Chapter 378: Quiet changes (1/2)
Because of the special situation of the Duo-Na Clan, they seldom marry with the outside world, which is not a good thing.
Why can then the Duo-Na Clan Chief takes heart to bring all Tribesmen all the way to the Jiu Yuan? In addition to the desire for a better living environment, more abundant food, and upper-level training skills, it is also one of the main reasons to seek partners for their children.
People fear because they don't understand. Generally, a girl or a female slave who comes to a match will be subconsciously scared when he tells them that she wants to be with the two and one of them is a bear. Over time, The Duo-Na Clan out of a strange ”inferiority and arrogant” mentality and they changed to become reluctant to integrate with other women. Many the Duo-Na Clan males can't get together with their wives because they can't find wives.
But that's obviously not the case.
NRong, the Duo-Na Clan's chief, hopes to join the Jiu Yuan. In the long term, other clans will learn that the Duo-Na Clan's bears and beasts' relations are actually cute. They look ferocious, but are especially good for their partners. And because the Duo-Na Clan women are hard to come by, the Duo-Na Clan's woman status is naturally higher. The Duo-Na Clan wife is usually the hostess in the family, and the Duo-Na Clan bear is the host. Duo-Na Clan males always have only one partner.
NRong believes that women who really understand the Duo-Na Clan relationship, they will not be afraid of it. But before they get to know each other better, if they can take this opportunity to find some brave women first, marry those bachelors who have never been able to get married.
NRong worked hard for the continuation of his tribesmen and wanted to tell the women that the Duo-Na Clan would give them two furs and a bag of red salt each if they would marry.
Yuan Zhan stopped him and said to NRong in a joking tone, ”I really want to give them to you. Keep the girls for the Jiu Yuan. Those on the stage are just war gain, not guests, they are not the Jiu Yuan people, at least not before they marry.”
NRong woke up from his musing and took a deep look at Yuan Zhan. At this moment, he thought a lot.
Yan Mo did not squeak a thing. Yuan Zhan's territorial concept is very strong, and his internal and external aspects are very clear, and his tendency to protect his own is becoming more and more obvious. The last time he suggested to him, he separated the slaves from the Jiu Yuan women. If we use a simple word to describe Yuan Zhan's psychology, it is that in his eyes, the Jiu Yuan women are treasures, those other than the Jiu Yuan women are pieces of s.h.i.t.
On the other hand, Wu Chen was prompted to introduce the situation of the Duo-Na Clan with a small trumpet, focusing on explaining the special situation of the Duo-Na Clan to the women, expressing their willingness to accept the best and not to accept the same direct refusal as before - although Yuan Zhan said at first that the right to refuse was under 16 years old, Jiu Yuan's warriors did not have the right to refuse, considering that the twisted melon was not sweet, nor did Jiu Yuan's warriors. Is really missing a wife to find a heart unwilling, so before long as truly unwilling, no matter what age and ident.i.ty, no one forced them.
But there aren't many people who really refuse. So far, there are only four or five.
Ye Xing once again reiterated: ”You only have this chance. If you refuse, you can only work hard. Because you are all slaves sent by your tribe to make up for the compensation. You must work hard for ten years, even if you marry the Jiu Yuan people after this, you can't change coolie's ident.i.ty.”
Ye Xing added a special note: ”Coolie is not equal to slavery, because slaves are not free with their lives and can be killed at any time. Without special circ.u.mstances, they can never escape from slavery for life. But the coolies are different. As long as the number of years of work is fulfilled, you can be a real Jiu Yuan tribesman. During the period of your being a coolie, your children will not have to shoulder the burden of hard labor regardless of whether their parents are coolies or not. That is just you. Your children were born will get to be the Jiu Yuan people. Besides, coolies are not paid, but the rest of freedom are just like the Jiu Yuan people. If you are bullied, you can get justice back. In a word, think about it carefully, whatever you choose is up to you.”
The women who were sent to be slaves did not quite believe what the two teenagers said. They were afraid that if they refused to marry, they would be a miserable slave and the children born would only be slaves.
Some women even believe in their doubts, but they are afraid of hardship. They also listen to Ye Xing saying that even if they find the Jiu Yuan people to marry after this, they will have to work for ten years in a ten year period. If they want to marry them now, at least now they are married, they will immediately become the Jiu Yuan people, and do not have to work hard again.
Of course, there is also no fear of hardship, rather than hard work and no marriage. They either had husbands who were reluctant to look for them, hated the Jiu Yuan people, or had other ideas.
Encouraged, several of the Duo-Na warriors went to the selection stage together, while warriors with the accompanying bears brought their own bears together.
When the girls on the stage saw the big bears appear, they were so frightened that they screamed and some even jumped directly off the stage in panic.
Fortunately, Wu Chen was reminded by Yuan Zhan that a caretaker's selection desk had been arranged to prevent the girls from hurting themselves because they were too panicked.
NRan, the leader of the Duo-Na warriors who fought with Yuan Zhan in The Black Earth City, also went up. He saw the most beautiful Huang-He.
NRan patted his big bear brother and walked up to the scared Huang-He who was scared away. He said as gently as she could, ”would you like to be with me and my brother? We'll treat you well.”
Huang-He was just about to faint by the big bear. She didn't even hear what NRan was saying. She just kept waving and screaming, ”Go away! You go away! Help!
NRan retreated disappointedly, with the big bear.
The big bear growled. He thought the girl was too frail to fit them.
Huang-He was even more frightened when he heard the big bear's roar. She tried to hide back and tears came out.
NRan wanted to calm her and tell her not to be afraid, but as soon as he lifted her leg, the girl screamed. Before he spoke, the girl cried out of breath.
Huang-He clasped her hands and shouted, ”What are you trying to do? Don't come here! Let me be a woman for you I'd rather die! You savages, you want to make us sleep with the beasts! You... You might as well kill us! Whoa!”
Huang-He cried, and the other girls followed. Two girls don't know if they are too afraid, they went on to jump off the platform to die. Unfortunately, the platform is not high and they just twisted their feet when they fall down.
The women on the stage cried, and the women waiting for selection were afraid. At last, there was a cry in the square.
On the platform, Yuan Zhan slowly clenched his fist.
Just then, with a loud bang, NRan's big bear jumped off the stage.
NRan looked back at him. The big bear waved his paws at him. He could not speak, but he knew that the girls were afraid of him.
Not only girls, but everyone except the Duo-Na Clan, rarely saw them without fear. But the Jiu Yuan people were strange because they saw them and they were hardly fearful. His brother told him that perhaps because the Jiu Yuan people often contacted the Mer-people, he was not afraid of foreign animals. But he feels that the Jiu Yuan people are not afraid that they are not because of the Mer-people, but that because they have been in contact with probably more ferocious Iron-back dragon family and Jiu Feng, they are used to not fearing scary animals.
Huang-He saw the big bear disappear and was comforted by others. She was a little better.
NRan looked at Huang-He again and grabbed his head and jumped off the platform. Unwilling to be unwilling, the other side cannot accept his brother, even if he just like her, he will give up.
This is not the case with NRan. The Duo-Na warriors who came to power were almost rejected.
The Duo-Na Clan chief sighed, preferring Yuan Zhan to force the girls to marry the Duo-Na warriors.
Yan Mo has been feeling a little depressed since he danced the comfort dance. He seems a little sad when he saw the Duo-Na Clan. Suddenly, he feels a little unspeakable anger.
It's not about the Duo-Na Clan, or the women, but about himself.
If it were not for his stubbornness, he did not need to choose any kind of convention at all. He could directly ordered to distribute the women to all people and groups, or they would not give them the right to refuse at all.
Did he make a mistake? Yan Mo thought. Maybe he should separate the Jiu Yuan people from the non-Jiu Yuan people, just like Yuan Zhan think?
He thought they would do a lot for the women, thinking that it would be better than to trade them with other tribes so that they would become slaves or let them work hard for a long time. But maybe from those women's point of view, this spouse selection meeting is just another kind of humiliation, even if they have the right to refuse.
Another way of thinking is that if Jiu Yuan warriors failed, and he will be forced to give slaves to the enemy, the enemy will not treat the slaves like the Jiu Yuan, but if she wants to be selected, she will have to be a man and be a wife, and she will have to work hard if he does not want her. I'm afraid she won't be grateful to him, but will hate him to death.
”It's more like need to be a coincidence than to tell them plainly that you are slaves. There is no right to refuse. If you want to, you will not get what you want.” Yan Mo sneered at himself.
He insisted on giving the enemy the right to refuse. Instead, he embarra.s.sed his warriors and violated Yuan Zhan's intention to reward meritorious warriors with these women.
Which is the reward now? The punishment is worse than that!
Yan Mo decided that he would not interfere with Yuan Zhan's opinions as long as he did not violate the principles of the Guide when dealing with enemies, prisoners of war and compensation for slaves.
He still does his priest thing, and Yan Mo thinks a little bit disheartened. He took great pains to achieve equality between men and women, abolish slavery, enact laws that were good for everyone, try not to privilege himself, or even deliberately avoid too obvious cla.s.s stratification in the tribe, but finally found that slavery might be more suitable for the present Jiu Yuan, which made him stick to everything feel like a joke.
Yuan Zhan suddenly shook his hand forcefully.
Yan Mo was too lazy and left him alone.
Yuan Zhan looked at Priest DRen unhappy, immediately angry, waved, ”Eat! Go on after lunch!”
So the women on the selection stage were pulled down.
Huang-He was still watching Yuan Zhan before she went down. She couldn't figure out how the Jiu Yuan Chief would let the savages and beasts threaten her if he really liked her. She was almost scared to death just now.