Chapter 225 This is impossible
Jiang Xuan walked into the stone workshop holding the glowing stone as big as a washbasin.
“Boom!”
The glowing stone was placed on a thick wooden table, attracting the attention of everyone in the stone workshop.
Old Man Heishi immediately put down his work, walked to the front of the table, stared at the big stone for a long time, and gently stroked it a few times, as if he was not facing a stone, but his lover.
As a stone tool craftsman, his love for stone is difficult for ordinary people to understand.
“What a beautiful stone.”
Old Man Heishi looked at it for a long time and exclaimed in amazement.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "I plan to split it in two and grind it into two round stone balls. As for the scraps, I can grind them into ornaments."
"Okay, okay, Chief, just leave it to me. I will definitely polish it into the most beautiful stone ball and ornament according to your requirements."
Old Man Black Stone stroked the texture of the stone, several decomposition plans quickly emerged in his mind, and he chose the best one.
Immediately afterwards, Old Man Heishi took out various tools and started working without caring whether Jiang Xuan was there or not.
“Ding ding ding…”
The old man of Black Stone held a stone hammer and a stone chisel, and struck the stone slowly and steadily along the texture of the stone.
This glowing stone was relatively brittle. After the Black Stone Old Man knocked it around, the whole stone suddenly split in the middle and split into two.
Then, Old Man Black Stone used a piece of lime to draw lines on the stone to determine what each part would be made into, so as to minimize the waste of materials.
After drawing the lines, the old man Black Stone knocked on the stone again, completely breaking down the entire piece of stone.
After breaking down the stones, Old Man Black Stone polished them piece by piece, chiseling off the excess parts and polishing the necessary parts until they were smooth.
This was a very time-consuming job. After watching for a while, Jiang Xuan temporarily left the stone workshop. After all, he still had a lot of things to do.
It was not until fifteen days later that Old Man Heishi finally finished polishing it, and he personally brought his apprentice to deliver the finished product to Jiang Xuan's house.
The finished products are packed separately in several animal hide bags, and those finished products are wrapped in soft deerskin to prevent bumps.
When Jiang Xuan closed the door and poured out the finished product from the animal skin bag, soft green light illuminated the entire room.
Two of them are round stone balls, polished very smoothly by the Black Stone Old Man.
Old Man Heishi also thoughtfully provided two wooden bases for the stone ball, which were made by someone in a woodworking workshop.
Jiang Xuan placed one of the stone balls on a base and placed it in the middle of the table.
The round stone ball emits a soft green light, just like a lamp, which is very beautiful.
Except for the round stone balls, the remaining larger scraps were polished into pendants by Old Man Black Stone.
The smaller scraps are polished into bracelets.
It can be said that there is very little waste in the entire piece of stone.
This is the experience and technology of the old stone craftsman.
"It's so beautiful. You are indeed worthy of being a master of stone tools."
Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with the finished product and was generous in praising Old Man Heishi.
Old Heishi was very happy, and a long-lost smile appeared on his usually serious face.
Then, he picked out a pendant from a pile of finished products, handed it to Old Man Black Stone, and said, "This is for you."
"No, no, no...I can't have it..."
"Take it, you deserve it."
Jiang Xuan stuffed the pendant into the hands of Old Man Heishi without giving him a chance to refuse.
Old Man Heishi held the pendant in his hand and felt deeply moved. It was a great fortune to meet a good leader like Jiang Xuan.
For some leaders, no matter how much you do, you won't get any reward, and they may even find fault with you.
Old Man Heishi was not a good talker. He stood in the room for a while and felt a little uncomfortable, so he said goodbye to Jiang Xuan and returned to the stone workshop to work.
After the people in the stone workshop left, Jiang Xuan immediately gave another glowing stone ball and a base to Chishao.
As for the remaining pendants and bracelets, Jiang Xuan planned to keep them and give them as rewards to those clansmen who had made great contributions.
Only by having rewards and punishments can the members of the Teng tribe be more loyal to the tribe.
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After the fall, the weather gradually became cooler.
After the autumn harvest, the Teng tribe held a grand autumn sacrificial ceremony.
After the sacrifice, the strength of the Teng tribe warriors was raised to a higher level.
Not only that, because the divine vine has become a great god, all the warriors of the vine tribe have been endowed with some of the divine vine's special abilities, such as extremely strong vitality and rapid healing of wounds.
With these talents, the Vine Tribe warriors can have a great advantage when facing medium and small tribes.
After the sacrifice, the weather gradually turned cooler, the grass and trees gradually turned yellow, and winter was approaching.
On September 11, more than a dozen huge black-toothed birds flew over in the sky south of the Teng tribe.
These black-toothed birds carried large amounts of cargo and warriors from the Black-toothed tribe's caravan on their backs.
Among them, the leader was Wu Yu, who had traded with the Fuji tribe several times.
When Wu Yu rode the black-toothed bird to the vicinity of the Teng tribe, he suddenly felt a sense of fear, and the black-toothed birds did not dare to fly forward anymore.
"Could it be that the guardian deity of the Teng tribe has made another breakthrough?"
"Impossible, absolutely impossible, how long has it been?"
Wu Yu's face was full of disbelief. The speed at which the Teng tribe was developing had completely overturned his understanding.
For other tribes, unless they migrate or are destroyed by others, the population will only increase or decrease over a decade or even decades, and the tribe will not undergo much change.
But the Teng Tribe would see earth-shaking changes every time an exploratory team from the Black Tooth Tribe came.
Especially this time, the divine vine in the fog, even if it did not actively attack, the terrifying aura it naturally exuded made Wu Yu's scalp tingle.
He had only seen this kind of situation in other large tribes.
Could it be that the totem god of the Teng tribe has become a great god? When this thought came out, Wu Yu was shocked and subconsciously wanted to deny it.
But the aura of the divine vine is too similar to the aura of the totem god of the big tribe.
It's not just the divine vine, but also the extremely tall vine wall that surrounds the entire vine tribe and even the forest outside. It is truly spectacular.
Even the house on the ground was not the same kind of house he had seen before.
Other tribes usually live in small wooden houses, stone houses, or even caves.
But the houses of the Teng tribe are very large, and the roofs of many houses are no longer thatched and bark, but instead a kind of blue-gray stone.
That’s right, Wu Yu thought it should be a kind of stone flake.
Moreover, there are a large number of houses in the Teng tribe, which are arranged in neat rows. Looking from the sky to the ground, it is very spectacular.
Wu Yu looked for a long time, then took out a bone whistle and blew a few times behind him.
After hearing the whistle, the black-toothed birds behind all landed on the ground.
This time, they didn't dare to fly directly into the Teng Tribe, but landed outside the Teng Tribe.
This is a sign of respect for the greater tribe.
Of course, Wu Yu is not sure whether the Fuji tribe is now considered a medium-sized tribe or a large tribe.
Outside the gate on the south side of Teng Tribe, there is a large open space that was specially cleared.
It's not just the South Gate, the other three gates are the same. There is an open space in front of the gate, which is convenient for stacking goods or queuing.
"Cry..."
Twelve huge black-toothed birds dropped from the sky and landed one by one on the clearing.
Their large size, sharp claws, and serrated beaks are intimidating.
The outsiders and tourists nearby all moved away from that place, hiding in the distance and talking among themselves.
Some people recognized the Black Tooth Bird and knew that this was the arrival of a caravan from the Black Tooth Tribe.
Some people didn't know them and thought they came to the Teng tribe to cause trouble.
“Boom!”
Wu Yu jumped off the back of the black-toothed bird, looking at the tourists around him and the goods coming in and out, feeling a little dazed.
When I first came to the Teng tribe, there were only a few thatched huts and a dozen people. In just a few years, it has developed into this.
I really don't understand.
But it doesn't matter. The Black Tooth Tribe is far away from here, and the development of the Vine Tribe will not have much impact on them. At most, the trade in this small area will be slightly affected.
On the other side, Jiang Xuan received a report from the guard soldiers and learned that the Black Tooth Tribe was coming.
He immediately went to the south gate, and when Wu Yu was about to enter the Teng tribe, Jiang Xuan had already come out to greet him.
"Captain Wu Yu, long time no see, hahaha..."
Jiang Xuan walked up to Wu Yu with a big laugh and gave him a bear hug, very enthusiastically.
Because the Black Tooth Tribe lives far away, they always bring some good things every time they come, so Jiang Xuan is of course very enthusiastic.
Wu Yu's gaze remained on Jiang Xuan's face, and in his heart, ten thousand black wind rhinos with their hooves covered in grass and mud were running past.
"Xuan... Chief Xuan, you... you became a five-color warrior?"
Wu Yu had an expression as if he had seen a ghost.
When Jiang Xuan was first met, he was just a weak one-color warrior, while Wu Yu was a powerful three-color warrior.
But now, Jiang Xuan has become a five-color warrior, and Wu Yu is still a three-color warrior.
Are the differences between people really that outrageous? "Hahaha, it was just luck, I was lucky, so I made the breakthrough faster."
After hearing Jiang Xuan's words, Wu Yu became even more depressed. He rode the black-toothed bird all over the Southern Wilderness every day, so why didn't he encounter such a good thing?
Jiang Xuan changed the subject and said, "Captain Wu Yu, you haven't been here for a long time."
Wu Yu smiled bitterly and said, "Don't mention it. Ever since those tribes in the Western Wilds migrated to the Southern Wilds, the large, medium, and small tribes have been fighting each other. Our Black Tooth Tribe has also been affected."
The migration of the Western Wilderness tribes had a greater impact than expected because there were so many tribes.
The Teng tribe is only a small area where the Western Wilderness enters the Southern Wilderness. There are more Western Wilderness tribes in other areas.
After these Western Wilderness tribes entered the Southern Wilderness, the weaker ones found places to settle on the edge, while the stronger ones directly charged into the heart of the Southern Wilderness to seize those resource-rich areas.
Under such circumstances, most tribes were involved and the entire Southern Wilderness became a mess.
Even this small area where the Teng tribe is located has been fought countless times, so one can imagine how fierce the fighting was in those resource-rich areas.
Jiang Xuan said: "It was indeed troublesome. Our Teng tribe alone had fought with several tribes from the Western Wasteland. Fortunately, we were lucky and won every time."
Wu Yu didn't want to talk anymore. He could say it was good luck for one or two times, but after so many battles, the tribe became stronger and stronger. Anyone who believed that the Teng tribe was really lucky was a fool.
But he didn't say much. The stronger the Teng Tribe was, the better it was for a traveling team like theirs, because there were more things that could be traded and more profits could be earned.
At Jiang Xuan's enthusiastic invitation, Wu Yu and his warriors carried the goods through the vine wall and entered the Teng tribe.
As soon as he entered the Teng tribe, Wu Yu saw two huge beast skulls as big as hills, one was the skull of the jackal god, and the other was the skull of the newest wild boar god.
After the divine vine absorbed all the essence and divine matter in the skull, it threw the skeleton out.
Among them, Jiang Xuan sent a team of soldiers to move the hardest and most frightening skull to the outside of the trading area, and placed it on the left and right of the skull of the jackal god as decorations.
These two skulls that look like small hills not only serve as decorations, but also demonstrate the strength of the Teng Tribe. They let everyone who comes to the Teng Tribe's trading area know that the Teng Tribe is not easy to mess with and that they should never cause trouble here.
After seeing the two totem skulls, Wu Yu and his warriors did not say anything, but their attitude was obviously lowered.
"Chief Xuan, when did your Teng tribe establish a trading zone?"
"It was just last year, not long after it was established. You haven't been here for two years, and the nearby tribes need to trade again, so we built a trading area to facilitate everyone to trade."
Jiang Xuan's words were understated, but Wu Yu didn't think so.
Even if other tribes established a trading area, it was often just a piece of empty land with a few wooden sheds built on it.
But the trading area of the Teng tribe has two rows of tall houses that are neatly arranged, and even the ground is paved with stone slabs. It is not something that can be built casually.
"Chief Xuan, can we go into the trading area and take a look?"
"Of course. You've come all this way, so it's a good opportunity for us to go into the trading area and get something to eat."
"Do you have food to eat in your trading area?"
"Of course, we sell whatever people need."
Jiang Xuan led Wu Yu and others through the trading area. The pedestrians coming and going and the dazzling array of goods made Wu Yu and others feel dazzled, and even had a dream-like sense of unreality.
When Jiang Xuan brought them to the inn in the trading area, they saw neatly arranged tables and chairs, as well as foreign tribesmen eating in groups of three or four. This sense of unreality became even stronger.
They had never seen such a scene in other tribes.
Jiang Xuan took them to a compartment in the inn that was specially used for reception. After they sat down, the waiter in charge of the inn hurried over.
"Chief, what would you like to eat?"
"Cut 50 kilograms of cooked meat, add two pots of red crystal rice, stir-fry some vegetables, and serve some juicy fruits first to quench the thirst of the guests from the Black Tooth Tribe."
"Okay, I'll be there soon."
The waiter left in a hurry, and soon came back with some seasonal fruits in a few beautiful wicker baskets.
"Come, come, have some fruit. You're welcome."
At Jiang Xuan's warm invitation, Wu Yu and others took some fruits to eat. At this season, the fruits were ripe, very sweet, and juicy, which quenched their thirst.
Before Wu Yu could praise the fruit, several waiters in the inn brought in fifty kilograms of cooked animal meat, and the rich aroma of meat filled the entire room.
The cooked meats were served in several large ceramic basins, on the sides of which were engraved with totem patterns of the Vine Tribe and some floral and bird patterns, which were very beautiful.
Soon after, two large pots of red crystal rice were brought up, along with the unique stir-fried vegetables of the Teng tribe.
In this era where roasting and boiling are the main means of food processing, stir-frying can be considered a very luxurious thing.
Wu Yu and the soldiers looked at the table full of dishes, their saliva began to flow rapidly, and they swallowed it quietly.
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Thanks to all book friends for the rewards, Qingshi is grateful.
(End of this chapter)
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