The joy brought by the arrival of the tribe with pottery and salt lasted for a while, then faded a lot and was replaced by some sadness.

Their sorrow comes from the few furs inside the cave.

Huang Guo felt very sad when he looked at the furs in the cave, because these furs could not be exchanged for much delicious salt.

Even if the leader came back, he would be helpless.

It is really frustrating that we know that the other side has a lot of salt, but our own tribe has no way to get it.

People from that tribe were talking outside. Huang Guo walked out of the cave and was suddenly surprised to find that the people from this tribe were opening several animal skin bags and taking out the contents one by one.

What surprised and puzzled her was that the people of this tribe took out not precious pottery or salt, but a large number of very common stones!

Huang Guo took a closer look and confirmed that these stones were very common ones, which made her even more puzzled.

Why do the people of this tribe carry these stones with them? And why do they treasure them so much?

Could it be their weapon for self-defense?

When Huang Guo thought of this, he suddenly felt that he had seen through the truth.

However, after the dark-skinned leader made some gibberish and gestures, Huang Guo's eyes widened and then shook his head violently.

She felt that she must have misunderstood the leader.

This ubiquitous stone was used to exchange for precious pottery and salt?

How is this possible!

Huang Guo left. She thought it would be better to wait until the leader came back and let him negotiate with the leader.

After all, the chief is knowledgeable and can better understand what the leader means.

After searching for wild vegetables for a while, Huang Guo looked at the small stone at his feet. After hesitating for a while, he finally picked up the stone and walked towards the person who was sitting there resting.

Although he knew that he had most likely misunderstood, Huang Guo still wanted to give it a try. After all, there were not many furs left in his tribe.

With the mentality of giving it a try, she came to Mao and handed the stone in her hand to him hesitantly.

She was prepared to be rejected, but she didn't expect that this person actually took it, held it in his hand, and carefully compared it with the stones around him.

While Huang Guo was waiting nervously, he compared the stones for a while and confirmed that this was a kind of stone that had not been collected, so he put the stone into the pile.

Then he smiled and scooped a full spoonful of salt from a salt jar, indicating to Huang Guo that the stone could be exchanged for this spoonful of salt.

Huang Guo came out of the cave in a daze, holding an empty salt jar.

Mao poured a spoonful of salt into it without hesitation.

Huang Guo, in a daze, returned to the cave holding the salt jar.

Several female primitive people who stayed in the tribe put the salt jar on the ground, lay on the ground in a circle, stuck out their buttocks and stretched their heads, taking turns looking into the salt jar.

All with inquiry and disbelief.

After a while, Huang Guo reached into the salt jar, pinched out a little salt and put it in his mouth.

The familiar smell made her eyes widen immediately.

Is this really salt?

Stones can really replace salt!

After being confused and surprised, Huang Guo and the other adults ran out like the wind to look for stones.

No matter why the people of this tribe suddenly wanted to exchange stones for salt, it was great news for their tribe.

Huang Guo, who used to be a little thin, became extremely strong at this time. She didn't care about the small stones, so she just found a stone bigger than her butt, picked it up and flew towards them.

If a small piece of stone like that can be exchanged for a spoonful of salt, then a large piece like this can be exchanged for several spoonfuls of salt, right?

The more she thought about it, the more energetic she became. She carried the stone to Mao without stopping for a moment, and put it down in front of him. Only then did she have time to take care of the animal skin that had fallen off her body.

Mao's gaze stayed on Huang Guo for a while before shifting to the stone.

Then he shook his head.

Of course, it’s not that Huang Guo sorted the animal skins too quickly, but that they already had this kind of stone.

He found a fist-sized stone from the pile of stones and placed it on the large stone that Huang Guo had brought, indicating that he already had it and this one could not be replaced.

Huang Guo was completely confused. She didn't understand why she had just picked up a small piece and exchanged it for a spoonful of salt before, but now, a big piece was brought over and she couldn't exchange it.

She pointed at the small stone, then at the big stone she had moved, and talked in a loud voice, meaning that this one she found was much better than the smaller one.

Shang, Mao and the others have seen a lot of similar things. Similar things happen almost every time they arrive at a tribe.

After a long time of talking and effort, Mao finally made Huang Guo understand that only the stones that were not found here could be used to exchange for salt.

Moreover, the same type of stone can only be replaced once, regardless of the size of the stone.

Huang Guo, who understood what was going on, and the others who had come over with stones in their arms, all looked a little disappointed, as if they had seen a lot of delicious salt moving away from them.

However, this disappointment did not last long, and he went back to looking for stones.

In any case, being able to exchange stones for salt is very good news for them.

When the sun was setting, a pile of stones of various sizes appeared in front of Shang, Mao and others. They were all found by Huang Guo and others.

Shang, Mao and others picked and chose among the pile of stones, and finally found three kinds of stones that they had not obtained.

And there were three more spoonfuls of salt in the salt jar of Huang Guo and her tribe.

For them, it was a completely unexpected gain and they were so happy that they couldn't stop laughing.

As the sun was setting, the leader of Huang Guo's tribe returned with the people who had gone out hunting.

Huang Guo and the others who stayed behind happily went to greet them...

Huang Guo was beaten, along with several other people who stayed behind.

The one who took action was the leader of the tribe.

The reason for the beating was certainly not because there was a group of people, mostly men, in the tribal cave.

It was because Huang Guo and the others lied.

The chief had dealt with that dark tribe before. The people of that tribe were usually smiling, but once it came to exchanging things, they would become very stingy.

Now these few people who stayed behind actually said that they exchanged stones for a lot of salt from this tribe?

How could this happen?

So the hot-tempered leader, who was particularly disgusted by the tribe's lies, beat the man without saying a word.