In addition to the Mang tribe and the Weiba tribe, several other tribes in the middle of the continent also set off one after another.
When it comes to banquets, experienced tribes all know that going to banquets is also a struggle. There are no murderous contests everywhere, not necessarily direct comparisons of force. There are many ways to suppress each other, such as clothing, such as Accessories, such as tools, etc.
In terms of clothing, each tribe has its own characteristics, and it does not necessarily have to be hideous animal skins or silky silk fabrics. For example, the Mang tribe prefers clothing made from plants that are similar to the color of bamboo, and the accessories are also bamboo chips. Or carved from jade, the jades that symbolize status are also different. People from outside the tribe can know the status of the other party in the Mang tribe through the jade ornaments on the other party.
And this time, the jade ornaments hanging on the waists of the people from the Mang tribe are all above the semi-circle level. That is to say, this time the Mang tribe's team is basically middle and high-level totem warriors, and their status is in the Mang tribe. Not low either.
There are many jades produced by the Mang tribe, and many people have imitated the shape of the jade ornaments hung by the Mang tribesmen, but the real Mang tribesmen, the jade ornaments on their bodies seem to be simple, but they are very special, not carefully carved, but clear It has a green pattern like bamboo. This kind of jade is called Mangyu, which is exclusive to Mang tribesmen. Even if other tribes get this kind of mang jade through some means, they would not dare to take it out, because Mang tribesmen do not will allow.
The Weiba tribesmen, who are affiliated with the Mang tribe, are wearing the famous silk clothes of their tribe, and, for this trip to Yanhe, they all put on clothes that they usually don't want to wear. This kind of talent is compelling. , Compared with the people of other big tribes, it is the collision of the tribe's face.
Most of the Mang tribesmen rode on horses, and there were also a few strange beasts. Their fur was dark brown, black, or white. If Shao Xuan was here, he would be very surprised to find that among the Mang tribes The beasts mounted by a few leading people look like pandas!
Most of the people from the Eighth Tribe sit on big spiders. Those big spiders have different colors, long or short hair, thick or thin legs, and even the number of eyes is not necessarily the same. Some look like a hair ball, while others look like a few bamboo poles put together, as if the wind blows and it will fly away with the wind.
These two tribes would be very eye-catching if they took out one of them alone, but now that they are on their way together, it is even more eye-catching. Wherever they pass, almost everyone who sees them will be curious, where are the Mang tribe and Weiba tribe? And it's still like this? It's not like going to war, what purpose do they have
People who couldn't restrain their curiosity and were in a hurry, followed far behind, trying to find out the answer. Those who got close and worried about being caught by the Mang tribe and Weiba tribe could only hang behind and follow at a certain distance.
From the central part to the Yanhe side, the distance is not close, and along the way, there are more and more curious people, but they dare not go up to ask, and the daring ones also join the tracking team.
The people of the two tribes know this, but they are not interested in paying attention to the people behind them, and they actually have the intention to bring more people over to watch the fun. If the Yanjiao side is really not good, there can be more people to help spread the word.
In the hearts of most tribal people, the most prosperous is definitely the central region. The trading area is also the most prosperous in the central region, with the most abundant items. People on the edge of the mainland will travel thousands of miles to the trading area there to make transactions.
If it can be confirmed that the Yanhe trading area is just a messy little place, even if the people of Yanjiao vigorously promote it in the future, no one will go there, saving their energy.
The people from the Mang tribe and Weiba also met people from the Changzhou tribe on the way, but the people from the Changzhou tribe were all on boats. Line, there are land shortcuts on land.
"Is there a boat in the Yanhe trading area?" After being separated from the Changzhou tribe, some people from the Mang tribe were puzzled.
"Isn't it called the Yanhe Trading Area? If there is a river, you can naturally sail." Spring Ye said with a frown. He did not believe that Yanjiao could gain a firm footing in such a short period of time. He took a step back and said that even if Yanjiao could gain a foothold and start life again, he did not think that the resulting Yanhe trading area would be better than the central one. The few large trading areas are good.
Perhaps, everything is just a way to brush the presence of the horns.
"I don't know if Yanjiao will take out all of his family's assets this time?" Someone laughed.
"It doesn't matter what they do, the people in Yanjiao will be the ones who will worry about it. We can just let go of eating and drinking." Someone from the Weiba tribe also responded.
Walking along the route from the densely populated central part of the tribe, there are very few active people around, and sometimes no outsiders are seen all day long, and the surrounding soil quality is indeed not very good, especially in places far away from the river It is quite barren, the soil is very hard, and it is not suitable for planting. There are only some bare mountains with weeds nearby, and it is rare to see a tree that can bear fruit. Even if there are, most of them are low and sparse. In such a place, it is no wonder that there is no tribal life.
desolate!
This is what everyone who passes by here thinks.
At this time, the people of the Mang tribe and the Weiba tribe couldn't help but feel proud. Their ancestors were really powerful, and the place to find it was good. Any soil in their own tribe's territory was much better than here!
However, gradually, the topography did not change significantly, but the topography began to change. The surrounding trees gradually increased, became taller, and denser. The surrounding mountains were no longer monotonous weeds, but lush and green. The forest, the further you go, the denser the forest on the mountain, even in a place far away from the water source, the mountain forest is full of green vitality compared to before.
There are some active figures nearby, probably from a small tribe, hidden in the woods on the mountain.
"This place seems to be pretty good?" Qu Ce ripped off a leaf on a bush, tore it open, and looked at the water in the leaf.
Although the soil may not be fertile, if you want to plant, you can barely plant some, which is not as good as the farmland in the middle, but it can still maintain the livelihood of some small tribes.
Others disagree. In their eyes, this place is far from the farmland of their own tribe.
"Leader, someone on the mountain has followed us for a while, do you want to go over and test it?" Spring Ye asked the leader of the Mang tribe who led the team.
"No need." The leader of the Mang tribe raised his hand indifferently. He didn't look down on the people from the small tribes, and he didn't think it would pose a threat to their team.
In the nearby mountain forest, Abuli led people and looked at the team passing through the valley in shock.
"Then... who is that?" someone asked.
"How do I know?!" Abuli tugged at the animal skin on his body anxiously and wiped the sweat from his forehead.
Before coming, Abuli spent two days choosing clothes, and finally chose an animal skin that was exchanged from Yanjiao, and then asked his wife to sew it into clothes. In the Yan tribe, the best clothing material was the fierce beast skin they bought from Yanjiao before last winter.
The skin of a fierce beast is not much more difficult to cut than the skin of a wild beast. The efficiency of one person is too low, so Abuli's wife asked a few people to help. Abuli, his wife, and a witch from the Yan tribe all wore animal skins and headed to the Yanhe trading area.
However, the animal skins that Abuli chose at that time were all furs, with thick fur, not smooth or short-pile leather. Now, in this weather, the winter has passed early, and it is indeed very hot to wear now, but Abuli has nothing to do with it. Ways, pick and choose, only these furs can be seen.
Originally, Abuli also planned to wear clothes made of these fierce beast skins to show off at the Yanhe feast. As far as he knew, many tribes of this generation had never seen fierce beast skins before.
Unexpectedly, when they went to the Yanhe trading area, they saw a team with luxurious equipment passing through the valley. Stronger than other tribes in this area, the people of the Yan tribe are simply not enough to look at compared to them. Seeing that team, they couldn't even think of robbery.
That should be the legendary powerful tribe from the central region, right
There are people outside the people, and their vision of the tribe people is still too small.
Under the blow, Abuli thought for a while, took out a bag woven with vines on his back, untied it layer by layer, took out a few strings of crystal necklaces inside, and put them all around his neck. This was a spare he brought with him when he left the tribe. He originally thought about giving it as a gift and pretending to be a local tyrant. Now, it seems that he should wear it first to strengthen his courage.
"Well, this is much better." Abuli looked at the sparkling crystal charm, nodded with satisfaction, and his self-confidence suddenly increased a few levels.
The Mang tribe and Weiba tribe who were on their way did not know how large the psychological shadows of the people who peeped at them in the dark.
As night gradually fell, the team first found a place to rest.
Beside the fire, the leader of the Mang tribe took out the map on the back of the invitation again, and looked at the two moons painted on the top of the map, which was the banquet time given by Yanjiao. Looking at the size of the bright sides of the two moons, I raised my hand to gesture between the two moons, and then looked up to the sky.
The two moons in the night sky, the shape of the bright side is almost the same as that drawn on the animal skin scroll map.
"Can catch up." This is the conclusion drawn by the leader of the Mang tribe.
"Well, I should be able to reach the Yanhe trading area tomorrow," said Spring Ye.
Here they are, looking at the general terrain, the distribution of the mountains and the orientation of the river, they can correspond to the location on the map, and they are very close to the destination marked with the flame double-horn pattern on the animal skin scroll map. , they can arrive before the time given by Flaming Horn.
"I don't know what food Yanjiao prepared? Could it be that they really prepared a lot of beast meat?" Qu Ce looked at a beast roasting on the fire, feeling even more hungry.
"Who knows?" A soldier from the Eighth Tribe yawned. They all regretted coming with the team. They didn't say much about the journey. If Yanjiao prepared some strange food, would they bite the bullet and eat it? Still don't eat it? I heard that the food in many remote places is very weird, and I don't know how those savage flame horns will prepare it.
"Oh, what do you think about so much, you'll know tomorrow."
"Too."
Under the darkness of the night, the continuous group of people gradually quieted down, with only the crackling of firewood burning and the snoring of a few beasts serving as mounts.
The next day, the team set off again. As expected by Reed Ye and the others, as it approached noon, they saw a flat road that was clearly created artificially. There is also a stone tablet erected by the roadside, with the words "Yanhe Trading Area" written on it. An arrow is marked below the word, and the arrow points to the direction in which the road extends.
"Oh, it's really interesting." Qu Ce said.
"Keep going." The leader of the Mang tribe raised his hand and pointed to the front of the road.
There are eyes around, paying attention to this side, it should be the person with Flaming Horn.
The pavement is wide and beaten so hard that even a giant beast can walk on it smoothly.
Going forward along the road, not long after, there was a sudden exclamation in the team.
"Look, what is that?!"
The people in the team looked forward, and in the field of vision, above the trees, there was a tall stone house standing there in the distance, exceeding the height of the trees. Because most of the trees in front of the road were cut down, and there were no obstacles, they could clearly see the gray-white building with its "head" exposed.
Not long after they walked further, a wall appeared in front of them.
They are not uncommon about the wall made of stones, but the paintings on the wall have made them all refreshed.
It's not that the painting on it is scary, but the style and color of the painting have a great impact on people's vision.
In the green forest, the sudden appearance of colors attracted a lot of attention.
Different from the walls in many places, the walls on the Yanjiao side are smoother. The overly protruding stones on the wall are cut off, and the depressions are filled, so the wall becomes a good drawing board, and the paintings on it look like More delicate, with more changes.
There are many people on the paintings on the outer wall. Because of the collective stylization of the solid tribal thinking concept, the painting styles of most tribes today have one thing in common, that is, when drawing people, the shapes of the figures are slightly It removes the figurative individual beauty, but at the same time generates and strengthens the overall impact, especially in paintings that are displayed to outsiders. This characteristic is particularly obvious.
People from big tribes such as Mang tribe and Weiba tribe can be said to be well-informed, and ordinary paintings will not surprise them, but the paintings on the walls in front of them give them a different feeling.
The dark brown paint paints the land, and there are some people lined up on it. Although the characters in the painting are basically the same because of the collective stylization, the clothes and the weapons in their hands are slightly different. Sets, knives, spears, axes, and strange tools, like broken knives, they had never seen before.
The people lined up in the picture have a solemn posture, which is set against the flame-like streamline pattern, with a specific rhythm and a sense of rendering. Due to the smoother wall, the painting techniques have more places to be used, and the lines of the painting are also available. The changes in hardness, softness and thickness are more vivid under the full color filling. Some paintings are also decorated with rare golden pigments to outline lines or fill. Some of the plants in the painting are painted in gold and purple, but most of the people who see them don't know those plants.
In other tribes, paintings with different thicknesses will look jerky and unsmooth, but here, there is more beauty due to the combination of points, lines and surfaces, smooth and delicate, without losing the madness of tribal style. wild.
Those are just a few groups of paintings, there are more paintings in the back, each two groups of paintings are separated by some red flame-like patterns, there are obvious double-angle patterns in the flames, and the connecting group of pictures The flame decoration appears natural at the connection with each group of paintings. The curved spirals and arcs of the flame body are combined together, giving people a sense of flow, and can be smoothly juxtaposed between each group of paintings.
Not only figure paintings, but also beast paintings, all kinds of ferocious beasts that have never been seen before, are presented on the walls in primitive tribal-style paintings, plus the combination of lines and decorations, the colors are different. The impact, as well as the exaggerated methods of deformation, make people who see it feel a sense of fear at the first glance.
On the gray and white walls, the combination of large-scale paintings and colors, against the background of the surrounding green mountains and clear waters, makes the visual conflict more and more obvious. It can be said that everyone who is here for the first time is impressed by the paintings on the walls. profound.
Most of these paintings were made by Shao Xuan. Of course, Shao Xuan could paint more detailed and complex and more vivid, but that would be beyond the acceptable range of this period. Here, the mainstream is this original tribal style, and a little more than that is called improvement and innovation. But if the style is completely changed all of a sudden, completely out of the mainstream and acceptance range of this period, it will not work, let alone people from other tribes can't appreciate it, even people from the Yanjiao tribe will find it abrupt, or even feel Shao Xuan's aesthetic deformity.
The result was as Shao Xuan expected, and everyone in Yanjiao was very satisfied with the final result on the wall.
The outsiders who have come one after another in the past few days will stop and stay when they see these, including the Mang tribe and the Weiba tribe at this time.
"What kind of tree is this drawing?"
"do not know."
"What about that?"
"never seen it."
"And that... oh, I know the one over there. That's the crop that Yanjiao discovered before. What's it called?"
"Chinese cabbage?"
"That's right, that's the Chinese cabbage! When we went to the Murderer's Forest in the winter, we saw Yanjiao planting!"
The soldiers of the Mang tribe and the Weiba tribe in the team pointed at the pictures and discussed.
In front of the team, the leaders of the Mang Tribe and the Weiba Tribe were looking at the high wall in front of them and the taller landmark-like stone building in the center of the trading area.
Is this the new habitat Yanjiao found
Is this the so-called "Yanhe Trading Zone" established by Yanjiao
It seemed, as if, it should have been… different from what they expected.
How do you say that
I'm relieved to know you're not doing well. In the same way, knowing that Yanjiao is doing well, they are depressed.
Can a place like this be built, and life can be bad