Chapter 148 New staple food
Jiang Xuan and Wu Yu entered the bamboo house and sat down by the fire.
There are some large tree stumps in Jiang Xuan's bamboo house, which are used as tables and stools.
Wu Yu, like Jiang Xuan, sat on a tree stump stool padded with animal skins, which didn't feel very natural.
Most of the tribesmen still do not have tables and stools.
They would put something on the ground and sit on it.
Only the witch of the tribe is different.
Because witches need to write and draw, it is obviously not easy to do it while lying on the ground, so they are accustomed to using a tree stump or a relatively flat piece of wood as a table.
However, Jiang Xuan's house has a set of tables and stools, which is very unique and different from other tribes.
"Come, Chief Wu Yu, eat some dried fruits first."
Jiang Xuan took out some fried wild dried fruits and placed them on the table.
These dried fruits are the seeds of various wild fruits. After being fried, you can peel them and eat them. They taste good.
Wu Yu looked around Jiang Xuan's house, his eyes lingering on the pottery tripod and various pottery with patterns carved on it. He said with a little surprise: "Chief Xuan, the pottery of your Teng tribe is getting more and more beautiful."
"Haha, the people in our tribe love to make these things when they have nothing to do. After making them many times, they naturally gain experience and can cook them beautifully."
Wu Yu praised him again.
The two ate some dried fruits and some cooked animal meat, and then got down to business.
"Captain Wu Yu, I wonder if you brought anything good this time?"
When talking about the goods, Wu Yu's face was suddenly full of confidence.
"Of course we have. We in the Black Tooth Tribe have a lot of good stuff."
"Do you have any seeds like red crystal rice?"
Jiang Xuan was most interested in seeds, and he knew that only a team like the Black Tooth Tribe's caravan that flew around all day could collect seeds from all over the place.
“Yes.”
Wu Yu said: "We brought some good seeds this time."
In fact, the Black Tooth Tribe's caravan had not been very interested in seeds before, because there were few tribes with such needs.
Merchants pursue profits, and so do primitive merchants. They will definitely not take things that no one wants.
But ever since Jiang Xuan traded red crystal rice with them, Wu Yu would collect some better seeds whenever he came across them, but the quantity was not large.
When encountering some medium-sized or large tribes with a planting base, Wu Yu would also promote the seeds they collected, and occasionally he would be able to sell some of them.
"Take me to see it."
"No, I'll just have the soldiers move here."
Wu Yu has great potential as a businessman. He even has advanced ideas such as service awareness.
You know, when other tribes trade, they still have the mentality of "I don't want to trade, but if I don't, I'll just steal it."
Jiang Xuan sighed in his heart: What a talent! If he didn't know that the Black Tooth Tribe was very large and wealthy, Jiang Xuan would have wanted to poach Wu Yu.
Unfortunately, in this world, because of the existence of totem gods, the beliefs of the tribesmen are generally very firm. Unless the tribe is destroyed or for various extreme reasons, the tribesmen generally will not change their beliefs and join other tribes.
Soon, the warriors of the Black Tooth tribe carried over eight animal hide bags.
These animal skin bags contained not only plant seeds, but also some things they thought the Vine Tribe might like.
The eight animal skin bags were lined up in a row in Jiang Xuan's yard, and the bags were opened to reveal the various goods inside.
There are unknown seeds, spider silk clothes, salt, sugar, weapons, etc.
Wu Yu grabbed a handful of green, rice-like seeds from an animal skin bag.
"Chief Xuan, you will definitely like this seed. It is called bamboo wheat. We traded it from a large tribe. It tastes delicious when cooked."
Jiang Xuan picked up a bamboo wheat seed. Although it was in the shape of a rice grain, it was several times larger than a rice grain and had a green shell on the outside.
Even in its dry state, it is green.
"Can I try one?"
"Of course." Wu Yu agreed generously.
Jiang Xuan peeled off the shell of the bamboo wheat and found that the inside was also emerald green and translucent, a bit like rice.
Jiang Xuan put the bamboo wheat into his mouth again and bit it into pieces with a crisp "crunch". This showed that the seeds were very dry and had little moisture.
Jiang Xuan chewed it, and after a while, he felt a slightly sweet taste.
This shows that this thing is rich in starch and can be used as staple food.
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "Not bad."
Wu Yu smiled and said, "Chief Xuan, do you want to trade this bamboo wheat?"
"Let's look at something else."
Jiang Xuan did not agree immediately because he knew very well that if he showed an eagerness towards Takemai, the unscrupulous businessman Wu Yu would definitely take the opportunity to raise the price.
On the contrary, if he acted insignificant, Wu Yu would not dare to ask for too high a price, lest Jiang Xuan give up the deal.
Although Wu Yu has a talent for business, it is still difficult for him to take advantage of Jiang Xuan, a soul washed by the shopping wave.
Wu Yu was a little surprised, obviously not expecting Jiang Xuan to have this reaction.
But he was not discouraged and immediately introduced other seeds to Jiang Xuan.
Wu Yu picked up a small bag of granular brown-red seeds and said to Jiang Xuan, "These are red cabbage seeds."
"When the red cabbage grows up, it is more than half a person's height, like a small tree. The leaves, roots, stems and flowers are all edible. They taste sweet."
Jiang Xuan looked at the beet seeds and didn't make any comment.
Because before seeing the real beetroot, it was difficult for him to judge its value through description.
Then, Wu Yu introduced a kind of melon to Jiang Xuan, called snake melon. Because it was very long and crooked, it looked like a snake from a distance.
Wu Yu brought over two snake gourds, which were naturally aged and then dried, and had quite a few seeds inside.
Jiang Xuan was quite interested in this thing because it was relatively large in size. And according to Wu Yu, each plant of this kind of snake gourd could produce dozens of fruits, so the yield was very high.
"Captain Xuan, how about bamboo wheat seeds, red cabbage seeds, and snake gourd seeds? Do you want to trade?"
Jiang Xuan pretended to think for a while and said, "The seeds are good, but I don't know if they can survive in our Teng tribe, and if they can bloom and bear fruit after being grown."
"Forget it. Since Chief Wu Yu has come all the way here, we can't let you go in vain. We can trade these seeds for some animal tusks and hides. Let's just treat it as an experiment."
After hearing what Jiang Xuan said, Wu Yu was too embarrassed to talk about how precious and rare these seeds were.
Of course, in fact, most of the seeds were not valued by the various tribes, and it didn’t cost Wu Yu much to collect these seeds. Many of them were even given to them by others after transactions.
So, when Jiang Xuan took out some jackal skins and jackal teeth, Wu Yu symbolically raised the price and successfully completed the transaction.
Jiang Xuan was very happy. Red cabbage and snake gourd were nothing special. To the Teng Tribe, they were just two new vegetables.
But bamboo wheat is a real food. If it can be grown well, the Goto tribe will have an extra staple food, solving the food problem for more people.
Of course, he had to pretend that he didn't care, threw the seeds into the bamboo house casually, and then continued to trade other goods with the Black Tooth Tribe.
Jiang Xuan was not particularly interested in salt, weapons and other things, but he wanted to get a set of spider silk clothes, a good thing that could save lives, for every warrior of the Teng tribe.
However, seeds are easy to trade, but spider silk clothes are not, because the Black Tooth Tribe is very clear about its value and would rather not trade it than lower the price.
"Chief Xuan, if you want to trade for the spider silk clothes, your Teng tribe must bring out some really good stuff, such as beast teeth and bones, or even beast skins."
Wu Yu glanced towards the place where the old witch lived. It was obvious that he wanted Jiang Xuan to get some good things from the old witch and trade the spider silk clothes with them.
But Jiang Xuan was unwilling to do so.
The Teng tribe has already gained a lot from the old witch, and it is impossible for them to treat him like a sheep and fleece him.
Jiang Xuan thought for a moment and said, "We don't have beast teeth and bones of ferocious beasts, but our Teng tribe has other good things. Chief Wu Yu, please wait."
Jiang Xuan walked into the bamboo house and took out two thick candles made of insect wax from an animal skin bag.
There are not many candles like this in the Teng tribe because the production of insect wax was not very high last year.
If it wasn't for the purpose of trading for the spider silk clothes, Jiang Xuan would never have taken out the candles made of insect wax.
"Does Chief Wu Yu recognize this thing?"
Jiang Xuan brought the thick candle in front of Wu Yu.
Wu Yu took a candle as thick as his arm and smelled a faint fragrance. He was surprised and said, "Insect wax from the Mountain Sheep Tribe!"
"Yes, it is the insect wax of the Blue Sheep Tribe, but now I call it a candle because it can be used for lighting at night and the flame is very stable."
Jiang Xuan returned to the bamboo house, lit a stick of insect wax, and walked in front of Wu Yu again.
"Chief Wu Yu, look."
Wu Yu stared at the huge candle for a long time and found that it was burning very stably as Jiang Xuan said.
"call……"
Jiang Xuan blew out the candle and said, "Captain Wu Yu, I don't need to explain the value of insect wax, right? It can illuminate and heal wounds. It is a real good thing."
"One candle for two spider silk clothes!"
Wu Yu waved his hands hastily and said, "No, no, a candle is not worth two spider silk clothes."
Jiang Xuan said: "Captain Wu Yu, look, a candle this thick can be used to light many nights. It's worth exchanging it for two spider silk clothes."
"If you bring candles made of insect wax to other tribes, the witches will definitely like them very much."
Wu Yu still shook his head and said, "That won't work either. One candle can only be exchanged for one spider silk dress at most."
The two argued for a long time, and Wu Yu finally bit off a candle in exchange for a spider silk dress.
Apparently, spider silk is also extremely rare and valuable, no less valuable than insect wax.
In desperation, Jiang Xuan said, "One candle for one spider silk dress is still too little. How about this, adding some other goods, that should be ok, right?"
Wu Yu asked, "What goods does Chief Xuan want to add?"
Jiang Xuan pointed at the small animal hide bags of sugar on the ground and said, "Add two bags of sugar."
The sugar was white and in block form, and according to Wu Yu, it was traded from a medium-sized tribe.
That medium-sized tribe raised a kind of honey bug. In certain seasons, these honey bugs would spit out a large amount of sugar, which condensed into blocks. The sugar could be eaten by the tribesmen and taken out for trading.
In this wild world, sugar and salt are the two things the tribesmen like most.
Especially sugar, which can make people feel happy after eating it, and is especially loved by tribal people.
But getting sugar is not an easy thing.
The simplest, but also most dangerous method, is to find a beehive and rob the honey.
The bees in this world are not to be trifled with. They are large in size, have strong attack power, and are highly poisonous.
If you are not careful, you can sting someone to death.
Apart from honey, most tribesmen who want to feel the sensation of eating sugar can only eat some ripe wild fruits.
Of course, there are always exceptions.
For example, the medium-sized tribe mentioned by Wu Yu can obtain sugar by raising honey bugs.
Wu Yu pondered for a moment and felt that insect wax was indeed valuable. Moreover, the insect wax that Jiang Xuan brought was quite large, so he could get a lot of good things by trading it with those big tribes.
Thinking of this, Wu Yu gritted his teeth and said, "One stick of insect wax for one spider silk garment and a bag of sugar. If this still doesn't work, forget it."
Jiang Xuan felt that this was indeed Wu Yu's bottom line, so he nodded and said, "Okay, let's do the deal as you said."
Jiang Xuan handed two sticks of insect wax to Wu Yu, then took two spider silk clothes and two bags of sugar.
The transaction was completed smoothly and both parties breathed a sigh of relief.
Jiang Xuan picked up a piece of white sugar from the animal skin bag, broke off a small piece and put it in his mouth. The sweet taste made him feel very happy, even a sense of happiness.
Jiang Xuan asked casually: "What does this honey bug eat?"
Wu Yu recalled for a moment and said, "It seems that they eat leaves. I see that those honey bugs like to cling to leaves."
Jiang Xuan asked again: "Can you dig some saplings from this tribe and bring back some honey bugs?"
Wu Yu was very smart and he immediately knew what Jiang Xuan wanted to do.
"Chief Xuan, do you want to raise honey bugs and produce sugar yourself?"
Jiang Xuan did not deny it: "I just think this honey bug is quite magical, and I want to try it."
Wu Yu thought for a moment and said, "Next time I go to that tribe to trade, I will discuss it with them. If they don't want to, then there is nothing I can do."
"Thank you, Chief Wu Yu."
When Jiang Xuan encounters something good, his first thought is whether the Teng Tribe can make it. As for the result, it depends on luck.
As for the Black Tooth Tribe's caravan team, they are willing to do anything as long as it is profitable. This is the profit-seeking nature of businessmen.
As for whether the Vine Tribe can produce sugar, they don’t care much.
Sugar has always been a scarce commodity. If one more tribe produces sugar, the Black Tooth Tribe can gain greater benefits.
After completing the transaction with Jiang Xuan, Wu Yu took the goods to the old witch again.
He brought a lot of precious herbs and some rare things, as he knew the old witch liked them.
Sure enough, the old witch picked out some herbs and some things he had never seen before, and exchanged them for the bones and tusks of wild beasts.
"Okay, it's time for us to go to the next tribe."
Wu Yu did not stay in the Fuji tribe for long and prepared to leave after the transaction was completed.
"Captain Wu Yu, remember that honey bug and the tree!"
Jiang Xuan stood in front of the black-toothed bird and reminded Wu Yu.
"Don't worry, I'll remember it."
Wu Yu waved to Jiang Xuan, then rode on the huge black-toothed bird and prepared to take off.
"Cry..."
Twelve black-toothed birds, carrying the Black-toothed tribe's traveling team and cargo, flew into the sky one after another, then quickly flew away until they disappeared into the horizon.
Thanks to book friend "Lu" for the reward of 3332 book coins.
Thanks to the book friend "I am observing the heavens in the present world" for the reward of 1,500 book coins.
(End of this chapter)
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