Most people in the primitive clans in the wilderness may not know what a spy is, let alone what an undercover agent is. However, Qing Shui is clear. It requires cultivating loyal confidants and swearing a death oath to do so.
It can be sent to lurk among the other forces, but it will never be a newborn baby.
What kind of person a child will grow into depends on the environment he lives in and the beliefs he has been exposed to and accepted since childhood. Even if this child is not of the blood of the Qingshui clan, if he is raised here, he will naturally be equivalent to the Qingshui clan.
Since there was no clue to the inference, Li Qingshui just watched - he wanted to know what this woman would do with the baby?
The woman's expression was very hesitant. It was obvious that her location or her identity made it impossible or inconvenient to take in the baby, and she had little experience in this kind of thing. After a while, the woman flew high into the sky with the baby in her arms, heading towards the wilderness.
Looking at the continuous mountains, there are also other tribes of various sizes scattered in the mountains.
The woman held the baby in one hand and put the white bamboo stick-like instrument to her lips with the other, blowing out a beautiful divine sound. The instrument could also be used as a flute. The sound of the flute was gentle and clear, and birds gradually appeared one after another in the surrounding mountains.
The songs were in harmony, and many birds spread their wings and flew over, surrounding the woman as if dancing in the air.
Suddenly, the sound of the flute turned higher and higher. It reached the extreme but became inaudible. It was not that the sound of the flute disappeared, but that the pitch was too high for ordinary ears to hear. The woman also cast a spell to protect her arms.
The baby in his arms protected him from the impact of this strange divine voice.
The birds flying around the woman seemed to be driven by the sound, and suddenly they fluttered their wings and flew towards the distant mountains. Then the sound of roaring beasts came from the mountains. The woman was actually casting a spell to drive the birds and beasts. Seeing this scene, the clear water became even louder.
It is suspected that she is a master who has mastered the Shape Swallowing Technique. Although there are many secret techniques in the world that can do this, the Shape Swallowing Technique is undoubtedly the most effective one among them.
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More than ten miles away from the valley where the Qingshui clan settled, there is a village of another tribe high in the mountains. More than ten miles may be only a short distance on the plains, but in these wild mountains with crisscrossed cliffs and ravines, it is difficult to cross.
But it is a long and arduous journey. This tribe lives on a gentle slope beside a spring, surrounded by dense forests. Not far from the village is a bottomless cliff.
Their village also built walls with stones. There were more than 400 men, women, old and children in total. Although it could not be compared with the Qingshui clan, it could be regarded as a relatively prosperous tribe in this area. Due to the barrier of the mountains, there were no people in the village that day.
In the middle of the night, the tribesmen here did not hear the killing cries coming from the Qingshui Clan's residence, nor could they see the fire.
The steep mountains can block sound and sight, but they cannot block the wind blowing at high altitudes. The smoke and dust raised by the Qingshui Clan's Walled City being burned by the fire floated to high altitudes with the updrafts, and more or less dispersed to the surrounding high altitudes.
In the mountains and fields of the village. On the day after the tragedy of the Qingshui clan's annihilation, this village could smell a faint burnt smell in the wind blowing from afar.
The clan leader climbed to a high place and looked far away, and found smoke rising somewhere in the distant mountains, which was in the direction of the Qingshui clan's stronghold. His first reaction was of course not that the Qingshui clan had been exterminated, but that there was a mountain fire nearby.
But it seemed that the mountain fire was still far away, with several ravines in between. The vertical and horizontal steep mountains in this area also made it difficult for the mountain fire to spread on a large scale. The clan leader was not worried that it would spread to the vicinity of the village. He just told the clan
Regarding this incident, everyone is reminded to try not to go out today, especially not to go in that direction.
After sunrise the next day, a group of colorful birds suddenly flew over the village with flapping wings. Not long after, someone in the village suddenly shouted: "Look, muntjacs!"
Several muntjacs ran in panic from the mountains and forests. This is the favorite prey of the tribe. Not only is the meat delicious, but the fat can be refined into oil, and the leather is soft and comfortable. Some people picked up weapons and wanted to hunt muntjacs.
, and more people said to the clan leader: "Let's go to the mountain fire and have a look. It should have been extinguished. If we don't go, other tribes will take advantage."
After every wildfire, there are often many carcasses of wild beasts left behind, some of which are even half-cooked. Most of these wild beasts were lost in the fireworks and were smoked to death, burned to death or fell to death in a hurry.
But wildfires are not fun. Sometimes the wind will blow the burning vegetation far away and cause a fire in a larger area. If the unburned vegetation catches fire again with the wind, it is likely to trap people who enter the fire scene. Smoke once
But it is difficult to see clearly if it is so dense. In rugged and steep mountains, it is very dangerous to be trapped in a fire.
The clan leader climbed to a high place again and confirmed that there was no more smoke rising in the distant mountains. Then he gathered the strong men in the village and set off. Of course they carried weapons when walking deep into the mountains, and they also carried more bags intended to carry various prey.
.The frightened muntjacs running outside the village made them very excited. It seemed that there should be a group of muntjacs in the fire scene.
They had lived in the mountains since childhood, and they walked lightly and steadily on the rugged and steep mountain roads. They took the road to the Qingshui Clan's residence outside the mountains, but they never found any overheated mountains and forests. In the afternoon, someone asked the clan leader:
"Master Shan, what's going on? Did you see it wrong?"
Someone else said: "How could Mr. Shan be wrong? Even I could smell the smoke of fireworks coming from afar."
Someone else said: "It's getting late. If we can't go back to the village if we go any further, I'm afraid we won't be able to go back before dark."
The clan leader’s name is Ruoshan, and the tribesmen all call him Shanye. Shanye holds a bone staff and a long knife on his waist. He looks at the sky and mutteres: "We have come this far anyway, so we can go further."
It’s the Qingshui Clan’s castle, so let’s just go there and spend the night, and buy some things we just need.”
One tribesman added: "It's really strange. I clearly saw the smoke raised by the mountain fire, and saw the muntjac running away in fright outside the village, but I didn't encounter any wild animals along the way."
Ruoshan: "I don't think something is right either. Normally, you can see wild beasts walking along this road. What's more, there is a wildfire on the opposite side. Wild beasts that are frightened away should run this way. What happened today? Move forward.
Lets see."
The walled city of the Qingshui clan is the most prosperous place in this wilderness. For many tribes, walking out of the mountains and dense forests into this open valley is equivalent to entering the colorful world "outside the mountains". Many people
Their ancestors have never walked out of the mountains for generations, and this is the most prosperous and prosperous place they have ever seen in the world.
When this group of people walked out of the dense forest into the flat valley and looked up, they all stood there with their eyes wide open. Some people unconsciously dropped the things they were holding on the ground. The once prosperous Qingshui Clan's walled city had been reduced to ruins.
, only the buildings that were half-destroyed by the fire were left, and the surrounding areas were quiet, not even a human figure!
It turns out that the smoke that the clan leader saw yesterday was not from a mountain fire, but from a fire in the Qingshui clan's walled city. But where were the Qingshui clan's clan members? Even if there was a fire here, there would be water nearby.
Let it spread and burn down the entire city? Even if the entire city is burned down, it is impossible that not even one person can escape?
Ruoshan was the first to react. He held the bone staff in his left hand and pointed forward. He took out the long knife from his waist with his right hand and ordered: "Something big has happened here. I don't know where everyone has gone. Let's go and take a look... Bo Zhuang, Zhong
Zhuang, you two are following me, everyone is following me, prepare your weapons, the situation is very wrong!"
Bo Zhuang and Zhong Zhuang are brothers, and they are also the most powerful warriors in the tribe. Chief Ruoshan was extremely shocked and wanted to find out what happened to the Qingshui clan, but he had an extraordinary keen sense and could sense the walled city.
The unusual and tragic atmosphere left in the ruins seemed as if a horrific tragedy had happened not long ago.
Under the leadership of Ruoshan, everyone carefully walked into the ruins. The ground was covered with scattered ashes and charred wood, making strange cracking sounds under their feet. They checked the half-collapsed houses, but found no one, not even a single person.
There were no remains. Bo Zhuang said in confusion: "There is no one in the house at all, and there is no sign of putting out the fire at all. Everything is still intact. Where did the Qingshui clan go?"
Ruoshan did not speak, but stood still and trembled inexplicably. He asked the tribesmen to step back, raised the bone staff in his hand and closed his eyes to cast a spell. A weak wind blew up from the ground, and the ashes swirled around the tip of the bone staff with the wind.
A vein suddenly jumped on Ruoshan's forehead. He opened his eyes as if he had been greatly frightened, and the whirlwind stopped and ashes fell to the ground.
Shuzhuang asked: "Master Shan, what exactly did you find? Where have all the people here gone?"
Ruoshan's voice was inexplicably hoarse when he spoke again: "They didn't go anywhere. They were all buried in the fire without any bones left. This place is not on fire, but someone set a fire and wiped out the Qingshui clan." He had just sensed clearly that there were corpses in the ashes.
The burned ashes were scattered everywhere in the ruins of the entire city.
It was unimaginable that the powerful Qingshui tribe was completely wiped out without a single trace of a corpse. Someone asked in a trembling voice: "Who did it, a ghost or a monster?"
Ruoshan shook his head and said: "They are people, many of them! No tribe in this area can destroy the Qingshui clan. Those people should come from far away from the mountains. They are all very powerful. They surrounded and attacked the city." There were many anxious people in the village.
Traces of cuts with knives and axes can still be found on the trees. It was obvious that there had been fierce battles. Many shoe-wearing footprints were also found outside the village. Most people here usually don’t wear shoes. Even if they wear shoes, they don’t look like that.
Planting shoes.
The tribesmen were all dumbfounded and didn't know what to say for a moment. The world further outside the mountain was so powerful that it could wipe out the Qingshui clan overnight, which was beyond their imagination! A breeze blew by, and ashes were raised on the ground.
Falling on everyone's feet, the ruins under the sun looked inexplicably eerie and terrifying, and many people couldn't help but shudder.
At this time, someone suddenly pointed to the center of the walled city and shouted: "Look, what is that!"
People looked in the direction of his finger, and suddenly they showed even more horror. They clenched their weapons one after another, forming a semi-lonely defensive circle with the patriarch Ruoshan as the center. The spears were raised high, and the bows and arrows were cocked as if they were facing a powerful enemy.
I saw a fierce tiger lying on the half-collapsed altar in the center of the walled city.
This tiger looks different from the ordinary ones. The pure white hair is dotted with crimson lines. It looks so beautiful and handsome. It is actually a rare rouge tiger. Everyone, including Ruoshan, is the first one.
I saw this strange beast once. The Rouge Tiger stood up after being alarmed by everyone, and turned around to look this way.
Everyone positioned themselves and did not move. They were very nervous. Strong men in the wilderness have learned to hunt since childhood. They can hunt all kinds of powerful beasts by using weapons in conjunction with each other. However, under normal circumstances, they encounter large beasts in the mountains.
, generally do not take the initiative to attack, but just hold weapons to protect each other, and shout loudly to scare the beasts away.
If a powerful beast goes crazy and attacks desperately, the hunting tribesmen will easily suffer casualties. If one or several tribesmen sacrifice their lives in order to hunt a beast, of course the gain outweighs the gain. There are other things in the mountains and forests that are easier to hunt and are relatively easy to kill.
Prey that is much less dangerous, usually people will not fight to the death with large beasts, and beasts know how to protect themselves in most cases.
The tribesmen living in the wilderness all know that the rarer the exotic beast, the more dangerous it is. This is a rouge tiger that has never been seen before. He did not dare to act rashly, and did not even cry out, waiting for the tribe leader to leave.
command. The rouge tiger glanced at them and suddenly jumped off the altar. This leap was more than ten feet away. In the blink of an eye, he left the village and disappeared, as if what people just saw was just an illusion.
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, and then suddenly the cry of a baby dispersed the eerie silence in the ruins. Just where the Rouge Tiger had just lain down, there was a bamboo basket on the altar, and the cry came from there.
Come.
Ruoshan was the first to walk over quickly, put away his long knife and bone staff, and took out a baby who was less than one year old from the bamboo basket. The tribesmen gathered around and started talking in surprise——
"How could there be a child here? Could it be that he was left behind by the Qingshui clan? Why didn't he die?", "Looking at the posture of the tiger just now, the basket should be in its arms. Why didn't it eat the child?
", "The child cried as soon as the tiger left. Oh my god, was it the tiger that was feeding the child!"
Although it is rare for wild beasts in the mountains to nurse human babies as cubs, there have been rumors in the wilderness since ancient times, and people have thought of this possibility. But something is wrong. The beasts that are nursing their cubs are the most easily frightened.
, tend to be much more aggressive than usual. Why did that rouge tiger leave after seeing everyone?
Patriarch Ruoshan said: "That is a strange beast, it may be psychic. It wants to save this child, and it also hopes that we can save him."
The patriarch is the most knowledgeable person in the tribe, and his words are the most authoritative and will hardly be questioned. Everyone showed a look of enlightenment. At this time, someone shouted: "Look, Master Shan, this side of the altar is still being stripped."
A hole came out, and there was a cellar underneath. There seemed to be many treasures in the cellar!"
The entrance to the secret room under the altar of the Qingshui clan has been dug out, and they discovered it at this moment. Everyone entered the secret room to inspect, and exclaimed one after another from time to time. The so-called treasures of the simple tribal people are often what are truly precious to them.
There are various utensils stored in the secret room, including some gold and jade utensils, most of which are used to worship mountain gods. But what the people of the Ling tribe are more interested in are some other metal utensils or metal blanks that can be processed, which are very important to the tribes in the mountains.
It’s so rare!
What surprised them most was that there were beans and hemp seeds stored in the secret room. They were not ordinary food but seeds left for sowing. The Qingshui clan established a walled city. It was impossible for such a large population to make a living by hunting. In fact, most people
Some members of the Qingshui clan do not hunt. They make utensils, grow crops, and raise livestock. Their walls are also places where nearby tribes conduct transactions.
The fiber of hemp can be used to weave cloth, the seeds can be eaten or extracted for oil, and the bean is a delicacy. Before many tribes in the wilderness had learned to plant, the Qingshui clan had specially opened up the wilderness to sow and harvest every year. Get
With these seeds, it would certainly be a great thing if we could follow the example of the Qingshui clan members and successfully sow seeds according to season.
Ruoshan told his tribe members his guess: the Qingshui clan suffered a catastrophe, and a group of powerful murderers came from the distant mountains, slaughtering all the residents here and burning the village. The cellar under the altar was a secret room
, to store the precious collections of the Qingshui clan. When the disaster came, someone put the baby into the secret room.
But the Qingshui clan was all killed, and no one could come back to rescue the baby. But a psychic beast passed by, sensed the baby's breath, dug up the cellar, and took out the bamboo basket containing the baby. This
The baby is the only orphan left by the Qingshui clan, and is protected by the gods.
Everyone has seen what happened today. This child had such a strange experience when he was a baby. He must be a very special person in the future. It may be that the gods showed up and couldn't bear to see the Qingshui clan extinct, so they kept him. It was also a gift from their tribe.
It was a gift, so the tribesmen wanted to take the baby back and raise it well.
The tribesmen believed this deeply and praised Ruoshan chief for his broad knowledge and ability to know what others didn't know. Ruoshan held the baby in his arms and ordered: "Check the city carefully to see if there is anyone else who can be saved and what else is useful."
I don’t know if the murderers are still around. We can’t stay here for long. We retreat to the mountains to find a place to light a fire for the night and return to the village at dawn tomorrow.”
At sunset, Ruoshan held the surviving baby in his arms and led the crowd to leave the ruins of the city wall under the setting sun. Their bags contained various things found in the ruins. There was a woman hiding in the clouds watching them leave,
On the top of the distant treetop, Li Qingshui quietly watched this scene.
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Deep in the mountains, there is an open and gentle slope, backed by a dense forest of peaks and extending down to the edge of a cliff. There is a spring in the mountain forest. The spring water merges into a stream and flows around the slope into the ravine under the cliff, forming a trickle waterfall.
.The terrain on both sides of the gentle slope is relatively low. When there is heavy rain, the flash flood will not hit the center of the slope. A village is built here.
There are more than 400 men, women, old and young living in the village. They are a tribe in the mountains. Such barbaric people usually do not have any inherited clan names and are not called so-and-so clans, but they also have totems and clan names. Here
The tribesmen are called Lu people or Lucun people, and this village is called Lucun.
According to the patriarch Ruoshan, the descendants of Emperor Taihao entered Ba Yuan from a very far away place a long time ago and established the Ba Kingdom. An ancestor of the Lu tribe was recruited by the Ba Kingdom to participate in the construction of a road through the plains and mountains.
Later, he returned to the tribe in the mountains and was called "Wuding who built the road", or Lu Wuding for short. Later, this tribe took Lu as their surname and was called the Lu tribe.
The so-called clan surname only shows the origin and the difference from other tribes. The tribesmen in the wilderness have not yet had the awareness to use surnames. For example, Ruoshan will introduce himself to foreigners, "I am Ruoshan of the Lu tribe", but it is not customary.
Say "My name is Lu Ruoshan".
The names of the tribesmen may seem random but they are also very particular. The meaning of mountain is not only strong, but also a symbol of stability, strength and reliability. Although Ruoshan is not very tall, he is very strong. He is the strongest guardian of the tribesmen.
He is the most reliable and trustworthy patriarch.
People of the Lu tribe, young and old, all call Ruoshan Shanye. In fact, Ruoshan does not look old. If he didn’t have that goatee and combed his fluffy hair, he would even look young and handsome. But he has indeed protected the Lu tribe.
Yulu Village has been around for many years. According to the elderly in the village, Ruoshan was already the clan leader when they were children, and his appearance has not changed much compared to now.
There is another mysterious figure like Ruoshan in Lucun, her name is Ruoshui. Everyone calls Ruoshan Shanye, and Ruoshui is called Granny Shui. According to the elders in the village, Granny Shui already lived in the village when they were young.
The appearance of the house at the back has not changed so far. I am afraid that only Mr. Shan knows how many years Granny Shui has spent here.
Although Ruoshui is called mother-in-law, she is actually very young and beautiful. She often wears long hair and a long Gebu skirt, sitting outside the house spinning cloth, hiding the vicissitudes of the years in her clear and soft eyes.
After that, people in the village respected Patriarch Ruoshan and were in awe of Grandma Shui. Even the naughtiest children often seemed very honest in front of her.
Ruoshan is the clan leader, the person who leads the clansmen to worship their ancestors and mountain gods. The belief and worship of primitive tribes is relatively chaotic and ignorant. The so-called ancestor is not necessarily the Lu Wuding who left the clan name, but a general symbol.
The origin of "" also means the grace that bestows life. The mountains are a place of nourishment, providing everything the tribesmen need to survive, and the mountain god is a personified symbol. In fact, all mysterious things between heaven and earth are possible.
It was worshiped by primitive tribes and even became their totem.