Chapter 535: Unexpected Joy
The euphoria of the arrival of the tribes with pottery and salt lasted for a while, and then faded considerably, and was replaced by some sorrow.
Their sorrow comes from the few furs in the cave.
Huang Guo looked at the furs in the cave, and felt very uncomfortable, these furs could not be exchanged for much delicious salt.
Even if the leader returns, there is nothing to be done.
Knowing that the other party has a lot of salt, but his own tribe has no way to get it, this is really uncomfortable.
There were people from that tribe talking outside, Huang Guo walked out of the cave, and was suddenly surprised to find that the people of this tribe were opening several animal skin bags and taking out the contents one by one.
To her amazement and bewilderment, the people of this tribe had taken out not precious pottery or table salt, but a large number of extremely ordinary stones!
Huang Guo took a closer look and confirmed that these stones were the most common kind, which made her even more puzzled.
What do the people of this tribe carry these stones with them? And make it so precious?
Could it be their weapon for self-defense?
When Huang Guo thought of this, he suddenly felt that he had seen through the truth.
However, after the black leader made a series of gestures, Huang Guo's eyes widened, and then he shook his head violently.
She felt that she must have misunderstood what the leader meant.
This ubiquitous stone, used in exchange for precious pottery and salt?
How is this possible!
Huang Guo left, and she thought it would be better to wait until the leader came back and let the leader come to negotiate with the leader.
After all, the leader is well-informed and can better understand what this leader means.
After looking for wild vegetables for a while, Huang Guo looked at the stone at his feet, which was not very big, and after hesitating for a while, he finally picked up the stone and walked towards the person who was sitting there resting.
Although he knew that nine times out of ten he was wrong, Huang Guo still wanted to try, after all, there was not much fur left in his tribe.
With the mentality of giving it a try, she came to the front of the trade, and handed over the stone in her hand with some hesitation.
She was ready to be rejected, but she didn't expect that this person actually took it, and then took it in her hand, seriously comparing it with the stones around her.
While Huang Guo waited a little nervously, he compared it for a while, confirmed that it was a stone that had not been collected, and put the stone into the stone pile.
Then he smiled and scooped up a full spoonful of salt from a jar of salt, and motioned to Huangguo that this stone could be exchanged for this spoonful of salt.
Huang Guo came out of the cave in a daze, holding the already empty salt jar.
Without hesitation, he poured a spoonful of salt into it.
The dazed Huangguo returned to the cave with the salt jar in his hand.
Several female primitives who remained in the tribe put the salt shaker on the ground, lay on the ground and formed a circle, pouting their buttocks and sticking their heads, taking turns looking into the salt shaker.
All with inquiry and incredulity.
After a while, Huang Guo put his hand into the salt jar, pinched out a little salt and put it in his mouth.
The familiar smell came and her eyes widened immediately.
Is this really salt?
Stones can really be exchanged for salt!
After being bewildered and amazed, Huang Guo and the rest of the adults ran out in search of the stone.
Regardless of why the people of this tribe suddenly had to exchange stones for salt, this was excellent news for their tribe.
Huang Guo, who was a little thin and weak, became extremely powerful at this time, and she couldn't look down on small stones, so she directly found a stone bigger than her buttocks, picked it up and quickly came to them.
A small piece of stone can be exchanged for a spoonful of salt, and a large piece of such a large piece can be exchanged for several spoonfuls of salt.
The more she thought about it, the more energetic she became, and after a short distance, she didn't stop at all, and took the stone to Mao's body in one breath and put it down, so that she had the strength to pay attention to the animal skin that fell on her body.
Mao's gaze stayed on Huang Guo's body for a while before shifting to the stone.
Then he shook his head.
Of course, it's not that they think that the yellow fruit is sorting out the animal skin too quickly, but that they already have this kind of stone.
He took out a fist-sized stone from the pile of stones and placed it on the large stone that Huang Guo had moved, indicating that it was already there, and this could not be changed.
Huang Guo was confused, she didn't understand that she had just made a small one in exchange for a spoonful of salt before, and now, she moved a large one, but she couldn't change it.
She stretched out her finger and pointed to the small stone, and then to the big stone she had moved, and said in her mouth, meaning that the one she found was much better than the small one.
They have seen a lot of similar things, and almost every tribe they go to, similar things will happen.
After a long period of tongue and effort, Mao finally made Huang Guo understand that only the stones that were not in it could be used for salt.
Moreover, the same kind of stone can only be changed once, regardless of the size of the stone.
Huang Guo, who understood the meaning, and the other people who came over with the stone in their arms all looked a little disappointed, as if they saw a lot of delicious table salt and left them.
However, this disappointment did not last long, and he went back to look for stones.
In any case, the fact that stones can be exchanged for table salt is very good news for them.
When the sun was setting in the west, a pile of stones of different sizes had already appeared in front of Yan, Mao and the others, all of which were found by Huang Guo and them.
The Mourners and Traders picked and chose among the piles of stones, and finally found three kinds of stones that they had not obtained.
And in the salt jar of Huangguo's tribe, there are also three extra spoonfuls of salt.
For them, it was a complete windfall, and they couldn't get together.
When the sun was setting, the leader of Huang Guo's tribe also returned with people who had gone out hunting.
Huang Guo and the others who stayed behind greeted him happily......
Huang Guo was beaten, and there were several other people who stayed behind who were beaten with her.
It was the leader of the tribe who did it.
The reason for the beating, of course, was not because of the presence of an extra group of mostly men in the tribal cave.
It's because Huang Guo and they are panicking.
The leader had dealt with the black tribe, and the people of that tribe usually smiled, but when it was time to exchange things, they would be very dead.
Now these few people who stayed behind actually said that they exchanged stones for a lot of salt from this tribe?
How could this happen?
So he was particularly disgusted with the violent leader of the tribesmen who lied, and beat people without saying a word.