Chapter 160

"Father, I will follow you to their tribe." Baiyun once again blocked Lei Ying at the door of the room and said obstinately.

Lei Ying looked at her eldest daughter and sighed helplessly.

To tell you the truth, Lei Ying was both happy and regretful about bringing this bear to Xiaohe tribe. Of course, the happy thing is needless to say. This big bear brought salt, steel knife and steel spear to Xiaohe tribe. Although these things have not been seen yet, Lei Ying believes that gaoshu tribe has these things, otherwise big bear would not be so sure.

Moreover, the ratio of salt for white stone is one bag for five bags, while the ratio of a steel knife for ten bags of white stone is much better than the price offered by the French.

The most important thing is that you don't have to worry about exposing the location of the tribe when you trade with the gaoshu tribe. When you trade with the franceans, every time they have to pull a heavy white stone to travel more than 100 miles to reach the trading site.

So, in any way, trading with the gaoshu tribe is much better than trading with the French.

At least in the future, the Frenchmen could not hold the neck of Xiaohe tribe in the trade of salt and iron.

Therefore, it is a great thing for Xiaohe tribe to reach a deal with gaoshu tribe.

But also, Lei Ying has some regrets in his heart.

Big bear lived in the tribe for a few days, and his eldest daughter followed him for a few days.

God, the girl Baiyun hasn't served people since she was a child, but now she is so kind to an outsider. Everyone knows what this means.

Lei Ying knew that he was going to lose his eldest daughter

As a father, it's strange that his daughter who has been raised for more than ten years is taken away by others.

Fortunately, this bear has a better taste for Lei Ying. Otherwise, if it were a different person, Lei Ying would have driven him away.

Naturally, Lei Ying didn't know "it's going to rain, and my mother wants to get married", but the North American Indians are very open about marriage. Like to live together to form a family, don't like to break up with the amiable.

When the Cherokees lived in the Great Lakes region, they were still in a matriarchal society. A woman could find several men.

Now whether it's Cherokee or chekasa, it's OK for a man to find several women. As long as you can support these women, you can take them home.

But similarly, if you bring a woman home but can't afford it, you will not only make all the people despise you, but also no woman will follow you in the future.

That's right. The American Indians of this era are so open. In contrast, the marriage of the western countries in the future is nothing but a small one. Perhaps only those countries that allow polygamy can compare with the North American Indians in this era

In other words, if you are a capable man, then the North American Indian community of this era is paradise; If you don't have the ability, I'm sorry, you can only rely on five girls.

In fact, in terms of his current ability and status, as long as he wants to find a woman, there are many women in gaoshu tribe who are willing to follow him.

A man like Lord Guardian would pull all the ethnic groups of the North American Indians. I'm afraid he can't find another one.

People are tall and powerful, but the value of force is still very high. They are only 16 years old. Although they are a little older, they are definitely not a problem. The most important thing is that people know so many things. If they just take out one of them, they can make the whole tribe live a good life.

Which woman doesn't like such a man?

Unfortunately, the guardian doesn't seem to have a woman he likes, so he doesn't react to the girls who appear in front of him all day, which makes many girls in the tribe feel sad.

Now the stone bear disaster has come to the Xiaohe tribe. It's only a few days since it came, and it has taken away the heart of Baiyun, the eldest daughter of Lei Ying.

Lei Ying is determined not to let his daughter follow him to gaoshu tribe, but he also knows that he can't stop his daughter. Although the eldest daughter is gentle and quiet on the outside, she is strong on the inside. How can Lei Ying, as a father, not know this?

It's like that after learning that the tribe is going to send some people to the gaoshu tribe for investigation, Baiyun has to follow them to the gaoshu tribe, which is enough to prove her daughter's mind.

Therefore, Lei Ying could only sigh helplessly in his heart, and finally agreed to his daughter's request.

I can't help it. My daughter has grown up, and her mind has already gone to the bear. It can't be stopped.

However, Lei Ying is a little relieved. He can see that Dali Xiong likes his eldest daughter very much. A lot of girls from the tribe have come to the big man these days, but he doesn't say anything to other girls, but takes good care of his eldest daughter.

Lei Ying can see that this big man really likes his eldest daughter. Since that is the case, it is unnecessary for a father to block his daughter's happiness.

Baiyun finally agreed to see his father, a beautiful little face smile let Lei Ying when the father saw some taste.

Although this is an old Chinese saying, it is still common among Indian tribes in North America. Of course, on the father and daughter of Baiyun and leiying, that is the typical "daughter can't help her father".

As a hermit tribe, Xiaohe tribe and gaoshu tribe reached a deal agreement, which is a big deal for Xiaohe tribe. So Xiaohe tribe is going to send some people to visit gaoshu tribe.

No matter what Da Li Xiong says, it's better to see it with his own eyes.

Therefore, Lei Ying decided to take himself as the leader and lead several high-level members of the tribe and some elite soldiers to go to gaoshu tribe with Dali Xiong.

And they also want to see the famous kabulu sacrifice with their own eyes.

Since the Cherokee moved south to the mountains of central and Southern Appalachia, the name of kabulu sacrifice has spread around with this powerful ethnic group. Although Xiaohe tribe is a hermit tribe, they have also heard of the name of kabulu sacrifice.

Because the stone bear has already crossed the road when he came here, at least the stone bear can guarantee that there is no danger on the road, so there are not many people going to gaoshu tribe this time, including Baiyun, only 16 people.

In fact, it's very easy to get to gaoshu tribe from Xiaohe tribe. You only need to walk eastward along the foot of Dawu Mountain, but it's troublesome to cross several big rivers.

After some preparation, they set out in the direction of the sun forever.

Xiaohe tribe is about 200 li away from gaoshu tribe. If you are in the plain, you can get there by horse in the morning.

But the road from Xiaohe tribe to gaoshu tribe is not so easy.

As a matter of fact, there is no way to walk here, otherwise the stone bear will not ride a horse, and it took more than two days to run more than 200 miles.

This section of the road is full of small rolling hills. The series of folded mountains between the Blue Ridge and the Cumberland highlands have broken this area to pieces. These folded mountains were originally complete, but after hundreds of millions of years of weathering, they have long been weathered out of shape.

These hills, which are only 180 meters high and less than 20 or 30 meters low, can be seen everywhere. They are the folded mountains after weathering. In addition, this is the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains, so there are many rivers, big and small, blocking the road.

In fact, strictly speaking, this area is no man's land. Even the Cherokees and chekasa rarely come to this place.

At this time, unlike later generations, countless dams were built on the huge Tennessee River, and then the Tennessee River became one reservoir after another. In this era, the Tennessee River is a truly harmful river.

The water source of Tennessee River is mainly from atmospheric precipitation, so it is abundant and unstable. In this era, the whole Midwest of Tennessee is actually a everglade. The Tennessee River, which floods from time to time, is the main culprit for this huge everglade.

Because of the high altitude of the route they took, the Tennessee River did not harm this line. However, there are hundreds of rivers, large and small, in this route to gaoshu tribe.

For example, the haiwoxi River, the little Tennessee River and the littleriver River are relatively large. There are hundreds of other small rivers only a few meters or even more in width.

These small rivers are flowing down the western slope of the Appalachian Mountains. Because of the terrain, these rivers did not converge when they just flowed down the slope. But as they flow down the river, these small rivers will gradually converge and eventually all flow into the Tennessee River.

Therefore, these small rivers, together with the weathered folded mountain system, make this area completely fragmented, just like a complete mirror fell to the ground

It's easy to talk about small hills. If you can't climb them, you'll make a detour. It won't take long, but these rivers are more troublesome.

In this age of no bridges, stone bears can only look for places with narrow rivers and then wade through them. If they encounter a big river with a width of tens of meters, they have to make a detour for a long time and find a place convenient for them to cross the river.

That is to say, it's deep winter and there is less water flow. If it comes to the end of winter and the beginning of spring in a month or two, these rivers will become irritable.

It's also a strange phenomenon. In other parts of the United States, rivers are wet in summer, but in the upper reaches of the Tennessee River, the wet period is at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, but in summer, the water flow is less.

The reason is that the river originates from the west slope of the Appalachian Mountains. When the monsoon goes south in winter, it is blocked by the mountains and uplifted, resulting in precipitation. In summer, due to the blocking of mountains, the southeast monsoon precipitation mostly occurs on the east slope of Appalachia, while the precipitation on the west slope decreases a lot. Therefore, in summer, the flow of the Tennessee River will be smaller.

The peculiar topography created the peculiar dry and wet period of the river.

Now it's deep winter, and the amount of water in these rivers is generally small, so they can find places to cross the river. But if it's wet season, they can't go like this.

"Big bear, our two tribes are not far away, but these rivers..." standing in front of a big river, Lei Ying said with a worried face.

In front of us, this river is sixty or seventy meters wide. Later, it was called "little Tennessee River". It is the largest tributary of the upper reaches of the Tennessee River. This river originated in the depth of the fog mountain, is also a very violent River, abundant water flow makes this river often flooding, in the small Tennessee River and Tennessee River confluence area, at this time is a large marsh.

In later generations, the Americans built four or five dams on the river at a time, which completely restrained the raging river. Finally, the swamp disappeared and replaced by a large reservoir.

But in this era, it is impossible to build a dam. Let alone a dam, it is impossible to build a bridge. The stone bear can't build a bridge, and the Indians can't build a bridge.

So, if you want to cross the little Tennessee River, which is now slightly calm, you have to go far downstream to cross the river from the swamp area.

At that time, when the stone bear crossed the little Tennessee River, because there was a tribe separated from the gaoshu tribe nearby, and their people were very familiar with the situation of the swamp, the stone bear was able to cross the little Tennessee river safely from the swamp.

After crossing the swamp, Lei Ying's face became more sad. The steel and salt of the gaoshu tribe are really good, but if the road is like this, it will be very difficult to send a letter between the two tribes, let alone trade.

It's a dry season now, and it's so hard to walk. If it's a wet season, this river alone can cut off the connection between the two tribes!

Of course, Lei Ying wants to make a long-term deal with gaoshu tribe, but this way

If Lei Ying knew the ancient Chinese poetry, he would probably sing a sentence at this moment: it's hard to walk on the road, it's hard to reach the sky

Lei Ying, with a sad face, looks at the fiery eldest daughter Bai Yun, who is talking to Dali Xiong over there, with a happy look on her face. She is in a better mood. Of course, if Lei Ying could hear what his daughter and big bear said at this time, he would not be so sad again.

"What? You said that when we meet again, we won't have to ride a horse? Do you have a boat

"Of course, we have four ships. They are big ships. Well, you should have seen them. They are the windboats that the franceans ride on."

"But how could you have a francean boat?"

"It's not easy. Some time ago, a tribe of your chekasa people, named rettich, and the French garrisoned in the military fortress of okron, formed a coalition. They took four boats up the bend to kill our gaoshu tribe. As a result, I made a fire bull array and brought all these guys to the end. Even the four boats on which they were travelling were also taken by me... "

In front of his beloved woman, Shi Xiong never mind telling her about his great achievements