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Footsteps came from inside the cave.

The people in the cave were walking out step by step, not hurrying, with a little carelessness, and they were not alarmed by the fact that there were so many strangers at the entrance of the cave.

There was no fire in the cave, and it was pitch black, so at first, the people at the entrance of the cave could not see the appearance of the people inside, but they were wary of the sudden appearance of the person, so they all took up their weapons and faced the people who came out.

In such a place, even an inconspicuous little person can make you unlucky, and you have to be careful.

Near the entrance of the cave, the light became brighter and brighter, and the person who came out of it gradually revealed his figure.

The man looked very young, wearing a linen cloth, although it was a little wrinkled, but it could be seen that this linen clothes were much better than the one that Shao Xuan had seen in the Pu tribe, and the weaving was also more fine. At the neckline, there are also some decorations composed of small bamboo pieces in series, which makes the linen dress look not so simple.

The man raised his arm and stretched his waist, the light at the entrance of the cave was a little dazzling, he grabbed his grassy hair with one hand, and looked at the person standing at the entrance of the cave, "Hey, it's a change again?"

"Are you?" asked the leaders at the front of the group, looking at each other.

"This hole is ours, you hurry up!" There was a younger one next to him, who was originally planning to grab a better position in the cave, ∴but when he started, he was startled by the sound in the cave, and was robbed of the place by the person behind him, and now he is not in a good mood, and his tone is naturally a little rushed.

But he didn't notice that the arrogant tone of the leader of his team had softened a lot, and he didn't notice the sudden change of color on the faces of some of the experienced travelers in the team. Seeing that the other party didn't answer, he was about to say something more, but he was covered by several older people next to him. Drag into the line.

Shao Xuan looked at the people who came out, and he knew that although linen cloth had become popular in the central region, there were many people wearing linen cloth in the market, but the linen cloth on the body of the one who came out was much better. also carried a very rounded bamboo ornament, and most importantly, the piece of jade hanging from the other party's waist.

The experienced people in the team have said that in the Mang tribe, almost everyone has jade on their bodies, but some of them are a small arc, and some are semi-rings or even rings, so to speak. In the Mang tribe, status is related to jade, and the young man in front of him, the jade hanging around his waist is almost in an arc of two hundred and forty degrees, although there is no carving on the jade, but there are some clear green lines like bamboo.

It is conceivable that this person is naturally not a small person, although I don't know why this person came to sleep in the cave. But don't offend, this is what several leaders think of at the same time.

The man glanced at the group of Travelers seemingly casually. He said, "I've slept well, so go in." ”

No one in the line went inside, but, following the man's steps, the group blocking the entrance to the cave quickly moved out of the way. Some young people who don't know what to do are dragged away by the older ones around them.

There was no one blocking the entrance to the cave, and more light from outside the cave shone in, which also allowed everyone to see this strange young man more clearly. It's quite white, and it doesn't look strong. I didn't feel how strong I was, I didn't have the momentum of the Fanning leader, and I was dressed well, but I don't know why everyone was so jealous. And when everyone's eyes swept to the piece of jade hanging by the other party, the person who was still scolding in his heart just now lowered his eyelids and did not look at each other.

For a while, the cave was quiet, and the people who were discussing with great interest just now also closed their mouths.

The atmosphere was somewhat frozen.

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The sound of the other party walking slowly was heard very clearly, and even the noise outside the cave could not hide the footsteps in everyone's ears.

Suddenly, the man walking outside the cave stopped and looked sideways at the team of farwalkers.

The leaders at the front of the team suddenly tightened their hearts and looked at each other, thinking about what to do if something happened.

But he didn't want to, the other party just looked at one place in the team and smiled meaningfully: "It's not a small courage." When you go out, don't go alone. ”

The rest of the team followed the man's gaze and looked at one place, where Shao Xuan was standing with a frown.

After saying that, the man departed, went out and stood outside the cave, stretched, moved his arms, looked down the hill, and then leaped forward.

It's on the mountainside, and the slope is a bit steep, and it's still a little high from the ground below.

However, when the people outside the cave looked down, they did not find the man.

"Don't look at it, it's gone. Pan Ning said, walked in front of Shao Xuan, and had a cold face, probably because he was still suffering internal injuries, and his face was even more ugly: "Have you provoked the people of the Mang tribe?"

"No, it's the first time I've been here, and I've never seen anyone from the Mang tribe before. Shao Xuan also wondered, that person was halfway talking, how could he know what the other party was talking about?!

"It's best if you haven't provoked!" Pan Ning snorted heavily, because of this "hum", the injuries in his body were affected, and he coughed several times, almost coughing up a mouthful of blood, but in order to maintain face and stabilize the morale of the army, he held back that mouthful of blood.

"Clean up the cave. One of the leaders in front said.

Worried that there were other people in the cave, after everyone lit the fire, they took the torches and went inside, carefully checked it, fished out some garbage and threw it outside, and then each found a place to rest. After driving for so long, after coming to the central part, I have been tense my nerves, and now I can finally grab a cave, I really have to have a good rest, and some people with injuries also need to recuperate.

Shao Xuan, Ji and a few others also found a place to rest, lit a small fire, and roasted the meat they were carrying again, so that they had the strength to eat enough.

"Shao Xuan, you really don't know that person?" asked him.

"I don't know, and I don't know what he means. Shao Xuan had been thinking about the reason, and he was even wondering if the other party had discovered that he was from the Yanjiao tribe, but he hadn't heard of any grievances between the Mang tribe and the Yanjiao tribe back then. Moreover, Shao Xuan did not feel malice from the other party, and of course, there was no kindness. Just strangers.

On the other side, the people who left the cave were already near the bazaar. He did not go into the bazaar, but walked about a hundred meters from the bazaar.

Sou!

A slender spear shot at an extremely fast speed, inserting it into the ground in front of him, and nearly half of the spear body instantly sank into the ground.

"Qu Ce, hand over Bai Ling!"

A white figure had gone a hundred meters away in the blink of an eye. came to Qu Ce.

This was a young woman dressed in silk white, but at this time, Xiu Mei's face was angry, looking at Qu Ce.

"Isn't it just a spider? How many days have you been chasing me?" Qu Ce yawned and said nonchalantly: "You care about your spider, what about the bamboo rat that I worked so hard to raise?

When he said the back, Qu Ce's face turned cold.

"I can compensate for your bamboo rat with silk clothes. The woman in white softened her tone slightly. Said.

"Hey, do you think that everyone is rare to the spider smell of your tribe?!When our Mang tribe has no good things?!"

"No matter what, you must hand over Bai Ling today!" the woman in white did not back down.

"I'm afraid you won't make it...... Wait!" Before the other party could make a move, Qu Ce quickly stopped.

Looking at the sky, Qu Ce's gaze stayed somewhere, and on his face, which was still angry just now, he smiled and raised his palm.

After a breath. A green figure flashed, and finally landed on Qu Ce's palm.

It was a bird less than the size of the palm of your hand. The wings are like knives, and the tail is like swallows. Because it is so small, if you don't look closely, it is easy to mistake it for an insect.

"What did you find?" Qu Ce said, touching the bird's head with his fingers.

The bird chirped and pecked Qu Ce's finger lightly.

"Finally found the thieves. Qu Ce was overjoyed. "There's something, I won't have anything to do with you, I'll pay you back!" said Qu Ce, who took out a white ball from a leather bag hidden in his clothes and threw it at the woman in white.

The woman in white quickly caught it and looked at the "white ball" in her hand. It was originally a spider covered in long white hair. Now it is wrapped in a fist-sized ball, and, on its body, there are several bamboo thorns. It was these bamboo thorns that caused this white spider to suffer greatly.

"Qu Ce!" the anger on the face of the woman in white was even stronger.

"What are you shouting, it's not dead yet, it's much better than my poor bamboo rats. If you eat so many bamboo rats from me, you have to be punished, and you will die if you stab them a few times, and you deserve to die!"

The woman in white didn't care about it anymore, just endured her anger and pulled out a few thin bamboo thorns on the "white ball", and after a while, the "white ball" gradually opened, and the long legs with white hair stretched out, and the fist-sized "white ball" more than doubled.

"Look, it's not dead yet. Next time I eat my bamboo rat, I won't be able to kill it!" I didn't have the heart to continue to stay here, Qu Ce put away the bag: "I'm going to catch the thief, I want to see who else steals Lao Tzu's bamboo rat, is it really Lao Tzu's good temper?"

The green bird had already taken off, and Qu Ce was following closely. After hesitating for a moment, the woman in white also followed, and she also found that some silk in the spider web in the tribe had been smoked, and she didn't know if it was the same as the people who stole jade and bamboo rats from the Mang tribe.

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After Shao Xuan ate the food and rested for a while, he walked out of the cave with Ji and the others. The people of the long-distance team moved in two groups, one group went out to trade, and the other group guarded the cave, and went out alternately in the morning and afternoon.

Now, Fanning takes the people of the Pu tribe out, they will trade a batch of items in this bazaar first, and the things that are popular in the central part may not be popular to bring back, they must choose according to the habits and preferences of those tribes along the river, so that they can exchange for more things when they bring them back. Just like the rough linen cloth that Shao Xuan saw at the beginning, it is nothing here at all, you can exchange it for a piece with something casually, but after bringing it back, you can exchange it for a good water moon stone, and the water moon stone can be exchanged for more good things.

Since there is no unified currency, the transactions that Shao Xuan sees are all kinds of strange items, sometimes the buyers take them out, and the sellers don't like them, and the transactions are not successful.

The several things taken from the frog are more popular, and the transaction is quite smooth, and the water moon stone of the Yu tribe is even more smooth, if the number is enough, Shao Xuan feels that the water moon stone of the Yu tribe can be used as a unified currency, no matter which tribe the seller is from, if Shao Xuan wants to trade with the other party, he can succeed by taking out the water moon stone. It's no wonder that the people of the Pu tribe are so excited every time they see the people of the Pu tribe. The Water Moon Stone is too versatile.

One level higher than the water moon stone is the jade of the Mang tribe, which is also versatile in trading, but it is much more "expensive" than the water moon stone.

Shao Xuan was not interested in linen cloth and pottery, and those jade from the Mang tribe could feel a calm and peaceful atmosphere when touched, and perhaps there were other uses for totem warriors, but Shao Xuan felt that he didn't need these, and he didn't have enough financial resources, so he had better not fight the idea of jade.

Shao Xuanzheng was walking in the market with Yu and the others, and a square-faced person greeted him.

"Do you need jade?" The man quickly glanced around, as if he was on guard against something, and then pulled the loose sleeves of the animal skin coat, Shao Xuan saw a few pieces of jade in the other party's sleeves.

"Jade?" he was a little entangled, he was actually very curious about jade, but other people in the tribe said that jade trading was not cost-effective, so basically no one from the Pu tribe would trade jade.

"Forget it, I don't have anything on hand that can trade jade, and I can't exchange it for anything else. He refused.

The rest of the Pu tribe was also thinking the same way, only Shao Xuan lowered his head and seemed to hesitate.

"How can this jade be exchanged?" asked Shao Xuan.

"I think the white stone you just took out is good, so use that. But...... It's too eye-catching here, let's go over there. The man pointed to a place.

"Shao Xuan, let's go with you. He said. I heard that this kind of trading in the bazaar is dangerous, and many times they act together in groups.

After thinking about it, Shao Xuan said to a few people, "No, you guys continue to look forward first, I'll catch up after I traded in the past, I'm very interested in jade, I want to see it for a while." ”

"Yes, yes, we have a lot of jade over there, and some of them are carefully carved. The man said quickly.

"Don't you really need us to go over together?" asked Shao Xuan, a slightly older man next to him.

"Not really, thanks. ”

"Oh well. "Some transactions in the bazaar may indeed involve some personal secrets, and the elder of the Pu tribe didn't say any more, and continued to walk forward with Yu and the others.

When they were a little farther away, Shao Xuan said to the jade trader, "Let's go, but I think it's good over there." ”

Shao Xuan pointed to another place, "There are few people over there." ”

"Over there...... Okay, too. The man walked next to Shao Xuan, slightly half a step behind, and under the loose animal skin clothes, his fingers gestured in one direction.

After leaving the bazaar for some distance, Shao Xuan stopped.

In front of him, on the left and on the right, a man appeared, and behind him, the jade trader in the bazaar.

Shao Xuan turned to look at the jade trader, who originally had a smile on his face, but now he was also smiling, but there was less affinity and more ruthlessness, and there was already no jade in the loose animal skin clothes.

Four people surrounded Shao Xuan in the middle.

"Boy, hand over the things. The man in front said.

Shao Xuan didn't make a sound, nor did he show a panicked look.

"Don't hide it, we know exactly what you're carrying. But you have the audacity to come with me alone with such a precious thing. The jade trader's eyes flashed with greed.

Something precious?

Shao Xuan thought about it, he had a lot of precious things on his body, such as a shirt made of insect skin, those special silk threads, and the water moon stone of the Yu tribe, as well as ...... Fire Crystal!

Shao Xuan's eyes flashed, and he remembered what the man in the cave said: "You are not small. When you go out, don't go alone. (To be continued......)

ps: Just a change......