Chapter 181 Central
The old man said that the roots of the Yanjiao tribe are still in the old place, and the veins of fire are still there, and the fire must be ignited in the old place. Shao Xuan really didn't know this, maybe Wu knew it, but he just didn't say it.
No wonder those ancestors were eager to return to their hometown, and there was another reason.
For those tribes who are wandering and to prosper again, the return of the tribe is indeed very necessary. I don’t know how many people are waiting to welcome the new life.
The traveler team will not stay in Feng Tribe for a long time. After all, they are just passing by here and using it as a rest place before reaching the central part. After resting and getting enough preparation, the leaders will greet the people in the team and prepare to set off.
Shao Xuan left some things for Lao He's family and replaced them with a few cows and sheep. Lao He didn't want it. His family was two old and one young, and he had no combat power. If it made other tourists jealous of killing, it would be no good. Fortunately, Guaer had agreed to take care of her, so that Lao He's family would not be too difficult.
Even if it is difficult, Lao He doesn't care, because he already has hope. Perhaps, he only needs to wait a few more years before he can return to the tribe with his family and tourists living in other places. What a blessing to be able to return in his lifetime!
After saying goodbye to Lao He, Shao Xuan and the long-distance team left Feng Tribe together.
Shortly after the long journey team left, Guaer's father came back on patrol. After entering the house, he thought about asking Guaer that the kid was clamoring to deal with the wooden stakes he dragged back. If he didn't handle it, he would chop it as firewood.
He lifted the leather curtain and walked into the room, but when his eyes met an object somewhere in the room, his scalp tightened and his hands quickly pulled out the knife pinned on his waist.
However, before he could take the next move, a figure rushed out and let out a heart-wrenching cry.
"Dad——"
Guaer held his father's legs firmly, "Dad, we have so much firewood in our house, don't cut off my wood carvings!"
"Wood carving?" Guaer's father was stunned. He looked over there again, "It's true."
No wonder I thought something was wrong just now. It turned out to be just a wood carving. However, it is really not easy to carve wood carving like this. When I first looked at it, I thought I had encountered some wild beasts coming out of the forest.
"Where did this wood carving come from?" Guaer's father put away his knife, walked over, and looked at the wood carving in front of him with a rare glance.
"Didn't I tell you? It's just the wood that was dragged back and found the traveler named Shao Xuan to carve it." Guaer said the matter and mentioned that he promised to take care of the Lao He family. After saying that, he was a little worried, lowered his head, quickly raised his eyelids and looked at his father, for fear of being beaten.
Unexpectedly, Guaer's father was just silent for a while and said, "Do whatever you agree."
Shao Xuan, who had left Feng tribe, did not know about Guaer's conversation with his father. He and others continued along the other, the upper reaches of the river were deep in the grassland, and the lower reaches would converge with another tributary, and the formed river would flow through some places in the middle.
This time, there is no raft, and I will all walk by myself.
As those travelers said, the team rushed for a few days in a row and the destination was also closer.
"Walking a little further, it belongs to the central area."
"Let the people in the team pay attention. The front is the territory of the two large tribes in the middle, so don't mess with them." Some experienced travelers reminded the newcomers.
Tribes that can gain a foothold in the middle, regardless of size, always have their uniqueness, which is not comparable to some ordinary small tribes. Generally speaking, these tribes in the middle do not take the initiative to attack the teams of the long journeyers.
When you arrive here, you will also encounter many travelers coming from various places. However, now you will not say hello so peacefully to each other and are all guarding against each other.
When passing by a hill, several travelers next to him said to Shao Xuan: "Look at that side."
Next to the long journey is a continuous and low hill area, and on these hills, there is a group of hill rock paintings with tribal characteristics.
The paintings drawn on the rock paintings are not very detailed, and they do not look like humans, but they have a facial makeup that belongs to humans.
There was a painting like this on the huge, almost rectangular huge rock in front of Shao Xuan. Above was painted a round face with a wide mouth. Strangely, the body part below the face seemed to be similar to that of an ordinary person, but there were two more hands.
The painting style is rough and exaggerated, and it looks like a person with a strange body proportion, with six hands standing there, his mouth wide open, his six hands open, and his legs are also spread at a certain angle, looking like a spider. Looking at the person passing by here. Behind him, there are some interlaced lines carved with other parts of the rock, which do not seem to be scattered randomly, but are carved regularly and purposefully.
"Is this?" Wei asked the experienced travelers next to him, hoping to get a more accurate answer from them.
When Shao Xuan saw this painting, he had already met the number.
The "Wei Ba" tribe has been painted and recorded on the animal skin scrolls of his ancestors and on the stone walls of the cave.
In the cave near the foot of the mountain, when Shao Xuan first saw the pattern on the stone wall, he thought it was a spider. Later, after reading more records of the animal skin scroll, he realized that it was not a spider, but a spider-like monster.
There are also some huge black rocks next to it, and they are also carved with various facial makeup and eight-limbed monsters.
Look, it is worthy of being a large tribe in the middle. How far away is it, I started to draw the land and establish the boundary monument, for fear that others would not know that it was the Weiba tribe. Looking around, the rows of hilly rock painting groups were all paintings with the characteristics of Weiba tribes, both large and small. Even if the people passing by here had no good memory, they were carved into their minds by this long hilly rock painting group and could not be forgotten.
The person next to him said, "We have not really reached the territory of the Weiba Tribe. The place we are traveling belongs to the Weiba Tribe and the Mang Tribe."
"Manglin jade, Weiba silk clothes, are these two tribes?!" Wei had heard some travelers talk about these two middle powerhouses and the items produced by these two tribes. However, he had never seen jade from the Mang tribe, nor did he see the clothes made of silk in the legend.
Manglin jade and Weiba silk garments are famous items in these two tribes. Whether it is Manglin jade or silk garments produced by Weiba tribes, they are extremely expensive. Generally speaking, for small tribes brought from remote areas, they will not exchange these two because there is no need. The linen has already discouraged many people. If there is another more expensive silk garments, they will be kept even if they take them back.
To put it simply, their consumption level has not reached that level and cannot be appreciated, and it is even less useful for those who pay more attention to practical applications.
"In addition to the rock paintings of Weiba tribes, there are also marks of Mang tribes nearby. Look, look ahead, there are totem marks of Mang tribes." The traveler next to him pointed out to Shao Xuan and Wei.
There was a bamboo forest there, which was not too tall, but was very thick and looked very strong. The leaves could cover Shao Xuan's hands.
Almost every thick bamboo is carved with paintings, like the totem patterns of the Mang Tribe. In addition, there are some things made of bamboo and wood that are similar to wind chimes hanging there. The strings of bamboo and wood hit each other with the wind, making sounds of different heights, which is very nice.
Under normal circumstances, many people would have cut bamboo or taken away the bamboo and wood wind chimes that could play music. But in fact, very few people would move those things, just like most people would not dare to use swords on the hilly rock paintings of the Weiba Tribe. That was the symbol of those two tribes. Whoever moved was a provocation to these two tribes.
People in the traveler team will not do such a way of seeking death. It is precisely because of this that they will remind people who are traveling for the first time before coming, and do not offend those strong people without knowing it.
Because there are often travelers coming and going here, they have already walked a very obvious road. On the left side of this road, there are long rows of hilly rock paintings. The eight-limbed human paintings of the Weiba tribe are in the form of a glaring look. Looking at the passing pedestrians brings considerable psychological pressure to each of the Weiba tribes, and they are even more afraid of the Weiba tribe. The strong are the strong, and even the paintings are so powerful.
On the other side of this road, the completely different fresh style of bamboo painting style chimes did not make everyone feel relaxed. On the contrary, every time the sound of bamboo and wood hits everyone, it made everyone feel nervous. It seemed that in the bamboo forest, there were pairs of eyes staring at them, which made the team unconsciously speed up, let alone move the bamboo and wind chimes.
This is the demonstration of the strong, in their own way, let the people who come and go remember their strength, not just remember jade and silk clothes.
After walking through that section, there were no hills and rock paintings next to it, and the sound of the bamboo and wood knocking gradually faded away, and everyone relieved their breath. The nervous mood gradually calmed down.
"Further forward, there will be a valley, which is a good trading place. Because it is very close to the Mang Tribe and the Wei Ba Tribe, no one dares to cause trouble." said a traveler in front.
Soon, Shao Xuan saw the place where he was trading, which was like a small market, surrounded by wooden houses and bamboo houses. There were also many travelers from all over the place, or people from nearby tribes who traded here. Because they were backed by two "mountains", they sometimes needed to offer some gifts to the people of these two tribes.
When entering this market, Shao Xuan felt that it became lively. Some people placed the items they wanted to trade on the ground, and there was a layer of straw curtain or animal skin at the bottom. Some people set up a suggestion shelf and placed the things on it.
The very simple market is the largest and most lively trading place that Shao Xuan saw after coming to this world. (To be continued...)
ps: I will only have one chapter tonight. I have been staying up for a few nights, going to bed early today, and I will make up for updates tomorrow. Children in the college entrance examination should not stay up late.
Chapter completed!