Chapter 357 The Return of the Witch King
The great witch of the Gonghuo tribe was wearing an embroidered dress and a white cloak that belonged to the witch. She was wrapped in a thick animal skin dress, holding a dark and tall scepter, and carrying a group of middle-aged and elderly women with feathers on their heads were inspecting the building site and farmland.
About two miles south of the Gonghuo clan valley, this is the new residence of the newly relocated Five Ghost clans.
Most of the Five Ghosts are ugly, don’t like words, and are introverted and timid. According to the hunters of the Gonghuo tribe who brought them, these people have been cursed by gods. Although the great witch of the Gonghuo tribe is very unwilling to accept these people to live near their tribe, the conditions Xu Chen gave her were also unable to refuse.
As long as she is responsible for resettling this group of foreign races, the war compensation and labor reform between the Ba tribe and the Gonghuo tribe will be eliminated in the future.
Although the most difficult year has passed, the tribe is still in a state of lack of food and clothing. Nearly half of the remaining prisoners have not returned. The compensation for the other ten years is also a huge wealth. It is impossible for her to accept Xu Chen's chance to give her such a chance.
However, Xu Chen's actions of constantly sending people to the archway basin made her very confused and panicked.
For any tribe, it is a good thing to have a large population, just like the current house repair and land reclamation requires a large amount of manpower.
The captives of the Gonghuo tribe were still working for other tribes outside. When the manpower was short, she had already let all the women and children go to battle in order to repair houses and reclaim grain fields.
Time is endless. She urgently needs to change the long-standing hunting and gathering habits of the Gonghuo tribe and strive to keep up with the development of the Ba tribe. Not to mention surpassing the Ba tribe, but at least it cannot be surpassed by other tribes such as the Wu tribe, otherwise the Gonghuo tribe's prestige and appeal in the alliance tribe will become smaller and smaller.
After Xu Chen mobilized the Gonghuo tribe and the Thunder tribe to conquer the Yu Gong tribe, the several tribes participated in received a group of men and women who were transformed by labor, and these men just made up for the embarrassment of the tribes' unmanageable situation.
But what follows is insufficient food.
Especially the Gonghuo tribe, in order to resettle the Five Ghost Tribes, they need to consume more food every day. Although they can be replenished through hunting, it is far from enough, because almost all the women, children, elderly and weak, and less than 20% of the young and middle-aged men. Moreover, because the people and land are unfamiliar, they dare not compete with other tribes for prey, which makes food even scarce, and the Gonghuo tribe has to increase subsidies.
Just when she was worried, Xu Chen asked the witch to arrange to send three thousand kilograms of food.
These foods were temporarily lent to them, and they would need to repay more food next fall, but they also solved the urgent needs of several tribes.
In order to complete Xu Chen's mission, while the Gonghuo tribe constantly provides food, it also has to guide and help the Five Ghost tribes build houses.
It has been more than a month since Xu Chen sent these Five Ghosts tribes, and it has also entered December. If nothing unexpected happens, Xu Chen should be about to return. Therefore, the Gonghuo Clan needs to place these people as soon as possible, so Xu Chen cannot feel that she is perfunctory.
At the moment, the old witch could no longer feel hatred for Xu Chen, and some of them were incomparable awe.
In less than a month, Xu Chen conquered the two major tribes of the Yu Gong and the Five Ghosts, and they were all tribes with great witches. Every time he conquered a tribe, Xu Chen would always find a way to get people from the Gonghuo tribe. At present, more than 300 people were sent by the Yu Gong and the Five Ghosts tribes alone.
She didn't quite understand what Xu Chen's purpose was?
But after the three thousand kilograms of relief grain were transported, the old witch gradually seemed to have some enlightenment. As long as the land was opened and the grain was planted on both sides of the Canghe River, there was so much food that could not be eaten.
Xu Chensheng's ultimate goal may be to form a huge gathering area of different races in the Gun Basin.
And this place should have been the territory of the Gonghuo clan family.
But now she can't make decisions, so she can only let Xu Chen make arrangements and even take the initiative to help.
Perhaps, the Witch King has other meanings!
He is the lucky one who is blessed and favored by God, and this may also be the will of God.
So the old witch, who had some ideas, soon abandoned these ideas and could only constantly urge a group of Gonghuo Clan craftsmen who helped to guide the construction of the house to speed up the construction.
“Woooooo~~~”
Just as the old witch was inspecting the construction of the houses of the Five Ghosts, a few melodious horns suddenly came from the lower reaches of the Ji Cang River.
This horn sound is completely different from the bark sound used by all tribes. It is very thick and clear, with extremely strong penetration and can be heard several miles apart.
Almost at the same time, the craftsmen and women who were building the house stopped almost at the same time and turned to look downstream of the river.
Not long after, a few more horn sounds came, and this time the sound became clearer, and people around the Gonghuo Clan's valley and the Thunder Clan also heard it.
"The Witch King Returns!"
After a moment of silence, almost all men, women, young and old within the entire river beach cheered, and they threw down the stones, wood, bricks and tools in their hands and headed straight for the river beach pier.
The hunter team hunting on the other side suddenly stopped chasing the beasts, then shouted and rushed straight to the river beach, jumped onto the raft with excitement on his face and went downstream.
"Take tread..."
Several fast horses galloped downstream from different places along the river beach. On the horse's back, hunters raised their horns high and blew. The whimpering sound spread far downstream and on both sides of the Jicang River in the cold river wind of the deep winter.
The Witch King passed away for two months and finally returned with everyone's expectations.
This time I came back, I don’t know how many good things and good news I’ve never heard of before.
Maybe, five, six, seven or eight powerful tribes were recaptured.
The raft was very fast, and several horse-riding hunters on the shore were faster. In just half an hour, more than ten miles arrived in an instant. They saw a long row of green rafts in the middle of the river, and on the raft, a group of shirtless hunters were spraying hot air and rowing their oars hard.
The king flag and the green dragon flag that had begun to fade were fluttering under the blowing of the river wind.
Hunters with disheveled rafts were sitting or standing and laughing loudly.
After more than a month of separation, the feeling of going home made these exhausted warriors feel relaxed and excited that they had never felt before.
"Yeshohohohohoho..."
Hunters on the shore and on the rafts that were greeted down the river, the hunters shouted excitedly.
The hunters on the bamboo raft also stood up one after another, waved enthusiastically to the companions coming to their hearts and rivers. Finally, the two sides met and a shocking cheer erupted.
Although we belong to several different tribes.
But at this moment, no one felt the slightest estrangement or strangeness.
In the minds of these hunters, the Gonghuo Alliance and the Ba tribe alliance have long been separated from each other.
Xu Chen's return brought unparalleled excitement to all tribes gathered near the Gonghuo tribe in this cold weather.
When the bamboo rafts that were moving upstream slowly approached the pier on the river beach, the men, women, and young people waiting on the shore burst into warm cheers at the same time. A large group of young people and children ran and shouted along the river bank, like heroes who welcomed their hunters and the most respected Majesty the Witch King.
The boy was still that boy. He had a warm smile like spring breeze on his face and waved to the cheering crowd on the shore.
The hunters on the bamboo raft kept raising their oars and bamboo poles and shouting loudly at the people who were greeting, venting and expressing their excitement about returning home.
Before the bamboo raft could be reached, the hunters on the shore jumped into the river and pushed the raft to the shore despite the coldness of the river.
As soon as Xu Chen got ashore, before he could speak, he was surrounded by passionate men, women, young and old. He squatted down in groups and even lay on the ground and prostrated himself, calling His Majesty the Witch King to welcome their king back.
This is Xu Chen's third time coming to Gonghuo Bain.
The first conquest brought great fear and anger to the Gonghuo tribe.
The second time is inheritance, which brings shock and intimidation to the Gonghuo Alliance.
But this third arrival brought the warmest cheers and heartfelt awe.
From power to virtue, Xu Chen finally used his actions and dedication to completely move all the Gonghuo tribe members and gain their sincerity.
"Welcome to His Majesty the Witch King back!"
The old witch, with a group of tribal patriarchs and leaders with feathers on their heads, squat respectfully in front of Xu Chen, with each face filled with a pious and obedient smile.
"Great Witch, please get up, everyone, thank you for your hard work!"
Xu Chen helped the old witch up with both hands, and then loudly asked all the people who were squatting on the ground to get up. Then he turned around and ordered the hunters to move everything from the bamboo raft down.
There are not many things, they are nothing more than some animal skins and bird feathers harvested along the way, as well as some plant specimens and precious medicinal materials collected along the way.
When you go, the autumn wind brings joy, and when you return, the frost and snow blow.
The journey is full of wind and dew, which can be regarded as a large-scale active long journey by humans.
The men, women, young and old watching looked at the items transported to the shore and saw that the inside was filled with animal fur and plant rhizomes, and many people showed a little regret on their faces.
Even the old witch felt a little surprised and disappointed. He didn't understand what Xu Chen was using to bring these back.
But until Xu Chen unfolded the map and looked at the dense geographical location and animal and plant distribution maps marked along the Wulong River down the two sides, everyone felt an eye-opening excitement and excitement.
A large group of hunters who went on the expedition did not care about fatigue, and excitedly began to brag about the men, women, and young people, telling their feats and expeditions that were a pioneering world.
This long journey was tantamount to all the hunters participating. They not only had horizons, but also had a mind, but more because they opened a door to a wider world for the tribe. The flying souls were no longer limited to the narrow world of Gonghuo Clan and Ba Clan.
Listening to the loud narration of the hunters, the onlookers burst into bursts of exclamations and boiling from time to time, and soon the disappointment of these leaves was thrown out of the sky.
The old witch stood quietly in front of the map, watching Xu Chen pointing to each location marked above to tell the harvest of this long journey. His cheeks, as dark as orange peel, slowly turned into incomparable shock and awe.
As a great witch who has been passed down for a long time, she understands the importance of knowledge and insight.
Although this map is simple, it allows her to see a vast world beyond the inheritance.
No one in the tribe understands the importance of communication and communication better than her.
Xu Chen's trip seemed to be empty when he returned home, but this map was the biggest gain. The significance of its appearance was far greater than all animal skins and population wealth.
The unscathed return of Xu Chen and others made her realize that the opportunity to communicate with strange tribes from a distance had arrived in the future.
Bunches of bonfires were lit on the clearings of river beaches where the heritage ceremony was held in the past.
The hunted beasts and stored food were transported out and started to be cooked.
Men, women, young and old gathered around the bonfire and laughed loudly, singing and dancing to welcome the warriors who returned from a distance. Everyone gathered together regardless of tribe or race, cheering lively, and listening to the returning hunters over and over again telling their bizarre experiences along the way.
The Mongolian hot springs, the salt mines of the indigenous savage tribes, the encounters of the Five Ghosts, the human-faced and bird-body man-eating demons, the lead mines polluted by demons, the curse land that makes people fear, the vast lake of smoky waves, the battle with the Tssch tribes, the bamboo forests all over the mountains, the big fish that you encounter in the lake that jump out of the water, the grassland forests that you can’t see at a glance, and the teething giant beasts that grow on your face...
All the stories are endless.
No matter how many times they say it, men, women, young and old will listen with relish and exclaim constantly.
Even if they didn't go out, they could finally appreciate the vast world outside and the strange stories they had never heard of.
Xu Chen and others who returned to the Gonghuo Clan could finally take a breath, forget about the hard work of eating outside and the danger of facing the invasion of wild beasts every day, eat and drink, and then have a good night's sleep.
Chapter completed!