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Chapter 152 The Long Season

The next day, all the tribes left one after another. They were eager to return home, and they wished to fly back immediately to tell them what they had heard about the sacrifice and the guidance given by their ancestors. They seemed to have seen that when they heard the news of the imminent migration, the tribesmen Very shocked look.

After Snakeberry left, Xiao Xiao felt missing for the first time in his life.

But the teenager's melancholy didn't last long, and the new sister filled the void in his heart.

Xiao said enthusiastically: "He, let me teach you how to make pottery blanks with a potter's wheel!"

He was a little flattered, but his tone was not very confident: "I... I am stupid, and I have to learn for a long time."

She was worried that Xiaoxiao's enthusiasm would be worn away by her clumsiness little by little, and he would eventually despise her and laugh at her like other children.

Xiao Zheng said: "You are not stupid, your paintings are so beautiful, how can you be stupid? God said, everyone has things they are good at and not good at. For example, I am good at fishing and not good at archery, but I can't do it because of I'm not good at archery, so just say I'm stupid, right? Do you think I'm stupid?"

He smiled and shook his head, he was very clever at first glance, how could he be stupid?

"Then...do you think I'm a slow learner?" She was still not confident enough.

"How come? If you haven't learned it for a day, I'll teach you for a day. If you haven't learned it for a lifetime, I'll teach you for a lifetime."

Xiao took He's little hand skillfully, spent the past few days with Sheberry day and night, inseparable, and trained him.

He blushed suddenly, and his heart was pounding.She didn't understand why, and her mother often held her hand, but she never felt like holding hands with her mother... She remembered that her mother said that a woman and a man did something extremely exciting together, and they would become pregnant.

She is very excited now.

I won't be pregnant, will I?

Then he thought that he was underage and unable to have children, so he let go of his heart, let him hold his hand tightly, and let himself fall into the emotion of losing control of his heartbeat.

Xiao Xiao taught her how to make pottery.

Lin Yu saw Xiao repeating his old tricks, and thought that he used pottery making as a way to pick up girls. This kid was probably the first one. Those men who took girls to pottery shops for dates in later generations would have to call him Patriarch.

However, saying goodbye to Snake Berry in the morning, and hooking up with her new sister after turning around, isn't it a bit too much!Scumbag!
Lin Yu complained in his heart.

He and Sheberry have completely different personalities, one is shy and quiet, the other is lively and generous, but they have one thing in common, their hands are soft, and Xiao likes them both.

With the experience of teaching Snakeberry, she is more handy and gentle and patient when teaching her new sister.

He likes this kind of thing very much, who doesn't want to be treated with tenderness?Xiao Xiao's praise and compliments made her gradually regain her confidence, and she smiled more and more.

"I'll teach... teach you how to draw."

"Okay!"

"What do you want to draw?"

"Draw... just draw it!"

Xiao grabbed Xiaohu and forcibly recruited the little lynx as a model.

Xiaohu gritted his teeth and screamed, with a hundred reluctances written on his face.

He smiled happily. She had noticed the three lynxes raised by the Dahe Tribe a long time ago, and she liked them very much.

Painting itself is full of fun, and teaching others to draw is even more fun. The object of the painting is a cute lynx, so the fun is super doubled.

It is rare to see her daughter get along well with her peers, and Aoi is very pleased.

She is also learning advanced pottery techniques.

Zhang Tian first asked Yougu Tribe about the details of pottery making in daily life, then told her the deficiencies and how they could be improved, and then showed her the actual operation.

Sitting on a small wooden stool, Puhua turns the pottery wheel with her feet and builds mud strips with her hands. This work is a test of the coordination ability of hands and feet and requires enough care and patience.

Men are keen on kneading mud, but when it comes to carefulness and patience, they are far inferior to women. Since the use of pottery wheels to make pottery, this industry has become the world of women, and among all women, Puhua is the most skilled .

Using hands and feet together, she demonstrated it to the guests. After a while, a pot-shaped pottery blank was formed.

It's amazingly fast!Kui reckoned that if she kneaded the pottery blanks according to her method, Puhua could knead three of them, but she could only finish one at most!And it's not as thin and even as pinching cattail flowers!

A small disc has such a magical effect!
Puhua's relaxed and freehand style gave Kui a very simple illusion. After putting on her feet, she realized that her hands and feet couldn't be controlled at all, and she couldn't coordinate them together anyway, so she had to start from scratch and gradually improve her proficiency.

A few days later, Zhang Tian put the pottery kneaded by Kui and He into the pottery kiln for firing. This should be the last time the Dahe Tribe fired pottery before they left. There are things that cannot be taken away. No matter how much they produce, it is useless. To give guests a taste, there won't even be this last time.

Aoi has fired pottery countless times, but never has she been as nervous as today, both nervous and looking forward to it, as if going back to her apprenticeship, when she fired pottery for the first time, she felt the same way back then.

Sitting near the entrance of the cave, she frequently looked at the boxy pottery kiln, the burning flames at the bottom of the kiln, and the thick smoke overflowing from the top of the kiln.

It is said that pottery is fired in a pottery kiln, and there is almost no cracking or water seepage.She had been mentally prepared for a long time, but when the firing was completed and the kiln was opened to take out the pottery, she was still surprised to find that it was true as the sky said.

"He, yours!"

In the last pottery kiln, besides the works of Kui and He Lianshou, there are also many masterpieces of children. Among the rough painting styles, He's works are very recognizable. They are either painted with bright red flowers or lifelike. small animals with delicate strokes.

Only one is more abstract. It depicts two people, one tall and one short, holding hands and shoulder to shoulder. They are only a little better than stick figures. It seems that they are not often drawn.

"Is this painting of me and Lin?"

Zhang Tian held up the last pottery and asked.

He nodded vigorously.

"The drawing...is not good." She said shyly.

"It's good, at least it can be seen that it's me and Lin." Zhang Tian encouraged her.

He hugged the pottery she had painted by herself, couldn't help but rubbed the smooth pottery body with her fingers, the patterns she painted blended perfectly with the pottery body, as if it had grown out.

God said that the paintings painted on the cave walls may fade and fall off, but the paintings burned on the pottery will always be passed on, and her descendants will regard these pottery as treasures.

He didn't dare to ask for so much, as long as more people saw her paintings and liked her paintings, she would be satisfied.

Xiao came over and praised: "You paint so beautifully! It looks real! The painted pottery you painted will be used in the next sacrifice, and the ancestors will definitely like it!"

He pursed her lips and smiled. She was used to Xiao's enthusiasm, but she still didn't know how to respond.

"Why can't I look like a picture?"

"It's... much better."

"Hey, you taught me well! Will you teach me again?"

He not only teaches Xiao, but also teaches other children.

The atmosphere in the Great River Tribe was different, and she discovered it after coming here.

In the eyes of the tribe and even her mother, painting is a sign of not doing business properly. Making toys with stones and wood can also improve the polishing skills. What is the use of painting?
The children of the Yougu tribe are not interested in this either, so He always "faces the wall and thinks about his mistakes" alone.

The Dahe Tribe doesn’t think so, or rather, Tian doesn’t think so. On the contrary, he encourages the tribe to learn all kinds of useless skills, such as painting, playing the flute, and dancing... In his words: “It’s snowing heavily from the sky, throwing us Trapped in caves is for us to do these useless things."

With such an enlightened priest of the sky, it is only natural that the children of the Dahe tribe are keen on painting.

The long cold day has just begun, and people are already imagining the arrival of warm weather. On the one hand, they are looking forward to it, and on the other hand, they are anxious.

He often saw men from the Dahe Tribe clapping their chests and saying, "Isn't that just migration? It's not like our ancestors never migrated! I can even beat thunder beasts away, so migration is nothing!"

Although she can't speak well, she has a high ability to perceive words and expressions. She knows that the men are bluffing, but they don't know what to do.

Lin Yu tells his people about the beauty of Taoyuan and the vastness of the world every day, so as to inspire their courage.

When she mentioned the boundless sea, everyone was frightened.

"Is the sea bigger than the grassland?"

The prairie was the most expansive landscape they had ever seen except the sky.

Lin Yu said, "It's bigger than the grasslands and forests combined!"

"The sea is full of water?"

"The sea is full of water."

Everyone tried to imagine what the sea looked like, but they couldn't imagine it. The biggest lake they had ever seen was on the grassland. The sea was bigger than the grassland and forest combined. How could the grassland hold it?
Xiao Xiao is more concerned about another question: "Are there many fish in the sea? Is it possible to fish?"

"You can fish, but it depends on the situation. The sea is very irritable. If it is not happy, it will set off huge waves higher than the mountains. Fishing at this time will be very dangerous!"

Lin Yu told them that there is a super-big fish called a whale in the sea, which is much bigger than a mammoth. He also said that there is a lot of salt in the sea, which is as much as the trees in the forest.

Like the dreamy description, this means that there is endless food and salt in the sea!

Tiger Claw was curious about this, and asked expectantly, "Will we migrate to the seaside?"

"No, the sea is too far away. Although there is no sea where we are going, there is a big river with a lot of fish in it!"

Tiger Claw was a little disappointed. He really wanted to see the magnificent ocean that Lin described.

Xiao keenly caught the loophole in her words, and asked: "There is no sea in Taoyuan, so you should have never seen the sea. How do you know so much?"

Lin Yu didn't change his face, and said firmly: "Because our ancestor Shennong has been there, he traveled to every corner of the earth in order to taste the herbs, and he passed on his knowledge to us."

"That's right!" Zhang Tian endorsed for her, "Our ancestors still left a story by the sea!"

As soon as they heard the story, the children immediately regained their spirits and looked at him eagerly.

He is also very interested. She likes to listen to the stories of her ancestors. These novel stories will make her have the impulse and desire to paint.

Zhang Tian said with a smile: "Go and look up at the sky first, and we'll talk about it when we come back."

After praying and returning to the cave, Zhang Tian began to tell today's story:

"As Lin said, Shennong traveled to every corner of the earth in order to taste the herbs, and some people followed him all the time, including a girl named Nvwa."

"When they arrived at the seaside, they were shocked by the vastness of the sea. Nvwa saw the sun rising from the sea, and wanted to go to the place where the sun rose to have a look. But Shennong was too busy to taste the herbs, so he couldn't take her there. So Nvwa used The rope tied the log, and she sat on the log and paddled alone to the place where the sun rose."

The tribe has no concept of a boat, but they do know that the wood will float on the water. When they heard that the girl was sitting on the wood, they were taken aback for a moment, and then realized that this is an excellent way to cross the river. They couldn't help but admire the wisdom of the ancestors!

"However," Zhang Tian changed the subject, "she hadn't rowed far, and the sea suddenly became unhappy, and waves as high as mountains were set off!"

"what!"

Everyone exclaimed, Lin Gang said that Dahai is very scary when he is unhappy, even scarier than Thunder Beast!
Bai hurriedly asked: "How is the girl?"

Zhang Tian said in a slightly sad tone: "The waves capsized Nvwa's boat. Unfortunately, Nvwa fell into the sea and was swallowed by the vast sea. She will never come back."

Everyone sighed. Although they had never seen the sea, they had seen animals swallowed by the river. They also heard from their grandmother that a child fell into the water before and disappeared in the blink of an eye. They could imagine the horror of being submerged in water.

They thought the story was over, and they were wondering why today's story is so short, when they heard the sky go on to say:
"When the girl died, her soul turned into a little bird with a white beak and red claws. It uttered the mournful cry of Jingwei, Jingwei. People call this bird Jingwei."

"Jingwei hated the sea for taking her young life, so she kept carrying stones and branches from the mountain, spread her wings, and flew to the sea, throwing stones and branches down, trying to fill up the sea."

"The sea is galloping and roaring, laughing at her, saying that even if she works all her life, she will not be able to fill the sea up!"

Zhang Tian stopped, looked around his clansmen, and asked with a smile: "If it were you, how would you answer?"

Everyone frowned and thought, this question was so familiar, they caught a little bit of it, but couldn't fully recall it.

Xiao Xiao was the first to react, and said loudly: "Yugong! Even if I can't do it, I still have descendants, and my descendants will have descendants. As long as we persevere, no matter how difficult things are, one day we will succeed!"

Xiao Xiao's awareness is indeed the highest among all people.

Zhang Tian smiled appreciatively: "You're right. Jingwei said similar things, and she did what she said. Her children, like their mother, reclaim the sea with rocks every day. But the sea is too big , much bigger than the mountain, so they are still doing it to this day.”

Tiger Claw couldn't help asking: "If we go to the beach, can we see Jingwei's descendants?"

Zhang Tian nodded in agreement.It can be seen that Tiger Claw is very interested in the sea. As a warrior who stood up to fight against the Thunder Beast, although he is not as strong as Tiger Head, his bravery is beyond doubt. After Grandma announced the news of the migration, Tiger Claw also responded most positively one of the people.

A few days later, messengers from each tribe arrived one after another. After going back to discuss with the tribe, all the tribes were willing to migrate.

(End of this chapter)