An Uzbek man ran under the pergola, and under the scolding of several kiln workers, he forcibly snatched a pottery bowl, took it out and placed it on the sheepskin, and pressed the three bowls tightly onto the sheepskin with his hands.
Before Xu Chen could say anything, Feng and the others stopped and pointed at the Uzbek people and started shouting loudly.
They thought it was appropriate to exchange one piece of skin for one bowl, but they would feel a bit disadvantaged if they exchanged it for two. It was impossible to exchange for three.
After all, two is more than one, and three is more.
Moreover, making pottery is very troublesome. In the eyes of Feng and others, it is far more troublesome than hunting. It takes more than ten days of work.
They don't think about how hundreds of them can be fired in one kiln.
With a twitching face, Xu Chen forcibly took a pottery bowl from the Uzbek people's hands and put it aside, shaking his head and saying: "One skin, two bowls, just change it like this, otherwise forget it!"
He won't spoil these hairy guys.
This is a seller's market, and it's also your home court. If you think it's less, you don't have to change.
"Swish, swish, swish!"
Feng and others naturally followed Xu Chen's lead, and they all nodded along.
Although the Uzbek people were also very angry and dissatisfied, and could hardly understand Xu Chen's original Mandarin, looking at Xu Chen's serious expression of shaking his head, he knew that it was impossible to change three bowls, so after a while of discussion, he became very depressed.
Nod together to express approval of this replacement method.
At this point, Xu Chen thought it was his turn to bargain over the cow skin, wolf skin and tiger skin. Unexpectedly, the other party took out another sheep skin and spread it next to it, and then started to bargain again.
Xu Chen:……
Except for him, no one seemed surprised by what the Uzbek people did. Instead, they looked in agreement. A kiln worker brought a pottery bowl and placed it on the sheepskin. The Uzbek people shook their heads. The potter looked at Xu Chen and seemed to have no expression, so
Another one was put on the table, and the Uzbek man nodded with satisfaction and said "Wow!"
So the second bargaining session ended.
The Uzbek people took out another sheepskin...
Xu Chen was relieved instantly.
He felt that his mathematical knowledge must be false.
Shouldn't it be a simple matter of multiplication now?
But unfortunately, his thoughts and these primitive people are not at the same level of thinking in the universe.
So under Xu Chen's confused gaze, the Uzbek people kept taking out sheepskins one by one, and the kiln worker kept taking out a bowl and putting it on it, and then looked at the other person's reaction. If he was not satisfied, he would add another bowl.
Xu Chen felt like he was about to vomit blood.
And every time when two bowls are placed, the Uzbek people say "Shu" with satisfaction, then they will trade the next sheepskin, and then start over and over again to do this kind of bargaining that has become an established rule.
Xu Chen covered his heart and squatted beside him in despair, watching... watching...
Soon, more than half of the drying area of the entire kiln was covered with two bowls pressed on one piece of skin. The piles of sheepskins were already missing by nearly half. They probably thought that there were enough bowls. The Uzbek people
No longer agreed to change the bowl, but pointed to the pergola and asked for other things.
So it was a new round of bargaining. The other party took out a sheepskin and wanted to exchange it for the largest jar. Naturally, the Ba people collectively disagreed. The two sides started arguing, and finally Xu Chen had to come forward. After some gestures and arguments, the other party used a sheepskin.
A sheepskin and a deerskin are exchanged for three pottery plates.
Next, two more animal skins and three pottery plates were placed on the open space. The two sides continued to add one animal skin to another. This time, because the chips of both parties had changed, the transaction speed was faster.
slow.
Xu Chen looked at the sky and went for a walk while crying.
After replacing more than a dozen pottery plates, there was no room for them on the venue. Xu Chen wandered around and couldn't stand it anymore. He ran back and had a complicated exchange of gestures. He hoped that both parties could collect the leather goods and pottery they had exchanged first.
stand up.
However, this request was quite nerve-wracking for the Uzbek people. They shook their heads and firmly disagreed, and pointed at the remaining piles of animal skins to indicate that the transaction was not over yet and that they needed to be exchanged before they could accept it.
Xu Chen felt that he was really comfortable.
So I could only watch depressedly as the group of people placed animal skins on the dirt outside the clearing.
When Muba hurried down the mountain with a group of women, the entire open space in the kiln was almost full.
At the moment, Xu Chen is bargaining with the Uzbek people about the exchange of clay pots.
A piece of cowhide can be exchanged for two or three small clay pots or one medium clay pot, depending on the size.
During the process of bargaining and exchanging goods, Muba and a group of women stood at the gate of the kiln factory and could not enter, so they could only watch from a distance.
However, the excitement on everyone's faces could not be concealed.
The densely packed animal skins in a large yard look festive.
There are less than fifty men, women, and children of the Ba tribe in total. These many animal skins plus the tribe's inventory are enough to keep everyone warm and alive through the winter.
Therefore, a group of women crowded at the door, laughing and chatting, watching with smiles as Xu Chen and others held clay pots and bargained loudly with the Uzbek people.
Ye was sandwiched among a group of women, standing on tiptoes and looking inside.
His face looked both happy and depressed.
Although she had never participated in trading activities, it seemed that there was something wrong with trading like this, but she couldn't tell what was wrong.
A simple pottery transaction lasted for two hours.
Almost all the sheepskins, deerskins, and cowhide brought by the Uzbek people were replaced by pottery, leaving only the last pile of wolf skins, leopard skins, lynx fox skins, and the largest tiger skin.
Because these leather goods are difficult to hunt and have high value, the Uzbek people also save them for the last time and exchange them for large pottery.
Xu Chen also felt that this request was not excessive. So far, the Ba tribe had only killed ten adult wild wolves in total. Therefore, the skins of these beasts, which were the best for keeping warm and cold, were indeed very valuable and worth paying a greater price.
In order to complete the last deal that both parties valued, this time the Uzbek people finally agreed to put away all the pottery placed in the yard.
However, in order to avoid mistakes, they cannot collect them randomly. Instead, each side sends one person, one to collect the pottery and the other to collect the animal skins.
So Xu Chen could only stand under the pergola with a twitching face and watch as each side sent a representative to come in to collect the replacement items.
Half an hour later, the place was finally cleared. The Ba people got several large piles of animal skins, and the Uu people also got several large piles of pottery.
Next, the two parties got together again and continued to discuss the replacement of large pottery.
As they were bargaining, they naturally began to place animal skins and pottery on the open space.
A wolf skin was exchanged for a large pottery pot, a leopard skin was exchanged for a pottery pot or pot, and the lynx and fox skins were too small to be exchanged for large pottery. After a stalemate, Xu Chen suggested that they exchange them for linen, and the Uzbek tribe agreed.
It happened that Muba and the others also carried two baskets of linen down. After the two sides argued and discussed for a while, the Ba people exchanged a pile of miscellaneous skins for one of the baskets of cloth, which contained about ten pieces of cloth.
As for the tiger skin, the two sides have big differences.
But it is also the most valuable item in this transaction that both parties value most, so the bargaining time is also the longest.
In the end, after a full half-hour of quarreling and discussion, in which the two sides fought back and forth to add or subtract pottery, an agreement was finally reached.
The Ba people exchanged three large clay pots, three clay pots, five medium-sized clay pots, ten clay bowls, ten cups, and five plates for this super large tiger skin.
Of course, the process of reaching this agreement was very difficult. The two parties were fighting over a pile of pottery, and they almost started fighting several times.
In the end, there was only a pile of useless stones such as copper ore, turquoise gold, etc. The leader of the Ba tribe was very happy this time and said that he could just give him something casually, so Xu Chen replaced them with a pile of ladles and small spoons.
As for the baskets of dried fruits, nuts and other food, the value was actually not high. After counting, Muba and a few women made the decision and exchanged them for a few pieces of cloth. The Uzbek people were also very happy.
So both parties were very happy.
The Ba people happily started singing and dancing around the harvested pottery in the kiln. A group of Ba men and women also joined in, and the whole scene was extremely noisy.
Transaction is a very important way of communication for primitive people.
This transaction is of great significance to both the Uzbek and Ba ethnic groups.
With these pottery of the Uzbek people, the quality of life of the Uzbek people will undergo earth-shaking changes, and it will even effectively improve the health of the Uzbek people, and their lives may be extended a lot, especially for the elderly and infants.
And the Ba people have so many animal skins, which is enough to ensure that they can survive the cold winter well this year, and adults and children will no longer howl from the cold like in previous years.
After all the fun, the sun was almost setting.
There was definitely no way for these Uzbek people from far away to go back today, so Mother Ba arranged for people to go up the mountain to get food, and then lit a bonfire in the kiln to arrange dinner.
Feng and the others did not catch any prey today, so they had no meat to eat. They could only simply cook a few large cans of oatmeal porridge in clay pots.
The Uzbek people also bring some dry food such as multigrain cakes and barbecued meats.
Although the food is very simple, drinking a bowl of steaming porridge in the cold wind of early winter is also an extremely rare and delicious meal. Therefore, the Uzbek people are also very grateful. After eating, a large group of men and women began to cry and howl around the campfire.
of singing and dancing.
Xu Chen sat far away in front of the kiln, enjoying the temperature emanating from the kiln fire. He watched a group of primitive people reveling in front of him, drinking hot water one sip after another, and his face kept twitching.
He didn't have enough to eat or wear or keep warm all day long, he was poor and ate dirt, but he was still so happy.
Is this what is called poverty and happiness?
No matter how good the living conditions are, Xu Chen can understand if he only has a house to live in.
But being so poor and still being happy really left him speechless.
Perhaps, this is the natural way.
The current situation of human beings is still not much different from that of social animals. Their needs are just the simplest food and clothing.
Because I am not greedy, I am satisfied.
Xu Chen turned around to look at the location of the big house being built.
Primitive man is satisfied, but he will not be satisfied, because the level of desire is different, and they are all piled up. He hopes to be on a soft bed, not in a straw nest.
And looking at this group of strong young savages from the Wu tribe, howling like ghosts and wolves, with nowhere to vent their energy, he pinched his chin and began to think.
It would be great if we could find a way to keep these to help repair the house.
But these primitive people are a bunch of fools.
It can be seen from today's afternoon trading that he is stupid and stubborn.
The transaction that was supposed to be completed in twenty minutes at most, actually took three hours to exchange one skin after another.
He somewhat understood the reason why Africans' work efficiency was extremely low.
Not only because of laziness and stupidity, but also because of being easily satisfied.
As long as people are satisfied, they will have no desire and motivation to make progress.
The expression is this kind of idiot-like poverty and happiness.