The Caveman Made Me Awesome

Chapter 17: Lose money or take advantage

   The chief drew a soldier with a sullen face, and whispered a few words.

  The soldier took the command and ran to the cave.

   The chief smiled again, as if nothing happened just now, and said to Qishang: "Now I will send someone to the cave to prepare something. Several distinguished guests wait a moment."

   Qishang and the other three tribal warriors of the Huangfeng tribe flashed with pride.

   A bag of low-quality salt was exchanged for nine hundred catties of fresh meat. Such an unfair deal, the Tushan tribe is not a compromise.

   In a good mood, Qishang naturally didn't mind waiting for such a long time, smiled and waved: "Chief Tushan is too polite."

   After a while, four warriors came out of the cave, and each warrior carried a large bag of things wrapped in animal skins on his shoulders.

   Ye Xi knew that there was fresh meat inside.

   He sighed in his heart, nine hundred catties of meat, this is all the soldiers of Tushan risked their lives, exchanged blood and sweat, and was exchanged for a bag of low-quality salt.

   Qishang looked at the meat and forced down the corners of his mouth, maintaining his indifferent posture.

   Chief: "Several people have been waiting for a long time."

   Qishang said politely: "It's okay, it's okay."

   "Chief." One of the soldiers who fetched meat suddenly called.

"what's up?"

   The warrior whispered, "Our tribe's fresh meat is not enough nine hundred catties, and the addition of dried meat is not enough." The voice was not too big or too small, and it happened to be heard by the people from the tribe.

Oh? Qi Shang frowned, looked at the animal skins on the ground, turned around and drank to the nine bears behind him, "Go and untie them all."

   Nine Bears led the orders and spread out the hides.

   Untie those thick animal skins, the meat inside seems to be less than nine hundred catties, it looks like about seven or eight hundred catties, and part of it is dried meat.

   A cold light flashed in Qishang's eyes, his expression turned cold, and he turned to the chief, "Chief Tushan, what does this mean?"

   The chief was embarrassed: "The hunting team did not earn well in the past two days, so there was no fresh meat, but I didn't know that I couldn't even collect nine hundred catties of meat."

   The hunting team has a bad income these two days? Ye Xi thought of the saber-toothed tiger, deer and other prey yesterday, and admired the chief's ability to open his eyes and tell nonsense.

   Qi Shang said something with a cold face, and the chief immediately answered: "How about this, I'll exchange it with you with clear water!"

   Hearing this sentence, Ye Xi immediately reacted. It turned out that this was the chief's purpose! What their tribe lacks most now is water! Using water instead of meat is not a disadvantage!

   Ye Xi couldn't help but look at the chief with admiration. Just now the warrior said that there is no meat in the tribe, maybe the chief ordered in advance.

   Qishang heard the exchange of water, and his face turned angrily, changing into a hesitant color: "Clear water?"

   "That's right!" The chief gritted his teeth, looking in pain.

   then waved his hand and told the warrior: "Go, take out the water stored in the tribe."

   "Chief!" the soldier yelled, his face reluctant.

   Ye Xi's mouth twitched. This soldier is also a great dramatist. He seems to be from the hunting team, called Chu Lai.

   "Needless to say! Go!" the chief said angrily.

   Chu's face was full of helpless heartache, and finally he stamped his foot and ran to the cave.

   Ye Xi: "..."

   After a while, Pestle came back with a small wooden barrel.

   Pestle gave the small barrel to the chief.

   Qishang looked at the small wooden barrel, his eyes lit up, and when the soles of his feet moved, he almost couldn't help going up to see how much water there was.

   Chieftain paused slightly, and carefully held the small wooden barrel and handed it to Qishang.

   Qishang glanced at his eyes, and his face immediately glowed with joy, and there was a bucket of clear water inside!

   Qishang reluctantly controlled his joy: "These meat on the ground plus these water, but you can exchange salt for you."

   saw the chief frowned and said: "What are you talking about! If you add this water, of course it is impossible to give you so much meat!"

   "Then what do you mean?"

   "Five hundred catties of meat, plus this water, if that doesn't work, then forget it."

   Qishang's eyes flashed, and he pretended to think for a while before he seemed reluctant to say: "...Well, it depends on the previous friendship."

   The chief nodded without any expression, and stopped saying anything, but instead told others: "Pack the meat and give it to them."

   Qishang was also very satisfied with the result of this transaction, and let the three soldiers behind him carry the meat, and then he himself sat on the back of the giant bear holding the wooden barrel.

   Before leaving, Qishang casually sighed with the chief: "You are actually willing to exchange water with me."

   The chief was helpless: "If you give you all the meat, our soldiers will be hungry, but if you lack water, you can still drink blood and barely survive. After all, the soldiers are important!"

   Qishang nodded in understanding: "Yes, the force of the tribe is always the most important."

   "Then say goodbye, and say hello to the respected Wu for me!"

   The chief nodded, sent them to the whistle and then watched them go away.

   After the people of the Huangqi tribe left, the people of the Tushan tribe put the salt on the rock and happily circled the salt.

   "God! So much salt, I actually bought it with only 500 catties of meat!"

   "Did you forget that there is still water? If they don't have water, they would change it?"

   "This water is nothing to our tribe. If you need water, just go to the lake to get it."

   "The same is true, so this is equivalent to exchanging 500 catties of meat for so much salt, we made a lot of money!"

   "Yes, thanks to the cleverness of our chief, we use water to recharge!"

   Ye Xi was speechless. Three catties of inferior salt was exchanged for five hundred catties of meat, and they looked like they had picked up a bargain.

   The salt on the rock does not look very good, it is yellow, and there are so many dirt particles in it. The tribesmen look at them as if they are looking at some treasures.

   But it is indeed a treasure, Ye Xi sighed, even he couldn't bear to put salt when he was eating.

   Is there any way to solve this problem? Where did the human salt of the Huangfeng tribe come from? Ye Xisi lined up.

   "What are you thinking about?" The chief who went to the whistle to send people off came back at some point.

   Chieftain stood beside Ye Xi, his face calmly watching the tribesmen dancing around the salt with joy, and he did not show the joy of "picking up the bargain" like they did.

   And Ye Xi is the only tribe who doesn't seem happy and excited.

   "I'm thinking, how did the salt of the Huangfeng tribe come from."

   "They..." The chief thought of something sarcasm in his eyes, "It is claimed to be their witchcraft."

   "It was made by witches?" This statement is too absurd.

   As far as Ye Xi knows, witches can be roughly divided into four categories, namely, healing witches, cursing witches, divination witches, and witchcraft.

   Ye Xi is not quite clear about their abilities, but he can't escape the curse, divination, and blessing. As for the ability to use witchcraft to conjure salt, Ye Xi thinks this is very unreliable.

   "Am the surrounding tribes only the Huangfeng tribe has salt?"

   "Yes," the chief sighed long, "so we can be slaughtered by others." Thinking of what, the chief's eyes showed depression.

"what happened?"

The chief    lifted his chin slightly, UU reading www.uukanshu.com pointed to the salt on the rock, and smiled bitterly: "You know, the salt that the people of the Huangfeng tribe traded is worse every year."

   Ye Xi didn't know what the salt was like in previous years, but this year's salt does look bad.

The chief’s eyes showed a cold color, and he continued: “Not only did they get it right, we could only exchange salt with them, but even if we got it right, even if we were angry, we couldn’t tell what happened to them because of the strength of our tribe. Not in their tribe."

   Ye Xi was silent for a moment, and said slowly: "...The strength of the tribe cannot be solved overnight, but the salt problem can be solved by some means."

   The chief trembled all over, suspecting that he had heard it wrong, his eyes widened when he looked at Ye Xi: "You just said that the salt problem can be solved?!"

   Seeing that the calm and composed chief was excited like this, Ye Xi nodded helplessly: "There is a way, but there is a way, but you must find something to make salt."

   The chief got an affirmative answer, his face flushed red, and his heart throbbed hard. He tried to calm himself down: "What is it, no matter what, how hard it is to find, we will find it again!"

   Ye Xi lowered her eyebrows in contemplation, recalling the raw material for salt: "...salty soil or stone can be used, including bitter and salty, can be used as the raw material of salt."

   Salty soil or stones can be refined into salt? The chief frowned, can these really make salt?

  If someone else told him that, he would definitely think that the other person was playing tricks on him, but if it was Ye Xi...it was not impossible to think of his strange way of getting water.

   "Well, I will order the hunting team so that when hunting in the future, they will pay attention to looking for this salty stone or soil."

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