Chapter 158 (1/2)
Xiaohe tribe is located in a valley with beautiful environment. A small tributary of haiwoxi river flows down from the high mountain at one end of the valley, quietly passes through Xiaohe tribe, then flows out from the mouth of the valley and finally flows into haiwoxi river.
The name of Xiaohe tribe comes from this river which is only 20 meters wide.
The valley is very secluded. The specific location is about the northwest edge of blue ridge. The famous tananhala National Forest Park in the United States is about 150 miles to the east of the valley.
The valley is very long and narrow, with only one entrance and exit, surrounded by mountains as high as six or seven hundred meters. These steep mountains are a ring of natural walls, which firmly protect the small valley.
It is worthy of living in seclusion. They can find such a hidden valley!
This is the first impression of the stone bear after entering the valley where the Xiaohe tribe is located.
As for the second impression, this valley is definitely a good place for one man to control and ten thousand people to stay away from!
Without him, the only entrance to the valley is the narrow and steep one. I don't know how many years it took for the nameless River to wash out a mile long exit at the mouth of the valley.
The mouth of a valley is a river valley, and the two become one.
Both sides of the valley are cliffs hundreds of meters high. The river here has become only ten meters wide, so the flow speed of the river here is quite considerable.
The surging river roared all the way across the valley, and there were some jagged rocks hidden under the surface of the river.
In other words, it is almost impossible to go upstream through the river. Perhaps the future stormboat or speedboat can defeat the roaring river with excellent power. As for the modern sailing boat, unless it is pulled by the trackers, it is absolutely impossible to go upstream.
The most important thing is that the jagged rocks at the bottom of the water greatly limit the draught of the boats. That is to say, even if there are some trackers pulling on the bank, the boats with a little larger displacement can not get through the river valley.
On the north side of the valley, there is a path about four or five meters wide. The path was built on a mountain about ten meters high from the surface of the river.
Perhaps during the orogeny, the magical power of nature left such a flat mountain like the jade belt on this mountain. Of course, it may also be such a flat road formed by the natural weathering process of Lanling for countless years. Anyway, this road suddenly appeared in the mountain.
Whether riding or walking, you must take this road to get in and out of the valley. If there is a war, as long as Xiaohe tribe keeps this path, then the enemy outside will never be able to attack.
Stone bear really doubts how the Xiaohe tribe found such a wonderful place. This is more hidden than Tao Yuanming's Peach Blossom Land.
The stone bear came into the valley with the army of Xiaohe tribe.
After learning that the stone bear could actually make steel, Lei Ying blew the horn, and then not long after that, forty or fifty strong men appeared outside the depression. These strong men are soldiers of Xiaohe tribe.
The bodies of 27 wild wolves were carried away by these men, and the two wild goats shot by the stone bear were also carried away. Of course, one of the wild goats has lost a hind leg, which is in the belly of the stone bear
Then, at the invitation of Lei Ying, the stone bear followed the army into the small valley, and then came to the river tribe.
The scale of the Xiaohe tribe is beyond the imagination of the stone bear. Although this tribe is called ”Xiaohe”, its scale is a bit amazing.
Standing on the hillside path overlooking the tribe, Shi Xiong saw about three or four hundred wooden houses!
In other words, the number of Xiaohe tribe is at least more than 1200, or even more than 1500!
Even if we look at the whole North American continent, such a large-scale tribe is definitely a large one.
You know, the whole gaoshu tribe has only 300 people. Even the small tribes separated from gaoshu tribe over the years have only 1000 people.
In this beautiful and secluded valley, there is a large tribe with more than 1200 people. This is beyond the expectation of stone bear.
”Our Xiaohe tribe is made up of people who are not willing to participate in tribal wars. Although we chekasa people occupy the majority, there are also some Cherokee people and even Yuchi people in our tribe, who do not like war as much as we do. Now in our tribe, whether they are chekasa, Cherokee or Yuchi, there is only one name: Xiaohe people. Because in our tribe, all the people are brothers and sisters, relatives and members of the tribe. ” Riding on horseback, Lei Ying pointed to the tribe below and said with pride.
Shi Xiong sighed a little. He had to admit that Lei Ying was not simple. He really led these people to build a paradise.
As the guardian of the high priest kabulu of the gaoshu tribe, he also experienced the battle in which the longmaoniu tribe was almost exterminated. The stone bear is very clear about the hatred between the Cherokee and the chekasa people. It's just like the 200 soldiers of the letiqi tribe who were killed some time ago. Even the leader of the letiqi tribe, the whistler snake, was killed by the fire bull battle. This is enough to show how deep the hatred between the two groups is.
But here, there are so many war averse people living in seclusion. And because of their aversion to war, these people transcend racial hatred and live together. There is no hatred, no dispute, no war!
No wonder Baiyun and leiying didn't raise their butcher's knife to themselves after they learned that they were Cherokee. Instead, they warmly invited themselves to visit their tribe.
On the way here, perhaps in order to gain the trust of the stone bear, Lei Ying said his own situation almost without hiding anything.
The two twins are his daughter. The eldest daughter is Baiyun, whom the stone bear met. Another girl who was born a few minutes later than Baiyun naturally became his sister. Her name is green Skylark.
According to Lei Ying, when the twin sisters were born, there were many white clouds in the sky, so the eldest one was called Baiyun. When the second one was born, a group of skylarks came from the woods. One of them was the biggest one, whose feathers were rare blue-green, so the name of the second one became ”green Skylark”.
As for the young man who followed Lei Ying, he was Lei Ying's youngest son, whose name was Shi Chui.
The arrival of the stone bear caused a sensation in the Xiaohe tribe.
For these Indians who lived in seclusion in the Xiaohe tribe because of their avoidance and aversion to war, it's really rare for them to be such a big, strong and terrifying guy.
The most important thing is that this big man killed a wolf pack composed of more than 30 wild wolves alone in the wilderness, which is just something that gods can do.