Chapter 211
Chapter 211 – Sailing back
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Over half a year had passed since the last time Shao Xuan had seen this small crocodile. Now, it’s already more than two meters long, it grew faster than common crocodiles. It’s said by the Drumming tribe that these crocodiles would grow faster and faster in future, especially in rainy seasons; every time when they left and came back again, they would experience a crazy process of growth.
“My little boy, Long time no see.” Said Shao Xuan. Looking at the little crocodile crawling towards him, reached out his hand and touched the slightly hard skin on the head of the crocodile.
At the sight of the intimacy between Shao Xuan and the little crocodile, the warriors of the Drumming tribe who led them into the tribe wore even bigger smiles and treated them with even more enthusiasm. However, Jiao Wu felt scared when seeing their big mouths.
‘Their eyes are really a lot like those of the crocodiles.’ Jiao Wu and the others thought to themselves.
If they saw the combat state of the Drumming tribe, this feeling would be even stronger.
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The shipbuilding at this time concerned whether they could return to their tribe successfully or not. About the requirements and designs of the ship, Shao Xuan had discussed with Yan Zhi and the others since a long time ago. Here in this place, there were no trees big and strong enough to make canoes, they could only use the lumber to make a ship.
Yan Zhi and the others paid all their energy into building the ship. It could be said that all their hopes were put on this ship. Any carelessness was not allowed at all.
The necessary rubbers, fish glue, wooden dowels, rock dowels, fish skins, bamboo, rattan and other things were all prepared in large quantities and tried one by one. After a decision, they would be used on the ship.
Without metal, it would surely be more difficult and need more stuff to make it.
Certainly a sail was a necessity. In the middle, Shao Xuan paid several visits to the Luo tribe. Fish glue and fish skin used in the Luo tribe were what Shao Xuan needed, as well as the materials for net-knitting. Shao Xuan asked them to weave a more compact net. A layer of thin but tough fish skin used for summer clothes by the Luo tribe was stuck on the net. After paying the reward, Shao Xuan went back with this kind of “sail”.
He had also brought some linen back from the central region, so the fish skin sail was used as a spare.
During the time living in the Drumming tribe, Jiao Wu was no longer afraid of those crocodiles. Although he would still keep away from the crocodiles when he ran into them, he was not that scared as he was in the beginning. Moreover, Shao Xuan told them that during their way back to the tribe, they would encounter more dreadful things than these crocodiles. If they didn’t even dare to look at these crocodiles directly, how could they go on sailing?
When the ship was completed, the rainy season was also around the corner. And as their sole hope for returning to the tribe, Yan Zhi and the others built a wooden shed for the ship as protection.
On the side of the shaman and the chief of the Drumming tribe, after such a long time of considerations and discussions, they made a decision that they were willing to help when the Flaming Horns tribe arrived and permitted people of the Flaming Horns tribe to enter their tribe, while Shao Xuan took an oath on his totem that neither would they rob the Drumming tribe of the water moonstones and things of the like, nor would they hurt people of the Drumming tribe maliciously when the tribe arrived.
Both parties discussed with each other for the whole day inside the small house of the shaman. Though people of the Drumming tribe would not beat about the bush or think too much, the shaman and the chief, as the leadership of the tribe, were wiser, had more careful considerations and concerns.
After having finished discussing the details of the cooperation between the two tribes, the shaman of the Drumming tribe also particularly wrote a letter on an animal skin roll to the shaman of the Flaming Horns tribe. At the end of the animal skin roll, the totem pattern of the Drumming tribe was drawn. This the was formal communication between the shamans, the first talk of the seniors of the two tribes who had never seen each other.
Seeing the shaman writing a letter, the chief also wrote something. Shao Xuan would take what they wrote back and believed that his shaman and chief would be glad to see these.
“The rainy season is coming soon. Are you well-prepared?” Standing by the side of the window and looking at the sky outside, the shaman of the Drumming tribe asked.
Behind the shaman, Shao Xuan put away the animal skin roll and replied: “It’s almost done. We’ll prepare some food during the rainy season and take it with us in due time.”
Shao Xuan had said that he was not sure when the Flaming Horns tribe would migrate exactly, but it would migrate as soon as possible.
In comparison with other elders of the Drumming tribe, the shaman preferred to trust Shao Xuan and the Flaming Horns tribe. From the first time when he felt the power of the shaman of the Flaming Horns tribe from the stone plate, which had the drawing of the totem pattern of the Flaming Horns tribe, he had got this faith. That’s the intuition and feeling belonging to shamans.
“Looking forward to your soon return.”
“So do I.” Shao Xuan replied.
Coming out of the house of the shaman of the Drumming tribe, Shao Xuan looked up to the sky. It would rain soon. When the rain falls down, the rainy season will be here.
The biggest change in the rainy season of the Drumming tribe was the crocodiles.
In this great river spreading as far as the eye could see, many river beasts would move around in the rainy season. It was the same with the crocodiles of the Drumming tribe.
When the rain fell with pitter-patter sounds, it also meant the beginning of the rainy season in this year.
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Large and small crocodiles went over in the direction of the great river one after the other. Those usually staying in the pond in front of Fu Shi’s house also left.
When these crocodiles came out from the gorges, branches, mires and ponds, it was a spectacular scene to see them moving their big claws, slowly crawling on the ground while dragging their huge bodies.
Those small crocodiles, which couldn’t leave with the team last year, could also follow the team and depart this year after one year’s growth.
Because of the rain, Shao Xuan and the others didn’t go out today.
Watching those large and small crocodiles outside passing by the house, Jiao Wu said: “I didn’t think that there were actually so many crocodiles.”
“That’s because many of them do not come out, so you don’t see them.” Yan Zhi said.
Lying in front of the window with his little brother, Yan Nian moved his eyes away from the group of crocodiles outside and asked Shao Xuan: “Brother Xuan, does our Flaming Horns tribe have this kind of crocodiles?”
“Nope.”
“Then what does it have?” Yan Nian was very curious.
“Apart from humans, there are only some strange guys.”
“Are they like Chacha?”
“They look different.” With a charcoal pencil in hand, Shao Xuan drew some drawings on a wooden plate, “This is Caesar, a wolf; this is Liao, a cave lion; and this is Si Ya, a babirusa, it looks a bit like a wild boar but without the thick fur. You’ll know it in due time. And……”
Shao Xuan also had told Yan Zhi and the others about these things, as well as the situation of the tribe, getting them prepared in their mind. Nevertheless, for Yan Zhi and the others, it didn’t matter whether the tribe could make pottery, whether it had jades, silk garments or big boats, etc… What they wanted was to return to their tribe. This was their biggest wish.
As the days of the rainy season went by, the group of crocodiles in the Drumming tribe also all left gradually. When the rainy season was over, the crocodiles that could be seen in the Drumming tribe were only those small ones not born in the breeding seasons. They were unable to leave, but people in the tribe would take care of them.
“It’s time to set off!”
Shao Xuan asked all the others to pack up and carried the ship out to the riverbank.
The shaman, the chief and some elders of the Drumming tribe all came to the riverbank to see them off.
Having said goodbye to the people of the Drumming tribe, they boarded the ship.
Having come to this place from the tribe, Shao Xuan was only here for preliminary investigations. There were many places that he had not been to. After the whole Flaming Horns tribe migrated here and settled down, he would travel all around, pay a visit to the Thousand Masks tribe, Hui tribe,… and Yang Sui’s Rain tribe.
Setting the sail, they began their return journey.
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