Before, he had always been in contact with people in the tribe, and from outside the tribe he had only been in contact with Bo and his group. Of course, Meng Yu estimated that Bo and his group would soon become members of the tribe as well, and all of them gave Meng Yuqing the feeling of being very simple and innocent.
Although he understood that Xia must be a capable person to be able to hold the position of clan leader and gain everyone's respect, and to raise a son like Xuan, but when he got along with him, he was actually no different from an ordinary clan member.
The scene before him suddenly reminded him of the modern world.
"Bo, don't separate from us. There are many tribes here, with all kinds of people. It's safer with more people. Tell us if there is anything." Xia turned to look at Bo and reminded him.
Bo nodded seriously, and the people behind him also looked serious.
After everyone had sorted out the things on the ground, Meng Yuqing and the other four sub-beasts entered the wooden shed. The shed was very large and could accommodate about a hundred people. All of them could stay in it tonight.
They found a lot of dry grass to pad the ground, and then covered it with animal skins, which was their resting place. The sub-beasts slept on one side, the orcs slept on the other side, and four orcs were left to guard the night. This was basically how they spent the few days on the journey, except that when they were on the road, the orcs would just lie down on the ground in their animal form and rest.
You really can't ask for too much when you're away from home, but you can definitely consider buying a tent or something when you get back.
Outside the wooden shed, the orcs had already started making a fire. They used stones to form a circle and then placed charcoal inside it, setting it on fire with the dry grass they had picked up. The fire quickly ignited the charcoal. Except for the smoke that came out when the dry grass was burning at the beginning, there was no trace of smoke when the dry grass burned to ashes.
The roasted meat was exchanged with people from other tribes in other wooden sheds, in exchange for a bag of wild vegetables and ten berries. The bag for the wild vegetables was only slightly larger than the plastic bag in the supermarket.
Seeing the people in the tribe actually using these things to exchange for enough meat for everyone to eat, Meng Yuqing couldn't help but sigh that the price of meat in the market was unexpectedly low.
Even though the orcs had already had a hearty meal in their beast form before entering the market, the amount that these forty orc-humanoids could eat was definitely not small.
When the Shijiao tribe arrived, Meng Yuqing was about to go to bed. He saw Xuan and Xia suddenly stand up and walk outside, and immediately sat up and looked at them.
Sensing his movements, Xuan turned around and looked at him, "People from the Stonehorn tribe are here, let's go say hello, you can go to sleep, it's okay."
Meng Yuqing nodded and lay down without worrying anymore.
The next day, Meng Yuqing was awakened by the system.
"Host, it's time to get up. Everyone else should get up. The market will begin soon."
When he heard the system's voice, he sat up with a start. He saw Qiu Ye and several other sub-beasts who were lying next to him had already stood up and were squatting on the side, taking the soap out of the big bag and putting it into small wicker baskets.
The orcs had already set up their stall outside the wooden shed and put the things they wanted to exchange on it. He looked around and saw that ten people were missing, including Xuan, Li, and Bo.
Meng Yuqing walked over to Qiuye and filled the soap with them. "Qiuye, where are the others?"
"Exchanges are open at the market today, and the three tribes have already started exchanging salt." He suddenly lowered his voice. "We have to exchange a symbolic amount of salt, otherwise it will attract too much attention."
"I see." Meng Yuqing nodded and continued to ask, "What did they use in exchange?"
"We took some scented soap and some unscented soap. The three tribes like these novelties, and they will be very generous in exchanging them for them."
"Don't they want the production method?" Meng Yuqing asked curiously. These three tribes are so powerful that they would choose to exchange the things they are interested in instead of directly monopolizing the production method.
"They're too lazy to do it themselves, and there aren't enough people." Qiu Ye said casually.
"Not enough people? How could that be? Doesn't each of their tribes have more than 2,000 people?" Meng Yuqing asked in surprise. Besides, the production of soap does not require orcs, and sub-beasts can make it.
Hearing his question, Qiu Ye raised his head and looked around. After making sure that everyone around him was his friend, he spoke mysteriously.
"You don't know, originally it was only the Rolling Stone Tribe that discovered the salt cave, but then the other two tribes found out about it and wanted to share the salt cave with the Rolling Stone Tribe, but the Rolling Stone Tribe definitely didn't want to.
So the three tribes started fighting, and many people died. Then the news of the salt cave spread. Some tribes that were slightly smaller than theirs also wanted it, and after many people died in the fighting, they joined in. I heard that a tribe larger than theirs from the north also joined in.
In the end, the three tribes realized that this was not a solution. Many people in their tribes had died and their strength had been weakened. If they continued like this, none of them would be able to get the salt cave.
They didn't dare to fight anymore, because if they stopped, the other tribes wouldn't be able to take advantage. In the end, everyone just assumed that the salt cave belonged to the three tribes together.
Since then, the Black Tree Tribe and the Giant Mountain Tribe also sent people to guard the salt cave, and the Rolling Stone Tribe didn't say anything anymore.
So when they see something new and interesting, they will directly choose to exchange it, and will not think of making it themselves, because they simply cannot spare the manpower, and generally they will not directly steal other people's things, for fear that others will hold a grudge and plan to attack the salt cave."
"But the people guarding the salt cave are all orcs, and the sub-beasts are still in the tribe. We don't need the orcs to make soap, we do it all." The sub-beast on the other side of Qiu Ye said softly, and the other two sub-beasts frowned slightly and were a little worried.
"As long as we don't say it, no one will know that the soap was made by us." Meng Yuqing looked at him and comforted him.
Qiu Ye also nodded and said, "Yes, let them think that soap is difficult to make and requires a lot of orcs to complete it, then they won't have any ideas."
After hearing what they said, the other sub-beasts relaxed their brows and showed relieved expressions.
While they were talking, Xuan Heli came back with the people who went to exchange salt, and everyone immediately went to greet them.
I saw Li and Xuan holding two large animal skin bags in their hands, surrounded by other people and walking towards this side.
When passing by other wooden sheds, many people cast envious glances at them. They had exchanged so much salt that the entire tribe would not be short of salt this year. They were so lucky that these three tribes liked their products.
Some people had dark eyes, staring at the animal skin bags in their hands, wondering what they were thinking.
The people of the Qingshan tribe ignored all these gazes.
They carried the animal hide bags into the wooden shed. Xuan gave the remaining soap to Xia and then took out some salt rocks from the bag and handed them to Bo. "This is yours."
Bo stared at the salt stones on the ground for a moment and said softly, "It's too much. We can't exchange it for so much with our berries and wild vegetables."
"Just take it. If you think it's too much, you will have to pay for the money you exchange for animal meat with others in the next few days." Xuan said without raising his head as he sorted the salt and stones in the bag.
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