There was a lot gained from this witch leader conference. It was supposed to be a grand and happy dinner when we came back, but because Muba was in a bad mood, we had a simple dinner. Besides, everyone who went there was tired after traveling dozens of miles.
, and the women, children, old and young who stayed behind in the cave were also frightened and did not eat or sleep well for two or three days, so everyone cleaned up after dinner and went into the cave to sleep.
Xu Chen is also very tired, but he wants to take a hot bath today.
After everyone entered the cave, he first filled a jar of water and burned it in the fire pit. Then he took a cup of fruit tea and sat alone by the fire pit looking through some of the messy things he had collected.
A piece of dragon skin, two dragon teeth, two skewered antlers, some various animal teeth and gems given by other tribesmen, and a bunch of messy trinkets that were finally exchanged for straw sandals and pottery bowls.
Son.
Dragon skin, dragon teeth and antlers can only be used for decoration at the moment and need further processing.
Although chalcocite can be used to smelt copper, the quantity is too small. We can only wait for the opportunity to get more and take it to the kiln to try it out. However, if we want to smelt copper, we must not just put it in the kiln and dry-fire it.
The earthen kiln needs to be renovated.
All that's left are some decorative stones, animal teeth and gold.
Xu Chen looked through the items one by one. A thin figure tiptoed out of the cave and walked behind him. He stretched out his hands a few times as if he wanted to hug him, but he hesitated and did not dare to do so.
"Why are you sneaking around when you're not sleeping?"
In fact, Xu Chen already knew when Ye came out of the cave, but he just pretended not to know, but when he saw that there was no movement behind him for a long time, he couldn't help but turn around.
Ye was startled, but quickly lowered his head in shame and said, "I want to... miss you... to talk!"
Xu Chen understood. This girl hadn't seen him for a few days and just wanted to talk to him more. However, the words sounded a bit ambiguous, so he rubbed her dirty hair and corrected her, "I want to talk to you!"
"
"Want to talk to me!" Ye replied softly.
"Want...to talk...to you!"
Xu Chen compared the drawings and repeated them several times before Ye finally corrected himself and differentiated between you and me.
"By the way, from now on you and I have to distinguish clearly. Come, let me show you what I brought back!"
Xu Chen took Ye and sat on the edge of the fire pond, and placed animal teeth, turquoise, amber, gold, and several gem-like stones of different colors on the edge of the fire pond.
These stones can't be seen clearly under the firelight. It's basically impossible to distinguish the colors, so nothing can be seen. However, Ye is still very interested and picks them up to look at them carefully. Xu Chen explains the names of these stones to her.
"gold!"
"Gold...gah!"
"Don't say ga, you can say gold!"
Ye was obviously unhappy and muttered: "You can say skirts and trousers are golden, but I'm not allowed to say skirts and trousers are golden..."
Xu Chen's face was so dark that ink dripped from his face.
Other than that, I didn’t tremble, but I said this sentence very fluently, basically reaching the fifth level of Chinese professional level.
Although he has been trying to guide a group of primitive people to learn advanced culture and correct the pronunciation habits of Tulibaji, in fact, except for some newly invented words, the speaking habits of the entire tribe remain the same, and even he is slowly being led astray.
, I will also follow Gala Gala on weekdays.
In addition, Ye is right. She can say that skirts and pants are gold, so why not allow her to say "ga".
What is the difference between Zi and Ga?
Xu Chen began to review his emphasis on the correctness and necessity of authentic Chinese pronunciation.
In fact, in southern China, which he is familiar with, the local language system is extremely powerful. For example, Yunnan, Guizhou, Sichuan and Chongqing and Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and Zhejiang are almost all dialects. People who can hear the locals speak Mandarin are in awe.
Therefore, there is really no need to compete with the language habits formed over tens of thousands of years, otherwise the savages will feel uncomfortable and so will I.
How many dogs are there? Let's go!
After thinking about it, Xu Chen suddenly felt relieved. He rubbed Ye's messy hair, picked up a piece of amber with a smile and said, "Amber quack!"
"Amber... Amber... son!"
Xu Chen's face twitched, and he turned his head and saw Ye pursed his lips and smiled happily.
Alas, it seems that my natural and simple little cousin has also begun to learn bad things.
This is not a good sign.
Xu Chen reluctantly picked up a piece of turquoise.
The thick tree roots inside the fire pit are slightly emitting a fiery red light.
The pottery pot simmering in the charcoal fire began to steam slightly. Xu Chen tried it with his hands and it was already a little hot, so he found a larger pottery basin, poured water into the pot, and found a piece of linen cloth.
"Go to sleep!" Xu Chen pointed to the cave and said to Ye.
"No!" Ye pouted, with great confusion on his face.
"I want...to take a shower, but you can't...look!" Xu Chen explained in a flurry of words.
Ye Hei's thin little face showed a look of surprise. He looked at the basin, the linen in Xu Chen's hand, then looked at Xu Chen's body, and finally said excitedly: "I... wash it too!"
Xu Chen:……
In the night, with the faint light of the fire, the hot bath planned by Xu Chen turned into rubbing each other's backs.
This was Xu Chen's first hot bath after three months in time.
Although it has been almost a month since the clay pots and pots were made, a group of women were spinning and weaving by the fire pond every day after dinner, and they were busy until late at night before going to bed. He was also busy up and down the mountain every day, and he was sweating profusely at the water spring.
Rinse it casually by the side or in the river. This primitive small body is still very durable and can withstand the cold water of autumn.
But not to mention being tired from the journey today, everyone also went to bed early, so the opportunity was just right.
It's a pity that I still can't take a good bath alone.
Therefore, the hot bath was sloppy. He hid in a dark corner and simply wiped it up, down, left, and right, which was better than nothing. However, having Ye rub his back made him feel much more comfortable, and Ye had never enjoyed it.
After being treated like this in a hot bath, after rubbing my back, I seemed completely stupid. I looked at Xu Chen in a daze and kept giggling.
"To build a house, you must build it quickly, and you must live in a single room..."
Xu Chen felt furious in his heart.
The conditions were so harsh that even during the field survey, the longest period of time was seven or eight days without a bath, but I had never gone without a hot bath for three months.
Winter is coming soon, and I definitely don't dare to take a cold shower. If I don't take a hot shower all winter, Xu Chen will feel bad all over.
After taking a bath, he took a bath in the hot water with his cousin, and after a while of laughing and joking, Xu Chen packed his things and got ready to go to bed.
It's almost winter now, and it's no longer suitable to stay up late. Even if there is a fire in the fire pit and a low wall to block the wind, the roaring night wind blows on the body and is extremely cold. With the simple linen clothes and straw sandals on the body, it is completely impossible to do it.
Block out this pervasive cold.
But just as he was about to enter the cave, Ye grabbed him, stuffed a charcoal stick into his hand, and pointed at the cave wall.
Xu Chen:……
Writing a diary is really not fun anymore, and he plans to quit diary in the future.
…
Although Momba was not in a good mood after returning home.
But the atmosphere in the cave quickly returned to its former liveliness.
Especially Xu Chen, after experiencing back rubs with his little mother and savage cousin last night, he vowed to repair the big house at the foot of the mountain as soon as possible, so he led a large group of people down the mountain to repair the house early the next morning.
A group of women still stayed in the cave spinning and weaving.
Several hundred kilograms of this kind of bark that can be retting was collected, and at least three hundred kilograms of burlap was soaked and cleaned. All of it was spun into thread and woven into cloth. It is estimated that the women will have to be busy until the beginning of spring.
In addition, at this shaman leader conference, several other tribes were very interested in linen. It is estimated that some tribes will come to exchange for linen in the near future. Of course, they are more interested in pottery.
However, Xu Chen and a few kiln workers were in charge of the pottery.
The main tasks of women at the moment are spinning and weaving, cooking and taking care of the lives of all their families.
Xu Chen has organized everything outside in an orderly manner, so they don't need to worry about it.
The kiln factory is now slowly getting back on track. The four kiln workers each perform their duties. Sometimes Xu Chen and Gu Heju will come to help.
Pottery has become an instant hit at this witchcraft conference, so a large batch needs to be fired quickly to be exchanged for goods.
However, this is not a pure commercial transaction, nor can it open up a larger market, because the market is fixed. The four tribal allies, namely the Wu tribe, the Muya tribe, the Cang tribe and the Hu tribe, have a combined number of less than 1,000 people.
, the demand is extremely fixed, and it is almost a one-time deal.
Moreover, these tribes had very few things they could exchange for, nothing more than animal skins and some things they had no use for.
In fact, apart from animal skins, there are many messy things that the Dongba people still have no use for.
However, if the Ba people do not want it, the transaction will not be completed and the business will be ruined if the other party does not have enough animal skins to exchange it.
Xu Chen planned to use two special commodities, pottery and cloth, to enhance the popularity and status of the Ba people, so he had to expand the types of transactions.
This is why he collects worthless gold, amber, turquoise and random ores at trade fairs.