Chapter 225: Things brought by the expedition team
The delicacies of the Teng tribe incorporate the rich experience brought by Jiang Xuan in his previous life, and can be said to be full of color, aroma and taste.
I am afraid of comparison in everything.
Karasuba has eaten the food of the Fuji tribe, and when he thinks about the food of other tribes, the gap is really huge.
In this primitive world, the living conditions of tribal people are too poor.
When eating enough is a problem, most people have no time to think about how to make food delicious.
What they think about most every day is how to fill their stomachs and how to survive. As for whether it tastes good or not, that is something they will only consider after they have no worries about food.
After drinking and eating, Wu Yu looked at the empty pottery basin and pottery tripod, touched his stomach, and smiled sheepishly at Jiang Xuan.
"The food of your Vine Tribe is so delicious that I finished it by accident."
Jiang Xuan smiled understandingly and said, "Chief Wuyu, just eat enough."
"By the way, I just saw a lot of people doing transactions with golden knives. What are they?"
Karasuba is very observant. As soon as he entered the trading area, he found that many people were carrying golden knives. Some people held them carelessly in their hands, while others put them in animal skin bags and covered them.
After entering this inn, Karasuba saw many people directly exchanging golden knives for food or staying in it.
"That's called a knife coin. It's a knife made of special stone by our Vine Tribe. In the trading area of our Vine Tribe, as long as the knife coin is enough, it can be exchanged for all goods."
"Can I get all the goods?"
Karasuba was surprised. He had been traveling among various tribes doing transactions for a long time, and he knew all too well the disadvantages of bartering.
Under the barter transaction method, both parties to the transaction must exactly need the other party's goods, otherwise it will be difficult to conclude a transaction.
If there is something that can be exchanged for all goods, it will bring great convenience to transactions.
Jiang Xuan replied affirmatively: "Yes, as long as you are in the Vine Tribe trading area, the sword coins can be exchanged for all the goods. There is no guarantee that you will be able to exchange them for all the goods outside the trading area."
Karasuba exclaimed: "Even if you can only exchange all the goods in the trading area, it is still very impressive."
Wu Yu looked at Jiang Xuan with burning eyes and said: "Leader Xuan, can you show me that sword coin?"
"sure."
Jiang Xuan generously took out a large knife coin and a small knife coin from the animal skin bag he carried with him, and handed them to Wu Yu.
These two sword coins have not been opened or used, and are in very good condition.
Karasuba observed it carefully and felt that there was nothing special except the material.
In fact, the hardness of knife coins is relatively high. Although they are sharp, they are easy to break and chip. You must be very careful during use.
Apart from its practicality, the biggest reason why Knife Coin can circulate is that it is guaranteed by the strength and credit of the entire Vine Tribe.
When everyone knows that this item can be exchanged for goods as long as it is brought to the Vine Tribe, and the Vine Tribe will never refuse it, it can be circulated within a certain range.
The stronger the Vine Tribe, the wider its sphere of influence, and the wider the circulation range of sword coins.
On the contrary, if the Vine tribe weakens or is even wiped out one day, the circulation scope of sword coins will be greatly reduced or even stopped.
Although Karasuba is smart, he is limited by his knowledge and does not know the secret behind it.
Therefore, he only thinks that the knife coin is beautiful and a good thing, but he does not understand why it circulates.
"Leader Xuan, I want to trade some sword coins with your Teng tribe. Do you think that's okay?"
Karasuba is a businessman. When he first saw this kind of shining golden sword coin, he knew that the people from the big tribe would definitely like it.
As long as he brings the sword coins to other big tribes, he will definitely make a lot of money.
"Of course, but the sword coins of our Vine Tribe are very valuable."
"It doesn't matter, we can exchange it with other goods. We have brought a lot of good goods this time. Leader Xuan will definitely like it."
"Really? Then I have to take a good look."
Jiang Xuan and Wu Yu walked and chatted, left the inn, and came to an open space in the trading area.
"Go and bring the goods over."
Wu Yu gave an order, and the warriors immediately went outside the Vine Tribe, where the black-toothed birds stayed, to move the goods.
This time, they brought a lot of goods, and they unloaded part of each type and moved them to the trading area of the Vine Tribe.
After the goods were moved, Wu Yu opened the animal skin bag and began to introduce the good goods they brought to Jiang Xuan.
"Leader Xuan, I know you like seeds, so I specially collected a lot of edible plant seeds this time."
Karasuba picked up a dry melon and said, "This is called lightning melon. It grows on vines and is especially sweet when ripe."
The Lightning Melon is spherical in shape, with dark green skin and many lightning patterns on it.
The lightning melon that Karasuba brought was about the size of a soup pot. It looked like it had been picked for a long time and the water had been completely dried in the sun.
Jiang Xuan took the dry lightning melon and shook it. He could hear a lot of seeds shaking inside, as if it was filled with gravel.
Wu Yu pointed at the lightning melon and said to Jiang Xuan: "There are many seeds in this lightning melon. Exchange it for ten sword coins!"
"Ten pieces? No, no, no!"
Jiang Xuan put down the dried lightning melon and waved to Wu Yu.
"How many sword coins does Leader Xuan want to exchange for the seeds of this lightning melon?"
"We don't know whether the seeds of this lightning melon can survive growing. And you said it's delicious, but we haven't eaten it yet."
Jiang Xuan showed two fingers and said: "I will use two sword coins at most to make this deal with you."
Wu Yu said in embarrassment: "Chief Xuan, two sword coins are too few. It is not easy for us to collect the seeds all the way and transport them here."
"I know it's not easy for you, otherwise I would at most give you a small knife coin..."
The two sides bargained for a while, and finally, Jiang Xuan exchanged three small knife coins for the seeds of the lightning melon.
"The second kind of goods, we finally brought it here. Leader Xuan must like it."
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Karasuba took out a large bulging animal skin bag and opened it. It turned out to be a sapling with soil inside.
"This is a honey leaf tree. Does Leader Xuan still remember the molasses we traded last time?"
"Of course I remember."
During the last transaction, Karasuba brought a kind of white honey, which was very sweet. It was said to be made by a kind of honey worm.
"Honey is produced after honey bugs eat the leaves of honey leaf trees."
Jiang Xuan looked at this honey leaf tree curiously. He did smell a sweet smell on the tree.
"Where are the honeybugs?"
Jiang Xuan searched for a while, but found no honey bugs.
If there were no honey worms, the honey leaf tree alone wouldn’t be able to produce sugar. You couldn’t just pick the leaves and boil them, right?
Wu Yu smiled, pointed to a small hole in the tree trunk, and said, "All the honey bugs are here."
After Jiang Xuan looked carefully, he found that there were many small holes like this on the tree trunks. There was some dark brown solidified liquid at the entrance of the holes, which should be sugar.
Karasuba explained: "Every autumn, adult honey bugs will drill holes in trees to lay eggs. These eggs will not hatch until the following spring."
"If we bring adult honeybugs here directly, they will easily die on the road, so we wait for the honeybugs to lay their eggs and then dig up the trees together."
"However, Chief Xuan, we are only responsible for bringing the honey leaf tree and insect eggs. As for whether the honey leaf tree can be planted and whether the insect eggs can hatch, we are not responsible."
Jiang Xuandao: "Of course you are not responsible, don't worry."
The honey condensed by honey worms is white in color, sweet and delicious, and very beautiful. Jiang Xuan has long thought of moving the tree and the worms together to the vine tribe.
Now, the expedition team of the Black Teeth Tribe has brought the tree and insect eggs over, saving him the effort to search for them in the future.
As for whether the tree can survive planting, Jiang Xuan is not worried at all.
This is a vine tribe. If even they can't grow plants that can survive, it will be almost impossible to grow them anywhere else except where they originate.
"Leader Wuyu, how many coins do you plan to exchange for this honey leaf tree?"
Jiang Xuan directly asked Wu Yu to make a price.
Wu Yu thought about it for a while and said: "Chief Xuan, it is not easy to bring this honey leaf tree here. In addition, there are honey bug eggs in it. It's not too much to exchange for ten big sword coins, right?"
"Ten large sword coins are too many, I think ten small sword coins are more appropriate." Jiang Xuan directly gave Karasuba a discount on his quotation.
"No, no, Chief Xuan, forget about the lightning melon seeds just now. We spent a lot of effort to bring the honey leaf trees and honey bugs. We must not miss ten large sword coins."
No matter what Jiang Xuan said, Wu Yu insisted on ten large sword coins and refused to let go.
As he said, it took a lot of effort to bring this honey leaf tree and honey bugs here. If we can't make a big profit, this trip will be a loss.
Seeing the price, Jiang Xuan couldn't let go, so he set his mind elsewhere.
"Okay, for the sake of you bringing the honey leaf tree all the way here, I can exchange it for ten sword coins."
"But...you have to give me something to add to my gift."
"What extra?"
"Give me some other seeds, whether they are grain or vegetable seeds, I don't choose."
Wu Yu looked into the pile of goods, pulled out a small bag, handed it to Jiang Xuan, and said: "We found these seeds in several places. Once there was an accident and the seeds were all mixed together."
"Chief Xuan, you can try planting all the seeds. Maybe you can plant a surprise?"
In fact, except for the honey leaf tree, which Karasuba dug up specially, no thought was put into the other seeds.
When the Black Tooth Tribe's expedition team was trading with various tribes, they only needed to mention that they wanted seeds, and those tribes would find some seeds and give them to them.
Because of this, no matter how many things these seeds are exchanged for here in the Vine Tribe, it is still very profitable for Karasuba.
Of course, businessmen pursue profits, and so do primitive merchants. Karasuba must want to use these seeds in exchange for something more.
Jiang Xuan took the animal skin bag and looked inside, and found that there were at least four or five kinds of plant seeds inside, large and small, with different colors and shapes.
These unknown seeds may grow surprises, or they may grow useless plants, it all depends on God's will.
"Okay, it's a deal!"
Jiang Xuan was also a straightforward person. After taking the seeds and honey leaf tree, he directly paid ten sword coins to Karasuba.
Wu Yu looked at those beautiful large sword coins and felt very happy in his heart.
If you take this thing to the big tribes in the Southern Wilderness, you can definitely exchange it for a lot of goods and make a lot of profits!
After trading the seeds and honey leaf trees, Jiang Xuan used candles made of insect wax to trade with Wu Yu for several pieces of spider silk clothing and some other things.
The spider silk suit is a good thing. Jiang Xuan has already fought many battles wearing the spider silk suit.
With the protection of the spider silk suit, he suffered less injuries in the battle.
After the transaction was completed, Karasuba left the Vine Tribe with the expedition team of the Black Teeth Tribe and headed to the next tribe.
"Hey..."
Twelve huge black-toothed birds took off into the sky again and gradually moved away.
In the trading area, Dong Kui said with envy: "It would be great if we also had such a big bird. We can go far and far away."
In the entire Vine Tribe, only Jiang Xuan has a flying mount, and the other one is Old Witch's giant eagle.
As for those giant dragonflies, they are suitable for fighting but not suitable for long-distance flying. What's more, giant dragonflies can only survive for half a year.
Jiang Xuandao: "Don't worry, as long as we find a suitable big bird, sooner or later, our Vine Tribe will also have a flying team."
"Um!"
Dong Kui trusts Jiang Xuan's words very much. Since Jiang Xuan said there is, it will definitely happen in the future. She firmly believes in this!
Many people in the Teng tribe have an almost blind admiration and trust in Jiang Xuan, and the same goes for Mallow.
Jiang Xuan never let them down.
September 15th, late autumn has arrived, and the hot weather is gradually getting cooler.
The work of the Vine Tribe's planting team is coming to an end, and except for some vegetables, all the food has been returned to the warehouse.
The work of the breeding team has just begun.
In winter, heavy snow blocks the mountains, making it difficult to find forage and other food.
Therefore, the breeding team needs to slaughter more than half of the various adult livestock and poultry that have been fattened and strong.
Leave smaller livestock and poultry that are used for breeding and feed them with fodder and food stored in the autumn.
"Move quickly. The skins are peeled off and sent to the clothing workshop. The meat is cut into strips. Then it will be hung up and smoked to dry. All the bones will be picked out. The useful ones will be used to make tools, and the useless ones will be given to everyone.
stew."
Dajiao stood in front of the breeding team soldiers, telling them to work and helping them at the same time.
The entire breeding area is very busy. They slaughter the livestock and poultry first, and then send them to various places according to the functions of different parts.
For example, long-tailed rabbit skin is one of the main raw materials used by clothing workshops to make winter animal skin clothing.
As for animal bones, animal meat, animal teeth, etc., they are also arranged separately and will not be wasted.
This year's breeding results are gratifying. This winter, the people of the Teng tribe can often eat meat.
This is an amazing achievement.
In addition to the breeding team, other teams are also preparing for winter.
The hunting team needs to catch more prey, the fishing team needs to catch more fish, and the engineering team needs to repair the houses of the entire tribe...
Everyone works together to make this winter better.
On the other side, the shipyard produced the second batch of sailboats.
"Chief, most of the problems previously discovered on the first batch of sailboats have been solved on the second batch of sailboats."
The soldiers at the shipyard introduced Jiang Xuan in detail about the second batch of sailboats.