Chapter 176 Chapter 176 White Fruit Tribe (Please vote and subscribe)

It has been more than a week since they crossed the bridge. The You Tribe has been heading southeast. They have not been to the original residence of the Black Rat Tribe, nor have they encountered the Li Tribe. They just passed by the east of the Li Tribe's activity range, but were not discovered by the Li Tribe.

On the fourth day of walking in the You Tribe, they finally encountered the first tribe they discovered on this trip. It was a tribe with a population of less than 80 people, with only a dozen adult men, but even so, there were more people than the You Tribe.

Youfu did not directly break into the other side's residence, but encountered them in the jungle when the other side was hunting. The name of the tribe was the White Fruit Tribe.

There are not many places in the jungle where ox carts can pass. Naturally, the wider places are often walked by animals and people. It was a road trampled by the White Fruit Tribe, and it was there that the You Tribe met them unexpectedly.

The leader of the White Fruit Tribe is a woman. Their tribe mainly collects white fruits, supplemented by hunting. Their main food is a very sweet white fruit, but that thing is not naturally white, but orange-red.

The fruit grows on a tree that is not very tall. The leaves are oval, thick and green. The fruit blooms in summer and matures in autumn. If the fruit is dried, it can be preserved for a long time. It is the staple food of the Baiguo tribe.

When autumn comes, the Baiguo tribe will collect a lot of hay and spread it under the tree. Then the women will climb up the tree and use long wooden poles to knock the fruit down. After that, the women will hang the fruit to dry.

When it is almost dry, they will choose a piece of land to dig a pit, spread bark and hay inside, cover it with bark, and then bury it with soil. After a period of fermentation, the original orange-red fruit will grow a layer of frost, becoming sweeter and more delicious. If Luo Chong could see it, he would definitely recognize it as a persimmon.

Persimmon cakes need to be dried first and then sealed for fermentation. This is a production method that most people don’t know, but it happened to be accidentally learned by the ancestors of the Baiguo tribe.

There are many persimmon trees near the Baiguo tribe. The fruits produced every year are enough for all the tribesmen to eat for more than half a year, but how to preserve them is a problem.

At first, they tried to leave the persimmons on the trees to dry, but many birds came to snatch the persimmons, so they could only pick the persimmons first, then hang them together and send people to watch over them. However, they did not have a place to store so many persimmons in winter, so they had to find a place to dig a hole and bury them. Unexpectedly, the persimmons they buried became white and flat when they were dug out.

At first, the people of the Baiguo tribe did not dare to eat them, but when they were starving, someone finally tried it. After eating it, it became sweeter, but they did not die, so more hungry people began to try it.

Since then, there has been a Baiguo tribe that specializes in making persimmon cakes. They no longer rely on hunting. They can eat the persimmon cakes left every year for a long time. Of course, it would be even better if the men could bring back animal meat one day. Moreover, they will not only eat persimmon cakes, but also other fruits and wild vegetables.

On the day when the two sides met, Bai Zhi, the female leader of the Baiguo tribe, was leading the tribesmen to collect food, while the men of the tribe were patrolling outside the gathering team. Their main task was to provide the women with a realm and hunt at the same time. However, they did not catch anything, but saw two huge bulls pulling a strange thing towards them, and there were many children on it.

The hunting men immediately stopped the ox cart and shouted loudly to the leader Bai Zhi and the men around.

Bai Zhi arrived quickly. Because there were more people than the people of the You tribe, they were not very afraid. The main reason was that You Fu was very good at communicating with people. He could always make strangers relax their vigilance in small details and make others feel that they had no bad intentions.

"What tribe are you from? Why did you come to us? What is behind your two four-horned beasts?" Bai Zhi gestured to You Fu under the protection of the men of her own tribe.

"We are from the You tribe. We are going to a very far place and passing by your place. This thing is called a car. It can pull people and things." You Fu also gestured back, and as they communicated, the Mandarin of the Han tribe spread.

"Car?" Baizhi heard this Chinese term for the first time and was very curious, but she still remembered it because it was the first time she saw the magical car. Then she looked at the child on the car and the things on it, so she pointed to the 'stone basin' on it and asked.

"This, stone basin?"

"This thing is called, pottery, can be used to cook meat." Youfu continued to explain.

"Pottery, cook meat." Baizhi imitated Youfu's pronunciation and indirectly learned two more Chinese words.

"You, pottery, a lot, our tribe, want to exchange, is it possible?" Baizhi looked at the many large pottery pots on the ox cart. She didn't think of using them to cook food, but simply wanted to use them to hold water.

"Sure, what to exchange? We want food, other things are also fine, things we haven't seen, things we don't have, are all fine."

Youfu also thought of the things that Luo Chong asked him to collect. In the spirit of not missing any possible opportunity, he would answer like this. Anyway, Luo Chong reimbursed him, Youfu didn't feel bad.

"Food, we have ginkgo and animal skins, is it possible?"

"Do you have them? Can I see them?"

"No, they are in our tribe. Now the sun is about to set, you can go to our tribe."

"Well-then okay, let's go together." Youfu nodded.

So just like that, a group of people from the two tribes went to the residence of the white fruit tribe together.

The Baiguo tribe's residence is located in a small valley. The valley is surrounded by highlands on three sides, and the only empty side is blocked by a stream more than two meters wide. There are many stones in the stream, and the houses used by the Baiguo tribe are also made of stones. Using local materials is one of the strengths of humans.

There are more than a dozen low stone houses in the settlement. They are cylindrical with stones and mud in the stream, and there are roofs made of branches and thatch on them. There is no regular pattern for the stone houses of all sizes, standing in the valley in a mess.

Dinner is eaten by each person, but the Baiguo tribe also took out some stored persimmon cakes to entertain guests, but not a lot, and the persimmon cakes have been left to dry since they were dug out in the spring. Now it is close to summer, and the persimmon cakes have been unusually dry and hard, but they are still very sweet, and the sugar in them has been compressed to the extreme.

Youfu tasted one and felt a little sore in his cheeks. Damn, it's too hard to chew. The persimmon cakes that have been stored for half a year can be imagined.

Youfu's two three or four-year-old sons also clamored for food, but unfortunately each took one and couldn't bite it, and finally looked at their father with a sad face.

Then, Youfu threw the persimmon cake into the pot

(End of this chapter)