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Chapter 108: Grandma Liu Enters the Grand View Garden

“It was a completely different world, they lived in solid houses, dressed in all kinds of clothes, selling things we had never seen before.

Later I realized how stupid it was to order my tribe members to take their prey to Xinhua City and hope to exchange for gold. It was also later that I learned why before we entered the city, the other party told us that we could exchange gold for their belongings.

Because when our tribesmen come into contact with the things they produce, our tribesmen can no longer live without those things. And our things are worthless in their eyes.

I don't know if it's good or bad to decide whether I decided to get in touch with them at the beginning, but now I have to admit that we have become them."

This is what the first Indian tribe chiefs who entered Xinhua City said to their descendants when they recalled their past events in their past.

As she recalled, when these Indians entered Xinhua City, a new world was revealed before them.

Xinhua City is somewhat different from the Central Plains City, because Zhao Weiji considers that there will be no major war here in the short term, so he did not build high walls around the city like the Central Plains City to resist foreign enemies.

However, out of respect for tradition, there is still a circle of walls around Xinhua City, but such walls are not too high, a bit similar to the walls of large mansions, but they are a little taller than that.

However, it is precisely because of these walls that the scenes inside the city cannot be seen outside the city. It is precisely because of this design that the Indians who entered the city and saw the scenes inside the city clearly felt that they had reached another world.

"What are they talking about?" Zhao Weiji, who accompanied the group of Indians into the city, secretly asked Snow.

Because of the performance of these Indians at this time, Zhao Weiji reminded him of a sentence, that is, Liu Laolao entered the Grand View Garden. From the curious eyes of the Indians, Zhao Weiji could conclude that the attraction here was even greater than he imagined.

"By the prince, most of what they said was novelty and curiosity about our houses and clothes." Snow summarized the conversation between the few people he heard and told Zhao Weiji.

"Then, you take them around first. There is something else to do in our city hall. I will take them to an unknown restaurant for dinner later. I will come again when I go."

"Okay, prince."

After explaining some matters to Snow, Zhao Weiji left the team.

And Snow began to take these Indians and began to wander around the city.

Since the people in the city have never seen Indians, this team will attract a large number of people to watch everywhere.

"What are they watching?" Being watched is not a comfortable thing, so the chief would inevitably ask Snow what the hell were watching.

"It's nothing, they are just curious about the Chief and your tribe." Snow gave the Chief a more tactful explanation.

"If they are curious, will they be interested in things from my tribe?"

In fact, the question asked by the chief made Snow a little difficult. Snow, who had lived with the Han people for a long time, was no longer the Inuit who had never seen anything before. He was also very clear about what is in Xinhua City now.

To be honest, Snow also read the things brought by this Indian tribe. If Snow had to give evaluations of these things, there would be only five words: what's the matter.

However, this kind of truth cannot be said casually at this moment, so Snow had to perfunctorily say: "You can try it out and show it all to see if anyone wants to exchange it for something, or buy it directly in gold."

Although Snow just said it casually, these Indians actually did this, and someone immediately put the goods on their backs underground and displayed them.

Moreover, because of the language barrier, they asked Snow to translate. The scene at that time made Snow so embarrassing.

In desperation, Snow had to bite the bullet and translate it.

But what Snow didn't expect was that after he translated the Indian words, the people around him looked at the things and actually dispersed.

"Tsk, I thought it was something new. Not all these things were left over from us."

"That's right, who wants the corpses of these wild beasts? The fur is not good and the flesh is not good."

“What are those jewelry made of?”

“That’s made of bones.”

"It's made of bones, then I don't want it."

Basically, everyone in the scattered crowd said something similar to this.

Although these Indians did not understand the Chinese language of Central Plains, they could guess from the expressions of the crowd that these people did not like their own things, which made it difficult for these Indians to accept.

So they all looked at Snow with a puzzled look. At this time, Snow also knew that if they did not give them a reasonable explanation, it would probably be difficult to smooth out this matter for a while.

But how to give a reasonable explanation gave Snow a headache. But at this moment, a accompanying guard suggested to Snow whether he could take these Indians to see the shops of the Han people.

Let them see similar things sold in Han people's stores, and maybe they can understand why their own things are not welcome.

Maybe this was not the best idea, but under the current situation, it might be the most appropriate idea, so Snow led the group of Indians into a silk shop.

This silk and satin shop mainly sells dough cloth products, and some silk satin are not as large as the Central Plains silk satin shop, but it is more than enough to shock these Indians.

After entering, the guards went to explain all this to the boss, and Snow led the chief to start the tour.

At first, the chief and others did not know what these cloths were for, but when Snow explained to them that these were used to make the clothes he wore, the chief and others were uneasy.

The reason is very simple. These Indians did not have any technology to weave plant fiber textiles into clothes. All their clothes are made by animal fur. However, since animal fur cannot be mass-produced like cotton and linen, many Indians did not have much clothing to wear.

Although it doesn't matter whether Indians living in tropical South America or not because the temperature is high all year round, it doesn't matter whether they wear too much clothes, but it's different for Indians living in North America.

Especially the Indians who originally lived in the northeastern North American continent, winter is a disaster for them. Often, when winter comes, people who do not have a large amount of fur reserves will easily be frozen to death.

And the Indians who are now in Xinhua City migrated from central and eastern North America because the winter on the West Coast is relatively warm.

"Snow, isn't it really cold to wear these clothes on your body in winter?"

To prove the question the chief asked, Snow borrowed a cotton coat from the shop owner and helped the chief wear it, "This is the clothes we wear in winter."

After the chief put on his cotton coat, he soon began to sweat because it was September and the west coast was quite warm.

"This is good." After feeling the power of the cotton coat, the chief praised it repeatedly and immediately ordered his subordinates to take out their fur to exchange more cotton coats with the boss.

But after seeing the fur, the shop owner waved his hands repeatedly because the fur brought out by the Indians were nothing but cowhide, and rabbit skin and other things were of no value, and the best one was just a deer skin.

If there are fox furs or mink furs, the shop owner may be tempted. The fur of these ordinary animals really makes the shop owner uninterested.

"He said that he was not interested in your stuff. If you want these cotton coats, you can exchange them for gold."

Then Snow discussed with the shop owner the amount of gold needed to exchange for the chief's set amount of cotton coat and told the chief.

This made the chief hesitant, and he also knew that it was really possible that the things he looked down upon were because of the existence of these cloths.

However, she was still a little reluctant to ask her to use gold. Fortunately, these cotton coats did not cost too much gold. The owner was relatively conscientious and did not rob them, but gave a market price.

In the end, for the sake of the whole tribe, she still paid the gold.

After getting the cotton coat, Snow took these Indians to a blacksmith shop, and showed them iron weapons, especially iron bows and arrows, in the blacksmith shop.

This weapon with a range of more than 100 meters and extremely lethality surprised the Indians. They really didn't expect that anyone could make such a powerful weapon.

So it is normal to "bleed" here.

Behind the blacksmith shop is the goldsmith shop. The exquisite gold jewelry in the goldsmith shop simply kills the chief's neck-covered slag. Later, I visited the shop selling other jewelry. The beautiful jewelry of various colors and materials inside made the bone jewelry that the Indians were originally complacent also faded.

After a long walk around, the chief could only say this to Snow: "I finally know why your tribe members are completely disliked by our things. You really have too many good things."

Snow couldn't deny the words of the Chief, but he suddenly remembered Zhao Weiji's explanation that if these people were full of buying things that Xinhua City could do, they must add a little more fire. "If the Chief likes it, you can often come to this city to buy new items in the future."

Although Snow's words made the chief very happy, because his products could not be exchanged for any products in Xinhua City, he paid for them with gold every time, which made the chief a little "hepatic".

But at this moment, Snow spoke again: "Sir, it's getting late. Our city lord has prepared a dinner for you. I'll take you there now."

After experiencing all the things today, the chief was also curious about the differences between these people in eating, so the Indians followed Snow to the banquet.
Chapter completed!
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