After leaving the bamboo house, the leader of the elephant tribe sent someone to get a bag of animal skin, about thirty kilograms of rice.

Ze pointed to the bag of rice and said, "That's all that can be traded."

Chen Bei opened the animal skin bag and found that the rice was not of good quality, about one-fifth of which were empty shells and some stems and leaves.

Chenbei pinched a piece and broke it apart. It was not particularly dry. If it was not well preserved, it might sprout when it was placed.

Despite this, Chen Bei was still a little excited. After all, most of these rice is still good and can be used as seeds. Just take them back to the Mang Tribe, dry them again, and blow away the empty shells and stems and leaves, which are good seeds.

With so many rice seeds, it only takes two years to plant them. The Mang tribe will have a large amount of rice and become one of the tribe's staple foods.

Ze continued: "What does Chief Chen want to trade?"

Chen Bei thought about it and finally decided to take out the salt. This thing is the real tool for making money.

Although there is no coin now and can only barter with goods, salt is much more valuable than other goods.

Chen Bei walked to the rhino king, took out a small animal skin bag from the animal skin bag, and walked to Ze.

He opened the small animal skin bag and said, "Look at this goods, how about it?"

Ze took the animal skin bag and looked at it, with an incredible expression on his face. Obviously, he didn't expect Chen Bei to take out salt.

Ze couldn't wait to pinch a little with his fingers and put it in his mouth. A salty smell was emitted in his mouth, and there was a slight bitterness, but the bitterness was almost negligible.

"Okay, good stuff, just exchange it!"

There are about two kilograms of salt in the small animal skin bag, which is simply a big profit transaction.

However, Chen Bei took the animal skin bag over and said, "It is OK to trade it, but the amount of rice is too small."

Ze frowned slightly and said, "This thing produces very little, and there are many birds and beasts that are destroyed. This bag is already the harvest of a large wetland."

Ze is telling the truth. Because the planting methods are not done, the seeds are almost sprinkled and they don’t care. They will harvest them when the time comes, and the yield is indeed very low.

Otherwise, the Elephant Tribe would not have been planted for so many years and still could not be eaten by all the people who fell into it.

Chenbeidao: "The rice is gone, you can plant it again, but you should know how rare this salt is."

"To be honest, I use salt to trade with you, and I take a lot of risks. If your tribe leaks the news, other tribes will definitely have ideas about our mud tribe. There will be a lot of trouble at that time."

Ze knew that what Chen Bei said made sense.

He gritted his teeth and said, "Add another bag, this is the limit, no more, there will be no more."

Soon, Ze brought another bag of rice. He felt very painful, but for the sake of salt, he had to take it.

"That is, you are good people from the tribe. If you change to another tribe, I will definitely not sell it so cheap."

"make a deal!"

Chen Bei was actually very satisfied. After all, salt is not particularly rare for the Mang tribe. It was already very good for him to exchange two kilograms of salt for more than 60 kilograms of rice.

These 60 kilograms of rice will turn into hundreds of kilograms a year, and hundreds of kilograms will be sown again. If you plant them for another year, the number will be at least ten times higher, right?

Chen Bei's mind has already seen the scene where everyone in the Mang tribe has rice. Of course, it is quite difficult to realize this picture, but at least there is hope, isn't it?

Ze also breathed a sigh of relief. After all, salt is really in short supply. Other tribes, such as the Diao tribe, offer a price even more outrageous. In comparison, Chen Bei is really quite conscientious.

Ze talks to Chenbeidao: "Chief Chen, do you have more salt? We can trade with other things, such as crocodile skin, how about it?"

Because people from the elephant tribe live by the river and hunt crocodiles as food, it is common for them to accumulate a lot of crocodile skin, bones, teeth, etc.

The crocodile is not weak in reproduction. If it weren't for the frequent hunting of tribes, it would have been flooded in this area of ​​water.

Chenbeidao: "I have to see the quality first."

When Ze heard this, he knew that Chenbei had salt. He said enthusiastically: "Yes, I'll take you to see you right away, you will definitely be satisfied."

Ze took Chen Bei to a large bamboo house in the Xiang tribe. The walls of the bamboo house were covered with crocodile skins, and the ground was filled with crocodile bones and crocodile teeth.

Chen Bei checked the quality of the crocodile skin and found that it was pretty good, so he nodded with satisfaction.

Afterwards, he bargained with Ze for a long time and negotiated a price that both parties were more satisfied with.

Ze got ten kilograms of salt again, while the Mang tribe got a bunch of crocodile skins and a bunch of crocodile fangs.

After several transactions, Chenbei and Ze also brought the relationship much closer.

After all, it is rare to get a relatively reliable transaction partner. The Mang Tribe and the Xiang Tribe had a good relationship a long time ago, and I believe that this harmonious relationship can be continued in the future.

Chen Bei asked the totem warriors of the Mang tribe to move away the traded things, and then continued to walk around the Xiang tribe with Ze, and he wanted to get more valuable things.

Not long after walking, Chenbei suddenly saw an old man like a tribe standing by the roadside, with several children sitting next to him, listening carefully to what he said.

Chen Bei got closer curiously, wanting to hear what he was saying.

"We are like a tribe, but we used to be a big tribe. Do you know about the big tribe? There are tens of thousands of tribe members!"

The old man gestured exaggeratedly, but the children obviously didn't understand what the concept of tens of thousands was, so they could only guess a lot.

"At that time, we lived on the plains. There were thousands of elephants in the tribe. Few tribes dared to mess with us. Everyone had food, clothes, and strong houses to live in..."

When the old man said this, his eyes seemed to be glowing, and his face was extremely proud.

A child sat on the ground, holding his chin with his hands, looked up and asked, "What about later?"

"Later, it was snowing, it was very snowing. The elephants of our tribe had not yet grown thick hair at that time. They couldn't stand the cold weather, so the tribe moved south, moving farther and farther, and many things were lost..."

The old man's mood became depressed. Obviously, the tribe's decline speed was difficult to end.

"Then can we go back?" asked a child.

The old man suddenly glanced at Chen Bei, then touched the child's head and said, "Yes, we will definitely go back."

After listening to the old man's words, Chen Bei learned more about the target tribe.

At the same time, he also thought that even the Xiang tribe migrated south had weakened to its current state. It is conceivable that the Mang tribe that had been stubbornly left behind was not surprising that it would eventually perish.

Chenbei and Ze continued to walk forward.

Ze's face was a little complicated, and he said, "The old man just now was the leader of the Xiang tribe. His greatest wish in his life was to let the Xiang tribe return to his ancestral land."

"But, it's not easy!"

Ze sighed, shook his head and smiled bitterly. With the current strength of the tribe, he would probably be eaten by others and not even left with a scum.

Chen Bei patted Ze on the shoulder and said, "As long as the tribe is immortal, one day we will return to our ancestral land, rise again, and even surpass the glory of the past!"

"I hope so."

The two continued to move forward, but the atmosphere became much heavier. Whether it was the Xiang tribe or the Mang tribe, they were far from the peak of the past.
Chapter completed!