Chapter 8: Slowing the Furious Spirit (Eight)
The banquet in the Great Wilderness was very simple - to be more precise, the banquet in the Wenduoer tribe was very simple.
Because sometimes, in order to demonstrate power, the leaders of the Hed tribes would create a lot of red tape like their distant relatives.
The banquets at Wenduoer's department are even more natural: they eat meat when they are served, drink wine when they are served, add when they are not enough, and collect when they are full.
However, from the perspective of dietary content, the banquet of Wenduoer's department is like other aspects of this community and is inevitably influenced by its dominant players:
In addition to traditional horse milk wine, liquor also has light beer; in addition to cattle, sheep, geese, rabbits, chickens, ducks, donkeys, and pigs; in addition to wild fungi and berries, side dishes also include vegetables and fruits produced in the farmland; in addition to salt and sauce, the condiments also use Venetta fish sauce and expensive spices from the Far East; on the dining table of Wenduoer, a dish with a lot of honey, butter and sugar was also placed, making a very sweet pastry.
This is obviously intentional.
The Herdsmen usually eat some buckwheat and oats to fill their stomachs, but if they don’t snatch the wheat from their neighbors’ houses, it will be difficult to eat, let alone pastry that is so sweet.
So compared to meat, the pasta dish is empty first.
Pierre didn't realize this at first because there was nothing on the table that he couldn't eat.
But when he saw someone under the tent putting sweet snacks quietly and carefully, he realized what the centurion said, "'Reorganization banquet' is a very important job" means:
In this cruel and desolate land, what you eat determines what you are, what you can provide to others, and what you have.
At the same time, careful observation of the way guests under the tent eat can also give a clear view of the unevenness within Heard's society.
Some Hudds put the bones that still had a lot of meat back into the plate, greeted the waiters, and brought them out of the palace tent; some Hudds sucked the bones that had been gnawed with the cartilage, but they still remained unsatisfied.
Looking at the feasts in the palace tent, Pierre's voice became stronger and stronger.
This voice sprouted during his visits to various sub-campions. As his understanding of the old white and new white people became further deepened, the feast until now made the voice extremely clear:
There is a society on the Great Wasteland that is no less complex than the settlers; it is too ignorant and arrogant to roughly summarize every individual in this society by "barbarians". If this society is regarded as an enemy, then it may be enough and may even be beneficial to have this cognition; but if people outside the Wasteland want to rule on the Wasteland and only have such a shallow cognition, it will inevitably lead to bad consequences.
Pierre is increasingly regretting that he did not have the idea of learning Hedd earlier.
When Pierre thought of this, he had no appetite. He was thinking about how to fight for the new white people and conquer the old white people, so he just chewed and swallowed mechanically, without any extra money to enjoy.
Just as Pierre was almost half full, the Blood Wolf turned his head and asked, "Are you full?"
Pierre, who was pulled back from his own world, immediately put down the food in his hand: "I'm full."
"I'm really full?"
"I'm really full."
Blood Wolf smiled, turned around and made a gesture, and the banquet immediately entered the next stage.
The Hudders who were feasting in the tent also keenly smelled the change of the atmosphere - or the Hudders who were full and well-drink were waiting for the arrival of this moment.
Although people in the tent would still sip alcohol with a urn and continue to chew the bones that were not clean, no one whispered to each other, and no one made a sound of the plate or plate.
The door of the tent was opened, and two Hurds walked in one after another.
The Hudder who entered the door behind stepped into the palace tent and immediately walked a few steps, caught up with the Hudder who entered the door, and was unyieldingly standing side by side with the other party, but maintaining a considerable distance.
The two Hudds just did this, without even looking at each other, and came to the Blood Wolf with his neck stammered.
Even though Pierre knew nothing about the two Hurds, he could see what conflicts they had.
Sure enough, after the two Hudders saluted hard like a match, the Hudders who came in the door spoke first and said a long list of words at the top of their voices.
When the Hudler who came in the back spoke, the Hudler who came in the front became more and more angry, so when it was his turn to speak, he used a louder voice and even made an echo in the palace tent.
Unfortunately, Pierre couldn't understand what the two Hurds were saying at all. Instead, he saw the centurion nodding seriously while listening.
The two Hudds finished their words angrily, saluted again like a match, and then stood under the tent, waiting for the decision.
This is the time when Pierre is upset that he does not understand Hedge.
However, the problem of language barriers is immediately solved in an unexpected way.
The blood wolf turned his head and translated it for Pierre, explaining: "The two white-bodied men under the tent are called 'Bai Que' and 'Liu Lin'. The horses of the Bai Que's family were lost earlier, and then found in the horses of the 'Liu Lin's family..."
Wen Duoer in the tent was shocked to see Badu, who was the leader of everyone, seeking the opinions of the young children beside him.
Fortunately, they couldn't understand the language outside the wasteland, otherwise they would find that Badu was not only asking for the young child's opinions, but even doing a general translation for the young child.
Pierre was also extremely shocked.
But what was shocked that the case that could be stabbed in front of the centurion was just a dispute about a horse?
Judging from the irreconcilable appearance of the two Hudds in the account, he thought it was a lawsuit that started with at least two lives.
If it weren't for the language, Pierre really wanted to grab a Hudder's collar with one hand and yelled at them:
"Sitting in front of you is the lord of Tiefeng County, the 'Khan' of the new land outside, one of the leaders of the Fourth Republic of Paratu, the wolf blood that shocked the wasteland - Winters Montane. You ran to his feet, sprayed so much saliva, wasted so much time, just for a horse?"
Only then did Pierre understand what the meaningful smile at the corner of the centurion's mouth meant when the banquet began.
He suppressed his temper and calmly suggested: "Then let both parties find evidence to prove who is the master of the horse?"
"The ownership of the horse is not disputed." The blood wolf's expression was very serious, but what he said was not so serious: "The problem is that the white bird's horse is very capable. During his life in the horse herd of the Liulin, he had six foals with the Liulin horses."
Pierre was stunned.
Blood Wolf continued: "Bai Bird believes that there are at least three of his horses in the six foals; Liu Lin believes that the six foals have nothing to do with the white foals, and this is where they can't argue. What do you think?"
Pierre felt a little funny, but when he saw the centurion's serious expression, he couldn't help but take it seriously.
After pondering for a while, Pierre replied seriously: "Then we should first clarify whether the 'White Bird's horse was lost, stolen or lured away. If it is the latter case, the crime of stealing the horse in Liulin will be investigated; if it is the former case, the six foals have nothing to do with the 'White Bird', because the 'White Bird' can always be found, and the horse can only be pregnant with one child a year. The cost of the 'White Bird' for six foals is far more than that of the 'White Bird'."
When Pierre saw it, the centurion seemed to smile, and then turned his head back.
Next, the head of the Wenduoer tribe first asked the two Heds a few words, and the two Heds answered separately.
Then, the Blood Wolf called out several names in succession. Whenever a name was clicked, an elderly man would stand up in the palace tent, responding long or short, as if he was expressing his opinion.
Finally, the Blood Wolf gave his decision. The Hudders who came in were ecstatic. Although the Hudders who came in first were very unhappy, they had nothing to say.
The waiter brought the two of them a skin urn, and the two Heds drank a glass of wine in public, saluted Bado again, and then quickly withdrew from the palace tent.
Pierre breathed a sigh of relief.
Then, the second pair of Heards walked in...
In the next few hours, Pierre's goal of "understanding more about Heard's society" was quickly achieved in an unexpected but very effective way.
Pierre can be said to have witnessed the "diversity of internal conflicts in Hurd society" with his own eyes - from stealing horses to stealing people, from robbing grasslands to robbing wives, there are both trivial economic disputes and criminal cases with bad nature and equally severe punishment.
What impressed him the most was accusation of "robbing a bride".
A runaway slave stole a female slave from a small tribe that later joined the Wenduoer tribe and married the female slave.
It's no big deal, but similar things happen every day on the Great Wilderness.
Being robbed can only mean that the robbed tribe is incompetent; being able to snatch people away alone means that they are very capable.
Which side is more respected is probably self-evident.
The problem is that the ones that others robbed the bride were hostile tribes, and the escaped slave robbed the head of "his own family".
In addition, most of the old white-bodied people sitting under the tent at this moment were old white people who took property, so they naturally prefer small tribes that were robbed.
Therefore, the female slave who was robbed was pleading for the man with her big belly, and there was still a lot of shouts of beating and killing in the palace tent, hoping to pierce the escaped slave's arrows into his heart.
The new white-body who participated in the banquet was weak and completely suppressed by the old white-body, so he did not dare to make any sound.
The only person who stands on the side of the runaway slave with a clear position and fearless attitude is Pierre.
In order to speak to everyone under the tent, Pierre even asked the centurion to let Bell interpret for himself.
In the end, this big debate, which was against one hundred, ended with Pierre finding the loophole in the accusation - when the fugitive slaves robbed people, the robbed tribe was on the way to surrender, and had not yet swore allegiance - and won a great victory.
The escaped slave, named "Nei Arrow", who saved his life, kowtowed three times to "shoot arrows near and far away from the Baduo", and knocked bloody marks on the thick felt, and then helped his wife to leave the palace tent.
Chapter completed!