sweet potato

Beast City.

There were several skinny orcs around the lounge chair under the shade of the tree, fanning the young man on the lounge chair with palm-leaf fans. Not far away, a tall orc was holding an iron chain in his hand, leading an orc with messy steps and a disheveled face behind him.

"Master Nine, the snake forest is here."

The man on the recliner opened his eyes, and with a joking gaze he cast directly at the legs of the orc tied with chains, and asked contemptuously, "Are you awake?"

She Lin was frightened by the sinister voice and nodded in fear without saying a word.

She Lin recalled that when he first arrived at the Beast City, he said he wanted to see the Second Young Master at the gate of the Beast City, but he was almost beaten to death and dragged out. In order to save his life, he had to say a few words about the Second Young Master that Wu Ming had told him, to prove that he really knew the Second Young Master.

Who knew that instead of waiting for the Second Young Master, he was captured and locked up by the Ninth Young Master, who interrogated him about the Second Young Master. How could he know? The person who really knew was already dead!

But he didn't dare tell the truth. If he did, he would not survive.

It was the priest of the Mu tribe who made him what he is now, so he simply put everything on the head of the priest of the Mu tribe. He lied that the priest of the Mu tribe had been in contact with the second young master, and the second young master had instructed the priest of the Mu tribe to do everything.

But what he didn't expect was that the Ninth Young Master actually asked him to lead the way to call the priests of the Wood Tribe to the Beast City.

Wouldn’t it be a dead end for him to go back?

Shelin didn't want to go back and die, so he pretended to be unconscious for a few more days. Now he couldn't push it any further, if he didn't wake up, the Ninth Young Master would ask the orcs to kill him and feed him to the wild beasts!

"You keep swallowing your saliva. Are you thirsty?" Mu Jiu smiled and handed the porcelain cup on the low table to She Lin, "Drink it."

She Lin didn't dare to move, and stood there with his head shrunk. The tall orc kicked She Lin forward and said fiercely, "How dare you refuse the gift given to you by the Ninth Young Master?"

"I'll take it, I'll take it!" She Lin trembled all over, and hurried forward, taking the extremely smooth porcelain cup with both hands.

She Lin drank all the water in the porcelain cup in one gulp. He choked because he was too eager and coughed for a long time while stroking his neck.

Mu Jiu felt that the other party's reaction was strange when he came from She Lin. After She Lin took the porcelain cup from his hand fearfully, he finally knew where this strange feeling came from.

The roads in his beast city were paved with bluestone, and they lived in stone houses instead of caves. They also used wood to make tables and chairs. They used smooth and delicate porcelain for drinking water and eating.

The other tribes walked on dirt roads and lived in caves, and they had no tables or chairs, let alone porcelain.

Any item from their Beast City would make any tribe excited and crazy.

The porcelain he handed over was not for external trade. Only the high priest, the clan leader and the young masters like them were qualified to use it.

The orcs in Beast City can only use pottery, and only the patriarchs and priests in their subordinate tribes are qualified to use pottery.

Every time the priests and patriarchs came to the Beast City, they would stare at their neat stone houses and the strangely shaped but very useful wooden tables and chairs.

If he took out the porcelain to pour water, these people would stare at him in awe. They were reluctant to take a sip from the porcelain cup, and would just look at it for a long time.

Even the orcs and priests who have been to the Beast City many times, every time they come to the Beast City, the emotions revealed in their eyes are excitement and desire to obtain these things that only the Beast City has.

But in this snake forest, he had no excitement from the beginning. When he took the porcelain cup, his emotions did not change at all. He clearly saw the stone house, the lounge chair, the low table, and the porcelain cup.

But he only felt fear.

Mu Jiu found it difficult to accept this conclusion, because it meant that the things in their Beast City were not even worthy of Snake Forest's attention.

"How does this porcelain cup feel to use?" Mu Jiu asked nonchalantly.

Shelin didn't dare not reply this time. He said honestly, "It feels comfortable to touch. It's better than the pottery cups we use in our tribe."

Mu Jiu heard this and said in disbelief: "What did you say? Your tribe uses pottery?"

She Lin was startled by the sudden loud voice and nodded repeatedly, "The pottery used in our tribe was obtained by the priests of the Wood Tribe in exchange for salt and stone from our tribe."

She Lin kept his head down the whole time and didn't dare to look up. At this moment, his heart was in turmoil. He was increasingly afraid to bring the people from Beast City back to the tribe.

When he first arrived in Beast City and saw its city walls and stone houses, he was reminded of the city walls and earthen houses of the Wood Tribe.

The stone houses in Beast City are much better than the earthen houses in Wood Tribe, and the city walls of Wood Tribe look better than those in Beast City.

But no matter which one is stronger, it cannot be denied that the construction techniques of the walls and houses of the two tribes are the same.

Including the Beast City porcelain he is holding in his hand, which is very similar to the pottery of the Wood Tribe.

Before, the old priest wanted to make pottery and then trade it with other tribes, but the pottery they made was broken.

Originally they wanted to capture the orcs from the Wood Tribe and take them to the Salt Tribe, but the cannibals suddenly went crazy and wiped out the Ze Tribe, breaking the balance.

The Mu tribe had Bao Qiu and his men joining them at that time, and it was not a small tribe that could be easily crushed by the Salt Department. In order to fully guard against the cannibals, this matter was delayed.

And here in Beast City, there was actually porcelain that was better than pottery. He knew how pottery was fired, and he thought the method for firing porcelain was similar.

Shelin stole a glance at the reclining wooden table not far away. The Wood Tribe also made some strange things out of wood. When they attacked the Salt Tribe, the Wood Tribe also made a lot of strange things made of wood.

At first he was a little bit skeptical when the Wood Tribe priest said that he was sent by the Beast City high priest, but now he believed it.

If he hadn't been sent by the High Priest of Beast City, how could he know those things? It couldn't have been the Second Young Master of Beast City who told him.

Mu Jiu laughed out loud after hearing She Lin's words. "Second brother, second brother, I didn't expect you to tell others the method of pottery making! If the high priest knew about this, I'll see what you can use to fight with me!"

"Don't waste time here. Hurry up and lead the way to call the priest of the Mu tribe to the Beast City." Mu Jiu excitedly got off the recliner and paced back and forth. "If I haven't seen him by the time, you can forget about living."

Shelin didn't dare to refute and could only nod.

But he always felt that something was strange, but he didn't dare to ask, so he had to suppress all his doubts in his heart.

…

After eating their meat, the orcs of the Tree Tribe sat in their tree houses to avoid the sun. Flocks of birds in the sky attracted their attention.

What kind of bird is this? It's migrating at this time of year. I've never seen it before.

Chief Fox Tree and the orcs of the hunting team looked at the birds that were getting closer and closer with serious faces. They felt the blood of beasts surging in these birds. They were not birds but beasts in the form of orcs.

"alert!"

At Fox Tree's command, all the orcs of the Tree Tribe hid themselves and stared at the orcs flying in the sky.

Shen Nong wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at the two red and green dots that almost fit together on the system map. He breathed a sigh of relief, finally arriving.

He said to the orcs of the Feather Tribe, "Let's stop here. We will go to the gate of the Tree Tribe and ask their tribal guards to go in and notify them. They must have sensed us. If we advance rashly, we will have a fight."

Shen Nong and Ze went down first to explain their origins to the orcs of the Tree Tribe guard team. The orcs of the Tree Tribe, who were originally in a state of tense alert, became visibly delighted after hearing that it was the priests from the Wood Tribe who came.

The captain of the guard team poked the orc who was nearby and grinned, "Go tell the priest! Run!"

"Okay! Captain!" After a short distance, the orcs from the guard team transformed into beast form and ran towards the tribe.

While waiting outside, Shen Nong asked the orcs of the Yu tribe to take off the large backpacks they were carrying.

As large backpacks filled with trade goods were neatly placed on the ground, the orcs of the Tree Tribe Guards stared with their eyes wide open. It was the first time they had seen so many animal skins!

Because of the hot weather, Shen Nong brought more animal skins this time, followed by pottery, and the least amount of pickled meat. Because the animal skins were placed on the top, the orcs of the Tree Tribe thought that the entire backpack was filled with animal skins.

Shuguo and Hushu came out quickly, and the smiles on their faces never faded after seeing Shen Nong.

Not only did people from the Mu tribe come, but even priests came!

While moving the backpack, Shu Guo asked the orcs to quickly notify other tribes, especially the five tribes that had not traded with the Wood Tribe, and asked them to send the prepared items to the Tree Tribe so that the Wood Tribe priests could take a look.

Shen Nong and Ze were arranged by Shu Guo to sit in her tree house. To be honest, Shen Nong didn't dare to move because he was afraid of falling down. This tree house really looked like a dangerous building.

Shuguo knew that the priests from the other five tribes would be here soon. She looked at the priest from the Wood tribe who was sitting opposite her and swallowed her saliva nervously.

Anyway, Shuguo gritted his teeth and told Shen Nong that he wanted him to see if there was anything good brought by other tribes.

Shuguo's expression and behavior have been a little strange since he got into the tree house. Shen Nong thought something was wrong, so he nodded and said, "Okay."

The priest of the Xi tribe came the fastest. He originally wanted to climb up the tree house. Shen Nong was really afraid that if there were more people, the tree house would collapse. He quickly climbed down the tree house and said he would watch from below.

As the large leaf in the hands of the priest of the Creek tribe slowly unfolded, the grayish-white stone inside was revealed.

The priests and Shuguo of the Xi tribe saw Shen Nong pick up a stone, look at it for a while, then put it down, then pick up another one and put it down. He kept picking it up and putting it down, looking at every stone, but he didn't say anything. This made the two priests standing by feel uneasy.

When Shen Nong first saw the stone, he felt that it looked familiar. He spent a lot of time to have the system carefully inspect it and confirmed that it was porcelain stone. Porcelain stone and porcelain clay are both used to make porcelain, but the sintering and porcelainization temperature of porcelain stone is lower than that of porcelain clay.

Shen Nong put down the porcelain stone in his hand. He didn't want to make the priest worry for too long. After getting the accurate conclusion, he said that the stone was useful and could be exchanged.

The priest of the Creek Tribe was extremely happy. After discussing the specific transaction volume, he did not spend a moment in the Tree Tribe and hurried back to the Creek Tribe to summon the orcs to dig stones.

Of the remaining four tribes, only the things from the Cliff Tribe were included as trading tribes by the Wood Tribe.

When the Yai tribe saw that the tree tribe's big rolling was accepted by the wood tribe, they remembered that their tribe also had ground fruits that could feed the orcs. However, they could not be kept for long. They would go bad after being dug out of the ground for a few days.

Shen Nong took a quick look and found that the fruit grown on the ground of the Yai tribe was just sweet potatoes!

Sweet potatoes are not easy to store, but they can be made into vermicelli. Five pounds of sweet potatoes can produce one pound of sweet potato flour, and one pound of sweet potato flour can produce nine ounces of vermicelli. Shen Nong bought all the sweet potatoes from the Ya Tribe, which amounted to more than 6,000 pounds. Shen Nong planned to make all the remaining vermicelli after saving the seeds. When winter comes, the beastmen will add a handful of vermicelli to the stew when they eat, which is also a good taste.

Shen Nong landed in the Tree Tribe because he saw that the Tree Tribe was the leader of the nine marginal tribes, and the Tree Tribe was the closest. After he looked at the things brought by the five tribes, he asked Shu Guo to find an orc to take him to the Stone Tribe.

His main purpose of coming this time was to trade jade with the Stone Tribe and sell it to the system so as to save up infrastructure points to buy cotton seeds.

Before Shen Nong could go to look for them, the orcs from the guard team came to inform him that the priest and the chief of the Stone Tribe were outside. In fact, the priest of the Stone Tribe had already arrived, but had been waiting outside the Tree Tribe. Only when he saw that the priests of the other tribes had all left did he dare to let the guard team come to inform him, for fear of disturbing the transaction between the other tribes and the Wood Tribe.