Chapter 74: The Split Clan
The cave where the Screamer is located is at the bottom of a small valley with a number of glacial lakes in front of it. If there is no ice in these places www.biquge.info there are many small lakes. The entrance of the cave was full of strange rocks, and huge ancient vines were coiled on the strange stones, but even the skin was stripped naked. The cave is extremely tall and deep, and the wind and snow are blocked by the valley, and the place where the cave is located is not cold. In terms of environment, this place is so much better than the River Tribe.
Half of Wang Chuan and his entourage waited outside with the baby elephant, and half went deep into the valley.
They walked from the valley to the mouth of the cave without being hindered, nor were they warned. Let the people who have come take a quick piece of jerky and go deep into the cave to explain the intention, and then someone inside will welcome them out and let them in.
As soon as I entered the cave, a strange fishy smell hit my face. Experienced tribesmen: "It's wolf dung." ”
"Do they also have wolves?" And they were all wondering, but no one answered. Wang Chuan knew that wolf dung could also be used to light a beacon fire, but he didn't know what it could be used for in a cave.
Walking into the cave, the first thing that catches your eye is a half-grown child hanging at the entrance of the cave. The child was defenseless, beaten and bruised, and hung there motionless with his hands tied, not knowing whether he was dead or alive.
Further inside, you can see many people in a little animal skin huddled around the fire to keep warm. They all had yellow skinny faces, scary green eyes, and looked at everyone in the tribe as if they were looking at food. If it weren't for the fact that everyone was armed with stone spears and bows, these people might have pounced.
The fires in the innermost part of the cavern are taller than the ones outside. Several men dressed in animal skins with spears gathered around an old man and looked at Wang Chuan and his party vigilantly. The old man sat on a large animal skin, draped in a full wolf's skin. The head of the wolf's skin was also stripped extremely intact, and even the teeth were set in the skin and pressed against the old man's head.
The old man smiled and said, "The meat on the back of three people is exchanged for one person, you can choose from those people outside." ”
Wang Chuan stepped forward with a smile and said, "You don't even ask where we came from, you just trade with us, is it true that your food is already lacking to this extent?" ”
"Where did the wild child come from?" The old man was offended, and his face changed in an instant.
Bihu took a step forward and said proudly: "This is the next generation elder appointed by our tribe's mother, and he is fully responsible for this transaction." Please don't make a mistake about yourself. ”
The pressure on Bihu was too great, he stood forward, and without any movement, several men around the old man raised their spears.
The old man waved his hand to stop everyone and said, "The woman is an elder, is it the River tribe that has been fighting against the Vulcan tribe all year round?" I heard that you haven't even changed the fire this year, haven't you gone extinct yet? Let a child who doesn't know anything be the next generation of elders, presumably you are not far from extinction, right? Boom Boom ...... This strong man, you might as well stay in my tribe, I don't say anything else, I will let you live a full and comfortable life, isn't it better than staying in that ruined tribe to gnaw the bark and roots......"
Wang Chuan saw it, this is an arrogant and ignorant old thing, Bihu is now bright, no matter how he looks like he can gnaw on the bark and roots, he didn't see it, don't say it, if the River tribe is about to be destroyed, how can he come and exchange with him? And Winter Bear passed by here, didn't he get a little news?
Bihu said: "Now my river tribe people are strong and meaty, it is the time to be full and warm for the winter, I heard that you are hungry, so I came to send you some meat to reduce your population." How can we be hungry enough to gnaw on the bark and roots? ”
"You!" The old man was choked lightly.
Wang Chuan hurriedly started the round, "Elder, our leader has always had a hot temper, you don't want to be like him. As the saying goes, people are in trouble at times, and your current tribe is not going well for a while. As long as this winter is over, maybe it will prosper. Now, you happen to be short of food, and we also want a few people to go back to help, don't we all take what we need? ”
The old man went downhill along the donkey: "It's like words." Go pick someone yourself, and change the carnivorous back of the three for one. ”
Speaking of which, the price is not too high, and my mother said that if you are related to the Fire God Ministry, you have to add meat on the back of two people to exchange for one person. The meat that comes directly out of the back of the three people here can be selected from the periphery at will.
Wang Chuan stood still and said, "What if we don't want adults?" ”
The old man said strangely, "You don't want adults? ”
Wang Chuan nodded and said, "I just want a child who is as tall or a little taller than me." Can this be cheaper? There is something to say, half the size, eat the dead Lao Tzu, these people can't go out hunting, and eat too much, I pick them, they should be given more discounts. ”
The old man was secretly happy in his heart, if this kid could count when he spoke, it would be the best, so he looked at Bihu and said: "If it is as big as him, the meat on the back of the two will be replaced by one." Bihu did not deny Wang Chuan's negotiations. This made the old man's heart reassured.
Wang Chuan said again: "All we exchange for meat are all jerky, and they are all jerky, you take a look at our jerky first, and then it's not too late to set the price." ”
While speaking, Wang Chuan handed a piece of jerky to the old man, and Bihu and the others also handed the jerky to the people around him. These are salted and grilled bacon on a fire, and according to the Winter Bears, they say they taste very good. Presumably, they didn't take a closer look at the meat they had just brought in, but as soon as the meat reached their hands, Wang Chuan heard all kinds of stomach bone sounds.
The appearance of these people tearing and gnawing on the meat is extremely ugly, and it is only appropriate to describe it as gobbling up.
It seems that the old man has never been hungry, and when everyone else was still biting, he tasted it and raised his head: "Salt? ”
Wang Chuan said: "Before the winter bear came to my tribe, we exchanged a lot with him. This salted meat can't be treated like ordinary meat, right? ”
The old man also knew that salt was a good thing, and such a good jerky was delicious, so naturally he couldn't take it lightly. He lowered his head and pondered, but he really didn't want to exchange too many people to go out.
Wang Chuan sensitively observed that the gap between the inside and outside of the cave was not ordinarily large. They handed the meat to the people outside, and the people inside actually reached out and took it, but the people outside did not dare to say anything. Seeing that the old man was pondering, Wang Chuan simply moved closer and added a fire: "Look at those people, all of them have lost weight like this, and staying is just a waste of your meat." Maybe you'll die before the snow stops. Even if you hold on until the snow stops, you won't be able to run and you won't be able to hunt. What is the use of keeping such people? It might as well be given to us. The first time my mother asked me to trade, maybe she would be satisfied, and her fox fur would be given to me. And you really don't have much meat......"