Meng Yuqing took it and looked at it, then looked up at Xuan in surprise.
Inside the bag was a complete set of pottery, including cups, plates, saucers and bowls.
And it is the kind that is fired particularly well. This kind of pottery is used by their own tribe. Before the earthquake, almost every household in the tribe had a set.
However, they were all broken after the earthquake. What everyone uses now are hastily made ones. They can be used, but they are not beautiful or exquisite.
This set looks like it was specially made.
The sea snake orc saw their interaction and did not urge them, as if everything had nothing to do with him.
Meng Yuqing squatted down and took out the pottery from the animal hide bag one by one and arranged them in order. Then he said to the sea snake orc, "Take a look at this."
The sea snake orc's gaze fell on the pottery on the ground, and Meng Yuqing saw his eyes light up obviously.
"Last year, a tribe brought this thing to us for trade." He picked up the ceramic cup and examined it carefully for a moment. "But compared to what you brought, it's far inferior. This must have been made by your tribe."
Meng Yuqing and Xuan both smiled without saying anything.
"Wait a moment." The sea snake orc put down the cup and jumped into the water.
After a while, he came out of the water again, holding a one-meter-long shell in his hand, and walked to the pottery and squatted down.
He opened the shell, stuffed a lot of soft grass and animal skins into it, carefully placed the set of pottery tableware in it, and closed the shell.
"Something beautiful and practical." He placed the shell on the water surface, and a webbed hand reached out from under the water and took the shell down.
Then the sea snake orcs asked the orcs in the water for a few more animal skin bags. They picked out the things brought from their own tribe and stuffed a lot of them into these animal skin bags.
"I see that you haven't been able to choose what you want for a long time, so I'll give these to you." He handed the animal skin bag to Xuan.
Meng Yuqing watched the sea snake orcs choose. Even though he was an outsider, he could see that the things the sea snake orcs picked were much better than what he picked.
After the transaction was completed, the sea snake orc seemed to be in a good mood. He continued to sit by the canal and paddle in the water, saying, "I heard some news recently."
"What?" Xuan, who was packing his things, stopped and looked at the other party.
"I heard some people from the tribes that came to us to exchange goods said that the price of salt is getting more and more expensive among the three major tribes. It would be great if there were other ways to find salt."
"And then?" Xuan said calmly. The Huangshi tribe had already started to act, and the Qingshan tribe and the Shuilin tribe had also sent some people.
The Shijiao tribe basically no longer goes out and just stays guarding the stalls.
The Qingshan tribe, the sub-beast tribe of their two tribes, also gave them a knife dipped in black thorn grass.
They were not given bows because they had never practiced shooting. It was not a big deal if they missed the target, but they were afraid of hitting their own people.
"Then some people said that the plants of the Blue Water Tribe are salty and grow in water. Maybe the water in their area is salty. Others said that the area where the Blue Water Tribe lives is called the sea, and it is wider than the continent." The sea snake orc continued casually.
"Isn't it?" Xuan asked back.
"Of course, the water there is salty, and our waters are even wider than the land. We certainly welcome you to come to our place to get water and make salt." The sea snake orc said with a smile, and it seemed that he didn't mind the idea of the land orcs taking the sea water at all.
"A lot of people will be there soon." Xuan replied calmly.
"But I want to know how you're going to turn the water into salt and bring it back. Bringing water with you would be too much trouble." The sea snake orc picked up a bunch of plants. "Water is difficult to preserve, so we can only bring plants."
Hearing him ask this, Xuan looked at Meng Yuqing. He couldn't explain this matter clearly.
"Haven't you seen the white particles that appear after the sea water left on the shore is dried?" Meng Yuqing asked the sea snake orc after receiving Xuan's gaze.
The sea snake orc looked thoughtful when he heard Meng Yuqing say that. After a while, he gave up and said, "I haven't really paid attention to it. We are never short of salt, and we don't need to look for salt on the shore."
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This is too Versailles.
Despite his inner complaints, Meng Yuqing still explained to him, "That's salt made from seawater. Although the process is a bit complicated and requires further processing, with this method, all tribes will have salt to use."
"The three major tribes will not allow it. After all, they are the ones who run the market. Once the salt is out of their control, their ability to control tribes like yours will weaken." The sea snake orc looked at Xuan with temptation in his eyes.
Xuan looked at him for a long moment, then said, "We'll open it."
"Hmm." The sea snake orc smiled and said, "How do you get there?"
"Follow the largest river and swim in that direction. When you see a city, that's our tribe." Xuan pointed in the direction of the Qingshan tribe.
The sea snake orc looked in the direction of his hand. After a moment, he asked, "City?"
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"Anyway, just swim along that side and you'll know when you see the tall stone wall." After Meng Yuqing finished speaking, he looked at the sea snake orc and asked again with concern, "The wall should know, right?"
The sea snake orc nodded, "I know the wall."
Before leaving, the sea snake orc gave them a conch.
"If you want to hold a market next year, have someone blow this thing on the sand by the water, and we will send people out."
He looked at Meng Yuqing. "Stream, lake, river, sea. Our body of water is called the sea, right?"
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