After roughly figuring out the matter, Xu Chen asked someone to call the little witch and the Pi witch alone.
Faced with what Xu Chen told her, the Pi tribe witches looked horrified.
She never expected that her own people would dare to steal other people's property at such a large gathering, let alone eat the thorn melons carefully planted by the great witch.
Although Xu Chen said that it is not yet clear which tribe of the Pi Meng did it, but based on the investigation by Feng and others, it was undoubtedly confirmed that it was the Pi Tribe.
"Don't be afraid, this is not a very serious matter, but I hope that this kind of thing will never happen again in the future. After all, this is a sacrificial meeting. If it arouses the anger of the Mother Goddess, I am afraid that the Pi tribe will be punished by the gods for this. In order not to let
The entire Pi tribe has been implicated, and these people who steal things and eat thorn melons must be found and punished to a certain extent!"
"Yes, I, I'll go back and look for you right away!" The young witch nodded tremblingly.
"Well, I'll have someone take you back. I'll convene the Great Witch Council tomorrow morning to discuss the matter!"
The young witch did not dare to look at Xu Chen's eyes. She quickly left the room with her scepter and cloak, and was escorted by Feng and other hunters to the camp in a carriage.
Xu Chen spread out the animal skins and began to plan the first law of the primitive tribe.
An hour passed in the blink of an eye, and the sky was completely dark. Xu Chen and the little witch discussed a few simple laws in the room. Feng and a group of hunters escorted the Pi tribe witch back.
The three of them got together again. The witch of the Pi tribe expressed her shame that she had found several tribesmen who had stolen goods from the Yugong tribe and eaten thorn melons. They were hunters from two small and medium-sized tribes close to the Tage tribe. There were eight in total each.
people participate.
Moreover, the Pi tribe witch also said something that Xu Chen didn't even know about.
Three people from these two tribes secretly entered the duck house and stole four ducks.
"Where's the duck?" Xu Chen asked after being confused for a long time.
"Eat!" The Pi tribe witch was so ashamed that she wanted to crawl into the cracks in the ground.
"..."
Xu Chen took a deep breath for a long time.
Damn, they are indeed a bunch of savages. Even if they are happy to see Hunting, they should know that so many ducks together are not wild.
And there are people everywhere here. How on earth did these three guys sneak into the duck house next to the kiln and steal the ducks?
However, since he had been eaten, there was no need to pursue any repayment, so he asked the great witch of the Pi tribe to go back to his room to rest and hold a meeting tomorrow morning to discuss punishment measures.
A night of silence.
Early the next morning, Xu Chen was awakened by the horn sound of hunters practicing on the river beach outside. When he got up, he found that almost everyone had already gotten up. A group of witches, neatly dressed, were already waiting for dinner in the fire pit room, and they were still communicating with each other. It seemed that
Rather lively.
When Xu Chen came in after washing up, a group of witches all stood up and greeted him with respectful salutes. The big shaman of the Pi tribe looked very nervous.
Breakfast is very simple, just whole wheat steamed buns, sour pickles, half a salted duck egg and a bowl of tofu.
But this simple delicacy is currently only available to the Ba people.
The other three items are fine, and I have been eating them every day these days, but the salted duck eggs are a rare thing, and this is the first time I have shown them in front of everyone.
Even Xu Chen was pleasantly surprised.
They raise a group of wild ducks, which have not been fully domesticated, and there is no food feeding. Therefore, these ducks lay eggs with a very primitive seasonality. They only start laying eggs after spring, and after April and May, they basically start laying eggs.
It slowly stopped.
After several years of breeding, the number of ducks now exceeds 200. Three members of the tribe are responsible for raising and caring for them. They go out early in the morning and return late at night near the ponds and rivers to look for food. Their quacking calls have almost become a
A unique scenery of the Ba people.
If there are more ducks, there will naturally be more eggs.
After the beginning of spring, when sowing in farmland ends in mid-January, ducks begin to lay eggs one after another. It reaches the peak in mid-February, with nearly a hundred eggs being laid every day. In March, although there is a slight decrease, the number of eggs laid every day is
The number of eggs exceeds seventy.
With so many duck eggs, not only Muba, Amu and other women are so happy every day, but the tribesmen they know are also very coveted.
It would be possible to eat so many eggs every day, but it would be a pity to eat them all, and fresh eggs cannot be stored for long periods of time. In addition to keeping a small part for hatching, Xu Chen simply instructed his tribe to make them into salted duck eggs.
There were hundreds of them, dozens of the largest clay pots were used, and hundreds of kilograms of salt were used.
Making duck eggs is simple, just wash the duck eggs and soak them in concentrated salt water for about a month. There is no skill at all.
However, this salt egg seems to be a skillless thing, but currently it is not something that other tribes can do.
First, there must be enough duck eggs, and secondly, there must be enough salt.
Except for the Ba people, almost no one can meet these two conditions.
Therefore, other tribes have just begun to learn to raise ducks, while the Ba people have begun to enjoy salted duck eggs as a luxury.
After more than a month of marinating, these duck eggs have been marinated, cooked and cut open. The green shell protein and red egg yolk look very attractive.
When Xu Chen sat down, he first took a bite of the salted duck egg. It was full of salty taste and the texture was almost the same as what he had eaten when he was a child. Therefore, he happily greeted a group of witches to start eating.
So this simple but hearty breakfast, half a salted duck egg, once again conquered the appetites of a group of foreign wizards, and everyone ate it with exclamation and praise.
Salted duck eggs are very durable and will not go bad as long as they are kept well for a year or two. Therefore, this is also an excellent way to store food, especially when you go out. Boil a few salted duck eggs and take them with you to eat for a long time.
Therefore, during breakfast, Xu Chen explained in detail how to make salted duck eggs, and said that each tribe can buy male ducks, mother ducks and ducklings from the Ba people to feed them back. Next year, the Ba people will try to expand salt production to provide
Each tribe provides more salt, so that each tribe can eat more salted duck eggs in the future.
Naturally, a group of witches were so excited and grateful that they started to place orders at the dining table, buying ten or twenty pieces. Even the little witch sister of the Uzbek tribe even said that she would buy two jars of salted duck eggs back for the tribe.
Try everything new.
Xu Chen couldn't laugh or cry, and the little witch couldn't help complaining.
However, the Uzbek tribe does have this strength now. After entering February, the Uzbek tribe's copper production has reached a scale of one thousand kilograms, which means that the net income of the Uzbek tribe is one thousand copper coins per month. This is for those tribes who currently do not have a single copper coin.
Said that he was a very rich man.
Adult male ducks are sold for two cents, female ducks for three cents, and ducklings for one cent.
Xu Chen, the salty egg, was begged by the little witch sister to sell him three for a penny, so she immediately bought three hundred.
What a luxury, what a waste!
It's completely a nouveau riche mentality. Wouldn't it be enough to sell a few axes, hatchets, and daggers for one hundred cents? Or, perhaps, it could buy a large group of ducks.
However, it is obvious that the little witch sister and her elder sister are not of the same species. Underneath their almost identical appearances, they have completely different consumption concepts and behavioral habits.
Seeing the little Uzbek witch buying salted eggs with so much money, the other witches could only feel envious and jealous, and felt that the duck eggs in their hands were no longer very fragrant.
It can also be seen from this that because of the wealth brought by copper mines, the future development of the Uzbek tribe will surely be beyond the reach of other tribes.
Even the Five Ghost Tribe and the Youqing Tribe, who also have mines, cannot compare.
Because relatively speaking, the demand for tin and lead is much smaller, so the value is also lower.
One pound of copper can now be exchanged for one copper coin, but both lead and tin can only be exchanged for one copper coin for ten pounds.
Because the difficulty of mining and smelting these two metals is much lower than that of copper, they are completely incomparable, and their proportions in bronze are also very different.
After all, the true value of a commodity is directly proportional to the value of the labor power it contains.
As for other tribes without mines, wealth accumulation will be slower, and it is impossible to spend money like buying salted duck eggs to try them out.
After a lively breakfast, Xu Chen asked his mother to take everyone out, and then he officially held a meeting with a serious expression, where the witches discussed how to deal with the thief.
When Xu Chen explained the whole story clearly, everyone except the little witch and the Pi witch were surprised, and even went to see the Pi witch in unison.
The great wizard of the Yugong clan even showed a hint of ridicule and understanding.
In fact, many people in their tribe speculated that the Pi tribe had stolen it, but because no evidence was found, they were suppressed.
After all, last year there was a fight with the Gonghuo Tribe over the campsite. Not only were some people injured, but they were also severely punished.
Besides, there weren't many things thrown away, they were just small things, so they didn't want to let the conflict intensify.
If the Yu Gong clan and the Pi clan really fought, even if they were justified, they would probably become unreasonable.
What's more, complaining to His Majesty the Witch King or the Great Witch about such a trivial matter feels like making a big fuss out of a molehill.
But where there are people, there are rivers and lakes, and the same goes for savages.
The Pi Tribe has just joined the Ba Tribe Alliance. It was originally the weakest and had the lowest status. Now it is at the lowest end of the contempt chain. Unexpectedly, such a scandal would occur in the first tribe gathering. It really makes people feel contempt and pride.
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"This matter has been investigated clearly. Although it is not a serious matter, this kind of situation will not be allowed to happen again in the future. Whether it is in the Ba tribe or other tribes, anyone found out must be punished!"
Xu Chen packed his pockets in advance for this matter.
"Yes, stealing is not good and must be punished!" the great shaman of the Gonghuo Tribe was the first to express his opinion.
This was the first time she participated in the witches' meeting after she was officially promoted to the Grand Witch in Blue, so she acted very seriously and always wanted to fulfill her duties.
The old witch still has more prestige. After saying this, the Five Ghost Clan, Yu Gong Clan and the twin sisters also expressed that they should be punished to prevent theft from happening in the future.