This is the most fruitful year since the Ba people moved here.
There are enough grains in warehouses and houses to feed the entire Ba people for a whole year. The animal skins, linen, cloth and various goods purchased at the two spring and autumn gatherings fill several houses. In addition, there are mountains of pottery in kilns and smelting workshops.
Bronze vessels and coins are being poured out every day, as well as more and more livestock and poultry, and even the size of the duck flock needs to be controlled now.
The wealth of the Ba people cannot be described in words.
This is a happy life that no one has ever imagined.
Mother's old face smiled like a flower.
Grandma, who also had gray hair, had an even more exaggerated smile, and her loud voice sounded like a copper trumpet in the evening wind throughout the courtyard and valley.
The men are constantly eating meat and drinking.
The women were eating steamed buns dipped in meat sauce and sauerkraut, and they were all equally excited and chatting noisily.
They don’t have many desires or needs. They are born with the responsibility of tribal reproduction and survival. They talk about their simple experiences in tribal labor every day, some experiences in raising children, and the differences between men and women.
Shy topics, talking about making clothes and food, talking about the dreams of a young girl, talking about the future of the tribe...
While talking, some people began to cry.
They all knew that this might be the last and most lively time for the entire tribe to get together.
After the clans and families were separated, although they were still the same tribe and could still see each other from time to time, they were separated after all. Some lived at the mouth of the valley and some lived on the other side of the river. Even if they were close to each other, they could not be as affectionate as now every day.
Living together, it is even more impossible to get together to eat and chat without any barriers like today, and talk about home affairs.
Infected by the crying, more and more women began to sob in low voices, and their tears flowed uncontrollably like spring water, and they could not be wiped dry.
The lively and noisy voices slowly became quieter.
Even the drunken men withdrew their hands from the women's buttocks.
In this happy harvest season, in this extremely lively moment, everyone feels an uncontrollable sadness.
Ye held a steamed bun in his hand for a long time and couldn't take a bite. He grabbed Xu Chen's arm and burst into tears.
The little witch sat quietly on the other side of Xu Chen, holding food in her hands, her head lowered and her eyes red.
The drunkenness and smile on the mother's and mother's faces gradually turned into sadness, and old tears rolled down their cheeks.
This is so damn sad!
Xu Chen, who was chatting, drinking, and eating meat with a group of hunters, was also infected by this sudden emotion and felt a little sore in his nose and hot in the corners of his eyes.
Amidst the sobbing and sad silence in the audience, he slowly stood up and raised the wine glass in his hand.
"Children have to grow up and men have to leave. Gathering together is not separation. Separation only makes us stronger. This will always be the home of all of us. Even if we live apart, we will always be of the same race. Every year
During the harvest season, we can still gather here to celebrate the harvest, because we have a great witch, we have a mother goddess, and we have common ancestors and beliefs. For our happier life, and for all families to become richer in the future,
Just like today, there is endless food to eat, endless wine to drink, and endless happy words to say. Let’s drink together to celebrate this great harvest and thank the gods for their care and protection of the Ba people, Huga!”
Xu Chen raised his glass and shouted.
"Hooga!"
All the men stood up and raised their glasses together and shouted.
"Hooga!"
The women and children were infected, including the little witch and the doctor. They all wiped away their tears and raised the pottery cups in their hands.
My mother is drunk, my grandmother is drunk, the men are drunk, and the women are drunk too.
Surrounding the bonfire, men were lying on the ground in deep sleep. In their sleep, there were still some people shouting "Hu Ga Hu Ga".
Ye and the little witch were lying drunk in Xu Chen's arms.
A crescent moon hangs in the deep night sky, and the autumn night sky is full of stars and nebulae.
Xu Chen hugged the soft bodies of the two girls, and their bodies slowly became stiff.
Then his mind couldn't help but think of another woman, the young great witch of the Pi tribe.
Although it was just a mistake, what happened in the cave made him feel an unreasonable excitement.
Right now, the sword in the left hand and the sword in the right hand... well, the two hands are gentle in the arms. Should I do it or not?
Xu Chen looked at the two girls with drunken eyes for a long time, then kissed them twice on the left, then twice on the right, and finally the three of them fell to the ground with a cooing sound.
At this time, the night sky is bright, the crescent moon is like a hook, the sky is full of bright stars, and the stars are like a sea.
The whole courtyard was still drunk, but only Wolf Two and the five little wolves were squatting at the entrance of the courtyard, howling at the silver moon in the sky.
"Ouch, ouch, ouch... ow~"
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The harvest on the farmland is over, but for the tribes, the autumn harvest has just begun. There are still a lot of wild fruits and food to collect in the mountains and fields.
However, Xu Chen did not participate in the collection of these wild fruits this year. He only gave a brief guide on the collection of vine fruits on site, and he only had people pick the fruits from a few branches that were artificially pollinated in spring, and let the little witch and Ye
The two carefully peeled it open to look for any seeds inside.
Although Xu Chen only wanted to give artificial pollination a try, the final result surprised him. With good luck, he picked nearly two hundred vine fruits, more than ten of which had enlarged seeds.
Xu Chen was pleasantly surprised by the news. He dried the seeds himself and stored them in small clay pots, waiting for spring to find a place to plant them. Of course, he would also send some to the Mongolian people to plant them near the hot springs.
If the cultivation is successful, there will be endless vine dried fruits to eat and endless vine fruit wine to drink.
Just like his guidance on farmland farming and cultivation of vegetables and fruits, only by continuously expanding and cultivating delicious fruits and vegetables can the quality of life be gradually improved and improved.
At the end of July, Xu Chen arranged for hunters to ride along the Bacang Avenue to pass the news to the Hu, Wu, Muya, Ji, Cang, Qia, and Qu tribes, and formally recruited laborers to build the border passage between the Cang tribe and the Qia tribe.
The personnel recruited this time are divided into two parts. One is the hired workers brought back by the Dai tribe of the Pi tribe last year, with a total number of about eighty. The other is that each tribe will serve at a ratio of five to one of the adult population.
It's just after the harvest, and each tribe has sufficient food reserves, so there won't be any problems with food.
The road from the Cang Clan to the Qia Clan is about fifty miles long. Most of the road is flat. The main problem is to deal with the trees and roadbed along the way. There are only a few troublesome streams and rocky areas, but they are all in relatively open areas.
, there is no hard nut to crack like the rocky valley between the Ji Cang clan.
Therefore, Xu Chen plans to completely open this road within a month.
According to the proportion of the population of the Uzbek League, the number of people serving this time will exceed 230. In addition to the strong labor force obtained by more than 80 Pi ethnic groups who were cheated and taken as prisoners, the number of Bamong people participating in road construction will exceed 300.
people, and the Qia and Qu tribes also have nearly a hundred people, so the total number of workers exceeds four hundred.
This number was carefully considered by Xu Chen.
When the Bawu Avenue was built, a total of about 300 laborers from the two tribes were dispatched. However, a lot of manpower and time were spent on the suspended plank road at the mouth of the valley, and the difficulty of the Bawu Avenue was much greater than that of the Cangqia section.
After all, we are in the mountains and forests, and just cutting down trees takes a lot of time.
He has also visited the Cangqia section several times and has roughly inspected it. The difficulty of construction should be considered the easiest of all road sections. Therefore, with a labor force of 400 people, it should be more than enough to complete it in one month.
The distance of one mile is about 500 meters, and four hundred people are lined up in a row, with intervals of one meter and nearly one mile. Each person only completes the task of two meters in one day, and it actually took less than a month to complete the task.
Although this is the most general calculation method, it is also the most practical and simplest method.
The order to call for service was circulated to all the tribes along the route within two days, and then each tribe quickly took action, selected strong men and women according to the order, and set off directly with half a month's worth of food and working tools.
So Bacang Avenue, which had been silent for several months after Mother's Day, once again ushered in a large-scale population movement.
The labor army of each tribe carried baskets on their backs, carried rattan baskets, pushed wheelbarrows, carried bronze knives, axes, hoes, and even a large number of stone hoes to work with, like streams, along the Bacang Avenue to converge towards the Cang people.
There are one hundred and fifty Ba people, and according to regulations, thirty of them must serve.
In order to rush to the road construction site quickly, the Ba people dispatched seven carriages, five of which were occupied by people, and the remaining two vehicles were piled with tools, food, clothing and various eating utensils, etc., and then there were ten hunters.
They escorted them on horseback along the way, set off along the Bacang Avenue, raised the flag and blew the signal and headed towards the Cang tribe quickly.
Since everything is driven by horses, the speed is naturally very fast.
At sunset, the team arrived at the Cang tribe. Along the way, they encountered two teams of the Wu tribe and the Hu tribe, which were even larger in number. They cheered and left all the way, leaving the envious people of the two tribes howling like ghosts and wolves.
The construction of roads and the emergence of horse-drawn carriages brought great convenience to large-scale population movements, and the effect of this trip was very obvious.
The Ba tribe is the farthest from the Cang tribe, but its arrival time is second only to the Ji tribe.