While waiting for the leader to arrive, Jiang Xuan continued to look at the spider house with interest while chatting with the red spider.
Outside the spider house, there are eight simulated spider legs, and between these spider legs, there are many spiders weaving webs.
On one of the webs, Jiang Xuan saw a large, brightly colored spider lying quietly in the web.
Just then, a spider twice its size appeared.
This smaller spider is the same species as the larger spider, and the patterns on its body are almost the same.
The smaller spider cautiously approached the spider web, and then started dancing where the big spider could see it.
It twisted its colorful buttocks, waved its two spider legs, and danced vigorously.
Seeing Jiang Xuan staring at the two spiders, the red spider explained: "The smaller one is the male spider, and the larger one is the female spider. The male spider is dancing to court a mate."
"Call for a mate? It's interesting."
Jiang Xuan continued to look at the two spiders, and saw that the male spider was jumping very hard, but the female spider was more irritable and ran to the edge of the spider web several times, trying to drive away the male spider.
But the male spider did not give up. It kept changing its position and continued to dance. At the same time, it regularly tapped the edge of the spider web with its forelimbs, releasing courtship signals.
After several attempts, the female spider may have been moved by the male spider's sincerity, or she may have given up struggling. She lay down in the middle of the web and tapped the web regularly with her forelimbs.
The male spider was overjoyed and immediately crawled along the spider web, and then got entangled with the female spider, as if he was afraid that the female spider would regret it.
The joyful process of the spider was relatively short-lived. Soon after, the male spider dragged his tired body and wanted to leave.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened to Jiang Xuan. "Poof!"
The larger female spider suddenly hugged the male spider with her eight legs, and then instantly bit the male spider's head with her sharp mouthparts!
The male spider struggled violently, but to no avail. After a while, his legs became stiff and he died unexpectedly.
"What's going on?"
Jiang Xuan felt a little unbelievable, wasn't the cost of the male spider's moment of happiness too high?
The red spider said: "After the female spider becomes pregnant, she needs a lot of nutrients to reproduce her offspring. Eating the male spider is a good choice. Of course, only a few types of spiders do this, and most male spiders can still survive." When the red spider said this, Jiang Xuan immediately thought of the mantis, because mantises also have the habit of female mantises eating male mantises.
Jiang Xuan looked at the red spider again and asked in a low voice: "In your spider tribe, do women have a higher status?"
The Red Spider replied: "The Spider God has given the female warriors a stronger body and greater strength. Therefore, it is normal for the women of the Spider Tribe to be much stronger than the men and to have a high status."
"No wonder." Jiang Xuan suddenly realized.
The totem gods of large tribes will give tribal warriors some special abilities. The totem gods of the spider tribe have obviously blessed the female warriors with the larger size and more ferocious characteristics of female spiders.
I just don’t know if the women of the spider tribe will kill their men like the female spiders.
If that's the case, that would be terrible.
Of course, Jiang Xuan believes that even if this happens, it should be very rare. After all, he has seen many middle-aged or even old male warriors in the Spider Tribe.
Moreover, not all spiders eat their mates.
Of course, even if they are not killed, the status of men in the spider tribe is quite low, similar to the role of tool men.
Just when Jiang Xuan was thinking wildly, a tall and strong woman walked over.
She is about thirty or forty years old and has an ordinary appearance, but she is very tall, a head taller than Jiang Xuan, which gives people a very strong sense of oppression.
The most important thing is that she has seven warrior patterns painted on her face. She is obviously a powerful seven-color warrior! "Chief!"
All Spider Tribe warriors, including Red Spider, lowered their heads when they saw this strong woman.
The leader of the Spider Tribe nodded slightly, then looked at Jiang Xuan and asked, "Are you the leader of the Vine Tribe, Xuan?"
"That's right."
For the first time, Jiang Xuan felt a little weak in front of a woman because this woman was too tall and strong.
The leader of the spider tribe looked at the animal skin bag in Jiang Xuan's hand and said, "Do you want to replace all the insect wax with spider silk clothes?"
"Yes."
The leader of the spider tribe bent down and picked up a candle made of insect wax from the animal skin bag. He looked at it over and over for a while, then put it under his nose and smelled it. He said, "The insect wax is good. Just as you said, it's a candle."
Rootworm wax in exchange for three pieces of spider silk clothing."
"Red Spider, please count the insect wax. How many spider silk clothes are needed? Come to my place to get it. Yes!"
The originally strong Red Spider was obviously a little weaker in front of the leader. He walked up to Jiang Xuan, poured out all the insect wax, and then counted them one by one, twice.
"There are fifteen sticks of insect wax in total. Fifteen sticks of insect wax, how many spider silk clothes are we looking for..."
Red Spider counted with his fingers for a long time. Because he had never learned arithmetic and suffered from lack of education, he couldn't figure it out after a long time of calculation.
The leader of the Spider Tribe couldn't stand it any longer: "Forget it, go and bring a bunch of them over. If there are too many, take them back. If there are too few, just go get them again."
"Yes!"
The red spider thought it was right, so he took people to move the spider silk clothes. Anyway, one piece of insect wax can be exchanged for three spider silk clothes. The method is a bit clumsy, but it is effective.
The leader of the Spider Tribe looked at Jiang Xuan and said, "Where is your Vine Tribe? On the far edge of the Southern Wilderness, I rode a bird and flew for more than twenty days before I got here."
"It's so far..."
As soon as the leader of the Spider Tribe heard about such a long distance, he lost much interest in the Vine Tribe.
Except for tribes with flying mounts, or migratory tribes like Xihuang, most tribes do not have a large range of activities, even large tribes.
Originally, she was thinking that if the Vine Tribe was not far away, she could often make trades with them. Things like insect wax were too precious.
But with such a long distance, it is difficult to make a transaction.
The leader of the Spider Tribe looked at Jiang Xuan again and thought that such a young five-color warrior was too rare, let alone a tribal leader.
"Chief Xuan, the spider I raise can build colorful webs. How about you go to my house to admire it at night?"
When Jiang Xuan heard this, he trembled immediately, because he suddenly thought of a joke he had seen in his previous life: My cat can do a backflip, do you want to go and see it?
The purpose of the leader of the Spider Tribe was too clear. The female warriors around him laughed meaningfully, while the male warriors looked at Jiang Xuan with envy.
Jiang Xuan decisively refused: "Thank you for your kindness, chief, but I have urgent matters. I have to rush back immediately after the transaction is completed. I'm sorry."
The spider tribe leader's eyes were slightly disappointed. It's hard to find a young man as powerful as Jiang Xuan.
Of course, since Jiang Xuan refused, she did not force it. After all, the Spider Tribe was so big and she was the leader. There were many men, so she would not be unbearable.
Not long after, Red Spider came over with two female warriors and a bunch of spider silk clothes.
The spider silk clothing is extremely tough, but it is not heavy. Instead, it is very thin and light. "Let's start trading." The leader of the Spider Tribe gave the order, and Jiang Xuan and Red Spider immediately started trading.
Jiang Xuan handed Red Spider a stick of insect wax, and Red Spider gave him three pieces of spider silk clothing. It is not easy to make mistakes with such a stupid method of transaction.
When the transaction was completed, the Spider Tribe received fifteen thick pieces of insect wax, while Jiang Xuan received forty-five pieces of spider silk clothing.
With these spider silk clothes, the safety of important personnel of the Goteng tribe has an extra layer of protection. Jiang Xuan put the spider silk clothes into the animal skin bag, tied the mouth of the bag, and then said goodbye to the leader of the spider tribe.
"The transaction is completed, and it's time for me to go back. Next time I come, I will bring more insect wax and other precious goods."
"The Spider Tribe welcomes Leader Xuan to come and make deals at any time."
Jiang Xuan said goodbye to the leader of the Spider Tribe, and then couldn't wait to leave here.
The red spider said: "Leader, I will send him out." The leader of the spider tribe nodded: "That's fine."
After the spider tribe leader finished speaking, she turned around and left. She still had a lot of things to do. Seeing that there was no fun to be seen, the surrounding spider tribe members also dispersed.
The red spider asked a little disappointed: "Are you leaving so soon? Why don't you stay here for one night? The spiders I raise are very beautiful, and I want to take you to see them."
Jiang Xuan felt very embarrassed. Why did he feel like he had become Tang Monk on the westward journey?
These female fairies all want to sleep with him. "Next time, I'm really in a hurry."
Jiang Xuan's rejection made Red Spider even more disappointed. He couldn't look down on any of the weak male warriors in the tribe. He finally met a good-looking and powerful man, but he refused to stay with her even for one night.< /p>
"Okay, then I'll wait for Leader Xuan to come over next time."
Red Spider and Jiang Xuan passed through many spider houses and walked to the open space on the edge of the residential area again. Tang Yuan was squatting there bored, watching the spiders crawling around in the distance.
If Jiang Xuan hadn't warned it sternly, it would have really wanted to taste those big spiders.
After Jiang Xuan came over, Tang Yuan perked up and immediately stood up, shook the dust off his feathers, and extended one wing diagonally to the ground.
Jiang Xuan walked to Tang Yuan, turned around and said to Red Spider: "Leader Red Spider, I have to leave, then we..."
The words "See you next time" were still in his throat. Jiang Xuan's eyes suddenly widened and he didn't finish his words.
Red Spider hugged Jiang Xuan domineeringly, with great strength.
After a while, the red spider pine opened his hand, waved his hand and said: "Let's go, don't forget me when you go back, I'll wait for you to come over to see the spiders next time."
Jiang Xuan opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. This woman was too courageous! In the end, he climbed onto Tangyuan's back silently, not knowing what it was like.
This was the first time he had been hugged by someone, and it happened so suddenly, without any precaution. "Hey..."
The glutinous rice balls flapped their wings and flew into the sky. After circling a few times, they flew back under Jiang Xuan's instructions.
The red spider stood in the open space, looking up at the purple ominous bird and the man on its back. It wasn't until it was out of sight that it lowered its head again and couldn't help but laugh.