Chapter 556: Sugar and Pottery
Da Yan stood in the sugar hall, his eyes glancing.
On the outermost stone platform of the sugar house are rows of small, open-mouthed wooden jars containing amber viscous honey, and bees flying around them from time to time.
On the other side, the wooden jar on the stone platform is filled with various tree syrups and pieces of sweet gums.
These Great Yan had seen it before, and he was not unusual, just a glance at it.
Looking further in, he found square baskets made of wood on the stone shelves by the wall, with fine burlap bags filled with fine particles as white as snow.
Da Yan's eyes lit up: "Is this salt? It's so clean and fine, it's a little whiter than the salt of the Jiugong tribe!"
Shopkeeper: "It's not salt, it's sugar." ”
Da Yan didn't believe it, took a few steps forward and grabbed a pinch of white sugar with his rough hand, put it in his mouth and smashed it, and said strangely: "It's really sweet! How did you make such sugar?"
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "This is what we invented a few days ago, as for how to make it...... We ordinary people really don't know. ”
Da Yan has a psychological shadow of the four words "Lord Xiwu" these days, and when he heard this, his expression was unnatural, and he immediately turned his gaze to look at other commodities.
He saw a lot of dark red stuff in the wooden baskets on the other row of stone shelves, and rudely took one piece and threw it in his mouth.
"It's so sweet!"
The shopkeeper smiled and said, "This is a brown sugar cube, which was also invented by Lord Xiwu." ”
Da Yan was cold when he heard these four words, his body stiffened, he took a light breath, and looked at the maltose inserted in the crack of the wood.
Shopkeeper: "Adults have good eyesight, this is also a Xi ......"
"Wait!" Da Yan reacted quickly and hurriedly said, "Don't say it, I know!"
He clutched his forehead in pain.
On the other side, Hong Mo paused in front of a stone jar, reached out and picked up a piece of translucent rock candy inside, stared at it for a long time, and finally put it in his mouth.
"Captain, it's sugar too!"
A look of surprise flashed in his eyes, and he also took a rock candy and put it in his mouth: "How does this sugar look like transparent ore, where did they find a sugar mine?"
Hong Mo was puzzled: "I've heard of the salt mine cave, but will there be a sugar mine?"
The shopkeeper walked over and smiled, "It's not natural, it's our ......."
"Say no more!"
"Shut up!"
"Shut up!"
The faces of the three of them changed slightly, and they shouted in unison.
The shopkeeper stopped talking, these three people from the super tribe couldn't afford to mess with Xicheng in the whole of Xicheng, and he didn't dare to make trouble for Xicheng.
In fact, the shopkeeper has behaved quite well, and the people of the ordinary tribe are all trembling when they see the soldiers of Eryang, for fear of offending people, how can they be as humble or arrogant as him.
It's not that the shopkeeper himself is of excellent quality, but that Xicheng has cultivated his self-confidence - the confidence that he can not show timidity in front of the super tribe.
Burning felt out of shape, grabbed his hair irritably and walked out.
Hong Mo looked at Da Yan: "Let's go!"
Da Yan: "Wait a minute. ”
He said to the shopkeeper, "I have all the sugar you have here, except for the honey and tree syrup that are laid out outside!"
Before the shopkeeper could answer, Hong Mo looked at Da Yan strangely: "You don't like candy, why do you buy so much sugar?"
Da Yan's eyes flashed with love, and he explained: "I bought it for the children, and my little granddaughter Bao Bao is very fond of candy, so give her a taste." ”
Although Da Yan still looks young, he is actually in his fifties, not that he deliberately maintains it, but because he often takes strange flowers and plants with various effects, some of which have anti-aging effects, so he looks young.
Da Yan has more than ten children, the eldest grandson is about the same age as Ye Xi, and the youngest granddaughter Bao Bao is only more than four years old, she looks very cute, and Da Yan loves her very much.
Hong Mo also had a lot of children, but he had no intention of bringing them candy, he looked at Da Yan a little speechless and said, "It's okay to bring sugar, but we still have to stay here for so long, why are you buying it so early?"
Great Yan: "......"
"Oh, too. ”
He reluctantly glanced at the sugar in the sugar hall and left here with Hong Mo.
The three of them walked on the neat stone floor, passing several shops selling furs and animal skins, and they did not linger in the slightest, and as they walked, their steps suddenly froze, and their eyes looked to the side in a daze, and their eyes showed an unbelievable brilliance.
Da Yan and Hong Mo followed his line of sight and immediately understood the reason.
It was a pottery shop, and there were many pieces of pottery on the shelves, such as amphorae vases with flowers, faience kettles painted with colorful patterns, openwork pottery balls, delicate hats, and water cups with handles inlaid with various colored gemstones......
In addition to being keen to increase his strength, their captain is also a crazy collector of pottery, and every time he goes to the Jiugong trading area, he has to pay a lot of high prices to buy a lot of pottery, and his house is almost full of pottery.
And the pottery of Xicheng is even more exquisite than the pottery of the Jiugong tribe.
The pottery of Jiugong is slightly rough, brown, and has obvious graininess to the touch, but the pottery of Xicheng is milky white, which looks very delicate, and the shape is very round and smooth.
Scorching Leng Ding was shocked by the vision of so many such exquisite pottery, and the whole person was stunned, and it took a few seconds before he rushed forward like a tiger, and the swift appearance frightened the shopkeeper.
"It's perfect, it's perfect!"
Zhuo picked up a vase embedded with emerald green gemstones, stroked its round body, and muttered incessantly.
The Jiugong tribe already has the most superb pottery-making technology in the entire primitive society, but the pottery they produce is kneaded by hand, and no matter how carefully they knead, it is impossible to make pottery with a turntable to pull the embryo like Xicheng with a perfect shape.
Zhuo put down the vase, picked up the clay pot again, and his eyes were so hot that he seemed to be on fire.
It wasn't until he touched all the pottery in the pottery hall that Zhuo took a deep breath, turned his head and said to the shopkeeper with a majestic expression: "I want all the pottery you have here!"
The shopkeeper was taken aback.
However, he knew that the person in front of him belonged to the Eryang tribe, and it was normal for him to have a lot of money.
Seeing that the shopkeeper didn't speak, he impatiently untied his animal skin bag and threw it into his arms: "Look, is there enough beast core here?"
The shopkeeper was awakened, and when he opened the animal skin bag, he was a little dizzy to see so many large beast cores, but he stabilized himself, took a barbarian beast core, eight pure-blood beast cores, and seven miscellaneous beast cores from it, and returned the bag to Zhuo.
Zhuo looked at him incredulously: "Just take a little bit like this?"
The big Yan and the red desert eyes on both sides are also about to fall out of the frame.
Pottery is undoubtedly a luxury in primitive society, let alone such exquisite and delicate pottery, it is absolutely sky-high! But the shopkeeper actually took so many beast cores?
The shopkeeper smiled innocently, dug into his fur pouch, and pulled out six pale red egg-shaped gems and handed them to Zhuo.
"I'm going to have to find you six red pebbles!"
Red Egg Stone is a popular trading currency in Xicheng, and ten red egg stones are equal to one Miscellaneous Beast Core.
Zhuo silently looked at the red egg stone handed to his eyes, and his burly body trembled slightly.
He didn't take the few red egg stones, but instead took out two king beast cores from his animal skin bag and stuffed them into the shopkeeper's hand: "Take it!"
Zhuo really couldn't accept that such a perfect pottery to his liking was so cheap.
What he didn't know was that because the bottom of the dozen or so mountains next to Xicheng was full of kaolinite clay, the cost of making pottery was very low. In addition, many potters have mastered the method of making pottery, and it is much easier to make pottery than to make stone tools.
Although the stone tools are rough, they need to be chiseled with great effort and polished, and they are strong and durable.
Many Xicheng people feel that fine pottery is not as good as stoneware, and they would rather buy stoneware than pottery, so Xicheng has a characteristic that all tribes do not have, that is, pottery is not much more expensive than stoneware.