Golden Summoner

Xia Pingan opened his eyes again and found himself lying in a deep patch of grass.

The sky above his head was so blue that it was dazzling, and the clouds were as white as if they had been bleached. Around him were half-person-high foxtail grass, and he had one in his mouth.

Xia Pingan suddenly sat up and looked at himself. He was wearing animal skins, bone chains on his wrists and neck, and a very sharp stone sickle hanging around his waist.

This is a small hillside near the river. Not far away, there is a large area of ​​tribes and houses. Those houses have been built on the ground and built with soil, wood and reed strips.

There is smoke from cooking in the tribe, and there is a mud pit in the tribe. Countless young people are stepping on the mud with their feet, trampling the mud in the mud pit, and mixing it with the water and the dried grass blades. .

Some people went between the tribe and the lake, using bamboo tubes to carry water back to the lake, and then fell into the mud puddle.

Others took out the trampled mud from the mud pit and placed it in the open space next to them. They used wooden boards to pat the lumps of mud into rough square shapes and let them dry in the sun.

There were already a lot of dried mud blocks on the ground. Those dried mud blocks were taken not far away piece by piece, and they were built with those mud blocks and reed strips to build simple new houses.

Is this the era of Shennong? The ancient people's house building technology has improved a lot!

Xia Pingan looked at the large tribe in the distance. Judging from the number of tribal houses, this tribe had a large population, at least tens of thousands of people.

The tribal houses have been moved from the trees to the ground, and the main material for building the houses has become soil. The grass blades and stems in the soil serve as steel bars in the concrete. After drying, the mud bricks become indestructible. Loose again.

Some of the people in the tribe wore clothes wrapped in animal skins, and some wore clothes woven from grass and leaves. Judging from the curls of smoke, it seemed that fire had become completely popular and productivity had been further unleashed.

The houses built with reed poles and mud bricks range from large to small, and the things drying outside the houses of different sizes are also different, which shows that different families in a tribe are already rich and poor.

Some very rudimentary divisions of labor in primitive societies may have already appeared. For example, some people are better at chopping firewood with stone axes and stone knives, some are good at hunting, some are good at making leather, some are good at polishing stone tools, and some are good at picking fruits. , or knitting clothes...

In some open areas within the tribe, some wild fruits are drying on the ground, as well as a lot of animal skins and bones. The breeze blowing from the direction of the tribe carries the smell of those animal skins and bones. The smell of drying in the sun is not pleasant, but in this era, that smell is the smell of a prosperous and powerful tribe.

The men and women were busy with their own tasks, and a group of children were running around chasing some captive elk in the tribe.

There is no farmland around the tribe, but there are large areas of grassland and woodland along the river and on the surrounding slopes and grasslands. There is a lot of vegetation in those grasslands and woodland.

Compared with the two experiences of the Suiren clan and the Youchao clan, the productivity of the tribe in front of them has obviously improved a lot, and the tribe's population is also larger.

Looking at the scene in front of him, Xia Ping'an's mind came to the passage in "Zhuangzi: Pirates of Zhi": "In the age of Shen Nong, when he lay down, he lived, and when he rose, he knew his mother, but he did not know his father. Living with elk..."

Xia Ping'an took out the stone sickle from his waist and looked at it. The stone sickle was more than 20 centimeters long and had been sharpened. In this era, a stone sickle could be worn around the waist. This stone sickle was The sickle should be worth a lot of money, and its popularity is no less than that of young people holding a mobile phone in later generations when they first had mobile phones.

Just as Xia Pingan was looking into the distance, a girl with a delicate appearance and slightly dark skin wearing a tiger skin skirt had already walked up the hillside aggressively and walked towards Xia Pingan.

"Brother, you are hiding here again..." The girl came to Xia Pingan. Before Xia Pingan could figure out her identity, she put one hand on her hips and grabbed Xia Pingan's ears with the other and began to teach her a lesson. , "I have been looking for you for a long time to ask you to eat. My eldest brother and uncle have already taken people to hunt. You just wander around all day, looking at the grass and watching the fish. There is no serious business. You said the day before yesterday that these weeds are edible, I From now on, I will cut some weeds and feed you every day to see if you are full!"

The weeds this girl was talking about were the weeds around Xia Ping'an.

Don't underestimate these dog's tail grasses. These dog's tail grasses are the ancestors of millet. Millet was called chestnut in ancient times. The earliest chestnuts were selected from these dog's tail grasses and gradually cultivated.

A large amount of chestnuts were discovered in both the Peiligang Cultural Site and the Donghulin Site. The chestnuts discovered in the latter pushed the history of chestnut planting by the Chinese people to about 10,000 years.

As soon as he heard the girl's words, Xia Pingan knew that Shennong was indeed a god. The earliest millet should have been cultivated by Shennong from weeds.

"Sister, be gentle, be gentle, you will know later that this weed is really edible!" Xia Pingan cried out in pain and stood up quickly.

After fusing the Boundary Bead twice in a row, Xia Pingan has become more and more proficient in the "role playing" game in the Boundary Bead.

"If this weed can make people full, I will listen to you whatever you say from now on..." the girl said fiercely, not believing Xia Pingan's words at all, "If it can't, you just listen to me and find something serious to do. It’s done, even though grandma is the leader of the clan, you can’t wander around all day long!”

Sure enough!

Xia Ping'an had guessed before that the Shennong family had so much time to invent, create, and study herbs. There was a high probability that they were no longer involved in heavy manual labor and had no urgent need for survival, so they had the time and energy to study other people. Something that cannot be studied.

Now it seems that it is indeed true. Shennong's mother is the matriarch of this tribe, and Shennong should be one of the earliest ancient "nobles".

In a matrilineal clan society, women in the tribe have a relatively high status, and the tribe's patriarchs are all women. For example, this fierce sister like him may inherit the position of the tribe's patriarch in the future.

Judging from some historical records, the Shennong family may have been a key figure in ancient China's transition from a matrilineal clan to a patrilineal clan because of its outstanding contributions. Some history books say that the Shennong family has been passed down for seventeen generations, and the last Shennong family is Emperor Yan. Some historical books say that Emperor Yan was the most important minister of Fuxi, who was the descendant of Zhu Xiang. Fuxi surrendered to Emperor Yan, so Emperor Yan "brought prosperity to the world"...

These historical legends and information flashed through Xia Pingan's mind. At this time, it was not archaeological research, but a task to be completed. Seeing that the girl's hand holding his ear did not relax, Xia Pingan He quickly said, "I have already thought of what to do, and I am about to tell my grandma!"

"Really?" The hand holding Xia Pingan's ear suddenly relaxed, and the girl asked curiously, "What do you want to do?"

"Ha, the secret, you will know it later. What I want to do will definitely be praised by everyone in the tribe..."

The girl looked at Xia Pingan with suspicion. Xia Pingan didn't explain, but just smiled...

"Okay, then I'll see what you tell grandma when you go back..." The girl didn't believe it at all, but the hand holding Xia Pingan's ear relaxed.

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Afterwards, Xia Pingan rubbed his ears and followed the girl back to the tribe.

When he saw the tribe before, he already knew what he had to do first.

Shennong has made many achievements in his life. He has just arrived here. To take on the historical mission of Shennong, he must first establish his prestige in the tribe.

Teaching people to grow grains, identify herbs, raise silkworms and weave fabrics cannot be achieved in three or two days, but here is another thing that is easy to do, and if you do it well, you can quickly establish prestige among the entire tribe. This thing is very simple.

While passing through the houses in the tribe along the way, Xia Ping'an carefully observed the things hanging outside the houses, and saw the amount and types of supplies that different families had, and he became more and more sure.

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