The Xunshan clan's investigation team had been dispatched a long time ago. Although they were holding a ghost map that they couldn't understand and didn't know where they were going, they were led by two mighty warriors and wanted to go southwest. Not as far as the East China Sea.
Just keep the general direction unchanged.
At this time, Witch Master Ji briefly stayed in the Lu family for a day. Although he was pointed at by a pair of spears and thought he was an uncivilized primitive, Witch Master Ji finally managed to let the soldiers of the Lu family Get it - he's not primitive, he just has a thicker accent.
"We didn't expect anyone to come over there. Where are you from?"
The old wizard started chatting with him. He listened with great difficulty for a long time, but still didn't understand.
But if during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there was another name for what Witch Lord Ji said.
"Chu Yan".
Chu dialect is the predecessor of Xiang dialect. The phonetic composition of the ancient Chu dialect is very different from that of the Central Plains radiation area. In the Shanhai era, this difference has risen to a level of primitive ignorance. Therefore, the southern tribes have been affected by the Central Plains radiation. For I can understand the Central Plains dialect, but I don’t know much about people from the southwest and south.
Even in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, different tribes and people in each place had their own set of accents. The so-called different pronunciations for ten miles. Chu land borders Baiyue. There were many language families, even many. Until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, even During the time of Qin Shihuang, it was still the original language.
"Oh, what country are you from..."
"Witch, what country is this?"
"What country do you ask me? I can't understand it either!"
The old wizard said angrily, while Witch Master Ji burst into tears.
It seems that when you come to the radiation area of the Central Plains, you have to learn the language of the Central Plains. This is where you are. If you haven't gone out to the south, others will no longer be able to understand you.
The language of southerners is slightly easier to understand than that of Witch Master Ji, so one can roughly understand it, while the other can hardly understand it at all.
Soon it was time for dinner, and most of Lu's meals would include fresh fish. After all, they were a half-fishing, hunting, and half-farming tribe. When Master Ji saw the rice, he was surprised to see the white flowers in the bowl. Rice.....
Why isn't there much chaff? Can you be full without chaff?
With doubts in his mind, Witch Master Ji asked the old wizard with pictures and texts. The old wizard understood it this time, so he explained with the same pictures and texts and recitation: "This is a woodworking instrument passed down by the Akagata clan. It can remove chaff." Pi, you ask if we can eat enough? Of course we can!"
"It's a double bumper harvest this year! There's also a bumper harvest of fish and a bumper harvest of grain. The chaff is left for the livestock. These guys eat the chaff and grow stronger!"
According to Akafang's suggestion, Lu is now also buying livestock and building a pig pen. These pigs were imported from the other side of the river by Chaisangshan. They were bought from the Rishan family at a price slightly higher than the original price. The food was sold, and every household basically bought some, including the Akagata family.
Yes, in the past few days, the great shaman of the Chaisang clan went to the border of the Central Plains, that is, across the river, and bought many fine piglets from the Central Plains, and then asked the Lishan clan to send them back with free shipping.
The Rishan clan is famous for animal husbandry.
Witch Master Ji was secretly surprised, but at this time he was guilty and skeptical about Lu's statement about a great harvest.
The guilty reason is that the south must have suffered from floods this year. Such a huge flood cannot disappear out of thin air. The suspicion is that since there has been a flood, some farmland must have been washed away, so how can there be a bumper harvest?
Ji Witch Master finished the rice as if he was swallowing a jujube, but telling the truth this time was the most comfortable time he had ever had since eating.
It feels really good to not have to grind your throat.
After eating, it was time to go to bed. The old wizard of the Lu family cleaned his house, and when Witch Master Ji went back, he saw many things that he had never seen before.
"What's that spinning chicken board?"
"Weather vane, used to measure wind pressure and wind source."
“What’s that big flat ball that spins?”
"The water truck is used for watering the fields. We have some fields on the stone hills behind."
"What is that man's hand fighting against?"
"A plow, used by cattle or people, can be used to open the ground..."
?Old wizard Lu looked at Witch Master Ji as if he were a country bumpkin.
Is this enough to be considered a "Chinese" from the Southwest?
Country! The tribes that founded the country are all considered to have two skills, that is, the people in the city, how come they look less experienced than the people in the countryside!
However, this also proves that everything Yu Zai invented is a good thing.
Witch Master Ji particularly valued the plow, and even rushed over to it, wiped his hands clean, and wanted to touch it.
"Now that my hands are clean, can I touch your plow?"
He jabbered in ancient Chu dialect, which made the soldier very embarrassed. It took him a long time to understand that he wanted to see the plow.
"what is this!"
Master Ji arranged the plow. When he understood the nature of this plowing tool, he looked at it as if he were looking at a god.
Wow, holy, so dazzling.
"I didn't expect that any tribe in the south would have such a good tool. It's really getting closer to the Central Plains!"
He was so excited that he didn't expect to meet a tribe here with so many wonderful tools.
"Is this a tool invented by your department?"
Master Ji made gestures like a great master. The old wizard understood and responded: "It was the Akafang clan who led us to do it, but we did not do it ourselves."
"If you want to see them, go all the way east from here and follow the dirt road..."
The labor reform prisoners of the Diyou clan did not dare to be lazy. Half of the road leading to Nanqiu from the three mountains and four fields has been built, and the remaining half is a dirt road that has not been excavated or tamped, but has been simply treated. Next, wait until the road is tamped After the operation is completed, they will be sent to other places to strengthen construction and production. As for normal times... they will naturally stay in prison.
Yu Zai has already built the prison, and the builders of this prison are naturally the reform-through-labor prisoners.
Witch Master Ji spent an unforgettable night at Lushi. Of course, the even more unforgettable scenery was what he saw when he arrived at Nanqiu!
He could already see the vast Nanqiu. Following this dirt road, he arrived at the Nanqiu where the Akagata clan lived in just three days.
The huge water channel stretched in front, the tall earth wall stood behind, and all kinds of tools and facilities that he had never seen before gave him a head-on shock at first.
Witch Master Ji came to Nanqiu and saw the big well...
He rubbed his eyes hard to make sure he was not dreaming.
A dog and a sheep are turning the windlass, the rope is contracted, the bucket is lifted up, and then is held aside by the sheep, followed by the second bucket...
"As expected of a place close to the Central Plains!"
Witch Lord Ji let out a long breath.
"Even the animals are so smart."
