She had this in mind when she began making pottery, and she only made three sizes of pottery. The pots and bowls used for trading were all of the same size, and she also controlled the quantity, making twenty pots and fifty bowls. Besides the tribal communal items and those used for testing the waters at the trade fair, only seventeen pots and thirty bowls were allowed to circulate within the tribe.

Scarcity makes things valuable. Furthermore, she had only been teaching everyone how to use traps and snares for so short a time that the harvest during that time was sufficient to keep everyone from starving during the winter. However, aside from what was traded for salt, there wasn't much meat left to trade for pottery. So this quantity was just right.

Shan asked this question because he felt the pottery was too valuable and worried that Qiao Yu would ask for too much meat, and many people wouldn't be able to afford it. However, the pottery couldn't be taken out to other tribes for exchange, and the people in his own tribe couldn't afford it either. So it just sat there, causing dissatisfaction within the tribe.

Hearing Qiao Yu's words, he immediately felt relieved.

When the eight women heard that they could get some pottery and that they could exchange it for meat, they immediately smiled and felt that their hard work was worth it.

One by one, they began to express their loyalty: "Yu, if you have any problems in the future, just tell us. We will do whatever you ask us to do, and there will be no other words."

"Yes, we all listen to Yu."

"Yu, you do things fairly, and we trust you."

After expressing their loyalty, they retreated to the mountain, secretly overjoyed: "Haha, I can earn some money for the family too. Look at how arrogant the kid's father is, always thinking that our family depends on him for food, and he acts so arrogantly at home all day long."

"That's right."

"Xiaoxi, you have pottery that can be exchanged for meat, so you don't have to worry this winter and can have a peaceful snow season." Someone said to Xiaoxi.

Xiaoxi was a widow whose husband died while hunting last year, leaving her with two sons and two daughters. The eldest son was twelve years old, the eldest daughter was ten years old, and the two younger ones were six and four years old.

With so many children to support, Xiaoxi had a good relationship with her husband and didn't want to remarry. She relied on her eldest son to join the hunting team to hunt, and she took her three younger children to collect wild fruits. The family barely made ends meet.

If she couldn't survive this winter, Xiaoxi would be forced to remarry, taking her children with her. With such a heavy burden, she certainly wouldn't be able to marry a good man. If she had children with her new husband, it was unclear whether he would be willing to raise the children she had left with her ex-husband. Even if he was willing, he wouldn't necessarily treat them well.

Unexpectedly, just as the snowy season was approaching, the tribe suddenly changed its leader. Yu taught everyone how to use traps and snares, and even though Xiaoxi's son was in the third team, he got a lot of meat during this period. Now with Tao, Xiaoxi no longer had to worry about how to survive the winter.

Luck is such an unpredictable thing.

After that, Qiao Yu did not make pottery anymore, and she still did not go hunting. Instead, she took eight women to search for edible plants all over the mountains. When she came back in the afternoon, she taught them how to weave rattan baskets, and after teaching them, she asked them to teach other women how to weave.

The results surprised her greatly. On the second day of her search for edible plants, she discovered a plant that resembled rice, in addition to wild onions, wild grapes, wild apples, what appeared to be wild leeks, and some other wild vegetables.

Qiao Yu had never farmed before, but she had seen wheat and rice growing. She wasn't sure what this thing in front of her was, but it looked like food.

She remembered that millet was a kind of grain in ancient times, which seemed to be what was later called "millet".

"You can't eat it." Xiaoxi was so scared when she saw Qiao Yu put something in his mouth to taste it that she almost lost her soul.

Nothing can happen to Yu.

"It's okay." Qiao Yu waved his hand, spitting out the grains in his mouth, and waved to everyone, "Pick these fruits carefully for me. I want to take them back."

It was autumn, harvest time, and the millet—Qiao Yu would call it millet for now—was ripe. Some were so ripe they fell to the ground, leaving Qiao Yu feeling distressed.

Fortunately, a single clump of millet ears yields many grains, and with a dozen or so plants in this patch, they can harvest hundreds of seeds. If they plant them next spring, they're sure to have a good harvest.

"It's so small? Why pick it?" Ye looked at the plant, which would only be a handful even if picked, with a look of disapproval on his face.

"My intuition tells me this must be a treasure. Believe me!" Qiao Yu said seriously, "You must pick it carefully and don't drop it on the ground. If anyone doesn't do it well, I will deduct the profits from her pottery making."

When everyone heard this, they didn't care whether this thing was not worth picking or not. They picked it all carefully and put it in the leaves and handed it to Qiao Yu.

Ever since Qiao Yu led them to make pottery that everyone felt was particularly precious, they once again bowed down to Qiao Yu and took his words as their guiding principle.

After collecting all the millet grains, Qiao Yu checked to make sure nothing was missed. She said, "Make a note of this place. We'll come back and take a look in the spring."

There must have been a lot of millet grains on the ground, and they might grow in the spring. When they were ripe, we could pick another batch.

That afternoon, they brought back not only millet, but also chestnuts that Qiao Yu had specifically asked the women to find.

"According to the time, the two goats and rabbits that eat yams should have been raised for more than ten days. Let's go and see how they are doing." Qiao Yu said as soon as he arrived at the tribe.

The women suddenly became excited and followed Qiao Yu to the breeding cave.