Jiang Xue looked at him with a faint smile on her face. She knew exactly what she wanted.
Sang Yang is handsome, but he is definitely not her type - her affection for him is actually just because of the shells and conchs in his hands.
Scarcity makes things valuable. In the Snake Tribe where even the eating of river clams and snails is not popular, Jiang Xue firmly believes that those conchs may become the earliest currency at some point in the future.
She reached out and brushed the still-dry hair behind her ears and said, "Thank you for your love, but we are not suitable."
Jiang Xue knew exactly what she wanted.
She didn't grow up by the sea, so she wasn't really interested in seafood with a strong or faint fishy smell.
Although Jiang Xue liked conch shells, it didn't mean anything even if she accepted the conch shells given to her by the other party.
Sang Yang's inner defenses completely collapsed in an instant.
He had imagined many endings and thought that Jiang Xue would reject him at the first moment. However, when that day really came, he wanted to convince himself to accept it, but his heart told him that he simply could not accept it.
He touched the conch hidden in his animal skin and hesitated for a long time before finally taking it out. "Xue Wu, I know this is presumptuous of me, but you have the right to reject me, and I have the right to like you." His voice was hoarse. "But men of the Bashan tribe will never give up. This is not our style. But don't worry, I will definitely help you fulfill my promise."
He didn't know what kind of mood he was in when he said this, but he knew clearly that after he said this, he felt less blocked in his heart.
He likes her.
I fell in love with her the first time I saw her, and saying these words to her was just following my heart and not letting myself have regrets for the rest of my life.
Jiang Xue kept her distance from him. Fortunately, it was not the feudal era yet, and most people didn't even have shoes to wear. Naturally, there was no such ridiculous rule that women's feet could not be seen by others.
She stepped barefoot on the soft muddy ground of the riverbank, scratched her messy hair with her fingers, and then tied it into a ponytail with a piece of animal skin. She patted her face to make herself more awake, and said lightly, "Excuse me, thank you."
Sang Yang looked at her departing back, his eyes seemed to be about to burst out. He quickly raised his head to look at the azure sky, a very bitter smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which only he could understand.
Jiang Xue did not show up at breakfast. When he walked out of the Snake Tribe, he looked back desperately, but Jiang Xue still did not show up.
Only when his figure completely disappeared in the distance did Jiang Xue leisurely walk out of the bamboo house and call out to Mu Feng and Asan, asking them to take people to the mountain to look for more ore.
And she needs external help to provide cover.
The mud on the riverbed is very soft and suitable for making furnaces.
She asked people to carry the soil to the place she designated in baskets, while she herself dug a hole in the ground and started to pile up the soil bit by bit.
Forgive her for never having seen this so-called melting pot before, let alone letting her do it.
What she relies on now is the ready-made furnace in the system package.
Jiang Xue had finished making the furnace halfway when she suddenly remembered that she needed charcoal and a blower.
The melting point of iron ore is said to be over a thousand degrees, and firewood obviously cannot reach this standard. We can only try to burn the firewood into charcoal and then use the power of a blower.
But if these two things are missing, then iron smelting is nonsense.
Ever since the tribe was influenced by Jiang Xue in the winter, they have developed the habit of deliberately picking out some large pieces of charcoal that have not been completely burned from the fire when making a fire.
However, this ash is relatively soft and turns into powder when squeezed hard, making it impossible to use it for iron smelting.
The charcoal that Jiang Xue wanted was the kind with a harder texture.
This kind of charcoal is made in a charcoal kiln. Now we can only get firewood locally and go to the mountain to make charcoal.
When Xiaohua and Aqing saw Jiang Xue carrying a hoe and going out, they took a hoe without saying anything and followed her up the mountain.
Most of the men in the tribe have gone out, so now the task of digging the charcoal kiln falls solely on Jiang Xue.
Jiang Xue had no experience, so she just picked a random spot on the mountain and dug a few times with her hoe. By the time Xiaohua and Aqing arrived, she had only dug out a small hole.
"Sister Axue, why didn't you call us when you went up the mountain?" Xiaohua laughed, "What do you want to dig? I'll help you."
Jiang Xue laughed: "I didn't want to come to you, but since you are here, come dig with me."
She expressed her thoughts: "I don't know how big the hole I want to dig is, but it should be at least as long as two hoe handles and as wide as this. And there should be several smoke exhaust vents."
Xiaohua almost threw away her hoe when she heard this: "Sister Xue, what are you going to do?"
"Since we're planning to smelt iron, using wood won't work. We can burn the wood into charcoal before smelting the iron. Okay, hurry up and dig. I'll chop down the trees around here first."
Hearing that she still needed to chop down trees, Ah Qing hesitated for a moment, then said, "Why don't we wait until the tribe leader's hunting team comes back before we start? Otherwise, with our physical strength, it's simply impossible..."
Before Ah Qing could finish her words, Jiang Xue chuckled, "Just be content! Our tribe is in a state of disrepair and needs people. If you think you can't do it, then there's no need to tell me so much. But remember this: in my place, women are treated like men, and men are treated like animals."
"What?" Ah Qing widened her eyes. She had no idea what Jiang Xue meant.
"What I mean is that starting today, everyone in our tribe will have different tasks to do. For example, our main jobs used to be herding sheep and farming, but starting today, we have one more task: burning charcoal."
"Ah Qing, don't blame me. If we don't push ourselves now, can you bear to see your children living the same life as you in the future?"
"I think you're well aware that a hoe made of stone can't possibly compare to the one you have in your hand."
Ah Qing only understood half of what Jiang Xue said, and still didn't understand what she wanted to say.
However, she understood Jiang Xue's last few words.
If my children lived the same life as me...
She suddenly remembered the time when the Snake Tribe was oppressed by the Eagle Tribe. At that time, all the people in the tribe really had no food to eat. Even before the hunting team came back, they might not even have a piece of animal skin to cover themselves.
She shuddered. "Okay, I'll listen to you. I'll do whatever you want me to do."
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