Chapter 229 The Rat Tribe Comes
Inside the Mang Tribe Trading Area.
Under Chenbei's careful teaching, Qiao finally mastered some trading skills within a few days.
Chenbei is very accurate in looking at people, and Qiao really has certain talent in management.
On the first day, she was a little shy and would ask Chenbei carefully every time she traded.
But three days later, she could introduce the goods in the trading area to the tourists without changing her face.
As for the other two teenagers, their talents are slightly worse than those of buckwheat, but it doesn’t matter. Teach one more and you can always learn it.
"Can this animal bone be replaced with some salt?"
The two tourists walked carefully to the grain and oil shop in the trading area and took out a large beast's shoulder blade from a hollow dead tree.
The two ends of the dead wood were sealed with soil. If they hadn't opened the soil, they would never have imagined that such a large animal bone would have hidden inside.
The reason why the animal bones are put into the hollow dead wood is to make some disguise because it is not easy for tourists to get a good animal bone. If they are not hidden properly, they may be stolen.
Qiao picked up the animal bone and observed it carefully. It was very heavy, hard and smooth like jade, which shows that the quality of this animal bone is very good.
This shoulder blade is triangular and is very suitable for making farm tools. It looks very good.
The Mang tribe now has more than 8,000 acres of arable land, and there will be more in the future. The amount of agricultural tools consumed every year is very huge.
Therefore, stone or animal bones suitable for making agricultural tools are very popular in the Mang tribe.
Qiao looked at Chen Bei who was sitting aside, with a look of inquiry.
But Chen Bei just looked at her with a smile, gave her an encouraging look, and did not directly guide her.
Qiao held the animal bone in his hand tightly, cheered himself up in his heart, and then said to the two tourists: "This animal bone is very good. You can change some salt, but because there is only one animal bone, you can only change a spoonful of salt."
Qiao opened the clay pot containing salt, used a wooden spoon as big as a fist and half, scooped a spoonful of salt, wrapped it with a soft leaf, and handed it to the two tourists.
"I can really get salt!"
The two tourists were almost crazy about being happy. The spoonful of salt looked very good, better than what they had eaten before, and they thought it was worth it.
However, they didn't know that the animal bone was worth much higher to the Mang tribe than a small spoon of salt, because the quality of the animal bones was so good, better than most animal bones.
After the two tourists left, Qiao Qiao handed the beast bone to Chenbei and said nervously: "Chief, look at my transaction this time, are you making a profit or losing money."
Chen Bei took the beast bone, looked at it, and said, "It's very good. I believe the bone tool master will like this beast bone very much. This transaction is not a loss."
"Very good!"
Qiao was so happy that he was about to jump up, and a bright smile appeared on the girl's face.
This is the first transaction she has completed independently. It is the greatest encouragement for her to be recognized by the leader.
In the following time, Qiao Qiao completed several transactions alone, most of which made money, but there were one or two things. Because she was not experienced and did not see it correctly, she lost some salt and grain.
Chen Bei always waited for her to finish the transaction and told her how valuable the items she traded were and how to trade them to make the Mang tribe more profitable without letting tourists suffer too much.
If you want to do business for a long time, you should not be too unintentional, otherwise those tourists will suffer more and will resent the Mang tribe, which will not be worth the loss.
Chenbei would rather make less money in the early stage and make the reputation of the trading area. In this way, more tourists will promote them and attract more people to come and trade with the Mang tribe.
In the long run, this kind of tribe will make more money.
In this way, under Chen Bei's teachings, Qiao grew up very quickly. It won't take long to master the skills of trading and continuously improve her ability to judge the value of goods.
Chen Bei felt that Qiao Qiao would soon be able to stand alone in the trading area.
Of course, Chen Bei was not just teaching Qiao, but Chen Bei also taught the other two young men carefully.
But as the saying goes, people will die, and goods will be thrown away.
The two boys who had high understanding were naturally dimmed a lot and learned slowly. Chenbei would take more time to teach them.
On that day, in the evening, the gate of the trading area was about to close.
Because it was outside the tribe, for safety, a stone wall was built in the trading area of the Mang tribe, surrounding the trading area, with two gates in front and behind, guarding two totem warriors.
Trading is usually carried out during the day, and the trading area will be closed at night, and the totem warriors live in houses in the trading area.
"Wait, wait..."
Just as the gate was about to close, Chen Bei was about to return to the tribe with Qiao and two young men, a group of strange totem warriors appeared.
They are about fifty people, they are relatively thin, with sharp-mouthed monkey cheeks, dirty bodies, and their fingernails are black and long, like claws of digging animals.
They also carried a lot of things on their backs, running and shouting.
The totem warriors guarding the trading area became alert, and they all stood beside Chen Bei with weapons, staring at these strange totem warriors.
These strange totem warriors ran to Chenbei and looked at Chenbei: "Captain Chen, we are not enemies, we are friends, friends!"
This man lifted his dirty and messy hair to the back of his neck and showed his face to Chen Bei.
There were totem patterns on his face, which looked like...a mouse.
Chen Bei felt that this totem pattern and this person were familiar with him. He thought for a while and finally remembered it.
"Rat Tribe?"
The man shouted happily: "Yes, we are members of the Rat Tribe, and Chief Chen still remembers us."
Chen Bei signaled the totem warriors next to him to put down their weapons. The Rat Tribe was also acquaintances, so they had no courage to launch an attack on Chen Bei.
Chen Bei asked the leading rat tribe totem warrior, "What's your name?"
"My name is Changwei, and I am the little leader of the hunting team of the Rat Tribe and the leader of Chen."
Chen Bei nodded, pointed to the thing behind Long Tail and said, "Are you...coming here to make a deal?"
Nagao said: "That's right, we heard that the Mang tribe has established a trading area and came here to do a transaction with you."
Chen Bei said in surprise: "You are so far away from the Mang Tribe, so the news is very well-informed."
Changwei smiled and said, "The news about our Rat Tribe has always been very well-versed."
Chen Bei looked at the horizon and said, "But it's already so late today, and I can't see it clearly. Why don't you make another transaction tomorrow."
Nagata said with a bitter face: "Chief Tatsu, we don't want to spend the night in the mountains, it's too dangerous."
Chenbeidao: "Since you have come all the way, you are the guests of the Mang Tribe. How can you stay overnight in the mountains and forests? Don't worry, our Mang Tribe has a house to live in."
Changwei smiled happily and said, "That's great, thank you, Chief Chen."
That night, Chenbei brought the people of the Rat Tribe to a row of wooden houses built outside the stone wall of the Mang Tribe. This was a house built by the Mang Tribe specifically used to entertain guests, and the contents were quite complete.
Chenbei ignited the fire again and sent food and water over.
Chapter completed!