Xiaobao caught up with the herdsmen. A good start is half the success.

The men scattered their horses by the river. The horses drank water, ate grass, and some stood in the water...soaking their feet!

Antuta, the veterinarian, shouted to them, and the men all gathered around.

Chu Yuan and Lao Yu also came to Chu Qing's side, and the boys in the caravan were ready to make a move.

Brother Zhuizi calmly made a "be patient" gesture, and led the boys from the Secret Investigation Department to move a few bean cakes to Chu Qing's side, light a fire, and bake the bean cakes.

Let’s treat you to something! There’s nothing that a piece of bean cake can’t solve. If there is, then two!

Chu Qing motioned to the men in Voss to sit down and have something to eat. These men could all speak Daxuan dialect, and during the conversation, it was revealed that they were no strangers to Daxuan.

Because the Dong Lun Kingdom has always communicated with Voss through trade, this is why the powerful Voss Kingdom did not destroy them despite being a small country.

The Donglun Kingdom has always received help from Daxuan in a dependent manner, so they act as middlemen to earn the price difference between Voss and Daxuan.

This deal is a good deal, because during the reign of Emperor Daxuan, the Dong Lun Kingdom received duty-free goods, either at ex-factory prices, or even for free, and then sold them to the Vos Kingdom at a high price, or exchanged them for their horses.

Dong Lun country also speaks Daxuan dialect, so many people in Voss receive a "bilingual" education.

They like Daxuan's products very much, but most of the time they can't afford them because the prices are too high.

"We don't know how to do business, and we don't have the money to do business, otherwise we would just go to the exchange market." said a man from Worth.

"Your Daxuan caravans usually don't come to us. Even if they come, we can't afford to buy anything, so no one comes."

Zhang Mingyu said that the area on the route map was too small. Since he wanted to improve the map this time, he had to go in a big circle. So this time Chuqing and his team were traveling along the mountains, which is why they didn't see any people for several days.

reasons.

When Chu Qing talked to them, his voice could not hide his gender, so they were very curious about Chu Qing. Chu Qing ignored their looks and just pointed to the convoy and told them that there was food.

When the men saw the goods of fifty carriages, they all put down their guard and warmly invited the caravan to their village.

Their village is not big, with only dozens of felt bags. The blue sky, white clouds, green land, felt bags, and sheep all look so harmonious.

The working women saw the caravan and the herd of horses from a distance, and they all stopped what they were doing and looked over.

The children were already riding horses in their father's arms, and kept shouting to their grandmother, "Mom, we have a guest!"

The caravan received a warm welcome, and Chu Qing ate yak meat and drank yogurt.

"Do you have an iron pot?" Huayi's mother suddenly shouted in surprise. She saw the double-eared cauldron.

Chu Qing, who was drinking yogurt, saw the excitement in her eyes. The excitement was even higher than when she saw the grain. This was a good thing. The iron pot was more popular than the grain, so it would be easier to negotiate the price.

"We have two kinds of pots!" Chu Yuan introduced, unloading a few horse spoons from another carriage. Sure enough, the horse spoons gained greater enthusiasm. Because this kind of pot can be moved with only one hand,

Much more convenient than a crock pot.

In Chu Qing's eyes, their current pots have the same shape as the pickling jars used by women in the village, and they are not as convenient as medicine jars.

"How do I change this?" The women were very enthusiastic.

Chu Yuan scratched his head and looked at Qing Qing. Chu Qing had wanted to exchange a bag of grain for a horse, but he hadn't thought about the pot yet.

In Daxuan, basically the price of a 200-jin bag of grain is the price of an iron pot, so a pot should also be the price of a horse.

Chu Qing was about to answer "one horse", but Xiaobao had already answered: "two horses."

What Chu Qing wanted to say when he opened his mouth became: "Ah...right!"

Zhuo Yao: "Master? What's going on?"

Chu Qing: "..."

The herdsmen were very happy at this price, but Xiaobao was a little frustrated. He felt that the price he asked was too low.

Chu Qing said to the herdsmen: "Let's just regard our caravan as a grand opening today and just obey the children's words. Don't tell others about this price, we will lose money."

Xiaobao looked at Chu Qing speechlessly: In terms of being thick-skinned, she must be my mother!

The herdsmen only bought twenty pots. They had to exchange for grain and set aside horses for the prince, so they did not dare to buy more. No matter how big the family was, they only bought one pot.

"Is this a pattern or writing on it?" a woman asked, pointing to the mark on the pot's ear.

"This is the brand name of our Chu family's 'Bao Qingsheng'."

"Bao Qingsheng. Remember! Your pot is very good!"

The young man went to pick a horse.

A bag of Chu Qing's grain weighs 200 kilograms. Each family buys two bags and saves food to last four or five months. After all, they hunt and grow some grain themselves, but the yield is too low.

In Chu Qing's view, the herdsmen were still very rich. She had obtained a lot of furs, horns, and sheep horns in exchange. However, the herdsmen felt that they were very poor because they had no money in their hands, and they had no chance to exchange the furs for money.

The herdsmen also have some herbs such as snow lotus, safflower, and Millet Spatholobus, which are very expensive in Daxuan. There are very few herdsmen and they are not easy to pick, so Chu Qing used dried vegetables to mix them with them.

Changed.

Herdsmen don’t actually eat vegetables very much because their climate cannot grow vegetables, so they don’t have this eating habit.

But after they tasted the chicken stewed with mushrooms and the mutton roasted with dried beans that Chu Qing ate, they felt that it tasted really good, so they felt that they had taken advantage of Chu Qing.

Chu Qing gave them dried hawthorn and dried mint leaves as toppings to let them have a taste.

Because there was no tea, the herdsmen were very happy to hear that drinking dried hawthorn and mint leaves soaked in water could help them relieve heat. Moreover, because they heard that these items were not as expensive as tea, they hoped to get them in the future.

Both parties to the transaction were very satisfied. The boy from the caravan reported to Chu privately: "Boss, we have exchanged a total of one hundred horses, purebred Voss horses!"

Chu Qing asked: "Only a hundred horses? We still have plenty of food and iron pots!"

"Boss, they don't dare to exchange more, and they have to hand over the horses to the princes. They don't have any money, so they can't buy them."

"They don't have money, but we do! Wool is not valuable to them, so we collect it with money, not grain! You go and tell them to harvest wool, and we can harvest as much wool as we can get."

"Okay!"

The boy took the order and went.

When the herdsmen heard that their wool could be sold for money, they all expressed that they had a lot of it at home.

A woman was afraid that Chu Qing and the others would leave soon, so she hurriedly said: "Yours, don't leave, our wool ones will be sheared in a few days!"

This was a big announcement that was not very fluent. She wanted to say that it would be time to shear the sheep in a few days, and hoped that Chu Qing could wait a few days.

Every year, herdsmen shear sheep twice, once in May and once from September to October. Depending on the weather conditions, the difference is mostly in these two months.

The weather in Voss this year is considered to be warm, so we have to wait a few more days. Chu Qing naturally agreed. What she wanted was to take back this batch of wool and put wool products on the market before and after the autumn harvest.

It's cold, but it's another huge profit.

Seeing that they did not object, the herdsmen were very happy and took out a lot of meat to roast mutton for dinner in the evening. What they ate was not their own sheep, but hunted yellow sheep and hares.

Their horses, cattle and sheep must be counted in quantity and cannot be eaten casually.

In most cases, they use their own cattle and sheep to exchange materials with farmers, so as to ensure that their lives can continue. After all, cattle and sheep reproduce slowly, and sitting on nothing is tantamount to waiting to die.

They not only need to set aside the number of livestock for trade, but also need to calculate the number used for mating, and also consider the amount paid to the nobles. Therefore, a herdsman family may have hundreds or thousands of sheep, but often only a few can be used for their own food.

Only.

Their greatest chance of eating meat is from old, weak, sick and disabled livestock that cannot be sold, or meat obtained from hunting.

There are also a few marmots that will be roasted today. The men who herded horses got them from the marmots' nests outside.

Chu Qing asked her to spread out most of her children and go out to find food. If the herdsmen can live by relying on mountains and water, so can they.

Soon, when the young men came back, they were almost empty-handed: hares, wild deer, argali, marmots, and even fish. They also brought back a lot of green onions, wild leeks, bitter herbs, and spicy horseradish.

The consumption of a meal for more than 200 people is not small, but they have food in their cars, and the herdsmen also have a lot of milk residue, cheese, etc., so they eat well.

When it comes to barbecue, the boys think that the herdsmen are not authentic, and that their own boss is the authentic one. Otherwise, you see, the herdsmen grill and eat the meat in layers, with blood on every bite, and the meat is not fully cooked.

, my cheeks hurt when I chew it.

They began to miss the kebabs that the boss brought them to eat. Only Xiaobao didn't have any objection, as long as he had roasted garlic.

The herdsmen like baked bean cake very much. It is delicious and makes them very hungry. Unfortunately, they don’t sell it, so they are just invited to taste it.

Chu Qing brought a lot of dried vegetables, but now she really doesn’t dare to give them all to the herdsmen. She found that eating vegetables on the grassland is a problem. Today they got a lot of wild vegetables, but what about tomorrow? They have to wait here for several days to harvest wool.

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Chapter completed!