"Aren't you afraid that I am a bad person?" Qin Tian asked.
But the man from the grassland smiled heartily: "What are you afraid of? You have small arms and legs. Am I still afraid that you will harm us?"
The strong man was obviously very confident. When he said this, he couldn't help but pat Qin Tian on the shoulder: "I really don't know how you, a small person like you, survived in the grassland!"
If you want to say what is the biggest difference between the grassland people and the people of the Central Plains, it should be their diet.
People in the Central Plains are good at farming and eat mainly various crops, while people in the grassland are good at herding, so naturally they eat and drink all kinds of meat and milk.
Different geographical environments have given rise to different eating habits, and have also produced two completely different types of people.
Perhaps the people of the Central Plains would envy the herdsmen who have milk and meat every day, but for the herdsmen, long-term lack of vegetable vitamin intake will also cause serious problems in their bodies.
The most common one is poor defecation, which can really make people suffocate to death!
In addition, it is extremely difficult to develop the metallurgical industry on the grasslands. Even at this point in time, let alone iron and bronze wares, it is already extraordinary for most grassland people to have a few bronze wares in their homes!
As for fighting, let alone fighting. In many cases, the arrows used by some poor Huns in battle were ground from stones or bones.
This is why although the grassland people are bigger and more powerful than the Central Plains people, the Central Plains people can always fight with the Huns.
Because the equipment gap between the two sides is really big.
For example, every winter, the Xiongnu invaded the border areas and robbed the people's property. What did they rob the most? Not some gold and silver treasure, but a pile of useless spatulas!
This is also the rarest thing on the grasslands that lack metal and smelting industries!
At the same time, this is also one of the reasons why border officers have a headache about the annual harassment by the Huns.
A small group of people sneaked in, secretly killed a few people, and took away these things. Do you want to chase them?
If you don't chase him, he kills someone, but if you chase him, all they take away is just some worthless scraps of metal. What do you think you should do?
This is also the significance of the emergence of the Great Wall.
With the Great Wall, the Xiongnu could not invade the Han's territory unscrupulously in small groups.
It is precisely because of their eating habits and height that they have developed the tough folk customs of the prairie people.
It's not a man's exaggeration. From the perspective of prairie people, Qin Tian is not short, but he is too thin.
The real prairie warriors are not the kind of macho men with well-defined muscles and bulging lumps. Those are just looks.
A true warrior is tall and at the same time fat, or strong.
Only thick fat can allow warriors to resist the cold in winter. At the same time, thick fat can also protect their muscles and internal organs, increasing their survival rate on the battlefield.
Therefore, in the eyes of the grassland people, Qin Tian is a very weak person no matter from which point of view.
And because Qin Tian quoted scriptures when speaking, he was very insightful, which immediately impressed these ignorant prairie people.
In their eyes, Qin Tian is a scholar who is good at research and a rare scholar on the grassland.
"With your ability, why don't you join the army and make contributions?" the man asked strangely.
"Sir, you are so knowledgeable. If you join the army, you will definitely be treated politely?"
Qin Tian smiled and did not answer: "What about you? I see that you are quite strong. If you join the army, you will certainly be able to make great contributions, right?"
"And your son is also a talented person, and his bravery is definitely not inferior to yours. So why don't you join the army?"
The people Qin Tian met were a big family, with four young adults alone, in addition to two old people and three children.
Including their wives, there are a total of eleven people living together in this tent!
Especially the four young men, each one is stronger than the other, they are really brave.
"This..." The strong man suddenly fell silent, and the originally warm atmosphere in the whole room suddenly stagnated.
Qin Tian didn't know what he said wrongly, which actually caused such serious consequences.
"I can see that, sir, you are not a simple person." The strong man said helplessly.
"I'm not afraid of your ridicule when I tell you. Back then, I took my horses and went south to plunder. You see, the copper pot in this house is the one I robbed!"
Generally speaking, when Huns talk about this kind of topic, most of them will be full of pride. Even if they are not, they will definitely not be as full of shame and annoyance as the man in front of them.
"That year, I killed two young men who wanted to kill me before I managed to escape."
The huge and muscular man was actually like a child at this time, carefully wiping away the tears from the corners of his eyes with his fingers, not wanting him to notice his red eyes.
"When I left, I saw the two young men's children lying on top of them crying, and their wives looked at me leaving with hatred in their eyes."
"I went with my father and my brother, but in the end I was the only one who came back with two bags of grain and a copper pot."
The strong man sighed: "But...if you really can't survive, who would be willing to go to other people's places and steal other people's things?"
"No one is born bad. It's like you don't need anyone to teach you. You should know that killing your mother is wrong."
"No one has taught you, and you should know that you should not rob other people's things or take other people's lives at will..."
At this time, he did not look like a brave man on the grassland, nor a warrior, but more like a philosopher who had his own profound thoughts about the world and society.
"I'm stupid and stupid. I haven't read a book, I can't read, and I can't speak any big principles." The strong man smiled honestly: "So I think, I shouldn't..."
"What shouldn't it be?" Qin Tian asked subconsciously.
"You shouldn't invade others casually, steal other people's property, steal other people's women, and kill other people's children." The strong man kept shaking his head.
"These are all wrong."
"So instead of joining the army, I took my family to the depths of the grassland and lived in isolation."
Qin Tian finally understood the doubts in his heart.
No wonder this family seems to have a lot of cattle and sheep, but they still seem a little poor inside Qionglu.
No one can live apart from the group, and this group of people is the same.
The scarcity of materials on the grassland is not only reflected in the lack of various metal resources. Deep in the grassland, wood is also a rare and scarce resource.
Yes, firewood is almost everywhere for the Central Plains people, but it is almost completely invisible on the grasslands.
The fuel they use for cooking and heating mainly comes from dried cow and sheep dung, which doesn't smell good when burned.
Because on the grassland, you can hardly see any trees, even low bushes are hard to see, let alone trees!
At the same time, the main structure of the dome they lived in was also made of wood. The only way to get a wooden structure deep in the grassland was to trade with merchants.
But in order to avoid war and conscription, they had almost no contact with the outside world, which resulted in their small tribe lacking everything.
Even the most common wood among the Central Plains people is a rare treasure to them!
Although the grassland people have never lacked various dairy products on their tables, meat is also very common. This is a situation that the Central Plains people can hardly imagine.
But their lives are actually much poorer than those of the people in the Central Plains.
There is a saying that has always been circulated on the grassland: a family has a lot of wealth, but it doesn’t count its hair.
Because it is located in the north, there is drought and little rain. It is very likely that a snowstorm or a drought will be enough to completely bankrupt ordinary herdsmen!
These are the most commonly talked about white disasters and black disasters on the grassland.
When a heavy snow comes, countless livestock are at risk of freezing to death. At the same time, when college comes, plants stop growing, livestock lack food sources, and are very likely to starve to death soon!
Not to mention drought, not to mention people, even livestock will starve to death. Where can people have anything to eat and drink?
Livestock is the most important part of the life of grassland people, but it is also the most unstable part.
Their economic structure is more fragile than the traditional small-scale peasant economy and more difficult to withstand natural disasters.
This is why they all have a sense of aggression in their nature.
If it is not impossible to survive, who is willing to risk his life to actively invade others?
Qin Tian sighed and said nothing.
Living in such an era, most people do not distinguish between right and wrong, they just want to survive.
Yes, he did kill the people of the Central Plains, but from his own point of view, he seemed to have done nothing wrong.
A disaster occurred on the grassland, and he didn't want to die. If he didn't want to die, he would rob others of food and drink.
Everyone on the grassland is poor and has little money, so they can only target the Han people in the south.
In this process, even if they die, they should die without any complaints, because they themselves are the wrong party.
But from their own perspective, what were they wrong? They're just a bunch of poor people who can't survive.
Qin Tian acknowledges the diversity and complexity of human nature, and will also not let go of any evil person who makes him unhappy.
But even though this group of herdsmen had killed people, they were still just a group of poor people trying to survive.
Qin Tian didn't feel he was qualified to judge such a person.
Didn't his father and his brothers also die there? One life is worth one life, whose life is nobler?
Of course Qin Tian knew that this man was not lying. Everything he said was true and came from his heart.
Of course Qin Tian still has such a little bit of judgment.
Qin Tian can tell whether ordinary people lie in front of Qin Tian at a glance.
"Stop talking about this." The man shook his head and said, "I'm just a coward, a coward who doesn't dare to go to the battlefield again."
"No..." Qin Tian looked outside the tent: "The real warrior is not how many people he killed on the battlefield and how many treasures he robbed back."
"Then...what is a true warrior?"
Qin Tian did not answer: "The snow is getting heavier and heavier."
There was also a hint of worry in the man's eyes.
This is really not good news.
If the snow falls too much this year, I'm afraid their cattle and sheep will suffer heavy losses, and they will have to go hungry by then!
One night, the man had to go out every once in a while to check on the cattle and sheep and see if the snow was still falling.
Soon he breathed a sigh of relief.
It didn't snow very much today, so the cattle and sheep didn't have much of a problem.
The next morning, the man found a sheep that had frozen to death. He had no choice but to find a place to skin it and kill it, preparing to eat it.
Don't look at their herds of cattle and sheep, but in fact they generally don't take the initiative to slaughter livestock.
Because these livestock are equivalent to their principal. If the principal is slaughtered and eaten, there will be no interest in the future!
Therefore, the main food of the grassland people is still based on various dairy products.
Occasionally I will fish and hunt or collect some berries and vegetables.
However, these sources are unstable, and the most stable ones are naturally various dairy products.
The happiest time for herdsmen every winter is not eating and drinking all day long, because that would mean that too many cattle and sheep died this winter and they had to eat them.
If there is no beef or mutton to eat all winter, they will be very happy.
Because this means that the livestock did not suffer too much damage this winter, and they will definitely be able to survive smoothly in the coming year!
It snowed heavily all day yesterday, and only one old sheep died among the livestock. The man was still very happy.
Qin Tian was also lucky enough to see the herdsmen's method of dealing with dead livestock.
Their method of handling livestock can be described as simple and crude. Most of the time, they just handle it casually, just about right.
Seeing this processing process, Qin Tian felt that he roughly understood why their meat had a hint of blood smell.
Herdsmen also live in pursuit of water, but the temperature is very low in winter. If they want water, they can only use fire to heat ice cubes taken from the river.
This is not an easy job either.
The frozen ice is very difficult to break, and it often takes a lot of effort to remove a piece of ice.
Following the herdsmen, Qin Tian also saw with his own eyes the difficulties of the herdsmen's lives.
In this era, the life of no working people is smooth and easy. Everyone has their own difficulties.
Qin Tian looked to the sky.
All living beings seeking to survive under this sky are suffering, and who can escape?
At this moment, Qin Tian had a slightly different feeling in his mind.
He seemed to vaguely see Tiandao from the sky, and saw Tiandao's miserable expression.
Tiandao seems to be...sympathizing?
Qin Tian was shaken out of that state.
He suspected that he was wrong, but Tiandao did seem to have his own consciousness and his own preferences.
Qin Tian frowned and looked at Xiaobai on his wrist.
Xiaobai has not appeared for a long time since the last time he understood the transformation principle of yin and yang.
He seemed to have fallen into a deep sleep.
The breath sent by Tiandao has its own meaning. How could Tiandao not have its own consciousness?
Qin Tian began to feel that something was not very good.
If Heaven is conscious...
(End of chapter)
