In the evening, after finishing a hot meal of pickled pork noodles with a group of witches, it was still early. Xu Chen went back to the room to record today's diary, but saw the little witch in a yellow cloak coming in gloomily, looking like he was hesitant to speak.
A sad look on the verge of tears.
Xu Chen was surprised and curious. He quickly brought a rattan stool for her to sit down and asked what happened.
The little witch's eyes were red and she softly told the story about someone stealing the thorn melon while visiting the vegetable garden today. Then she sobbed with shame and sadness and said: "Your Majesty the Witch King, I am a great witch who is very bad at stealing."
It was a serious mistake, and I failed to guide them out of this bad habit."
Xu Chen couldn't laugh or cry after hearing this. It's not that the thorn melons are very precious, but that the little witch has put a lot of effort into these thorn melons. In the past half month, she has been soaking in the vegetable garden almost every day, leading several girls to follow the instructions she taught her.
Methods to manage and grow fruits and vegetables, among which thorn melons are her biggest harvest.
Moreover, this is the first batch of thorn melons. From the time of topping, I watched the vines grow and bloom until they bear fruit. Just when they were old enough to be eaten, they were actually stolen.
Although she is a great witch, she is still just a girl of fifteen or sixteen years old, so it is certain that she will be sad.
If these melons were cultivated by others, they would definitely not have the attitude of the little witch at this time. She would have been shouting everywhere looking for the thief when she discovered them.
But the little witch is different. She will first consider whether she has done something wrong.
After all, she is the highest religious and spiritual leader of all the alliance tribes, and is responsible for guiding the development of all tribes, whether it is the Ba tribe or other tribes.
Therefore, she didn't say anything when there were many people. It wasn't until there was no one around that she came to Xu Chen to cry and seek help.
"Don't blame yourself. This matter has nothing to do with you, but you are right. It is definitely wrong to steal things. You need to find them and punish them." Xu Chen comforted him.
The little witch shook her head gently and said, "No punishment, it's just a few thorny melons, and so many people didn't know who secretly took them away. I'm just very ashamed."
"Some things cannot be tolerated. After all, so many tribes gather together and the situation is complicated. If thefts occur more and more in the future, then the goods of other tribes will not be safe. If the number of thefts increases, it will also affect the reputation of our Ba tribe.
Even the Mother Goddess was humiliated. Yesterday I heard that something brought by the tribe was lost. This kind of thing cannot be tolerated. The thief needs to be found and punished to warn everyone. This matter has nothing to do with you, and neither do you.
If you need to blame yourself, I will personally arrange for someone to investigate!"
"Okay, but it's just a few thorns, don't punish her too severely!" The little witch finally agreed with Xu Chen's statement.
"Well, that's for sure. The punishment will definitely be determined based on the value of the property. The severity is not important, but it must be found out. You should not make any announcement about this matter for now, and I will make a decision after I investigate it clearly!"
"OK!"
The little witch calmed down a lot, rubbed her eyes and left the room.
Xu Chen rubbed his face and stood up to go out. He quickly took Gu Heju to the vegetable garden to see the specific situation.
At sunset, the river beach was full of smoke and bustle.
Thousands of people have finished their dinner and are singing and dancing around the bonfire. There are also many groups of hunters gathered on the river beach to ride horses, shoot arrows, throw guns and wrestle. Horses neigh and cheers come and go. The atmosphere is relaxed and happy, which is similar to every party activity.
It doesn't seem to make any difference.
Xu Chen came to the vegetable garden and looked at the trampled mess in front of him. He couldn't help but twitch his face several times.
The vegetable garden, which was full of neat and green vegetables two days ago, now looks extremely miserable. Most of the places have been almost trampled. Even the thorn melon vines and flower leaves covered with small thorns are drooping a lot, and there are even a few vines left.
After being torn off, the mosaic and leafy vines fell to the ground in a messy state and were trampled to pieces.
This is the work that the little witch has put the most effort into besides studying. Every wild vegetable in it was carefully selected and transplanted by her, and every vine and flower of the thorn melon was grown by her every day.
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Even Xu Chen couldn't stand being trampled like this.
Although he doesn't come to the vegetable garden very often recently, he still comes to take a look every three to five days. He also wants to eat the first fresh thorn melon in spring as soon as possible.
Unfortunately, before he could eat it, a group of savages got on him first.
Which is tolerable and intolerable?
If you dare to steal the new achievements of the Great Witch and the rations of His Majesty the Witch King, these people must be found and beaten up.
So after a moment of observation, Xu Chen ordered Gu Heju to find some girls who were assisting the little witch in growing vegetables.
Soon after, four girls from the Ba ethnic group came over. Xu Chen asked them in detail about some of the people who came to visit and study today. Although the comings and goings were complicated and the scene was chaotic, under Xu Chen's guidance, they slowly recalled
After a while, I still got some clues and features.
After giving the four girls a few words to keep quiet and not to tell anyone about it.
Xu Chen returned to the compound and asked Lai Feng to give some instructions and ask him to arrange for some people to secretly go to the river beach to collect and find out which tribes had lost things in the past two days and which people behaved abnormally when they came out of the vegetable garden.
Soon the sun set, the sky gradually darkened, and the bustling crowd on the river beach gradually became quieter.
Half an hour later, Feng came back with several hunters and reported to Xu Chen in detail what he had learned.
Although there were many people going to the vegetable garden and the scene was quite chaotic, in fact it was not complicated to track down the matter.
First of all, it is impossible for the Ba people to steal it. After all, it grows under their noses. If they want to steal it, they would not steal it at this juncture. Moreover, the Ba people have too many delicacies, and the thorn melon has long been unable to arouse anyone's desire to steal.
In addition, tribes such as the Bameng and Gonghuo Meng all respected Xu Chen like a god and respected the little witch so much that they were unlikely to steal a few thorny melons.
People from the Yugong clan can generally be ruled out, because it has been two years since the Yugong Alliance surrendered to the Ba clan, and they also respect Xu Chen and Dawu very much, and they were the ones who lost things on the river beach this time. I heard that there are three tribesmen.
They had stolen the goods, even though they were precious stones, bones, teeth and other small items, but they still made them very angry. The hunters of the Yu Gong clan had already threatened that if they found the thief, they would beat the shit out of them.
As for the Five Ghost Tribe, it is even more impossible. Xu Chen is the savior of their tribe, and they are the most loyal and respectful to the Ba Tribe at the moment.
Therefore, after comparing the memories of several girls and the information obtained by Feng and others, Xu Chen was able to basically target the poor people and the Pi people.
The biggest suspects are the Pi tribe.
Because this is their first time to attend a large gathering held by the Ba tribe, and this time there are six tribes following the Pi tribe’s great witch. In addition to the Pi tribe where the witch is in charge and the Dai tribe who are already familiar with them, there are five remaining tribes.
I was completely unfamiliar with this kind of large-scale gathering, and couldn't even communicate in language. They were almost in a savage state. They looked very unique at the venue, wearing simple furs, and with strange tattoos and patterns on their faces and bodies. Apart from
In addition to being frightened and nervous, they were also curious, excited and surprised. They could be seen running around and occasionally howling like ghosts throughout the venue.
With such a large-scale gathering, so many people, so many goods, and such a lively scene, it is inevitable for these first-time participants to secretly take advantage of the situation.
In this era without moral standards and laws, stealing is completely natural. Not only humans, but also all kinds of animals have this habit. The more intelligent animals are, the more obvious this aspect is. Stealing is relatively easy.
Civilized behavior.
Killing and stealing goods among strange tribes is the most common operation.
When you go out hunting and encounter other tribes, and see that they have a big harvest, you will rob if there are many people, and steal if there are few people. Anyway, you want to get it.
If you steal it, you will naturally be overjoyed. If you cannot steal it and get caught, it will naturally fall into a box.
The situation that Feng and others secretly inquired about was similar to what Xu Chen had guessed.
The ones who lost things were the Yugong clan.
Because the Yugong clan had a conflict with the Gonghuo clan last year and was restrained by the Great Witch this year, they did not come to fight for the garrison in advance. They ranked behind the Ba League, the Gonghuo League, and the Five Ghosts clan. They were originally closely followed.
The last one should be Youqiongmeng, but Youqiong clan were invited guests, so they were directly squeezed to the end by the Pi clan who had just joined the Bameng family.
Therefore, the Pi tribe and the Yu Gong tribe were stationed close to each other.
The several affiliated tribes of the Pi Tribe Alliance are still in a state of pure savages. They don't even know how to farm and build houses, and they don't even know how to set up tents. Therefore, these guys are running around on both sides of the adjacent Youqing Tribe and Yu Gong Tribe, learning.
While setting up the tent, I was naturally attracted by some randomly stacked goods.
Although we have not yet found out exactly who stole the things, it is definitely someone from the Pi tribe.
As for the thorn melon in the vegetable garden, according to the memories of the four girls, it was most likely the work of these guys.
Savages never come back empty-handed when they go out. This is an ancient traditional living habit.
This may be the original origin of the so-called thief in later generations.
Just like the hunters of the Ba tribe, when they hit big beasts, they will cry and howl all the way to show off. If the harvest is listless, and if they can't hunt the beasts, they will definitely get a few snakes and turtles and other messy animals back to recharge, otherwise they will have no face to face a group of expectant animals.
The tribesmen who are looking forward to this day will also be complained by a bunch of women, refused to mate, and lose their favorite pile-driving entertainment.
Therefore, this matter is definitely not big at all, and there is no need to go online. However, Xu Chen wanted to establish a rule through this matter.
What's more, this incident happened to the Ba tribe and caused the little witch to be so sad, so her emotions and feelings cannot be ignored too much.
In addition, Xu Chen wanted to use this incident to slowly establish another authority other than spiritual belief, that is, the law.
Without rules, there is no rule, and without laws, it is impossible to govern any country well.
Although they are still a group of illiterate barbaric primitive people, there are still some rules that should be followed. Only in this way can the leadership status of the Ba people and the majesty of the great witch and the witch king be more clearly demonstrated.