"Think about those tribesmen outside. They can't even get enough wheat to eat."

The old man spoke slowly again.

The strong man subconsciously looked outside. The bonfire was still burning, but no one was singing anymore.

I don’t know if they fell asleep or were drooling at the Qin people’s barbecue in the yard.

The strong man thought to himself, "Those worthless guys are probably drooling."

But in the end he still followed the old man's request, picked up the piece of meat he had spit out and put it into his mouth.

It’s not that he agreed with the old man’s words, but he just didn’t dare to disobey the old man’s authority.

The old man is not only his father, but also the leader of their native people.

To some extent, this was because he could sit in the inn and eat meat instead of sitting under the eaves, where even the rough wheat rice cooked in a clay pot could not fill him up.

Anyway, the locals in the mountains are not that particular.

Then he muttered in a muffled voice, "Father, can we really get that Prince Qi to agree to give us salt and iron this time without our people having to fight for them?"

The old man had put down his knife by now and wiped his hands and lips with a piece of coarse cloth.

Then he took out some silk grass from his purse and put it in his mouth.

Sisi grass is what the locals call it. The old man doesn’t know what people outside the mountains call it, nor is he interested.

He is a wise man among the natives and knows what is useful and what is useless.

For example, silk grass is useful. It can make his teeth very strong and sharp until he dies, so that he can continue to eat meat.

As for what the Sisi grass is called outside the mountain, it is useless. He has no interest in useless things.

The old man chewed it slowly and pinched a handful of silk grass for each of the strong man and the young girl.

Then he said slowly: "Don't worry, the thing in our hands is very important to the Qin people.

His Royal Highness is a wise Qin man, they know how to make choices."

The strong man had also finished eating by this time. Without hesitation, he picked up the silk grass that the old man had given him and stuffed it into his mouth. As he chewed it, it made a squeaky sound and said, "Father, if the Qin people value that thing so much, it must be some kind of treasure, right?"

The old man glanced at him, then lowered his eyes and said, "Those things don't belong to the natives. Leaving them by force will only bring disaster to the natives.

Salt and iron are the things that are useful to the natives. Things that allow the natives to survive in the mountains are the things that are useful.”

"hey-hey……"

The sturdy man's thoughts were seen through, and he chuckled a little embarrassedly, but he defended himself: "I didn't say anything else. I just said that since it's a treasure, it should be exchanged for something more useful."

The old man sneered and ignored him.

The girl beside them listened to the conversation between the two people, but frowned slightly as she looked at her handful of silk grass.

She doesn't like this stuff because it makes a woman's teeth dark.

All the women in the mountains are like this: my grandmother, my mother, and even my younger sisters-in-law.

She used to chew it, but after going out with her grandpa and dad a few times, she didn't want to become like her mom and the others.

Even though this would make the women in the mountains laugh at her for having teeth as white as a wolf cub, she didn't care.

Anyway, she didn't want to open her mouth and see a mouth full of black teeth, which would be ugly.

But she didn't want to disobey Grandpa, so she could only pretend not to care and deliberately change the subject: "Grandpa, why do the Qin people have the best land in the world and the most prosperous towns, but still fight each other?"

This is actually the problem that she has never been able to figure out.

She could understand that the natives also fought among themselves, because there was only so much prey in the mountains, and every earthen fort hoped to have more prey to feed more and stronger cubs.

She understood why the natives fought with the hunters and herbalists because the hunters and herbalists wanted to steal their prey and medicinal materials.

But she didn't understand why the Qin people had to fight each other. It was obvious that the Qin people had to farm on the same piece of land despite fighting each other. Even if they won, most of the Qin people would go to other places to farm.

Moreover, the Qin people's land is so fertile and their cities are so prosperous, but it is said that the Qin people only have one leader.

Why do we still have to fight?

Just fight a war, why drag us natives into it?

This obviously has nothing to do with us natives.

But the old man did not answer her. Perhaps this question was too complicated for this wisest native sage.

Instead, the strong man glared at her and said, "What do you know, little girl? Don't ask about adults' affairs."

Then he pointed to the bowl of uneaten white meat and said, "Go, take these out and share them among the tribesmen. That hyena is quite good and a warrior, so give him more."

"snort."

The girl pouted and snorted, then reached out and picked up the handful of silk grass and stuffed it into her mouth, then carried the meat bowl out.

When he got outside and saw no one around, he spat the handful of silk grass into the bushes with a "Puh" sound.

Then he quickly looked back, stuck out his tongue, a bright smile appeared on his face, and he walked out with brisk steps.

…

"Good meat is indeed good meat. It smells good and tastes even better!"

The old soldier took a bite of the meat and a sip of the wine. He first praised it, "The meat is good, and the wine has a unique flavor. It goes well with the roasted meat. The young master is indeed a noble man with elegant tastes."

Then he shook his head and said with some regret: "What a pity, I'm old now. Although this cold wine is good, I dare not drink too much!"

As he said this, he was about to put down his wine bowl.

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