Chapter 029 Ironware Trade
The answer is yes, he will strech not oly one hand but also stretch out two hands—this is the most straightforward thought in Xiao Yun's heart.
I want to make iron farm tools, and tauren is also what I want ...If he can fool a tauren and follow them back to the snow werewolf tribe, it's will be helpful for the tribe .
However, the words come back, the biggest difference between adults and cubs is knowing when to be greedy and when not to be greedy. After all, in a cold society, there is only one pair of parents who can infinitely tolerate you. No one of us has the life as same as a manga hero's life, if you make a mistake, you can be forgiven with tears and an apology, right?
Xiao Yun sighed, alright, don't to think about fooling away a tauren...
"What are you sighing, Ayun?"
Holding a food bowl-wooden, shallow bottom, filled with food-Oxhorn leaning over while chewing on the cheek.
In the tauren tribe, of course they will eat their food and drink, but because the grassland tribes are omnivorous except for the tauren, the host will not eat with the guests...but the food bowl for the guests is filled with meat.
The flocks raised by the vegetarian tauren are all slaughtered when the guests come to tauren tribe. They are vegetarians but do not force others to be vegetarians. The guests will be served with meat when they come to the house. This is a kindly vegetarian~
Snow werewolves arranged to live in a small courtyard, the small courtyard enclosed by wooden fences was their private zone before the snow werewolves left. The owner is kind and respectful; it's just that no matter how kind, people's material conditions are limited, so give The allocated room is a simple room with no bed, only a table for eating and wooden stools... If the guests sleep, they will lay on the floor and bedding is prepared by themselves.
It's still quite cold on the grassland in early spring when it doesn't snow. The sleeping cabin is warmer than the sleeping tent, at least the night wind cannot blow. And this wooden house is more elaborate than the house built by the Snow Werewolf in terms of form. For example, it has windows...
Xiao Yun, who dragged a wooden stool and sat on the side of the window and looked out, looked back at Oxhorn. He sighed again: "...If use you to exchange to a tauren it will be such a great, Oxhorn, any one of the tauren is smarter than you."
Oxhorn: "?!"
The patriarch at the table looked blankly to this side.
"I just said it casually." Xiao Yun waved his hand, "Oh, patriarch, you said if we bring a few more delicate pottery ornaments, can we trick a tauren to go with us?"
The patriarch looked at him with horror.
"I just talked about it." Xiao Yun looked regret.
Patriarch: "..." You really don't seem to be talking casually...
Xiao Yun dragged the heavy wooden stool under his butt to the table, and said to the patriarch: "Patriarch, you also saw that the tauren has a lot of ironware today. Tomorrow you will take out the flower fairy ornaments. Let's discuss with Saladin and see if we can distribute a few pieces of ironware to us."
Patriarch nodded painfully.
"...You don't be reluctant, at most I will squeeze another one and burn it for you to play with." Xiao Yun twitched, "This thing is useless, it's troublesome to pinch it, and the glaze is very hard. It can't fill food or water, it's more practical to burn a few more bowls."
The patriarch black his face and glared at him angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, you are still young and sensible."
"Okay." Xiao Yun stared his dead fish eyes. After a pause, he spoke faintly again, "Patriarch, do you think we should fool some gray dwarves and go back?"
Including Qingyan, the people sit at the table looked at him in a daze.
After eating the dinner provided by the tauren, Ashan was busy to make a bed with animal skins on the floor of the wooden house. There is no fire in the wooden house of the tauren, and everyone has to squeeze to sleep to be warm. Xiao Yun knew what the people of the tribe were sleeping, and chose to sleep on the edge of Qingyan.
Sitting on the floor and covering his feet with the clothes he took off, Xiao Yun took Qingyan's hand and said in a low voice: "Tomorrow morning before dawn, you will return to your tribe and bring the things I prepared for you...I will take others stay at here six or seven days. You have to hurry up and do what we have discussed. If you can succeed, you won't be the only one to knit sweaters every day."
Qingyan's expression it's very complicated...It sounds as if he is trying to plot the original people just because he is less affected.
"It doesn't matter if you don't succeed. You can retreat with your whole body." Xiao Yun said again, "The internal environment of the cat tribe is different from that of the snow werewolves and tauren. If you really fell into the hands of the people who banished you, I guess that you will not be good."
Qingyan's mood became more complicated. Among the tribes on the grassland, even the centaur tribes with a very small number because of their combativeness, are not like the cat tribes who can fight in the same tribe to the extent that they can harm their lives. The separation of the tiger clan is too irritating to the cat clan...
The grassland races do not have the strong reproductive ability like humans. The females of the human race can reproduce their offspring before the body is fully developed. The cat tribe, the largest tribe, can give birth to fewer newborns every year. Under such circumstances, the loss of population is naturally avoided by all races, but the large cats are aggressive and competitive...
"I will try my best, but I do not guarantee the success of the plan." Qingyan whispered, "Actually I'm still hesitating...is it good for my clan to do like this?"
"So I've said, you don't need to make decisions for others." Xiao Yun lay down and put his hands behind his head, "You just have to Just bring your thoughts for your people to your tribe. Whether you choose to cooperate or simply refuse, your tribe has the final say. I have repeated it many times, and it doesn't matter if it fails. "
Qingyan silently squinted this guy. You also know that your term is "just in case"!
Sleeping on the cold floor after getting used to the heatble bed, the biggest difference is that the feet will be cold in the middle of the night... The older patriarch woke up before dawn, shrank and retracted the foot that was accidentally sticking out of the animal skin. Then... he discovered that someone had actually got up.
"Qingyan, Ayun?" The patriarch blinked his eyes to see the person who got up clearly, surprised.
"Patriarch?" Xiao Yun did not expect the patriarch to get up so early.
"What are you doing?" The patriarch quickly sat up.
Xiao Yun hugged the animal skin bag to Qing Yan and said: "It's nothing, this is close to the tribe of Qingyan, he will go back and take a look."
"...Uh? Didn't Qingyan be exiled?" The patriarch couldn't react.
"So I sneaked back to see the clansmen. Qingyan will miss home after leaving home for a winter." Xiao Yun said as a okay person. "He will be back in a few days. Anyway, we will also be in the tauren tribe. Staying here for a while, just waiting for him."
Patriarch: "...we have to go back after changing the seeds?"
"Of course not." Xiao Yun sternly said, "Tauren gave us seeds and technical guidance, we still It's fair to ask them if they want iron, pat their buttocks and walk away. It's fair to give them back our unique technology, right?"
"…Uh." The patriarch thinks the words have no problem...but what can they do? Can something be used to point the tauren? Should they teach the tauren how to hunt?
Watching Qing Yan disappear into the night with an animal skin bag on his back, the patriarch was silent for a while, slowly turned his head, and cast his solemn gaze on Xiao Yun.
Standing up and walking around the snoring clansmen, the patriarch walked to the bed where Qingyan was sleeping and sat down cross-legged, staring at Xiao Yun, who was lying back again with piercing eyes, "A Yun, are you thinking of something?"
Xiao Yun...Xiao Yun just wanted to sigh in his heart. Could it be that he fooled the patriarch too many times, and the patriarch was fooled by him to gain experience?
"Don't worry about the patriarch, don't think too much, Qingyan just went back to see the clan members. He just failed to compete with the patriarch and was exiled, and he didn't do any bad things. Naturally, there is a relationship between his clansman and him."
Patriarch bent down silently and approaching Xiao Yun, his expression was unprecedentedly serious.
"I'm not talking about whether Qingyan can go back and see the people... What I want to say is, Ayun, would you not give up taking the tauren back?" The patriarch stretched out his hands and grabbed Xiao Yun's shoulders, "Ayun, You can't do this, robbing other tribesmen will cause eternal hatred on both sides. We can't treat the tauren like this—do you understand, Ayun?"
"..." Xiao Yun slipped a drop of sweat on his temple. This is really subtly guessing the right direction, but guessing the wrong target.
The patriarch looked horrified: "Oh, no, Ayun, do you really plan to do this?!"
"Calm down, I didn't plan to dig the corner of the tauren." Xiao Yun raised his hand to pat the nervous patriarch, "Which is there on the grassland? The tribe is willing to be hostile to the Tauren, right, the patriarch, do you think I am so stupid that I don't even know this?"
The patriarch thinks about it, and Ayun is smarter than him now... So he let go of his hands.
"Actually, what I want to dig is the corner of the cat clan." Xiao Yun said solemnly, anyway, Qingyan ran away, and he couldn't get it back when he told the patriarch.
The patriarch shook his body and almost did not fall.
"One is that the cat tribe has a large population, so it doesn't matter if we dig a bit. The second is that the Qingyan tribe does have a small tribe that is not welcome among the tribes because of its small population. The life is very hard. Then since the cat tribe If you don't value others, it's better to leave it to us. Although the Tuxe clan has little combat effectiveness, they are quite agile. They are more ingenious than the Black Panther clan's Qingyan... the patriarch?"
The patriarch got up with difficulty and grabbed Xiao Yun's hands again. Sadness came from the shoulders as soon as he opened his mouth: "——A Yun!"
"Calm down, calm down." Xiao Yun patted the patriarch's arm again to comfort him, "I know that robbing others will cause war, so I am not secretly. Did you work hard? We can't pay it off. We will go back when Qingyan is back. If we succeed, we only need to pick up the Tuju people who were expelled by the cat clan. It is very safe."
"Pick up? Exile?" The patriarch shocked.
Xiao Yun revealed to the patriarch a little bit about the plan that he had discussed with Qingyan... other clansmen, the patriarch will have to cooperate with the plan when the time comes. Xiao Yun believes that with the experience of the patriarch, he can have acting skills above the pass line.
Patriarch's expression slowly changed from frightened to sluggish...
"This, this really works (￣△￣ !)?!"
"Don't think to much, we just try our best do everything~ Anyway, try it and you won't have any loss."
"..." Patriarch...
Uncle Ashan nodded when he got up and found that it was missing a people, he scratched his scalp and checked again: "Eh, it's strange, where is Qingyan?"
"Um... Qingyan left, and he will come back in a few days." The patriarch said stiffly, "We just happened to stay in Tauren. The tribe is waiting for him."
"Ah, don't we go back with the seeds?" Oxhorn muttered, "I want to go back. The food in the tribe is delicious, and the hot bed sleeps well." Tauren's cooking method is a mess. The stew, the mutton without the blood streaks and the blood foam is quite strong, and Oxhorn was a bit disgusting after a meal.
"Of course we can't just leave like this. The tauren has given us a lot of help. Ayun wants to give them back some of the technology we have. We, the Snow Werewolf, are not a shameless tribe that takes advantage of others." The patriarch said with a straight face.
Xiao Yun held his tribe behind his back and extended his thumb to the patriarch. The patriarch is awesome, and his acting skills can be up to sixty points.
Oxhorn stopped talking. Uncle Ashan and Ayue weren't people who would think too much. How the patriarch arranged and they just follow it, only Hongye, sharp eyes kept turning towards Xiao Yun.
It's said that he wanted to communicate with the tauren on technology, Xiao Yun was also serious. After eating a mixed food as the breakfast which prepared by the tauren, Xiao Yun went to the Elder Saladin with the patriarch.
Tauren has formed the habit of family-style settlement. Saladin, his wife, and children live in a courtyard near the market area at the foot of the mountain. A spacious wooden house and two thatched warehouses are Saladin's home. There are also a lot of furniture in the wooden house, including tables, chairs, benches, cabinets and other household items, and there is no shortage of wooden basins, wooden barrels, and iron farm tools.
The tauren with a strong physique and dark brown thick skin is more cold-resistant than the snow werewolf, but after all, they are not cold-blooded animals that love low temperatures. When Xiao Yun and the patriarch arrived, Saladin was sitting cross-legged by the fireplace-style fire pit in the wooden house. On the low table next to it is the two-color pottery bowl that was exchanged with the snow werewolf yesterday... It seems that the tauren were immediately divided after the pottery was exchanged, and the efficiency was quite high.
"Welcome, friends of the snow werewolf tribe." Saladin's wife is of the same height as the patriarch, and she is slightly stronger than the patriarch of more than 90 kg in the horizontal direction. Moreover, she has a chest...The bulging chest under the linen clothes which has the curvaceousness is completely different from the female of the snow werewolf.
It's just too tall and strong, too healthy and beautiful, and the cow's head is also a super fierce style...
They were led to sit down by the hearth-like fire pit, Xiao Yun retracted the nerves stimulated by the tauren female, and calmly turned towards Saladin said, "Thank you for the seeds you prepared for us, Saladin."
Saladin glanced at the two-color pottery bowl on the low table next to him, and then looked at Xiao Yun, the red bull's eyes were particularly calm.
At any rate, he had a long time dealing with this bull demon king and said a lot of things. As soon as Xiao Yun's mind turned around, he knew that the elder Saladin meant "no thanks, just a deal" and so on... Maybe he said too much yesterday. Then, this elder cherishes words even more.
"We snow werewolves have never farmed like hard-working and intelligent tauren, so... I want to take the liberty to ask if we can exchange some iron farm tools with you?" Xiao Yun said.
Saladin immediately showed a terrifying serious expression.
He didn't refuse Xiao Yun on the spot, and regarded him as agreeing, and Xiao Yun looked to the patriarch.
Patriarch... The patriarch took out an animal skin roll out of his clothes with a painful expression on his face, carefully unpacked the animal skin on the surface, and then unwrapped a layer of soft hay, revealing the delicate flower essence sitting inside.
"Ah!" Saladin's wife exclaimed.
"..." Saladin's eyes were a little straight when looking at the flower fairy sitting statue.
This fine flower fairy statue that can be sold for more than ten or twenty yuan as a handicraft in a modern flea market... The size is about the same as the small plaster statue that children play with color, and the height is about 15 centimeters. The characters are barely more delicate, just the color. Not colorful enough, the wreath is mainly purple, and the lines depicting the facial features are not bright enough... Fortunately, Xiao Yun has a little skill, and the figures that he squeezed out are still vivid.
The patriarch reluctantly stared at the seated flower essence that Xiao Yun regarded as a "soft clay introduction tech" but it was "beautiful" in the eyes of the aborigines on the glassland. He refused to let it go honestly. Xiao Yun didn't bother to say him, he loved this one. His attitude can just be used to increase the value of the bargaining chip: "We want to use this flower fairy statue to exchange a little ironware, no weapons, only farm tools."
Saladin showed an unusually hideous, terrifying serious expression...
Xiao Yun did not It is said that the lion will open up when people's hearts are moved, and doing this with the tauren will only be counterproductive.
Saladin put on a scary face for a long time, turned to look at his wife, then got up and walked out of the house.
"Saladin asks Chief Hall to make the decision." The wife explained to the guests.
Xiao Yun: "..." He silently turned his head to look at theflower fairy statue that he had pinched. This thing seems to have such a value?
Saladin quickly led a scalper... well, came back with a strong tauren man with thick black and yellow hair and braids. This old man, with yellow skin and black eyes, a little different from the normal tauren's brown skin and red eyes. Xiao Yun doesn't know if the tauren is also cat-like multi-racial or individual changes.
Chief Hall, the scalper demon king, saw the seated flower fairy statue held by the patriarch of snow werewolf tribe, with a ferocious and shocked expression...
Then Chief Hall did not speak, only the two elder Saladin looked at each other affectionately, with black eyes. There seemed to be invisible radio waves traveling back and forth between the red eyes.
Saladin's wife looked at her husband and her Chief, and then explained at the guests: "Chief Hall said that if the snow werewolf tribe does not require weapons, we can exchange iron farm tools with you."
The patriarch showed a look of pity and pain, Xiao Yun looked shocked, wait, has this big brother scalper said something since he entered the door? !
"Um...we only want farm tools." Xiao Yun tried to be calm.
Saladin's wife turned to look at Chief Hall. Chief Hall stared at her with a deep gaze for a few seconds. Then she said to Xiao Yun: "Chief Hall said, we don't have too many farming tools, maybe we can't provide you satisfactory quantity."
——So are the tauren all know radio magic?
"Our tribe has only 20 adults. If we can exchange enough farm tools, hoes, sickles, it's enough to us." Xiao Yun tried to calm down.
This time Xiao Yun concentrated all his energy on observing the reaction of the scalper brother, and saw that the other's pupils were bigger, and his eyes were more fierce when he stared at Saladin's wife.
Saladin's wife was relieved and said with a smile: "Chief Hall said, we can take out twenty iron hoes and ten sickles."
Xiao Yun's surface was calm, and there were moving tears in his heart——Tauren how kind! He tried his best to control himself so as not to stretch his hands too long, but the tauren was so proactive to let him stalk the advantage!
The snow werewolf tribe exchanged Sal for the slap-wide skinning knife, and gave the human caravan a few large bundles of fur before it was obtained!
"Thank you so much." From the bottom of his heart, Xiao Yun grabbed the seated flower fairy statue from the patriarch and handed it respectfully to Saladin's wife.
Saladin's wife happily took the seated flower fairy statue, stroked it carefully, and then handed it to Chief Hall. Chief Hall did not pick it up. After a glance at her, she seemed to receive some signal to the guests. Nodding his head, she ran out holding the flower statue in both hands.
"Ah..." The patriarch stretched out his hand in pain, facing the back of Saladin's wife... Xiao Yun was so angry that he slapped his hand down.
Both parties were very satisfied with this transaction. Saladin stretched out his hand to hold Xiao Yun. Two gusts of heat came out of his nose, and after a long period of effort, two words came out: "Friend...friend!"
Chief Hall still did not speak. He just launched radio waves with deep eyes... but Xiao Yun didn't have a receiver.
——So the higher your status, the worse your language skills are, right?
Xiao Yun knew that with the efficiency of the tauren, he would soon prepare the hoe and sickle, so after using this transaction to close the distance between the two sides, the next thing to do is to live with him for ten days and eight days. One is to wait for news from Qingyan over there, the second is to look for opportunities to get close to those gray dwarves who are staying at here. With Xiao Yun's conscience, he can't take the tauren's advantage, but the advantage of gray dwarves can be taken a few.
"Thank you for your willingness to exchange seeds and farming tools with us. I don't have anything else to express my gratitude as a gift. Therefore, I want to share with the tauren tribe the experience of our snow werewolf building houses." Xiao Yun said very sincerely.
Chief Hall and Elder Saladin both put on a terrible shocking face at the same time... Build a house? Snow werewolf? When can these two things be linked together? !
"When we moved to settle in the southwestern part of the grassland, our tents were badly damaged. Even if it didn't snow, the nights were so cold that people couldn't sleep. But we didn't have the tools to process wood, so we couldn't build wood like your tauren, so we took the mud from the river..."
Xiao Yun talked freely, and Zhangkou made up a folktale about the snow werewolf in the cold autumn wind and invented the mud brick house...
Buring pottery and wool processing are as the recent main merchadise for his tribe, so Xiao Yun would definitely not share with others. Unless the snow werewolf tribe points out new skill points, Xiao Yun will consider thar to use this backward technology to build relationships.
Now, there is no problem that there is no technical content, and the mud brick house technology that can be completed by women and children (of the tauren) is shared. The snow werewolf will not suffer any loss due to this, and the tauren's living environment can be safer and warmer. A wooden house is good-looking but not suitable for the prairie of cold temperate climate. There is a great risk of fire in a wooden house with a stove-style fire pit.
Um, the main reason is that Xiao Yun took a pottery flower fairy statue to exchange others 30 ironware. Now maybe the tauren doesn't feel at a disadvantage, but it will be sold a lot in the future for fear of others' reaction to the snow werewolf's deception... Give the tauren back with the technology of the mud-brick house. Thirty ironware were exchanged for the technology of building a mud brick house, plus a gift flower fairy statue. No one can say that the snow werewolves are not kind, right?