Mingwan was shaking all over when she told this. No wonder she was afraid. More than two hundred babies were killed, and it was on the same night. Every Jin tribe member should be afraid, because they don't know what is hidden behind this incident. conspiracy, and no one knows what kind of misfortune will befall the Jin clan later.
Wu Dongfang frowned and said nothing after hearing this. The woman in black who was caught was a wizard of the Tu tribe, which means that the Tu tribe should be the initiator of the whole thing. However, the Tu tribe monopolizes the Nine Provinces and dominates the Central Plains, and the Jin tribe is its tributary. They have to pay a large amount of tribute to the Tu tribe every year. What reason do the Tu tribe have to kill the children of the Jin tribe
According to Mingwan, her village is considered medium-small among the Jin tribe villages. For such a small village, the Tu tribe has sent three wizards, and there are dozens of Jin tribe villages. The Tu tribe has to send at least hundreds of wizards, plus To deal with the wizards in the Jin tribe and the Jin capital, the Tu clan should send more than two hundred wizards for this operation, and the Jin clan’s own wizards total less than a hundred. The Tu clan is undoubtedly desperate to send such a lineup. Determined to win, such a large-scale operation must have been authorized by the top leaders of the Tu ethnic group.
You must know that there is no airtight wall in the world. The Jin people have suffered such a large-scale attack. They will definitely trace the murderer. If they know that the murderer is the Tu people, they will definitely take action. The Tu people cannot have thought of this. They took such a big risk. What was the purpose of assassinating the children of the Jin clan? If it was for revenge or punishment, there seemed to be no need for them to cover their faces, and there was no need to specifically select babies born that year to kill.
There is also a very important point. Judging from the actions of the three Tu mages who attacked the village, they tried their best to avoid hurting innocent people when they attacked. This shows that they may have received instructions from higher-ups before setting off, instructing them to except those born that year. Kids, try not to kill other people.
From this, it is not difficult to see that the top leaders of the Tu tribe do not want to completely fall out with the Jin tribe. In this way, it is not difficult to figure out the psychology of the top leaders of the Tu tribe. They are worried about angering the Jin tribe, but this operation must still be carried out. To put it bluntly, They went ahead with this operation forcefully. They didn't want to do it but they had to do it.
"The rice bucket ran out!" Ming Wan's scream interrupted Wu Dongfang's thinking.
"It has escaped several times, so don't worry about it." Wu Dongfang waved his hand. Due to the lack of necessary clues, although he could figure out the psychology of the Tu tribe's senior leaders, he could not guess their motives for doing so.
"It's nothing, I'm going back first." Mingwan stood up.
Wu Dongfang nodded, "Okay, come here early tomorrow."
Mingwan agreed and turned to leave.
After Mingwan left, Wu Dongfang started polishing the bone arrows again. The leg bones of the unknown creature were used to polish the bone arrows. Each leg bone was ground into four pieces. Each piece can polish a bone arrow. Four leg bones can polish the bone arrows. Sixteen were polished, but he has only polished three now.
At two o'clock in the afternoon, an uninvited guest came outside the cave. It was the armless man, who brought a message, "Tomorrow the wizard will escort the prisoners to the tribe, and he will send you away along the way."
Wu Dongfang raised his eyebrows and glanced at the other party, then nodded.
After the armless man left, Wu Dongfang went out hunting with a bow and arrow. This time he went east, crossed the river and entered the territory of the Fire Tribe. There were more prey here than elsewhere. He made three trips back and forth and brought back a large amount of prey. .
He is leaving here tomorrow. Wu Dongfang is feeling a little depressed. He has been staying here these days. In addition to needing to recuperate and learn the language, the main reason is that the river to the east is the starting point for him to come to this world. He needs to stay here. He feels closer to modern times. He will leave here tomorrow. He doesn't know what the outside world is like or what is waiting for him. The road ahead is full of variables and unknowns.
But after all, he is not a sentimental person. The third aunt's words have a great influence on him, that is, think for the best in everything. Since you can't go back, you can only move forward and take one step at a time.
In addition, there was another thing that made him very uneasy. Fantong was still small and could only eat but not hunt. Mingwan was afraid of it and could not raise it as a substitute. To say the least, even if Mingwan was willing to raise it, he would not be able to raise it. Pick it up, even though it's small, it can't even feed two kilograms of meat a day.
If you have milk, you are a mother, and if you have food, you can be a father. After these days of feeding, Fan Tong is very close to him. He crawls out at night and does not run around. He will sleep next to him. He is very dependent on him. He cannot bear to give up like this. it.
After deliberation for a long time, Wu Dongfang used a dagger to cut two black face towels into thin strips to serve as ropes, and made a bag with body armor and silk stripped from the corpse. Since he was unwilling to abandon them, he could only take them away.
Mingwan came before dawn the next day. Since something happened in the village, she was worried about leaving her child at home, so she brought her child with her.
Wu Dongfang lit a bonfire and found that Mingwan's eyes were swollen.
"I heard that you were leaving today, so I made clothes and shoes for you overnight." Mingwan handed the finished clothes and shoes to Wu Dongfang.
"My shoes can still be worn. I'll leave these shoes to you." Wu Dongfang took the clothes and handed the shoes to Mingwan. These shoes were made of animal skins and linen, and Mingwan himself had always worn straw sandals. .
"You keep it on." Mingwan shook his head and refused.
Wu Dongfang glanced at Mingwan, hesitated for a moment and put away the shoes, "The prey I caught yesterday are all in the cave. You can marinate them with salt."
Mingwan nodded. Even though the child was right next to her, she still couldn't help crying.
"You keep these two knives for use. If this one is broken, you keep it too." Wu Dongfang placed the black knife next to Mingwan.
Ming Wan choked and nodded.
Wu Dongfang took another three-headed fork, which was made of wood and monster bones and was more than one meter long. "After I leave, try not to go fishing in the east river. If you don't go, there will be nothing to eat. Just use Well, when you catch a fish, run away quickly and don’t stay by the river too long.”
After Wu Dongfang finished speaking, he saw that Mingwan was about to cry again, so he quickly stood up and walked towards the cave, "There are still a few that have not been skinned. I will help you pack them up before leaving."
Half an hour later, Wu Dongfang finished handling the prey, ran to the west stream, took a bath, put on the gray linen clothes Mingwan made for him, and left the worn camouflage clothes to Mingwan, "This is for you. , leave a souvenir.”
"Will you come back?" Mingwan took over the camouflage uniform.
"I can't tell." Wu Dongfang shook his head.
"If it's not good outside, just come back and we will always be friends." Mingwan said.
"They are good friends." Wu Dongfang smiled and nodded.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the wizard set out, accompanied by nine people, six strong men and one woman. In the woman's arms was the baby who survived that night. The Tu nationality wizard was tied to a bamboo raft similar to a stretcher. , carried by two men.
They walked in front, Wu Dongfang hanging dozens of meters behind them.
This is a mountain road that winds between the mountains. Due to the need to transport ore, the mountain road is not steep, and there are no steep slopes straight up and down. It is mostly flat roads, but the price of being flat is that it requires twists and turns in the mountains. , it takes a lot of wrongdoing.
Wu Dongfang was not in a hurry. He had nowhere to go. It didn't make much difference to him to arrive at the tribe early or later.
At about two o'clock in the afternoon, the wizard stopped and everyone sat down to eat and rest. They brought dry food. Wu Dongfang also brought food, but it was raw. He found some dead branches nearby and wanted to make a small fire. , who would have thought that just as the witch lit it, the sorcerer came over and scattered the fire with a copper staff.
Wu Dongfang raised his head and glanced at the wizard without asking why. There must be a reason why the other party did what he did.
The wizard didn't explain why he couldn't light a fire. He gave Wu Dongfang a sideways look and turned away.
The Tu tribe witch had received little food these days. The witch might have been worried that the captive would starve to death, so he gave her a piece of bacon. The Tu tribe witch tilted her head to the side and did not eat.
No one gave Wu Dongfang food, and Wu Dongfang was not surprised. He had helped the people in the village and stopped them from humiliating the Tu witches. To the villagers, although he was not an enemy, he was not a friend either.
Because he had to carry the quiver, Wu Dongfang hung the rice bucket on his chest. When everyone was resting, Wu Dongfang released it. The rice bucket ran into the woods and pooped. On the way back, he picked up a wild fruit, but after taking a bite, he found that It tasted bad and was thrown away.
After resting for half an hour, the wizard called everyone to continue on their way. Wu Dongfang took the rice pail and followed behind. He encountered a bamboo forest on the way and broke off a piece of young bamboo and stuffed it into the rice pail. He took the rice pail and chewed it. It didn't like it very much. If you chew this thing, you will spit it out. It is only used to grind your teeth.
Not long after setting off, a roar came from the east. The roar came from the peak east of the mountain where everyone was standing. It was five or six miles away in a straight line. The roar was a coherent and continuous "Yeah, yeah", Some are like a donkey's braying, but it lasts longer than a donkey's braying.
Hearing this roar, the men accompanying him stopped in unison and looked at the witch nervously.
The wizard hesitated for a while and then stepped forward. Everyone followed her cautiously, as if they were walking on thin ice.
After walking carefully for two miles, everyone came to the flat area between the two mountain peaks. At this moment, strange calls came from the mountains to the east, and everyone stopped again.
"It doesn't seem happy today." A man said to the witch.
Wu Dongfang didn't know who the "it" in the other person's words was referring to, but he could guess that there was an animal in the dense forest of Dongfang that everyone was very afraid of. Moreover, this animal had existed for a long time, and everyone in the village knew about it. it.
The witch nodded and stretched out her hand to the man who was speaking. The man took out a gray clay pot from his bag and handed it over. The clay pot was oblate and about thirty centimeters in diameter.
The witch took the pot, opened the lid, and walked forward holding the pot.
Wu Dongfang was far away and could not see what was in the pottery pot, but judging from the actions of the witch, the pot should be filled with something that the animal in the forest in front of him liked to eat.
Wu Dongfang began to get nervous. If the wizard could beat that guy, there would be no need to give gifts in exchange for letting him go. Since it was giving gifts in exchange for letting him go, it depends on whether the uncle who was blocking the way was in a good mood. But the uncle didn't seem to be in a very good mood today. good…