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"We have pottery and white salt, Youye, go get some for them and let them see." You Fu answered while asking the brother who had just returned to bring some samples.
After a while, Youye turned around and took a pottery pot from the ox cart. There were three pottery bowls in the pot and a small bag of salt in a snakeskin bag.
"This is a stone basin?" Ju looked at the goods of the You tribe in surprise.
Stone basins are rare. The Lu tribe didn't have many of them, but they had wooden barrels made from wooden stakes. There was no shortage of containers for holding water, but stone basins were very scarce. Stone basins could be put on fire and boiled meat, which was something that wooden barrels couldn't do. The Lu tribe had already learned to use stone basins to boil meat soup, but they had few stone basins and not enough for the whole tribe to use.
"This is a pottery pot, and the small one is a pottery bowl. They are all pottery. They can be used to cook broth or hold water. And this is called white salt. It is something to eat. Eating it can increase your strength and you won't feel tired when working."
You Fu introduced the names of several things in Mandarin Chinese. Finally, he opened the small snakeskin bag, pinched some white salt and handed it to Ju.
"White salt, is it something to eat?"
"Yes, you can try it. Don't eat too much at once. A little bit is enough." You Fu said this. Afraid that Ju wouldn't believe it, he pinched a little bit and put it in his mouth as a demonstration.
Ju was not really scared, but he felt that You Fu was a little stingy. Since it was something to eat, he only gave him a little bit to try. As a result, when he put that pinch of salt into his mouth, he was choked and couldn't speak. His eyebrows were twisted into a ball.
After a long while, Ju took out a water bag made of pig skin from behind his waist and took a few big gulps of water. Only then did he gradually recover from the taste.
"Here, pottery, white salt, whatever you have, we want them. What can we exchange for you?" Ju gestured quickly. These things are necessities of life, and basically no tribe would refuse them.
"Animal skins, or things we don't have, as long as I like them, they are all fine." Youfu proposed his conditions.
"We don't have many animal skins, and our animal skins have short hair. Do you want animals for other things? We have live ones. Unlike your cattle, our flower beasts can't work, but they can eat."
Ju thought for a while, and it seemed that his tribe didn't seem to have anything that the other party would like except pigs. Stone basins, they didn't lack, but they had so many that they could sell them, and they also had ox carts, which his tribe didn't have, and white salt, such an important thing they actually sold, so it seemed that only pigs could be used for exchange.
"Flower beasts? What are flower beasts?" Youfu asked in confusion, and at the same time he was a little surprised. After walking so far, he finally met a tribe that raised beasts. The leader of the other party just said that there were beasts, alive.
"It's a beast that loves to eat flowers. There are none here. You can go to our tribe to see them. You are welcome to visit our tribe." Ju directly invited this tribe that also raised beasts.
"It's OK to go to your tribe, but we don't have much food now. Can I exchange some with you when we eat?" You Fu looked back at the food reserves on the ox cart and felt a little uncomfortable. There were no wild beasts around, so they hadn't hunted prey in the past two days and had been living on the stored food.
"Of course, my friend, we will prepare the most delicious flower beast meat for you." Ju punched You Fu in the chest.
In this way, the You tribe became the guests of the Lu tribe. Ju led the way for the You tribe in front, walking through the places without traps to the settlement in the valley. On the way, they also met several groups of flower pigs that were eating outside.
"This is our flower beast. The fur of the flower beast is as beautiful as flowers. There are three colors, and they especially love to eat flowers.
Look, these blue, purple, and yellow ones are hat flowers, which grow on vines. Flower beasts like to eat the vines and flowers of hat flowers. "
When passing a group of pigs on the road, Ju stopped to introduce them to Youfu. The hat flower he was talking about is a plant of the morning glory family, also called morning glory.
The flowers of this morning glory are very huge. When they are in full bloom, they are nearly 20 cm long, and the flower mouth is as big as a bowl. It really looks like a hat when you pick it and put it on your head.
This giant morning glory grows on long vines, as thick as a little finger, but its vines are not strong, with little cellulose, and they break when pulled. Therefore, except for feeding pigs, there is no other use for it. Anyway, it can't be made into a rope, and it grows very vigorously. Generally, it lies on the ground. As long as there are bushes or stones around, the vines of morning glory will climb up.
"Can people eat this flower?" Youfu asked.
"Yes, it is edible, and it is a little sweet, but the color is very dark. After eating it, your teeth and tongue will turn into the color of the flower. "
Ju picked a big blue morning glory, crushed it in his hand, and then rubbed it on the back of his hand, which was immediately dyed blue. Then he stuffed the crushed morning glory into his mouth and ate it. After eating, he showed his blue teeth to Youfu, and then smiled and asked Youfu to try it.
Youfu politely refused, he didn't want to have a mouth full of blue teeth.
"There is also this kind, this green round flower is also loved by flower beasts. You see it is very round now, like the sun in the sky, but when it is ripe, it will bloom.
These big leaves are its petals, which will open one by one, and then a flower stalk will grow in the middle. Small white flowers will grow on the stalk, and then seeds will grow." Ju pointed to a cabbage on the ground and said.
"Can people eat this thing? "You Fu asked again.
"Of course, it's just that the taste is not very good, and there is a strange smell, and it doesn't make you full. We usually don't eat it. Sometimes, even if we eat it, we wrap the leaves with roasted fat. We can pick some and let you taste them at dinner. Don't worry, it won't be dyed." The leader of the Lu tribe, Ju, said jokingly.
"Haha, thank you so much. You just said that this kind of flower can be eaten by humans, and it will also produce seeds. Can we grow it ourselves?" You Fu asked again.
"Plant? Oh, you should mean sowing seeds. We sow some seeds in the mountains every spring, and this kind of round flower will indeed grow. Do you want the seeds of this round flower?"
"Yes, we want the flower beasts in your tribe, but we have nothing to feed them, so I wonder if I can take some seeds back and plant them myself. And the kind of hat flower, can that be planted? "
Of course you can. I can give you the seeds of the round flower. They are not worth the price of white salt. They are everywhere here. As for the hat flower, it is not planted, but inserted. Just pull out a piece of vine and stick it in the soil, and new ones will grow. You can pick them at will." Ju said generously.
Youye, who was following him, almost laughed out loud.
"Brother, it seems that the task assigned to us by the Han leader is about to be completed. We have edible large-leaf plants and live animals here. We can go back now."
(End of this chapter)
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