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The next day, there was a knock on the guest room door early in the morning, and Shan brought breakfast to the two brothers, Dahei and Xiaohei, with a pot of stewed meat in a clay pot.
"We have something to eat in the morning!" Although food was plentiful compared to many other tribes, the Gaoshan Tribe, like the Sharp Teeth Tribe, only had one meal a day, in the evening. Therefore, the brothers were pleasantly surprised by the pot of meat.
"Well, this is the sweet potato stew with meat that the messenger of God specially asked me to bring to you. Come and try it." Shan put down the pot, took out two ceramic bowls and two pairs of chopsticks, and greeted them with a smile.
Keeping the chief's instructions in mind, he used the best and most beautiful pots and bowls this time. They were now filled with fragrant broth, which made people's appetite just by looking at it.
The two brothers thanked him and sat down to eat without any hesitation. They didn't know how to use chopsticks, so they just used one chopstick to poke the chunks of meat and sweet potatoes in the bowl.
"This is delicious!" Xiao Hei, whose eyes were now dark blue after staying up late last night, poked a piece of sweet potato into his mouth and was immediately overwhelmed by the sweet and soft taste. He asked Shan, "What is this?"
Shan smiled and said, "This is a sweet potato, something the divine messenger brought. It's like a ground egg, and it'll fill you up. It can also be stored for a long time."
"Great!" Xiao Hei exclaimed, carefully picking up the ceramic bowl and taking a sip of the warm broth. He sighed again, "These pottery things are really great! I wish our tribe had some too."
Shan smiled and said casually, "We can exchange. We have plenty of pottery in our tribe, and we can't use it all."
Dahei glared at his brother, smiled bitterly and shook his head: "This is all the stuff we brought this time, we still have to hurry up and exchange it for salt."
Shan quickly said, "What's the big deal? We can send someone to deliver the pottery and bring back the sheepskins and other things your tribe exchanged. You've seen the horses in our tribe. Riding a horse is much faster than walking. It won't take long to go back and forth."
"Really?" Dahei was a little moved when he heard that, but he was also concerned about the secrets of the tribe.
"What are you afraid of? Are you afraid that we'll learn to raise animals too?" Shan sneered at him. "Our divine messengers have long seen that your endless supply of long-wool sheepskins is because you've been raising long-wool sheep, right? You're still hiding it, but you should see clearly that our tribe also raises horses. Who cares about your secrets?"
Hearing this, Xiao Hei also said, "That's right, brother. The Sharp Tooth Tribe has so many good things that they've openly shown us. They're willing to trade their pottery for our sheepskins, so we're taking advantage."
Shan saw that Dahei was clearly interested, but then he remembered the divine messenger's instructions and decided to retreat. "Well, if you don't want to exchange it, it's fine. It's just some sheepskins. You can use other animal skins just as well. Besides, our tribe now lives in houses, and it's not cold at all in the winter with a kang."
Seeing that the two had finished the meat in the pot, he naturally cleared the tableware: "Then you guys take a rest, I'm leaving first."
"Wait..." Dahei was already tempted and was about to agree, but he saw Shan hurried away, as if he was just saying it casually and didn't care about the exchange.
"Brother!" Xiao Hei frowned and complained to him, "That pottery is a good thing! Have you forgotten that our mother has bad teeth and can't even chew barbecue? It would be great if we had a pottery pot to make soup for her!"
Dahei glared at him again. He knew very well that clay pots were good. Not only clay pots, but also hemp clothes and sweet potatoes were good.
It was just too good, so it seemed so strange that someone came up to him and asked to exchange sheepskin. But seeing Shan turn around and leave so decisively, he thought he was overthinking it.
What good things does the Sharp Tooth Tribe have? What can they want from the High Mountain Tribe?
"Well, go talk to Envoy Wu Yue. If they are willing, you can bring the pottery to the tribe to exchange things." After figuring this out, he said to his brother.
"Hey!" Xiao Hei answered happily and immediately went out to find Wu Yue.
Wu Yue was staring at a lotus pod and swallowing his saliva. The lotus seeds he had found in the express delivery before had indeed grown the most common vegetable lotus. Now the flowering period had passed and green lotus pods had formed.
Looking at the plump lotus seeds hidden in the lotus pods, recalling the sweet and delicious taste in his memory, he felt greedy, but unfortunately these few seeds had to be kept for future planting, so he could only look at them.
Next year I have to build a bigger pond and plant more lotus roots and foxtail millet, and also raise some fish.
"Messenger of God!" Xiao Hei asked all the way and came to the field behind Wu Yue's house. After confirming from a distance that Xiao was not there and Wu Yue was the only one there, he walked forward, scratching his head and laughing.
"Hello." Wu Yue also smiled at him, but it was far less enthusiastic than yesterday. "What can I do for you?"
Xiao Hei was stunned, feeling a little aggrieved. He didn't know why the God's Messenger's attitude towards him had changed so much, even though Leader Xiao wasn't here...
After glancing at the red marks on Wu Yue's neck, he felt even more depressed.
"Um, Divine Envoy Wu Yue, I just want to ask if I can exchange some pottery with you." His excitement disappeared at this moment, and he lowered his head and asked in a low voice.
Shan is quite capable, Wu Yue smiled and replied, "Of course, I really like the long-wool sheepskin of your tribe. If your tribe has enough sheepskin, I can exchange it for a lot of pottery for you."
He offered an attractive price, and Xiao Hei agreed immediately without even going home to ask his brother. "Then, based on the number of sheepskins you mentioned, we want ten clay pots and twenty clay bowls! We'll just have to trouble you to send someone to the mountain tribe."
Wu Yue nodded: "Don't worry, we will deliver the pottery in one piece."
Xiao Hei's mood improved slightly, and he smiled: "Okay, then we will leave early tomorrow morning."
He looked at Wu Yue deeply before turning and leaving. Today he finally understood that the other person didn't actually like him.
But, but he has fallen in love with her...
Wu Yue immediately picked out the corresponding pottery and put it into the space. He also prepared some food, medicine and tools for going out. He found Xia and Yu and instructed them on some daily affairs. He was just waiting to go to the mountain tribe with Dahei and Xiaohei tomorrow.
The next day, when Dahei and Xiaohei saw that Wu Yue and Xiao were going with them, they were very surprised.
"Haha, I've actually been wanting to go out for a walk, and I couldn't let this opportunity go. Besides, the pottery is convenient for me to carry around, and it won't break during transportation." He smiled at the brothers and pointed at Xiao. "Our leader is worried about me, so he insisted on following me to protect me. Don't mind me, you two."
Xiao nodded at them and said nothing.
Dahei was a little confused, but he had no reason to refuse.
On the one hand, Xiao Hei was secretly happy because he could see Wu Yue more, but on the other hand, he felt very sad when he saw the intimate actions between Wu Yue and Xiao.
They brought out four horses and lent a docile and honest one to each of the brothers. After the two brothers had practiced riding for a while, the four of them set off.
At first, the four of them were not going very fast because the two brothers were not used to riding horses. However, after walking for half a day, the two brothers got used to it and began to try to speed up and make the horses trot.
"God's messenger! This horse is so good, can we exchange it?" Xiao Hei, who was young at heart, felt very happy after running on the horse for a while, and came up to Wu Yue to ask.
Wu Yue shook his head, of course. "Sorry, these horses are all from the Sharp Fang Tribe and cannot be exchanged as goods."
These horses have a certain degree of intelligence, and if they are beaten or scolded in the hands of others, they will feel distressed.
"Oh..." Xiao Hei said in disappointment, stroking the horse's mane under him, feeling very regretful.
With horses, their speed was naturally much faster than that of human legs, almost doubled. They walked a quarter of the distance that day. In the evening, the four of them found a sheltered place at the foot of the mountain to rest.
There were plenty of furs in the tribe, so Wu Yue brought a large piece of fur made of various furs when he went out. He then used a few branches to build a frame and put the furs on top to form a simple tent.
After cleaning the floor of the tent a little, I laid out a piece of fur. Although it wasn't as comfortable as sleeping in a house, it was comfortable enough.
Of course, he was not the selfish person who only cared about himself, so the two brothers were each given a few furs to use as a cushion on the ground or as a cover.
After solving the housing problem, he took out two clay pots and cooked two pots of soup with sausages and pumpkins, giving one pot to Da Hei and one to Xiao Hei.
Sitting on the thick fur, drinking the sweet and delicious soup, and not feeling tired because they had been riding on horses, Dahei and Xiaohei felt for the first time that being away from home was actually more comfortable than being at home!
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