The revelry lasted from early morning till afternoon.
After the soup was finished, a few lazy young men even put their heads into the pottery jar and licked all the oil and water off it with their tongues.
The wine was all drunk. A few old drunkards brought some clean water, which they used to clean each wine jar and drink up all the clean water that still smelled of wine.
The barbecue was also eaten cleanly, with the marrow of every bone sucked out completely, leaving the bones as clean as if they had been licked by a dog, without a trace of tendon or cartilage left.
The drunken young men sang songs whose words were difficult to understand but whose tunes were quite ancient and desolate, and they staggered back to their homes.
With nowhere to go for the time being and completely clueless about the environment in the swamp, Chu Tian pondered for a while and decided to follow Crab Claw back to his thatched hut.
Next, Chu Tian fell into speechless embarrassment.
After having eaten his fill and being full of energy, Crab Claw took advantage of the wine, hugged his two strong wives, and began to work hard for the plan of reproduction that Old Eagle had called for.
Chu Tian stood blankly under the eaves of Crab Claw's house, with his hands clasped across his chest. He suddenly felt that the wind was so cold, and the rain in the sky was too annoying.
In addition to the sounds of wind and rain coming from Crab Claw's house, the same sounds of wind and rain also came from the homes of neighbors on both sides.
They are a group of energetic young men who have just had a full meal of meat and wine. There is a storm outside and there is not much work to do. What else can they do except respond to the call of the village elders and work hard to reproduce?
What can you expect from a village with such backward productivity?
Standing under the eaves and exposed to the wind and rain, Chu Tian sighed and said, "Master Shu, do you think we should go around and have a look, or... build a house here first?"
Lord Mouse was silent for a while, then squeaked twice. He was too lazy to think, so he just lay on Chu Tian's shoulder with his legs up in the air, wagging his thin, pointed tail in a very comfortable way.
Chu Tian was stunned for a while again, the sound of wind and rain continued all around him.
He let out a long sigh and walked slowly towards the big house where everyone had just gathered. Crab Claw said that when the village elders had nothing to do on weekdays, they would gather inside to chat. If the villagers wanted to find them, they could definitely find them by going to that big house.
There were more than a dozen fire pits in the big house, but only one had firewood added. The fire was blazing, and the house was very warm.
Several village elders were wearing animal skins, sitting by the fire, drinking water, and passing around a few fist-sized reddish-brown stones. Seeing Chu Tian coming over, Old Eagle casually threw a stone to Chu Tian.
"Shan, take a look, do you recognize it?" Old Jiu looked at Chu Tian with a smile: "This is a good thing. Our village used this treasure to exchange for so much good wine this time."
Chu Tian weighed the stone. It was extremely dense. A fist-sized stone actually weighed several hundred kilograms.
He walked to the fire pit and sat down. He examined the stone in the light of the fire and nodded: "It is fire copper ore. Hmm... it seems not right."
After carefully examining the ore in his hand, Chu Tian saw a few faint black lines inside the reddish-brown ore. He exclaimed, "It is fire copper ore that has been eroded by the earth's energy. Fire copper is hard, but extremely brittle. It is easy to break when used to cast objects."
"But after being infected by the earth's energy, the fire copper's fire energy has settled a lot and has become much more flexible. It's a good thing for forging objects." Chu Tian weighed the fire copper ore in his hand and handed it back to Old Jiu.
Fire copper, this is just an ordinary spiritual material with fire attribute, and its value is not high. In the market of Windless Canyon, a standard one-foot square copper ingot is worth only three or five spiritual crystals.
Those who practice spiritual cultivation with a bit of ambition are too lazy to use fire copper to forge spiritual weapons.
Fire copper is mostly used in laying out various large-scale formations, and it is mostly used in ordinary low-level formations. If it is a slightly higher-level formation, a more sophisticated formation master will use a higher-level fire-attribute spiritual material to replace fire copper.
The status of fire copper in the Fallen Star Ocean is like the large bluestone slabs used for paving roads in the mortal kingdom. It has some value and is not something that can be found everywhere, but that's its value. It can only be used to pave roads. Rich families who are a little bit more particular will use water-ground blue bricks, and no one will use large bluestone slabs in their own homes.
"Of course it's a good thing!" Old Jiu was a little drunk. He said to Chu Tian proudly, "This is a treasure bestowed by the ancestor god."
Chu Tian grinned and looked at the fire copper ore that the village elders were playing with in their hands like a treasure.
Treating fire copper ore as a treasure, it seems that this village is indeed not well-off.
And they were able to exchange the fire copper ore for so much wine and beverages. In the words of Crab Claw, this was a rare "feast" for the village in recent years!
A few large ceramic jars of bland wine, is that a 'feast'?
These fire copper ores can be exchanged for fine wine that can be called a "feast". It seems that the fire copper ores are really popular and can be regarded as hard currency.
It seems that the village that trades with Jiu Lao and his friends, the village founded by the descendants of the god of wine, is not very well-off either!
Chu Tian's eyes swept over the waists of Jiu Lao and the others. They were wearing belts made of animal tendons and hides, and each village elder had a short knife or a short sword hanging on his belt. But except for Jiu Lao and the other two oldest village elders, who had iron tools hanging on their waists, the other village elders had stone knives polished from black stones hanging on their waists!
Chu Tian remembered that when making the soup, cutting the offal of wild animals, or cutting the meat at the banquet, the villagers used stone knives. The short iron swords on the waists of the three people including Jiu Lao were the only three pieces of iron tools Chu Tian had seen in this village.
Chu Tian took the fire copper ore handed over by another village elder as if it were a treasure and shook his head: "The fire copper that has been infected by the earth's energy can be used to refine weapons. Although it is not very good, it is very good for fighting wild beasts."
Chu Tian remembered the three wooden spears he had seen in the Crab Claw Hut, placed on a shelf in the corner of the room!
Old Jiu was a little drunk. He staggered as he looked at Chu Tian and said with a smile, "Weapons made of fire copper are not considered good? Then what is considered good? Forging weapons... Within 3,000 miles around, there is only one village that can forge metal weapons, and that is a craft passed down from their ancestors!"
Chu Tian held his breath in his throat and didn't say anything for a long time!
Forging metal weapons is actually a craft passed down from ancestors? Chu Tian looked at the dagger hanging on Old Eagle's waist. Seeing the forging level of the dagger, Chu Tian was too lazy to complain - in Fallen Star Ocean, any apprentice who dared to forge a "blank" of this quality would have been hit on the head by his master with an iron hammer!
Just when Chu Tian was about to say that he could give it a try, a big man suddenly rushed in.
"Old Jiu, people from the next village said that the mine belongs to their village and they want to rob it."
Before Chu Tian made a move, Rat Lord had already jumped up with excitement. Fighting for territory, how interesting! Rat Lord likes to watch the fun!