While waiting for the leader to arrive, Jiang Xuan chatted with the red spider while continuing to look at the spider house with interest.
Outside the spider house, there are eight simulated spider legs, and between these spider legs, there are many spiders weaving webs.
On one of the webs, Jiang Xuan saw a large, brightly colored spider lying quietly in the web.
Just then, a spider twice its size appeared.
This smaller spider is of the same species as the larger one, and has almost identical patterns on its body.
The smaller spider cautiously approached the web and began to dance within sight of the larger spider.
It twisted its colorful butt, waved its two spider legs, and danced hard.
Seeing Jiang Xuan staring at the two spiders, Red Spider explained, "The smaller one is the male, and the larger one is the female. The male is dancing to woo a mate."
"Courtship? Interesting."
Jiang Xuan continued to watch the two spiders and saw that the male spider was jumping very hard, but the female spider was more irritable. She ran to the edge of the spider web several times, trying to drive away the male spider.
But the male spider did not give up. It kept changing its position and continued dancing, while regularly tapping the edge of the web with its forelimbs, sending out courtship signals.
After several times, the female spider was perhaps moved by the male spider's sincerity, or perhaps gave up struggling. It lay in the middle of the spider web and knocked on the spider web regularly with its forelimbs.
The male spider was overjoyed and immediately crawled along the spider web, then entangled with the female spider, as if he was afraid that the female spider would regret it.
The spider's pleasure was relatively short-lived, and soon after, the male spider dragged its tired body and wanted to leave.
However, at this moment, something unexpected happened to Jiang Xuan.
"puff!"
The larger female spider suddenly hugged the male spider with her eight legs, and then bit the male spider's head with her sharp mouthparts!
The male spider struggled violently, but to no avail. Soon his legs were stretched straight and he died.
"What's going on?"
Jiang Xuan felt a little unbelievable. The price of the male spider's momentary joy was too high, right? The red spider said, "After the female spider becomes pregnant, it needs a lot of nutrition to reproduce. Eating the male spider is a good choice. Of course, only a few species of spiders will do this. Most male spiders can still survive."
After hearing what Red Spider said, Jiang Xuan immediately thought of the mantis, because the female mantis also has the habit of eating the male mantis.
Jiang Xuan looked at Red Spider again and asked in a low voice: "In your Spider Tribe, do women have a higher status?"
Red Spider replied, "The Spider God has gifted female warriors with stronger bodies and greater strength, so it is normal that the women of the Spider Tribe are much stronger than the men and have a higher status."
"No wonder." Jiang Xuan suddenly realized.
The totem gods of large tribes would grant some special abilities to tribal warriors. The totem gods of the spider tribe apparently bestowed the larger and more ferocious characteristics of female spiders on the female warriors.
I just don’t know if the women in the Spider Tribe will also kill their men like the female spiders.
If that's the case, it's terrible.
Of course, Jiang Xuan believed that even if this situation occurred, it should be extremely rare. After all, he had seen many middle-aged and even elderly male warriors in the Spider Tribe.
Also, not all spiders eat their mates.
Of course, even if they are not killed, the men of the Spider Tribe have a very low status, similar to the role of tools.
Just as Jiang Xuan was daydreaming, a tall and strong woman came over.
She was about thirty or forty years old, with an ordinary appearance, but very tall, a head taller than Jiang Xuan, giving people a very strong sense of oppression.
Most importantly, she had seven warrior patterns painted on her face, and was obviously a powerful seven-color warrior!
"leader!"
All the Spider Tribe warriors, including Red Spider, lowered their heads when they saw this strong woman.
The leader of the Spider Tribe nodded slightly, then looked at Jiang Xuan and asked, "Are you the leader of the Vine Tribe, Xuan?"
"That's right."
For the first time, Jiang Xuan felt a little weak in front of a woman because this woman was too tall and too strong.
The leader of the Spider Tribe looked at the animal skin bag in Jiang Xuan's hand and asked, "Do you want to replace all the insect wax with spider silk clothes?"
"Yes."
The leader of the spider tribe bent down and took out a candle made of insect wax from the animal skin bag. He looked at it over and over for a while, then put it under his nose and sniffed it. He said, "Insect wax is good. Let's do as you said. One piece of insect wax can be exchanged for three spider silk clothes."
"Red Spider, count the insect wax and how much spider silk clothing you need, and come to me to get it."
"yes!"
The originally strong red spider was obviously weaker in front of the leader. It walked to Jiang Xuan, poured out all the insect wax, and then counted them one by one, twice.
"Fifteen sticks of wax in total."
"With fifteen wax sticks, how many spider silk clothes can I find..."
Red Spider counted on his fingers for a long time, but because he had never learned arithmetic and suffered from his lack of education, he couldn't figure it out after counting for a long time.
The leader of the Spider Tribe couldn't stand it anymore and said, "Forget it. Go and move a bunch of them here. If there are too many, take them back. If there are too few, go get more."
"yes!"
Red Spider thought it made sense, so he took people to move the spider silk clothes. Anyway, one stick of insect wax could be exchanged for three spider silk clothes. The method was a bit stupid, but it was useful.
The leader of the Spider Tribe looked at Jiang Xuan and asked, "Where is your Vine Tribe?"
"In the distant edge of the southern wilderness, I rode a bird for more than 20 days to get here."
"It's so far..."
When the leader of the Spider Tribe heard about the long distance, he lost interest in the Vine Tribe.
Except for tribes with flying mounts or migratory tribes like the Western Wilds, the activity range of most tribes is not large, even the large tribes.
She had originally thought that if the Teng Tribe was not far away, she could trade with them frequently, as insect wax was so precious.
But with such a long distance, it is difficult to make a deal.
The leader of the Spider Tribe looked at Jiang Xuan again and thought that such a young five-color warrior was really rare, not to mention that he was a tribal leader.
"Chief Xuan, the spiders I raise can make colorful webs. How about coming to my house to admire them tonight?"
When Jiang Xuan heard this, he shuddered, because he suddenly thought of a joke he had seen in his previous life: My cat can do a backflip, do you want to go and see it? The purpose of the Spider Tribe leader was too clear. The female warriors around him had already laughed meaningfully, and the male warriors looked at Jiang Xuan with envy.
Jiang Xuan decisively refused: "Thank you for your kindness, Chief, but I have something urgent to do. I have to rush back as soon as the transaction is completed. Sorry."
The leader of the Spider Tribe looked a little disappointed. It was not easy to find a young man as powerful as Jiang Xuan.
Of course, since Jiang Xuan refused, she did not force it. After all, the Spider Tribe was so large and she was the leader. There were plenty of men, so she would not be so hungry and thirsty.
Soon, Red Spider came over with two female warriors, carrying a pile of spider silk clothes.
Spider silk clothes are extremely tough, but not thick. Instead, they are very thin and light.
"Let's start trading."
At the command of the Spider Tribe leader, Jiang Xuan and Red Spider immediately began the transaction.
Jiang Xuan handed Hong Zhu a piece of insect wax, and Hong Zhu gave him three spider silk clothes. It was not easy to make mistakes using such a stupid way of trading.
When the transaction was completed, the Spider Tribe obtained fifteen thick insect wax sticks, and Jiang Xuan obtained forty-five spider silk clothes.
With these spider silk clothes, the safety of important members of the Goto tribe will be provided with an extra layer of protection.
Jiang Xuan put the spider silk clothes into a hide bag, tied the bag, and then said goodbye to the leader of the spider tribe.
"The deal is done. It's time for me to go back. Next time I come, I'll bring more insect wax and other precious goods."
"The Spider Tribe welcomes Chief Xuan to come over to do business at any time."
Jiang Xuan said a few words of goodbye to the leader of the Spider Tribe, and then couldn't wait to leave.
Red Spider said, "Chief, I'll take him out."
The leader of the Spider Tribe nodded: "Okay."
After the leader of the Spider Tribe finished speaking, she turned around and left. She still had a lot of things to do.
Seeing that there was nothing exciting to watch, the members of the surrounding Spider Tribe also dispersed.
Red Spider asked a little disappointedly, "Are you leaving so soon? How about staying here for one night? The spiders I raise are very beautiful, and I want to take you to see them."
Jiang Xuan felt very embarrassed. Why did he feel like he had turned into Tang Monk on his journey to the West? All these female fairies wanted to sleep with him.
"Next time, I really have something urgent to do."
Jiang Xuan's rejection made Hong Zhu even more disappointed. He looked down on all the weak male warriors in the tribe. She finally met a good-looking and powerful man, but he refused to spend even one night with her.
"Okay, then I'll wait for Chief Xuan to come over next time."
Red Spider and Jiang Xuan passed through many spider houses and came to the open space on the edge of the residential area again.
Tangyuan was squatting there, feeling extremely bored, watching the spider crawling around in the distance.
If Jiang Xuan hadn't sternly warned it, it would really like to taste what those big spiders taste like.
After Jiang Xuan came over, Tangyuan perked up, stood up immediately, shook off the dust on his feathers, and stretched one of his wings diagonally to the ground.
Jiang Xuan walked to Tang Yuan, turned around and said to Red Spider: "Red Spider Leader, I'm leaving now, so we..."
The words "see you next time" were still in his throat when Jiang Xuan's eyes suddenly widened and he didn't finish his words.
Red Spider hugged Jiang Xuan domineeringly, with great strength.
After a while, Red Spider Song finally opened his hand and waved, saying, "Let's go. Don't forget me when you go back. I'll wait for you to come and see the spider next time."
Jiang Xuan opened his mouth, but he didn't know what to say. This woman was too brave! In the end, he silently climbed onto Tangyuan's back, not knowing what to feel in his heart.
This was the first time he was hugged by someone, and it happened so suddenly, without any warning at all.
"Eer..."
Tangyuan flapped its wings and flew into the sky. After circling for a few times, it flew back under Jiang Xuan's instructions.
Red Spider stood in the open space, looking up at the purple ferocious bird and the man on its back. He didn't lower his head until it was out of sight anymore, and then he couldn't help laughing.
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