Chapter 51 Strategic Materials (Please add to collection and recommend)
Yes, what can we exchange?
Shu Da thought with some worry, he just said this just to divert Luo Chong's attention, hoping that Luo Chong would not kill them, but if they really talked about trading, what would they trade with?
"We, we, can we exchange with stone basins?" Shu Da hesitated and said.
Stone basins are essential daily necessities that every tribe needs. Although there are not many black rat tribes, there are still a few. It should be cost-effective to take one or two out to exchange for some food. It would be great if we could exchange them for the long-nosed monster.
With a chuckle, Luo Chong laughed disdainfully, stone basins, I have a lot of these things, as many as you want.
This time, before Luo Chong could speak, the elder had already spoken and told Shu Da directly that there were plenty of stone basins in his own tribe. If you want, you can also exchange them with things, such as salt and population.
This time it was Shu Da's turn to be dumbfounded. The other party actually had a lot of stone basins and could exchange them for him. Is this true?
Seeing that Rat Da didn't believe it, the elder asked a few children to bring out a set of pottery. In less than two minutes, the children brought out a water tank, a pot, and a few bowls. There were
even a few children who were watching the fun and stood at the entrance of the cave, slurping a bowl of meat soup. They were just short of bringing a small stool.
Rat Da was stunned, and the little brother behind him smelled the aroma of the meat soup and his stomach growled.
"What is that?" Rat Da asked, pointing at the meat soup the child brought.
It wasn't that he was greedy. They set out in the morning and walked for most of the day. They had a meal in the morning. They were already hungry now. Naturally, they were curious when they smelled the aroma of meat soup that they had never tasted before.
Luo Chong thought about it and asked someone to serve a bowl of meat soup to Rat Da. After all, if you haven't tasted the meat soup, you don't know the real purpose of pottery, and it's not easy to sell it.
Shu Da carefully took the broth, looked at the white steam rising from it, and took a sip like a child. It immediately warmed up from his throat to his stomach. After a while, his whole body was warm.
This broth was specially made by Luo Chong to keep warm. There was not much meat in it, but pork bones and chili peppers were added. There was less meat and more soup. Usually, it was just plain water. Drinking a few sips would make winter more comfortable.
The elder introduced the use of the pottery pot to Shu Da. You can put meat and water in it and cook this kind of broth on the fire.
Shu Da immediately understood the benefits of this pottery. If you make all the dried meat in the tribe into broth, it will not only warm your body, but also save food.
If you only eat barbecue, how much you need to consume every day, but you can fill your stomach with water by making broth, which is equivalent to solving the problem of food shortage in disguise. Shu Da immediately became interested in this red pottery.
The Black Rat Tribe also had stone basins for making broth, but only one was slightly larger than a pottery pot, and the others were relatively small. Moreover, they had never used stone basins to cook anything, but simply used them as containers. If they wanted to let more than 150 people drink broth, one stone basin was obviously not enough, so Rat Da immediately said that they could exchange.
But when it came to the details of the transaction, Rat Da was worried again. What the Han Tribe wanted to exchange most was salt, but the Black Rat Tribe had never eaten salt and didn't know what salt was.
Well, this is understandable, after all, even without salt, they could still maintain a small amount of exercise and would not die, but Rat Da really wanted to exchange some stone basins.
So Luo Chong suggested that they could exchange animal skins or people.
But the Black Rat Tribe didn't have any extra animal skins. If there were more animal skins, would there be a lack of meat? Rat Da had no choice but to agree to exchange people.
Then the elder repeated the previous offer for pottery trading: one pottery pot for two underage boys, or one adult woman, and one pottery bowl for one underage boy. As for the small water tank, Shu Da said he couldn't afford it. He just wanted more pottery pots, and even bowls were not needed.
Shu Da agreed with the price, but this time they didn't bring women and children, so there was no way to exchange. But Shu Da wanted to take a pottery pot back, after all, he still needed to use it to convince the rat witch and the tribesmen, so he asked Luo Chong if he could take one first, and they could give it to him next time.
Credit?
Luo Chong had never thought about such a thing as credit. Although a pottery pot was nothing to Luo Chong, he was familiar with you, what if you defaulted on the debt? He didn't want to be treated as a fool. Nowadays, the one who owes money is the boss.
Seeing Luo Chong waving his hand and about to refuse, Shu Da quickly gestured: "We will definitely bring people next time. We didn't bring anyone this time. Can we exchange food for one first?"
Shu Da waved his hand, took a bulging animal leather bag from a younger brother and handed it to Luo Chong, then said: "There is food in it. Although it is not much, we only brought so much this time. I hope you can let us take a stone basin first. Next time we will use people to return the stone basin."
Luo Chong glanced at the animal leather bag indifferently. What do you mean, you count this as a deposit, sincerity is enough, but do I need this little food? And this bag is bulging, it doesn't look like meat, but it looks like nuts or something.
Luo Chong opened the bag randomly, glanced inside,
then glanced
again, and
then well, his eyes were directly fixed on it, and he couldn't move away from the bag.
The bag was indeed filled with nuts, light yellow shells, with many tiny pits on the surface. The shell was gourd-shaped, large at both ends and slightly thin in the middle. With a gentle pinch, the shell split in the middle, revealing two red-coated fruit grains. After peeling off the coating, the inside was a light yellow kernel with a gap in the middle, which split in half with a slight touch.
What else could this be if not peanuts? Luo Chong's mind instantly flashed through many peanuts, fried peanuts, boiled peanuts in salt water, fried peanut kernels, peanut butter, and peanut
oil. Peanuts, also known as longevity fruit, are a nut with very high nutritional value. Eating more is not only good for health, but also improves intellectual development. Children and the elderly can eat more.
The most important thing is that peanuts are also an oil crop.
What does a 50% oil content mean? How much oil can be squeezed out if it is planted on a large scale?
With oil, you can make soap, candles, and explosives. If there are no peanuts, you can only collect animal fats, but how much oil can be squeezed out throughout the year, so it is not an exaggeration to say that peanuts are strategic materials.
Luo Chong suppressed his excitement and took a long time to regain his composure. He smacked his lips and pretended to be uninterested and said, "Is this thing edible? How do you eat it?"
Shu Da nodded quickly, took out a peanut and put it in his mouth to eat, then proudly gestured to Luo Chong: This nut is very delicious. It was the first witch of their tribe who found this food under the guidance of the gods.
God? Witch? Luo Chong didn't believe in this stuff. He was just curious about where the other party's peanuts came from. Was it wild peanuts collected or planted by themselves? Could it be that the other party was an agricultural tribe?
Luo Chong asked about the source of this thing again, and then he learned from Shu Da that it turned out that the so-called god was a black-haired mouse, and peanuts were dug out from the mouse's nest. They didn't know how to plant them, but they knew where to find the mouse holes with peanuts, so peanuts were not a rare thing in their tribe, and they could find some every year.
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