Zhou An saw black women outside washing clothes with wooden sticks in a wooden basin, and black women also brought dried fish strips of fish outside into baskets.
Zhou An also saw eleven or two black girls, all wearing fish-skin jackets, and three o'clock appeared in their clothes, giving them an extraordinary beauty. In addition, they were black people, which brought different impacts to Zhou An.
Especially one of the girls, who is 28 years old, is so beautiful, with soft hair draped behind her, and the thin willow-like waist branches seem to be able to grasp them.
But what surprised Zhou An was that most of the black women here were fat. Zhou An, who was as thin as her, only saw two or three people. Their lives seemed not very good, their faces were dirty, and their clothes were much dirty and torn than others. It seemed that their status here was not very good.
These women all looked at Zhou An with curious eyes, as if Zhou An was a rare and precious animal.
Not only were there women, but there were men here, but there were not many men here, so Zhou An saw seven people, holding knives in their left hand and monkeys in their right hand, and were peeling them.
It seems that the rumors are true, they really feed on monkeys.
The man also saw Zhou An, but their eyes looked like sorrow and joy, as if Zhou An had arrived, and snatched all the treasures they had collected, as if Zhou An had arrived, which would bring them a better future.
Zhou An didn't understand the man's expression very much, and this expression was too contradictory.
After the three black men led Zhou An in, the two black men told their king, and the black woman was left with Zhou An. However, the black woman did not speak, but just looked at Zhou An with bright eyes.
Zhou An "enjoyed" everyone's eyes and waited for the king's arrival.
Zhou An was calm there and said to the black woman next to him: "How many people are there in your country? Is there still people not coming out?" In fact, what Zhou An wanted to say was that there were too few people in his tribe, but it was a bit inappropriate to ask directly, so Zhou An asked this.
"We have very few people in Wuliang Country, only more than 700 people. In the past, we were a big country with 3,000 people, but the monkeys outside were too fierce, especially the monkey craze once a month, and we all had to die a lot of people, so gradually, there were a lot of people in our country. I heard that there were more than 10,000 people at the peak of my Wuliang Country, and all of them blamed these stinky monkeys." said the black woman.
"What is the monthly monkey tide?" Zhou An asked.
"Every month, those monkeys have to attack our Wuliang Kingdom and flatten our Wuliang Kingdom. Every day, we will hurt many people and die some people in order to defeat these monkeys." said the black woman.
"These monkeys hate you very much." Zhou An sighed.
"I heard from my grandfather that we have lived on this island with those monkeys since hundreds or thousands of years ago. We fought with the monkeys. We killed many monkeys, and the monkeys also killed many of our people. So we can only exist in this world if one of the monkeys dies." The black woman said.
"I don't know your name yet, what are your name?" Zhou An said.
"My name is Gemea." Looking at Zhou An's eyes, Gemea lowered his head shyly and said.
Zhou An in front of him was so handsome, especially his eyes, like the stars in the sky. He was moved when he saw it.
Not only Gemea thought so, but all the women here thought so, especially after comparing with the men here, they found that Zhou An was as dazzling as the sun, and he simply compared the men here.
"A good name, named after plum blossoms, sparse shadows slanted across the water, and the faint fragrance floats at dusk in the moon." Zhou An said appreciatively.
"What you are talking about is poetry. I have only heard of poetry before. This is the first time I have heard it." Zhou An praised her good name, and she said sweetly as if she had eaten honey.
"Oh? Who did you hear?" Zhou An said.
This is overseas. There are very few people who know poetry under the guidance of the witch, and they can even be heard in this remote primitive tribe. He is a little curious.
"It was told by an old man who collected herbs. The old man is so talented. He knows everything and can tell many stories." Gomea said.
"Is this old man also a member of Wuliang Kingdom? I'm going to meet him." Zhou An said.
"He does not live in Wuliang Kingdom, but in the sea cliff in the east. He is not a member of our Wuliang Kingdom, he comes from outside like you. He has lived there for a long time and is very good." Gomea said.
Zhou An felt a little moved when he heard this. Could it be that the old man was the Master Lan he was looking for? He heard it looked very similar. Then Zhou An said, "There are so many ferocious monkeys on the island, so isn't that old man very dangerous?"
"This old man is not afraid of those monkeys. I have been to the old man. The old man will have a special kind of powder. As long as it is sprinkled, the monkeys will not dare to get close to them." Gomea said.
"It's so strange, you have to have a good experience in the future." Zhou An said with a smile.
"He is right in front of you. Your Majesty, please slow down. If you fall, it will be bad."
At this time, a voice came toward this place.
Zhou An looked over and just a group of people walked quickly towards him, and the two black people who brought him were among them.
Of course, all those who came were black.
The current one is an elderly man wearing clothes woven by bark and leaves, with a garland on his head. On the left and right sides of the garland, two long grasses penetrated into the air obliquely.
The old man's clothes were so strange that Zhou An recognized him at a glance as the king of the primitive tribe.
As for the people next to the old man, they were still wearing clothes made of fish skin, but Zhou An had a doubt. Why didn’t they use monkey skin as clothes after they killed so many monkeys? It would be warm to wear monkey skin in the current season.
"Are you the one from outside? Welcome to your arrival? What kind of goods have you shipped? We have many of them here that can be traded." The old man said anxiously.
The moment he heard Zhou An come, he rushed to see Zhou An. Since the last time a person from outside came, they have been waiting for a year, and finally waited again. Now they lack a lot of things in Wuliangguo. Many of them bought last time have been used up. No matter what, this time, he will have to buy it for ten years.
"What do you want to buy, tell me." Although Zhou An came alone, Zhou An put a lot of things in the storage lattice and could trade with him. After all, Zhou An also had some desires for them.
"We need weapons, swords, bows, and pots, pans, and soy sauce, vinegar... and chickens, ducks, and geese..." The king said while counting his fingers.
"I'll take it out for you to choose after a while, but I'll sell it to you, what can you give me?" Zhou An saw his appearance and knew that he would be unable to finish talking for a while and quickly stopped.