"You have a lot of food!" Haoping's eyes were full of envy. He had only now noticed the pieces of venison hanging from the beams. Judging from the location and volume, it should be a whole deer that has been cut into parts.

Fu Song's face showed a hint of pride, mixed with undisguised arrogance: "What, your Qinglong Village has run out of food?" ”

"I haven't had anything to eat since last week." Haoping sighed, revealing a mouthful of uneven yellow teeth: "Fifty people were killed in the stockade, and the hunting team came back yesterday and only got one roe deer." Liangdong really can't help it, so he sent me to you to see if he could exchange some food. ”

Qinglongzhai is a large village with a population of more than 1,000, and Liangdong is the leader there, and it is also the "head of a thousand people" with a higher status.

Fu Song stared at Haoping intently, he put aside the salted deer legs, and grinned at the brown lips that had cut his beard short with scissors: "How much do you want to change?" ”

"A hundred women." I had a plan in my heart, and Haoping answered very simply.

"How exactly?" Fusson wanted to know more details.

Haoping hesitated. He knew very well that questions such as "how much grain do you have in your stockade" could not be answered from Fu Song's mouth. However, everyone wants to maximize profits, and exchanging living people for food is really a last resort, but it is much better than directly killing people to eat meat. In fact, this is also the most common means of communication between the northern barbarians in the season of food shortage. Take Qinglong Village and Panshi Village as an example, everyone belongs to the "Thunder Cow" tribe in the Niu clan, I am short of food this year in exchange for a hundred women for you, and wait until next year or later your village is short of food, these people can also use the same method to exchange it back. Moreover, there will also be exchanges between the women in the past and the original village, and perhaps due to unexpected circumstances such as war or illness, the two villages will be merged.

"Your hunting party is in good luck! I actually got so many giant horned deer. Haoping licked the meat oil on the corner of his mouth, and asked tentatively: "What do you think of a woman changing a deer?" ”

Fu Song's eyes flashed with shrewdness and sarcasm: "You're kidding!" ”

The average height of an adult male of the northern barbarians is two meters seven, and particularly strong warriors can reach three meters. The size of the male and female of the Giant Horn deer is no different from that of civilized times. Adult females can reach up to three meters in height, not counting the antlers on their heads, and the males will have to rise by 30 to 50 centimeters at this number, with an average weight of more than half a ton.

If it's a warm spring or autumn, the success rate of the trade is high, and it can even be exchanged for a woman for a deer and a half. But in this special season of cold and lack of food, an adult woman is exchanged for a giant horned deer...... It's a joke that no one takes seriously.

"Hehe, I'm just talking about it casually." Haoping moved his stiff and sturdy arms and smiled like a cunning and shrewd businessman: "So, two people? ”

"Three people!" Fusson didn't like to bargain, he had no interest in it. The reason why he said so much to Haoping patiently was to show his majesty as the leader of the village in front of the other party, and the satisfaction of having enough food and not being threatened by hunger.

"Three people...... That's just too much. In fact, this number did not deviate from Haoping's expectations, and his psychological bottom line was four people. Since it is a transaction, the benefits that should be fought for must be fought for as much as possible.

"You give me a hundred and fifty men, and I will give you fifty-four deer." Fu Song directly cut off his unrealistic thoughts: "It's all pure meat with skin peeled and no internal organs, and the extra part can be regarded as compensation and addition." Also, I can give you a deer leg alone. ”

"Two, I want hind legs." Haohei's attitude is very resolute. This kind of thing is not exclusive to the civilized era, as long as there are conflicts of interest.

Fu Song nodded slowly, his muscular face revealing a condescending and controlling smile. He threatened in a clear voice: "I am not allowed to fill the numbers with old people and children, I only want beautiful and strong women." ”

"There aren't that many women in the stockade. One hundred and eleven, and I'll add forty more men to you. "This is the result of many discussions among the leaders of Qinglongzhai.

"Yes." Fu Song put forward his own conditions: "Women are enough, men must be the kind that the whole family has changed." ”

"Then there will definitely be old people and children." Haohei spread out his hands.

Fu Song had a headache about this, he frowned and thought for a few seconds: "That's it! Try to choose a household with few elderly and children, and the number should not exceed five. ”

"At least eleven." Haoping counted the villagers in the village who could be used for exchange: "Five is absolutely impossible, otherwise this transaction will not be possible." ”

The deal was generally fair. The broth in the pot is already boiling, and the "goo-doo" bubbles and constantly explodes. Fu Song straightened up his broad shoulders and instructed Ah Mei to serve a bowl to Haoping, and couldn't help but sigh a little: If there was no Tianhao, Panshizhai would have run out of food. Just before rounding up the giant horned deer, he also discussed with Yonggang and the old priest to use women to trade in Qinglongzhai. I didn't expect their lives to be even more difficult than their own...... Luck, real luck!

Let Tianhao become the new head of 100 people in the village, but it is also well deserved. It's just that he's too young.

With indescribable satisfaction and comfort, Haoping finished drinking the hot broth. The bowl is huge, and the pieces of meat that are filled at one time are enough to weigh two catties. After eating a few pieces of barbecue meat handed over by Ah Mei and filling his stomach, Haoping stood up, stomped his feet a little reluctantly, and said very jealously: "Hunting is a matter of luck." Alas...... That, when is it traded? ”

"As soon as possible!" Fu Song said seriously: "There has been no snow in the past few days, you go and come back quickly, and bring someone over to trade." I'll have the venison ready for you right now. ”

The metal shelves at home were spread out of tanned deerskins, and without the tools at hand, Ah Mei could only use an iron chisel to skewer the venison piece by piece. Haoping, who finished talking about the deal, hurried away, and without waiting for Fu Song to react, he snatched the iron chisel in Ah Mei's hand, and took off the last two pieces of meat that had not yet been roasted with extremely quick movements. The piece of meat was very hot, and he hurriedly tossed it back and forth in his palm, and stuffed the sticky grease on the surface of the barbecue directly into the arms of the leather robe with his head down and blowing the cold air.

"Next time you come to Qinglong Village, I'll treat you!" Kohei didn't think there was anything wrong with that. Everyone is of the same race, and when there is no food, they exchange women. This rule has continued since the time of the ancestors, and it is normal to carry a few pieces of barbecue with you when you leave. Anyway, Panshi Village has a lot of hunting results this winter, and Fu Song's family is not short of this food.

Fu Song was helpless about it. He frowned and glanced at the hippie smiling Kohei, and waved his hand like a fly. The latter didn't say much and turned to leave.

Qinglong Village is not far from Panshi Village, and it is still early, so you have to go back before dark. The mountains and forests at night are hell, and fierce beasts roam everywhere, and even the bravest barbarian warriors will not go out at night easily.

In the normal trade of the northern barbarians, the population was often used as currency. Especially in times of scarce resources, population often determines the chances of survival for the other half of the group. This kind of survival cut can sometimes be as high as 60 percent, but no one can deny that the surviving part of the population will continue to reproduce and multiply in the next spring.

The footsteps outside the hut soon died down, and Fu Song lost any interest in continuing to marinate the meat. The flame of excitement spread in the body little by little, and then there was pride, and pride.

The population of Panshi Village is only a quarter of that of Qinglong Village. Every winter, when there was a shortage of food, Fu Song would bring women over to trade. Sometimes more, sometimes less, and this goes on for a long time. At its best, Panshizhai only exchanged two women in winter.

There is no doubt that in the process of such transactions, Panshizhai belongs to the disadvantaged group. Qinglongzhai has also deliberately lowered prices in previous transactions, and women have become cheaper and cheaper.

In Fu Song's memory, this was the first time that Qinglongzhai took the initiative to ask for help. And the scale of the transaction was huge, more than a hundred women.

Woman, new woman...... Hehe......

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Hunger is the best source of motivation for human endeavors. In the afternoon of the next day, when Haoping walked into the village with a group of people, the Panshi Village was boiling again.

The purpose of the human trade is simply for food. Haoping didn't want to stay long, and after the two sides settled clearly, he and his men quickly left with a skid full of venison.

When the herald led him into the large wooden house of the leader Fu Song, Tianhao saw the hunting captain Yonggang and the old priest Wu Xing sitting in front of the fire pit. He was mentally prepared for this, and saluted the three respectfully as usual, and then chose a place not too far from the fire pit to sit down.