Chapter 147： new staple food

Jiang Xuan and Wu Yu entered the bamboo house and sat down by the fire.

There are some tree stumps in Jiang Xuan's bamboo house, which are used as tables and stools, and are very large.

Like Jiang Xuan, Wu Yu sat on the stump stool padded with animal skins, feeling unnatural.

Most of the tribesmen are still without tables and stools.

They would put something on the ground and sit on it.

Only the witch of the tribe is another.

Because Wu wanted to write and draw, it was obviously not easy to do it while lying on the ground, so they used to use a tree stump or a relatively flat piece of wood as a table.

In Jiang Xuan's house, however, there is a complete set of tables and stools, which is very unique and different from other tribes. "Come on, Chief Wu Yu, eat some dried fruit first."

Jiang Xuan took out some fried wild dried fruits and put them on the table

These dried fruits are the seeds of various wild fruits. After frying, they can be peeled off and eaten, and the taste is not bad.

Wu Yu looked at Jiang Xuan's house, his eyes stayed on the patterned pottery cauldron and various pottery, and he said with a little surprise: "Boss Xuan, the pottery of your Teng tribe is getting more and more beautiful."

"Haha, the clansmen of our tribe love to make these things when they have nothing to do. If you make more, you will naturally have experience, and it will look good when you burn them."

Wu Yu complimented again.

The two ate some dried fruit and some cooked animal meat, and then entered the theme.

"Leader Wu Yu, I wonder if you have brought anything good this time?"

When it comes to the goods, Wu Yu's face is suddenly full of confidence.

"Of course there is, our Black Teeth tribe is a lot of good stuff."

"Did you bring seeds like red crystal rice?"

Jiang Xuan is most interested in seeds, and he knows that only a team like the expedition team of the Black Teeth Tribe that flies around all day can collect seeds from all over the world.

"Really."

Wu Yu said: "We brought some good seeds this time."

In fact, Blacktooth's expeditions had little interest in seeds before, as few tribes had such a need. Merchants seek profit, and so do primitive merchants. They certainly don't bring things that no one wants.

But since Jiang Xuan traded red crystal rice with them, Wu Yu will collect some better seeds when he encounters them, but not many.

When encountering some medium-sized or large tribes with a planting foundation, Wu Yu will also sell the seeds they collect, and occasionally sell some.

"Take me to see."

"No, I can just let the soldiers move here."

Wu Yu has the potential to be a businessman, and he even has the advanced thought of service consciousness.

You must know that when other tribes trade, they still have the mindset that if they don't change their love, they'll grab it if they don't.

Jiang Xuan sighed inwardly: Talent!

If it wasn't for the fact that the Black Teeth tribe was very large and wealthy, Jiang Xuan would have wanted to dig Wu Yu over.

Unfortunately, in this world, because of the existence of the totem god, the beliefs of tribal people are generally very firm. Unless the tribe is broken, or for various extreme reasons, ordinary tribal people will not change their beliefs and join other tribes.

Soon, the warriors of the Black Teeth tribe carried eight animal skin bags.

These hide bags contained not just plant seeds, but something they thought the Vine tribe might like.

The eight animal skin bags were lined up in Jiang Xuan's yard, and the bag was opened to reveal the various goods inside.

There are unknown seeds, there are spider silk clothing, salt, sugar, weapons and so on.

Wu Yu grabbed a handful of green, rice-like seeds from a hide bag.

"Boss Xuan, you must like this seed. It's called Zhumai. We traded it from a big tribe. It's delicious when cooked."

Jiang Xuan pinched a bamboo-wheat seed. Although it was in the shape of a grain of rice, it was several times larger than a grain of rice, and had a green shell on its outer skin. Even in the dry state, it is green.

"Can I try one?"

"Of course." Wu Yu generously allowed.

Jiang Xuan peeled off the shell of the bamboo wheat, and found that the inside was actually emerald green, translucent, a bit like rice.

Jiang Xuan put the bamboo wheat into his mouth again, and crunched it with a bang. The sound was very clear, which showed that the seeds were very dry and had no moisture.

Jiang Xuan chewed, and soon after, he felt a slight sweet taste.

This shows that this thing is rich in starch and can be used as a staple food.

Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Not bad."

Wu Yu said with a smile: "Does Chief Xuan want to trade this bamboo and wheat?"

"Look at the others."

Jiang Xuan did not agree immediately, because he knew very well that if he showed a state of eagerness to Zhumai, Wu Yu, a profiteer, would definitely take the opportunity to increase his price.

On the contrary, if his performance was dispensable, then Wu Yu would not dare to call for a too high price, lest Jiang Xuan give up the transaction.

Although Wu Yu has a talent for doing business, it is still relatively difficult to take advantage of Jiang Xuan, a soul swept away by the shopping wave.

Wu Yu was a little stunned, obviously not expecting Jiang Xuan to react this way.

However, he was not discouraged, and immediately introduced other seeds to Jiang Xuan.

Wu Yu picked up a small bag of granular brown-red seeds and said to Jiang Xuan, "These are the seeds of red cabbage."

"When the red cabbage grows up, it is more than half the height of a person, and it is like a small tree. The leaves, roots, stems, and flowers are all edible and taste a little sweet."

Jiang Xuan looked at these red cabbage seeds and did not make any comments on them.

Because he has not seen the real red cabbage, it is difficult for him to judge its value by describing it.

Then, Wu Yu introduced a kind of melon to Jiang Xuan, called snake melon, because it is very long and curved, and it looks like a snake from a distance.

Wu Yu brought two snake gourds, which were naturally aged and sun-dried, and contained a lot of seeds.

Jiang Xuan is quite interested in this thing, because it is relatively large, and according to Wu Yu, each plant of this kind of snake gourd can produce dozens of pieces, and the yield is very high.

"Boss Xuan, how are you? Bamboo wheat seeds, red cabbage seeds, and snake gourd seeds, do you want to trade?"

Jiang Xuan pretended to think for a while, and said: "The seeds are good seeds, but I don't know if we can plant and live here in the Vine tribe, and whether they can blossom and bear fruit after planting."

"Forget it, since the leader of Wu Yu has come all the way, we can't let you go for nothing. We can trade some animal teeth and animal skins for these seeds, all as an attempt."

After Jiang Xuan said this, Wu Yu was embarrassed to say how precious and rare these seeds are.

Of course, in fact, most of the seeds are not valued by various tribes. Wu Yu collected these seeds at no cost and even gave them to them after trading.

Therefore, when Jiang Xuan took out some jackal skins and jackal teeth, Wu Yu raised the price symbolically, and then successfully completed the transaction.

Jiang Xuan was very happy in his heart, red cabbage and snake gourd were nothing, for the Veng tribe, they were just two new vegetables.

But that bamboo and wheat is a real food. If it can be planted well, the later Teng tribe will have another staple food, which will solve the problem of food for more people.

Of course, he had to pretend to be indifferent on the surface, throw these seeds into the bamboo hut at will, and then continue to trade other goods with the Black Teeth tribe.

Jiang Xuan is not particularly interested in things such as salt and weapons, but the spider silk clothing is such a life-saving thing, he can't wait to get a set for each of the warriors of the Vine tribe.

However, the seeds are easy to trade, but the spider silk clothes are not easy to trade, because the Black Teeth Tribe is very aware of its value and would rather not trade it, nor will it lower the price.

"Boss Xuan, if you want to trade spider silk clothes, you can get some really good things from the Vine tribe, such as beast-level animal teeth and bones, or animal skins."

Wu Yu glanced at the place where the old witch lived, obviously he wanted Jiang Xuan to go to the old witch to get some good things and trade spider silk clothes with them.

But Jiang Xuan was unwilling to do so.

The Veng tribe has already obtained a lot of things from the old witch, and it is impossible for them to be regarded as a sheep, and they are trying to lick their wool.

Jiang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "We don't have animal teeth and bones at the level of beasts. However, our Vine tribe has other good things. Chief Wuyu wait a moment."

Jiang Xuan walked into the bamboo house and took out two thick candles made of insect wax from an animal skin bag.

There are not many such candles in the rattan tribe, because last year's insect wax production was not very high.

If it weren't for trading spider silk clothes, Jiang Xuan would never take out the candle made of insect wax.

"Does Chief Wu Yu know this thing?"

Jiang Xuan brought the thick candle to Wu Yu.

Wu Yu took an arm-sized candle, and at the same time smelled a faint fragrance, he said in surprise: "The insect wax of the Yanyang tribe!"

"Yes, it is the insect wax of the blue sheep tribe, but now I call it a candle, because it can be illuminated at night, and the fire is very stable.

Jiang Xuan returned to the bamboo house, lit a piece of insect wax, and walked to Wu Yu again.

"Leader Wu Yu, look.

Wu Yu stared at the huge candle for a while, and found that it was burning very steadily as Jiang Xuan said.

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Jiang Xuan blew out the candle and said, "Leader Wu Yu, I don't need to say more about the value of insect wax? It can illuminate and heal wounds, which is really good.

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"One candle, two spider silk clothes!"

Wu Yu hurriedly waved his hand and said, "No, no, one candle is not worth two spider silk clothes.

Jiang Xuandao: "Leader Wu Yu, look, a candle as thick as this can be lit for many nights, so it's not a loss to change for two spider silk clothes."

"If you bring candles made of insect wax to other tribes, those witches will definitely like it very much."

However, Wu Yu still shook his head and said, "That's not possible either, a candle, at most one spider silk garment."

The two chatted for a long time, but Wu Yu still killed a candle and replaced it with a spider silk garment.

Obviously, things like spider silk clothing are also very rare and very valuable, no worse than insect wax.

In desperation, Jiang Xuan said: "It's still too little to exchange a candle for a spider silk garment, so let's add some other goods, it's alright?"

Wu Yu asked, "What kind of goods do you want to add to the leader Xuan?"

Jiang Xuan pointed to the sugar that hit the ground in the small animal skin bags, UU reading www.uukanshu. com said: "Add two bags of sugar."

The sugars were white, lumpy and, according to Wu Yu, were traded from a medium-sized tribe.

The medium-sized tribe kept a kind of honey worms. Every certain season, these honey worms would spit out a lot of sugar, which would be condensed into lumps, which could be eaten and traded by the tribe's clansmen.

In this wild world, sugar and salt are the two favorite things of tribal people.

Especially sugar, after eating, can make people feel happy, and tribe people especially like it.

But getting sugar is not an easy task.

The easiest and most dangerous method is to find a honeycomb and take honey by force.

The bees in this world are not easy to mess with. They are big, powerful, and poisonous.

If you are not careful, you can sting people to death.

In addition to honey, most tribal people can only eat some ripe wild fruits if they want to get the feeling of eating sugar.

Of course, there are always exceptions.

For example, the medium-sized tribe Wu Yu mentioned can obtain sugar by raising honey bugs.

Wu Yu pondered for a while, and felt that things like insect wax were indeed of high value, and the insect wax that Jiang Xuan brought was relatively large and traded with those big tribes, so he could get a lot of good things.

Thinking of this, Wu Yu gritted his teeth and said, "A piece of insect wax, a piece of spider silk clothing, and a bag of sugar. If it still can't be traded, forget it."

Jiang Xuan felt that this was indeed Wu Yu's bottom line, so he nodded and said, "Okay, just trade as you said."

Jiang Xuan handed two pieces of insect wax to Wu Yu, then took two pieces of spider silk clothing and two bags of sugar.

Both sides breathed a sigh of relief when the deal went through smoothly.

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