Chapter 52 Teachings
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The phrase "there is enough salt and stone" kept repeating in Songshan's head.
He looked at the full backpack of salt stones and had no doubt about its authenticity.
Hu Xiao was in a hurry to train, so he left after bringing the things and words.
When leaving, I told Songshan that if he figured it out, he could secretly go to the Mu tribe to discuss it in detail.
After coming out of the cave, the captain of the mountain tribe hunting team, Zhuliu, began to look around the tribe for any abnormalities. Then he saw their chief standing at the entrance of the tribe like a wooden stake.
Zhu Liu stepped forward suspiciously, "Chief, what are you doing here..."
When he got closer, Zhuliu discovered the large basket of salt stone. He widened his eyes and exclaimed, "Salt stone!"
Songshan then came to his senses, turned around and covered Zhuliu's mouth, looked around vigilantly, and let go when he didn't notice anything unusual.
He lowered his voice, like a thief, and said, "Don't shout, just go in."
Songshan imitated the roar of a tiger, put the big backpack on his back, and quickly entered the tribe. After Zhuliu made sure that there was no one around the tribe, he also hurried in.
He was really curious as to why there were suddenly so many salt stones in front of the tribe.
The clan leader looked like he knew the reason, so he asked carefully.
Songshan took the salt stone directly back to his cave, and soon Zhuliu came in.
"Chief, where did these salt stones come from?"
Songshan originally wanted to mention the Mu tribe directly, but he remembered that the Mu tribe priest had told him not to tell anyone else last night.
He did not reply to Zhuliu, but said: "Don't worry about it, you can distribute the salt stones. But you must order the tribe members not to tell anyone that our tribe has salt stones, otherwise the tribe will be in big trouble."
Zhuliu's face changed. Big trouble?
He looked at the pile of salt rocks and wondered, did the chieftain steal the salt from the cannibals overnight? Or did he steal the salt from the salt department's salt mountain?
Seeing Songshan's serious expression, Zhuliu did not dare to ask any more questions and replied, "Yes, clan leader."
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The Mu tribe was now busy with farming again. They got used to it the first time and soon reclaimed a piece of wasteland.
After planting the wheat seeds, Shen Nong used his special powers to accelerate germination and make up for the time lost.
The orcs of the Yu tribe were also preparing to leave. This time Shen Nong would not follow them. The members of the caravan brought back by Lang Yu followed the orcs of the Yu tribe.
After replenishing enough trading items, Shen Nong also prepared meat for the orcs of the Yu tribe for the journey.
The Mu tribe now has two sources of meat, one is fishing and the other is hunting.
Now the Mu tribe can hunt a lot at a time. When they come back they pickle the excess meat so there is no need to worry about it going bad. They have a lot of meat stored in the warehouse.
Tudong had been following Shen Nong to learn about herbs and had found more edible wild vegetables.
Generally speaking, the Mu tribe has no shortage of food now.
The children in the tribe ate well all day long, and what they looked forward to most was the fruit forest near the waterfall, whether they were the children from the Water Tribe who came later or the children from the Wood Tribe who had tasted the fruit before.
They are all very greedy and whenever they have time, they will follow the collection team to check how the fruits are growing.
Recently, due to security issues, the gathering teams rarely go there. Only the hunting team goes there for training and patrols the salt mountain hidden behind the waterfall.
The children would beg the hunting team to let them help see how big the fruit had grown.
However, today the children did not beg the hunting team for help because their priest promised them that he would take them to the orchard tomorrow.
Shen Nong has never taken care of the orchard. Now it is spring, everything is reviving, and there are many insects.
If you want more and better fruits, you have to catch insects.
These little kids have been longing to go all day, so it's a good opportunity to take them to work.
By nightfall, there was no light outside.
Yang Yu, who was on night duty at the city gate, hurried to the mud house where the meeting was taking place. "Priest, there's a man outside who says he's the chief of the mountain tribe and wants to see you."
Shen Nong hasn't returned to the cave so late just to wait for him.
"Bring him here."
When Songshan saw the tall walls of the Mu tribe, he was a little confused.
The "stone wall" was high and flat. I don't know where the Mu tribe found so many flat stones, or whether they polished them one by one to make them so flat.
When he was led into the Mu tribe, his eyes were opened even more.
The people of the Mu tribe do not live in thatched houses or caves. Songshan is not sure what the houses they live in are made of, but he knows that they look sturdy and warm.
Some families had dinner late, and smoke was still coming out of the chimneys. Songshan hadn't eaten meat for a long time, so he knew it was meat as soon as he smelled it.
I just don’t know how the people in the Mu tribe made it, it smells so good.
He had stuffed his stomach with a lot of wild vegetables and licked the salt stone several times. Now, when he smelled the food, he felt hungry again.
Despite his hunger, Songshan was brought to the small square of the Mu tribe.
The square is paved with bricks and stones, and the feeling of stepping on it is completely different from that of dirt.
Flat and hard.
Songshan looked at his feet in surprise and recognized that the stone was the same as the stone wall.
He was brought into the meeting room to see Shen Nong with full of doubts. There was a small fire in the room for lighting. The weather was not too hot yet and it was still a little cool at night, so it was okay to light a small fire in the room.
It won’t be possible after spring is over, and Shen Nong is also thinking about whether there will be another source of lighting.
Otherwise, we won’t be able to move until night.
Songshan looked around the room and only saw the tall orc who had controlled the Wood Tribe priest standing next to him. He didn't see their priest, so he asked, "Where is our priest?"
Shen Nong supported his chin and asked Song Shan to sit on the chair. He felt uncomfortable in his neck because he looked up at people.
"I'll take you to see him once we've discussed it. Don't worry."
Songshan had never seen a chair before. He sat on it tentatively and found it was quite stable.
After sitting firmly, Songshan put away his curiosity and started talking about business. "You said that we should follow the Wood Tribe in the future. I agree to this. But I have a condition. You must give us enough salt stone."
"Anything else?" Shen Nong asked.
Songshan was stunned for a moment. Is there anything else?
He thought for a long time but couldn't figure out what else they wanted. What they lacked most was salt stone.
Songshan shook his head, "No more."
Shen Nong asked again, "Are you sure?"
Song Shan was suddenly uncertain about Shen Nong's attitude. He thought for a long time before adding uncertainly, "After the matter is resolved, will you release our priest?"
"Gone?"
For some reason, Songshan was suddenly afraid of the questioning tone of the Wood Tribe priest. He took a deep breath to calm himself and said firmly, "No more."
Shen Nong said happily: "I promise you, but the salt stone of my Mu tribe is not given for free. You can only get it if you become a younger brother of my Mu tribe."
Songshan was a little confused and didn't quite understand what the Wood Tribe priest meant by "little brother". He asked, "What should the little brother do?"
"As a younger brother, I must listen to my elder brother. If my elder brother tells me to go east, I cannot go west. If my elder brother tells me to chase the sun, I cannot chase the moon." Shen Nong coughed lightly, "Of course, my elder brother will also protect me and help me as much as possible. For example, the Mountain Tribe is short of salt stone, and as the elder brother, the Wood Tribe will send you salt stone."
Songshan pondered for a moment and felt that it was good to be a subordinate of the Mu tribe, as there was indeed enough salt and stone available.
"Then the Mountain Tribe will be the Wood Tribe's younger brothers from now on."
Shen Nong smiled and said, "That's easy to say, but words are not enough. We have to swear an oath to the Beast God. Those who violate the oath will be punished by the Beast God."
This time, Songshan did not agree immediately, but thought about it for a longer time.
Swearing an oath to the Beast God actually did not have much binding force on Shen Nong, as he did not believe in the Beast God.
But for the orcs, this restraint is extremely strong.
However, Shen Nong could guarantee that he had a spirit of contract, but he could not guarantee that the mountain tribe would have the same spirit as him, so he thought of swearing an oath to the Beast God to restrain the mountain tribe.
The fact that the chief of the mountain tribe did not agree immediately showed that he was thinking seriously about it and would not regret it once he had sworn the oath.
After waiting for a while, Songshan nodded seriously, "Okay, swear."
Shen Nong and Song Shan knelt on one knee facing the moon and swore an oath to the Beast God.
The content of the agreement is just as the two said, and anyone who violates it will be severely punished by the Beast God.
After both parties finished swearing, Songshan's first reaction was to meet the priest Shanfeng, "Where is our tribal priest?"
Shen Nong said: "I'll take you there."
Ze followed behind with a torch in hand, lighting the way for Shen Nong. Song Shan himself held a torch, carefully holding it, fearing that a gust of wind would blow out the flame.
The three of them soon came to a mud house. Shen Nong had no intention of hiding the people, so he asked Tu Dong to arrange a mud house for the mountain tribe priest to live in.
As soon as he arrived in front of the house, Songshan smelled a rich fragrance.
It was hard to describe the aroma, it smelled like meat but not like meat. Whatever it was, it made Songshan swallow hard.
His stomach growled, not because he was hungry, but because he was greedy.
Shen Nong asked the orc guarding the earthen house where Shanfeng was to open the door. When the door was opened, the room was filled with smoke.
Shanfeng was sitting by the small fire, looking at the big bone soup that had been cooking in the clay pot for a long time. Just as he was about to taste it, the door of the house was pushed open.
Originally, every mud house had a bolt on the door, but the mountain wind was blown in from the mountains, so in order to make sure that people were always in the house, the bolts were removed.
"Didn't you just check it? Why are you checking it again?" Shan Feng swallowed his saliva and asked suspiciously, "Are you guys regretting making soup with my bones?"
The bone soup was brought to him by the people of the Mu tribe last night. After drinking it, he couldn't stop thinking about it.
When the Mu tribe brought food in the morning, he asked about the soup he had last night, but he didn't expect them to answer.
As a result, the people from the Wood Tribe not only answered, but also said that if he liked, they would get some bones and teach him how to cook it himself.
Shanfeng was overjoyed and nodded repeatedly.
When the sun was at the middle of the sky, people from the Mu tribe came again to deliver food, along with some bones, seasonings, and clay pots.
These are mountain breezes that I have never heard of.
The people of the Mu tribe taught him how to stew bone soup. They spent the whole afternoon cooking this meal, and Shanfeng hardly took his eyes off the clay pot.
During the entire stewing process, the Wood Tribe orcs guarding him rarely opened the door to check whether he was there.
Now that the bone soup was ready, he kept opening the door to check. It was hard for Shanfeng not to suspect that the two orcs were regretting their decision and wanted to take away the bone soup he had worked so hard to cook.
Songshan heard the sound of Shanfeng and said excitedly: "Priest!"
Shanfeng thought he had misheard. How come he heard Songshan's voice?
The door was open for a while, and the fog dissipated a lot. Shanfeng looked towards the door and really saw Songshan.
Shan Feng stood up quickly and asked, "Why are you here?"
Songshan took two steps at a time and strode to Shanfeng. He held Shanfeng's arm and asked worriedly, "Priest, are you okay?"
Shan Feng shook his head. "It's okay. The people of the Wood Tribe are very nice to me. I eat meat three times a day."
Songshan was surprised and asked, "Three meals of meat a day?"
Their mountain tribe is lucky to have meat once every three days, and the prey they hunt recently has to be handed over to cannibals. If it weren't for the wild vegetables in spring, they would have starved to death long ago.
The Mu tribe actually eats meat three times a day! !
"Gurgle gurgle."
Shanfeng looked down at Songshan's stomach, "Are you hungry? The people of the Mu tribe taught me how to make bone soup. Would you like some?"
Songshan had already smelled the fragrance. He wanted to shake his head, but his head was not under his control and he just nodded.
So the chief and priest of this mountain tribe did not consider themselves outsiders at all. They sat down and started drinking the bone soup.
The rich aroma of bone broth is refreshing, with bits of minced meat and crispy bones on the bones.
Songshan drank the bone soup impatiently, and it was so hot that it hurt his heart.
In the end, I had no choice but to chew the bones and wait for the soup to cool down before drinking it.
When Shen Nong saw Song Shan chewing a large bone and about to throw it away, he said, "The marrow of this bone is delicious."
marrow?
Shen Nong taught them how to eat the bone marrow. Songshan and Shanfeng did as Shen Nong said with doubt.
When they took a bite of the delicious bone marrow, their eyes lit up.
tasty!
Shanfeng had eaten a few meals of meat in the Mu tribe, but unlike Songshan, who only saw meat. After tasting the bone marrow, he put down the bone soup and asked Shennong, "Mu tribe priest, you brought Songshan and me here, not just to eat meat, right?"
Shen Nong nodded, "Of course not. I have already discussed the specific matters with Song Shan, and I have sworn an oath to the Beast God."
Shanfeng looked at Songshan who was eating happily, frowned and asked, "What did you discuss?"
Songshan put down the bone reluctantly and told Shanfeng everything that had happened before.
After hearing this, Shanfeng wanted to punch Songshan, the big fool, twice.
He was not against the Mountain Tribe being dependent on the Wood Tribe in the future. The Wood Tribe was different from before. Although he had only a short time here, he could not move around freely.
But he could still hear the sounds outside. The tribe that made children and the elderly laugh and play was something Shanfeng had never seen before.
What made him angry was that when the priest of the Wood Tribe asked Songshan what he wanted, he only said he wanted salt stone.
Didn’t Songshan have eyes when he entered the Mu tribe?
Even if we can just teach them how to build the house they live in now!
Shanfeng didn't want to make many requests, but Songshan could ask for one more.
Shanfeng tried hard to calm down, it was too late to say anything now.
Forget it, this is fine. Without the Wood Tribe, they don't even have salt stone.
Salt stone is the biggest problem. Once this problem is solved, the mountain department really can't come up with anything else.
Shen Nong thought Shan Feng would object or say something to him. Unexpectedly, he didn't say a word, but just snatched the bowl from Song Shan's hand, not letting him drink another sip of soup or chew a piece of bone.
Songshan couldn't stay here for long. After the pottery bowl was taken away by the mountain wind, he could only watch it but not eat it, so he simply went back to the tribe.
After everyone left, Shen Nong also wanted to go back to the cave to rest. When he walked to the entrance of the cave, he looked at Ze who was about to follow him into the cave, and Shen Nong was overwhelmed.
He forced himself not to think about it during the day, but now he had to face it.
Looking at Ze's handsome face in the moonlight, Shen Nong sighed silently.
As the saying goes, send the Buddha to the west, and he will be your father forever.
The child's sexual education depends on him.
He prepared water for Shen Nong to wash up, and while Shen Nong was washing up, he also washed himself.
After everything was cleaned up, Shen Nong said to Ze, "Come in and close the door."
Ze obediently closed the door and checked it again.
Shen Nong sat on the bed, with Tuanzi leaning on his back.
Shen Nong patted the bed and said, "Come and sit down."
He chose one command and one action, and walked towards Shen Nong with his straight and slender legs.
Shen Nong looked away, took a deep breath, reviewed the limited knowledge in his head, and organized his words.
Under Ze's confused gaze, Shen Nong quickly and professionally explained to Ze why his body had changed, and told him how to relieve it in professional language.
Then Ze became even more confused.
He didn't understand a word.
Shen Nong saw Ze's confused look and knew that he didn't understand. It was true that primitive people had little knowledge of the body, and the professional terms he used were not used by people here.
But Shen Nong didn't know how to explain it in a simple and easy-to-understand way. He had no choice but to call out the system.
"Didn't you say before that you could let Ze see the system screen?"
The system replied: "Yes, I thought you forgot. Why, do you want Ze to see his mother now?"
Shen Nong shook his head, "No, I want him to watch a movie."
The system was struck by lightning, its voice trembling, in disbelief, every word was tearful, "Host! You actually want my highly intelligent AI to play that kind of movie!!"
Shen Nong felt like his head was going to explode. The system was too loud. He said angrily, "What are you yelling about? It's just a bottle of nutrient solution. Do you want to take it?"
The system sobbed, "Two bottles."
Shen Nong said speechlessly: "Two bottles is two bottles."
Shen Nong hasn't used much infrastructure points recently. He had 20,000 infrastructure points left before, but now after using two bottles of nutrient solution, he has only 15,000 infrastructure points left.
The system angrily drank two bottles of nutrient solution and played some tragic background music for itself.
If you don't know, you might think it's going into the recycle bin.
After a while, a bunch of films appeared in front of Shen Nong, showing people of all skin colors.