Chapter 136: Jiu Nian Tribe
Jian Mo's hand paused.
Gong Wei's two fathers noticed: "Doctor Jian Mo, what's wrong?"
Jian Mo asked: "Can I see the clothes on Gong Wei?"
Gong Wei's father immediately said: "Of course, we have clean clothes in the basket, which are also exchanged from the Jiu Nian Tribe. Doctor Jian Mo, can you take a look?"
Jian Mo took the new clothes and soon found that the fabric of the new clothes was indeed different from ordinary fabrics.
It is rougher and harder, with a hard feel of plant fibers, which is different from ordinary fabrics woven from animal hair.
After being here for so long, Jian Mo has basically only seen two kinds of fabrics.
One is leather made from animal skins, most of which are animal skins, and some tribes use fish skins. For example, the Snow Foot Tribe has a tradition of making clothes with fish skins.
The other type is animal hair. Some people use their own hair, some use the hair of their partners and their own children, and some, like Jian Mo, use animal hair directly.
He has never seen anyone weaving cloth with plant fibers.
Jian Mo looked up and asked, "Is this cloth made of plants?"
Gong Wei's two fathers shook their heads, indicating that they didn't know.
Jian Mo: "I'll take off some threads and burn them and we'll know."
Gong Wei's father: "Burn?"
Jian Mo: "Cloth woven from animal wool has a special smell when burned, but plants don't."
Gong Wei's father said, "I have a tinder here, how about you burn it here, Doctor Jian Mo?"
The tinder is actually a hollow, thin feldspar tube filled with compacted plant wood wool. Open the lid to let oxygen in, and blow it a little, and the sparks will start a fire.
This kind of tinder is simple to make and easy to carry. Orcs and sub-orcs must bring it when they go on a long journey.
Seeing how enthusiastic they were, Jian Mo pulled two threads from the hem of his clothes and the hem of Gong Wei's clothes, and took them outside to burn.
After burning, the threads of Jian Mo's clothes gave off a strong smell of burning protein, while the threads of Gong Wei's clothes had almost no smell.
Gong Wei's father widened his eyes: "When I changed before, I just felt that their clothes were cooler and more comfortable to wear. I didn't expect that their fabrics were completely different."
Jian Mo smiled: "Maybe it's the exclusive secret recipe of their tribe. How do you change it? How much stuff can be exchanged for one roll of their cloth?"
Gong Wei's father: "Two rolls of cloth can be exchanged for one roll. They are pretty good."
Jian Mo was instantly moved when he heard this.
Jian Mo suppressed his thoughts, said goodbye to Gong Wei and his son, and went to find Wu Jiong with the threads.
Wu Jiong was training Ban Ming and the others.
Summer is coming to an end, and several nearby tribes are going to jointly hold a summer harvest festival mainly for young people.
At the summer harvest festival, the territories of all tribes will be open, and young beastmen and sub-beastmen can go to any territory to capture and collect the food they want, and rank according to the value of what they harvest.
In order to prevent the Riverside Tribe from losing too badly, Wu Jiong and Dejiang and others took the time to conduct special training for the young people.
Sweat flowed down Ban Ming's cheeks, and everyone's lips were cracked, as if they were participating in the beastman version of military training.
As soon as he saw Jian Mo coming, Ban Ming immediately seized the opportunity and shouted loudly: "Chief, Brother Jian Mo is here."
Wu Jiong glanced at Ban Ming and said: "Then you guys squat in horse stance first."
Ban Ming and others wailed and changed their posture reluctantly.
Jian Mo waved to Wu Jiong: "Will it disturb your training?"
Wu Jiong: "No, what's wrong?"
Jian Mo held up the two threads in his hand to show him, and said with bright eyes: "Let me show you something!"
Wu Jiong took the thread and twisted it: "What is this? ? It shouldn't be animal hair."
Jian Mo: "The threads on Gongwei's clothes! When I checked him, I found that his clothes are a bit stiff, but they are cooler and more breathable, so they are very suitable for this season."
Ban Ming and the others stood up while squatting.
Hearing Jian Mo's words, Ban Ming interjected: "Brother Jian Mo, summer is almost over. You have to change to softer and warmer fabrics."
Jian Mo smiled and said nothing. The clothes he was wearing didn't matter. It was important to upgrade his underwear.
Wu Jiong asked, "Which tribe is the cloth from?"
Jian Mo: "From the Jiu Nian tribe. It seems that the caravan didn't pass by the Jiu Nian tribe last time?"
Wu Jiong: "We passed by the edge of the Jiu Nian tribe. Do you want to go to the Jiu Nian tribe?"
Jian Mo nodded: "I think their tribe is not far from us. We can ride Jiu Jiu and Ying Ao and arrive the next day. How about we go there?"
Ban Ming spoke up next to him: "Chief, you go. De Jiang will train us and won't delay us."
Ah Hu: "Yes, yes, yes, Chief, you can still assign tasks and let us train on our own."
Wu Jiong raised his head: "Do you want to train more? I will assign tasks for you two separately after the training."
The other beastmen who wanted to interrupt immediately shut up when they heard this, lowered their heads and squatted.
Ban Ming and Ah Hu opened their mouths wide, looking wronged.
Jian Mo watched from the side, laughing so much, waved and went home.
Jiujiu and Yingao went out, Jian Mo took a broom to clean their nests, and then went to clean the nests of the tuk-tuk beast and the long-tailed bird.
They have been milking, and the tuk-tuk beast's milk has not stopped yet.
The long-tailed bird has not started laying eggs yet, perhaps because it is not adapted to their life here.
Jian Mo plans to raise them for a while, and if it really doesn't work, he will ask someone to ask the people of the Eighteen Bends tribe to see if they can think of a solution.
After cleaning the house, Jian Mo went to the back mountain to see the honeyeaters.
The honeyeaters are already used to staying in the back mountain, and Jian Mo can hear their chirping sounds from a long distance away.
He touched the soft ears on the top of his head. It might be because his animal ears were particularly sensitive that he could hear the sound from so far away.
He went to the back mountain to inspect the 31 nests of honey sparrows. They all seemed to be adapting well. Most of them had already collected one or two pieces of honey.
When they collected four or five pieces, they could harvest them.
These little guys don't know how to count. If you take two honey cubes from their nests, they won't know.
As long as they haven't collected enough honey cubes, they will keep collecting. When they have collected enough, they will stop, look for a mate and reproduce, and use the accumulated honey cubes to feed the little honey sparrows.
Ji Xun said that the most important thing about raising honey sparrows is to pay attention to the number of honey cubes in their nests. There should be no more and no less. Check and collect frequently.
After cleaning up the house, Jian Mo also made fried meatballs and dried meat to eat on the road.
Gong Wei's two fathers said that they could just exchange cloth for cloth from the Jiunian tribe. In order to ensure that he could exchange it, Jian Mo found glass, metal blocks, soap, paper and other items at home and packed a whole backpack.
In the evening, when Wu Jiong came back and saw the things he had packed, he said, "I've already arranged it. Let's set off tomorrow."
Jian Mo: "So urgent?"
Wu Jiong: "Go there earlier and exchange the cloth earlier, so you don't have to worry about it all the time."
Jian Mo nodded and said happily, "Then I'll make some delicious food for Jiujiu and Yingao, and we'll set off tomorrow."
They have winged beasts, so it's much more convenient to go to a farther tribe than before.
The next day, Jian Mo and Wu Jiong rode Jiujiu and let Yingao carry the supplies to rush to the Jiunian tribe.
The Jiunian tribe was indeed a bit far away, and even riding a winged beast would not be able to reach it in one day. They rested in the wild for a night before arriving at the Jiunian tribe.
When the beastman who had been patrolling the tribe for a long time saw them, he asked happily, "Are you Doctor Jian Mo and Chief Wu Jiong?"
Jian Mo wondered, "Do you know us?"
The patrolling beastman laughed and said, "It's mainly because we have been looking for you. Did you and the caravan go around the nearby tribes before? We thought you would come, but we didn't expect you to take a detour."
Jian Mo was a little embarrassed and said, "We exchanged a lot of things at that time, and we were a little tired, so we Didn't come."
The patrolling beastman: "I understand. You came here to exchange our cloth, right?"
Jian Mo: "Yes. Does your tribe have any cloth?"
The patrolling beastman: "Of course there is. It depends on how much you want to exchange. If it is a lot, you have to stay in our tribe for two days. We will go to collect silk threads, weave them into cloth, and then exchange them with you."
As he spoke, the patrolling beastman led Jian Mo and Wu Jiong into the tribe, and asked the cub playing nearby to report to the chief.
Jian Mo looked at this strange tribe.
The buildings of the Jiu Nian tribe looked nothing special. They were just ordinary stone houses with ordinary roofs, slightly tilted to drain rainwater.
However, this small tribe was relatively delicate, and the roads were paved with stones, not the common mud roads.
Jian Mo followed the patrolling beastman and saw several tuk-tuk animals grazing leisurely in the tribe.
Tuk-tuk animals are very timid and cannot be raised freely under normal circumstances. The fact that they can graze here shows that the Jiunian tribe has been raising tuk-tuk animals for a long time, otherwise they would not be domesticated so well.
The patrolling beastman was very talkative and introduced himself as "Min Yan". On the way, in addition to introducing the situation of the Jiunian tribe to Jian Mo and his friends, he also asked about the situation of the tribes outside.
Min Yan: "I have always wanted to be like those traveling merchants, carrying supplies to various tribes to exchange for things, but unfortunately my father and grandfather won't let me, saying it's too dangerous to go out alone. In fact, since I run so fast, there shouldn't be any danger on the road. You didn't encounter any danger when you came here, did you?"
Jian Mo turned his head and pointed at Jiujiu and Ying Ao outside the Jiu Nian tribe: "We rode the winged beasts here, it's relatively safe."
Min Yan enviously said: "That's the winged beast? You raised it really well. But even if you don't ride the winged beast, it's much safer, right? I heard that you are nearby The kids from several tribes dared to walk alone on the roads between tribes, and you even drove away the beasts on the main road."
Jian Mo shook his head: "These are all rumors, we still mainly let the beastmen pick us up."
Min Yan: "Anyway, your tribes really interact a lot, right? At least much more than before, I remember that your tribes didn't interact much before?"
Jian Mo smiled: "I don't know about the past, I wasn't here at that time."
As they were talking, someone called Min Yan and then walked towards them quickly.
He was a tall sub-beast man with big facial features, a relatively large mouth, and a bright face.
The sub-beast man walked over: "Chief Wu Jiong, Doctor Jian Mo? I am Xin Jun, the chief of the Jiu Nian tribe."
Jian Mo and Wu Jiong greeted him in return.
Xin Jun: "You want to exchange cloth? Are you exchanging it for yourself or on behalf of the tribe?"
Jian Mo: "Individually, we want to exchange some cloth to make summer clothes."
Xin Jun smiled and said, "That's not a loss. Let's go to my house for tea first."
Xin Jun took Jian Mo and the others home to entertain them and asked Min Yan to continue patrolling.
There is a small courtyard in front of Xin Jun's house, with flowers planted in the courtyard.
At this time, the flowers are climbing on the fence, blooming in the wind, looking very delicate and beautiful.
Jian Mo showed an admiring look.
As soon as you look at the courtyard, you can see that this Asian beastman must love life.
After entering the house, Xin Jun led them to sit by the window, and then poured tea for them in a pottery jar.
The pottery jar poured out the yellow-brown tea that Jian Mo was very familiar with.
I didn't expect it to be tea.
Jian Mo lowered his head and took a sip, tasting the familiar sweet aftertaste: "Is this water brewed from a certain plant?"
Xin Jun smiled and said: "Yes, the tender leaves of the plant can be made into tea after being dried. This is crescent tea, it tastes very comfortable and can make people more energetic. But people who have never tasted it can only taste it simply and can't drink too much. If you drink too much, you will not be able to sleep."
Jian Mo sighed: "It's really comfortable."
Xin Jun: "If you like, I'll give you some when you go back."
Jian Mo: "Then we won't be polite."
After drinking tea, talking for a while, and exchanging the news known to the two tribes, Xin Jun went back to the house and took out the cloth to show them.
"These are all the new cloths we woven this year. The new cloths are harder, but more durable. After washing them twice, they will become softer and softer."
"What you are looking at now is the cloth woven with a double weave. The cloth woven with this weave is thicker and is usually worn by orcs. They are very strong and it is too easy to damage the cloth."
"This piece of cloth is woven with a single strand weave. We beastmen are used to wearing this kind of cloth. It is lighter, thinner and more comfortable. The patterns you see are dyed. They are all special patterns here."
Xin Jun introduced each piece of cloth to Jian Mo and Wu Jiong clearly.
Jian Mo touched the newly woven cloth and felt it was a bit like linen. Although it was a bit rough, it was indeed very comfortable.
The most important thing was that this was a brand new kind of cloth. With this kind of cloth, more styles of clothes could be made, making life more comfortable.
Jian Mo took out cloth from his backpack: "We want all these cloths. Two pieces of cloth for one piece of cloth?"
Xin Jun smiled: "Yes, all of them? Then we don't have enough cloth here."
Xin Jun explained: "Do you know the Baizhi tribe? They just exchanged a batch of cloth with us, and we don't have much cloth on hand."
Jian Mo: "I know, we are quite familiar with each other."
Xin Jun was a little surprised to hear this, and smiled: "Then there is no need for me to explain more. If you want to exchange more, why don't you stay in our tribe for two more days? We will cut the cloth tomorrow and weave it the day after tomorrow."
Jian Mo was tempted: "Can Wu Jiong and I go with you to cut the cloth?"
Xin Jun: "Okay, then you can rest for a night, and we will get up early tomorrow to go into the mountains."
Xin Jun quickly arranged Wu Jiong and Jian Mo to live in an empty house in the tribe. Like most tribes, Jian Mo and his friends also paid for their belongings and moved in.
The difference is that the people in the Jiu Nian tribe are particularly enthusiastic.
In the evening, Xin Jun invited Jian Mo and Wu Jiong to his house for dinner. There were small crab-like creatures on the table, which were fried until crispy and fragrant, and then stir-fried with tea leaves. It tasted very delicious.
Xin Jun's braised meat, grilled meat, pickled meat and pickled vegetables are also delicious. In addition, they also have rice cooked with pearl rice. I don't know if they exchanged it with the Baizhi tribe, or if their tribe already has pearl rice.
At night, Jian Mo said to Wu Jiong while lying in bed: "The plants in the Jiunian tribe seem to be particularly rich."
If the territory of the Riverside Tribe is composed of snow-capped mountains, forests, swamps, grasslands, lakes, etc., the Jiunian tribe is mostly composed of rainforests. Looking down from the sky, it is green and full of forests.
Wu Jiong said, "They are richer here, with more tribes, but their territory is not as big as ours."
Jian Mo: "I noticed that the nearby territories are so crowded. This also shows that the resources here are abundant, which is why so many tribes can be supported."
Wu Jiong: "Looking forward to tomorrow's collection?"
Jian Mo: "Yes, let's go out tomorrow to see if we can find anything good."
Wu Jiong turned around and lay on his side facing him: "Do you still want to find chili peppers?"
Jian Mo nodded without hesitation: "If we can find them, our menu can be doubled!"
Wu Jiong: "So many tribes are helping us to inquire, we should be able to find out."
Jian Mo sighed: "If there is, it is true, but I'm afraid there is nothing here."
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