Chapter 2462 Well water does not make river water
According to convention, the people in Yunpan Village get up very early every morning. Some people will go up the mountain to hunt, and some people will go into the water to catch fish. These people who set out are the strongest men in the village. They go out early and come back late and will bring back a lot of prey to maintain the lives of the people in the village.
Women are responsible for treating the harvested prey. Most of the prey on the mountain have fur. Women will peel off the skin of these prey and tannate them, accumulate them, gather the small amount into many, and gather the armpits into furs. They can be made into winter clothes to keep the cold.
Although the winter in Nanzhong is not particularly cold, it will be very cold in some years, and even snow and ice accumulation will occur, so these fur clothes still come in handy.
Of course, this is just a side job. Women slaughter animals, mainly by dividing the animal meat into strips, pickling and air-dried into meat strips, and the fish will also be made into dried fish, which is conducive to long-term preservation. This is also the way for barbarians to survive for a long time. Fishing and hunting itself is the most unstable way of life. Sometimes the harvest will be better and you can get more prey. Sometimes the harvest is not good, and you will often return empty-handed for several days. If there is no food reserve in the tribe, they will starve.
Making air-dried fish and air-dried meat has almost become a tradition of the barbarians, which is also the way they rely on for a long time to survive. Although a large number of Han people moved south and brought farming techniques to the barbarians, they were influenced by traditional ideas and these barbarians were not very interested in growing food.
In their opinion, nature's gifts are already generous enough, with countless wild animals, fish, shrimp, wild fruits, and wild vegetables. This thing can be obtained at will. Even if the harvest is not good in the past few days, it will definitely be good in two days. There have been no people from their tribe starving to death for many years.
On the contrary, the farming life of the Han people is very hard. They will go through a relatively long time to open up land, sowing and harvesting. Moreover, farming often depends on the will of heaven. Perhaps the crops are about to be harvested, and suddenly a heavy rain comes. The hope for a year is submerged in a vast ocean. There are wind, hail, drought, locust plague, and how can those crops withstand such torture? In many cases, there are no harvests, and it is common for people to starve to death.
So for the barbarians, growing crops is simply an unimaginable thing. Seeing the Han people working tirelessly, they only find it a bit incredible.
Isn't the meat of wild animals fragrant? Are the fish and shrimps in the water not fresh? Are the bamboo shoots, mushrooms, wild vegetables and wild fruits on the mountain not delicious? You have to bury the seeds into the soil and wait for a long time before you can harvest some grains. Why do you have to do so hard?
Therefore, there are completely different life concepts between the barbarians and the Han people, which is why the barbarians and Han people live together on the land of Nanzhong, but there is no conflict.
Barbarians need mountains and forests to hunt, only prey can be found in the mountains and forests, and fishing requires rivers and lakes, and fish and shrimps can only be found in rivers and lakes. The Han people need plains to farm, and the flatter the terrain, the better. Of course, they also need rivers. However, unlike barbarians, they are only interested in rivers, so it is difficult for the two sides to conflict.
As usual, the chiefs of the tribe would divide the labor force of the tribe. Men hunt and fish, while some women pick wild fruits and mushrooms, and the other part cooks to see the children. The whole tribe's production and life are orderly and very peaceful.
But early this morning, this peaceful life was suddenly broken. An army surrounded the mountain village, blocking the barbarian hunters who were preparing to go up the mountain to hunt halfway, and forcing them back to the mountain village.
At first, these barbarians could not accurately distinguish which part of the army this was. After all, there were not many people who could read it at all. They could not recognize the banner of this army and thought it was the army of the Shu court. They were particularly angry because the emergence of these troops had delayed their journey a lot. If they were delayed, today's harvest would be gone.
Moreover, their anger is also reasonable. Since Zhuge Liang's southern expedition, there has been no conflict of scale between the Shu army and the barbarian tribe. Both sides have always been in peace and have no trouble. Why did the Shu army suddenly surround their camp today? What is this preparation?
The barbarians are fierce and of course they do not accept the siege of the Shu army. They are not able to communicate with each other inconsistent language. When they are angry, conflicts are naturally inevitable.
But the barbarians were preparing to go out to hunt, not to fight, but the army surrounding them was prepared, and the number was several times that of the barbarians. The conflict between the two sides quickly turned into a bloody fight. After many people were killed and injured, the barbarians had to retreat to the parcel and nervously reported to the chieftain Nan Kena.
But when he heard that, he was furious. The Shu army was too bullying. Over the years, Yunpan Village has never handed over tributes to the court. Moreover, Yunpan Village has never participated in the rebellion of other tribes. It has always been very supportive of the Shu Han court. Why did they suddenly surround the mountain village and kill the tribe members? It is simply outrageous.
Nan Ke immediately summoned all the people who could fight in the village to pick up their weapons and run towards the gate of the village. Since the Shu army dared to provoke them openly, we had to let the Shu army suffer today, otherwise we would be used to being bullied by them, so how could we survive since then?
The barbarians quickly gathered together, and their weapons were naturally diverse. Since the army used regular swords, guns, bows and arrows, and steel harpoons for hunting and fishing, they really had no weapons and would take down a wooden stick. Anyway, for the barbarians in Yunpan Village, as long as there were invaders, they would not distinguish between men and women, and the whole people would be soldiers.
Of course, these barbarians are not considered to be in formation. The chiefs, who were the chiefs, followed wherever they appeared. Suddenly, there were a large number of people, and they were quite imposing.
Nanke walked in front with his head held high and his chest held high. The feeling of hudding forward and back was really good. However, after walking out of the village gate, Nanke found that the momentum of the army opposite was even greater than that of him. His helmet was bright and his armor was bright, and his swords and guns were flashing with cold light. His lineup was neat and his momentum was awesome.
There are quite a few teams, at least two thousand people, more than those in his village. But when I saw this, I couldn't help but feel a little scared. The other party's strength was much greater than that of him.
Chapter completed!