Chapter 16: On the Prairie I didn’t understand. She was so hard to understand…
Is it passable?
"Pass."
This time, the three of them were prepared in advance. When Bai Miao confirmed the passage, Bai Yu and Bai Xi held her wrists tightly, so after the passage was confirmed, the three of them came to the new plane together.
The new dimension was equally unexpected.
Not to mention Bai Miao, even Bai Yu and Bai Xi had never seen such a scene before. But their sisters had at least heard of it. However, Bai Miao, who was only three years old, had never heard of such a place. As soon as he arrived at the new plane, he couldn't help but exclaimed "Wow!" and then asked in a baby voice, "What is this?"
"Grassland, probably grassland," Bai Yu said, unsure. "I once met a mutton seller on the shore. He said there are whole areas of grassland used exclusively for raising sheep."
"Sheep?" Bai Miao looked around with wide eyes, "Where is it?"
Bai Yu smiled and picked her up so that she could see more of the place: "I haven't seen any yet, but even if there are sheep on the grassland, they are raised by others and we can't catch them."
"Is the lamb delicious?" Bai Miao looked around and saw nothing but grass, then turned back to look at Bai Yu.
"I haven't eaten it either," Bai Yu licked her lips. "Mutton is too expensive, much more expensive than pork, chicken, and duck. Our family really can't afford it."
"Sis hasn't eaten it either, so neither have we," Bai Xi said regretfully, also looking at the grassland. "With such a large grassland, there should be quite a few people raising sheep. Maybe we can bring some fish and meat and exchange them with the sheep farmers for mutton."
"Yes," Bai Yu's eyes brightened. "A few years ago, the mutton seller said that the grasslands mainly raise sheep and horses, and there is almost no fish. So he planned to buy some salted fish after selling the sheep. Maybe we can really use the fish to trade for mutton, but... there doesn't seem to be anyone nearby."
The vast grassland is as endless as the sea, with no signs of human habitation at all.
"Indeed, there are no people and no sheep."
The thoughts that had just emerged were ruthlessly shattered. The three of them felt a little lost, and even Bai Miao sighed heavily.
Bai Yu was the first to cheer up: "Maybe if we go a little further we'll find some people living there. We can save up some salted fish and then go a little further. We don't have much salted fish right now, so even if we trade them, we won't get much meat... Let's pick some dry grass first. It can be used to make mats and start a fire."
This grassland is very large, and under the lush grass, there is a lot of dead grass.
Their other plane is the forest plane, with many dead branches on the trees. Although there is also dead grass, it is not easy to find enough dead grass under the huge dead branches. Now there is such a large grassland, it is very easy to pick up the dead grass.
They got down to work right away. Bai Yu put Bai Miao down, and the three of them started pulling out the dead weeds together.
Bai Miao squatted under the lush grass, holding a handful of dead grass in his hand. Looking at the dead grass mixed in with the green grass, he turned around and pulled out the dead grass one by one according to its position.
There was more and more dead grass in her hands, and she couldn't hold it anymore. When she wasn't paying attention, the dead grass in her hands suddenly fell to the ground.
She hurried to grab it, but touched another hand.
Bai Miao looked up and saw the stranger in front of him. He picked up the dry grass and held it in his arms: "This is mine."
The other person also looked at her, pointed at the grass in her hand and talked a lot.
Bai Miao still held the dry grass tightly in his hand, frowned and said, "What are you talking about? I don't understand."
The other person pointed at her and continued to point at the dead grass and said the same words several times in a row.
Bai Miao looked at her, then looked at the grass in his hand: "It's called 'Jijipu'?"
The other party nodded repeatedly and chatted for a while.
Bai Miao still frowned. Although she didn't understand, she could tell that the other party wanted her grass, so she hugged it tightly again: "No, this is my 'Jijipu', I can't give it to you."
She squatted there, watching the other person gesticulating and talking in gibberish, and then looked at the round thing in her hand, trying to understand what she meant.
I found a few words from her mumbling: "You want to buy my grass? But what I have in my hand is not worth that much money?"
The other party nodded again.
Although she didn't know whether it was right or not, Bai Miao was confident that she was right.
but……
Bai Miao looked at the round object in her hand and shook his head, then spoke to her normally: "This isn't a copper coin. I don't want it. I only want copper coins. You should understand what I'm saying, right?"
After she finished speaking, she looked at the other party expectantly, but all she heard was another round of chatter.
"I don't know what you're talking about. I'll let my elder sister and second sister talk to you," Bai Miao stood up from the bushes and called out, "elder sister, second sister."
Bai Yu and Bai Xi also stood up: "What's wrong?"
"There is someone here, I don't understand what she is saying." Bai Miao pointed at the girl in front of him.
Bai Yu and Bai Xi were startled and quickly stepped over the dense grass to reach her. Bai Yu arrived first and hugged Bai Miao tightly, saying to the girl, "We are just here to pick some dry grass."
The girl began to speak rapidly.
Bai Miao heard the unfamiliar "gibberish" and looked up at Bai Yu expectantly.
Bai Yu: ...
Bai Xi, who had already walked over, also looked confused.
However, both of them quickly realized that this plane was probably very far away from them.
Bai Yu squatted down, hugged Bai Miao and said, "Did you talk just now?"
"She said a little, but I didn't quite understand," Bai Miao frowned. "But she probably wanted to buy the grass from us. But she didn't hold a copper coin, so it must be a coin."
"Buying grass?" Bai Yu looked at the dry grass in the girl's hand, then looked at Bai Miao, "How do you know she wants to buy grass?"
"I asked her." Bai Miao said, turning to talk to the girl.
The girl took out the round object again and pointed at the grass in Bai Miao's arms and the grass in Bai Yu and Bai Xi's hands.
Bai Yu looked at the thing. Although it was not a copper coin, judging from the girl's expression, it should indeed be the currency used to buy things in this dimension.
She hesitated for a moment and whispered to Bai Miao, "Although this isn't a copper coin, it should be enough to buy something. Can you tell her we're willing to sell her the grass?"
"Are you really going to sell it?" Bai Miao only knew copper coins and was reluctant to hand over the grass in his hand.
"I'm not selling yours," Bai Yu saw what she was thinking, "I'll sell what my elder sister has. Ask her if it's enough."
"It's definitely enough. She just said that what I have is not enough, just a little bit short." Bai Miao handed the grass in his arms to Bai Xi, and grabbed a handful of grass from Bai Yu's hand, speaking to the other party using words he understood.
This handful of grass was much larger than the one Bai Miao had before. The girl smiled and opened the grass bag on her back, asked Bai Miao to put the grass into the bag, and then handed the coins in her hand to Bai Miao.
Then he took out a round coin.
Bai Miao turned around and looked at Bai Yu.
Bai Yu nodded: "After we sell these grasses, we can buy things here in the future."
"Okay." Bai Miao grabbed a handful of grass of similar quantity from Bai Yu's hand and exchanged it for a coin.
With these two coins as the beginning, two more coins were exchanged later.
In the end, the girl harvested a bag of grass, and Bai Miao got four coins.
Bai Yu hugged Bai Miao and said, "Ask her where she lives."
Bai Miao turned around and looked at Bai Yu with a pout: "I don't understand."
"It's okay. Just talk to her slowly and understand what she says. We will have to chat with people here when we meet in the future. Once you have learned it, teach us." Bai Yu knew that Bai Miao didn't understand, but she learned quickly. If she hadn't learned quickly, the deal just now would not have been done.
The people in this dimension obviously speak differently from them. If they can't learn, they will have no choice but to stay on this grassland.
"It's so difficult to learn." Bai Miao frowned.
"It's okay, just sit here and learn slowly," Bai Yu said, "She wants to pick some dry grass. Your second sister and I will go and give it to her for free later. Your task is to learn the words here from her, okay?"
"Okay." Bai Miao nodded awkwardly and tried hard to communicate with the other party.
The two of them talked at cross purposes for a while, until the girl laughed happily, and she knew that they had reached an understanding.
Bai Yu found a place for the two to sit down and talk, and let them sit and chat, while she went with Bai Xi to pick dry grass.
The two of them spent the whole morning picking.
When she returned to Bai Miao, she was already chatting happily with the girl. The gibberish that was completely incomprehensible seemed to have no problem coming out of Bai Miao's mouth.
But after the little girl left, she still blamed Bai Yu: "It's so hard to understand. A lot of things are different from what we say."
"But Miaomiao seemed very happy chatting with her, which means she understood a lot. Miaomiao is really smart." Bai Yu picked her up and asked, "What did you talk about just now?"
"It doesn't seem like anything," Bai Miao thought seriously. "She said that the grass can be sold for money, but only the dead grass can be sold. Green grass can't be sold. She didn't say to sell the grass directly, but to make something out of it. I didn't understand."
"It's okay, Miaomiao is already great. We can continue chatting when she comes over again." Bai Yu looked at the little girl who had already walked away. "Let's go too. We've been here for a long time today."
Bai Miao lowered his head and took out the pass from his bag.
【Return trip】
"Return trip."
Returning to the island on the sea, facing the vast ocean that was completely different from the grassland, the three of them felt a little dazed.
But when I saw the dry grass that was brought back, I knew that everything that happened in the morning was true.
"Since these grasses can be sold for money, we can pick more and take the money back to the market over there. Maybe we can buy something to eat or drink." Bai Xi put the grass he brought back away. "It's a pity that if we can sell these grasses for money, it will be difficult to make straw mats."
"If we can buy cloth there, it doesn't matter if we can't make a straw mat." Bai Yu put Bai Miao down and picked up a piece of straw to examine it carefully. "Is there anything special about this straw? What can be made into it?"
Bai Xi shook his head: "I can't tell."
Bai Miao also shook his head: "She seemed to say it, but I didn't understand. She was so hard to understand."
Bai Xi and Bai Yu looked at each other and smiled bitterly.
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