The flames flashed inside the cave, and the aroma of food spread inside the cave.
It was the first time for the Cao Tribe minors to eat food cooked in pottery with salt added in it. They touched their bloated stomachs and felt extremely novel and longing for them.
After dinner, they did not go to bed early as before. Instead, they gathered around the leader of the Grass Tribe and kept asking about the Qingque Tribe. Their little faces were full of longing.
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They were deeply fascinated by everything the leader said about the Qingque tribe.
For those people from the Qingque tribe who look a little strange but are very nice, who like to smile at themselves and others, and who also cook delicious food for themselves and others, they no longer feel afraid. Instead, they all feel...
They are very friendly, as if they belong to their own tribe.
After this situation lasted for a while, these well-fed and drunk minors finally felt tired and began to fall asleep one after another.
With unprecedented satisfaction and peace of mind.
They fell asleep, but some people could not sleep, such as the leader of the Grass Tribe.
She came to the sleeping grass root lying on the ground covered with hay and animal skins, and leaned against it...
According to the aesthetic standards of people of this era, the leader of the Grass Tribe is a very good-looking person.
This can be seen from the fact that she can become the leader of the Grass Tribe.
As a woman, to be able to become the leader of a tribe cannot rely solely on wisdom, she must also have a strong body.
In this era, being strong represents strength and beauty.
So the grassroots were not too polite. After a while, a touching primitive tune sounded in the cave.
The melodious original tune ended, and Caogen quickly fell asleep.
But the leader of the Grass Tribe was still very energetic. She did not sleep, but came to another male citizen of the Qingque Tribe...
The night was already deep, and the cave where the Cao Tribe was located finally became completely quiet.
Along with the leader of the Grass Tribe, five male citizens of the Qingque Tribe, an old male slave of the Qingque Tribe, and a new male slave all fell asleep.
Since setting off from the tribe, they have never slept so soundly.
The person who was keeping vigil was the female citizen from the Qingque Tribe, and the old slave of the Qingque Tribe who was grouped with the leader of the Hecao Tribe.
However, the two of them were also a little sleepy and kept dozing off as they sat there.
On the one hand, this was because they were all very tired after traveling for nearly twenty days in a row. Another reason was that not long ago, they were influenced by the leader of the Grass Tribe, and they all joined the ranks of humming songs.
Although he didn't hum as much or as long as the leader of the Grass Tribe, he still felt sleepy at this time.
The leader of the Grass Tribe, who was thought to be extremely tired, actually did not fall asleep at this time.
Lying there, she secretly opened her eyes a crack and looked at the scene in the cave.
Originally, according to her previous assumptions on the road, after experiencing what happened, and under such circumstances, she should quietly take some people from the tribe and leave quietly.
She is extremely familiar with the surroundings of the tribe. As long as she takes the people in the tribe out of here under the cover of night and then finds a place to hide, these people will definitely not be able to find her and others.
And these people still have to go back.
The Qingque Tribe is so far away from our own tribe. It is impossible for them to go so far just to find trouble for themselves and others.
I only need to hide outside for a while with my people. After these people leave, I can go back to the cave of my tribe and continue to live here. I don’t have to worry about the evil Blackstone Tribe people anymore.
Oppress yourself and others.
And I have learned a lot during my period of life in the Qingque tribe, and I have the confidence to lead the people in the tribe to live a better life.
But now, the leader of the Grass Tribe is lying here without moving.
It wasn't because she was too tired to walk, but because she suddenly realized that her previous thoughts might not be quite right.
The sight of the children in the tribe eating fruit candies with joy and cherishment once again appeared before her eyes.
Such a scene made her feel happy and sad at the same time.
In the Qingque tribe, the children there can eat some fruit candies every now and then. They can also often eat an egg in the morning or add water and salt to the egg, stir it and steam it in a clay pot.
, something that people there call egg custard.
Deer milk and goat milk are also often available to drink. Some children of the Qingque tribe don't even like to drink these things. They need adults to scold them before they drink them reluctantly.
In addition to eating, the clothes he wears are also very enviable.
The children of the Qingque tribe have their own shoes and can wear clothes that are different from fur, but are particularly comfortable to wear when the weather is warm.
Wearing this kind of clothes, you don't have to worry about covering up very itchy pimples on your body, and you don't have to worry about your skin peeling off due to the strong sun.
The children there don't have to work every day. They spend half a day every day sitting in a spacious and bright big house and being taught something by the people in the tribe.
The leader of the Grass Tribe didn't know exactly what was taught, but she knew that it was a very important thing.
Because the minors of the Qingque tribe who are often taught this way seem to be much smarter and cleverer than the children of their own tribe...
Although I have learned some things in the Qingque Tribe, there are more things I have not learned, and even if I have learned some things, they will not be of much use outside the Qingque Tribe.
For example, she did most of the digging and hoeing there.
Although I heard that through such labor, I could get a lot of food in due time, the leader of the Grass Tribe discovered after some careful thinking that after leaving the Qingque Tribe, this kind of thing would not have much effect on him at all.
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Because she couldn't make the kind of sharp, easy-to-use tools, and she didn't have the kind of delicious little fruits to sow into the soil.
As for those things called columbists or plows that are pulled by deer or donkeys, I am even more powerless.
Not only these things, candies, salt, pottery, comfortable clothes... sit in a spacious house and learn things, making the children in the tribe smarter, and other things and things, you can make them yourself
Not coming out.
In this way, what if I can escape smoothly with the people in the tribe and then return to live in the tribe?
The life they can live is still far inferior to that of the Qingque tribe.
The children of the Qingque tribe often eat things that the children of their own tribe cannot eat anyway.
The children in the tribe, following him, would get nothing but hardship and hardship.
Not to mention the terrible cold that may come again...
The leader of the Grass Tribe was lying here, squinting his eyes as he looked at the scene in the cave, constantly thinking about these things.
After doing this for a while, she quietly stood up and walked towards the blocked entrance of the cave in a weird posture.
Quietly moved away from the blocked cave and came to the outside of the cave.
The dozing female citizen of the Qingque tribe who was in charge of the night watch quietly glanced at the entrance of the cave, tightened the weapon in her hand, and continued to doze there.
The leader of the Grass Tribe did not see this.
When she came outside the cave, she squatted on the ground and looked up at the starry sky for a while amid the sound of water.
After the sound of water disappeared, he stood up and looked around for a few times.
The surrounding area shrouded in darkness looked extremely blurry, as if it were the open mouth of a giant beast that could swallow a person in one bite.
The leader of the Grass Tribe looked at all this with a smile on his face.
She didn't stay outside any longer, turned around and walked towards the cave where the firelight leaked out.
After arriving at the cave, he gently blocked the entrance and quietly returned to her sleeping place. Not long after lying down, she fell into a deep sleep.
This was the deepest and most peaceful sleep she had ever had since being captured by the Qingque tribe.
The female citizen of the Qingque Tribe who was keeping watch at night glanced at the sleeping leader of the Grass Tribe and continued to sit there and doze off...
Unknowingly, the sky became bright again, and the aroma of food filled the cave of the Cao Tribe, filled with laughter and laughter.
After breakfast, when the morning sun rose from the east and the morning dew had not disappeared, a group of people had already walked out of the Cao Tribe's cave and headed into the distance.
The minors in the Grass Tribe ran with novelty and longing, with laughter.
After walking like this for a while, Cao Gen leaned over and picked up a little guy who was a little tired from walking, put her on the deer's back, and let the deer carry her away.
The novel experience that he had never had before made this little primitive man seem a little scared.
But after sitting on it for a while, the fear completely disappeared, leaving only excitement and joy.
Seeing such a scene, the other minors in the Grass Tribe were envious.
So, not long after, they were picked up by Cao Gen and others and walked on the backs of deer or donkeys in turn, making these children smile from ear to ear.
The leader of the Grass Tribe watched all this, and the smile on his face never disappeared.
After climbing up a hillside with few trees, everyone took a rest here. The leader of the Grass Tribe looked back in the direction of the cave where he once lived.
The cave is no longer visible and is integrated with the hill.
"Let's go!"
The leading grass root shouted, and the team set off again. The leader of the grass tribe also hurriedly stepped forward, walking with everyone, leading the way for everyone, and never looked back...
After Cao Gen and the leader of the Cao Tribe returned to where the Black Stone Tribe was, they waited for another two days for all the teams that had gone out to return.
Among them, the Shucao tribe has the largest number of people, with a total of twenty-nine adults and children.
Most of the people in the other tribes are between ten and twenty people.
This is because the cold last winter caused heavy losses to most of these tribes, with immature minors and weak people dying the most.
As for the senior brother and his group, no one came to pick them up this time.
Because when they passed by, there was no one in the cave, only some stinky stumps that had been bitten by wild beasts...
After everyone gathered together, they stopped at the Black Stone Tribe for half a day and one night, and then divided into seven groups again and headed towards the remaining seven tribes.
As for the people who were picked up, they all stayed in the Blackstone Tribe temporarily, waiting for the return of the eldest brother and the others.
Because when they met the people of their own tribe, these people had already been told that they had become members of the Qingque Tribe and would go to the Qingque Tribe to live a good life. Therefore, including the Black Stone Tribe, there were seven tribes in total.
, we get along relatively harmoniously here.
After all, in their minds, they are all members of the Qingque tribe, and since they are members of the same tribe, they naturally do not need to fight too much.
In fact, even people from the original Blackstone Tribe such as Pine Needle are now very friendly and no longer bully people from other tribes as they did before.
Another six days passed, and the senior brother, Caogen and other members of the Qingque Tribe who were away were divided into seven groups and all returned to the Black Stone Tribe again.
During this process, no one resisted. They were all very happy to leave the place where they originally lived and come to live in the Qingque tribe...
The Blackstone Tribe seems to be very lively now, even more lively than when the leaders of the Blackstone Tribe and the others were still there.
This time, the people from the Blackstone tribe, plus thirteen other tribesmen, the senior brother and the others received a total of 246 people.
If another tribe had not been attacked by wild beasts, causing everyone who stayed in the tribe to die, and if so many people had not frozen to death in the previous winter, the number of people they could receive would have been even greater.
However, even so, there are already enough people gathered here now.
Including the forty-five citizens of the Qingque tribe, including the elder brother, and the thirty-four new and old slaves who came, the number of people gathered here reached 335!
After picking up all the people from the tribe and resting here for one night, the senior brother led the people from here and headed towards the direction of the Qingque tribe.
On the one hand, this is because he wants to return to the tribe as soon as possible, and on the other hand, there are too many people gathered here!
It's not that the eldest brother is worried that these people will cause trouble. The two hundred and forty-six are mainly old and weak, with few young and strong people. The eldest brother is not too busy carrying a vine shield with bronze thorns.
Keep it in mind.
They, the citizens of the Qingque Tribe, can easily suppress these people without the help of the old and new slaves.
It's because I don't have much food to carry.
The food that so many people eat every day is a terrifying existence.
Even when they set out from the tribe, they carried an extremely sufficient amount of food, and replenished a batch when passing through the Tongshan residential area. On the way forward, they would replenish food when they encountered places with sufficient food.
But after walking all the way to the Black Stone Tribe, less than half of the food they carried had been consumed.
During the thirteen and a half days of staying here, these foods were further consumed.
Now, the food they brought is only half of what they brought.
But there are many more people who need food than before.
If you don't hurry up and rush on your way, it is bound to happen that the food you carry will be eaten before you return to the tribe.
Even if we rush on the road, there is not enough food.
Therefore, after starting to rush on the road, the senior brother began to reduce the daily food supply.
While doing this, they also asked the new slaves to explain to their original tribesmen that the reason why they are doing this now is not because the Qingque tribe is not rich and there is no food in the tribe, but because of the long distance.
When walking, the food they can carry is limited.
This situation is only temporary now, and it won't be like this again when we get to the tribe.
This explanation quickly calmed down those who were a little panicked.
However, there are still a few people who are relatively panicked, such as the former Blackstone Tribe's Pine Needles, but Senior Brother and the others don't care much about this.
They have already explained what needs to be explained. If these people are still panicked and unwilling to listen to their explanation, then we have no choice but to let them continue to panic.
If you dare to cause trouble because of this, they won't be polite.
They didn't mind at all to let these people see the other side of the Qingque tribe besides kindness and wealth.
There is no way, the person with the handle of the knife is so strong.
Of course, in addition to saving food, the senior brother and the others also collected as much food as possible while on the road.
For example, when hunting wild animals and encountering large areas of edible wild vegetables and fruits, the team will be temporarily stopped and everyone will gather food together.
As for the camping place, where there is a water source, it is a routine operation to put many fish cages inside.
However, although Senior Brother and the others wanted to rush back to the tribe earlier and were more familiar with the roads than when they came, they still did not go as fast as when they came.
This is mainly because there are too many minors in the team. Although these minors have extremely high enthusiasm, they are not physically strong enough and cannot keep up with adults.
It was okay at the beginning, but after walking for a few days, some people became increasingly unable to keep up.
The senior brother asked people to help them onto the backs of donkeys or deers.
Sometimes adults will carry them on their backs.
This was not the most troublesome thing. The most troublesome thing was that they encountered a heavy rain on the way back.
The heavy rain not only delayed their journey for two days, but also made some people sick.
Although they brought animal skin tents, bamboo hats and raincoats with them on this trip, there were so many people returning that it was impossible to cover everyone.
Even if these people were given boiled Bupleurum slices to drink in time, three people still died.
Three people died before returning to the tribe. Such a thing did not affect morale at all. On the contrary, after such an incident happened, these people became more enthusiastic and wanted to join the Qing Dynasty as soon as possible.
The birds are tribe.
This is mainly because this time, as many as nineteen people got sick and had fever due to being exposed to the rain.
In such a situation, in the past, half of the people in their tribe could survive, which was pretty good. But now, under the operation of everyone in the Qingque tribe, only three died!
The rest of the people got better one after another.
With such a cure rate, in future generations, that clinic would have been smashed long ago, and even the doctor would have his head beaten to death by the patient's family members.
But in this day and age, for people who have not experienced much of the magic of herbal medicine, such a thing is simply a miracle!
In this way, everyone moved forward. Seventeen days later, the senior brother and his party, who looked rather embarrassed, finally arrived at the Bazi Ridge in the north of the Tongshan residential area.
Walking out of Baziling along the slope, a piece of farmland appeared in front of everyone.
Looking across a field of farmland, the strange-looking Tongshan Mountain in the southwest and the Tongshan residential area not far below Tongshan appeared in front of everyone.
Looking at the large area of millet with the ears pulled out, and the Tongshan residential area standing there, the senior brother and others couldn't help but grow a mouthful of rice, with the relief and joy of returning home.
Some people from the Qingque tribe who were working in the fields had also seen Senior Brother and his group.
There were so many people in their group that it was impossible not to be discovered.
When these people who were working in the fields saw the large group of people like Senior Brother and the others, their first reaction was that there was another entity like the Blackstone Alliance coming to attack the tribe.
After their consciousness arose, not only did they not panic at all, on the contrary, they were all quite excited.
The next moment, when their eyes fell on the blue bird flag that was raised, the excitement in their hearts just became more intense.
"Chief! Leader and the others are back!"
Following this cry, the Tongshan residential area suddenly became boiling.
As for those who finally arrived at the Tongshan residential area after trekking all the way, all of them were already stunned.
They looked at the large number of people who came up, looked at the extremely tall cave like a hill, and looked at the various prey animals kept in the weird cave, and they were all amazed in their hearts.
It turns out that this is the Qingque tribe. It turns out that there really is such a powerful tribe in this world.
At night, after they had an extremely hearty and delicious meal here, they had a more intuitive understanding of the wealth of the Qingque tribe.
However, three days later, when they arrived at the Qingque main tribe along the Bronze Highway, they discovered that the tribe that had amazed them before was just a sub-tribe of the Qingque tribe.
There is a bigger and better Qingque tribe here...
