.
From the Ba people to the Wu people, it is more than thirty miles in a single trip.
This distance can only be reached by horseback in an hour at most, but in this era where travel is mostly done by walking, it would take more than half a day to go there.
Accept your fate and let’s go!
The whole team was in high spirits, but he was the only one who looked helpless.
The stone wall at the entrance of the valley has been completed.
However, it can only be regarded as a half-finished project, because there is still water in the river ditch, and there is a nearly five-meter-wide section in the middle that is not closed. In order to facilitate passage, several stepping places have been piled with stones in the water.
Wait until winter, then use wood to build a fence in the middle and that's it.
Amid the sound of horns, the long procession passed through the valley mouth, chatting and laughing along the river bank with flags flying, and headed straight towards the Uzu.