In the autumn night, there is a cool breeze, and the light of the torch flutters in the wind.
"Do you really want to break it?"
"No, why don't you come here to watch the stars without sleeping in the middle of the night?"
Meng Sheng snatched the hammer from Zhong Yang, swung his arms and threw it on the city wall that was built during the day. With a dull bang, the city wall collapsed in half.
The four males in the night squatted down in amazement to check the scattered bricks on the ground: "How could this happen! When the construction was first started, the stability was obviously tested, but now it is smashed with a hammer."
Meng Sheng checked the bricks with calm eyes. There was no cement on the bricks on the ground, which meant that the builders did not use cement to stick them together when laying the bricks. It doesn't look any different from other places, but when it is hit, its shortcomings will be exposed.
"Where did Kongjia build?"
Zhongyang didn't know that these things were done during the construction of Kongjia, but he still knew where it was built.
"You have only been away for two days, and he has been building here for the past two days."
Meng Sheng said indifferently: "The place he built was smashed open and repaired again. It must be strong."
Tang Yu listened to his words, and said loudly: "This kid is doing some immoral things, and he doesn't do his job well. He does some superficial work, and if he doesn't catch him and shame his face, why do we have to stay in the middle of the night?" Fill him up!"
It's not as simple as stealing, adultery, and cheating. If it was true, it would be much easier to deal with. Since Zhongyang told him that Kong Jia took the initiative to send people from the Miaoyuan tribe, he felt very suspicious. Now it has been completely realized that Kong Jia wanted to collude. Miaoyuan tribe.
He said patiently: "Take a good look at the terrain where Kongjia built the city wall."
The three of them knew the terrain here even if they didn't raise the torches, and the tribe was very familiar with them: "If there is no city wall blocking this place, you can go directly through the house and go straight to our cave."
Meng Sheng nodded. If a group of foreign enemies rushed in when it was getting dark, it would not only save the city-state from being destroyed, but also directly kill the natives who were about to have dinner and exhausted from a busy day. How convenient.
Awakened by such a point, several males felt a deep chill down their backs. Even with the worst malice, they never thought that people who had lived in the same tribe for so long would do such a thing.
"I know you can't accept it in your heart, but once my guess is right, you should know what will happen to our tribe. Of course, if my guess is wrong, that's the best." Meng Sheng gave Brick first Putting on cement, he rebuilt the broken city wall on his own: "No matter what the hole armor is for, we must be prepared."
"Meng Sheng, we all listen to you. This matter really shouldn't be treated as a trivial matter. Kong Jia really didn't do anything good in the past two years." Tang Yu first agreed that he had personally seen Kong Jia commit immoral things regardless of human life. Yes, he believed he could do something to harm the Horde.
"If I knew he was like this now, he was afraid of entering the forest of wild beasts, so why did we try our best to rescue him and hurt Meng Sheng?"
Tang Dun complained and expressed his attitude naturally, Zhong Yang was not to be outdone: "Meng Sheng, just tell us what you want us to do."
Meng Sheng laughed. All he had to do now was pretend not to know, and follow Kong Jia's plan. When he dug a hole, they would fill it in for him calmly. In the meantime, he also asked Tang Yu to walk around with Kong Jia from time to time, and to tell him as soon as Kong Jia showed signs of leaving the tribe.
After another five or six days, the city wall in the tribe was finally completed. Several males worked during the day and had to work at night, and their spirits were not very good, but they were very excited on the day of completion.
The natives also hoped to move into the house before winter, so they asked Meng Sheng to lead everyone to build a stove and kang, so that they could complete the affairs of the city-state.
Meng Sheng didn't agree. Instead, he asked the natives to make a large number of bows and arrows before winter, encouraging everyone to hunt.
"Didn't the priest say that construction is important, and didn't let everyone go hunting before? What's going on now?" Kong Jia laughed nonchalantly.
Meng Sheng didn't care either: "Qiu Juan spent so much time teaching people in the tribe how to archery, so it's time to check the results. Besides, our tribe's food this year is indeed not as much as last year's. It's a good thing to save more."
Kong Jia sneered, with a kind of arrogance that he didn't listen to my opinion at the beginning, but now he knows what's good or bad.
"Also, if you have the opportunity to practice archery, you should seize the opportunity to practice it. In case any tribe that doesn't have eyes is greedy for our tribe in the future and wants to invade, we don't have to stand directly in front of the enemy."
Kong Jia's pupils shrank slightly, but only for a moment, and he maintained his facial expression: "The priest really thinks long-term."
"Let's go, hunt!"
Zhong Yang followed up and said with a smile, "What is this man doing? If you are not satisfied, go to the front."
"Watch closely."
"knew."
Instead of going hunting with the tribe, Meng Sheng asked Tang Dun and Tang Yu to arrange something, and asked the two males to go to the Qiubo tribe to fetch seafood and prepare for the winter.
At night, when the tribe finished hunting, Zhong Yang said that Kong Jia had injured his hand during the hunt and could not go hunting the next day. Meng Sheng understood it. At night, he and Zhong Yang hid on the only way out of the tribe, and saw Kong Jia hurried out of the tribe with his own eyes.
The two looked at each other, and hurried back to summon all the young and middle-aged men in the tribe to arrange a defense, and asked the natives to keep this matter secret, so as not to disturb the rest of the tribe, especially the Kongjia family.
Two days later, it started to rain at dusk, and the aborigines in the tribe went home very early. After autumn, every rain is cooler than the next. It is the most comfortable time to huddle in the cave and warm up in this season.
Kong Jia stood at the entrance of the cave and looked at Xiao Yu with a gloomy expression.
"Brother Kong Jia is going out? It's raining." Tang Tong was cooking, and when he saw the male standing at the door, he stepped forward and said with concern.
"I'll go out later, take the child to bed early, it's cold outside, don't let the child get sick." Kong Jia hugged the female and said softly.
"it is good."
When the night gradually spread in the tribe, Kongjia was heading towards the west wall, and he heard a heavy crash in the distance, his eyes lit up, and he hurried over... Finally it came!
"Hey! Kong Jia, why are you here so late!"
Zhong Yang stood on the high city wall and waved to him, his expression was fixed: "Why are you here? No, it's you!"
The strong natives of the tribe popped up one after another, set up arrows and shot towards the outside of the city wall.
"People in the Miaoyuan tribe want to occupy our tribe, of course we are here!"
There was a lot of noise outside the city wall, the dull sound of arrows being shot, and the sound of wood hitting the city wall. He stood under the city wall and could not see the scene outside.
Meng Sheng appeared behind Kong Jia at some point, grabbed the male's arm and dragged him up the city wall, and the scene outside broke into his sight.
There were about three or four hundred natives outside the city walls. Some of them had fallen into traps designed to defend against wild animals, and some were wailing after being shot by arrows.
The priest of the Miaoyuan tribe was guarded by the natives at a place far away from the city wall. When he saw Kongjia showing his face, he cursed inarticulately: "Kongjia! What's going on! Didn't you say that you built the city wall here? Yes, is it easy to break open! At this time, the people of your tribe are all in the cave, and it is the most relaxed time!"
Standing on the city wall, Meng Sheng pressed Kong Jia's shoulder: "Priest, you are so unconscious. Kong Jia is the deputy chief of our tribe. He must think of everything he says and does for the sake of our tribe. Priest, why are you so stupid to think that our tribe's deputy chief will do things that will harm our tribe."
Kong Jia's eyes were full of panic, he didn't expect Meng Sheng to have such a skill, now he has two faces!
"Let's go! We were tricked by Kongjia!" The people of the Miaoyuan tribe dropped their waist-thick trunks, stopped hitting the wall, and ran outside one after another. Two meters away from the city wall was a trap dug with wooden boards on it. The natives crowded up in a panic, and many of them rolled into the trap.
"Escort the priest away!"
Meng Sheng led the people to chase them out. Long-distance archery was not as good as Qiu Juan's archery skills. He didn't hit many people, but he managed to force people into the wild beast forest.
"There's no need to chase them in. It's their fate to get out of the Beast Forest alive."
Some natives worried: "What if they come to our tribe again in the future?"
"Don't worry, they have to have a tribe."
When Meng Sheng led people back, the disadvantaged people who were preparing to eat in the cave heard the movement here and ran over in the rain. Zhong Yang led people to stop them from seeing the situation outside.
In fact, conflicts between tribes have always existed, and everyone is no stranger to these things. In the era of Grandpa Zhongyang, there were tribes who invaded the Yilin tribe. At that time, no one knew how to shoot arrows, and there were no advanced tools. , all in hand-to-hand combat, many heroic males lost their lives, including Zhong Yang's grandfather.
Zhong Yang was still very young at that time, but he knew that the fight had always been a pain in the hearts of the older generation. When discussing defense strategies before, he was the one who offered to try not to alarm the weaker members of the tribe.
"The people of the Miaoyuan tribe have been driven away. Don't worry, everyone. Now we are cleaning up the site and taking the children and the elderly back. Let these things be left to the younger generation of our tribe."
The natives asked anxiously: "Why did it happen so suddenly, did we have many casualties?"
"It wasn't an emergency, it was planned long ago. No one in our tribe lost their lives, only injured. It's okay."
Zhong Yang was trying to dissuade him, when he suddenly saw Qiu Juan who had pushed his way through the crowd, he hurriedly shouted: "Oh, Qiu Juan! Why did you come here too! If it's a little bit, why don't you hurry to Meng Sheng's death!"
Seeing people rushing here one after another, Qiu Juan heard that the Miaoyuan tribe came to invade their tribe, and thought that Meng Sheng hadn't returned, so anxious that he rushed out regardless of the rain.
"Where's Brother Meng? Where is he? Is there anything wrong?"
Meng Sheng had just rushed back and asked the natives who followed him to clean up the corpses outside, before he went in first.
As soon as he got back to the bottom of the city wall, a figure threw himself into his arms.
"Why are you here! You're all wet, hurry up, go back inside and hide." Meng Sheng touched the top of the man's hair, wet his hands, and hurriedly led the man inside.
Meng Sheng took Qiu Juan to the nearest grand assembly hall, and the natives followed subconsciously, even Kong Jia was pushed in.
"The reason why the Miaoyuan tribe came to invade our tribe this time is because of Kong Jia. What happened to him, let's execute him."
The males who participated in the battle knew about it long ago, but the rest of the natives were still kept in the dark. For a while, everyone talked and pointed at Kong Jia.
When Kong Jia left the cave, his face was full of joy, and he was detained like this in a blink of an eye. He really couldn't figure out why he was still swayed by Meng Sheng.
Meng Sheng was also kind enough to help him fill up the city wall, and he made it clear about monitoring him.
"However, I'm also curious about how you moved the Miaoyuan tribe." As far as Meng Sheng knew, the priests of the Miaoyuan tribe had some wisdom, otherwise they wouldn't lead a tribe to grow.
Kong Jia snorted coldly: "Who is not greedy? The tribe refuses to make friends with them. I will throw out a condition and promise to give them what they want. Of course they will agree to help me."
"Provide the method of smelting metal tools for free, and teach them how to build houses later by the way."
Kong Jia didn't answer directly, as he tacitly said: "Even if I didn't do these things, our tribe smelted these things, sooner or later it would attract other tribes, but sooner or later."
Meng Sheng guessed that Kong Jia would have these in exchange, but he thought that the priests of the Miaoyuan tribe would hesitate, but he did not expect that he still overestimated him. The attraction of advanced things to people is fatal.
"Weak tribes will be at the mercy of others. Without advanced items, they will only suffer more losses in the face of other tribes' invasion. It is your idea that is too old. All of our tribes are looking forward, only you , has been unwilling, refused to move forward."
Meng Sheng looked straight into Kong Jia's eyes, as if the male had been stabbed. For such a moment, that is, for such a moment, he felt that he was really inferior to Meng Sheng. For him, this was a fatal blow.
He had always hated Meng Sheng, without him, he would have been able to become the chief smoothly, and Qiu Juan would return to his side as he had planned, but because of him, nothing could come true.
He kept biting his tongue, thinking that he was no worse than Meng Sheng, until he did not hesitate to sacrifice the lives of the tribe's people in exchange for his status, but in the end Meng Sheng saw through it early.
"I'm sorry, I was wrong." He bowed deeply to the natives in the tribe: "I shouldn't hurt everyone and the tribe because I hate Meng Sheng."
He turned around and apologized one by one. Everyone was silent. Just when the natives relaxed their vigilance, he suddenly raised his head, his eyes sank, and rushed towards Qiu Juan who was standing in front of the crowd.
Grabbing him, he dragged him back by the neck, with a smile on his face: "Qiu Juan, I haven't had the chance to tell you for so long, but I still like you as before."
"Kong Jia, let go of Qiu Juan!" Meng Sheng roared angrily, wanting to rush over to snatch him back.
Everyone was in shock, but they didn't expect Kong Jia to fight back.
"Don't come here." Kong Jia took the man out, and while backing away, he said to Qiu Juan, "You can die with me, this time I don't even want Tang Tong."
Qiu Juan frowned, not daring to move, he could only cooperate and walk back, he was afraid of hurting the child.
"I really regret that I didn't shoot the arrow back then." Qiu Juan's voice was very low, resisting the choking feeling in his throat, he touched his waist with his right hand, and turned his backhand behind him, he heard the dull sound of the knife piercing through the flesh: "But I said earlier, if you get close to me again, I will definitely not show mercy."
Almost at the moment when the knife pierced his body, a sharp arrow flew out and pierced Kong Jia's right shoulder.
Kong Jia let go of his hand throbbing with pain, and Qiu Juan took advantage of the situation to escape from the confinement.
Meng Sheng rushed over to hug him in disorderly steps, and kicked Kong Jia into the trap.
"Is it hurt?"
Qiu Juan grabbed Meng Sheng's arm tightly, his face turned pale, and his body slid down: "My stomach hurts..."
Experienced women surrounded her: "Is it hurting the fetal gas, send Qiu Juan back quickly!"