"Everyone, please stand aside, or go back to your tribe and call your relatives and friends. Don't you think you should ask them to come and exchange for such a good thing? If they knew you had something that would make soup taste better, and they asked you to share some, what would you do? Share it or not? If you don't share, people will say you don't care about your relatives; if you share, it's only a small amount, and it will be gone after you use it."
"Our tribe won't be here until the snow season. You're used to drinking broth with MSG, how can you still drink plain broth? Without MSG, how will you cook for the rest of the time? So why not ask your friends and family to come and swap. That way you can keep your MSG."
"But let's make it clear in advance. We don't have many ceramic bowls in our tribe, so everyone needs to bring their own ceramic bowls for soup. If you go back to visit relatives and friends, remember to ask them to bring their ceramic bowls for soup."
Under Man's eloquent encouragement, everyone dispersed immediately and went to find their relatives and friends to taste the broth with MSG.
Shu stood beside Qiao Yu and exclaimed in admiration: "Man, this guy is getting more and more powerful."
He still remembered that although Man was smart in the past, he was not taken seriously because he was thin and small and not very strong. He could only be a dark shadow, following him as a military strategist that was looked down upon by everyone.
Now, Man's status in the tribe is second only to Qiao Yu. No one dares to disobey him.
Qiao Yu smiled and said, "Uncle, you are doing well now."
Shu laughed and said, "I learned all this from you."
"No, my acting skills are definitely not as good as yours." Qiao Yu said seriously.
Shu had no idea what acting was.
But he was already used to Qiao Yu often saying things he didn't understand. Even if he didn't understand, he knew Qiao Yu was praising him, and that made him very happy.
Qiao Yu had no intention of returning to the stall, so Shu stood here with her and watched.
After a while, the man who had just been drinking soup came back with a group of people. The stall of the Valley Tribe became very crowded, and many people even stood in front of the stall next to it.
For some reason, the Wandering Tribe didn't set up their stall this time. The Valley Tribe's stall was the last one in the row. He could easily have taken everyone to the open space next door and sold his delicious broth and MSG. But this was exactly what he wanted.
People love to join in the fun. Anyone who walks over here and sees a large crowd gathered from afar is tempted to check it out. They'll definitely join the crowd, sample the broth, and eventually buy some broth and MSG.
So he made arrangements with the people at the next stall in advance.
That stall also belonged to the Shanyin Tribe, and the owner was clearly one of Ming's subordinates. Since Ming wanted to cooperate with the Valley and Stone Tribes, the man naturally didn't mind, smiling and saying, "No problem." And with so many people coming, while the broth was cooking, some would surely be bored and stop by to take a look at his stall. That was a good thing for him.
And Man's strategy soon took effect.
The old man from the Sun Tribe and his group had gone back to spread the word, bringing friends and family with them, and it had already caught everyone's attention. Some people who never frequented the back stalls couldn't help but take a look. And some who didn't know what was going on, seeing the excitement, also came to see what was going on.
Before Man could even finish boiling a pot of soup under everyone's gaze, the place was already packed with people. Liushui cleverly moved people to the open space nearby, but people still kept coming.
"Don't push, it takes time for us to cook the soup. While you are waiting for the soup, you might as well take a look at the straw sandals on our stall." Man shouted to the crowd, and then introduced the benefits of straw sandals.
The materials used for straw sandals are too common, so even if they are made with great care, they cannot be sold at a high price. Each pair of shoes is exchanged for a bowl of dried meat.
The price was not expensive, and everyone had a herd mentality. After trying it out, they felt it was pretty good, and more than 100 of the more than 300 pairs of straw sandals they brought were sold at once - this was because there were only forty or fifty people coming, otherwise they would have been sold out in an instant.
After changing into straw sandals, the broth was ready.
Man started yelling again, "Everyone line up and wait for our people to distribute the soup to you. If you get your share, go over there and drink it. Don't crowd here. If someone bumps into you and the soup spills, wouldn't that be a big loss?"
Liushui brought two people out to maintain order for everyone.
Fortunately, the first group of people who arrived all knew each other, and no one was eager to fight for the front position, so they all lined up following the flow of people.
Most of the people who came after hearing the news were from the God Tribe and the nearby Shanyin Tribe. They didn't dare to squeeze the people from the Sun Tribe, so they also followed behind and lined up obediently.
Some people in this group did not have ceramic bowls, but they were persuaded by Man to exchange them for ceramic bowls.
First, drink a few sips of soup without MSG, then exchange the dried meat for a bowl of soup with MSG. After this comparison, everyone began to praise the so-called "MSG".
"Oh, if I hadn't tasted it myself and seen with my own eyes that person add only a small spoonful of powder to the soup, I wouldn't believe that this soup came from the same clay pot. The taste is completely different with and without MSG."
"Yeah, yeah. The soup tastes much better with MSG."
Someone immediately asked about the price of MSG.
"One bamboo tube of MSG is worth ten bowls of dried meat," Man said. "The bamboo tube is a good thing. When you're done with the MSG, you can use it to drink water or soup, or to store things. As everyone knows, bamboo tubes are not cheap."
"It's too expensive, too expensive." Someone immediately shouted, trying to bargain with Man.
But Man was adamant that he wouldn't lower the price, adding, "We didn't bring much, just a hundred bamboo tubes, and they'll be gone once we exchange them. If you think it's too expensive, you can stand back and let others exchange first. Come back when you've made up your mind."
As he spoke, he began to ask the people behind him: "Who wants to change?"
The old man who exchanged the hairy potatoes for snow season knew the stubbornness of the people in the valley tribe, so this time he was straightforward: "Give me three bamboo tubes."
"Okay, you can exchange it with dried meat or salt. Measure the dried meat or salt here." Man pointed in front of Qiao Yu and the tree.
Qiao Yu and Shu saw that Man and the others were too busy, so they squeezed in to help. Now they were specifically weighing the dried meat or salt.
Some people accepted the price, and the others stopped hesitating. Those who were willing to exchange started to exchange two or three bamboo tubes at a time.
These people returned with the emerald green bamboo tubes in their hands, which were very conspicuous, and people who saw them naturally wanted to know what they were doing. After hearing about the magical effects of MSG, and after being asked to open the bamboo tubes and put some in the broth to taste it, they all followed the instructions and came here.
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