Chapter 168 The Willow Whistle is Like a Bugle Call
Hagang and Pingyao of the Black Deer tribe discovered that the entire tribal team they commanded lacked a unified voice, which made it impossible for everyone to develop a unified conditioned reflex over time.
They then informed Xu Que about the problem.
Xu Que seemed to have already anticipated Ha Gang and Ping Yao's reports.
He decided to use the willow whistle as the exclusive whistle for the leadership teams of Hagang and Pingyao!
Flower, the leader of the Black Deer tribe, led her tribe members to make preparations a day in advance.
Together with everyone else, she sorted and categorized the seashells they had collected, stringing them together on a leather rope, pairing the large ones together and the small ones together!
Seashells with vibrant colors, neat textures, and exquisite shapes are selected separately and offered as premium items for exchange.
Fox teeth, crocodile teeth, saber-toothed tiger teeth, leopard dog teeth, and bull and wolf teeth, etc., all served as ornaments, like necklaces, to be worn on the chests of every man participating in the barter convention, holding symbolic and commemorative significance! They also functioned as membership tickets! Men and women who did not wear teeth, shells, or stones were not allowed to join!
The primitive barter convention stipulated that any adult male from any tribe must wear the teeth of the aforementioned animals as a means of entry on the day of the convention! Women wore ornaments such as seashells and colored stones.
Xu Que watched as the tribe members struggled to drill through hard objects like animal teeth, shells, and stones with a blunt bone needle.
Without saying a word, he took out a multi-functional power drill from the system warehouse, changed to a small drill bit, took the fox tooth that the tribe members were drilling, and quickly drilled two holes in the places they specified!
"Has the leather cord for the tooth been cut properly?" Xu Que asked the tribe member who possessed the tooth.
The primitive man from the tribe who possessed the tooth shook his head.
Xu Que had no choice but to take out a boning knife from the system's inventory and cut several thin strips from a piece of softened cowhide.
Hou took the fine threads and, following the method Xu Que had used to weave the hanging ropes for the "Heart to Heart" pendant he had given himself, began weaving animal tooth pendants for each of the tribe's primitive people.
The tribal chief, Hua, looked at the heart-shaped ornament hanging around Hou's neck, found a large saber-toothed tiger tooth, and brought it to Xu Que, asking him to carve an identical one for her.
Xu Que took the large, dagger-like tooth from Hua's hand and quickly carved a string of chili peppers with a rustic, farmhouse-style flavor for her.
Although the Blackrock tribe chief secretly desired the kind of heart-to-heart symbol that Roar wore around his neck, he readily accepted the beautifully carved chili pepper string!
Hou's eyes lit up when she saw the chili skewers Xu Que had finished carving. With a smile, she reached out to Hua and said, "I don't want it! Let me see! Can I see if it's okay?"
Without saying a word, Hua quickly gripped the chili string in her hand even tighter: "Give me the woven leather rope first! I'll string it on before you look!"
Hou handed her a woven rope.
Hua threaded the rope through the pre-drilled hole, quickly hung it around her neck, held one half with both hands, and left the other half for Hou to see.
"You stingy person! I don't want it! What are you so afraid of?" He glared at Hua.
The Blackrock Tribe currently has only about thirty members in total.
Xu Que quickly identified the ornaments that the more than 30 people attending the barter conference had, and carved patterns or shapes for those that needed carving.
Hou not only wove ropes for everyone, but also kindly helped them put them on.
The members of the Blackrock Tribe were overjoyed to be wearing such beautiful ornaments for the first time!
Among all the primitive tribes, Hagang is known as the leader of the Four Great Kings, so naturally he doesn't need to wear any ornaments to participate in the primitive barter conference.
He was cooking beef by a stove not far from outside the cave!
The chieftain plans to use this primitive barter conference to thoroughly establish the Blackstone Tribe's reputation!
It was Xu Que's arrangement to cook so many pots of beef.
Xu Que's initial plan was this: he wanted to use these cooked beef to exchange for an equivalent or more live animals!
The enclosures for raising wild animals have been completed! Keeping the animals alive will prevent the tribe members from going hungry during the food-scarce winter!
According to Xu Que's estimation, if the completed animal enclosure of the Black Stone Tribe is filled with wild animals, given the tribe's current population, everyone could probably live for another ten or eight years just by lying around eating!
The chief and members of the Giant Deer tribe drove two bison to the Blackstone tribe to exchange for goods.
By the way, let's find out in advance whether the Black Stone Tribe has anything else novel to showcase at the barter fair besides fire-making tools and techniques.
She wrinkled her nose, smelling the aroma of beef wafting over, and turned to Flower, the chieftain of the Black Stone tribe, saying, "Trade these two cows for cooked meat!"
"Okay!" Hua nodded, and asked Ha Gang to give them about the same amount of cooked meat!
When the chief of the Julu tribe looked down and saw the wooden-soled cowhide slippers with floral patterns, his eyes widened like eggs: "Would you trade five live cows for these shoes?"
"Five live cows? That's your tribe's monthly hunting quota, excluding those that get killed!" Hua exclaimed in surprise.
Among the savages, Xu Que overheard the Black Deer tribe chief say that five cows could be exchanged for a pair of shoes. He immediately raised his head and told Hua, "We can do it! Ask her if she wants them. If she does, we have them right now! Have her bring the five cows over, hand over the shoes with one hand and the cows with the other! We can have as many pairs of shoes as you want!"
The Black Deer tribe leader, Hua, relayed Xu Que's message to the Giant Deer tribe leader.
When the Black Deer tribe chief heard that he could exchange shoes for them, he jumped up and down with joy.
The moment she landed, she glanced at the string of chili peppers hanging around Hua's neck out of the corner of her eye: "How do I exchange this? What will I use to exchange it?"
Xu Que raised his head and shouted again, "I'll give you a similar ornament for free!"
Upon hearing Xu Que's words, the Black Deer tribe chief turned back in a flash.
A short while later, she and a group of tribe members returned with five live buffalo.
All the members of the Black Deer tribe worked together to help Xu Que: they found materials for carving, wood for making wooden-soled slippers, cowhide uppers, and clay for making foot models.
Xu Que skillfully took out a logging saw and a multi-functional power drill, and in no time at all, he had made the wooden clog soles! He also carved the chili pepper strings made of animal teeth.
After finishing the mud, Hou also made the foot mold of the Black Deer tribe chief!
Under Hou's arrangement and command, the other members of the Black Deer tribe also cut the cowhide slipper uppers with high quality and quantity.
Xu Que took out a multi-functional power drill and quickly drilled the holes on the wooden sole to fix the shoe upper. He then took the shoe upper handed to him by a member and assembled it in a few quick moves!
Finally, he inserted a wooden tenon, which served the same function as a sealing ring, into the groove left in the wooden sole, and a pair of neat and tidy slippers were completed.
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