The communication between the men was simpler and more direct. Apart from hunting experience, almost everyone was interested in the bows and arrows brought by the Ba people.
If when we first came here, we heard that the Ba people used bows and arrows to hunt wolves like chopping melons and vegetables, everyone was suspicious or even disdainful. Then yesterday, six Ba people hunted an adult wild boar, which completely confirmed this statement.
If the Wu people hadn't almost lost several people to kill a dragon, the first place in this hunting competition would have probably gone to the Ba people.
Although the wild boar is not as huge as the bison, it has thick skin and rough flesh and is very wild. Once angry, it can be as ferocious as a tiger or leopard. It can be classified as a top beast. Therefore, hunters generally will not easily hunt wild boars in the wild. This thing is troublesome.
When you are angry, you can run rampant and knock down big trees. If you hit it, you will be disabled, and if you hit it, you will die. It is completely outweighed by the gain.
But six people from the Ba tribe killed one easily, so the power of the bow and arrow seemed to be more powerful than the legend said.
Unfortunately, the Ba people were unwilling to teach the techniques of making bows and arrows. However, due to the communication habits between tribes, Feng and other six hunters still performed an archery performance on the river beach.
Prick a straw man with weeds as a target and place them at different distances for shooting. When you see the Ba people shooting arrows one after another, shooting the grass target like a hedgehog, this fierce and fierce feeling
Yu's attack methods completely frightened all the men in other tribes.
Looking at the shooting distance, bows and arrows are indeed not as good as spears, but the problem is that there are too many, and the output can be sustained. The sensory effect brought about by six people shooting together is as terrifying as a violent storm.
Think about it, if dozens or hundreds of people use bows and arrows together, it is estimated that all the people on the riverbank will be slaughtered in a short time.
So after watching this archery performance, the men of all tribes looked at the Ba people completely changed.
From the initial surprise and disdain, it turned into respect and awe, and now it has turned into trembling fear.
As a result, the Ba people have formed two completely different contrasts in the eyes of men and women from other tribes.
Women are enthusiastic about it, and men are in awe and fear.
The source of all these changes was Chen, a young man from the Ba ethnic group who was walking around in front of all the stalls with two teenagers of the same age to watch.
Xu Chen didn't have much interest in the mentality of other tribes.
This exchange conference was coming to an end soon, and he wanted to see if other tribes had anything he could use.
Unfortunately, there were only about a dozen stalls in total, most of which were set up by the Uzbek people today. The goods were mostly the same. Except for the occasional piece of colorful ore that was used as gemstones, there was nothing worthy of his interest.
Most of these ores are just ordinary ores such as fluorite, pyroxene, and amphibole, and have no use other than being beautiful.
However, going back and forth a few times was not fruitless. He still found two turquoises and several pieces of amber, as well as several pieces of gold of different sizes.
For geological exploration professionals, identifying ores is a basic skill.
Turquoise and amber are definitely not fake in this primitive era and are easy to identify.
He weighed the pieces of gold and knew they were not pyrite.
Judging from the address structure of nearby canyons with abundant water, it is unlikely that pyrite is distributed, and the probability of gold is higher.
Sure enough, when he picked up one of the bumpy pieces of golden metal, he knew it must be gold. It was so heavy that it weighed heavily on his hands.
Xu Chen was very excited and made several big moves one after another.
Gold!
He lived for thirty years in his previous life and never really owned even a gram of gold.
Although it is said that Aduwu is the main culprit that pollutes the human spirit.
But he always wanted to be polluted, and the more serious the pollution, the better. However, it was too pure, and God was reluctant to pollute him, so he could only remain a poor man.
But after a moment of excitement and joy, Xu Chen quickly woke up.
In this fucking primitive era, gold and jewelry seem to be the most useless things.
This is not wealth, just an ordinary, good-looking stone.
As expected, the savages from the other tribe who were responsible for exchanging things behaved exactly the same way.
Seeing Xu Chen's excited look, he carefully and respectfully piled the remaining pieces of gold into his hands.
"Guangga!" Xu Chen came back to his senses and nodded with a smile.
The other party quickly shook his head like a drum and waved his hands repeatedly to indicate that he didn't need to change it and just took it away.
Everyone already knows Xu Chen, and some people from other tribes have even begun to treat him as a real shaman.
Although there are very few of these stones, they really have no use other than being beautiful. They just pick them up to try their luck to see if they can be favored by other tribes, and then exchange them for something useful.
But it was obvious that no one from other tribes was interested, except Xu Chen.
These few pieces of gold add up to more than a kilogram. If exchanged for money on the previous earth, it would be almost two hundred thousand, but now, it is not worth a piece of animal skin.
Xu Chen was slightly confused for a while while holding a few heavy pieces of gold, and then asked Gu to give two pairs of straw sandals to the stall owner, which immediately made the stall owner extremely happy.
When the savages setting up a stall nearby saw it, they immediately became excited. They gathered around and drew pictures to show that there were many other stones, and asked Xu Chen if he wanted them.
Xu Chen didn't know whether to laugh or cry, so he could only nod and express that he could take a look.
So a group of people dispersed in a hurry. Some went to ask for stones from their own clansmen, and many Uzbek people went straight to the mountainside. It is estimated that there are still some stocks in the cave.
Sure enough, a group of stall owners came back and brought back a bunch of different ores of various colors, but most of them were of little value, but there were actually several pieces of gold, so Xu Chen also asked Gu He to
Exchange it for straw sandals.
When a group of stall owners from the Wu ethnic group came back, they brought more stones of various kinds. Xu Chen finally found a good treasure this time, and there was actually a lot of chalcocite in it.
Chalcocite is a sulfide with a high copper content and is blue-gray in color. It is easy to get by touching it with your hands. Some people may mistakenly think it is lead ore, but it is not.
Xu Chen picked out all the chalcocite and found that it weighed more than ten kilograms. Out of curiosity, he gestured and asked where he picked it up. The Uzbek man pointed to the valley in the northwest and made a few gestures. It didn't seem to be the same.
Seeing that they were not far away, Xu Chen was instantly surprised.
Among all copper ores, chalcocite is the easiest to smelt, with a very low melting point, and it should be accompanied by sulfur. If the deposit can be found, it will be of great help to future development.
However, this kind of ore is very dirty and not good-looking. I don’t know what these savages were doing after picking it up. So Xu Chen asked a few questions in a gesticulating manner. Some of them rubbed the ore on their faces, and then they all changed.
His face became blue and he grinned, showing his black and yellow sparse teeth.
Xu Chen suddenly realized.
It turns out that these primitive people picked up these stones to use them as paint.
However, it seems that this kind of ore has not been found among the Ba people and other tribes, and it should only be found near the Uzu people.
At present, the development of the tribe urgently requires metal tools, but copper mines alone are not enough. Lead ores and tin mines are also needed to refine bronze alloys. Pure copper is too soft and not as sharp and strong as stone axes. Xu Chen knew it and was in no hurry.
Therefore, there was no rush to communicate this matter with the Uzbek people.
However, he replaced the chalcocite with a pottery bowl first and planned to take it back to see if he could burn out the copper first.
There is nothing missing right now, so I can only get whatever I see and study it slowly.
In addition to chalcocite, the Uzbek tribe also sent some turquoise, amber, quartz amphibole and other ores. Xu Chen was not interested. He used a few pairs of straw sandals to collect a few pieces of good quality turquoise and amber, but nothing else.
want.
The news that Xu Chen exchanged straw sandals and pottery bowls for stones soon spread among the tribes, and the leaders of these tribes were naturally very interested. After asking about the stones Xu Chen exchanged for stones, they kept them in mind and planned to find some next time when they went back.
Sent to the Ba people in exchange for several magical and high-end things such as pottery and cloth.
Half a day passed by in the blink of an eye, and this lively tribal exchange meeting was basically over.
Only a few hundred people attended in total, and the scale was not as large as a meeting in a larger village in the countryside.
Therefore, by the time it passed noon, the five tribes who had come to participate in the witchcraft ceremony all packed up their belongings and started to leave one after another.
Xu Chen also followed the Ba people on their way home, and left the valley where the Wu people lived under the affectionate and warm eyes of a group of stocky girls.
However, after walking far away and looking back, I can still see the figures of girls chasing each other, running wantonly on the river beach and in the cold wind in late autumn, with their sarongs and furs fluttering in the wind, like a group of little females starting to go into heat.
beast.
Everyone in the Ba tribe was very excited.
This time, because of Xu Chen's innovative inventions and miraculous performance, the Ba people had a huge harvest and returned home with a full load. All the rattan baskets on their backs were filled with the exchanged goods.
Among them, the most urgently needed leather goods for the winter are the most numerous, and there are also many items donated by other tribes.
Gu Heju was carrying a huge crotch of antlers alone, holding his head high and his chest high, very proud.
Xu Chen's backpack was also full of things, and one of the most special items was the dragon's skin.
Xu Chen was full of curiosity about this strange suture monster.
After learning that Xu Chen wanted to exchange this skin, the Uzbek warrior who had woken up gave the skin to him along with another dragon tooth.
Naturally, Xu Chen reciprocated the favor, not only leaving half a can of hemostatic powder, but also personally teaching the great shaman how to identify several herbs he brought. He also left the rest of the medicine with the Uzbek people and taught them how to boil and take it.
I don’t know whether it was Xu Chen’s magical medical skills that played a role, or the strong and brutal resistance of the Wu warriors.
In just over a day, the wounds all over the Uzbek warrior's body had scabbed over. Even the horrific sutured wound on his abdomen showed no signs of infection. He was able to walk and run, and was somewhat lively.
This is a miracle that no one has ever seen.
Therefore, the attitude of the Uzbek people towards Xu Chen not only changed greatly, but also created incomparable awe and admiration.
However, whether it is thanks or worship, one has to be strong in order to forge the iron. If he wants to survive well in this barbaric primitive era, he needs to speed up the transformation of the Ba people this winter.