Qiao Yu was overjoyed.
If she was not mistaken, this should be the iron ore she had been looking for.
"Where did you find this kind of stone? Are there many of them?" she asked.
Several people looked at each other, thinking for a long time, and then one man slapped his thigh and said, "I remember it, it's on the mountain to the north."
"Right, right, right." He mentioned this, and the other person also said, "I remember it too. When you found this kind of stone, you wanted to continue looking north. I said Yu said that there was a possibility of encountering people from that big tribe there, and told you not to go there anymore."
"Are there a lot of these stones there?" Qiao Yu asked again.
The two looked at each other and shook their heads. "It doesn't seem like much. Seeing this kind of stone is different from the others, I wanted to pick up more. But after searching for a long time, I only found this little. I wanted to look further north, but I was stopped."
There were only about a dozen pieces of iron ore piled up in the corner of the room.
However, since it is iron ore, it is possible that it is buried underground, so it is normal that there is a small amount of it on the ground.
Qiao Yu looked at the sky and saw that it was not yet noon, so he said to the two of them, "Come on, take me to see it."
So the three of them set out from the tribe and headed north. After walking for more than two hours, they finally reached the place where they were going to pick up iron ore. Changmu, who was the first to discover the iron ore, observed the ground and said, "It should be here."
"Do you remember where you picked up the stone?" Qiao Yu asked.
Fortunately, Chang Mu had a good memory and pointed to a place and said, "It's right here."
There was a small pond on the left. He remembered that he had been searching for stones along the way and had picked up this unusual stone. He kept picking it up until he reached the edge of the pond. Just as he was about to go around to the north to look for more, his companion called him.
"Yes, it's here." The other man also remembered the pond.
Looking at the terrain, Qiao Yu shook her head in disappointment. However, she refused to give up and dug down with the wooden shovel she had brought. After a while, she was once again disappointed.
There is no iron ore underground in this area, just ordinary mud.
The three of them continued north for a while, picking up some more iron ore, but still didn't find the mine buried beneath. However, the further north they went, the more scattered iron ore they found. It was clear that these large and small pieces of iron ore had been blown here by the wind. The iron ore's origin must be in the north.
After traveling for half a year, Qiao Yu had already learned to estimate time by looking at the sun's shadow.
She felt that it was around four or five o'clock in the afternoon. If she didn't go back, it would be dark by the time she reached the tribe.
She said, "You two go back first. I'll go check out the front. Tell my father that if I don't come back for a few days, it means I'm going to get news about the big tribe up ahead. I'll be careful, so don't tell him to worry. Tell Man to worry more about the tribe."
After a few words of persuasion, the two of them saw that Qiao Yu had made up her mind, so they had no choice but to remind her to be more careful and then returned to the tribe.
Yu increased his speed and flew towards the north.
She remembered that where there were iron ore deposits, plants would still grow. If the iron ore was buried underground, the iron ore would certainly not be blown away by the wind, but would be firmly fixed to the ground by the roots of the plants.
Iron ore that can be blown away by the wind must have come from an open-pit mine that has been mined by humans.
To the north was the large tribe she had visited before. Perhaps the iron ore was there, mined and smelted into bronze.
She didn't just run around aimlessly. After running for a while, she would stop and look at the ground. This look really made her discover a pattern: the closer she got to the big tribe, the more iron ore there was scattered on the ground.
After confirming his guess, Qiao Yu decided to take this opportunity to find out the true strength of that tribe.
After running for seven days, on the afternoon of the seventh day, Qiao Yu arrived at the mountain where she had encountered the hunting party the previous time. Instead of going any further, she stopped there to spend the night. The next morning, she woke up, but instead of heading back to the large tribe, she hid in a large tree.
Since this mountain was the hunting grounds of the large tribe, there would definitely be at least one small group here hunting today. Qiao Yu planned to wait here, follow them, and eavesdrop on their conversations to get a feel for them.
Sure enough, when it was dawn, she heard human voices in the distance.
She remained quietly in the tree, not moving. Before long, she saw about twenty people walking up from the foot of the mountain. The man leading them was wearing linen clothes, and judging by his figure, he must be the man she had seen roaring at his companions last time.
As the group chatted, they walked closer and closer. The man behind Mai came up to him and said flatteringly, "Ji Zhan, yesterday the king specially rewarded you with several beautiful female slaves and a weapon. Do you still have the energy to climb the mountain today?"
"Haha, it's okay, it's okay." Ma Yi's resounding laughter startled the birds in the forest. "It's mainly because Wu Zhi is capable. The medicine he brewed is effective. I am all thanks to Wu Zhi. But no matter what, I have to come to the mountain and pick two herbs myself, right?"
A thin young man following behind Ma Yi smiled slightly and said in a neither humble nor arrogant manner: "If you, Ji Zhan, hadn't come out to collect herbs in person and found good ones, how could I have brewed good medicine to improve the king's condition?"
Although the language of these conversations is slightly different from that of tribes such as the Dragon Tribe and the Sun Tribe, the difference is not big, and Qiao Yu can still understand it.
However, the information revealed in this conversation made Qiao Yu feel a chill in his heart.
Ji Zhan? King? Slave girl? Weapon? Disease?
"Guoyu Jinyu" records: "Huangdi was born by the Ji River, and Yandi was born by the Jiang River. Therefore, Huangdi was named Ji and Yandi was named Jiang." This means that Huangdi lived by the Ji River and took Ji as his surname, while Yandi lived by the Jiang River and took Jiang as his surname.
This man in sackcloth has the surname Ji. Could this large tribe be the legendary Yellow Emperor's tribe? Is this too exciting?
Even if it wasn't, the fact that there was a king indicated that this was a tribe with a mature management system and a hierarchical system. The fact that there were female slaves indicated that it had entered a slave society.
The weapon they were talking about was definitely not a stone tool, but a metal weapon. It could be a bronze artifact from this era, or it could be a weapon smelted from the iron ore she was looking for.
The king's illness they mentioned reminded Qiao Yu of the man who ran to the Dragon Tribe to dig herbs.
She looked at the thin young man named Wu Zhi and guessed that the person who went to the Dragon Tribe to dig herbs might be Wu Zhi.
Wu Zhi flattered Ji Zhan so well that he burst into laughter.
The man who had been flattering Ji Zhan at the beginning saw that he was in a good mood, so he came up to him and said with a smile: "I wonder what kind of weapon the king gave you. Ji Zhan, can you let us open our eyes today?"
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