Chapter 268 Chinese Cabbage
After coming out of the gold mine, it was already dark outside.
Jiang Xuan could only let the warriors of the Teng Tribe spend one night in the Giant Claw Tribe. For this reason, the people of the Giant Claw Tribe were very worried, fearing that their limited food would be eaten up.
However, they were obviously overthinking it. The warriors of the Vine Tribe did not ask for food from the Giant Claw Tribe. Instead, they ate the prey they hunted on the road and the dry food they carried with them.
As the two most powerful hunting teams in the Teng tribe, they will not go hungry as long as there are prey nearby.
That night, Shi Chan and Jiang Xuan sat by the campfire. While they were grilling meat, he said worriedly, "Chief Xuan, I am just a two-color warrior. If you let me be the leader, the tribesmen in the tribe will definitely not accept it."
"When you were here, the tribesmen didn't dare to say anything. After you leave, I'm afraid I won't be able to keep my position as leader stable."
Shichan's worries were not groundless. He had noticed that those warriors in the tribe who were stronger than him looked at him with disdain and even hatred.
Most of the Giant Claw tribe members believed that the Vine tribe was provoked by Shi Chan and that Shi Chan killed the old leader, so he was the culprit.
How can such a person be a leader?
Shi Chan was worried that once the Teng Tribe left, he would be immediately pushed down from his position as leader by the Giant Claw Tribe, or even killed directly.
Jiang Xuan thought about it, and secretly communicated with Shen Teng, asking Shen Teng to order Giant Claw God to support Shi Chan as the leader.
The divine vine glowed faintly, apparently using its soul to communicate with the Giant Claw God.
“Boom…”
After a while, the giant claw god reluctantly crawled out from the ground and opened his mouth to spray a stream of divine power towards the stone shovel.
The divine power instantly enveloped Shishao and slowly merged into his body.
"ah……"
The muscles on Shi Chan's body quickly grew stronger, his bones and tendons became tougher, and his overall aura continued to rise.
When the divine light disappeared, Shi Chan's strength had been forcibly raised to a three-color warrior! At the same time, the witch of the Giant Claw Tribe had obviously received instructions from God. He walked to Shi Chan and announced to all the tribesmen: "Oracle, from today on, Shi Chan is the leader of our Giant Claw Tribe, and no one can disobey his orders."
"how so?"
"Why should Shishao be the leader?"
"Stop talking, this is God's decision..."
The members of the Giant Claw Tribe were talking about it, especially the stronger warriors, who were very unconvinced.
The face of the witch of the Giant Claw Tribe darkened, and he said, "Are you questioning God's will?"
As soon as these words were spoken, and with the Giant Claw God right before their eyes, staring at them coldly, no one in the Giant Claw tribe dared to speak anymore.
"God has issued a decree. This matter has been decided. Anyone who objects will be expelled from the tribe immediately!"
The words of the Giant Claw Tribe witch were so sharp that even if others were dissatisfied, they did not dare to say a word and could only lower their heads.
The Giant Claw tribe witch glanced at Jiang Xuan, then turned and went back.
The Giant Claw God also crawled back into the cave and continued to sulk.
Beside the campfire, Shishao felt the tremendous power in his body and felt as if he was dreaming.
Jiang Xuan smiled and said, "With the support of the Giant Claw God and the witch, your strength has been improved. Now you can be the leader with peace of mind, right?"
Shi Chan said without hesitation: "Chief Xuan, from now on, I will do whatever you ask me to do, and I will always be loyal to the Teng Tribe."
"Hahaha, okay, I'll remember what you said. I hope you'll keep your promise in the future."
"The meat is cooked. Come, come, eat meat, eat meat."
Jiang Xuan was very happy. The totem god of the Giant Claw tribe had been controlled, and the leader of the Giant Claw tribe also expressed his loyalty to him. This tribe was firmly in the hands of the Vine tribe.
Everyone had a great time that night, and some warriors from the Vine Tribe even had some unspeakable stories with the women from the Giant Claw Tribe.
The next morning, Jiang Xuan painted the totem pattern of the Teng Tribe on a large stone in the center of the Giant Claw Tribe’s residence, and then led two hunting teams back to the Teng Tribe with a large amount of gold.
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On March 18th, the weather was already very warm, humid and rainy, and various plants entered a period of rapid growth.
Planting team leader Gan Song excitedly called Jiang Xuan to a vegetable field and asked him to see the new varieties of vegetables that had just been planted this year.
This is a fertile vegetable field that has been planted for many years. Some of the vegetable seeds that Jiang Xuan brought back from the Black Tooth Tribe last year were planted here.
Now, these seeds have taken root, sprouted, and begun to grow.
"Chief, look, this vegetable is already as high as your knees before it grows up. At first, its leaves were spread out, just like other vegetables, but later, its leaves closed together and turned into a ball."
As Gan Song excitedly introduced the vegetable, Jiang Xuan looked at it with his eyes widened.
“Chinese cabbage!”
Jiang Xuan looked at the familiar leaves and thought he was seeing things, so he rubbed his eyes subconsciously.
"Yes, it's Chinese cabbage, and it's cabbage!"
Jiang Xuan was very surprised. He originally thought that in such a primitive world, it was already good enough to see that kind of loose-leafed cabbage.
Who would have thought that there is such a thing as cabbage here.
Jiang Xuan asked, "Have you fed the animals yet?"
"I have fed them to pigs, cows, big-horned deer, unicorns, long-tailed rabbits, colorful pheasants, and colorful ducks. They are fine and they like to eat."
“Good, good, good… That’s great!”
Jiang Xuan was even happier. He squatted down, carefully tore off half a cabbage leaf, selected the clean part, put it in his mouth and took a bite.
The taste of this cabbage was unexpectedly good, with a light sweetness that made Jiang Xuan's eyes light up.
"Good stuff, really good stuff!"
Jiang Xuan was very satisfied with the cabbage. It tasted good and was big in size. It was as high as an adult's knee before it fully grew. Once it was fully grown, it would probably be more than half a person's height.
These are truly high-quality vegetables, better than any vegetables available in the Teng Tribe right now!
"Take good care of these cabbages. When they produce seeds, save more seeds so that everyone in our tribe can eat them in two or three years."
"Don't worry, Chief. I've planted some insect-eating plants around the area and put up a fence. I'm sure these cabbages will grow well!"
Jiang Xuan nodded and said, "I believe you."
Gan Song was very grateful for Jiang Xuan's trust, and at the same time he secretly vowed that he would never let down his leader's trust.
"Let's go look at something else."
Jiang Xuan walked to the other side of the vegetable field and saw a very strange plant.
The leaves of this plant are disc-shaped, with a straight stem in the middle connecting the disc-shaped leaves. It is very magical.
"What kind of plant is this?" Jiang Xuan asked curiously.
"This is also the seed the leader brought back from the central region. It looks a bit like a rabbit head."
After Gan Song reminded him, Jiang Xuan remembered.
This plant is called rabbit-head fruit. Wu Yu from the Black Tooth Tribe had specially introduced it to him. It is a food-type herb.
"It's a bit interesting, but I don't know if the yield is high and whether it can be used as a staple food."
Jiang Xuan likes staple food because enough staple food can help the Teng tribe get rid of the problem of food and clothing and increase the population.
In addition to cabbage and rabbit-head fruit, there are many other vegetables or grain crops in this vegetable field. Most of them are new varieties, and Jiang Xuan cannot recognize them.
Some of these new varieties can adapt to the environment of the vine tribe, while others cannot. Their growth conditions vary, and it is unknown how much they can produce.
However, Jiang Xuan believed that with so many varieties of grains and vegetables, some would adapt to the environment of the Teng Tribe and become new food on the table of the Teng Tribe members.
Afterwards, Gan Song took him to another vegetable field, where Jiang Xuan saw a plant that looked familiar.
“Is this… corn?”
When Jiang Xuan saw this plant that looked like corn, he was very happy.
The stem of this plant is very tall, a bit like green-skinned sugarcane, and its leaves are broad, slender, and also green, almost exactly the same as corn leaves.
When he was in the Black Tooth Tribe, one of the seeds he traded was a purple seed, similar to corn cobs, except that they were larger and the seeds were purple.
The plants he saw now should have grown from those purple seeds.
If this thing is really corn, or a crop similar to corn, then it may become the new staple food of the Teng Tribe!
"Pay more attention to these plants, and let me know if they bear fruit."
"yes!"
Gan Song took this matter to heart and decided to take better care of the crops that the chief paid special attention to.
In addition to the plants that looked like corn, Jiang Xuan also saw a plant that the Teng tribe had been planting for two years, called red vegetable.
The whole plant is purple-red, about half a person tall, and looks a bit like a small tree, but it is actually an herb and a vegetable.
The whole plant of beetroot is edible, including the stems, leaves, flowers and roots. It has a relatively high sugar content and is sweet after being cooked.
At first, Jiang Xuan was also very happy, thinking that he could use this red vegetable to make sugar, so that the Teng tribe would have plenty of sugar to eat.
However, imagination is beautiful and reality is cruel.
The red cabbage may not be well adapted to the soil and climate of the Teng tribe and grows very poorly. Two years have passed and the scale of cultivation is still pitifully small.
Because of this, Jiang Xuan removed his hope of producing sugar from beetroot and placed it instead on honey trees and honey bugs.
He hoped that when honey leaf trees were planted on a large scale, the honey bugs would be able to produce enough sugar for all the members of the Vine Tribe to eat, and they could even be used as important goods to trade with other tribes.
After checking the vegetable fields, Jiang Xuan went to the depression beside the pond.
At this time, some muddy land that has been flooded all year round has been planted with fish scale fruit, and from what it has seen so far, it is growing well.
These fish scale fruits were brought back by Jiang Xuan from the Crocodile Tribe and are one of the staple foods of the Crocodile Tribe.
Although it can grow in the vine tribe, it is still unknown whether it can bear fruit and whether the yield is as high as in the crocodile tribe.
However, the Teng Tribe already has many varieties of food crops. Overall, the planting industry is thriving, with output increasing every year, providing the necessary food for the development of the Teng Tribe.
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