Chapter 162 The Hungry Tribesmen

Jiang Xuan walked and looked along the way, and he found that there were really too many caves in the Rabbit Tribe.

It is said that a cunning rabbit has three burrows. A cunning rabbit digs three burrows for itself. How many burrows must these giant rabbits dig for themselves? Even when walking on the road, sometimes you have to go around it because there are burrows in the middle of the road, and some branches and weeds are laid on them to make traps.

If a tribe came to attack, facing the mountain full of caves, they probably wouldn’t even be able to find the people of the Rabbit Tribe.

If a tribe that does not have particularly strong fighting capabilities can survive for a long time, its ability to survive must be very strong.

The Rabbit Tribe is a typical example.

When they reached halfway up the mountain, they finally saw the houses of the Rabbit Tribe.

The houses of the Rabbit Tribe are different from those in other places. Their houses are half underground and half above ground, and are connected to caves.

The way these woods are obtained is also different from that of other tribes.

For other tribes, cutting down trees was very hard work. Small trees could only be cut down bit by bit using stone axes, while large trees needed to be burned with the help of fire.

The Rabbit Tribe is different. They don’t have to cut down trees themselves. Those giant rabbits will help them gnaw through the trees!

When Jiang Xuan walked to the residential area of ​​the rabbit tribe, he saw with his own eyes a giant rabbit gnawing a tree in pieces with a "crunch, crunch" sound. It was extremely outrageous.

Their two big front teeth are as sharp as steel knives.

Shanfeng invited Jiang Xuan and the old witch into the tallest wooden house in the center of the tribe, which was where he lived.

After entering the gate, there is a downward earthen staircase, and you can walk into this peculiar building along the stairs.

Jiang Xuan also noticed that deep drainage ditches were dug around the house, which was obviously to prevent rainwater from entering the house.

In addition, there are two smaller holes in the corner of the room, and no one knows where they are connected to.

In the center of the house, like in other tribes, there is a fire pit that burns day and night, allowing them to keep warm and cook food.

"Chief Xuan, please sit down."

Shanfeng warmly invited Jiang Xuan and the old witch to sit on the floor next to the fire pit. The floor was covered with wood and a layer of animal skin, so it was not uncomfortable to sit on.

Several women from Shanfeng were responsible for entertaining them, while Shanfeng's seven or eight children were timid and hid in the cave when they saw strangers coming in.

The women took out a lot of food to entertain Jiang Xuan and the old witch.

There were fresh animal meat, bones, and various wild fruits, which was quite abundant.

The animal meat and bones are thrown into the pottery pot and cooked, and the wild fruits can be eaten directly.

Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "Chief Shanfeng, your wooden house is quite special."

Shanfeng said proudly: "Our wooden house can withstand the cold wind in winter and provide coolness in summer. It is very comfortable."

This kind of half-ground, half-underground building has good drainage and a fire pit to heat the air day and night to remove moisture. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and is indeed quite comfortable to live in.

However, the premise is that the rabbit tribe lives halfway up the mountain, and those giant rabbits have hollowed out the underground.

Otherwise, given the humid and rainy climate of the Southern Wilds, these houses would have long been turned into fish ponds and would have been uninhabitable.

This is also the reason why all buildings cannot be the same. Only buildings that are adapted to local conditions can play their due role.

After simply eating some wild fruits, both sides got down to business.

Jiang Xuan said: "Chief Shanfeng, we came here this time to find a relatively large piece of high-quality stone. If you have it, you can trade it for salt and pottery."

The old witch didn't say anything, but there was obvious expectation in his eyes.

Shan Feng smiled confidently and said, "Chief Xuan has come to the right place. Large pieces of high-quality stone are hard to find in other places except our Rabbit Tribe."

When Jiang Xuan heard Shan Feng's words, he knew there was something going on, so he asked, "Can you let us go and see it?"

"Okay, you guys sit down for a while, I'll go find someone to move the stone."

Shanfeng stood up and went straight into a cave on the side of the house, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Jiang Xuan and the old witch could only sit and wait.

The meat in the pottery jar was cooked. The women of Shanfeng picked out the meat with wooden sticks and put it into pottery bowls. They sprinkled some salt on the hot meat with great pain and then served it to Jiang Xuan and the old witch.

The animal bones were not wasted. After they were cooked, the women took them out, picked up stones, smashed them open, revealing the marrow inside, which they also gave to Jiang Xuan and the old witch to eat.

"Why don't you eat?"

Jiang Xuan took a few bites and found that the women just watched them eat without doing anything themselves.

One of the older women said, "We've already eaten. These are for the guests."

Since they said so, Jiang Xuan and Lao Wu could only continue eating.

However, he clearly saw from the corner of his eye that the women were secretly swallowing their saliva.

The children in the cave were looking around and drooling.

Jiang Xuan immediately understood what was going on.

It wasn't that they were full, but they took out all the good food to entertain the guests and forced themselves not to eat.

As a small tribe with not very strong strength, it is a luxury to have enough food, not to mention eating meat regularly.

Although every tribe goes hunting frequently, the food obtained from hunting is not stable. If they are lucky, everyone can have a full meal, but if they are unlucky, they will go hungry.

Because of this, what the tribesmen usually eat most are actually various wild vegetables and fruits, plus insects which are relatively easy to catch and are abundant in number.

The living environment of the tribesmen is so difficult that they have to hunt every day, but it is impossible for them to have meat every day, and they can't even have enough wild vegetables for every meal.

There is nothing that can be done about it.

Jiang Xuan thought about this, and after eating a few pieces of meat and sucking the marrow from a bone, he stopped eating. This way, the woman and the child would still have some meat to eat after they left.

In order to avoid making the women feel that he had not entertained them well, Jiang Xuan picked up a wild fruit and ate it slowly, lying that he loved it.

The old witch saw Jiang Xuan's actions. He still didn't say anything, but his eyes became softer.

A leader who is too kind-hearted is actually unqualified.

However, if he could be decisive in killing people when faced with major issues and show more compassion to the weak in normal times, he would obviously be more likable.

When Shanfeng was gone for a while, when he appeared again, he walked in from outside.

"Chief Xuan, the top-quality stone is ready. Have you eaten?"

"After eating, take us over to have a look."

"Okay, follow me."

Shan Feng took Jiang Xuan and the old witch out of the house, and then made many twists and turns in the rabbit tribe's residence, and finally came to a cave.

"It's right inside."

The mountain wind led them into the cave, and the rabbit tribe warriors lit two torches to keep them from groping in the dark.

The cave was quite deep and winding. The mountain wind took them around several bends and they finally came to a relatively spacious place.

In the light of the fire, Jiang Xuan and the old witch saw more than a dozen high-quality stones of various shapes and sizes.

Shan Feng pointed at the stones and said, "Chief Xuan, these are large pieces of high-quality stones. See if there is anything you need."

"good!"

Jiang Xuan walked over and was surprised to find that the largest piece of high-quality stone was more than one meter long and in the shape of a strip, and it should weigh several thousand kilograms.

Other high-quality stones, the smallest of which is as big as a washbasin.

Shan Feng said, "You came at the right time. If it had been a few days later, these high-quality stones might have been turned into small pieces."

The tribesmen like to use high-quality stones to make various weapons, but making weapons does not require large pieces of stone.

Therefore, even if they found large pieces of high-quality stone, the tribesmen would try to break them into small pieces, and then polish them into weapons or trade them.

The old witch stepped forward and touched these large pieces of high-quality stone, feeling very excited.

This means that his wish to carve the Great Wilderness Hundred Sketches on high-quality stone can come true.

The old witch felt around for a while, then turned back and said to Jiang Xuan, "I want the biggest one!"

Jiang Xuan looked at the stone that was more than one meter long and nodded.

"Chief Shanfeng, we want this largest piece of stone."

"Okay, I'll have someone help you move out first."

Shanfeng was very happy. If this largest piece of high-quality stone had been left in the Rabbit Tribe, they would have had to go through the trouble of breaking it into small pieces.

Now that they can be traded directly, the Rabbit Tribe can save a lot of effort.

"No, I can do it myself."

Jiang Xuan stepped forward, grabbed the piece of high-quality stone, which was more than one meter long and half a meter wide, with both hands, lifted it up directly, and carried it on his shoulder.

Shan Feng and the two Rabbit Tribe warriors holding torches were stunned. This guy was so strong! Top-grade stones were much heavier than ordinary stones. The four Rabbit Tribe warriors felt exhausted when carrying the largest piece of top-grade stone, but Jiang Xuan carried it up by himself.

With such great power, he is just like a monster.

Under the light of the torch, Jiang Xuan walked to the cave entrance at a leisurely pace, and carried the top-quality stone to the center of the Rabbit Tribe's residence in one breath.

The salt and pottery he brought were placed here, guarded by two warriors from the Rabbit Tribe. Shanfeng issued a strict order and no one dared to move.

“Boom!”

Jiang Xuan placed the huge high-quality stone on the ground, and a hole was instantly pressed into the ground, which shocked the nearby rabbit tribe members.

Shanfeng and Laowu also came over and the two sides started to trade.

"Chief Shanfeng, we have traded twice before. I believe you know my character."

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Jiang Xuan brought a bag of salt and a pottery jar to the front and said, "Can this, plus this, be exchanged for this piece of high-quality stone?"

Shanfeng picked up the bag of salt, weighed it, and felt that it was not light. He opened the bag again, put his hand into the salt, and moved it left and right, but found nothing else mixed in it.

Shanfeng was quite satisfied with the quantity and quality of the salt.

He picked up the pottery jar again, checked it for cracks first, then touched the patterns on it, and was very satisfied with the pottery jar.

Shan Feng said: "Chief Xuan, this piece of high-quality stone is very large, plus... a pottery basin!"

Jiang Xuan glanced at the old witch, then took out a pottery basin, handed it to Shan Feng, and said, "I'll meet your requirements!"

Shan Feng took the pottery basin and laughed, "Hahaha, Chief Xuan is straightforward, deal!"

For Shanfeng, this deal is really a good deal and there is no risk involved.

For Jiang Xuan, this deal was not a loss. After all, salt and pottery were very precious to other tribes, but the Teng tribe could make them by themselves at a very low cost.

Both parties were very satisfied with the result.

After the transaction was completed, Jiang Xuan and the old witch did not stay for long and went down the mountain carrying the huge piece of high-quality stone.

After saying goodbye to Shan Feng and others, Jiang Xuan placed the heavy piece of high-quality stone next to the giant eagle.

"Old witch, is the giant eagle really okay?"

Jiang Xuan was worried that the stone was too heavy and the giant eagle could not fly.

"Don't worry, the giant eagle can fly it back with it."

"Oh well."

Jiang Xuan picked up the high-quality stone and walked along the giant eagle's wings to its back.

When he left, he was a little nervous at first, but after taking a few steps, he found that there was nothing unusual about the giant eagle. Then he walked to the back of the giant eagle in one breath, placed the top-quality stone, and secured it with a rope.

Then the old witch also went up.

The old witch patted the giant eagle's feathers and said, "Xiao Hei, you've worked hard. Let's go."

“Huff, huff, huff…”

The giant eagle flapped its wings, creating a gust of wind.

Then it ran forward a few steps and took advantage of the momentum to fly into the sky.

Jiang Xuan clearly noticed that the giant eagle's state was different from usual. It seemed that a powerful force was stimulated in its body, and the force of its wings flapping was much greater than usual.

This is obviously not an ordinary giant eagle.

The giant eagle soon flew away, and Rabbit Ridge became lively again. Many giant rabbits ran out of their burrows and leisurely ate grass on the hillside.

…

After returning to the Teng Tribe, the old witch immediately found the old man Black Stone and stared at him with burning eyes.

"Black Stone, help me!"

The old man Black Stone was polishing stone tools. After hearing what the old witch said, he felt a little puzzled.

"What can I do for you?"

"Help me polish a piece of fine stone into a round shape."

"That's easy. Just bring the top-quality stone over here and I'll help you polish it when I'm free."

"It's too big. I can't carry it."

"How big?"

The old witch opened his arms, gestured, and said, "It's about this big."

“So big?”

Old Man Heishi was also shocked. Usually, everyone regarded a palm-sized piece of high-quality stone as a treasure, but the high-quality stone that the old witch gestured to was at least half a person's height.

"Come on, take me to see it."

Old Man Black Stone could no longer sit still. He gave some instructions to the other apprentices in the house who were polishing stone tools, and then rushed to the house where the old witch lived.

When he walked into the old witch's house, he immediately saw a piece of dark green high-quality stone lying flat next to the fire pit, which was indeed more than half a person's height.

"Baby, oh, baby!"

The old man Heishi's eyes were shining, and he lay on the piece of fine stone as if he had seen a peerless beauty.

For a stone craftsman, this kind of stone is extremely attractive.

The old witch smiled and said, "Black Stone, how is it? I didn't lie to you, did I? As long as you help me polish it into a round shape, I will definitely not treat you unfairly. I can use the teeth and bones of wild animals as a reward for you."

After a long while, the Black Stone Elder finally raised his head, looked at the Old Witch, and asked, "What do you want to polish it into?"

The old witch pointed at the stone and said, "Grind the front and back surfaces flat and smooth. I want to use it to carve witch characters. Grind the four sides to make them round. It would be even better if you could help me carve some herbs on them."

"Is it that simple?"

"Yes, it's that simple."

"Okay, I'll take this job!"

Old Man Black Stone agreed straightforwardly.

The stonesmith has a special feeling for high-quality stone. Polishing such a large piece of high-quality stone is a very fulfilling thing for him.

The old man Black Stone thought of something and said, "But... I can only spare some free time every day to help you polish this stone. As you know, the tribe needs a lot of weapons."

"No problem. It will take me a long time to carve the witch characters. Take your time."

The old witch agreed immediately.

"Okay, I'll bring the tools over in the evening."

Old Man Black Stone turned and was about to leave.

"etc!"

The old witch called him.

"Is there anything else?" Old Man Black Stone turned around.

The old witch walked to a clay jar, opened the lid, took out two packets of medicine powder from it, and stuffed them into the hands of the old man Black Stone.

"Go back and boil this medicine and drink it. It will be good for your health."

"Thank you very much."

Old Man Black Stone did not refuse, because he knew that the old witch's medicine was all good stuff.

After the Black Stone Old Man left, the old witch began to think about carving the Great Wilderness Hundred Herbs Map.

This matter is of great significance to him and must be considered carefully.

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