In the front yard of the house, the smoke was thick, because it was almost the beginning of the month, the moon was half-round, and it didn't take too high a flame to see everyone's faces clearly.

Four people came back from the upper reaches of the Grass River, and only three were sitting here.

After discovering the tribe, Birch really made an impulsive move, so he was hit on the head with a stick by the tanuki, and now his head still hurts, and he was carried to sleep in the house by the tribesmen.

The people gathered around, asking them everything they wanted to know, and all kinds of questions were jumbled together, sounding like wolf cubs running into the nest of geese and geese.

The old grandmother picked up the drumstick and struck the pottery drum and said, "Don't ask nonsense, let Jian ask." ”

The clansmen then quieted down, and the tanuki was gobbling up hot food, and when they heard the crowd quiet, they swallowed hard.

"How many people are there in that tribe?"

The tanuki took out three small wooden sticks and said, "At least there are so many." We walked up the river and saw them on the banks of the Grass River, where they also lived. ”

"In the cave?"

"No, their rooms made of birch bark and wooden rattan are kind of like upside-down bowls, they are very small, and each room can sleep one or two people, and they are not too high."

Speaking of this, the tanuki said with some fear: "Some of them look the same as us, but some of them seem to have four legs, they are very tall, and I can't see clearly from a distance......"

When the originally quiet clansmen heard this, they immediately became confused, and they couldn't understand how there could be a four-legged person?

"Could you be mistaken? Isn't it some beast? ”

"No, though it is far away, I see those four-legged men with sticks in their hands, and how can any beast carry sticks?"

In the midst of a tumultuous argument, Jian Chen was also pondering what it meant. Four legs are impossible, so far there is not the slightest phenomenon of moving closer to the magic world, after thinking about it for a long time, I suddenly understood.

"Tanuki, did you see any strange big-looking beasts there?"

"Yes, they raise the beasts as we raise sheep. The beasts were tall, as tall as my shoulders, and wide, many, many, many. ”

Except for some older people, few people had ever seen such a large beast, and they all asked, "Do those beasts eat people?" ”

The tanuki shook his head and said, "Eat grass, I see them eating grass." ”

Jian Chen frowned, and said in his heart, could it be a horse? It would be nice if it was, it would save them time for domestication, and these people who had just learned to ride on foot would not necessarily use horses to fight, but at most as a means of transportation.

There were only three or four hundred men in the tribe, and the horses were probably used as meat. Before the advent of stirrups, Takahashi saddles and the like, it would have been impossible for a strong cavalry to emerge at the current level of off-the-job training. I've been looking for big animals, and that's a good thing!

But then the raccoon's words made Jian Chen stunned again.

"Those beasts have horns on their heads."

He spread his fingers and said, "Horns like fingers are like branches." ”

When Jian Chen heard horns, he thought it was a cow, but when he looked at his fingers again, he knew that it couldn't be a cow, and he hadn't heard that a cow could grow such horns.

The people imagined the beast, which was taller than a child, and the horns like branches.

It's still a little weird, but it's not as scary as it used to be. According to their experience, all animals with horns are certainly not meat eaters, and those who eat meat are too lazy to grow horns.

The tanuki tried to describe the appearance of this beast, and after saying that for a long time, the people were still confused, and they couldn't think of it without seeing it with their own eyes.

"By the way, the people of that tribe are still like lambs, lying under the beasts to drink milk."

Jian Chen hurriedly asked, "Do those female beasts that can drink milk have horns on their heads?" ”

"There are no horns. It's also a little smaller than those with horns. ”

The clansmen all looked at Jian Chen, hoping that Jian Chen would give an answer, but Jian Chen couldn't give an answer.

There were a lot of strange animals in this era, and with human activity, many large animals became extinct. The Paleo-Indians killed all the horses in North America in order to eat meat, and the horse actually originated in North America and did not return to its homeland by ship until thousands of years after its extinction; The Maori have eaten up the moa, a nearly two-metre-tall bird that is as violent as it can withstand the use of its brains. The Celtic barbarians ate all the bighorned moose, and could only reproduce the creature with huge horns in elven stories.

Now he can't say what that tribe raises, he thought it was a reindeer, maybe there may be a subspecies suitable for temperate zones in this era, this is the most easily domesticated deer, the Evenks and Laplands in previous lives have domesticated this kind of deer.

If you haven't seen it with your own eyes, it's better not to jump to conclusions, so I shook my head as well. The matter of drinking milk is easy to explain, and the tribe must not know how to milk yet, but they know through observation that milk can be drunk.

Chen Jian wanted to know more, so he asked, "What else is strange besides these?" ”

The tanuki looked around and made sure that Birch's brother was in the house taking care of Birch, who had a headache.

Only then did he lower his voice and said, "Hua's sister was killed by them, as if she was sacrificing...... A few of the birch people who were captured also smeared their blood on themselves, and the rest were tied to rattans. ”

The people were in a commotion again, they had experienced a sacrifice, but they had never associated the sacrifice with the murder. In their view, the sacrifice should be joyful. How can anyone who drinks sweet and sour wine, who runs faster and who shoots accurately, kill?

"Are those people going to be killed?"

"No, the people who were caught went to cut down the trees, apparently trying to fence off the birch bark house where they lived, and some were killed trying to run. They also have some sheep, more than ours, dozens of them. They live nearby, and there are a lot of edible plants that grow with other grasses. ”

The civet cat tried to tell everything he saw, and he was not afraid of anything else, the only thing he was worried about was the connection between murder and sacrifice, and the few people who had smeared the blood of their own people on their faces.

This matter was completely beyond his comprehension, how could his own relatives smear their blood on himself?

Jian Chen listened carefully, occasionally asking a few words about things that didn't seem important to him.

In the end, the tanuki suddenly thought of something, and hurriedly took out a small thing made of wood and reeds from a jar of lard and handed it to Jian Chen.

"They used this to catch fish, and a guy was fishing in the distance, and I grabbed one and threw the man into the river. I saw him catch a fish as long as my arm. ”

Chen Jian looked at this small thing in his palm and had to exclaim, these people have thought of too many unbelievable things in labor and life in order to survive.

It should be said that the thing in my hand is a fishhook, but it is not the kind of hook in the previous life, but it is made of thin, elastic pieces of wood and reeds.

The originally straight piece of wood was bent into a U-shape, and the U-mouth was stuck on a small section of reed, and insects were bolted to it.

After the big fish swallows it, because the swallowing reed is released, the U-shaped elastic piece of wood will pop open, become a "one" shape, and get stuck in the fish's mouth.

It is very practical, and the operation is also very simple, which is worth learning from the clansmen. Fishing in wicker baskets, it is difficult to catch too big; This method can catch very large fish.

He passed the thing to a few people next to him, demonstrated it, and after bending it, he gently pinched it with his hand, and the flake immediately bounced off.

Put this thing in their mouths, and make an analogy, and the people immediately figured out how this thing fished.

A similar method has been used by some Inuit people living in the polar regions, who use elastic whale bones to coat some animal fat, bend them and put them on the outside to freeze and throw them into the snow. Wolves hungry from the long winter will swallow the whale bone, which will straighten out and pierce their stomach when it is heated by the stomach.

This is all human wisdom, and wisdom can be communicated, so the tribe has a new way of fishing.

On the other hand, the tribe must have learned to glue feathers to the feathered arrows. There is also a new method of drawing the bow, the original pinching arrow method cannot be aimed, it can only be relied on by feeling, it cannot be stored, and it cannot exert the full power of the bow.

This exchange of wisdom and experience is also necessary for the development of human civilization, and with the development of productive forces and the increase of the scope of activities in the future, the speed of this exchange will become faster and faster.

A continent without communication would be like Australia, which is still using stone bows and arrows thousands of years later.

In Chen Jian's view, this casual technical exchange is a loss for his own people, because this fishing method is just the icing on the cake, and the feather arrow and the bow draw method are a charcoal in the snow.

After careful analysis, it is believed that the tribe has domesticated some kind of wild beast, knows how to drink animal milk, has a simple bow and arrow, and makes a yurt-like tent made of birch bark, and there must be someone who has learned to ride, and this is the only one who can explain the four-legged man.

Tanuki said that there are many fruit-bearing plants near where they live, and they grow together with the rest of the grass, so they should not even reach the level of slash-and-burn farming, but just scatter seeds all over the sky and grow on their own.

A primitive mixed tribe of fishing, animal husbandry, agriculture and hunting, if it occupies a good place in the future, it can develop into agriculture, and if it does not occupy a good place, it is fishing and hunting, and the worst mixed into nomadism. Whether the ancestors can occupy a good place directly determines the degree of civilization and the direction of development of future generations.

He stared at the clever Catchhook, knowing that this was an enemy he had to face.

With such a close distance, sooner or later there will be a fight, and the sooner the better.

Otherwise, as the technology spreads begins, the longer the time passes, the smaller the gap between the two sides will be, and it will be too easy to learn these things by yourself.

There can only be one civilization for hundreds of miles along the Grass River.

That tribe either submits, and the same language and sound are tied and vulgar; Or, let them be a piece of history.