Just as he was talking, there was a splash in the water downstream, and several slender girls appeared in the stream.
Apparently these girls discovered the approaching Damon and his entourage in advance, and hid in the emergent plants on the bank of the stream in advance, and successfully deceived the hunters of the Pygmy and Damon tribes.
"Qiu Enpi - don't be afraid, Chief Damon is here. They are going to the beach to collect salt," Pado said to the girls.
The girls didn't reply. They just lowered their heads to pick up the white-bellied fish from the stream and threw them into the fish baskets they carried. Apparently, they had already judged that Damon and his group did not pose a threat to them.
What is this method of catching fish? Zhou Jiping was a little curious
Fish kept floating down the upper reaches, and the largest one was at least half a foot long. Looking at Zhou Jiping's puzzled look, Pardo took the initiative to act as an explainer - the Fang tribe is the tribe with the most advanced poison-using skills in the forest.
The Pygmies were so content that they poisoned fish with the sap from the bark of a tree called the Oron tree.
The method is: first cut off the bark of the Oron tree, mash it into powder with a wooden stick, then use a self-made basket to shake it in the water to dissolve the venom of the tree, and then have a specialized person wait downstream to catch the fish.
Just as he was talking, several Fang girls actually caught a basket of fish very quickly. Seeing that the number of fish in the water gradually decreased, the girl named Qiu Enpi came to the shore alone and approached Da from a distance.
In front of everyone, he carefully spoke to the leader Pado.
The water in the creek was very clear. Zhou Jiping was already sweating along the way. Looking at the dirt on his hands, Zhou Jiping squatted down and picked up some stream water to wash his hands.
Damon approached the people by the stream, and their attention was focused on Pardo and Qiu Enpi who were talking. The other warriors were looking for places to rest, so it wasn't until Zhou Jiping washed his hands several times that his actions were noticed by Fang who was facing him.
Clan girl Qiu Enpi discovered
"No, don't wash it!" Qiu Enpi shouted to Zhou Jiping
What's wrong? You can't even wash your hands? Even your territory isn't so overbearing! Zhou Jiping wondered
At this time, Kundala and Duka who were standing nearby saw Zhou Jiping who was washing his hands. They quickly pulled Zhou Jiping up and said hurriedly: "Can't wash, can't wash."
Seeing Zhou Jiping's confused look, Kundala could only point to Zhou Jiping's hand and said, "Your hand is already swollen."
Oh my God! Zhou Jiping lowered his head and took a look. Sure enough, his hands had swollen at some point, and the swelling speed was visible to the naked eye in just ten seconds. His hands were already swollen like purple-red potato cubes. Then, a kind of getting worse happened.
An increasingly clear itching sensation began to appear on his entire palm.
At this time, Pado and the Qiu Enpi woman had already walked over, and other tribal warriors were also approaching.
"What, what's going on?" Zhou Jiping asked everyone with his hands raised, looking extremely embarrassed.
Pado smiled helplessly and said: "The Fang people are fishing, and the juice from the bark of the Oron tree is mixed in the stream. Except for themselves, no one else can touch the water. We thought you knew, but who knows... your hands
It’s going to be swollen for a few days.”
Turning around, Pado said to Qiu Enpi: "Qiu Enpi, this is the great chief of Damon, the recognized tribal king on the grassland. Chief Maduo and Zhou Ke are very good friends. What can you do?
Don't let his hands swell, at least don't make his hands so itchy."
Qiu Enpi is a very slender woman with big dark eyes. She looks a bit like a South Asian woman. She is smiling at the moment and looking at Zhou with interest as her hands become more and more itchy.
After Ji Ping heard what Pado said, Qiu Enpi smiled and said, "There is a way, but it requires a lot of salt."
"No problem, we have a lot of salt," a tribal warrior next to him interrupted.
"Then follow me." After saying that, Qiu Enpi turned around and walked upstream, leaving a few giggling girls to continue "guarding the stream and waiting for the fish" in the stream.
After walking not far, everyone came to the narrowest part of the creek - it turned out that Qiu Enpi asked everyone to cross the creek from here to avoid more people being harmed and poisoned. Everyone carefully crossed the river
, followed Qiu Enpi for a while, and then came to an open place, which is the camp of the Fang tribe. And Qiu Enpi is the chief of this small tribe of Fang tribe.
The total number of people in this Fang tribe is no more than a dozen, but they are all women, and they are all young women. However, Chief Zhou's hands are itching terribly now, and he doesn't pay attention to these things at all.
Soon, a woman prepared some water with herbs dissolved in it for Zhou Jiping and brought it to Zhou Jiping.
Zhou Jiping, whose hands were itching unbearably, reached out and was about to go in, but was stopped by Qiu Enpi. Then she looked at Zhou Jiping with a smile and said nothing.
"I, wash my hands, my hands are itchy..." Zhou Jiping gestured and dealt with her.
Several Damon soldiers nearby had already come up and took off their salt bags and put them in the fourth bag. Qiu Enpi smiled and nodded.
Doing business? Is there a fee for this potion? Zhou Jiping was puzzled. He knew that salt bags were a symbol of status in the Damon tribe, and they were also one of the most practical necessities of life. Now in the Damon tribe, apart from hunters, only
Only soldiers in the field platoon are qualified to wear salt bags, and salt is one of the most precious necessities of life. Other tribes must get a little salt from the Damon tribe every year, including the Fang tribe and the Pygmy tribe in front of them.
Even the powerful Bushmen need to constantly buy salt from Damon. This is one of the reasons why Damon has always occupied the throne of the king of the tribe. Other tribes cannot obtain this precious resource.
But this time, Zhou Jiping was not entirely right.
Qiu Enpi picked up a bag of salt and poured it directly into the wooden bowl containing the potion - so the salt was still a medicine?
What Zhou Jiping thought was still not completely right. The remaining three bags of salt were thrown away by other Fang women, and the salt bags were returned to the tribal warriors - in other words, the reward for treating Zhou Jiping's hand was three bags of salt.
"You can go down now, Mula, you go make arrangements." Qiu Enpi said to the other Damon people. The girl from Xiao Mula led Damon and Pygmy's hunters away.
"Can you wash it?" Zhou Jiping couldn't wait any longer. His hands were already swollen like bread.
"I'm here, don't move!" Qiu Enpi said, reaching out and taking Zhou Jiping's hand. He dipped his own hand into the newly prepared potion and applied it carefully on Zhou Jiping's hand with dexterous finger movements.
And gentle
Very effective! It’s also very comfortable. As soon as the potion was applied, although the swelling in Zhou Jiping’s palms had not subsided, it was obviously no longer itchy. Zhou Jiping finally let out a breath, and his whole body relaxed... But, just
This female chief...why does she feel a little perverted?