Jiang Wen sat on a rock, flipping through the animal skin scroll in his hand. After adding dozens of new animal skin pages, the thickness of the scroll was already close to his arm. Only a few hundred kinds of animals and plants were already so thick, so what would he do in the future? He was a little worried.
It wasn't difficult to talk about papermaking, but he couldn't remember how to make it. He only knew that paper needed wood pulp, but how to get it was a problem. He had tried many times for this, but all ended in failure. In the end, he could only rely on animal skins to record things.
Xue sat beside him, curiously looking at the animal skin scroll in his hand. Since coming out, Xue basically wouldn't leave his side except when sleeping. This time, they encountered another group of Nanqi people fleeing. According to them, since the old battle two years ago, Nanqi had been captured by foreign tribes in a large area of territory, and now many places were in trouble.
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They were Nanqi people who moved from their old residence to a new place, in order to find a new place to live. Following this group of people, Jiang Wen and his party also came to a new settlement of the Nanqi people.
The dwellings here were surrounded by thorns and wood. With so many people, even wild beasts dared not easily set foot here. But even in this tribal gathering place, wild beasts would occasionally tear at the wooden doors, and were eventually discovered and driven away by the people.
This new gathering place already had the appearance of a small village. The Nanqi people waved various agricultural tools and ironware, wore clothes woven from cloth, and shuttled through the fields working. And the Nanqi people who had taken refuge, compared to when they first met them, now many people had rosy complexions and were full of energy. They lived at the foot of the mountain slope, not far from Jiang Wen's current residence. The original simple wooden houses had been repaired and became smooth and sturdy.
The working people came and went, storing the collected food and hunted prey in the cave. Long ago, the Nanqi people discovered that the cool and ventilated cave was a good place to store food. They learned to air-dry some easy-to-preserve foods and hang them on the top of the cave to prevent wild animals from entering the cave to steal food. They would collect some vines to weave vine nets to catch fish in the river, and use bamboo-like plants to weave bamboo baskets to hold fruits and the like. The Nanqi people used the limited iron equipment to cut down trees. Their forging industry seemed to be much more developed than Taicang.
Perhaps they took a different path. The vast river next to the residence was the new life of the Nanqi people. The bottom of the river was so cold and bone-chilling, but the surface was turbulent. However, the Nanqi people used the unique properties of this river to tie iron stones with vines and throw them to the bottom of the river, so that they could be subjected to the cold of the river bottom and then pulled up and hammered with fierce fire. This kind of material was easy to forge after being subjected to both ice and fire, but it was extremely hard. They called this metal fine iron.
In this era when bronze ware was not yet popular, the Nanqi people who possessed ironware were simply like they had a cheat.
But now that the Nanqi people's capital has been breached and the various forces have dispersed, it is not so easy to find their royal family.
Thinking of this, Jiang Wen looked at Xue beside him.
Xue saw Jiang Wen smile at her and couldn't help but look at him curiously. Not understanding why Jiang Wen was happy, she also smiled.
"Xue, come here." Jiang Wen waved to her.
Xue squeezed to his side, looking at him blankly.
"We have a mission this time to Nanqi, you also need to learn the language of the Nanqi people, are you willing to learn with me?"
"Yes." Xue nodded.
"Okay, then I will teach you the Nanqi language in the next few days, and you should also teach Xiuqi." Jiang Wen smiled.
"Master, don't worry." Xue nodded confidently.
Jiang Wen quickly entered the state, he wrote the Pinyin on the animal skin. Dozens of simple letters to summarize the language of the Nanqi people.
During this time, Jiang Wen taught Xue to recognize Chinese characters while exploring the situation of the land of Nanqi, and also improved the application of the life fire cultivation method.
I don't know if it's because of the Yellow Court Scripture, he can feel a mysterious force guiding him, so that every time he enters confusion, he has a feeling of seeing the blue sky after clearing the clouds.
The residence can no longer be called a gathering place. The hillside is full of small houses covered with vegetation, forming a simple town around the residence in the center of the village.
Scattered Nanqi people who have lost their way or separated from their tribe come here, and everyone will enthusiastically build wooden houses for them and teach them how to fish and make tools.
The foreigners are attracted by the tribe's rich food and comfortable life. They settle here and learn to live in an orderly manner with the tribe. Although a few short-sighted people wanted to challenge the leader's position, they were completely honest after the leader carried their heads and threw them into the river.
Looking from a high place, the original small residence of dozens of people has now more than a hundred people. The houses are arranged in an orderly manner without any disorder. The wooden fence that originally surrounded the residence has been expanded a lot to the outside. The hunters keep the captured prey in the wooden fence and provide them with food.
They cut down trees from the edge of the forest to build, and transport fruits from all directions back to the village. The original team of several people has expanded to dozens of people. Every day at dusk, the people at home will bring their children to welcome the return of the hunting team.
The children are looking forward to their relatives bringing back some new things from the forest, such as cute little animals and delicious fruits. The adults are looking forward to the most sumptuous dinner of the day, the fragrant barbecue and the joyful bonfire party.
Compared to the Taicang people, the Nanqi people may be closer to the people Jiang Wen understands.
Jiang Wen watched the female leader's prestige in the village become higher and higher. He felt that the gathering place, which was now like a town, should have a common name, which would be conducive to people from different regions living together harmoniously.
After all, looking at the size of the village, it is not small.
As the leader's savior, Jiang Wen's residence has always been very good. Even if he doesn't go hunting every day, someone will offer him meat.
Jiang Wen expressed his gratitude for this and taught them a few skills by the way.
When he had explored the surrounding environment almost, the leader came to the house again. This time she brought information about the Nanqi royal family.
