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When Su Yang came back from the fields, he saw that there was noisy everywhere in the tribe. People and their families lined up in front of a stone house. From his direction, he could only see the darkness.

"What's going on?" He grabbed the people watching and asked.

He also knew this person watching the fun. He was his neighbor's youngest son, named Su Ling.

"You don't know?" Su Ling was puzzled at first, and then suddenly said: "Were you messing with you again? How long have you not been home?"

Su Yang smiled bitterly and said: "You also know that my mother and father have always opposed my farming..."

Su Ling glanced at him angrily and muttered: "I don't know what's so good about that land. I've made you stop hunting. You don't do your job every day."

Su Yang smiled stiffly. It was precisely because he knew everyone's attitude towards him that he was "not doing his job properly" that he built a small wooden house outside. After taking care of the things in the field, he slept directly in the house. I go back to the tribe often.

After all, Su Ling told the tribe what they were doing: "The tribe leader said that a census was going to be conducted. Everyone is registering here!"

Census? This is a new word. This was the first time Su Yang heard of this.

"What is a census?" Su Yang asked.

"The patriarch said that it is to register how many men, women, children and elderly people are in each household."

Su Yangnahan: "Why register this?"

Su Ling recalled it and said uncertainly: "It seems... to divide something? The clan leader seemed to have said so before." He rubbed his hair and said with a silly smile, "It doesn't take much anyway. Just register.”

That's true. The clan leader sent out all the people in the clan who could count and write. They were scattered throughout the tribe and started getting busy in full swing.

Su Yang thought for a while and realized that it was really not a big deal, so he also squeezed towards the dark team.

"Hey, hey, hey!" Su Ling quickly grabbed him, "You don't have to go! Only the head of the family can register. Your mother has already registered you."

He glanced at Su Yang, who was dark and thin, with a haggard look on his face. He could tell at a glance that he was not having a good life outside. "Don't be too stubborn. Your grandma is doing it for your own good." He kindly advised: "Just listen to your grandma and join the hunting team. You are so strong, it would be a pity to farm."

Su Yang knew that Su Ling was doing it for his own good. Only the old people in the tribe who couldn't afford to hunt planted some wild grass in the ground to eat. Young people like him are eager to join the hunting team. Joining the hunting team is the highest honor in the tribe. Only strong warriors are eligible to join the hunting team and follow Captain Bear away from the tribe to hunt in the mountains. Su Yang is the strongest among the children in the family, and his mother is a warrior who retired from the hunting team. Logically speaking, he should inherit his mother's legacy and join the hunting team. But he doesn't like hunting, he just likes to grow things in the ground. He was happy watching those seeds break through the ground, sprout, grow taller and bear fruit little by little. He was happier than killing a flaming tiger! So despite the opposition of his family, he reclaimed a piece of wasteland outside the tribe and began a farming career where he endured hunger.

So he was destined to disappoint Su Ling.

Looking at his expression, Su Ling knew that Su Yang didn't listen to what he said. He sighed in his heart, knowing that he was stubborn, so he didn't try to persuade her. He just said: "You have been away from home for a few days. Your mother has not said anything, but she must be missing you in her heart. You should go back and see her quickly." Bar."

When he got home, his mother saw him. Although she was complaining on her lips, she was still happy in her heart. This could be seen from the food brought by her father in the evening.

So Su Yang stayed at home for a few days. These days, the tribe is really busy. Normally, the tribe would only be so lively after the hunting team returned from a long journey.

But it's spring now. The sun is scorching in the sky these days, the climate is muggy, and there's no shortage of food. So the people in the tribe stay up all day and go out at night. There's nothing to do during the day, and it's very boring. It was rare that there was a big event in the tribe, and everyone had a good time quarreling about it for a few days.

So six days passed like this, and several major events happened one after another in the Su tribe, which made Su Yang dizzy.

First, the census results came out. There were 435,812 people in their tribe, including 200,012 men and 235,800 women. Excluding the number of elderly people and children, the final number of prime-age men and 160,009 prime-age women in the Sioux tribe was 151,500. For the first time, Su Yang realized that there were so many more women than men in the tribe! No wonder women always go to other tribes to snatch men.

Almost at the same time, the clan leader told them that the Yousu tribe had changed its name to Yousu City. From now on, he would no longer be their clan leader, and they would call him the city lord. Then the witch is no longer a witch, so what is the name of the deputy city lord?

Then the chief announced the establishment of a citizens' assembly of 500 people. Members must be elected by votes from all men and women in the tribe who are over 15 years old, and must be re-elected every three years. Any decision within the tribe must be approved by the members of the citizens' assembly before it can be implemented. The patriarch said this is called democracy. Su Yang's grandmother was elected to the 500-person Citizens' Assembly.

So many new words and concepts really made Su Yang dizzy and dazzled. He was confused for a few days, and then one night he suddenly figured it out!

Oh! He thought it was something complicated. It was almost the same as before! It was just a change of name. The clan leader was still the clan leader, the witch was still the witch, they just changed their titles. As for the 500-member citizen assembly, before it, the clan leader would call together the respected people in the tribe to discuss and solve any major issues (and his mother was always there). Now it’s just that more people are participating in the decision-making. It’s no big deal.

After discovering that the changes in the clan had no impact on his life, Su Rang completely erased these things from his mind.

Soon, he had another worry.

Early in the morning of that day, Su Rang was called up by his mother and father. He sat there in a daze, looking at his mother with a serious face and his father who was hesitant to speak, and the alarm immediately sounded in his heart.

He saw his mother smoking a cigarette, sitting on a stone bench and puffing smoke, looking up and down at Su Rang, making him feel creepy.

"What do you want to do in the future?"

"What..." Su Rang said softly with a stiff face: "Just, just farm."

Ama nodded, her expression calm, not as furious as he expected, but said calmly: "Since you insist on doing this, you are grown up, and Ama can't control you anymore, just do whatever you want."

Su Rang was so surprised that he almost couldn't believe his ears. Is it what he thought? He stammered: "A, Ama, do you mean you agree to let me farm?"

Ama nodded seriously, and said in a calm tone like "You go and kill two rabbits for me": "So, you should marry Ah Hong."

What?

Is this topic jumping too fast?

And is there any inevitable connection between the two?

A-ma ignored Su Rang's dumbfounded expression and continued to talk to herself: "You know Ah Hong, she is strong, brave, and brave, and she is a good woman. She is also honest and loyal, and doesn't care whether her husband is capable or not. As long as you marry her, you will not be hungry for the rest of your life, and you will have someone to rely on. You can also continue to farm your land." At the end, A-ma couldn't help but roll her eyes at Su Rang, and there was a hint of anger in her eyes.

Su Rang finally reacted, and he collapsed and shouted loudly: "I don't want to marry Ah Hong!"

"Why, you still dare to be dissatisfied with Ah Hong?" Ama glared at him. Not to mention Su Rang's cowardice, his father also began to persuade him with regret: "Just listen to your mother, who doesn't get married? Your father and I are nothing. If your mother didn't despise me, I would have starved to death long ago. If you don't marry Ah Hong, you will starve to death sooner or later with the little melons and dates you earn from farming!"

Su Rang knew that his father was gentle and regarded his wife as the heaven. Only Ama was in charge of the family. As long as his mother nodded, no one in the family dared to object.

He didn't have any dissatisfaction with Ah Hong. Ah Hong was strong and brave. She once killed ten monsters single-handedly. She was a famous good woman in the tribe and the dream lover of countless men. He just hated being arranged by his mother for his marriage. He was controlled by his mother since he was a child. Now he is an adult and he wants freedom.

How to convince Grandma?

He was thinking hard when he saw Grandma's face change and she closed her eyes as if she was listening to something. It was probably someone's voice transmission.

Not long after, Grandma opened her eyes and looked at him with a strange look: "What have you done recently?"

Su Rang was confused: "I stayed at home these days and did nothing."

"Bullshit!" Grandma scolded: "If you didn't do anything, why would the deputy city lord look for you?"

What?

Su Rang blurted out: "Which deputy city lord is it?"

His Grandma nodded his head in disappointment, "Have you used your brain to farm? It's Wu, Wu is the deputy city lord! Don't call the wrong name when you go out, otherwise others will laugh at you!"

Su Rang suddenly realized. He almost forgot about this. He couldn't help but mutter in his heart that the clan leader and Wu were really bored and had to change their names.

"What are you still standing there for?" Grandma pulled him and said in a hurry, "Come on!"

When Su Rang arrived at the witch's place, he found that there were other people there. He took a quick look and found that most of them were old people. He, a young man, was standing here, which was very rare and eye-catching. He couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.

Everything that followed was too fantastic for Su Rang. The witch asked them to come so that they could teach the people in the tribe how to farm.

Then the witch also appointed them as agricultural officials.

As agricultural officials, the tribe provided them with food!

For this reason, everyone's eyes, including Su Rang, lit up.

Then the witch gave each of them different seeds and asked them to take them back to try planting. The seeds that Su Rang was given were called soybeans and wheat. These two seeds were not unfamiliar to him-he had planted them in the fields!

The witch said that if half of the seeds survived, the tribe would reward them!

Su Rang didn't care about food and rewards. He only knew one thing-he didn't have to get married!

He didn't do his job, he was ordered to farm!

So Su Rang took the seeds and the farm tool called a hoe given by the witch and went home in high spirits.

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Su Rang: I don’t want to be a farm official, but I want to go back and get married!