Chapter 25 You're Not Losing Out by Playing Poker with Hagan

Bahan, who was rolling on the ground with his eyes covered, was helped down by members of the Black Goose tribe.

Bahan's failed challenge to Xu Que cast a shadow of crisis over Ji, the leader of the Black Goose tribe. She and the tribe's high priest subsequently canceled a series of plans to besiege Xu Que.

Ji wasn't stupid; Ba Han's failure served as a wake-up call for her! Coupled with the protection of the three powerful figures at the Barter Conference, canceling the previous plan targeting Xu Que was perfectly reasonable!

High Priest Yi called Hua back, who was about to return to the tribe: "You haven't announced the exchange prices to everyone yet. What would be the exchange prices for your Black Stone tribe's cooked beef, wooden-soled cowhide slippers, necklace ornaments, rope drill fire-starting tools, etc., if other tribes were to exchange them?"

Hua scratched her head: "Oh dear! I was busy preparing other things today and left the price list I made a long time ago at the tribe! If any tribe is willing to exchange for the above items with the Blackrock Tribe, you can bring your own exchange items directly to our door. A while ago, when we cooperated with our tribe, we only needed to exchange for live cattle that had been hunted! Now we don't need live cattle anymore, you can just bring live animals to exchange!"

When Xu Que heard the Black Stone Tribe leader say that he had forgotten the exchange price list, he told Hou to quickly make another one on the spot.

Hou took out a thin stone and a twig pen from his animal hide food bag, dipped them in the congealed animal blood, and began to write.

Xu Que directed her from the side: "Rope drill fire-starting tools, each set is worth one sheep! Wooden-soled cowhide slippers, unisex, are worth ten pairs per cow. Various shapes of bone or stone ornaments are worth ten sets per cow! Cooked beef is worth one cow! Two dead cows from hunting are worth one cow, and so on!"

"I remember it wasn't this price last time?" Hou asked doubtfully after writing on the thin stone slab.

Xu Que hummed in agreement and explained, "Last time was the price before the discount! This time it's the discounted price, so of course it's cheaper!"

"The last exchange price was high mainly because there were fewer people exchanging! This time, look around us, so many tribes want to exchange, the quantity is large, so it's cheaper!"

Hou pretended to understand, nodded to Xu Que, said "Oh," and handed the thin stone tablet with the exchange rate written down to Hua.

Hua took the stone tablet and quickly explained to all the tribal chiefs and the chief priest of the Yi Association, "I'm so sorry! I put the exchange price list in Hou's animal hide food bag just now! I only remembered it now!"

Before Hua could finish explaining, the chief of the Giant Deer tribe was the first to place an order: "I want one hundred pairs of wooden-soled cowhide slippers! One hundred catties of cooked beef! Fifty sets of fire-starting tools!"

Seeing people placing orders at the barter fair, Hou quickly took out two thin stone pieces from the animal skin food bag he carried with him, grabbed a twig pen, went up to the stage, stood in front of the flowers, and began to write down the orders.

The second leader of the Falcon tribe shouted, "Our tribe needs one hundred sets of rope drills for starting fires! One hundred sets of wooden-soled cowhide slippers! And one thousand sets of chili pepper ornaments!"

After the two tribal leaders placed their orders, other upstream, midstream, and downstream tribes began placing orders in a frenzy.

At this moment, Ji, the leader of the Black Goose tribe, felt utterly dejected!

Back then, we had a good talk with the leader of the Falcon Tribe. The ten tribes downstream would unite as one to deal with the big liar Xu Que.

Well, to make matters worse, not only did they not get along, but the leader of the Falcon tribe himself started doing business with the "enemy"!

With the order placed by the Falcon Tribe chief.

The other nine tribes downstream all followed suit and placed orders.

"Our tribe needs three hundred sets of rope drills for starting fires! Five hundred pairs of wooden-soled cowhide slippers! One thousand sets of chili pepper ornaments!"

"Our tribe needs a thousand sets of rope drills for starting fires! A thousand pairs of wooden-soled, leather-upholstered slippers..."

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Seeing this scene, Ji, the leader of the Black Goose tribe, felt extremely bitter and desperate. Before the exchange fair was over, she led her tribe members back to the tribe.

The witch and high priestess of the Black Goose tribe felt a sense of foreboding as she saw everyone return to the tribe ahead of schedule: "The barter conference isn't over yet, why are you all back so early?"

"Ba Han was subjected to some kind of magic by Xu Que! His eyes are still red and swollen and he can't open them! He said his whole face feels like it's been slapped and is burning unbearably!"

"And the other nine tribes downstream that I painstakingly allied with have all betrayed me and become Xu Que's clients! The promise to fight together against that fake god has become empty words! High Priest, tell me, have we failed?" Ji said to the High Priest with great resentment.

The high priest nodded, and after a long pause, uttered a single word: "Hmm..."

Bahan rubbed his swollen and tearful eyes, groped his way to the high priest, and asked with trembling hands, "High Priest, what's wrong with me? Am I blind? Will I never be able to open my eyes again?"

"I don't want to go blind! I still want to win the gold medal for stealing women this year! You have to think of a way to cure my eyes!"

The high priest reached out and lifted Ba Han's eyelids, examining them for a long time but unable to discern which part was malfunctioning: "It seems Xu Que truly is a god! I can't figure out what kind of spell he cast on you!"

Outside the cave, an unidentified member of the tribe shouted, "I heard that deity say: Just rinse your eyes with clean, cool water and you won't go blind!"

Just when he was in despair, Bahan heard these words outside the cave and it was like grasping at a lifeline. He frantically shouted for someone to bring him clean, cool water and eagerly rinsed his eyes again and again!

A few minutes later, Bahan tried to open his eyes, looked around, and realized that he really wasn't blind.

He knelt down and kowtowed fervently, saying, "Thank you, God, for sparing my life! I will never dare to do anything blasphemous again!"

Ji, the leader of the Black Goose tribe, was very unwilling. Based on her understanding of men over the years, she felt that she could definitely subdue this god that everyone talked about!

She believed that her seductive arts were so powerful that no man could withstand more than three rounds, including this god! Even if she failed this time, she would at least make him "taint his heart" and lose his so-called godly reputation!

Thinking of this, Ji didn't tell anyone in the tribe. She changed into the casual clothes she usually wore to seduce men and ambushed Xu Que on his usual route.

After the Primitive Barter Conference, the Blackrock Tribe became renowned among all the tribes, rising to the top of all tribes in the upper, middle, and lower ranks.

The tribal chief, Hua, unsurprisingly became a household name.

Hou has also been voted the most trendy goddess of all primitive tribes in history.