A few miles downstream, on the dim river, there were three river boats the size of rafts going upstream. A group of shirtless hunters with hunched chest muscles and bulging arms were rowing hard, and their whistles were heard one after another.
, all the paddlers were sweating profusely, as if they were fished out of water.
"The Witch King is coming!"
On the bank of the river, there were hunters from the Gonghuo Tribe on horseback who came in surprise, shouting and sending back messages along the way.
When the news came back, the Hetan Pier was filled with joy.
Half an hour later, three brand-new wooden boats docked at the pier.
The anxious people waiting on the shore looked at these three strange rafts, and their excited voices gradually quieted down. However, they did not rush forward to watch these three strange manned vehicles as usual, but were all nervous and nervous.
Watching a group of rowing hunters jump out of the boat and tie the wooden boat to the dock with a cable.
Xu Chen got off the boat with the pale little witch in his arms. Only then did the onlookers come back to their senses and let out a burst of cheers. Then they squatted down in groups and shouted, "His Majesty the Witch King."
"Witch!"
The leader of the Wu tribe came forward with a group of leaders and squatted down, crying loudly.
Xu Chen quickly asked a group of women to help the little witch, then stepped forward to help the old patriarch and said: "The big witch and I knew about it, so we came to deal with it. Now is not the time to talk, so hurry up and see your big witch!"
So a large group of people did not stop at the dock. Thousands of people surrounded Xu Chen and others and headed straight for the firewood pile not far away.
The sky was already very dark at this time, and it was almost impossible to see clearly.
Xu Chen couldn't help but feel a little sore in his nose when he looked at the old witch with a withered face and eyes closed, lying on the pile of firewood.
The death of the old witch marked the end of an era for the Gonghuo tribe.
She worked hard all her life for the Gonghuo Clan, but she still could not escape the fate of birth, old age, illness and death.
However, Xu Chen did not come to express condolences, but to complete the old witch's funeral as soon as possible and arrange for the new witch to succeed to the throne.
Because the tribe participating in the witchcraft conference is coming soon.
In addition, the chaotic situation after the death of the old witch must be calmed down as soon as possible, so that the Gonghuo tribe can fully devote themselves to the witchcraft conference.
The dead have passed away, and the living should carry on the past and open up the future.
Human beings are struggling to advance in this endless life. Death is not the end of life, but the beginning of another new life.
The old witch's three years of hard work has laid a good and solid development foundation for the Gonghuo tribe.
Even if the new wizard who succeeds is young and ignorant, the development of the Gonghuo Clan will not be greatly affected.
After all, the path for the development of each tribe has been paved.
In addition, Xu Chen is already preparing to move the focus of development to Gonghuo Basin. With him in charge, the development here will only be faster.
In fact, in Xu Chen's opinion, without the old witch, the development of the Gonghuo Clan will also be faster and better, because his control over the Gonghuo Clan will be stronger.
This is not Xu Chen's killing of donkeys, but the inevitable development of the times.
The old witches of the Gonghuo Tribe are the same as the great witches of the Wu Tribe. They represent the ancient traditions and beliefs of the human wilderness. They have development concepts that are incompatible with Xu Chen. They preserve the ancient traditions and use their core tribe to
As the center, I don’t want others to change this ancient pattern, and I want this situation to continue.
Although they uphold fairness and justice, and have spent their entire lives thinking about the development of the tribe, they can only see their own alliance and the tribe, and they cannot get rid of their narrow vision and conflicts of interest.
The concept of human civilization does not exist in their minds.
They only have the development of their own tribe in mind.
Although this is understandable, this kind of thinking seriously restricts them from keeping up with Xu Chen's development.
They can follow Xu Chen's guidance and complete the tasks arranged by Xu Chen, but their deep-rooted traditional concepts will drag down and hinder the future integration and development of the alliance tribes.
But no matter what, without the old witch, the Gonghuo Tribe would not have achieved its current development results.
In his heart, Xu Chen was still full of admiration and respect for the old witch.
After all, it was with her hard-working support and efforts that the Gonghuo Alliance was able to develop so rapidly, which played a huge role in promoting Xu Chen's planning and development.
Therefore, Xu Chen would also like to thank this old man who dedicated his life to the development of the tribe.
It is precisely because of countless wise and intelligent wizards like her that human beings finally move from savages to maturity and civilization step by step.
Although Xu Chen stood on the shoulders of tens of thousands of years of development of human civilization and looked back to criticize them, no one can erase their contribution and merit to human civilization.
They are the ancestors of all human civilization and deserve eternal tribute and praise.
Therefore, Xu Chen planned to hold a grand funeral for the old witch, so that all the tribes who came to participate in the witchcraft ceremony would remember this old man who had worked hard all his life through this funeral, and would always remember her contribution to the development of the tribe.
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Of course, Xu Chen also wanted to celebrate this funeral together so that all the alliance tribes could be more united and all the witches should work harder for the development of their respective tribes and the integration of ethnic groups.
There are still five days left until the witchcraft conference.
In order to prepare for this grand funeral, Xu Chen summoned a group of clan leaders including the Gonghuo Clan and the Lei Clan, as well as the little witch from the Five Ghost Clan, and explained his ideas and arrangements for the funeral. Although everyone found it a bit strange,
But no one objected.
Because the respected Gonghuo Great Witch died, they were now leaderless and had no choice but to follow Xu Chen's arrangements.
In addition, the little witch traveled hundreds of miles on a bumpy boat. She was extremely weak due to seasickness and was unable to host the funeral. Therefore, Xu Chen had full authority to arrange the matter.
So soon, the old witch's body was wrapped in linen and carried back to the Gonghuo Clan and put away. Xu Chen found the carpenters and masons who stayed in the Gonghuo Clan and started arranging tasks.
The carpenter's task is to quickly build a coffin.
The main task of the mason is to find a suitable stone and build a tombstone tomorrow.
Although the two skills of stonemason and carpenter are selected for the development of production life.
However, in the history of human development at home and abroad, making coffins and tombstones has always been an important profession derived from these two skills, and it is also an exclusive category.
The coffin maker will never be asked to make furniture.
The person who built the tombstone will definitely not be asked to grind the stone.
Carpenters and masons in other categories are also determined not to easily get involved in these two ancestral industries.
As a result, people in these two industries can only silently make money from dead people with tears in their eyes.
At present, various primitive tribes deal with various ways of dealing with people after death, but most of them burn or discard them. Even if they bury them, in order to prevent them from being eaten by wild animals, they usually pile them with stones.
For example, after the death of the Wu people, they are covered with stones layer by layer without digging holes and burying them in the soil.
In the Ba tribe, Xu Chen was almost cremated.
Although the Ba people and the Uu people have the same origin, it is obvious that the two funerals are different, which may have a lot to do with the living environment.
The Gonghuo Tribe takes fire as the totem and name of the tribe, so cremation is always carried out.
In the original Five Ghost Clan, their people were thrown into the valley after death to feed the demons.
Therefore, although primitive people also have various funeral customs, they have not yet formed fixed habits. In other words, they are taking different measures according to different living environments, and there is not much in common.
Xu Chen, on the other hand, was deeply influenced by the ancient Chinese civilization and was familiar with the tradition of burial.
In fact, with the development of human civilization, burial has increasingly become a common habit of all civilized races. Ancient traditions such as cremation, water burial, and even sky burial can only be seen in some relatively primitive and ancient places, and most of them are related to religion.
Related to customs.
Xu Chen's decision to build a coffin for the old witch and bury her was not just a whim, but he had already thought about it on the way here.
Human civilization needs memory, and only by inheriting memory can it continue to develop.
Just like each tribe needs the guidance of witches.
Once the old witch is sparkled, the funeral is basically over. As time goes by, the old witch's deeds will gradually be forgotten.
Although forgetting is also an eternal part of the development of human civilization, there are some people and things that should not be forgotten, otherwise there would not be the birth of the witch class, because their appearance is to pass on memory and record things that cannot be forgotten.
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If what witches inherit is knowledge.
Then Xu Chen hopes to pass on a spirit through burials and tombstones, a spirit of struggle that is not afraid of hardships and forge ahead, so that the Gonghuo tribe and other tribes and even future generations will remember that there is such a great and wise old witch.
Old people, only human beings can have a brilliant future.