The riders gave gifts and solemnly handed over the roll of silk hidden in birch bark, but she did not take it herself, but let one of her wives come and pick it up.

The language was not understood, and E Yue did not ask much, but asked the riders to go down to rest and tell the people to prepare the best dinner.

When the riders withdrew, Eyue's three wives and his sister, brother and the rest of the family gathered around.

Although they are family members, they naturally distinguish between dignity and humility in the position they stand.

She had three wives, the first of whom was in charge of divination and calendars, and she stood side by side with her and was the only one in the tribe who had this qualification.

The second wife, who was in charge of food and goods, stood on the east side of the head of Eyue, and there was a reason for this, when the tribes of Hua and Su fought in the spring valley, Hua won and Su was defeated, and Hua's tribe was on the east side of Su, and since then the east has been honored.

The third wife is from the tribe of Dongyi, not a prisoner of war, but a wild marriage, proficient in the art of witchcraft and herbs, once saved Eyue's life, and also gave him two children, but still can only stand in the west of the head.

In addition, it is the clansmen in charge of cattle and sheep cultivation in the tribe, who inherit the rules of when Hua was still alive, and each is in charge of one side.

Now, Eyue lifted the linen cloth that covered it, revealing the gift that had been sent.

The savage tribes will set their eyes on the food first, because they can't read anything else, they can't understand what is in it.

Just like the few ethnic groups who went to the city to thank their ancestors, they only felt the shock, but they couldn't understand the power contained in it that could be passed down through the ages.

However, E Yue and the people first cast their eyes on the pair of bronze silkworm moths, which was obviously a ritual weapon.

As for the food delivered, although it smelled good, no one cared. Someone brought in a slave to try it and gave a portion of the food to the slave. It's just a habit, after the death of Hua and his wife, there was a case of poisoning the leader with poisonous food in the tribal battles of the homeland, so there were slaves to try it.

Eyue held up the bronze moth, looked at it carefully, and asked her favorite wife, who was in charge of divination and calendars, and asked, "What do you think?" ”

The woman did not divination, but said very firmly: "This tribe is very powerful, even in our homeland, it is a very powerful tribe." ”

The woman looked at the bronze moth, shook her head with a smile, and said, "Their craftsmanship is not good, it is much worse than our jade carving skills, this moth thinks it is a bird if you don't look carefully." ”

The family members all laughed, and when the clansmen sacrificed to their ancestors, they also used silkworm moths, but they were carved with jade, which was much more lifelike than this.

But then the woman said, "But with this copper silkworm and cocoon, it's different." ”

A few people looked at those things, but they didn't see anything special, they seemed to be very ordinary, and the carving technique was really far worse than that of their own tribe, and there was no pattern at all.

However, Eyue had a solemn face and agreed with his wife's opinion, this woman's mind was exactly what he liked.

He picked up the bronze silkworm and said, "This person named Jian knows how the silk silk came from. He knows silkworms, moths, and even cocoons. But he is not one of the tribes in our homeland, and even if they are, only a few tribes know about the cocoon. ”

The woman continued, "This copper is the same as their weapon, and it is also the same as the copper that Hua used to cast the weapon. We know that it is copper, and it can also be melted, but we don't know what is mixed in it and why it becomes hard. ”

E Yue smiled and said: "Yes, this Jian is telling us that the bronze blades of their tribe were not given by others, they did not fall from the sky, they smelted them themselves, so they fused this pair of silkworm moths to show us, telling us that they can smelt weapons, so that I don't want to fight his idea." ”

"yes, a very cunning little fellow." The woman smiled, curious about what this man looked like, she didn't see it that day, but she heard that she was very young. She thought that these things must be the technology passed down from the tribe, and she didn't even think that it came from a tribe that had just come out of the wilderness for less than a year.

The woman put down the bronze silkworm, looked at the various gifts, and her eyes swept over the two bronze mirrors, not stopping, but staring blankly at the rectangular ruler glued together with wooden boards.

She was in charge of divination, calendars, and watches, and was naturally extremely sensitive to such geometric shapes, and could not help but grasp the rectangular ruler in her hand, and looked at the perfect rectangular angle with a fanatical and reverent gaze, and could not put it down.

This moment is so perfect that it is a temptation that cannot be given up to a man who has been immersed in numbers and shapes, light and shadow all day long, just as a fish is to those little tanuki in the tribe.

This ruler not only has rectangular corners, but also several perfect circles carved on the board.

She can also draw circles, and she also has rules, but the circle is not empty, but there is a diameter through the center of the circle, and several triangles with the diameter as the side.

Almost instantly, she was keenly aware of the problem, the shape of the triangles was not the same, but ...... Their corners are all perfect rectangular angles!

These moments were like bright stars, which made her fall into a dream, and she was stunned.

The family had never seen her like this, and they didn't know why she was so surprised, but they didn't dare to disturb her, and no one could disturb her except Eyue.

It wasn't the first time he had seen his wife like this, but he knew what it meant, and was there anything on the ruler that his wife couldn't even guess?

When Jian Chen gave the gift, he didn't know the knowledge of this tribe, and he didn't know that a woman would go crazy about it. But he knew that a civilized race would not be interested in eating, but he would certainly be shocked by something inconspicuous.

And if this is a civilization that has not yet set foot in it, I am afraid that after seeing the ruler, I will think that this is some kind of thing, maybe it can be hung as a decoration, but it will never see what is drawn on it.

At this time, the woman's performance is not a barbaric witch maniac, but a civilized contemplation.

E Yue was a little worried about his wife, she didn't know what was going on, and wanted to retrieve the ruler, but the woman held it tightly, her fingertips were a little white because of the force, and it took a long time to wake up, looking at the picture on it, and suddenly shouted: "Wait a minute, I really want to know what that Jian wants to say!" ”

I hurried to my house, turned out the rules, drew a circle on the ground, and then made a diameter with a ruler, took a little bit on the ring at random, and took out a ruler and measured it after connecting it; I re-selected a little bit and re-painted.

It was repeated several times, and the family looked curiously at the drawings on the ground, which they couldn't quite understand, but they knew that the drawings were perfect.

The woman stared at the picture on the ground and muttered, "I see, I see......"

After a few repetitions, he finally laughed out loud after the fourth had finished saying this.

She understood what it was about—it was a question she had never thought about, and it turned out that there was such a relationship between a rectangular angle and a circle.

After laughing, she suddenly thought of something, and said solemnly: "Yue, this tribe is very powerful. They will build houses and walls no worse than we do, or even better. ”

"Better?"

"Yes, better. People lie, but neither does the ruler and the painting on it, and that's what he's trying to tell us...... They have strong cities, and we can't take them. Maybe...... He also wanted to see if we could understand it. ”

If you understand or not, you can see it when you return the gift, and if you don't understand it, you will be ridiculed by the other party. Food to food, divination to divination, ritual to ritual.

If it weren't for his wife's ability to see that she had treated this ruler as a plaything when she returned the gift, the young man would have secretly laughed at the ignorance of her tribe.

Stepping into civilization, you will know the honor, but also have the heart of competition, not only whose soldiers are sharp, but also whose house is gorgeous, whose stargazing and divination numbers know more, the competition of civilization, not only war.

"What are you going to get back this gift?"

The woman thought for a moment and turned out a square clay tablet, on which the vertical and horizontal lines were divided into nine grids.

The top is four hundred and ninety-two, the middle is three five seven, and the bottom is eight and one six, not numbers, but counts with concave points.

E Yue exclaimed: "Need to use this?" ”

Although he didn't quite understand what it was, he knew how terrible it was, and his wife's mother had dedicated it to Hua, and that tribe had changed from an obscure tribe to a warden in charge of the calendar.

Since it is something that Huadu values, it must be an extremely important thing in Eyue's view, perhaps it contains the truth of the movement of the sun and the moon, otherwise why can the wife's mother know which day is as long as night? How do you know which day is the longest and the night is the shortest?

He didn't understand, he just guessed, but he knew that the ruler was far heavier than he thought.

The woman looked at the clay plate and said, "Other than that, it can't be compared with this horn." ”

"Can he see what it is?"

"The number will not change. One may not be one in their tribe, but one is still one. This thing will make the smartest people in their tribe ponder for a few years. ”

The woman sighed faintly: "Since he told us that he can melt bronze soldiers and build square cities, we can't take them as slaves like we did with those barbarian tribes, so we can only use our troops and axes." When two tigers fight, both will bleed. ”

When he heard this analogy, he didn't refute it, and when he saw the group of soldiers, he knew that if his tribe was a tiger, that tribe would at least be a wolf.

And now it seems that these things that his wife is embarrassed are tantamount to making the evil wolf grow colorful patterns and become a tiger who can really talk to his own tribe on an equal footing.

Just as Eyue was about to look at the third gift, his brother, the man in charge of building houses in the tribe, took the ruler again, stroked the straight plank, which could not have been split with an axe, and shook his head incredulously.

E Yue's heart moved, and her heart said Is there something else in this?

"Yes, and something, they have a tool that smoothly cuts through wood, which is not split with an axe, nor cut with a copper sword. If you touch it, it's not smooth, it's rough, and you can't cut it so straight with an axe, and it won't be so rough with a sword. ”

E Yue did not doubt her brother's eyes, every family member standing here is the most vicious clan in a certain line, and they will never be wrong about what they are responsible for.

Eyue's younger brother said slowly: "We don't have this thing, they do." I can't think of what it would be like. ”

Solemnly put the ruler aside, and the people in the room looked at the pile of gifts with solemn faces, and there was no longer any more ease before.

This is only the second gift......