Rome must fall.

Chapter 217 Watching a Football Game

Gowes had just arrived, and he originally wanted to get to know more of his compatriots, so he also smiled: "I am Gowes, from Segestika, how about you?"

As soon as the name "Gaweis" was said, no one in the room was surprised. It was obvious that they were not familiar with this name, which made Gaweis a little disappointed.

"My name is Teresa, and I'm from Broch. Except for you, everyone else in our house is from Broch—" The man named Teresa pushed his strong chest with his right thumb, aggravating it. He said in a tone of voice: "Also - I am the head of House No. 10!"

Gowes immediately asked curiously: "What is the dormitory leader?"

"This is an appointment given by the tribe. I am responsible for managing the brothers in the entire room. I will supervise everyone not to violate the laws of the tribe, work hard, and help everyone become officially famous in the tribe as soon as possible and get the land we want!" Theresa He leaned down, looked directly at him, and said in a deep voice: "Do you understand?!"

Gowes met the other party's sharp gaze and replied in a neither humble nor condescending manner: "I think I understand a little bit."

"Just understand." Teresa still looked directly at him: "I want to remind you first, there are some reserve tribesmen of Pannoni here. No matter how deep your hatred was against them in the past, there are thousands of people in this tribe. Don't fight with those Pannonians! Don't hurt or kill them! Otherwise, if you are happy alone, the whole house will be punished with you, so if we find you have such impulses! , will catch you first, don’t blame us when the time comes, do you understand?”

Upon hearing this, Gowes became angry and asked: "Are you really my tribe of Skodischi?! You have completely forgotten your hatred of the Pannoni! Our tribe was destroyed in their hands ! How many of our companions have died miserably under their spears! They have never stopped oppressing us for more than ten years! Have you forgotten this? Or are you already succumbing to this Nixian tribe? Be friends?——"

"Shut up, you guy from Segestica! You don't know anything, so don't talk nonsense, otherwise you will look good!" Teresa stared, raised her fist, and shook it in front of Govis. Shake.

"What do you know!" Teresa said impatiently: "The tribe needs time to cultivate the land and produce sufficient food; it needs time to smelt iron ore and forge sharp weapons; otherwise, how can we be empty-handed and hungry? Possibly defeating the Pannonians!

"General Pecot once said that today's Pannoni are very powerful. As long as they are serious about dealing with us, we cannot fight against them with our current strength. And the Nix tribe aims to overthrow the Pannoni. We The addition will help the tribe grow rapidly. When the tribe attacks the Pannoni again, we can defeat them and save our people!"

You fled here to join the tribe, isn't it because there is food here that can fill your stomach and prevent you from starving to death in the wilderness! "

The earthenware bowl was filled with wheat porridge, and a piece of bread about the size of two palms was placed on the earthenware bowl.

"I won't talk to you anymore. We have brought your food back for you tonight. Eat it quickly. We are going to beat up the Pannonians in a while. You can follow everyone to see it." Terry After Sa finished speaking, someone brought Gowes's clay pot and bowl and placed them next to the bed.

Gowes's heart moved, and he continued to question without changing his tone: "Since you are all heroes who resisted the Pannoni, why are you here now farming with your enemies, the Pannoni?!"

Seeing this sumptuous dinner and smelling the aroma of the food, Gowes, who was already a little hungry, felt even more hungry. He temporarily put some doubts in his mind behind and started to wolf down...

"Who dares to fight the Pannoni? What do you know! When we were in Brochi, we once formed a team. With the help of the Nyx people, we defeated the Brochi team several times and destroyed their Villages and towns, killing their men, ravaging their women, frightening the remaining Broch people to hide in the stockade and trembling..." A person next to Teresa retorted proudly.

Gowes was not afraid at all. He leaned forward with his neck stiffened and responded forcefully: "Why, you don't dare to fight the Pannoni, but you want to bully the tribe! Come on, who is afraid of whom?"

Gowes picked up the bread. There was hot soup and snow-white fish in the clay pot...

"The Nyx tribe wants to destroy the Pannoni?!" Gowes questioned: "But I heard that they no longer fight the Segestica people, and the two sides stopped fighting!"

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For a moment, Gowes was speechless by him.

The banks of the middle reaches of the Kupa River are low in the north and high in the south, so there are many floodplains on the north bank, which are masterpieces left when the Kupa River rises in the rainy season.

In accordance with Maximus's order, the Knicks tribe transformed a large river beach near the Snodia Wooden Bridge into a stadium. However, they did not expect that not long after the rugby match started, not only did the tribesmen fall in love with him, but also the tribesmen fell in love with him. Won the love of the people.

As a result, one piece of river beach land was transformed into a stadium, and now there are 7 simple rugby fields in Snotia alone. The tribe even specially moved the time for the tribesmen to finish their work in the afternoon, so that the kitchen could prepare dinner in advance. Just to give them more time to play at dusk. After dinner, except for the guards and patrols of the village, most of the people flocked to the north bank to either participate in or watch the rugby match. The excitement was as lively as the Roman citizens' love for gladiator matches.

During the day, Geweisi saw not many people when he entered the village. At dusk, when he came to the north bank of the Kupa River, there were crowds of people everywhere, rubbing heels and shoulders. The noise made him feel dizzy.

Fortunately, today is the turn of the dormitories No. 1 to 10 to allocate personnel to the No. venue for the competition. Those who were not selected sat on the sidelines very early, waiting to cheer for their companions. Otherwise, they would have been trapped in the sea of ​​​​people if they had arrived a little later. Got the direction.

I didn’t expect there to be so many people in a village in the Nix tribe! ... Gowes was secretly surprised when the voice of a companion named Glesson sounded in his ear: "This is not fair! I worked very hard today, why was I not selected to play?!"

"None of us work hard, but Teresa and the other five not only work hard, but also know how to work and sow seeds quickly and well, so I am convinced that the five of them were chosen."

"I'm convinced too."

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Several companions responded one after another, causing Grayson to lose his temper.

While Gowes was having dinner in the dormitory, the others were called to the open space of the dormitory area to select people. He had no idea about the process, and was then brought here by his companions in ignorance.

He asked doubtfully: "In such a big place, can't everyone go up and have this...competition?"

"How is this possible! There are six to seven hundred people in our ten dormitories. If they all go up, the venue will be full, no matter how big it is." Glasson had quarreled with Gowes before, but now he explained patiently: " This rugby game invented by the leader of the tribe, Maximus, has strict rules. There can only be 15 people on one side, and the total number of people on the field is 30, plus two referees, the total is 32 people. The competition is fierce and physically demanding, so each participating team has 35 reserve candidates, who will be replaced according to the rules.

Originally there was only one court here, and later four more courts were added for our reserve tribesmen to compete. However, there were too many reserve tribesmen in Skodisci, so the tribe made regulations and divided dormitories 1 to 10. Dormitories 11 to 20... Every ten dormitories take turns to play in a group. In this way, our dormitory can take a turn every four days, and then each dormitory will be assigned the five best performers in these four days to play. Contest……"

Just the series of numbers spitting out of Glesson's mouth made Gowes dizzy. He didn't understand how a team formed a competition. In the end, he understood the sentence "the best performer", so he asked casually: "How do they know who's performing best?"

"There are people from the Ministry of Agriculture following us!" A person next to him interjected: "They will record our performance in the fields. After returning to the dormitory, there are also soldiers patrolling the dormitory area to record our performance... So in the end they We quite agree with the selected players..."

As Gawes listened, he suddenly felt angry and said angrily: "You have been monitored by these Nix tribe officials all day long and forced to work. How can you be the reserve people of any tribe? This is simply the same as It’s like being a slave in the Pannoni tribe!”

"It's completely different!" Glasson defended confidently: "People from the Ministry of Agriculture will not loudly urge us to work, nor will they beat us with whips or sticks when they see us taking a break. They just stand quietly by. Record.

If they see someone of us who is not very good at working, they will patiently and carefully guide them. If they see someone injured while working, they will take the injured tribesman to the hospital for treatment——"

"And! And!" The companion next to him interjected: "At first, when we were thirsty while working, we drank water from the ditch next to the field. The people from the Ministry of Agriculture advised us not to drink, saying that it would be easier to drink raw water. We were sick, but some people refused to listen. Later, they simply carried several buckets of boiling water to the fields every day. Whenever we were thirsty, they would give us a bowl of water... They really cared about our bodies, yes Really treat us as clan members!”

"Do we still need people from the Ministry of Agriculture to urge us to do our work? No need at all!" Another companion next to him interjected: "Now everyone is very conscious about their work in order to become an official ethnic minority as soon as possible and truly own their own fertile land. , very hard, because the tribe has long issued an announcement, and the preparatory tribesmen who perform well can shorten the time to become official tribesmen.

The tribe kept their word. When the Pannoni army besieged the camp, they had promised that 'as long as the enemy is repelled, all the reserve tribesmen in the camp will have one year to become official tribesmen.'

At that time, we had not yet joined the Nix tribe, but because we followed General Pequot to participate in the battle against the Broch people, the tribe greatly eased the siege of the Nix camp by the Pannoni army, so we took the initiative after we joined the tribe. Give us one year less time..."

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(End of this chapter)