The slaves of Xia Cheng have always believed that their masters live like heaven, like the abode of the souls of the ancestors in the myth, where there is no pain but joy. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The slaves were a little nostalgic for Himexia's time in the city, at least when he was busy, he would give them some food, and sometimes dry cakes with no bran.

When they saw the leaders enter the hall of the council, they always felt that they were again discussing what they were forced to do, and perhaps it seemed to them that it was the only thing worth discussing, so they spat on the towering roof of the council and continued to bundle hay.

But the chiefs in the council hall did not discuss anything about slaves, but quarreled.

Song stood where Jian Chen should be sitting, frowning and listening to the discussion of these people, but he couldn't come up with an idea.

One leader pointed at the other and scolded, "Si Kou, Ji Xia asked you to temporarily take charge of the city, but look at what this tribe has done. Our two tribes went to mow the grass near Heyin together, and she was in charge of the people of the two tribes, but how did she divide it? ”

"The grass that our tribe has been allotted is as short and short as the hair of a woman, and it is necessary to bend down to cut a bundle; But what about their tribes? All the grass was tall and long, and it would take a few hours to cut the amount of grass that was needed each day. ”

"My clansmen thought it was just a coincidence at first, but it has been like this for more than ten days in a row, if Ji Xia is here, he will never be like this!"

The reprimanded leader replied, "I didn't look at it at all when I divided it, and I didn't favor our tribe. Besides, the land that Ji Xia gave to our two clans in the west of Xia City, you have crossed the border! They also blocked the water of that stream upstream, and your bean seedlings need water, so our bean seedlings don't need it? ”

"Not partial? Everybody knows what you think. You want your people to have more time to plow the land after they finish mowing the grass! ”

"Nonsense!"

The two men were far apart and began to curse at each other.

This is just a microcosm, many of the contradictions that have accumulated before or have been deliberately provoked in secret have gradually erupted after Chen Jian left.

These days, the leaders of several tribes have quarreled many times over ploughing, irrigating, mowing grass, and building stables, but Song is only a sikou, and he can manage whoever violates the laws of the city, but he can't do it by virtue of his prestige to suppress these contradictions.

More and more things that have never been seen before are starting to appear, not all good, but also many bad and many overwhelming.

Chen Jian temporarily stopped the brewing workshop in Fang City because of the lack of food, but one tribe learned how to make wine and began to brew it himself in exchange for more grain.

Song didn't know what to do, and Jian Chen only said that the market was stopped, but he didn't say that it was against the law to brew wine privately among tribes.

Before leaving, Jian asked them to build enough stables, but Si Cargo Ji was not there, and no one calculated how much wood was needed in total, and how much each tribe should be responsible for.

They asked Song, and Song secretly went to ask Redfish, and Hongyu calculated and told Song: only tell them the number, she will not care about the deployment of personnel, let each tribe be responsible for how many, no longer manage a part as before.

Hay grass, land reclamation, stables, exchange ...... These things, which used to have few contradictions, now have too many contradictions: the leader in charge of mowing the grass will give priority to his own tribe when allocating the grass, so that the tribesmen will have more time to cultivate the land after completing the quota; The stables were divided according to each tribe, and those woods that were close together became a place for several tribes to fight; In the past, there was an exchange of goods to allocate the number of various tribes, but now it is their own exchange, and the merchants of Echeng gradually increase the price of exchange.

After the quarrel, Song couldn't come up with any ideas, because these people didn't break the law, and he couldn't control it, and he didn't know how to manage it.

can only suppress everyone and prevent everyone from arguing, and everything will wait for Ji Xia to come back.

Although it seems to be a bit chaotic, the city is still stable as a whole, and Song can always come up with ideas about some important things, because he will ask Redfish; And these seemingly unimportant things, Redfish doesn't care about at all.

After leaving the council, Song found Redfish, who looked at Song's sullen face and smiled, "Quarreling again?" ”

"You can obviously manage it, you just need to divide what those people should do, and they won't quarrel. Ji Xia asked you and me to take care of it before leaving, you didn't come forward, but you have to take care of it? After all, Ji Xia is your man. ”

Redfish smiled: "Sit down, don't worry." ”

Song knelt on the ground helplessly, Hongyu raised his head and smiled: "I heard Ji Xia say that you have brought a lot of herbs from Echeng, and you have also learned some ways to treat your pain. ”

"If a person is sick, and the illness is very mild at first, it is good to drink some herbs; The other person was also sick, but he didn't give him herbs at first, but waited until he was very sick and looked like he was going to die, and then used a lot of herbs and bloodletting to make him better. For the same disease, what can make the patient feel that you are treating the disease well? ”

Song thought for a moment and said, "The latter." ”

"Yes, the former is better for the patient, but will the patient remember the person who saved his life?"

She stood up, pushed open the door frame, pointed to some houses that had been burned down by accident a few days ago, and said, "When Ji Xia was building the city, it was stipulated that the houses of each tribe should be spaced apart, and everyone was not allowed to pile firewood and grass where they could reach it. At that time, several tribes agreed to everything in order to move in, but they were still a little dissatisfied with this rule. ”

"The fire a few days ago, because there was no firewood and grass piled up, so only a few houses were burned and then it was extinguished, and these people understood why there was such a rule in the first place, and those grievances also dissipated, and you see that not only do they not mumble about it, but they also consciously pile up firewood and grass outside the city."

After a long time, she said leisurely: "He is a person, he always likes to give other people herbs before their illness appears, which is not good, so I want to help him and help him get rid of this bad habit." ”

Song frowned and said, "That's good, why is it bad?" ”

Hongyu looked at Song, as if he was looking at a fool, and said for a long time: "You are Si Kou, when the clan does not make mistakes, what is the meaning of your existence?" He is Ji Xia, when everything is normal in the city, what is the meaning of his existence? Just like curing a disease, giving herbs before the disease has yet to manifest, even if you say that it saved the person's life, will he believe it? ”

Finally, Redfish walked up to Song and said, "This is no longer a family affair, but a city, and it will never be a family." Your mind is still stuck in the time when the family is in harmony while everyone else is moving forward, and if you don't go forward you will be abandoned by the city. Everything is different from a year ago. ”

Redfish's tone was not very heavy, but Ke Song was like a lightning bolt falling above his head, and he himself couldn't remember how he got out of Redfish's house, just like when he had drunk a lot of wine happily after returning from Echeng many days ago, and his head was dizzy.

A man sat on a large rock by the grass river, where he had sat a long time ago when he had followed Jian Chen on his first expedition, fantasizing about revenge in the future.

After revenge, he tried his best to integrate into this tribe and this family, his original home is gone, his mother died, and only a few brothers and sisters are left, because of this mentality of wanting to integrate, he gradually likes the new tribe and new home, and even a little paranoid, so that he is always homesick when he is recuperating in Echeng.

But these days in Echeng, as well as the months he experienced after coming back, made him feel a little depressed and hesitant.

He once thought that the city was a bigger tribe and a bigger family, and everyone lived in harmony as if they had lived in caves before, just more people.

But in Echeng, he saw the differentiation between the rich and the poor, the rudiments of the private system, and the contradictions that emerged in the scattered small families for their own interests.

Back in Xia Cheng, he saw the conflict of interests between the various tribes, and saw many strange things that he didn't understand before but was awakened by Red Fish's words.

He wondered what would happen if one day Xia Cheng would be divided into many, many small families like Echeng?

He thought that the city was home, a large tribe with more people, but Hongyu told him that it was not at all.

A simple little thing of mowing the grass can lead to so much trouble, why is it all this?

Why can't the leader of that tribe make a fair decision? Didn't he know that it was bad to do that? If everyone knew what was right, wouldn't there be no strife in the whole city?

After thinking about it for a long time, I grabbed my hair painfully, and I couldn't figure it out. Before he had no disability in his left hand, he also did a lot of the work assigned by Chen Jian, but he felt that this should be done, hoeing may be more tiring than others, but if he is assigned to himself, he will do it, why do some people have to consider which work is not tiring and which work is tiring?

Looking at the reflection in the water, he suddenly felt that people had changed, they had become different from before, he thought of the story that Jian Chen had told, and felt that it must be those who had been enemies of the ancestors who had secretly burrowed into the heads of the people in the city, making them become selfish.

So he hurried back to the village, not noticing that a man from outside the city had come back on horseback.

Running to the house of the red fish, he told his bitterness and asked, "Why did everyone have no selfishness when they were in the tribe before?" Is it that the darkness that once harmed our ancestors has escaped into our heads again? ”

Hongyu tilted his head, looked at it for a long time, patted his forehead helplessly, and said with a smile: "Before...... In the past, because I couldn't eat enough, no one could live without the clan. When you hunt, if you steal food and don't give it to the rest of the clan, when you can't catch the prey, of course others won't give it to you. ”

Craned his neck and said, "I didn't think so, I never thought so." If everyone knew what to do, then the tribe would not quarrel, and Ji Xia would not need to think about these things every day, he could sit in the house, and the whole city would get better and better. ”

Hongyu bent over with a smile, and shook his head breathlessly for a long time: "My man really chose a good Sikou." ”

After a while, she listened to the drums outside, covered her sore belly and said: "He should be back soon, Song, it's just time to let the wild people serve the conscription again, so let's talk to Ji Xia, tell the wild people of a village that there will be no punishment if they don't obey the forced labor, let you tell them what to do is right, and see if you can talk to them before the snow...... Hahaha......" (To be continued.) )