Chapter 897: Ancient Farming by Internet Celebrities (31)
Kun didn’t have any objections. This was just extra money. Without the wizard’s skills, they wanted to roast some animal meat to sell, but not many people would buy it.
If the wizard hadn't known that this was an old vegetable with seeds inside, he said that when the weather warms up in spring, he could grow edible tender gourds. Otherwise, if you give it to them for free, they may not want this hard old gourd. Apart from it hurting someone's head, what's the use of it?
Both parties are very happy, tired and happy.
There were so many things that the original rattan basket was already too full to hold.
Xu Yin said to Kun: "I forgot to tell you today. When I go hunting tomorrow, I will cut down some vines and make some rattan baskets. Otherwise, I won't be able to bring them with me."
Kun nodded.
He also thought about this. He originally wanted to cut some vines and come back in the afternoon, but he was afraid of coming back too late, so he didn't dare to delay and set off early tomorrow.
For three days in a row, they set up a stall selling grilled fish, beggar's chicken, and animal broth. As long as Xu Yin accepted it, they would give them anything in exchange, including animal skins, various utensils, and wild fruits and vegetables from the north and south. , beautiful stones are all fine.
They continued to sell it until the day before the trade fair ended. The NPC who exchanged the sweet potato leaves for a pair of straw sandals came over and said, "Our tribe is going to leave tomorrow. I will take you to find that wild vegetable today."
Xu Yin is waiting for him.
Tired of eating potatoes, I want to eat sweet potatoes.
"You transport the supplies to the bamboo raft and wait for me there. I will come back as soon as possible."
After giving Dashan a few words, Xu Yin set off with the man carrying a newly made empty rattan basket and a bow and arrow.
The road was indeed a bit far. I climbed over the mountain and came to the valley on the other side, where I saw a few sweet potato vines.
It's late autumn, and it stands to reason that the seasonal vegetables and fruits have long since matured and should wither. However, the valley is surrounded by mountains and the mountain walls are high. The cold wind blows outside and the valley bottom is as warm as spring. No wonder you can still see it in this season. To the green sweet potato leaves.
"Thank you." Xu Yin gave him two pairs of straw sandals and a bottle of salt as promised.
The man left happily and went to hunt some more animal meat before dark. With salt, the roasted animal meat would be much more delicious.
Wild vegetables are tender, but no matter how delicious they are, they cannot be eaten as food. They are neither very hungry nor as fragrant as animal meat.
Xu Yin waited for the other party to leave and then started digging sweet potatoes.
Sure enough, under each sweet potato vine, there is a large bunch of large sweet potatoes with red skin and white heart.
Within a short time, the rattan basket she carried was filled.
There are still a lot of sweet potatoes left, which are all mature sweet potatoes. It would be a waste not to dig them.
I simply went to cut down some vines and came back, quickly weaved a few vine baskets, and finally filled three large baskets.
She walked down the mountain with a basket on her shoulders and a basket in each hand. She looked relaxed.
Use Qinggong to return to the river where the bamboo raft is hidden, meet up with Dashan and others, and prepare to return.
“Great witch, someone seems to be following us.”
Dashan noticed this problem, looked stern, and quickly reported to Xu Yin.
Xu Yin is carrying a rattan basket on the bamboo raft.
Fortunately, we made a double-layer bamboo raft. The bamboo here is relatively thick, and the double-layer bamboo raft has a large load capacity. We added several heavy and large rattan baskets on the return trip, and no water came up.
“Ignore it, we’ll go our own way.”
She guessed they were from the Central Tribe. The Central Tribe was the richest in the Central Plains. Of course, they did not want a powerful new tribe to rise and compete with them for resources.
Of course, other tribes are not excluded. After all, so many furs and other items were exchanged, and the temptation of pottery and styptic powder was not small, and many jealous people designated it.
Fortunately, the waterway and the land route are not connected in some areas, so it cannot be tracked for long. Sure enough, when the two rivers merged and the bamboo raft went upstream and entered the river as wide as a river, the little tail that was following it disappeared.
Both sides of the river are not entirely flat wasteland. There are also mountains, cliffs and valleys. Xu Yin's bamboo raft team has already passed through the green mountains on both sides of the river and left before the people who were following them climbed over the mountains.
The people sent to follow them by their respective tribes were so angry that they could do nothing but stare.
On the way back, the temperature dropped suddenly and snowflakes started to fall in the sky.
Ah Chun took out the thickest piece of long white fur animal skin and put it on Xu Yin's shoulders.
My whole body felt warm instantly.
Xu Yin rubbed her hands and asked everyone to take out all the thick skins from the rattan basket.
Some animal skins are relatively small and require several pieces of stitching to cover the body.
“Ah Chun, did you bring a bone needle?”
“Bring it, but it’s a big witch, these animal skins...”
"Things are dead, but people are alive. Just get through the current difficulties first, and then redistribute them when you go back."
Ah Chun stopped talking and took out the bone needles he carried with him. Together with Ah Xia, he rushed out a few large animal skin coats and wrapped each of them in one.
Seeing this, Kun also asked his men to take out the animal skins and wrap them all over his body.
He felt that the great shaman of the Xu tribe must have had a premonition of something, so he asked everyone to wrap their bodies in animal skins.
Walking along this journey, he figured out a truth: Anyone who listens to Xu Dawu in everything is right.
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When passing the reed swamp, Xu Yin informed the leading bamboo raft to stop and go ashore to rest for a day. She wanted to cut back all the reed flowers here.
“Great witch, you can’t eat this.”
They had eaten it before and it was not delicious at all.
“…Well, but it has other uses. I’ll teach you when I get back.”
“A good wizard.”
Everyone stopped talking and cut the reed flowers, one by one, and carried them to the bamboo raft.
Although the people of the Cross River tribe didn't know what the use of this was, the great shaman of the Xu tribe said it was useful, so they also moved it onto the bamboo raft. Anyway, they couldn't go wrong by following the pace of the Xu tribe.
Before the snowflakes started to get heavy, a group of people worked together to harvest and bundle the reed flowers swaying in the wind, and carried them onto the bamboo raft.
After that, we traveled almost day and night, braving the wind and snow, and rushed back to the tribe.
Kun strongly invited Xu Yin to be a guest at the Cross River Tribe.
They obtained several times more supplies from the fair this year than in previous years, all thanks to Xu Dawu!
I have long wanted to do my best to be a landlord.
Xu Yin smiled and declined: "Thank you for your kindness, but the snow is getting thicker and thicker, making it difficult to go back into the mountains, so we won't stay any longer. When spring starts, you can send a few people over and I will teach you how to plant reed flowers." If so, spread it between haystacks and animal skins to increase warmth. If your feet are cold, you can also put them in straw sandals."
After saying that, she gave a few sweet potatoes to the Cross River tribe.
"It's not that I'm stingy and don't want to give more. I plan to plant them after spring. I can only try them now. You can just bake them like black potatoes and eat them. If the harvest is good next year, you can save some for staple food. Then I can replace you with more, and if you want to plant, you can come and learn.”
Speaking of which, she learned the art of prescience from Min, and Min was her teacher, so it was appropriate for her to bring some benefits to the tribe led by her teacher.
(End of this chapter)