In mid-March, the annual Mother's Day comes as scheduled.
In previous years, tribes usually waited until one day before or after the full moon night to arrive.
But this year, the tribes participating in the sacrificial activities all arrived very early. Calculating the time, it was just in the middle of March, that is, around March 12th, that the Ji, Cang, and Muya tribes arrived one after another.
These three are all Ba tribe tribes, and they also came for bronze swords, axes and weapons.
Although they are relatively far away from the Ba tribe, they are much closer to the Gonghuo tribe and the Yugong tribe, which are separated by a big river.
As the saying goes, first come first, first get the moon. In order to get the artifact-like bronze knife in advance, they couldn't wait to arrive three days in advance.
On March 13, the nearest Hu and U people actually came two days in advance to join in the fun.
Therefore, Mother's Day has not yet arrived, and the entire Ba Valley has become very lively.
This is already the total number of tribes that participated in the Ba Alliance in previous years, and the number of people coming this year is much higher than in previous years. Except for the young men and women participating in marriage alliances, almost all tribes except the old, weak, sick and disabled have come.
The number exceeded 600, accounting for almost two-thirds of the total population of the Ba Nationality Alliance.
But everyone knows that the excitement has just begun.
This year's Mother's Day will be an unprecedented lively event, because in addition to the Gonghuo Clan, which is a little further away, there are also the Yu Gong Clan, the Five Ghost Clan and even the Qing Clan this year.
Among these three tribes, except for the Wugui tribe, which has the smallest number of people, the Yugong tribe and the Youqing tribe are both huge ethnic groups that are not as numerous as the Ba tribe alliance, each with seven or eight tribes with a population of thousands.
The most important thing is that these large tribes all have witches.
Moreover, it is now confirmed that the witches of the Yu Gong Clan and the Five Ghost Clan have surrendered to His Majesty the Witch King, and they have also expressed their willingness to accept the inheritance of the faith of the Ba Clan Great Shaman.
In other words, the influence of the great witch of the Ba tribe can be projected to the four alliance tribes, and the number of witches who have joined has reached an unprecedented five.
When five witches come together, what kind of huge spiritual belief will it be!
And such a powerful spiritual belief will bring such powerful power of protection to all tribes!
Everyone is looking forward to the grand occasion when the five great witches gather together.
Maybe the gods will be summoned.
What's more, the Mother Goddess currently lives in the temple of the Ba people, paying attention to everything under the mountain with her divine eyes every day.
Faced with these alliance tribes who came over as excitedly as if they were going to the market in advance, Xu Chen couldn't laugh or cry.
It's okay for the two relatively distant tribes, the Ji and Cang tribes, to come in advance, but the Wu tribe, which only takes two or three hours to go there on horseback, actually came to join in the fun two days in advance, which is simply speechless.
Moreover, there are particularly many people from the Uzbek tribe coming this year, more than 200 people, and almost half of all the families are here. The most excited one among them is the little witch sister.
Because she had been clamoring to come for a long time, if it weren't for the Uzu clan chief and a group of leaders' earnest efforts to stop and persuade her, she would have come to live in the Uzbek tribe half a month in advance.
Originally, the head of the Wu tribe wanted to be close to each other and planned to wait until the day of the sacrificial meeting as in previous years. However, when their little witch heard that the Ji tribe, the Cang tribe, and the Muya tribe had all passed by the Ba tribe, she could no longer hold back.
With all his strength, he was about to run towards the Ba tribe with a walking stick, so the Ba tribe chief and a group of leaders had to lead a large group of people to follow them, some on horseback, some on foot, and hundreds of people came in a noisy manner as if they were going to a market.
Already.
After several tribes arrived, they did not regard themselves as outsiders at all. They first set up large tents on the river beach, and then began to rush up and down the mountain and the river crossing, with hundreds of men, women, and children making a loud noise.
The most lively places are nothing more than two.
One is the kiln smelting workshop, because Xu Chen is leading several craftsmen to smelt and cast a new batch of knives, axes, scissors, hammers, hoes, picks, plowshares and other agricultural tools.
Regarding the smelting and casting methods, Xu Chen did not hide his secrets and directly allowed everyone to go in and watch. Therefore, the entire smelting furnace was surrounded by hundreds of people all day long.
Xu Chen and several craftsmen were also smelting metal, making molds, casting utensils, installing and polishing in an orderly manner under the watchful eyes of so many people.
As batch after batch of bronze utensils are opened, these golden swords, axes and hammers will cause waves of exclamations and commotions from the crowd.
Bronze knives and axes have been slowly spreading among several tribes in the Ba Alliance for more than a month, but no one knows how they are made.
It wasn't until now that they realized the process was so complicated.
Not only is the structure of the smelting furnace unique, the hand-cranked blower is even more amazing.
And using a fuel called charcoal, metal copper blocks can be quickly smelted into water, which amazed all primitive people.
As for the mold making, casting, selection, assembly, polishing and other processes, they seem simple, but for many savages, this set of processes is also very complicated and mind-numbing.
Because not long ago, they were still living in caves and eating raw meat, and the best tools were just hammering some hard stones into stone knives and axes.
Sharp and strong bronze tools are hundreds and thousands of times more powerful than stone knives and stone axes. Everyone wants them. Therefore, those surrounding the smelting workshop are almost all elite hunter teams from various tribes, all hoping to own such a golden tool.
of knives.
In addition to the smelting workshop, another lively place is the landfill site in front of the compound.
Several wheelbarrows were being pushed around by a large group of men. Each wheelbarrow was surrounded by a large group of people, including men, women and children. From time to time bursts of cheers and laughter broke out.
Because in the process of pushing the cart, there are figures staggering everywhere. This wheelbarrow seems simple and runs very fast when pushed, but it is not easy to push it well.
Except for a group of men from the Ba tribe, all the men from other tribes who tried it came back disappointed, saying that it was really not a tool that humans could control and that it needed divine power. Therefore, many people went to ask for it.
The big witch blessed her, making the little witch dumbfounded, so she had no choice but to lead a large group of clan leaders up the mountain to clean up the temple of her late mother.
Bronze tools and wheelbarrows are the biggest surprises and gains the Ba people have brought to all tribes this spring.
But in fact, there are several seemingly inconspicuous changes that will greatly affect the development of the tribe in the future.
Almost all the more than ten bamboo roots planted in front of and behind the house survived, and two or three bamboo shoots started to sprout in spring.
These bamboo shoots are as thick as arms, and although they do not look as thick as the bamboos from the Cicha tribe, they are at least alive. As they continue to take root and multiply in the future, bamboo forests will soon appear in front and behind the houses of the Ba people's compound.
Greatly improve the production of daily utensils, ivy, a material that is not convenient and strong, will soon be discarded.
There have also been some major changes in the pond. In addition to the continued expansion of the area, some green plants have begun to appear in it. More than ten lotus leaves have emerged from the water. The huge round leaves are gently swaying in the spring breeze. In addition,
There are also some water chestnuts and less solid green leaves floating here and there. With the slight fluctuation of wind and waves, it seems to have an atmosphere of early summer.
As plants such as bamboo and lotus root take root in the Ba and Gonghuo tribes, these things will surely bring about huge changes in the development of the tribes in the future.
Of course, this change may not cause as much of a sensation as the bronzes and wheelbarrows, but it will allow the tribesmen to slowly appreciate the benefits in a quiet and moisturizing way.
In fact, lotus root is an aquatic crop with a very high starch content. When Xu Chen was with the Cicha tribe, he discovered that the local savage tribe did not seem to know that these roots buried deep in the mud of the lake were edible. They relied on the lake and did not eat them.
lake.
It was winter when I went there, and all the lotus leaves had withered and withered, so it was the best time to pick lotus roots.
And the large lake with a radius of hundreds of miles is surrounded by shallow tidal flats where lotus roots, wild rice, water chestnuts and water chestnuts grow in large numbers. I don’t know how many of these aquatic plants are produced in a year, but they alternate with prosperity and decline year after year, but there are never any humans.
Went to pick and eat them.
The living habits of the Cicha people are still primitive and traditional gathering and hunting, and they have not yet learned to survive in the big lake.
What they use is the complex and dangerous environment of swamps and tidal flats to lure and capture wild animals.
In fact, the large swamps and densely packed streams surrounding the lake beach can definitely open up a large amount of grain fields for growing rice and other food crops.
Unfortunately, due to time and climate reasons, it was winter when he went, and most of the weeds were yellow and withered. In addition, he was also worried that his stay would be too long and the conflict with the Cicha tribe would intensify, so he had to leave early, so he did not have time to investigate and investigate carefully.
Look for wild rice.
But this matter is not urgent. Being able to introduce lotus roots and bamboos to survive is also a huge success for Xu Chen.
Amid the bustle and bustle, more and more tribes came to participate.
On March 14th, the tribes who came to participate in the Mother's Day sacrifice came as if they were going to a market.
The tribes belonging to the Gonghuo Clan Alliance, the Thunder Clan, the Five Ghost Clan, and the Yu Gong Clan Alliance all arrived almost one after another in the afternoon of the same day.
In the evening, some poor people arrived with several small and medium-sized tribes, and the leader turned out to be their great shaman.
Facing the tribes that are like a tide, constantly raising flags and hooting, or calling out ghosts and wolves, the Ba people have to use more people to maintain order while constantly strengthening guidance and proper placement.
Fortunately, after more than two years of military training, the Ba Alliance has cultivated a group of officer leaders and an elite team of hunters with hundreds of orders. Under the leadership of patrol officers from various tribes, although nearly two thousand people gathered in the entire valley, the atmosphere was noisy.
Incomparably, it still seemed orderly, and nothing unpleasant happened.