Chapter 573 (1/2)
”We are indeed the people who stayed to see the ancestral land. We call ourselves the guardian tribe.” The old woman sat on a polished stone and spoke slowly. Behind her and to her left and right were the people, and the stone bears sat on the other stones, listening carefully to the old woman's story.
The old woman looked at Hongyun with a kind smile on her face. ”You are the high priest of the tribe now, so you should know the identity of us.”
Red cloud nodded without hesitation: ”I know. And I know that if the ancestor didn't choose to stay and take care of the ancestral land, then you, or one of you, should be the high priest of cabulus today. ”
The stone bear swallowed a mouthful of saliva and sighed in his heart. As expected, Hongyun didn't hold back and said these words. Well, maybe it's the tragic situation of these people that makes Hongyun unbearable.
For the stone bear who is now in a high position and holds great power, he doesn't care about the life and death of these people. Although these people have made great contributions to the care of their ancestors, they are nothing compared with Hongyun.
Don't say they are just the heirs of high priest kabulu. Even if they still regard themselves as high priest kabulu, the stone bear can't agree.
Let's not say how important the high priest kabulu is to the stability of the whole tribe. Just because Hongyun and his mother are the first to support themselves, stone bears can't put the name of high priest kabulu on other people's heads! The high priest of kabulu can only be red cloud or its descendants! Anyone else who wants to be the high priest can't pass the stone bear!
Stone bear always held this idea, otherwise he would not have said that before he came here just now.
No matter for the stability of the tribe or for the support of Hongyun, it is absolutely impossible for the stone bear to let others serve as the high priest of kabulu!
Although it's wrong for Hongyun to say this at this time, the stone bear can't stop it. After all, Hongyun is the high priest of kabulu, who is equal to herself in name. She has the right to say these words.
So the stone bear can only sigh helplessly in his heart.
But what makes the stone bear unexpected is that although Hongyun sincerely said this, the old woman simply refused.
The old woman shook her head, with a touch of pain on her face, but she was still very serious and said frankly: ”high priest kabulu, if your sentence could have been established more than 200 years ago, now we have no qualification. We don't even have the right to call ourselves high priest cabulus
”Why?” Red cloud very don't understand of ask.
”No, why? That's the truth. ” The old woman sighed and said, ”at the beginning, our ancestor took the initiative to leave the ancestral land. In order to get the consent of the Iroquois, there must not be many people left. And there were only about 150 people left at that time. ”
”The Iroquois moved to many tribes outside our ancestral land, and these tribes were the ones who monitored and guarded our tribes. Our ancestors could only live in a small area of the ancestral land. It was very difficult to farm and hunt. Most of the time, the people were not satisfied. Summer is a good thing to say, winter is the hardest. If it weren't for these caves in ancestral land, we might have been killed by the cold wind in winter if we couldn't hold on for two years. ”
The stone bear sighed in his heart again.
He knew that the old woman was not lying. In order to survive here, we must harvest enough food in summer and autumn, including hunting enough prey, so as to survive the cold winter.
But the outside of the ancestral land is occupied by the Iroquois tribes, and the large prey can't enter the ancestral land at all. How can so many people eat by pointing to the small prey living in the woods of the ancestral land? Moreover, only one season of grain can be planted here every year, so the ancestors of these people must live in extreme hardship here.
The old woman didn't notice the stone bear's expression, but continued: ”if we say that the cold and food shortage make our life very difficult, but we can persist, then another thing will almost make us despair or even give up caring for our ancestors.”