In the dead of night, Lu Cheng was lying on the bed, stroking the jade ring and reciting the four-character inscription.
Up to this moment, he knew all four runes on the outer wall of the jade ring. He only knew two of the ten runes on the inner wall. The other eight runes were too complicated, each with hundreds of strokes. Even the "Great Witch Chant" None of them are included.
He knows that there are many ways to draw each rune, which are both similar to modern Chinese and also very different.
For example, the four characters on the outer wall of the jade ring are "empty, liao, time, and passing". There are 150 characters for empty, 120 characters for liao, 180 characters for hour, and 130 characters for passing. The runes are low. More than two hundred strokes are considered relatively simple; however, some very simple characters in modern Chinese may have three to four hundred strokes when written in runes.
In the middle of the night, his soul escaped from his body and was once again taken to a different world by the jade ring.
When I opened my eyes, I saw that it was afternoon here. The location was in the shade of a tree on a hillside, at least five or six miles away from the cave where he lived.
Lu Cheng felt a little strange: "Why is the time of each time of travel not fixed? The place of travel this time is not in a cave. Is it possible that the time and place of logging into this world are random? This is not a good thing! What if? God, what if I suddenly appear next to a tiger?"
He got up from the ground, stood on the hillside and looked down, and saw a golden field in the fields below.
His heart moved and he walked down the mountain.
When he came closer, he found that the shining golden ears were the ears of rice and millet. The plants were tall and strong, as tall as a person. Unfortunately, each ear did not produce many seeds. There is a field of sorghum not far away, which looks like a bamboo pole, at least five or six meters long, and is filled with grains from top to bottom.
Lu Cheng looked up at the nearby trees and found that the leaves were a little red. It seemed that it was autumn.
He walked through the fields and quietly collected some ears of rice, millet and sorghum.
The Leiyi people occupy an area of hundreds of miles, with some good land and some medium and poor land. They cultivate a lot of area. Unfortunately, the yield of Lingmi and Lingmai is very low, and the yield of Lingbean is even lower. The only one with high yield is sorghum.
Sorghum is revered as the "god of the grain". The tribesmen mainly rely on sorghum to avoid starvation.
Sorghum has a high yield and was a life-saving food in remote areas even during the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
However, in later generations, sorghum, as an ancient cultivated crop, was rarely eaten by people. It was mainly used to make wine, such as Moutai, Wuliangye, Luzhou Laojiao, Fenjiu, etc., all using red sorghum as the main raw material.
In terms of the content of various nutrients alone, the protein and sugar content of sorghum is still very high, higher than that of corn. But the shortcomings of sorghum are also obvious. It lacks lysine and tryptophan, and there are strong bonds between starch and protein, making it difficult for enzymes to break down, which means it is difficult to digest! In addition, sorghum contains more tannins, which is bitter and has poor palatability! It is precisely for these reasons that it is gradually withdrawing from people's dining tables!
Lu Cheng planned to take these crops back to see how they were different from the varieties of later generations.
After walking out of the field, he wanted to walk back to the cave where he lived. He passed a large village and saw a simple street market.
According to Lu Cheng's judgment, the Peiyi tribe is equivalent to the process of transformation from primitive society to slave society, or it is the early rise of slave society, but it is different from any dynasty in Chinese history. The combination of jade rings and those powerful fierce Beast, Lu Cheng would rather believe that the plane he is in is not on the earth.
This world has both things that are common to the ethnic group and private property. For example, in Beikang's cave, there are several jade coins, hundreds of stone coins and shells, which are all coins that can be circulated. Most of it was left to him by his mother, and some of it was given to him by his clan.
He is only 12 years old and has not yet reached adulthood. He does not need to spend money to eat, but if he wants good things and cannot get them from his clan, he has to spend money to buy them.
He was walking through the market and saw someone selling bird eggs, which were bigger than ostrich eggs. He didn't know what bird they came from.
He saw people selling wolf skins and tiger bones. Tiger bones were just small pieces of bones with no marrow in them. All the tiger bones with marrow were confiscated by the tribe and used to make medicine for strengthening the body.
He also saw someone selling a very large wild boar, which was said to be an annual piglet. It actually weighed over a thousand kilograms, and its two tusks were nearly one meter long!
He also saw a giant python, more than a foot thick and several feet long.
Seeing these things, Lu Cheng breathed a sigh of relief. At least he had a way to recharge the jade ring!
He did not buy it immediately because the python was a cold-blooded animal and the wild boar was already dead, so there might not be enough psychic energy in the blood. He planned to come back tomorrow to see if he could encounter other beasts.
Lu Cheng returned to the cave where he lived. This mountain was called "Yuyu Mountain" and it was regarded as the ancestral home of the Yiyi people. Everyone lived nearby.
He opened the wooden box on the bedside and put the jade coins, stone coins and shells into the jade ring. Then he walked out of the cave and walked higher along the mountain road. Soon he came to the Witch Temple.
This time he saw young Wu Fan striking a round jade stone three feet in diameter with a copper axe.
The jade is green with yellow, and the color is mottled. It is close to Xiu jade and Dushan jade, and it is obviously not jade from Myanmar.
He walked over and looked at it for a while and asked, "Is this dug out of the cave in the northeast corner?"
Wu Fan's attitude was not good, and he said "hmm" expressionlessly.
"What's the use of this thing?"
"Smash it open and see if there are any beautiful jade."
"If you have beautiful jade, what can you use it for?"
"Exchange treasures with the Dove Clan."
Lu Cheng roughly understood that although Baiyu Mountain produces jade, most of it is of poor quality. The best jade is very rare. Once you have the best jade, you can exchange it with the Jiu people for treasures, such as protective magic weapons, storage rings, etc. Powerful arrows, crossbows and swords, spears and halberds.
He thought to himself: "It seems that the great shaman of my tribe is not strong enough to carve runes by himself, so he can only buy jade rings from the Jiu tribe. If the shamans can make storage rings, then the level of the Peiyi tribe may be higher." Some."
The piece of jade that Wu Fan struck with a copper ax had many impurities and could not be used to make a storage ring, but it could be used to make jade coins.
Among the 72 lower-class ethnic groups of the Dongyi people, the Yiyi people are ranked among the top ones, which has something to do with the jade produced in Beiyu Mountain.
Lu Cheng walked into the main hall and saw the sorcerer playing with a columnar jade object with exquisite patterns carved on it.
So he stepped forward and asked: "Wu Zu, what is this?"
The sorcerer replied: "This is a magical instrument used to communicate with the gods. It is used during sacrifices. It is called a 'jade cong'."
"Oh, it turns out this is Jade Cong."
"Baikang, you haven't been here for two months. How many runes have you learned?"
"I only remember half of the five thousand words of "The Great Witch Chant"." Lu Cheng himself didn't understand why there was a gap of two months.
"It's already very good. Advanced runes are not easy to master. Do you know how many years it took me? I can't remember it anymore! Until now, there are still a lot of words and spells that I haven't learned... How much I can master is God's will , if your qualifications are limited, you will learn and forget at the same time, your brain will be eroded by the way of heaven, and you will never learn in your lifetime..."
"What is heavenly erosion?"
"God's will is bleak. If you don't advance, you will retreat."