Wu sat on the donkey cart, feeling the scenery on both sides slowly moving back. He looked at the tribe getting further and further away in his field of vision, and the gradually smaller people standing in front of the tribe to see off. He no longer felt reassured as before.
No less.
At this time, he felt very peaceful.
Shenzi was right. He and others really needed to give the younger people in the tribe some opportunities to be independent, so that they could experience and grow.
Only when they grow up and there are more and more people in the tribe who can handle things, will the tribe become more prosperous.
If you don't do well now, it's not terrible to make some small mistakes. With the Son of God and yourself behind to take care of everything, no matter how bad it is, it won't be too bad.
If you don't train the people in the tribe at this time, then when the time comes, you will be gone...
Of course, the main reason is whether Shitou can be the next witch without him. After all, the Son of God is still very young and not much older than Shitou.
It seems that when the tribe starts to hold sacrifices in the future, I should let Shitou perform in person and follow me.
Sitting in a donkey cart heading west along the Qingtong Expressway, Wu secretly made this decision in his heart.
The donkey cart moved forward. As it got farther and farther away from the tribe, the scenery on both sides became novel to Wu, Yuan and eight other people who came here for the first time.
Familiar places, walking in unfamiliar places, everything you see is full of freshness.
The witch has never traveled such a far distance. In his memory, the farthest trip he has ever taken was when he went with his senior brother and the others to a place far away from the tribe to pick up the Son of God who fell from the sky from the wild.
At this time, he let go of his worries and sat on the donkey cart along the Bronze Expressway. He was particularly happy. This was a feeling he had never experienced before.
Especially when I think that this is also the place where their Qingque tribe belongs, let alone the beauty in my heart.
Han Cheng sometimes rides on a donkey cart, but more often he walks because he feels that riding on a donkey cart is not as comfortable as walking.
Of course, this is if you are not tired from walking.
It was the first time for Xiao Wandou to experience such a battle. He was extremely excited. He ran forward and backward with Han Cheng on his short legs, shouting excitedly.
When he got tired of running, he would ride on the panda Tuan Tuan and let the panda Tuan Tuan carry him away while he continued to shout and scream.
After Wu Yuan sat on the donkey cart and walked for a while, he would get down and follow the cart for a while to stretch his legs.
Little Myolie, who was held in Bai Xuemei's arms, stared up at the sky with her dark eyes.
Whether it's the white clouds floating in the sky or the birds flying across the sky, they all catch her attention.
Fu Jiang followed Han Cheng forward, carrying the three squirrels on his back. He didn't know whether he thought they were pine trees or mothers.
All in all, this is a very strange team. There are people in the team, including donkeys, deers, dogs, pandas, and three squirrels.
In the breeze of early summer, the team was walking forward like this. Han Cheng turned to look at Wu who was sitting side by side with Yuan on the donkey cart, Bai Xuemei who was holding little Myolie on the other donkey cart, and Bai Xuemei who was following him.
The son riding the panda couldn't help but smile on his face, the joy that came from his heart.
This kind of outing is the best way to relax! Walk slowly and leisurely with the people you care about. Don’t worry about someone always taking you to the place where you need to spend money, or trying to trick you into buying fake goods. If you don’t buy them, they will still do it.
Make all kinds of sarcastic verbal attacks on you.
It was a good time to go out and relax, but it turned out to be a mess...
In the evening, a group of people came to the newly built Tongfu Inn, put down their things, and the deer and donkeys unloaded the cart.
Some people went to prepare meals, while others went to feed the animals.
Wu Ze looked at the courtyard back and forth, unable to hide the joy on his face.
This is also the place of their tribe, something that belongs to their tribe.
Even so far away from the tribe, there are still things belonging to the tribe!
After seeing Tongfu Inn, Wu really wanted to visit the Tongshan residential area.
The recently built Tongfu Inn has such a scale and elegance. I really don’t know what the Tongshan residential area is like after being run by the tribe for so many years and where so many people live here.
Hearing what others say is never as good as seeing it with your own eyes.
At this moment, Wu felt very regretful that he had not come out for a walk until now.
But fortunately, Shenzi pulled him out, otherwise it would be a real pity if he didn't leave the main tribe until he was old and dead and came to see these things that belonged to the tribe.
Due to the stay of Han Cheng and others, the originally deserted Tongfu Inn suddenly became lively and full of people.
As night falls, everyone rests, the wind blows, the waves of pine trees sound around, and the intermittent ringing of copper bells rings from time to time in the night, decorating the night together.
This is the sound made by donkeys and deer with copper bells tied around their necks, chewing cud or walking around, making the entire night even more silent.
Early the next morning, after everyone cleaned up, they left Tongfu Inn, blocked the courtyard door with branches, and continued westward along the Bronze Expressway.
While walking, Han Cheng turned around and looked at Tongfu Inn, which had become deserted again and gradually disappeared among the pine trees. Suddenly, some scenes from a Chinese fairy tale sounded.
A barren mountain, an ancient temple, a lonely lamp, a down-and-out scholar reading by the lamp, and in the middle of the night, a beautiful female fairy...
Thinking about this is exciting.
However, Han Cheng felt that there was no way to realize such a thing. Putting aside the question of whether prehistoric beings could become spirits, just talking about fairies transforming into human forms was enough to give people a headache.
It is said that fairies must have certain references when they transform into human form, such as the rabbit spirit in "The Legend of White Snake".
If this is the case, the beautiful female fairies may be as good as Zhuang, Ruhua and the others...
This is indeed very exciting...
The sixty-mile journey was all on flat roads. Starting in the morning, when the sun was still setting in the afternoon, Han Cheng and his party arrived at the Longmen Inn under construction from Tongfu Inn.
The people who stayed here were naturally very happy to see Han Cheng and his party, especially when they saw a witch in the team who had traveled such a far distance for the first time.
They have spent so much effort building these things, and of course they hope that more people in the tribe can see and use them.
At night, several bonfires were lit at the Longmen Inn where many stones that would be used to build the bridge were placed.
A few unlucky wild ducks were skewered on the branches and roasted until they were sizzling with oil, and the fish soup cooked in the large vat was exuding aroma.
It is close to the river, and walking some distance further north is the Wild Duck Lake, the first largest lake Han Cheng has seen since arriving here.
With so many rivers and lakes, of course there are also fish. When bridges are being built here and the Longmen Inn is being built in the past few days, the tribesmen will put some of the fish cages they bring with them into the water to catch fish.
When Han Cheng and others came this time, they also brought a large number of idle fish cages from the main tribe.
These will all be taken down to rivers and lakes to catch fish later.
With the support of these fish, we can consume a lot less food by building bridges nearby this time.
The fish here were not arrested last year, mainly because when the road was built last year, the old primitive people had not yet joined the Qingque tribe.
Moreover, the old primitive people and the road construction team of the Qingque tribe headed by Gu basically completed the handover here. Under such circumstances, Gu and the others certainly could not expose the fish cages to catch fish.
After all, the fish trap is not a particularly complicated thing. If others see how to catch fish with it, it will be easily imitated by others.
At that time, if the old primitive people saw and learned from them, it would not be so easy for the Wind Tribe and the Linfeng Tribe to join their own tribes.
Now that they have all joined the Qingque tribe and drank Qingque wine, they are members of the same tribe, so of course there are no such taboos.
The dinner, which was a bit like a party, ended later than usual. This was mainly because the old man in the tribe, Wu, left the tribe and came here.
People in the tribe respect witches very much.
Although the role that witches can play in the tribe has become smaller and smaller since the birth of the Son of God, the respect of the people in the tribe for this old man has not diminished.
This is partly because the Son of God, the most respected person in the tribe, has great respect for witches.
Since the Son of God is like this, others naturally don't dare to disrespect him.
On the other hand, the witch's love for the tribe can be felt by everyone in the tribe, and the witch is also very decisive. On weekdays, when the son of God is around, he seems lazy, but when it comes to the critical moment
At any time, especially when the Son of God is not in the tribe, the shaman can take care of things.
He is a truly responsible person.
The bonfire was extinguished and everyone took a rest one after another.
Wu lay in the makeshift camp, with his head exposed and his eyes open to look at the stars in the sky.
There were insects humming around, and from time to time in the darkness not far away, there would be one or two sounds of fish cutting through the water.
After looking at Wu quietly for a long time, with a smile on his face, he slowly fell asleep...
The next morning, Wu and Han Cheng went to collect the fish traps that were lowered into the river last night.
"There's fish! There's fish!"
Wu stretched out his hand and pulled a rope tied to the shore, and then slowly pulled it to the shore. As the fish cage was pulled, the fish that got into the fish cage began to swim uneasily, along with the rope on the fish cage.
They were all pulled to pieces.
Feeling this, the witch shouted excitedly, and then increased the strength on his hands.
In just a few moments, the fish cage that had sunk into the water was pulled out of the water by Wu. The fish in the fish cage were beating hard, trying to escape from the cage and return to the water to enjoy the joy of fish and water again.
It's a pity that such a thing will not happen.
"Ha ha……"
Wu didn't let anyone else help him, so he lifted the fish cage up by himself, walked a few steps to the shore, and when he was a certain distance away from the water, he turned the fish cage over and poured out all the contents.
For a while, there was a lively scene here.
In addition to seven or eight large and small fish, there are also translucent shrimps lying on the ground with their bodies hunched over and jumping vigorously.
There were also two eels, two palm-sized old turtles, and a toad covered in pimples.
The harvest from this fish cage can be said to be very rich.
Seeing such a scene, Wu was so happy that he couldn't open his mouth from ear to ear. Like a child, he started to pick up these things with some minors who were following him. Not to mention the joy after harvesting!
Lower the empty fish cage into the water again and continue to collect the remaining fish cages.
With the movement of everyone, the fish cages that had been in the water all night were pulled out one by one, and the harvest was filled with fish baskets with big bellies and small mouths.
These fish and shrimps are enough for the people building bridges and houses here to eat today.
Wu was very excited, and most of the people following him were also very excited, because since the number of fish and shrimps in the river in front of the tribe decreased, they had not gotten such a big harvest from the river at once for a long time!
Han Cheng was equally excited, but after the excitement he felt a little helpless.
Because he discovered that as the Bronze Expressway was gradually improved, there was Wild Duck Lake adjacent to the Bronze Expressway, and many large and small rivers around the lake. The fish pond next to the Qingque Lord Tribe suddenly became useless.
Got up.
However, there was some pretentious helplessness in this, which only existed for a while and then disappeared without a trace, completely replaced by happiness.
Such a lake and the surrounding rivers are worth a lot of land!
At that time, the tribe really encountered some kind of disaster, which caused a serious shortage of food in the tribe. Just relying on these lakes and rivers can survive such a disaster!
After processing the morning's harvest, Han Cheng, Bai Xuemei, Wu, Yuan and others left the Longmen Inn under construction and walked towards the north.
They were going to Wild Duck Lake in the north.
"Pullingleng~"
"Quack quack~!"
The arrival of everyone disturbed many wild ducks and other water birds living here.
There was a flapping sound of wings, and many wild ducks flew up, like a dark cloud in the sky.
After flying a certain distance, they landed in the water a certain distance from the shore. Looking at the group of uninvited guests on the shore, they screamed, flicked their wings twice, and some others
Dive into the bottom of the water, and after a while, get out of the water from somewhere else.
Wu's eyes widened when he looked at the large body of water in front of him, and he couldn't say a word for a while.
Not only Wu, but everyone who saw Wild Duck Lake for the first time couldn't help but widen their eyes.
Because the scene I saw in front of me was really shocking!
They had never seen such a vast body of water as far as the eye could see!
Before seeing Wild Duck Lake, they had never thought about where so much water could gather together.
Even Bai Xuemei, the child bride who originally lived in the Fire Tribe and was brought back along the river by Han Cheng, was not at all calm at this time.
Because no matter how much water there is in the river, no matter how long the river is, its width is limited after all, and there will never be such a sight that can't be seen in front of you!
"How many fish should be in here! How many fish should be in here!"
Wu, who was shocked for a while, looked at the vast water and began to mutter to himself. At first, Han Cheng couldn't hear clearly, but later he got closer and could clearly hear what Wu was talking about.
Wu was indeed a qualified primitive man. After seeing this large area of water, the first thing he thought of was how many fish he could catch for the tribe, instead of being shocked by the scenery in front of him like Han Cheng.
After appreciating the beautiful scenery, I connected it with the food.
"Egg! Egg! Mallard egg!"
While everyone was sighing at the scenery or the many fish living in the blue waves, a minor shouted in surprise, holding up two green-skinned medium-sized fish in his hands.
Some pitted wild duck eggs jumped excitedly.
This shout broke the shocked state of everyone, and many people began to use the sticks in their hands to push away the grass on the side, hoping to find surprises.
Han Cheng took little Xing'er from Bai Xuemei's arms, and Bai Xuemei and Xiao Wandou immediately joined in the search for wild duck eggs.
Although she is already the mother of two children, she is still as happy as a child who has not grown up.
It looked very much like a southerner seeing snow for the first time.
Han Cheng followed behind with little Myolie in his arms, talking to his daughter words that he didn't understand, with a smile on his face.
Although neither father nor daughter could understand what the other said, or even what they themselves said, it was undeniable that the communication between them was very pleasant.
"Wu, let's go to the island inside and have a look?"
In the afternoon, after sitting on the edge of the lake and eating some roasted wild duck eggs and some grilled fish, Han Cheng looked at an island in the wild duck lake and said.
This island is not too far from the south of the lake. Han Cheng estimated by visual inspection that it is less than two miles away.
Looking from a distance, the side facing Han Cheng and the others was full of rocks, with trees behind the rocks, and birds flying into the sky from time to time.
Han Cheng and the others had already discovered this island when they were surveying the terrain last year, but they had never been there last year because they were in a hurry.
Now that time is relatively leisurely, Han Chengcheng has the idea of going up to have a look.
Wu naturally agreed to such a proposal, because now he regarded Wild Duck Lake as a private property of his tribe.
Since it belongs to his own tribe, he naturally needs to understand it well, just like when he was in the tribe, he always liked to measure the land in the tribe with his footsteps.
This is a mentality similar to that of landlords and wealthy people.
After making this decision, Han Cheng, Wu and the others headed back. After all, it was impossible to swim across such a long distance. They needed to build a wooden boat or raft first.
After returning, Han Cheng asked the people who were building houses to stop temporarily and came to the lake to cut down trees from the surrounding areas to build rafts.
The reason why it is a raft instead of a canoe is because the requirements for a raft are relatively low and it is easier to make than a canoe.
When these people started making rafts, Han Cheng was not idle either. He was also banging away with his axe.
As he moved, sections of wood as thick as a bowl were tightly connected together by ropes.
This thing is the original life jacket made by Han Cheng.
Although it is simple, because Han Cheng uses very light wood such as tung trees, the buoyancy is still very good.
After it was done, someone put on the clothes and went down into waist-deep water, then curled up their legs so that the whole person could be floated.
There is strength in numbers, and after years of training, the people of the tribe have made great improvements in many aspects. So after one day, four large rafts came out.
Each raft is more than two meters wide and three meters long. There are fences built with thinner wood around the rafts, which can prevent people from falling into the water to the greatest extent.
A tree stick was erected on each side of the front and back, with oars hanging diagonally on it.
Because the raft was so big, it seemed extremely heavy. Several people couldn't lift it up. Junior Brother Sha and his friends, whose necks and faces were red from holding back the pressure, were about to call more people to come to the raft.
Six more people were added, but just after lifting it up, Han Cheng stopped adding people.
Instead, they asked people to find the leftover logs from making the raft, and place them every one and a half meters apart, from the raft to the edge of the lake.
At the same time, someone used a wooden pole to pry up the front end of the raft and stuffed two logs into it.
After doing this, ask people to push and pull the raft.
The raft, which was originally very heavy, suddenly became much lighter. Under the push and pull of everyone, it slid all the way into the lake.
After the raft hit the water, many people here couldn't help but cheer.
Their son of God once again used his wisdom to solve the problem!
At the same time, they also learned another way to solve problems from the wise Son of God.
After the first successful experience, it was easy to launch the remaining three rafts into the water. Using the same method, they entered the water not long after.
After the raft entered the water, it did not slide directly to the depths of the Wild Duck Lake. Instead, it first conducted experiments in the shallow water area to confirm that the raft was easy to use and that there were no safety hazards before the official voyage began.
Han Cheng made a screening of the first wave of people who took a raft to the islands in the lake.
The elderly, children, those who are not physically strong enough, or those who have no experience riding bamboo rafts or wooden rafts on the water before, are not allowed to take them.
Moreover, there are also many weapons such as vine shields, bows and arrows, and bronze spears placed on the raft.
After all, they had never been to the islands in the lake before and didn't know what they were, so they had to bring their weapons with them.
In addition to these weapons and the original life jackets, there were also many large split wooden boards and several coils of hemp rope placed on the raft.
These two things are also prepared for people who accidentally fall into the water.
Once someone falls into the water, the wooden board will be thrown over to let him hold him, and then a hemp rope with a small piece of wood tied to one end will be thrown over to pull him over.
