Jiang Xuan warmly hugged the young man's shoulders, as if he were an old friend.
"My name is Stone Shovel."
The young man twisted unnaturally, but did not dare to struggle too much.
Jiang Xuan praised: "Stone shovel, what a good name, you must be very good at digging, right?"
The young man answered honestly: "We people from the Giant Claw tribe are very good at digging."
"Giant claw tribe?" Jiang Xuan glanced at the totem pattern on the young man's face. The totem pattern looked like a strange beast. Because the two claws in front were too huge and the body was too small, if you didn't look carefully, you would have thought it was a strange beast.
Their totem pattern is two giant claws.
Creatures such as giant claw beasts are extremely good at digging holes, and the Vine tribe once captured them.
At first, Jiang Xuan led the Vine Tribe warriors to search for copper ore. When they couldn't find it everywhere, they discovered copper ore outside the cave of a giant clawed beast, and finally obtained the copper ore and smelted bronze.
Now, the tribesmen with the giant clawed beast as their totem god have sent gold to Jiang Xuan.
From this point of view, the giant claw beast is really the lucky star of the Vine tribe.
"Where is your Giant Claw tribe?"
"We, the Giant Claw Tribe..."
Shi Tu subconsciously wanted to speak out, but felt something was wrong, so he stopped.
"Where is it? Why didn't you say anything?" Jiang Xuan's expression remained as usual.
"I can't tell you."
Shi Shovel shook his head. Obviously, he was afraid that telling the tribe's location would bring disaster to the tribe.
"Okay, you don't have to say it if you don't want to."
Jiang Xuan didn't force him. After a brief chat, he let Shi Tu go back.
"You really let me go?"
Shi Tuo's face was full of disbelief. In his opinion, the value of the Dao Coin was so high. If he forged the Dao Coin, the Vine Tribe couldn't kill him?
"Of course, but you have to keep these two fake sword coins. This is your punishment."
Is this punishment too light?
Shi Tu still felt unbelievable, but Jiang Xuan had already ordered someone to take him out.
The stone shovel was taken out of the trading area and driven outside the vine wall.
It wasn't until he entered the forest alone that Shi Shovel came back to his senses and realized that he had really been let go.
Is the Vine Tribe so easy to talk to?
The stone shovel felt very unreal, but now that he was out, he didn't want to be caught again, so he immediately started running away.
On the other side, as soon as the front foot of the stone shovel left, Jiang Xuan immediately ordered Feng Cao: "Let the thorn vine follow him and find the location of the Giant Claw tribe."
"Yes!"
Feng Cao immediately arranged for Thorn Vine's people to follow the stone shovel, hoping to find the Giant Claw tribe through the stone shovel.
After Fengcao left, Dongkui couldn't help but ask: "Chief, didn't you just say you wanted to make a deal with the Giant Claw tribe?"
Jiang Xuandao: "It is better to keep things like gold in your own hands. Trading is ultimately unreliable and requires a high price."
"Then you just..."
"If I didn't do this, how could Stone Shovel take the initiative to return to the tribe?"
Dong Kui was speechless for a moment. Jiang Xuan looked so sincere just now that she really thought Jiang Xuan wanted to do business with him.
Compared with Jiang Xuan, she is still far behind.
Jiang Xuan said to Dong Kui: "You are the shopkeeper of the trading area. There are many people and things you will encounter in the future. Remember, you must not reveal your true thoughts in front of outsiders."
"For what others say, you have to verify it yourself, rather than choosing to believe it directly. Otherwise, sooner or later, you will suffer a big loss from being gullible."
Dong Kui nodded and kept these words in mind.
……
In the forest, after Stone Shovel left the Vine Tribe, he cautiously moved toward the northeast, where the Giant Claw Tribe was.
He looked behind him from time to time, fearing that people from the Vine tribe would suddenly appear.
However, he walked for a long time without seeing the pursuers of the Vine Tribe, and he felt a little relieved.
He was not in a hurry to return to the tribe, but made a few rounds in the forest, and even found a tree hole in the forest to spend the night.
During this period, he did not find a single warrior from the Vine Tribe, but only saw two destitute tourists digging roots and eating insects in the forest.
It’s so pitiful to become a tourist, Shi Shou thought.
He slept for a while and made sure again that no one from the Vine Tribe was following him before he actually walked in the direction of the tribe.
The primitive jungle is extremely dangerous. Stone shovels are not very strong fighters and may die at any time.
But the stone shovel is not afraid, because the people of the Giant Claw tribe have a special life-saving skill, which is to drill holes.
When he was walking, he always took note of the holes in the road and places where he could hide.
Once he encounters danger, he will crawl into the nearest hole as quickly as possible.
He kept walking like this for eight days.
During this period, tourists appeared from time to time, sometimes in front of him, sometimes behind him, and sometimes on the side.
Stone Shovel doesn't care. After all, tribes often die in the forest. There are too many tourists, and the tourists who appear every time are different.
Finally, the shovel arrived in front of a tall mountain.
Halfway up this mountain peak is where the Giant Claw tribe is located.
The stone shovel walked to a huge boulder at the foot of the mountain, drilled down, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.
In the forest next to the foot of the mountain, Lan squatted on the branch of a big tree, watched the stone shovel disappear with her own eyes, and wrote down the location.
Lan is a member of Thorn Vine. She used to be a two-color warrior, but now she has become a three-color warrior.
She usually travels in the forest as a tourist, collecting information for the Vine Tribe, or eliminating those who are detrimental to the Vine Tribe.
She also has a son, who is now an outstanding apprentice in the stone tool workshop of the Vine tribe.
Lan waited patiently for a while, making sure that there were no people from the Giant Claw tribe nearby, then she got down from the tree, pretended to be looking for food, walked a few steps east and west, and finally came to the huge rock. She looked towards the place where the shovel disappeared, and saw a very lush grass there. After pushing aside the grass, she saw a dark hole.
Lan would definitely not dare to rush into a cave like this, otherwise she would not know how she would die.
She looked at the boulder again. At the bottom of the boulder, there was a relatively hidden totem pattern, and a pair of huge claws were very conspicuous.
This is it.
Lan breathed a sigh of relief. After tracking for so long, they finally found the location of the Giant Claw tribe.
This tribe is really far away from the Vine tribe.
However, despite discovering the totem pattern, Lan did not go back immediately. Instead, she got up and walked up the mountain, hoping to get more information about the Giant Claw tribe.
However, she didn't go very far when an arrow suddenly shot from the front. Lan reacted very quickly. She immediately squatted on the spot and dodged the arrow.
"Dah!"
The arrow did not hit Lan, but hit a tree next to it. The arrow stuck on the trunk of the tree, and its tail kept trembling.
Lan was so frightened by this arrow that she broke into a cold sweat. If she was not a three-color warrior, if she had reacted a little slower, she might have been killed on the spot by now.
A warrior holding a bow and arrow appeared in front and shouted to Lan:
"This is the territory of the Giant Claw Tribe, leave immediately, or I will kill you!"
"I didn't know this was the territory of the Giant Claw tribe. I'm leaving now, I'm leaving now..."
Lan pretended to be panicked, stared at the soldier, and carefully backed away. When he retreated behind a big tree, he turned around and fled quickly.
When she ran back into the forest, several thorn vine team members who looked like tourists ran out from everywhere and walked to Lan's side.
"Have you found the Giant Claw tribe?"
"Found it, leave two people here to keep an eye on it, and the others will follow me back to the tribe to report to the leader."
Lan left two people behind, told them to hide carefully, and then ran back with the others.
The reason why several people are required to run back is to be on the safe side.
The jungle is dangerous, and no one can guarantee that they will be able to return to the tribe. With a few more people, the probability of successfully sending back information will be much greater.
……
Eight days later, Lan returned to the Vine Tribe and told Feng Cao the location of the Giant Claw Tribe. Feng Cao took the information to find Jiang Xuan.
More than half a month has passed at this time, and the climate here in the Vine Tribe has been very warm.
When Feng Cao found Jiang Xuan, Jiang Xuan was watching saplings on the hillside.
The saplings he looked at were honey-leaf trees. Among the honey-leaf saplings, there were still some insect eggs that had not hatched yet.
The honey leaf tree was one of the items Jiang Xuan traded with the Black Tooth Tribe last fall, and he paid a high price at that time.
The leaves of the honey tree are rich in sugar and are the best habitat for honey bugs.
These honey bugs will build nests on the branches of honey leaf trees, somewhat similar to bees.
After eating the leaves of the honey leaf tree, they will return to their nests and produce a large amount of white honey, which can be eaten by the larvae of honey bugs.
When the tribesmen discovered the honey, they first cut off the entire nest and ate it, just like cutting a bird's nest.
Later, people from a certain tribe discovered that as long as all the honey in the nest was not taken away, honey bugs would still breed there and continue to produce more honey.
Therefore, smart tribesmen began to consciously protect the honey leaf trees and wait for the honey bugs to produce sugar before harvesting the honey in batches.
Sugar is very popular among tribal people because it is one of the few delicacies of tribal people. After eating it, it can bring people a feeling of happiness.
But in this primitive continent, it is not easy to eat sugar. The bees are frighteningly large, numerous, and extremely aggressive, so collecting honey requires risking one's life.
The honey produced by these honey bugs is relatively easy to obtain.
Because of this, Jiang Xuan cares so much about these saplings. Whether the Vine Tribe can produce sugar in the future depends on these honey leaf trees and honey bugs.
At this time, the honey leaf tree has been successfully transplanted. With the arrival of spring, it has begun to sprout branches and sprouts. The leaves are tender green and very beautiful.
"Grow up quickly, and it is best to bear some fruits. In the future, our vine tribe will have a honey leaf forest!"
Jiang Xuan looked at the sapling with very eager eyes.
At this moment, Feng Cao hurried over and said beside Jiang Xuan: "Chief, the Giant Claw Tribe has been found."
When Jiang Xuan heard these words, he immediately became energetic.
The honey leaf tree is important, but gold is more important, which is related to the currency system of the Goto tribe.